July 26, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21019 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE PEOPLE'S PARADISE Ukrainian language, literature, and arts to ence Monitor correspondent William Henry flourish. By the end of the decade, however, Chamberlin wrote soon thereafter, "but the regime had come to perceive both stark, outright famine, with its victims HON. JACK FIELDS trends as subversive. The NEP was sustain counted in millions." OF TEXAS ing a private peasantry-both Russian and One eyewitness, a city resident, described IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES non-Russian-that was hostile to the urban a visit to his parents' village: Tuesday, July 26, 1983 based Bolsheviks' collectivist goals; indeed, "Although it was not long since I had last the Party appeared to be drowning in a been there, I could hardly recognize it. The e Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, some "peasant sea." Meanwhile the cultural re Moscow government had taken away all the form of socialism/communism is domi laxation associated with NEP threatened to food long before. Now the village was bereft nant in many nations and every conti undermine the regime's decidedly great of even cats and dogs. The officials hunted nent. The idea of socialism is especial Russian character. And, as Stalin noted in them and put them into a pound, but the ly attractive to intellectuals who are 1925, both developments complemented hungry people caught and ate them. People each other: "The peasant question is the avoided one another in calm, unreal atmos able to maintain a comfortable dis basis, the quintessence, of the national phere for fear of being eaten. My mother tance from actual Socialist practices. question. That explains the fact that the and a few of her neighbors told me how H. Though socialism is a god that fails peasantry constitutes the main army of the Zhuk ate his mother; how a woman they continuously, and causes more human national movement, that there is no power knew ate her children; and how H. Skryn suffering and tragedy than any idea or ful national movement without the peasant nyk ate his mother." practice in history, there are those army, nor can there be.... " "This kind of grim, stark chronicle could who stubbornly cling to its high Stalin's solution to the peasant problem have been compiled in almost any village in minded idealism. They religously close was collectivization. The richer, more pro the Ukraine in that terrible winter and ductive, and politically more troublesome spring of 1932-33," wrote Chamberlin. up their eyes to the reality that the peasants-kulaks-were deported to Siberia "Every village I visited reported a death Socialist promise of instant utopia and thereby "liquidated as a class." There rate of not less than ten per cent." Small brings only the tyranny of a real dys maining "poor" and "middle" peasants were wonder that Malcolm Muggeridge, who trav topia. herded into collective farms. They respond eled to the Ukraine in the summer of 1933 It is for them that the following ed by slaughtering their animals, working as a correspondent for the Manchester glimpse of reality is provided. less, and engaging in "terrorist" acts against Guardian, recently termed the famine the [From the American Spectator, August representatives of the regime. Not surpris "most terrible thing I have ever seen." 1983] ingly, production plummeted; state extrac Most Ukrainians would agree with Cham tion of grain, however, increased. In all, berlin that "this famine may fairly be called THE GREAT UKRAINIAN FAMINE Soviet agriculture received a blow from political because it was not the result of any
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 21020 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 was ignored or denied by the governmental Westerners to be more than willing to give army said in 1981, "a Sandismo without authorities, and even to a large degree suc the Soviet Union the benefit of the doubt. Marxism-Leninism cannot be revolution cessfully concealed from world opinion. Billy Graham's infamous behavior on his ary.'' "There seems little doubt that the main trip to the USSR last year was but one man The revolution also proclaims itself a issue was simply crushing the peasantry at ifestation of this attitude. friend of Christians. But its theological sup. any cost. One high official told a Ukrainian Directly responsible, however, were those porters stress that Christianity without who later defected that the 1933 harvest Western admirers of Stalin's "bold experi Marxism-Leninsim cannot be true Christi 'was a test of our strength and their endur ment" all too ready to overlook images that anity. ance. It took a famine to show them who is did not fit their preconceived schemes. Two In this regard, the Sandinistas have master here. It has cost millions of lives, but who in particular went out of their way to proved wiser than Castro. Instead of direct the collective farm system is here to stay.'" downplay if not ignore the famine were ly confronting Christianity, they have In this view, famine was a policy instru Walter Duranty, then head of the New York claimed that true Christianity is Marxist; ment directed against