November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32685 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE PRESIDENT SHOULD SIGN taken in the Wylie substitute. However, I be­ By offering art and cultural activities to stu­ THE HOUSING BILL lieve the conference report represents a fair dents, the organization provides opportunities compromise, and I urge the Senate and the to broaden learning experiences, helping stu­ HON. DAVID DREIER President to support this important legislation. dents to live and grow in an environment rich OF CALIFORNIA with a diversity beyond the academic sphere. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A TRIBUTE TO THE BUREAU OF The Bureau has devoted itself to enriching Tuesday, November 17, 1987 JEWISH EDUCATION OF THE the lives of those it has served, a goal it has JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL excelled at achieving through the years. In the Mr. DREIER of California. Mr. Speaker, American tradition of upholding education as a today, the Senate will be considering the con­ OF LOS ANGELES ON ITS value vital to our future, this organization has ference report to the Housing and Community GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Development Act of 1987. As a member of provided important opportunities to the Jewish the Housing Subcommittee, I would like to HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN community of Los Angeles for 50 years. It is urge my colleagues in the other body to sup­ OF CALIFORNIA our distinct pleasure to join with our col- port the conference report. I would also like to . leagues to honor the Bureau of Jewish Educa­ urge the President to sign the measure into HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN tion of the Jewish Federation Council. law. Although far from perfect, it is a signifi­ OF CALIFORNIA cant improvement over H.R. 4 as passed by · HON. MEL LEVINE the House in June. OF CALIFORNIA First, I would like to say that I think that the House Republicans did a terrific job on this HON. ANTHONY C. BEILENSON A TRIBUTE TO PATRICK E. bill. We held tough in the face of tremendous OF CALIFORNIA McDONALD pressure to accept an expensive and defec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tive hous~ng authorization bill. While some within the housing industry were demanding Tuesday, November 17, 1987 HON. RICHARD H. STALLINGS that we accept a budget-busting bill that Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, we rise today to OF IDAHO would essentially reregulate the housing in­ ·pay tribute to the Bureau of Jewish Education dustry, we Republicans were working diligently of the Jewish Federal Council of Greater Los IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to turn H.R. 4 into a prohousing, market-ori­ Angeles on the occasion of its golden anniver­ Tuesday, November 17, 1987 ented bill. sary. For 50 years, this organization has dedi­ In my view, the $15 billion price tag is still cated itself to providing central educational Mr. STALLINGS. Mr. Speaker, I would like too high given that the level of the Federal planning for the Jewish community of the Los to take this opportunity to commend Patrick E. deficit threatens economic growth. There is no Angeles area. Beginning with a gala celebra­ McDonald of Idaho Falls, ID, who has been level of funding that would offset the damage tion on December 3, 1987, events commemo­ promoted to the rank of captain in the Idaho that will be done to the housing industry rating this most important occasion will be State Police. He is currently commander of should there persistent deficits lead to an eco­ held through June 1988. District Six, which covers eastern Idaho. nomic recession. For one-half century, this prominent organi­ Captain McDonald has devoted the past 20 But, on balance, the conference report is, at zation has served the educational needs of years to law enforcement and criminal justice, least, a step in the right direction. The funding Los Angeles' Jewish community. The bureau baginning his career with the Idaho State level is a billion dollars lower than H.R. 4, and has established and maintained educational Police at Cotterell Port of Entry. He then we will actually save about $360 million if the standards, developed curricula, and trained became a trooper and was stationed in the President does not veto this bill. The confer­ and certified some 1,000 teachers. The southern Idaho town of Glenns Ferry. ence report also allows the manufactured achievements of this organization are excep­ In 1972, McDonald moved to Boise, ID, housing industry to remain competitive with tional and important. where he was assigned as one of the State's onsight homebuilders. It puts more emphasis Through scholarship programs providing first motorcycle officers. In 1980, he was pro­ on vouchers and rehabilitation of the existing needed financial assistance to students and moted to sergeant and in that same year housing stock, and less emphasis on expen­ through special education instruction made moved to Idaho Falls where he currently sive and inefficient new construction subsi­ available to students with learning disabilities, serves. Five years later, he was promoted to dies. the bureau has successfully helped to meet lieutenant, and assigned as commander of But most important, it contains a number of the academic needs of the community's Idaho State Police District Six. provisions to strengthen the FHA mortgage in­ youth. Not only are 25,000 children of all ages McDonald is a graduate of the College of surance program, which I strongly support. coordinated through the diverse programs of- Southern Idaho, the Federal Law Enforcement These changes are needed to ensure that fared by the bureau, but parent education pro­ Training Center at Glenco, GA, and the Cali­ FHA continues to meet the mortgage financ­ grams provide a bridge between the school ing needs of low- and moderate-income and the home, a service which exemplifies the fornia Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramen­ homebuyers. value of the role played by the bureau in our to. In 1986 he graduated from the prestigious First, the conference report includes an society. FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA. He is amendment which I coauthored to increase Services provided by the bureau extend well a frequent lecturer to law enforcement organi­ FHA's mortgage insurance ceiling from beyond the classroom. Programs aimed at im­ zations, and a regular speaker to community, $90,000 to $101,250 for homebuyers in high migrants from countries such as Russia and civic, and school groups. cost areas. It also permanently extends FHA's Iran help to familiarize them with American so­ McDonald is currently majoring in corporate authority, which will guarantee the continued ciety, preserving and enriching American training at Idaho State University. His areas of viability of the program by removing it from Jewish culture. Social action projects involve specialty include training in critical incident the political uncertainties that it continually students with timely issues which affect them management, post-traumatic incident reaction, faces in Congress. as members of the Jewish and American and special weapons and tactics. Mr. Speaker, I would have preferred to see communities, enabling them to gain a better Captain McDonald and his wife Sarah Jane a housing bill which incorporates the approach understanding of their culture and their nation. have three children.

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91-059 0-89-25 (Pt. 23) 32686 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 DIVERSE INSURANCE INDUSTRY "Our feeling is that there ought to be He added that the banking industry VOICES CITED equal access to a.ll of these industries from "plays a critical role in society in providing any industry, including non-financial serv­ for absolute safety for individual depositors. ices industries. Tha.t is as long as a company The insurance business requires other HON. JAMES J. FLORIO can demonstrate a certain level of capital," skills," he said. "The safety of the banking OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Brown said. system is best preserved if it remains dedi­ If a company owns several financial serv­ cated to the banking business." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ices concerns, Mr. Brown said regulation In addition, Mr. Berring on said unisex Tuesday, November 17,°1987 should be on a "functional basis. In other rates result in subsidization of individuals words, an insurance subsidiary would come whose loss histories don't justify the lower Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, the insurance in­ under federal insurance regulation, a bank­ rate. You have low-loss groups subsidizing dustry is an important industry with many ca­ ing subsidiary under banking regulations, high-loss groups, and that eviscerates the pable leaders and much diversity. In these etc., rather than the regulations affecting concept of insurance.'' times of uncertainty and rapid change in finan­ just the parent company. cial markets, it is important for us in Congress "We have to do away with the crazy quilt to keep up with the different views of insur­ of regulations that we have today," he ex­ A TRIBUTE TO MR. WILLIAM plained. BOYERS ance industry leadership. An article from the The overall position of the insurance in­ Journal of Commerce, which I am inserting in dustry is to fight any possible entry of the RECORD, focuses on the perspective of banks into insurance business. John Han­ HON.EDOLPHUSTOWNS John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. cock does not ta.ke tha.t view, Mr. Brown OF NEW YORK said. [From the Journal of Commerce, Nov. 3, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 19871 "Our position is if banks are to be allowed access to expanded insurance powers, insur­ Tuesday, November 17, 1987 JOHN HANCOCK: INDUSTRY'S BLACK SHEEP ers will be given a quid pro quo. It will be an agents, who see education at North Carolina A& T State Univer­ The company's maverick views haven't yet banks as tough competition," Mr. Brown sity where he received a bachelor of science antagonized its industry brethren, sa.id Ste­ said. Hancock deals primarily with its own degree in 1956, after serving 2 years in the agent; rather than independent agents. U.S. Army. He has furthered his studies phen L. Brown, Hancock president and chief The Boston-based insurer is a member of operating officer. In fa.ct, he said, "many the Financial Services Council, a group of toward an advanced degree at North Carolina companies privately agree" with Hancock's A&T. unorthodox opinions, complaining primarily 17 companies-Merril Lynch, Sears, Roe­ buck & Co and American Express are As testament to his athletic abilities, Mr. that Hancock is "premature" in expressing others-that is looking to revamp the regu­ Boyers has received the following awards: All them. lations governing the financial services in­ State Football, 1948; All American Football, "Most feel the visions we are painting are dustry. Mr. Brown noted that the council inevitable," Mr. Brown said. 1949-50; All CIAA, 1950-51-tackle; All has drafted a bill "providing a more open CIAA-track and shot put. He was also a par­ One of those visions is a major change in and appropriate regulatory framework" for the way the insurance business is regulated. financial services concerns, he sa.id. ticipant in the Orange Blossom Classic in "If we were given a choice, we would opt "We have found a common meeting Miami, FL. In addition, from 1976-85, he for one federal insurance regulator rather ground," Mr. Brown said. served as a coach for the State Championship than 50 state regulators," Mr. Brown sa.id. Hancock also diverges with the industry Wrestling Team. "That's different than what most insurance on unisex insurance rating. A former actu­ William Boyers has been involved in pro­ companies publicly, but perhaps not private­ ary, Mr. Brown said he understands the ra­ ly, say.'' grams related to education as well as coach­ tionale on the part of the industry to use ing throughout his adult life. He has, since Fifty state insurance regulators creates gender as a. factor in rating automobile, life, "unevenness, a. lack of uniformity," he sa.id. health and other insurance policies. He said, 1956, been employed by the Greensboro "Each regulator has a different idea of what however, that the public has "made its posi­ Public School system as a physical education an insurance policy should look like. That tion known" about any differentiation be­ teacher, as well as a coach for the football, creates problems when it comes to filing tween the sexes. wrestling, and track teams. in each state. "The time has come from a social point of William and his wife, Necia Baker-Boyers, "In addition, the quality of regulators view for the industry to accept that gender­ from state-to-state is different. You have are the proud parents of two lovely children, based rating criterion is not wanted by the Nathaniel Ill, and Robert Jeffrey. some states, such as New York, tha.t are par­ majority of the population. We want to see ticularly strong, and others, shall we say, the industry accept equal treatment of men I extend my heartiest congratulations to Mr. that are less strong," Mr. Brown said. and women, rather than continue to fight Boyers on this auspicious occasion. Certainly, Federal regulation would encourage inno­ what is in the long-term a losing proposi­ he is deserving of this great honor. vation, Mr. Brown added, conceding though tion. that it will be an uphill battle to put such "As long as a punitive approach is not oversight in place. taken-for example, making all claims on TRIBUTE TO COUNCIL NO. 9, "Most insurers are afraid we might end up this issue retroactive-we favor unisex in­ POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE with a. federal regulator who is unfriendly surance rates. The industry says it will open OF PASSAIC, NJ, ON ITS 75TH to the industry. But I think a federal regu­ the door to doing away with other rating ANNIVERSARY lator, with a well-staffed organization, criteria, such as age. But we doubt unisex would be less punitive . . . and could save rating will really set an unfortunate prece­ the industry money," he sa.id. dent," he said. HON. ROBERT A. ROE The Hancock president noted that most Craig Barrington, general counsel for the OF NEW JERSEY other financial services industries ha.ve fed­ American Insurance Association, says the eral oversight. current system of state regulation has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Without it, we will be at a. disa.dvanta.ge worked well. Tuesday, November 17, 1987 when it comes time to regulate the financial "When you compare it to federal regula­ services industry," he said. tion in other areas, such as securities, it's Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, the bond between Such future regulation of banking, insur­ hard to say it hasn't provided a secure, our great Nation and the freedom-loving ance, securities and other financial services stable environment for the insurance busi­ people of Poland has always been a strong industries is a. likelihood, he explained. ness," he said. one. I think this is true not only because the November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32687 United States is home to so many people of "WILL THE LAST COMMERCIAL Historic Park on its 200th anniversary on Polish descent, but also because ours, as a SHIPBUILDER PLEASE TURN behalf of the U.S. House of Representatives. democratic nation that gained independence OUT THE LIGHTS" just over 200 years ago, identifies closely with the Poles' struggle for freedom and with its HON. MARIO BIAGGI many great heroes past and present, Casimir OF NEW YORK Pulaski, Madame Curie, Father Popieluszko, RETIREES SHOULD NOT BE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Lech Walesa, to name just a few. ASKED TO TIGHTEN BELTS Tuesday, November 17, 1987 The spirit of this close bond between our country and the Polish people is kept strong Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, largely unnoticed HON. JOEL HEFLEY amid the sweep of major events on Wall and vibrant in the United States by the many OF COLORADO groups and civic organizations which provide Street and the Persian Gulf, our Nation's first IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a focal point for Polish Americans in the industrial enterprise, commercial shipbuilding, United States who keep the candle of free­ is sinking into oblivion. From New York to Bal­ Tuesday, November 17, 1987 timore, and Los Angeles to Seattle, every­ dom burning for those back in the homeland. where, we see the quickening pace of rede­ Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, every year there Mr. Speaker, in my Eighth District of New velopment of former shipyards into upscale is a good deal of controversy during budget Jersey, we have been, indeed, fortunate to condominium projects. Shipyards are closing negotiations about cost of living adjustments have had such a group keeping the Polish their doors forever because of a combination for Social Security recipients, retired Federal community in northern New Jersey tightly knit of failed national policy and the fact that the employees, and retired military employees. for three quarters of a century. I speak of land they occupy is worth more if converted to This year is no exception, and the way we are Council No. 9, Polish National Alliance of Pas­ nonmaritime use. dealing with this issue is disgraceful. saic, NJ, which this year is marking its 75th It isn't just the land and facilities that are It is clear that the problem of our national anniversary. This most noteworthy event will passing from the industrial seascape of our debt is an issue we cannot ignore. Yet, Con­ be celebrated with a dinner on Saturday, No­ major ports. A recently released report of the gress continues to pass bill after bill authoriz­ vember 21, at the Polish Peoples Home in Presidential Commission on Merchant Marine ing additional spending for domestic pro­ Passaic. I am pleased to report that Mary Ba­ and Defense graphically chronicles the irre­ grams. In fact, since President Reagan was laski and Kazimiera Bidas, and many others, versible loss of skilled manpower. Seven short sworn in 1981 , Congress has increased do­ have been working tirelessly to assure that years ago, 50,000 shipyard workers were em­ mestic spending by $322 billion over the ob­ this 75th anniversary celebration will be a ployed building commercial vessels. Now, no jections of most Republicans. more. Gone, Forever. great success. Most people think that Congress is elected This grim report coincides with the delivery to make tough decisions, but week after week, Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this oppor­ of the last seagoing commercial vessel from I see many of my colleagues voting for every­ tunity to commend the current executive an American shipyard-a container vessel thing-not choosing between competing prior­ board-President Joseph Lewandowski, Vice launched by Bay Shipbuilding for Sea-Land ities. Just last week, by a v.ote of 206 to 205 President Michael Bednarz, Secretary Mary Corp. destined for a trading life on the Alas­ the majority of Members in the House of Rep­ Beleski, Treasurer John Cebrowski and Audi­ kan run. Remember her. Like as not, she will resentatives voted themselves another pay tors Kazimiera Bidas, Adele Kempton and El­ be the last of her kind. Save the champagne. raise. eanore Zboraj-for their efforts in guiding We won't need it anymore. This week, budget negotiators are attempt­ Council No. 9, PNA through its 75th year. I'd like to know what Jack London, Richard Henry Dana, or Herman Melville would say ing to reach an accord that will reduce the Council No. 9, PNA was organized July 28, about the irreversible loss of America's mari­ Federal deficit by $30 billion. Without that sav­ 1912, by Mr. Joseph Jaworski at the Polish time heritage and tradition, forever consigned ings, the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law Peoples Home, 1-3 Monroe Street, Passaic, to reside in the Smithsonian or Mystic Sea­ will require indiscriminate, across-the-board where it is still located. The council was port. It just somehow seems all wrong. Worse cuts. formed by lodges that belonged to the Polish yet, we may never miss it until it's gone; as I True to form, the negotiators may try to National Alliance of North America, a fraternal said before, drowned out in the maelstrom of avoid those cuts by including $2 billion in sav­ organization involved in a great number of Wall Street and the Persian Gulf. ings from delaying cost-of-living adjustments. community and civic activities. Lodges belong­ This is not right. I cannot ask our retirees to ing to the original council include Lodge 18 of tighten their belts when Congress won't do Paterson, Lodge 217 of Passaic, Lodge 378 of LA PURISIMA MISSION the same. Lodi, Lodge 527 of Hackensack, Lodge 1138 Legislation that is already passed antici­ of Passaic, Lodge 1475 of Bloomfield, Lodge HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO pates full cost-of-living adjustments at 4.2 per­ 1738 of Passaic, Lodge 2373 of Lyndhurst, OF CALIFORNIA cent which reflects the increase in the Con­ Lodge 2571 of Wallington, and Lodge 2901 of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sumer