EXTENSIONS of REMARKS 5791 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS a STATE of DISUNION He Could Not Bring Himself to Appear on Vote in Decreasing Percentages

March 15, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5791 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS A STATE OF DISUNION he could not bring himself to appear on vote in decreasing percentages. As we move camera as though defeat were victory. Yet from campaign to campaign, the likely on camera or in print, in domestic as well as victor is the candidate who can most nimbly HON. JOHN BRYANT foreign policy, the Reagan appeals, each of manipulate the events of a few months in a OF TEXAS them carefully crafted to the present cam single year to influence the voting of a few IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES paign, all emphasize the temporary gain, hours on a single day. the plausible hype, the sham argument. The Reagan is the best pretender as president Thursday, March 15, 1984 administration blithely assumes that the that we have had in modem history. Some • Mr. BRYANT. Mr. Speaker, I call to public and the press have short memories White House aides talk of "the peace issue" the attention of my colleagues and the and almost no attention span. The president as if it were mostly a political problem for people of this country the following himself seems to worry not at all about the Ronald Reagan. Others openly imply that EDwARD credibility gap between the rhetoric of the they only need to play for time before comments of Senator M. KEN 1980 Reagan campaign and the realities of launching a wider war in Central America in NEDY about the President's record 1984. In 1980, we were told that a supply 1985, which would be a tragic replay of the versus the rhetoric of his recent State side tax cut would generate new savings and fateful mistake of two decades ago in Indo of the Union Address, which were pub new revenue, and that by the end of 1983, china. Administration officials are talking lished as a guest column this month in we would have a balanced budget. Today, peace in 1984 as a prelude to making war in a national magazine. the savings rate has dropped to the lowest 1985. [From Rolling Stone, Mar. 15, 19841 level in twenty-five years, and we have the To lessen fears about an administration highest federal deficit in history. whose officials have spoken of winnable nu A STATE OF DISUNION They say we have a low inflation rate, but clear conflict, the president says he now so did Herbert Hoover. In fact, you can welcomes arms control. But what faith can Lance Corporal George Dramis, who was always bring inflation down by bringing on voters have that he will pursue this newly the last marine killed in Beirut before Presi a recession, and we have just endured the professed interest in his second term, when dent Ronald Reagan withdrew the forces, deepest recession since the Great Depres he has been so bellicose in his first. was buried in Villas, New Jersey, on the sion of the 1930s. The administration also On the day of the Lebanon retreat, White very day the president made that decision. points to the steepest decline in unemploy House sources explained to a reporter from Many felt, as they heard the news, that Cor ment since World War II, which, in fact, is a the Washington Post that the decision was poral Dramis and 263 of his comrades had result of first creating the highest unem "an effort to salvage one of the administra died in Lebanon not for a reason, but for a ployment of the postwar era, driving mil tion's riskiest political positions in a presi mistake. That, however, was not the mood lions out of the full-time work force so they dential-election year." But maybe we should of Mr. Reagan's statement, which was cast no longer even look for jobs. After having be asking ourselves how this president will in the Orwellian tones that characterize achieved a record level of discouraged and choose to face our adversaries after he no most of his claims as we enter this 1984 dropout workers, who aren't even counted longer has to face the voters at the polls. presidential campaign. Withdrawal, as Mr. in the unemployment rate, the rate of un The commentators almost unanimously Reagan phrased it, was only "redeploy employment will still be higher on Election admire the administration's skill. They ment" and "reconcentrating our forces." Day 1984 than it was on the same day four praise the State of the Union message as a The crumbling Lebanese government was years ago, when Ronald Reagan had taken skillfully mapped path to reelection, not a attempting to "reconstitute itself." The re up the cry, "Jobs, jobs and more jobs." guide to the American future as it can or treat from Beirut, so reminiscent of the There is nothing miraculous or mysterious ought to be. American flight from Saigon, would about a temporary election-year recovery, In the face of all this, how should the "strengthen our ability to do the job we set wrought by unprecedented deficit spending loyal opposition react? How can the Demo out to do." Our ships, themselves potential on a scale unimagined even by extravagant cratic party advance its own prospects as ly vulnerable to a suicide attack, would advocates of Keynesian economics. well as the national purpose? "help assure security in the Beirut area" But in fact, the administration simply ig First, we must challenge ourselves not to where we had not been able to secure the nores the other half of the Keynesian pre accept the conventional terms of the eco safety of our own marines. The shelling scription-that the deficit must be reduced nomic debate. We must decline to let the from the battleship New Jersey-with blun as the economy regains strength. They be election tum on the last economic report of derbuss 16-inch guns that devastate an area lieve they can make it to the election with a October, whose meaning may not outlast the size of a football field and that inevita policy that apparently will please the the next month. Democrats can and should bly take civilian lives-was a way to "peace voters, even if it cannot long continue after do more than brood about the deficits. ful reonciliation." As Orwell predicted, in the ballots are cast and counted. In fact, There are some who suggest that Democrats 1984 "war is peace." there are grim prospects for 1985 and 1986 cannot be trusted to deal with federal defi This description of the events in Beirut, : a renewal of infla cits because we have had too many of our which flipped reality on its head, is the tion, or a new interest-rate crunch, or an own. But the present deficits .make the most latest example of the Reagan method of other, even deeper recession. Many econo imprudent Democrat look positively parsi acting: In the face of a crisis gone bad or a mists warn of this, many journalists know monious. The deficit for this year alone problem grown worse, he ad libs, proclaims it-but almost no one writes about it. Mean would pay for a national health-insurance success, and then as things take another while, the president insists that there will plan five times over. turn, twists the facts to fit a new and differ be no tax increase to close the deficit, while When the Reagan administration renews ent claim of progress. Occasionally, the his advisers wink and hint that of course its call for a balanced-budget Constitutional footwork isn't fast enough, and the failures they will bring him around-in 1985. This amendment, Democrats should respond: briefly intrude on the image-making. Incon may be smart politics, but it is dumb eco How can they advance such a proposal gruously, Secretary of State George Shultz nomics. again, when they themselves are the biggest was in Grenada