the most recalcitrant Times Moscow bureau, and Louis Fischer, instead of persecuting the church as a peasants, regardless of nationality. Moscow correspondent for the Nation. Ac whole, they have sought to divide it. A third, ethnically oriented "revisionist" cording to Duranty's colleague, former In fact, in fiercely Catholic Nicaragua, interpretation has recently been gaining Times critic John Chamberlain, Duranty, Marxists must be much more cunning than ground in scholarly circles. Its main propo "was not only heartless about the famine, they were in Cuba-especially when they nent is James Mace, an American historian he had betrayed his calling as a journalist face the growing unrest and rebelliousness who is preparing a book on the famine. As by failing to report it." But Duranty did suc of peasants, Indians and many former sup Mace puts it: ceed in something else-he actually won a porters. "The areas affected by the man-made Pulitzer Prize for his reportage. Will the Sandinistas succed? It is hard to famine all contained groups which could Fischer said it best: "History can be say. As Venezulean President Herrera plausibly be considered hindrances to Sta cruel," he wrote. "The peasants wanted to Campings recently said, "Nicaragua is a lin's plans to resurrect a politically homoge destroy collectivization. The government Latin American Poland that does not have a neous Russian empire. It did not, strictly wanted to retain collectivization. The peas Russian army at its borders.'' speaking, correspond with the main grain ants used the best means at their disposal. And there seem to be many would-be Wa producing areas, as would be expected were The government used the best means at lesas around. it solely a question of intensified extraction their disposal. The government won."e 11-{)59 Q-87-38 (Pt. 15) 21032 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 our abiding friendship and affection. issues. Sarah is well known in the vet June A. Willenz, Bethesda, Maryland, Ex Long after the memory of specific eran community because of her pene ecutive Director, American Veterans Com events fades, the tie of friendship will trating and searching questions raised mittee, author and columnist.e remain. My staff and I wish Mr. at Presidential news conferences re Chung, his wife, daughter, and baby garding veterans issues and programs. soon to be all happiness and success.e When I see Sarah ask a President one POLITICAL ASYLUM FOR DENNIS of those penetrating questions, I can BRUTUS certainly sympathize with him. Sarah VA ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON represents a newspaper, Temple Daily HON. BARNEY FRANK WOMEN VETERANS Telegram, and TV station, KCEN-TV OF MASSACHUSETTS in my district, and I get that type of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MARVIN LEATH question almost daily. She has covered OF TEXAS the work of the Veterans' Affairs Tuesday, July 26, 1983 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee down through the years • Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, the Mas Tuesday, July 26, 1983 and is, therefore, most knowledgeable sachusetts State Senate recently on all veterans programs. She has passed an eloquent resolution support e Mr. LEATH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, served her country with distinction ing the request of Dennis Brutus for today, there are approximately both in war and peace. She will bring political asylum. For the United States 742,000 women who have served in the to the advisory committee insight and to expel Dennis Brutus would be to U.S. Armed Forces, or about 2.5 per experience as a female veteran. betray the ideals of our country. He is cent of all living veterans. The United Administrator Walters is to be com a victim of one of the most brutal sys States has more women and a greater mended for establishing this most im tems in the world-the South African percentage of women serving in the portant Advisory Committee on racist system of apartheid. I am very military than any other country, ac Women Veterans and for appointing proud that the Massachusetts Senate, cording to a report in Newsweek maga Sarah McClendon as one of its distin with the leadership of my own State zine. Approximately 8 percent of the guished members. I am submitting for senator, Jack H. Backman, has urged current total military strength of the the RECORD the entire membership of that Dennis Brutus be given political U.S. military are women and this the committee for the benefit of all asylum. I ask that this resolution be figure is expected to reach 12 percent Members. printed here. by 1985. As the estimated number of MEMBERS OF VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS female veterans rises in the years ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON WOMEN VETERANS RESOLUTIONS REQUESTING POLITICAL ahead, it will be incumbent upon the Lenora C. Alexander, Ph.D., Washington, ASYLUM FOR DENNIS BRUTUS OF SOUTH Veterans' Administration, in carrying D.C. Director, Women's Bureau, U.S. De AFRICA out its mission, to give full consider partment of Labor. Whereas, Dennis Brutus, now a poet with ation to the problems of former Karen Burnette, Knoxville, Tennessee, out a