Price Index for fiscal year 1988. Last Kearny. Tuesday, November 17, 1987 year retirees received adjustments of 1.3 per­ Many of those lodges have since merged cent. The year before that, only Social Securi­ Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to into the six that exist today and report to the ty recipients received COLA's of 3.1 percent. call the attention of the Members to the bicen­ council, which in turn, is part of the national Because COLA's for Federal and military retir­ tennial celebration of La Purisima Mission on ees were not then exempt from Gramm­ Polish American Congress located in Chicago. December 8, 1987. As a vital link to the histo­ Rudman cuts, both groups lost their COLA in· It is the combined efforts of these groups and ry of the State of California, this is the most creases. so many like them which help the United completely restored of California's 21 mis­ States maintain a strong bond with the people sions. I oppose reducing COLA's when it is clear of Poland in their constant struggle for free­ La Purisima Mission which now stands as a to me that we are not asking everyone to dom and human rights. State historic park is an example of the dedi­ reduce their dependence on the Federal Mr. Speaker, it is with the greatest pride cation which allows us to retain our heritage budget. The only time COLA reductions would that I invite you and our colleagues to join me as Americans through the restoration of his­ make sense to me, and to most of the seniors with whom I have talked, is if every sector of in saluting Council No. 9, Polish National Alli­ toric sites. La Purisima consists of the actual our society-public officials, Federal employ­ ance of Passaic, NJ, for helping to keep the mission buildings and 507 acres of land which have been restored as a refuge of natural ees, retirees, students, business-had to tight­ hope of freedom alive, not only for the people beauty. en their belts at the same time. of Poland, but for freedom-loving peoples ev­ At this time I would like to extend my con­ I will not support singling out retirees' bene­ erywhere. gratulations to the La Purisima Mission State fits. 32688 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 TRIBUTE TO HISPANIC-OWNED growth: 9,900 percent. Artco had only QUEENS-SEBACO SISTER CITY COMPANIES FOR BUSINESS $300,000 in sales in 1982 and realized $24.4 PROJECT SUCCESS million last year, with a profit margin above 16 percent. Construction companies make up the HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN HON. BILL RICHARDSON highest number of firms found in any one OF NEW YORK OF NEW MEXICO industry, but both this category and that of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES service firms follow retailers in terms of Tuesday, November 17, 1987 Tuesday, November 17, 1987 share of sales. Retailers accounted for 22.4 percent of the total sales of $1.5 billion, fol­ Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, the great Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I would lowed by construction companies with 20.8 people of Queens have done it again. They like to commend five Hispanic owned compa­ percent and service firms with 20.1 percent. have shown their concern for the foreign nies in the State of New Mexico for their busi­ The manufacturing industry, which had policy of this Nation, and demonstrated their ness success. They are acknowledged as five only 9 percent of sales in our 1985 directory, reserves of creative energy by developing a of the 100 fastest growing Hispanic owned accounted for 16.l percent last year. truly unique initiative-the Queens/Sebaco businesses in the country. Advanced Sci­ Sister City project. The project links the Bor­ ences, Inc., of Albuquerque, Medka Construc­ SALES DOWN, PROFITS UP ough of Queens with Sebaco, Nicaragua. tion Co., of Las Vegas, Russ Pitney Earthmov­ Omitted from this year's list was the trou­ Sebaco is in the Department, or district, of ing Co., of Albuquerque, American Toyota, of Matagalpa, approximately 70 miles north of Albuquerque, and Mimbres, Inc., of Santa Fe bled health maintenance organization Inter­ national Medical Centers . due to its Managua. The total population is 17,818 highlight the advances the minority community people-roughly the equivalent of 1 square has made and continue to make throughout planned acquisition by Humana Inc., and its absence is largely responsible for a decline mile in Queens. Sebaco's main industries are the country. The economic climate of our of $214.7 million from last year's aggregate vegetable and basic grain farming and animal State is dependent on businesses such as gross sales. The loss of IMC, however, ren­ husbandry. these which provide jobs for New Mexico's ders a more level picture of the Hispanic Although we do little farming in Queens, my residents. I would like to insert an article from Business 100 fastest-growing companies. district has many shared interests and con­ Hispanic Business magazine recognizing the With the South Florida medical provider in­ cerns. Sebaco's major needs are in the areas accomplishments of these businesses for the cluded in our previous listing, for example, of eduction and health care, obviously very review of my colleagues. the service industry had accounted for a dis­ basic necessities of life. There is a health care [fhe article follows:] proportionate 36 percent of sales, and this center and a rural health outpost there, but CFrom Hispanic Business, November 19871 year's industry leader-retailers-had dropped to 15 percent. Sebaco desperately needs medical supplies, OUT IN FRONT-THE 100 FASTEST-GROWING as well as notebooks, pencils, tools, building COMPANIES About the same number of firms as in materials, and clothing. Sebaco requires these The 100 fastest-growing Hispanic-owned 1985 made a profit-92 in 1986, 91 in 1985- basic necessities because Nicaragua is but the profits were higher for the most companies flourished more rapidly than last spending its limited resources on a civil war year's group. Total gross sales of this year's recent 100. Only eight firms had profit 100 enterprises increased by 351 percent ranges of 16 percent or more in 1985, and with the United States-backed Contras. from 1982 to 1986, which tops the 1981-1985 that figure increased to 13 in 1986. And The people of Queens have responded to growth rate of 295 percent of last year's while 40 firms had profit margins of 6 to 15 this small city's needs by forming the private fastest 100. percent last year, in 1985, 37 did; the in­ Queens Sister City project. The organization is This year's growth was surpassed only by crease in companies making high profits collecting school supplies, clothing, and the 1984 figure, when 361 percent growth came out of those making low profits, as the money for medical supplies to assist Sebaco, was registered-but then, only 50 companies number of firms with profits of 1 to 5 per­ as well as to demonstrate opposition to were measured that year. Hispanic Business cent dropped from 46 to 39, while those United States policies toward Nicaragua. The began tracking the fastest-growing compa­ breaking even or operating at a loss re­ group also encourages other sister relation­ nies in 1983. That year, six of the top 10 mained unchanged. companies had sales growth in excess of ships between hospitals, schools, and com­ 2,000 percent; in 1986, seven of them did, This year's crop of fastest-growing compa­ munity centers in each city. and the top three increased sales by more nies also managed to hire more employees, I commend the Queens Sister City project than 4,000 percent each during the past five relative to the number they had in 1982, for its citizens diplomacy and hands-on in­ years. than last year's 100 did. The overall employ­ volvement in United States foreign policy and Sliding into the No. 1 slot as the fastest­ ment increase was 235 percent, compared I enourage similar relationships between other growing Hispanic-owned business is an ad­ with 186 percent last year. At the same United States and Nicaraguan cities. vertising firm that turned up on the 1986 time, this year's 100 were generally smaller, Hispanic Business 500 directory for the first with an average of only 111 employees per time, No. 220-ranked Garcia-Serra & Blanco firm, compared with an average of 145 in THE 225TH ANNIVERSARY OF Advertising, of Coral Gables, Fla. The 1985. agency grew at the sizzling rate of 12,002 ZION'S REFORMED UNITED percent. CEO Al Garcia-Serra reports that a The top five fastest-growing companies re­ CHURCH OF CHRIST combination of talented personnel, hard flect the balance found in this year's 100: work and this decade's heightened aware­ Behind advertising agency Garcia-Serra and general contractor Artco are No. 3-ranked HON. DON RITIER ness of the Hispanic market helped Garcia­ OF PENNSYLVANIA Serra grow from a profitless, $73,542 start­ Pacifica Services Inc., a civil engineering up company in 1982 to an $8.9 million firm that placed No. 2 behind IMC in 1985; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agency with a profit margin between 6 and No. 4-ranked Golden Gate Air Freight, a Tuesday, November 17, 1987 15 percent last year. Mr. Garcia-Serra; who specialized air transport carrier that has is 41 and who oversees an equally youthful won more than a 100 corporate customers Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, I wish to mark an staff, rode into the advertising business on such as General Motors Corp., Levi Strauss event whose roots reach deeply into our the Hispanic market but has expanded into & Co. and Hills Bros. Coffee Inc.; and No. 5- American history and which celebrates pro­ the general market GRIMMER THINGS LoOK their further production by paralyzing the Every so often that little devil Lucy terrupt transmission of the disease and sus­ Gorbachev> cons Charley Brown into believing that finally, this Cabinet official who subjected his chief, his Other drugs also are effective against the time, she will hold the football to ministration, Reagan neither expects nor victims the world over. Merck's commitment become convinced that finally, this time, enforces any standard of accountability-es­ has given a new and honorable twist to the the Great Pumpkin will pecially toward such loyal old friends as practice of dumping drugs on the Third arise from the pumpkin patch with gifts Meese. World. Americans should praise Merck and for That is the chilling aftermath of the encourage it to dump away. all those who sincerely and truly believe. comic episode of the nomination of Judge Douglas Ginsburg for the Supreme Court. It THE LONGER EDWIN MEESE is a stark reminder of the appalling inepti­ A TRIBUTE TO CLAUDE J. STAYS tude of the central figures in a government NELSON that must somehow lead this country for another 14 months. HON. HAROLD E. FORD Meese is a personally pleasant man who HON. CHARLES ROSE OF TENNESSEE has had more than his share of family trag­ edy these past few years. But as a govern­ OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI.VES ment official, he has been a disaster-a man Tuesday, November 17, 1987 whose narrowness of view is matched by his Tuesday, November 17, 1987 Mr. FORD of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, incompetence. His tangled personal affairs Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, I wish to pay trib­ have twice earned him investigations by spe­ there comes a time when the Congress of the cial prosecutors. He has been involved in a ute, and give due recognition to Claude J. United States has an obligation to call to the string of blunders, stretching from the Nelson, a man who has devoted his life and attention of both the President and the people "Why wake Reagan?" decision during the career to the service of our country abroad as of the United States the abject failure of a U.S.-Libyan aerial dogfight in the first year a long-time member of the Foreign Service. high-ranking Cabinet member to carry out his of the presidency to the bungled Iran­ Counselor Nelson was appointed a career responsibilities. The Cabinet member of whom contra investigation, which allowed Ollie member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class I speak is the highest ranking law enforce­ North and Fawn Hall time for their "shred­ of Counselor, on the 15th day of June, 1987, ment official in the ·Nation: The Attorney Gen­ ding party.'' by President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of Even by the elastic standards in this ad­ eral Edwin Meese. ministration, this lastest episode fairly State George P. Shultz. This Nation has come to expect that the shouts for Meese's resignation. Consider for The certificate of appointment reads as fol­ person who occupies the august position of a moment what occurred. The chief law en­ lows: Attorney General be a shining example of forcement officer of the government, fulfill­ To Claude J. Nelson, Greeting: Reposing competence in the legal profession as well as ing one of his most vital duties, advised the special trust and confidence in your Integri­ the possessor of a sterling personal reputa­ president of the United States to nominate ty, Prudence, and Ability, I have nominated tion. a certain individual for a vacancy on the Su­ and, by and with the advice and consent of preme Court of the United States. the Senate, do appoint you a Career The bitter truth is that the current Attorney "Advised" is putting it mildly, for Meese Member of the Senior Foreign Service of General has proven himself to be both incom­ pushed hard for Ginsburg, against the the United States of America, Class of petent and unscrupulous. Enough is enough! advice of the White House chief of staff and Counselor, and empower you to do and per­ As the respected columnist, David Broder, the counsel to the president, who ques­ form all such matters and things as the said said recently, ... • • as a government official, tioned whether Ginsburg could be con­ office do appertain, and to hold and exercise he has been a disaster, a man whose narrow­ firmed. He vouched personally to the presi­ the said office, during the pleasure of the ness of view is matched by his incompe­ dent that Ginsburg met the ideological President of the United States. tence." standards Reagan had set for the job and In tesij.Jnony whereof I have caused the was not vulnerable to the liberal counterat­ Seal of the United States to be hereunto af­ When the Attorney General is under investi­ tack that sank Judge Robert Bork. fixed. Done at the city of Washington this gation, when the Attorney General can't keep Meese did so in the face of the fact that fifteenth day of June in the year of our his personal affairs in order, when the Attor­ Ginsburg had an extremely sketchy record: Lord one thousand nine hundred and ney General's personal advisors are the tar­ no private law practice; one hour of court­ eighty-seven and of the Independence of the gets of grand juries, when the Attorney Gener- room argument on one case; the lowest pass- 32692 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 ing rating from the American Bar Associa­ Proponents of the program argue that it pro­ laws; <2> a heightened awareness by the tion for appointment to a lower level judge­ vides stability in an otherwise volatile com­ medical profession of RMD's, particularly ship; and only one year of judicial service, modity market. In practice, however, the carpal tunnel syndrome ; (3) emphasis with fewer than 20 opinions as a member of Sugar Program has protected inefficient pro­ of industry in the 21st century on "line as­ the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. sembly" operations that require multiple re­ Meese failed to discover or to alert the ducers at the expense of consumers and jobs, petitive motion tasks involving the hand, president to other facts whose disclosure promoted a misallocation of agricultural re­ wrist, and forearm; <4> the Occupational forced Ginsburg to withdraw in less than sources, and considerably damaged America's Health & Safety Administration's two weeks. Conservatives who were properly friends and allies who traditionally have had response to the increasing incidence of indignant at the defeat of Bork had to access to our market. RDM's and the concurrent effect on em­ squirm at the quick revelation that dope, di­ The need to change American sugar policy ployee health and safety. These factors and vorce and abortion-the unholy trio of is clear. The Sugar Supply Stabilization Act their impact were identified as the motiva­ threats to their cherished "family values" - will establish a more competitive and reasona­ tion for the poultry industry's pursuit of had all been at one time or another familiar the appropriate preventative measures. parts of the life style or medical experience ble price for sugar and, in the process, will ad­ The poultry industry has actively re­ of Ginsburg and his physician wife. dress the dislocations caused by the present sponded to the challenge of preventing When Meese appeared to lack the guts to program. This legislation is a gradual and RDM's over the last fou decades. In the clean up the mess he had made, William measured approach to a serious policy prob­ 1950's ergonomics began to be applied to in­ Bennett, the conservative movement's fa­ lem. I urge my colleagues to join us in support dividual work station design of the poultry vorite secretary of education, stepped for­ of this bill. processing work place. Job rotation and spe­ ward to educate Ginsburg on the political cific job-related safety training programs preposterousness of the situation. For the wer implemented in the 1960's. The "seven­ first time in seven years, Reagan may have REPETITIVE MOTION DISORDER ties" saw the introduction of ergonomically sensed the value of having relented on his designed hand tools, an inceased emphasis ambition to eradicate the Department of on ergonomically designed work stations, Education. HON. STEPHEN L. NEAL and trials of vitamin therapy as a preventive "Do what you think is right," the ever-de­ OF NORTH CAROLINA medical strategy. Presently, in the "eight­ tached president told Bennett when the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ies," specific medical intervention programs latter phoned the White House to say that that stress prevention through effective job he was about to push Ginsburg overboard. Tuesday, November 17, 1987 placement, early identification of adverse But Reagan would not do it himself. Indeed, Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, I want to share with reactions, and early intervention through far worse than the Ginsburg fiasco is the you the introduction of an impressive report appropriate medical treatment are being in­ fact that Reagan tolerates it. on prevention of accidents in the workplace. corporated into the overall preventative ap­ Why is there no hint of a shake-up? "The The report was developed by the National proach. Regardless of the identified pre­ president couldn't stand to lose Ed Meese, ventative efforts, RMD's remain the most especially now," said one influential Repub­ Broiler Council's Poultry Industry Task Force. frequently occurring and most costly em­ lican senator to whom I put the question. A company in my district, Holly Farms Poultry ployee injuries in some companies within "Bill Casey is dead; Paul Laxalt has left the Industries, Inc., participated in the study. the chicken, turkey, and duck processing in­ Senate; Cap Weinberger and Bill Clark have The introduction points out that millions of dustries. quit the Cabinet; Mike Deaver and Lyn Nof­ dollars have been drained from productivity On November 6 and 7, 1986, members of ziger are up to here with legal troubles. and profits because of repetitive motion disor­ the poultry industry met with the repre­ Meese is about the only old ally he has left. der [RMD]. The poultry industry has respond­ sentatives from OSHA in Washington, DC, That's a helluva spot to be in when you're to discuss the incidence of RMD's in the 76 years old and your term is running out." ed to the challenge of preventing RMD over poultry industry. At this meeting, it was de­ Put in those stark terms, the tolerance of the last four decades and has recently estab­ termined that the poultry industry has in Meese's towering ineptitude is both human­ lished a task force on RMD. many ways been a leader in the develop­ ly understandable and profoundly unnerv­ I commend the poultry industry for its con­ ment of preventative approaches to RMD. ing. There must be 200 able conservative cern and action in this area, and I believe my The recommendation for a joint effort by Republican lawyers with the right political colleagues in the House will find this idea of members of the industry was made. The credentials and experience whose counsel at interest. The complete report is available task force was then established in an effort the Cabinet table and in White House meet­ through my office. to identify a comprehensive preventative ings would be sounder, wiser and more approach which would benefit the poultry useful to the president and the country The introduction follows: industry as a whole. Participation in the than Ed Meese's. INTRODUCTION task force was solicited from companies that The fact that Ronald Reagan is not look­ It is estimated that millions of dollars were recognized as having preventative pro­ ing for one of them, and is not even think­ have been drained from the "bottom line" grams which specifically address RMD's. ing about what he is missing, indicates just profits of the poultry industry by one con­ The primary stated goal of this group was how feeble the resources of this administra­ tinuing problem. These dollars have been to develop and distribute a "practical docu­ tion really are. With more than a year left spent on workers' compensation and group ment" to guide the poultry processing in­ for it to manage-or mismanage-the fate of health insurance costs, absenteeism, turnov­ dustry towards the reduction of human suf­ this nation, keep your fingers crossed. er, training and retraining, and loss of pro­ fering and the associated costs of RMD's. It ductivity. The underling cause of these costs was decided that this would be most effec­ is not always easy to identify or accept as a tively achieved by sharing the experiences SUGAR SUPPLY STABILIZATION responsibility of doing business. This docu­ of individual company preventative pro­ ACT OF 1987 ment addresses Repetitive Motion Disorders grams. Both successes and failures were re­ as the causal factor in this loss of viewed in identifying possible preventative productivity and profit. solutions to RMD. Preventative program­ HON. WIWS D. GRADISON, JR. RMD's can briefly be defined as those ming efforts were then classified into three (1) OF OHIO medical complications resulting from the re­ areas: training, (2) ergonomics, and (3) petitive motion tasks inherent in produc­ medical intervention. Subcommittees of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion-line manufacturing and processing op­ original task force compiled comprehensive Tuesday, November 17, 1987 erations. This area of shared concern re­ summaries of the findings within each of cently resulted in the formation of the these three areas. Mr. GRADISON. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased Poultry Industry Task Force. The Task It must be stressed that the document is to join my friend TOM DOWNEY of New York Force was established to identify the actual by no means a standard of performance, but and 24 of our House colleagues in introducing scope of the problem and possible solutions a guideline, which has roots planted firmly the Sugar Supply Stabilization Act of 1987. currently in use within the industry. The in the soil of successful programming ef­ For the past 5 years, the United States has task force began this identification process forts utilized by a large portion of the U.S. by looking at the historical origins of the poultry industry. The triad strategy of operated a Price Support Program for domes­ problem. training, ergonomics, and medical interven­ tic sugar producers. As a direct result, sugar Task force discussion identified four tion presents a sampling of possible inter­ prices for American consumers are roughly major historical factors that have brought ventions for decreasing the incidence and three times higher than the world market RMD's to the forefront of the industry's at­ costs associated with RMD's. The selection price. tention: <1) state worker's compensation of an appropriate strategy, which fits an in- November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32693 dividual company's needs rests solely with sions. It took place with the understanding ing of Nicaraguans. Their motivation is not, the respective company's management. The that I would not identify the individual, a however, their survival as a political state task force representing the poultry industry high government official: but as an economically viable society. To supports any and all efforts in the preven­ Q: Is President Reagan's approach of mili­ some extent all of our countries face the tion of RMD's as being proactive versus re­ tary aid to the Contras the proper policy to same problem and thus the same incentives, active and therefore definitely worthwhile. achieve peace in Central America and to en­ to reduce chaos and violence. I am aware we As part of this offer of support, all members courage private enterprise in Central Amer­ are taking risks, but at least these risks com­ of the task force are available to discuss ica? bine with opportunity. identified concerns and questions. A: It is fatally flawed. The Contras cannot Q: Are not the Contras a cause of this win without direct United States military policy change by the Sandinistas? participation and the United States will not A: To a certain extent yes; but more im­ THE DEATH OF SENATOR JIM send its soldiers into battle. By basing the portant was the failure of the Sandinista's TOLLESON policy on military aid to the Contras, the economic policies and the cutting back of policy leaves the Sandinistas in power while the East Block aid. An end to fighting will it becomes the excuse for the military build­ reduce the Nicaraguan military budget and HON.GEORGE(BUDDY)DARDEN up of the Sandinista's army from 10,000 to the destruction of internal infrastructure OF GEORGIA 80,000, the excuse for the elimination of po­ and farm cooperatives. Since these changes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES litical pluralism, the shutting down of the improve the Sandinistas' ability to meet Tuesday, November 17, 1987 opposition press and radio station, and their social justice pronouncements, they cause for the curtailment of the private en­ have an incentive to remain faithful to the Mr. DARDEN. Mr. Speaker, it is with pro­ terprise system. We must end the Sandinis­ Arias peace plan. found sadness that I inform my colleagues of ta's excuse for curtailing political freedom. Q: What are the future prospects for Cen­ the death of Georgia State Senator Jim Tolle­ If they continue these policies, thereafter tral America? son-a man who was a dedicated public offi­ the Latin American and noncommunist A: Our countries need investment captial cial, a devoted husband and father and a world can then, in unity, isolate Nicaragua. and a restoring of the Central American Q: Why can't the Contras win, if the economic union for freer trade along with good friend. United States provides sufficient military the Caribbean Basin plan. The Arias peace Senator Tolleson served with distinction and hardware? plan is the only alternative that allows each integrity as a member of the Smyrna City A: The Contras number only 10,000 to of our countries to reach out beyond their Council before being elected to the State 12,000 and are no longer growing in num­ grasp with hope to achieve our needs. Un­ Senate. His easygoing, warm personality en­ bers. The discontented of Nicaragua are fortunately, each Central American country abled him to make difficult decisions and re­ more apt to become refugees in Costa Rica will need large amounts of economic aid for solve conflicts without alienating either side of than Contras. The Contras have no clear many years to come. Our goal must be to a controversy. political program to attract fighters. The end the stifling of expression and opportu­ Niskito Indians are now as anti Contra as nity which has caused the desperation that Jim Tolleson was a loyal friend, for whom I they are negative on the Sandinistas. leads to civil war. We need patience to allow had great trust and respect. He will be missed Q: What is the effect of the Reagan mili­ tomorrow's dawn to bring a better day. by all he touched. I invite my colleagues to tary aid approach as the key to United join my wife Lillian and me in extending our States Central American policy? deepest sympathy to Jim Tolleson's wife Bar­ A: We are looked upon as an area of chaos THE HODAG PROGRAM bara and his family. and violence. As long as this attitude pre­ vails throughout the world's financial and corporate community, there will be little to HON. BILL GREEN COMMENTS ON PEACE INITIA­ no non-governmental private investment. OF NEW YORK TIVE OF PRESIDENT ARIAS Our countries will continue with precarious IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economies supported by large U.S. govern­ mental aid for our annual consumption ex­ Tuesday, November 17, 1987 HON. SAM GEJDENSON penditures and vital economic and military Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, on October 29, I OF CONNECTICUT support for Salvador and Honduras. In the successfully offered an amendment to the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES long run, without private investment cap­ continuing resolution during its consideration Tuesday, November 17, 1987 ital, such a method of economic survival is by the House Appropriations Committee that destructive to the private enterprise system. would serve to extend, from 36 to 48 months, Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, a very good Q: Why support the Oscar Arias peace friend of mine, Robert Sussler, recently had plan as the alternative to Reagan's ap­ the period of time during which commence­ the opportunity to go to Costa Rica to talk to proach? ment of construction must begin with funds people about the August 7 peace initiative of A: It stops the militarization now going appropriated under the Housing Opportunity President Oscar Arias. One particular inter­ on. It could then lead to a reduction of Grant Program [HODAG]. armies and reduce the need to spend on Since the 36 month period under present view he had with a wealthy landowner is, I military equipment. Any democratization in think, illustrative of why so many in Central law will elapse before the continuing resolu­ Nicaragua, such as the publication of La tion is considered by both Houses and pre­ America support the Arias peace accord. I Prensa without censorship and broadcast commend it to my colleagues and ask that it from Catholic Radio, will create new factors sented to the President for signature, I want be inserted into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. for pluralization within Nicaraguan society. to notify the House as to my intent in offering this amendment. [From the New London Day, Oct. 4, With fewer political prisoners and allowing 1987] a right of free expression, there will be less Mr. Speaker, the HODAG program was cre­ chaos and fewer refugees. Finally, the reali­ ated in 1984 to assist local governments in NICARAGUA-FIGHTING THE SANDINISTAS ties of the economic failure of socialism in creating new housing projects that serve low WITH PEACE Nicaragua could lead to allowing private en­ (By Robert Bussler> and moderate income persons. Unfortunately, terprise to again make a contribution to many cities have been burdened by bureau­ Why does a wealthy, conservative Costa growth. The Arias plan initiates and sup­ Rican landowner support the Oscar Arias ports these tendencies. It gives pluralism cratic delays both within and without the De­ peace plan for Central America and reject and private enterprise an opportunity in partment of Housing and Urban Development President Ronald Reagan's policy of con­ Nicaragua which now does not occur. and delays created as a result of the 1986 tax tinuing military aid to the Contras? Both Q: Why trust the Nicaraguans to imple­ bill that have jeopardized the ability of numer­ the landowner and Reagan are most com­ ment the Arias plan and to keep abiding by ous projects to meet the deadline for com­ fortable within a democratic society with an its terms? mencement of construction. This combination economy that can grow through private en­ A: For the same reasons they have initial­ of factors necessitated the offering of my terprise initiatives. Both dislike and fear ly agreed to it. Their economy today under amendment. any Marxist penetration of Central Amer­ socialism is 40 percent less productive than Despite that action, these projects that are ica. before. The eastern bloc has been cutting The following interview that occurred on back aid, including oil; members of the Nica­ in jeopardy would lose these funds by the end Sept. 19, 1987, in San Jose, Costa Rica fo. raguan Directorate have, in the time period of November. Since it is now clear that final cuses on the differences in their underlying set out in the Arias plan, agreed to certain action on a continuing resolution will not take premises that have led to opposite conclu- democratic reforms and to stopping the kill- place until mid-December, funds under this 32694 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 program face administrative action leading to his school district, and his business communi­ With these thoughts in mind, I commend the recapture during the several days between ex­ ty. President's Executive order, "Prohibiting Im­ piration of the 36 month period and final He is a member of the Community Chest, ports From Iran," to my colleagues in the action on a continuing resolution. the United Way, the Tuesday Evening Forum Congress. Therefore, I wish to make it very clear that of Pasadena City College, Pasadena Planned the express intent of my amendment is to Parenthood, and Ministerial Association. In avoid recapture of these funds by the Depart­ 1965, he was the recipient of the Arthur ment of Housing and Urban Development and Berman Award in Human Relations. EXECUTIVE ORDER that my amendment is intended to be retroac­ Under his guidance and stewardship, the PROHIBITING IMPORTS FROM IRAN tive in nature, to cover all projects for which Pasadena Jewish Temple has risen to a posi­ By the authority vested in me as Presi­ funding notices were issued prior to July 23, tion of prominence among the outstanding dent by the Constitution and laws of the 1985. houses of worship in the San Gabriel Valley. United States of America, including section During this time, Rabbi Galpert has also 505 of the International Security and Devel­ become recognized as not only one of the opment Cooperation Act of 1985 (22 U.S.C. most senior clergymen in the area but one of 2349aa-9), and section 301 of Title 3 of the the most loved and admired. United States Code, RABBI MAURICE T. GALPERT I RONALD REAGAN, President of the HONORED BY PASADENA Mr. Speaker, I take great pleasure in an­ United States of America, find that the JEWISH TEMPLE AND CENTER nouncing to my colleagues in the U.S. House Government of Iran is actively supporting of Representatives this special tribute to a terrorism as an instrument of state policy. HON.CARLOSJ.MOORHEAD special man, Rabbi Maurice T. Galpert. In addition, Iran has conducted aggressive OF CALIFORNIA and unlawful military action against U.S.­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES flag vessels and merchant vessels of other non-belligerent nations engaged in lawful Tuesday, November 17, 1987 and peaceful commerce in international Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, the mem­ TURNING OFF IMPORTS FROM waters of the Persian Gulf and territorial bers of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and IRAN: THE PRESIDENT MAKES waters of non-belligerent nations of that Center, the oldest, largest and one of the A WISE DECISION region. To ensure that United States im­ foremost Jewish religious centers in the San ports of Iranian goods and services will not Gabriel Valley, are, paying special tribute to contribute financial support to terrorism or their rabbi for the best of reasons-love. HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD to further aggressive actions against non­ For 36 years, Rabbi Maurice T. Galpert has OF MICHIGAN belligerent shipping, I hereby order that: been the spiritual leader, teacher, and friend Section 1. Except as otherwise provided in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES regulations issued pursuant to this Order, of the congregation of the PJTC. This endur­ Tuesday, November 17, 1987 no goods or services of Iranian origin may ing union has been so full of joy and success be imported into the United States, includ­ and affection that the friends of Rabbi Galpert Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I com­ ing its territories and possessions, after the decided to have a celebration, not because he mend the President for his timely decision to effective date of this Order. is retiring or going anywhere, but because he terminate imports from Iran. That tough but Sec. 2. The prohibition contained in Sec­ is so beloved and esteemed by his numerous necessary action was taken in light of Iran's tion 1 shall not apply to: friends and neighbors. unwarranted attacks against international ship­ (a) Iranian-origin publications and materi­ This outpouring of respect and admiration ping in the gulf and that Government's ongo­ als imported for news publications or news will begin at services on Friday, December 4 ing involvement in terrorism. Why should our broadcast dissemination; and continue with a dinner-dance on Saturday country, whose citizens may be held by Irani­ (b) petroleum products refined from Irani­ evening, December 5. It's a 2-day "Thank an-backed kidnapers in Lebanon, trade with an crude oil in a third country; articles imported directly from Iran You" to Rabbi Galpert for his wisdom, his de­ Iran? Why should America help Iran's econo­ votion, his constancy and his guidance. into the United States that were exported my by importing products from that extremist from Iran prior to the effective date of this Rabbi Galpert was born in Canton, OH, state? Why should we sell any item to Iran where he also received his early education. Order. that would help that country's war effort? It is Sec. 3. This Order shall take effect at Moving to Chicago, he attended the Hebrew encouraging to note that there is support for Theological Institute, a school for advanced 12:01 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Octo­ the President's position on this issue here on ber 29, 1987, except as otherwise provided in Jewish studies. He received an A.B. and B.S. the Hill. Congress is considering legislation regulations issued pursuant to this Order. in education from Kent State University and a which would take similar action against Iran. Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury, in master's in English and comparative literature consultation with the Secretary of State, is from the State University of Iowa. On October 29, the President notified Con­ gress that he had exercised his constitutional hereby authorized to take such actions, in­ In 1945, he was ordained as rabbi by the cluding the promulgation of rules and regu­ late Dr. Stephen S. Wise of the Hebrew Union and statutory authority to prohibit the importa­ tion into the United States of all goods and lations, as may be necessary to carry out the College Jewish Institute of Religion. During purposes of this Order. The Secretary of the late years of World War II and the postwar services of Iranian origin. The action will halt the Treasury may redelegate any of these years, he served as rabbi in Pittsfield, MA, and crude-oil purchases from Iran that had functions to other officers and agencies of Santa Ana, CA, before coming to Pasadena in reached $1 billion in 1987 along with the im­ the Federal Government. All agencies of the August 1952. portation of other Iranian products. United States Government are directed to Throughout his years in Pasadena as spirit­ The existing export ban was also expanded take all appropriate measures within their ual leader of the temple, he has been an to include 14 broad categories of goods that authority to carry out the provisions of this active and influential figure in religious and might be of military use, such as communica­ Order, including the suspension or termina­ educational circles. He has played a promi­ tions equipment, inflatable boats, and portable tion of licenses or other authorizations in nent role in the civic and social activities of electric generators. effect as of the date of this Order. Pasadena and the wider San Gabriel Valley. As a strong supporter of bipartisanship in Sec. 5. The measures taken pursuant to As pastor and friend, he as served not only foreign policy, I commend the Congress for this Order are in response to the actions of having taken action against Iran that is similar the Government of Iran referred to above, his own congregation, but people of all races occurring after the conclusion of the 1981 and creeds who have sought his help and in­ to that taken by the Chief Executive. The Algiers Accords, and are intended solely as a struction. House and Senate have passed nearly identi­ response to those actions. Since coming to Pasadena 36 years ago, cal embargo bills, H.R. 3391 and S. 17 48, This Order shall be transmitted to the Rabbi Ga!pert has been a willing and able par­ both designed to ban the importation of Irani­ Congress and published in the Federal Reg­ ticipant in those agencies and organizations an products. I am certain that many of my col­ ister. that make up a successful community. He has leagues join me in praising the President for RONALD REAGAN. given time, effort, and experience to his city, his prudent decision. THE WHITE HOUSE, October 29, 1987. November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32695 SAMFORD UNIVERSITY rather than a hypothetical question, but extensive that the door had to be cut away to CELEBRATES 100 YEARS what would you be looking for before you get Officer Kane out. Despite the massive would recommend to the President a waiver of the Jackson-Vanik provisions? damage to the car however, Officer Kane es­ HON. BEN ERDREICH I would also like to afford you the oppor­ caped the accident virtually unharmed-be­ OF ALABAMA tunity for any other comments you would cause she was wearing a seatbelt. As a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES like to make on the Jackson-Vanik provi­ matter of fact, the damage done to her vehi­ sions. cle was so severe that since the accident, Of­ Tuesday, November 17, 1987 With best regards. ficer Kane and the car have appeared in train­ Mr. ERDREICH. Mr. Speaker, Samford Uni­ Sincerely yours, ing films and on the cover of auto safety mag­ versity, which I have the privilege of repre­ LEE H. HAMILTON, azines as testimony to the effectiveness of senting in the U.S. House, is celebrating a Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe seatbelts. and the Middle East. very important anniversary this year. This out­ Motor vehicle accidents kill more than standing seat of higher learning is observing DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, 40,000 people each year in the United States. 