to watch sky-diving demon Even worse, this kind of politics under deficit-spenders in American history? How strations and to celebrate American firepow mines the confidence of Americans in our can they ask the Constitution to balance er as the president announced retreat in system. The process has reached its height the budget when the president cannot do it Lebanon. It was less than three weeks after in the Reagan years, but it infected earlier himself? Mr. Reagan had boasted, in his State of the administrations of both parties. Presidents When the administration demands a line Union speech, that America was now appear more and more tempted to make item veto on spending or a commission to "standing tall." deicisons that will fly till the next election, cut the deficit, Democrats should ask: What This time, Mr. Reagan decided to issue a even if they will falter in the next adminis items would they like to veto? Where are press release from his California ranch tration or fail the next generation. Prom their specific budget reductions? And when rather than address the nation on televi ised one thing, given another, Americans are the president says the problem is domestic sion. Perhaps, in a case this extreme, even increasingly alienated; their register and spending, Democrats must challenge him:

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 5792 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1984 How can that be, when the deficit is now damental women's rights-for example, the ours-and to argue about who has done $50 billlon larger than all discretionary do right of choice on the issue of abortion-as worse. We must recast the campaign and re mestic spending combined? What would he political footballs to be kicked around in state the challenge that has always led to like to slash-child immunization, student speeches to new-right fundamentalist the American future-that we can do loans, civil-rights enforcement? The admin groups. There is a critical question that better-better for our country and our istration, for example, seeks to reform Medi Democrats have to raise in this (:ampaign: selves, better for the weakest among us and care by slashing benefits for the elderly; the Why does the administration exalt govern better for the greater cause we all share of Democratic alternative should be to llmit ment when it builds bombs and missiles, or freedom and of peace.e the costs of the program by placing real interferes with fundamental liberties and controls on what doctors and hospitals can individual privacy-but scorn government charge. A doctor with a $300,000-a-year when it vaccinates a child or feeds the poor PRIME MINISTER FITZGERALD'S income can afford to charge less; a senior or helps a family to own a home? SPEECH TO CONGRESS citizen who is sick cannot afford to go with Third, and finally, we must reject the out care. standard wisdom that foreign policy is never We can reduce the deficit now and elimi a decisive issue in a national campaign. HON. MARIO BIAGGI nate it by the end of this decade only with Today, we are involved, directly or indirect fair tax reform and a fair tax increase, fair ly, in two hot wars and one cold war-and OF NEW YORK restraints on spending and the end of waste that is three wars too many. Rather than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ful military projects like the MX missile, their empty calls to endless talks, Demo the B-1 bomber, Star Wars schemes and a crats should demand that we negotiate with Thursday, March 15, 1984 new generation of nerve-gas weapons. What the Soviet Union, seriously and at once, for • Mr. BlAGG!. Mr. Speaker, this we hear from the president instead is a an immediate, mutual and verifiable freeze morning's address by the Honorable vague plan to overhaul taxes at a later date. on the production, testing and deployment Dr. Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister He promises to unveil his plan at a very con of nuclear weapons. This has to be more of Ireland was both important and his venient time-December 1984. Who will ben than a plank in a party platform; a negotiat efit if this administration has a second term ed halt to the arms race must be the first toric. Its most significant feature in and a second chance to redistribute tax bur priority of a new foreign policy. my mind was the extensive amount of dens in the wrong direction? So far, after ac There is a common threat that runs attention which he gave to the North counting for inflation and social-security through all the Reagan foreign policy; it is a ern Ireland issue. That point I would taxes, families earning under $30,000 are no barely restrained attraction for confronta like to place in some perspective. I better off after the Reagan tax cut, but tion and the display of force. Too many have been deeply involved in the Irish families with incomes of $200,000 have Democrats went along with the administra question for more than 10 years. I reaped a fifteen percent reduction worth tion's Lebanon policy because, as they said, recall a time not too long ago when over $60,000 each. it was too risky to speak out. But silence For Democrats in the 1984 campaign, the about the administration's more general the issue was mired in obscurity. A few challenge is to renew economic hope and op recklessness is now the greater risk. Next of my colleagues in the House and portunity by offering specific measures, by year, if Mr. Reagan is reelected, it will be Senate would speak on the issue but saying something real instead of competing too late to dissent. for the most part it was largely ig with an administration that tells people Central America must be an issue in this nored. only what they want to hear. Democrats can campaign-so that afterward, we will not go Today we find the Prime Minister of and should put forward a new industrial to war by the back door, with our people di the Republic of Ireland provided with strategy to move America into the twenty vided and deceived. History has taught us in the extraordinary opportunity to ad first century. Democrats can't accept a re anguish and retreat the folly of that course. covery that leaves out the workers of the We should oppose the Reagan policy of es dress a joint session of Congress and in Northeast, the closed factories of the indus calation in El Salvador and the practice of that speech he elevates the Northern trial Midwest, the farms of the prairie and scorning human rights in that country Ireland issue to new heights. His ap all those outside the electoral coalition of while putting 5,000 American troops on per pearance today and the content of his the Sunbelt. We must stand for the idea manent maneuvers in Honduras. So far, the speech clearly confirms the fact that that America is one country and one people administration has given us an alliance with the issue of Northern Ireland has both and must never become an economy divided repression instead of an alliance for visibility and importance in this Con against itself. progress. gress. Second, Democrats must speak for all the At stake in 1984 is the character of our de Americans who were left out of the presi mocracy. We cannot afford another election I have served as Chairman of the bi dent's State of the Union message. We must where people vote for promises that will be partisan Ad Hoc Congressional Com try to feel and convey the painful despair of broken, where the manipulations of the mittee for Irish Affairs since 19'7'7. In the powerless milllons for whom these have moment disguise deeper realities and differ that time I have worked to promote been the hardest years of their lives: the ent intentions. After the State of the Union the issue of peace and justice in