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THE THREAT OF WATERWAY the waterways. But according to Port of IMPACT USER CHARGES Portland officials, this proposed plan will have a severe impact on the national water The loss of four to five million tons of ways system, the Columbia/Snake system, cargo on the lower Columbia River will have HON. LES AuCOIN the national economy, and affect 15,000 jobs a severe impact on the economy of the OF OREGON in the Northwest alone. entire region. Handling this volume of cargo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Garry J. Whyte, Executive Secretary of adds a total of about $750 million to the re the Columbia River Towboat Association, gion's economy and creates over 15,000 jobs, Tuesday, September 15, 1981 monitors activities which affect the eight according to Port officials. Any drop in • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, Congress companies belonging to the association. The cargo volume along the navigable shallow is now reviewing legislation that would issue is "vital to our life support system," he draft system would affect 19 port districts. impose certain user charges on our Na says, "but it is coming too fast." The administration's proposal would tion's ports and waterways as a way of "Deep-draft steam ship operators don't obtain money from the local users, who in recovering the Federal Government's seem to be aware of the ramifications," tum will try to pass along the extra charges Whyte notes. For example, cargo being to the customer. User charges cannot be cost of building and maintaining these shipped from Lewiston by barge will cost passed on to foreign consumers, and since 43 important commercial facilities. more due to the fuel tax being charged the percent of U.S. exports are farm products, Few will dispute the need to look at towboat operators. When the shipment gets the U.S. farmer will be forced to absorb the the way we finance these projects. But to Portland and is loaded, the steam ship bulk of the increased costs. as we do so, we must be mindful of the will pay the deep draft fees. This system amounts to double taxation according to Farmers who rely on the Columbia/Snake real impact cost recovery will have on Whyte. River system would be handed a double bill. our waterways and ports-especially in The towboat operators began paying a First they must pay a higher price to re the West. user fuel tax of $.04 per gallon of diesel fuel ceive fuel and fertilizer; then, after harvest, Mr. Speaker, I am seriously con last October. Operators are facing an addi they must absorb the extra user fees to get cerned that proposals now being con tional $.02 this October. President Reagan's their products to market. Some raw materi sidered will cripple shipping commerce plan would add additional charges on top of al being shipped may allow the producers to and international trade on the west that. As transportation charges increase pass on the higher costs, but farm products coast and in my own State of Oregon. Northwest shippers may seek alternate such as grain are traded on the world methods perhaps causing cargo shifts to Ca market where competition sets the price. As evidence of this crippling impact, I nadian ports, where fees are less. This Foreign buyers will seek alternative suppli want to call to my colleagues' atten would cause cargo volume on the waterways ers or products rather than pay increased tion an article that recently appeared to decline, leaving the remaining users to prices. Over the long run, full-recovery user in Oregon Business magazine by Dan shoulder the burden for maintenance and charges will reduce the ability of farmers Poush. His analysis and commentary operation. Add to that any new construc and suppliers to compete on the world clearly shows what this legislation tion, and the fees could drive even the market. means for Oregon. I ask unanimous strongest out of business. James Q. Johnson, Executive Vice-Presi consent to insert the article at this An analysis of the impacts of the user dent and General Manager of Interior Ele charge produced by the Port of Portland vator Co., The Dalles, calls himself "a point in the RECORD. points out that some waterway segments THE THREAT OF WATERWAY USER CHARGES middle man". His purpose is to store, sort, may eventually be closed. Parts of the and ship grain to the Portland market. He e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 20682 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 The delegation stressed that the proposal, ager, Government Relations, for the Port of At Shaver Transportation, as elsewhere, while raising additional funds, would do so Portland, strongly feels that three pressure any tax levied will be passed on. "There is at a significant cost. They said that: groups have caused President Reagan to use no way we can absorb the tax," Shaver says. Development of a mature, energy-efficient this proposed method to raise money. The This nation has 25,543 miles of waterways waterway system will be retarded; Cargo railroad tops his list of pressure groups who serving 87 percent of major U.S. cities and is movements will be diverted to foreign ports, would gain the most from a user fee for the generating over $1 billion annually in on hurting regional economies that rely on wa waterways. The environmental movement is board employee payrolls for the barge in terborne commerce; Inflation will be refu basically after "no growth", according to Ze dustry alone. The ramifications of the wa eled as the price of domestic goods and im lenka, and is using the user charge as a terway user tax will surely be felt through ports transported by waterway are pushed mechanism to slow down all use of the wa out the nation in many related industries higher; and Exports, especially bulk com terways. "The third pressure group is the none more than at the farm level. But if the modities such as grain and coal, will be re bureaucrats who count paperclips," Zelenka research and testimony prepared by the duced because higher transportation costs says, noting that they are looking only at a Port of Portland and the written concerns make them less competitive in world mar financial ledger. of the members of the Northwest Congres kets, thus adversely affecting U.S. balance A nation which is being held in the grip of sional delegation do nothing more than of payments. the oil-producing nations of the world delay a decision until alternatives can be The congressional delegation is not the should, whenever possible, resort to the found, the Northwest may be able to avert a only official body to be fired into action. most energy efficient means of transporting disastrous, unrepairable business collapse.e The Coordinating Committee of the Ameri its goods and material. A large diesel truck can Association of Port Authorities cut down tion-may be hanging over us. if he needs to. Therefore he is not fearful. There are several ways we can overcome formative and timely article. This particular factor-the location of con our fears. The first is to separate the "what [From Business Week, Sept. 7, 1981] trol of the risk-is exaggerated further for is" from the "what if." We need to recog THE NUCLEAR POWER PHOBIA some people when the "they" who control nize, for example, that we have more than with improved these days. When the Reagans tary equipment. But as Amidei notes, "At out paying tax on the withdrawal. Per dine with the Anwar Sadats on the federal this rate we'll have an Army of anemic illit mitting partial rollovers will eliminate tab, they eat smoked filet of mountain erates." restrictions under the Employee Re trout, a roast supreme of duckling a !'or If the Reagans will pass me a glass of tirement Income Security Act of 1974 ange, a touch of wild rice with raisins, a bit their Domaine Chandon Blanc de Noir, I'll . Time has shown them to be of Brie and chevre, followed by the palate drink to that.e unnecessary and burdensome. cleansing melon glace and fresh raspberries. But under Reagan, lunch in the school As originally enacted, ERISA per cafeteria is quite another affair: an ounce BALANCE THE BUDGET AND mitted tax-free rollovers of benefits and-a-half of meat or meat alternatives, a BRING DOWN INTEREST RATES paid by tax-qualified plans only in half-cup of fruit and vegetables, one serving those cases where the benefits could of bread, six ounces of milk. Yummy in the otherwise be subject to special 10-year empty tummy. HON. JIM MATTOX OF TEXAS income averaging treatment. Accord FRAC, the Food Research and Action ingly, rollovers are generally available Center, cooked up the lean-and-hungry IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lunch described above, by carefully follow only where an employee receives a dis ing the new proposals that have come out of Tuesday, September 15, 1981 tribution of the full balance of bene the Department of Agriculture. • Mr. MATTOX. Mr. Speaker, reality fits under a plan in a single taxable According to FRAC's Nancy Amidei, the destroys fantasies and scenarios more year. Tax-free rollover treatment was Agriculture people were assigned the task of quickly than rhetoric can. The admin later extended to employee benefits cutting fat from the budget "without im under tax-sheltered annuity programs. pairing the nutritional value of the meals." istration said interest rates would be But they ended up cutting food. 11.1 percent in 1981. Later, they re The requirement that the full bal Under the old requirements, more food vised this to 13.6 percent. In 1982, they ance be received in a single year can be was served to older grammar~school kids promised, interest rates would be at justified as a condition of eligibility than younger ones. But under the proposed 8.9 percent and later they revised this for 10-year income averaging but it is new rules, the 11-year-olds will get the same to 10.5 percent. Of course, all of these an unnecessary restriction where the amount of meat and vegetables as the 5- projections were wrong. taxpayer is merely transferring bene year-olds. Even the bread and milk are cut, What is the reality? fits under a qualified plan or a tax from eight pieces a week to five, from eight ounces a day to six. This is an administration of double sheltered annuity program to an indi The other changes in rules are even more digit interest rates. They cannot vidual retirement account. This re curious. Ketchup and pickles now qualify as escape this economic fact; they cannot striction interferes with a worker's vegetables; tofu now qualifies as a meat; and any issue. ample, the rule may prevent a worker school can put its eggs in a cake instead of When President Reagan presented from diversifying investments to suit on a plate. his economic plan in detail in mid individual needs by leaving part of the According to Amidei, the lunches would supply less than one-third of the daily nu March, interest rates for Treasury funds in a plan and transferring a part tritional value and only 17 percent of the bills were 13.79 percent; when the key to an IRA where earnings rates may calories needed. "We feel this is compromis element in his program, the tax bill, be higher or where the funds will be ing children's health," she says flatly. passed in August, interest rates on more easily accessible. The motto of the Nouvelle Reagan Cui Treasury bills were just around 15 per While providing the flexibility to sine-"Eat Light and Like It"-would be cent. Today, interest rates on Treas make a partial rollover, my bill also fine for the statesmen passing up the Brie. ury bills are 15.6 percent. Of course, contains several safeguards to prevent But the Department of Agriculture's own study shows that poor kids get anywhere the prime rate is much higher. it from being abused. First, partial from one-third to one-half of all their daily High interest rates cause inflation, rollovers could be made: only in cases nutrients from school lunch. slow down the economy, make it im where an individual has left a job. Of the 27 million children who eat school possible to buy cars and homes, and This will assure that no one is encour lunches, 12.6 million get a free or reduced devastate savings and loans and the aged to remove funds from a retire- September 15, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20687 ment program earlier than they other I welcome these positive signs that But normal operations probably cannot be wise could. Second, partial rollovers decisively contribute in improving the achieved until next spring, at the earliest, could not be made using regular annu relations between our two countries. I and, while the inconvenience is fairly mild, the interim cost will be high-into the hun ity payments which are part of a life encourage the Argentine Government dreds of millions. The airline industry will annuity. If regular annuity payments to continue to make significant strides suffer. Its employees laid off temporarily could be rolled over, the tax on this re toward meeting the goals of a stable because of the trimming of schedules will tirement income would be changed and effective democracy that Presi suffer. The jobless PATCO members will from an income tax to a consumption dent Viola declared was his adminis suffer. tax. My bill will also prevent a com tration's aim. Some of the latter doubtless went into pounding of tax benefits by barring Thank you, Mr. Speaker.e this strike with misapprehensions, and to 10-year income averaging, capital give them one more brief chance to return gains treatment, and deferral of tax to work would be to cut the costs to the TIME TO THINK ABOUT nation, and to demonstrate that winning is on unrealized appreciation in employ best sewed up with a thread of generosity.e er stock where a partial rollover has CLEMENCY been made. Mr. Speaker, this bill provides work HON. JOHN L. BURTON LEGISLATION TO HELP OUR ers with retirement planning flexibil OF CALIFORNIA FEDERAL EMPLOYEES CHANGE ity which is both logical and fair. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THEIR SURVIVOR BENEFIT bill is fully consistent with the princi Tuesday, September 15, 1981 ELECTION ples incorporated in ERISA and the tax law. Its revenue effect is estimated e Mr. JOHN L. BURTON. Mr. Speak to be negligible. I will be working to er, I would like to insert in the RECORD HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN have it considered soon by the House an editorial by William Randolph OF FLORIDA Ways and Means Committee, of which Hearst concerning air traffic safety IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the PATCO strike. Mr. Hearst, I am a member.e who is not given to radical thought, Tuesday, September 15, 1981 has come up with what I believe to be • Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, earlier POSITIVE ACTIONS TAKEN BY a meaningful first step toward solving this Congress, I introduced legislation VIOLA ADMINISTRATION this unfortunate dispute and return to help our Federal retirees who did ing America-as soon as possible-to not elect survivor benefits at the time HON. DAN MICA its position of having the safest air of their retirement. Although the re OF FLORIDA traffic control system in the world. sponse to this legislation, H.R. 1398, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TIME To THINK ABOUT CLEMENCY was positive, some Federal retirees Tuesday, September 15, 1981 Has anyone noticed that the air control who retired in accordance with cur • Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, last March lers' strike isn't part of the major news any rent law have expressed their desire to Argentine President Roberto Viola more, on most days? It is gradually slipping have legislation introduced to assist from the public consciousness, as the planes them. met with Members of Congress and fly and the replacement controllers are emphasized his administration's inten These Federal employees elected trained. their survivor benefits at the time of tions to lay the foundations for a Clearly, the strike has been lost. The stable and effective democracy. Those members of the Professional Air Traffic their retirement, or if unmarried, and were encouraging words to we Mem Controllers Organization Trull, bility, and in that area, significant improve decisions, thus reducing diverse awards Jonathan Watkins, Anthony Hager, ments have been made in 1981, specifically among the arbitrators on virtually identical Dickie Dixon, and Shawn Malone. in the decision-making process. It is a facts. And instead of stating "there was a These individuals, along with their change that is certain to benefit workers fracture" and demanding an award, lawyers and employers alike. now have to show in just what respect the manager, Eddie Allen, and coaches, The improvement stems in part from one employee is actually disabled. Steve "Spike" Hupka and Phil Hord, legislative change in 1980, and initiative of Other partisans 79-059 o-85-6 (Pt. 16) 20692 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 Now they say that doing the impos draw the Peace Corps into intelligence occasion a particularly distasteful and oner sible was not enough-not enough be gathering activities. The letter follows: ous act this year for a majority of Hispanics. cause interest rates are stubbornly PEACE CORPS, Your Administration has embarked on a hanging up at stratospheric levels, Washington, D.C., August 18, 1981. course of action which assumes a "broad na EDITORS, tional mandate" from all Americans to have driving the estimates of Federal you dismantle, disembowel, or otherwise dis spending and Federal deficits higher Time magazine, continue programs for the poor, women, the every day. New York, N.Y. GENTLEMEN: In your August 10 issue, your disadvantaged and minorities. What then have we gained by doing story on William Casey stated that pursuant We Hispanics do not support your current the impossible? If we cut spending $35 to a draft, Executive Order, "The CIA • • • course of actions. We find them ironic, pa billion only to see the deficit climb might be able to use the Peace Corps • • • tronizing, insensitive and highly contradic back up to $20 or $30 or even $40 bil as undercover agents." tory to the spirit of the National Hispanic lion because of interest rates, what During the twenty years of the existence Heritage proclamation for 1981, which you have we gained? of the Peace Corps, throughout each Ad have just signed. How can we observe Na ministration, it has been policy, strictly ad tional Hispanic Heritage Week in good con As far as I can see we have three op science when: tions. We can go along as we are hered to, of keeping the Peace Corps totally separate from any intelligence-gathering ac Hispanic Federal employees in unprece trying to cut more each time interest tivities. The present CIA Director has indi dented numbers are being given their last rates knock the estimates up another cated to me that he does not intend to pay checks this month and told that the notch. Or we can sit back and carp at change this long-standing policy. Federal Government no longer needs them. the Federal Reserve Board and its Peace Corps volunteers are struggling in Essential programs in key areas of health, tight money policy. the remotest parts of the world to help the education, employment, housing, energy, Or we can do something about high peoples of the third world meet basic civil rights and transportation will no longer human needs and achieve economic self-suf be available to a large segment of the His interest rates before they undo every panic population beginning October 1. thing we have worked so hard to ac ficiency. I pledge that I will not permit their outstanding efforts to be jeopardized by any Vital public information programs de complish this year. involvement in intelligence work during my signed to reach Hispanics in the language of I personally think it is time to do service as Peace Corps Director. their choice are being terminated at agen something, and today I am introduc Sincerely, cies such as the Departments of Energy, ing the National Usury Act at a time when American productivity is at a of supporting exports through a discount fi rightful share of the American dream." You relative disadvantage and inflationary costs nancing program. At home, more jobs are can add significant meaning to this dream are closing foreign markets to American created by expanding industries and prices and to the observance of National Hispanic goods. for items purchased domestically remain Heritage Week this year by reconsidering Some conservative economic opinions of stable because the country enjoys an overall your harsh budgetary measures and noticea fered from within and outside the new Ad balance of payments. And more jobs means ble absence of Hispanic representation in ministration in Washington argue that fur more tax revenues with less unemployment your Administration and throughout the ther support of the Exim Bank is tanta and insurance costs. Abroad, FI'ance carries Federal system. Your actions are affecting mount to recognizing one more special inter more clout in political spheres where, disproportionately the poor, women, the dis est group at the expense of the American through its ability to sell energy plants and advantaged, Hispanics and other minorities. taxpayer-a step they feel is inconsistent airplanes, it can influence international What good is a balanced budget to a with the free market philosophy endorsed events. nation of disenfranchised citizens?e by the Reagan government. From a purely Contrasted with the French experience, philosophical stance, these critics may be the American electric power industry, espe right, but their philosophy neglects the ex cially the nuclear industry, finds itself shut ROLE OF EXIMBANK igencies of an international marketplace in out from international competition at a which the United States is only one party. time when domestic sales are dwindling. Ad HON. THOMAS B. EVANS, JR. The international marketplace is neither versely affected by the costs of over-regula fair, equitable, nor free. Extensive foreign tion and bureaucratic inefficiency, produc OF DELAWARE government subsidization of domestic indus tion delays and cost overruns in this indus IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tries interferes with the market and influ try have all but eliminated the home Tuesday, September 15, 1981 ences market decision on the basis of credit market. terms rather than product quality or price. The aggressive credit policies of foreign • Mr. EVANS of Delaware. Mr. Speak Within this environment, Exim provides competitors have forced the American nu er, the following article was recently American exports a parity with foreign clear industry to compete not only with for brought to my attention by the Ameri goods they would not otherwise have. It also eign industrial corporations but with their can Legal Foundation. Its authors, Mr. provides an international disincentive for governments as well. It is shocking that John Sununu and Mr. Dan Popeo, ad continuing such practices and sets the mood Washington in its effort to remain true to dress the important role played by the for changes through diplomatic agreements. free market theory has not seen the practi Export-Import Bank. I have spoken on Since 1978, the United States has been ne cal implications of its position. The political gotiating for an international agreement to and economic advantages of the sale of high numerous occasions in support of the end nationally supported export credits. technology equipment are being squandered Eximbank, and believe· the following Were it not for the unexpected and unprec to satisfy national economic policy perfec article is worthy of serious study. edented increase in this country's prime tionists. Moreover, failure to maintain truly President Reagan's drive to turn our na lending rate and the subsequent reaction to competitive, fair, or free conditions in the tion's economy around-to "begin an era of this increase in capitals abroad, these nego international market through discount fi national renewal"-deserves our unqualified tiations would have succeeded late last year. nancing promises to destroy an industry support, but our commitment of overall sup Unfortunately, however, in Paris and that is already hard pressed for orders. port should not tie us to a policy, advocated Tokyo, for example, immediate action was It must also be seen that the commercial by some within the Administration, which taken to further support the exports of power industry serves as a necessary and would gut the Export-Import Bank and thus products with subsidized credits in certain vital pool for the skilled manpower and inadvertently allow foreign governments to areas where sales were perceived to be technological innovations necessary to sup shut out American industries from major within each nation's own interest. port this nation's defense needs for nuclear export markets by creating an unfair, This reaction is neither surprising nor an technology. Without a commercial power in unfree international market. unlikely outcome. Politics and nationalism dustry serving as a continuing market for The economies of the world's nations are play a role in markets which economists too the further training of engineering gradu interlocked. High interest rates in one coun frequently overlook. France is challenging ates and other technical personnel, the na try will affect exports and profits in an Japan as the world's third largest exporter tion's nuclear educational and research other; and nowhere is this interrelationship after the United States and West Germany. structure would have to be scaled down sig more apparent than in high technology in Its international profits stem from the ag nificantly. Furthermore, with a paring down dustries where employment and continuing gressive marketing of its aircraft, electron of this structure and the trained personnel scientific development depend on regular ics, and electric power industries and a na within that structure, the country would be sales within the international marketplace. tional willingness to promote these products risking the loss of necessary personnel and In 1934, the Export-Import Bank was cre as part of a large and economically attrac technology it would need to supply future ated to ensure that American producers of tive package that frequently has political peak demands in our national security nu capital intensive products might compete strings attached. clear power needs. for sales with foreign producers of similar Even in the United States, evidence of the The Reagan Administration has recog goods. Through favorable interest loans French success is apparent. French helicop nized that the nuclear industry has a signif made to foreign purchasers of American ter sales account for 20 percent of domestic icant role to play in helping meet America's technology, the Bank enabled prospective U.S. helicopter sales and the French Airbus energy needs. In this connection, it would foreign consumers to base purchasing deci- consortium has made France the second be counterproductive to adopt a policy 20694 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 toward Exim Bank which would impede this periment there is near unanimous dis VIRGINIA WING CIVIL AIR PATROL, major American industry from competing approval. Sandston, Va., August 15, 1981. internationally by further limiting the What is it that the American people For the first time in its history, the Vir bank's ability to provide loans and guaran ginia Wing, Civil Air Patrol, has been rated tees. object to about busing? With more number one in the nation based on the At least fourteen major foreign orders for than 50 percent of U.S. schoolchildren Management Analysis program conducted nuclear plants are anticipated in the next riding a bus each day, it certainly each year by the National Headquarters, year or two. Typically, most are orders for cannot be the fact the children are Civil Air Patrol, Maxwell Air Force Base, beginning facilities and networks which will transported to school via a schoolbus. Ala. The evaluation period covered is from be expanded over time. Because of the com Rather, the objections occur when July 1, 1980 through June 30, 1981. plex inter-relationships of fuel requirements children are forced to attend a school Virginia Wing is comprised of 35 units to the kind of systems built, original pur with approximately 1,900 members through chase orders generally tie the consumer to in another neighborhood, far away from their community, in an effort to out the state, and they are either senior the same manufacturer well beyond the squadrons and its associated policies with the intention of fostering a It is my sincere belief that forced awards are composed of 12 categories, as fol mutual agreement for significant reductions busing has been counterproductive to lows: in or elimination of export credit subsidies. the goals of the sociologists who <1> Membership growth (2) Cadet Awards: There is much pressure mounting in the sought to rectify the inequities on our Mitchell, Earhart and Spaatz (3) Cadet en United States to cut back on the activity of campment attendance (4) Cadet flight ori the Export-Import Bank. This pressure is education system and the solution entation (5) Senior training <6> Chaplaincy must be found elsewhere. part of the budget cutting process now un effectiveness program (7) Management and derway in Congress. Gutting Exim would Other approaches must be tried control of Civil Air Patrol property <8> Cor not only endanger certain capital intensive such as insuring equal funding for porate owned powered aircraft utilization American industries, it would additionally public schools-that do not carry with <9> Emergency services resources <10> Com represent a weakening in this country's bar them the undesirable consequences of munications <11> Flight clinic attendance gaining position and national resolve to pro removing children from their neigh <12) Reporting and Public Affairs narra tect free markets and eliminate internation tive.e ally all subsidies to national exports. borhood and transporting them else The goal of a free unsupported world where.e market, while very desirable, is beyond RESOLUTION TO RESCIND human grasp if sought after by weakening BUTTER SALE TO NEW ZEALAND our nation's industries' ability to compete VIRGINIA WING NO.1 IN for sales. This country's best economic de NATION fense against foreign governments' industri HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR al loan subsidies is the offense ·provided by OF MINNESOTA the Export-Import Bank. At the same time, HON. DAN DANIEL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES it serves as a weapon to protect the United OF VIRGINIA States' position in the world marketplace Tuesday, September 15, 1981 while it also serves as an incentive to con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vince those foreign governments to join in Tuesday, September 15, 1981 e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, on abstaining from disrupting the flow of the August 5, the U.S. Department of Ag market.e e Mr. DAN DANIEL. Mr. Speaker, the riculture and the New Zealand Dairy Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol Board signed an agreement detrimen has recently been accorded outstand NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS tal to the interests of American farm ing recognition by the top echelons of ers. HON. RICHARD A. GEPHARDT that organization. The USDA sold 220 million pounds Being selected as the No. 1 wing in of Commodity Credit Corporation OF MISSOURI the Nation, the Virginia group has butter to the New Zealand Dairy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been signally honored. The members Board for $155 million, or about 70 Tuesday, September 15, 1981 of this outstanding group have been cents per pound. The current price on e Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, few doing a splendid job for many years the open market is $1.05 per pound. issues today arouse as much controver and this formal recognition is a culmi The decision to sell the butter at 70 sy as forced busing as a means to nation of a long period of steady cents per pound cost the American desegregate our schools. In the aca growth and achievement. taxpayer approximately $77 million. demic community, the merits of invol A recent press release sets forth the I am upset not with the decision to untary desegregation plans continue details of the honor and I ask permis export butter, but with the manner in to be debated and doubted; among the sion that this be carried in the REcoRD which the USDA negotiated and an parents of schoolchildren who ulti at this point. nounced the sale and the provisions mately serve as the pawns in this ex- The release follows: which give control over U.S. dairy September 15, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20695 export policy to the New Zealand Whereas the world price for butter which UNITED AUTO WORKERS Dairy Board. is 82 percent butterfat is $1.05 per pound; SUPPORTS H.R. 4400 Whereas the executive branch rejected The Governments of Poland, Ire offers by the Governments of Poland, Ro land, Romania, and U.S. butter ex mania, and Ireland and by United States ex HON. BOB TRAXLER porters all had expressed interest in porters to purchase the butter at the world OF MICHIGAN buying the butter for up to $1.05 per price because of concern that the butter pound. Secretary of State Haig vetoed would be transferred to the Soviet Union; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES these possible sales in the belief the Whereas, although the New Zealand Tuesday, September 15, 1981 Dairy Board agreed not to sell any of the butter would be sold eventually to the e Mr. TRAXLER. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Soviet Union. butter directly to the Soviet Union, the in crease in world butter supplies will benefit HILLIS, of Indiana, and I have spon The CCC sale to the New Zealand the Soviet Union; sored H.R. 4400, the Mobile Source Dairy Board includes a provision Whereas the agreement with the New Clean Air Act Amendments of 1981, which prohibits the dairy board from Zealand Dairy Board also included two which amends title II of the Clean Air selling this butter to the Soviets. How clauses under which the New Zealand Dairy Act relating to automobile and truck ever, the administration failed to real Board could veto further sales of United emissions. I have recently received a ize that the increase in world butter States butter abroad through July 1982 and would have the right to buy, before any letter of support for H.R. 4400 from supplies will benefit the Soviet Union the United Auto Workers that I would indirectly. This is a problem with all other purchaser, any butter the United States may want to sell abroad between like to share with my colleagues. embargoes. As long as the Soviets can July 1982 and December 1982; I am especially pleased to have the buy butter from other countries, they Whereas the terms of the agreement will support of the United Auto Workers, will not be affected by our embargo. give control of United States dairy export an organization that is committed to The result is that American farmers policy to the New Zealand Dairy Board; and providing for a healthy environment. are hurt by the action much more Whereas the only group adversely affect and to preserving jobs. The UAW, than the Soviets. ed by the agreement will be American farm ers, not the Soviet Union: Now, therefore, which was consulted in the develop Two clauses were included in the ment of the provisions of our bill, has agreement which give control over be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the House advised us of its support for the U.S. dairy export policy to the New of Representatives that the President carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, Zealand Dairy Board. It can veto fur should take immediate action to rescind the and hydrocarbon emission levels pre ther sales of U.S. butter abroad agreement entered into on August 5, 1981, sented in this legislation, based on the through July 1982. It also has the to sell United States butter to the New Zea weight of current scientific data which right of first refusal on any butter and land Dairy Board.e indicates that the levels we are propos the United States may want to sell ing will not adversely affect public abroad between July 1982 and Decem NASSAU COUNTY FEIS health. ber 1982. I share the UAW's commitment to New Zealand exercised its veto HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH preserving jobs and making continued power under the August 5 agreement progress in air quality across this on August 10, when it blocked a sale to OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nation. We will make the greatest ad Egypt of 26.5 million pounds of our vances in cleaning the air by getting butter, roughly 10 percent of U.S. Tuesday, September 15, 1981 the old cars off our highways, and re Government stocks. e Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, it is placing them with clean-burning, fuel This veto is a clear example of the with great pleasure and pride that I efficient vehicles. We will also be help harmful affects the provision will have take this opportunity to congratulate ing to put some of the thousands of on U.S. dairy farmers. the Nassau County, N.Y., Ancient unemployed auto workers back to As new members of the international Order of Hibernians who will be hold work. dairy marketing community, we must ing their ninth annual feis over the Mr. Speaker, a copy of the letter I learn the intricacies of the market. It upcoming weekend, in Plainview. received from the United Auto Work is also important that the USDA nego Each year this celebration of Irish ers follows: tiate and announce future sales of this culture attracts thousands of specta type in a more straightforward INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED tors and hundreds of talented artists, AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE & AGRI manner. athletes, and performers who compete CULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF I am today introducing a resolution in traditional Irish sports and partici AMERICA-UA W, calling upon the administration to re Washington, D.C., September 11, 1981. pate in music and dance contests and Hon. BoB TRAXLER, scind the August 5 agreement. I ask art exhibitions. The theme for this that the text of the resolution be in U.S. House of Representatives, year's feis is "Family" and events will Washington, D. C. cluded in today's REcoRD. be held to highlight the importance of I urge my colleagues to join me in DEAR CONGRESSMAN TRAXLER: This is in re family life in Irish and American cul sponse to your request for our views on H.R. this effort to convince the President to ture. Each year the Ancient Order of 4400, the proposed Mobile Source Clean Air rescind the August 5 agreement and to Hibernians use this occasion to honor Act Amendments of 1981, which you intro prevent similar detrimental contracts an individual who has made great con duced with Congressman Hillis. in the future. tributions to the goals and activities of We agree with you that early action on Whereas the embargo on grain sales to the organization. The honoree this extending the mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act is desirable. It is our the Soviet Union had insufficient impact on year is New York State Assemblyman the Soviet economy to justify the detrimen belief that Congress should begin work im tal economic effect of the embargo on Sean Patrick Walsh. mediately on legislation to extend all provi American farmers; A great deal of credit for the coordi sions of the Clean Air Act with the objective Whereas President Reagan lifted that em nation of this festival goes to the being final action before adjournment later bargo on April 24, 1981; members of the Nassau County A.O.H. in the year. If this is not possible, however, Whereas on August 5, 1981, the United and its ladies' auxiliary and their re we hope Congress will at least complete States agreed to sell 220 million pounds of spective presidents, Dave Henshaw action on the mobile source issues. Government-owned surplus butter to the and Marie O'Neill. I would ask that all H.R. 4400 represents a thoughtful propos al for dealing with several difficult and New Zealand Dairy Board for $155,000,000; the Members of this body join me in Whereas under the agreement the United interrelated issues in a reasonable manner, States Department of Agriculture sold the wishing the members of the Nassau and we support it on the basis of our under butter, which was 80 percent butterfat, to County A.O.H. and all of the visitors standing that its provisions would not result the New Zealand Dairy Board for 70 cents and participants at the feis an enjoy in deterioration of public health. As we per pound; able traditional Irish weekend.e have indicated, we continue to be concerned 20696 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 about air quality, and we intend to elabo These risky programs have continued Soviet Academy of Sciences exchange pro rate on our position with respect to a despite the Soviet invasion of Afghani gram which, despite its name, focuses pri• number of issues when we testify on H.R. stan. I intend, therefore, to offer an marily on economics and the social sciences. 4400 and other proposals relating to the amendment to the State Department About 10 more Soviets and 10 Americans Clean Air Act. each year are senior research scholars. The We believe your bill has made a construc authorization bill when it comes to the remaining 40 from each country participate tive contribution to the discussion of mobile floor later this week to prohibit U.S. in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. graduate student/ source issues. We look forward to working Government funding for programs young faculty exchange. This last program with you and other Members of Congress on that train Soviets in high technology. offers a 10-month stay in a university or re the extension of the Act. My 1980 statement which I am resub search institution of the other nation. Sincerely, mitting to the REcoRD today explains There is a disturbing disparity in the re DICK WARDEN, the importance of such an amend search topics pursued by each side in both Legislative Dire.ctor.e the senior research and the graduate stu ment: dent/young faculty exchange programs. In TRAINING THE SOVIETS To FILL IN THE GAPS 1978-79, for example, all 10 of the U.S. DENY AWACS TO SAUDI REGIME Mr. Speaker, the United States relies on senior scholars researched liberal arts or its technological superiority to maintain a social science topics while 8 of the 9 Soviet HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER strategic advantage over the Soviet Union. senior scholars specialized in the natural sci With the fearsome increase in the quantity ences. Again, the 43 American graduate stu OF NEW YORK and delivery capability of Soviet military dents participating in 1978-79 studied histo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES forces, this U.S. technological edge could ry, literature, music or another liberal arts Tuesday, September 15, 1981 make the difference between deterrence or topic in the Soviet Union while 36 of the 43 war, between survival or defeat. Soviet graduate students and young faculty e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, the Yet, the United States has been far too members who came here, on the other administration maintains in proposing lax in controlling the transfer of high tech hand, studied science, most notably physics the AWACS sale to Saudi Arabia that nology to the Soviet Union. Some examples and chemistry. there is little reason to doubt the sta are now well-publicized: U.S. technology One American thus spent her 10 months bility of the current Saudi regime. built the Soviet Kama River plant which in Moscow looking into "The Heroine in the Fears that AWACS technology will produced many of the trucks that rolled Russian Fairy Tale." Another examined into Afghanistan this winter. U.S. precision "The Political Attitudes Behind the Assassi fall into unfriendly hands are there miniature ball-bearing grinding machines nation of Tsar Paul I" while still another fo fore groundless, the administration helped the Soviets develop MIRV guidance cused on "Performance Practices in Russian argues. systems to give their huge intercontinental Choral Music of the Late 19th and Early A closer look at recent events in ballistic missiles pinpoint accuracy. Having 20th Centuries." Saudi Arabia, however, undermines enabled the Soviets to make their ICBM's The contrast of these topics with those of the administration's claim. In Novem more deadly, the United States must now the Soviet students is startling. One Moscow ber 1979, religious insurgents forced a pay a second price-a multimillion-dollar State University student was in the United takeover of the Grand Mosque at MX system to undo the damage our tech States for 10 months researching laser phys nology transfer policy created. ics, nonlinear optics, and spectroscopy as Mecca, and Saudi security forces In the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of well as tunable lasers. Another was also in proved themselves to be quite inept at Afghanistan, President Carter imposed new, terested in lasers-two level atoms in one stopping them. Orthodox religious though no doubt temporary, restrictions on mode laser fields. The list goes on. In case zealots throughout the country are a high technology exports to the U.S.S.R. these technical topics are initially as inscru major source of discontent, and large This followed congressional action on legis table to you as they were to me, tunable numbers of Shia Muslims in the oil lation in 1979 to tighten controls on tech lasers and two-level atoms in one-mode laser fields area are highly susceptible to nology transfer to Communist States. fields both relate to separating out parts of the revolutionary movement in Iran. But the type of technology transfer to the complex atoms. This field is still in its in Soviet Union which should arouse the great fancy though we are already certain of its Popular resentment against the con est concern for our national security-the implications for chemical warfare. centration of power in the hands of training of Soviet scientists and engineers in Many of the Soviet graduate students and the Saudi royal family continues to American universities and research institu young faculty members, in fact, spend their grow, and is fed by widespread corrup tions-continues, unabated and unfettered. time here working on advanced state-of-the tion in the government and unpopular Via federally funded U.S.-U.S.S.R. academic art U.S. technology and on research in areas budgetary priorities. The increasingly exchange programs, the United States is en in the forefront of American scientific dis restive National Guard and Saudi abling Soviet citizens to come to this coun covery. Aircraft engine design, ship hydro Army are potential powerful rivals to try to acquire critical technological know dynamics, and optical signal processing are how and understanding of vital scientific among the many topics recently pursued the House of Saud. processes. Much of what these Soviet scien with obvious interest for the Soviet Armed It is crucial to remember that in tists and engineers study here has a dual Forces. And the Soviets are now surpassing 1977, State, Defense, and CIA experts use potential, that is, it has military as well their past record by pushing for greater all testified to Iranian stability and as peaceful applications. access to U.S. computer technology through argued for the transfer of sophisticat The U.S. intelligence community has actu these exchanges. ed military equipment to the Shah. It ally discovered that some of the Soviet stu Part of the reason for the disparity be is imperative that we do not provide dents are assigned to work on defense pro tween American and Russian topics is that our most advanced reconnaissance grams when they return to the U.S.S.R. But young American scientists prefer to work in this is no doubt just the tip of the iceberg. the superior U.S. labs rather than undergo a technology to a regime that may very Given the closed nature of Soviet society restrictive and half productive year in a well go the way of the Shah.e and our complete lack of control over the Soviet institution. Applying for such an ex end use of the knowledge we have imparted, change scholarship is, of course, a matter of we have no way to monitor the whereabouts individual choice for Americans. No one DANGEROUS TECHNOLOGY or the nature of the work of the Soviet stu forces them to go. TRANSFER: U.S.