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March 11, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4067 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE FUTURE IS LONGER THAN 1 not sacrifice the long-term interests of and universities. That wilt eliminate or fur FISCAL YEAR the Nation for short-term savings. As ther reduce federal support for another Dr. Kenneth Ryder, president of 200,000 students in this state alone, a total of 400,000 New York students impacted over Northeastern University, told the sub two years, according to the Commissioner's HON. PAUL SIMON committee, "The future is longer than analysis of the President's proposals. OF ILLINOIS 1 fiscal year." It would be unrealistic to assume that all IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The testimony follows: of the students now receiving federal sup Thursday, March 11, 1982 TESTIMONY BY PETER K. WARREN, CHAIRMAN, port in New York are truly needy. But it PEPSICO INTERNATIONAL CHAIRMAN, COUN would be even more unrealistic to assume e Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, the Sub CIL OF GOVERNING BOARDS that the mis-users and the abusers of feder committee on Postsecondary Educa I appreciate this opportunity to discuss al student assistance represent a majority of tion has been holding hearings on the with you the subject of federal investment those now receiving such grants and loans. impact of the administration's fiscal in higher education. I am here as chairman My own experience in discussions with 1983 education budget on postsecond of the Council of Governing Boards. The fellow trustees and financial aid administra ary institutions, parents, and students. Council is comprised of some 3,000 trustees tors at independent campuses around our of independent colleges and universities in state would lead me to believe that far During the subcommittee's hearings, New York State. We are business people, fewer than ten percent of students now re we have heard from a distinguished professionals and civic leaders. ceiving federal assistance would lose that group of college presidents including While we are generally in sympathy with aid if a strictly need-based criterion were in our former colleague, Dr. John Brade the Reagan Administration's goal of force. mas, president of New York Universi strengthening our economy by reducing the But let us assume for the sake of argu ty. One of the most important state proportion or our national product con ment that fully 25 percent or one-quarter of ments received by the committee was sumed by government expenditures. Our in all students in New York now receiving fed the testimony Peter K. Warren, chair timate concern and experience with the fi eral aid do not need that aid. This would man, PepsiCo International and chair nancing of postsecondary education leads us allow us to reduce Commissioner Ambach's to the conclusion that the Administration's 400,000 students in New York to 300,000 man of the Council of Governing proposed federal student assistance with whose federal assistance would be wiped out Boards of Independent Colleges and drawals not only go counter to that goal, or reduced over the next two academic Universities in New York State. Mr. but will in fact affect those very people that years. Warren was speaking on behalf of need and deserve help the most. There are only one million students in our himself and 3,000 trustees of private Not only would the proposed student aid entire postsecondary system including all of institutions in one of our Nation's cuts generate what we believe would be an the state university, the city university, the largest States. increased overall tax burden for support of private-proprietary schools and the more higher education, we are equally convinced than 100 campuses of the independent I want to call Mr. Warren's testimo they would lead to: ny to the attention of my colleagues sector. What the administration proposes, A retreat from progress made in voluntary therefore, is a withdrawal of federal re and acknowledge PETER PEYSER's ex integration, sources which would adversely affect one cellent work in bringing Mr. Warren to A weakening of the manpower pool so out of three students in our system. That is my attention. Let me quote briefly vital to the defense or our nation, radical surgery. There are many trustees from Mr. Warren's testimony before A setback for American industry when like myself who have serious doubts the the subcommittee during our March 5 this country is struggling to compete in the international marketplace. American Acadamy could survive such an hearing in New York City: And we certainly believe that President operation. There is too often a tendency to obscure Reagan was right last year when he said in To first address the point that these pro fiscal issues by describing proposed changes his speech at Notre Dame, "If ever the inde posed student aid reductions would increase as "adjustment," be they add-ons or sub pendent colleges and universities are re rather than decrease the total tax burden tractions. That terminology has been em placed by tax supported institutions, the for higher education ... Like most corpora ployed by the Administration to describe struggle to preserve academic freedom will tions and individuals, we measure tax the federal student aid revisions it has pre have been lost." burden based upon the total of federal, sented to the Congress. There is too often a tendency to obscure state and local levies. Unlike other vital What we are discussing here is by no fiscal issues by describing proposed changes public services where a dollar of state and stretch of the imagination a mere adjust as "adjustment," be they add-ons or sub local tax expenditures might replace a ment. It is a radical funding reduction predi tractions. That terminology has been em dollar withdrawn by Washington, in higher cated on a radical change in federal policy. ployed by the administration to describe the education much more than a dollar would To better understand this, allow me to federal student aid revisions it has present be required from the states and other share with you some figures compiled by ed to the congress. sources to fill the gap. our State Education Commissioner, Gordon What we are discussing here is by no The reason for this larger state and local Ambach. They may better enable us to per stretch of the imagination a mere adjust contribution is that a significant proportion ceive the order of magnitude of the changes ment. It is a radical funding reduction predi of our higher education enrollment is in in proposed in federal student aid just for New cated on a radical change in federal policy. dependent colleges and universities: 20 per York State. To better understand this, allow me to cent nationally, over 40 percent in New For the 1982-83 academic year, we are share with you some figures compiled by York State. The independent sector will be considering a withdrawal from New York of our State Education Commissioner, Gordon most disproportionately impacted by the $459 million of federal funds for student Ambach. They may better enable us to per proposed federal student aid cuts. It is the aid. This would represent an elimination or ceive the order of magnitude of the changes sector whose students rely most heavily on reduction of federal aid presently being pro proposed in Federal student aid just for federal assistance, the sector receiving mini vided to 200,000 students in this state. New York State. mal state appropriations. Mr. Warren's assessment of the For the 1982-83 academic year, we are Leaving aside university-based research effect of the administration's higher considering a withdrawal from New York of contracts which are largely defense and education budget proposals on student $459 million of federal funds for student health related, federal expenditures for aid. This would represent an elimination or postsecondary education follow a pattern of access and institutional diversity are reduction of federal aid presently being pro 96 cents for student aid and the balance for clear. I also believe his assessment is vided to 200,000 students in this state. institutional support. However, in state and accurate and representative of people The following academic year, another local expenditures the configuration is ex in the business community who have $201 million will be lost in federal student actly the opposite: 96 cents goes to institu spoken out on this issue. We should aid by those enrolled in New York's colleges tional appropriations for state universities

