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May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11997 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS MEDAL OF MERIT RECIPIENTS Romulus: James P. Holbrook, 18, son of entertainment and assistance to the elderly, James E. and Josephine M. Holbrook, for including monthly birthday celebrations, his volunteer renovation of the Oakwoods and for involving many of her classmates in HON. WILLIAM D. FORD Metro Park Nature Center

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 11998 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 1983 CONGRESSIONAL POLL RESULTS-Continued scribe is whether the activity is re­ local government shall be liable under [In percent] quired by the State acting as sover­ the antitrust laws for any conduct eign." In that case, the Court held within the authority vested in such Adults 1 Students that the publication and enforcement unit by any law only to the extent Yes No Yes No of a minimum fee schedule by State that a State, if such State were au­ ------and local bar associations was not re­ thorized by any law to engage in iden­ 5. Would you favor repeal of legislation permit­ quired by State law or the State su­ tical conduct, would be liable under ting the Internal Revenue Service to withhold preme court, and thus was not State JO percent of dividend and interest payments?... 77 21 58 42 the antitrust laws for such identical 6. Would you support a federally funded program action for the purposes of the Sher- conduct. This may not be a perfect so­ to retrain unemployed workers in industries man Act. where jobs haW been permanently lost to lution to the problem, but I believe it 1 1 46 51 66 34 The Boulder decision held that mu­ is a useful start. I invite other Mem­ 1. ~ign;~ll!: ·s-iales··· -wiih .... iiie····highesi". nicipal action, even by a home rule unemployment should be given preference in bers to join me in this important initi­ 26 82 18 city with complete authority in local ative by cosponsoring this bill.• 8_t~~r~~g~~~~fnt1i:eact~~u~n~k · 73 matters, is not immune from the anti- percent personal income tax cut scheduled to take effect this summer? ...... 26 72 41 59 trust laws unless: First, it constitutes the sovereign action of the State itself TRIBUTE TO AN OUTSTANDING 1 Balance equaling I00 percent undecided.• or, second, is authorized by a "clearly NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER, IRA articulated and affirmatively ex- CAHN pressed State policy" of substituting A BILL TO EXTEND ANTITRUST regulation for competition. A general HON. NORMAN F. LENT IMMUNITY TO LOCAL GOVERN- grant of home rule authority does not OF NEW YORK MENTS meet that second standard-"mere IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES neutrality" is not enough, the Court HON. HENRY J. HYDE said. The Boulder Court also refused Wednesday, May 11, 1983 OF ILLINOIS to distinguish proprietary from gov­ • Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, I raise to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ernmental actions by the municipality. call to the attention of my colleagues In a somewhat similar case decided 4 the achievements and accomplish­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 years earlier, city of Lafayette against ments of an outstanding newspaper •Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, today I am Louisiana Power and Light Co., the publisher in the Fourth Congressional pleased to introduce a bill in response municipality's actions had been pro­ District of New York, which I have the to the decision of the Supreme Court prietary rather than governmental honor to represent. in Community Communications Co., and Justice Burger had suggested in a I refer to Ira Cahn, publisher of the Inc. against city of Boulder, handed concurring opinion that governmental Massapequa Post, a newspaper serving down in January 1982. action should be immune from anti­ some 8,000 families in the communi­ The Boulder decision has refocused trust challenge. But the Boulder ties of Massapequa and Massapequa attention on the relationship between Court, while acknowledging that the Park, and the Amityville Record serv­ the Federal antitrust laws and local Parker doctrine reflects Congress in­ ing the Amityville community. Ira government activities. In the wake of tention to embody in the Sherman Act Cahn founded the Massapequa Post in Boulder, many municipal officials fear the federalist principle of State sover­ 1951. Throughout the more than three that the threat of treble damage anti­ eignty, expressly held that the Federal decades the newspaper has been pub­ trust liability could inhibit their per­ system "has no place for sovereign lished by Ira Cahn, it has been a formance of legitimate governmental cities." strong and forceful voice for communi­ functions. As I said at the outset, municipal of­ ty betterment. By their very nature, municipal ac­ ficials