100 years in Jefferson County and I would like Washington, DC, November 6, 1987. They also account for nearly 3 million individ­ to take a few moments to tell my colleagues Hon. LEE HAMILTON, ual injuries, more than 4 million hospital days, in the House a little about Samford and the Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe and the and over 15 million lost days of work annually. important role it plays in our local community, Middle East, House of Representatives, According to the National Highway Traffic State, and Nation. Washington, DC. Safety Administration, 91 percent of the occu­ DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for your Samford University is the first and oldest letter offering congratulations on my ap­ pants killed in auto accidents in 1985 were university in the Birmingham area. Before its pointment and expressing your views on the not wearing their safety belts. In automobile name became Samford, it was known as Jackson-Vanik Amendment. accidents, the most severe injuries are gener­ Howard College, founded in Marion, AL, in The Jackson-Vanik Amendment is the law ally caused by the "second collision," in which 1841. It moved to the East Lake section of of the land. As I said at my hearing I shall the abrupt change in momentum accompany­ Birmingham in 1887 as the area's first college carry out the law of the land to the best of ing the sudden stop caused by the accident or university, and moved to a more spacious my ability. If our mission is to increase emi­ causes the occupants to be thrown against tract of land in suburban Homewood in 1957, gration from the Soviet Union, Jewish or the interior of the automobile. Automobile pas­ where it built one of the most beautiful cam­ non-Jewish, then I believe we should direct sengers can be proteced from this "second our energies to this task. I believe there are puses in America. options for encouraging Soviet cooperation collision" by seatbelts. In 1965, Howard College became Samford rather than relying on trade restrictions as Seatbelts save lives. In 1986, it is estimated University, reaching beyond its original role as a motivating force. I have always believed in that safety belts saved approximately 2,200 a distinguished liberal arts college to encom­ seeking improvement in human rights and lives and prevented over 20,000 injuries. Cur­ pass seven colleges and schools, among will work to obtain gains in this area, includ­ rently, 29 States including the District of Co­ them the nationally recognized and prestigious ing freedom of emigration for all. lumbia require the use of seatbelts. However, Cumberland School of Law, the Howard Col­ The principal point remains that there even in these States where wearing a seatbelt should be a substantial and sustained in­ lege of Arts and Sciences, School of Busi­ crease in emigration from present levels. At is required, many drivers and passengers do ness, Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Educa­ my hearing on September 10, I indicated not use them. This year, 42 percent of auto­ tion, School of Pharmacy, School of Music, that an emigration rate of between 15,000 mobile occupants are using safety belts. This and the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing. and 25,000 would at least be a starting point, is a 3-percent increase over 1986, but it still but this is not a specific target. I assure you means that more than half of automobile oc­ that no relaxation of trade restrictions cupants are not wearing their safety belts. SECRETARY VERITY ON THE would be considered without extensive con­ The importance of wearing seatbelts cannot JACKSON-VANIK AMENDMENT sultation among the Administration, the be underemphasized. That is why I am Congress, and all other interested parties. Sincerely, pleased to be able to rise to speak in support HON. LEE H. HAMILTON C. WILLIAM VERITY, of "National Safety Belt Use Day." OF INDIANA Secretary of Commerce. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE IMPORTANCE OF Tuesday, November 17, 1987 NATIONAL SAFETY BELT USE PERSISTENCE Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, on October 7, DAY 1987, I initiated correspondence with Secre­ HON. DEAN A. GALLO tary-designate of Commerce Willliam Verity HON.GEORGEJ.HOCHBRUECKNER OF NEW JERSEY concerning his views on the Jackson-Vanik OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES amendment, following his public testimony on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this subject. On November 6, 1987, I received Tuesday, November 17, 1987 a reply from Secretary Verity. Tuesday, November 17, 1987 Mr. GALLO. Mr. Speaker, I strongly support The correspondence follows: Mr. HOCHBRUECKNER. Mr. Speaker, on House Joint Resolution 376, which calls on COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Thursday, October 15, 1987, the President the Government of the Soviet Union to re­ Washington, DC, October 7, 1987. signed House Joint Resolution 338 designat­ lease the wives and husbands of United Mr. C. WILLIAM VERITY, ing this day as "National Safety Belt Use States residents who have been denied the Secretary-Designate, Department of Com­ Day." I would like to take this opportunity to right to emigrate. We must continue to make a merce, Washington, DC. say a few words on behalf of common sense. commitment to publicly pursue these divided DEAR MR. VERITY: The question of the On October 15, I had the opportunity to spouse cases with the Soviet Government Jackson-Vanik Amendment is one of con­ meet with Police Officer Robin Kane of the cern to many Members of Congress, and I until they are all resolved. have read with great interest your testimo­ Suffolk County, NY, Police Department. Offi­ To the men and women who face the suf­ ny on this subject. I know that you have re­ cer Kane was in Washington, along with fering of separation every day of their lives, sponded to many questions on this topic and police officers from every other State whose we must pledge our persistence in the strug­ your views are clearly on the record that lives were saved by wearing seatbelts. gle for freedom and the preservation of family you "will uphold the provisions of Jackson­ Robin Kane's car was rear-ended by a values. Vanik.'' drunk driver on April 20, 1985, a bright Satur­ The cruelest possible torture often is not Nonetheless, I believe that it would be day morning, while she was assigned to the · useful for some further elaboration con­ the threat of physical violence, but the certain­ cerning your views on the circumstances Suffolk County Highway Patrol. At the time of ty of isolation from loved ones for an indefinite that would permit a waiver of Jackson­ the accident, her car was parked on the period of time. This cruelty takes its toll Vanik with respect to the Soviet Union. I re­ median of the Long Island Expressway. The slowly, but with a force that cannot be alize that the United States must respond to driver who hit her car was traveling faster than matched in its ability to inflict pain year after concrete circumstances as they evolve, 60 miles per hour. Damage to the car was so year. 32696 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 The price of involuntary separation was very Members of Congress may not be aware future students and do little to get defaulters clear on the face of Anatoly Michelson as he that the first Baha'i community in the United to pay up. Rather than focus solely on col­ sat in my Washington office in the summer of States was established around the turn of the leages and universities, the Federal Govern­ 1986 listening to an account of my visit with century in Kenosha, WI, just a short distance ment should require lenders to be more active his wife, Galina, during my trip to the Soviet from my home town of East Troy. Baha'is are in going after defaulters and possibly look at Union a month before. still active in that area, and from that small some more creative financing for student He had to content himself with the pictures group of American converts, this new faith has loans. we brought back from our trip as his only spread across the Nation. More then 100,000 In an op-ed piece for USA Today, Penn di­ record of his wife's reaction when she was Baha'is are now active in all 50 States. rector of Student Aid, Robert W. Evans, given the wedding ring that we brought with As members of a worldwide religious com­ makes a convincing case for lenders to take us, on his behalf, from America. munity of more than 4 million followers, Ameri­ more of this responsibility. This is worthwhile When I presented the ring to Galina, it was can Baha'is are deeply concerned for the reading and I urge my colleagues to seriously a very emotional experience edged with the plight of their coreligionists in Iran, where deep sadness that comes with knowing that it Baha'is suffer vicious religious persecution. consider his point of view. was Anatoly, not me, who should have been Members of Congress and all Americans who CFrom the USA Today, Nov. 9, 19871 making this very personal presentation. value religious freedom share that concern MAKE THE BANKS RESPONSIBLE, Too For Anatoly Michelson, this was just one and express our horror at the harsh repres­ more time during the more than 30 years of sion of Baha'is by the fundamentalist Islamic forced separation from his wife that he faced regime. UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.-Colleges and uni­ versities are taking the brunt of the blame the emotional roller coaster of hope, followed The Baha'i faith is widely known for its for a serious problem that has many play­ by disappointment, in his struggle to convince ideals of religious tolerance. It's particularly ers. The rising default rate in the Guaran­ the Soviet Government to free his family so disturbing that members of a group which teed Student Loan Program does require that they could come and live with him in Flor­ seeks the harmony of all mankind should be major attention, but from all parties in­ ida. the victims of religious hatred in Iran. volved, not only colleges and universities. I was very happy this week to learn from my We must continue to speak out on these in­ Under current law, educational institu­ good friend and colleague, CONNIE MACK, that justices. Experience has shown that the Irani­ tions are required to determine only if a stu­ the Michelson family will finally be reunited in an Government has, in fact, responded to dent applicant has a genuine need for finan­ this country. The Soviets have committed congressional appeals, resolutions of the cial aid and meets all eligibility require­ themselves to allow Galina to emigrate, and United Nations, and other expressions of sup­ ments. there may finally be a happy ending to this port for the Baha'is. Fewer Baha'is are being But the final decision for a guaranteed very sad story. executed now than in the early years under student loan and collection of the loan rests House Joint Resolution 376 holds impor­ the fundamentalist Islamic regime. on the lenders, which include banks, credit tance because there are countless cases in­ However, the pressures of Islamic funda­ unions, and other lending institutions. Lenders are not required to check a student volving separated spouses that have been mentalism have spread far beyond the bor­ applicant's credit history or to determine documented and officially registered with ders of Iran. Fundamentalist Islamic groups in the future ability to repay the loan. No co­ Soviet Foreign Ministry officials. I have joined other countries are waging anti-Baha'i cam­ signer is required, and often the student with my colleagues in these efforts on many paigns, condemning Baha'is as heretics and does not meet with the lender prior to ap­ occasions and will continue to do so, but apostates. According to reports published by proval or distribution of the loan. today we have the opportunity to remind the the State Department, during the past 3 years, Currently, educational institutions are co­ Soviet Government officially and publicly that Baha'is in Egypt and Morocco have been ar­ operating with lenders by verifying a stu­ its policy regarding divided spouses is unfair rested, tried, and convicted on religious dent's enrollment status, providing loan and should be changed. charges. This month, courts in both those counseling to students, and giving up-to­ During my trip to the Soviet Union, I also countries are scheduled to consider the ap­ date addresses on former students. visited Abram Kagan and his family, who have peals of Egyptian and Moroccan Baha'is who Education Secretary William Bennett been seeking visas from the Soviet Govern­ have been sentenced to prison on account of should also propose that lenders, not just ment since 1976. their religious beliefs. schools, improve their default rates because Recently, I learned that Abram's wife and History shows that the virus of religious it is the lenders' loans that the government is paying off. children were given permission to leave, but hatred has caused untold suffering. Let us Shouldn't lenders be required to have he was denied a visa on a technicality involv­ work to ensure that those cases will be re­ more regular contact with student borrow­ ing incomplete paperwork. In this case, the solved in ways which will enhance the cause ers? Soviets have created another divided family of human rights and religious toleration. Should the lender interview and counsel a by their actions. We must continue to emphasize our strong student before the loan is approved, as insti­ Today, we have the opportunity to formally support for the principles of religious freedom tutions do now? file a clear and very public protest to the which all Americans cherish. The Guaranteed Student Loan program is Soviet Union at a time when we seek to build a moneymaker for the lender, whether the a better relationship between nations. Today, money comes from the student or the U.S. we are saying that that relationship must in­ STUDENT LOAN DEFAULTS government. New proposals need to examine clude a commitment to bring families together, whether a lender's yield on its loan column not require further separations. HON. WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR. should be reduced when its clients are de­ OF PENNSYLVANIA faulting on their student loans. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In all of the debate over default rates, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION OF let's also remember that the Guaranteed THE BAHA'IS Tuesday, November 17, 1987 Student Loan Program was originally estab­ Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, the issue of lished to provide loans for middle-income HON. LES ASPIN how the Government should deal with those students. As other federal and state pro­ who default on their student loans has been grams for student aid have failed to keep OF WISCONSIN pace with inflation and college costs, low­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES receiving a lot of attention lately. In particular, Education Secretary William Bennett an­ income students have been forced into the Tuesday, November 17, 1987 nounced a new plan of action to punish student loan program, and they may have more difficulties repaying loans quickly. Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call schools for the transgressions of their former The student loan program does need to be the attention of my colleagues to the plight of students. Starting in 1990, any college, univer­ examined, but the role of educational insti­ the Baha'is. The followers of this religion are sity, or for-profit school with a student default tutions is not the only one that needs seri­ known for their religious tolerance, yet they rate higher than 20 percent will be expelled ous review. have been the victims of persecution by Is­ from all federal student aid programs. Public policy on who should be allowed to lamic fundamentalists throughout the Middle Secretary Bennett's attention to this prob­ borrow and the lender's role in the loan pro­ East. lem is commendable but his approach will hurt gram also must be addressed. November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32697 STEPPING STONES TO income. The excess rent over base operation they provide northwest Portland's elderly resi­ INDEPENDENCE costs, however, is automatically held in an dents. escrow savings account to be returned to HON. J. ALEX McMILLAN them at the end of their participation and to be used as a downpayment on a house or a KATHADIN FRIENDS, INC., SE­ OF NORTH CAROLINA LECTED AS EXEMPLARY REHA­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lease. In return for this benefit, participants are re­ BILITATION PROGRAM Tuesday, November 17, 1987 quired to adhere to their individual develop­ Mr. McMILLAN of North Carolina. Mr. ment plan as determined by themselves and HON. OLYMPIA J. SNOWE Speaker, I rise today to state my support for social service officials. This plan is an outline OF MAINE H.R. 4, the Housing and Community Develop­ of all the problems the participants must over­ ment Act of 1987. I believe this bill represents come to gain full-time employment and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a realistic approach to addressing housing become self-sufficient. It may include remedial Tuesday, November 17, 1987 needs and rural and urban development con­ education, completion of high school, job Ms. SNOWE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to cerns. Furthermore, I believe it represents true training, substance abuse treatment and coun­ take this opportunity to congratulate Kathadin bipartisan commitment to maintain a strong seling and/ or training in money management Friends, Inc. for being chosen as one of the Federal role in housing policies and programs. and parenting. It is the responsibility of the The bill is. fiscally responsible and consistent exemplary rehabilitation programs in New public housing authority and local social serv­ England. Fifty-four programs were nominated with the overall imperative to hold outlays at ice organizations to assist and monitor the the 1987 levels. for their excellence and Kathadin Friends was participants throughout the process. one of only seven programs selected for this It also includes important initiatives that I am confident that this demonstration rep­ have the potential to involve residents in de­ honor by the Rehabilitation Network of New resents true reform in the way public housing England. It was also the only program chosen veloping patterns of self-reliance that can be residents approach self-sufficiency. I look for­ both personally beneficial as well as ultimately which serves a rural area. ward to relaying the results of this program to The purpose of choosing exemplary pro­ cost-effective in maximizing the availability my colleagues in order that the expected suc­ and affordability of housing. Resident manage­ grams is to provide other programs with an cess of the program may be considered for example to follow. Kathadin Friends, which ment and enterprise zones are two such ex­ other aspects of welfare dependency. amples. has been serving people with disabilities for I am also very pleased to see that section 26 years in northern Penobscot County, is cer­ 129 was included in the bill. This is an amend­ IN HONOR OF ANDREA KARLIN, tainly worthy of this honor. Among the many ment that I offered if the Banking Committee, HEAD OF NORTHWEST NURSES aspects of this program which are particularly known as the public housing comprehensive ASSOCIATION noteworthly are its high consumer, family and transition demonstration. employer involvement; the provision of serv­ The transition demonstration proposal was HON. LES AuCOIN ices that respond to consumer needs; the originally brought to my attention by the Char­ change from sheltered work to work in the OF OREGON community; and its outstanding leadership and lotte, NC Housing Authority. It was thoughtfully IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES prepared and addressed a complete range of program management. needs that residents in public housing meet in Tuesday, November 17, 1987 Kathadin Friends is helping people with all their dayo/oto-day lives. The purpose of the Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to types of disabilities for whom the idea of em­ program is to provide transitional housing to take this opportunity to bring to the public's ployment in a community business was only a those families who are temporarily dislocated attention the work of a woman who has estab­ dream in the past. The program also provides due to a change in the labor market or lished a unique and innovative health care fa­ the important component of continued support changes in the head of household and who cility in Portland, OR. once an individual has a job. are without means to find safe and affordable Ms. Andrea Karlin is the founder of North­ I would like to offer my congratulations to housing in the existing housing market. west Neighborhood Nurses Association, a James Meehan, executive director of Kathadin The demonstration emphasizes the coordi­ community-based health care clinic serving Friends and his staff for the ·fine work they are nation of resources already available from the needs of elderly who might otherwise go doing in helping people move from being de­ Federal, State, and local sources rather than without vital preventative care. Through sheer pendent on society to becoming contributing the creation of new programs. Local auton­ force of will, Andrea has put together an orga­ members. I am hopeful that this honor will omy in design and implementation of the pro­ nization that provides affordable and conven­ allow others to use Kathadin Friends, Inc. as a gram is necessary in order that changes may ient care-impacting the lives of hundreds of model for a truly exemplary rehabilitation pro­ be made to suit individual families' circum­ neighborhood residents. gram. stances. In order to achieve this, the commit­ Andrea is the recipient of the Oregon Jetter- · ment of private business, elected officials, son Award presented to distinguished individ­ THE MIAMI TIMES AND THE community organizations, and the public hous­ uals in recognition of their outstanding public MIAMI JEWISH TRIBUNE: ing residents themselves will be required. All service. I can't think of a more deserving indi­ TAKING THE FIRST STEP residents who participate in the demonstration vidual. are expected to fulfill the requirements of their Andrea, a registered nurse with a degree individual development program and move from Mt. Sinai Hospital, founded the clinic in HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN into private housing within 7 years. 