country, has graced the Common female military personnel. Nurse, Visiting Nurse Team Leader, Home wealth of Massachusetts as a teacher within That is why I was pleased to cospon Health Agency. one of our free and independent colleges; Charles Collatos, Boston, Massachusetts, and sor H.R. 113"1, which proposes to es- Commission of Veterans Services, State of . tablish, in the Veterans' Administra Whereas, Dennis Brutus, came to our land Massachusetts. after an across-the-world journey from the tion, an Advisory Committee on SSG Cherlynne S. Galligan, Washington, apartheid state of South Africa, where from Women Veterans. Hearings were held D.C., Office of the Secretary of Defense, his youth he cried out for the freedom of on this legislation by the Subcommit U.S. Army. his oppressed people in a country where tee on Hospitals and Health Care on Pauline Hester, Greensboro, North Caroli na, Nurse/Anesthetist, Chief Nurse, 312 one's life is at risk for independence of March 3, 1983. At that hearing, VA Evac Hospital. spirit; and representatives indicated that Veter Jeanne Holm, Edgewater, Maryland, Whereas, Dennis Brutus is now a tenured, ans' Administrator Walters had taken Major General U.S. Air Force Retired, respected college professor in Illinois at one steps to facilitate the establishment of former Director Women in the Air Force, of our Nation's great universities, a free an Advisory Committee on Women former Special Assistant to the President man in search of peace for his people of and author. South Africa; and Veterans. On July 19, Administrator Whereas, the Senate of the Common Walters announced that he estab Margaret Malone, Trenton, New Jersey, National Vice-Commander American wealth of Massachusetts, the oldest, contin lished this advisory committee, and its Legion. uous constitutional legislative assembly of first meeting will be held in Washing Joan E. Martin, Tacoma, Washington, free men and women in the world, with a ton, D.C., September 14-16, 1983. Public relations and banking executive, heritage of independence of mind, and op The advisory committee will consult active in AMVETS. portunity granted to millions of the op with the Administra.tor on the needs Carlos Martinez, San Antonio, Texas, Ex pressed of the world, responds to the cry of ecutive Director, G. I. Forum, National Vet Dennis Brutus, which has gone unanswered of women veterans with respect to since he asserted in Nairobi, Africa in nine health care, rehabilitation, and all of erans Outreach Program. Sarah McClendon, Washington, D.C., teen hundred and sixty-seven, "How much the rights and benefits to which veter Journalist and author. longer must we doggedly importune in the ans are entitled. Most important, Estelle Ramey, Ph.D., Bethesda, Mary anterooms of governors of the world or female veterans must be reassured land, Professor of Physiology and Biophys huddle stubborn on the draughty frontiers that the Veterans' Administration will ics, Georgetown University. of strange lands? How long must we endure? take necessary actions to provide that Lorraine Rossi, Alexandria, Virginia, Colo And how shall I express my gratitude and female veterans have equal access to nel, U.S. Army Retired. love?"; and all Veterans' Administration benefits, Omega L. Silva, M.D., Washington, D.C. Whereas, Dennis Brutus is now requesting Research Associate anj Clinical Investiga political asylum in the United States and is especially in the area of hospital and tor, Veterans Administration Medical in imminent risk of deportation in proceed medical care. Center, Washington, D.C. ings before the United States Immigration One of the members of the 18- Jesse Stearns, Washington, D.C., Journal and Naturalization Service; Now, therefore member advisory committee is Ms. ist and author. be it Sarah McClendon, a nationally recog Alberta I. Suresch, St. Petersburg, Flori Resolved, That the Massachusetts Senate nized journalist. Sarah, a World War da, National Service Officer, Florida Dis asserts its support of the plea of Dennis II veteran, is a White House corre abled American Veterans. Brutus and calls upon the United States Im JoAnn Webb, Arlington, Virginia, Nurse, migration and Naturalization Service, the spondent, a former member of the De health planner. United States State Department, the United fense Advisory Committee on Women Sarah Wells, Washington, D.C. Brigadier States Congress and the President of the in the Service, and an adviser to the General U.S. Air Force Retired, former United States to grant political asylum to Department of Defense on women's head U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps. Dennis Brutus and that he be released from July 26, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21033 the status of pending deportation and be nomic wealth and get ahead. It has homebuilders and realtors throughout otherwise offered the privilege of residency virtually made capitalists out of the my district. It is a program that helps in this our land; and be it further lower-middle income class in this coun home buyers and the economy. It typi Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions try. be transmitted forthwith by the clerk of the fies the President's concept of New Senate to the United States Immigration Vital as the mortgage revenue bond Federalism and is responsive to indi and Naturalization Service, the United program is to lower-income first-time vidual community needs. States State Department, the Massachu home buyers, it is just as vital to the To date, approximately 700,000 setts congressional delegation, the President Housing industry and economic devel homes have been financed under the of the United States and to Dennis Brutus. opment. So far, the 1980's have been program through State and local Senate, adopted, July 12, 1983. dismal years for housing. Yet, this is housing agencies. I hope there will be WILLIAM M. BULGER, the decade that will see the Nation's many more. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased President of the Senate. greatest need for housing as the crest to be part of a strong bipartisan effort EDWARD B. O'NEILL, of the baby boom-42 million strong Clerk of the Senate. to continue the bond program and Offered by: enters the home buying years. urge the House to pass H.R. 1176 to JACK H. BACKMAN•• Although the housing industry is keep it going.e just beginning to get back on its feet, it is not at all clear that it's on solid THE MORTGAGE MAJORITY ground. The prospect of higher inter VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL est rate hikes loom over the financial HON. LES AuCOIN markets and carry with it the seeds of OF OREGON a faltering housing recovery. Last HON. CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES month, we saw a rise in the interest OF CALIFORNIA rates of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Tuesday, July 26, 1983 FHA,. and VA. The Federal Reserve is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, it is rare poised to turn the screws on credit Tuesday, July 26, 1983 that a strong bipartisan majority of conditions which could further endan e Mr. PASHAYAN. Mr. Speaker, not Members can ever agree on an issue. ger housing recovery and housing af too far from the magnificent memorial But, that is indeed what has happened fordability. to President Abraham Lincoln on the in the case of legislation to extend the Certainly cost is a concern. As it Mall in our Nation's Capital stands a mortgage revenue bond program. should be. But to those who criticize newer, less imposing structure that is Over 350 Members in the House the program as merely a drain on the invisible from the busy nearby streets. have joined my colleagues Mr. Treasury, I would point out that the It is a monument whose design has DOWNEY and Mr. FRENZEL in sponsor flow of funds is not one way. Unlike generated controversy, perhaps from ing H.R. 1176 to repeal the sunset date most other industries, housing has the for single-family mortgage revenue ability to spawn sales and jobs not generations accustomed to the more bonds. And for good reason. only in the construction industry, but imposing structures. The mortgage revenue bond pro in numerous businesses directly and The full impact of this monument gram provides a host of social and eco indirectly spurred by housing activity. cannot be realized until one walks nomic benefits that cannot be ignored. Its tremendous ripple effect is job in across the grass and through the trees It is important not only to States with tensive and growth intensive. and then stands before the two slant a timber-based economy such as mine, In Oregon alone, the mortgage reve ing walls that form this belated re but also to State and local govern nue bond program has produced by a membrance to those Americans who ments and to home builders and home conservative estimate, more than 1,000 made the supreme sacrifice in the buyers across the Nation. It means ac jobs, over $7 million in Federal and Vietnam war. tualizing the dream of homeownership State revenues and over $123 million As one's eyes travel across the some for thousands of Americans. It means in economic activity. 58,000 names carved into those black economic development. It means jobs The reluctance on the part of the marble walls the words of Archibald and revenues. administration to continue the pro MacLeish from "The Young Dead Sol I can point with a great measure of gram is ironic when just 1 year ago, diers" echo: satisfaction to Oregon's experience the President embraced the mortgage The young dead soldiers do not speak. with the mortgage revenue bond pro revenue bond program as a life pre Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses. gram. Since the Oregon Housing Divi server for the floundering housing in They say we were young. son issued its first bonds in 1977, the dustry. At that time, the administra We have died. Remember us ... program has financed the shelter tion was favoring mortgage revenue needs of over 8,500 Oregonians who bonds in lieu of the direct emergency As one walks along those walls, one have never previously owned a home housing stimulus program I was fight is overwhelmed by the enormous sacri of their own. ing for. In fact, he told realtors at a fice made by those commemorated by With the use of this bonding author Washington conference last March this structure. ity, Oregon has been able to design that housing was a top priority and The MacLeish poem goes on to say: several innovative mortgage finance that he supported changes in the We leave you our deaths. programs. One example is the city of mortgage revenue bond program to aid Give them their meaning. Portland's recycled housing program. the depressed housing industry. Perhaps the finest meaning we can The recycled housing program has en Not withstanding the administra give to those whose names are in abled Portland to acquire 21 vacant tion's flip-flop on the benefits and scribed on these walls is to devote our deteriorating and abandoned proper need to continue this program, a ma lives to building a world in which it ties, fully rehabilitate them and sell jority in Congress and at the grass shall never again become necessary to them to low-income families-families roots level know firsthand just how construct a memorial to those who · who otherwise find themselves frozen valuable the mortgage revenue bond have fallen in combat. out of the housing market. program is. The 58,000 who are remembered on However, homeownership represents Earlier this year, the Oregon Legis these walls will have died in vain if we much more than shelter. Let us not lature passed a resolution asking that shall fail in our efforts to achieve a forget that since World War II, it has the bonding authority be continued. I world of peace. We shall be judged by been housing and homeownership that have received a number of supportive future generations for what we do, have enabled middle-income Ameri letters from the Governor's office, rather than for the monuments we cans to increase their personal eco- from local governments, and from build. 21034 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1983 Regardless· of how and why this war "You just don't give up," he said in an O'Connell joined the family business in began and ended, those who served interview earlier this year, following a near 1931, after apprenticing for the United En and fell did so with honor in a situa fatal bout with pneumonia. "The important gineers and Construction Co. in Philadel tion beyond their control. There could thing in this business, or any business, is to phia and Los Angeles. He took the reins in be damn sure you stay in there and give it 1940, moving deliberately to expand the be no more fitting remembrance for everything you've got." company•s· scope. He bid on larger, more them than the achievement of a last Bom in Holyoke on St. Patrick's Day, challenging projects and sought work out ing peace. 1907, O'Connell lived in the city all his life, side the area. As the poem reminds us: heading numerous business and civic groups That expansion climaxed in 1964 when Whether our lives and our deaths were for and receiving virtually every local distinc O'Connell's ventured a 1,700 unit housing peace and a new Hope or for nothing, we tion for public service. project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, at the cannot say, it is you who must say this.e A fourth-generation Holyoker, his sense time the largest project in Latin America of history was acute; probably no other under the U.S. sponsored Alliance for person in his time embodied as much of the Progress. O'Connell subsequently limited THE DEATH OF DANIEL city as O'Connell did. his company's efforts to New England, O'CONNELL His great-grandfather, the first Daniel where they could be managed more strictly. O'Connell, came to Holyoke from Ireland in During the 1940s, O'Connell began three the 1840s to work on construction of the decades of civic and trade activity. He was a HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE first wooden dam at Hadley Falls-the city's trustee of People's Savings Bank, a director seminal building project. OF MASSACHUSETTS of Holyoke National Bank, president of His grandfather was the city's first super both the Community Chest, precursor of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES intendent of streets, quitting under protest United Way, and the Chamber of Com Tuesday, July 26, 1983 and forming his own road-building company merce. at the Hampden Street location where it He was marshall of the third St. Patrick's • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, every still stands 104 years later. Day parade in 1954, and honorary chairman community has its leaders, be they in Today, the firm is contractor for the city's of the 1955 parade. He received the William government, industry, education, or two largest construcion projects-the Wang G. Dwight Award for distinguished commu religion. Every once in a great while, Laboratories plant and the second hydro nity service the same year. however, a community is graced with a unit at the Hadley Falls Dam. The company In 1960, he was named special sheriff, his also built most of Interstate 391, completed first official post, and was appointed chair leader whose works not only benefit last year and regarded by city officials as a his people while he is alive, but stand lifeline for downtown. man of the Planning Board in 1962. He was as lasting monuments to his works and forced to resign the following year after the "The closer a job gets to Holyoke," an as adoption of a new state conflict of interest achievements. sociate said recently, "the more interested law.