-U.S.S.R. ACA dents when they go home. Not so for the Soviet students who are DEMIC EXCHANGE PROGRAMS In spite of these facts, no new restrictions carefully selected by their Government ac have been imposed on United States-Soviet cording to the scientific requirements of the HON. PAUL FINDLEY academic exchanges-a program where few U.S.S.R. Furthermore, the Soviet "stu restraints have existed in the past. United dents" are far older than their American OF ILLINOIS States-Soviet academic exchanges began in counterparts. Usually, they are at least 35 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1958; they have occurred at their current and already extremely experienced in their Tuesday, September 15, 1981 level since the mid-1970's. Approximately 70 field. The Soviet Government carefully ana Soviets annually come to the United States lyzes what gaps exist in Soviet scientific e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, in the to study at academic and research institu knowledge and works to place students in July 23, 1980, RECORD, I spoke of the tions while about that same number of research programs designed to help them dangers of the United States training Americans go to the Soviet Union. Fifteen fill those gaps. The Soviets insist on placing Soviet "students" in high technology. to twenty on each side are involved in a their students in the very best American September 15, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS. 20697 universities and science programs: MIT, Cal Force on Violent Crime issued its final voice for law-abiding citizens in achiev Tech, Berkeley, and Syracuse are high on report. In that report, the task force ing criminal justice reforms. This the Soviet list. made several recommendations with At one time it may have been easier to re union of Federal Government leader strict Soviet access to high technology of respect to victims of crime, who, in its ship and citizen concern is the best military significance by keeping them out of estimation, are all too frequently vic weapon that we have in the war government labs. However, today each of timized by a criminal justice system against crime.e the armed services awards contracts to U.S. unresponsive to their special needs. universities for an increasing amount of sci The task force wisely noted that the entific research with potential military uses. Federal Government, and in particu CELEBRATION ON THE GRAND The university research may continue for lar, the Attorney General, can play an years before the (}overnment assumes direct responsibility for its further develop extremely important leadership role in HON. HAROLD S. SAWYER ment. Therefore, it is dangerous to give advocating that victims of violent OF MICHIGAN Soviet scientists a free rein for 10 months in crime, at all levels of government, be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. university laboratories. There has, afforded their proper status in the indeed, been more than one case where the criminal justice system. Tuesday, September 15, 1981 Pentagon discovered that a research assist Mr. Speaker, I am today submitting e Mr. SAWYER. Mr. Speaker, this is a ant working on a defense contract in a uni a concurrent resolution to commend tremendous week for Grand Rapids versity lab was actually a Soviet exchange the Attorney General's Task Force on and the Fifth District of Michigan. student. , Ironically, Soviets working in American Violent Crime for drawing national at Thanks to television, our entire Nation labs have access to equipment which the tention to the unfortunate plight of will be able to witness "Celebration on United States will not agree to sell to the victims of crime and for urging the the Grand", a joyous outpouring of Soviet Union on the grounds that it would Federal Government to assume its ap civic pride and renewal. damage our national security to so so. In propriate leadership role in addressing More than a decade of planning and their own labs in the U.S.S.R., they would these problems. In addition, this reso hard work to restore our city is being have to work around the lack of this equip ment. Their hands-on experience with this lution would urge the Attorney Gener celebrated with the dedication of the equipment gained during their stint in the al to promulgate Federal standards for Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, United States, of course, undermines the ef the fair treatment of victims of crime, the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, and fectiveness of any export embargo. In addi as recommended by the task force. Al the Grand Rapids Art Museum. tion, Soviet familiarity with the state of though the task force did not endorse It is an opportunity for our citizens U.S. technology, its priorities, successes, and specific standards, this resolution to celebrate themselves, their vision, failures, provides the Soviets with the in would urge inclusion of the following progress, vitality, and planning. All of sights they need to develop effective coun guidelines: termeasures to our scientific advances. those ingredients which won for The threat these exchanges pose to U.S. Federal law enforcement agencies, U.S. Grand Rapids the "All-America City" national security interests is very real. The Attorney's Offices and correctional facilities honors this year. United States should therefore, immediate shall keep interested victims informed of Past and present leaders of four na ly take steps to restrict this critical outflow the progress of investigations and prosecu tions will be in attendance along with of U.S. technology to the Soviet Union. tions and shall notify them of a defendant's release from custody; President Reagan, Vice President We should insist on mutuality in these ex Bush, former President Ford, and a changes. The United States should not be Federal law enforcement agencies and training Soviet "students" in physics and U.S. Attorney's Offices shall notify victims host of dignitaries and celebrities. chemistry while Americans are researching of serious crime of available financial and More than 700 members of the 18th century Russian history. The United social service assistance, including victim media from all over the world will States must put an end to this one-way compensation and witness fees, and shall watch and report on the festivities. I flow-an outflow-of U.S. technology. advise them that they may wish to consult know they will love our city and our The result of these proposed restraints with private counsel who may be able to advise them of potential civil remedies and people. Grand Rapids is proud of our may well be that these academic exchange 38th President, Jerry Ford. I hope you programs with the Soviet Union will come other forms of relief or assistance; to an end. Or, future Soviet students in the U.S. Attorney's Offices shall encourage will join with us as we pay tribute to a United States will spend 10 months re employers of victim-witnesses to cooperate great President, our Grand City, and searching topics such as "The Importance in minimizing the economic disadvantages its vibrant people.e of the American Comic Strip as an Indicator resulting from court appearances; of Social Change in the United States." So U.S. Attorney's Offices shall provide be it. There may be a place for United victim-witnesses secure waiting areas during THE CIGARETTE SAFETY ACT States-Soviet exchange programs to im court appearances to minimize contacts prove understanding between our two na with defendants, their families and friends; tions but it should focus on humanitarian Victim-witnesses shall be provided with HON. JOE MOAKLEY programs, perhaps medicine or cultural af adequate protection and shall be informed OF MASSACHUSETTS fairs. It should not be a one-way drain of of available protective measures, including IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. high technology and science which relocation; threatens U.S. national security. U.S. securi Federal law enforcement agencies and Tuesday, September 15, 1981 ty is far more important than the goodwill U.S. Attorney's Offices shall return to vic e Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I these programs may produce. And, in the tims stolen or other property held for evi dentiary purposes as quickly as possible; would like to share with my colleagues aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghan an editorial from the American Medi istan, we should clearly recognize the need U.S. Attorney's Offices shall obtain the views of serious crime victims before enter cal News. It outlines the concerns of for a strong U.S. national defense rather many of the people in the medical pro than Soviet goodwill.e ing into plea negotiations with defendants or recommending sentences; and fession that the Congress must begin Federal law enforcement agencies, U.S. to address the No. 1 national cause of ATTORNEY GENERAL'S TASK Attorney's Offices and correctional officers residential fire deaths and injuries FORCE ON VIOLENT CRIME shall treat victims of serious crime with dig the cigarette-related fire. nity and compassion. REPORT A text of the editorial follows: Mr. Speaker, in addition to the lead HON. HAMILTON FISH, JR. ership role that the Federal Govern CIGARET SAFETY ment can play, citizens organizations The American Medical Association sup OF NEW YORK ports the concepts in two House and Senate can provide effective assistance in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bills that would require "self-extinguishing" achieving needed improvements. For cigarets. Tuesday, September 15, 1981 that reason, I formed an organization The AMA House of Delegates this e Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, on August called National Victims of Crime, a summer adopted a Board of Trustees report 17, 1981, the Attorney General's Task group which will provide an organized calling for objective studies and develop- 20698 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 ment of regulations requiring the manufac nese auto manufacturers to surpass Through the early 1970s, the Japanese ture, if feasible, of cigarets with reduced ca our industry in production: government carefully nurtured and protect pacity for causing fires. ed its auto industry. Imports were subjected The bills ; But it is vitally important for those ing further offshore sourcing and continued Brazil and Mexico have likewise stimulated of us in Government positions to rec internationalization. development of their auto industries by ognize that our corporate managers The U.S. no longer has the luxury of re means of stringent local content rules. maining the only major nation without a co In the case of Mexico, this is paying off and autoworkers cannot reverse the herent, employment-oriented auto policy. handsomely in the form of commitments by plight of our auto industry by them Our non-policy is a holdover from a by-gone several auto multinationals to source a sub selves. Just as the governments of vir era of cheap fuel and rapid economic expan stantial part of their worldwide require tually every other industrialized sion, when U.S. dominance in auto and ments for engines and other key compo nation work hand in hand with the other key manufacturing sectors was un nents from that country. private sector to forge national auto challenged and other war-torn countries By contrast, we have the most open auto policies, so, too, must our Government were striving to re-industrialize. market in the industrialized world, with tar promote cooperation in labor, corpo In 1980, after seven straight decades as iffs only one-fourth the EEC level and we unchallenged world leader, the U.S. was dis have the most permissive posture toward rate, and Government circles. Consid placed by Japan as the world's largest motor Japan. er carefully the litany of steps taken vehicle producer. Yet we remain the largest To make matters worse, our federal re by the Japanese Government, for ex motor vehicle market by far, while Japan serve conducts an outrageously high inter ample, which have allowed the Japa- exports half of its production. est rate monetary policy. In addition to its September 15, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20699 disastrous domestic consequences, that I'm talking about content legislation. The Israel in the name of human rights and policy cheapens imports and makes U.S. UA W intends to launch a major effort human justice; and manufactured goods less competitive on aimed at achieving content legislation in Whereas the Soviet Union's continuing world markets. Washington. persecution of its Jewish citizens and denial Whatever the appropriateness of our pre- We intend to work with key Senators and of those rights and privileges accorded 1974 auto policy, in today's world it is a pre Representatives in both parties, and we be other recognized religions in the Soviet scription for disaster. lieve a content bill can be introduced this Union will not succeed in isolating Soviet It is not appropriate for U.S. auto policy summer.e Jews from their friends in the world so long to be determined, by default, in the board as those who hold liberty and freedom as rooms of multinational corporations, or in the highest ideal continue to speak out on Tokyo, Mexico City, or Bonn. Yet that is ex VLADIMIR KISLIK behalf of all beleaguered and oppressed actly what will happen if we do not begin to people: Now, therefore, be it chart our own course. We will continue to HON.RAYMONDJ.McGRATH Resolved, That this Legislative body be passive victims of other nations' policies OF NEW YORK pauses in its deliberations to condemn and priorities, for which U.S. workers will Vladimir Kislik's continued oppression by be made to pay the price. There is one posi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Soviet Authorities and urges the Soviet offi tive development in this area. Tuesday, September 15, 1981 cials to give Jews in the Soviet Union the In April, the government of Japan an same rights afforded its other citizens, nounced a plan of voluntary restraint, e Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, I rights affirmed by the Soviet Union's Con under which the number of cars exported to want to call to my colleagues' attention stitution, the Declaration of Human Rights the U.S. from Japan will be held to 1.68 mil the plight of yet another Soviet pris adopted by the General Assembly of the lion units during the year starting April 1, oner of conscience, Vladimir Kislik. United Nations and Principle VIII of the 1981, down 7.7 percent from the prior year. Kislik, a distinguished scientist, first Final Act of the Helsinki Accord; and be it Restraint will continue through fiscal 1982, applied for permission to emigrate in further when sales growth of Japanese-made cars 1973. Since that time, he has been Resolved, That copies of this Resolution, will be limited to 16 percent of any increase forced to work in menial jobs, andre suitably engrossed, be transmitted to The in the total market. Restraints may contin Honorable Ronald W. Reagan, President of ue through fiscal 1983, though no commit cently was convicted of "malicious the United States; Honorable