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A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO and Labour Party in Northern Ireland, John pluralism. Again not without difficulty yes RONALD McNAIR Hume. terday or devoid of controversy today, you It is almost 17 years since the breakout of have achieved religious toleration and estab HON. HOWARD COBLE the current troubles in Northern Ireland and in lished the separation of Church and State. those years John Hume has worked endlessly Written on your smallest coin in this coun OF NORTH CAROLINA try is your message of greatest value, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in trying to find a peaceful solution to the trou cement of your society-E Pluribus Unum bles. His commitment to nonviolence has Tuesday, February 4, 1986 from many, one. The essence of unity is the shown that it can be the only path from which acceptance of diversity. The tragedy of di Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, I was invited to change can come about. vided people everywhere, as in Ireland, is participate in a January 31, 1986, program at In his address at Catholic University he reaf that they have pushed difference to the North Carolina A&T State University, Greens firmed his strong commitment to peace, jus point of division and have not yet learned boro, NC. This program was a memorial trib tice and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the lesson that is the essence of unity in ute to Dr. Ronald McNair-"a great Aggie." of the inspiration he has drawn from the civil every democratic society in the world is to Mr. Speaker, I would like to share with my col rights movement in the United States. accept and respect diversity. leagues my comments on that day: Mr. Speaker, I wish to commend the Catho The story of Northern Ireland is the story lic University for the honor and tribute that of a conflict between the aspirations of ordi Last Wednesday morning when I awoke I nary men and women-600,000 Nationalists, found this message at my door: they have paid to John Hume for his leader 900,000 Unionists-who have been trapped "DEAR CONGRESSMAN: Please accept my ship and cause. His address, portions of by a tragic error of history which saw their grief for the members of the shuttle, one of which are excerpted below, is of interest to all hopes and fears as mutually exclusive and whom was a North Carolinian." Americans who share his commitment to irreconcilable within an Irish state but This message was written by one of my peace and a final settlement of the conflict in which obliged them nonetheless to live and neighbors. I thanked her for her concern, Northern Ireland. compete side-by-side in one corner of Ire and I assured her that two of those aboard STATEMENT OF JOHN HUME land. These two communities in Northern the shuttle Challenger had North Carolina Ireland, Catholic and Protestant, National connections. I explained that Ron McNair It is a great honor for me to accept this ist and Unionist, both behave like threat was an alumnus at A&T State University. Honorary Degree from an educational insti ened minorities and only by regarding them She was not familiar with A&T, and I doubt tution of such high standing and prestige as and only by removing the fears which they that she knows my surname, but she wanted the Catholic University of America. It is both feel can a just and durable solution be me to know that the explosion that oc also a great pleasure for me to receive this found. curred the previous day was a personal trag award and to speak to you in an institution edy. which has such a distinguished record of The American civil rights movement in service in a whole range of fields corre the 60's gave birth to ours. The philosophy Oftentimes we become stronger by having of non-violence which sustained your strug been victims of misfortune, sorrow, and loss. sponding to my own background and to the Misfortune, sorrow, and loss bring us to causes which I have sought to serve in my gle was also part of ours. Our own history gether as one this morning to honor the political life. and our own circumstances gave a special memories of Dr. Ronald McNair and his col Coming from Ireland, which over 40 mil power to the counsel of Reverend Martin leagues who perished last Tuesday. lion Americans are proud to claim as the Luther King that violence as a way of land of their birth or ancestry, let me salute achieving justice is both impractical and im I walked a mile with Pleasure moral. She chatted all the way, the work and achievement of Catholic Uni versity in documenting, in studying, in cele The world in the 60's responded with sym But I was none the wiser pathy to our non-violent movement for civil For all She had to say. brating the heritage of those Americans. Irish studies were initiated here in 1896. rights as it did to yours. But whereas here I walked a mile with Sorrow The first Department of Irish Studies in in the United States the structures of your Not one word uttered She, any university in the U.S.