are concerned that their legiti­ During those years, I have been a tions often tend to have a major mate exercise of both their proprie­ reader of the Massapequa Post and impact on competition, and usually in­ tary and governmental responsibilities have long admired the high standards volve discretionary decisions which will give rise to treble damage anti­ of journalism which have been estab­ have exclusionary effects. Over the trust liability. It is not surprising, lished under Ira Cahn's supervision. past 5 years, municipalities have been therefore, that the National League of This is in no small part due to the fact charged with a number of antitrust Cities and the U.S. Conference of that Ira's lovely and talented wife Bar­ violations associated with a wide range Mayors are advising us that they favor bara, has served as the paper's manag­ of franchising, licensing, zoning, and an amendment to the antitrust laws to ing editor during most of the years the other regulatory activities. extend the Parker State action exemp­ Massapequa Post has been published. By way of background, in Parker tion to cities and other political subdi­ The newspaper has won more than against Brown, decided in 1943, the visions of the State. I am advised that 100 awards of journalistic excellence Supreme Court upheld a California the Office of the Clerk of the House in every field of journalistic endeavor, State agricultural marketing program of Representatives has forwarded to and represents the very epitome of re­ which had been challenged as a re­ the Judiciary Committee a number of sponsible community leadership and straint of trade. The Court held that resolutions adopted by city councils service. the Sherman Act was never intended and local bodies requesting a legisla­ Ira Cahn, now generally referred to by the Congress to apply to State tive remedy. Many of us have also as the dean of Long Island newspaper action or official action imposed and been hearing from individual munici­ publishers and editors, has won sub­ directed by a State. The key to the palities in our districts. stantial recognition from his peers. He Court's holding was the determination I am convinced myself that this is a has served as president of the New that "nothing in the language of the problem of sufficient importance to York Press Association, and is current­ Sherman Act or its history • • • sug­ merit the prompt attention of the Ju­ ly a member of the board of the Long gests that its purpose was to restrain a diciary Committees of both the House Island Press Association. Always inter­ State or its officers or agents from ac­ and the Senate. I understand that ested in the younger generation, Ira tivities directed by its legislature." In Senator THuRMOND is having legisla­ Cahn is an associate professor of com­ the 1975 case of Goldfarb against Vir­ tion prepared for introduction in the munity journalism at C. W. Post Col­ ginia State Bar, the Supreme Court other body. The bill which I am intro­ lege in Greenvale, N.Y., and no better stated that "the threshold inquiry in ducing today is my contribution instructor in that field can be found. determining if an anticompetitive ac­ toward getting the legislative process Mr. Speaker, one would think that tivity is State action of the type the underway in the House of Representa­ with all of these professional duties Sherman Act was not meant to pro- tives. My bill provides that a unit of and responsibilities, Ira Cahn's days May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11999 would be fully occupied. But such is The city today is one of nice homes, nations have amassed as they embarked on far from the truth. Few have devoted excellent schools, friendly people, and development. Amendments being offered by as much time to community and civic a good, responsive local government. It several members to stretch-out repayments, though well-intentioned, are nothing more affairs as has Ira Cahn. For example, is a community of involved citizens than attempts to make a "silk purse out of a he has taken a most active interest in taking an active role in helping each sow's ear." No matter how hard we try to the history of the Massapequa area, other and the community through a address the long-term debt issue, the IMF and is a founding member of the Mas­ variety of clubs and organizations. It is proves to be an inadequate institution. sapequa Historical Society. He also a mature city that is aware and proud First, I am disturbed by the fact that at served as vice chairman of the bicen­ of its past and optimistic about its best, the result of the banks and the IMF tennial commission for the town of future. lending activities, as George Champion for­ Oyster Bay. Mr. Speaker, the people of Birming­ merly from Chase Manhattan Bank stated, In truth, Mr. Speaker, Ira Cahn is has been the creation of a heavy debt with ham and their civic leaders deserve to little or no improvement in the living stand­ not only an outstanding newspaper be congratulated for their fine work in ards of the developing countries' needy editor and publisher, he is an out­ making Birmingham an excellent people. Loaned funds, either directly or indi­ standing citizen of this great Nation of place to live. As the city readies itself rectly, should not be used for the expansion ours. I know that my colleagues here for its golden anniversary celebration, of recipient governments, nor for the pur­ in the House join me in offering our I wish it continued success and pros­ chase of military equipment, nor for invest­ heartiest congratulations and our perity in the decades to come.e ment in capital-intensive industries. Rather, warmest best wishes to Ira and his loaned funds should aid people and small lovely wife Barbara. Together, they enterprises, including such entities as agri­ have forged an exemplary record of STATEMENT OF THE HONORA­ cultural cooperatives, which address the BLE MARCY KAPTUR BEFORE real needs of the poor in developing nations. community service and leadership Unfortunately, it is common knowledge that which can serve as a most inspiring ex­ THE COMMITTEE ON BANK­ ING, FINANCE AND URBAN AF­ IMF recommendations to developing na­ ample for all of us.e tions have often adversely impacted on such FAIRS IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF development. As the Interreligious Task REPRESENTATIVES, MAY 9, Force on U.S. Food Policy stated to the Sub­ BIRMINGHAM, MICH., CELE- 1983 committee on International Trade, "by rec­ BRATES GOLDEN ANNIVERSA­ ommending policies that will restore a for­ RY HON. MARCY KAPTUR eign exchange balance in the short-run, the IMF undermines the basis for long-term, OF OHIO self-reliant, needs-oriented development." HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHIGAN Essentially, IMF policy is a policy of stay­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 ing the course. I believe that we must break IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the pattern of encouraging export-led devel­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 e Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I would opment strategies for the developing na­ like to insert a copy of the statement Mr. tions. These strategies have resulted in the e BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, which I made before the Committee following scenario: 1 > increased borrowing next week the city of Birmingham, on Banking, Finance and Urban Af­ for longer periods of time; 2> massive debts; Mich., commences its celebration of fairs, on May 9, 1983, during the con­ 3) IMF suggestions that these nations tight­ the 50th anniversary of its incorpora­ sideration of the International Mone­ en monetary and fiscal policies; and finally tion. It has been my privilege to repre­ tary Fund quota increase request. My 4) heightened political tensions and social sent the city and its people through­ statement follows: unrest in host countries. Governments in out my years in the House of Repre­ developing nations must not have to resort sentatives, and I wish to extend my STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE MARCY the repressive economic policies in order to sincerest congratulations and best KAPTUR BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON BANK­ carry out IMF-encouraged financial ar­ ING, FINANCE AND URBAN .AFFAIRS IN THE rangements. wishes to them on their golden anni­ U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MAY 9, I believe monetary and fiscal policies versary. 1983 cannot be separated from development poli­ While the history of Birmingham as Mr. Chairman, I have spent a great deal of cies, and so we must work for major changes a city goes back 50 years, its real histo­ time thinking about the request for the in global economic development and trade ry extends back over 157 years when IMF quota increase, and before we vote on arrangements. Holding a conference, mod­ the first settlers built their cabins in this issue, I would like to explain my posi­ eled after the original Bretton Woods Con­ the area. These were people who left tion. This is one of the more difficult votes ference, that focuses on international fiscal the comfort, civilization, and confine­ with which I personally have been faced in and monetary policy and its relation to de­ ment of the eastern States to seek op­ my months in Congress. I intent to insert velopment policy, is crucial and timely. my full statement in the Record. Most of our nation's current trade trou­ portunity and to build a new and The extensive hearings involving wit­ bles-the falling exports, the disputes over better life for themselves and their nesses on all sides of this issue, which I com­ other countries' trading tactics, the alleged families through hard work and true mend Congressman Neal, Chairman of the decline of American industrial competitive­ grit out west. These were the same