13260 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 paragraph (3) and inserting after paragraph Page 22, beginning in line 1, strike out Page 15, beginning in llne 23, strike out ( 1) the following new paragraph: "January 24, 1977," and insert ln lieu there­ "or" and all that follows down through line "(2) Except as otherwise provided in sec· of "date of enactment". 3 on page 16 and insert in lieu thereof a tlon 505 ( b) ( 1) , no candidate for the office Page 22, beginning in line 3, strike out period. of Representative ln, or Delegate or Resident "January 24, 1977," and insert in lieu thereof Page 16, beginning in line 16, strike out Commissioner to, the Congress who estab­ "the date of the enactment of this sub­ "In" and all that follows down through line lishes eliglblllty under section 502 to receive chapter". 21. payments from the Secretary under section Page 24, beginning in line 9, strike out Page 16, strike out line 22 and all that 507 may make expenditures in excess of "January 24, 1977," and insert in lieu there­ follows down through llne 16 on page 18. $150,000, in the case of a campaign for elec­ of "the date of the enactment of this sub­ Page 18, line 17, strike out "(f)" and insert tion to such office.". chapter". ln lleu thereof " ( e) ". (b) Section 320(c) (2) (B) of the Act ls Page 1, line 7, insert "THE ENGINES OF" be­ Page 19, line 22, strike out "(g)" and in­ amended by inserting after "calendar year fore "NOISY". sert in lieu thereof "(f) ". 1974" the following: ", except that, with re­ Page 2, line 10, insert "the Engines of" Page 21, llne 12, strike out "aircraft" and spect to the limitation established in sub­ before "Noisy". all that follows down through llne 14 and section (b) (2), such term means the calen­ Page 2, line 14, insert "THE ENGINES OF" insert in lleu thereof "aircraft or repacing dar year 1978". after "REPLACING". such engines." (c) Section 301 of the Act ls amended by Page 6, strike out the matter between lines Page 21, strike out ines 15 through 25 and striking out "SEC. 301. When used ln this 16 and 17 and insert in lieu thereof the insert in lieu thereof the following: title and title IV of this Act--" and inserting following: "(g) CosT DEFINED.-For purposes of this section-" ( 1) IN GENERAL.-Except as pro­ in lieu thereof "SEC. 301. Except as provided "Sec. 4261A. Taxes relating to retrofitting in section 501, when used in this Act--". vided in paragraph (2), the term 'cost' and replacing the engines of means the basis of the property (incuding SEC. 4. The amendments made by this Act noisy aircraft." installation, dellvery, and testing costs). shall apply to any election to the office of Page 6, line 23, insert "the Engines of" be­ Page 22, llne 11, strike out "(1)" and in­ Representative in, or Delegate or Resident fore "Noisy". sert in lleu thereof " ( h) ". Commissioner to, the Congress held after Page 7, line 4, insert "THE ENGINES OF" be­ Page 24, strike out llne 13 and all that the date of the enactment of this Act, except fore "NOISY". follows down through line 4 of page 27 and that no payments under this title shall be Page 9, strike out the matter between lines insert in lieu thereof the following: distributed under section 507 prior to Au­ 22 and 23 and insert ln lieu thereof the "SEC. 6454. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. gust 1, 1980. following: H.R. 11986 Page 27, llne 5, strike out "(b)" and in­ "Sec. 4271A. Taxes related to retrofitting sert in lieu thereof" (a)". By Mr. VANIK: and replacing the engines of Page 28, line 12, strike out the quotation Page 27, line 18, strike out "(c)" and in­ noisy aircraft." sert in lieu thereof "(b) ". marks. Page 10, line 5, insert "the Engines of" be­ Page 28, after line 12, insert the follow­ Page 28, strike out the matter between fore "Noisy". lines 15 and 16 and insert ln lieu thereof the ing: Page 10, strike out the item between lines following: "SEC. 6455. AUDIT BY THE GENERAL ACCOUNT­ 5 and 6 relating to section 6454 and insert ING OFFICE. "Subchapter C. Credit or refund of certain in lieu thereof the following: taxes for investments to "The General Accounting Office shall audit "Sec. 6454. Administrative provisions. retrofit or replace the en­ the credits and refunds, and the recapture Page 13, line 5, insert "or" after the comma. gines of noisy aircraft." of such credits and refunds, under this sub­ Page 13, beginning in line 7, strike out the Page 30, strike out lines 8 to 13, inclusive. chapter ln a manner slmlllar to the man­ comma and all that follows down through ner in which the General Accounting Office Page 1, amend the title to read as follows: line 14 and insert ln lieu thereof a period. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of audits slmllar Federal expenditures. The Page 14, line 4, insert "or" after the comma. Comptroller General shall report to the Con­ 1954 to make certain changes in the taxes on Page 14, beginning in line 6, strike out the transportation by air and to provide credits gress the results of such audits not less fre­ comma and all that follows down through quently than annually." or refunds of a certain portion of such line 7 and insert in lieu thereof a period. taxes for expenditures to retrofit and replace Page 10, after line 5, insert after the item Page 15, strike out lines 1 to 6, inclusive. the engines of noisy aircraft. relating to section 6454 the following: Page 15, line 7, strike out" (5)" and insert Page 27, after llne 17, insert the following: "Sec. 6455. Audit by the General Account­ in lieu thereof " ( 4) ". "(3) Denial of investment tax credit.­ ing Office. Page 15, beginning in line 18, strike out Replacement property taken into account in Page 19, line 17, strike out "January 24, "engine" and all that follows down through de!;ermining the credit under this subchap­ 1977" and insert in lieu t~ereof "the date llne 19 and insert in lieu thereof "engine ter shall not be treated as section 38 prop­ of the enactment of this subchapter". or for replacement of such engine,". erty ( as defined by section 48 (a) ) .

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS LORAINE HUNTINGTON MILLER reflects the interest of her late husband, series of monologues on . his­ COLLINS-HUMANITARIAN OF Earl Burns Miller, in advancing health tory entitled "The California Saga;" and THE YEAR care in Long Beach. But through her has served as chairman of the Oriental own generosity, concern and contribu­ Art Committee of the Assistance League. tions, Loraine Huntington Miller Collins Loraine Miller Collins is widely recog­ HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON has established herself in the forefront nized for the generosity which led to the OF CALIFORNIA of humanitarian efforts in the Long establishment of the Earl and Loraine IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Beach community in many fields: civic, Miller Children's Hospital as a gift to the cultural, and medical. people of Long Beach. However, her in- · Wednesday, May 10, 1978 A native of Minnesota, Loraine moved terest and enthusiasm in seeing that the e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. to Long Beach at an early age. While a people of Long Beach have the best of Speaker, on May 19, 1978, the Long student at Long Beach Polytechnic High health care available to them is reflected Beach/Lakewood chapter of the March School, she was the class poet, coauthor in an even greater range of generosity. of Dimes will honor a citizen whose life of the class play, editor of the yearbook, To date, over $6 million have been di­ has been a testament to the highest and valedictorian of her graduating class. rected to support and establish new ideals of community involvement. Dur­ The interest in creative writing Lo­ facilities and services at the Long Beach ing that evening, Loraine Huntington raine displayed in high school continued Memorial Hospital. Besides the Chil­ Miller Collins will be named "Humani­ in later years. As the youngest member of dren's Hospital, she has made possible tarian of the Year"-an award that truly the Board of Ebell for 3 years, Loraine the development of a baromedical unit a.t serves to highlight a lifetime of service was active in the club and authored the Memorial Hospital Medical Center. to the benefit of her community. many plays presented by the Ebell Club Grants have been made to support eye Mrs. Collins has been a leading figure and the Long Beach Community Theatre. and cancer care a.t the medical center in the development ,if the excellent Among her other cultural interests, Mrs. and counseling services. Recently, the health facilities in the city of Long Collins served as president of the Opera Earl and Loraine Miller Fellowship in Beach. Her record of philanthropic works Reading Club for 2 years; authored a Neonatology and the Earl Burns Miller

Statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor will be identified by the use of a "bullet" symbol, i.e., • May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13261 Chair in Neonatology have been endowed ADMINISTRATION'S FISCAL FOOL­ (From the Air Force Magazine, May 1978) in perpetuity by Mrs. Collins, making it ISHNESS ON AMERICAN DEFENSE FUFO AT A STANDSTILL possible for the medical center to recruit (By Edgar Ulsamer) national authorities in newborn infant WASHINGTON, D.C., April fi.-The program care. She has continued her leadership as HON. WILLIAM L. DICKINSON went by the unlikely acronym FUFO, !or trustee and benefactor of the children's OF ALABAMA the Full Fuzlng Option B77 nuclear bomb. Hospital, and recently provided a sep­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Among its advocates was secretary o! De­ arate, fully equipped pediatric radiology fense Harold Brown. Work on the B77 had department which opened early this year. Wednesday, May 10, 1978 begun in 1974, based on a joint Air Force/ U.S. Navy requirement. But the Office o! Loraine Miller Collins has also donated e Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, many Management and Budget struck it from the her time and personal services to the of the administration's highly publicized FY '79 budget request o! the Department Long Beach community throughout her decisions to cancel weapons and weapon o! Energy's (DoE) nuclear weapons divi­ life. A charter member of the Assistance systems just before production and sion. So the world's most sophisticated alr­ League, she was program director for the after the expenditure of hundreds of droppable nuclear bomb didn't get off the league's first girls club. Mrs. Collins millions or billions of dollars are well ground-lo spite o! firm Pentagon support-­ worked as a gray lady at the Long Beach known to our colleagues. I referred to because of what in retrospect turns out to this in a previous statement as the be a strange case of presumed assoclatlon Naval Hospital for 5 years during World with the B-1 bomber. Even though inter­ War II, and wrote the feature stories for "Administration's Utgoff Unilateral Un­ governmental memoranda issued by secre­ the gray ladies in the Red Cross maga­ armament Unprinciple." We know of tary Brown last year-the most recent on De­ zine. A member of the "Committee of the B-1, neutron weapons, a Nimitz class cember 15, 1977--documented the opera­ Three" who assisted in setting up the carrier, AMST aircraft, surface effects tional and cost-effective advantage o! the first civilian bloodbank at Seaside Hospi­ ship, and so forth. A lesser known ex­ B77 !or use by a range o! USAF and Navy tal, Mrs. Collins was also one of the 10 ample of fiscal foolishness came to the aircraft, OMB, with some backlog by the Na­ attention of the House Armed Services tional Security Council, persuaded the White founders of the volunteer auxiliary to House to defer the program on grounds that Seaside Hospital, which, in 1958, became Committee, and·I would like to share this it was mainly meant to complement the B-1, the volunteer auxiliary to Memorial horror story with you. whose production had been halted. Further, Hospital Medical Center. As first vice A very young "account executive" with OMB reasoned, modifying an existing older president in charge of membership at a modicum of accounting experience, nuclear weapon, the B43, would provide most Memorial, Loraine was primarily re­ probably very little in auditory prin­ o! the performance features o! the B77, and sponsible for its growth from 10 mem­ ciples and none about nuclear weapons at lower cost. bers to 263 in only 2 years. (he is the nuclear weapons account ex­ The B77 bomb was designed !or the De­ ecutive) decided to make a name for partment o! Energy's weapons branch by the As president of the volunteer auxiliary Lawrence Livermore and Sandia Corp. Lab­ in 1960, she established a nursing schol­ himself and try to ''save" money by rec­ oratories, both o! Livermore, Call!. It would arship, completed and furnished the ommending that the B-77 bomb, under have been the most tamperproo!, safest, and magnificent chapel at Memorial Hospi­ development since 1969, be scrapped and from the user's point o! view, the most tal, and established city-wide symposia a 1960 model bomb be completely re­ flexible strategic nuclear weapon in the for volunteers in all the hospitals in designed and rebuilt. Our committee world. As sen. S. I. Hayakawa (R-Call!.) Long Beach. Mrs. Collins has recorded staff was asked to look into this matter pointed out lo a letter to President Carter, after Chairman PRICE received a letter the B77 would increase the survlvablllty o! over 1,900 hours of service to hospital an aircraft carrying it "by allowing very low patients as a working member of the requesting the reprograming of funds altitude subsonic or supersonic delivery, with auxiliary. to perform some tests on the old B-43 high rellablllty against hard, irregular tar­ Among the awards she has received in bomb. gets. recognition of her many contributions Following is a brief statement on what The potential carriers include our bombers are the 8th Annual Rick Racker the staff uncovered: as well as many Air Force and Navy tactical Woman of the Year Award in 1963; the When the DOE budget request was re­ aircraft. This lay-down bomb can make a viewed by the Office of Management major contribution to modernizing and sim­ Brotherhood Award for "exceptional plifying the [US nuclear weapons) stockpile. contributions to the improvement of hu­ and Budget (OMB), OMB recommended It provides many new features for improved man understanding in the Long Beach disapproval of B-77 production and the safety, security, command and control, and area" from the National Conference of substitution of a modified B-43 bomb operational flexlbillty. For example, it wlll be Christians and Jews in 1971; and 1 of 10 on the basis that a cost saving could be the only megaton-class weapon with insen­ made. The President approved this rec­ sitive high explosives, essentially invulner­ women named Woman of the Year in able to accidental or unauthorlZed detona­ 1970 by the Los Angeles Times. ommendation. The President was mis­ tion." Loraine Miller Collins' two most re­ informed. I! anything, Senator Hayakawa under­ cent gifts to the community-the Miller First, when the total costs of the B-77 stated the case. At the time of its deferment, Special Collection Room at the new main and B-43 modification are compared, in­ the B77 had been well along lo its develop­ city library of Long Beach and a beau­ cluding the costs of special nuclear ma­ ment and test: Its yield ranges from tens o! kilotons to about one megaton and various tiful Japanese garden at California terials, the sunk costs of B-77 R. & D. yields can be selected by the crew in tllght. State University Long Beach---only plus the R. & D. costs associated with As presently proposed, the modified B43 wlll serve to demonstrate her continued in­ maintaining a B-77 option, the claimed lack the quality of selectable yield and, terest in the betterment of her commu­ cost savings disappear. Second, and more therefore, will have to be produced lo a num­ ber o! configurations to cover different re­ nity. -For Loraine Miller Collins is a importantly, the B-43 modification will quirements. The B61 tactical bomb permits highly motivated, multitalented indi­ produce a bomb which would be inferior selectable yield, but its maximum yield ls vidual who has generously used her to the B-77 in mission capability, reli­ less than one-third o! that of the 377. many interests and abilities to make ability, and stockpile flexibility. The de­ The B77 employs an ingenious mechanism Long Beach a better place to live. cision would result in a large expenditure to stabillze, delay, and control its approach of funds to produce a modified weapon to the target--lncludlng a "lifting para­ My wife, Lee, joins me in offering our chute" that raises the weapon above the alti­ sincere congratulations to Loraine Hunt­ · which, in terms of military character­ tude frolll which it was dropped. As a result, ington Miller Collins as she is honored istics, would be a very small improve­ it can be deployed from as low as 100 feet as Humanitarian of the Year. The ment over the B-43 bombs now in the without endangering the carrying aircraft Long Beach/Lakewood Chapter of the inventory. and descends at an angle and speed opti­ The House Armed Services Committee mized for kllllng hard, irregular targets such March of Dimes has truly made an out­ as command bunkers and other hardened standing selection, for Mrs. Loraine Mil­ voted against funds for the B-43 con­ structures with uneven surfaces. ler Collins exemplifies the highest stand­ version. The B61 and B43 can't be released below ards of community service and involve­ Edgar Ulsamer, the senior editor of 200 feet, a limitation that increases the ment. We would also extend our best Air Force Magazine had an excellent ac­ vulnerablllty o! aircraft operating "on the wishes to her husband, Mr. Lawrence count of the B-77 fiasco in the May 1978 deck." Another advanced feature ls the B77's Collins, Sr., who must be justly proud of issue. I include this article in the RECORD frugal use o! a national resource that is the recognition his wife will receive.• at this point: both in critically short supply and extremely 13262 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May· 10, 1978 expensive, the Special Nuclear Material ing in the 90th anniversary celebration in which the General Accounting Office (SNM) needed to start a. nuclear detonation. of the West End Fire Company of audits similar Federal expenditures. The By contrast, the modified B43, unless com­ Shamokin, Pa. The West End Fire Com­ Comptroller General shall report to the Con­ pletely redesigned or reduced in yield, will gress the results of such audits not less use great quantities of SNM a.nd, therefore, pany is an all-volunteer organization frequently than annually." will approach or perhaps exceed the cost of which has always served the citizen's of Page 10, after line 5, insert after the item the B77. Shamokin with devotion and valor. relating to section 6454 the following: Also, the broad range of yields that the "Volunteerism" is a fundamental part "SEC. 6455. Audit by the General Accounting B77 ca.n be set for would permit a. high de­ of the American spirit. !need, our Na­ Office. gree of standardization of the nation's nu­ tion was founded upon the selfless acts clear arsenal, simplified aircrew training a.nd Mr. Speaker, a second amendment certification of carrying aircraft, and un­ of dedicated volunteers. It is in that im­ which I intend to off er would elimina'te precedented operational flexibility. Candi­ portant and distinguished tradition that the retroactive benefits of the bill and date aircraft for its use a.re the B-52, F-111, the West End Fire Company takes its limit them to purchases made after its FB-111, F-16, F-4, A-6, and A-7. place. I commend the members of the effective date, October 1, 1978. The Possibly the most significant feature-and company for their efforts and wish them amendment language follows: one that, a.long with the SNM cost factor, continued safety in carrying out their AMENDMENT No. 2 TO H.R. 11986 ha.d been largely ignored by OMB-is the fine work.• B77's unmatched safety and security. Two (To provide that only expenditures after the key factors are involved here: The use of date of enactment of the legislation may new insensitive high explosives-needed to be ta.ken into account) "squeeze" the nuclear material to cause AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 11986, THE Page 19, line 17, strike out "January 24, chain reaction-that are impervious to im­ NOISY AffiCRAFT REVENUE AND 1977" and insert in lieu thereof "the date pact or fire a.nd, therefore, prevent the scat­ CREDIT ACT OF 1978 of the enactment of this subchapter". ter of fissile material in a crash; and a. Page 22, beginning in line 1, strike out quantum jump in the so-called permissive "January 24, 1977," and insert in lieu there­ action link (PAL) technology that prevents HON. CHARLES A. VANIK of "date of enactment". unauthorized or accidental detonation of OF Page 22, beginning in line 3, strike out the weapon through the use of a. multilink "January 24, 1977," and insert in lieu there­ command mechanism known as the Unique IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of "the date of the enactment of this sub­ Signal Genera.tor. Wednesday, May 10, 1978 cha.pter". The B43 weapon-a product of the 1960s­ Page 24, beginning in line 9, strike out tha.t the White House wants to substitute • Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, on April 24, "January 24, 1977," and insert in lieu there­ in modified form for the B77, this column the Ways and Means Committee voted of "the date of the enactment of this sub­ learned, can be retrofitted with most of the to report H.R. 11986, the Noisy Aircraft chapter". safety and security features of the B77. The Revenue and Credit Act of 1978. This leg­ retrofitting will involve a. costly and exten­ islation would provide a credit from di­ Mr. Speaker, as reported from the sive redesign. Most nuclear weapon experts verted airport and airway trust fund Ways and Means Committee, the bill will agree that the result will be an essentially provide a credit for purchases dating new weapon that must go through a. com­ taxes to airlines which retrofit or replace engines, or purchase replacement air­ back to January 24, 1977. When the com­ plete testing cycle. But no such testing is mittee voted to report the bill, the FAA possible. The Limited Test Ban Treaty al­ craft in compliance with noise abate­ ready in effect precludes testing of nuclear ment regulations. I have serious reser­ representative present was not even able devices with a. yield above 150 kilotons, vations about this bill and plan to off er to advise us on which airlines would re­ which is only a.bout one-eighth of the yield four amendments to make the bill some­ ceive benefits retroactively from the leg­ sought for the modified B43. If, a.s is pos­ what more responsible when it comes to islation's effective date and how much sible, a comprehensive Test Ban Trea.ty­ the floor of the House. they would receive. We should not legiti­ currently under negotiation in Geneva-is mize these unknown purchases. consummated, no testing of any stage of the My first amendment would provide The third amendment I intend to offer B43 would be possible. The B77, on the other for an annual audit by the General Ac­ hand, has undergone thorough testing and, would limit the tax benefits of the bill counting Office of utilization of the credit only to the new engines, as opposed to the in the view of the experts, meets the wide provisions of the bill. On April 13, the range of yields its specifications call for. entire replacement aircraft. It would Full realization of the unique safety, se­ committee voted down such an amend­ not change the credit for retrofitting en­ curity, and operational value of the B77 did ment, apparently unconcerned about the gines. The amendment language follows: lack of audit authority. However, subse­ not set in until after the program wa.s AMENDMENT No. 3 TO H.R. 11986 scrapped on December 19, 1977, and ca.used quent to the vote, in reply to an inquiry belated backpedaling. As a. result, DoE's na­ I made, I received a letter from the (To provide that credit shall be allowed only tional security division was requested to con­ Comptroller General of the United for retrofitting and replacing noisy engines) tinue research and development on the B77. States, who explained: Page 1, line 7, insert "THE ENGINES OF" In February, Congress reacted to the Ad­ before "NOISY". ministration's zigzagging by blocking mod­ Genera.Uy, without specific statutory au­ Page 2, line 10, insert "the Engines of" ifications of the B43 on the logical grounds thority, our (GAO's] audit authority does not before "Noisy". extend to private persons or organizations. that its performance would lag fa.r behind Page 2, line 14, insert "THE ENGINES OF" the B77 and that its ultimate costs could With respect to funds in the hands of an after "REPLACING". "operator" as defined in the bill, we [GAO] exceed the procurement cost of the B77. The Page 6, strike out the matter between lines impasse persists a.t this writing and should would have no authority to demand access to the records and documents necessary to 16 and 17 and insert in lieu thereof the serve a.s a.n object lesson that vital decisions following: concerning complex weapons issues should conduct an audit if such documents were in not be ma.de in haste, on the strength of in­ the operator's possession. 