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 California. 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 OHIO 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 PENNSYLVANIA "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 NORTH CAROLINA OF ILLINOIS IN THE HOUSE OF ~EPRESENTATIVES MINNEAPOLIS AND CETA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, May 10, 1978 Wednesday, May 10, 1978 HON. DONALD M. FRASER • Mr. HEFNER. Mr. Speaker, it is with a great deal of sadness that I learned of • Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, at some OF MINNESOTA the death of James Atwell Spargo, a re point this year or next, the House will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES con.sider comprehensive legislation to tired police lieutenant in Salisbury, N.C. reform our criminal code. The Senate, Wednesday, May 10, 1978 With the passing of "Spargo," the after much debate, acted on this legis •Mr.FRASER. Mr. Speaker, the House people of Salisbury and Rowan County lation earlier in the year. Education and Labor Committee com have lost a great and good friend. He was While there are many issues that the pleted markup last week on the reau a member of the Salisbury Police De House will have to address as it consid thorizing legislation for CETA, the Com partment for 30 years. With the excep ers this subject, I would like to comment prehensive Employment and Training tion of one week, he spent them all on on one particular action that was taken Act. We are considering significant "The Square." From this vantage point, hastily on the Senate floor. changes in the legislation, and some he made thousands of friends and as sisted countless people. He was univer During the debate, the Senate agreed changes may be necessary to be sure sally respected by all. to retain the Logan Act. This is an ar that the amended bill helps to reduce ''Spargo" was a good Christian. He was chaic and unnecessary law. It prohibits structural unemployment. active in his church and it was a great American citizens from corresponding However, I think we need to keep in part of his life. with foreign governments on issues of mind the positive results of the current He was an inspiration to all who knew foreign policy. The law, originally passed CETA program. Accordingly, I would him and his fellow citizens will be for in 1799, states that-- like to share with my colleagues a Janu ever in his debt. Any citizen of the United States, wher ary 10, 1978, article from the Minne My deepest sympathy to his family. ever he may be, who, without authority of apolis Star, which describes the success I include in the RECORD at this time an the United States, directly or indirectly of the Minneapolis CETA title I train article from The Salisbury Post on my commences or carries on any correspondence ing and placement program. or intercourse with any foreign government friend, "Spargo." or any officer or agent thereof, with intent The article follows: J. A. SPARGO DIES AT 73 to influence the measures or conduct of any MANPOWER PLAN RUNNING BETI'ER UNDER James Atwell Spargo of 231 South Milford foreign government or of any office- or agent CITY REINS Drive, the beloved Salisbury policeman who thereof, in relation to any disputes or con (By Robert Guenther) worked "The Square" for over 30 years, is troversies with the United States, or to de Unemployed persons are being trained dead at the age of 73. feat the measures of the United States, shall more efficiently and are finding more jobs He apparently suffered a heart attack be fined not more than $5000, or imprisoned since Minneapolis took over the reins of its about 11: 15 a.m. yesterday and died in not more than three years, or both. manpower training program more than a Rowan Memorial Hospital. year ago. He had "officially" retired from the Salis Use of the Logan Act could obstruct Statistics supplied by Greg Moore, a city bury Police Department in June, 1974. When the free flow of ideas across national council aide who oversees the program, indi he called it quits with the police department borders. While there have been no pros cate that for 1977, Minneapolis' Title I Com his friends who saw him daily on "The ecutions under the law, it could cause prehensive Employment and Training Act Square" gave him some going away presents. some potential problems. It seems to me (CETA) program exceeded both state and Employees of The Security Bank and Trust healthy for our diplomacy if people like regional job-placement percentages for 1976. Co. gave him a surprise farewell party in the Henry Kissinger or Averill Harriman The city spent about $4.5 million last year on bank lobby. He usually worked his beat with discuss foreign policy questions with the program. the ever present cigar and a smile on his face and good word tor everyone. foreign leaders. As private citizens, they Of the program's 3,500 participants last But he never completely retired as in re serve as valuable intermediaries. year, 1,070 were placed in jobs after being cent months he had done security patrol I am also concerned that the Logan trained. That's a placement rate of a.bout 35 work for several stores in the city. percent, ct:>mpared with the 1976 state rate of Act could conceivably apply to Members With the exception of one week, his 30 of Congress. The language of the act 33 percent and the six-state rate of 29 years of police work was on "The Square" percent. and he was a popular figure with those in all refers to "any citizen." It would be a In the cost category, Mex>re's data indi walks of life. sham for Members of Congress to be cates the 1977 cost for each participant was He joined the department on February 22, open to possible prosecution, because substantially less than the costs for the state 1944, after working a short time with Duke they meet with foreign leaders or write and region in 1976 ($1,171 for the city, com Power Co., and retired as a lieutenant. to them. For example, I often write to pared with $4,999 for the state and $4,217 Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday Soviet officials concerning human rights for the region) . at 4 p.m. in Trading Ford Baptist Church by cases. Since I am not acting as an exec- May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13265 utive branch official, would this open ward country but a highly educated, If human rights are to be seriously and me up to prosecution under the Logan urbane, developed society. Since holo conscientiously protected then a number Act? While it is doubtful that any court caust-like atrocities are going on right of constraints must be brought into would so construe the Logan Act, it is now and have been perpetrated by ad play-protests, denials of aid, exposures conceivable. vanced societies, we must be vigilant. of wrongdoing, and restraints on trade I concur in the decision of the Senate George Santayana wrote: "Those who to name a few. Judiciary Committee to repeal the Logan cannot remember the past are con In the case of Uganda, when such a Act. It was unfortunate that the repeal demned to repeat it." Let us promise to little effort by the United States would provision was deleted from the bill. I remember Nazi abuse to the Jews and let bring such tumultuous results, not to hope the House will restore this provi us try to stop Nazi-like suppression going take action would be giving tacit acquies sion and eliminate the Logan Act from on around the world. cience to the current massive blood our criminal code. letting.• A fine statement against the Logan Act is contained in the 1970 report of the National Commission on the Reform HUMAN RIGHTS GOVERNMENT REGULATION: ONE of Federal Criminal Laws, and I would WAY TO HANDLE IT like to bring the Commission's argu HON.THOMAS J. DOWNEY ment to my colleagues' attention: OF NEW YORK HON. KEITH G. SEBELIUS This section, known as the Logan Act, should be repealed. There has been doubt IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OJ' KANSAS concerning its scope and wisdom since its Wednesday, May 10, 1978 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enactment. The statute has not been used Wednesday, May 10, 1978 for prosecution; and insofar as there is a • Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, 16 months need to protect foreign relations from pri ago, when this administration took of e Mr. SEBELIUS. Mr. Speaker, the prob vate acts, the prohibited conduct can be cov fice, the cause of human rights was ele lem of Government regulation-actually, ered by perjury and false statements, imper vated to a position of top priority in overregulation-is getting so out of hand sonation of officials and physical obstruction regard to our international policy. I com that it is high time the Congress step in provisions. . By its terms, correspondence mend this initiative. I feel that in light to restore the original intent of legisla containing ideas clearly identified as indi of our traditional emphasis on human tion we enacted. This problem is particu vidual action, addressed to foreign officials, dignity, this stance is only proper. Many could come within its scope and could be larly acute in the case of small business _an instrument of political oppression.e hard-eyed skeptics dismiss this proposal firms which lack the resources to contest as being too quixotic to have any real unjustified Government actions or to effect on repressive regimes. In light of even meet the myriad paperwork certain events in many parts of the required of them by the Federal THE HOLOCAUST world it may seem that these people have Government. a point. Not because this to too lofty a These problems were pointed up in a principle to adhere to, but because of speech Monday by our colleague, Mr. HON. BRUCE F. CAPUTO our unwillingness,. to commit ourselves WAMPLER of Virginia, before a small OF NEW YORK fully to this effort. If we deem this to business conference sponsored by Vir IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be a worthwhile goal, then we should ginia Polytechnic Institute and State make all efforts to achieve it. Wednesday, May 10, 1978 University at Blacksburg, Va.. He sug We are all familiar, to some degree, gests a logical solution for this problem •Mr.CAPUTO. Mr. Speaker, this week with the atrocities taking place in and I insert his speech in the RECORD a.t the world will pay tribute to the 6 million Uganda. Since his regime came to power this point. I commend it to your reading: Jews senselessly murdered in the Nazi in January of 1971, Idi Amin and his THE GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP: Holocaust. Atrocities committed by the henchmen have been committing uncon ONE WAY To DEAL WITH IT Nazis cannot be exaggerated and must scionable crimes against humanity. (Remarks of Hon. Wn.LIAM c. WAMPLER of not be forgotten. We must remind our Uganda under Amin has been marked by Virginia) selves and teach our children of the capricious violence and genocidal fervor. I welcome this opportunity to meet with Holocaust in hopes that we can prevent To quote President Carter: you ... and I am pleased to see so many old such barbarity in the future. The actions in Uganda have disgusted the friends. As Chancellor of Germany in 1933 entire civilized world. As a former small businessman myself, I Hitler removed Jews from all public and am well aware of your problems and I com professional posts. In 1935 the Nurem In view of the plight of the Ugandan mend Virginia Tech for its foresight in estab berg laws legitimized these abuses people and the intense malignity that lishing this Small Business Institute and in through carefully planned programs to the regime represents, I feel that the scheduling this conference. deprive Jews of all German citizen American people have a moral respon Personally, I have always been somewhat rights. sibility to act. Idi Amin must be coerced amused by the term "small businessman." into observing the basic human rights Not too long ago, I participated in a similar German invasions into Austria, program, and, after the meeting, I asked one Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ro guaranteed by the United Nations Dec of my fellow speakers what his definition of mania and the Soviet Union brought an laration of Human Rights. a big businessman would be. additional half a million Jewish persons The most obvious and realistic method It's very simple, he said. A big business under Nazi control and suppression. Over to achieve this end would be to impose man is what a small businessman would be $9 billion worth of Jewish property was economic sanctions against Uganda. lf the government ever let him alone! There is a direct relationship between That leads to the heart of what I want to demolished or confiscated, some of talk with you about this morning: The rela which had been handed down from par foreign purchases of Ugandan coffee and tionship of business and government. It also ent to child for centuries representing the continuation of Amin's murderous leads into one of my pet peeves about govern the energies and hopes of generations. regime. It is certain that a boycott of ment: Its unwarranted meddling in the af Jewish welfare and cultural institutions Ugandan coffee by our country would fairs of business. were destroyed including thousands of have an adverse effect on Idi Amin's Although this isn't a new problem, it is Jewish hospitals, schools, orphanages, power base. It may even cause his fall compounded in Washington by an over libraries, and homes for the aged. Incom from power. balance of consumer activists at policy prehensibly, Jewish men, women, and An international undertaking would making levels in the Carter administration children were herded off to concentra undoubtedly be more effective. However, overzealous men and women who could tion camps where many were tortured, hardly be called free enterprise enthusiasts. the Soviet Union could use its veto power What does this mean to you as a small abused, and finally murdered. on any attempt by the United States to businessma.n? But the Nazis episode is not unique. involve the United Nations. Without in For one thing, it means you have your work Basic human rights are violated in volving the United Nations, it is possible cut out for you-just to keep your business Argentina, Uganda, Laos, Cambodia, that other countries, including the Unit up-to-date on the paperwork required by Vietnam, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Chile. ed Kingdom, might follow our lead in the government. Instead of less, there'll be Further, Nazi Germany was not a back- an embargo of Ugandan coffee. more of it in the future. 