homeless, the hungry and the middle-class speech, one television commentator said Northern Ireland and the role we families driven into deprivation. Where is that it was "brilliant as a campaign strategy should play in aiding the process the economic recovery for those sleeping in to run on"-that it was brilllant to propose toward a peaceful solution. Today I the snow and the cold of our streets? Where a balanced-budget amendment after tripling is the economic recovery for the black teen the deficit, because "the public doesn't un believe that Nothern Ireland is a bona agers who are out of school and out of work, derstand the deficit." I believe that if the fide American foreign policy and polit and who are drifting into a permanent un opposition does its part, the public can un ical issue. derclass? derstand that issue and others. We can I agree with Prime Minister FitzGer The president says we must break the insist that Mr. Reagan's words are no substi ald's assertion that the ultimate solu bonds of dependency; in reality, he is liber tute for deeds-that we will not accept a tion in Northern Ireland must be polit ating people to live without shelter, food, secret tax plan and a 1985 tax surprise, that ical and not military in nature. I also health and work. The numbers do not lie. we reject the "eat, drink and be merry" phi concur with his observation that both Since 1980, 5 milllon more Americans have losophy of this recovery, that we oppose any fallen below the poverty line of $9,800 for a diplomacy that speaks of peace but stone the Dublin and London governments family of four. The poverty rate ·now stands walls arms control, that we resist an admin must give the issue of Northern Ire at fifteen percent, the highest level since istration that talks about protecting the en land a greater priority. 1965, and the richest twenty percent of our vironment but pursues a James Watt policy However I also strongly believe that people now have their largest share of the of protecting the polluters. And the chal as we examine the prospects for a last national income since 1950. lenge for us is not only to oppose, but to ing political solution in Northern Ire There is injustice of another kind that propose-to be bold in standing for our own land, we insure that the full spectrum should be a central concern of the 1984 beliefs and in stating truly Democratic al of political thought be involved in the Democratic campaign. This admin1stration ternatives. process that produces the solution. has given us a Civil Rights Commission that I believe now, as I always have, that is, in effect, anti-civil rights. The new staff Americans are ready to be realistic, to re The New Ireland Forum while an im director of that commission has denounced spond and sacrifice, if our leaders will open portant initiative cannot and will not affirmative action and equal pay for women. the way to change. The president may succeed until and unless it broadens its The President himself treats the most fun- prefer to debate the past-his own and participants and addresses in its solu- March 15, 1981,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5793 tions some of the major injustices The former official, who has served former Mlnister of Defense Jose Guillermo which exist in Northern Ireland. at the highest level of the security Garcia; police in El Salvador, disclosed exten <2> whether the network of death squads I have long maintained that the is still directed by senior Salvadoran govern United States should assist the proc sive information on the inner workings ment officials, or by government officials at esses that would lead to a final politi of the death squads, how and why any level; cal solution but neither propose nor they were formed, who directs and <3> whether the man who organized the impose any solution. However as one pays them, and who selects their vic death squads is Roberto D'Aubuisson, a who believes that a political solution is tims. He provided a great deal of infor former Army officer; the only real answer, I maintain that mation of a kind that could only have <4> whether the man who continues to this final political solution must pro been available to an insider. Senator direct the death squads is Roberto D'Au buisson, a former Army officer; mote justice and restore human and TsoNGAS and I were told by the securi (5) whether Roberto D'Aubuisson, a civil rights for all. It must have within ty official that the very people who former Army officer, was or is involved in it a mechanism to insure that all vio now promise human rights reform in the organization or direction of the death lence, civilian or official, ends. A final El Salvador, among them presidential squads; political solution must also be accom candidate and former army officer Ro (6) whether Roberto D'Aubuisson contin panied by commitments from the berto D'Aubuisson, are the same ones ued to receive a military salary through the United States and other nations for who originally set up the death squads late 1970s despite official accounts that he economic development to help rebuild kill had been dismissed from the army; and who are still giving orders to (7) whether money for the death squads Northern Ireland. innocent people. comes from Salvadoran exiles living in the Today was an important occasion This source also told us that the Miami area; which I was proud to attend. The lead murder of the four American church (8) whether Salvadoran Government offi ership of this House and especially the women in 1980 was ordered by the cials ordered police and soldiers to stay out Speaker is to be commended for pro military commander in the region, of areas where death squad murders were viding Prime Minister FitzGerald with Colonel Oscar Edgardo Casanova. about to take place; this forum upon which to address the Colonel Casanova was transferred out (9) whether Salvadoran Government offi vitally important issue of Northern La cials helped assassins get to refuges in Gua of the Paz region shortly after temala; or Ireland. these murders. Colonel Casanova is a <10> whether veterans of Nicaragua's de On this eve of St. Patrick's Day, let cousin of the current Minister of De posed national guard were involved in some us reaffirm our support for a peaceful fense, Eugenio Vides Casanova, who killings carried out by death squads. and free Ireland. Let us in the year had served in 1980 as head of the Sal H. RES. 464 ahead work to promote this as a legiti vadoran national guard. The former Resolved, That no later than 7 days after mate foreign policy concern. There is security officer told us that there is a the adoption of this resolution, the Secre no reason why Ireland like the United coverup of the investigation into the tary of State shall furnish to the House of States cannot be one nation indivisible murders of the churchwomen, and Representatives all cables or other docu with liberty and justice for all.e that this coverup is being directed by ments in his possession which discuss- the Minister of Defense himself, in an <1) Whether the Salvadoran Mlnister of Defense Eugenio Vides Casanova has been DEATH SQUADS IN EL attempt to protect his cousin. Mr. Speaker, many of the moderates involved in the investigation into the SALVADOR who favored and worked for a demo slayings of four American churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980; HON. JAMES M. SHANNON cratic solution to this civil conflict are <2> Whether the Salvadoran Minister of now dead-targets of the death Defense Eugenio Vides Casanova has been OF MASSACHUSETTS squads. Americans who worked as mis involved in the delays in trials for the mur IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sionaries or with the land