May 7, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11191 EXTENSION OF REMARKS A SALUTE TO GLOVER WILKINS He is a member of the Tennessee dence collected by law enforcement officers River Valley Association Board of Di who reasonably and in good faith thought rectors, and has also served on the they were acting lawfully. It reflects a grow HON. BILL CHAPPELL, JR. Small Business Advisory Council for ing concern in the country that the exclu OF FLORIDA sionary rule's unjustified ill effects need to the State of Mississippi. be curbed. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In November 1962, he was named In California, for instance, a study con Monday, May 7, 1984 Administrator of the Tennessee-Tom ducted by the National Institute of Justice higbee Waterway Development Au found that between 1976 and 1979 more e Mr. CHAPPELL. Mr. Speaker, as thority, his present position. than 4,000 state felony cases were dropped many of my colleagues know, Glover Mr. Speaker, Glover Wilkins is a because of the exclusionary rule. The study Wilkins, Administrator of the Termes man we will be sorry to see leave the also showed that half of those not prosecut see-Tombigbee Waterway Authority, is helm of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Wa ed in 1976 and 1977 because of the exclu retiring. I would like to share with terway Development Authority. It sionary rule were re-arrested during the those who know him, and particularly next two years-on an average of three gives me great pleasure to extend to times apiece. those who do not, the accomplish him best wishes for a happy, healthy The Times editorial erroneously concludes ments achieved by this man over the retirement. It is time now for him to that the crime package will somehow last 37 years or so through his spirit enjoy all the things he helped make reward police ignorance. This is simply not, and dedication. I submit to the CoN possible. He has certainly dedicated a the case. The Senate made clear that the GRESSIONAL RECORD for reprint his bi lifetime toward preserving our water belief the search was lawful must be ography, which I found best describes resources. and we all thank him for his grounded in objective reasonableness. It the man I know. efforts and commitment.e must be based on articulable grounds suffi Glover Wilkins, Administrator of the cient to cause a reasonable and reasonably Termessee-Tombigbee Waterway Au trained police officer to conclude that his CUFFING THE CONSTITUTION actions were justified. thority, and the Huck Finn of the The Times' second criticism involves the Tombigbee, grew up around the insanity defense. While The Times em river-near his native Brooksville, MS. HON.HENRYJ.HYDE braced one part of the Administration's ef Unlike Huck Finn, however, Glover OF ILLINOIS forts to improve the insanity defense as "a Wilkins has much more vision and am IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sensible reform long advocated,"; it chal bition for his river than Twain's leg Monday, May 7, 1984 lenged the companion effort to restrict the endary character had for his. defense to those defendants who are genu e Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, one of the inely mentally ill. Glover Wilkins has been associated major omissions of this House, under The crime package would eliminate the with the Termessee-Tombigbee Water the strong political control of the unworkable portion of the current two-part way Authority since its inception, but Democratic Party. is its refusal to ad test for insanity. That test now permits the his dreams for the waterway dates vance legislation dealing with criminal acquittal of a mentally ill defendant if <1 > back to 1947 when he was manager of law reform. he did not realize that his conduct was the Columbus. Mississippi Chamber of wrong, or (2) if knowing it was wrong, he Curiously, the Los Angeles Times was unable to control it. The latter, "con Commerce. Up until 1958, when Wil supports this unfortunate failure to kins became Assistant Administrator trol" part of the test confronts courts and act in a recent editorial. The Attorney juries with the nearly impossible task of dis of the newly formed Term-Tom Au General, William French Smith, has tinguishing between persons who are unable thority, the chamber with Wilkins at answered the editorial in an interest to control their conduct and those who are the helm. kept alive the proposed Ten ing letter to the editor which appeared merely unwilling to do so. As the American nessee-Tombigbee Waterway. From on April 23. 1984, and which deserves Psychiatric Assn. noted recently, the "line the beginning of his association with the attention of my colleagues: between an irresistible impluse and an im pulse not resisted is probably no sharper Term-Tom, Glover Wilkins has been [From the Los Angeles Times, Apr. 23, 1984] active in maintaining liaison with the than that between twilight and dusk." Since U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. builder CUFFING THE CONSTITUTION there is no objective basis for making the In urging the House of Representatives to distinction, the test invites fabricated claims of the waterway. and elected Repre pass the Administration's anti-crime legisla and produces moral guesses masked as fac sentatives of the U.S. Congress. tion, President Reagan declared that "it is tual determinations. His friends and associates know that about time we take the handcuffs off law Finally, The Times editorial states that Glover Wilkins' dedication to the enforcement and put them on thugs and the bail reforms advocated by the Senate Term-Tom project is all consuming. murderers." This led the editors of The would require a defendant awaiting trial to His interest in water resources of this Times to suggest in its editorial e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor.
31-Q59 0-87-37 (Pt. 8) 11192 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984 nors' Assn., the National Assn. of Attorneys GEORGE FRAMPTON'S ers' expense until his death. He may re General, and the American Bar Assn. PROPHECY enter public life, however morally crippled." The broad support for all three of these "The prospect of Mr. Nixon publishing his improvements in the criminal justice system memoirs (and thereby adding several mil reflects a growing concern by Americans HON. MEL LEVINE lion dollars to his net worth)," Frampton about the terrible toll of violent crime. The OF CALIFORNIA continued, "should remind us that, unlike good faith exception to the exclusionary IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his aides who are convicted of crime, Mr. Nixon will have the 'last say' about his own rule passed the Senate by a 63-to-24 ~ote, Monday, May 7, 1984 and the improvements in the insanity de role in Watergate if he is not prosecuted. fense and bail laws were passed with the e Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. This is why, in my view, it is important rest of the Administration's Comprehensive Speaker, I rise today to bring to the NEW JERSEY leagues. The article follows: by his former staff assistant, Frank IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Gannon. And on March 14, the Washington GEORGE FRAMPTON'S PROPHECY Post Service ran a report by Margot Horn Monday, May 7, 1984 New York ... gave him three standing their families cope with the realities of George Frampton, an attorney now in the ovations . . . Nobody mentioned Water this intolerable offense. office of Rogovin, Huge and Lenzner in gate."• Through volunteer escort and coun Washington, D.C. seling services, this private, nonprofit Ten years ago, George Frampton and then tried in a professional organization dedicated to de this particular WAR chapter for its a court of law. Practically the entire staff veloping innovative concepts in the field of continued dedication in the fight recommended indictment of the President. health care administration and to the pro against the rising tide of rape and its George Frampton, then only 29, put his motion and advancement of its members in recommendation down on paper. "I wonder knowledge, professional standing and per side effects. I urge all citizens, educa if 10 years from now," he wrote late in sonal endeavors, through education and re tional institutions, and public and pri August 1974, "history will endorse the search in management, administration and vate organizations in New Jersey and notion that Mr. Nixon has 'suffered the philosophy of health care. across this country to fully participate enough.· The powerful men around him The academy is an international profes- in the observance of this month as have also lost their jobs and been disgraced, sional society which encourages and fosters Rape Prevention Month. but many of them will have lost their liber a scientific approach to the practice of med ty and livelihood. Mr. Nixon, on the other ical administration; provides a means of The war against rape is one we hand, will continue to be supported in lavish intercommunications; promotes conducts cannot afford to lose.e style with a pension and subsidies at taxpay- and institutes educational courses in this May 7, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11193 speciality, establishes and maintains a crite been resisting so strenuously-a uni What more can I say to that than: rion for those engaged in this profession, form poll closing time would do noth "Hear, hear." This is just exactly the and to provide for recognition by means of ing to prevent early projections. sentiment of those of us in the Con fellowships, grants, and scholarships to those performing noteworthy service in However, I would like to state for gress who have been working on this health care leadership. the record that if thoughtful, con issue. It is just exactly what we have This is truly an honor for Mary and Hos cerned journalists like Mr. Fraiberg been asking for, and it is all we are pice Care is very proud of our own adminis can initiate a process leading to firm asking for. trator. Congratulations. guidelines in the broadcasting indus The fourth and final comment by I want to personally congratulate try about waiting for the polls to close Mr. Fraiberg that is particularly her and all those connected with the before making election projections, I worthy of note was when he conclud hospice and wish them continued suc for one am certainly willing to discuss ed: cess in their efforts of sharing love potential complementary changes in That is why I am announcing today that and understanding.