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TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM WELSH During his career in the former Processing and his wife Maureen are the parents of the Department, Mr. Welsh led in development of Welshes' one granddaughter, Christine. HON. DAVID R. OBEY the national program for acquisitions and cata Beyond the strictly professional dimensions loging [NPAC], creation of the Technical Proc of his long career and running through it like a OF WISCONSIN esses Research Office, and oversight and golden thread has been his determination to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES completion of publication of the Pre-1956 Na humanize the face of management. His gift for Monday, October 3, 1988 tional Union Catalog. He was active in launch recalling names and faces, together with a ing the cataloging-in-publication effort. With concern for the well-being of other people, Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, the retirement of Larry Livingston of the Council on Library Re has given a unique character to his public the Deputy Librarian of Congress, William J. sources, he brought the Conser [conversion of service, enabling him to know as individuals Welsh, on October 3 marks the completion of serials] program into being. While employed in the multitude of persons at all levels and de nearly half a century in public service to the the former Administrative Department, he partments who constitute the Library's staff. Library and to this Nation. Mr. Welsh, whose played a major part in the 1962 renovation of Warm-hearted and compassionate, outspoken career in the Library began in 1947, was the present Jefferson Building. Similarly, as in his convictions, dedicated and hard-work named to the Library's second-ranking post in Deputy Librarian, he helped Librarian Daniel ing, he has exemplified in his life as in his 1976. Having served under four Librarians of Boorstin in the project to renovate and restore work the virtues and ideals of civility, livened Congress, he has played a major role in the the Jefferson and Adams buildings. by a ready wit and tempered by a gracious innumerable events and programs that have Over the decades of his public service, Mr. spirit. In his evident concern with results, with expanded and enhanced the Library's continu Welsh has received a great number of .honors finding ways to get a necessary job done, he ing mission. Significantly enough, his Library and awards. In 1983 he was presented the Li kept the human element clearly in mind, mar service spans almost a quarter of the Library's brary's Distinguished Service Award, its high shaling every resource to further his goals. In history. working his way up from the ranks, he pre During this time, Congress greatly expanded est honor, in recognition of his courageous and imaginative leadership. In 1984 his alma served that touch of distinction that made him the role of the Congressional Research Serv both accessible and respected. He looks back ice [CAS], a Department of the Library, in as mater, the University of Notre Dame, con ferred upon him an honorary doctorate of today upon a lifetime of service-to the Li sisting Members and committees in our legis brary and to the Congress, institutions whose lative work. This development was greatly en laws. In this year of his retirement the Special Libraries Association presented him with hon destinies have always been closely associat hanced by Mr. Welsh's support of CAS in ful ed; to the Nation as a whole; and, above all, filling the intention of the 1970 Legislative Re orary membership, as did the Alumni Society of the University of Michigan's School of Infor to that larger realm of learning and the hu organization Act. manities that knows no boundaries save those His leadership in the evolution of the Library mation and Library Studies. A member of the American Library Associa that light the path of civilization through the during the past four decades is reflected in corridors of history. It may be said of him as the remarkable growth of the collection, which tion, the Commission on Preservation and Access, and the Foundations Group Library was said of old, "Such as the workman is, numbered some 23 million items in 1947, such also is the work."-11 Esdras 9:17. compared with over 87 million today. His con Committee, he has served· as the Library's cern has been not only to strengthen the col representative to the Association of Research lections but to make them ever more accessi Libraries, on the National Commission on Li H.R. 5247 ble to libraries and to people generally braries and Information Science, and on the through improved organization and mainte Board of Regents of the National Library of HON. JERRY LEWIS nance. Throughout his career, Mr. Welsh has Medicine. Mr. Welsh has chaired the Ameri can Library Association's John Ames OF CALIFORNIA been a vigorous advocate for automation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES within the Library. Humphry/Forest Press Award jury for the past Programs that have benefited from his initia 2 years, as well as earlier services as an ALA Monday, October 3, 1988 tive and support over the years include the councilor. As a Library representative to the Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, Friday optical disk pilot project; the Library's intern International Federation of Library Associa the House considered and passed H.R. 5247, progam; and the automation and filming of the tions and Institutions, he has served as chair the Water Resources Development Act. A Library's catalogs. He has helped focus atten of the Conference of Directors of National Li committee amendment was adopted which tion in this country and in the world at large braries since 1984. In 1979, he headed the addressed, in part, the issue of an exchange on the crisis in preservation that confronts li first official delegation of American Librarians of property for GSA credits for certain private braries and archival collections everywhere. to China following the resumption of official individuals having economic interests in the Mr. Welsh's knowledge of German helped diplomatic exchanges. reservoir of Prado Basin, CA. him in 1947 to obtain his first position at the A native of Weatherly, PA, Mr. Welsh Section 27 of the amendment, as adopted Library as a searcher in a postwar project for earned his undergraduate degree in philoso by voice vote, provides that to further enable cooperative acquisitions. He subsequently phy from the University of Notre Dame in the Santa Ana River mainstem flood control served as head of the Order Unit and Order 1940. While pursuing studies in that universi project to proceed, the holder of the existing Section of the Order Division, head of the ty's law school the following year, Mr. Welsh producing leasehold mineral interests and the East European accessions index project, ex served as a library assistant in the law school nonpublic owners of override and royalty inter ecutive officer of the Processing Department, library and thereby began his career in librar ests and other nonpublic entities with rights to associate director of the Administrative De ianship. From 1941 to 194 7 he served with the minerals, hereinafter referred to as the partment, and associate director of the Proc the U.S. Air Force, including a stint as librarian nonpublic owners, in the reservoir of Prado essing Department. In 1968 Mr. Welsh was for the Alaskan division headquarters of the Basin, Riverside County, CA, shall surrender named director of the Processing Department, Air Transport Command. He was discharged to the United States of all such interests and the largest of the Library's departments. For from the Armed Forces in January 1947 with rights. his achievement in that area he received the the rank of major. For purposes of the above, the holder is American Library Association's Melvil Dewey Mr. Welsh and his wife, Winifred, will contin Prado Petroleum Co., a small business. Its Award in 1971, citing his imaginative and ue to make their home in Bethesda, MD. They leasehold interests in Prado Basin include a wide-ranging contributions to libraries. have two sons, Douglas and James. Douglas lease from the United States and a private
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. October 3, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27987 lease from the Santa Ana River Development grounds either authorized and/or approved by was the linchpin both for the covert war Co. The nonpublic owners are those who own matters legislated by the Committee on Public against the Soviets in Afghanistan waged by the mineral rights and attendant royalties in Works and Transportation. It is not intended the U.S., China, and Saudi Arabia, and for the reservoir of Prado Basin. The interests of to cover excess Federal property held, for ex the successful campaign to isolate the Soviet-backed Afghan regime in the interna both leaseholder and nonpublic owners shall ample, by the Department of the Interior or by tional community. For he understood that be surrendered to, and all title shall vest with the GSA originating from some other source Pakistan's choice was to fight the Soviets on out reservation in, the United States. that is, defense installations. the outskirts of Kabul, or on the outskirts In return, this section further provides that, of Islamabad by agreement, the Administrator of the Gener Zia steered a steady course and waited for al Services Administration shall issue to the DEATH OF A FRIEND others to get on board. Back in 1977, Presi leasehold holder certificates of credit which dent Jimmy Carter and his Secretary of may be used in payment for Federal excess HON. PHIUP M. CRANE State, Cyrus Vance, cut off U.S. aid to Paki stan on the grounds that Pakistan had not property. OF ILLINOIS made sufficient progress on the nuclear It is the intent of this language that GSA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES issue. Then, on December 27, 1979, the Sovi issue such certificates without discretion, Monday, October 3, 1988 ets invaded Afghanistan, and Carter offered based upon the determined value as outlined Pakistan $325 million in aid over three below. In addition, as specified, the certifi Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, with the death of years. Zia rejected this as "peanuts." Carter cates of credit: May be used in payment for President Zia, the United States lost a loyal also signed the funding in 1980 that allowed Federal excess