reform or ders of the four American churchwomen in Thursday, March 15, 1984 labor movements in El Salvador are El Salvador in 1980 either before or after also dead-eight Americans since 1980. his appointment as Mlnister of Defense; e Mr. SHANNON. Mr. Speaker, today This killing must stop and I hope that (3) The transfer of Colonel Oscar Edgardo I am introducing two resolutions of in the resolutions of inquiry which I am Casanova from LaPaz shortly after the mur quiry seeking information about El ders took place; introducing today will help to bring an (4) Whether Mlnister of Defense Casano Salvador. The first resolution concerns end to this long tragedy. new facts which have come to light va's cousin, Colonel Oscar Edgardo Casano about the operations of death squads These resolutions direct the Secre va, ordered the murders, or knows the iden tary of State to provide cables and tity of those who planned or executed the in El Salvador. The second resolution other documents in his possession murders.e concerns charges that relate to the which might shed light on the acts murders of four American church which I have discussed. It is my hope women in 1980, and the subsequent that these resolutions will help to clar WANT NOT, WASTE NOT ACT OF coverup in the investigation of those ify the role of the Salvadoran Govern 1984 murders. ment and military in the activities of By these resolutions, I hope to shed the death squads and the murders of HON. HENRY J. HYDE more light on charges that were made the American churchwomen. It is also to me and Senator PAUL TSONGAS by a my hope that these resolutions will OF II.I.IBOIS former high ranking security officer in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES El Salvador. These charges implicate help to pave the way for a more con structive American approach to the Thursday, March 15, 1984 officials at the highest levels of the problems of El Salvador. Copies of Salvadoran Government in death these resolutions are included with • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, we are all squad activities, in the killing of the thrashing about looking for various four American churchwomen, and in this statement. ways to reduce the deficit. Today, I am the coverup in the investigation of H. RES. 463 introducing legislation which provides those murders. These charges have Resolved, That not later than 7 days after a painless way to take one step in that been made by a source from inside the the adoption of this resolution, the Secre direction. military itself, from someone who tary of State shall furnish to the House of The amount of paper that inundates Representatives all cables or other docu congressional offices is legendary. cannot be dismissed as having leftist ments in his possession which discuss- ties or leanings. His disclosures make <1> whether the network of death squads However, much of that paper we bring it clear that the corruption and kill in El Salvador was shaped by leading Salva upon ourselves by requiring annual re ings reach into the very fabric of El doran officials, including Colonel Nicholas ports in practically every bill we pass. Salvador's Government and military. Carranza, chief of the Treasury Police, and Realistically, we, the Members of Con- 5794 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1984 gress, cannot read every report which The American Legion has main IMBALANCE BETWEEN CIVILIAN we insist upon. tained these high standards that it set R&D AND DEFENSE R&D MUST The bill which I have introduced for itseU in 1919, and its members con BE EXAMINED BY THE CON today, the "Want Not, Waste Not Act" tinue to be successful in making their GRESS of 1984, requires an agency to obtain a noble ideals become a living, working, written request from a Member that everyday reality. HON. BUDDY MaeKA Y the agency print a copy of any such At present, there are about 2.7 mil report for a Member. The agency is re lion members of the American Legion, OF FLORIDA quired to notify each Member of the organized into 58 departments and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES availability of such a report and about 16,000 local posts, who are Thursday, March 15, 1984 should use the requests received for a deeply concerned for the weUare of guide for publication estimates. • Mr. MAcKAY. Mr. Speaker, the cur their fellow veterans and their de rent issue of Science, the publication I am not attempting to deny anyone pendents. The continuing dedication information. I am simply asking that of the American Association for the of the Legion to the adjustment of vet Advancement of Science, contains an you have a desire for that information erans to civilian life, to restoring the before we spend the money to send it editorial which I commend to my col veteran's health and usefulness to so leagues. to you. Our staffs are well aware of ciety, to maintaining his dignity, and how many reports they throw away Entitled "Federal R&D Budget: to assuring the weUare of the veter Guns Versus Butter," the editorial because it does not pertain to their an's widow and children, is most com Members' area of interest or expertise warns of the problem we are creating and neither they, nor we, have the mendable. through the imbalance between re time to read it. Also, throughout these 65 years, search and development for civilian House Document 98-11, Reports to American Legion posts have contribut purposes and that for defense. Its Be Made to Congress, lists 2,615 re ed to the strength of America, build author, F. A. Long of the Program on ports required by Congress, many of ing community houses, playgrounds, Science, Technology, and Society at them annually. 2,615 times 535 Mem swimming pools, and many parks Cornell University, makes the essen bers equals 1,399,025 copies of reports throughout the United States. The tial point very clear. In constant dol printed and distributed to all Mem American Legion has tirelessly worked lars, the total budget for R&D in bers. Over 1 million copies of reports to promote child weUare, national se creased by 17 percent between 1980 which we required by public law-how curity, and patriotism. Each year, and 1984. The budget for defense many did you read? American Legion posts sponsor nearly R&D increased by a staggering 65 per Let us start here. This bill will not 3,000 baseball and other athletic cent-in constant dollars-in the same eliminate the deficit, or even all the teams, and more than 3,600 Boy Scout 5 years. In stark contrast to those in unnecessary paper, but it is a meaning troops. To promote the study of the creases, however, civilian R&D de ful step in the right direction. I urge U.S. Constitution and the Bill of clined sharply-down by 30 percent your cosponsorship of the "Want Not, Rights, the American Legion holds a in the same 5 years. Waste Not Act.''e national high school oratory contest, Mr. Speaker, I strongly urge my col and awards about $50,000 in scholar leagues, particularly those concerned ships to the finalists. with our declining ability to compete THE 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF During the past 65 years, the Ameri effectively in the world economy in THE AMERICAN LEGION can Legion has provided exemplary such basic industries as steel, textiles, service to our veterans and to America. and machine tools, to read this brief HON. FRANK ANNUNZIO The Legion is largely responsible for editorial. OF ILLINOIS the development of the Veterans' Ad Imagine where we would be in those IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ministration, and among its most sig industries it we made the same R&D Thursday, March 15, 1984 effort in manufacturing as we make in nificant legislative victories was the