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 4068 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 11, 1982 and community colleges, only four cents for sibilities with regard to management and de cated and trained young men and women student aid. livery. On the contrary, it specifically aimed who will provide a long-term capability that Government assistance for students is and its policy recommendations to provide equal would realistically have to be respected by should be based upon relative financial opportunity for students to overcome bar our potential adversaries. Hardware alone need. Students at independent campuses riers to access caused by family economic will not do that job. Cutting access to our today represent essentially the same income circumstance. It also deliberately cautioned colleges and universities would put a crack profiles as their peers enrolled at govern against the federal government invading the in that reservoir which would be costly, per ment-operated institutions. But their need states' constitutionally guaranteed responsi haps impossible, to patch should America is greater because their tuition charges are bility for oversight and management of face a future crisis requiring rapid mobiliza much higher. borders. To now suggest that proposed re My final point is that the federal retreat Since the actual institutional costs are ap ductions in student support are to protect from higher education is bad news for proximately the same for both sectors, the the higher education sovereignty of the American business. I have some knowledge difference in resource support is essentially states is a red herring and utter nonsense. of international corporate competition. But the taxpayer subsidy for government-oper The federal government does have a you need not be professionally engaged in ated campuses at the state and local level. proper role in assisting Black colleges, but it the field to understand that this country's But here the ratio of support is much more does so because there remains the cruel cor industrial infrastructure needs an enormous than four-to-one. State and local tax subsi relation between race and economic circum infusion of educated and technologically so dy per student in the government-operated stance. And I feel free to state that proposi phisticated personnel if it is to be effective sector compared to the independent sector tion because the corporation I serve hap in the international race. · We need to is at least double that disparity. Here in pens to be a leader in the private sector's ef strengthen the institutions in this country New York the average annual tax levy forts to assist those institutions. which generate and transmit new knowl outlay for each student at state-operated But if the federal government has an obli edge-our colleges and universities. The fed campuses is approximately $6,500 while the gation to help needy students enrolled at eral student aid withdrawals do the oppo state provides about $800 per year for each predominantly Black institutions, by what site. student enrolled in the independent sector. logic can the federal government deny as In conclusion, I come from a company for And that eight-to-one ratio is less than in sistance to needy students-regardless of which the word challenge is important. I other states where substantially less is pro color-enrolled at other institutions? also represent a group of citizens for whom vided for needy students attending inde This leads to my second point, that the that concept has special meaning. The pendent institutions. proposed student aid reductions will cause a trustees of higher education in America are Thus, as federal student aid is withdrawn, retreat from the voluntary integration not freeloaders. They are making enormous and hundreds of thousands of middle and levels achieved by American higher educa effort to meet the challenge confronting low income families find their resources in tion since Sputnik. No other segment of our their institutions. On most of the boards of adequate to meet the large tuitions required society-with the exception of professional independent campuses, we represent the by independent colleges and universities, we athletics-can match what we observe today major conduit to corporate and philan will witness a massive and inexorable shift on the American campus. thropic support. We are out there with the in enrollments to government-operated in Dr. Kenneth Clark, a distinguished schol college presidents and their development of stitutions. Under the existing state and local ar and a member of the New York Board of ficers shaking the proverbial tamborines. patterns of higher education appropria Regents, sees a scenario resulting from the And we give of our own resources as well. tions, we will see a huge increase in tax levy federal student aid cuts which will move less Year after year most of us have the bitter support. I say this because I believe it is po affluent students from independent campus task of passing along to parents and stu litically inconceivable that elected officials es to government universities and, in turn, dents the bad news about tuition increases at these levels of government would permit push out the largely minority populations to offset the higher costs of running our in a sharp decline in collegiate access within who have been the victims of disadvantaged stitutions. And despite what some might the constituencies they serve. elementary and secondary educations. think those parents and students are not It is perhaps arrogant for a layman to sug These are the most recent additions to par freeloaders. For most of them it takes a gest to elected officials that it would be po ticipation in American higher education and great deal of sacrifice on their part to sup litically unrealistic to anticipate that the represent our best hope for permanently plement the federal, state and institutional states would permit collegiate access levels breaking the poverty /welfare cycle. student assistance that is provided at inde to decline precipitously in the face of feder It would be a tragedy for our country were pendent campuses. al student aid withdrawals. I happen to be Dr. Clark's fears to be realized. It would also Gentlemen, please remember and impress lieve it is true. Like it or not, American fam be a tragedy if the states respond as I on your colleagues in the Congress that: ilies today have come to expect that their expect and expand government institution More than 60 percent of the twelve mil children will have reasonable opportunity to enrollments to accommodate low and middle lion college and university students in this attend college regardless of parental income students forced out of independent country depend on federal assistance-to income. It was a challenge articulated by institutions. supplement-and I underscore the word President Eisenhower to which every Con Today the enrollments of these independ the financial contribution made by his or gress since his administration has made ent campuses, in New York and throughout her families from income and savings, as solemn and substantial commitment. It has the country, are as integrated as our govern well as the student's individual effort become part of our way of life. ment-operated institutions. Because they through summer or after school jobs. Professor Murray Weidenbaum, chairman are integrated, enlightened federal and And while it is right to insist that every of the Council of Economic Advisors, was state policies, combined with generous insti student contribute whatever can be afford questioned recently on the point of state