-only seven years democracy were resilient enough to encom But, oh how much I learned from Her after this institution opened its doors and pass the challenge of civil rights, in the un When Sorrow walked with me. over the intervening period, right up to the stable political environment of Northern We have walked hand in hand with sorrow present day, the scholars who have graced Ireland, our struggle was perceived as a since Tuesday. But as we honor Dr. Ron these halls have made a contribution to the threat to the very survival of the society McNair today, my wish is that the memory study of the rich linguistic, cultural and lit itself and as such was resisted by the insti of his life will illuminate around, and in erary heritage bequeathed to us by the dif tutions of the State. spire within, those who become involved in ferent major strands and traditions that In the ensuing clash, the Unionist majori the arts of teaching and learning on this have gone to make up the Irish nation. ty, through the imposition of direct rule great campus. We are gathered here today at the begin from London, lost their local parliament Ron McNair was a gallant patriot and ning of the International Year of Peace and which they had come to regard as the great American as the Governor observed. on the birthday of a great American, Martin symbol of their independence and as the He valiantly gave his life for his country, Luther King, a man of world stature, whose guarantor of their heritage. Though many and I am pleased to join you in honoring principle of non-violence in the struggle for would still wish to regard Northern Ireland him today. justice has been an inspiration and guiding as their exclusive homeland, they lack the light to me personally in my approach to power and indeed the freedom to shape the resolution of conflict, whether in Ire their destiny as they once hoped. Though TRIBUTE TO JOHN HUME land or the international sphere. they dominate the security institutions of You are, in this country heirs to benefici the State still, they have not found security HON.JAMESJ.HOWARD aries of great traditions and principles of as a people. This insecurity has led them to OF NEW JERSEY constitutional government which stand out oppose change, even when that change is as of particular value and indeed, as a stand constructive. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ard of emulation and application in our own Nevertheless through pressure on the Tuesday, February 4, 1986 affairs in Ireland today. British Government including the presence In America, there has always been respect of sympathetic opinion in America and the Mr. HOWARD. Mr. Speaker, on January 15 for this idea of unity in diversity and what world at large, we were able to make, the Catholic University of America awarded an ever the controversies may be about the through non-violent methods, major honorary degree to one of the greatest states value and application today of the old melt progress on a number of fronts, especially ment in Ireland's long and far too often tragic ing-pot concept, there is, I understand, in on the original demands of our Civil Rights history, the leader of the Social Democratic creasing acceptance of the idea of cultural Movement. These included one-man, one-
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. 1640 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February#,, 1986 vote, fair allocation of publicly provided never heal the deep wounds that divide a seach, Dr. Garret FitzGerald and the Brit housing and an end to job discrimination. people. Only a healing process can in time ish Prime Minister, Mrs. Margaret Thatch While we made these very worthwhile ad end the division in Ireland. er. vances, affecting the lives of ordinary men Our analysis is that the first necessary The Agreement is a major achievement of and women, we encountered, as I have said, step in that healing process is the creation democratic, non-violent politics. It is a sig a blockage from the unionist parties, to our of total equality of treatment of all the citi nificant step forward on the road to lasting legitimate calls and efforts to secure for the zens of Northern Ireland, nationalists and peace and stability. No one amongst us feels nationalist people we represent effective po unionists alike, from basic civil rights to full it is the final solution. litical, symbolic and administrative expres expression of their identity. Northern Ireland continues to be gov sion of their identity, including a fair share On the basis of that equality on that, be erned, as unionists still wish, by the British in the exercise of political power in the ex cause reconciliation can only be based on Government. The Agreement rather adds a ecutive, as well as the legislative branch of equality, comes the process of reconcilia dimension which by giving institutional rec government. Moreover, the reforms we se tion, the second element, in my party's long ognition to the Irish identity of those of the cured were not, regrettably, generously and term programme, the breaking down of bar nationalist tradition, without detriment to openly offered by the majority party but riers between the different sections of our the identity, of unionists, will enable nation had to be imposed on them by the British people. No one can underestimate the diffi