defense. Now that would be an indus • Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, on passage of the GI bill of rights. By trial policy. March 15, the members of the Ameri serving veterans, the Legion serves Mr. Speaker, I insert Dr. Long's edi can Legion celebrate the 65th anniver America, for our men and women re torial in the RECORD at this point and sary of the founding of their outstand turning to American communities commend it to my colleagues: ing organization. It was 65 years ago from military service face singular today, in 1919, that delegates from the problems and pressures. In addition, FEDERAL R&D BUDGET: GUNS VERSUS BUTTER financial and emotional aid to former U.S. scientists and engineers are generally 1st American Expeditionary Force met aware that federal funding for R & D for in Paris, France, and reaffirmed that service men and women increases their the military has increased sharply in recent their responsiblity to each other and opportunities to contribute, in tum, to years. What is less appreciated is that feder to their country's citizens did not end America. al funding for the rest of the nation's R & with the signing of a treaty of peace. Mr. Speaker, the members of the D effort has considerably decreased. Using The preamble to the constitution of American Legion not only have pro words from a classic phrase, R & D funding the American Legion states: tected the interests of our Nation for "guns" is up and R & D funding for abroad, but also have contributed "butter" is down. For God and country we associate our The National Science Foundation compi selves together for the following purposes to mightily to the strength of our Nation lation• of federal R & D funding for fiscal uphold and defend the Constitution of the at home. On this 65th anniversary of years 1980 through 1984 by budget function, United States of America; to maintain law the founding of the American Legion, corrected for inflation with official deflators and order; to foster and perpetuate a one I commend the Legionnaires in the

FISCal year budget In A TRIBUTE TO FIVE OUTSTAND cans." They are: Judge Arthur C. Peri crease ING GREEK AMERICANS volidis, a respected associate judge of 1980- 84 the circuit court of Cook County; 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 (per Nicholas B. Blase, who has been re cent) HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER OF ILLINOIS elected for five successive 4-year terms All other R&D...... 19.6 17.5 15.4 14.2 13.7 -30 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as the mayor of the Village of Niles; Dr. Joseph A. Kariotis, general super Thursday, March 15, 1984 intendent of the Queen Bee Public Figures for fiscal 1983 and 1984 are esti e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, on Schools in Illinois; Dr. Alexander A. mates. However, the opposite trends of sup Sunday, March 18, the United Hellenic Constantaras, chairman of the section port are obvious. NSF lists 15 nondefense Voters of America will be holding of opthalmology at Saint Francis Hos budget functions that obtain federal sup their fifth annual banquet to honor port for R & D. Of these, only one, general pital and until 1979 the division chair science, which is primarily basic research, five "Most Distinguished Greek Amer man of Cook County Hospital; and shows an increase in constant dollars be icans." In recognition of this auspi John G. Barthalomew, owner of J. tween fiscal 1980 and 1984; the 4-year in cious occasion, and as honorary chair Barthalomew Engineering Co. presi crease is a modest 7 percent. In President man of the dinner dance at which dent of Semplex Forms System Co., Reagan's recent budget proposals for R & D they will be honored, I offer my col and vice president of both the White for fiscal 1985, the dominance of funding leagues my thoughts on the achieve Stokes and Roy Wilson Manufacturing for the military continues. ments of these men in particular, and Co., and a noted leader of the Greek The rapid increase in R & D for the mili the outstanding contributions to our Orthodox Church in the Chicago area. tary is not surprising; it was almost inevita country of the entire Greek American I join their families and friends who ble, given the large expansion of military community. will assemble on Sunday in their budgets. The surprise is the magnitude of The five men to be honored on honor and offer these words with my the decrease in support of nondefense R & Sunday represent five diverse profes best wishes for continuing success and D. This has occurred in the face of rising sions: law, government, education, achievement to these five outstanding concern about the international competi medicine, and engineering. I am cer Greek Americans who have contribut tiveness of our industries and the need for tain that in many ways, their life ex increasingly innovative U.S. technology. ed to the legacy of excellence of the periences have been very different. Greek community in Am.erica.e One response to these concerns was passage However, they share a common herit of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, which provided U.S. industry with a 25 per age and a set of beliefs shaped by the cent annual tax credit for incremental R & high ethical, moral and familial values HISTORIC PRESERVATION D expenditures. Partly as a result, industry of the Greek American community in funding of R & D rose between 1980 and Chicago. While these common values HON. JOHN BRYANT 1984 at about 6 percent per year in constant are not unique to Greek Americans, dollars. their continuing belief in these values, OF TEXAS There are fields of effort where contribu and the outstanding achievements of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions by industry are small or fragmented Greek Americans which have resulted, Thursday, March 15, 1984 and where federal support of R & D is es can help all Americans to strengthen sential. These include health to review and to Scientists and engineers have a particular democracy, but also because of the on advise the President and Congress on feder responsibility to understand these problems going Greek American contributions ally-assisted projects which might affect and make their recommendations known. to the betterment of the American structures, sites, or areas that are deemed What is at stake is the future prosperity of way of life. eligible for the National Register of Historic our nation.-F.A. Long, Program on Science, Places. Therefore, the ACHP is a restraint Technology, and Society, Cornell Universi For this reason, I urge all my col on federal agencies; i.e., a restraint on those ty, Ithaca, New York.e leagues to join me and the United Hel who need it the most. lenic Voters of America in paying re Now certain federal agencies are attempt spect and tribute to this year's five ing to apply the deregulation effort to the "Most Distinguished Greek Ameri- ACHP; they, like the people, don't want to