1979. Her goal was to help the elderly remain OF FLORIDA The premise of the program is that welfare independent and live at home rather than in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dependents make more money on welfare an expensive nursing home. Andrea and her than "on their own." Many are only qualified nurses provide the elderly with care that you Tuesday, November 17, 1987 for low-paying jobs, but have potential for im­ and I take for granted, but that render many of Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, provement. Often, the range and amount of these individuals paralyzed. Miami, more than most American cities, con­ assistance available, the time required to The clinic charges no fees and subsists on sists of ethnic enclaves. secure it, and the threat of immediate discon­ donations and money raised through fundrais­ Hispanics, Jews, blacks and anglos make tinuance if they exceed earnings limits com­ ers. Although the services the clinic provides up large and distinct communities in Metropol­ bine to create a powerful disincentive to self­ are not covered by Government reimburse­ itan Dade County. This ethnic diversity can reliance. In this demonstration, benefits will ments, the services are saving our Govern­ enrich all of us. But too often, it also forms remain constant for a period of time so that ment countless dollars in preventative care. the basis for distrust and tensions caused by participating families will be provided a stable I add my thanks and congratulations to misinformation and ignorance. One victim of and sufficient income to enable the transition Andrea and to the many volunteers and em­ these forces has been the historic, traditional to self-sufficiency. The exception is that rent ployees of the Northwest Neighborhood alliance that has existed between Jews and payments will be increased proportional to Nurses Association for the invaluable services blacks on civil and human rights issues. 32698 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 Garth Reeves, Sr., publisher of the Miami to each other directly, not through some country. Somehow, in addition to his scholarly Times, for 64 years an institution in our black committee." activity and his staff commitments to the Na­ community, and Jack Levine and David Reeves also is excited by the possibilities. tional Assembly, Mr. Son has regularly found He wants Jews to understand that blacks Abramowitz, publishers of the recently estab­ moved by Louis Farrakhan's urgings to gain time to teach at Tankook University and in the lished Miami Jewish Tribune, have decided to economic independence do not necessarily education of construction department of the do something about this problem. They have agree with his anti-Semitism. Levine wants national government. agreed to write columns in each other's publi­ to explain to blacks that Jews fear racial During his fellowship in the Congress, Mr. cations to reduce the communication gap be­ quotas in employment and education be­ Son has concentrated his work on under­ tween Miami's blacks and Jews and to help cause quota systems have been used to deny standing the relationship between Rules Com­ promote the mutual understanding that all those opportunities to Jews. mittee procedures and their effect on the agree is needed. "There are solid issues that need the coop­ eration of both blacks and Jews in partner­ manner by which business is conducted on All people of good will applaud their initia­ ship," Reeves said. the House floor. His interest in the area is tive and purpose. I would like to share with my Aside from the publishers' columns, each based on the duties of the House Steering colleagues the following article about this written for the exchange, the weeklies will Committee in the National Assembly. That matter which appeared in the Miami Herald: make other opinion pieces and news items committee is the nearest Korean equivalent to CFrom the Miami Herald, Nov. 11, 19871 available to one another. our Rules Committee. In addition to attending BLACK, JEWISH PAPERS To SHARE COLUMNS, They will announce their plans in Thurs­ Rules Committee deliberations and then ob­ day's editions and wait for reaction. No one STORIES is sure if the experiment will flop or fly. serving their effect on floor procedures. Mr.

91-059 0-89-26 (Pt. 23) 32718 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 A crew education assistance program FLORIDA GRAPEFRUIT "PEEL-IT­ Program will focus on informing and educating through which eligible crew members may OFF DIET" the public about the benefits of a safe and earn bonus credits of up to $2,000 to be ap­ healthy diet regime at a time when Americans plied toward educational expenses at a li­ HON. TOM LEWIS need it most-after holiday indulgences. censed and/or accredited college, university, OF FLORIDA As nutrition is a vital element to healthy vocational or technical institution; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES living, citrus growers are proud of what Florida grapefruit offers in all areas. Rich in vitamin C, Endowment of the James W. Mclamore Wednesday, November 18, 1987 chair in American Enterprise at the University potassium, B vitamins and fibers, grapefruit Mr. LEWIS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, in the of Miami; are only 80 calories each. past decade Americans have been pursuing a Participation in the Public Schools Partner­ Through the efforts of the peel-it-off Florida rejuvenation of interest in diet, physical fitness grapefruit campaign, it is the FDOC's wish to ship Program in the Midwest, the Adopt A and nutrition. Though their intent is laudable, School Program in Atlanta, and the cities in modify consumer behavior by emphasizing their basic knowledge of what is appropriate in that nutrition and exercise can improve one's schools alternative education program for po­ terms of physical activity and diet is often lim­ quality of life. And, when good health and tential dropouts; and ited. To offset the limitations our country's wellness is achieved, eveyone benefits. Support for the Washington DC, Public physicians, businesses and governments are Mr. Speaker, through my capacity as Flor­ Schools Employability Skills Program. working together to offer programming, educa­ ida's only Representative on the House Agri­ The diverse programs which the Burger tion and recommendations for a healthy Amer­ culture Committee, and given the importance King Corp. sponsors and with which the com­ ica. The benefits these decisionmakers see is of a nutritious diet and exercise to our Nation, pany is affiliated clearly demonstrate Burger that the results of a good diet and fitness pro­ I hereby submit for this RECORD this outline of King Corp.'s outstanding dedication to the gram can increase the longevity of Americans, the Peel-It-Off Program and urge my col­ promotion and funding of educational and create greater productivity for industry and leagues to support the Florida Department of training programs both within and outside the business and reduce health care costs across Citrus' efforts to promote January as National company. Such programs are essential to the the board. Diet Month. continuing development of our Nation as they To reinforce the importance of total good play a critical role in our ability to equip our health, research has shown that diet and ex­ ercise often attribute to disease prevention work force to meet the growing demands of BETTY SPAAR: NEW PRESIDENT and control. Debilitating and life threatening ill­ OF THE MISSOURI PRESS AS­ international competition. nesses like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, SOCIATION Burger King's education programs, and the and osteoporosis are cited as examples public-private initiatives that make these pro­ where diet appears to play an important role. grams possible, are to be commended and HON. IKE SKELTON But, despite the conserted efforts of Gov­ OF MISSOURI encouraged. Legislation consonant with these ernment and free enterprise, Americans are goals should have our support, and the Con­ still in need of consistent motivation. Accord­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gress should continue to look for new and in­ ing to Better Homes and Gardens magazine, Wednesday, November 18, 1987 novative ways to build on such positive ideas. almost 90 percent of Americans think they Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I take this op­ weight too much. The operative word in that portunity to commend a resident of the Fourth statement is "think" and in order to change Congressional District, Betty Spaar, publisher this perception of how Americans feel about of the Odessan in Odessa, Mo., who was re­ themselves, education is the key to behavior cently elected president of the Missouri Press CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF modification. Association. Mrs. Spaar comes from a well HONOR DAY In a recent article in USA Today, futurists known newspaper family, and has been pub­ spoke candidly about what the year 2000 lisher of the Odessan since 1960. She is a HON. G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY holds for all of us. Futurist Clement Bezold graduate of the University of Missouri and believes that "by adjusting our behavior we active in civic affairs. OF MISSISSIPPI can live longer and more vigorously-and not I know that my colleagues join me in wish­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be older and sicker." Behavior modification ing her well as she assumes this prestigious begins in adjusting our eating and exercise office with the Missouri Press Association. Wednesday, November 18, 1987 habits. Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, I am In early October, a panel of experts com­ proud to be an original cosponsor of the legis­ missioned by the National Institutes of Health SYRIA: TORTURE BY THE SECU­ lation passed by this body yesterday, House released dietary guidelines for lowering blood RITY FORCES-AN AMNESTY Joint Resolution 384, which sets aside next cholesterol of adults who have been identified INTERNATIONAL REPORT February 12 to honor the Nation's Congres­ heart disease high risks. One of the panel's sional Medal of Honor recipients. Three of the recommendations is to eat plenty of fruit. HON. EDWARD F. FEIGHAN recipients are from my home State of Missis­ Since 1932, the Florida Department of OF OHIO sippi. Citrus has worked diligently to provide Ameri­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In my office, I have a book listing the Medal can consumers with information to lead nutri­ tionally healthy lives. Through FDOC support­ Wednesday, November 18, 1987 of Honor recipients and their citations. Under ed programs and collateral materials, the Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, The Syrian their names are such comments as "magnifi­ agency has offered American consumers Constitution says that torture is illegal in Syria. cent conduct," "conspicuous bravery," "val­ sound nutritional and educational recommen­ But a recent Amnesty International report re­ iant spirit," and "courageous devotion to dations to modify behavior habits for good veals a harsh reality: torture is a "regular ex­ duty." health. perience for thousands of political prisoners in This is truly a fraternity to be admired. It is a Based on the success of this year's Peel-It­ Syria." group that represents the absolute best of Off Program and designation of January 1987, The report spells out flagrant human rights man's spirit and determination. They are the as National Diet Month by the 99th Congress, abuses in that country. Under a state of emer­ ones who, in the tragedy and cruelty of war, the FDOC will continue to renew its commit­ gency, in place since 1963, thousands of polit­ performed with valor and supreme courage ment to a healthy America. ical prisoners have been arrested and brutally and heroism. They are freedom's heavy hit­ For 1988, the FDOC will again put forth a tortured while held incommunicado by Syrian ters. consumer awareness campaign to reinforce security forces. The report details no less than Mr. Speaker, our Congressional Medal of the importance of nutrition, diet, and fitness 38 systematic methods of torture. The victims' Honor recipients deserve this special day of and presents for consideration the recognition testimony is a sickening indictment of the bar­ tribute, and I urge swift approval of this meas­ of January 1988, as National Diet Month. As a barity of man's inhuman treatment of his ure by the other body. consumer awareness effort, the Peel-It-Off fellow man. Numerous requests by Amnesty November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32719 International for investigations and appeals to brae and near strangulation. A variation of A TRIBUTE TO THE COUNTRY Syrian authorities have been made on behalf this form of torture, known as the Confes­ OF LATVIA of these men and women. No response has sion Chair, is practiced in Lebanon. The range of torture methods used is such ever been received. that it led one former detainee to describe a The U.S. position on torture is clear. Ac­ HON. FRANK HORTON Damascus detention centre as a "research OF NEW YORK cording the Public Law 98-44 7, the chief of centre" for new torture techniques. Amnes­ the diplomatic mission in a country where tor­ ty International has received descriptions of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ture is regularly practiced is under instruction no less than 35 different methods of tor­ Wednesday, November 18, 1987 to examine allegations of torture; to report this ture, excluding the routine beatings which information to the Assistant Secretary for result in scenes such as this, described by an Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Human Rights for inclusion in the Country ex-prisoner: "One by one • • • each person pay tribute to the country of Latvia and its Report on Human Rights Practices; and to ex­ was beaten 200 and 400 times on his feet. people, who today will mark the 69th anniver­ press concern in individual cases of torture. Other members of the military police were sary of the founding of the independent Re­ Recently, the United States resumed full busy beating the rest of the prisoners on public of Latvia. diplomatic relations with Syria. The State De­ their backs and other parts of their bodies. From the end of World War I until World partment should use this recently reopened When they had finished beating us, we were War II, Latvia was a proud and free independ­ diplomatic channel to present the findings of lined up in single file. Holding onto each ent country. Sadly, that freedom was short the Amnesty report to the Syrian Government, other's clothes, blindfolded and with our lived, as the Soviet Army crushed Latvia and call upon the Syrians to bring those responsi­ heads lowered, we walked into the prison. We reached the fourth courtyard, a cell its Baltic neighbors Estonia and Lithuania in ble to justice, and call upon Syria to imple­ door was opened and we went in. Of course, 1940. That domination and control remains in ment laws that prevent the continued use of until the cell door closed we continued to be place today. torture. I commend the report to my col­ whipped from every direction. Everyone was Any type of celebration by the people of leagues and I have submitted a small excerpt in a bad condition, their legs bleeding and Latvia today to remember and cherish their for your information. covered with wounds, as were other parts of freedom will be considered a criminal offense SYRIA: TORTURE BY THE SECURITY FORCES AN their bodies. The pain was very intense, and by the ruling Soviet powers. But, Mr. Speaker, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT-OCTOBER none of the prisoners was able to stand up that will not stop thousands of Latvians, who 1987 as a result. If a prisoner tried doing so, he will risk their personal freedom to show to the Torture is illegal in Syria. It is prohibited would collapse from the intensity of the world that the people of Latvia have not and by international covenants to which Syria is pain." will not accept as fact that the Soviets control a party. Nevertheless torture is a regular ex­ This report is based on testimonies and in­ their destiny. We in America should honor perience for thousands of political prisoners formation received by Amnesty Internation­ in Syria. al since 1983. Amnesty International has these brave patriots expressing their desire for For years Amnesty International has re­ not been able to medically examine every freedom today in that Soviet-controlled coun­ ceived reports that political prisoners are former detainee who claims to have been try. systematically tortured and ill-treated by tortured, but whenever this has been possi­ By its definition, the Soviet Union considers Syrian security forces. The victims range ble the results have been consistent with Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia to be regions of from students to lawyers to housewives to the tortures described. The extent of tor­ the U.S.S.R. itself. For the sake of freedom­ soldiers. Anyone who opposes the govern­ ture and ill-treatment in Syria goes beyond ment is at risk. People arrested or abducted loving people around the world, it is critical by the security forces in those areas of Leb­ the specific cases described here. Amnesty that we never forget that these three coun­ anon under Syrian control have described International believes that in a great tries were invaded and were included as a tortures similar to those suffered by detain­ number of cases, allegations of torture or ill­ part of the Soviet Union completely against ees in Syria. treatment are never made for fear of repris­ their collective will. Torture is facilitated by the extensive als against former detainees and their fami­ Mr. Speaker, I salute those who risk possi­ powers of arbitrary arrest and detention lies. For this reason the detail of some of the cases in this report has been altered or ble imprisonment to remember the nearly two conferred on the security forces by a state decades of Latvian independence. of emergency which has been in force in omitted to prevent identification. Reference Syria since 1963. For example, they are em­ to other known cases has been omitted alto­ powered to detain without charge or trial gether. Reports of torture or ill-treatment anyone suspected of "endangering security are sometimes not received until long after and public order". These powers have been the events have taken place. As far as Am­ grossly abused, resulting in thousands of ar­ nesty International knows there are no reg­ bitrary arrests. The security forces have ar­ ular and independent visits of inspection to rested people at will, without warrants, places of detention, nor is there any mecha­ AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK without any explanation of why they are nism through which detainees can lodge CELEBRATES CONSTITUTION'S being arrested and without reference to any complaints about their treatment. Allega­ BICENTENNIAL central authority and held them incommu­ tions of torture or ill-treatment are there­ nicado for long periods, in some cases for fore often only made months or even years years. In Amnesty International's experi­ after the detainee has been released. HON. NICHOLAS MA VROULES ence incommunicado detention all too often Reports received by Amnesty Internation­ OF MASSACHUSETTS becomes an opportunity for torture. al indicate that other fundamental rights in Brutal methods of torture have been de­ addition to the right not to be tortured or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scribed to Amnesty International by former ill-treated are routinely infringed by these­ Wednesday, November 18, 1987 inmates of Syrian prisons. Similar methods curity forces. These include the right to have been described by former detainees legal assistance and to prompt medical ex­ Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, I would like tortured by Syrian forces in Lebanon. One, amination after arrest. Nor do detainees re­ to join with the American Legion, the National known as the Black Slave, involves strap­ PT A, the National Education Association, the ping the victim onto a device which, when ceive adequate medical treatment. switched on, inserts a heated metal skewer Over the years Amnesty International has National School Boards Association, the U.S. into the anus. The Washing Machine is a repeatedly urged the Syrian authorities to Department of Education, parents, students, hollow spinning drum, similar to that of a take steps to end torture and ill-treatment. teachers, and civic and business leaders in domestic washing machine, into which the The organization has submitted detailed ac­ saluting public education during, this, Ameri­ victim's arms are pushed and spun until counts of human rights violations by the se­ can Education Week. they are crushed. There is the Syrian Chair, curity forces to the authorities together with recommendations designed to end such This year's American Education Week a metal chair to which the victim is bound theme, "We The People: Building Schools To­ by the hands and feet. The chair's backrest abuses. The authorities have never respond­ is then bent backwards, causing acute stress ed. In this report Amnesty International gether," was selected to commemorate the to the spine. Meanwhile, metal blades fixed once more presents the evidence that tor­ bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. It under­ to the chair's front legs cut into the victim's ture in Syria is widespread and systematic scores the role education has played in enun­ ankles. People tortured on the Syrian chair in the hope that the authorities will take ciating the principles of our Republic to gen­ are said to have suffered fractured verte- action to prevent it. erations of students. 