tutional and philanthropic support, allow ed before receiving help-having done that and local tax levies for higher education students from less affluent families to exer to withhold help is wrong and wasteful of rising in excess of the reductions in federal cise choice. It is a voluntary integration the talents we will always desperately need. student aid support. He responded that this system and it works. Our greatest resources is the young men Administration believes higher education is If federal student aid is withdrawn in the and women of this country who-if given essentially a state and local concern and it order of magnitude being suggested by the the opportunity for upward mobility-will was therefore appropriate for Washington Administration, we will be returning to the repay us all a thousand fold in the future. to sharply curtail its expenditures in that dark decades when independent higher edu Therefore, on our behalf, yours and mine, area. cation was available only to the economical as well as theirs, I hope you will do every Dr. Weidenbaum was subsequently asked ly privileged. We will have de facto segrega thing possible to insure that the present by the president of a predominantly Black tion by income and therefore segregation by level of federal student aid is maintained institution if the same doctrine held with race. and refined to assure that adequate support regard to institutions like his. The Presi National defense is what triggered the goes to the truly needy. dent's chief economic advisor responded in post-Sputnik federal support of student To do that-requires that the federal gov the negative, taking pains to assure his access to college. It is still an important con ernment: questioner that the Administration would sideration. The sophisticated weaponry of Continue to make loans available to every make adequate provision for our Black col today is already beyond the capabilities of student who shows genuine need. leges and universities. our military manpower resources. Providing Restore the cuts in the Pell grants and With all due respect, I find those replies more federal appropriations to train those the related supplemental educational oppor at least inconsistent. The Eisenhower Doc in the armed forces will not meet our coun tunity grant programs. trine on higher education did not introduce try's manpower defense needs for the Increase the college work study program, a federal takeover of state and local respon- future. We need a reservoir of highly edu- which makes it possible for students to find March 11, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4069 jobs in a tight economy-so that they, too, bers' attention because we now have I am talking about a system that will can contribute. public admissions not only from David produce a much more efficient use of The trustees and the Corporations they Stockman, but from Bill Safire, that resources. Stockman and Safire types represent-the individual institutions and the Republican's new idea is really an will poison the debate over this ques the respective states, as well as the students old idea, the dressed-up economics of and their families, will, I know, each share a tion by urging that nothing but a part of the burden. But we need your help.e McKinley and Hoover. These old ideas tight-money induced recession hold that the wage earner must pay "works." Are we going to accept this? for economic stability with his job. No. IN SUPPORT OF THE ECONOMY And Safire even suggests that the I believe that with proper allocation worker should sit back and savor its and planning, we can relieve pressures benefits. The man or woman who on the credit markets without the suf HON. NEWT GINGRICH losses a job, or the small businessman fering that the Reagan administration OF GEORGIA who goes bankrupt, should be content is bringing about. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the knowledge that their personal Republicans say that intelligent effi sacrifice will help the wealthy and the Thursday, March 11, 1982 ciency in allocating resources is too economically strong improve their difficult. But they are wrong. e Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, the living standard. following editorial reminds us how for The inescapable conclusion from a I have urged for several years that tunate we are to live in the United reading of Stockman's conversations we should begin to study and measure States. Last December 10, 1981, WGST with a Washington Post reporter, and economic elements that are meaning radio in Atlanta aired this editorial. now Safire's essay, is that Republicans ful. We need an information and anal I'm glad they reminded the folks of believe that bringing on the Great De ysis system. We need more informa my district that our economy is superi pression was a noble act; a harsh but tion-not less-on what is going on in or to most. We may have problems, necessary corrective. our economy. We do not really know, but I know we can beat them. Here is I wonder why we hear so little from for example, how to define money that excellent editorial. I hope both Mr. Safire's colleagues who filled the much less how to define, increase, and the media and the public will take this news columns and airwaves with brave allocate the amount of credit neces to heart. forecasts about Reagan's new idea. We sary to increase productivity. .AMERICAN EcoNoMY Is STILL KING can only hope that they will see the President Reagan's ideas are not new. New ideas are found within the It seems ironic that so many Americans error of their ways and start telling are running around these days like Chicken the American public the truth-that Democratic Party. And despite the va Little hollering that the sky is there is nothing new about these riety of ideas held by Democrats, falling ... at the very time when foreign warmed-over economic policies of J.P. there is a common theme-that investors are gaining more confidence than Morgan and Andrew Mellon. human intelligence and creativity can ever in this country. Recession is a stupid We were on the threshold of really achieve more than undirected market word-simply because it causes people to new economic thinking when cancer greed. And that all citizens can have lose confidence in the future and for the deprived us of the leadership of economic security. And, finally, that moment forget that all economy and busi all elements of society will make equiv ness is cyclical. The inflation rate which Hubert Humphrey. The Humphrey caused so much turmoil last year is falling Javits legislation, the Balanced Eco alent economic sacrifices when such dramatically, and high interest rates are nomic Growth Plan, looking toward sacrifices are necessary. coming down rapidly. The fact is that the comprehensive growth and develop The article follows: American economy is still king of the hill. ment would have made a real differ CFrom the New York Times, Feb. 8, 19821 Our standard of living is the highest in the ence. IN PRAISE OF RECESSION world and certain of our vital industries, There are ways that a democratic so like farming, textiles, and even electronics ciety can allocate resources without an hold a commanding position in internation unreasonable loss of economic free WASHINGTON.