13266 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 Do you have any idea how many different definition a partnership suggests the idea of judges the validity of claims the seller uses Federal forms Washington presently asks equals pitching in to help each other achieve in advertising products. It rules on the type business to fill out? Would you believe over a mutually beneficial goal or objective. o! flame retardant a company may use in its 5,000? Five-thousand forms to keep the The fact of the matter is that Government products and then decides it's cancer-caus- bureaucrats at work and businessmen from and business aren't equals at all. Nor are ing and forces the firm to stop using it and their work: they seekers of mutually beneficial goals. absorb the loss. It tells the farmer which Do you have any idea how much all this The traditional role of Government ls that pesticides to use on his crops and the loca regulation costs you and me as taxpayers of a servant of society and of the people. tion of outdoor toilet facilities for field not to mention how much it costs business The President now wants to make it a part hands. It even determines which products we in additional operating expenses? According ner with business. can use to sweeten our coffee. to a recent survey by Time magazine, the Speaking as a former businessman, I prefer In short, even though we have gone pretty budget for the 100,000 people in 87 Federal to keep Government in the role of servant. far down the road toward socialism, the agencies and offices involved in regulatory course is not irreversible. We can still get activity tots.ls more than $3 billion a year. I just don't think there's a basis for a good this system of ours back on the right track Think of it? Three billion dollars and relationship when one partner's heavy hand and we can start by getting overzealous 100,000 employees just--in the words of is on your shoulder and his other hand ls in bureaucrats off our backs. We are a people Time-"to keep the private sector behaving your pocket! who declared our independence more than as big brother sees fit." Don't misunderstand me: There are valid 200 years ago from an impersonal and im Can you imagine a small businessman try areas for Government involvement and reg perious government--and we are not about ing to defend himself against such resources? ulation in business. I'm sure we all agree on to lose it now to paper shufflers and com He could go broke just paying the legal ex that. No one condones either shoddy busi· puters: penses to win his case-and that's happened ness practices or slipshod workmanship or In the final analysis, the course we choose before: unsafe working conditions. We are all con is really ours. To quote a famous Virginian, The problem is-in the long run, you the cerned about the safety, quality and value I choose freedom. Will you Join me? e businessman and we the taxpayers and all of the merchandise we buy-for, in the final of us the consumers pay for unnecessary analysis, we are all consumers. Government regulation ... in higher taxes That's not the problem. The problem is to keep Federal paperpushers on: the payroll that Government regulation of business has and in higher prices at supermarkets and gotten out of control. Congressional authori MORE ON RHODESIA POLICY department stores. , zation to regulate for a worthy purpose has As you may have read, some of the bigger become the bureaucrat's unlimited license to HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO companies have started documenting the hunt and his unchecked mandate to control. OJ' CALD'ORNIA costs of Government regulation and the He needs to be restrained. figures are staggering. Dow Chemical, for in As a start in this direction, I have asked IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stance, spent $186 million in 1976 just to my staff in Washington to put together the Wednesday, May 10, 1978 comply with Federal regulations. General specifics of a b1ll I plan to introduce shortly Motors estimates it spent $943 million in to help small businessmen confront Govern • Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, I 1975 to meet Federal paperwork require ment regulators on an equal footing-to help would like to bring to the attention of ments. This costs out to about $300 for each them offset the seemingly endless financial G.M. car sold that year. my colleagues the following editorial Even though scaled down, Government and personnel resources which the Federal which appeared in the Los Angels Herald regulation costs small business millions of Government can marshal in a given case. Examiner. I submit ~hat it is an excellent dollars each year. This b1ll will also hopefully encourage small analysis of the shortcomings of the Car Just. the other day, I received a letter from firms to go to the mat with the Government ter administration's Rhodesian policy. a small businessman in my congressional when they feel they are in the right. The editorial follows : district who discussed the problems he was If enacted, this legislation will: having with Government regulators. He con One, require the Federal Government to GUERRILLAS PROLONG RHODESIA'S PROBLEMS cluded by saying: "God created the world reimburse small business firms for reasonable (By Wllllam Randolph Hearst Jr.) in six days and on the seventh he rested. litigation costs and attorney fees in Govern NEW YoRit-The true intent of the two Today, he would have had to justify it all to ment-initiated cases won by the firms. black guerrilla leaders who, with the help of the Consumer Products Safety Commission." Two, to help head off frivolous or harass Russia, maintain tribal bands of marauders The Consumer Products Safety Commis ing actions by the Government against small outside Rhodesia's borders-and have the sion-that's a red flag to most businessmen. business firms, this blll wm require that the gall to call themselves the Patriotic Front So are other such regulatory agencies as the funds used to reimburse small firms for such wa.s revealed to the world this pa.st week. Occupational Safety and Health Administra legal costs come from the budget of the They want to take over Rhodesia and estab tion-commonly known as O.S.H.A.-and the agency which brought the action in the first lish a Marxist dictatorship. Federal Trade Commission and the Food and place. These two men, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Drug Administration and the Environmental If this legislation is enacted, I believe it Mugabe, a.re so highly regarded by the Carter Protection Agency, just to mention a few. will do more than anything else to put an administration-the president, Secretary of The problems of businessmen dealing end to the harrassment of business by Gov State Cyrus Vance and United Nations Am with Government regulators were summed up ernment officials overly concerned with Jus bassa.dor Andrew Young-that our govern well in a syndicated newspaper column by tifying their Jobs or solidifying the existence ment appears reluctant to accep.t or recognize Ray Cromley on the Consumer Products of their agencies. I would like your views on the interim transitional government. Yet it is Safety Commission. Declaring t hat the this bill and your suggestions during the the declared purpose and plan of this gov Agency's rules are ambiguous to the point question and answer period to follow on any ernment to conduct free and open elections of absurdity, he said, and I quote-"the other legislation you feel needed to help and set up a black-led one-man-one-vote Commission's men frequently seem more in small business. government to conduct free and open elec terested in prosecuting cases and building More than a century ago, Abraham Lincoln tions and set up a black-led one-man-one up a record of convictions at court than in summed up the role of Government be.tter vote government, Just exactly the form that securing safer consumer products." than anything I have seen since. Lincoln Britain and the United States have de The columnis't put his finger on the prob said: "Government should do for the people manded all along. lem in these terms: "What we have here, in only what they can not do or are unable to More than a decade ago, the political par essence, is another case of bureaucracy gone do so well for themselves." ties of both Nkomo and Mugabe were banned wild, enforcing the letter of the law and not Lincoln's words are even more relevant by the Rhodesian government, and both the spirit." men fled across the border where they pro Time magazine used even tougher lan today. As you know, we are moving into a critical ceeded to enlist dissident guerrma.s from in guage in an article earlier this year -entitled period in the immediate years ahead--one side Rhodesia. They pledged to fight the all "Rage Over Rising Regulation." The maga in which the free enterprise system as we white government until there could be a zine said the American people have about know it will be severely tested. Just a few one-man-one-vote system. Their "war" be had it with autocratic bureaucrats to weeks ago, columnist Carl Rowan wrote in gan in 1972 with an attack on a white home whom-quoting Time-"nothing succeeds the Washington Star-and I quote: stead and the murder of its occupants. Since like excess." Summed up the magazine-and "Laissez Faire ls dead. 'Free' enterprise is then more than 9,000 lives have been lost. I quote again, "There ls a deepening revul a myth. 'Socialism' is a reality ..." Last week, Ian D. Smith, who will remain sion among Americans against the excesses Although I disagree with Mr. Rowan's a.s prime minister until the elections are of bureaucracy [which) suggest that a show triple premise, he has a point. The Federal held, terminated the bans against the Nkomo down is imminent." Government ls into Just about everything and Mugabe political parties. Perhaps to head off just such a showdown today. It sets the minimum wage the manu He invited the leaders and all of their President Carter has proposed a partnershi~ facturer can pay employees. It passes on the followers to return to Rhodesia and take between Government and business. On the fairness of the tactics the businessman uses part in the elections. He promised total am surface, this has a nice ring to it--since by to contest union organizing activity. It nesty, with no reprisals, and offered his serv- May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13267 ices in helping reunite guerrillas with their speech in Zambia, followinr6 British initia Committee has treated them with the families, and to release all political detainees. tive, pledged that Rhodes!, would have full diffidence I believe they deserve. This offer was made in behalf of the en U.S. support if Ian Smith would form a The Ways and Means Committee can tire executive council of the interim gov government of majority rule within two more profitably spend its time concen ernment, consisting of equal numbers of years. trating on real, rather than imagined, blacks and whites and including leaders of Kissinger's speech was given in April, 1976. the three most powerful black political fac Ian Smith did just what Henry Kissinger re injustices in the tax code. One that is tions or parties in Rhodesia-Bishop Abel quested, all within the allotted two years. crying out for attention is the so-called Muzorewa, Jeremiah Chirau and Rev. Ndaba But the government of the United States marriage penalty. ningi Sithole. Those three, together, control has changed hands. Now, suddenly, with The marriage penalty is a quirk in the 85 percent of the black votes of the country. Andrew Young calling the signals, we are in Internal Revenue Code which requires Despite this offer of friendship-which can sisting that two communist terrorist leaders, working husbands and wives to pay more only be considered an indication of how who have been offered the chance to run in taxes than they would pay if they thoroughly the interim government intends for election, be included in the interim gov to bring about black rule in the country that ernment---or else the U.S. won't accept the were single. had so recently had solely a white-run gov transitional program. How come? The marriage penalty is unfair to all ernment-both Nkomo and Mugabe turned We entered the Rhodesia affair to arrest families in which both the husband and it down flat. the spreadin•J communist influence in South wife work, but it is especially burden They prefer to stay where they are, Nkomo ern Africa. Now we are thwarting the crea some to such families at the lower end in Zambia where he heads a ZAPU terrorist tion of a moderate all-black government un of the economic scale. About 25 percent faction, and Mugabe in Mozambique, where til and unless it brings in a couple of com of all families earn less than $10,000, he heads a ZANU terrorist faction. munist ragtags representing a tiny propor All the things they say they have wanted tion of the black voters. and in about 40 percent of these fam and have been fighting for have come about, We made a commitment to keep the Rus ilies both the husband and wife yet they want no part of it, even though sians out of Southern Africa and decided work-and pay several hundred dol they, personally, have been invited to par that among other things we must help lars more in taxes each year than they ticipate in forming the new government. Rhodesia set up a representative government. would pay if they had not gotten mar One would think that now, with their So, let's get on with it. Let's keep our ried. goals in sight, the guerrillas would be happy promise. The marriage penalty exists because to return from the bush and participate in President Carter should accept the mod of the complexity of the tax code. As you bringing full democracy to Rhodesia, the erate interim government, as established, know, there are at present four separate major goal they said they were seeking. The and approve the plans for a free election schedule for it is open and forthright- and the formal transfer of power on Dec. 31 income tax tables, each with a different free elections, with all parties participating, f:rom all white to mostly black. standard deduction and a different tax to be held as soon as possible. As soon as a While he's at it, Jimmy Carter might re rate. black prime minister is elected, the economic appraise his friend Andy Young's talents. In An income can be taxed at five differ sanctions imposed by most cf the world will my opinion he mi,6ht serve his country bet ent levels, depending on the filing status be lifted. Then, on Dec. 31, the new one ter in some other ambassadorial post, in of the taxpayer. For an income of $14,- man-one-vote government will take over. South Africa preferably.e That Mugabe and Nkomo refuse to accept 000, the amount of tax due would be: the peace offer reveals dramatically that a $1,325 for a married couple filing joint free democracy was not what they had ly; $984 for two singles, each earning in mind. What they want, obviously, is a $7,000; $1,984 for one single, earning Marxist dictatorship. Mugabe, an avowed LET US NOT TAX MARRIAGE $14,000; $1,608 for a married couple Marxist (his and Nkomo's guerrillas are sup filing separately, assuming each spouse plied by the Russians), has stated he does HON. WILLIAM L. ARMSTRONG earned $7,000; and $2,029 for a single not believe in free multi-party elections. He head of household. wants only a one-party system-his. He and OF COLORADO Tim and Nancy are typical of the Nkomo together have a following of about IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 15 percent of the black population. couples who are adversely affected by Nevertheless, under a policy presumably Wednesday, May 10, 1978 the marriage penalty. They teach at a developed by our 'uN ambassador, Andrew e Mr. ARMSTRONG. Mr. Speaker, college in Colorado Springs. Tim earned Young, the Carter administration says it will every spring, especially during election $16,305 last year. Nancy earned $9,817. not "accept" the interim government until They paid a total of $4,240 in taxes on it includes Mugabe and Nkomo. The interim years, the Chamber here and in the Sen ate rings with stirring orations about their combined income of $24,822. That government has agreed that whites will be in was $208 more than they would have charge of defense and internal security. The the need for tax reform. We always hear Patriotic Front leaders want blacks in charge a great deal of thunder, but we usually had to pay if they had remained single. of everything. Thus, the United States is do not see much lightning. November The marriage penalty that Tim and saying there will be no whites in charge of comes and goes, and the session ends. Nancy and others in their situation will anything in Rhodesia, if it