Hugh L. ments have been made. hooliganism" and sentenced to 3 years Carey, Governor of the State of New York; Japan's announcement is a welcome long in prison. Honorable Alexander Haig, Secretary of overdue step. Unfortunately, many appear The New York State Legislature re State of the United States; and to each to have assumed that temporary, voluntary cently approved a resolution condemn member of Congress of the United States import restraint has "solved" the nation's ing the Soviets' treatment of Vladimir from the State of New York; Lynn Singer, auto trade problems. That is not the case; Kislik, and I include the text of the Executive Director of the Long Island Com no one should be lulled into a false sense of resolution at this point in the RECORD. mittee for Soviet Jewry, 91 North Franklin security. Street, Hempstead, New York 11550; Leonid Moderation in the flow of Japanese autos STATE OF NEW YORK-SENATE RESOLUTION Brezhnev, Secretary General of the Com into the U.S. market should assist U.S. com No. 1003 munist Party, the Kremlin, RSPR, USSR; panies to carry out their plans for a thor Whereas Vladimir Kislik, a distinguished and Oleg Troyanovsky, Ambassador, Soviet ough overhaul of product lines and facili scientist, determined to depart from the Mission to the United Nations, 136 East ties. But it does nothing to slow down the Soviet Union in nineteen hundred seventy 67th Street, New York, New York 10021.e rapid increase in foreign sourcing by U.S. three in order to freely practice the tradi based companies. tions of the Jewish heritage as well as on During this critical period of restructur numerous occasions since that year has AN AMERICAN HERO ing, the auto multinationals are making been denied the basic human right to free many important sourcing and investment emigration; and decisions. These decisions have long lead Whereas Vladimir Kislik's aspiration to HON. JIM SANTINI times and once made are often difficult or emigrate has resulted in his employment OF NEVADA impossible to reverse. being limited to menial labor by Soviet au IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Major commitments by these corpora thorities, the confiscation of his personal tions, with profound consequences for belongings, and other indignities, including Tuesday, September 15, 1981 North American employment and the the Soviet police repeatedly questioning • Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, the vet future of the nation's industrial base, will be him for the purpose of "trumping up" for made in the months and years ahead. It is eign agent charges against other Soviet erans of America have long been rec therefore critical that the temporary Jews; and ognized for their courageous deeds in breathing space provided by Japan's volun Whereas Vladimir Kislik, a distinguished the effort to maintain this country's tary agreement not be frittered away. scientist, has had his name deleted from the freedom. But it is often only after The time has come for us to take the next important scientific papers he wrote while these brave men and women have step. The Japanese automakers enjoy an engaged in research at the Kiev Institute of passed from our midst that we take $11 billion market here. We have to force Nuclear Research, and has been beaten by any action to show our appreciation them to put some capital where their mar Soviet Authorities as a warning to him to stop for their contributions.- I would like to kets are-to create jobs and cash flow in the holding scientific seminars; and cities and towns where they sell their prod Whereas Vladimir Kislik remains within change that tradition and take steps ucts. They should have done this voluntari the Soviet Union, despite the emigration of to honor a real, live American hero, ly, as we in the UAW called upon them to his son, Maxim Kislik, to Israel, thereby now. do time after time in recent years. Instead placing Vladimir Kislik in the ranks of Today in Reno, a celebration is of savaging our auto market, the Japanese many Soviet parents who are unfortunately taking place to honor one of Nevada's ought to become a part of it. We've waited separated from their children by the design brave legionnaires. I am speaking of too long for them to act as responsible trad of Soviet Union officials; and Nevada's own Ioannis "Johnny" Lou ing partners. Whereas Vladimir Kislik had endured per And while America has waited, the Ameri secution, harassment, imprisonment and garis who has gone beyond the call of can dream has wilted. Hard-working citizens family separation simply because of his duty in service to his country. This seeking the chance to put in a fair day's desire to practice his own religion in a coun man, a Greek immigrant, made the work for a fair day's pay found themselves try of his choice; and United States his country and fought without jobs. People who dreamed of some Whereas Vladimir Kislik has recently for it like any native. The wounds he day owning their own homes found them been charged by Soviet Authorities with suffered in World War I were compli selves in unemployment lines. Americans "malicious Hooliganism," unjustly convict cated by the onset of tuberculosis he who hoped to send their kids to college ed, and subsequently sentenced to a three contacted while defending this coun found themselves forced to seek welfare. year term; and try and doctors told him he had only 6 The time has come to quit waiting and Whereas the Legislature of the State of start acting. We need legislation that would New York, which holds justice, freedom and months to live. But did this stop him? have the effect of requiring the Japanese to liberty as the highest ideals, urges the No. He moved on to Nevada, made build plants and create jobs here where Soviet Union to immediately free Vladimir that State his home, and fought off their market is. Kislik and permit him to join his family in disease and depression to become a 20700 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 successful lawyer in Reno. His immi enforcement, have brought us from that tions would submit only one nomination for grant and combat experience gave him steep, bumpy, dangerous hill to this legal, each position on the Floraboard. Section the insight to know what a precious workable ramp giving the disabled and eld 7(b) erly access to water, located in Newton but (5) The system of assessing producers at life we live in the United States and available to everyone. how important it is to maintain the the "point of first sale" is changed to a We should not be persuaded that laws system of assessing producers for each sale. freedom that has been ours through protecting everyone's rights to equal access For each domestic sale, producers will the centuries. He also realized that de and opportunity are burdens, but should deduct the cost of plant material from the fending the country takes a special recognize that they are safeguards for all of value of the sales transaction on which the kind of spirit and a special kind of us who, at any time, might find ourselves in assessment is made. The deduction of the person and one who should not be ne need of their protection. cost of plant material prevents any flowers glected when he finally returns home. In America, committed to equal rights for and plants from being subjected to a double all it is difficult, but it is possible, to assessment. Section 7 Johnny Lougaris worked unceasingly achieve equal access and equal protection to see the Veterans' Administration under the law for everyone. Changes are <6> The bill is amended to say which kinds Medical Center built and located in made slowly. Inertia and opposition must be of entities the Floraboard is authorized to Reno to help servicemen who fought overcome. But collective struggling for contract with. Industry groups, profit and so valiantly for their homeland. change is the only way we can achieve non-profit companies, private and state col equity. leges and universities and governmental Now the people of Nevada, in a groups are authorized to be contractors. move to pay heartfelt tribute to their Government can function for the people if people take action on their own behalf and Section 7 comrade, asked that the VA center in others support them.e <7> Only employees of the Reno be renamed the "Joannis A. Lou USDA and Floraboard would be given access garis Veterans' Administration Medi to confidential information. Contracting cal Center." I fervently supported this SUBSTANTIVE AMENDMENTS TO agencies would not be given access to such move and am glad to report that with H.R. 3613-FLORAL RESEARCH confidential information. These changes the fine cooperation of Congressman AND CONSUMER INFORMA were suggested by USDA. Section B SAM HALL, the name change can TION ACT (8) The bill would be amended, as suggest become a part of a bill that will short ed by USDA, to make clear that Federal ly be considered by the House, insur agencies would have access to confidential HON. TONY COELHO information for the purpose of investigatory ing this memorial to honor someone OF CALIFORNIA or enforcement actions necessary for the whose perseverance has benefited so IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES implementation of the Act. Section 8 many Nevada veterans.e Tuesday, September 15, 1981 <9> The exemption of flowers and plants which are ultimately sold for consumption e Mr. COELHO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to outside of the United States is eliminated. HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBILITY introduce a substitute bill for H.R. This change is made because such an ex CAN BE A REALITY 3613, the Floral Research and Con emption is no longer appropriate in the new sumer Information Act. I originally in system of assessment. Section 12(b). HON. BARNEY FRANK troduced this legislation on May 19, Mr. Speaker, this legislation has OF MASSACHUSETTS 1981, with 20 cosponsors. Subsequent broad support from the floral indus IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ly, 13 additional cosponsors have been try. It is a self-help program that is in Tuesday, September 15, 1981 added. the best tradition of free enterprise. Mr. Speaker, this legislation has Producers of flowers and plants re e Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, we are broad support from the floral indus now witnessing a very serious assault ceive no Federal subsidy and no price try. It is an attempt by the floral in support programs. They are not by the administration on the rights of dustry to try to increase their sales by the handicapped, particularly on the asking for such a program now. They assessing themelves a small percentage are merely asking for the legal author guidelines promulgated by the Archi of the value of their produce for re tectural and Transportation Barriers ity to assess themselves for voluntary search and promotion efforts. The research and promotion efforts so that Compliance Board requiring access to program would be conducted at abso Federal and federally funded build they can build a better market for lutely no cost to the American taxpay their products. ings. The Board recently announced er. its intention to rescind these guide Moreover, the passage and enact Since my introduction of this legisla ment of this legislation would not lines which I believe to be a tragic tion on May 19, representatives of the mist~ke. Denial of access to the handi insure that flower and plant producers floral industry have been meeting would have a research and promotion capped into Federal buildings is a with administration officials in order denial of the right to participate in program. After the law is enacted, the to achieve a consensus on this legisla growers will have to go through a our democratic decisionmaking proc tion. As a result, I am recommending ess, a right we should be encouraging, lengthy and detailed administrative several changes which I would like procedure in developing an order that not discouraging. Handicapped access now to incorporate in the legislation is not simply something which would would then have to be approved by by introducing a new bill. the producers themselves. Unless two be nice to have; it is a basic civil right, The following is a list of the sub the abridgement of which is as serious thirds of all producers or a majority of stantative amendments that are made producers who are responsible for the and invidious as discrimination on ac in the new bill: count of religion, race, sex, or ethnic production of more than two-thirds of SUBSTANTIVE AMENDMENTS TO FLORAL background. the total product vote for such an RESEARCH AND CONSUMER INFORMATION ACT order, it will not be implemented. I ask my colleagues to read the fol ( 1 >The statement of "Congressional Find lowing statement, which was written ings and Declaration of Policy" is amended In addition, there is another safe by Ms. Phyllis Ryan, a constituent of to clarify that nothing in the Act is to be guard for those producers who do not mine from Newton, Mass., and to join construed a trade barrier to flower and wish to participate. Those producers with me in opposing the administra plants in foreign countries. Section 2 who do not believe in the program for tion's proposal to rescind the accessi <2> Propagational material would be sub- any reason whatsoever, have an abso bility guidelines. ject to assessments. Section 3(f) . lute right to ask for, and promptly re A copy of the statement follows: (3) The definition of term producer 1s ceive, a refund of their entire assess changed to conform to USDA suggestions. ment. STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE Section 3 INTERESTS OF THE HANDICAPPED ( 4> Under the procedure for certified in Mr. Speaker, I commend this legisla Regulations that protect al~ P.eople, coii?- dustry organizations submitting nomina tion to the attention of the House and bined with citizen action to ms1st on their tions to the Floraboard, certified organiza- I hope that it will be possible to have September 15, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20701 prompt hearings and early committee dent Jimmy Carter. In 1978, she received a U.S. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE action on the legislation.