31-059 Q-87-48 (Pt. 4) 5796 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1984 be controlled. The recently released "Presi the backs of the government? What do you sion's purpose was to determine the fate of dent's Private Sector Survey on Cost Con think?e those professionals and to assess the impact trol," commonly called the "Grace Report," of conditions in El Salvador on medical in claims that the ACHP costs the government stitutions and on the health of the people. $40 million annually, $132.4 million over MEDICAL MISSION TO EL From January 11 through January 15, three years. I have reviewed some of the 1983, we spoke with people from a wide documentation concerning the ACHP which SALVADOR range of backgrounds: government officials, was considered by the Grace Commission the archbishop and others in the Catholic and found it to heavily favor the material HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE Church, members of the International Com supplied by the larger federal agencies. In mittee of the Red Cross, officials in the this material were 100 "horror cases," in OF MASSACHUSETTS Ministry of Health, members of nongovern which the ACHP is charged with creating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mental human-rights organizations, politi costly delays in federal projects. A close cal prisoners, and numerous private citizens, study of these cases reveals that out of 100 Thursday, March 15, 1984 including the families of victims. We also cases, the ACHP was culpable in only four. visited four places of detention for political Curiously enough, many projects resolved • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, the prisoners, two refugee camps, and the public by alternate solutions saved the taxpayers House will soon consider the massive maternity hospital to build a was no trace of the other 13. Moreover, new federal courthouse in close proximity ian population. Their findings were while in San Salvador we were given docu to numerous buildings that were built in the not encouraging. There was significant mentation on the disappearance of 20 addi 1700s. These buildings are very fragile and persecution of health care personnel, tional health workers during 1982. From could not stand vibrations from the pile widespread threats to public health frightened families and colleagues we also driving that would be necessary for con and a degradation of the country's learned of a number of other physicians, struction of the new facility. Several of the public education system. nurses, and paramedics who had disap seventeen properties in Charleston that are peared or been killed. Since merely notify National Historic Landmarks stand within At this point in the RECORD, Mr. ing the Church and independent human one block of the proposed building, includ Speaker, I will submit a special report rights groups of a relative's disappearance ing one of the oldest churches in the U.S. that appeared in the New England can jeopardize the whole family, statistics The problem in Charleston is not whether Journal of Medicine on April 28, 1983. on disappearances are minimal they need the extra space, as they definitely The report was entitled: "Medical Mis Early in our visit we interviewed the colo do, but rather why the GSA spent thou sion Report on El Salvador." I encour nels who command the two branches of the sands upon thousands of dollars engineering age my colleagues to review this security forces-the National Police and the and designing before learning that no one Treasury Police-and the information we wanted the building where the GSA report. gained was unsettling. We learned that planned to put it. So the ACHP is blamed The report follows: there was no central registry of arrests or of for costing the GSA thousands of dollars. SPECIAL REPORT-MEDICAL MISSION REPORT the disposition of those who were arrested At the end of February, a meeting will be ON EL SALVADOR and no sharing of information between the held in Atlanta for the ACHP to investigate two armed pollee forces; they therefore had another grandiose project of the federal no knowledge of the persons whose names government-the building of a four-lane Alarmed by reports of the harassment, we gave them. At our request we were parkway to enable the scholars to travel be murder, and disappearance of doctors, den shown the detention facilities where politi tween Emory University and Jimmy tists, nurses, members of the medical facul cal prisoners, including the four medical Carter's future presidential library with ty, social and physical scientists, and mem students on our list, are held for up to 15 minimum distractions. This highway will bers of related health professions, the Na days or longer. At the National Police head pass through a historic portion of Atlanta. tional Academy of Sciences, the Institute of quarters we walked along a row of foul, destroying an early urban neighborhood Medicine, the American Association for the pitch-black, steel-barred cells furnished design of Frederick Law Olmstead. If our Advancement of Science, the New York with only a concrete bench and a hole in the recommendations are negative, possibly the Academy of Sciences, and the International floor for a latrine. Led by Colonel Lopez highway won't be built, possibly the library League for Human Rights cosponsored a Nulla, the commander of the National will have to be redesigned for another site, medical mission 1 to San Salvador. The mis- Police, and followed closely by two guards possibly we will cost the government an with M-16 rifles, we were forbidden to speak other $40 million, possibly someone wasn't with or examine the dirty, haggard political listening to the wishes of the people of At- 1 The participants were Alfred Gallhorn, M.D., prisoners. vtsitlni professor, Harvard School of Public Health; In lanta earlier. Robert Lawrence, M.D., director, Department of July 1982, the International Committee The Administration wants to get the gov Medicine. Cambrldae Hospital; Kathie McCleskey, of the Red Cross threatened to leave El Sal ernment off the backs of the people. Would American Aasoclatlon for the Advancement of Sci vador because of its growing concern over the country also be well served by getting ence; and Nina Shea, J.D., International League for human-rights abuses by the Salvadoran the people, in the form of the ACHP, off Human Rtarhta. armed forces-particularly their practice of March 15, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5797 not taking prisoners alive. Officials of the hours a week to the prison as just one of his referred' to as "medicare assignment.'' International Red Cross told us that, al four jobs. Medical records are inadequate The bill prevents physicians from though these problems have not been re and incomplete. Prescriptions for medica charging fees to medicare patients solved, they have decided to remain in the tions are usually not available in the prison country because, on balance, they believe medical facility, so they are disregarded; if which exceed medicare's determina they are a force for decent human behavior. the prisoner is fortunate, her family may tion of reasonable charges. Health and health care in El Salvador obtain the medicine. In both prisons the po In 1983, the average physician have suffered since 1979 even more than litical prisoners have established their own charge submitted to medicare was 23.1 would have been expected in a poor develop health facility using minimal supplies of percent more than what medicare con ing country. The rate of endemic diseases is drugs and first-aid materials. sidered reasonable. These excess rising dramatically, as social programs are Few prisoners have been tried and convict charges totaled over $5.6 billion. Be sacrificed so that funds can be allocated to ed. The medical students we saw in Mar the military. Infant mortality is climbing, iona, the men's prison, had been there for cause medicare pays only reasonable the rate of suspected tuberculosis is increasing, and there is a high before a judge. However, the prisoners told elderly. prevalence of measles, diphtheria, and polio us that they were the lucky ones. They were Less than 2 months ago, the Aging because there are no toxoids or vaccines. alive and probably would not disappear-no Committee conducted a hearing on Malnutrition and skin and intestinal-tract matter that they were being held indefinite the financial burden of health care on parasites add to the toll. ly