-Hardly anybody has a good al trade. Retailers are finding christmas dom. word for recession these days, and nobody shoppers buying more selectively this at all expounds upon the blessings of unem year . . but buying. And the smart retailers, Any rational person would agree ployment. advertising quality, and performance are that there should be limits on the Whatsamatter, the sensitive reader will again reaping the benefits of this biggest marketplace. No one believes that an ask, is this man bonkers? Is he not aware of buying season of the year. Foreign investors enterprising, unscrupulous person the widespread human misery reflected in understand the resiliency of the American ought to be able to sell cancer produc 16 percent out of work in Michigan, the de economy and the stability of the dollar ing drugs or foods, or that manufac spair of a person who wants to work but is which is why overseas capital has been flow turers ought to be able to pollute air forced to go on the dole, the shattered ing into the United States. In increasing and water without limit. Rules of com dreams of entrepreneurs forced into bank amounts the last few years. The media pays petition must be established. ruptcy? too much attention to the doomsayers and Granted. The spasm of iconoclasm that the 'survivalists' and not enough attention Recognizing this, we should be able to draw some intelligent restraints on follows does not remove me from the front to the movers and the doers." ranks of the sympathetic, especially since I the use of credit and capital that will still have a job and others unfairly bear the avoid the human suffering that Bill brunt of unemployment. But if we are about REAGANOMICS IS AN OLD IDEA Safire praises. to have a ring-a-ding recession, let us at DRESSED UP America occupies a unique place in a least understand its purpose and savor its world of 5 billion people. It has enor benefits. mous human potential. It has raw ma The greatest danger to our economy-to HON. BRUCE F. VENTO terials to produce the good life for free enterprise, prosperity, personal free OF MINNESOTA centuries to come and it can match re dom and the American Way-was and is in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sources and potentials efficiently and flation. For nearly a decade, unprecedented spurts upward in the cost of living have un Thursday, March 11, 1982 intelligently. If we do this, we can pro vide for the national security, too. dermined our system, halted the traditional e Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, several rise of our standard of living and reduced We simply cannot use our great land our ability to compete in the world. weeks ago the New York Times print resources for overproducing goods ed an essay "In Praise of Recession" Worse, the seeming intractability of infla that are really unnecessary. We tion has warped American values, mocking by William Satire, its conservative po cannot use raw materials in products the thrifty and rewarding the profligate. litical spokesman and former major that do people no good at all. Life on the double-digit merry-go-round has figure in the Nixon administration. I The question is this: Is there a way turned businessmen into crapshooters and want to call this essay to the Mem- to preserve freedom while we do this? workers into squirrels on a treadmill. 4070 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 11, 1982 Worst of all, chronic inflation wiped out sumption of growth. Then we shall look her sister, Mary, built Sisters' Free the value of life savings, inflicted cruel sur back on the recession of 1981-1983 as the hold in St. Mary's. prises on those dependent upon life insur harsh but necessary corrective. ance and turned the expected serenity of re We can all join the chorus that rails at re During this time Margaret Brent tirement into a rat race. Not even the index cession and denounces unemployment, be became a trusted friend and adviser to ation of Social Security could compensate cause that is the political and compassion the Governor, Leonard Calvert, broth the elderly for the ravages of inflation. ate thing to do. But in today's primitive er of Lord Baltimore. She also began Now we come to misery's bottom line: the state of the economic art, let us remember acting as an attorney for her brother tens of millions who were impoverished and that there can be no slowing down without who had also settled in the area. As a betrayed by inflation far out-number the a slowdown, no solid recovery without a single woman and the only female millions who have been slammed up against period of pain.e landowner in the region, she was sub the wall by unemployment. If the sum of human misery is what we are trying to ject to much public scrutiny and mis reduce, the battle against inflation must NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY trust. In fact, one of the members of take priority over the battle against unem WEEK the assembly unsuccessfully attempt ployment. ed to pass a law that would have disen Hold on: no political figure would be will franchised any woman who did not ing to make that statement. On the con HON. STENY H. HOYER marry, which would have stripped her trary, politicians of every persuasion insist OF MARYLAND of her land. Despite these efforts, that no unemployment should be planned IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Margaret Brent prospered, bought and that the trade-off between inflation and unemployment is outdated, unnecessary and Tuesday, March 9, 1982 more land and became noted brutal. Indeed, .supply-side theory held out a throughtout the Colony for her tal e Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I am ents as a financier. painless way to reduce inflation, baking ex pleased to join my colleague and panded pies for the free-lunch counter. Support for Lord Baltimore's claim The reality is that nobody knows how to fell ow Marylander, Congresswoman over Maryland in the fighting known slow inflation without inducing recession. BARBARA MIKULSKI, in a salute to the as Claiborne's Rebellion in which Mar Nobody knows how to reduce inflation with women who have contributed so much garet Brent's home became a strong out stimulating unemployment. to this country. This is the first time hold against the rebels, further en Inviting recession is what the Reagan Ad the Nation has celebrated Women's ministration and the Federal Reserve have hanced her role and she became the History Week together, and I urge my heiress and executrix of the estates of been doing, denying it all along. Opposition colleagues to participate fully in this economists who permitted the growth of in Governor Calvert. It was during this flation are making loud protests at the only event. time that Margaret Brent went to the method capable of bringing it down, short Our history has always been filled general assembly and applied for the of subverting economic freedom. with the faces of women, but they right to vote there. She asked for a The anti-inflation campaign is working, have most often been pictured as vote for herself, as one of the largest thanks in large part to the unpleasant fact strong and sturdy helpmates, a worthy landowners in the region, and for a that a great many workers are not working. portrait to be sure, but not as creators second vote as the attorney for Lord The availability of labor holds down costs and doers in their own right. and the fear of loss of employment im I am happy to represent, in this Con Baltimore. proves productivity. Putting this into words gress, the great State of Maryland, a This effort was the first time in may be a no-no, but the result of the reces America that the claim was made that sion is an inflation rate currently under 6 State which is named for a woman, Henrietta Maria, Queen consort of it was a woman's right to sit and vote percent. in a legislative assembly. Margaret The Reagan budget for next year assumes Charles I. Indeed, five of our counties Brent told the assembled body, the continuance of that 6 percent inflation are named for women who all had a rate. That would restore soundness to the place in Maryland history. Anne Arun Let the woman that hath equal risks with American economy and end the betrayal of del County is named for Lady Anne you have an equal voice in the government the thrifty. To achieve this, Reaganomists Arundel, wife of Cecilius Calvert, itself. foresee an unemployment rate of 8 percent second Lord of Baltimore and founder Such a radical notion was too much must be maintained. We may on any maps or charts, but her influ her as one of America's most outstand vilify Paul Volcker's villainy to our hearts' ence and impact on our State may ing citizens of any age. Her story joins content, but we must not quit while we are have been greater than all the rest. I those of many other women from our winning. speak of Margaret Brent, an early State-Rachel Carson, noted environ The recession is doing its job. If ever there colonist who challenged