• letter from then-U.S. Attorney General SHOULD BE CONDITIONED ON Griffin Bell telling her she was chosen for ECONOMIC FREEDOMS AND the award. The ceremony was delayed be POPULATION CONTROL WEST BLOOMFIELD WOMAN cause of scheduling difficulties at the White RECALLS TORNADO TERROR House, according to letters Ms. Slack re ceived since then. HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER Word came about three weeks ago from OF ILLINOIS HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD the Justice Department that Ms. Slack, the OF MICHIGAN daughter of John and Carolyn Slack of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Buxton Avenue, would be among 10 people Tuesday, September 15, 1981 Tuesday, September 15, 1981 recognized for acts of heroism. Her parents and a brother, John B. Slack II, will depart e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I e Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, Thursday for Washington. strongly suspect that most Ameri last Friday I had the honor of attend A selection committee headed by FBI Di cans-as I do-upon returning home ing a ceremony at the White House rector William Webster chose the recipients from travel abroad, feel an overwhelm paying tribute to 10 genuine young from nominees selected by state governors. ing sense of gratitude for the privilege American heroes. A Justice Department spokesman said he of being citizens of this bountiful land. One of the most inspiring among did not know why President Carter never Not only do we enjoy personal free them was Miss Donna Slack, a 21-year scheduled the ceremony. doms unparalleled in human history old college sophomore from West "If I had to wait this long, I am glad it is and a stability and continuity of gov Bloomfield Township, Mich., in my President Reagan that I get to meet," says ernment unknown in most places on congressional district. Ms. Slack. the Earth, but here we have largely Donna was presented the 1976 It's been five years, but "I imagine they get a little nervous when they hear the tor eradicated the horrible diseases and Young American Medal for Bravery by nado sirens, as anybody would" township hopeless poverty that overwhelm a President Reagan for saving the lives Police Chief Alfred McGhee says of the resi large portion of mankind around the of three young brothers when a torna dents of an area near Orchard Lake and world. do ripped through their home on Maple roads where the tornado struck at Appreciation for what we so often March 20, 1976. about 7:16p.m. that fateful March evening. take for granted, however, is not Disregarding her own safety, Donna One life was lost, and 42 other people enough. Nor could the redistribution threw herself on top of the boys mo were injured; damage to residential proper of portions of our wealth from the ments before the storm demolished ty alone exceeded $2 million. productive sector at home to the un their home. Her act of bravery may Recalling the "complete devastation," Lt. productive either here or abroad ever have saved their lives and certainly David Snowaert, now the operations officer be enough. No transfer of wealth or spared them serious injury. at the Michigan State Police Pontiac post, resources could ever significantly The award was belated because says, "We were just fortunate that there were not more people killed or injured in impact the unbelievable poverty and President Carter discontinued the this tornado." problems that need correction. ceremony after he took office. I am Ms. Slack, who celebrated her birthday What is needed, Mr. Speaker, are certain that anyone who had the privi Saturday, hasn't forgotten the nightmare wholesale changes in philosophy and lege of witnessing Friday's presenta experience. "I can remember almost every direction in those countries seeking tion and meeting these fine young thing like it happened yesterday," she says. our economic assistance-the same people would join me in commending "It is something I will never forget." changes we are now finally making at President Reagan for reviving this im The heroine was a 15-year-old baby-sitting home to emphasize those economic portant tradition. for her neighbor's children, Aaron, Jason factors that truly lead to long-term so It offers one more opportunity for and Justin Hegedus, then 5, 4 and 3, when lutions: Capital formation, education, emphasizing the greatness of our the life-threatening drama unfolded. technology, and the real productivity country and the goodness of our The children waited upstairs to be bathed growth that can only come in an envi people. while she went to the front door to hand ronment of freedom from excessive The following article written by Joe over a pair of binoculars requested by a neighbor. government control, regulation, and Cisneros of the Oakland Press, a news taxation. paper which serves my . congressional The exchange was never completed, as the neighbor jumped into his vehicle and sped Another factor of immense impor district, provides an interesting ac away. The reason soon became apparent. "I tance is the need for population con count of Miss Slack's heroism and a looked up and saw it coming," she recalls. trol. India, for example, though its warm insight into her character. She tried to close the door, but couldn't. economy has grown substantially since WEST BLOOMFIELD WOMAN RECALLS TORNADO "Finally, I let it go. The lights went out and independence in 1947, has stood abso TERROR the kids started screaming. I told them to lutely still in per capita real income Donna Slack of West Bloomfield never hold on to the bannister and come down despite $30 billion in Western aid thought when she voted for Ronald Reagan stairs." during that period simply because in November that one day she'd meet the The boys-without any clothes on-had chief executive face-to-face. made it to a landing about two steps from where there were previously 400 mil Their meeting is scheduled to take place the ground floor when she realized there lion Indians, there are now almost 700 11 a.m. Friday in the White House Rose was no time to get to the basement. "So I million. Every bit of the growth has Garden. Ms. Slack, who saved the lives of threw them down on the landing and lay on been absorbed by more people and the three young brothers in her charge when a top of them. average Indian has not only experi tornado ripped through the township "The next thing I knew I was on the lawn, enced no betterment in his standard of March 20, 1976, is to receive a 1976 Young 60 feet from the house. I looked over and living but, without a brake on popula American Medal for Bravery from the presi saw that the house was leveled." tion growth, is utterly without hope dent. Two of the boys were still under her. The The presidental citation is three years late for the future. In such circumstances, in coming, but "We are very excited, very third was next to her. She said two suffered economic aid should not be consid honored," says Ms. Slack, a 21-year-old Oak minor cuts and bruises, but Jason needed 40 ered-except on an emergency land Community College sophomore study stitches to close a gash on his back. humane basis-without conditions re ing to become a certified public accountant. "I never thought about leaving those kids quiring actual progress in controlling She already has a citation from the Michi upstairs and running for the basement," she says. "I have been brought up to think of future population. gan State Police for her heroism. She was Conditions requiring economic free nominated for the medal by Gov. William others before myself." Milliken in October 1977. The children she saved now live in Mil dom and population control are abso In presenting the award, Reagan is reviv ford, but Ms. Slack remains close. "They are lute prerequisites, in my judgment, to ing a practice abandoned by former Prest- like a second family to me," she says.e success in assisting developing coun- 20702 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 tries. To the extent we fail to include production a potential domestic gas amounts of superior technology-much of it these conditions, we not only throw supply that would otherwise go un having direct military application-that hard-earned money away without tapped for several years if the leases took us years, and cost us billions of dollars, to develop. We opened our industrial plants, hope of real economic progress and are not now extended. research laboratories and universities to thus shortchange our own constitu At a time when we have been press Soviet scholars, scientists-and spies. That ents, but, with the short-sighted poli ing industry to supply us with more process is continuing under the Reagan Ad cies we now pursue, we continue to sources of natural gas, it seems to me ministration. lead developing countries into the eco this legislation makes sense. I ask that Under detente, we supplied the technolo nomic never-never land of poverty, the bill be referred to the appropriate gy-starved Soviets with sophisticated com depredation, starvation, disease, and committee for consideration. puter and electronics hardware. We also death.e H.R.- built entire factories and assembly-line pro duction plants in the Soviet Union. A bill to extend the lease terms of Federal After the Soviet army rolled into Afghani oil and gas leases, W 66245, W 66246, W stan in December 1979, the flow of comput PRIVATE RELIEF BILL-TOLEDO 66247 and W 62250 MINING CO. ers and other sophisticated equipment was Be it enacted by the Senate and House of halted, and the State Department was or Representatives of the United States of dered to clamp down on Russian scientists HON. DAN MARRIOTT America in Congress assembled, who were flocking here to study in sensitive OF UTAH SECTION 1. That the Secretary of Interior areas. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is authorized and directed to extend United However, in the 18 months between Janu States oil and gas leases issued under sec ary 1980-when the embargo supposedly Tuesday, September 15, 1981 tion 17 of the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of went into effect-and June of this year, 1920, as amended, designated W 66245, W e Mr. MARRIOTT. Mr. Speaker, some 450 Russian scientists and technicians 66246, W 66247, and W 62250, and presently have been granted visas by the State De today, I am introducing a private bill known as the Toledo Unit in Lincoln partment. They have been allowed to attend for the relief of Toledo Mining Co. County in the State of Wyoming, and which conferences or study such topics as lasers which holds four Federal oil and gas would otherwise expire 48 days after the and optics, high-energy physics, computer leases in Wyoming which are about to termination of U.S. Department of the Inte software engineering, particle accelerators expire, W 66245, W 66246, W 66247, rior administrative suspension of operations and other highly technical disciplines. and W 62250. This bill would extend and lease terms currently in effect, until Another 77 Soviets have been allowed in those leases until 2 years after the ef two years after the effective date of this Act for study under U.S. government-sponsored fective date of its enactment or the or the termination of the period of suspen exchange programs. The New York-based sion, whichever comes later, and so long International Research and Exchanges termination of the period for which thereafter as oil and gas is produced in Board , which arranges scholarly ex the leases have been suspended, paying quantities as defined under the Min changes between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. whichever is later, and so long thereaf eral Lands Leasing Act: Provided, however, and Eastern European Communist nations, ter as oil and gas is produced in paying That except as specifically modified herein placed 31 top Russian scientists in study quantities. as to such leases, all other provisions of the programs for the 1980-81 academic year at This legislation would prevent Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, as such institutions as the Massachusetts Insti Toledo Mining Co. from losing a po amended, shall be applicable as to such tute of Technology. Stanford, Northwestern tentially important oil and gas lease leases. and UCLA. SEc. 2. The effective date of this Act shall Says Sen. Jake Gam (R., Utah>: "Allowing due to their agent's misinterpretation be the date the leases specified in section 1 them to study high-level technical subjects is of the provisions of the Mineral Leas would have expired by operation of law, but far more damaging than selling them grain. ing Act of 1920. Relying on the errone for the passage of this Act.e They are causing us to spend billions of ous representations of the operating extra tax dollars on defense." company, Toledo believed that these A case in point: the Bryant grinding ma four leases which were segregated out HOW THE UNITED STATES chines, which produce pinhead-sized ball when the Deadman Unit was formed, GIVES AWAY ITS HIGH TECH bearings, vital to the manufacture of ad would be preserved by drilling within NOLOGY TO THE SOVIETS vanced inertial guidance systems for inter continental ballistic missiles. For 12 years, the unit. The true effect of the segre HON. PAUL FINDLEY we refused Soviet requests to sell the ma gation was that on the nonunitized chines to them. lands-the four leases in question-by OF ILLINOIS When the Nixon Administration extended law, Toledo had 2 years in which to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the hand of detente in 1972, the Soviets drill a well capable of producing in Tuesday, September 15, 1981 asked again. The sale was approved, and the paying quantities prior to lease expira Russians bought 164 machines for $20 mil e Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the lion. tion. When the false statement was September 6, 1981, issue of Parade discovered, Toledo made efforts to At that time, the best Soviet ICBM was a magazine picks up on a concern which nuclear blunderbuss, packing a mighty bring these four leases to production, I have been stressing for well over a wallop but often missing its target by 3 but too late. The rough terrain and year now; that is, the United States, miles or more. Today, with the help of the weather and remote location made by training Soviet scientists in long ball bearings made by the Bryant grinders drilling permitting and actual oper term academic programs in high tech plus American computers and know-how ations impossible in the remaining nology, is harming its national securi the Russian SS-18 multiple warhead rockets time. Operations on the leases were can hit the bull's-eye within 500 feet or less ty interests. My own statement on this leaving our fleet of 1054 Minuteman and suspended by the U.S. Geological issue is elsewhere in today's RECORD. I Survey in order to perform the envi Titan missiles sitting ducks in their silos. also wanted to include the article from Our response? The proposed MX movable ronmental assessment work necessary Parade by Michael Satchell and again missile system-estimated to cost up to $60 to approval of an application for a stress the importance of stemming billion. permit to drill. Although the oper this high technology giveaway to the Believing the Soviets interested in massive ations are now suspended, when the Soviets: purchases of jumbo jets, we allowed a team suspension is terminated, only 48 days of 20 high-ranking Soviet scientists, engi of the lease term will remain to com How WE GIVE AWAY OUR SECRETS neers and KGB agents to tour the Boeing plete a well-clearly, not enough time. Public Administration and the American So going overseas on assignment, and ciety for Public Administration can do translation and interpreting services. There are important differences between something. And the academic community big business and big government-differ I am inserting into the REcORD a ences in how success is measured, in how de can do something. That is to respond, con speech made by the language services cisions are made, and so forth. In one obvi structively and with dignity, when a govern administrator, Esther F. Piper, before ous respect, however, business and govern ment official or the press expresses opinions or reveals "facts" that are unsound or the Minnesota Council of Teachers of ment are alike: both depend on people to Foreign Language and a speech by get the job done. If the employees of a com untrue. Two examples: pany or agency are alienated and bitter, 1. Devine's statement about keeping top Manuel J. Monteiro, vice president of they won't do a very good job. career people from participating in policy European operations for 3M. As any corporate executive will appreci making should have provoked protests from Had I known about their good work ate, including the skilled and resourceful all quarters. It did not. before I wrote my book on the foreign businessmen who play major roles in the 2. The stream of misleading terms <"bur language problem, I would certainly Reagan administration, this is as true for geoning bureaucracy" and "ever-increasing have commended 3M as one of the the Department of Health and Human Serv size of government") should be countered most enlightened corporations in this ices as it is for General Electric, as valid for by the Office of Personnel Management's the Interior Department as it is for the country. Bank of America. And it is especially the own figures. These reveal that the ratio of What they are doing should be good case with regard to upper-level managers, government employees to the general popu news to their stockholders and good the senior career people whose experience lation over the last 25 years has been fairly news to Americans who want a favor and energy get the job done anywhere. stable. Nor