alists to participate fully in the affairs of Government and Parliament. culty of that task. It will take time, but it is Northern Ireland without prejudice to their Against the background of the resulting a task that involves everyone and that will aspiration to Irish unity. clashes and in impatience at the results lead, coming to the third major element, to The Agreement has secured the support achieved by peaceful, political methods, the the only Irish unity that really matters, the of substantial majorities of the population philosophy of non-violence was rejected by only unity that all prepartition leaders in Britain and in the Republic of Ireland. It a minority in my own community who fol spoke of, a unity that respects diversity and has been greeted with satisfaction by a ma lowed the old law of an eye for an eye, who legitimises differences. That is a process and jority of nationalists in Northern Ireland al in the end were inevitably brutalised by the objective that no one need fear because ev though there is, among many, a conscious process in which they engaged, who in their eryone must be part of the building process. ness that much depends on its practical im savage anger and barbarous deeds have Those who claim that their role and objec plementation, with firmness and fairness, come to reflect themselves all of the hatred tive in politics is to preserve, protect and de by both Governments. Internationally, and sectarianism they had sought to over velop the Protestant tradition in Ireland there has been unprecedented support in throw and who, in their pursuit of violence, have surely much more interest in a process cluding again from President Reagan and demeaned the cause we hold dear and lost such as this than standing forever apart, from both Houses of Congress. us many good allies around the world. Sus paranoid about the future precisely because But, surprise, surprise, there has been a tained by their violence this terrorist group they have refused to grasp the nettle of set strong negative and hostile reaction among is beset by the illusion that they can, one tling their relationships with the people unionists in Northern Ireland. The unionist day, impose their will on Ireland as a whole. with whom they share the island of Ireland. political parties have embarked on a deter This violence, together with the unionist The process of reform and reconciliation mined effort to set the Agreement at intransigence which gave it birth and the could best be tackled through a framework nought, if necessary, as their spokesmen ex too long continued inadequacies of British corresponding to the framework of the policies in tackling the underlying political problem and thus, through the British-Irish press, by making Northern Ireland ungov problem, has left us a bitter harvest. The framework, through an approach that dealt ernable. One may regard this opposition human losses and economic costs have been and deals with the three major dimensions from a community used to ascendency, to enormous. The most tragic loss is that of of the problem-relations between the two having all power in their own hands, as un the deaths of over 2,400 men, women and communities in Northern Ireland, relations derstandable, even as inevitable: it is cer children. These deaths, in an area with a between both parties, the nationalist and tainly not justifiable or justified. The population of 1¥2 million, are equivalent in unionist traditions in Ireland as a whole and Agreement takes nothing away from the le proportionate terms to the killing of ap relations between Ireland and Britain. A gitimate rights or concrete interests from proximately 350,000 in the United States. In promising start along these lines was made unionists, nor does it diminish in any way addition, almost 25,000 people have been in following discussions between the Irish and their political, cultural or spiritual heritage. jured or maimed. Thousands are suffering British Governments in 1980 but these ef Particular opposition has been expressed from psychological stress because of the forts suffered a major setback in 1981 and to the Irish Government having a role in fear and tension generated by murder, 1982, as a result of the trauma arising from regard to the affairs and administration of bombing, intimidation and the impact of se the campaign and deaths of the hunger Northern Ireland. But this attitude ignores curity countermeasures. In Northern Ire strikers imprisoned in Northern Ireland. As the identity and aspirations of the people I land, we now have the highest number of a consequence in that atmosphere three represent, who constitute about 40% of the prisoners per head of population in Western years ago, we faced a bleak situation and area's population. If there is an apprehen Europe-in an area where twenty years ago, prospect, with alienation greatly accentuat sion that the role of the Dublin Govern serious crime was practically unknown. The ed and more widespread among all sections ment represents the thin end of a wedge lives of tens of thousands have been deeply of the nationalist community and with the pushing towards a united Ireland against affected. The effect on