wants our back have to pay will rise substantially as ing and approval. The tax code stays pretty much the their combined income goes up, and as The entire transitional program with its same. It may become a little more cum Nancy's salary becomes more equal to racially balanced interim executive council, bersome, and Americans usually wind up Tim's. its early free elections, and its transfer to having to pay more in taxes, but only The marriage penalty is especially black leadership on Dec. 31 was exactly what rarely are significant changes made. harmful to young couples who rent and was called for when Secretary of State Henry This year. there has been more talk Kissinger and British Foreign Secretary who are not able to take deductions other Anthony Crosland first met with Ian Smith than ever about tax reform. I hope, at than the standard deduction. Skip is an two years ago. session's end, there will be more than architect with an engineering firm in Kissinger told The Hearst Newspapers just just talk. The need for meaningful tax Denver. His wife, Debbie, is a buyer for this past week that the United States became reform has never been greater. Income the same firm. Last year they paid $84 7 involved because of two basic reasons: taxes at all levels now equal nearly 34 more in taxes because they were married ( 1) With the collapse of the Portu,6uese percent of the gross national product, than they would have paid if they were Empire, the entire strategic situation in imposing a heavy burden on all Ameri Southern Africa changed. Rhodesia was vul not. But in 1975, when they lived in a nerable, and guerrilla war had already cans, and a crushing burden on the mid rented apartment instead of owning started on its borders, fueled by guerrillas in dle class. The huge bureaucracy sup their own home, their marriage penalty neighboring Mosambique, formerly a Por ported by all these taxes is like a heavy was $1,175. tuguese colony. anchor, pulling our economy deeper and Congress taxes many things, includ (2) U.S. impotence in Angola had been deeper into the slough of despond. ing the patience of the American peo demonstrated by refusal of Congress to pro Clearly, this year we should do some ple. But surely this tax on marriage 1s vide arms to the pro-Western, pro-democratic thing, not just say something, about tax the most unjustified tax of all. At a time faction. This opened the field to the Soviets, reform. who brought in the Cuban battalions that when enormous social pressures are finally took over Angola, the Portuguese Most of the talk about tax reform this tending to break down the institution of "star" in Africa. year has centered on the President's marriage and family life, the last thing That is when the U.S. entered the picture proposals, which have had difficulty our Nation needs is to have additional in Rhodesia. We could not lose all of South winning a constituency outside of the pressures generated by Congress and the ern Africa to the Soviets. Kissinger, in a White House. The Ways and Means Internal Revenue Service. CXXIV--835-Part 10 13268 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 I am introducing a bill today that internal security function. It should also be May 10, 1978, into the CONGRESSIONAL would elL'llinate the marriage penalty by noted tha. t helicopters slmilax to the ones RECORD: being supplied were used last March 14th in It is possible that the United States will striking from the tax code all personal putting down a controversial prison uprising income tax tables except the table for become a solar society in the years ahead. in which 61 prisoners, including some who Nearly everyone agrees that the United married filing, joint, which is the lowest. were detained for political reasons, were If approved, this proposal would mean a St ates and other countries will have to make killed. Similarly, press reports indicate that far reaching changes in energy consumption tax cut for singles and for single heads helicopters are repeatedly being used in patterns within the next few decadPs. World of households as well as for married Argentina to crush strikes and take over energy demand is expected to double in 20 couples where both spouses work. strike-bound factories. to 30 years while world productlion of oll and The concept I am proposing has been Past experience with similar sales indicates natural gas will probably level off. Reserves that the U.S. has no control over the ultimate of non-renewable e11er1, y sources, cll~e!ly the looked upon with favor by other Mem end use of the military materiel it supplies. bers of this body in the past. I hope the oil and natural gas that now proviae 7iJ % and little or no capacity to monitor the of the nation's energy, are steaclilv shrink Ways and Means Committee will give equipment once it enters into service. This ing. Our other major energy sources--coal serious consideration to including it in would be particularly true in the case of and nuclear power-will certainly be used in this year's tax bill. Abolition of the mar aircraft such as helicopters. If, as many ob the future, but recent events have prompted riage penalty would be a tax reform that servers predict, widespread protest over gov concern about their availability and environ ernment economic policy and its massive mental safeness and have provided the b9.sis would give Americans something more violation of the human rights of its citizens bombast and higher taxes.• f or greater optimism about solar power. were to arise, the U.S. would have no way of There are many advantages to energy de preventing the use of . these aircraft to put rived from the sun, whether that energy ls in down peaceful demonstrations. the form of sunlight, wind, falling water. We feel that any resumption of military plant material or ocean temperature grad HELICOPTERS FOR ARGENTINA or quasi-military sales ls premature as the ients. Solar energy is abundant, renewable, Argentine government has not, as yet, met universally available and invulnerable to minimum standards of civilized behavior strikes and embargoes. About 15,000 times HON. GERRY E. STUDDS which would warrant what might become as much energy as the world consumes each a stream of military purchases by that na OF MASSACHUSETTS day reaches the earth from the sun every tion's military. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 24 hours, so the conversion of only a tiny Aside from meagre concessions, the practice fraction of what ls available would be more Wednesday, May 10, 1978 of the Argentine military government con than enough to meet all current and rro tinues to be a cynical mistreatment of its jected needs. Solar power ls clean and its en • Mr. STUDDS. Mr. Speaker, the Depart citizens. A good example of the unacceptable ment of State recently authorized the vironmental impact is minimal. Its use would behaviour of this government and its mock create jobs and would have a generally bene sale to Argentina of three Boeing CH- efforts at improving its human rights image flcal effect on the economy. Without ques 47 helicopters, to be used ostensibly for is provided by the details of the Deghi case. tion it has an enormous potential. scientific purposes. Congress has the Dr. Deghi, a trade union lawyer, was released There are many questions about the use power to disapprove these proposed sales from prison on March 25th 1978 after two of solar energy. When will it be economically during the next 2 weeks, if it so years of detention without charges. His re feasible? How long will it take to reach its desires. lease was part of an effort by the Argentine full potential? ·what share of energy demand government to diffuse in tern a tional pressure will it be able to meet? What must be done to At this point, I am not convinced that over its mass detention of prominent Argen make America a solar society? The answers to the helicopter sales should be denied, tines. He was greeted by his wife at 10 p.m. these questions are as important as any in despite the abysmal human rights rec at the prison entrance. They had walked only energy policy and planning. ord of the Argentine Government. Nev a few yards when they were attacked by a There is widespread disagreement among ertheless, I believe that the following let group of armed men who gagged and hand the experts as to when the use of solar en cuffed Mrs. Deghl and abducted her hus ergy will become economically feasible. The ter from the Council on Hemispheric band. Two days later she received a phone Affairs to Secretary of State Vance sets estimates vary from 10 to 50 years. Currently, call from the local police precinct instruct solar energy ls competitive in price with es out a number of reasons why these pro ing her to identify and pick up her hus tablished fuels in only a very limited number posed sales should be given serious scru band's body. According to Amnesty Interna of applications. For example, in some regions tiny, and why similar transactions in the tional this ls the sixth case of a prisoner of the United States a homeowner can break future should not be encouraged. I hope being killed upon his release from jail in less even by using solar power for hot water that this letter will be of interest to my than two months. heating or space heating and cooling. How colleagues: Another important consideration against ever, the costs of conventional fuels are ris MAY 4, 1978. these sales ls the high probability that these ing while the costs of solar equipm~nt are Mr. CYRUS VANCE, aircraft will be used in armed confrontation rapidly decreasing. New solar applications Secretary of State, Main State Building, between Argentina and Chile if there ls a may soon become more advantageous in eco Washington, D .C. breakdown in the fragile negotiations now nomic terms. DEAR SECRETARY VANCE: On April 26th 1978, taking place over control of the Beagle Chan Remarkable progress in solar technology the Assistant Secretary of State for Congres nel islands. Argentina has filed multiple re has occurred in recent years and is expected sional Relations submitted a letter from the quests to purchase arms in Western Europe to continue. With adequate public and pri Office of Munitions Control to the House and the United States. Chile ls frantically vate support, solar energy would contribute Committee on International Relations relat doing the same. The helicopter sale should be to meeting much of our need for heat, liquid ing to the projected sale of helicopters to seen as part of an arms build-up which may fuel and electricity. With a strong national Argentina. The letter requested that an ex contribute to the deterioration of the already commitment to solar development it might port license be granted to allow the sale of fragile regional stab111ty. be possible to derive one-quarter of all our three Boeing CH47's to the government of Our hope ls that you will reconsider this energy from solar sources by the turn o1 Argentina. The ostensible intended use for request and withdraw it in the interests of the century. Beyond the year 2020 the United the helicopters, priced at $28.6 million, is to preventing the misuse of our military equip States could become a solar society, using provide air mob1Uty and off-ship loading ment and the acceleration of a regional arms power from the sun to satisfy over half of all capab1Uty to Argentina's ground station in race. We believe that the withdrawal of this energy requirements. Antarctica. request will aid in sustaining the credibllity If solar energy ls to match its potential, of this administration's human rights long-range commitment will be necessary. As you know, last year Congress voted to The signs of such commitment are becoming terminate all forms of bilateral military as policy. Cordially, more apparent every day. sistance to Argentina and to restrict military Solar development gets about $400 mil sales starting October 1st 1978. This action LAURENCE BIRNS, Director, Council on Hemispheric Affairs.e lion per year from the government-a large was taken in response to the steadily de sum, but only a fraction of the amount al teriorating human rights situation in that country. located to nuclear development. However, SOLAR ENERGY the movement toward solar power ls encour According to the Department of State, the aging. A solar coalition has formed in Con sales were approved because it was felt that gress and is pushing a half-dozen innova the helicopters being supplied would not be HON. LEE H. HAMILTON tive proposals. Sizeable solar power projects used for the purpose of maintaining internal are springing up across the country. Both security or repressing the civilian popula OF INDIANA private industry and the Depart ment of En tion in opposition to the ruling m111tary IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ergy are experimenting with new windmill junta. However, over the past two years, the Wednesday, May 10, 1978 designs. Many water power sites abandoned Argentine mllitary has shifted a significant ~Ince the 1940s have now regained economic part of the inventory which previously had e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would viability. Federal tax credits and low-inter been used for non-m1Utary purposes to the like to insert my Washinigton Report for est loan programs for the purchase of solar May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13269 equipment, research to lower the cost of hundred years ago had done for the red Hose Fire Co. No. 2 of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. photovoltaic cells, increased use of solar woods what H.R. 39 does for our heritage I am proud to call the attention of my space heating and cooling devices in federal of wildlands and wildlife in Alaska. colleagues to this dedicated group that buildings and state action to promote solar technology are all evidence of the growing This bill will also give Alaska's econ has marked a century-and-a-quarter of interest. omy a significant boost, and a greater service to their community. Is the government doing enough to capi· stability. The Interior and Insular Af At this time, I would like to commend talize on the solar option? Again, there is fairs Committee has examined and re the members of this fire company, past disagreement among the experts. Solar en fined the boundaries of the proposed con and present, for their years of dedicated thusiasts accuse the government of dragging servation areas, revising them to leave volunteer service-and a special thanks its feet on solar development. They argue out lands having high value as sources to Company Capt. Walter R. Cole for his that comprehensive application of the sun's leadership role. energy could become a reality in Just a few of minerals, fossil fuels, or timber. More years given adequate financing. Less opti over, the lands of greatest development Such volunteer activities exemplify the mistic experts nonetheless believe that fed potential have already been selected by finest attributes to community involve eral support should be increased to offset the State of Alaska and by Alaskan Na ment, which is a fundamental concept to both the earlier lack of support for solar tives, and most of these lands will un the continued well-being of our country. power and the competitive advantage that doubtedly be developed fully. In fact, I know I speak for the residents of the conventional energy sources have because of H.R. 39 speeds up the transfer of these Poughkeepsie area when I say "Thank support. Still other experts contend that You" to the 0. H. Booth Hose Fire Co. large increases in federal support are not selected lands to the State and to the Natives. No. 2 for the past 125 years of service wise at present because we must first get and our best wishes for success in the back the results of recent solar experiments. On this point of the high values of the They think that the scientific establishment land selected by the State of Alaska, it future.