has the growth in government able balance of trade. expenditures been out of line as a percent Those top people are leaving government 3M LANGUAGE SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING, DE in droves. Since 1977, Newsweek reports, age of the gross national product, as com pared with other developed nations. CEMBER 4, 1979, REMARKS BY MANUEL J. there has been a 500 percent increase in the MONTEIRO, VICE PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN OP number of top employees in the 55-to-59 age Few senior civil servants would opt to join ERATIONS group retiring. Nineteen out of 20 workers SES today if they had another chance to in that bracket retired last year. NASA says decide. Indeed, they and other senior ca Thank you, Allan, and good afternoon ev most of its space shuttle team, for example, reerists are beginning to behave like blue eryone. will soon be gone. Nor are those who remain collar unionists. Who can blame them? If The Language Society has been very help ful to me in my career with 3M as often moved, by and large, to extend themselves. th~y don't band together to protect their in The result is a quiet, almost unobserved times I've had to call on them for help in terests, who will? The professional societies translations, interpretations and in speech government crisis of competence and com and the academics have not. mitment. writing in a foreign language. That crisis can only be understood within The Carter-Reagan view of government One instance in particular, is the day I a larger framework: the conviction on the as-enemy is bad for this nation. While we was asked to give a speech to a group of part of our elected officials for the past should never act as single-minded advocates Hungarians who would be visiting 3M . . decade that government-and the men and for the bureaucracy, we should be advocates When I address a group of foreign speaking women within it-is the root cause of social for sound government. If that involves criti people, I always try to give my speech in and economic problems. cizing the bureaucracy, fine. If that de their language. So I called on Mr. Gabor Every group tends to reflect and be influ mands resisting mindless anti-government from Central Research and asked if he enced by society's perception of it, career and anti-careerist rhetoric, we should act could help me..JllJ'ite and give a speech in govemment people no less than blacks, His- with equal vigor.e Hungarian. 20704 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 Mr. Gabor asked me if I spoke Hungarian, was that Americans don't speak other lan We must start with ourselves-as parents I said no. He said, "well, you won't be able guages well enough to persuade foreigners and teachers-to broaden some of our own to do it." I said I could try. So Mr. Gabor to buy their products. ideas. For a long time it has been an unnec translated my speech from English to Hun The United States, of course, is a nation essarily limiting factor in the study of for garian, made a tape recording in Hungarian of immigrants. Yet, Americans have never eign languages, to think only of "Careers in of the speech so I could practice and also excelled in studying foreign languages. And, Foreign Languages." It opens up a whole came over and tutored me prior to my the situation is getting worse. new and exciting future to think of "lan giving the speech. Here, though, we have the 3M Language guages as an added skill" in any profession. The speech was a success as, after I made Society bucking the national trend. And, We must also ask ourselves as parents and the speech, the Hungarians said they could you have been doing it successfully for 13 teachers-how do we make the present lan understand me-at least most of it. years. To be sure, there are not many of guage curriculum more relevant to today's The Language Society has assisted me in you. The challenge is to interest millions of world of business? translating speeches into French, German, Americans to learn foreign languages. But, a It's important to have a knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese. beginning must be made and it must be classics, if we are to be well-educated, but The 3M Language Society is a unique or made not just in our formal institutions of shouldn't there also be an alternate course ganization. Over the years, you have been education, but, in businesses such as this for the advanced language student which recognized for your achievements by 3M's which relate to international markets. focuses more on business and professional management and the news media. Why? The situation is much like that of the needs? Some of those needs for language as This is a group of volunteers who tackle child who asked his parents: "How do you sistance are, of course, for: the difficult task of learning foreign lan eat a whale?" His parents answered almost <1 >Translating a legal document on one of guages-and it is difficult-and it does take in unison: "One bite at a time." our product lines; dedication-to extend your capabilities So, you have made a modest start in de <2> Interpreting for an overseas business beyond your first language. vouring the whale, not to mention all the man who needs to be trained on some equip Even more important than the individual ethnic foods you eat in the course of your ment using our products; effort which each of you makes, however, is activities and the food that is on the table (3) Tutoring a family recently transferred the fact that you are dedicated to a princi at this luncheon. You also have made a con here on temporary assignment from an ple-the idea that language differences do tribution to 3M through your hosting and overseas subsidiary. not necessarily have to separate people. The translation programs. Or they could be more ordinary requests learning of languages can bring people of di Moreover, in this, our company headquar such as, verse history and cultural backgrounds to ters, you have contributed to 3M's view of <1> A receptionist or a security guard gether so that they understand and respect the world. You have helped our people de needs assistance with a visitor who speaks each other. velop an attitude that regards world mar little English; Look at the world situation. Was there kets not just as extensions of our domestic (2) A secretary needs help in placing an ever a time when mutual understanding and markets, but as opportunities which are overseas call, or answering an incoming call; respect were needed more than now? Was global in scope and unending in their poten (3) A telex operator needs help with a there ever a time when Americans needed to tial. wire to be sent overseas; hear foreign languages-and not just the For people in this country to be motivated (4) An overseas family needs help in en European languages-more than right now? to learn languages, they need pathfinders rolling their child in an American school Yet, according to the President's Commis such as yourselves. Let people know about where no teachers speak even a few words sion on Foreign Language and International the personal satisfaction that each of you of their language. Studies, which issued a report a few weeks gets through studying languages. Communi These and many more requests come ago, Americans are grossly deficient in cate your enthusiasm both inside and out across my desk every day. learning languages other than English. side of 3M. We are mainly concerned with 2-way com Consider the facts which the Presidental The Language Society is a living example munication which occurs not only when we Commission uncovered in its year-long in that learning languages need not be drudg transmit ideas-but when we receive them vestigation. Only 15 percent of American ery or something to be endured-it can and as well. So often we think of Americans as high school pupils study any foreign lan should be an intellectual pursuit to be en being the teachers, the transmitters of in guage, compared with 24 percent in 1965. joyed. formation-with the "foreigners" being the Only 8 percent of the U.S. colleges require a People take piano lessons even though receivers. This is not always the case-much foreign language, compared to 34 percent in they know that they are not going to be valuable research is being done outside the 1966. concert pianists. Why do they study piano? United States-and in a recent year more At a time when Americans need to be un To enjoy producing music. patents were filed in other countries than derstood in the Arab world-also a time, Why, then, can't more people follow the here. What a student transmits depends when the Arabs need to understand us-the example of the 3M Language Society and largely on the profession he chooses. United States State Department can only learn world languages even though they He could be hired in a company such as find adequately trained linguists for 35 per don't intend to be linguistic experts? They 3M and work for them for many years with cent of the posts that require Arabic. can, and they should, because there is as out ever using his language. My husband For the rest of the world, the State De much enjoyment in understanding lan did for 12 years before we were transferred partment's situation in terms of trained lin guages and, through them, alien cultures, as to Europe on a five year assignment when guists is better, but, still not good enough. there is in enjoying Bach, Beethoven and he needed this skill immediately! In 1957- Trained linguists can only be found for 66 the Beatles. language was not a consideration, and it is percent of the State Department's available Thank you very much for inviting me to not the prime consideration now, but the positions. this unique organization and your Annual fact that he had three years of French, two The Presidential Commission called Amer Meeting. years of Latin and two of Scientific German icans' incompetence in foreign languages as in college helped him to do a better job. nothing less than scandalous. It said that WORLD LANGUAGES INTEGRATED INTO INTERNA We had two small children, we lived in the United States has developed a "moat TIONAL BUSINESS; MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF Paris, Dick travelled up to 75 percent of the mentality" in which the American people TEACHERS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE; ESTHER F. time throughout Western Europe, we lived are looking inward to develop understand PIPER, LANGUAGE SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR, in a 10 story apartment building where no ing rather than outward where language 3M one spoke a word of English and I found competence is absolutely necessary for the I have a PhD in a language-what can I myself embarked on my first career in a for nation's security. do with it? To rephrase the students' ques eign language-as a homemaker! prepare the necessary vo Thank you.e ational program made up of some 775 cabulary, <2> visit the laboratories and see people, teaching and learning 12 languages the equipment to be demonstrated, (3) in noontime classes. All are 3M employees translate all the visuals that were to be who donate their time at noon to teach used. THE FBI'S UNIFORM CRIME their native language; others, like my hus Each presenter had his notes in English REPORT band and myself teach from our own experi on the frame of his visuals. He was well ence of living overseas. Not all will be used aware that pauses must be made for ade in business-some people are studying be quate interpretation time. HON. TOBY ROTH cause relatives still live in Europe and speak Tutoring Services are provided for 3M OF WISCONSIN no English. Others plan to travel and will families assigned overseas, so they may IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES need the language unless they stay strictly learn about that country's culture, tradi in the tourist area. tions and society in addition to the lan Tuesday, September 15, 1981 3M has subsidiaries in 50 countries encom guage. This has become a recognized asset passing 22 languages-85,000 employees for them since the prior knowledge of what • Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, recently worldwide-of which 33,500 employees are is acceptable and how things are done in a released figures for crime in 1980 per outside the United States. It has been said country makes that person a more produc petuate the alarming increase that has that one out of every six jobs in 3M U.S. is tive employee sooner, without spending an plagued the Nation since the early due directly to our overseas business-that excessive amount of time adjusting to a dif 1970's. is one out of every three jobs in 3M in Min ferent life style. Crime rose 9 percent in 1980 from nesota. We also provide tutoring for the overseas 1979. There was a murder committed Americans are employed overseas for lim 3M employee and family assigned to St. every 23 minutes. The FBI's Uniform ited periods of time for specific reasons such Paul. They may have learned English in as, to aid in setting up operations or the in their own country but due to lack of oppor Crime Report said 13 million serious troduction of new products or for training tunity to speak it and to hear American crimes were reported last year, a level people. When the job is done, they come English spoken, they are rather insecure. 55 percent higher than a decade ago. home. And we did too. However, while Until they can gain some fluency-here are Adding insult to injury is the fact there, Dick put his languages to good use. some suggestions. We teach our employees that criminals escaped apprehension Many of the people he travelled with spoke when working with someone of limited lan in four out of five crimes committed in no English, so he spoke English only on Sat guage capabilities-in any country: to speak 1980, with an arrest rate of 19 percent urday evenings when he phoned home to us slowly, pronounce their words clearly, take in Paris. . which expires on special interests so powerful that it is only September 30, 1981. Ron.e the consumers' long term interests that are As you know, the EPAA grew out of the sacrificed? Wage and Price Guidelines as the Federal Adoption of a "no allocation bill" policy solution to the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973- TRIBUTE TO CHARLES L. KMEN by the administration does not mean that 74. During the period of price controls, the OF CICERO, ILL. the Federal Government does not have a United States conserved less, produced less, role in some future sudden cut-off of for and imported more petroleum at higher eign oil supplies. On the contrary, the Fed prices than it would have without such con HON. HENRY J. HYDE eral Government already has numerous trols. Furthermore, twice during the seven OF ILLINOIS powers to deal with energy and national se years of price and allocation controls on pe IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES curity emergencies. Our best single defense troleum, the Nation experienced major gas is the strategic petroleum reserve, which oline lines from minor shortfalls in crude Tuesday, September 15, 1981 thanks to the Reagan administration, is supplies. We firmly believe that price and being filled at over 400,000 barrels of oil per allocation controls will be as inequitable and • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, the Life day. In his first year in office, President unworkable if imposed in the future as they newspaper in my district recently pub Reagan's administration will have doubled were in the past. lished a short article about a very cou the crude oil in SPRO to over 220 million Notwithstanding what we understand to rageous constituent of mine, Mr. barrels. be your clear and unequivocal position in Charles L. Kmen of Cicero. For the Private stocks are also critical to the Na opposition to' any extension of the Emergen past 25 years, Mr. Kmen has been par tion's ability to adjust to sharp fluctuations cy Petroleum Allocation Act, there are alyzed and confined to an iron lung in crude