society has been political situation apparently in a state of the wishes of a rr.ajority, the answer is in shattering. There is hardly a family that deadlock and paralysis. the second major feature of the Agreement has not been touched to some degree by My Party took a fresh initiative at that itself. This recognises, in a binding interna death, injury or intimidation. stage, designed to break the logjam and to tional instrument, that which is a matter of When a society produces alienation in the carry our analysis into the realm of practi fact, that Irish unity would only come about individual, when it cannot provide for the cal politics. We put forward the proposal with the agreement of a majority of the equality and the differences of its citizens, which came to fruition as the New Ireland people of Northern Ireland; and that the "when the social system does not build secu Forum, a deliberative body of elected repre present wish of a majority there is for no rity but induces peril," that society must be sentatives from the four major constitution change in that status. In this Article the reshaped and transformed through new in al nationalist parties in Ireland, both North two Governments also declare that, if in the stitutions which accommodate diversity and and South, representing over 90% of the na future, a majority of the people of Northern promote the best basis for reconciliation. tionalist population of Ireland. The purpose Ireland clearly wish for and formally con This is the only way forward in Northern was to set out a modern up-to-date and sent to the establishment of a united Ire Ireland. formal statement or blueprint, setting out land, they will introduce and support in the Like Martin Luther King, we the Social the principles and structures on the basis of respective Parliaments legislation to give Democratic and Labour Party had a dream, which the constitutional nationalist dream effect to that wish. Thus the Article of the like Theobald Wolfe Tone, the father of of a new Ireland could be achieved. Agreement devoted to the status of North Irish republicanism, our vision has been "to The Report of the New Ireland Forum ern Ireland recognises the identity and aspi substitute for the denomination of Catholic, was adopted as policy by the Irish Govern rations of both traditions there. It also Protestant and Dissenter the common name ment and taken as the basis for a process of makes it clear that Britain has no interest of Irishman." Our chosen strategy encom negotiation with the British Government of her own, strategic or otherwise, in re passed Reform, Reconciliation, and Reunifi which after 18 months and not without maining in Ireland and that Irish unity is a cation along a path of steady progress, con some setbacks along the way, led to the sig matter for those Irish people who want it to tinually narrowing the gap between the re nature of a formal international agreement persuade those Irish people who don't, thus ality and the dream, using the political between the two countries about Northern removing any justification whatsoever for means of dialogue, persuasion, negotiation, Ireland, on 15 November last, at Hillsbor the use of violence. You cannot unite people accommodation, compromise. Violence can ough in Northern Ireland, by the Irish Taoi- at the point of a gun. February#,, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1641 When they are ready to do so, I and my if the price of oil stabilizes at $21 a barrel, we tion. On January 1, that price was $27.10, party stand ready to meet them and engage would still cut the deficit by about $14 billion. which was rounded to $27 for use as the base in discussions on how we share our future Not only would this gasoline tax help reduce together. We must begin the process of price in this bill. The Secretary of the Treasury breaking down the barriers between us, bar the deficit, it would also strengthen our econo would determine whether the gasoline tax riers of prejudice and distrust which are at my by lowering the soaring U.S. trade deficit should be increased or decreased for a calen the heart of the conflict that has disfigured one-third of which is attributable to the import dar quarter by calculating the average weight Ireland for centuries. We have a choice. We of oil and petroleum products-and by de ed average international price of crude oil for can live together or live apart. We have creasing our vulnerability to an inevitable the 3-month period ending with the second lived apart for too long and we have seen future world oil storage. the bitter consequences. Or we can live to month in the preceding calendar quarter and Although we have made some progress in comparing it with the $27 a barrel base price. gether with all the painful readjustments lowering our dependency on imported oil in that this will require. It is the only road to For every 50 cents change in the price of the last few years, the United States still im peace and stability. For whatever happens oil from $27 a barrel in one specified 3-month ports more than one-quarter of all the oil con we will be sharing the same piece of earth period, the tax would be raised or lowered by sumed here. If