• could not absorb huge government grants. is interesting to note the assessment This controversy is one that must be sorted made by the Alaska Department of Nat out. ural Resources in a recent comprehen THE AFGHAN DANGER Recent events are bringing us to a new sive review. Their purpose was to assess awareness of the sun's energy promise. I hope that this awareness will lead us toward those lands already selected, out of their HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO a more vigorous commitment to solar power. unprecedented 104 million acre state OF CALIFORNIA (Much of the information in this report hood grant of Federal lands, and there IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was obtained from Solar Energy Progress by to better target for their own pur and Promise, a publication of the Council poses the selections of the remaining Wednesday, May 10, 1978 on Environmental Quality.)• 30 million acres of their entitlement. In e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, I that department's November 24, 1977, would like to bring to the attention of assessment, they note: my colleagues the following discussion The existing state selected lands provide by Messrs. Evans and Novak which ap ALASKA-CONSERVATION OPPOR a wide ranging balance of resource lands peared in the Washington Post, May 8, TUNITY OF THE CENTURY which can be used to support the Alaskan 1978: economy. In many cases, state selections have high graded lands for particular resource IGNORING THE DANGERS OF THE AFGHAN COUP HON. CLARENCE D. LONG potentials. This is exemplified by our selec (By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak) OF MARYLAND tion at Prudhoe Bay for oil and gas resources Private warnings to presidential aides last IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and our selection of much of the best agri month that the neutralist regime in Afghan- cultural land in the state in the Mata istan was "ripe like a red apple'• for a pro Wednesday, May 10, 1978 nuska, Susitna and Tanana Riv~r valleys. Soviet communist takeover met official silence here, a non-response highlighting • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, Perhaps more important in the long the administration's dangerous inertia in the wildlife, scenic, and wilderness val run is the bill's favorable impact on meeting the current Soviet worldwide ues of the remaining federally owned Alaska's tourist industry. The protection offensive. lands in Alaska will benefit the Ameri and growing public use of the new na That warning was quietly passed to top can people for centuries to come-if we tional parks, preserves, wildlife ranges, Carter foreign-policy officials three weeks enact H.R. 39, the Alaska National In and wild rivers will result in lasting, ago. The source was a trusted, Teheran-based terest Lands Conservation Act. emissary of the shah of Iran. stable income for Alaskans through tour Even if the United States were not tied This measure is more far-reaching ism and related activities. into a strait Jacket imposed by Congress than any land or wildlife bill we have Two recent economic reports demon az e. result of post-Vietnam politics, it prob considered during the 16 years I have rate that tourism is already an im ably would have been impossible for Presi been privileged to represent the people portant industry in Alaska. One survey dent Carter or any other president-to pre of Maryland's Second Congressional Dis conducted for the State department of vent the pro-Soviet takeover or influence its trict in the House. I have no doubt that commerce and economic development timing. But the warning from the shah, and similar warnings from Pakistan, had no our votes on this bill will long be remem found that in 1975 Alaska's visitor-re effect at all on the Carter administration. bered as the conservation votes of the lated firms had total sales of $609.8 mil Murmuring soft sympathies for the shah, century. lion and the industry provided 6,344 administration officials lost a particularly The values and benefits of H.R. 39 are full-time jobs. timely occasion to notify Moscow sharply great, but the price tag for these con Mr. Speaker, H.R. 39 is good for wild that Soviet support for a communist take servation achievements is very small. life, it is good for wilderness, it is good over in previously neutral Afghanistan for the American people. This bill is a ( which borders the Soviet Union) would This bill puts 95 million acres into the have disquieting repercussions in Washing National Park System, the National magnificent conservation opportunity. ton. Wildlife Refuge System, and the National I hope my colleagues will join me in sup That ostrich-like, see-no-evil posture of Wild and Scenic Rivers System, all with porting the Alaska National Interest Carter foreign-policy planners fed doubts out cost to the taxpayers. There are no Lands Conservation Act when it comes among U.S. allies-doubts now reaching aquisition costs, because these lands are before the House for our consideration agonizing proportions-that the Soviet offen already Federal lands, which the taxpay and votes.• sive in Africa and Asia is incapable of engag ers already own-purchased for less than ing Jimmy Carter's interest. Instead, those 2 cents an acre from the Russians in 1867. allies believe, Carter's current policy has a 0. H. BOOTH HOSE CO. NO. 2: 125TH single aim: do nothing that might offend The contrast with our other conserva ANNIVERSARY Moscow and put at risk the planned sum tion programs is remarkable. As a mem mer summit meeting with Soviet President ber of the Appropriations Subcommit Leonid Brezhnev to sign a new strategic arms tee on Interior I can assure you we are HON. HAMILTON FISH, JR. limitation agreement. not getting any land for 2 cents an acre But that may be too benign a view, a con OF NEW YORK clusion that is shared by observant diplomats these days. The vital expansion of i;he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Redwoods National Park which the Con here and high defense officials. "I'm not sure Wednesday, May 10, 1978 that Jimmy Carter has a global perspective," gress recently approved will cost $400 one told us. "He tends to see things that million. We could have spared the tax • Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, May 9 marks happen abroad as isolated incidents, not payers that expense if the Congress of a the 125th anniversary of the 0. H. Booth linked together." 13270 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 An even more melancholy view, widely held history of our Nation. Because these ar months later troops were sent to Boston to by experts here, is this : Presidential worry ticles provide insight into our economic keep order. that a tough warning to Moscow not to push In the months that followed, Philadelphia the United States too far might well require and political life, I believe that they de merchants, then Baltimore merphants, voted an equally tough U.S. follow-up, one for serve the attention of all of us: to boycott British products. Soon merchants which the Carter admin istration is unpre FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE, PART II-MY in other colOnies took similar action. pared. AMERICA Early in 1770 British troops in New York But, in fact, installation of a pro-Soviet (By Ed Salt) cut down a Liberty Pole which had been regime in faraway Afghanistan sets the st age Repealing the Stamp Act placed the British erected as one of the symbols of the Sons of for a series of new communist probes that Parliament in an embarrassing position. It Liberty. Less than a week later soldiers and will confront Jimmy Carter with ever more would indicate the colonies and London mer Sons of Liberty clashed in what has become difficult choices. Those future events, chants could influence the government . known as the Battle of Golden Hill. No one spawned in the bloody Kabul takeover, are The problem was solved by first adopting a was killed but several were injured. Three what caused the shah to sound his alarm Declaratory Act. This asserted that the Brit days later Mayor Whitehead Hicks ordered three weeks ago. ish Crown and government had authority soldiers to stay in their barracks.e It is highly probable that the new rulers in over the colonies in all cases and that the Kabul soon will exploit ancient territorial colonies always had been and ought to be disputes about tribal lands adjoining both subject to the government. STATUS OF BLACK NEW YORK, 1978 Pakistan and Iran. Exploitation of the most Repeal of the Stamp Act was hailed with important of those disputes would establish celebrations in the colonies. There were an independent state in what is known as parties, fireworks and balls. Tragedy marked HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL Baluchistan, a slice of prime strategic terri the event in some areas where merrymakers OF NEW YORK tory along Pakistan's western border with were killed or injured by exploding cannon IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Iran that runs to the Indian Ocean. and fireworks. Clergymen made a field day of Access to the Indian Ocean has always been the event, with more than 500 sermons being Wednesday, May 10, 1978 a. Russian dream. In the glory days of the preached at thanksgiving services. British empire, wars were repeatedly fought To further appease the colonists, the gov • Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, a recent to prevent Russian penetration south ernment reduced the duty on molasses-but New York Urban League report, as through what was British India to warm imposed it on British molasses-as well as printed in the Harlem magazine Alter water ports on the Indian Ocean. molasses from other countries-and per natives, shows that black New Yorkers No imm idiate move like that is expected mitted the colonists to trade more with other suffer from disproportionately high un from the :.tew communist regime in Kabul, nations. Repeal of the Stamp Act sharply employment, poor housing, and poor but agitating those ancient tribal rivalries reduced royal income, so as new source of across its borders would Joster Afghan health. This report indicates that revenue was needed. neither black nor hispanic Americans nationalism. That is a proven method of The main reason given for adopting the building political support for any new regime, Stamp Act was that it would provide money have made much progress since the ini and is particularly useful for a communist to finance British troops which were sent tiation of the social programs of the regime trying to consolidate its power in the here to "protect the colonists." To help meet 1960's. I would like to share excerpts orthodox Moslem state of Afghanistan. these costs, the Mutiny Act was adopted in from this report with you and my fel But even without such provocative politics, 1765. The original act provided that if troops low colleagues: installation of the pro-Soviet government were sent into an area, British officers could STATUS OF BLACK NEW YORK, 1978 has already compelled Iran to reinforce its quarter troops in private homes, with or eas-..ern frontiers with both Afghanistan and without the approval of home owners. There UNEMPLOYMENT Pa •istan. The takeover is a second giant step was so much opposition to this that it was Both races have suffered serious reverses to•vard what the shah has always warned eliminated before the Act was adopted. in terms of jobs the last few years, and 1977 ag, inst: encirclement of the oil-rich Persian As passed, however, the Act provided that was no different, especially for black New Gt.lf region, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, colonial assemblies (the co~onial governing Yorkers. The Northeastern region as a whole, by Moscow and its satellites. The first was bodies) · were required to provide barracks, was hard hit by unemployment. More than Soviet penetration of the Horn of Africa. fuel, candles, vinegar, salt and beer or cider 250,000 persons are out of work in New York For an administration seemingly so pre for the troops. This provision was seen by City . .. Blacks accounting for up to 25 occupied with SALT, the question of when colonists as just as much a tax as the Stamp percent of that number .. . Black youth or how to come to grips with disconcerting Act. under 21 years old averaging 60 percent, 70 issues like faraway Afghanistan and the Most opposition to the Mutiny Act occurred percent, even 80 percent of the unemploy Horn of Africa goes to the backburner. In in New York, which was headquarters for ment rate in some neighborhoods. deed, when Air Force Secretary John c. the British army in the colonies. The opposi While unemployment remains high, busi Stetson said on April 21 that the United tion soon became widespread throughout the nesses, once stable in the city, are continuing States had a "tacit obligation to back up" colonies. To counteract this, Charles Towns to venture to other areas. In the last six Iran in the event of a hostile Soviet move, he hend proposed to Parliament that the New years the city has lost upwards of 550,000 was publicly rebuked by the State Depart York Assembly be suspended until it com jobs, many of these were held by Black and ment for using overly strong language. plied with the Act. At the same time he pro Hispanic New Yorkers. That was just before Moscow laid claim to posed new taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper Although local unemployment eased some communist power in Kabul. Since then, there and tea. what d uring the last 12 months .. . from has been no visible change in Carter's policy. Townshend didn't live to see the results of 9.6 percent to 9.4 percent, Black New Yorkers Quite the opposite: The change has been one his proposals. He died suddenly a few weeks remained on t he bottom of the economic more demonstration of Soviet disdain for later. ladder with unemployment rates two to U.S. will and one notch tighter in the psy The threat to suspend the New York As three times h igher than the city's average. chological fear campaign against U.S. a.llies.e sembly brought results. Before the deadline, Employment, and employment exclusively the Assembly voted to take care of the troops is the number one item confronting the as demanded by Parliament. city's Black population. Without work other OUR NATION'S "FIGHT FOR INDE major needs pale by comparison. Only PENDENCE" CHRONICLED BY ED Less than four months after the Towns hend Act was approved (it took as long as through employment can other issues fall SALT OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO two and sometimes three months for word to into focus. come across the Atlantic in the slow sailing SOCIAL vessels), citizens in a Boston town meeting There are several other reasons for the HON. CHARLES J.CARNEY voted to boycott certain British goods after erosion of relations between Blacks and OF OHIO December 31. whites, in addition to unemployment. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In June, 1768, the Liberty, one of John major power blackout last summer left most New Yorkers with a bitter taste, and unfor Wednesday, May 10, 1978 Hancock's fleet of merchant vessels, arrived in Boston and was boarded by a customs of tunately the negative image most minorities • Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, on Tues ficial who demanded to see the cargo so it received during media coverage of the black day, May 4, 1978, I had the pleasure to could be taxed. Instead of complying, the out only helped to widen the gap between ship's crew locked the official in a cabin, un Black and white. The aftermath of July 13, insert in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the 1977 has continued into 1978. first of several articles entitled "Fight loaded a shipment of Maderia wine, then for Independence," authored by Mr. Ed tossed the official overboard. EDUCATION ward Salt, an award-winning Youngs Word of the event spread rapidly and a The city's public school system is another mob began to form. They assaulted customs a.rea of great concern for black New Yorkers. town, Ohio, journalist. officials, some of whom fled to Castle William, Of the approximately 1,100,000 students in At this time, I am pleased to present out in the bay, for safety. . the New York City Public School System, "Fight for Independence, Part II," which When word of these events reached London, nearly 40 percent, 410,000 are Black. Recent continues Mr. Salt's discussion of the the government retaliated. Less than four school studies in New York indicate that 7 May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13271 of every 10 black students entering high City. E'very two. weeks they would spend that the new administration demonstrate a school in 1977 will not receive a diploma. Of $88.79 on rent; $56.42 on food; $20.14 on utili keen sensitivity to the needs, aspirations those Black students graduating nearly 50 ties; $8.45 on telephone; $14.94 on clothes; and hopes of New York City's Black and His percent will have reading skills far below with miscellaneous accounting for $5.61. The panic communities.e the eighth grade reading requirement. figures clearly indicate that landlords, gro While there has been a serious effort in cery stores, utilities and public bureaucracies recent years to link school truancy problems in housing and transportation derive much and the city's crime rate, it is the League's of their income from the city's welfare WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE contention that each problem merits sepa recipients. ADMINISTRATION'S SOLAR EN rate review and study. A check of 15 pre It is significant that welfare recipients are ERGY POLICY AND PROGRAMS dominantly Black high schools shows daily the only participants impacted by the welfare absenteeism was well over 30 percent. system who do not have the opportunity to TRUANCY AND DROPOUTS build an enhanced personal image and im HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. proved financial condition. The welfare dollar According to Dr. Lamar Miller, director of OF CALIFORNIA flows totally and rapidly back into the local Urban and Minority Education at New York IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES University, the absentee rate of Black stu economy. A significant and regular transfu dents reflects their lack of interest in the sion of over $133 million monthly into the Wednesday, May 10, 1978 local economy has a significant impact upon school system. Dr. Miller concludes that a.s many facets of New York City's economic life. • Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speak school suspensions rise, the holding power of high schools decrease because Black stu CRIME er, last Wednesday millions of Ameri dents do not see schools as being important Crime prevention has always been a severe cans celebrated Sun Day, and millions to their lives. Consequently, more students problem in the Black community and 1977 more learned of the great energy re drop out than graduate. For the city's Black brought no change. From all indications, source we have with the Sun and its students that means 67 percent presently Blacks are still not receiving adequate crime various forms of solar power. Long before fail to complete their secondary education. prevention services or equal justice from Sun Day, initiatives had been taken, New York City does not compare favorably those responsible for enforcing the country's largely at the State level, to encourage with other large cities in the ratio of black laws. solar energy and provide incentives for teachers to Black students. In fact, the ratio In 1976 the crime rate in New York City has declined by 10 percent since 1975. The rose six times higher than the national aver solar energy. The Federal programs, sad United States Department of Health, Educa age. In 1977, the figures could well top that to say, have lagged behind the States and tion and Welfare, as an indication of the when final tabulation is made public. certainly do not reflect our capabilities severity of the New York City Public School There were 600,000 serious crimes reported in this field. System's problem, cited several civil rights in New York City during 1976, that is the As an active sponsor and supporter of violations by the New York City Board of worst figure in the 45 year history of the virtually every solar energy initiative Education last year. The fact that H.E.W. city's crime statistics . . . nearly 75 major threatened in 1976 to withhold more than crimes were committed every hour. that has been taken by the Congress, $200 million in federal aid to the city's school There was a 13.2 percent rise in property usually over the opposition of the past system is clearly indicative of the urgency of related crimes-burglary, larceny-theft, and three administrations, I was disap the situation. motor vehicle theft. Many of the city's crimes pointed by the support solar energy re HOUSING can be traced directly to drug usage and high ceived from this administration in its The lack of housing opportunities has be unemployment. Both problems impact signif much publicized Sun Day initiative. It come a critical problem for the 650,000 mi icantly on the black and hispanic communi appears that President Carter and his nority households in New York City, approxi ties. A federally financed study concluded last advisers have decided to endorse only mately 47 percent of whom have annual in part of what the Congress is already comes under $5,000. year that the 1963 New York State drug law Housing needs for residents in the South with its stiff mandatory sentencing provi well on its way to enacting, and the offi Bronx, Harlem and sections of Brooklyn could sions, neither reduced drug use nor drug cials who should already be leading the related crime. development of solar energy will now be provided through renovation of 'Suitable Police community relations, particularly and available housing structures with overall with New York City's black community, begin another study of how to encourage neighborhood revitalization efforts. Despite also remains a key issue. One needs only to the development of solar power. the President's visits to the South Bronx last recount the number of serious confronta Mr. Speaker, I think this administra year, meaningful change seems distant ... tions and incidents involving minority citi tion's views on alternative energy pro many families still reside in burned out and zens, particularly youth and the police abandoned tenements, victims of a total lack grams should be considered much as we c!epartment. considered the views of past administra of public and private services. In the last four years at lea.st four black l{EALTH CARE men have been killed by white police officers tions. We should all understand that the Basic health care is also of great concern to in questionable shootings. During the same country, and the Congress, is ahead of many Black and Hispanic New Yorkers, par time not one black policeman has been in the administration and we should do as ticularly those of low income who have suf volved in similar type cases. we have in the past and lead the admin fered unjustly because of a. curtailment of a. PROGNOSIS istration into areas where they are un historically inadequate health care program. For many black and Hispanic New Yorkers prepared to provide leadership them In spite of the ever increasing costs of medi progress has apparently become a myth ... selves. cal care in the city, there is little evidence of a jumble of statistical data, which in the a comprehensive plan to improve the delivery At this time, I would like to insert in final analysis, clearly establishes the urgency the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD two items of health care and health related services to of their situation. the indigent and working poor. The majority The mood of minority communities from which demonstrate both the interest and of Blacks and Hispanics and other low income Queens to Brooklyn is without question less the possibilities with solar energy, One people depend upon municipal hospitals and rnoeful than in previous years. The unem item is a column by James J. Kilpatrick other public health facilities for the total r•lo~: ment rate coupled with the loss of com calling upon Government to support solar health care of their families. The Municipal munity services has produced hard times for energy development. As a frequent critic Health Service is the "family doctor" for low the city's black residents. of Government involvement, Mr. Kilpat income people. Providing essential health If the blackout last year is any indicator services at an affiordable cost is crucial to the rick finds solar energy an exception to his of t ho mood of a deprived population, then rule. The other item is from the office of city's minority population. beneath the surface lurks a powerful force WELFARE for destruction. The anger thus expressed Governor Brown of California, where he While many agree that the much maligned comer, from people who feel their basic hu announced still another initiative to sup Public Welfare System must be reorganized, man needs are not the concern of those whose port solar energy development. Cali the New York Urban League feels that we decisions and actions directly affect their fornia already has a 55-percent tax need to take a careful look at the impact of lives. credit for solar energy, numerous public the welfare dollar on the economic life of New The result of the recent New York City education and assistance programs, a York City. elections does not augur well for improved research and development program, quite A random survey was conducted by the black/ white relations in this city. For the a few demonstration programs, and now. New York Urban League's staff on how wel first time in 12 years there is no elected Black a SolarCal office to provide a State focal fare recipients spend their money. The figures representative on the Board of Estimate show that 47.7 percent of public assistance where the basic decisions relative to the city's point for commercialization of solar en grants goes for rent while the second biggest direction are made. A major eTouo of the New ergy. The Federal Government could slice goes for food, 29 .2 percent. For a more York City populace has neither a voice or learn much from the States in this area, comprehensive look at these figures let us vote in the city's highest administrative and should be assisting such initiatives take a family of four on welfare in New York body. This makes it all the more imperative with the vast resources at its disposal. 13272 EXTENSIONS O.F REMARKS May 10, 1978 The two items follow: collectors may require large areas of land; to work with the SolarCal Office. The Chair (From the Washington Star, May 9, 1978) we ought to be planning for these needs. man of the Council shall be the State Archi A hundred such areas of development in tect, and the Executive Secretary of the CRANK UP SOLAR INGENUITY vite the attention of our brightest minds. We Council shall be the Governor's Assistant for (By James J. Kilpatrick) ought to be working actively on wood, on Issues and Planning. The SolarCal Council President Carter flew out to Denver last wind, on tidal energy. Certain dry plant shall consist of members who shall be ap week to publicize his enthusiasm for the de material, according to Denis Ha.yes in a. re poln ted by and serve at the pleasure of the velopment of solar energy. Millions of Ameri cent Worldwatch Paper, contains about as Governor. Additional members wm be ap sans who may oppose him in other ventures much energy per ton as low-quality coal. pointed from State government to serve ex will support him in this one. They will wish Not nearly enough experimental work is be officio. the president's enthusiasm were even greater. ing done on alcohol and methane as substi 3. The SolarCal Council shall have the fol Sad to say, we are nowhere near where we tutes for gasoline and natural gas. What we lowing responsibilities: ought to be in the development of alternate a.re talking about is a. race for survival-and Advise the Governor and the SolarCal Of forms of energy. Our country ls supposed to thus far we're only Jogging along. fice on the means to achieve rapid develop be the most inventive country on earth; we ment of solar energy in the State; are blessed with many of the world's finest FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR BROWN, Develop Administration policies and plans scientists and engineers; ours is a land of MAY 3, 1978 for maximum feasible solar commercializa "can-do" imagination. The difficult we do at Gov. Edmund 0. Brown Jr. has signed an tion; once; the impossible takes a little longer. Executive Order creating a. SolarCal Office ln Make information available to the public This gung-ho spirit has yet to be seriously the Business and Transportation Agency. about the use and benefits of solar energy; manifested in harnessing the inexhaustible The executive order also creates a Sola.real and energy of the sun. If our fa.med foresight Council to advise the governor and the Promote cooperation in solar energy de had been working 5 or 10 years a.go, by this SolarCal Office. velopment in California with the federal time a. crash program would have brought In the executive order Gov. Brown said government as well as public and private the cost of solar installations down to com the SolarCa.l Office will provide "a. focal poln t interests. petitive levels with other fuels. We would be within the state government to assist in the 4. The Director of the Sola.real Office shall deriving 10 or 15 or 20 percent of our energy maximum feasible commercialization of solar have the following responsibilities: needs from unconventional sources, rather energy". Assist the Sola.rCa.l Council in meeting its than the miserable fraction of 1 percent we He said the Council will advise the gover responsibilities: are developing now. nor and the SolarCal Office on the means to Implement the State's solar energy poli Joining in la.st week's Sun Day fun, Mr. achieve rapid development of solar energy cies and plans; Carter appeared to have caught the solar in the state. Advise the Governor and the Secretary of spirit. High time. His pending energy pack The Council also is charged with developing the Business and Transportation Agency on age contains no more than a feeble lick and administration policies and plans for maxi the concerns of the solar business commu a promise for future tax credits and sub mum feasible solar commercialization, mak nity, particularly those of small businesses; sidies. His existing programs are scattered all ing information available to the public a.bout Develop and implement projects in solar over the bureaucratic landscape. the use and benefits of solar energy and pro commercialization; and Doubtless, these existing programs a.re bet moting cooperation in solar energy devel Coordinate the solar energy activities of ter than nothing. The Department of Hous opment in California. with the federal gov state agencies. ing and Urban Development, in cooperation ernment as well as