oil imports. The recent provision in many Members of the House and Senate the Economic Recovery Tax Act which per who appear undecided on this issue. More but despite his handicap he has kept mits 5-year depreciation and investment tax over, in the absence of any formal state an active mind and particularly enjoys credit treatment for petroleum storage fa ment from the White House, there are a writing. cilities is a proper step in the direction of number of Members who are prepared to One of his hobbies is writing songs positive Government support for rather pass new price and allocation legislation and among them is a march for his than discouragement of-private inventory without any Administration input. A hometown simply entitled "Cicero." building. number of bills have already been intro But I do not believe that it is sufficient duced. As the September 30 expiration date Mr. Kmen, an Air Force veteran, is a for the administration to simply say that approaches, Chairmen in the House and "profile in courage" and deserves our the free market is the best allocator of pe Senate may be under increasing pressure to congratulations and best wishes. I am troleum during a crisis and then expect the act on emergency price and allocation legis pleased to share the following article Congress to obey. The bad tradition of turn lation. about him with my colleagues, as well ing to price controls and the enormous We are concerned that unless your Ad as reprint his song "Cicero": power of special interests must not be ministration makes a strong statement of its simply brushed aside. The administration opposition to such legislative initiatives, we [From the Life, June 28, 19811 must work to educate the Congress and the may not be able to block the extension of RESIDENT WRITES MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO public that its position is both intellectually price and allocation control authority on CICERO and practically the best alternative. your behalf. We, therefore, believe your The administration must also educate the timely and unequivocal statement on this Congress of its awareness that it has a role matter is needed as soon as possible. He has been completely paralyzed for 25 in the management of a petroleum crisis. Sincerely, years and confined to an iron lung, but that Nor do I believe that the Federal Govern JAMES T. BROYHILL, doesn't stop Charles Kmen from using his ment can close its eyes to the plight of the CLARENCE J. BROWN. mind, his last active resource, for learning truly needy during a petroleum interruption about the world around him, a world greatly in which prices may rise and discourage con limited for a victim of polio. sumption. I have no reluctance to seeing THE WHITE HOUSE, A resident of Cicero, the 51-year-old social policy questions addressed as long as Washington, D.C., September 14, 1981. Kmen has written a march honoring his we separate our energy policy from our Hon. CLARENCE J. BROWN, home town. The lyrics were submitted to social policy. House of Representatives, Morton High School for arrangement, but In sum, I urge my colleagues to listen Washington, D.C. rejected as school funds could not cover the carefully to the parade of special interests DEAR Bun: I know that you and Jim Broy expense. before us this week, and think carefully hill have worked hard over the years to "To arrange the piece so that it is play about not what will be the best for the slick eliminate unnecessary Federal regulation of able by a band requires a great deal of time, est lobbyists, but what will be the best for energy. As the expiration date of the Emer expertise and expense," states a letter sent the American people and the economy as a gency Petroleum Allocation Act approaches, to Kmen from Joseph Frantik, head of the whole. I want you to know that I fully share your fine arts division. "Our budget does not I introduce into the REcORD a letter opposition to any extension of allocation permit us to undertake this type of project, and price control authority. and the members of our music faculty are which my colleague, the gentleman Experience under the existing law has not professional arrangers." from North Carolina, Congressman taught us that rather than ensuring equity, The Ciceronian is hoping to find someone JAMES BROYHILL, and myself wrote to allocation and price controls simply make a who will volunteer to. arrange the score, he President Reagan on September 9, bad situation worse. As you noted in your said, as he can create a melody but does not 1981, with respect to the administra- letter, allocation and price controls have write music. 20710 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1981 "I kind of figured I'd write something Have their own college right nearby support for economic sanctions against about the town," Kmen said. "Nobody else Basketball, baseball champions South Africa in international political did it before, so I thought I'd try." We're part of future Midwesterners forums condemning apartheid-calmer and Kmen said he has 18 other songs copy Ethnic group's family ties are strong friendlier relations prevail in the discreet righted, and wrote his daughter's wedding Ciceronians get along.e world of international finance and business. march in 1974. It would be going too far to say there is "It's kind of like a hobby," Kmen ex collusion between South Africa and the plained. "I can hum it, then I find someone SOUTH AFRICA AND SOVIET Soviet Union to fix mineral prices, especial who can put it in note form." UNION: ODD PAIR ON MINERAL ly in the case of gold. But their covert con One of his latest efforts, a hymn entitled MARKETS tacts undoubtedly provide them both with "What Have You Done That Was Good?", valuable information and contribute to was played after a Mass in Our Lady of what financial people like to call "orderly Charity Church, 3600 S. 57th Court. Organ HON. JIM SANTINI OF NEVADA marketing." music for the hymn was provided by Robert Diamonds are forever and the South Afri Valenta, while lyrics were sung by Lynn IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cans would like to market them for every Macejek. Tuesday, September 15, 1981 one forever. For decades, maintaining a con But the Ciceronian's talents are not limited trolled world supply of diamonds has been to musical creativity, as he has tried his • Mr. SANTINI. Mr. Speaker, as you the prerogative of De Beers Consolidated hand at a manuscript as well. Kmen spent know, I have warned the Members of Mines. This is the diamond section of Harry eight years working on a 26-chapter book this House for the last several years of Oppenheimer's Anglo-American Corp., the entitled "Sentenced to Live." our vulnerability with respect to the world's largest mining empire headquar "The publishers just weren't interested," supply of strategic and critical miner tered on a quiet, tree-lined street in this said Kmen, adding the piece was rejected by als from southern Africa. On August 4, city's financial district. the 40 publishers who were sent copies. "I For many years the Soviet Union, second still have it yet. It's like a record of what 1981, the Washington Post published an article linking the Soviet Union and largest producer of gem diamonds in the happened to me. The grandchildren can world, had an open contract with the read it someday." South Africa in the strategic minerals London-based, De Beers-controlled Central In his writings, Kmen attempts to explain trade. · Selling Organization to market their dia the pain and pity of polio, he said, and how In light of recent political events in monds. Although this was abrogated in 1963 the physical results affect the victim in this area involving South Africa, Na for political reasons, a working relationship other ways. mibia, and Angola as well as troops still exists. GLAD TO BE ALIVE from both Cuba and the Soviet Union, European diamond dealers buying from Though there were times the polio victim one cannot deny the existence of dan "the syndicate," as the Central Selling Or said he wanted to die because of the pain, gerous instability in this region that is ganization is also called, say they find he is glad he survived it, adding, "Now I got Soviet gems in their purchases. Oppen so critical to our mineral well-being. heimer has privately told people here that to see my grandson." It was with great alarm that I read Bryan Charles Gerdzunas is Kmen's only his cousin Philip Oppenheimer, who heads grandchild, born of his only daughter, Kim of the cooperation between the Soviets the Central Selling Organization, regularly berly. His daughter was 1-year-old when and the South Africans in minerals travels to Moscow and that De Beers execu Kmen became one of 1,100 Chicagoans af marketing. This is especially discon tives meet the Soviets in London. Earlier flicted with polio. certing when one realizes that the this year a British Broadcasting Corp. "Pan "You're locked in your flesh," Kmen said Government of South Africa, the orama" television program told how a of paralysis. "You can't move, but your Saudi Arabia of strategic minerals, is Soviet delegation visited the South African mind is active." strongly anti-Communist. diamond mine in Kimberley and how Op An understatement, to be sure, as Kmen's penheimer had dined in London with Boris mind is constantly creating ideas, though For the convenience of my col Sergeev, deputy president of the Soviet dia his motionless hands cannot put them on leagues who may not have had the op mond and platinum marketing organization paper. portunity to read this article, I include in Moscow. "When I get a thought, either my wife this article, "South Africa and the The Soviet Union is not the only ideologi writes it down or someone else does," he ex Soviet Union: Odd Pair on Mineral cal foe of South Africa to deal with the Cen plained. "I'm looking for volunteers who Markets," in its entirety in the CoN tral Selling Organization. Marxist-run could help me write my dictation or help GRESSIONAL RECORD. Angola, which is virtually at war with South with simple sketches to put my ideas on Africa because of its support for anti-Preto paper." [From the Washington Post, Aug. 4, 19811 ria insurgents in Namibia, also sells its dia The sketches the Air Force veteran refers common interest in seeing a high or at least er who spotted him that he was "just pass We are the new generation a stable price for these products, vital to ing through." Proud graduates of Morton High both their economies. So despite their ideo . , :·r would find that explanation quite diffi Progress of our town's children logic distaste for each other-and Moscow's cult to believe," said William Gutteridge, September 15, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20711 professor of international studies at Bir tunities through intermediaries to learn to what Oppenheimer calls the volatility of mingham's University of Aston and an about each other's intentions. the gold market. expert on Soviet-South African relations. The South African Reserve Bank, which As Communists who pride themselves on "You don't just pass through Moscow and last year sold more than $10 billion worth of their anti-South African posture in interna get good seats at the Bolshoi ballet by acci gold, and the Soviets' Zurich-based Woz tional bodies, the Soviets appear more em dent," Gutteridge said in a telephone inter chod-Handelsbank deal with the same bul barrassed by the publicity of these contacts view. lion dealers and Swiss banks. In addition, than the South Africans. but they have not South Africa and the Soviet Union supply Anglo-American owns 29 percent of the been as adept as the South Africans in de 95 percent of the world's platinum. South London-based Consolidated Gold Fields, a nying them. Africa's major mines sell on long-term con gold-mining finance house that besides Anatoli Gromyko, head of the Soviet tracts. But the Soviets, who produce about owning profitable gold mines in South Africa Institute, told a Swiss newspaper one-fifth of what South Africa does, sell Africa is regarded as the expert source in that asked him about Soviet ties to the Cen their platinum on the free market. A tacit the West on Soviet gold production. tral Selling Organization: "The Soviet agreement for the Soviets not to accept a The company's executive director, Mi Union has contacts with the cartel which free-market price substantially under the chael Beckett, visited Moscow for discus deals in diamonds, which is not to be con South African contracted prices would be in sions with Soviet officials last September fused with official government ties with the long-term interests of both parties, ob that he said were to gather information for South Africa." servers note. And when a BBC team questioned the his company's annual bullion survey and to Soviet deputy ambassador to London, Vladi "You've got to have some kind of market discuss gold mining technology. He also ac ing arrangement," said one South African mir Bykov, about Oppenheimer's meal with knowledged that his company regularly Sergeev, Bykov replied, "Harry Oppen trader commenting on Waddell's presence in speaks with officials of Wozchod-Handels Moscow. heimer is an international businessman. I bank. assure you that our representative when he It would not be the first time Waddell met Christopher Stolz, senior deputy director the Soviets. Each May in London's Savoy talked to him, he talked to him as a busi of the South African Reserve Bank, agrees nessman, perhaps from Britain or the U.S., Hotel, platinum merchant Barry Salter his country and the Soviet Union "have brings together about 200 of the world's not like to a South African." common interests in marketing operations "There is no cooperation at all," Oppen major platinum producers and consumers. of gold" that could lead to similar sales poli The Soviets and South Africans are among heimer said last May in Frankfurt when cies. But he denies any formal or informal asked about the Waddell excursion to the guests quaffing quality wine and talking discussions. shop. Moscow. "There are common interests obvi Gutteridge says that he also knows of at The bank does, however, "get a lot of in ously in these markets and naturally both least one secret meeting two years ago be formation, quite good information some sides try to know what the other is doing. tween Soviets and South Africans in Oslo times" on Russian sales through banks and There are no agreements. Perhaps it would during which the Soviets told the South Af dealers used by both countries in New York, be better if there were, but I'm afraid there ricans they were temporarily dropping out Frankfurt, Zurich and London, Stolz said. are not." of the platinum market. Ian Wright, a former executive of Consoli Waddell did not attend Salter's platinum "There are some cases too, for example in dated Gold Fields and now a London stock lunch this year. When a rival South African chrome, of the Soviet Union indirectly con broker specializing in gold, said in a tele platinum producer, Sidney Newman of tacting South Africa on prices," he added. phone interview that "the strings or ties be Lonrho, playfully broached the subject of But "the evidence on platinum is pretty tween the Soviet Union and South Africa Waddell's visit to Moscow, Soviet trade offi clearcut . . . I would not be surprised if they are very slender indeed, but I'm quite sure cial Eugene Manakov shouted from his seat, are not also discussing mining and refining some kind of link has been made." "He was at the Bolshoi," according to a par techniques." Wright speculates that any tacit agree ticipant at the lunch. While there is no evidence of direct dis ment might be along the lines of agreeing At this, grins and chuckles bubbled over in cussions on gold sales between the two coun on a floor price below which both countries the Savoy's dining room.e tries, which together supply 80 percent of would not sell. Such an agreement would be this precious metal, there are ample oppor- all the more useful now than in the past due