• the electoral process. the news directors of Group W broadcast The second portion of Mr. Fraiberg's stations have agreed not to release any of speech I would like to highlight is the their own exit-poll projections until all polls STATESMANSHIP AT GROUP W following: for that office are closed. If this puts us in BROADCASTING an inferior position competitively-then, so I can envision an election in which the be it." Presidency itsell could turn on a few per HON. AL SWIFI' centage points in the West. In such a situa If other members of the broadcast OF WASHINGTON tion, exit polls could actually elect the media would demonstrate that kind of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES President. statesmanship, this whole problem If anyone here thinks I'm exaggerating would immediately be solved.e Monday, May 7, 1984 the problem, just listen to the words of • Mr. SWIFT. Mr. Speaker, recently, ABC's Ted Koppel. On election night, 1980, Mr. Lawrence Fraiberg, president of at 10:15 p.m., Koppel said: "It's inevitable PEERLESS INSTRUMENTS, INC., the Group W Television Station now that as this night continues, that AWARDED "SUBCONTRACTOR Democrats are simply not going to bother to Group gave an excellent speech to the vote where the polls are still open. Why OF THE YEAR" FOR REGION II National Academy of Television Arts should they? It's all over as far as they're BY U.S. SMALL BUSINESS AD and Sciences. Among the topics he dis concerned." MINISTRATION cussed on that occasion was the use by Ten minutes later-probably after some broadcasters of exit poll data to make heated discussion at ABC-Koppel changed election projections while people are his mind. He said: "Voters on the West HON.GARYL.ACKERMAN still voting: He made a strong plea for Coast: There's more than just a Presidential OF NEW YORK race. Please do vote!" voluntary restraint by the broadcast IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES media. But in a very real, very ominous way, Ted Koppel was right the first time. Television Monday, May 7, 1984 Previously, I included here a copy of had made millions of American voters feel the article from Broadcasting maga helpless-superfluous. e Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I zine about the speech, and Mrs. My comment on this, Mr. Speaker, is am pleased to announce to my col BoxER, of California, has included the simply to point out that every time we leagues that a firm in my district, speech in its entirety. get together with broadcasters to dis Peerless Instruments Co., Inc., of Elm I believe Mr. Fraiberg's statements cuss the problem of early projections, hurst, Queens, has been named the contributed so much to the dialog that we get a civics lecture. The broadcast "Regional Subcontractor of the Year" has been conducted between repre ers all piously argue that voters by the U.S. Small Business Adminis sentatives of the broadcast media and should know their votes count despite tration for region II, which encom some of us in Congress on this issue, the projections; that they should be passes New York, New Jersey, Puerto however, that today I would ask the more mature and go vote on other Rico, and the Virgin Islands. indulgence of my colleagues to allow races even though they have been told Each year, judges representing me to specifically highlight and com the Presidential race is over; that they prime contractors in each region select ment on some of what Mr. Fraiberg should know projections are only pro one firm to receive this honor. The had to say. jections, so they should vote despite Peerless Instruments Co., a leading First, along with urging broadcasters having been assured by television news supplier of precision parts, complex to voluntarily refrain from using exit that their votes are irrelevant, and so electromechanical assemblies, and ad poll data to make election projections, forth. vanced electronic control equipment, Mr. Fraiberg called for a national uni And yet, even a network news has won this prestigious award for its form 24-hour election day. I am among person-a mature, knowledgeable indi fine performance. those who have been reluctant to sup vidual who knew exactly the differ Peerless designs, manufactures, and port this idea for two reasons. The ence between projections and actual tests critical assemblies and systems of first is that the evidence from the vote totals-had precisely the same re the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise, hearings held by the task force on action-"It's all over and Western the nuclear submarine Nautilus, tri elections of the House Administration votes don't count"-that most Western dent submarines, and the F-14 and F- Committee is that a 24-hour period for voters had. I have argued, and I think 16 fighter jets. In addition, Peerless voting would be quite disruptive of the this bears out, that New York network Instruments has earned a nationwide surprisingly fragile process by which news people are trying to impose a reputation for quality and reliability, we conduct elections in this country. rather unreasonable standard of civic and has been designated major suppli And second, any attempt to establish duty-that people should be expected er for the nuclear Navy by the Naval a uniform poll closing time in order to to go cast their ballots after the elec Sea Systems Command. prevent election projections could very tion is over-on Western voters. As the regional award winner, the easily be short-circuited by broadcast The third statement of Mr. Frai company is now eligible to be consid ers. Since the advent of the idea of berg's that I would like to highlight is: ered for the coveted National "Small using exit poll data to make election Business Subcontractor of the Year" projections, broadcasters no longer I dislike the entire idea of legislatures meddling in the area of free speech and award. The national winner will be an need any actual vote totals to make journalistic integrity. nounced at the 17th Annual Small their projections. Without voluntary I would argue that it is up to us to "head Business Procurement Conference and restraint by the broadcasters-which them off at the pass": to show that we can Awards Banquet, which will be held is exactly what most of them have keep our own house in order. May 8, 1984. 11194 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984 I congratulate the company's presi ice by working in Albany, Douglas, and ANDROPOV'S DEATH AND THE PROSPECTS OF A dent, Thomas W. Considine, and all of Savannah parishes. NEW REALISM the employees at Peerless Instru I came to know this jovial Irishman (By Ray Cline) ments, Inc., who share this award while he served as pastor of St. Mary's Honest Americans ought to send their rep through their dedication.• on the Hill Parish, Augusta, from 1957 resentatives decently and politely to to 1970. Moscow, not to praise Yuri Andropov, but to While carrying out his parish assign bury him. His career rise through the Com LOUISVILLE DEBATE TEAM ments, Monsignor Bourke held a munist Party bureaucracy and the KGB RANKS HIGH NATIONALLY secret police to the top of the Politiburo number of diocesan appointments. marked one of the most violent and deceit From 1970 to 1976, he was vicar for ful periods in Soviet policy toward the HON.ROMANOL.~ZOU special administative services and dioc United States. It is naive and dangerous to OF KENTUCKY esan comptroller. He also was presi forget and forgive at the grave and speak as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent of Aquinas High School, Augusta, if Andropov was a friend and Moscow means Monday, May 7, 1984 from 1957 to 1970. He has been a us well. member of the Knights of Columbus Yuri Andropov's career came to its first e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I since 1935. revealing climax in the bloody betrayal and would like to commend the University Since his retirement, Monsignor butchery of national communist reformers of Louisville debate team on another in Hungary in 1956. He saw massive Soviet Bourke has been living in Savannah, arming and coaching of Hanoi's military outstanding season of tournament where a golden jubilee celebration is competition. The team was runnerup forces to inflict a humiliating defeat on planned for him May 17. Likewise, St. 500,000 American soldiers, sailors, and in the national tournament which Mary's on the Hill Parish in Augusta airmen and then to crush independence and took place at the University of Ten plans to honor this gifted man with a freedom oriented South Vietnamese and nessee in Knoxville. celebration on May 11. Cambodians like bugs. He promoted the re This is the second time in 3 years I am happy to join his many friends placement of many billions of dollars worth that the University of Louisville deba and admirers in paying tribute to one of weapons in Arab hands to spark repeated tors have reached the final round, and Arab-Israeli wars and dislocate the whole who has contributed so much to his world's oil supply from the Persian Gulf. the third time in 4 years that they community and to his church.e have reached the final four. Observing such a payoff for deploying proxy forces against Americans and their I commend the efforts of Cindy Lei allies, Moscow in Andropov's heyday in the ferman (senior) and Mark Whitehead ANDROPOV'S DEATH AND THE KGB and the Politburo exploited a thou (junior) who constituted the Universi PROSPECTS OF A NEW REALISM sand regional grievances around the globe ty of Louisville debate squad. to create lavishly equipped armies in client The success of the University of states like North Korea, North Vietnam, Louisville debate team in recent years HON. PHIUP M. CRANE Syria, and Cuba. It encouraged and assisted each to recruit, train, arm, and fund local attests to the talents of the students, OF ILLINOIS the quality of the program, and the fighting units dedicated to undermining and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES destabilizing neighboring states. coaching skills of Dr. Thomas J. A covert war has been going on in the Hynes, Jr. Monday, May 7, 1984 1970s and 1980s sponsored by the Soviet I applaud the accomplishments of e Mr. PHILIP M. CRANE. Mr. Speak Union through proxies of proxies to commit the 1984 University of Louisville er, the following article by Ray Cline, acts of cold-blooded terrorist violence, wage debate team and wish them much con entitled "Andropov's Death and the destructive ethnic and religious wars against tinued success.e Christians, Jews, and "Yankees," and secret Prospects of a New Realism," ap ly coordinate revolutionary political warfare peared in the Washington Times in in a dozen nations aimed at multiplying A TRIBUTE TO MSGR. DANIEL J. mid-February. As you may recall, in Soviet clout and diminishing American in BOURKE the wake of Andropov's death, many fluence and prestige. Americans accepted the false premise The mischievous blather from many con that a new Soviet leader would bring gressional, academic, and media pundits fa HON. DOUG BARNARD, JR. voring a friendly gesture by President about monumental changes in Soviet Reagan of attending Andropov's funeral OF GEORGIA American relations. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES seemed to suggest that all this international In retrospect, Mr. Cline, a senior as violence is America's fault. Moreover, in Monday, May 7, 1984 sociate at the Center for Strategic and typical American pollyanna style they e Mr. BARNARD. Mr. Speaker, this International Studies at Georgetown hoped that a kindly personal move made in summer one of the leading religious University, and a former Deputy Di a "bygones are bygones" manner could rector for Intelligence at CIA, correct magically set Soviet-American relations on a figures in Georgia will be celebrating cordial new path. The occupation of Af the 50th anniversary of his ordination ly warned that Andropov's death ghanistan and the rape of Lebanon are not to the priesthood. Msgr. Daniel J. would mean nothing to the Soviet de so easily repaired. Bourke has devoted long years of serv cisionmaking structure. Regardless of This kind of gesture by Reagan might ice to his parishioners in my home the man in charge, every leader in the have been good domestic politics. It would town of Augusta, GA, and in numer Politburo is cut from the same Lenin have been disastrous international policy. In ous other cities as well. Even after re ist-Stalinist indoctrinated mold. As most parts of the world it would be inter tirement, he continues to be active in Mr. Cline explains, the Soviet Hierar preted as reflecting a sense of guilt in Wash chy produces continuity and stability, ington, a Vietnam-like weakness in Ameri parish affairs and frequently assists in can policy toward Lebanon, and an obsequi pastoral responsibilities in Savannah. not sudden changes of course, even in ous American haste to persuade the next It is no surprise that Monsignor the event of the death of its leader. head man in Moscow, whoever he turns out Bourke's energy and enthusiasm and Mr. Chernenko's continued refusal to be, to ease the strategic pressure on the devotion continue unabated, because to return to the nuclear arms negotiat American people. he has shown these traits since he was ing table, his outright objection to on Perhaps many citizens in our rich and tol a young man growing up in Ireland. site verification, and his renewed cam erant society might think President Reagan paign against the freedom fighters in was demonstrating the generosity of the A native of Birr, County Offaly, strong, but in Soviet, Arab, Latin, and most Monsignor Bourke prepared for the Afghanistan are but; a few examples of other cultures such behavior would certain priesthood in Dublin. He was ordained how this "new realism" has fared in ly be read as revealing the deep, hidden anx June 24, 1934, at All Hallows Semi just the last few months. I urge my iety of the weak. Such a signal is wrong and nary. That fall he arrived in Savan colleagues to take a look at Mr. Cline's dangerous to send today if the United nah, GA, and began a lifetime of serv- article and to heed his warnings. States intends to have any role defending its May 7, 1981,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11195 own cultural values and economic interests enced firsthand a week-long govern politics, and directs the schools urban in international conflicts swirling about us ment studies program in Washington. internship program. He is coauthor of in every quarter. I wish to recognize and give special two previous books on public policy, President Reagan fortunately understood these matters. He understands, though he welcome to students from Mount An "Economic Democracy," and "A New has failed to persuade the Democrats in thony Union High in Bennington, who Social Contract." His articles have ap Congress and most media moguls, that with their teacher Alan George, repre peared in the New York Times, the Andropov's death probably means nothing sent the single largest group ever to Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, at all for Soviet decisionmaking. Another participate from the State of Vermont. the Nation, and many other publica personality will take his place, cut from the These 38 enthusiastic participants tions. He is considered one of the lead same cloth, dedicated to the same Leninist have arrived in Washington to explore ing under-40 thinkers on city planning Stalinist ideology and the same KGB-armed forces strategy. and experience the workings of our and urban policy in the United States. After all, the "young men" in the ruling Government through seminars, work His wife, Ruth Goldway, is the former system in the Soviet Union are in their fif shops, and study tours. mayor of Santa Monica. ties and sixties and were closely vetted by The entire Bennington community is It gives me great pleasure to share their senior colleagues in their seventies to be commended for the outstanding Professor Shearer's accomplishment when they were coopted into the top leader support it has provided to the pro with my colleagues, and I wish him ship by Breshnev and recently by Andropov. gram. Without the generous contribu much success on his book.e This one-party dictatorship structure of government is not like ours. It produces con tions of many people throughout Ben nington, this trip would not have been tinuity and stability, not constant trimming SMALL BUSINESS ENVELOPE or sudden changes of course. possible for many of the students. It is Every leader in the Politburo learned the in keeping with Vermont spirit of CEREMONY basic philosphy of communist states as working together to achieve common enunciated by Lenin and Mao Tse-tung (political power The key to the Close-up program is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN:TATIVES grows from the barrel of a gun). Whoever emerges on top of the heap must have the involvement. I am very pleased to see Monday, May 7, 1984 triple support system behind him-the enor that Mr. George and the students mous Communist Party bureaucracy, the from Mount Anthony have set such an e Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Speaker, this secret police, and the military forces. Every outstanding example of involvement morning I had the priviledge of hold one has been taught since he was a child in the democratic process for others to ing a press conference with William F. that his society is in an irreconcilable sys follow. To them and everyone who Bolger, the Postmaster General of the temic war with the pluralist democracies. helped make it possible my sincere United States. He will toe the party line because he has to. congratulations.• At this ceremony the Postal Service Changes in direction in the near term will formally issued a commemorative en be tactical and propagandistic, not strategic. velope honoring small business. I Real Soviet policy shifts in search of a DEREK SHEARER AWARDED would like to include for the RECORD a modus vivendi enabling the two superpow GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP ers to live together without constant and copy of the remarks I made this morn costly conflict will come slowly. They will ing. come at all only if Americans get a clearer HON. MEL LEVINE The remarks follow: picture in their heads of the kind of turbu OF CALIFORNIA COMMEMORATIVE ENVELOPE CEREMONY lent world we live in and show some dignity IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Good Morning. I am pleased so many of in a prudent determination to protect our you could be here this morning with Post selves, our friends, and our strategic inter Monday, May 7, 1984 master General Bolger and me. As you est. The next phase of the nasty, destructive e Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. know, this is Small Business Week, and I am war in Lebanon probably will be the best excited we can kick off the week with this litmus test both for Soviet intentions and Speaker, I rise today in honor of my friend and constituent, Prof. Derek special ceremony. American firmness. Today Postal Service is formally issuing a If thinking about Andropov's death leads Shearer, who was recently awarded a commemorative envelope in honor of Ameri to greater realism on the part of Americans prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship ca's small businesses. I would also like to rather than fantasies of instant, friendly so for 1984-85. point out that in this week's issue of Time lutions of bitter differences at improvised Professor Shearer, the director of magazine there is a special section devoted summits, Yuri Andropov will in the long run urban studies at Occidental College, to Small Business Week called a salute to have made a contribution to world peace. was 1 of 283 scholars, artists, and sci small business. I am pleased to say that the Otherwise things will go on much in the U.S. Postal Service is one of the sponsors of same sorry vein as during his active political entists who were chosen from among 3,542 applicants in the 60th annual this section. I think the Postal Service lifetime. Let us hope that at least a modest should be commended for doing so much to learning process may get under way both in Guggenheim competition. The fellows recognize our small business community at Washington and Moscow. are selected by a committee of seven this time. e complishments in a given field, and a Business was for the Postal Service to issue strong promise for the future. a commemorative stamp honoring small TRIBUTE TO MOUNT ANTHONY The grants, averaging $19,500, are business. This recommendation was en dorsed by the members of the Small Busi HIGH SCHOOL'S CLOSE-UP intended to provide 1 year's free time ness Committee, and a formal request was PROGRAM to engage in study, research, or cre made to the Postmaster General. After a lot ative activity. of hard work, the Postal Service announced HON. JAMES M. JEFFORDS Professor Shearer-an expert on they would issue a commemorative envelope OF VERMONT urban policy and vice chair of the honoring small business. This announce IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Santa Monica Planning Commission ment was formally made 2 years ago at a will use his grant to complete a book press conference with the Postmaster Gen Monday, May 7, 1984 on the implementation of innovative eral. Last year the design of the envelope e Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. Speaker, in was unveiled at a special ceremony. And-at urban planning practices in American long last-the envelope is being issued 1979 schools from Vermont began par cities. today. ticipating in the Close-up program. Professor Shearer teaches courses at It is significant that the envelope is being Since then nearly 1,500 students and Occidental in urban planning, urban issued during Small Business Week since teachers from the State have experi- economics, management, and urban this is a time that has been set aside to rec- 11196 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984 ognize the Nation's small business men and post and the local headquarters of the hundreds of subscribers. None of America's women. Small business is the cutting edge Sandinista Neighborhood Defense newpapers reported it. Neither did NBC or of competition; small business is the Na Committee, the civilian groups that CBS. tion's job creator; small business is the van When the Washington Times asked State guard of innovation and invention; and police their neighborhoods and Department spokesman Joseph Becelia for small business is the source of the free en denouce suspected "counterrevolution information about the demonstration, he terprise leadership. It is the responsibility aries" to the authorities. Well-orga said he had not heard of it and would have of all of us in public service to recognize nized "mobs" from these committees to telephone the U.S. Embassy in Managua these attributes, and today I feel we have have been known to paint, stone, and for a report. U.S. diplomats in Managua had done just that. even burn down the homes of Nicara apparently not cabled to Washington any I would like to recognize just a few people guans who support the church, or thing about the huge demonstration. now. First I want to thank the students question the Government's policies. Quoting Roger Gamble, the deputy chief from Mrs. Doris Glover's third grade class The Department of State advises of the U.S. mission, Mr. Becelia sharply for coming here today. They are from Jack challenged the accuracy of the ABC report. son Road School in Silver Spring. Perhaps that the Nicaraguan Government has "This was not an anti-Sandinista demon we have some of our future small business established and fostered the spread of stration," he said. "By no