public and private 6. All State agencies, departments and with the Department of Energy, has an interests. commissions are hereby directed to assist and active program of grants for demonstration The governor appointed Sim Van der cooperate with the SolarCal Office and the solar heating and cooling projects in resi Ryn, California's state architect as chairman SolarCa.l Council in carrying out their dential units. Under this program, applica of the council; Wilson Clark, the governor's responsibilities. tions a.re solicited from builders and de assistant for issues and planning, as execu In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my velopers for grants that will pay the differ tive secretary of the council; and Jerry Yudel hand and caused the Great Seal of the State ence in cost between conventional installa son, as director of the SolarCa.l Office. of California to be affixed this 3rd day of tions and solar installations. In the third Council members serve a. t the plea.sure of May, nineteen hundred and seventy eight. round of grants, announced la.st August, 169 the governor and receive no compensation. EDWARD 0. BROWN, Jr., Governor of Cali/ornia.e applicants got $6 million for installations in EXECUTIVE ORDER 3,468 housing units. The fourth round ls now coming up. Whereas, Rapid solar energy development A few other programs a.re indifferently and commercialization creates Jobs, stimu THE BIG CARRIER: A VULNERABLE, lates economic growth, conserves scarce fos IMPRACTICAL WEAPON kicking a.round. The DOE has a $500,000 sil fuels, provides a. safe, clean and renewa fund for small-sea.le projects. The HUD folks ble energy resource, and reduces utility costs have a. community block grant appropria to commercial, industrial and private con HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER tion that might be available for solar ex sumers; and periments. A "hot water initiative" under Whereas, The State, already the national OF COLORADO taking is languishing in Pennsylvania. and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Connecticut. Some solar loan money ls avail leader in solar energy, can further develop solar commercialization and business devel Wednesday, May 10, 1978 able. Mr. Carter's proposed $100 million for opment projects by coordinating solar en research and development, if it materializes, ergy activities and policies of State agencies; e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, on could push the cause a.long. and May 3 my colleague on the Armed Serv That's a.bout the size of it at the federal Whereas, The solar industry as well as con level. The states, in point of fa.ct, a.re doing ices Committee Mr. WHITEHURST of Vir sumers. labor and business groups look to ginia entered into the RECORD in the more than Washington. More than ha.If the the State for assistance in economic and busi states have enacted legislation to promote ness development, public information, and Extensions of Remarks section a column solar development through a. variety of prop coordinated public participation in State so from the Wall Street Journal by John erty tax credits or deductions or loans. The lar policy development; and Lehman titled "The Big Carrier: A National Solar Hee.ting and Cooling Informa Whereas, the Secretary of the Business and Survivable, Practical Weapon." Having tion Center, Box 1607, Rockville, Md. has Transportation Agency ls the Governor's also reviewed the Navy's Sea-Based Air rafts of information. HUD and the Depart principal liaison with the business commu Platform Study and the Naval Force ment of Commerce also have helpful bul nity. Planning Study and known the impor letins. Now, therefore, I, Edmund 0. Brown Jr., All this adds up to mighty little. Granted, tance of the decision that will be before Governor of the State of California., by vir the Congress this year, I feel compelled the technical problems of adapting solar en tue of the power and authority vested in me ergy a.re tough, but the problems a.re not by the Constitution and Statutes of the State to respond to some of Mr. Lehman's insoluble--a.nd the potential rewards a.re of California, do hereby issue this order, to comments and to raise some of the is beyond ca.lcula.tlon. If the same spirit and become effective immediately: sues he ignores in the debate over the money were brought to solar power that 15 1. There is established in the Business and aircraft carrier. I have taken the liberty yea.rs a.go were applied to space exploration, Transportation Agency the Sola.rCa.l Office, to of rearranging the order in which Mr. the problems could be licked In another provide a focal point within State govern Lehman's analysis was presented, hope decade. ment to assist In the maximum feasible com fully without damage to his arguments, If the necessary commitment to solar de mercialization of solar energy. The Secretary to focus more clearly on what I see as velopment ls to be ma.de, a. number of sup of Business and Transportation Agency is porting decisions ought to be ma.de also. For directed to establish the position of Director the major issues. I refer my colleagues example: Residential subdivisions ought to of the SolarCa.l Office, who shall be appointed to Mr. WHITEHURST's entry for the full be platted, and roads la.id out, to take maxi by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. text of Mr. Lehman's article. mum advantage of sunlight. Certain solar 2. There ls established a Sola.real Council 1. Mr. LEHMAN. The debate in Congress ls May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13273 now not whether there should be another construction. As Secretary Claytor stated Reply: Again this is highly question big carrier, but which of the two competing this year the CVV "is by any account a able. Ironically it has been pointed out alternatives, the 90,000-ton nuclear Nimitz highly capable weapons system." both in the Naval Force Planning Study class or the 65,000-ton oil-powered class, should be authorized this year. 3. Mr. LEHMAN. An interesting finding of and by Secretary Brown to the Sea the Sea Plan 2000 study ls that U.S. surface power Subcommittee this year that not Reply: There should be a debate over combatants in general and carrier battle even nuclear powered task forces would whether another large deck carrier groups in particular will become less vulner venture into such waters until the threat should be authorized. Both the Navy able over the next decade and beyond. had been attrited by land-based air and and the administration have done an Reply: The question of vulnerability is antisubmarine warfare forces. Thus car inadequate job of examining alterna crucial to the debate. The small incre riers, except at grave risk, would not be tives to the carrier and the impact such ment of capability to be gained by adding able to project power in high threat alternatives, if - proven cost effective, a fifth nuclear carrier compared to the areas in the crucial early stages of a would have on carrier force level re enormous cost should force anyone to NATO war. quirements. The Naval Force Planning give serious thought to this procurement. 6. Mr. LEHMAN. Land bases in all three re Study and the Sea-Based Air Platform If the Nimitz cannot successfully project cent wars proved to be far more vulnerable Study have followed in the footsteps of power in the areas of highest threat, as to complete loss than carriers and at least the CVNX study initiated by then Secre it was designed to do, its acquisition is as vulnerable to mission-interference dam tary of Defense Schlesinger in 1975, and an even larger waste. age. Several hundred U.S. operating air the National Security Council Study bases were completely lost in World War II. There is no question but that the addi In Korea all air bases were captured by the submitted by the Ford administration in tion of Aegis and F-14's to the fleet will North Koreans in the first five days. In January 1977. All these studies deter substantially upgrade the carrier's de Southeast Asia, of the dozens of major air mined carrier needs in a vacuum, ignor fense against the greatest threat to its bases constructed by the United States since ing potentially cheaper substitutes. These survival-the cruise missile. But the 1960, not one remains in U.S. hands. By 1973 Navy dominated studies have been simple fact is that, Aegis or not, the the United States had lost more than 400 largely self-serving. The $18 to $25 bil carrier cannot successfully project power aircraft destroyed and 4,000 damaged on the lion life-cycle cost of another nuclear in areas of the highest threat, such as on ground in South Vietnam. carrier demands a more thorough cost the flanks of NATO, where it could be Reply: Historical examples can be use eff ective study. subject to a saturation cruise missile ful if they are analogous to current sit This investment in a nuclear carrier attack. uations. These are not. In World War can be put into perspective by a com I invite my colleagues to study several II, Korea, and Vietnam the United States parison between the Carter and Ford reviews the General Accounting Office had virtual sovereignty over the high 5-year shipbuilding programs. Much has conducted on the Aegis system. In seas. Nothing could be further from the concern has been expressed in some the conclusion to one such study issued truth today. It is all so symptomatic of corners over the Carter plan which re late last year the GAO concludes: the Navy which is still living in the past. duced new ship construction by 86 and It ls generally agreed that no present or 7. Mr. LEHMAN. As our foreign air bases modernizations by 13. It is interesting proposed (emphasis added) aircraft inter dwindle (now fewer than 30) with little evi to note that the difference in cost be ceptor or area SAM system can prevent some dent support for new base commitments, and tween the Ford and Carter plans is $1 7 saturation missiles from getting through with the cost of foreign bases currently run billion. While it remains to be seen despite the great sophistication of air defense ning about $100 million each for rental alone, whether all those ships would be neces technology. There is a good chance some of carriers may be called upon to cover a larger these leakers will put carriers out of action. area of the world in the future. sary, the fact they all could be procured 4. Mr. LEHMAN. Big carriers can absorb a for less than the life-cycle cost of a surprising number of hits and keep fighting. Reply: Sea-based air will be with us nuclear carrier and its airwings put into Small ships cannot. for a long time. There is no question but context the importance of this decision. These findings are consistent with actual that it provides a needed flexibility par 2. Mr. LEHMAN. The overwhelming nature experience. In World War II, U.S. aircraft ticularly in those areas where adequate of the data surprised many in Congress. carriers were struck 42 times. Five carriers, all constructed before the war began. were land-based air does not exist. But that In the words of a former McOovernlte, Sen. is no reason to plan on always being Gary Hart of Colorado, it (the first study) sunk but only one was sunk directly by demonstrates that the Nimitz-class carrier enemy forces. denied the use of overseas bases. The ls individually the most effeotive and most In 1969, nine large bombs exploded on the Navy has consistently ignored land survivable ship. deck of the Enterprise, the first nuclear car based air options in planning its carrier rier. This was the equivalent of its being hit force levels. Interestingly one of the sce Reply: No one was holding their breath with at least six SSN3 Soviet cruise missiles, narios in which carriers were evaluated to learn that a nuclear carrier of the yet she was judged to have been able to have in the sea-based air platform study Nimitz class has greater capabilities than resumed flight operations within several hours. was air defense in the Atlantic in sup smaller carriers on a ship-for-ship basis. port of the sea control mission. No men That is only a small part of the issue. Reply: I have always been fascinated tion was made of land-based air as an The real issue is what we gain from add by the Enterprise example that the Navy alternative, although last summer the ing one additional nuclear carrier to the and supporters of the large deck carrier Congressional Budget Office demon four we already have procured as opposed give in response to questions about the strated significant cost savings for land to allocating that money toward other vulnerability of the carrier. If the car based air in this role over different car needs. The decision to proceed with a rier cannot operate its aircraft it can rier options. CVV would save from $5.1 to $7.1 billion not accomplish its mission and is basi Land bases do have their costs, but did in life cycle costs over the Nimitz alter cally useless as are its escorts which have you ever stop to think that it runs $8 to native. The smaller carrier, while retain no function other than to protect the $10 billion just in procurement costs to ing some proven projection capabilities, carrier. In such circumstances it would outfit a carrier task force to support only would be utilized largely in a sea control have no alternative but to withdraw from 35 to 45 attack aircraft in a proje:tion mode. The Nimitz, on the other hand, is the battle if it can. Assuming the car role. maximized to provide power projection rier is hit while conducting air opera 8. Mr. LEHMAN. It (the Sea Based Air Plat in high threat areas, a role in which its tions, it is also highly likely that, if it form Study) also demonstrates that there is capability is highly questionable. In other cannot conduct flight operations, its air no battle advantage in going to more numer less demanding roles many of the Nim craft will have nowhere to land but in ous dispersed smaller carriers. A battle group itz' assets, such as its large group of the drink. The carrier may be able to with three dispersed 30,000 ton carriers wUl attack aircraft, become superfluous. To resume operations after several hours not fare better against an attack of 60 say that the Nimitz has greater capabili Soviet cruise missiles than a battle group but it may not have any aircraft to with one 90,000 ton carrier. ties is not to say it is cost effective. As to operate. survivability, the nuclear carrier proved 5. Mr. LEHMAN. Perhaps the greatest contri Reply: Mr. Lehman obviously missed to be only incrementally better than the bution of the two studies was in demon two of the plainly stated conclusions of CVV. Interestingly, the CVV proved to be strating the capab111ty of a 13-carrier, 600- the study: more survivable than any of the nuclear shlp navy to fight and win in areas of high 1. The potential advantage of increased carriers currently in the fleet or under est Soviet capab111ty. numbers of less costly and capable platforms 13274 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 was demonstrated. 