31 U.S.C. § 54. "Sec. 4261A. Taxes relating to retrofitting complete cost accounting, and by ignoring and replacing the engines of noisy aircraft." the advice of experts. With the U.S. Treasury providing so Page 6, line 23, insert "the Engines of" be­ As one ranking expert puts it, "OMB's much cash to the airline industry for fore "Noisy". meddling has created a situation where the new aircraft, this audit authority is es­ Page 7, line 4, insert "THE ENGINES OF" country ma.y well wind up without a. badly sential to assure that the noise abate­ before "NOISY". needed new strategic bomb and waste untold Page 9, strike out the matter between lines millions of dollars in the process." ment subsidies are used in accordance with the language of the bill. The amend­ 22 and 23 and insert in lieu thereof the The Administration, in response to con­ following: gressional pressures, now seems willing to ment language follows: reexamine the entire issue. "Sec. 4271A. Taxes related to retrofitting AMENDMENT No. 1 TO H.R. 11986 ,and replacing the engines of noisy (To Provide for audits of credits and refunds aircraft." by the General Accounting Office) WEST END FIRE COMPANY Page 10, line 5, insert "the Engines of" Page 28, line 12, strike out the quotation before "Noisy". marks. Page 10, strike out the item between lines HON. ALLEN E. ERTEL Page 28, after line 12, insert the following: 5 and 6 relating to section 6454 and insert OF "SEC. 6455. AUDIT BY THE GENERAL ACCOUNT­ in lieu thereof the following: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ING OFFICE. "SEC. 6454. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS "The General Accounting Office shall audit Page 13, line 5, insert "or" after the Wednesday, May 10, 1978 the credits and refunds, and the recapture comma.. • Mr. ERTEL. Mr. Speaker, on April 15, of such credits and refunds, under this sub­ Page 13, beginning in line 7, strike out 1978, I had the distinct privilege of join- chapter in a manner similar to the manner the comma and all that follows down May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13263 through line 14 and insert in lieu thereof Page 27, after line 17, insert the following: sing plants in the world. The Van Camp a period. "(3) DENIAL OF INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT.­ plant in my district employs nearly 1,400 Page 14, line 4, insert "or" after the Replacement property taken into account in people and can process 250 tons of tuna comma. determining the credit under this subchap­ daily. I am also very proud of the fact Page 14, beginning in line 6, strike out ter shall not be treated as section 38 prop­ the comma and all that follows down erty ( as defined by section 48 (a) ) . that this plant is the first tuna cannery through line 7 and insert in lieu thereof a to be built using totally-integrated air period. Mr. Speaker, airlines already receive a and water pollution control systems. Page 15, strike out lines 1 to 6, inclusive. substantial subsidy for purchasing new So on this occasion of the industry's Page 15, line 7, strike out "(5)" and insert equipment in the form of the investment 75th anniversary and in recognition of in lieu thereof " ( 4) ". tax credit. They will receive another the integral part that the Van Camp Page 15, beginning in line 18, strike out tremendous subsidy from this bill. With­ Sea Flooc! Co. and San Diego have "engine" and all that follows down through out this amendment, an airline purchas­ played in its development, I wish to call line 19 and insert in lieu thereof "engine ing a $10 million aircraft would get a the attention of my colleagues to this or for replacement of such engine,". $2,500,000 refund and a 10 percent in­ Page 15, beginning in line 23, strike out milestone and ask that they join me in "or" and all that follows down through line vestment credit of $1 million on the full commemorating the diamond jubilee of 3 on page 16 and insert in lieu thereof a amount of the purchase price. It would the American tuna processors. • period. be the first time in our history that an Page 16, beginning in line 16, strike out industry would receive a tax credit for a "In" and all that follows down through line purchase price which included a 25 per­ 21. cent Federal refund. To provide both tax STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN AL Page 16, strike out line 22 and all tha.t incentives would give this industry an ULLMAN, COMMITrEE ON WAYS follows down through line 16 on page 18. unneeded and unprecedented boon. AND MEANS WITH RESPECT TO Page 1'8, line 17, strike out "(f)" and in­ sert in lieu thereof " ( e) ". I would urge my colleagues to consider THE RULE TO BE REQUESTED FOR Page 19, line 22, strike out "(g)" and in­ these amendments seriously when H.R. CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 12641, sert in lieu thereof "(f) ". 11986 comes to the floor, and urge their RELATING TO THE PUBLIC DEBT Page 21, line 12, strike out "aircraft" and support.• LIMITATION all that follows down through line 14 and insert in lieu thereof "aircraft or replacing such engines." HON. AL ULLMAN Page 21, strike out lines 15 through 25 and HOOKED ON TUNA OF OREGON insert in lieu thereof the following: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "(g) COST DEFINED.-For purposes of this section- HON. LIONEL VAN DEERLIN Wednesday, May 10, 1978 " ( 1) IN GENERAL.-Except as provided in OF CALIFORNIA • Mr. ULLMAN. Mr. Speaker, on May 10, paragraph (2), the term 'cost' means the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES basis of the property (including installa­ 1978, the Committee on Ways and Means tion, delivery, and testing costs). WP.dm~.<:dn:u. Mau 1n. 1978 ordered favorably reported to the House Page 22, line 11, strike out "(1)" and in­ e Mr. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. Speaker, the H.R. 12641, a bill relating to the public sert in lieu thereof " ( h) ". year 1978 marks the 75th anniversary of debt limitation. The bill would simply Page 24, strike out line 13 and all that extend the present public debt limitation follows down through line 4 on page 27 and tuna canning in America, and I am of $752 billion through September 30, insert in lieu thereof the following: pleased to pay tribute to the industry. 1979. As the home of the Van Camp Sea Food "SEC. 6454. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. I take this occasion to advise my Page 27, line 5, strike out "(b)" a.nd insert Co., Sun Harbor Industries, and our country's largest tuna fleet, San Diego Democratic colleagues as to the nature in lieu thereof "(a)". of the rule that I will request for consid­ Page 27, line 18, strike out "(c)" and in­ has played a major role in its develop­ ment and growth of the canning eration of H.R. 12641 on the floor of the sert in lieu thereof "(b) ". House. The Committee on Ways and Page 28, strike out the matter between industry. lines 15 and 16 and insert in lieu thereof the Means specifically instructed me to re­ The U.S. tuna business was born in quest the Committee on Rules to grant a following: · 1903 when a small cannery in San Pedro, "Subchapter c. Credit or refund of certain closed rule for consideration of this bill Calif., made its first pack-700 cases. which would provide for: taxes for investments to Today, tun ranks No. 1 in U.S. seafood retrofit or replace the en­ sales. The canned tuna industry has an First, a committee amendment to con­ gines of noisy aircraft." estimated $1 billion impact on the Na­ form the public debt limitation to the Page 30, strike out lines 8 to 13, inclusive. tion's economy and employs over 30,000 level of public debt provided in the con­ Page 1, amend the title to read as follows: persons directly, with additional thou­ ference report on the first concurrent To amend the Internal Revenue Code of sands in related industries. The product budget resolution for fiscal year 1979; 1954 to make certain changes in the taxes is found in more than 80 percent of all Second, 1 hour of general debate, to be on transportation by air and to provide equally divided; credits or refunds of a certain portion of American homes. It is firmly established such taxes for expenditures to retrofit and in the American diet because it is rec­ Third, waiving all necessary points of replace the engines of noisy aircraft. ognized as a delicious, economic, and order; and Mr. Speaker, H.R. 11986, as reported, convenient source of complete protein Fourth, one motion to recommit with provides airlines a 40 percent credit for and essential vitamins and minerals. or without instructions. purchases of replacement aircraft which The Van Camp Co. is a good example We intend to fl.le the committee report meet the noise abatement standards of o.f the parallel growth of tuna canning on H.R. 12641 as soon as possible and re­ March 3, 1977, or 25 percent for pur­ and San Diego. Frank Van Camp and his quest to be heard before the Committee chases of aircraft meeting the noise son, Gilbert

and 1967 as the military occupant after a general ideas of · this plan. But it raises President Carter as defining the issue as war of aggression. It sought to annex the ter­ objections in two areas, which are the areas Begin's "unwillingness, unlike previous ritory in 1951, but only two countries recog­ of disagreement between President Carter Israeli governments, to interpret Resolution nized the annexation. No Arab country has and Prime Minister Begin. 242 as obliging Israel to give back at least recognized Jordanian sovereignty there. The first has to do with Israeli settlements part of the West Bank of the Jordan River, Israel's claim in the West Bank is at least in the West Bank, and also in the Sinai. and his rejection of any West Bank formula as good as Jordan's; some legal experts con­ Our government argues that Israeli settle­ that would give the Palestinians a say in sider it to be better, because Israel occupied ment in the West Bank and in the Sinai are their future, if their choices were limited to the territory in 1967 in the course of a war illegal, and should stop. Indeed, it is some­ Israeli, Jordanian, or international control." of self-defense. I myself passed an Israeli times reported that our government favors Tom Wicker, equally well briefed, says that message to the Jordanian Ambassador in clearing all the settlements out of the West Begin's interpretation of Resolution 242 Washington in 1967, promising Jordan im­ Bank and the Sinai, although some have makes it inapplicable to the West Bank. He munity from the war if it stayed out. If King been there for years. And it has pressed says that Begin has made the return to Hussein had heeded that message, he would Israeli hard to commit itself now to military Jordan of part of the West Bank "non­ hold the West Bank and Old Jerusalem today. withdrawals from the West Bank on cer­ negotiable," and ruled out the possible trans­ According to Resolution 242, Jordan and tain unspecified contingencies which have fer to Jordan of the new autonomous Arab Israel are to reach agreement on the future not been made public. governmental unit in the area. of the area, and make a just and durable On the first issue-the legality of the set­ As I pointed out earlier, the territorial pro­ peace. But King Hussein now flatly refuses tlements-our government has never pub­ vision of Resolution 242 was primarily ad­ · to joint in the negotiating process initiated lished its legal opinion, so that others could dressed to the situation of the West Bank by President Sadat's visit to Jerusalem. evaluate the cogency of its arguments. I and the Gaza Strip. It surely does apply to There is therefore no one with whom Israel have the impression that while the govern­ those territories. Why isn't Begin's formula, can negotiate the future of the West Bank, ment recognizes the continued vitality of or a modification of it, adequate to permit and the making of peace. Until King the Mandate as a "sacred trust"-it could President Sadat to go forward and make Hussein changes his mind, and makes peace, hardly do otherwise-, it is relying on the peace? Why hasn't the United States gov­ the issue of Israeli withdrawal from the Geneva Convention to support its thesis. The ernment made it clear to President Sadat, West Bank cannot arise under Resolution Convention, drafted for entirely different sit­ with the same frankness it used toward 242. uations, prohibits a military occupant from Prime Minister Begin, that the Arab inter­ What then is the dispute between Israel driving out the population of the defeated pretation of the territorial clause of Resolu­ and the United States about? sovereign, and replacing that population tion 242 is wrong, contrary to American In the first place, we are pressing to ob­ with its own. As I have noted, there is no policy, and an obstacle to peace? tain Israeli agreement to a Declaration of recognized sovereign in the West Bank, and I can see no reason why President Carter Principles about peace making, on the basis there are no expulsions of population either pressed the issue so hard at this time, unless of which, we hope, President Sadat will con­ in the West Bank or the Sinai. I believe he wanted to provoke a confrontation. King sent to make peace with Israel. Since Reso­ our government is wrong on this issue, cer­ Hussein refuses to negotiate, so the issue is lution 242 is a declaration of principles to tainly as to the West Bank, and probably hardly ripe for decision. Begin's refusal now guide the peace making process, it is not as to the Sinai as well. This is not to say to accept a plebiscite five years hence is rea­ apparent why a new Declaration is neces­ that Israeli flexibility of timing on the pol­ sonable enough. Few such problems are sub­ sary. But President Sadat deems such a icy or settlements may not be desirable. mitted to plebiscite in international prac­ Declaration desirable politically, and there Obviously it is. But that judgment is quite tice, as the controversies over Kashmir, would be no harm in it if it does not go different from saying that the practice is Ogaden, and Biafra demonstrate. Suppose, beyond Resolution 242 itself. The difficulty, illegal. in the event of a plebiscite, that there is a however, is that in negotiating the Resolu­ In any event, if Egypt and Jordan are dis­ PLO boycott, or a write in vote? It would be tion the Egyptians keep pressing to obtain tressed about the political implications of hard to ignore. To promise a plebiscite in a commitment to total Israeli withdrawal Israeli ~ettlements in the West Bank or the this volatile situation is a serious matter, to the Armistice Demarcation Lines-that Sinai, they can solve the problem quickly not to be undertaken lightly. It is hard now is, to have Israel and the United States recog­ by making peace. Israel has said over and to find a better procedure than that of 242- nize the Jordanian annexation of the West over again that its settlements c2n remain negotiation between Jordan and Israel, with Bank which we have refused to do for after peace is made even if the territories some participation by West Bank leaders, t wenty-nine years. become Egyptian or Jordanian. Israel's con­ and a fair solution for the area between those This is not simply a matter of law in in­ cept of peace, it says, rests on the principle two Palestinian states? terpreting Resolution 242, but of justice and of mutual freedom among the people to own of security. Resolution 242 does not demand All in all, I conclude that the confronta­ land in each other's country. tion between Israel and the United States is that Jerusalem be split again, and sealed It is impossible at this point to define with ma.chine guns, nor does it drive Israel an unnecessary crisis which wise and prudent the second issue in dispute between Presi­ diplomacy should have prevented, and must back to live in a coastal strip ten miles wide dent Carter and Prime Minister Begin. Our whose boundaries were fixed by nothing government lets it be known that Israel now urgently overcome. It seems apparent more rational than the battles of the first is refusing to admit the applicabiliy of Res­ that President Carter pressed Prime Min­ ister Begin to answer speculative questions Arab-Israeli war of 1948. The Resolution rests olution 242 to the West Bank. In his Press on a more generous concept of peace. Club speech, Prime Minister Begin said: about withdrawal in possible future situa­ The ideal solution for t he Palestinian tions in which the security problem might "The Government of Ii:rael has accepted be better or worse than it is today. Mani­ problem is a special arrangement, hope­ 242 Resolution as the basis for negotiations festly, Mr. Begin thought these hypothetical fully a federation, between Jordan and between us and all our neighbors. . . . We Israel, based on an economic union between situations were beyond simple "Yes" or "No" proved that we accepted Resolution 242 as answers. Under the circumstances, it is hard the two countries, the principle of freedom a base for negotiations in the draft decla­ of movement for people and goods, free port to understand President Carter's diplomatic ration of principles which we sent to Egypt procedure. facilities for Jordan at Haifa, and an ap­ and I would hope-I hope literally-on the propriate regime for Jerusalem. Such a plan basis of all the principles of the aforemen­ The United States has profound and far• would rest either on an equitable partition tioned Resolution 242 there will be with­ reaching interests in the Middle Ea.st, geo­ of the West Bank, or on a condominium drawal of Israeli forces from territories oc­ political interests of a vital character. The for the area. This has always been the goal cupied in the conflict of 1967 and secure and Soviet Union is trying to outflank and en­ of Israeli policy, and I believe it would be recognize boundaries between which every velop Europe from the South through the its goal today. state in the area will live in peace, free Middle East and Africa, separate us from That outcome is not available, however, from acts or threats of force. Western Europe, and bring that area under so long as King Hussein refuses to negotiate. "This is the language qf 242 and we have its control. Our interests and those of Israel Therefore Israel has proposed a plan for accepted it and we do accept it." are congruent, and the same. None of our self-rule for the Palestinian Arabs in cer­ This statement did not calm the waters. national problems in the area can be solved tain areas of the West Bank, an end of mili­ The confusion about the nature of the dis­ without a strong and friendly Israel, and tary government, and the retention by Israel pute between Carter and Begin over the ap­ peace between Israel and its neighbors. only of military and foreign policy respon­ plicability of Resolution 242 to the West What is at stake in the dispute goes beyond sibility for the area. These transition ar­ Bank is evident everywhere. Each Senator, power politics to the nature of our being, rangements for self-rule would be consistent journalist, or observer comes away from the and therefore to the nature of our foreign with an ultimate solution between Israel authorities with a different version. I count­ policy. Should the American government and Jordan, to be negotiated when King ed three in last Sunday's Times alone, and press any foreign government, and above all Hussein is ready. Such a settlement would there have been several since. On Sunday, a small, friendly, beleaguered democratic finally establish the sovereignty of those the dispatch from Cairo said that the United government like Israel, to give up its rights areas of the Palestine Mandate for which States was pressing Israel to agree to the and interests, and accept what it regards as sovereignty is still in suspense as either complete evacuation of the West Bank by genuine security risks, in advance of nego­ Israeli or Jordanian, or shared between them Israel, and a return to the Armistice De­ tiations for peace, and the visible making in a condominium. marcation Lines. On the first page of the of peace? The United States looks favorably on the Week in Review, a summary article quotes What happened last week was a serious CXXIV-836-Part 10 13284 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 set back for American foreign policy. It can Within days, Miss Nguyen and 10 members ls not forgotten but the future in New York and must be corrected.e of her family are to join about 1,500 Indo­ City seems more frightening. "We are so chinese refugees who have already estab­ worried," said Miss Nguyen, "but we can't lished new llve.s in New York. But before cry anymore." THE TRAGEDY FACING MANY IN taking their first plane flight, she and her ASIA brother talked about the big city that will be home and the little boat that was home EMOTIONAL ATI'ACK during three weeks adrift. Their names have HON. PAUL SIMON been changed in this article to protect rela­ OF ILLINOIS tives in prison in Vietnam. HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. Miss Nguyen and her brother, Tro Co, 23, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA asked what New York looked like and were IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, May 10, 1978 surprised to learn that Manhattan was an island. But they knew the buildings were Wednesday, May 10, 1978 •Mr.SIMON. Mr. Speaker, I was pleased tall. "I think," said Mr. Nguyen, "some are to see the Vice President's pledges of maybe 10 or 12 floors." • Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, how about support for the refugees, when he was Where they wlll settle was determined, as this for a Presidential campaign in Southeast Asia recently. it ts for many refugees, by a personal tie. platform: Obviously, the United States has spe­ Miss Nguyen once worked in Saigon for Vote for me and I'll smear those With cial responsibilities here. Jimmy Lien, who now has a business in New whom you disagree. York. He is helping sponsor the family, which A recent story in the New York Times Or would you prefer: tells very graphically why the United numbered 13 when they and 11 other people set out last June from an inland river port. I ... look upon every American as human States and other nations ought to be do­ Mr. Nguyen said they left from an inland beings to be loved and won. ing more to provide assistance to des­ port "because the Communists now watch all perate people. the coastal vlllages." Listing other precau­ Because of his height, naturally I I hope my colleagues, who may not tions against getting caught, Mr. Nguyen have. at the very minimum, high regard have seen this original story in the New said, "never buy more than one tank of gas for Senator LOWELL WEICKER. York Times by Andrew H. Malcolm, will at a time. And never, never buy canned foods. One might wonder, though, if the read it. That's what they watch for. The Communists starting gun for the following (inserted (From the New York Times, Apr. 24, 1978) make everyone prove theinselves to the new news article) long-distance jump to a Government. So 1! you report someone pre­ ridiculous conclusion might have been ROAD FROM VIETNAM TO NEW YORK Is A paring to escape, then maybe you get more CRUEL ONE rice or your child into school." fired in the fog of a sleepless night. It (By Andrew H. Malcolm) is the kind of nonsense that only makes ENGINE FAILS AND BOAT LEAKS sense during a stupor before the dawn. ToKYo, April 23.