means-neither in men and women among us! the "People' Church" in opposition to its origin nor in its nature." Next, I would like to introduce Pat Taylor. the existing Catholic Church in that When pressed to explain the loud chants Mr. Taylor is one of the designers· of the en country. As part of the Sandinista from the crowd and the placards clearly visi velope and will be on hand after we com attack on the church, the Nicaraguan ble on the television screen in the Collins plete our remarks to autograph your pro Bishop, Father Obando y Bravo is fol report, Mr. Becelia replied that "any anti gram and envelope. Sandinista character or manifestations were And finally. I would like to recognize two lowed, harassed, and often threatened. As a frequent critic of the Govern peripheral to the religious nature of the more people: My colleague, Congressman gathering-although there may have been ANDY IRELAND from Florida's lOth District. ment there, he is considered as an scattered anti-government shouts and a few ANDY initiated the drive to get the Postal enemy of the state. placards." Service to issue this envelope; and Patricia Time magazine reported that during He also said the crowd numbered "only Reese of his staff who has worked with his visit to Nicaragua, the Pope was 50,000, not 100,000." The larger figure, he ANDY on this over the last 2% years. mocked and jeered by groups of Nica said, "was a church estimate." In closing, I want to encourage all of you raguans intentionally infiltrated into a An ABC spokesman said, "Our crowd esti here to purchase at least one of these enve public outdoor mass in Managua. mates were based on a careful review of the lopes which will be on sale in the back of capacity of the plaza-the size of two foot the room as soon as we finish our remarks. The following article clearly shows that there are many Nicaraguans who ball fields-and the density." In fact, he Let us all do our part to make recordbreak said, "some church officials were saying the ing sales of this special envelope. love their religion. They resent having crowd numbered 200,000. That 50,000 figure Again, I want to thank all of you for being it taken from them. They recently you got from the embassy is a Sandinista es here today as we honor our small business voiced their deep concern by gathering timate. I don't know why anyone would take community in this special way-the issuance at the National Cathedral in Managua. it as reliable." of this commemorative envelope.e They eagerly offered their support for A top administration official said the han the church and their opposition to the dling of this affair by the American embas IS THERE ANY FUTURE FOR Sandinista regime. I strongly believe sy in Managua "unfortunately confirms the that all Americans should be told of view of some of us that our 'experts' are not RELIGION IN NICARAGUA? expert enough. It casts new light," the events of this nature so that they can source continued, "on the reasons the Kis HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD see the true face of Commandante singer Commission was so dissatisfied with Ortega and company. the attitudes and the abilities of our people OF MICHIGAN I salute the 100,000 God-fearing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES down there." Nicaraguans and Father Obando y A highly placed White House source, told Monday, May 7, 1984 Bravo who bravely defied the atheistic of the State Department explanation, called e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I Sandinistas to voice their support for it "absolutely incredible-those embassy their faith and their freedom. May people must be asleep at the switch." believe that an insight into the basic "A disgusting performance," was the reac orientation of the Government of these dauntless souls live to see the tion of a former high government official Nicaragua can be gained by examining day when Nicaragua is again free. closely involved in Latin American policy the Sandinistas' attitude toward reli With these observations in mind, I matters. "But the problem goes beyond em gion. Religion is being pushed out of recommend this informative article to bassy ineptitude," he said. Nicaragua. Even though Nicaraguans my colleagues in the Congress. ically attacked by the turbas divinas [divine dents in Masaya, Nicaragua, protested On Good Friday, a crowd of some 100,000 mobsl-Marxist goon squads who frequently against the Government's treatment Nicaraguans thronged the plaza in front of assault people, even in church buildings, of a young priest, Father Bismarck Managua's National Cathedral for three when there is any complaining about the Carballo. As spokesman for the hours to express, in the words of ABC's regime." Peter Collins, "their passionate solidarity ABC News officials stood by their story. church in Managua, Father Carballo with the Catholic Church and opposition to One reporter on the scene said the State came to the attention of the Sandinis the Sandinista regime." Some 8 1/4 million Department's "attempt to downplay the po tas. While having lunch with a female Americans watching the ABC-TV Evening litical significance of this event-the people friend, he was attacked. Both he and News last Friday witnessed the event and of Nicaragua rallying around their church his friend were forced to strip before heard the veteran network correspondent and their bishop in defiance of the Sandi being taken to jail. The Sandinista tel report it. nista regime-must be because they don't evision station was on the scene and But if Americans had to rely on all other know what's going on, or don't want to treated Nicaraguans to news coverage news sources singly or combined, they would know. never know it happened. "Anyone who saw what we saw and heard and pictures of the nude priest. And if Americans had to rely on the State what we heard would have grasped the fact In response to this show of slander. Department, they would be told it didn't that this was an outpouring of religious Catholic students staged protests in happen. fervor, but also that feeling was directed various cities around the country. None of the wire services carried the story against the regime, which has been fighting· Some protesters also seized a military or transmitted a single photograph to their the church. The leaders of the demonstra- May 7, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11197 tion, Bishop Obando y Bravo and Father Union Department was William resolved scientific uncertainty and the ethi Bismarck Carballo, are symbols of resist Bywater, president of the Internation cal certainty that just claims must be paid. ance and frequent targets of the Sandinis al Union of Electrical Workers, who The bill before us correctly makes an irre tas," the network reporter said. focused among other things on the butable presumption that asbestosis is One of the frequent chants, ABC said, caused by breathing asbestos because the was, "'We are Christians, not Marxists.' problems of occupational disease other scarring of the lung and calcification ob That ought to tell you something.'' than asbestos-related diseases, and the served by the physician is typically found A high administration official confirmed ways in which such diseases could be among exposed workers. The chance is very this account and agreed that the State De properly identified for purposes of small that the same conditions can be found partment's view was "way off base.'' He re compensation. Mr. Bywater attached in the absence of asbestos exposure. called how American embassy staffers in an extension of testimony to his state The bill makes the same kind of presump Moscow "showed the same kind of blindness ment relating to presumptions for as tion for mesothelioma. Mesothelioma has in when they failed to read the unmistakable bestos related diseases as well as trig fact been associated with other fibers and, signs that Yuri Andropov had died. Dusko in animals, with some chemicals. But more Doder [of the Washington Post] filed the ger mechanisms for other toxic sub stances and processes which he asked than 95 percent of the cases studied have story, and eight hours later our embassy been associated with asbestos exposure at there was still denying it," he recalled. to be included in the RECORD and work or among the families of asbestos Some highlights of the original ABC which was accepted by the subcommit workers and other bystanders. The irrebuta report: tee for that purpose. ble presumption is justified. "The crowd of 100,000 . . . led by Arch Inadvertently, that extension of tes In the case of asbestosis and mesotheli bishop Obando y Bravo, in an exquisite timony was not included in the pub rebuff to Sandinista leaders who had said oma, while most in the exposed population he was out of touch with the people ... lished hearing record. Accordingly, I do not develop the disease, a burden of risk shouted, 'Free Nicaragua!' and 'Christ For am including Mr. Bywater's additional of disease was added by the asbestos expo ever!' testimony in the CONGRESSIONAL sure for each and every worker in the popu "None of the Sandinista leaders was RECORD which will be accepted and lation. The size of the added burden varies, present. Most are declared atheists. In a de considered part of the hearing record for example, with duration, extent and fiant gesture, the march was organized by on H.R. 3175. onset of the exposure, plus other environ Father Bismark Carballo, the director of mental risk factors. Where the environmen EXTENSION OF THE TESTIMONY PRESENTED BY tal factors are the same, the added burden communications, a priest the regime tried to PRESIDENT WILLIAM BYWATER discredit last year . . . The church has of risk attributable to asbestos is the same begun to take on the role of the church in The existing state workers' compensation and distributed uniformly throughout the Poland. It is becoming the focus of opposi system has failed to fairly compensate, usu entire group of workers. tion to the Sandinista regime. ally to compensate at all, victims of occupa The principle of Added Burden of Risk "No police were present, because the San tional disease. It is important to know why must be applied con One reason the compensation system has sistently. There are no special rules of that can rally the people against the gov failed is because two fundamental concepts ernment. For their part, the church leaders nature that set mesothelioma, for example, essential to understanding disease have not apart from cancers found at other sites. said nothing against the regime, but empha been adequately reflected in law. sized the need for Catholic faith which Among asbestos insulation workers, re The first concept is that disease cannot be gardless of personal differences such as here, as in Poland, means 'No' to Marxism.'' explained in terms of simple, single causes Two days after the demonstration, the whether they smoked or not, the risk of and simple, single effects. The causes of dis lung cancer associated with the exposure bishops of Nicaragua issued an Easter pasto ease are many and complex. So are the asso ral letter sharply critical of the regime. The was more than five times the risk of lung ciated effects. Because most of us have this cancer found among workers not exposed to letter was bitterly attacked in the govern simplistic idea in mind when we use the ment-controlled newspaper Barricada for term "cause," there is