we do not act, even more oil for a long, long time. 1.2 cents. If the price of oil does not rise or We are, whether in Ireland or globally, will have to be imported to meet the growing with Martin Luther King: demand that will be generated by relatively in fall by 50 cents or more during that period, "We still have a choice today: non-violent expensive gasoline. As oil imports increase, there would be no change in the tax during co-existence or violent co-annihilation." the already dangerously steep trade deficit will the following calendar quarter. This surtax grow even worse. would only apply if the price of oil falls by 50 INTRODUCTION OF VARIABLE Furthermore, the U.S. future economic sta cents or more below $27 a barrel. GASOLINE TAX BILL bility and strength depends on lessening its For example, if this bill were to take effect dependence on imported oil. Regardless of today, the Secretary of the Treasury would HON. ANTHONY C. BEILENSON shortrun trends in oil prices, it is virtually as look at the average price of oil during the sured that in the longrun supplies will tighten months of December 1985, January 1986, and OF CALIFORNIA and prices will rise. We can begin preparing February 1986. If the average price for that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for that day right now by using a tax to keep period is $26.67, the gasoline tax would stay Tuesday, February 4, 1986 gasoline prices from falling. By maintaining an at 9 cents a gallon during the second calen Mr. BEILENSON. Mr. Speaker, I am intro incentive to reduce gasoline usage, we will dar quarter-April through June. If, during the ducing a bill today which would raise the Fed lower-or at least stabilize-our oil consump months of March through May the average eral excise tax on gasoline and other motor tion, and that will lead to more stability in oil price of oil is $23.77, the gasoline tax would fuels at the rate the price of oil declines. This supplies and prices in the years to come. rise by 7.2 cents a gallon, to 16.2 cents, approach would take advantage of falling oil A gasoline tax is a fairer and more efficient during the third calendar quarter-July through prices to generate badly needed Federal reve way to raise revenue from oil than an oil September. nue without raising prices at the pump above import fee, which has been proposed more It's reasonable to expect that gasoline current levels. frequently here in Congress. prices would fall at the same rate as the price Under this bill, for every dollar that the price With an import fee, domestic producers of oil-although there is normally some lag of oil declines from the January 1 price of $27 would raise their prices to match the higher time between changes in oil prices and a barrel, 2.4 cents would be added to the tax price of imported oil. All oil would rise in price, changes in gasoline prices-therefore, the ad on a gallon of gasoline-2.4 cents is the but almost three-quarters of that extra price ditional tax would be very close in size to the gallon equivalent of $1 a barrel. If the price of would go as an inexcusable windfall profit to drop in gasoline prices. oil begins rising again, the gasoline tax would domestic oil companies. With a gasoline tax, Unlike the existing 9 cents a gallon Federal be lowered in inverse proportion to the higher on the other hand, all of the additional price tax on gasoline, whose proceeds are credited oil price. would be used to reduce the deficit. to the highway trust fund, the revenues result The intent of this bill is to raise Federal rev An oil import fee, as with any trade protec ing from the additional tax would go to the enue without raising gasoline taxes. If this ad tion measure, would cause resentment and re general fund and, therefore, would be used to ditional gasoline tax is levied at the same rate taliation from trade partners-and most of the help reduce the budget deficit. that the price of oil falls, drivers should find oil we import comes from neighbors and other Finally, this tax would apply to gasohol and that they are paying no more for gasoline than friendly countries such as Mexico, Canada, to diesel fuel sold at the pump, as well as to they paid in January. Since gasoline prices do Venezuela, Britain, and the Netherlands. It gasoline. Gasoline which is used for noncom not yet reflect the recent decline in oil prices would also reduce incentives for our own oil mercial aviation, however, would be exempt to to about $20 a barrel-and may not for a industry to improve its efficiency and its inter avoid the inequity of a tax imposed on aircraft while-if we imposed this tax right now we national competitiveness. A gasoline tax which use gasoline but not on that which use could practically ensure that motorists would would avoid these problems. jet fuel. not see any increase in the cost of gasoline. Furthermore, an import fee would raise It is anticipated that Congress and the prices for all oil products, increasing the eco No one likes the idea of imposing a tax of President are going to have to reduce the nomic costs across the board, from home any sort-and a gasoline tax has traditionally fiscal year 1987 deficit by about $40 billion in