32720 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 Mr. Speaker, I'd like to provide a brief histo­ pease today's economic deities. Legislators AN EQUITABLE SOLUTION: ry of American Education Week. It was initiat­ must show the moral strength and political DON'T PENALIZE CREATIVITY ed after World War I when draft boards dis­ courage to resist the entreaties of the Reagan covered that about 25 percent of draftees administration to cut funding for education. HON. MICKEY LELAND were illiterate and about 29 percent were Examples of this administration's willing OF TEXAS physically unfit. sacrifice of education are reflected in the cuts IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In 1919, the American Legion, the National education has experienced at its hands since Wednesday, November 18, 1987 Education Association, and the U.S. Office of 1980: Compensatory education-cut 17 per­ Education discussed launching an educational cent, bilingual education-cut 45 percent, vo­ Mr. LELAND. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, campaign to solicit public support essential to cational education-cut 24 percent, Federal October 29, the House passed H.R. 3545, the correcting such deficiencies. As a result, a student aid-cut 12 percent, Pell grants-cut Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, series of conferences that began in 1920 led 12 percent in addition to a tightening of eligi­ which I supported. Contained in H.R. 3545 to a plan for an annual nationwide observance was a technical correction to the Tax Reform bility resulting in a decrease of recipients from honoring education in the United States. In Act of 1986 that is very important to photogra­ 32 percent of entering freshmen in i 980 to 17 1921, the first observance of American Educa­ phers, freelance authors, and other creators percent in 1986. tion Week took place. of artistic works. Since its inception 66 years ago, the ob­ The President's fiscal year 1988 budget pro­ The provision specifies that photographers servance of American Education Week has posed eliminating or reducing numerous edu­ and writers are exempt from uniform capitali­ served to increase public understanding and cation programs, including math-science zation rules. Such rules would have made it appreciation of our Nation's schools, to en­ teacher training education grants, vocational virtually impossible for these creators to courage parental involvement, and to build education, drug abuse education, handi­ deduct an overwhelming portion of their rea­ civic and community support to improve edu­ capped education, college student financial sonable business expenses. The Tax Reform cation. assistance, and aid to historically black col­ Act was not meant to penalize creativity and I Few things are of greater importance than a leges. And, although the budget leaves some am glad that my colleagues and I had an op­ good education. Education guarantees not programs in place, the reduced funding ren­ portunity to correct this inequity. only the progress of a society but personal ders them virtually ineffective and lacking in growth and development; it improves the qual­ any true viability. It is a fraudulent policy bereft SS. PETER AND PAUL UKRAINI­ ity of life both tangibly and intangibly. Through of vision and philosophical honesty. AN CATHOLIC CHURCH, education our country has made great strides I find it sadly ironic that the President, for all JERSEY CITY, CELEBRATES politically, socially, and economically over the his rhetoric about revitalizing the country, is lOOTH ANNIVERSARY past 200 years. Education improvement is an imperative of constantly either ignoring or destorying our increasing importance in today's world, and educational system. In order for our society to HON. FRANK J. GUARINI without it, America can no longer feel secure progress and prosper, we must provide our OF NEW JERSEY in its position of world technological leader­ young with the best possible learning opportu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ship. nities. Wednesday, November 18$ 1987 I am somewhat astonished that this under­ It is incomprehensible that there is such in­ Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, a program of standing appears to prevail at the grassroots consistency between this administration's great social, religious, and historical signifi­ level of our society, yet, has failed to extend words and deeds. I fear that the administra­ cance will take place this weekend in the 14th into the upper reaches of policy making in the tion is seeking to abandon the Federal Gov­ District of New Jersey, which I represent. present administration. ernment's long-term commitment to equal It concerns the centennial observance of a Each week I receive many letters from con­ education opportunity. Already thousands of religious parish of the Ukrainian Catholic stituents, not middle-aged, working adults, but students across the Nation have been forced Church. With the assistance of the pastor of concerned teenagers and college students to drastically alter their education plans; many SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, who ask what has happened to our vision, our more have been denied access to higher edu­ Father Roman Mirchuk, I am supplying the fol­ understanding that only by building a sound cation outright. We must meet our commit­ lowing information for this grand salute: academic foundation today can we ensure our ment to education in order to ensure our Na­ This Sunday, November 22, led by two ability to compete economically, socially, sci­ tion's future. Archbishops-the Most Reverend Stephen entifically, and militarily tomorrow. These con­ Sulyk, Archbishop of Philadelphia and Met­ stituents don't understand why we have com­ We cannot meet the competition from other ropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in the promised the ideals upon which this great nations unless we have a broadly educated United States, and the Most Reverend Nation is based. They ask why have we sacri­ citizenry, trained for the increasing demands Theodore Mccarrick, Roman Catholic Arch­ ficed the future for the politically expedient of a highly technological and culturally interre­ bishop of Newark, and sixteen priests, sever­ lated world. Today's students must be educat­ al hundred parishioners and friends will needs of the present. Based on these letters, come together to celebrate the one-hun­ I dispute the popular axiom that today's youth ed with both eyes wide open: One trained dredth anniversary of Saints Peter and Paul lack vision and seek only instant gratification. firmly on the future and one constantly Ukrainian Catholic Church. The celebra­ They have demonstrated an understanding, searching the past. As George Santyana said, tions will begin with solemn vespers on Sat­ sensitivity, and foresight that is lacking in "Those who cannot remember the past are urday night, at 5 p.m. On Sunday, a solemn many of today's leaders. condemned to repeat it." Experience is one of Poltifical Divine Liturgy, celebrated by most On the Federal level, the Reagan adminis­ our greatest teachers; let's not deny our of the still-living former pastors and assist­ tration continues its ideological lip service and ants of the Church, will be sung at 1:00 p.m. young this educational opportunity. Without a in the church, located in the former SS. disingenuous advocacy of education needs, knowledge of our past, and the history and Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church while, in practice, it has only attempted to customs of other nations, we deny ourselves at Bentley and Bergen Avenues. Immediate­ shrink or dismantle many of the programs vital the tools to work and compete effectively with ly afterwards, a jubilee banquet will be held to our Nation's youth and, consequently, its other nations. at the Hi-Hat Club, 180 W. 54th Street, in future. If we expect to secure a position at the Bayonne. forefront of technological innovation and world For these reasons I recognize the impor­ The Ukrainian Catholic Church is one of leadership, we must continue to invest in edu­ tance of American Education Week on the bi­ the twenty-one rites or branches of the Uni­ cation for future generations. Education is the centennial of our Constitution as a celebration versal Catholic Church. While recognizing of our past accomplishments and a renewal of the Pope of Rome as Head of the Church, it wisest investment a nation can make. is largely self-government and retains its While the Federal budget deficit constitutes concern for our future. I encourage my col­ own liturgy, calendar, customs and tradi­ one of the greatest threats to our Nation's leagues to join me in this celebration and tions, and laws: services are conducted in economy, future generations cannot be sacri­ renew our Nation's pledge to unsurpassed the vernacular, which for the United States ficed on this Nation's financial pyre to ap- academic and intellectual accomplishment. is Ukrainian and English. The Church dates November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32721 its beginnings to 988, when St. Volodymyr structed in 1961-62 by Father Anthony Prophets for its foundation and Christ the Great of Kyiv officially adopted Borsa, serving the school until it closed in Jesus for its main cornerstone. Christianity as the state religion of his 1980. Presently, the building is used by Aca­ On that visit, Pope John Paul II said: Kingdom, Ukraine. Headed by a Patriarch, demic High School. Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, who resides From 1955 until 1984, the parish was For many years, I have highly esteemed in Rome, the Church has 20 bishops who served by Msgr. Joseph Batza, Msgr. Antho­ the Ukrainian people. I have known of the serve Ukrainian Catholics scattered ny Borsa, Father Theodore Danusiar and many sufferings and injustices you have en­ throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, Father John Wysochansky; the current dured. These have been and continue to be Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The pastor is Father Roman Mirchuk. matters of great concern to me. I am also Church in Ukraine is legally banned and In 1986, the parish purchased property on mindful of the struggles of the Ukrainian proscribed, though recent reports indicate a the opposite corner of Bergen and Bentley; Catholic Church, throughout its history, to strong underground illegal Church with 10 broke ground in September of this year; and remain faithful to the Gospel and to be in bishops, 400 priests, some 1000 nuns, and union with the successor of Saint Peter. I is preparing for the construction of a new cannot forget the countless Ukrainian mar­ several million faithful. Unfortunately, church in early 1988. Plans call for the com­ "glasnost" has not been extended to the tyrs, in ancient and more recent times, most pletion of the edifice in the spring of 1989, of whose names are unknown, who gave up Ukrainian Catholic Church, which contin­ at the conclusion of year-long celebrations ues to be persecuted and denounced by the their lives rather than abandon their faith. of the Millenium of the official Christian­ I mention these in order to show my pro­ Soviet regime-which makes the centennial ization of Ukraine. celebrations of SS. Peter and Paul Church found esteem for the Ukrainian Church and all the more important for its parishioners. At the end of April 1986, we all were its proved fidelity in suffering. The nucleus of the parish was formed in shocked upon getting news regarding the nu­ I also wish to mention those things which 1886 by Father John Volianskyj, the first clear disaster at Chernobyl, which was 60 you have preserved as your special spiritual Ukrainian Catholic priest in the United miles from Kiev in the heart of the great patrimony; the Slavonic liturgical language, States, though it was officialy organized in nation that many of the parishioners, past and the ecclesiastical music and the numerous 1887, when a small wooden chapel was built forms of piety which have developed over present, of SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian the centuries and continue to nourish your on 4 lots located in The Heights, at the Catholic Church, have been part of. corner of Henry and Chestnut Streets. lives. Your appreciation of these treasures Served intermittently by Ukrainian Catholic It will be recalled that reports received indi­ of the Ukrainian tradition is demonstrated priests from Pennsylvania, the parish ob­ cated that thousands of individuals died in the by the way that you have maintained your tained its first resident pastor, Father Greg­ nuclear accident. attachment with the Ukrainian Church and ory Hrushka in 1889. Among his accom­ The world knows that the Soviet breadbas­ have continued to live the faith according to plishments, Father Hrushka constructed a ket is in the Ukraine, the area south of Cher­ its unique tradition. new large wood-framed church in 1891; nobyl and north of the Black Sea. It produces The Ukrainian Americans in my district and began publication of the first Ukrainian-lan­ major portions of the country's staple grains indeed, a survey will show, throughout the guage newspaper, "Svoboda", in the United and livestock and represents the best balance Nation, have been exemplary citizens serving States ; and helped found the Ukraini­ the Soviet Union. while zealously continuing their traditions of an National Association, whose headquar­ The world was concerned at that time, and their great homeland, inculcating the spirit of ters are in Jersey City, on Montgomery is still concerned because clouds of radiation their forefathers in cheir children, while build­ Street. spread more than 1,000 miles across Poland ing a solid bridge of Americanization for their In 1900, a more convenient location was and Scandinavian Finland and that the fallout children's children for many generations to obtained at the corner of Sussex and come. Greene Streets, in downtown Jersey City, effect regarding crops, vegetables and live­ stock is still unknown. I extend my deepest gratitude to these where most of the congregation lived, and a great people, to their religious and civic lead­ new brick church, with five Ukrainian-style I recall meeting with Father Mirchuk, Father domes and three bells, was constructed. John Skvir of SS. Peter and Paul Russian Or­ ers and I am sure that my colleagues here From 1902 till 1967, when it was sold to Col­ thodox Church, and other religious leaders, today in the House of Representatives wish to gate and demolished, this church was a and Steve and Judge Robert Cheloc, and join me in this centennial tribute marking the landmark on the Jersey City skyline. During others, regarding the terrible problem which 1OOth anniversary of a great parish composed this period Cup to about 1905), the parish oc­ caused great concern and anxiety for their of great people. cupied an honored position in the tri-state area, as it was the only Ukrainian Catholic friends and relatives still in that nation, and Church and served the spiritual needs of those who have to live in that part of the FIFTY YEARS TOGETHER Ukrainians living in these states. world. From 1905 to 1925, the issues of lay trus­ In my district, Ukrainian Americans have teeism, episcopal control of church proper­ been with us since the turn of the century, HON. DAVIDE. SKAGGS ty, Orthodox proselytism, and political dif­ many residing in the Gammontown, downtown OF COLORADO ference troubled the parish and even threat­ section of the city, which is along the water­ ened its very existence. One such split re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES front in the shadow of the great Colgate Pal­ sulted in the founding of SS. Peter and Paul Wednesday, November 18, 1987 Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, molive industrial complex. They have always located on Grand St. However, the timely been hard working, Godfearing people who Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, this past week­ appointment of Father Volodymyr placed great emphasis on their obligations to end I had the enormous privilege of joining my Lotowycz in 1925 saved the parish. During their families bringing up their children to be mother and father, Juanita and Charles his 30 year pastorate, he succeeded in re­ good Americans-giving, not taking from our Skaggs, in the celebration of the 50th anniver­ solving the most burning issues, conciliating society. sary of their marriage. I was unable to express the different factions and reuniting them In Jersey City, at 30 Montgomery Street, the very well to them at our party how proud I am around the church. He was also instrumen­ of them and of being their son. So, I want to tal in organizing the first Ukrainian Catho­ Ukrainian National Building operates its own lic Holy Name Society in the United States newspaper, Svoboda. Also, there is a very fine take advantage of this most public forum to <1937) and founding a parochial school Ukrainian Community Center, located on Fleet say it to the world. (1949) at Bergen and Bentley Avenues. Street, in my district, which adds much to the This was the occasion to stop for a little Staffed by the Ukrainian Catholic Sisters of cultural, educational, and social enrichment of while to reflect. On a couple starting a lifetime St. Basil the Great, the school soon rated as all individuals. together in 1937 in Depression-era Chicago. one of the best parochial schools in the city, The good work of the Ukrainian Catholics in On the changes they've seen in the last 50 and many Jersey City residents, Ukrainian my area was praised in remarks on October 4, years. On all that has been involved in creat­ as well as non-Ukrainian, are graduates of ing and keeping a family together. On their the school. To provide room for the ever-in­ 1979, by Pope John Paul II when he spoke at creasing number of students, augmented by the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immacu­ sacrifices, joys, and tears for, with and even in Ukrainian children whose parents came to late Conception, when he said: spite of their children and each other. the United States in the aftermath of World You are part of the household of God. None of us can go it alone. We wouldn't be War II and the Soviet Russian occupation You members of the Ukrainian tradition are here without the help and support of many of Ukraine, a new school building was con- part of a building that has the Apostles and others. For me, my mother and father-good 32722 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 Republicans both-are at the top of the list. Williams became presiding elder of the Brook­ gregation of Varick for many, many fruitful They have demonstrated what love and char­ lyn District. Under Dr. Churchill's brief pastor­ years in ministry. acter and loyalty