Subcommittee on International Trade, In­ ness-are the result of exchange rates fuel­ people who eventually built a great vestment and Monetary Policy, for holding, ing an overpriced dollar, lifted by high in­ nation that straddled a continent. have aided me in my decision on this terest rates, as well as the problems of cash­ From this beginning, the history of matter. I thank Congressman Neal and rich banks that reacted to Mideast oil price Birmingham parallels the growth of Chairman St Germain for their excellent hikes of the 1970s. The abnormally high our Nation. From the few log cabins work and for the excellent work of their dollar is doing irreparable harm to our econ­ staffs. I want to briefly share my ideas with omy-both to the export industries and to along an Indian trail, a hard days the committee members. producers here that must compete with im­ travel from Detroit, Birmingham grew I regrettably will not support the proposal ports. Moreoever, it is devastating to debtor to become a small town that serviced to authorize an increase in the U.S. quota to nations. Hence, the North and South must the many farms in the area. In the the IMF. However, I do not want this to be engage in a major dialogue to fundamental­ 20th century with the improvement of interpreted as a vote against the American ly alter current arrangements in the inter­ roads and the means of travel, the face role in international development, but national fiscal and monetary systems, and of Birmingham changed again to rather as a statement of deep concern that address their relation to development become first a bustling town and then international financial institutions present­ policy. I will support all efforts to do this. ly in place are not properly constituted to Finally, I believe that the major banks the modern, attractive suburban com­ result in third world development that which loaned this money are entirely re­ munity it is today. touches the masses of poor people in the sponsible for their own actions, and that While Birmingham today is part of host countries. No short-term financial greater regulation is not the answer. I be­ the sprawling Detroit metropolitan band-aid in the form of IMF increases to lieve these banks, on their own, should set community, it has been able to retain provide so-called liquidity can begin to ad­ up larger loan loss reserves. Their painful its own identity and historic charm. dress the staggering long-term debt these experience in the international lending 12000 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 arena should be adequate impetus to do so. Evening will result in a loss of jobs. I would like these well meant efforts are too often Gazette, Apr. 19, 19831 regarded as being procedurally com­ to share this response with my col­ plex, lacking in the human touch and RESPONDING TO CRISIS leagues. The Worcester District Medical Society too long delayed for corrective impact deserves praise for its program to help the [From the New York Times, Apr. 27, 19831 upon a home crisis. jobless maintain adequate levels of medical PROTECT UNSUBSIDIZED TANKERS Mr. Speaker, some noted sociology care. writers have been emphasizing, over Some 450 physician members of the socie­ the past decade, their fears about a ty have agreed to take part in a program de­ fits because they have been out of work for By endorsing the Department of Trans­ among Americans, of any personal in­ portation proposal to permit subsidized terest in the well-being of their neigh­ an extended period. Doctors will see and treat patients who are referred through the tankers to return to domestic service Teodosiu, 29, former leader of date for the loss of Romania's most-fa­ the Romanian Christian Committee for vored-nation trading status. Each only for interrogations during his Human Rights, was one of the best sources spring a sort of unofficial bargaining entire 3-month stay. The interroga­ of information for Helsinki Commission re­ process begins when the Communist tions are a story in themselves. porting on persecution of Christians and country's trading status comes up for During one session, Teodosiu was other human rights violations. In December review. MFN is used as a tool to en­ questioned for 60 consecutive hours. 