-Nguyen Yen Linh ls a 22- They left in their 30-foot craft at nigiht year-old Vietnamese refugee who went and reached the ocean by dawn. A police Hitler spoke of world order. John F. through three months of secret escape prep­ launch, firing a machine gun and later a Kennedy spoke of world order. Bernard arations, came under machine-gun fire from grenade launcher, chased them but was too Baruch spoke of world order and the pursuing Communist police and bailed for slow. The refugees headed for Singapore, but ''broad mandate under which we were her life in a sinking boat. the second morning, about 60 miles from created". Woodrow Wilson spoke of She watched a friend swim to his death shore, the engine failed and the boat began to world order. Practically everybody who and buried a brother and a sister at sea leak. ever said a kind word about the League after more than 20 ships refused to rescue For 18 days they bobbed helplessly, ba111ng them all. For another nine months of gnaw­ of Nations or the United Nations or continuously in 90-mlnute shifts. Waves international law spoke of world order. ing uncertainty, Miss Nguyen waited here, washed much of their food and water over­ and a Japanese official suggested she might board. On the sixth night, a freighter stopped That's a pretty motley "deja vu" be returned to Communist authorities. 20 feet away. For three hours, enough time unless you happen to believe that all But now, despite overcoming all these ob­ to check with a home office by radio, the ship cottage cheese is made in cottages. stacles, Miss Nguyen ls scared-she ls about sat there while the refugees shouted and to settle in a very strange and foreign place Because of his instant and extempo­ pleaded and the crew looked down from the raneous eloquence in defense of decent called New York. decks in silence. Then, the engines started "Oh, I'm so frightened and worried," she and the freighter pulled away. truth, Presidential counselor Robert J. said. "I don't know where we'll live or if Crushed, everyone fell asleep and the craft Lipshutz is not unworthy of the memo­ I can work or get medical c.are or how to almost sank. Frantic balling saved it. ries of Edward R. Murrow and Elmer get around there. I don't know anything "We were all prepared to die," Miss Nguyen Davis. about New York or the United States, so said, "but we weren't prepared for all the For everyone who goes astray, someone I don't sleep so much at night." suffering." Twice a day each refugee ate one will come to show the way. JAPAN'S POLICY APPEARS TO SOFTEN spoonful of rice. They trapped rainwater in Relief workers have estimated that one raincoats but when it ran out, they drank I believe. Vienamese refugee dies at sea for every one the children's urine. Ship after ship passed, [From the Washington Star, May 9, 1978) who survives, partly because larger ships ignoring shouts and even a fire that they WEICK.ER'S EMOTIONAL ATTACK ON BRZEZINSKI frequently ignore pleas for help. Larger ships set in clothing aboard the boat. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-Conn., trig­ with refugees aboard have incurred costly de­ BROTHER AND SISTER DIE gered an unscheduled debate with a White lays when Asian governments have refused One day-they forget exactly when--one House aide last night when he charged that requests that the refugees be allowed to Zbignlew Brzezinski, President carter's na­ land. of the men cried: "There's a ship!" He jumped overboard and swam away, pausing tional security adviser, had "singled out More than 1,230 refugees have arrived in once to turn and wave goodbye. American Jews as an impediment" to the Japan, which will not accept any for perma­ On the 16th day they caught some small administration's policies. nent settlement. The Japanese Government In an emotional dinner speech before about appears to be easing somewhat its rule re­ fish and shared them. On the 18th day Miss Nguyen's 9-year-old sister died. On the 19th 800 members of the American Israel Public quiring another Government to promise to Affairs Committee, as well as government of­ accept refugees before they can debark in day her 11-year-old brother died. She said: "They were so hungry, you know, and thirsty ficials and congressmen, Weicker said: Japan. But Government officials, who have "We know from history that time and time urged foreign reporters not to write about and we were all wet all the time and cold and they just grew quiet and died." again when national leaders ran into diffi­ the Vietnamese here, say that there ls no culties, they found it convenient to blame new policy and that the departure of ref­ On the 20th day, a Greek ship, the Kri':>s, became the 23d vessel to pass. "We didn't their problems on the Jews. And we know ugees like the Nguyen family makes room what were the results. for new arrivals. even wave," said Mr. Nguyen. "We Just watched it go and then went inside to die." "If there is a meaningful distinction be­ THREE WEEKS ADRIFT A little later, however, the Krlos returned tween those historical proclivities, and the The Nguyens, like all the refugees. have to rescue them. Crewmen donated clothing signals which Brzezinski ls sending today, I been housed privately, usually in religious and food. The ship radioed requests for asy­ don't know what it ls." facilities. They receive $4.10 per person per lum to Taiwan and the Philippines but was Presidential counselor Robert Lipshutz, day for food from the United Nations High refused. A call to the United States Naval amid a mixture of boos and applause, rose to Commissioner for Refugees. Clothing is do­ base at Subic Bay in the Phllippines went denounce Weicker's allegations, declaring he nated by individuals. unanswered. And Japan refused to take the was "dead wrong ... and he knows it." "We wanted to stay here in Asia,'' Miss refugees until Greece promised to accept Lipshutz, who was at the head table but Nguyen said, "but the Japanese Government them if no one else would. not scheduled to speak, said that when won't let us. We were surprised." Today, the brother and sister said, the past Welcker "states that this administration is May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13285 following the pattern of tyrants a.nd dema­ extremists who have no sense of com­ "MR. FISH'S ILLEGAL ALIEN gogues by blaming its problems on the Jews, passion whatsoever toward the integrity PROPOSALS" the senator is dead wrong. The senator is and dignity of a fellow human being and unworthy of his audience, a.nd he knows it who would unleash the forces of hate a.nd you know it. and irrationality to achieve their mis­ HON. HAROLD S. SAWYER "Any attempt to prey upon the emotions OF of the Jewish people is a. disservice to the guided and confused purposes. We United States, to the state of Israel a.nd to mourn the death of Mr. Moro. From it IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES the cause of peace," Lipshutz declared. we should remember a lesson from past Wednesday, May 10, 1978 Weicker, who is openly exploring a. race for and present history: only those who seek the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, to construct a better world by creative e Mr. SAWYER. Mr. Speaker, illegal received prolonged applause from the dinner and enlightened methods of economic entry into the United States and the guests when he said the Carter administra­ presence of millions here now calls for tion is "on a collision course with history, and and social reform will bring justice, a variety of responses by Congress. These Mr. Brzezinski is piloting the ship." progress, and peace to humanity. Justice, must be tailored to the needs of border "He ha.s made abundantly clear his view progress, ar~d peace will never be at­ control and sensibly and humanly deal that the world order politics which he be­ tained by spilling the blood of others.• lieves will replace balance-of-power politics with those aliens already integrated into requires that the U.S. disengage from its his­ our society. torical alliance with Israel," Weicker said. ROMANIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY On August 7, President Carter's mes­ "I ca.n tell you if I were president, a.nd I sage to Congress stressed the need for had a. national security adviser who singled increased personnel along our 2,000-mile out American Jews a.s an impediment to my border with Mexico, and sanctions policies, I would have his resignation before HON. JAMESJ. DELANEY against employers hiring illegal aliens. sundown, and his reputation for breakfast." OF NEW YORK As to those here since 1970, the Presi­ Jerrold L. Schecter, a spokesman for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent proposed a two-tier "amnesty" Brzezinski, said last night: "These kind of Wednesday, May 10, 1978 false, inflammatory statements are unworthy which has not been widely acclaimed. of comment and are counterproductive for e Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, Ameri­ S. 2252 embodies these recommendations serious discussion of the Mideast problem." cans of Romanian descent commemo­ and is currently the subject of hearings Schecter noted that Brzezinski recently rate today, the 10th of May, as the triple before the Senate Judiciary Committee. said that the U.S. commitment to Israel was anniversary of important events in the On May 3, 1978, our colleague, HAMIL­ "unshakable" and "deeply engraved in the history of their homeland. At this time TON FISH, JR., the mnking minority mem­ fa.bric of our own society." I would like to join with my colleagues ber of the House Subcommittee on Im­ At the dinner Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, in the Congress in paying tribute on this D-N.Y., who followed Weicker, inserted sev­ migration, Citizenship, and International eral la.st-minute remarks supporting Brzezin­ glorious occasion. Law, on which I serve, presented his ski. On May 10, 1866, the people of Ro­ views to the Senators. While directing "I have known Zbigniew Brzezinski as a manie. ended a long period of domestic his attention to the provisions of S. 2252, personal friend, as a fellow academic, and as turmoil by proclaiming Carol, Prince of Congressman FISH suggested additional a fellow Democrat through the administra­ Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, as the Bu­ steps based on his firsthand inspection tion of five presidents," said Moynihan in a. charest Prince of their country. This speech that was generally critical of the ad­ of the Mexican/United States border ministration's foreign policies. made Romania a principality under that would help dry up alien smuggling. "His integrity in these matters is as per­ Prince Carol, and she soon obtained her He laid out as a companion step the fect as that of the president a.nd the secre­ first constitution and introduced parli­ creation of a documented temporary tary of state." mentary government. worker category to meet legitimate needs Weicker said in his speech that "when May 10, 1881 marked the coronation of of American agriculture and industry people start talking about world order, I have Charles I as the King of Romania and while helping the economy of Mexico. a chilling sense of deja. vu." Finally, Mr. FisH critically analyzes the "The vision of a world order always seems the establishment of a kingdom by the to require that certain groups be trimmed off will of the people. During the next six President's two-tier amnesty proposal in the interests of orderliness and a. neat decades Romania was quite prosperous and unveils his own alternative-a merit package. and served as a stabilizing force in the system leading to permanent residency. "Mr. Brzezinski has said this world order Balkans and the rest of Eastern Europe. Mr. Speaker, I, too, am greatly con­ process in the Middle East must be a zig-zag But the most important date, May 10, cerned about our mounting illegal alien effort because supporters of Israel and Ameri­ 1877, marked the day the Romanian peo­ problem and I highly recommend to my ca will object to it. And the supporters of colleagues the following thoughtful and Israel in America, according to Mr. Brzezin­ ple proclaimed their independence. An­ ski, are American Jews. nounced during the turmoil of the Russo­ learned testimony: "It must follow, in his view, that if this Turkish War, their independence was TESTIMONY vision of a new world order is thwarted in bought at a dear price on the tattleflelds Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commit­ the present cockpit of world conflict, it wlll south of the Danube where the Roma­ tee, I am pleased to appear before you to dis­ be because of American Jews and because of nian Army defeated Turkish forces and cuss this complex problem of lllegal aliens. Israel." • I have served as ranking Minority Member severed all ties with the Ottorr_an Em­ on the House Subcommittee on Immigration pire. This independence was affirmed by for the past four years. Our Subcommittee ALDO MORO the Treaty of San Stefano and recog­ ha.s considered legislation on aspects of the nized internationally by the Treaty of illegal a.lien problem three times, a.nd the Berlin of 1878. It is a sad irony that this full House ha.s passed legislation in the 92nd HON. BALTASAR CORRADA independence was gained with Russia's and 93rd Congresses. So we are familiar with OF PUERTO RICO aid; as it would be to Russia that it the complexities of this problem. would be lost at the conclusion of World I congratulate you on convening these IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hearings on S. 2252. Together I am sure we Wednesday, May 10, 1978 War II. will be able to enact workable legislation to Today, the people of Romania are un­ deal with this most pressing problem. e Mr. CORRADA. Mr. Speaker, I am able to celebrate their national day of The views I will present today a.re my own, grieved and anguished by the cold­ independence. Instead they must ob­ and not necessarily those of the rest of the blooded assassination of former Italian serve May 9, the anruversary of the So­ Subcommittee. They a.re based on my legisla­ Premier Aldo Moro. The senseless death viet conquest to their homeland. tive experience supplemented by a. two-week of Mr. Moro must be firmly condemned No arbitrary resetting of an anniver­ fa.ct finding trip I ma.de to the Southwestern by all civilized people around the world border early in January of this year. who believe that human life is sacred sary observance imposed from without In order to see firsthand the problems in­ and that each human being is truly on these proud people will ever alter volved in the enforcement of our immigra­ tion laws along the United States/Mexican our brother. Those of us who are firmly their hope or dream for freedom. Mr. Speaker, let me express my t,ope and border, a.nd to view the operations of the committed to the principles of democ­ Border Patrol along the border, I traveled, to­ racy, justice, progress, and peace will prayer that one day true freedom as gether with members of the staff of the Sub­ reject and condemn, now even with well as independence will become a committee on Immigration, Citizenship, and greater strength, the acts of fanatics and reality for Romania and its people.• International La.w to the United States- 13286 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 Mexican border. Beginning in El Paso, Texas, I was told by the El Paso District Director small, occasional smuggler who could little we visited Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Phoenix, of INS that the 807 H-2's he admitted to afford to lose vehicles. Tucson, and Nogales, Arizona, Sonora Mex­ harvest an onion crop in Presidio, Texas, Ia.st I note that S. 2784 by Mr. Scott and Mr. ico, and in California, San Diego, Chula year, did their Job and all but very few Laxalt, members of this Committee, con­ Vista, and San Ysidro. We also visited INS returned on their own to Mexico when their tains a provision that would permit the for­ offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. job was completed. The Government knew feiture of vehicles used to smuggle aliens, This trip helped me to appreciate the prac­ where they were employed, and could moni­ and urge you to include such a provision in tical problems faced by the INS as it at­ tor their wages and working conditions to see any bill you report. tempts to enforce the statutes we enact. that they were up to proper standards, and I now turn to the problem of how to deal The issue addressed by your bill in Section were not opera.ting to the disadvantage of with the millions of aliens illegally present 5, Mr. Chairman, ls the control of the pres­ U.S. workers. in the U.S. at the present time. sure on our borders, particularly our border An ongoing program to allow temporary Section 2 of S. 2252 grants permanent resi­ with Mexico. The problem for Mexico is an documented workers into this country could dence to those aliens here continuously prior economic one. I trust that appropriate com­ be made to work to the advantage of both to January 1, 1970. This is similar to a mittees of the Congress wm consider legis­ the United States and source countries. blanket grant of suspension of deportation lation to assist Mexico and other source Workers could be limited to a fixed period of which would be available to qualified aliens countries to develop labor-intensive agricul­ time of admission, and if the job was not here continuously for seven years pursuant ture and industry, that will reduce the un­ completed, another worker could be admitted to section 244 of the INA, and I feel this employment rates in those countries and to complete it. would be proper. A simplified procedure, consequently lessen the pressure on our Appropriate income tax should be with­ such as registration of qualified aliens would borders. held and workmen's compensation coverage be considerably simpler to administer than I wish to state my strong support for should be provided to temporary workers. On the suspension procedure requiring a hear­ sanctions on employers who knowingly hire the other hand, such workers would not need ing, written opinion by an !migration Judge, illegal or undocumented aliens. It ls well social security or unemployment compensa­ and review by the Congress. understood that the major reasons a.liens tion and these should be inapplicable. I urge the Committee to amend the bill on come 1llegally to our country and remain ls There a.re several benefits which I see flow­ page two, line ten, to read 1971, making the to work. The employment opportunities here, ing from such a Documented Temporary time required in the United States for ad­ even with our present rate of unemployment, Worker program. justment seven years, the same as would be a.re nevertheless far better than opportuni­ ( 1) Aliens would enter the U.S. legally, required for suspension of deportation. Seven ties in the "source" countries. Therefore, it is with the rights of any other person legally years has been considered enough to develop essential to any meaningful legislation in admitted. They would not be forced under­ sufficient roots and equities in our society to this area that we turn off this magnet that ground where they are (now) subject to ex­ grant suspension, and I feel it ls appropriate attracts so many to migrate to our country ploitation because of their lllegal status, but to continue this policy in a program of ad­ lllegally. It was the universal opinion of all could retain their dignity while in the U.S. justment of status as this bill contemplates. those I spoke to along the border who seek in legal status. Probably the most controversial section of to control this problem that this ls the key (2) They would enter based on a proven your bill, Mr. Chairman, is Section 4, grant­ to controlllng the smuggling qf aliens as well. need for workers, not just to find work when ing temporary resident status to persons here The Administration's proposal provides for and where available. 1llegally prior to January 1, 1977. civll penalties of up to $1,000 per alien em­ (3) The government, which would certify In my opinion, the relief gra.n ted in Sec­ ployed. The Attorney General is authorized the need for such a worker, will know when tion 4 of S. 2252 by temporary residency for to bring suit for such penalties, and injunc­ and where such worker is employed, and a specified period does not seem to offer tive relief, against employers engaged in a monitor the conditions of employment as­ sufficient incentive to persuade immediate "pattern or practice" of employing aliens suring that OSHA regulations, and the Fair and complete reglstra tion on the part of the 1llegally (S. 2252, pg. 8, line 6 et seq.). Labor Standards Act are applied. illegal a.liens in this category. The bllls reported by t!le House Judiciary (4) At the end of their period of admis­ The withholding of public social assist­ Committee contained · a three-tier penalty sion, they will return to their home coun­ ance, registration without providing a defi­ structure of a warning, a civil penalty of tries with the wages they have earned, result­ nite solution to his status after the five year $500 per alien 1llegally hired within two years period, and the uncertainty whether the gov­ of the warning, and a criminal penalty of ing in a benefit not only to themselves, but to their home countries as well. ernment might take prejudicial steps against $1,000 fine and/ or up to one year in prison him or his family, seemed to me to argue for each alien illegally hired subsequent to Another significant problem addressed by against the voluntary disclosure of persons the imposition of a civll penalty. I under­ this legislation ls that of alien smuggling. here 1llegally. It was my understanding that stand Judiciary Committee Chairman Rodino The incentive for smuggling aliens-available this new category was designed to get the and Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Jobs--should be greatly reduced by employer a.liens to register so the magnitude of tb~ EUberg strongly support the House penalty sanctions. problem could be Judged. structure. Having said that, I will leave it to Trading in human cargo, to me, ls repre­ I was told by Mexican-Americans in the those gentlemen to discuss their position on hensible. You are no doubt familiar with Los Angeles area that what we see ls Just the this issue. stories of how aliens a.re charged several hun­ "tip of the iceberg." A great many persons However, I believe that employer sanc­ dred dollars to be smuggled across our border, here illegally are living normal community tions are only one step of several that should and then several hundred dollars more to be lives without anyone being aware of their be taken together to deal with this problem. transported from the border area to a job illegal status. If it becomes megal to employ undocu­ location. Allens have been stacked like wood Under the temporary residence status, mented aliens, I suggest that there will de­ in the back of vans and driven across the most of these established persons would not velop legitimate needs for alien workers to country with but one stop per 24 hours. Ex­ risk coming forward because for them there come to this country, whether or not we en­ ploitation of these people is common. is more to lose than benefit to be gained. act an amnesty, a subject I will discuss in a Further steps can be ta.ken to curtail alien Section 4 of S. 2252 has been criticized by moment. At the present time, with mllllons smuggling in addition to employer sanctions. some as being too restrictive, as creating a of undocumented aliens here who can now For one, additional manpower ls needed by group of second-class persons with few be legally employed, there is still a need for INS in their investigations section, and I am rights other than the right to work. Others temporary alien workers, particularly in agri­ pleased to report that the House Judiciary have called the program too generous. I culture during labor-intense periods. Committee, on Tuesday, April 25, authorized found no more favorable response to the As you know, temporary workers are ad­ an additional $479,000 over the D.O.J. request concept of this section in the Southwest mitted annually to pick apples in the Hudson for funds for a total of 200 additional anti­ and the West Coast than I have on the F.ast Valley of New York and the Shenandoah smuggllng investigators and support per­ Coast. The feelings I heard from the many Valley in Virginia, to pick citrus fruit in sonnel. Florida. and to work as lumbermen in the persons I spoke with, including Hispanic Northeast. In Fiscal 76, over 10,000 farm la­ Another essential step is to authorize the Americans and representatives of the volun­ borers were admitted as H-2 temporary INS to confiscate vehicles used to smuggle tary agencies which assist aliens, was that it workers. a.liens. At the present time, the Customs was unfair to reward in a blanket fashion Employer sanction legislation will hope­ Service of the Treasury Department, pur­ all in this category; that relief should not fully reduce the influx of available workers. suant to 49 U.S.C. § 782 may confiscate ve­ be judged merely by a cut-off date. It wa.s When this occurs I suggest that the need hicles used to transport contraband. There is