are all about. I love and re­ ate-1957 to 1960-the membership of Varick spect them more than I can say. almost doubled. It was also during Or. Church­ ill's pastorate that the mortgage was burned. THE BAPTISTS OF BROOKFIELD The Rev. J. Franklin Smith became pastor AND THEIR DIVINELY IN­ THE 169TH ANNIVERSARY OF SPIRED TRADITION VARICK MEMORIAL AFRICAN of the Varick Church in 1960 and worked METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION faithfully as its leader for· 6 years. He was suc­ HON. GEORGE C. WORTLEY CHURCH ceeded by Dr. C. Guita McKinney, who became the pastor in 1966. Dr. McKinney was OF NEW YORK HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS instrumental in adding new organizations to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the church and significantly raising the Wednesday, November 18, 1987 OF NEW YORK church's budget. Dr. McKinney later was ap­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pointed presiding elder of the Hudson River Mr. WORTLEY. Mr. Speaker, it has been said and sung that "God moves in a mysteri­ Wednesday, November 18, 1987 District. In 1968, Dr. Calvin B. Marshall, in his 36th ous way." Most unusual in the town of Brook­ Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to draw the year, became pastor of Varick Church. Dr. field, NY-in the 27th congressional district­ attention of my colleagues to the 169th anni­ Marshall, who was the youngest minister ever is the way God is worshipped by my constitu­ versary of Varick Memorial African Methodist appointed to the church, came with the revo­ ents of the Baptist faith. Episcopal Zion Church which is being cele­ lutionary zeal of the modern black preacher. A Last month, the First Baptist Church and brated at a banquet dinner on Saturday, No­ the Seventh Day Baptist Church observed the vember 21, 1987. civil rights activist, he immediately plunged Varick Church into many community activities 150th anniversary of sharing the same sanctu­ The Varick AME Zion Church was founded ary and other church facilities. in the city of Williamsburgh, now part of and gained considerable reputation for the church. His activities were recorded in the In 1837, the two Baptist congregations con­ Brooklyn, in the year 1818. In the early days fronted the necessity of serving their congre­ of its history, the church was called the Union New York Times, New York Post, Time maga­ zine, and several appearances on radio and gations nearer the center of Brookfield's grow­ AME Zion Church. ing population. While the churches shared The first site of the church was at Third and television. In 1969, Varick Church had an entire church service broadcast on network most theological concepts, they differed on Hooper Streets in Williamsburgh. The church which day to observe the Sabbath. The Sev­ grew and thrived in the Williamsburgh section television as an example of a socially con­ scious black church. It was at this point that enth Day Baptist congregation conducted for 82 years. At the turn of the century, under services on Saturdays, the First Baptist con­ Varick Church also became known as the the leadership of Rev. J. Waters, the church gregation on Sundays. Inspired, they jointly Church of Black Liberation. Many young family moved to the site of Ralph Avenue and built a single church on North Academy Street people became members of Varick and today Bergen Street to a frame structure purchased in Brookfield. it remains one of the most vital churches in from the Bethesda Congregational Church. Over the years, a single society, including New York. The church remained at this site until it was trustees from each church and the voting devastated by fire in the year 1919. Following During the ensuing years, the members of members of each congregation, has cared for Varick Church, under the leadership of Dr. the fire, Rev. John Mason moved the congre­ the shared church facilities. Together, the gation, which by that time had become known Marshall, continued to serve the community. congregations have undertaken renovations. as the Ralph Avenue AME Zion Church, to a In the 1970's a community ministries program The most recent was this year's installation of new location at the corner of Chauncey Street was begun. There Varick Church ministered to a carillon system. The members of the and Ralph Avenue. the community on a daily basis, with referrals churches also have shared common pro­ In the year 1939, during the pastorate of the to city agencies and an after school and grams, including prayer meetings, vacation Rev. T.C. McDougal, the corporate name of summer program for the neighborhood chil­ bible schools, sacred concerts and, occasion­ the church was changed to the Varick Memo­ dren. For many years a successful day school ally, pastoral leadership. rial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, was offered to the surrounding community. On a Saturday and Sunday last month, the in honor of James Varick, the founder and first Low cost preschool care was provided for congregations celebrated the 150th year of bishop of the AME Zion Church. The fire of children between the ages of 3 and 5. cooperative spiritual services. 1919, the forced move that resulted from it, In 1978, responding to a need for larger Mr. Speaker, it is with signal pride and ad­ and the onslaught of the Depression in the and more versatile facilities, the Varick con­ miration that I commend the attention of our thirties brought long years of leadership and gregation undertook the herculean task of colleagues to this event. Pastor Thomas struggle to the people of Varick Church. On completely renovating and expanding the Goldthwaite of the First Baptist Church, Pastor more than one occasion, there was serious church, a project which cost in excess of Ernie Clemens of the Seventh Day Church, discussion on the floor of the New York $500,000 to complete. The seating capacity in and their congregations deserve our recogni­ Annual Conference as to the feasibility of the sanctuary was increased with the addition tion for the nurturing of their divinely inspired keeping the doors of the church open. Great of Sunday School classrooms on the sanctu­ tradition. credit must be given to the lay men and ary level. The administrative offices were up­ women and the pastors who, through the lean graded and increased and on the lower level years, perservered. a new kitchen, rest rooms, and chapel were NATIONAL OPTICIANS MONTH Dr. Samuel Hart Williams, who became the added. pastor of Varick Church in 1941, must be The Varick Church continues its commit­ HON. BILL FRENZEL given credit for being the father of Varick ment to serving the surrounding community OF MINNESOTA Church in its modern era. Under his leader­ and the city as a whole. Currently, Varick's de­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ship the congregation grew and subsequently partment of christian education sponsors a acquired the present site on Quincy Street weekly tutorial program for elementary Wednesday, November 18, 1987 and Patchen Avenue. The congregation pur­ through high school students. Varick also min­ Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, the Opticians chased this historic mansion in the Bedford­ isters to the homeless of the city with an Association of America has designated the Stuyvesant area from supermarket magnate, emergency shelter which cares for 1O men on month of January 1988, as National Opticians H.C. Bohack, in 1951. This beautiful building a weekly basis. Month. I am particularly proud that a constitu­ was renovated to include a seating capacity of Without a doubt, the Varick Memorial ent, Dwayne Broe of Minnesota, is the current 500, fellowship and dining halls, limited Church represents the best tradition of the president of OAA which represents the Na­ Sunday School facilities, 3 offices, and a 14- black church. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased and tion's 30,000 opticians. room rectory. proud that the Varick Memorial AME Zion Sooner or later, nearly every one of us will In 1957, Dr. Frank E. Churchill was appoint­ Church is part of my 11th Congressional Dis­ need help to see well. Retail opticians deliver ed to the pastorate of Varick Church after Dr. trict. I extend my very best wishes to the con- vision care to young and old alike, guiding November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32723 their customers through a vast array of and solemnly welcomed Latvia's signature on honor those who disappeared in the choices of eyeglass lenses and frames, and a this document. In 1932, the U.S.S.R. also sol­ Soviets' mass deportations. On August growing number of contact lenses and lens emnly signed a treatly of nonaggression with 23, an estimated 10,000 Latvians as­ care products. Latvia, and then extended it into a 10-year sembled to protest the anniversary of Retail opticians, like Dwayne Broe, play an treaty in 1934. Finally, in 1934, the U.S.S.R. the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact to invade important role in keeping protective and cor­ joined the League of Nations, accepting the Poland. rective eyewear available to us all. It is a rule of respect for its neighbors' territorial in­ The Soviet leadership has every pleasure for me to recognize and honor these tegrity that was implicit in that organization's reason to fear that such demonstra­ opticians. makeup. tions may take place today, on the an­ Soviet hypocrisy perhaps lulled niversary of Latvian independence, Latvia and its Baltic neighbors into a making a mockery of their pretense of THE 69TH ANNIVERSARY OF false sense of security, but with the a voluntary union of Latvia with their THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATVIA Nazi-Soviet invasion of nearby Poland dictatorship. in 1939, there was a glasnost of sorts Their campaign of disinformation HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON about the real Soviet intentions. Now and intimidation has been put into OF NEW YORK operating with no real constraints, the high gear on this occasion. The British IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Soviet Union moved quickly to compel traitor Kim Philby has been trotted Latvia and its neighbors to sign Wednesday, November 18, 1987 out to try to discredit Latvian protes­ mutual assistance pacts providing tors as dupes of Western intelligence Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, today, Soviet access to bases on their soil. On services. Latvian Communist Party Wednesday, November 16, is the 69th anni­ June 15, 1940, the Soviet Army invad­ Chief Boris Pugo has also said that versary of the day when an independent ed nearby Lithuania, and Soviet tanks "workers must take measures them­ Latvia was declared to those assembled at and infantry massed on the Latvian selves" to deal with any demonstra­ the National Theater in the Latvian capital of border the next day. An ultimatum tions-an invitation to the devine Riga. After centuries of domination by their was then handed over to the Latvian mobs of the Soviet Union, the Druz­ Russian neighbors, this small, Baltic nation Government, insisting on the removal henniki, to attack any demonstrators joined a dozen other nationalities in at last of many of the Latvian state's key of­ with impunity. winning their true independence and national ficials and on the free entry of Soviet The Soviet leadership has had 47 self-determination. forces. By the way, whatever hap­ years to erase the traces of their Sadly, Latvia's fate as an independent pened in this case to the principle of treachery toward the Baltic peoples. I nation was foreshadowed as, one by one, noninterference in internal affairs, believe they will never succeed in this most of those other nations fell to Soviet mili­ which is so often admired by Soviet effort. Just as with the Ukranian, Es­ tary and political onslaughts. Even as the Bol­ spokesmen in our day? tonian, Lithuanian, and other peoples, sheviks preached solemnly of their sincere re­ Left with no alternatives, the Latvi­ nothing has been forgotten in Latvia, spect for self-determination for all nationali­ an Government acquiesced to these only silenced. Tr.e Soviets can contin­ ties, they moved to absorb the independent demands. The appointment of a Soviet ue to impose this silence, but they nations of Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and "puppet" cabinet was quickly followed cannot eradicate the Latvian people's the others. by an unconstitutionally scheduled desire for a free Latvia. Latvia itself was to come under an immedi­ election. With the usual Soviet-style ate Soviet political assault. Within a month of political campaign, the slate of candi­ the Latvian declaration of independence, a dates favoring the Soviet view was CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS: Soviet Republic of Latvia was declared-not elected with an amazing 97 .8 percent LEADERSHIP DOESN'T COME in Riga, but in Moscow. With bravery and of the votes. Within 2% weeks of this EASY good fortune, however, the Latvian people election, the new Parliament convened were able to throw back the Soviet threat to and immediately petitioned the Soviet HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN their independence and go about the business Government to admit Latvia as a OF FLORIDA of building a democratic state where none had Soviet Republic. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stood before. This little nation's independence, This was to prove difficult in the unsettled lost at the point of a gun, was soon to Wednesday, November 18, 1987 atmosphere that was soon to sweep through be threatened by the deportation of Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, no much of Europe with the advent of radical thousands of its citizens to distant re­ one has struggled harder or longer for human movements and the onset of the world eco­ gions of the Soviet Union, along with and civil rights than our colleague, JOHN nomic depression. Ironically, the Latvian peo­ the settlement of over one-half million LEWIS. ple's strong desire to ensure a maximum of ethnic Russians within Latvia over the He has indeed paid his dues in blood and democratic participation through minimal re­ following years. In the hope of crush­ sweat and tears. He played a key role in the quirements for official party nominations was ing any thought of an independent battles that helped transform the South into also to make this effort difficult by causing a Latvia, the Soviet leadership has in the kind of society in which everyone, black proliferation of political parties, which proved a this manner lowered the number of and white, can participate. dire threat to the government's continued sta­ ethnic Latvians from 75 percent of His journey to national leadership required bility. Latvia's population in 1940 to 54 per­ courage, intelligence, and toughness as well But, without a doubt, the gravest and ulti­ cent today. as caring and gentleness. This is an extraordi­ mately fatal threat to Latvia's independence Soviet disinformation concerning nary mix of qualities, but then, JOHN LEWIS is lay in the hypocrisy of its Soviet neighbor. what really happened in Latvia in 1940 an extraordinary man. Unable to squash Latvian independence in follows a consistent line. As one Soviet I would like to share with my colleagues an 1916, the Soviet dictatorship quickly resorted official recently stated to an American article about JOHN LEWIS that appeared in to a duplicitous policy of publicly supporting reporter: "The Latvian people elected Southern magazine: Latvian statehood while secretly awaiting any a government that asked to be read­ CFrom Southern magazine, December 19871 opportunity to impose its rule on the small mitted to the Soviet Union." THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF JOHN LEWIS country. But the Latvian people's actions can I use the word "hypocrisy" deliberately. As speak louder than Soviet disinforma­ On a freezing Friday night last winter, not early as 1920, the U.S.S.R formally recog­ tion and the two spontaneous demon­ long after he'd taken his seat in the United nized Latvia's independence. In 1929, the strations that broke out in Latvia ear­ States House of Representatives, Congress­ U.S.S.R. voluntarily put forth its "Litvinov pro­ lier this year show that young Lat­ man John Lewis finished up the day's work tocol," saying it would observe the Kellogg­ vians know the truth. First, on June in his office on Capitol Hill, took a taxi out Briand pact outlawing war on a regional basis, 14, 5,000 Latvians gathered in Riga to to Washington's National Airport, flew 32724 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 home to Atlanta, as he does almost every the night, he and a few other prisoners, ure has been diluted by its price, which he weekend, and then went directly to a Hawks black and white-prisoners whose crime was computes as considerably higher than one game, not because he's an avid basketball having traveled together on the same Grey­ picayune incident at a basketball game. fan-he's a short, stocky fellow who never hound and having attempted to use the There is, more important, what that played the game much as a kid in Ala­ same bus station restroom-were herded in moment symbolizes; the traumatic and ap­ bama-but simply because he seldom passes from their jail cells into trucks and hauled parently permanent destruction of his up an opportunity to practice the kind of through the darkness to the state's notori­ friendship with Julian Bond, the seriously old-fashioned, flesh-pressing, retail politics ous prison farm at Parchman. Stripped strained relationships with other comrades that got him to Washington in the first naked, they waited two hours in a holding and colleagues from the movement who place. block before the warden and a group of chose to support Bond rather than Lewis, "Good to see you! How you doing?" Lewis guards approached, shotguns cradled across and the ragged deterioration of the civil drawled over and over again as he worked their elbows. rights fraternity that was his family, the crowed at halftime, criss-crossing the "Hello there, freedom riders. Welcome to through thick and thin, for so many years. gymnasium floor, munching popcorn and Parchman," the warden began with a smile. Still, it was bound to happen, sooner or sipping diet soda from a paper cup, and en­ "You oughta know we got niggers in here later. thusiastically greeting as many of his new eat you up. We got niggers in here never Selma's pot-bellied sheriff, Jim Clark has constituents as possible before the game re­ heard none of your goddamn freedom songs. disappeared, and Birmingham's Bull Connor sumed. He knew some of them, of course, We got niggers in here don't even know is dead, Governor George Wallace is a piti­ but the most part, he was introducing him­ what freedom is, and if I tell them to, them ful shell of his former self, and Lester self to an endless succession of strangers­ niggers'll kill you before you can speak your Maddox a comic parody of his, Jack and and so was particularly pleased to spot a fa­ mammy's name-so just get on in there and Bobby and Lyndon are long gone, and miliar face in the nearby bleachers. take your showers now and don't nobody Medgar Evers and Dr. King too, of course. "Good to see you! How you doing?" he say a goddamn word." But all those brash and brassy boys of the said heartily, reaching his hand across the Lewis was a 21-year-old sharecropper's son long, hot, 60s summers, the bright-eyed small space between them. from Alabama, a theology student at the black kids who marched in Selma and sang The distance was much greater than he American Baptist Theological Seminary in in Birmingham and staged sit-ins in Nash­ realized. Nashville, a disciple of nonviolent social ville and Greensboro and rode those free­ "Kiss my ass, John Lewis," the man change, a veteran of several sit-ins and ar­ dom ride Greyhounds and spent countless growled, his face suddently hard and hos­ rests, and the chairman of a new civil rights sleepless nights raising money and organiz­ tile. "You .. . just ... kiss ... my ... ass." group called the Student Nonviolent Coordi­ ing and hand-lettering posters and mimeo­ It was a petty little moment, of course, nating Committee CSNCC>. He was neither graphing newsletters and got their heads but it hurt Lewis nonetheless, for the angry sophisticated nor worldly. He had eaten the split open and bled on the mean streets of man was James Bond, brother of Julian first Chinese food of his life in Washington dozens of hate-filled little towns, those lean Bond, Lewis' opponent in a bitter Democrat­ just that spring on the night before the and hungry warriors whose amazing cour­ ic Congressional primary six months before. buses had headed south, a meal laughingly age and fierce pride transformed the civil In Lewis' mind, six months was long enough described by his fellow passengers as "the rights movement into a genuine revolution for most wounds to heal, but this wound ap­ last supper"-which didn't seem nearly so that changed the South forever-they've all parently went too deep. What should have funny on that chilly Mississippi morning a grown older now, just like the rest of us. been a classic political contest between two few weeks later. Their first bus had been They found no magic elixir in those sudden­ prominent black men had become, instead, a burned outside Anniston, Alabama, they'd ly integrated drinking foundations, and, as sad and ugly brawl, and here was the been waylaid and arrested in Birmingham they now move into early middle age at result-the destruction of a valued friend­ (Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" least, they-like aging athletes staring down ship that had been forged in the risky cruci­ Connor had escorted Lewis and a couple of at their bulging waists as they remember ble of the civil rights movement. On the others north and stranded them at the Ten­ the roar of the crowds-are not all adjusting morning after Lewis won, he and Bond had nessee state line), they'd been brutally at­ well. made an awkward joint appearance on tacked by a mob in Montgomery, roughed Most of them have wives and children and NBC's "Today" show. That was just after up and jailed in Jackson, and finally, there mortgages. Some have been divorced a Labor Day, 1986. They have not spoken they were in Parchman, standing naked couple of times. With few exceptions, since. under the gaze and the guns of several men they're all grayer or thinner on top. Several Now, on the blue walls of the new Con­ who clearly regarded them as some form of have simply declined to grow up, a common gressman's Capitol Hill office, among the subhuman species. Lewis was as frightened syndrome among passionate activists in any dozens of photographs showing him with as he'd ever been in his life, and, as they all cause. And a few have doubtless come to the legendary figures of the movement-A. shuffled slowly toward the showers, he grips with that sad but certain sense of di­ Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Whitney couldn't stop thinking about the Jews in the minished opportunity, of dwindling options, Young, James Farmer, and, of course, Nazi concentration camps. The group was of roads not taken, of time inexorably run­ Martin Luther King, Jr.