1981, Teodosiu was arrested and charged courage socialist countries to adopt He was not permitted to eat, drink, or with high treason, espionage and cooperat­ more acceptable emigration and sleep, and was strapped into a special ing with the CIA. Due to pressure from the human rights policies. It waives trade chair with an apparatus that forced West, he was released only hours before his trial was due to go on in March 1982. restrictions with Soviet bloc countries his eyes open the entire time. While Finally, one year later, Teodosiu was per­ with which we do not have a bilateral lights flashed on and off, he was told mitted to emigrate with his wife and 9- trade agreement if they show some to confess that he was working with month-old child after paying $7,400 to the steps toward improvement in those the CIA. If he confessed, his sentence government which was provided by a Chris­ areas. would be less than 20 years in prison; tian organization, East Watch International The President imposed the deadline if he refused, his sentence would be of Erwinna, Pa. on MFN because of a new education more than 20 years, or execution. Teodosiu reponded to questions asked by tax implemented by the Romanian Washington Times correspondent Stephen Prisoners were not permitted to sit Goldstein. Government in November. The tax down in their cells between 5 a.m. and Q. How are Romanian Christians perse­ makes emigration practically impossi­ 10 p.m. They received only a piece of cuted by the government? ble by requiring that anyone desiring bread and hot water-called tea-for A. Christians are an impediment to com­ to emigrate repay the Government for breakfast, a bowl of hot water with munism. Romania wants to destroy Christi­ all secondary and postsecondary edu­ some beans or grains of rice for lunch, anity. They try to use the official leaders of cation received. The tax is usually in­ and a cup of hot water in the evening. the church against the members. They try flated and must be paid in Western To keep warm, Teodosiu would turn to control seminaries, also. currency. The catch is that no Roma­ his The persecution takes two aspects. First, on a current of cold water in cell they control the church and its activities. nian citizen is permitted to possess that served as a shower. The cold Second, they control individuals within the such currency. Romanians pay income water was warmer than the surround­ church. If they can't use a person or a taxes that are supposed to cover edu­ ing air. church, the government sets out to destroy cation costs, but if they wish to emi­ Teodosiu was released on March 9, the individual or church. grate they must pay again. and recently came to America. At the The party newspaper, Scintea, has a Another crackdown of concern to press conference, he thanked the Sen­ weekly column attacking religion and the those interested in human rights in ators and Congressmen who were will­ dissidents. Since many Romanians hear the truth about the dissidents on Radio Free Romania is the Government's in­ ing to call and write the Romanian Europe, the regime wants to present its side. creased vigor at enforcing an old type­ Embassy on his behalf, because with­ They even printed an interview allegedly writer registration law. Hand-written out their intervention he said he with my wife and me although they never documents can be easily traced, so the would now be the victim of an execu­ spoke to us. typewriter is a vital tool for the tioner's gun. However, Teodosiu is just They say that religious freedom exists ac­ human rights and religious rights one success story in a long history of cording to the constitution but in reality, it movements in Romania. The law is Communist persecution in Romania. does not. They believe that Christianity de­ being enforced with new enthusiasm He said he went to sleep each night in stroys communism by leading to an influx mainly to keep Romanian pastors prison listening to the screams of of Western ideas. Q. How did the Romanian Christian Com­ from duplicating religious documents. other prisoners. His story may not be mittee for Human Rights get started and Most recently, loan Teodosiu was re­ all that newsworthy to the American what are its activities? leased from a Romanian prison after a press, but it must be told over and over A. Hans Stuckelberger of Christian Soli­ Christian organization in Pennsylva- again by others who care if anything darity International began a contact group May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12003 in Romania in 1978. They got a spokesman, I know of four or five people who had to Litoiu was accused of being a terrorist and Pavel Nicolescu, a pastor in Bucharest, but pay to leave the country, but I was the first received 25 years in prison for this act.e he had to leave in 1979. to pay. Many intellectuals want to leave but After that, Radu Capusan and myself and can't affort the $20,000 or more it would more than a dozen others ha:ve centered our cost them to pay for their professional de­ HEALTH PLANNING BLOCK work in the town of Cloch. Capusan was grees. GRANT ACT OF 1983 forced to leave the country in December Q. Is psychiatric treatment used on reli­ 1980, and I took over the leadership of the gious and political dissidents as it is in the committee. Soviet Union? HON. RICHARD C. SHELBY Our main activity is gathering informa­ A. Yes. One case is that of Filip Julius OF ALABAMA tion about the persecution of Christians and who claimed to represent Polish Solidarity IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other dissidents. We have given information in Romania and spent eight years in prison. to Radio Free Europe and the Helsinki When his wife came to visit him, she said Wednesday, May 11, 1983 Commission although we are not affiliated he was drugged. She couldn't recognize him •Mr. SHELBY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to with either of these organizations. in his changed state. He didn't want to eat. call to your attention to H.R. 2935, the Although there are many nationalities, He, along with other political and Chris­ German, Hungarian and Romanian, in my tian dissidents, was put in the prison hospi­ Health Planning Block Grant Act of country, as dissidents they are all impris­ tal and administered drug "therapy." 