a growing consensus asbestos. The added burden of risk is the failing to condemn "North American imperi among scientists that the term should no same for the entire exPosed population alism," and for urging the regime "to enter longer be used either in scientific or lay even though the entire population will not a dialogue with the murderers of our publications. They suggest the term "risk contract lung cancer-and, therefore, an ir people." factor" instead. rebuttable presumption is justified for those The bishops' letter was one of the strong The second concept has been called "pop that do contract lung cancer. est ever issued by the church against the ulation thinking.'' This is a way of under The same case can be made for asbestos Sandinista regime. It condemned press cen standing each of us by looking at popula exposed insulation workers who suffer from sorship, the detention of political prisioners, tions, that is groups to which we each cancer at other sites . This kind of thinking has ing asbestos and lung cancer-the outcome shortages and rationing.e shaped the information we have received may be less certain. A presumption must be from the scientist in modern times. Statisti made requiring a higher level of evidence, cal methods have become very important in i.e., a rebuttable presumption may be justi TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM gathering and analyzing the information as fied. The decision to apply a rebuttable BYWATER it comes to us, but few laws or proposed rather than an irrebuttable presumption is laws have been written with this reality in a matter of judgement. HON. GEORGE MILLER mind. There are no special rules of nature re OF CALIFORNIA Whether we are struggling with the prob served for the effects of asbestos. The prin IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lems of causation or trying to understand ciple of the Added Burden of Risk applies to what occurs in a population, we have to deal other toxic substances and processes. Monday, May 7, 1984 with information as the scientist gives it to The labor movement has a moral commit e Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. us. We must not ask that it be twisted to fit ment to all workers afflicted with occupa obsolescent language in our laws. Instead, tional disease. We will not compromise this Speaker, in June 1983 the House Sub we must change the law to fit the current commitment. committee on Labor Standards con state of science. A systematic way must be required to ducted hearings on observation of human populations testimony from the AFL-CIO, Indus Used fairly and consistently, presumptions or (b) experimental systems. trial Union Department and Building defined and utilized within a compensation 2. A site-specific estimate of significant and Construction Trades Department. system will reduce reliance on the tort risk of death or disease in a specific popula Testifying on behalf of the Industrial system. They bridge the gap created by un- tion exposed to the agent, process or job. 11198 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984 3. A presumption that a worker must be they have always considered them graphic disaster, a disaster that we compensated when a significant, elevated selves exempt from the rules that bind may be able to avert through the im risk has been found in a population, mem bership of the worker in the exposed popu other states. Presenting themselves to plementation of effective and efficient lation has been established, and the disease the world as the fount of progress and population and family planning pro has appeared. revolution, they preside over a modern grams. 4. Coverage can be initiated on a case-by version of the early tyrannies of histo The article follows: case basis for reasons such as (a) incidence ry. A structure so rigid that it totally ONE PERSON Too MANY? is unknown, (b) the uncertainties in the precludes the normal processes of data for a population preclude a judgement questioning, discussion, and change. Margaret Thatcher once said stability. reveal this gloomy picture: that we must deal with the Soviet In this connection, I would like to The world population rose by 82 million Union "not as we would like it to be call the attention of our colleagues to between mid-1982 and mid-1983-an all-time but as it is." The differences between a thoughtful article by Tad Szulc that record, making 1983 a demographic turning the Western democracies and the Sovi appeared in the April 29, 1984, edition point-reaching 4.7 billion last September. ets are both numerous and profound. of Parade magazine. With the foreign This is more than twice the global popula Mrs. Thatcher continued: "We must tion of 20 years ago. The Census Bureau aid authorization bill scheduled for projects an increase of 82.8 million in 1983/ not fall in the trap of projecting our consideration this week, I hope that 84 and 84 million in 1984/85. At this rate, morality on to the Soviet leaders. our colleagues will give serious world population will hit 5 billion by 1986 They do not share our aspirations, thought to the implications of what is and 6.2 billion by 2000. Try to visualize a they are not constrained by our ethics, potentially an international demo- new China and a new India-more than six May 7, 198.4 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11199 times the population of the U.S.-swelling levels in the Third World, according to the The UN has a population division with a the ranks of humanity. World Bank. relatively low priority. The World Bank's ef The World Bank estimates that only 23 of In addition, medical care is declining. In forts are confined to studies and recommen the 98 Third World nations will reach sta Ethiopia, there is one doctor per 58,490 in dations. The UN Food and Agriculture Or tionary population-no more absolute habitants; in Indonesia, one per 11,530 (in ganization lacks adequate resources. The growth-toward the middle or end of the the U.S., it's one for every 520). Reagan Administration has a Coordinator next century; the rest will quit growing only Whereas starving Africans have no place of Population Affairs-a scarcely visible op sometime during the 22nd century. China, to go to find survival, in Latin America and eration-in the State Department's Bureaus now with 1.06 billion inhabitants and al Asia massive migrations are increasingly the of Oceans and International Environmental ready the most populated nation in the solution for the destitute. Illegal migrants and Scientific Affairs. Also buried in the world, should attain the stationary level in from Mexico are entering the U.S. in uncon State Department is a small Directorate for 2040, with 1.43 billion. India will have 1.8 trollable numbers. During the year ending Health and Population in the Agency for billion when it stabilizes in 2140. The U.S., last Sept. 30, the Immigration and Natural International Development. its growth rates slowing down, is expected to ization Service apprehended 1.03 million il Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute move from its present 234 million to 289 mil legals crossing the border from Mexico charges that "there is a vacuum of leader lion when we reach stationary population in . migrants a year remain in the United Meanwhile the population time bomb is Already, more than half the world's States, more than the annual natural in ticking. When the explosion comes at the people live in cities that cannot house, feed crease in U.S. population. Approximately 4 end of this century, the United States will or support them. Older cities-such as Cal million crossed OREGON Lester R. Brown, president of the Wash population; this percentage may double by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ington-based Worldwatch Institute and a the year 2000. leading authority on food economics, says UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Monday, May 7, 1984 that "the way things are going, it's quite Cuellar commented recently that "if the • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, on possible that per capita food production at rapid population growth in developing na tions is left unchecked, it will evidently un behalf of my constituents in Orgeon the end of the century will be less than dermine all efforts for economic and social who prize our State's unique heritage today." World food production, in fact, is al development and could easily lead to wide of natural beauty, abundant wildlife, ready declining in many key sectors com spread depletion of each nation's basic re clean air and clean water, I want to pared with annual population growth. Al sources." commend a company in my congres though overall world grain production dou An expert at the Center for International bled between 1950 and 1973, since then, sional district which has made protect Research of the U.S. Census Bureau put it ing the environment literally its busi Brown points out, the output per person even more starkly: "Unless international " has barely kept pace with world population action is undertaken rapidly to control pop ness-not only the company, but its growth." ulation, I can see systems of governments president, Art Riedel. In Africa, for example, per capita food breaking down." The company is Riedel Internation production in 30 countries actually fell in What is being done? In August in Mexico al's Environmental Emergency Serv 1979 and 1980, aggravating the famine. City, the United Nations will hold its period ices Co., and its specialty is cleaning When there is starvation on a vast scale, ic World Population Conference to consider there are no resources, including human up after other people's messes. Wheth new international measures to keep popula er it is dioxin-contaminated soil, a energy, to stimulate greater food produc tion down. That the world population tion. And as births multiply, so does the jumped by 700 million since the last UN toxic chemical spill, or an oil platform overall survival problem. Most African na population conference, in 1974, suggests the blowout at sea, the company's emer tions lack workable systems of food produc inadequacy of present world programs. gency units are ready to go anywhere, tion, distribution and marketing. The UN The opposition of the Roman Catholic any time, to clean up practically any Food and Agriculture Organization warns Church to most forms of birth control and thing. that unless 4 million tons of grain are rapid family planning is a major factor inhibiting Oregon was particularly fortunate to ly supplied to 22 African countries with 145 population control, especially in Latin have EES to call on for help in an million people, mass starvation may be inev America, Africa and Asia. Pope John Paul II itable. has made it clear that he will not depart emergency last month, when an oil By the end of the century, the demand for from this stance, but experts say that in tanker in the Columbia River lost con grain in the developing nations will be twice creasingly Church views are being ignored, trol of its steering and ran aground, the 437 million tons required in 1980. But particularly in families suffering less pover puncturing its hull and spilling hun experts note that excessive dependence on ty and having more education. dreds of gallons of oil into the river. foreign assistance discourages local food China, using draconian methods to limit Thanks to the timely work of EES in production. families to one child, brought its annual containing and cleaning up the spill, And problems beget other problems. growth rate to 1.06 percent in 1983, one of Grain and cattle production, for example, the lowest in the world. India, with 715 mil an environmental catastrophe was have been hurt by the huge rise in petrole lion, has birth-control programs, including averted. In appreciation for a job well um prices since 1973. Petroleum is used in voluntary sterilization. There are birth-con done, and for the enlightenment of my the production of fertilizers, which fewer trol clinics in many third world countries, colleagues who are concerned with and fewer Third World farmers can afford and contraceptives are sold by street ven protecting the environment, I ask that at today's prices. Compounding the problem dors in many Asian cities. a recent article profiling Environmen is worldwide soil erosion, and farmers every However, the international community tal Emergency Services Co. be reprint where are doing little to protect the topsoil. and especially the U.S.