apparent they preferred a. sys,tem which for alien workers, particularly temporary no similar authority vested in the INS to would recognize the positive contributions workers, will increase. Therefore, an im­ confiscate vehicles used to smuggle aliens. ma.de by persons to our society and use a proved temporary worker program should be During my trip to the Southwest border, merit system as the criteria for granting included in any legislation enacted. I have I was told that many vehicles are used over adjustment of status. introduced H.R. 6022 which would, I believe, and over to smuggle aliens. I! a driver ls ap­ In the 1971 to 1977 group, I would pro­ improve the present H-2 program which I prehended, someone comes to claim the ve­ pose a system be devised whereby 1llegal would like to submit with my statement for hicle, and it is returned to the smuggling a.liens who possess certain equities and the record and for your consideration. operation to be used a.gain. Forfeiture would merits, such as social and economic stabil­ When legitimate needs for foreign workers raise the stakes considerably, with direct eco­ ity, acceptable standards of integration in arise, I suggest such workers can be admitted nomic loss to the smuggling operation. This the life of the American community, knowl­ to our country within a workable program. would be especially effective against the edge of the English language, a. sincere and May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13287 definite desire to remain in the United He makes clear that the Chinese, while Chinese trade delegations a.re going over­ States, a.pa.rt from merely meeting immedi­ not working directly with Eximbank seas, they can't bring with them all the ate needs, and an acceptable history of good facilities, do make use of these credit samples available at the fair. moral conduct would become immediately Mr. Sun said China was taking steps to eligible for permanent residence adjustment. vehicles through supplier credits. This relieve the hotel shortage that has char­ Those persons who would not qualify un­ arrangement has confused some Ameri­ acterized the opening days of previous fairs. der this merit system would in all likelihood cans who interpret it as a lack of interest If fair visitors "come here at a fairly even not come forward and therefore would be in Eximbank credit facilities. Sun Fang's rate of attendance," he said, "it would be classified as those most susceptible to de­ statements go a long way to remove that much easier to provide rooinS and reduce in­ portation. confusion. convenience." I believe that a formula of this kind would Also of note is Sun Fang's statement He said that if all businessmen were like ca.use no greater administrative burden than that China sees no linkage between ex­ the Japanese, who space out arrivals of dif­ the implementation of the temporary resi­ ferent groups, then Canton's hotels could dent program where an a.lien must be regis­ tension of credits for U.S. exports to cope with double the number of fairgoers. tered, followed up for exit and entry from Taiwan and extension of similar credits Mr. Sun said that China wasn't selling all the country, as well as making sure that he for U.S. exports to mainland China. He it can in the first days of the month-long does not benefit from public assistance pro­ states the case accurately when he terms event because it has to hold back some sup­ grams from which he is barred. this consideration an internal one of the plies for newcomers. Otherwise, he said, Also one must consider that at the end United States. "everybody will come on opening day." of the five-year period, a re-registration and China's recent decision to increase tourism I believe these views expressed by this has aggravated the hotel service. An average regularizing process w1ll have to begin again. high-ranking Chinese official are im­ The Canadian Government presently uses of 100 persons from Hong Kong arrive every a similar system to determine whether a portant considerations and I commend week. Mr. Sun said that there isn't any plan person should be admitted as an immigrant. the article below to Members as they to prevent tourists from coming during the I am sure a fair and equitable system can weigh the issues surrounding H.R. 12157 fair period but that arrangements may, be be developed so that we can admit those which comes to the House floor ma.de for them to spend less time in Canton a.liens who have the best chance of becoming Wednesday. and more time elsewhere. productive citizens. The article follows: Mr. Sun denied that China asks high prices In this way, our country will admit those of businessmen who make greater profits. CHINA WOULD ACCEPT Ex-IM BANK RoLE IN "If they can make more profit, it means persons who have shown themselves likely TRADE WITH U.S. to be assimilated and become productive they can sell more Chinese goods," he said members of our society. It would not grant (By Frank Ching) with a. la.ugh. "We don't want to dampen blanket admission to all who have proof of CANTON.-A senior trade official indicated their enthusiasm." entry and residence prior to January l, 1977. that China doesn't object to participation by One problem with supplies at the fair, he Such proof, no doubt, is easy to obtain. I the U.S. Export-Import Bank in financing of said, is that so many businessmen come, understand that receipts, utility bills, and American exports to China. and "we don't know what they want a.head the like dated prior to January 1, 1977, are The Ex-Im Bank's facll1ties currently a.re of time, or how much. It is difficult to plan already on the black market and being sold barred by U.S. law to China and most other for this." As a result, some items may be in to aliens who hope to qualify for temporary Communist countries. However, a bill has short supply while others a.ren't.e resident status. been introduced in Congress to exempt Again, Mr. Chairman, I congratulate you China from this provision. Opponents of the for convening these hearings. We must bill have said, among other things, that SUPPORT VA MEDICAL RESEARCH bring under control the flow of persons il­ China won't accept Ex-Im Bank financing. legally entering t~e United States, and turn Sun Fang, Deputy Secretary General of off the magnet that creates this flow, the pos­ the Canton trade fair, said in an interview HON. DAVID F. EMERY sibility of employment. We also must stop with the Asian Wall Street Journal that U.S. OF the traffic in human flesh a.cross our borders Ex-Im Bank involvement may help to pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by smugglers. Finally, we must deal with mote trade. However, he said China wouldn't the millions of a.liens now 1llega.lly in the borrow directly from the bank. Wednesday, May 10, 1978 United States. In the case of Japan, Mr. Sun noted, the • Mr. EMERY. Mr. Speaker, recently I I hope the Committee will consider some Japanese Ex-Im Bank "doesn't extend credit placed in the RECORD a few thoughts on of my suggestions to deal with each of those to us, it extends credit to Japanese enter­ the inadequacies of the President's areas. Mr. Chairman, I would also ask per­ prises" that sell to China. A similar arrange­ budget request for v~terans and what mission to submit for the record further ment with the U.S., he indicated, would be specific comments on the language of S. 2252, acceptable. that would mean for the many VA medi­ and a copy of the report of my trip to the Mr. Sun said repeatedly that whether the cal research programs now being con­ Southwest border which will be printed in U.S. Ex-Im Bank becomes involved in finan­ ducted. the next few weeks. cial China trade is "an internal affair" of the As you know, within the VA system I will be happy to answer any questions.e U.S. He said: "If they want to take this step, there are some 177 hospitals. Eighty of if they want to support their businessmen, these have medical school affiliation. of course this will help promote U.S.-China However, due to an apparent shortage CREDIT THROUGH EXIMBANK trade." of research funds, plans have been made Asked if China would insist that the U.S. Ex-Im Bank cease its links with Taiwan a to shift research funds from certain non­ HON. LES AuCOIN major client, Mr. Sun asserted that the affiliated VA hospitals to existing affili­ OF OREGON bank's promotions with American compa­ ated programs. Some 50 VA hospitals will nies are an internal affair of the U.S. He added be affected by this plan. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that "we don't interfere in the activities of Recently, the House did approve an Wednesday, May 10, 1978 businesses and organs of a country." increase in the veterans budget. Hope­ Mr. Sun also said that he hopes U.S.-China • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I am sub­ fully, this additional money will be used trade will gradually increase. But, he said, to spare the existing research programs. mitting for the RECORD today an article "A big increase is not so realistic." One rea­ published by the Asian Wall Street Jour­ son, he said, is the absence of diplomatic However. since that decision will be made nal that gives a clear indication of the relations between the two countries. Another within the Veterans' Administration, I willingness on the part of the Chinese reason is the high tariffs imposed by Wash­ remain somewhat skeptical. to make use of credit lines offered ington on Chinese exports since China Because of my concern for the future through the U.S. Export-Import Bank. doesn't enjoy most-favored-nation status. of the VA medical research program, I The official also said that China needs to have written to the Veterans' Adminis­ Chinese interest in credit facilities make more efforts to understand the U.S. offered through our Eximbank is the sub­ trator, Mr. Max Cleland, asking him not market and the way Americans do business. to reduce or eliminate any research pro­ ject of some debate in connection With He mentioned packing and delivery dates grams. I am making a copy of that letter H.R. 12157 which contains a provision as two areas that China should improve to open up trade with China by making upon. available to my colleagues and urge them such credits available. The Chinese official denied rumors that to write Mr. Cleland in support of VA medical research: The article quotes Sun Fang, deputy the Canton fair, which has met every six months since 1957, will be turned into an HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, secretary general of the Canton Trade annual event. He said that the fair re­ Washington, D.C., May 10, 1978. Fair, as saying that the availability of mained important despite China's increasing Hon. MAX CLELAND, lines of credit through the U.S. Exim­ trade contacts with other countries at Administrator, Veterans Administration, bank will help promote more Sino-U.S. various levels. Washington, D.C. trade. He said that, although many more DEAR MR. CLELAND: I would like to voice 13288 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 my concerns over the potential reduction or the Research Staff, aside from the accredited Telelecture Courses at Togus, an Veterans medical research programs in gen­ investigators. amplified telephone series from University eral and in particular, the medical research TYPICAL TOGUS RESEARCH PROJECTS of Maine at Portland-Gorham, 48. programs at the VA Center at Togus, Maine. A study of delirium tremens was done by a Interactive T/V: Closed circuit T/V for It is my understanding that the research psychologist, internist and a biochemist. educational programs, funded initially by the program at Togus is one or some fifty such Sixty patients participated and mortality was VA, links Togus, St. Mary's, Central Maine programs under consideration for either re­ reduced from 20% to less than 2%. Medical Center, Mid-Maine Medical Center, duction or elimination. I would like to speak Research on peptic ulcer led to a reduction and Augusta General Hospital. in support of the current programs now go­ in surgical mortality rates. Institutions, hospitals, universities, and ing on at Togus. Our urologist, Dr. Meyer Emanuel, devel­ nursing homes participate in the Health In a statement on the importance of med­ oped over 10 years a unique catheter for Services Library Information Cooperative, ical research in the non-affiliated VA hos­ paraplegic patients, changing the methods of initially funded by CHEP. The mutual ex­ pital. Dr. Robert L. Ohler, former Chief of diagnosis and care for many neurologlc change of library materials ls coordinated for Staff at the Togus Center, stated that "abol­ patients. small community hospitals and other agen­ ishing research in the non-affiliated hospi­ The Research Service has a profound effect cies in the State, 55. tals wm inevitably result in serious deteri­ on patient care due to the direct and indirect Research and Education go hand-in-hand, oration of patient care through its effects effects on the following: and the resulting spirit of inquiry ls essential on staff morale. recruitment and retention." to maintain a standard of excellence in car­ Dr. Ohler believed that, "this policy will be EDUCATION ing for patlents.e disastrous to the VA system as a whole." Educational affiliations with institutions Citing the work of Drs. Magnuson and which send students to Togus, 22. Cushing in initiating the VA medical re­ Harvard University School of Dental Medi­ A TRIBUTE TO ERETZ-ISRAEL search concept, Dr. Ohler pointed out that cine. these two far-seeing medical leaders "con­ Tufts University School of Medicine and sidered medical research an essential ele­ Dentistry. HON. RONALD A. SARASIN ment in providing the veteran patient with University of Maine at Farmington. the best possible medical care." New Hampshire Vocational-Technical Col­ OF CONNECTICUT I certainly concur with these remarks. lege. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The medical research programs at Togus Bangor Community College of University Wednesday, May 10, 1978 have greatly contributed to the recruit­ of Maine at Orono. ment or outstanding physicians and the de­ VA Hospital, Boston. • Mr. SARASIN. M~. Speaker, it is with velopment of excellence in patient care !or 1124th USA Hospital. particular joy and pride that I congratu­ the veterans or Maine. We in Maine are VA Hospital, Ft. Lyon, Colorado. late the nation of Israel as it celebrates proud of our record at Togus. In support of Department of Human Services, State of its 30th anniversary this week, for it has the medical research programs at the VA Maine. been three decades marked with Center, I am enclosing a brier report of the School of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, accompllshments o! the people or Togus. University of Maine at Orono. strength, perseverance, and determina­ As you know, during the recent considera­ University of Vermont. tion. It has been an era in which history tion of the Fiscal Year 1979 budget resolu­ University of Maine at Orono. will distinguish Israel as a nation driven tion, the House increased the Veterans University of Maine at Augusta. by its convictions, undaunted by threat budget figures by $1,019 mlllion in authority Colby College. and oppression, resolute in its purpo.se and $844 million in outlays. It is my hope Bates College. and will. that with this addititmal money, the Vet­ Maine Medical Center. erans Administration wm reconsider its Augusta General Hospital. The banners of the New York celebra­ plans !or those medical research programs Central Maine Medical Center. tion, proclaiming that "it is great to be now in jeopardy and urge full funding of 1125th USA Hospital. 30 after 4,000 years" serve well to reveal them for 1979. St. Mary's Hospital. the rich heritage and long history that Thank you for your consideration. Boston College. has gone before this nation-a heritage Sincerely, University of Washington, Seattle. that a short 30 years would otherwise DAVID F. EMERY, Under negotiation are affiliations with the conceal. Yet it has been the history of a Member of Congress. University of Maine at Portland-Gorham, struggle with destiny; of a vision and the Boston University School of Dental Medicine fight to fulfill that dream. RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AT and Tufts University School of Medicine and VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION CENTER, TOGUS, Dartmouth Medical School for medical On May 14, 1948, however, that dream MAINE students. was realized when the members of the RESEARCH In the past 5 years, graduate students in provisional Council of State penned their Period 1957 through 1975 psychology have also come from University names beneath the "Declaration of the of Maryland, Adelphi University, Notre Establishment of the State of Israel." In Investigators (average) per year, 16. Dame, Bowling Green University and the Research Projects (average) per year, 21. University of Utah. that document, they set forth the prin­ Papers presented at meetings, 131. Students include residents in . surgery, ciples and ideals with which the nation Papers published, 145. ophthalmology, family practice, plus stu­ would pursue its future-principles that Employees/Research Staff (average), 6-7. dents in physical therapy, occupational bound them with our own country in the Papers published in 1976-77, 25. therapy, psychology, alcohollsm counselors, preservation of freedom, equality, justice, Summer employees, students and volun­ dental students, dental hygienists, dental as­ and peace. In the past 30 years they have teers in Research Laboratory 1975-1978 from sistants, nursing, rehab111tation, social work University or Maine, Bowdoin College, Uni­ joined the United States in maintaining and sociology. a stronghold for democracy in the Mid­ versity of Vermont, Gardiner High School, 13. Family practice residents in the past 5 Students have gone on to graduate schools years, 63. dle East, protecting freedom and liberty or medicine and dentistry and returned to Dental hygiene students from Bangor Com­ through a democratically elected Knes­ practice in Maine, 7. munity College in past 3 years, 75. set, fashioned after Western models but Active researchers in 1978 at Togus with Students have been assigned to the Al­ tempered with Judaic law and custom. only $110,000 in funding allocations, 12. cohol and Drug Treatment Program in the Through the establishment of such a Projects include studies of alcoholism, can­ last 5 years; 6 doctoral students have had cer, schizophrenia, staphylococcal infections, state, a homeland was created in which I-year internships, 150. all Jews are welcome and around which a more efficient delivery of psychiatric and so­ Nursing students from University of Maine cial work services, lung disease, and basic at Augusta and Central Maine Medical Cen­ cultural and spiritual unity can be main­ studies of cell differentiation and ACTH ter have received training in last 5 years, tained despite the tides of change. The analogs. 754. preservation of their rich traditions and Researchers represent psychiatry, psy­ College students in sociology from Bates continuity of their heritage will provide chology, social work, surgery dental and med­ College in past 8 years, 300. ical services. invaluable depth and breadth to the de­ Cooperative Health Education Program velopment of a multifaceted. world in Electron microscope: Togus has the only (CHEP) has organized and funded in the one in Maine which is hospital-based. which cultural integrity and world unity past 5 years: can be maintained side by side. Amino acid analyzer: Only one in Maine Workshops, seminars and lectures attended available to medical community. by, 96. The accomplishments of this nation Both of the above are expensive, rare in­ Participants from the community. Topics have not been few, and for these we com­ struments and are available to other institu­ included nursing, mental health manage­ mend and thank them. "They made tions in the State of Maine. ment, secretarial, chaplaincy, dentistry, deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew lan­ All of the above for an average annual cost pharmacy, etc., 4,500. guage, built villages and towns, and of only $76,460. There are 12 employees on Students currently enrolled in 9 formal, created a thriving community, control- May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 18289 ling its own economy and culture, loving him every success with the National coal-produced. "Our fuel mix is wha.t the peace but knowing how to defend itself, Chamber. nation seeks to achieve in 1985 or later," Mr. Harris says. bringing the blessings of progress to all Mr. Speaker, a personal note: I have Mr. Harris Joined CP&L at its headquarters the country's inhabitants, and aspiring been privileged to know Shearon since in Raleigh in 1957 as associate general coun­ towards independent nationhood." So our days immediately after law school sel. He became a vice president in 1960, a read the testimony of their 1948 declara­ when we were associated together in the member of the board in 1961, and general tion, but it would read just the same in North Carolina General Assembly. counsel in 1962. He was named president in 1978. The economic growth and develop­ The current issue of Nation's Business 1963, chief executive officer in 1969, and ment is matched only by their educa­ magazine contains an article describing chairman as well as CEO in 1970. Shearon's exemplary caree1· in law, pub­ Mr. Harris has been a leader in the electric tional and cultural achievements, giving ut111ty industry, as indicated by the fa.ct that the world outstanding artists, sculptors, lic service, and business, and an interview he has served as chairman of the Edison authors, and thinkers. in which he details his personal philoso­ Electric Institute, the National Association The story of the Jewish nation is one phy on the proper role of Government in of Electric Companies, and the Electric of struggle-the constant pursuit of an our lives. I bring these to the attention Power Research Institute, among many ac­ historical destiny. It has been a story of my colleagues and the public at large. tivities. with tragic chapters yet always fore­ The article and interview follow: The company he heads is respected as shadowing a hopeful epilog. In the recent (From the Nation's Business, Ma.y 1978] well-managed and at the forefront of its industry. He is a founding member of The viewing of "The Holocaust," we were SPEAKING OUT FOR FuNDAMENTAL Business Round Table and is a member of painfully reminded of the chilling ten­ NATIONAL PRINCIPLES the Business Council. sions and hostilities that can erupt to When Sa.rah Harris a.ppea.red a.t a ca.sting AN EARLY START bring unwarranted travesty and atrocity ca.ll for a stage pla.y in New York City a few upan a people. However, we are also pro­ yea.rs a.go, she was asked: "Ha.ve there been Shearon Harris's career got off to an early a.ny actors in your family?" start because he skipped two grades in school vided with hope when remembering the and entered Wake Forest University at the historic meeting of Mr. Sadat and Mr. She hesitated, then replied: "Well, yes. My grandfather wa.s a. Southern Baptist age of 15. He took both his A.B. and law Begin. Here we see the dynamic forces preacher, a.nd my father was a country trial degrees there, working his way through col­ that are the source of strength and forti­ lawyer-both of them big ha.ms." lege, and then entered the aforesaid practice tude for this nation-the strength that Shearon Harris, her father, tells tha.t story of law in the small town of Albemarle, N .C. comes from suffering, and the fortitude with a chuckle. He is proud of his pa.st as a A man who believes people should take country lawyer. But his career provides much an active interest in government, he par­ derived from a potential peace. My ticipated in North Carolina's state govern­ prayer today is for this peace-a peace more cause for pride. ment as an employee--a.ssistant clerk of the not just of military weapons and gen­ He is chairman a.nd chief executive of­ ficer of Carolina. Power & Light Co. He is a. Senate, principal clerk of the House--and erals, but an all-encompassing peace that recognized expert in the energy field in gen­ some years later, a.s a legislator. He served a will provide dignity to the lives of its era.I a.nd nuclear power in particular. (He term as a member of the House. people and security for its future. I have served on Jimmy Carter's energy ta.sk force He holds the Bronze Star and Legion of had the pleasure of visiting Israel on two Merit citations for service in the European during Mr. Carter's presidential campaign.) theater during World War II. Mr. Harris, who occasions, have met with its leaders and And now he is chairman of the boa.rd of the entered the Army as an enlisted man and its people. They deserve this dignity, they Chamber of Commerce of the United States. was commissioned a second lieutenant need this security. I join them in their He will serve as chief elective officer of the while overseas, was assigned various rear­ world's largest business organization for day of jubilation to honor the heroism the next yea.r. echelon duties. At first, they did not include and courage of all who have given of service as a. lawyer in the Judge Advocate A tall, soft-spoken native of North Caro­ Genera.l's office, for which he felt his law themselves for this nation and its vision, lina., Mr. Harris cheerfully admits he is a.n and extend to all my very sincerest and practice back home qualified him. When "eternal optimist." While the nation is he entered the Army, he was five yea.rs hope-filled Shalom.