2. The VSS (30,000 ton Higher Education Act of 1965 is amended At this point. I would like to insert in carrier) v.1.th VSTOL aircraft and the result ( !) by inserting "(1)" after "(C) "; the RECORD, "How Our Public Schools ing dispersal capability showed itself highly (2) by striking out the last sentence of Can Do a Better Job" by James J. Kil capable in important scenarios. such subparagraph and inserting in lieu in 9. Mr. LEHMAN. The case for nuclear pro thereof the following: patrick, printed Nation's Business, pulsion is rather compelling from a mill tary " (ii) Such special regulations shall be May, 1978: standpoint. consistent with the basic criteria set forth How OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAN Do A BETTER in division (ii) of subparagraph (B) and JOB Reply: Nuclear power has definite ad shall- (By James J. Kilpatrick) vantages-unlimited endurance, high " (I) not bar a student for eligibility for To begin by remarking that our public speed and reduced need for logistic sup independent status on the basis of the schools are in trouble is to invite a sacrastic port. All other things being equal I would student's receipt of family assistance if such rejoinder. So what else is new? Our public like to see all of our ships nuclear pow student has not and will not receive finan schools are always in trouble. But I have ered. Unfortunately, all other things are cial assistance from his or her parents or been keeping an eye on education for nearly guardians during the calendar year prior to 40 years as reporter, editor, parent, PTA not equal. Nuclear ships cost more and the period for which aid is requested or our money is limited. If we continue to member, and now grandparent, and I cannot during such period in an amount greater recall a time when conflicting pressures on buy nuclear ships we will wind up with than the dependent deduction then availa the schools have generated so much steam. fewer ships, and numbers are important. ble for purposes of Federal income taxation; The years have taught me to beware of the Most obviously one ship cannot be in two " (II) consider as relevant to any such word crisis. Not many situations qualify as places at once, an important concern eligibi11ty the claiming of an exemption for crises. I doubt that the problems that be when it comes to patrolling thousands of purposes of such taxation for such student devil our schools add up to a desperate fix, miles of sea lanes. Militarily more ships for only the calendar year for which aid is but I am certain of this much: Criticism of requested and the immediately preceding public education is sharper than it has ever also af ten mean more effectiveness. If a calendar year; comparison is made between the eff ec been in my lifetime. Within that slow, slum "(III) determine residency, for the pur bering mass of intellectual protein known as tiveness of equal cost conventionally and pose of determining such eligibility, on the the taxpaying public, the mood is shifting nuclear powered task forces that are on basis of the maintenance of a separate resi from passive irritation to active rebellion. station, the conventional force is more dence from any parent or guardian for a Those whose lives are most intimately bound effective. Because of their lower cost con minimum of 46 weeks within the 12-month to public education will have to roll with ventional ships can be procured in great period immediately preceding the period for this rebellion in some fashion or be rolled which aid is requested, and not on the dura over. State and federal legislators, who have er quantities and more ships mean more tion of cohabitation with any parent or offensive and defensive systems, that is, contributed so richly to the festering mess, guardian; have a vast deal of rethinking to do. more firepower. The advantages of nu "(IV) in the case of any married student, The problem, at bottom, is quite simply a clear power tend to be situation specific. consider as relevant to such eligibility for problem of confidence. In ever-increasing And it is senseless to procure forces on any period after commencement of the mar numbers, the people are losing--or already the assumption that specific situations riage only the factors stated in clauses (II) have lost-a high level of confidence in the will necessitate high speed, long distance and (III) of this subdivision with respect to competence of their public schools. Evidence transit with extended military engage such period; of this decline turns up in the public opinion "(V) in the case of any student who, on polls; it often is manifested more dramatic ments to follow where the advantages of the basis of each of the factors stated in nuclear power would be optimized. ally at the precinct polls. Bond issues fail; clauses (I), (II), and (III) of this subdivi local school tax increases are rejected. In des Admiral Holloway has stated a re sion, would have been eligible for such status peration, administrators close the public quirement for at least four nuclear car in any prior academic prior preceding the schools for want of money to keep them run riers. We have met that requirement. year for which aid is requested, consider as ning-and the people say, let 'em stay closed. relevant to such eligibility for such year Our newspapers' editorial offices receive a Now the Congress is being asked to make only the factors stated in clause (II); and an $18 billion commitment at a time, for steady stream of letters protesting condi "(VI) not take into consideration the in tions in the schools. Hundreds of such letters instance, when the material condition of come or assets of parents or guardians in the fleet is still in sad shape largely due computing the expected family contribution come my way every year. Let me try a kind to fiscal constraints. At the end of the or the effective family income of any student of composite sketch of how a typical tax who is determined to be independent of par payer sees a typical big city high school. last fiscal year the Navy still had 42 ships In this school, it is popularly supposed, backlogged for overhaul to bring their ental support." SEC. 2. The Commissioner of Education none of the basic subjects are taughit any material readiness up to par. We have shall, within 60 days after the date of en longer. Students are not reading the great far greater needs for this money.• actment of this Act, promulgate regulations works of literature; they are not writing to implement the amendments made by the weekly themes or conjugating Latin verbs or first section of this Act and shall concur working out problems in algebra, physics, TECHNICAL CHANGES IN H.R. 11214 rently promulgate amendments to make and trig. They are not studying history or consistent with such amendments any reg biology or even basic carpentry or home ulations used to determine independent economics. HON. LES AuCOIN student status under any other program au How, then. are these hypothetical students OF OREGON thorized by title IV of the Higher Educa passing the time of day? They are engaged, tion Act of 1965.e it ls widely supposed, in sex education. Or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES driver education. Or nutrition education. Or Wednesday. May 10, 1978 health education. Or they are taking a day KILPATRICK ON EDUCATION off while the teachers, if they're not on • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I recently strike, are attending a union meeting. Main introduced H.R. 11214, a bill to amend ly, it is thought, the students are goofing off. certain provisions of the Higher Edu HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL Most of the boys a.re stoned; half the girls are pregnant. cation Act of 1965 as they relate to OF ILLINOIS HEW's determination of independent This urban high school, it is thought, is an student status. At this time, I am rein IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES island fortress in a parking lot sea. The stu troducing the bill, in order that I may Wednesday, May 10, 1978 dents are attacking with switchblade knives; the teachers a.re fending them off with bi make a slight technical change in the • Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the inimi cycle chains. Vandalism rules by nighit and married student provision that will add table James J. Kilpatrick has written an day. The purpose is not primarily to learn; to the legisaltion's effectiveness. article about today's education that is the purpose is primarily to survive. No one The revised version of the bill reads as vintage Kilpatrick: Funny, incisive, in ever gets expelled. follows: formed, and totally readable. Since no Here one finds 22 basketball courts, five H.R. - one does it better than Kilpatrick him football fields (one of them reserved for the A bill to amend section 411 of the higher self, I will refrain from quoting any majorettes and the marching band), and a Education Act of 1965 with regard to swimming pool that covers six acres. A fac determinations of independent student memorable phrases, except one. Kil ulty enumeration finds 27 coaches-but only status, and for other purposes patrick refers to educational jargon as one librarian. Be it enacted by the Senate and House "infuriating peach fuzz," a perfect de And so on. The picture is absurdly over of Representatives of the United States of scription of the non-language profes drawn. It scarcely needs to be emphasized America in Congress assembled, That sub sional educators use when trying to ex that this unrecognizable school system, in parab'l'aph (C) of section 411 (a) (3) of the plain---or to explain away-their views. my own lifetime, has produced graduates May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13275 who went on to explore the moon, to master name it, the schools are supposed to tea.ch left for good or ill to pa.rents, brothers, sis computers, to run business enterprises, to it: health, energy, nutrition, consumerism, ters, and the neighborhood. Those condi edit newspapers, and by the thousands to free enterprise, drug abuse, brotherhood, sex tions can be restored, and eventually they live constructive, productive, generally re ual understanding, family relations, auto will be restored, if only because a. fed-up warding lives. mobile operation, career education, social public will refuse to tolerate the shoddy and But caricature depends upon a. basic re skills, and the development of esteem for the second-rate any longer.e embla.nce. The picture contains recognizable oneself. Teachers and principals are expected features. Vandalism, for example, remains an to function as educators, pa.rents, nurses, appalling problem. A Senate committee dis nannies, Judges, prosecutors, juries, guid TAKE A BETTER LOOK AT CALIFOR covered that, in some school systems, more ance counselors, referees, ministers, psy NIA'S OIL AND GAS money is spent to repair smashed windows chiatrists, nutritionists, confessors, discip than is spent to buy new textbooks. The dis linarians, and dispensers of first aid. Are the cipline of unruly students turns young prin schools in trouble? Ask any member of a HON. WILLIAM M. KETCHUM cipals in to old men. In many cases schools school boa.rd. OF CALIFORNIA What can be done about it? The nation's have indeed been closed by teacher strikes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Standard aptitude tests reflect steadily de school boards, I think, can do a. lot a.bout clining scores. Employers a.re heard constant it. The men and women who serve on these Wednesday, May 10, 1978 ly to complain that high school graduates boards, poor devils, catch it from every side. cannot read, cannot spell, cannot compre Taxpayers and city councilmen demand that •Mr.KETCHUM. Mr. Speaker, I would hend directions, cannot even make change they spend less; teachers, pa.rents, and text like to share with my colleagues in the from a. $10 bill. We have the most expensive book drummers demand that they spend House the very relevant commentary ex system of public education in the world more. Local editors are howling for discipline; pressed by my constituent, Mr. Rich per pupil outlays now approach $1,500 per the civil liberties lawyers a.re howling for ard A. Ganong, of Bakersfield. Despite year-and the system is producing a shock due process. When nothing else is going on, the Department of Energy's assertion ing percentage of functional illiterates. a swinging singles English teacher, doubling as drama. coach, wants to stage "Oh! Cal that California's oil and gas industry has These charges--charges that could be no problems, Mr. Ganong points out that much expanded-have produced a feeble cutta!" in the name of academic freedom. and defensive response from beleaguered Board members-many of them, anyhow we had better take a look at the real educators. As for the aptitude and com resent the federal controls that go with fed facts. He has told it like it is, as they petency tests: The statistics are misleading eral grants, but they love the federal money. say in the vernacular, concerning the and the tests are culturally biased. The poor They wear perpetually puzzled looks as they existing energy program, the inequities scores are not a. reflection upon the schools; struggle to comprehend the educators' jar of the entitlements program, and the they are a reflection upon broken homes, gon. Contemplating the schools' troubles, the typical board member is like Mehita.bel the impacts of imported Alaskan crude. I divorce, alcoholism, television, racial ten believe that we can all benefit from Mr. sions, and a. disadvantaged living environ Cat: What did I do to deserve all these dam' ment. The public schools, it is contended, kittens? Ganong's viewpoint, speaking as he does a.re still inadequately financed; teachers are Those who a.re charged with immediate as a petroleum engineer and geologist: still too poorly paid. If there is anything responsibility for the schools might well GANONG, ELLISON & HAWES, truly wrong-and it seldom is conceded that begin with problems of communication. They PETROLEUM ENGINEERS & GEOLOGISTS, anything is truly wrong-it is nobody's ought to crack down on the educators who Bakersfield, Calif., April 28, 1978. fa.ult, exactly. And anyhow, it's all exag rattle on about "prioritizing meaningful Hon. WILLIAM M. KETCHUM, gerated. linkages" and "institutionalizing self-renew 18th District, California, 413 Cannon House The taxpaying public, I suggest a.gain, is al mechanisms" and "facilitating reciprocal Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515 not buying this bill of goods. Virginia the nuclei along technical interfaces." This kind DEAR BILL: I have just looked over a. copy other day became the 37th state to mandate of infuriating peach fuzz has fostered tre of a. letter from David J. Bardin of D.O.E. ad some form of competency testing. The peo mendous public resentment against educa dressed to you and a copy of your letter ad ple, through their legislatures, a.re demand tion generally. If public confidence is to be dressed to Mr. Conrad Howard of Vallecitos ing evidence of solid academic accomplish regained, confidence understandably must be Oil Company. ment. In one Jurisdiction after another the wooed. In my opinion, certain comments should be cry is "back to basics!" At the level of the Second, it seems to me that redoubled ef ma.de regarding Bardin's letter. forts must be made to restore discipline-not United States Congress, both the House and He states that total California. production Senate are itching to pass some form of tui merely the discipline of Just punishments, promptly imposed, but the discipline of the is decreasing by approximately 4-6% per tion tax credits that might help to preserve year. This statement is really untrue unless private schools as an alternative to the intellect as well. This means a restoration of values that once were widely respected: ac he accounts for the decline by the shutting floundering public system. In many other in and reduction of production of certain ways we a.re witnessing an eruption of re curacy in speech and computation, punc tuality, neatness, obedience to responsible leases because of D.O.E.'s program. He states sentment against an institution that once that many San Joaquin Valley Refiners need was the most loved and cherished and re authority. It means a. restoration of those conditions of order that a.re indispensable