without due process. the elderly. I was greatly disturbed by The Ministry of Health has suffered a 50 In summary, we found direct and indirect percent reduction in its budget during each evidence of frightful violations of human the testimony of both health care ex of the past two years and is finding it diffi rights, and we found fear among private perts and the elderly. Even with the cult if not impossible to provide adequate citizens who feel unprotected in a lawless help of medicare, the elderly are staff and medical services for the 6,000 beds society. We found that the health of the paying as much of their income for under its jurisdiction. We visited the only public has suffered, that medical education, health care today as they did before public maternity hospital in San Salvador, a medical care, and medical facilities have medicare began in 1965. It is projected facility that has 75 deliveries each day but been desperately depressed. How can one ac that by 1990 the elderly will be using only 263 beds. The patient turnover is very count for the willful dismantling of the uni rapid, but even so, up to three women are versity, including the imprisonment of medical professors and practicing or in the premedicare period. This is are common, but none of the bassinets for physicians and the physical destruction or totally unacceptable. premature babies is functional. The x-ray sealing up of university buildings and the Unfortunately, the situation could equipment is obsolete, there is no x-ray film, medical school? University personnel with get even worse. This administration is and the pharmacy shelves are thinly sup whom we spoke ascribed it to the political proposing even further cuts in medi plied; the anesthesia equipment is outdated liberalism or radicalism that is characteris care. Most of the savings would not and unsafe, but it is used for the 5 to 10 ce tic of a university campus, to the outspoken sarean sections that are performed daily. indignation of the medical profession at the come from exce.ss in the health care Dr. Roberto Rivera Martelli, a senior obste atrocities and wanton killing of noncombat system but from the pockets of the el trician who was our host at the hospital, ants and alleged subversives, and to the fear derly who already pay too much. and a man deeply committed to the care of among those in power of middle-class intel This bill gives the Congress an op the poor, was taken from this clinic on Feb lectuals. Doctors and other health profes portunity to provide protection to the ruary 10 by three armed men in civilian pearing." from billing medicare patients direct clothes and has not been heard from since. We have returned to our affluent country Since then, cables have been sent to our em- shaken but eager to inform our colleagues, ly. It would also limit doctors charges . bassy in San Salvador and to the colonels sponsors, and all who will listen that we can to fair payment rates determined by who head the National and Treasury Police save many thousands of lives by protesting medicare. However, these rates would by our sponsoring organizations, members to the Salvadoran authorities disappear be set with input from physicians and of the U.S. Senate, the Human Rights Divi ances and other human-rights violations. the elderly. sion of the State Department, and individ Physicians and other concerned persons can We recognize that many thoughtful ual U.S. citizens, but Dr. Rivera Martelli re help privately by donating equipment and people are concerned that physicians mains "disappeared." funds through such international relief will if The public educational system in San Sal agencies as the International Committee of abandon the elderly the Con vador is in disarray. The large number of the Red Cross and Catholic Relief Services. gress were to enact this bill. There schoolteachers and members of the univer U.S. foreign aid must make abundant provi fore, we have included a provision by sity faculty (including medical-school pro sion for such essentials as food, medicine, which participating hospitals are re fessors> who have disappeared, been impris vaccines, medical equipment, teaching mate quired to have physicians providing oned as political prisoners, or fled the coun rials for students, and other forms of eco care in their facilities agree to accept try has depleted the educational establish nomic assistance. Aid to this war-tom coun assignment. We have also included a ment. No professors of basic medical science try should emphasize life-giving sustenance provision to create an advisory com remain. All entrances to the National Uni rather than arms and military equipment.e versity have been sealed for the past two mittee on physician reimbursement as years, and the principal laboratory building a means to determine what is fair pay located outside the university grounds has MEDICARE PHYSICIAN FAIR ment to physicians for different medi been gutted by the military so that only ex PAYMENT ACT OF 1984 cal services. These provisions should ternal walls remain. No students have been help reduce the number of physicians admitted since the closing of the university. HON. EDWARD R. ROYBAL abandoning the elderly and the medi In the past semester, medical students in care program. the last two years of the six-year course OF CALIFORNIA have been taught in storefronts and private IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Also, conditions have changed since the enactment of medicare. The elder homes by a few intrepid professors, but the Thursday, March 15, 1984 complete absence of equipment, books, med ly constitute a very large percentage ical journals, and demonstration materials e Mr. ROYBAL. Mr. Speaker, I rise of most physician practices. As the el makes this valiant effort doomed. The dev today to introduce the "Medicare Phy derly increase as a proportion of the astation is both physical and intellectual. sician Fair Payment Act of 1984"-a U.S. population, physican practices Our group visited two facilities for politi bill which is strongly supported by will be more oriented toward serving cal prisoners that are operated by the Min those organizations representing the the elderly and physicians will become istry of Justice: Dopango for women and Mariona for men. We were permitted to elderly of this Nation. increasingly dependent upon their el interview the inmates alone and without This bill requires physicians serving derly patients. We also have an over time restriction. Medical care in the medicare patients to accept medicare's supply of physicians in this Nation women's prison is provided by a recent grad- customary and prevailing rates as fair and the result has been growing com uate of medical school who devotes a few payment for medical services-often petition for medicare patients. 