-has not faced the ed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. The In terms of nutrition, the situation is ap urgent need for a coordinated world pro palling throughout most of the Third gram that would bring together all aspects article by reporter, Steve Jenning was World. Although physicians offer no stand of the great population crisis: birth control, published April 6, in the Portland, ard measurement for required dally caloric food and energy production, health and Oreg., Oregonian. intake, it is well below generally accepted education. The article follows: 11200 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984. RIEDEL HAZARD UNIT, EARNS REPUTATION Bell called it "something that was unique, mored columns. More than 1 million Che Guevara ceedings. I ask that the article, "Con of Afghanistan, may have provoked the of • Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, it is gress, Best Little Soap Opera on fensive when his men recently blew up two my privilege to call to the attention of Cable," be printed in the RECORD. bridges north of Kabul, the capital, officials this legislative body and the American [From the Washington Post, Apr. 29, 19841 said. people the outstanding contributions But if Massoud's action dictated the of Eli Boyer. I speak not only as a CONGRESS: BEST LITTLE SOAP OPERA ON CABLE timing of the offensive, the Soviet Union Member of Congress from southern five years ago ance government in the Panjshir, and about Chamber of Commerce as well as serv when the House of Representatives first au 10,000 rebels, are said to be ensconced there, thorized C-SPAN to televise its sessions. ing on the advisory council to the The development nobody predicted, though, many in caves along the valley's sides. mayor for the Department of Water Massoud's rebels took advantage of a has been the emergence of a devout nation and Power. In the academic field, Eli al cult of Congress-watchers who have semi-official truce with the Soviets last year Boyer serves professionally on the ad simply become transfixed with the daily to fortify gun positions and ammunition look at their government in action. stores deep in the mountains, which is why visory board of the School of Business, University of California, Riverside. The cable network's regular gavel-to-gavel U.S. officials predicted that the Badger coverage has spawned a whole nation of "C bombing would harm villages more than On May 17, 1984, the City of Hope SPAN junkies"-ordinary Americans who Mujaheddin positions. board of trustees will honor Eli Boyer spend hours every day watching their con By early yesterday, a column of Soviet with the Spirit of Life Award. I ask gressmen at work, either live or by late and Afghan troops reportedly had advanced the Members to join with me in con night taped replay. Watching Congress, as far north as Rokheh, which the Soviets gratulating Mr. Boyer on this special these viewers say, educates and elucidates. had occupied for about 10 months two years occasion and in extending our good But most of all, it captivates. ago but had abandoned under pressure from wishes to the Boyer family-his wife, "It's the most fascinating thing that's ever the Mujaheddin. Officials were making no Michele, and their three children. May been on TV," says Jackie Rosenfeld, a predictions about how long this offensive they continue to grow together, housewife in Southfield, Mich., who found would last. achieve and share the joy of dedica C-SPAN "by accident" one day "when we "This is the largest attempt to go in were just flipping the old dial, you know, there," one official said. "But they'll have a tion.• and all of a sudden there was Tip O'Neill hard time getting them [the Mujaheddinl with his gavel." out of this valley." CONGRESS: BEST LITTLE SOAP Since then, Congress has replaced the "The Soviets as of now, after six tries, soaps and sitcoms in her household, Rosen OPERA ON CABLE feld says "We just keep it on all day. The don't control the valley," another official guys [in Congress] have just become like said. "But we can't say what their goals HON. TIMOTHY E. WIRTH members of the family. Even that guy are-whether they want to burn crops, or whose dentures don't fit right." kill Massoud, or control the valley." OF COLORADO Rosenfeld can't recall the name of the Officials also did not say how many of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES denture-wearer, but no matter. "We like attacking troops are Soviet. The Soviet Monday, May 7, 1984 him anyway," she says. Union has tended to let the Afghan army do "It's about half a generation ahead of ev much of the ground fighting, while the So • Mr. WIRTH. Mr. Speaker, I would erything else in the media," says Marty viets fly some aircraft and operate some of like to share with my colleagues an ar Stiegenthaler, a devotee in Weathersfield, the tanks and other heavy vehicles further ticle that appeared in the April 29 Conn., who moved his computer business to to the rear.e Outlook section of the Washington his home in part so that he could watch the 11202 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984 House while at work. "It shows you what At that time, opponents predicted that TV in the Democratic leadership ranks, for technology can do for democracy because it would turn the floor debates into an irresist blazing this trail. About a year ago Alexan brings you in direct communication with the ible stage for political showboats and gas der began scheduling "special orders"-long government." bags. These arguments are still made in the speeches that come at the end of the legisla Among the 17 million homes wired for Senate when anybody suggests that it, too, tive day, when the House floor is all but this technology is the big white one at 1600 should let the American people look in on empty-and alerting TV viewers ahead of Pennsylvania Ave.-a fact that offers at floor sessions. time that a major speech was coming. least a partial answer to the political types So far, the effects in the House seem to Alexander, though, was mainly a one-man who have wondered aloud what President have been mainly tangential. There are band. This year. a group of conservative Re Reagan does all day. showboats and gasbags, but they mainly publicans turned the Alexander solo per The president evidently spends part of take advantage of the traditional open formance into a highly orchestrated sym some days watching Congress on C-SPAN, forums for speech-making at the beginning phony. They have put together a detailed which comes in over Channel 10 on the and end of each legislative day. Debates on schedule of "special order" speeches on des White House TV sets. "He's an avid viewer," actual legislation have not changed notice ignated subjects-one of their chief topics is says Rep. RobertS. Walker Newt Gingrich Contras in Nicaragua. week, the Subcommittee on Civil and passed a resolution which I would like Mr. Speaker, I want to make sure Constitutional Rights of the House to quote in part. It states: that my vote on this procedural Committee on the Judiciary issued its Whereas, serving as President of the Com motion is not construed as a vote for report on FBI undercover operations. mission on Independent Colleges and Uni or against aid to El Salvador and Nica The importance of this study and the versities in New York State since 1975, ragua. The aid questions were not part validity of its findings, were under Henry David Paley personally directed and of the House-passed bill, nor should scored by the New York Times in its orchestrated a united effort aimed at assur this vote in anyway be construed as a lead editorial of May 5, 1984, which ing affordable choice among high quality vote on the level of aid to the Central follows. As the Times notes, there is postsecondary institutions; and more congressional agreement than Whereas, today, the prosperous definition American countries. Indeed, the aid of the independent colleges and universities levels will be the subject of aid pack disagreement on the problems and of this Empire State mirrors the commit ages soon to come before the House as benefits of this technique, and ment of Henry David Paley; and reported by the Foreign Affairs Com "enough agreement to write some con Whereas, through his unswerving commit mittee.e structive legislation." ment to the aspirations and ideals of the in STRINGS ON FBI STINGS dependent colleges and universities of this Beneath the bicker of their majority and Empire State, Henry David Paley did so sin COACH CLARENCE TURNER dissenting reports, Democrats and Republi gularly contribute to the efflorescence of TOPS IN NEW JERSEY cans on the House Civil Rights subcommit educational endeavor; ... and tee reach an important consensus about Whereas this legislative body is greatly Government "sting" enterprises: They can moved to join with the people of this HON. JAMES J. FLORIO OF NEW JERSEY be useful tools in fighting crime but need Empire State in expressing its profoundest much closer supervision. sorrow upon the passing of this extraordi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Federal Bureau of Investigation, nary American, Henry David Paley .... Monday, May 7, 1984 having shunned undercover work during J. I, too, would like to express my pro Edgar Hoover's 48-year reign, has become foundest sorrow at the passing of • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would much more willing to launch enterprises Hank Paley, a man we all loved and re like to bring to the attention of my that masquerade as rackets in order to spected. • colleagues an outstanding educator catch criminals. The well-known Abscam and a fine man, Clarence Turner. snared seven former members of Congress As the basketball coach of Camden but it was faulted by a special Senate com PERSONAL EXPLANATION High School, Coach Turner led his mittee last year for loose management and Panther squad to a record of 31-0 this excessive reliance on cooperating criminals. Other stings were less successful and raised HON. MARGE ROUKEMA past season, the best in the school's il still more questions. OF NEW JERSEY lustrious basketball history. In cap One glaring example is Operation Cork IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ping that season with a 69 to 49 victo screw, in which agents tried for five years to ry over Kennedy High School of Pat demonstrate corruption on Cleveland's mu Monday, May 7, 1984 erson, Coach Turner and his team cap nicipal bench. While a joint F.B.I.