heating to manufacturing. Those who heat been one of the least popular types of taxes order to comply with the $144 billion maxi their homes with oil would unfairly bear the around-but the plain fact is that some new mum deficit amount specified under Gramm double burden of higher heating and driving revenue measures are going to be necessary Rudman. Few, if any, of us believe that we costs. Manufacturers who use oil would find it if we are to meet the stringent deficit reduc can-or should-cut Federal spending by that harder to compete in world markets. A gaso tion measures established by Gramm amount this year. One way or another, we are line tax, however, would only affect transpor Rudman. And the falling price of oil gives us a going to have to raise revenues. A gasoline tation costs. golden opportunity-probably the only oppor tax that takes effect only as the price of oil Finally, an oil import fee would be more dif tunity available-to reduce the deficit painless goes down is the most painless way available ficult to administer than a gasoline tax. A 9 ly. to reduce the deficit. cents a gallon gasoline tax is already in place Oil played a big role in our economic woes Although the amount of revenue this bill and, while the simplest gasoline tax would be over the last decade, but we can use it now to would raise depends on the price of oil, it a straightforward add on to the existing tax, help solve the economic problems facing us could be quite substantial. Since each penny pegging the add on to the price of oil, as this today. The declining oil prices coming our way per gallon of tax raises about $1 billion in rev bill would do, would not be complicated. are a gift that we cannot afford to squander at enues a year, a drop in the price of oil to $17 The oil price on which this new variable a time of unacceptably high budget and trade a barrel-if it remains at that level for a year gasoline surtax would be based is the weight deficits. This proposed gasoline tax can cut would produce about $24 billion. That amount ed average international price of crude oil, our budget deficit, reduce our trade deficit, is enough to fulfill more than half of our fiscal which is compiled and published on a weekly and leave our children a more energy-secure year 1987 deficit reduction requirement. Even basis by the Energy Information Administra- future. It's an opportunity not to be missed. 1642 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 4, 1986 Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join of the world has designated your birthday HUD SALUTES PUEBLO AND me in this effort to reduce the budget and as a national holiday. Congratulations OTHER OUTSTANDING PUBLIC trade deficits by supporting this proposed vari Martin-you deserve these honors. HOUSING AUTHORITIES able gasoline tax. This is the first year that your birthday is a national holiday. President Reagan op posed the bill making your birthday a na HON. MICHAEL L. (MIKE) STRANG tional holiday, but he reluctantly signed it OF COLORADO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. when he knew that Congress had the votes to override his veto. He is an amazing man. I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES do not despair of him, I do not get angry Tuesday, February 4, 1986 HON. BOB EDGAR with him, he does not upset me. I just Mr. STRANG. Mr. Speaker, in early Decem OF PENNSYLVANIA accept the fact that we are in the movies now and movies have conclusions. This is ber, the Secretary of HUD, Samuel R. Pierce, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1986 and of course, there is 1988 that is on Jr., presided over a ceremony that recognized Tuesday, February 4, 1986 the way. the outstanding work being done in some On Tuesday, January 14th, Bill Gray in Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, on January 19, I public housing authorities in our Nation. The vited some of us to have breakfast with Secretary singled out for special recognition had the pleasure and honor of speaking at the Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. Let the significant achievements of 28 local public celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth me inform you that Bishop Tutu was award day at Salem Baptist Church in Jenkintown, housing authorities in improving life for public ed the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 because of housing residents. Specific recognition was PA. his gallant struggle against apartheid in The pastor of Salem Church, Dr. Robert South Africa. I distinctly remember that give to often unheralded public housing offi Johnson-Smith, has written a series of moving even in 1965 you strongly urged the United cials for their efforts to improve the physical letters to Dr. King on the anniversary of King's States to order sanctions against this cruel condition of their projects, improve manage birthday. I would like to take this opportunity and brutal government of South Africa. ment capability, create public/private initia to share the most recent letter to Dr. King Your voice was ignored just as it was about tives, and improve community perception and with my colleagues: Vietnam. resident satisfaction. On