-the handsome locked up in Parchman for five weeks, iso­ ning out. face of Julian Bond is conspicuously absent. lated from the other prisoners and allowed But not all of them, of course, and par­ "I realize now... I know now," Lewis says, no visitors. ticularly not those who chose to rechannel almost whispering from the couch beneath "That was the worst," he says now. "Or their exuberance and their energy and their that impressive gallery, that it is impossible anyWay, it was among the worst experiences instincts and their intelligence into politics, for things to be the way they used to be. of my life," he adds, remembering other in­ Jesse Jackson is a prime example. A princi­ There is pain in his voice, as though he is cidences of similar savagery, such as his ple disciple of King, now in his second pur­ discussing a death in the family. "You brutal beating on the Edmund Pettus suit of the Presidency, Jackson has never pray," he continues, "you hope, you do your Bridge in Selma. held any public office and, realistically, is best, but ..." No wonder, then, that John Lewis looks not among the favorites for the Democratic An awful bell suddenly shatters the quiet like a fighter-he's a man who has literally nomination. Yet he has, through his politi­ of his office, calling the U.S. House of Rep­ had to fight for his life. On the other hand, cal involvement, become a symbolic exten­ resentatives into session, interrupting his there resides in him also the gentle soul of a sion of all that righteous 60s activism and, thought. It does not seem to matter. There parish priest, one so firmly attached to an in the process, maintained a healthy self­ is not much left for him to say. uncompromisingly kind and compassionate image as he approaches his middle years. John Robert Lewis wears the scarred, New Testament ethic, to a dream of helping Andrew Young also comes to mind, Aide-de­ scowling face of a pugilist, the look of a sea­ build what he always calls "the beloved camp to King and a brilliant strategist for soned pug who's taken everybody's best shot community," that both his admirers and his the Southern Christian Leadership Confer­ and is still on his feet, still punching, still detractors often refer to him as the "last ence CSCLC>. he has tracked a high visibili­ dangerous, still a contender-and there is Christian." So sturdy is that reputation, in ty course from Congress to the United Na­ about him and the record of his life an un­ fact, that, in a story about him following his tions to two terms as Atlanta's mayor and flinching toughness consistent with that election last year, a reporter suggested that perhaps a run for governor of Georgia. mien. Lewis would no doubt be the only member Along with the visibility and success of The incident with Julian Bond's brother of Congress forced to deal with "the saint­ these veterans of the civil rights movement wasn't very pleasant, but it clearly wasn't hood issue." has come a steady increase in the number of the worst thing the new Congressman from From the striking contrast of these na­ black men and women running for, and win­ Atlanta had seen or heard in all the years of tures-the pugilist and the preacher-there ning, public office all across the country his dangerous life. In Mississippi, for exam­ now inevitably rises in Lewis the bittersweet and, concomitantly, in the number of black ple, in the spring of 1961, in the middle of aftertaste of his political success. Its pleas- men and women who'd like to do Just that. November 18, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 32725 Unfortunately, what they have discovered is "Where you been?" he asks. "I called you tell you why-because during that cam­ that although the potential pie for black last night." paign, Wyche and I became really good, politicians is slowly expanding, there is still "Canton, Ohio," Lewis says. "Spoke to the close friends. We barely knew each other a finite number of elective offices within Urban League." before, but, in running against each other, reasonable reach of black candidates-and "You tell the incubator story?" Darden in­ we became real buddies." He pauses a not enough to go around. Even Jackson did quires as they turn yet another corner in moment, awkwardly aware of the nasty not get Young's support in 1984, and he the endless marble labyrinth of the Ray­ little piece of irony waiting just around the isn't likely to get it next year either. There burn House office building. corner of his story, for last year, when is as much ego at work as availability of op­ "Always do." Fowler vacated his seat for a successful U.S. portunity. Richard Hatcher and Kenneth "Good," Darden says. "How's the house Senate bid, Lewis ran for Congress again­ Gibson, for instance, the longtime mayors coming?" but this time, so did Bond, and in the course of Gary, Indiana, and Newark, New Jersey, "Closed on it last week. Lillian's over of that contest, the two old friends who'd respectively, have both lost reelection bids there now, waiting for some stuff to be de­ known and respected and liked each other in the last year to other black men in down­ livered," Lewis explains. "I took your advice for so many years before the campaign right bitter campaigns-but neither cam­ and went to Aaron Rents." watched their relationship evaporate in the paign was quite as ugly as the one last year "I hope you mean Aaron Sells," Darden boil of their conflicting ambitions. in Atlanta, the one that not only brought says, "unless, of course, you're not fixing to Like any freshman Representative, Lewis John Lewis to Congress, but brought him run for reelection." is especially aware of all those bells and considerable pain as well. "Nope," Lewis laughs, "Took too long to buzzers, the arcane and antique information Early one morning, the new Congressman get here to give it up that easy." from Atlanta is just back in his Washington Actually, it all started a few days before system used by the House of Representa­ office, fresh off the plane from Ohio, where Thanksgiving, in 1969, when Lewis, then tives to summon its flock together to do a in a speech the night before he had once running the Voter Education Project, a non­ little of the nation's business. But Lewis again told his favorite story about how, as a partisan group trying to increase black po­ also carriers a handy-dandy beeper with poor farm boy who raised chickens back litical participation in the South, sat down him when he's away from the Capitol, a so­ home in Troy, Alabama, he had wished for one afternoon in his Atlanta office and phisticated little box that not only warns an incubator from the Sears and Roebuck painstakingly composed a long letter to him when a vote is about to be taken, but catalog but had never been able to save Julian Bond, a friend from their days to­ also tells him what sort of vote it is, what enough money to order one, and about how gether in SNCC. Lewis had been chairman it's on, and how long he has to get to the he had conducted childish but solemnly sin­ of the group, the out-front agent, the man floor to record his own position. cere funerals for all the baby chicks who in the street with more than 40 arrests on "And if I knew how to program it," he died, including a few who perished when he his record. Bond was SNCC's scholar in resi­ says, fondling the tiny electronic beast, "I'm tried to baptize them into the Christian dence, the cool poet and wordsmith, the phi­ sure it would tell me my temperature, pulse faith, and about how he had righteously re­ losopher. Because Lewis would not buy into rate, and favorite newspaper." fused to touch a bite of the ones who sur­ the more radical aspects of the black power But it is for the beeper's summoning func­ vived long enough to make it into his moth­ surge within SNCC, and because he declined tion that Lewis treasures the gadget, for he er's big iron skillet, and about how he had to join in its castigation of King for his ada­ is truly into voting. He has made more than passionately urged all his brothers and sis­ mant adherence to non-violence, Stokely 95 percent of all the votes in his first year in ters to follow his noble example, and about Carmichael usurped Lewis' leadership, to be office in the Cannon Building or some god­ how that was the very first protest he ever followed eventually by H. Rap Brown. But forsaken committe~ room or wherever he staged-but not, of course, the last. through the years, through all the ups and happens to be at the clang of a bell or the "And how much was Sears asking for the downs, Bond and Lewis remained friends, chirp of a beeper. Frankly, it seems a bit incubator last night?" one of his aides asks bound together by the fire they'd touched. much, but his intensity on the subject is with a wink. Lewis worked in Robert Kennedy's 1968 really nothing more than an extension of "Oh, let me see now, I guess it was.... " Presidential campaign and then came home the image his campaign against Bond The Congressman stumbles, trying to re­ to Atlanta to head the VEP. By November sought to establish in the minds of the member, well aware that the ever-fluctuat­ 1969, Bond had become a member of the voters-that of an unflagging worker in the ing price in his story is a never ending Georgia State Legislature, a highly visible Washington vineyard. The physical act of source of amusement to his staff. and vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, voting is a symbolic fulfillment of his cam­ "Was it more than $100?" the assistant and a genuine national celebrity, and the paign. teases. sole purpose of Lewis' letter was to persuade It is, by and large, an unrewarding pas­ "I think it was less," Lewis says, grinning Bond to run for Congress and to offer Bond sion-but not always. "Let me tell you when sheepishly, slightly embarrassed in front of his unqualified support. the joy of this job really came through to company, but playing along for the "Some of us have said many times," he me," he recalls as he heads over to the moment. began, "that after the death of Martin House to vote on an amendment to an "What we got here is an incubator with a Luther King and Robert Kennedy, you amendment to a State Department authori­ credibility problem," the aide presses, un­ arose as the political leader of many. Your zations bill. From inside his coat, he re­ willing to leave well enough alone. "We presence filled a vacuum, and you became moves his wallet, and, from somewhere in need to name a price and stick. . . . " the hope of millions who had previously its folds, he takes a small computer card. "Nobody cares," Lewis interrupts, speak­ identified with these two great men. Julian, "One day I was walking over here, this same ing softly, but clearly no longer amused. you have an obligation to the youth of "What they do care about is that a black today to use your influence to let them way, to vote to override the President's veto boy so poor he couldn't afford an incubator know that there are some basic changes of the highway bill. You know, he didn't at any price is now a member of the United that can be made through the machinery of like it, called it a budget-buster, which it States Congress. That's the point of the politics." wasn't and we were fixing to vote on his story.'' He seems rather sad to have had to Bond chose to ignore the urgings of his veto. And I just walked in there and stuck explain it, and there is an awkward silence friend, but Andrew Young, who had seen a this little card in the slot, and, just like in the office before his large smile suddenly copy of the letter, jumped into the Fifth that, the President's veto was up in smoke. restores its former warmth. "By the way, it District race with both feet the next year. Now, for a boy who once lived on a dirt road cost $18.99," he says with a chuckle. "I Just Although he lost. Young put together pre­ in south Alabama, that was something." remembered-now, let's get to work.'' cisely the sort of grassroots organization He steps into an elevator inside the Cap­ And off he goes, headed toward his first that Lewis had recommended and described itol. "Good morning, Congressman Lewis," meeting of the day, a gathering of the Sub­ in such great detail in his letter to Bond. In the operators says. Damn near everybody committee on National Parks and Public 1972, with that organization still intact and knows him. Lands, of which he is a member. On the with the help of both Lewis and Bond, "Good to see you! How you doing?" he re­ way, Lewis is overtaken by one of his fellow Young became one of the two black South­ sponds, and continues his discourse. "In the Georgia Democrats, Buddy Darden, a big, erners to be elected to Congress since 1901. history of this country, only about 11,000 gamilous man who represents some of the When Young resigned his seat in early 1977 people have served in Congress. Now, I'm Atlanta suburbs and a long stretch of terri­ to become Jimmy Carter's ambassador to one of them, and it isn't something I take tory way on up to the outskirts of Chatta­ the United Nations, Lewis once again urged lightly. I feel blessed by the people of my nooga. Darden came to Congress in 1983 Bond to run. This time, when Bond de­ district and by God-but I know that if it after defeating the widow of Representative clined, Lewis himself ran, but lost to a weren't for Martin Luther King Jr., I Larry McDonald, the John Birch Society young, white liberal, Wyche Fowler. wouldn't be here, which is why I treat these disciple killed when the Russians shot down "It hurt, I don't mind telling you," Lewis moments in my life as a continuation of the Korean Airlines Flight 007. remembers now, "but not for long, and I'll movement." 32726 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 18, 1987 After voting, Lewis comes meandering derstand his neutrality-which is what Julian Bond's problems went far beyond loose-legged down the broad steps of the Young promised, adding a note of biblical his defeat in that Congressional primary. Capitol, headed back to his office, where encouragement for his pursuit. "The seed of Not long afterward, The Atlanta Constitu­ someone's waiting to see him. He's running the righteous shall not founder," Lewis tion published the transcript of a lengthy late, as usual. but, in no apparent hurry, he quotes the Mayor, whose announced neu­ interview with his estranged wife, Alice, by saunters casually into a crowd of tourists trality made perfect political sense, given local vice-squad detectives in which she bit­ swarming the plaza. In a moment, he has the presence of several candidates other terly accused him of, among other things, become one of them-gawking up at the than Bond and Lewis in the first Democrat­ regularly using cocaine. After Mayor Young splendid dome, gazing rapturously at all the ic primary. Those candidates included sever­ called her. she recanted her charges, there­ magnificent statuary, pointing across the al black ones, King's niece among them. An­ by calling into question the Mayor's conver­ way to the Supreme Court and the Library other candidate was Mildred Glover, a popu­ sation with her, which he defended as of Congress, as unabashedly impressed with lar state legislator, who threw the race into merely a friendly "pastoral" chat. Further all this majestic panoply of Federal power something of a furor when she challenged questions were raised by the subsequent re­ and glory as any high school senior on his all the participants to take drug tests and assignment of the detectives who had con­ graduation trip. make the results known to the public. Lewis ducted the original interview. The Mayor "That's right, that's exactly right," he announced his opposition to mandatory described it as a "routine administrative" says, as he finally turns in the general direc­ testing but his willingness to submit to transfer. A grand jury examined the whole tion of his office. "The out-of-towners really Glover's plan. Bond said absolutely not. The affair, including Mrs. Bond's vague sugges­ know what's important here. They're proud. campaign became known as "Jar Wars." It tions that other notable black Atlantans That's why they take all those pictures, you was the beginning of the end of their friend­ had also used cocaine. Although there were know, so they can remember how it was to ship. no indictments, it was not an altogether at­ be in the middle of all this. That's how I But Lewis partially blames himself for an­ tractive portrait of the cream of the old civil want to feel, try to feel all the time, and, other component of their animosity: his rights leadership. when I lose it, I always come over here with campaign slogan. In a television interview, But it did seem to serve as a metaphor for the tourists and try to find it again." he suggested that what the people of the the condition of the movement. With only He pauses again and points west down the Fifth District were in need of was "a work­ rare defections from the spirit of his vision, long, green mall, past the Washington horse, not a show horse," a line he had King had served during his lifetime as the Monument. needling its way into the lifted from former Georgia Governor movement's unifying force and focus; with summer haze, to the distant Lincoln Memo­ George Busbee. It became the essential his death, there occurred the usual scram­ rial, nearly hidden beneath the hill; the Lin­ theme of his campaign from then on, and it ble for power that would follow such a loss coln Memorial, on whose steps John Lewis offended Bond. Bond was, however, the in any institution, black or white, accompa­ once stood as Martin Luther King Jr. deliv­ overwhelming favorite in the race, endorsed nied over the years not only by an epidemic ered his electrifying "I Have a Dream" by dozens of local and national politicians of bickering and backbiting, with Coretta speech during the 1963 march on Washing­ and numerous theatrical celebrities. King and Ralph Abernathy often the tar­ ton. Showered with contributions from New gets, but also by the larger and move honor­ If anyone cares enough to look for it, York and Hollywood, Bond led everybody in able instincts of decent men and women­ there is still archival film available from that first primary in August. Still, he failed who also had a dream to carve out their own that day, film of the forgotten moments by a whisker to win the majority required careers, to answer their own voices and vi­ before King's speech when A. Philip Ran­ for the nomination, so he and Lewis, who sions. Mrs. King channeled her image and dolph leans into the microphones and, in his finished second but not all that close, her energy into the Martin Luther King Jr. lugubrious baritone, announces to the teem­ squared off in a runoff. Institute for Nonviolent Social Change, a ing crowd, "I now present to you, young It was a classic political matchup: the memorial to her husband's remarkable life John Lewis." As one of the organizers of the front-runner, handsome and articulate, and work. Vernon Jordan headed North to historic march, Lewis had been to the White hounded by a rather ordinary underdog, the run the Urban League and then settle in House for meetings with President Kennedy plodding Don Quixote of Atlanta, whose Washington as a highly visible, highly paid and his brother. He hadn't liked their ideas specialty was lost causes and squeaky clean attorney, Jesse Jackson went to Chicago, all that much, and he intended to say so ethics. Feeling justifiably confident, Bond first to push his own group, People United that day, but his elders in the movement challenged Lewis to a debate before the to Save Humanity