the tradition mentalist and author; Rosa Ponselle, were a good time for hard times, now is that al roles of women at the time and one of the foremost opera singers of time. The real sacrifices being made by the unemployed must not be in vain. became adviser, friend, and finally at our time; Elizabeth Seton, the first Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size torney and executor to Leonard Cal American canonized as a saint; Harriet of the deficit does not ultimately determine vert, Governor of the Colony of Mary Tubman, abolitionist; Edith Hamilton, interest rates. After years of negative inter land. classical scholar and interpreter of the est rates (less than the inflation rate), we Margaret Brent came to the land works of Plato; Billie Holliday, jazz are now seeing unrealistic interest rates (8 known as St. Mary's, Md., in 1634 with and blues singer par excellence percent over the inflation rate>; when it be several of her brothers and sisters. As whose accomplishments can only serve comes apparent that the President and the a 37-year-old matron, she carried with as an example to us all. Fed will see this recession through, interest rates will settle to the normal 3 to 4 percent her a patent from Lord Baltimore for Maryland history is rich with the over inflation. With inflation under 6 per land in the New World. This caused stories of notable women, and with cent, we will resume single-digit interest. much consternation among the men of those whose lives were perhaps more Then-and not as soon as Reagan budget the assembly, but they finally granted anonymous but whose contributions in eers predict-we shall have an orderly re- her the right to own land and she and the home, in the fields, and in our March 11, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4071 business, medical, and educational production, thereby giving farmers a Credit Adjustment Act of 1978, the Secre communities was and is equally praise shot at fair prices and at the same tary is directed, during any period in which time save the taxpayers $1.7 billion. the agricultural sector in any State is suf worthy. fering economic distress, to take action At the same time, we must realize The administration opposed this within the State with respect to the defer that while Maryland is a leader in amendment because it removed too ring of principal and interest and foregoing championing the equal rights amend much of the Agriculture Secretary's of foreclosure which the Secretary is au ment, sex discrimination continues to discretion. thorized to take under subsection of this be felt in these last decades of this I proposed another amendment to section. For purposes of this subsection, a century. the farm bill that would have placed a 'period in which the agricultural sector in We must take the opportunity of moratorium on foreclosure by the any State is suffering economic distress' is a Women's History Week to look at our Farmers Home Administration. This period <1) beginning on the date on which amendment, too, was strongly opposed the total of forced liquidations and foreclo ancestors, to see the development and sures of outstanding loans of the types de roots of our own families, the accom by USDA. Under Secretary Frank scribed in the preceding sentence made, in plishments of our mothers and grand Naylor pledged that "the full range of sured, or held by the Secretary in the State mothers, our sisters and aunts. In existing authorities will be used to exceeds one per centum of all outstanding schools, churches, libraries, and meet help such farmers get back on an or loans within a given fiscal year, such types ing halls across this country, Women's derly repayment schedule." made, insured or held by the Secretary in History Week is focusing on the full If, however, USDA has implemented the State, and (2) ending 12 calendar range and depth of the contribution of this policy-many farmers in my dis months thereafter.". women to our society. trict have yet to be notified. Instead "Cc) That upon the expiration of such de We in Maryland have much to be farmers are being notified that if they ferral of payment of principal and interest don't pay up now they can expect and foregoing of foreclosure directed by the proud of in our heritage, and we can Secretary, the Secretary shall make avail only be richly rewarded for the in legal action shortly. able to the borrower, upon the borrower's creased recognition that National Denying these family farmers an op request, procedures whereby the loan can be Women's History Week can provide portunity to get their heads above reamortized or rescheduled to provide equi us.• water is likely to result in panic, farm table repayment terms consistent with the sales, rapidly declining land prices borrower's farm and financial situation. Any and ultimately the ownership of food such reamortized or rescheduled loan shall ENGLISH INTRODUCES LAND producing acres in the hands of a few bear interest at a rate not in excess of the VALUE PROTECTION ACT large corporations. rate of interest originally charged on the loan. Interest that accrues during the defer Lower interest rates and increased ral period on the loan shall bear no interest HON. GLENN ENGLISH commodity prices are the obvious solu during or after such period. tion to farmers' problems. The admin OF OKLAHOMA SEC. 2. The provisions of section 1 of this istration, however, has been unwilling IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Act shall become effective upon enact- to come to grips with the farmers' sit ment.• • Thursday, March 11, 1982 uation and take steps necessary to e Mr. ENGLISH. Mr. Speaker, a disas avert another huge carryover of grain. ter has struck the farm belt and it's For this reason, I am introducing HELP FOR THE HEARING not hail, floods, or drought this time. the Land Value Protection Act. This IMPAIRED The disaster is 3 consecutive years of bill provides for deferrals on repay low commodity prices coupled with ment, and a moratorium on f oreclo soaring production costs. sures of Farmers Home Administra HON. DOUG WALGREN In past years, farmers have been tion farm loans. able to withstand short-term reduction Ideally, a proposal such as this OF PENNSYLVANIA in income by borrowing against farm would contain some flexibility for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES equity. Unfortunately, that short-term administration. In fact, the Secretary Thursday, March 11, 1982 cure will not fix what has become a of Agriculture already has the discre potentially terminal problem. tionary authority to take the neces e Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, as My office is receiving calls daily sary steps. Unfortunately, the Secre Pennsylvania's ranking member of the from farmers who cannot meet their tary has been unwilling to use that au Health Subcommittee, I am pleased to obligation to the Farmers Home Ad thority and instead seems to be head join in recognizing April as "Telecap ministration-the lender of last resort. ing in the direction of more f oreclo tion Month" in Pittsburgh. These farmers are caught in a cash sures and more forced liquidations. Closed-captioned television is an im flow squeeze that will not end until in Therefore, this proposal would portant technological advancement terest rates come down or they begin remove the Secretary's discretion that helps to bring to our hearing-im to receive a fair price in the market whenever foreclosures and forced liq paired citizens the full value of televi place. That prospect is not on the ho uidations reached 1 percent in a State. sion programing in the United States rizon. USDA's own economists believe Admittedly, this bill is a band-aid, and the world. First introduced in that farm income could be down an but it is a band-aid that may function 1980, closed-captioned television per other $1 to $3 billion in 1982. Recent as a life-support system for many of mits subtitles to appear on specially declines in farm prices have pushed this Nation's struggling farmers. equipped TV sets. Programs that are the parity index down another 1 per The text of the bill follows: closed-captioned have these subtitles cent to 56 percent, the lowest level H.R. 5813 hidden from most viewers, but the since it averaged 58 percent in 1932, LAND VALUE PROTECTION ACT hearing-impaired can activate a special the worst year of the Depression for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of device to see subtitles on the television the Nation's farmers. Representatives of the United States of screen. Land prices have already begun to America in Congress assembled, That sec Over 16 million Americans are hear decline and if action is not taken and tion 331A of the Consolidated Farm and ing-impaired, and each of us can taken quickly, this Nation must face Rural Development Act is amended by (1) expect some hearing difficulty as part the prospect of losing thousands of inserting, before the text thereof, the desig of the aging process. I believe that the nation "(a)", and (2) adding at the end family farmers. thereof new subsections Cb) and to read hearing-impaired are entitled to the During debate on the Reagan admin as follows: same educational and recreational op istration's farm bill, I proposed an "(b) With respect to farm real estate, farm portunities available to those fortu amendment that would have given operating, and emergency loans, and loans nate to have full hearing ability. farmers an incentive to cut back on made under the Emergency Agricultural Closed-captioned television is an excel-

8:.. J;; .. 0-05-4& (_ .. J) 4094 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 11, 1982 must have the courage to offer viable, language instruction beginning in the limit in half. People who have been constructive alternatives. I offer the early grades. . led to make a longrun commitment to program just outlined as one such al As technology improves, commercial providing their own retirement income ternative. I urge my colleagues to con and economic ties strengthen, and cul may gradually find that the contribu sider this proposal as the start of a tural interchanges draw the nations of tion limits are inadequate to support constructive bipartisan dialog. None o_f the world together, the United States that commitment. us-neither Democrats nor RepublI must insure that the future genera Accordingly, last Thursday I intro cans-can long accept the status quo tion of its citizens are sent well duced H.R. 5741, which would index of economic stagnation.• equipped into the complexities of IRA contribution limits for inflation their environment. Each person must beginning in 1983. This bill uses the be given the opportunity to grasp con indexing mechanism adopted for indi EL., SALVADOR cepts and communicative skills neces vidual income tax brackets in last sary to understanding and effectively years's tax bill. dealing with members of other cul- The only major objection to this bill HON. PAUL FINDLEY tures. . . will probably be the revenue loss it OF ILLINOIS As the emphasis in education durmg would eventually cause for the Treas IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Kennedy years focused on science ury. However, close examination re Thursday, March 11, 1982 and technology, our schools must also veals that in the short and intermedi strive to regain the dedication to ex e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, .I am ate term, Government revenue losses cellence in language skills. We must are more than matched by private cap extremely concerned by the cont1~ued not permit our Nation to become inad presence of U.S. military trainers 1~ El ital increases. equate in the ever increasingly crucial For example, this year it is estimat Salvador. I believe that the funct1~ns realm of international affairs and only they are performing could be carried ed that there will be $20 billion of IRA by actively encouraging a renewal of contributions nationwide, of which $7 out adequately by civilian cont.ractor interest in foreign language instruc personnel or by military trai~mg of billion, or 35 percent, will be new sav tion can we hope to compete with ings; that is, savings that otherwise Salvadoran soldiers in the continental other nations. . United States. would not have been made. On the Mr. Speaker, soon the House will other hand, the $20 billion is excluded Maintaining a U.S. military training consider H.R. 3231, the National Secu team in El Salvador only offers a from taxable income, so the revenue rity and Economic Growth Through loss to the Treasury is $20 billion tempting target for terrorists and indi Foreign Language Improvement Act, cates the likelihood of an ever-deepe~ times the average marginal tax rate which is designed to enhance U.S. na paid by those making the IRA contri ing U.S. military involvement. Yet, it tional security and our competitive is clear that public sentiment in the butions. If their average marginal rate ness in international markets by en is 35 percent, the revenue loss is $7 bil United States opposes direct American couraging the study for foreign lan military intervention in El Salvador. lion, exactly balancing the new capital guages. I would hope that my distin raised. If their average marginal rate I would urge the administration, guished colleagues would support this once the Salvadoran elections have oc is less than 35 percent-which occurs legislation, as it would specific~lly ad curred on March 28, to remove the in 1982 at a taxable income of $32,000 dress the interests we defend m cele to $37,000 for a childness married U.S. military training team from El brating National International Lan Salvador and find other mean~ to couple-there will be a net gain of guage Week. funds for the capital markets. extend its support to the democratical The United States must break away ly elected representatives of El Salva from its sense of isolationism and rec After the currently scheduled indi dor.• ognize the benefits of an active inter vidual income tax rate cuts are com action with other nations, as well as pleted next year, the top rate will be the ramifications of deterioration of only about 38.5 percent. Thus if 35 NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL percent of IRA contributions continue LANGUAGE WEEK language skills to the security of our country. We must do all in our power to be new savings, the revenue loss to actively support programs of lan from this bill will be more than offset guage instruction and to provide moti by increased private capital formation. HON. BALTASAR CORRADA This is a simple bill, and I urge my OF PUERTO RICO vation for continued study in this field among our students.e colleagues to support it. I also ask that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the bill be printed in the RECORD at Thursday, March 11, 1982 this time. e Mr. CORRADA. Mr. Speaker, in INDEXING IRA ACCOUNT LIMITS H.R. 5741 recognition of the importance of for A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code eign language training in completing a HON. THOMAS E. PETRI of 1954 to adjust the dollar limitations on rounded education, the President has oF wiscoNSIN the deduction for retirement savings for increases in the cost of living designated March . through 14 as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "National Foreign Language Week." Thursday, March 11, 1982 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of The United States cannot ignore the Representatives of the United States of need for a populace which can carry • Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, as one America in Congress assembled, That section 219 of the Internal Revenue Code of on an exchange of ideas with the peo- who supported liberalization of indi 1954 (relating to retirement savings) is ples of other countries and other cul- vidual retirement accounts and by inserting after subsec As the elected representative of over changes, including universal eligibility tion (f) the following new subsection: 3.2 million Spanish-speaking American and higher contribution limits, were "(g) INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS.- citizens, I can testify to the impor- adopted last year. "(!) IN GENERAL.