property. As is customary, the ally. Pakistan has been one of only a handful less than $50 million a year to go to the mu certificates may be assigned, transferred, sold of nations on the Asian Continent, between jahedin. After Mr. Reagan came to office, for cash value, and so forth. the Persian Gulf and Sea of China, that the all this changed. Aid to the Afghan resist The section further stipulates that the value United States has been able to call a true ance-and to Pakistan-increased substan friend. tially. of the certificates of credit shall be equal to Then, in 1981, the Reagan Administration the value of the combined interests of both Pakistan has proven to be a model for the sent the first of forty F-16 jet fighters to the holder and nonpublic owners. rest of the world's free nations on how to the Pakistanis. ("It was the magic weapons The Administrator is to determine the value stand up to the Soviet shadow. With the coming to save Pakistan," recalls one U.S. of such interests. While it is recognized that Soviet Union to their north and a Soviet occu official.) But the Soviets kept control of the GSA may consult other Federal agencies with pied Afghanistan to their west, the Pakistanis Afghan skies until the mujahedin received expertise in this area, it is also expected that have stood firm against a monstrous threat. the Stinger missile two years ago. From that GSA will be the lead agency in overseeing the They have openly supported the mujahedin moment on, the mujahedin's strategic posi tion steadily improved. overall appraisal process. As such, all existing and have opened their doors to Afghan refu Accordingly, the Soviets declared a policy and applicable GSA rules and regulations gees, risking direct conflict with the Soviets. In of national reconciliation. In January they shall apply. fact, they have endured Soviet bombing raids announced that a Soviet withdrawal was no Further, the Administrator is authorized to inside their territory on the Afghan border. Yet longer linked to the makeup of the Afghan undertake such evaluation and appraisal and the Soviets have not dared bring themselves government remaining behind. submit his final report to Congress no later into a full scale conflict with Pakistan because Although most U.S. officials are convinced than 120 days after the enactment of this act. they know quite well that the consequences of that the Soviets have been defeated in Af It is expected that the evaluation and apprais such a move would be extreme. More impor ghanistan, Zia took a far more skeptical ap proach. "The Soviet Union, unlike Amer al be of the highest quality and that GSA have tantly, they have already found that they've ica," he told me, "will not just leave and say, sufficient time to insure this. However, given bitten off more than they can chew with the 'Thank you very much. We have had the unique circumstances regarding impending Afghan freedom fighters. enough.' • • • The game of the Soviet Union creditor action, it is also imperative that GSA The possibility that Zia and the U.S. Ambas is to ensure a friendly Afghanistan • • ... complete this process no later, and preferably sador, among others, were killed by a Soviet Pointing to a map, Zia explained, sooner, than 120 days after enactment. Upon devised scheme can not be ruled out. Zia and "They've blocked China on the East. submission of the report, the exchange of Pakistan have been a huge thorn in Moscow's They've encircled Iran. They are two hun property and issuance of certificates shall be side and it would be foolish to rule out a dred miles from the warm waters. They're Soviet connection, and it would also be an sitting practically on the mouth of [the effectuated. Strait ofl Hormuz. Why should they give If in undertaking the appraisal, GSA con insult to the memory and courage of President up?" tracts out for an appraisal service, the section Zia. Zia had wanted to create an interim coali further provides that the Administrator shall The United States must insist upon a com tion government-made up 80 per cent of require an independent and objective petrole plete Soviet pull out in Afghanistan. With the mt(iahedin-in place of the Soviet puppet, um appraisal by a person knowledgeable of absence of Muhammed Zia ui-Haq, there is no Najibullah, to sign the Geneva accords with the petroleum industry, including all applicable longer a lone sentry keeping watch over the Pakistan. Indeed, he told me, he was not standards and practices. GSA has fixed pro always hungry and expanding Soviet underbel prepared to sign the Geneva accords with ly. Najibullah: "How can the government of cedures on securing private appraisal serv Pakistan sign the accord with the man of ices. It is not expected that GSA deviate from The following article, "Death of a Friend" by the Soviet Union who is responsible for kill these. However, recognizing the nature of the Lally Weymouth, depicts how Zia understood ing so many?" The State Department interests at issue and the difficulty in calculat the Soviet threat to this region. I would like to STANDIHG COMMITIEES OF THE HOUSE Committee on Govrrnment Operations Commi ttee on Standards of Offi cial Conduct Committee on Agriculture Messrs. Brooks Cchalrman>. Conyers, Mrs. Co11lns, Messrs. Dixon