Steven's Zone oil etc. etc. What he didn't spected of all American institutions-the say was that many San Joaquin Valley Re public school. to freedom. It is the discipline of the best as opposed to the merely good, the discipline finers also need entitlements as a result of How did it happen? Let us count the ways. purchasing Elk Hills crude oil. He states that Within the temples of professional educa that teaches young eyes to recognize sham when they see it. Steven's Zone crude oil is extremely valuable tion, there arose cults of innovation. The as an a.id to moving additional quantities of publishers of textbooks and the manufac Third, school authorities ought to stop being timid on this business of teaching heavy crude to Los Angeles and San Fran turers of gimmicks profitably urged these cisco. I wonder how that heavy oil was moved ca.uses on. Long neglected by parsimonious moral values. Somehow, a. notion has crept into the educational bloodstream that the to Los Angeles and San Francisco prior to state legislatures, the poorly organized teach initiating production of Elk Hills? He men ers yielded to the temptations of unionism. public schools should be morally, ethically neutral. The notion is nonsense. Without tioned "some relief from our current regula Teaching gradually ceased to be an honored tory program" by an adjustment of entitle vocation for dedicated men and women; it sacrifice to their basic academic responsibili ties, teachers ought reasonably to be ex ments obligations on certain lower tier became a Job. Meanwhile, the permissiveness heavy California. oil. As was brought out at that infested the classroom infested every pected to promote right conduct. Honesty is a moral value-simple honesty. So is kind the meetings in Huntington Beach, this ad thing else. For an entire decade the cry justment was at the expense of the west coast was to "do your own thing!" or :'let it all ness a. moral value. Fairness, justice, indus try, generosity-these a.re values to be woven and was an additional discrimination against hang out!" Caught up in this folly, a. well west coast producers to the gain of the rest intentioned Congress provided billions for into the whole fabric of education. And there's nothing wrong with teaching a little of the country, especially the ea.stern sea. the educational bureaucracy to expend on boa.rd. grants, experiments, and addleheaded ven patriotism, either. Now and then, when I get wrought up It is my understanding that Senator Ed tures in academic whoopee. Brooke is pushing for additional entitlement The educational establishment may prop a.bout these matters, people in education say erly be saddled with much of the blame for I am being naive. I don't understand the benefits for fuel oil users in the northeastern the mess we a.re in, but there is blame complexities of today's youth. There's more part of the country. Without knowing any enough to go a.round. The public schools to education, I am reminded, than Shake more about Senator Brooke's proposals than have been given more responsibility than speare's plays and Caesar's "The Gallic Wars." what I read in the paper, I suspect that they ought to bear. It is enough, God knows, Granted. those adjustments for the favored people to ask them to tea.ch the fundamental sub But I know, because I have been there, of the northeastern part of the country will jects. If the schools performed that task that our schools once maintained the atmos again be at the expense of California. oil well, they would earn enormous gratitude. phere and the attitudes and the values I am operators. But society, operating through influential speaking of. Once vandalism was contained. The following comments relate to some of pressure groups, demands much more. You Once large areas of a. child's upbringing were the difficulties being encountered by inde- 13276 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1978 pendent oil opera.tors during the past six shopper t.o choose which foods are right cle below for the benefit of my col months to one year and in effect today. These for his or her family. problems have a net result of fewer wells leagues. It may prove valuable in the being drilled, production being curtailed, An article titled "How To Decode a coming months when hearings on the a.nd an accelerated decline in California. Food Label," which appeared in the food labeling bill are expected to begin. production. February /March issue of Mother Jones, The time for a comprehensive food la Fruitvale OU Field-independent producers gives a clear picture of the labeling maze beling law has come, Mr. Speaker. The a.re finding it increasingly more difficult to which the consumer faces each time he health and well-being of millions of place their crude. Crude is being moved by goes shopping. Authors Marlene Cimons Americans depend on it. spot purchases to some local refineries who and Michael Jacobson call the endless The article follows: really don't want it. One major refiner list of exemptions, exceptions, stand (Tosco) will buy a certain a.mount of crude Is COAL-TAR DYE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH? but at approximately $2 per barrel discount. ardizations, and codes "a hodgepodge of How TO DECODE A FOOD LABEL Va.llecitos-as indicated by Conrad Howard, laws" which make it practically impos (By Marlene Cimons and Michael Jacobson) here we have high gravity sweet crude which sible for the shopper t.o know what he is A ten-year-old Boston boy with chronic can't be sold except at approximately $2 getting in the food he buys. allergies was given a.n unfam111ar brand of per barrel discount with producer paying Manufacturers t.oday have blasted the ice cream at a. friend's house. Several hours tra.nsporta. tion. consumer with "information overkill" on later, he was dead. The child had suffered a Helm Riverdale Area-Bea.con 011 Company their labels. This usually contributes hypersensitive reaction called anaphyla.ctlc recently canceled their contra.ct with Sam little t.o an understanding of the actual shock, triggered by eating peanuts, a food he son Resources in favor of Elk Hills crude and composition of food products. Nutri was not supposed to have. He knew peanuts entitlements. Bea.con will continue to buy were forbidden. But he could not have known or make spot purchases in the area at a tional labeling may be extensive, but it they were in the ice cream. The ingredients discount of approximately $2 per barrel with can also be deceptive. States the article: were not listed on the label. the producer paying transportation. Bill, as The very presence of such labeling (which Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.), you know in this area this crude ranges in includes calories, protein, carbohydrates, sponsor of comprehensive food-labeling legis gravity from 32-48° API which is extremely vitamins, fats and number of servings) ma.y lation pending ir.. Congress, ca.Us the contents high gravity and ultra-sweet: that is, with lead people to assume a. product is nutri of thP, boxes, cans a.nd jars we heap into our only a trace of sulfur in it. The reason pro tious simply because it is labeled. It may supermarket carts "the best kept secrets in ducers a.re having difficulty placing this ~rude not be. America. today." Rosenthal ls right. We have ls because of Elk Hills and the fa.ct that the food-labeling laws now, but they are inade Refiners receive entitlements by purchasing Take, for example, the manufacturer's quate, deceptive and sometimes even ignored. Elk Hills crude. method of disclosing the amount of "All of us have a right to know what we a.re Los Angeles Basin-I understand Acciden sugar in a product. Though actual eating, ingred!ent by ingredient," Rosenthal tal Petroleum Company is having extreme sugar content may account for a high says. "Concealing such information clearly difficulty in placing some of their LA crude, percentage of the ingredients, many violates the public interest." however, I will let them tell you about that. manufacturers will separate sugar sub It clearly does not violate corporate inter Santa Maria-attached is a copy of a letter stances into honey, brown sugar, white ests, however, to keep silent about what is and article from the Oil and Gas Journal in the products we eat. The food industry has which I received from Husky 011 Company sugar, and corn syrup, allowing them to no desire to reveal trade secrets or give con concerning their status in that area. I be appear further down the ingredients list sumers the opportunity to make economic or lieve the letter and article are self-explana and thus giving the impression that the Ilutritional judgments by comparison tory. Part of my living is from the sale of product contains less sugar than it ac shopping. this crude which for all practical purposes tually does. Most foods must list their ingredients in is shut-in resulting in no income for the An even more confusing system for fine print in order of their predominance in Ganong children from this source. Since the consumer ts that of the "standard the product--that is, by weight. Here ls how receipt of this letter I heard a rumor that foods." Over 300 products, including the industry get:3 tricky: have you looked at Husky has lost outlet for another 2,000 a. cereal box lately? Instead of putting sugar BOPD, which means that they wm practi those we use every day, such as mayon where it really belongs-at the top-pro cally be out of business in Santa Marla. naise, soda pop, and enriched white ducers break it down into white sugar, brown So Mr. Bardin and the Department of En bread, are not required to disclose in sugar, corn syrup and corn sugar, so that ea.ch ergy have ascertained that there ls no prob gredients on their labels, because they item appears farther down in the list, each lem in the oil and gas business in California fall into this category. by a separate weight. Don't call it breakfast and that the production from Elk Hills has Quips the article: food anymore. Call it candy. Or cookies. no serious effect on the California crude Ralston Purina, in fact, has done so, market market. Their conclusions are B.S. The com Just drop by any la.w library on your way ing a cereal known as "Cookie Crisp," which bination of the energy program as it now to the grocery if you want to find the in ls a.bcut 47 percent sugar. exists, the importation of Alaska crude with gredients in these groups. Although most food labels have to list in entitlements a.nd the sale of Elk Hllls crude The basic ingredients can be found in gredients (there are many exceptions, and with entitlements has created chaos on the the Code of Federal Regulations. we'll get to them later), colors, flavors and west coast. spices do not have to be listed by their spe I did attend the first session at Hunting But the consumer should not have to cific names. A food whose label says "artificial ton Beach where testimony wa.s given to go to the library to understand what he color•· or "artificial flavor" may conta.in a the distinguished panel of D.O.E. experts is eating. There is a relatively simple dozen different chem1cals. consisting of farsighted and clairvoyant econ and effective alternative. My legislation, Very few artificial flavors have been well omists and attorneys. Everybody, including H.R. 42, the Consumer Food Labeling tested, but because most are identical to the Jerry Brown, laid it on the Une as to Cali Act, would aid the consumer in choos flavoring chemicals that occur in natural fornia. on problems resulting from this ing the right foods for his family by foods, they are probably not dangerous. terrible energy program. If the recommen providing that all labels include easily Colors, however, are another story-probably dations of the various people giving testi the most suspect category of food additives. mony a.t this hearing a.re utilized, and a understandable and accurate informa A history of artificial colors would read like new program designed to correct these in tion about every ingredient in that prod the guest register of a transient hotel. Butter equities, California oil and ga.s producers uct-including additives and :rreserva Yellow and Sudan No. 1 were banned in 1919. may be able to stay in business. tives. The bill has already attracted 46 Orange No. 1, Orange No. 2, Red No. 1 a.nd Very truly yours, cosponsors and enjoys widespread sup Yellows Nos. 1, 2 and 3 were all outlawed by RICHARD A. GANONG .• port among consumer groups and the late 1960. Green No. 1 was banned in 1965. American public. Violet No. 1 was banned in 1973. Red No. 2 was banned in 1976. Currently, questions THE FOOD LABELING MAZE Such a measure would not require have been raised about Red No. 40-one of great expense on the part of industry, the two most widely-used colorings (more despite the objections raised by some than a million pounds per year )-Orange B HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL manufacturers. It simply provides a and several others. Most of the banned dyes OF NEW YORK means for closing the still widening gap caused cancer or organ damage to laboratory IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES between the ability of Government to animals when fed at high dosages. These coa.1- tar dyes do not occur in nature; and the hu Wednesday, May 10, 1978 protect the consumer and the ability of some segments of the business commu man liver metabolizes many, of them as toxic • Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the substances. nity to abuse them. The right of the Who needs them? Manufacturers use them number of rules and regulations dealing American consumer to know v·hat is in ma.inly for cosmetic-or economic-reasons. with food labels has made it extremely his food has been abused long enough. Food sells better if it looks pretty. The pres difficult-if not impossible-for t.oday's I am inserting the Mother Jc-r.es arti- ence of a.n artificial color or flavor, however, May 10, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13277 usually means something ha.s been left out liquor industry, in fact, exerted tremendous fruits and vegetables-and saw remarkable of the food, like fruit. It's certainly cheaper pressure against the proposal, claiming that changes in behavior and personality. His diet to color something red tha.n ma.ke it with real it would cost too much and that it would has not worked in all cases, however. He told cherries. You can almost always assume that force them to disclose trade secrets. a. Senate health subcommittee a few years such a. food will be junk-high in sugar or Thirteen days after the Bureau pulled out, ago that his success rate ha.s been about 50 fat, low in nutrition. the FDA reissued the proposal, insisting it per cent--but, he says, that still translates If a.n artificial color has been used, the had the authority to do so. Eight distilleries into several million children. label will usually say so. {The exceptions, and three trade associations filed suit, con Stay away from products high in sugar however, a. gift from Congress to the dairy tending that the Bureau bad exclusive and fat. Avoid caffeine, especially in the industry, a.re butter, cheese and ice cream.) jurisdiction over the labeling of alcoholic first trimester of pregnancy, since it has But the label won't name the specific color. beverages. A federal judge in Louisville, been associated with birth defects in ani The Food and Drug Administration 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 MICHIGAN 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 MAINE 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 IOWA 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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