-ln the case of any tax tance of maintaining a store of human One further change should be made. able year beginning in a calendar year after capital which can comm~nicate s1:1c- We need to protect last year's IRA 1982 each of the provisions referred to in paragraph (2) shall be applied by increasing cessfully with persons of divergent Im- gains from erosion through inflation. each dollar amount contained therein by guistic backgrounds. Puerto Rico is Two thousand dollars of IRA contribu the inflation adjustment for such calendar proud to claim widespread bilin~ual- · tions per year may be an adequate year. Any increase determined under the ism among its inhabitants, due m a limit in 1982, but 10 years from now preceding sentence shall be rounded to the large part to the emphasis on English inflation may cut the value of that nearest multiple of $10. March 11, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4095 "(2) PROVISIONS AFFECTED.-For purposes chairman of the History Department at beaten. Lev, who is a civil engineer, of paragraph (1), the provisions referred to George Mason University. lost his job. in this paragraph are: "Dr. Moore's challenge will be a test of As I said last June, Lev Elbert stands " Subsections . <4><2> Subsection <4> of section 409. the prospects for the fund drive. symbolizes for me the power of the "(3) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.-For purposes "As former administrator of the Bicenten human spirit to defy the great weight of this subsection, the inflation adjustment nial, I am aware of the ability and willing of Soviet bureaucracy and repression. for any calendar year is the percentage by which- uable projects like Turkey Run Farm and I It is my great hope that the Soviet " the CPI for the preceding calendar believe this particular effort will be met authorities will allow Lev Elbert and year the CPI for calendar year 1981 The amendment made by this subsec ed on 120 acres just behind the Central In individuals seeking to exercise their tion shall apply to taxable years beginning telligence Agency off Rt. 193 in McLean. Be right to emigrate. after December 31, 1982.e cause of budget restrictions, the National I wish to thank my distinguished Park Service was forced to close the farm colleague from New York, Representa briefly last March. But the farm had TURKEY RUN FARM become so popular, especially for grade tive NORMAN LENT, for chairing the school field trips, that local leaders and citi Congressional Vigil for Soviet Jews zens formed the Friends of Turkey Run this year, and for bringing the many HON. FRANK R. WOLF Farm, Inc., a tax exempt foundation, and cases to the attention of the Con OF VIRGINIA were able to raise enough money to keep it gress.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES open. The honorary chairmen of the campaign Thursday, March 11, 1982 are Mrs. George Bush, wife of the vice presi NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS e Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I want to dent, Mrs. Charles Robb, wife of Virginia's share with my colleagues the out Governor, and Warner and Wolf. Chairmen of divisions of the fund drive HON. L. A. (SKIP) BAFALIS standing work being done by a group announced at the breakfast meeting are: of civic leaders in Virginia's 10th Con Donald S. Beyer, Jr., automobile division; OF FLORIDA gressional District to save Turkey Run Peter Browning, restaurant division; Wil IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Farm. Just over a year ago in response liam D. Cremins, legal division; Milton Thursday, March 11, 1982 to concern about the possible closing Drewer, Jr., banking division; Bill Flood, of this re-created 18th century work corporate division; Robert S. Goralski, e Mr. BAFALIS. Mr. Speaker, the ing class farm the Friends of Turkey energy division; Janet Green, women's orga Senate has given this body a great op Run Farm, Inc., was formed. Since nization division; Joseph Harsh, historian portunity to give the American people June 7, 1981, this nonprofit, tax division; Claiborne B. Morton, local business what they want-control over the fate division; Milton Peterson, area developer di of their children. exempt foundation has operated vision; David P. Palonscar, service clubs divi Turkey Run Farm in cooperation with sion; Peter Stefanon, accounting division; On March 2, the other body passed the National Park Service. What fol and Walter R. Wenk, D.D.S. dental division. and sent to us-legislation designed to lows is a newspaper article which ap Alice Starr of McLean has been hired as bring balance to the use of court or peared in the Loudoun Times Mirror executive director for development by the dered, forced school busing. regarding the effort to create an en "Friends" to coordinate the fund raising This is what the American people dowment to secure the long-term sup effort. want. Public opinion poll after public port needed for this quality education The Farm has been closed during the opinion poll has shown conclusively winter months and is scheduled to reopen what the American people, black and al program. I want to commend Dr. April 3.e Claude Moore and the many division white, want their children to have an chairmen of the drive to create this opportunity to go to their own neigh endowment for their generosity on HUMAN RIGHTS-THE SOVIET borhood schools. After all, that is why behalf of the children of the greater UNION-LEV ELBERT, THE most parents select a home; they want Washington, Maryland, and Virginia RIGHT TO EMIGRATE good schools for their children. And area. they do not want them bused for miles The article follows: just to satisfy the social conscience of FARM GETS $250,000 OFFER HON. DON BONKER a Federal judge. The Friends of Turkey Run Farm, Inc., OF WASHINGTON But, the question now arises: Will have announced a fund drive campaign to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this body have a chance to act on this match a $250,000 challenge made by Dr. vital legislation? Claude Moore, 89, of Loudon County for the Thursday, March 11, 1982 The bill in question, S. 951, reached purpose of creating an endowment fund to e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, as a the Speaker's table last Thursday, provide income for the McLean area farm's member of the Congressional Call to March 4, a full week ago. And there it future operation. Conscience Vigil on behalf of Soviet sits still. Moore has agreed to invest $250,000 to un Jewry, I would like to add my voice to Under normal circumstances, a bill derwrite the farm if the group can raise a like amount by April 30. my colleagues in Congress on behalf of passed by the Senate and sent to the Supporters of Turkey Run Farm joined by a particular individual-Lev Elbert, a House is taken from the Speaker's Sen. John Warner and 10th District Repre Soviet refusenik. I called my col table the same day it arrives, or no sentative Frank Wolf met at Evans Farm leagues' attention to Lev's case last later than the following day. It is Inn in McLean to honor Claude Moore, a June, when I urged the Soviet Union taken from the table at the request of former radiologist, Loudon County farmer to allow him and his family to emi the chairmen of the committee with and honorary president of the National grate from the Soviet Union to join legislative jurisdiction over the bill. Wildlife Federation, and to kick off the group's fund drive. his relatives in Israel. He has been re Unfortunately, the legislation in "The Claude Moore challenge represents fused a visa in 1976, 1978, and 1980, question is now under the jurisdiction the second pnase of the campaign to save and he has been harassed, arrested, of the House Judiciary Committee Turkey Run Farm," said Dr. Joseph Harsh, and detained, and slandered. His wife and that committee has shown a defi president of the "Friends" organization and Hanna, a cardiologist, was mugged and nite reluctance to allow this matter to 4096 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 11, 1982 be discussed, let alone brought to the istry major, his friendship with Scott His message is a voice of reason floor for