• i,truggling with a. shopper's list of worries, younger than the minimum age--28--for he sa.ys, "I have great confidence in our such service. "Until I was commissioned, my ultimately working out a.ll of our problems." work was signed by the commissioned SHEARON HARRIS-NEW CHAIR­ STEP TOWARD SOLUTIONS lawyers," he quips. MAN OF THE NATIONAL CHAMBER A major step toward some of these solu­ OF COMMERCE UP TO ANY CHALLENGE tions, he believes, would be to reeva.lua.te Mr. Harris is a man of strong beliefs, and processes that ha.ve moved the country away his outlook on life is best revealed in his in­ HON. L. H. FOUNTAIN from some of its original, funda.menta.l variable answer to anyone who asks him: principles. "How are you?" OF NORTH CAROLINA One example? The reply: "The best in the world." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Deficit spending. A responsible citizenry There is a poignant background to this can't defer obllga.tlons to later generations. Wednesday, May 10, 1978 answer. It stems from his friendship with a I Just don't think it is acceptable in a time neighbor, long a.go, who always replied to • Mr. FOUNTAIN. Mr. Speaker, on of strong economic activity to continue similar questions that he was first-rate. May 1, a distinguished native North deficit financing of the government a.nd go Years later, when the man was dying of can­ on p111ng up our national debt." cer, Mr. Harris visited him. The ma.n couldn't Carolinian, Shearon Harris, was elected Another? chairman of the board of directors of the talk, but he raised a single finger to signify "Overregula.tlon by government." he was still first-rate, No. 1. Chamber of Commerce of the United Reflecting a philosophy he believes is Right then, Mr. Harris determined that States. shared by almost a.11 of the business com­ he would try to emulate tha.t display of We in North Carolina are pleased and munity, Mr. Harris sa.ys there is no quarrel character with something which would proud to see a native son assume the over the deslra.b111ty and even the necessity signify that he, too was up to any challenge. leadership of the world's largest business of some regulation. Mr. Harris is married to the former Helen federation, in which capacity he will NEEDLESS CONSUMER COSTS Finch Morgan, of Albemarle. serve for the next year. The quarrel, he says, is over the nth-degree KNOWS WHERE HE IS GOING Mr. Harris' long and successful career type of regulation which piles on unneces­ "No, I don't remember how I got to know as chief executive officer of Carolina sary costs tha.t the consumer must ulti­ him," she says with a laugh. "I Just knew mately pa.y a.nd which creates a.n uneasy him. In a small town, you know everyone. Power & Light Co., and now as chairman atmosphere that discourages business from I do remember that one day, when he was a of its board, has given him great insight expa.nsion--expansion needed to create Jobs young lawyer, he called me up and asked into a number of the Nation's most press­ for the nation's enlarging work force. me if I would go to a. Lion's Club picnic with ing public problems, including especially As head of Carolina Power & Light, Mr. him. inflation and the energy crisis. Harris leads a company which last year had "I did, and before he took me home he had I know that my colleagues from North $808 million in operating revenues. It serves already asked for another date for a specific and South Carolina-the two States an area of 30,000 square miles--almost half night. And it went like that. You know, he's a of North Carolina and about one fourth of person who knows exactly where he's going at served by Carolina Power & Light-and South Carolina-in which nearly three mil­ all times. I don't think we ever had a date the many others in the Congress who are lion people live. It ha.s 5,200 employees, five when he didn't make another one before that familiar with him and his accomplish­ divisions, and ten district and 41 area. offices. one was over.'' ments, join me in congratulating Its power-it ha.s 13 genera.ting plants-ls The Ha.rrises have three daughters, Sarah, Shearon on his new post, and in wishing 35 percent nuclear. The bulk of the rest is an actress in Hollywood, Calif.; Mrs. Jennie 13,290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978

H. Bell, a. teacher of British literature in The major concern business people ought kept desks stacked up with all kinds o1 Durham, N.C.; a.nd Susan, a. state government to have today is overregula.tion by govern­ things-I guess I've developed a discipline. employee in Raleigh. ment. I think regulation is almost out of I try to keep things in a fairly neat stack. I1 In this interview with NATION'S BUSINESS, control. I have a. stack to tackle, I always reach down Mr. Harris talks about his life and his goals Would you want to start a. small business and put out the thickest thing in it first. for the National Chamber. in today's regulatory climate? Psychologically, I feel a little less pressure What do you hope to accomplish in your This is one of the concerns my predeces­ if the stack is lower, and this way, it goes term as chairman of the Chamber of Com­ sor, Bill Eastham, has expressed during his down in a hurry. merce of the United States? term of leadership of the National Chamber, I write myself little memoranda sometimes The National Chamber is a. very effective a.nd I totally subscribe to it. For a small busi­ when I am away from the office. But I don't voice for the business community, a.nd I cer­ ness today to comply with all government wake up in the middle of the night to gen­ tainly. want to see this continue. I think we regulations is a tremendous burden. I think erate new ideas. I feel very comfortable must address ourselves to the issues which this burden stops a. lot of small businesses about the grip that I have on most things confront us. from ever forming. that I do. I spent a lot of time getting the I a.m very much of a fundamentalist. a.nd President Carter has said he wants to re­ right people into the senior positions in the I have a tremendous appreciation for the duce overregulation. Do you think he can? company, and I have a lot of confidence in value of experience. Most everything we do as Well, the proliferation of bureaucracy is their competence. a. democratic society has evolved out of some a. very, very strong force. Until the people, At age 60, I a.m really in the process of kind of experience. I believe that we. as a. through their election of members of Con­ moving from 100 percent responsibility as country, need to concern ourselves more with gress as well as the President, really speak chief executive over the next years to some of the fundamentals that we ma.y have out strongly-saying that they are fed up­ zero. My objective is that, when I retire, departed from. I don't think we're going to have much nobody will know I didn't come to work that On issues. I am terribly di.sa.ppointed with constraint. day, and we will have made a very smooth President Carter's proposed $500 billion Any administration, regardless of party, transition. budget that contemplates a. $60 billion deficit. claims it has to provide services that state Were you a typical country lawyer, han­ Deficits are one of three major factors fan­ and local governments won't or can't pro­ dling every type of case from a fence-post ning inflation. The others are wage increases vide, and it gives this as the reason for heavy dispute to a criminal trial? which a.re not matched by increases in pro­ federal spending-and heavy regulation. Yes. When I went to practice in Albemarle, ductivity and the hidden costs of overregula­ We have looked to the central government the county seat of Stanly County, in 1939, tion. to do more and more, and people seem to the town had 12,000 to 14,000 people, and I have a philosophy that a. responsible citi­ think that, because the central government tho county about 35,000. There was no such zenry can't defer obligations to later genera­ can do something, it doesn't cost something. thing as a specialty in the law. Besides, you tions, a.nd I hope to speak out on this. I just People, it seems, will opt for the easy, cheap never knew what something would lead to. don't think it is acceptable, in a time of way out today without regard for the inevi­ A $5 deed job might have been .for someone strong economic activity, to continue deficit table expense that they are going to bear a who later would bring you something really financing of the government and go on piling little later. I believe in public understanding not only big. up our national debt. This happened to me. A client asked me Another thing I hope to do is go to college of the short-term benefits of government ac­ tion, but of the long-term costs. The public to collect some new accounts. I didn't know campuses and talk about the kind of heritage it, but another law firm had already tried to today's generation of leadership is shaping needs a better fundamental understanding of how our economy operates, how our gov­ collect and couldn't. I just went around and for the young people of the next generation. collected $1 or $2 a week until I finally got Some sa.y there is a. bit of an estrangement ernment operates. How do you feel regulation affects you: it all. Eventually, this client built a. business between the business community a.nd Presi­ that is probably worth more than $10 mil­ dent Carter. Is there? company, which ts in a highly regulated industry? lion, and I was for many years counsel of I don't know that I would want to ca.11 it A great deal of regulation Which we deal the firm. It all stemmed from that little a.n estrangement. As governor of Georgia., Mr. with is necessary. Since we are a monopoly, collection job. Carter kept the business community a.ta. con­ we have never said that the price of our serv­ Do you remember the first speech you ever siderable arm's length, and in his early days ice to the consumer ought to be unregulated. made to a. jury? a.s President, there was a puzzlement on the However, some of the regulation to which I can remember the first significant speech. pa.rt of business as to just what kind of com­ we are subjected is another matter. Take en­ I was employed as a special prosecutor in a. munications he would like to have with the vironmental standards that are a. major cos~ horrible murder case. It wa.s on Thanksgiv­ business community. to our consumers. ing Day. In recent months, there has been a. demon­ We built a $43 million cooling system for Did you win the case? strated awareness on the pa.rt of the Presi­ one of our nuclear power plants, one that The fellow was convicted of first-degree dent a.nd the White House staff that business met all existing regulations. murder. input should be welcomed. But I a.m not so Then the Environmental Protection You ran a boardinghouse to work your sure there is a clear signal that business Agency came along and said we had to put way through college, didn't you? community advice a.nd representations are in a. completely different cooling system, Oh, I worked at a lot of things. I was the having a. great deal of effect. using towers, in order to protect the marine son of a. small-town Baptist preacher, and What do you see as the proper role of busi­ organisms which pass through the condenser. I went to college in the depth of the De­ ness in government? This water warms the ocean temperature pression. If I wanted an education, I had to A businessman has a. citizenship obliga­ a.bout two degrees. The commercial value of get it myself. My father exhausted his la.st tion a.s a.n individual. Also, the interface be­ the marine life-if it grows to maturity-is resources to get me through my freshman tween the business community and govern­ roughly $40,000 a. year, or about what one year. As my second year approached, he asked ment should help government develop poli­ shrimp boat would remove. We would have me: "Are you going back to college this cies tha. t will let the processes of our free, to invest $100 million for the towers, and fall?" competitive enterprise economy function our consumers would have to pay $500 mil­ I said: "Yes, sir." And he said: "Well, you well. lion for this over the life of the plant. We're know where it is." Which, as far as I was In almost every discussion a.bout the econ­ appealing this order. concerned, was his way of saying that if I omy, the term business confidence crops up. What do you see as the major issues con­ wanted to go, I'd have to do it on my own. How do you define business confidence? cerning business in Congress? And for the next five yea.rs, I did. I waited I think the best measure of business confi­ I don't really see final resolution of very on tables, fired furnaces, and taught a. dence is the willingness of managers to make many issues taking place this year in Con­ remedial class .for $15 a. month on a Federal or increase business investments. When man­ gress. Energy is very important, but even U Emergency Relief Administration grant. agers weigh a.n investment decision, they are legislation is passed, I don't think that's the One year, I rented a house that slept 50 looking a.t what they think the condition of end of this issue. students and fed 75. I hired an excellent the economy is going to be and what their I don't think the President's tax program cook. The college didn't have a. dining hall, opportunity for profit from that investment will move along very fa.st. There doesn't and everybody ate in private boarding houses. ts going to be. Right now, business confidence seem to be a coalescing of either leadership Did you always want to be a. lawyer? or membership in Congress on any of the a.s measured by willingness to make invest­ My father said that he gave me a child's ments comes down on the side of uncertainty. big issues. Are you optimistic about the future o1 biography of Abraham Lincoln when I was Many business people a.re so uncertain business? in the first grade, and after I read it, I said a.bout what's going to happen in government I'm an eternal optimist. I have great con­ I was going to be a lawyer. I can't remember regulation that they do not feel confident fidence in our ultimately working out all of thinking of another career when I was young. of being able to earn enough on a. new invest­ our problems. You had a brief career in politics, didn't ment to Justify their making it. What are some of your work habits? You you? What do you see as the biggest problem for keep a pretty clean desk. In my first year in law school, I became business in the year ahead? Well, as an old country lawyer-most of us interested in a man who was running for May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ta291 governor, Clyde R. Hoey, and I organized a Most of their members are business Thus the House has with gusto de­ Hoey-for-governor club on campus. He was and profes.sional people who use the manded a timely vote on property trans­ elected, and with his help, I got a job as an club's service to learn what they should fer appropriations and implementation assistant clerk of the North Carolina Senate write about and to whom they should questions before final commitment of this while I was still in school. After I got out of school and went into write. Nation in any exchange of instruments practice, I offered myself for the elective job Ballots are directed to the Representa­ of ratification. And because the majority of clerk of the House. The ma.n who ha.d it tives some months, to the Senators some leader and others speaking for the ad­ also ha.d a. full-time job in the state revenue months, and other months to the Presi­ ministration injected such strong treaty department, a.nd I campaigned on a platform dent or a congressional committee. The and political overtones into what was that said nobody ought to have two jobs un­ most recent ballpts cover such subjects really a constitutional discussion over til all of us had one. I won, a.nd then I served prerogatives of the House, the vote also a second term before going into the Army. as: I offered myself for the state legislature Should Congress Repeal Section 14(b) of became one of strong indication of the from my county in 1954. We were a very bal­ Ta.ft-Hartley Act? displeasure of the House over the ap­ anced county in registration, but I was the What should Congress do with the recent proval of the treaties and of the fate in first Democrat to be elected there in 14 years. Pa.y Increase? store for legislation to implement such The Eisenhower landslide in 1956 took me What should be done with the proposed treaties. out of the legislature. It was responsible for ba.n on Saccharin? The message should be clear, even to my entering the power business. What should Congress do with the Presi­ How was that? dent's proposed Energy Conservation Bill? a President who hears and sees only what Because I was not a. member of the House Should Congress create the proposed Con­ he wants to accept, that he has no busi­ in 1957, I pa.rticipa.ted in some lobbying ac­ sumer Protection Agency? ness going to Panama next month (June tivities which drew me to the attention of Should Congress pass the "Walk-In" Voter 16-17) to exchange instruments of rati­ the management of this company, a.nd they Registration Bill? fication-particularly since he is also in asked me to join their legal department. Should Congress pass a bill to finance defiance of the Brooke amendment to And that eased the pa.in of defeat at the Congressional Elections with Tax Money? the treaty approval stipulating that such polls? Should the U.S. Senate approve the new I really didn't a.pprecia.te being rejected by action should not take place earlier than Panama. Ca.na.l Treaty? March 31 of next year or by prior act of the voters a.nd really wondered how the leg­ Should the Government order Air Bags Congress. isla. ture would function without me. But it put on all new automobiles? did, a.1::>-d I ca.me to realize that the defeat Mr. Carter, whose foreign policy is al­ led to greater things.e Should Congress pass the Labor Reform La.w? ready a disaster, whose relations with Should our Government put restrictions Congress are demonstrably ineffective, ADAMSON SAYS WRITE on Imports that cause unemployment? and who has a scandalously low accept­ Should Congress cut Income Truces? ance rating with the American people, CONGRESSMEN stands to create a tragic blunder which David N. Adamson, the president and could have devastating effects on the HON. JAMES M. COLLINS founder of the club, spent 23 years in credibility of the Presidency both at OF TEXAS Chamber of Commerce work prior to home and abroad. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1961 when he organized the club. The legislative process regarding any I am proud to see it has a Christian transfer of the Panama Canal from U.S. Wednesday, May 10, 1978 businessman as its leader who believes operation and ownership is not complete • Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, busy people should speak up on national and may never be complete. The Senate in the course of national debate in recent issues after they have read both sides. made out a check on a form provided by weeks we have heard much talk about The club's material is well accepted by the administration designed to hand over the differences between lobbyists for spe­ professional and business men and the Panama Canal Zone to the Republic cial interests and genuine letters from a women as a welcome time-saver for busy of Panama along with numerous pay­ concerned citizenry. Some in Washing­ people. ments and loans, but that check has not ton would prefer less mail from home, · They simply "tell it like it is" to those been signed and made negotiable by the while others like myself prefer to hear of us in Congress who need to know required acts of Congress. from the voters. what key people think.• For the President to take an incom­ One of the finest organizations in plete legislative process to Panama and America encouraging citizens to express certify an exchange of documents as if their own opinions to their Government they were complete and negotiable is a officials is the National "Write Your CARTER SUFFERS BIG DEFEAT ON dangerous act in direct violation of the Congressman" Club, Inc., headquartered HOUSE PANAMA CANAL VOTE treaty amendment as passed by the Sen­ in my hometown of Dallas, Tex. It is a ate and in contravention of the processes unique organization, founded 17 years of the Constitution itself. By this act the ago, which researches legislation and HON. GEORGE HANSEN OF IDAHO Chief Executive Officer of this Nation is presents both sides of national issues to taking the law into his own hands in a their members. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES desperate attempt to salvage his politi­ The National "Write Your Congress­ Wednesday, May 10, 1978 man" Club, Inc., is unique in that it is cal position. And the results promise not a lobby and does not show partiality • Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, the con­ nothing less than seeing an already un­ toward candidates :::-unning for office. tinuing fight over the Panama Canal happy Congress forced to legislate at the treaties reached a new milestone yester­ gun point of international pressure and They present unbiased debate covering threats. both sides of major, national issues. They day when Members of the House finally also send their members the voting rec­ found opportunity to express their de­ In addition, should Congress not de­ ord of their Congressmen, which is also sires and did so in resounding conflict liver upon all or any of the promises unbiased as it shows the votes as: Y­ with action earlier taken by the Senate implied by the President's exchange of Yes, N-Nay, 0-Did not vote. in its votes to approve the treaties. documents with Torrijos, there can be Once a month the club sends their By a vote of 231 to 170 the House ac­ nothing but disillusionment and hostility members the well-known opinion ballot cepted my amendment to the first budget with probable reprisal and violent ac­ covering documented debate on both resolution demanding a full account­ tions including bloodshed. sides of national issues, a preaddressed ability of income and outlay funds in­ The President is toying dangerously envelope to their Congressman, Senator, volved in the Panama Canal operation. with the peace of the world and the or the President, and a legislative letter. This amendment was to prevent antici­ security of the Western Hemisphere, not Once a month they conduct a national pated slush fund implementation of the to mention the well-being of the people poll among their members on three cur­ proposed treaties in circumvention of of the United States if he persists in de­ rent national subjects and advise Con­ congressional authority and responsi­ fiance of the expressed will of both the gress as well as their members the re­ bility as outlined in articles I and IV of House and the Senate to keep his 'an­ sults of those polls. the U.S. Constitution. nounced date with Torrijos in mid-June. 13200 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 He alone must bear this responsibility, Mr. Speaker, summarizing the events the RECORD, I wish to include the sum­ but unfortunately everyone will bear the of the day on the Panama Canal vote in mary of this study and commend its consequences. the House, I include for the RECORD my reading to all of my colleagues. Com­ Mr. Speaker, today's edition of the news release regarding the action taken. plete copies of the study can be obtained Washington Post reported the action of HOUSE DEMANDS CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE IN from the University of Texas Graduate the House on my amendment as follows: PANAMA TREATY; PASSES HANSEN AMEND­ School of Business at Austin. The leadership failed to stop the House MENT The summary follows: from expressing its displeasure with the Pan­ WASHINGTON, D.C.