5798 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1984 In the past few months, we have 1950 to his election as executive secre the most difficult of times; through spoken with many physicians who tary on April i1, 1955, he served as ad out it all he never once retreated from agree that this is the right approach ministrator. his commitment to the cause of civil at the right time. I believe that very It was as a member of the NAACP rights and peace. Roy Wilkins was a few physicians are likely to abandon that Roy Wilkins became a national man of peace, a man of reason, and a the elderly. Those physicians who do leader in the civil rights arena. Mr. man of immense courage and dignity. abandon the elderly will incur the Wilkins used his skills as an articulate He set very high standards for him wrath of the elderly, the American spokesman who always sought peace self, standards that he always lived up public and their own profession. The ful, long lasting, and meaningful meas to. physician profession is an honorable ures to advance the cause of civil The Civil Rights Act of 1964 stands profession which will not abandon its rights. Roy Wilkins was a driving force as a symbol of Roy Wilkins' lifelong obligations to its elderly patients. behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964, commitment to the principles of free I believe that this Congress no and he was a major reason why the dom, equality, justice, and peace. We, longer can afford to not take action movement gained respectability and as Americans, owe so much to Roy while the elderly of this Nation in national support. He combined intelli Wilkins. By presenting a specially creasingly suffer under the burden of gence, reason, a sense of justice, and struck gold medal to his widow Minnie rising health care costs. The elderly the American heritage of freedom to Wilkins, we here in Congress show our are both frightened and angry over forcefully, yet peacefully get his mes great respect and admiration for Roy the burden which has been placed on sage across. Wilkins. I cannot think of anyone who them. A recent survey found that two The passage of the Civil Rights Act is more deserving of this honor. Roy thirds of the elderly feel that medical in 1964 did not mark the end of the Wilkins dedicated his whole life to the costs are outside their control. In an struggle for the civil rights movement. very principles that made this country other survey most elderly stated that The latter part of the sixties was a great. His many acievements in the ad if they could make one change in the time of high tension and great vio vancement of civil rights are part of health care system, it would be to con lence. Despite the emotional and fe our Nations's illustrious history and tain health care costs. Finally, a third verish pitch of the civil rights move will have a lasting effect on the future survey concluded that half of the el ment, Roy Wilkins remained commit generations of this country.e derly view the high cost of health care ted to the principles of peace and he as the most pressing issue facing this continued to work tirelessly on behalf country. of the civil rights movement. Greatly EFFECTIVENESS OF LABOR LAW There should be no doubt where the concerned over the increasing level of ENFORCEMENT IN DETERRING elderly stand. The question is where violence associated with the civil ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION will the Congress stand on the issue of rights movement and the student fair payment.e movement on college campuses, Mr. Wilkins served as a member of the HON. MAITHEW G. MARTINEZ President's National Advisory Com OF CALIFORNIA TRIBUTE TO ROY WILKINS mission on Civil Disorders, 1967-68. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In 1967, he was given the Freedom HON. MARIO BIAGGI Award by Freedom House in recogni Thursday, March 15, 1984 OF NEW YORK tion of his dedicated service to the e Mr. MARTINEZ. Mr. Speaker, as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES civil rights movement. In January you are well aware, a majority of the 1968, he was awarded the Medal of Hispanic caucus, of which I am a Thursday, March 15, 1984 Freedom by President Lyndon Baines member, have endorsed H.R. 4940, a e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, earlier Johnson, the country's highest civil bill introduced by my colleague Con this week I was proud to join my col honor. The multitude of other awards, gressman RoYBAL, aimed at immigra leagues in a display of admiration and medals, and honors that Roy Wilkins tion reform. The Roybal bill differs respect for Roy Wilkins. Together received in his lifetime were but a from the Simpson-Mazzoli bill in that with my colleagues we approved a bill, small indication of the greatness of it does not adopt employer sanctions. H.R. 3240, that authorizes the Presi the man. Instead the Roybal bill relies on a dent to present on behalf of Congress At a time when many would have comprehensive enforcement of current a specially struck gold medal to the found it easier and safer to remain labor laws as a primary method for widow of Roy Wilkins. silent, Roy Wilkins had the courage stopping illegal immigration. As a key figure in the civil rights and sense of duty to speak out for As a member of the Subcommittee movement of the early 1960's, Roy what he believed. Roy Wilkins began on Employment Opportunities, I am Wilkins was an instrumental force in his crusade for civil rights in the very concerned with the negative getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 1920's against what seemed insur impact of employer sanctions. Employ passed into law. Men like Roy Wilkins mountable odds. The road was long er sanctions not only are discriminato and Martin Luther King, Jr., will for and hard but Roy's perseverence and ry against "foreign looking" people, ever be remembered for their dedica incredible personal fortitude allowed but they are also burdensome for busi tion to justice, civil rights, and peace. the civil rights movement to prevail. nesses in that additional records on At this time I would like to say a few In spite of the intense turmoil that workers' documentation would have to words in honor of Roy Wilkins. arose during the late 1960's Mr. Wil be kept. This requires additional en Born on August 30, 1901, in St. kins did not waver in his support of forcement machinery to be set up the Louis, Mo., Roy, along with his broth peaceful means to convey the message the Department of Labor and addi er and sister, moved to St. Paul, Minn., of freedom and equality for all. Even tional recordkeeping machinery to be where they were reared by their moth after the tragic death of Dr. Martin set up by businesses, some of which do er's sister and her husband. It was in Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins re not have the resources to do so. St. Paul that Mr. Wilkins' remarkable mained true to the principles that he The National Council of La Raza has career began. and Dr. King had worked so hard to written a policy analysis on the effec- As secretary of the St. Paul NAACP, establish. tiveness of labor law enforcement in Roy Wilkins was a delegate to the na Roy Wilkins had a rare talent for deterring illegal immigration. It raises tional NAACP convention in Kansas mastering the powerful arguments for serious questions about employer sanc City in 1923. In 1931 Mr. Wilkins unpopular positions and he was able to tions and I would like to insert it for joined the national staff of the translate those arguments into popu the record. NAACP as assistant secretary. From lar support. He persevered through The analysis follows: March 15, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5799

I. INTRODUC'l'ION much-if not more-than minimum wage to keep proper records, and will, therefore, The immigration debate is heating up in violations. The 1979 DOL Noncompliance be more effective in detecting violations. light of imminent action to be taken by the Survey found, for example, that violations 5. The DOL program was understaffed, House with regard to this issue. Proponents of overtime provisions were more common and backlogs of cases hindered program ef of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill have attacked than minimum wage violations of overtime fectiveness. The old program included 225 the enforcement provisions of the alterna provisions were more common than mini compliance officers, and in many respects, tive legislation that has been introduced by mum wage violations <21.1% vs. 4.9% of the operated as an extension of DOL's regular Congressman Roybal. The Roybal bill