Wednesday, the day of your birth, I am very proud that the Housing Authority To MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. January 15th, I attended a luncheon spon of the city of Pueblo, CO, in my congressional sored by the Philadelphia Martin Luther DEAR MARTIN: It doesn't seem possible district, received an award for its innovative that five years have passed since I wrote King, Jr. Association for Non-Violence. I program to improve the quality of life of low you letter number 3. You remember that I was one of the sponsors of this event. At income elderly residents. The Pueblo Housing informed you that Jimmy Carter was Presi least 1,500 persons gathered for this event. Authority, under the expert direction of its ex dent of the United States and that your Bishop Tutu was our guest speaker. He is a brilliant and charismatic speaker. The high ecutive director, Jack Quinn, purchased and father and Andy Young had played a signif restored the historic 62-year-old Vail Hotel icant part in his election? Ronald Wilson light of his speech was his tribute to you as Reagan is now our President. In this brief the person who set the spark for freedom and converted it into 56 units of low-income letter, I cannot even begin to tell you of the ablaze in the hearts of millions of people in housing for the elderly. The goal of the au changes that have taken place. I should, South Africa. He said that yours was the thority was to maintain the historic structure of however, try to make you know who Ronald voice that gave them a sense of their per the building while providing housing for elderly Reagan is. He was at one time the Governor sonhood. He said that they too now have a residents. The authority acquired and restored of California and before that he had several dream. Moreover, he said that those who the Vail Hotel with a combination of communi different jobs. He was best known as a love freedom in South Africa are now sing ty development block grant and public hous movie actor. No, he never won an oscar. He ing even in the midst of the brutality, inhu ing development funds from the Department was never even nominated for one. His manness and cruelty of their present heart of Housing and Urban Development and funds movies were always rated B or less. He was break and despair-"We shall overcome." married at one time to Jane Wyman, the ac from the Colorado State Division of Housing. Martin, the Bishop paid a great tribute to This project has become a focal point for tress, but his second wife is named Nancy. you. The tribute is richly deserved by you. That's enough about the man Reagan. Let Bishop Tutu concluded by saying that if downtown redevelopment and community me share with you just a few things about America should place sanctions against pride. Reagan, the President. It is not clear as yet South Africa, apartheid would end immedi I was pleased to participate in this ceremo as to the legacy President Reagan will leave. ny and would like to commend Secretary At the present time, however, a few things ately. are crystal clear. He has allied himself on Martin, I am not one for writing long let Pierce for this program honoring creative and the side of those who are against civil ters. Forgive me if this one is too long. But I innovative approaches that set examples for rights, affirmative action and voter registra would like for you to say hello to some of other PHA's across the country. tion. He has tried to set the clock back inso our mutual friends there. Say hello to Bill Mr. Speaker, because public housing au far as to the rights of blacks, minorities and Gray, Jr. Tell him what I said about Bill III. thorities are so seldom recognized for the the poor are concerned. It is hard to believe Say a word to Marshall Shepherd, Sr., good work most of them do day in and day what is going on in America today. Poverty Luther Cunningham, Sam Williams, Adam out, the winners of these HUD National Public is increasing amid abundance. Powell, Jr., Witney Young, Duke Ellington, Housing Agency Performance Awards deserve The above is not to say that we have not Billie Holiday, Roy Wilkins and Nat King made some gains. Bill Gray is still in Con Cole. And to your parents. We miss them. our support and appreciation. I am including a gress and he is now the Chair of the House If you get the chance, say a warm greeting list of the award recipients and Secretary Budget Committee. Wilson Goode is Mayor to our daughter Estelle Anne. You remem Pierce's eloquent remarks about them for the of Philadelphia. Harold Washington is ber how much she thought of you. Tell her RECORD. Mayor of Chicago, Coleman Young is the that we miss her very much. AGENCY PERFORMANCE AWARD WINNERS Mayor of Detroit, Tom Bradley is still the By the way, have you seen David the Mayor of Los Angeles and Douglas Wilder is Shepherd King? Or Amos with his plumb A ward Category: Sustained Performance Lt. Governor of Virginia. line? Have you talked with Hosea about Small: Housing Authority of the City of Your friend Jessie Jackson ran for the love? What did Jeremiah mean about fire Salem, OR. HousLlg Authority of the City President of the United States in the last of New Boston, TX