-In a decisive move to­ We are convinced that vital national and ama Canal Treaty in the 1979 target budget day the House of Representatives made it international interests require all-out energy resolution, and quotes me as saying that, clear that they intend to exercise their pre­ production and conservation in the United ". . . it does send a signal to the President rogatives in regard to the Panama Cana.I States. Our study, however, leads us to some­ that the House ls unhappy with the Cana.I Treaty. what different conclusions than the NEP treaties." The House passed the "Hansen Resolution" regarding industrial conversion. adding it to the budget with a clear ma­ Our major conclusions are simple. First The New York Times of this same date jority of 231-170. the transformation of U.S. industry from oil stated: The "Hansen Resolution" authored by and ga.s to alternative fuel sources, such a.s The vote to bring Panama Canal spending Rep. George Hansen (R-Ida.ho) called for the coal, wm place a substantial economic bur­ operations under the control of Congress was elimination of the never-used $40 mill1on den on the nation. Our expected minimum variously interpreted as inconsequentla. a.nd borrowing authority of the Canal Company investment cost of such a change ls in the as a. possible signal of trouble a.head for the and bringing the Panama Budget closely un­ order of $220 billion; this figure ls much President in carrying out the treaties to der the scrutiny of the Congerss so that there higher than casual estimates that have been tum over control of the canal to Panama is no authority for transfer of funds or prop­ produced and represents about 1000 percent in 1999. erty in Panama without a specific Act of of U.S. aggregate annual investment in Proposed by opponents of the recently ap­ Congress. machinery and equipment in the manufac­ proved canal treaties and backed by the sur­ "This should send a. clear message to 1600 turing sector. Furthermore, the $220 b1111on Pennsylvania Avenue, that you don't try to makes no allowance for additional ~apital prisingly wide margin of 231 to 170, the vote run around the Constitution and bypass the marked the first time that the House had required for environmentally directed in­ House," Hansen said. "This is a great victory vestments which alone could be in the order expressed its sentiments on the treaties. for the Constitution and the American However, 239 members of the House have people." of $50 b1111on; nor does it allow for increased sponsored a. resolution, not yet brought to operating costs of the new fac111ties. Thf'se "This may not have been the best oppor­ alone could be an additional charge of the floor, that would insist on House ap­ tunity to discuss the treaty, but the Presi­ a:s proval before canal property could be dis­ dent left us no choice." much as $13.50 per short ton for low sulphur posed of. coal. We have not even included an estimate "By ignoring the Brooke Amendment and of the social capital requirements associated Today's House action ls not binding be­ planning to exchange treaty instruments in cause the budget resolution merely sets ten­ June, the President pushed the Congress to with the relocation of plants or expansion of tative spending goals for other committees the wall," Hansen pointed out. "To accom­ newer energy resources required by federal, to consider for the fiscal year 1979. plish this bypass of the Constitution, the state and local governments. Second, the re­ President needed to rely on the Panama gional impact of such a policy wlll be very Although it ls not binding, however, the skewed. That ls, the absolute impact wlll be vote would seem to indicate the coolness of Canal 'slush fund'. Under my amendment the greatest on the large industrial states. The many House members toward the canal funding ls once again to be closely account­ cost for Texas alone will be in the order of treaties a.nd toward President Carter's able to the Congress." "The Supreme Court ls due for a decision $20 billion. Third, five industries will bear planned trip to Pana.ma. on June 16 to sign over 70 percent of the necessary conversion documents ratifying the treaties. hopefully on May 15 regarding the separation of powers controversy and this vote should costs. In short, besides the overall costs, large The Idaho Statesman newspaper of be a signal to the Court that the House de­ regional and industrial distortions will be this date further elaborates on the pro­ mands that its Constitutional authority be also introduced into the U.S. economy. upheld," Hansen said. Most fundamental to the National Energy ceedings which resulted in my amend­ plan, we have serious reservations about any ment passing by the large margin of 61 "Despite strong Administration pressure policy of mandatory conversion within a. votes: my amendment passed and won big. This vote thankfully is an indication that the speclftc time frame and source of energy. We HOUSE APPROVES HANSEN'S BILL To CONTROL House is truly the Representatives of the have argued that it is unclear that conver­ PANAMA CANAL FuNDS people and not the puppets of the sion will improve the U.S. trade balance. We The House approved on Tuesday a pro­ Executive."• argue that a national policy of stockp111ng posal by Idaho Rep. George Hansen to re­ of strategic oil reserves ls a lower cost method quire a.s part of the 1979 federal budget, that of insurance against an oil embargo from money to maintain the Panama Canal be abroad. And instead of conversion, we should subject to appropriation by Congress. CONVERTING U.S. INDUSTRY FROM Ina.ct strong incentives for industrial con­ OIL AND GAS TO ALTERNATIVE The 231-170 vote came over strong oppo­ servation and the development of new tech­ sition by Democratic leader Jim Wright, who FUEL SOURCES nologies. This combination of policies would warned it would "throw a monkey wrench appear to be the best course of action !or the in international machinery" and make the United States. Panama. Canal treaties, recently approved by HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE We, therefore, urge Congress to carefully the Senate, "unworkable." OF TEXAS consider these issues before enacting c\ny leg­ lslatlon regarding our national energy pri­ Hansen, author of the proposal, said it was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES orlties.e designed to insure that money collected by Wednesday, May 10, 1978 canal tolls would not be directly used to maintain the waterway but instead would go • Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, recent­ into the U.S. Treasury and then have to be ly my two Texas colleagues in the Senate JOBS, EMIGRATION, AND CON­ authorized and appropriated by Congress be­ of the United States hosted a press con­ GRESS: EX-IM CREDITS TO THE fore it could be spent. ference during which Dr. George Koz­ U.S.S.R.? Hansen said this would insure that the metsky, dean of the Graduate School of House does not lose its "right to scrutinize expenses." Business of the University of Texas at HON. GARY A. MYERS Austin outlined the results of a recently OF PENNSYLVANIA He said the Senate, in ratifying the canal completed study of the cost of convert­ treaties, acted "like a House of Lords'' and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES left the House with no voice. ing U.S. industry from oil and gas to al­ Wednesday, May 10, 1978 "What we are talking about is the prerog­ ternative fuel sources such as coal. atives of the House," Hansen declared. "We The study was entitled "Evaluation of e Mr. GARY A. MYERS. Mr. Speaker, should have a. co-equal voice in the affairs the Conversion of U.S. Industry and I plan to introduce an amendment to of government." the National Energy Plan" and it was the Export-Import Bank reauthorization Wright called Hansen's amendment "thor­ an attempt to estimate and analyze the bill when it is considered on the House oughly irresponsible" and an attempt to private sector investment requirements floor. As you know, economic policy is "show macho." of a policy of industrial conversion an important tool in international rela­ Specifically, it would apply to some $337 such as proposed in the President's na­ tions, to be used flexibly and realistically million in budgeted canal expenses during tional energy plan. for the achievement of economic and 1979. Under leave to extend my remarks in political objectives. On the other hand, May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13293 an awareness of the limitations as well without diminishing congressional duties of 1974. Currently, no Exim credits are as the possibilities of using economic associated with its oversight function. available to the Soviet Union until the policy to achieve political ends is crucial. Additionally, this provision would im­ President certifies that the Soviets are Economics is only one dimension of the pose no express conditions on the avail­ making efforts to comply with the emi­ overall relationship between countries. ability of the $300 million. It would pro­ gration requirements of that amend­ Flexibility is essential. Political relations vide for congressional input and con­ ment.• between great powers are sensitive. Con­ sideration of any credits in excess of gress is not equipped to participate in that amount and would allow Congress the day-to-day decisions affecting rela­ to weigh "the whole panoply of factors NEW SUPPORTERS FOR ORME DAM tions among nations, and it, thus, must affecting United States-U.S.S.R. rela­ leave an appropriate sphere of discretion tions." Thus it implicitly provides an HON. ELDON RUDD for the administration within the broad opportunity for all matters of interest to OF ARIZONA In the United States to be considered. guidelines which Congress sets. the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES case of Eximbank credits to the Soviet -Finally, my amendment would provide Union, Congress has made it clear that a greater opportunity for nonstrategic Wednesday, May 10, 1978 it is unwilling to ignore long-term eco­ U.S. exports to the Soviet Union which • Mr. RUDD. Mr. Speaker, following our nomic and political interests for the sake the Soviets are now purchasing from recent heaVY flooding in Arizona-par­ of short-term economic gain.1 Yet Con­ other Western nations-to the detriment ticularly in the heavily populated great­ gress should recognize the need to view of our balance-of-payments deficit. er Phoenix area-it was necessary to trade in a light which encourages a re­ As we are well aware, the export ad­ immediately reappraise the flood control laxation in tensions and a reduction in ministration regulations require that situation and water holding plans for the suspicions which underlie the cur­ every export of goods or technical data central Arizona. rent superpower relationship. to any country except Canada be li­ Practically all local and county gov­ At issue here is the so-called Steven­ censed by the Government. Selected ernment leaders, and every Member of son Ceiling which provides ithat, be­ sensitive export control applications re­ the congressional delegation represent­ fore the President may extend more quests, as well as policy issues, are re­ ing Maricopa County, have now gone on than $300 million in new Exim credits ferred to an interagency committee record for construction of a water storage to the Soviet Union, in addition to the composed of representatives of the De­ and flood control dam where the Salt and half billion dollars previously granted, he partment of Defense and State and other Verde Rivers join together about 14 miles must find it in the national interest to do interested agencies. Thus, while provid­ east of Phoenix. so and seek and receive congressional ing the opportunity for expanding ex­ We have testified to this effect before · approval. ports and American jobs, with my the House Public Works Appropriations Thus, this provision establishes a point amendment we can be assured that U.S. Subcommittee. beyond which the President cannot go technology would not be used to augment There has previously been some op­ without congressional concurrence. An the military power of the Soviet Union. position to the Salt-Verde confluence increased ceiling can be sought at any My amendment would also provide U.S. dam. I am sure that this vocal opposi­ time whether or not amounts thereunder industry with a greater potential to com­ tion, much of it based on emotion rather have been committed or disbursed. I pro­ pete with West Germany, Japan, and than a full understanding of all the facts, pose to alter this provision by giving other nations for access to the Soviet had something to do with the President's the executive branch some additional market. It is misleading to contend that singling out this dam for deletion from flexibility in the day-to-day conduct of all that is at stake is a boost for U.S. the central Arizona project as the price foreign policy. Namely, Congress shall be exports. A Soviet trade strategy which last year for his support of continued provided the opportunity to disapprove puts emphasis on its own internal devel­ Federal funding for the CAP. any Presidential extension of credits opment, while excluding access to its However, even opposition to the water beyond the $300-million ceiling rather consumer markets must be seen as a storage and flood control facility at the than being required to approve such a part of a continuing effort to enhance confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers determination. Soviet economic power at the possible is now changing to support. I have re­ My amendment would give the execu­ expense of Western commercial as well ceived many letters expressing this tive flexibility and bargaining power as a as political interest.2 Through its action change of position from former oppo­ tool in international diplomacy while on my amendment, Congress can make nents of the dam since I recently sent maintaining a mechanism for congres­ it clear that it intends to provide the out a postal patron newsletter including sional oversight. This would be accom­ President with greater flexibility while full testimony from our Governor and plished without directly involving Con­ asserting its intention that the executive congressional delegation on this subject gress in the day-to-day conduct of for­ branch will weigh all appropriate con­ before the Appropriations Subcommittee. eign policy-as mentioned before, a task siderations in the balance and that the It is a definite credit to those citizens for which Congress -is ill equipped-The days of a blank check are over. who are now expressing a willing change constitutional role of Congress in foreign To deny the Executive more flexibility of heart in favor of building this vitally affairs is to establish, in concert with the to involve the United States in a pattern needed dam once the full facts of this executive branch-through legislation of normal trade within the context of matter were made known to them. and treaties-the foreign policy in the our appropriate safeguards is to deny One particularly gratifying and well­ United States; the normal function of the opportunity for using a bargaining written letter was just sent to me by this constitutional obligation is not con­ tool in an area where the United States James McGrath, a Saguaro High School gressional execution and administration has a clear advantage: its economic base. senior from Scottsdale, Ariz., who ex­ of foreign policy. When Eximbank legis­ Additionally, this action could be inter­ pressed his enthusiastic support for lation was amended in 1974, Congress preted as a diplomatic signal to the prompt construction of this flood con­ deemed that circumstances were unique Soviet Union that benefits are available trol and water storage facility to protect and required intervention into tne sphere to both sides if the diplomatic atmos­ the greater Phoenix area from future of executive authority. In the present phere was marked by improvements in devastating floods. context, however, effective utilization in such areas as noninvolvement in inter­ the doctrine of separation of powers in national disputes, nuclear nonprolifera­ I would like to include his good letter foreign policy should provide the Presi­ tion, environmental concerns, human at this point in the RECORD: dent both with the flexibility and respon­ rights-including emigration-and such SAGUARO HIGH SCHOOL, sibility for conducting foreign policy in Scottsdale, Ariz., April 29, 1978. other factors that appear appropriate. Hon. ELDON RUDD, the best interests of the United States It should be noted that extension of U.S. House of Representatives, Exim credits would still be contingent Washington, D.C. 1 See generally, Stanley J. Marcuss, "New Light on the Export-Import Bank" in Paul upon Soviet compliance with the Jack­ DEAR Ma. RUDD: I am writing you concern­ Marer, ed., U.S. Financing of East-West son-Vanik amendment to the Trade Act ing Orme Dam. As most high school stu­ Trade, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana Uni­ dents in the Scottsdale School District, I versity Press, 1975. ll Jbid, p. 288. was opposed to the Orme Dam Project matn- 13294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 ly because of the recreational loss. However, found m other governments. Our Constitu­ WASHINGTON, D.C., after reading the April issue of "Eldon Rudd tion contains a. Blll of Rights. It a.nows us May 10, 1978. Reports to the People", a.nd doing some re­ freedom of speech, press, religion, a.nd peace­ DEAR COLLEAGUE: When the Department of search on my own, I have come to the con­ able assembly. It also provides protection of Energy Na.tlona.l Security Authorizations for clusion that Orme Da.m would be the only our rights when we are arrested a.nd ques­ 1979 (H.R. 11686) comes to the floor of the suitable alternative that the Central Ari­ tioned by authorities. Another important House this Thursday, Ma.y 11th, we will be zona. Project ca.n make concerning the flood right we have a.nows us to bear arms to pro­ offering a.n amendment to delete a.ll funds problems of Phoenix a.nd the cities surround­ tect ourselves. In a. wa.y the BUl of Rights for the production a.nd deployment of the ing Phoenix. acts like a blanket Insurance policy. It pro­ neutron bomb. 1 now realize that the property da.ma.ge tects us from anything that might a.rise. Since this amendment wa.s originally in­ and the lives lost due to flooding a.re not The right which means the most to me is troduced la.st fall, the President--a.s you worth the recreational activities that the the right to own property. A farmer ca.n pos­ know-has announced his decision to defer Verde a.nd Sa.It rivers now offer. I sincerely sess land a.nd plant whatever he feels ap­ production and deployment of this weapon. hope that Orme Da.m ma.y be built with a propriate without government intervention. While we welcomed this decision, it does not minimum of difficulties and a.s soon a.s pos­ A ma.n with business acumen ca.n become change the fa.ct that the House, in H.R. sible. wealthy through industry if he wtahes. Own­ 11686, is being asked to authorize funds for I a.m now in full support of Orme Da.m a.nd ing property is a right everyone should be a. weapon that could bring us to the brink all of you representing Maricopa. County in thankful for. Nothing makes one more proud of nuclear holocaust. the U.S. House of Representatives. I thank than to know he owns the roof over his head The arguments a.gs.inst this weapon have you for giving me the opportunity to express a.nd the property, large or small, on which it not changed: it is still a. weapon which wlll my views on the Orme Da.m Project. rests. escalate the nuclear arms race! It is stlll a Sincerely, Yours truly, weapon which will encourage nuclear pro­ JAMES R. McGRATH, JULI ENGLISH. lifera. tion ! It ls still a. weapon which will Senior Class o/ 1978.e lower the threshold of nuclear wa.r ! WHAT Is RIGHT WITH AMERICA Because the neutron bomb blurs the cru­ (By Steve MUler) cial distinction between nuclear a.nd con­ You hear a.ll the time a.bout bad things ventional armaments its deployment would WHAT'S RIGHT WITH AMERICA a.bout the United States. Ra.rely do you hear Invalidate the universal perception of atomic anything good. There a.re many advantages to warheads a.s weapons of la.st resort. living in the United States, however, that The only wa.y to eliminate the risks en­ HON. DAVID W. EVANS many countries in the world don't have. tailed on the production a.nd deployment of OF INDIANA First of all, there is freedom of speech. the neutron bomb is to deny the funding for it. Therefore, we urge you to attend a.nd pa.r­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES There a.re no secret a.gents spying on you twenty-four hours a. day, listening to what tlcipa.te in the floor debate a.nd Join us in Wednesday, May 10, 1978 you say a.nd do. You ca.n speak freely against voting against this weapon that threatens the government without being thrown in ja.11. the future of humanity. • Mr. EVANS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, The freedom of choice in the U.S. ls great. Sincerely, the Hendricks County Board of Real­ You have the choice of where you live, work, Andy Maguire, John Conyers, Richard tors in recognition of "Private Property travel, a.nd visit. The biggest a.nd most Im­ Ottinger, Ted Weiss, Rona.Id Dellums, Week" sponsored a recent contest which portant choices a.re the choices for local, Pa.rren Mitchell, John Seiberling, Don asked high school students to write an state, a.nd federal officials. Most other coun­ Edwards, Eliza.beth Holtzman, Pete essay on "What's Right With America" tries there is no choice of government Stark, Edward Markey, Bob Edgar, and over the past weeks I have re­ officials. John L. Burton, George Miller, Fred No other country in the world ha.s a. higher Richmond, Bill Brodhead, Yvonne ceived many enlightening and fascinat­ standard of living than the United States. Burke, Pa.t Schroeder, Ba.rba.ra. Mi­ ing letters. In the other major powers of the world, the kulski, Richard Nolan, Harold Volkmer, Many of these compositions are not majority of the people live under poor liv­ a.nd Phillip Burton.e only interesting, but also offer a keen ing conditions. Since the United States is insight into the interests and concerns the wealthiest country in the world, only a that our young citizens have in this minority live in poor living conditions. country's future. In a time when it seems With the large land mass of the United DISPARITY OF INSURANCE COM­ fashionable to undercut the good aspects States a.nd the various climates a.round the PANY RESERVES FOR UNKNOWN country, we a.re able to supply the country of our society, it is refreshing to learn with plenty of food. This helps the United LOSSES what many young Americans, our future States in being one of the leaders In export­ leaders, feel is right with America. Read­ ing food a.nd grain. HON. JOHN J. LaF ALCE ing these compositions made a lasting The scientific knowhow a.nd the will to do OF NEW YORK impression on me, and I would like to better ha.s made the United States strong a.nd take this opportunity to thank and to one of the three major powers of the world. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES congratulate all those students who This is what is right with America..e Wednesday, May 10, 1978 participated. e Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, my Sub­ In response to this contest, I would committee on Capital, Investment, and like to share with my colleagues the let­ Business Opportunities undertook an in­ ters composed by Juli English of Cascade TWENTY-TWO HOUSE MEMBERS INTRODUCE AMENDMENT TO tensive investigation of insurance com­ High School and by Steve Miller of Avon pany practices in its study of the product High School, who were chosen as the HALT FUNDING OF THE NEUTRON BOMB liability problem. We learned that among winners of the contest. I found that both insurers. there is a considerable dispar­ of these compositions eloquently express ity in amounts reserved for unknown the virtues of being a young American HON. TED WEISS claims n for being Marxist ls removed. It is worked better in Stalin's Russia than in All communist states from Cuba and quite proper in avant-garde circles nowa­ Brezhnev's. Consequently, many U.S. econ­ Yugoslavia through the Soviet bloc to Cam­ days to regard the Soviet Union as a tyran­ omists were inclined until recently to con­ bodia and China rest their legitimacy, in ny. A large pa.rt of the organized commu­ cede that would-be developing areas needed theory at least, on the Marxist scheme of nist movement has (in Eurocommunism in to manage their economies Marxist-style in history; and they do their best to keep up particular) more or less turned its back on order to make the best use of scarce capital the myths, beating drums more loudly as the Soviet model and has claimed to em­ and raise themselves to a higher level where the message becomes ever less convincing. brace democratic postulates. they could afford economic freedom. But it In the western world, countless scholars The inspiration has failed. Visitors to appears that the contrary may be true, that and writers have committed their careers Lenins' Russia felt a vibrant spirit that Third World nations need free economies or and minds to more or less Marxist outlooks promised paradise. Stalin's revolution from c3.pltalism to raise themselves to a level in economics, sociology and political science; above again inspired hope and dedication. where they could perhaps afford socialism. to take a basically different approach would But Khrushchev was the last true believer Applied Marxism in the Third World has at best require laborious retooling and more among Soviet leadership, and his schemes turned out badly everywhere that it has had likely imply personal obsolescence. Liberals went awry. time to prove itself. After Nkrumah national­ who have never embraced Marxism have put Under Brezhnev and company, the Soviet ized Ghana's economy, surplus turned into much energy into understanding and deal­ Union has become a bureaucratic, corrupt, deficit and real income fell sharply, until ing with Marxist issues in Marxist terms; it antirevolutiona.ry state. Its once amazing Nkrumah was ejected by his generals. The would be a loss for them to realize that they economic growth has become insignificant; socialization of Guinea under Sekou Toure have spent their efforts on something quite after generations of "socialist construction" has pushed the country back to subsistence insubstantial. Even conservatives who have it still has difficulty providing its people agriculture; it hobbles along thanks to min­ dedicated themselves to combatting Marxism with potatoes and cabbage in the winter, eral exports by foreign-managed ca.pitaltst cannot easily tell themselves that it isn't let a.lone apples and onions. Instead of enterprises. The People's Republic of the really important. And academic commit­ lighting the way to the future, it lags tech­ Congo, which proclaims devotion to Marx­ ments a.re self-perpetuating; Marxist scho­ nologically. Its official culture is deadly dull, ism-Leninism and tries to apply it to the lars raise new generations whose intellec­ its rhetoric stupefyingly stale. Crime and economy, ls likewise kept afloat by foreign tual equipment is Marxist. alcoholism, far from disappearing as relics aid and foreign oil companies. In Burma, For such reasons, even persons who regard of capitalism, seem to characterize the state control has practically demodernized Marxism as misguided. make genuflections to "developed socialist state." the economy. The cities crumble, and only Marx the creative thinker. To sa.ve his With the failure of the Marxist-Leninist through illegal trade can people live. theories, scholars reinterpret them until lit­ inspiration in Russia, hopes turned to China.. The application of Marxism has come to an tle more is left of the original than the ma.in Mao was a revolutionary roma.tic who sought incredible climax in Cambodia. In its name, intention-power for an out-group. But peo­ to uplift the peasants, and he had some suc­ the anonymous rulers have not only exter­ ple also become weary of the over-used cess in reducing poverty and disease and minated a substantial fraction of the pop­ cliches, and the ideas which obviously no creating at least an atmosphere of equality ulation but reduced the country to primitiv- longer answer the important questions lose and brotherhood. But after Mao died his suc­ 1sm without newspapers, education (except appeal. Hence, despite the intrinsic attrac­ cessors denounced his closest associates, the for a few primary schools) , medical care tiveness of a theory which enables the in­ "Gang of Four," as criminals and "ca.pita.list (doctors, as educated persons, were subject tellectuals to blame the rich, Marxism wlll roaders" and turned from revolutionary con­ to execution), postal service or money. Else­ probably continue to subside unless there sciousness-raising to trying to restore the where, results of socialism have been less is a new great wa.r or its equivalent. economy by unequal wages and strengthen­ disastrous where it has been less extreme, as It may well be that within a. generation ing the apparatus that Mao despised. in Tanzania. or Egypt, or where oil revenues Marx wm loom no larger than John Stuart Castro, too, has lost his halo, as the one­ have compensated for waste, as in Algeria, M111, a. keener although less rhetorical time glamorous guerrilla. youth advances in Libya and Iraq. analyst. It would be helpful; the fa.ding of his 50s. Whatever his social achievements, It may be said that Marx1sm ls a. good the­ Marxism from the intellectual scene would overall production in CUba has increased ory tragically misapplied, but when misap­ clear the intellectual air, permit a more hardly at all in the 19 yea.rs of his rule, and plication has been so general the theory can­ constructive critique of the political and nearly everything is rationed-for example, not escape blame. This is especially true of economic order, and facilitate coping with one shirt or ·one pair of pants yearly. The Marxism, for according to Marxists, doctrines all manner of pressing problems of which Cuban Government, like that of older com­ are proved because they work-and disproved Marx had no inkling and to which Marxism munist states, has matured into bureau- when they do not work. brings only confuslon.e 1329·8 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 CONGRESS MUST REJECT CARTER'S not be made until Turkey takes the next to restore trust in our Government and EFFORTS TO LIFT ARMS EMBAR­ step. give the public the ability to evaluate GO AGAINST TURKEY PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL DIMINISHES U.S. the :financial integrity of its public COMMITMENT TO GREECE officials. At the same time that President Carter Each year since my election to public HON. ROBERT W. KASTEN, JR. has recommended to lift the partial arms office I have made a public statement of OF WISCONSIN embargo against Turkey. he has proposed my own personal financial status includ­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a reduction in assistance to our longtime ing the amount and sour.::e of my income, Wednesday, May 10, 1978 ally, Greece. The administration's re­ and my assets, liabilities, and major quest for fiscal year 1979 foreign military taxes paid. • Mr. KASTEN. Mr. Speaker, President Because of the requirements of the new Carter recently advised Members of Con­ assistance to Greece is $122 million, which represents a reduction of $53 mil­ law I am changing the format for this gress of his decision to lift the arms em - lion from the fiscal year 1978 level. voluntary disclosure to more closely com­ bargo against Turkey. This decision ply to the Federal law. Please note that represents still another in a series of This decision can only be construed as pressure on the Greek Government--a I have listed all 1977 income. However. reversals on the part of the administra­ particularly disillusioning action given I have not listed assets or liabilities that tion from the promises candidate Jimmy the administration's desire to increase pertain to my family's personal living Carter made during the 1976 presidential needs such as the residence in Buena campaign. arms sales to Turkey, without any re­ quirement that Turkey break the dead­ Park, residence in Washington, D.C., I am opposed to the President's deci­ lock in reaching a settlement over area, furniture and furnishings, and sion and will join my colleagues who in­ automobiles. Furthermore, the dates cov­ tend to fight to retain the embargo Cyprus. The importance of Greece to our na­ ered for gifts and reimbursements are which Congress imposed in 1975. from October l, 1977, to December 31, Turkey has broken U.S. laws and its tional security as well as the historic and cultural ties between our two countries 1977, to coincide with the legal reporting bilateral agreements with the United period. Next year they will reflect the States under those laws. In addition, it merits special consideration. Greece is the birthplace of western civilization and entire calendar year 1978. has violated both the U.N. Charter and Consistent with the financial disclo­ the NATO Charter. As long as Turkey, democracy. She is a proven ally. and we can never take her friendship lightly. sure law and my philosophy of honesty armed with U.S.-supplied equipment, and openness in Government I am at this continues to subjugate 40 percent of By virtue of her geographic position, time making public a statement of my Cyprus and displace 200,000 Greek Greece is also the strategic key to the eastern Mediterranean and is essential own financial status, as follows: Cypriots, the United States, in accord­ PERSONAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF JERRY M. ance with its own laws, must resist ef­ for the peacekeeping operations of the PATTERSON, U.S. CONGRESSMAN forts to lift the arms embargo. U.S. Sixth Fleet. It is in our mutual inter­ Part I: REASON FOR THE EMBARGO ests to maintain our strong ties with A. 1977 Income. The original embargo of U.S. arms Greece. Jerry M. Patterson-salary ______$54, 275. 00 shipments to Turkey was imposed on NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT NECESSARY Speaking fees and honoraria____ 3, 050. 00 February 5, 1975, in accordance with re­ U.S. national interests would be served Mary Jane Patterson-salary____ l, 030. 94 quirements of the 1974 foreign aid bill. by a restoration of relations between Credit Union-interest______183. 36 Congress ordered the cutoff of military Greece and Turkey. Differences between Total income ______58,539.30 aid because Turkey used American the two countries have weakened the weapons for offensive purposes in its in­ B. Gi!ts.-(The source, a brief description NATO Alliance and threatened the sta­ or value or gifts of transportation, lodging, vasion and occupation of Cyprus. These bility of the eastern Mediterranean. food or entertainment aggregating $250 or laws required that further military aid That is why it is so important that a more from one source.) None. be terminated. solution to the Cyprus issue be negoti­ C. Other gtfts.-(The source, a brier de­ The embargo was voted, therefore, not ated-a solution that recognizes the in­ scription, and value of all other gifts aggre­ to enact new law but rather to insure terests of both countries and the citizens gating $100 or more from one source.) None. that existing laws were enforced. It was living on that tiny island. D. Reimbursements.-(The source, a brief to continue until the President could description or value of reimbursements, di­ cez,tify to Congress that substantia;l prog­ But, Turkey must be willing to make rectly or indirectly, for exendltures aggregat­ concessions before a normal military re­ ing $250 or more from any one source.) None. ress had been made regarding the mili­ lationship between our two countries can NoTE.-For Parts II-V below, Indicated tary situation between Greece and resume. Category or Value: Category I-under $5,000; Turkey. Category II-$5,000-$15,000; Category III­ I was a Member of Congress repre­ I do not believe that the administra­ $15,000-$50,000; Category IV-$50,000-$100,• senting the ninth Congressional District tion's policy will contribute to a solution 000; Category \·-Over $100,000. when the embargo took effect. Repre­ of the Cyprus situation, and I will vote Part II: Hold1ngs-(The identity and cate­ sentatives of the Ford administration, against the President's proposal.• gory or value of any property held, directly or indirectly, 1n a trade or business or !or particularly Secretary of State Henry investment or the production of income, and Kissinger, were very concerned that the with a fair market value or at least $1,000 as embargo would destroy the President's PERSONAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT or the close or the year.) flexibility in promoting negotiations be­ Category tween the two countries. Kissinger Identity of Value argued the administration's case effec­ 1. Single Family Condominium, Wash- HON. JERRY M. PATTERSON ington, D.c ______III tively and I joined the majority of my OF CALIFORNIA 2. Shares In W. Patman Credit Union____ I colleagues in agreeing to a partial lifting IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the embargo later that year. 3. Note secured by trust deed-single fam- Wednesday, May 10, 1978 ily residence______I My vote was premised on the belief 4. Furniture and furnishings !or former that our actions would precipitate con­ e Mr. PATTERSON of California. Mr. law office______I cessions by the Turkish Government, Speaker; I believe the best interest of the thus leading to a settlement of the dif­ American people requires that personal Part III: Liabllltles-(The Identity and ferences over Cyprus and a stabilization financial disclosure statements should be category or value of any personal liability of conditions in the eastern Mediter­ made to the public by the President, Vice owed, directly or indirectly, which exceeds ranean. Unfortunately, that has not been President, Members of Congress, candi­ $2,500 as of the close or the year.) the case. After 3 % years. we are no fur­ dates for Federal office, and highly paid Category ther along in the negotiations than we employees of the legislative, executive, Identity were in 1975. The United States has of Value and judicial branches of our Govern­ 1. Mortgage on single family condomini- taken the first step to rebuild a relation­ ment. I cosponsored the Financial Dis­ um Washington, D.c. ______III ship of trust with our allies in the closure Act which makes that a require­ 2. First National Bank or Washington/ Mediterranean. Further concession~ can- ment and which I believe will do much unsecured loan ______I May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13299 Pa.rt IV: Securities transactions-(The and Brown University in this country and foundation is a venture in which govern­ identity, date, and category of value of any the Gregorian University in Rome. ment, the private sector, and individuals all transaction, directly or indir~tly, in s~u­ Msgr. Ellls has also been r~ognized widely have a stake. It is also one in which the rities or commodities futures during the cal­ for his research scholarship. His most es­ Interior Department's Bureau of Mines-with endar year which exceeds $1,000.) None. teemed work is probably his two-volume nearly 70 years of experience in mining tech­ Pa.rt V: Real property transa.ctions-(The "The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons, Arch­ nology-expects to play an important part. identity, date, and category of value of any bishop of Baltimore," published in 1952 and purchase or sale, directly or indirectly, of any a basic work for anyone studying late 19th The authors of this report are to be interest in real property which exceeds or early 20th Century American Catholicism. commended.• $1,000 in value as of the date of such pur­ His Walgreen Lectures at the University of chase or sale.) None. Chicago, published by that University's press Pa.rt VI: Major taxes paid in 1977: in 1956 as "American Catholicism," continue to comprise one of the most popular histories Federal income taxes ______$1l, 800 DOUBLE STANDARDS USED IN of the Church in America. "The Formative DEALING WITH SOUTH AFRICA California State income taxes______3, 233 Years of the Catholic University of America," Ca.lifornia property taxes______920e published in 1946, remains the best work on the foundation of that institution, and "A HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI Guide to American Catholic History," pub­ OF ILLINOIS lished in 1959, is the standard bibliography MSGR. JOHN TRACY ELLIS TO RE­ in its area. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CEIVE LAETARE MEDAL OF THE His landmark 1955 ess3y, "American cath­ Wednesday, May 10, 1978 olics and the Intellectual Life," is credited UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME with spurring Catholic colleges and semi­ e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, Fa­ naries across the country to higher educa­ ther Andrew Greeley is a noted colum­ HON. JOHN BRADEMAS tional standards. Msgr. Ellis has also served nist and sociologist, respected for his in­ as editor of the Catholic Historical Review OF INDIANA dependent viewpoint. In his column of and as president of both the American Cath­ May 4 in the Panax publication, The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES olic Historical Association and the American Globe, he comments on the inconsistency Wednesday, May 10, 1978 Society of Church History. Among his honor­ ary doctorates is an LL.D. from Notre Dame and double standard applied to morality e Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, Msgr. in 1957. in foreign affairs. The article follows: John Tracy Ellis, the dean of historians Msgr. Ellis understood the past, but he was DoUBLE STANDARDS l."'SED IN DEALING WITH of American Catholicism, will receive the noted for his ability to bring his erudition SOUTH AFRICA University of Notre Dame's Laetare to bear on contemporary problems. The abil­ Well, the United States managed to beat ity to use insights gleaned from history in South Africa in the Davis Cup games at Medal for 1978. discussing topical issues earned him high In commenting on the award, the Vanderbilt University-indeed, without much regard as an advisor and consultant to many trouble. The matches were a complete suc­ Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, bishops, religious superiors and educators. cess. All the self-righteous commentators and C.S.C., president of the university, said: Some consider Msgr. Ellis to be among the sports writers had a chance to proclaim their For almost a century, the Laetare Medal most influential scholarly commentators on virtue on the evils of apartheid; the editorial has been given to those American Catholics the American Church since World War 11.e writer had one more chance to denounce who made outstanding contributions to the South Africa; the professional protesters, life of our Nation. We honor today an elder demonstrators and disrupters had another statesman of American Catholicism, an his­ field day. A fine, wonderful, marvelous, mor­ torian who has spent his life chronicling the MINES PUBLICATION RECOM­ alistic time was had by all. achievements of many who preceded him MENDED READING South Africa got two points on the tennis in this distinction, a teacher, scholar and courts and no points for putting a black author who has exemplified the best in the player on their tennis team. The player was intellectual tradition of the Church. HON. MORRIS K. UDALL "light-skinned," we were told (hardly an ob­ OF ARIZONA stacle to an American measuring in for a Mr. Speaker, at this point in the black quota-but that's another matter), RECORD I insert a further statement con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and preached the heresy that politics and cerning the award of the Laetare medal Wednesday, May 10, 1978 sports should be kept separated. How much to Monsignor Ellis, as published in the more of an Uncle Tom can you be? March, 1978, issue of Father Hesburgh's • Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, kudos are Mind you, none of the crusading sports­ "President's Newsletter": in order for some folks at the Depart­ writers will have any trouble going to Mos­ Msgr. Ellis, currently teaching on a post­ ment of the Interior who have come up cow to cover the Olympics; there will be no retirement appointment at the Catholic Uni­ with a new publication about the Bureau protesters, demonstrators and other nar­ versity of America in Washington, D.C., is of Mines. cissistic martyrs to protest the American only the second clergyman to receive the Mining Research is a well written and participation in the Moscow Olympics, and La.eta.re Medal. It was not until 1968 that illustrated booklet describing the vital the few right-wing reactionaries who are ap­ eligibility for the traditionally lay honor role assigned this little agency. I want to palled at the thought of Olympic games in was opened to clergy and religious, and Rev. the Soviet Union will be told by the same John A. O'Brien, a well-known author, re­ call my colleagues' attention to the pub­ people who were most furious at the Van­ ceived it in 1973. The oldest and most pres­ lication and suggest they obtain copies. derbilt Davis Cup matches that sports and tigious award of its kind, the Laetare Medal Besides well-done descriptions of the politics should be kept independent from is announced each year on the Fourth Sun­ Bureau's present important activities, each other. day of Lent, from which it derives its name. there is an interesting look ahead: Hypocrites, whitened sepulchres all white Founders of the award patterned it after a FUTURE DIRECTIONS and shiny on the outside, inside are filled papal honor dating from the 11th Century, with dead men's bones (to quote one of my and Notre Dame first awarded it-to His­ The Bureau of Mines is a small Federal favorite authors). torian John Gilmary Shea-in 1883. agency with a big job. How well it performs has much to do with how well America can Russia is far more oppressive than South A native of Seneca, Ill., Msgr. Ellis received rise to the challenge of a mineral future that Africa, but not only is it legitimate to par­ his A.B. degree from St. Viator College in is full of difficulties: deeper, leaner de­ ticipate in international sports with them, 1927, his M.A. from Catholic University in posits ... more dijficult, and potentially it is all right for them to host sport's biggest 1928 and his Ph.D. from the same university more dangerous, underground conditions ... event. "Ah," we will be told, "but the Rus­ in 1930. He was ordained in 1938. higher safety and environmental stand­ sians are not racists. They don't oppose non­ The teaching career of the 72-year-old ards ... escalating costs at mineral-produc­ white peoples." Church historian began in 1930 at St. Viator. ing operations. Such an argument is appalling both be­ After two years there and two years at the Matching mine output with industry's cause of its ignorance and its racism. Oppres­ College of St. Teresa in Winona, Minn., Msgr. growing mineral and material appetite under sion is oppression whether the victim is white Ellis joined the faculty of Catholic Univer­ such conditions will require nothing less or black. If South African oppression ls sity, where he was a major influence on three than the best mining technology that Amer­ wrong, so is Russian oppression. Anyone who decades of graduate students who now staff ican ingenuity can devise. For the systems of sees any difference is a bigot and a racist. schools and colleges across the country. He the future-and their full compliance with And anyone who knows anything about moved to the University of San Francisco in regulatory requirements-part of the foun­ geography ought to be aware that the Rus­ 1964 and taught there until his r~ent retire­ dation has already been established, through sians have a central Asian colonial empire ment. A lively and interesting lecturer, he mining research and development performed with more than twice as many nonwhites as has been a visiting professor at Notre Dame by the Bureau. Following through on that there are in South Africa. Why white op- CXXIV--837-Part 10 13300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 presslon ls not an obstacle to international that we must fight to end terrorism in pose.Is were rejected. Overall, wilderness acre­ sports when it ls practiced by Russia and ls our world. Italy has suffered a great loss age dropped from 83 milllon to 75 million. an obstacle when it ls practiced by South Land bllls in Congress almost always begin Africa escapes my understanding. However, by his demise and we shall mourn with them.