-Justice e Mrs. ROUKEMA. Mr. Speaker, on tured a State Group 4 championship. Department review committee nodded, a May 2 the House voted on a procedur It was Turner's fifth State champion crooked bailiff hoodwinked agents into al motion offered by Mr. CoNTE to in ship since becoming coach in 1971. thinking he was bribing judges to fix cases; struct the conferees appointed for in fact, he was pocketing the F.B.I. bribe Perhaps more important than his money. That debacle occurred because the House Joint Resolution 492 to simply outstanding career as a basketball bureau ignored its own rules requiring a go to conference. Certain news ac coach, Clarence Turner is highly re basis for going after the judges and tests to counts the next day inaccurately por spected as an educator and friend by see that the investigation was proceeding as trayed this action as a vote on aid to colleagues and students alike. In a day planned. El Salvador and covert aid to the Con when educators are falsely maligned In Operation Colcor, agents lost all per tras of Nicaragua. In fact, the vote in as inadequate, Clarence has served to spective in pursuing political corruption in question was simply an attempt to get dispel that accusation. Not only does North Carolina's Columbus County. They the House conferees, appointed some posed as promoters of a new restaurant, pro he take great pride in turning out fine posed a referendum to sell liquor by the 20 days ago, to meet with their Senate athletes, but he takes even greater drink in that dry county and passed cash to counterparts in order to reconcile dif pride in turning out fine men and the local political boss. The referendum ferences between the two Chambers' women. We are truly grateful for his passed but was set aside when state officials versions of the urgent supplemental presence in Camden County. discovered it was an F.B.I. initiative. A few 11204 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984 convictions were obtained, but at a great STAR WARS LOST IN SPACE fense. Richard Halloran, a defense corre price. spondent of the New York Times, noted in How can such excesses be curbed? Demo January: crats on the House committee want Con HON. ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER "Over the last 18 months President gress to require a court order, akin to a OF WISCONSIN Reagan has clearly stepped into the front search warrant, before anyone is targeted IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ranks of those American Presidents who, for a sting operation. But Republicans Monday, May 7, 1984 since World War II, have been willing to agreed with a unanimous Senate commit employ military forces as an instrument of tee's judgment last year that truly rigorous e Mr. KASTENMEIER. Mr. Speaker, national policy." The reporter says, "He has monitoring by the Justice Department Richard Strout, writing in the May 4, put marines in Lebanon, mounted a show of could be much more effective than a curso 1984 Christian Science Monitor raises force against Libya, ordered the invasion of ry judicial review of these complex under questions about the practicality of Grenada, sent ships and soldiers to Central takings. President Reagan's Star Wars strate America and authorized covert use of mines gic defense program. off Nicaragua." In contrast to Presidents That idea is worth testing. House Republi Ford and Carter, Halloran thinks Mr. cans would make the internal review man I believe that Mr. Strout's brief Reagan "represents a return to a reliance on datory and require Civil Rights and Civil Di column is worthy of attention, and I military power to achieve political objec vision attorneys among the monitors. They urge my colleagues to read it. His hope tives." He thinks Reagan has shown himself also want Congress to monitor this under that discussions with the Soviets take to be "bolder than his generals." cover work, especially the performance of place is one which must be pursued. I looked down from the Press Club gallery the review committee. If that fails, there After all, we are not going to make trying to weigh the words of the earnest, will be time enough to re-examine the war ourselves any safer here on Earth fast-talking defense secretary who knows rant idea. Meanwhile, there's enough agree through the militarization of space. the President so well. Did he believe that a ment to write some constructive legisla [From the Christian Science Monitor, May successful Strategic Defense Program could tion.e 4, 1984] be developed? Mr. Weinberger said, "It must be tried." "Perhaps it won't work," he said; "STAR WARS": Is THIS DEFENSE PRACTICAL? but remember, learned technicians said a CALL TO CONSCIENCE VIGIL strategic missile that could cross the Atlan Does President Reagan really believe in tic and hit a target in Europe was "impossi FOR SOVIET JEWS "Star Wars"? You find yourself asking that ble." How can we know what can be done? question while listening to Defense Secre Questions from the audience were handed HON. FRANK R. WOLF tary Casper Weinberger explain it at the up to the head table. They all spelled doubt. National Press Club. It was a sophisticated Mr. Weinberger remained earnest, but cour OF VIRGINIA audience of about 250. The questions were teous. He criticized presidential aspirant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mostly or all doubtful. We came away won Walter F. Mondale by name, for pooh-pooh dering. ing "Star Wars" as something that would Monday, May 7, 1984 President Reagan introduced "Star Wars" "open the heavens for warfare." Didn't he unexpectedly in a nationwide TV speech know the Russians had been trying that • Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I am join March 23, 1983, in which he made the ex since 1967? ing my colleagues in this year's call to traordinary announcement, "I've reached a We came away wondering. President conscience vigil to bring attention to decision which offers a new hope for our Reagan argues that his "Strategic Defense the plight of Soviet Jews seeking free children in the 21st century.... This sub Program" shows him as peace-loving. But is dom of religion and the right to emi ject involves the most basic duty that any it practical? An indirect commentary came president and any people share, the duty to on the Weinberger speech itself, which was grate from the Soviet Union. protect and strengthen the peace." carefully prepared and presented in the I share the concerns of all freedom The technical name for it is "Strategic De blaze of TV camera crews. But it received loving people over the plight of Soviet fense Program." The irreverent immediately little press attention. Everybody yearns for Jews. I have expressed this concern by dubbed it "Star Wars." Up till now, Mr. the goal, but what is the next step? One urging the Soviet authorities to adopt Reagan said, we had depended for peace on comes away hoping that when the U.S. elec a more flexible policy on emigration the threat of retaliation if attacked. But tions are over, President Reagan, a new what if we created a kind of permanent pro Democratic leader, or both will meet Gener and to live up to those basic interna tective system or shield over us-the knowl al Secretary Konstantin Chernenko, either tional standards of human rights edge "that we could intercept and destroy here or in Moscow, to talk things over.e spelled out in the Helsinki accords and strategic ballistic missiles before they other documents to which the Soviet reached our own soil or that of our allies"? Union is a signatory. Time and again, I Mr. Reagan was cautious about this "new KEEP PURPOSE HERE have written Soviet officials to urge hope for our children": He said, "I know this is a formidable technical task, one that reconsideration of individual cases of may not be accomplished before the end of HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD refuseniks, from various cultural back this century." The public found it hard to OF MICHIGAN grounds, who were imprisoned for visualize. Mr. Reagan seemed to be propos their religious or political convictions. ing a kind of shield overhead, an astrodome IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Furthermore, I am concerned about of defense. People looked at each other. Monday, May 7, 1984 Said the dubious Union of Concerned Scien recent unwelcome developments in the tists, one has to believe "in a defense of stu e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I Soviet bloc such as increasing manifes pefying complexity under the total control wish to congratulate the Michigan tations of officially sanctioned anti of a computer program whose proportions Credit Union League for 50 years of Semitism, persecution of both promi defy description, and whose performance dedicated service to the people of nent and less well-known refuseniks, will remain a deep mystery." It could never Michigan and the credit union move and the continued downward trend in be tested, they noted, until the moment of actual use. ment in the State. Jewish emigration from the Soviet It should be remembered that nuclear de The motto that has guided the Union. We must continue to raise fense can't be just partly or even 99 percent Michigan Credit Union League since human rights issues with the Soviets effective; if it is not absolute, it loses its its inception on October 5, 1934, is at every level and in many forums. I meaning. Mr. Reagan was challenged on the "Keep purpose here." With this motto pledge my continued support of the subject by reporters at a press conference as its banner for half a century now, U.S. Government in its efforts on March 25, 1983. Rival leaders, he said, sit the Michigan Credit Union League has across a table with cocked guns. "Now," he assisted its member credit unions in behalf of Soviet Jews, and in pursuit said he would ask "the same scientists who of progress on this human rights ques gave us this kind of destructive power to their continuing efforts to maintain tion.e tum their talent to neutralizing them." and improve their effectiveness in pro Critics of Mr. Reagan ask if he is using viding financial services. "Star Wars" to counter the nuclear freeze Today, the credit union movement is groups who want less money spent on de- very strong throughout Michigan with May 7, 1984 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11205 a third of the State's population on its join me in congratulating the league Veterans' Affairs membership rolls. There are some 800 on its golden anniversary and wish it Business meeting, to mark up proposals credit unions in Michigan with com providing certain health care benefits well for the years to come.e administered by the Veterans' Admin bined assets of more than $5 billion, istration, including S. 2514, S. 2269, S. offering their members not only the 2210, S. 2278, and amendment No. 2850 ability to save and borrow at reasona SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS to S. 2269, and other pending commit ble rates but a wide range of financial Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, tee business. services as well. agreed to by the Senate on February SR-418 However, it was not always so. When 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a 11:00 a.m. the league was organized in 1934, it • Judiciary