a vote. Beck, the son of State Senator Beck, where passion dominates policymaking Therefore, I have joined with the ·sparked the flame of politics within rather than reason. gentleman from Louisiana ; Nor could our Department of Defense be They were, and are, extremely concerned Despite the fact that we and our NATO usefully used to prevent the Russian inva about our scuttling of the SALT II Treaty allies have 600,000 more men under arms sion of Afghanistan or the imposition of after they had negotiated it through three than the U.S.S.R. and the Warsaw Pact martial law in Poland. American administrations; and they are con countries-and fully half their combat These are things worth thinking about cerned about our unilateral abandonment of ready forces are stationed on the Chinese when we are asked to double our defense the Indian Ocean arms control negotiations border, not in Central Europe. And a great budget. of two years ago. many of their troops in Central Europe are Our preoccupation with reacting to what They saw our willingness to send a half drawn from Eastern European states-and Russia does, our tendency to view the whole million U.S. troops halfway around the their reliability is thus very uncertain. world with a Cold War perspective, often world to Vietnam to within 1,800 miles of Despite the fact that we have a good keeps us from doing things we ought to be their borders -can you clear warheads carried on one U.S. subma There are a number of initiatives we imagine our response if they were to send rine could destroy every large and middle should be undert~king that would, I think, 500,000 troops to intervene in a civil war in sized city in Russia-and we have 41 such serve our interests: Central or South America? submarines. We should concentrate on working to They see us going ahead with a new MX Plus 356 B-52 Bombers, each of which can bring about settlements in difficult, danger missile that was ostensibly designed to be carry several nuclear bombs; ous and volatile regions of the world whose mobile and thus invulnerable, only for us to Plus 1,054 ICBM's, most of them with potential explosiveness may drag the U.S. be planning-until yesterday-to emplace multiple warheads. and U.S.S.R unintentionally into confronta them in existing, vulnerable silos-and they The Reagan Administration's alarming tion or where continued inter plausibly conclude that the new weapon is, outcries about U.S. vulnerabilities, its con nal unrest and civil war afford Russia or her in fact, a first-strike weapon that threatens stant denigrations of our defense capabili surrogates opportunities to cause mischief their own nuclear deterrent in just the same ties and exaggerations of Soviet power, do and to drag the U.S. into unwarranted and way the Pentagon says heavy Soviet missiles not reflect the overall military balance unnecessary involvements . U.S. deploys far more of its inter-continen Union . . . and those who suggest the Rather than seeking a means to intervene tal missile force on invulnerable subma United States is weak and helpless not only in Central America as a way of demonstrat rines. are playing fast and loose with the truth, ing U.S. toughness toward Russia, it would They are concerned about the NATO deci they are playing fast and loose with U.S. se be wiser to make real efforts to coordinate sion to deploy U.S. medium-range nuclear curity." policy with the other powers of the region missiles in Western Europe because they Plunging ahead into this spending spree in order to try to deal with revolutionary feel that the number of theater nuclear Without having first formulated, or even change. weapons is now in balance-they are espe articulated, an underlying defense or na And, seeking an overall peace settlement cially concerned about those of our missiles tional security strategy that the defense in the Middle East between the Arab na which can hit Russia and thus, from their build-up is supposed to implement, is not tions and Israel is the most productive di point of view, are the equivalent of strategic the way to go about strengthening our na plomacy we can practice to counter possible weapons . on the Soviet Union, and there is no way we In sum, the "American threat" is as real Four old battleships being brought out of can have any leverage on it in the absence to them as the "Soviet threat" is to us. mothballs at a cost of $% billion apiece of any economic and diplomatic ties. It helps, I think, to look at these things which would probably be sunk in the first And, while we're at it, an intelligent policy it gives a better perspective to our relative 10 minutes of a war with Russia. would include a real effort to improve our situation in the world, and it helps one see A revived B-1 bomber at a cost of $400 relations with India-the world's largest de that some of the imagined problems are million apiece-although it will be obsolete mocracy and second largest country, and more manageable and less frightening than 3 years later Sary part of a wise foreign Russians with respect to strategic nuclear One final word. I want us-I think it's im policy is to start dealing daily and in depth arms limitations-and not let it seem to the portant for us-to feel good about ourselves with the Soviet Union on a whole series of rest of the world, quite correctly, that the again-about what we are doing here at differences between us. The better we Russians seek limitations but we do not. home, and around the world-and what we become at talking out these differences, the It was absolutely foolish of us-it was a stand for in our own eyes and in the eyes of less likely either of us is to make a danger profound error-for this Administration to others. ous mistake. allow the Soviets to appear to much of the We've got to stand for something. We should pursue dialogue at all levels in world-and especially to the peoples of We no longer are perceived by others or order to clarify interests and sensitivities Western Europe, our most important by ourselves, for that matter, as a nation and to manage situations where U.S. and allies-to be the champions of arms control that stands up against oppression, tyranny Soviet interests, influence and presence while we had to be dragged to the confer and human cruelty wherever they may be overlap. ence table. found. This should include regular, periodic We should be proposing any number of We do not appear to the rest of the world, meetings between our two defense secretar initiatives to the Soviets: even to our own allies, to be a peace-loving ies and between our Secretary of State and Immediate equal reduction of nuclear or at least a peace-seeking people. their foreign minister-and more frequent weapons of all categories (as proposed by We are fast forfeiting any kind of moral meetings between working groups from De George Kennan>; or leadership we once had. fense and State-and it should include the A mutual, verifiable freeze on all further By playing down the importance of arms establishment of a permanent, joint crisis testing, production and deployment of nu control and nuclear non-proliferation, ignor management group to serve as a would make possible the "negotiations lead off from human rights stands, we Jeopardize mechanism to help prevent the mistaken or ing to a definite, verifiable reduction in stra the future support not only of our allies accidental use of nuclear weapons by either tegic nuclear weapons" that President throughout the world but, more important of the two superpowers, and to help prevent Reagan has called for. ly, our own people. When we do these the retaliation by one of our countries or Or, we should get back to SALT II, with things, we surrender the most powerful the other in the mistaken notion that one some changes, if necessary; or, if not, a weapon of the West-the arsenal of princi was at fault in the event of the use of a nu SALT III that builds on it. The main ele ples. clear weapon by a terrorist organization or ments of the SALT II Treaty were agreed to We must start acting again like a great Third World country. by previous conservative Republican Presi- and a free people.e