• that way: big hunks of largess inviting I do not have the sensitive, discriminating axmen and whittlers to chip away until often conscience of the professional liberal who the public is left wi~h little more than frag­ worries about South African oppression but ments. Despite early vigilance by the Inte­ not about Russian oppression, about torture H.R. 39-THE PRESERVATION OF rior subcommittee, the legislation must still in Chile but not about torture in Northern ALASKA pass through the full House and then a Sen­ Ireland, about American imperialism in Viet­ ate committee and the full Senate. It isn't nam but not about Cuban imperialism in only the secretary of interior who says the Africa. HON. NEWTON I. STEERS, JR. Alaskan land issue is his department's ma­ Like I say, whitened sepulchres. OF MARYLAND jor priority for 1978. The stakes are also awe­ In many of the columns attacking the somely high for natives, developers, energy Vanderbilt matches, mention was made of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and timber companies, unions, tourists, con­ Steve Biko, the martyred South African black Wedne.~dav. May 10, 1978 servationists and state and federal govern­ leader. Biko's death was an appalllng event, mEints. The collision of values amoni those evidence of how low the South African racist • Mr. STEERS. Mr. Speaker, probably groups will create big winners and big government has sunk; but I don't read much ir.& the next week the House will have an losers. Debate comes when national concern by the same people about the genocide going opportunity to enact legislation that will about Alaska runs strong. One book on the on in Cambodia. Those who supported the preserve the last of our great, untouched state ("Coming Into the Country," by John Vanderbilt boycott never suggested demon­ wilderness areas, Alaska. After careful McPhee) is on the bestseller lists and another strating in front of the Cambodian delega­ work by the House Interior and Insular ( "Children of Crisis," by Robert Coles, which tion to the U.N. Indeed, there are some pious examines Eskimo culture) deserves to be. Uberal authors who have been arguing that Affairs Committee and the House Mer­ it is not true that many people have been chant Marine and Fisheries Committee, Whether this attention from writers is a kllled in Cambodia-only hundreds of thou­ we will have the privilege to preserve final glance at a. land and culture about to be sands. And it Patrick Buchanan is to be wilderness areas for generations to ruined in the name of progress or a protective believed, a Washington Post reporter walked look at a long-ignored treasure, 1978 will be come. We can take a giant step in pre­ known as the year when the great shift came out of a press conference on the Cambodian serving grounds where the caribou graze, genocide, remarking that it was "all junk." to the great frontier. But then maybe she didn't have time to stay; where wide and scenic rivers flow, and In deciding the fate of some 95 m1llion it was more important to go to one of the where large areas of beautiful wilderness acres of public land, Congress isn't getting singles bars in the local circuit to see what still exist. It is not often that the Con­ into an issue for which we have no prec­ Hamilton Jordan was up to. gress will get this sort of opportunity. edent. Today's Alaska flashes with similari­ There isn't much doubt that genocide in It is important that those of us who ties to the Appalachia of 100 years ago: in Cambodia is the worst thing to happen in represent Eastern States take an active size, natural b'eauty, the pride and resllience the world since the Nazi death camps. It role in seeing that H.R. 39 pass. Person­ of the native people, mineral wealth and cul­ goes unnoticed, uncounted, unprotested. ally, I have heard from many of my con­ tural traditions. But are axmen and whittlers There are a lot more important things in who are preparing to chop up the Alaska the world-like protesting the Davis Cup stituents who strongly support this bill legislation in the Senate about to create matches at Vanderbilt.e and oppose any weakening amendments. Appalachia North? With the current con­ It is my intention to vote for H.R. 39 and ditions in Appalachia well-known-50,000 work to see that only the strongest pos­ mlles of despoiled rivers and streaJ!l.S, moun­ sible bill passes the House. Yet while my tains raped for coal, inadequate housing, im­ mind is made up on the importance of poverished schools, an epidemic of mental ALDO MORO-A SENSELESS depression, absentee landlords, constant TRAGEDY this bill, there may be others who have flooding, trailer-camp living, hazardous not yet reached a decision. I want to call roads-what are the ethics of risking a their attention to a column from the repetition in Alaska? HON. LEO C. ZEFERETTI Washington Post of May 5, 1978, by In the fever for quick wealth, the real OF NEW YORK Coleman McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy elo­ costs are likely to be ignored. The exploiters IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES quently points out the opportunity be­ of oil, gas, copper, uranium, timber, real fore the House. Only positive action by estate and wildlife are not likely to heed a Wednesday, May 10, 1978 all of us in the upcoming days can keep woman in the Eskimo vlllage of Kotzebue e Mr. ZEFERETTI. Mr. Speaker, today Alaska from becoming "Appalachia who told some visiting congressmen last I wish to join my colleagues in paying summer: "We find ourselves being en­ North". croached upon by another dominant culture, tribute to a most respected man, former The article follows: whose people are more numerous than we, Prime Minister Aldo Moro. ALASKA: "APPALACHIA NORTH"? relentless, whose written laws are some­ Mr. Moro's senseless death stunned his (By Colman McCarthy) times foreign to us and inappropriate for this country as well as the rest of the world. simple northern land but nevertheless bind­ It is sadly ironic that a man whose rep­ When Michael Holloway, M.D., left his vil­ ing on us." Instead, they put an open ear utation was founded on compromise and lage the other day in the Rainbow Valley of to the claim of Alaska's Rep. Don Young: caution should meet death at the hands Alaska to visit the nation's capital to see the "Preservationist-oriented measures have political system at work, he had visions that truly gotten out of hand ... The key issue of the extreme leftist terrorists, know as it might not work at all. Holloway's concern is how much needs to be set aside to provide the Red Brigades. It has proven to us was whether or not Congress understood the appropriate protection without going over­ that the nations of the world must unite feelings of the natives in bush Alaska and board." to form a common front to fight terror­ their ties to a subsistence culture. The physi­ As to where Congress, the energy com­ ism and defend democracy. cian's own understanding is based on his panies or other "protectors" have gone over­ Mr. Moro, an incorruptible man, held work since 1973 as an orthopedic surgeon board in the past, Young didn't say. Nor the support of those people whose views with the Indian Health Service. By traveling has anyone else. Historically, and shame­ among the remote villages, he has learned fully, the excess has been in squandering our were different from his as well as the that subsistence uses of natural resources­ undying love and respect of his fell ow treasures, not in protecting them. We angle game, fish, vegetation-have been the means for quick gains, while leaving victims-and countrymen. As a peacemaker who held of survival for people in that area for at least their children and grandchildren-to endure the prestigious post of Prime Minister for 15,000 years. long-term losses. With the full House about five terms, he consistently fought for and After a few days in Washington, Holloway to debate Alaska, the same philosophy of ex­ maintained a system of parliamentary felt some of his misgivings ease. As passed by ploitation that has done in much of Ap­ democracy. One duly notes that his ca­ the House Interior Committee, the Alaska oalachia will be heard again: The fate of the reer reached back to the close of World National Interest Lands Conservation Act of­ hemisohere depends on our getting at every War II and that he was one of the draft­ fered strong protection for the subsistence last acre that can be drllled, mined, paved, rights for natives. But other actions of the blasted, staked or sold. To resist that mental­ ers of the constitution that established committee were troubling. As originally in­ itv, or better yet to turn away from it as false, the Republic of Italy. troduced, the blll sought to protect 115 mil­ notlline; is more useful than a look at Ap­ On this mournful occasion, we shall lion acres of public land; the committee ap­ palachia. It Alaska's public lands are a new send our sincere condolences to Eleanora proved 95 million. For one area-the Tongass territory, then they deserve to be cherished Moro and once again remind ourselves forest-more than half of the wilderness pro- with something better than the old ethic.e May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10001 MORE ZEROS THAN THE JAPANESE clean up Washington at the present mini­ his friends on the evening of Friday, AIR FORCE mum wage ($2.65 per hour) for thirteen May 12, 1978. The man to be honored, years. He could give $32,000 to every high­ Daniel F. Herlihy, has been a leader in school student, or $158,000 to every senior expected to finish high school in June 1978. keeping alive the proud Irish heritage HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS Surely enough to cover the cost of a college which is the background of a large part OF IDAHO education, even at today's horrifying prices. of the Worcester area population. It is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Did somebody say education? President Car­ with great pleasure that I join in ex­ ter's Budget for 1979 would pay for a com­ tending my very best wishes for happi­ Wednesday, May 10, 1978 plete four-year Harvard education-tuition, ness and continued good health to Dan room, and board-for 1.8 milllon of our na­ on this occasion when his substantive • Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, it has been tion's youth. said by Mark Russell, the very popular Somewhere in this labyrinth of numbers contributions to the good of the overall political humorist, that the Carter it should be pointed out that to spend half community are recognized. budget has more zeros than the Japanese a trillion dollars in a year is to spend $15,855 A native of Cork, Dan arrived in Air Force at its peak. per second. If you had spent $1,000 a day Worcester in October 1949. He served Mr. Speaker, how much is a one-half every day since Christ was born, you still his country in the Army during the Ko­ trillion dollars? would not have spent so much as $1 billlon. rean war for 2 years, and upon his re­ Similarly, if each of our 435 Representatives turn from duty he became employed with I submit the following article from and 100 Senators had spent $1,000 a day since the New England Telephone Co. During Review of the News dated February 22, Day One, the whole spendthrift gang would this time, he enrolled in evening courses 1978. still not have spent a half a trillion dollars! and graduated from Worcester Junior It A solitary shopper buying goods round the would seem appropriate to me that clock, that is 24 hours a day, seven days a College. After several promotions, Dan this article be in the CONGRESSIONAL week, would have to spend $50,000 a minute secured the position of engineer with the RECORD today, the day we have our for 19 years before he had spent half a tril­ company, which he still holds. chance to balance the budget: lion dollars. Along with his work and schooling, MORE ZEROS THAN THE JAPANESE AIR FORCE So the President's vast Budget would buy Dan always found time to participate in President James Earl Carter Jr. has made 86 million cars, nine million new houses, community and political affairs. Like so history with the "shock heard 'round the who-knows-how-many swimming pools. It many other immigrants to ~our shores, world" by proposing to spend half a trillion is too bad that all of this is being taken from us to pay for the Big Governmont that many Dan shares a strong tradition of political dollars during Fiscal 1979. More, really. In independence and a love for freedom. He fact, $500,174,000,000 to be exact. Rather of us just don't want. Of course, some people than terrify you with how President Carter do want it, and that would be fine if they has been very active in the Ancient Or­ intends to spend your money, or discuss how didn't feel compelled to make us pay for it. der of Hibernians, division 36, and has his "lean and tight" Budget fails to include Now, if every person who voted for President been instrumental in bringing many allocations reaching into the millions, our Carter in the 1976 elections were to chip in well-known speakers to Worcester. concern here is with the size of the take and out of his own pocket to meet this Carter The year 1976, along with being our what it might buy. Budget it would cost them a bare $12,419 apiece to reach the half-a-trillion mark. Nation's Bicentennial, was also the 150th THE BUDGET AIN'T PEANUTS The figure we are talking about here ls anniversary of the first permanent Irish How much is half a trillion? Sorry you simply astronomical. Consider that Jimmy settlers in Worcester. Dan got the idea asked. A whole trillion boasts 12 zeros (l,- Carter's cousin Hugh, the worm farmer of t~at a fitting memorial ought to be 000,000,000,000) and is the equivalent of a Plains, Georgia, ls now selling 15 million erected. He served as chairman of the thousand billions, a million millions, or a worms a year at a gross income of about Worcester Irish Memorial Committee, billion thousands. Half a trillion one dollar $104,250. At this rate, it would take over bills lined up end to end would encircle the 33,000 years for Hugh Carter to sell half a and was a key figure in negotiating an earth at the equator over 1,900 times, or go trlllion worms--or nearly five million years acceptable agreement to the erection of to the moon and back 99 times. Taped to­ to gross half a trillion dollars. Brother Billy, a Celtic Cross on the Worcester Com­ gether in a flat blanket, they would cover on the other hand, who has put his person­ mon. almost 1.2 million acres. Bundled up, the ality behind "Bllly" beer, hopes to sell 5 mil­ Daniel Francis Herlihy is first and bills would fill a warehouse 47 feet wide, 20 lion cases of that foamy beverage this year foremost a fine and grateful American, feet high, and four miles long. at four to six dollars per case. Assuming 24 a true son of Erin, a great leader, a man Half a trillion pennies would weigh more cans per case, Billy would only have to sell of integrity, a devoted husband and a than 150 million tons, which ls about seven beer for just over 4,000 years before he'd times the weight of the entire world's pea­ have sold half a trillion cans of the stuff. proud and loving father. His outstand­ nut production for 1976. Half a trillion Or, he could augment his earnings by con­ ing character, his sense of compassion quarters lined up rim to rim in double flle­ tinuing the public appearances for which he for all, and his commitment to his city that is, two by two--would extend over receives $5,000 each, paying off brother Jim­ and our country are of the highest qual­ nearly every inch of road, both paved and my's Budget with the total income from 100 ity and his vast contributions to the unpaved, in the United States. Ah, for streets million such bookings. Let's see, now, if he community serve as a reminder of the of silver. Speaking of which, half a trillion made 100,000 appearances a year and upped good of which each of us is capable.• silver dollars would create a stack as high as the price of his six-packs.... nearly 3 million Empire State Buildings. Enough. We won't even begin to consider But enough of the purely physical attri­ how many glasses of lemonade poor little PIPELINE COMPANIES TO HAVE butes of President Carter's Budget. For the Amy would have to sell, or how long she CERTIFICATES amount he proposes to spend in one year, we would have to hoard her allowance, before could give every person on earth $120; or she too could pay off Dad's new Budget with every man, woman, and child in the United half a trillion big ones. But it might ·be a good idea for the President and everyone else HON. MICHAEL T. BLOUIN States $2,300; or, the head of every Ameri­ OF can household $6,700. For that sum we could to keep in mind that these vast sums that buy a $55,000 Rolls-Royce for nearly every Mr. Carter is taxing and spending ain't pea­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nuts. If they were, and he had raised them resident of the New York/New Jersey metro­ Wednesday, May 10, 1978 politan area. From this sum we could, in himself, we'll bet that his so-called "lean and fact, give $1 million to every resident of tight" Budget would have been substantially Mr. BLOUIN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Tucson, Arizona; Montgomery, Alabama; smaller.e I introduced a bill which will require in- Monterey, California; and, Soddy-Daisy. .terstate pipelines to obtain a certificate Tennessee! A GRATEFUL AMERICAN of public convenience and necessity from President Carter's Budget could pay the the Department of Energy prior to con­ gasoline bills ( at 70¢ per gallon) for every struction. The certificate will be awarded car in the U.S. for seven years, or give each HON. JOSEPH D. EARLY only if the following criteria are met: car owner $4,900 outright ( enough to buy a new one). It could pay the entire nation's OF MASSACHUSETl'S Consideration of specific land use alter­ personal income taxes for about four years IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, natives in determining the pipeline route, preparation of an environmental impact (Ignoring inflation), or pay all of our health Wednesday, May 10, 1978 bills for about three and a half yea.rs. Presi­ statement and payment of any reason­ dent Carter could, for half a trillion dollars, • Mr. EARLY. Mr. Speaker, a distin­ able fees of attorney(s) retained by hand $72,000 to every unemployed adult In guished citizen of the Third Massachu­ landowners affected by the construction the country--or, better yet, employ them to setts District will be honored by many of of the pipeline. 13302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 I introduced this legislation because of public convenience and necessity for the (A) with respect to which any easement of the adverse impact pipelines have on construction by such person of any regulated applies for the construction or operation of America's prime agricultural land. In interstate pipeline if- such pipeline, or ( 1) each portion of the route of such pipe­ my own State of Iowa, pipelines cross (B) which is taken into account in the farmland at an angle, cutting tile drain­ line satisfies the route requirements of sub­ statement prepared under subsection (b) (3) section ( c) , with respect to such pipeline. age systems, disrupting farm operations, (2) such person satisfies the requirements and leaving a strip of soil that has been of subsection (d) with respect to paying the (3) SUBSECTION NOT TO APPLY TO GOVERN­ altered deeply and often permanently. reasonable fees of any attorney retained by MENTS.-This subsection shall not apply to While Americans are becoming more any landowner affected by the construction any affected landowner which is the United of such pipeline, and States or any State, or political subdivision aware of our limited energy resources, we thereof, of the United States. must begin to recognize that land is also (3) such Commission prepares a statement described in subparagraph (C) of section 102 SEC. 2. REGULATED INTERSTATE PIPELINE DE­ a finite resource. In this country alone, 5 (2) of the National Environmental Policy FINED. million acres of agricultural land are lost Act of 1969. For purposes of this Act, the term "reg­ to some form of urbanization every year. ( C) ROUTE REQUIREMENTS.- ulated interstate pipeline" means any pipe­ At least one-third of this is prime farm­ ( 1) IN GENERAL.-Any portion of the route line (other than any sewer or water pipe­ land. Our present need for new sources of a pipeline satisfies the requirements of line) with respect to which applies any of energy does not justify a pipeline this subsection if such portion is within­ regulation issued by the Federal Energy route through productive farmland, ( A) any abandoned railroad right-of-way, Regulatory Commission. especially when other route alternatives (B) any right-of-way of any State highway SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.- or any highway the construction of which exist--route alternatives that oil and gas was funded in whole or in part with Federal ( a) PIPELINES SUBJECT TO NATURAL GAS companies should be required to explore. funds, and if the cost of constructing the ACT .-For purposes of this Act, in the case My legislation establishes a prioritized portion of such route under this subpara­ of any regulated interstate pipeline subject list of route alternatives beginning with graph is less than - percent of the cost of to the Natural Gas Act, the certificate of abandoned railroad right-of-way, high­ constructing any route under subparagraph public convenience and necessity shall be way right-of-way, parcel boundaries, (A) which provides service equivalent to treated as part of the certificate of public nonarable land, and ending with arable the service provided by the portion under convenience and necessity described in sec­ land. A pipeline company must exhaust this subparagraph, tion 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act. (C) ---- feet of any boundary between (b) PIPELINES NOT SUBJECT to NATURAL GAS each alte "Il.ative before considering the parcels of land owned by different persons, ACT.-For purposes of this Act, in the case next cate rory. A cost percentage mech­ and if the cost of constructing the portion of any regulated interstate pipeline which anism

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Thursday, May 11, 1978 The House met at 11 o'clock a.m. and voke Thy gracious blessing upon this who sacrificed their lives for the liberty was called to order by the Speaker pro great assembly. of these United States. tempore (Mr. WRIGHT). We confess that we are unable to We pray for our President and all carry the heavy responsibilities of our Members of the Congress in the name of enormous task without Thy help. Give our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO us Thy guidance and wisdom. TEMPORE We pray for our beloved country, "the land of the free and the home of the THE JOURNAL The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. brave." The SPEAKER pro tempore. The WRIGHT) laid before the House the Thou hast known, O God, that this Chair has examined the Journal of the following communication from the great country of ours has been the torch­ last day's proceedings and announces Speaker: bearer of freedom and liberty throughout to the House his approval thereof. WASHINGTON, D.C., May 11, 1978. the centuries on behalf of oppressed and Is there objection to the approval of I hereby designate the Honorable JIM enslaved peoples of the world. the Journal? WRIGHT to a.ct as Speaker pro tempore for Today hundreds of millions of op­ Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, I object. today. pressed and enslaved people cry out to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objec­ THOMAS P. O'NEILL, Jr., us for help, for their deliverance from tion is heard. Speaker of the House of Representatives. bondage, and God-given human rights. The question is on the approval of the Give wisdom, faith, and courage to the Journal. leaders of our great Nation, the Presi­ The question was taken; and the PRAYER dent, and Members of the Congress, to Speaker pro tempore announced that The Right Reverend Bishop Zoltan do everything in their power to !:>ring the ayes appeared to have it. Beky, D.D., Hungarian Reformed Church about their freedom and human rights. Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, I object to of America, Washington, D.C., offered Today, especially, we remember in our the vote on the ground that a quorum is the fallowing prayer: prayer the heroic sacrifice of Col. Michael not present and make the point of order de Kovats, drillmaster of Washington that a quorum is not present. Almighty God, Father of all nations, Cavalry, who on this day, May 11, died The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently as leaders, chosen representatives, and a heroic death in the War of Independ­ a quorum is not present. lawmakers of this great Nation, we stand ence during the Battle of Charleston, S.C. The Sergeant at Arms will notify ab­ before Thee in humble reverence. We in- Blessed be his piemory and all of those sent Members.

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