system for a computerized schedule of To hold hearings on Senate Joint Reso was a time of severe economic disloca all meetings and hearings of Senate lution 233, to grant the President's tion in this country. There were fewer committees, subcommittees, joint com Commission on Organized Crime sub than 50 credit unions operating in the mittees, and committees of conference. pena power to require attendance and State, and the combined assets of the This title requires all such committees testimony of witnesses before the various organizations amounted to less to notify the Office of the Senate Commission or to require the produc than a million dollars. Daily Digest-designated by the Rules tion of information relating to a The Michigan Credit Union League matter under investigation. Committee-of the time, place, and SD-226 has been a key factor in this impres purpose of the meetings, when sched 1:30 p.m. sive record of growth and service, ena uled, and any cancellations or changes Select on Indian Affairs bling Michigan credit unions to in the meetings as they occur. To hold hearings on S. 2614, to author achieve by their united efforts what As an additional procedure along ize funds for programs of the Indian they could not achieve on an individ with the computerization of this infor Financing Act. S. 2619, to authorize ual basis. mation, the Office of the Senate Daily funds for fiscal year 1985 for programs Responding to the needs of its credit Digest will prepare this information of the Indian Education Act; to be fol union members, the league was the lowed by a business meeting, to for printing in the Extensions of Re markup S. 1735, to provide a settle prime mover in all aspects of the marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL ment of a conflict between the Shoal growth process. In previous years, the RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of water Bay Indian Tribe and owners of league emphasized the organizing of each week. private property within the Shoal new credit unions and the develop Any changes in committee schedul water Bay Indian Reservation, S. 1999, ment of credit union leadership by ing will be indicated by placement of to provide for the statutory designa providing people with the training and an asterisk to the left of the name of tion of the position of Assistant Secre tools to carry out their tasks more ef tary of the Interior for Indian Affairs the unit conducting such meetings. and to eliminate the position of Com fectively. Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, missioner of Indian Affairs, and S. For the past two decades, the league May 8, 1984, may be found in the 2166, to authorize funds through fiscal has taken the lead in the effort to Daily Digest of today's RECORD. year 1988 for Indian health care pro enable credit unions to serve their grams. members as full service financial insti MEETINGS SCHEDULED SD-124 tutions. For instance, 10 years ago MAY9 2:00p.m. Michigan credit unions with the aid 9:00a.m. Judiciary and support of the league led the way Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on pending nomina To hold hearings on the nomination of tions. in the introduction of the share SD-226 draft-a check-like instrument ena Rosemary M. Collyer, of Colorado, to be General Counsel of the National 2:30p.m. bling credit union members to reach Labor Relations Board. Foreign Relations into their accounts without visiting SD-430 To hold hearings on the nomination of the credit union office. This innova 9:30a.m. Leslie Lenkowsky, of New York, to be tion was a major step in credit unions' Appropriations Deputy Director of the U.S. Informa efforts toward achieving parity of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, tion Agency. power with other types of financial in and Related Agencies Subcommittee SD-419 To hold hearings on proposed budget es stitutions as a full service financial or MAY10 ganization. timates for fiscal year 1985 for the De Over the past 50 years as the Michi partment of Justice. 9:30a.m. S-146, Capitol Governmental Affairs gan league worked to meet the needs 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 1935, proposed of its members, it also developed a na Appropriations Cigarette Safety Study Act. tional reputation for leadership and Defense Subcommittee SD-342 innovation. The Nation's other credit To hold hearings on proposed budget es Labor and Human Resources union leagues have long looked to timates for fiscal year 1985 for the en Business meeting, to consider pending Michigan for pioneering efforts in new vironmental restoration program of calendar business. the Department of Defense. SD-430 service concepts. SD-192 Labor and Human Resources Today, the Michigan Credit Union Appropriations Labor Subcommittee League and its member credit unions District of Columbia Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 2329, to improve as are all credit unions across the To resume hearings on proposed budget retirement income security under pri country-are faced with new chal estimates for fiscal year 1985 for the vate multiemployer pension plans and lenges in the areas of deregulation and District of Columbia Department of to remove unnecessary barriers to em computerization. But Michigan's Corrections ployer participation in those plans by credit union people face the uncertain SD-138 modifying the rules relating to em Energy and Natural Resources ployer withdrawal liability, asset sales, future with confidence-a confidence Business meeting, to consider pending and funding. based to a great degree on the evi calendar business. SD-124 dence provided by their past achieve SD-366 Small Business ments. I, too, share that confidence in Governmental Affairs Export Promotion and Market Develop their ability and I know the Michigan Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Gov ment Subcommittee league and its member will again lead ernment Processes Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on the our Nation's credit unions in meeting To hold hearings on penalties involving Export-Import Bank administration of these new challenges. the transportation of hazardous mate SBA set-aside provisions contained in rials. Public Law 98-181. Mr. Speaker, over the past 50 years, SD-342 SR-428A the Michigan Credit Union League has Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. developed a record of service, innova Business meeting, to consider pending Appropriations tion, and leadership of which to be calendar business Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit justly proud. I trust my colleagues will SD-430 tee 11206 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 7, 1984 To hold hearings on proposed budget es Judiciary MAY22 timates for fiscal year 1985 for the Juvenile Justice Subcommittee 9:30a.m. U.S. Geological Survey, Department of To resume oversight hearings on child Energy and Natural Resources the Interior. sexual abuse issues. Energy and Mineral Resources Subcom SD-138 SD-226 mittee Environment and Public Works Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on S. 2157, to clarify Business meeting, to consider pending Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom the treatment of mineral materials on calendar business. mittee public lands. SD-406 To hold hearings on Title IX of the SD-366 Foreign Relations Higher Education Act relating to edu Labor and Human Resources Closed briefing on space arms control cational equity To hold oversight hearings on alleged issues, focusing on Soviet compliance SD-430 corruption by officials of the Boiler and verification requirements. maker's Union. S-116, Capitol MAY16 SD-430 Judiciary 10:00 a.m. 3:00p.m. Business meeting, on pending calendar Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Commerce, Science, and Transportation business. Business meeting, to mark up S. 1913, S. Business, Trade, and Tourism Subcommit SD-226 1994, S. 2545, and S. 2599, bills to au tee Joint Economic thorize funds for and to reform cer To hold oversight hearings on travel for To hold hearings to review how recent tain child nutrition programs. the handicapped. tax changes have affected the agricul SD-328A SR-253 ture community, focusing on tax shel Energy and Natural Resources ters and alternative structures. Business meeting, to consider pending MAY23 SD-538 calendar business. SD-366 9:30a.m. Judiciary 10:30 a.m. Environment and Public Works Labor and Human Resources To resume hearings on proposals to Constitution Subcommittee Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Subcommit To resume hearings on S.J. Res. 10, pro extend and amend the Comprehensive tee posing an amendment to the Constitu To hold hearings on the impact of drugs Environmental Response, Compensa tion, and Liability Act of 1980 . cupational diseases. SD-342 SD-430 May 7, 1981,. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11207 JUNE6 To hold hearings on Senate Joint Reso focusing on existing agencies ability to 9:30a.m. lution 138, to establish a National protect rank and file employees and Governmental Affairs Commission on Teacher Education. the general public during labor dis Oversight of Government Management SD-430 putes. Subcommittee SD-430 To hold oversight hearings to review the JUNE 13 10:00 a.m. transfer of information by the Inter 9:30a.m. Veterans' Affairs nal Revenue Service and the Social Se Labor and Human Resources Business meeting, to mark up proposed curity Administration to other Federal Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Subcommit legislation relating to veterans' com and State government agencies and tee pensation. the examination of the collection of To hold hearings to examine the impact SR-418 data by the Internal Revenue Service of drugs on women. from private sector sources to identify SR-325 JUNE 26 cases of nonfiling or underreporting of 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. income. Veterans' Affairs Labor and Human Resources SD-342 To hold oversight hearings to review the Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom Small Business sharing agreement between the Veter mittee To hold oversight hearings on the ans Administration and the Depart To hold oversight hearings on the status impact of Government competition on ment of Defense, and to discuss the of college athletic programs. small business Veterans Administration's supply and SD-430 SR-428A procurement policy. 10:00 a.m. SR-418 SEPTEMBER 18 Labor and Human Resources 11:00 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending JUNE 19 Veterans' Affairs calendar business. 9:30a.m. To hold hearings to review the legisla SD-430 Labor and Human Resources tive priorities of the American Legion. Veterans' Affairs To hold oversight hearings on the civil SR-325 To hold oversight hearings on the activi rights of victims in labor disputes, fo ties of the Inspector General and Med cusing on existing agencies ability to ical Inspector of the Veterans Admin protect rank and file employees and CANCELLATIONS istration. the general public during labor dis SR-418 putes. MAYS SD-430 9:30a.m. JUNE7 JUNE 20 Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. 9:30a.m. To hold oversight hearings on pornogra Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources To continue oversight hearings on the phy issues. Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom SD-226 mittee civil rights of victims in labor disputes,