1983, which I introduced this past oned together. Paulina Dragu and her family were trying Monday, May 9, 1983. I am pleased to Since I left the country in March, the to emigrate. She was told to quit her job so note that two of our colleagues from membership is growing and working under­ she could receive a passport. She did, but the minority side have joined me as ground. I would say that the situation for didn't receive her passport. She went on a initial cosponsors of this legislation. I dissidents is worse now then a few years hunger strike and was put in prison as a parasite. She had a heart attack and was am pleased that the gentleman from ago. Illinois Jewry. The cies. It also required States to enact tacted the West to try to find out what had Committee for Human Rights in Romania; certificate of need legislation requiring happened to me. My brothers were threat­ the North American Coalition for Human State approval of hospital investment ened with prison and the secret police began Rights in Romania. in new facilities, equipment, and serv­ following my wife and mother-in-law. Their But it is hard to get into Romania or get houses were searched, and Bibles and tape­ information because of the tension there. ices. recorders were confiscated. There are many informers-perhaps every This health planning program came When I was released, I was told not to say third person-. up for reauthorization last year. anything about what happened or my rela­ Q. Are there economic problems in Roma­ During 1982, our subcommittee held a tives would "have problems". My whole nia and what is being done about it? series of hearings and received testi­ family, expecially my brother David, have A. Of course, there are economic problems mony from many varied witnesses. been active Christians. as in all communist regimes. But there is As a result of the testimony present­ Q. Is the emigration tax applied fairly? nothing organized like in Poland. ed in these hearings and subsequent A. After I paid the tax, I met several other One man, Nicolae Litoiu, 20 years old, emigrees who did not have to pay it. When I wrote on the walls of a factory: "We want discussions with key individuals, I was asked the secret police why I had to pay milk and bread". Ten thousand workers convinced that outright repeal of the while others did not, they said they couldn't were called in to compare their handwriting health planning system without provi­ give me an answer that would satisfy me. to that on the wall. sion for some interim program, al- 12004 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 though an ideologically desirable goal, health care cost inflation. I urge your consistency with the State Health Plan. was not feasible for the short term. support for this bill, and hope that the Provides for expedited application, review Despite the fact that I have sponsored distinguished chairman of our subcom­ and approval process, including automatic approval on the meeting of certain condi- repeal legislation in both the 97th and mittee will reconsider his position and tions. _ 98th Congresses, I publicly acknowl­ become a cosponsor. SEc. 1953. Procedural Requirements: Pro­ edge that some planning function may At this point in the RECORD I include vides for hearings, administrative review be necessary to help restrain health a section-by-section analysis of H.R. and judicial review of administrative deci­ care costs growth in the immediate 2935. sions. future. H.R. 2935-SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS SEC. 1954. State Health Plan: Describes Last year in our committee, we con­ SECTION 1. Short title: "Health Planning coverage of the State Health Plan, require­ sidered three varying approaches to Block Grant Act of 1982." ments for the data on which it is based, and the health planning question. My bill SEC. 2. Repeal of Title XV: Provides mech­ pre-issuance hearings. to outrightly repeal the planning anism by which repeal of Title XV takes SEC. 1955. Definitions: Mandatory Federal system was not favorably considered. place on a State-by-State basis. Under the thresholds of $5 million for capital expendi­ mechanism set forth in this Section, repeal tures and equipment and $1 million for serv­ Mr. MADIGAN had a bill which would will take place no more than 315 days after ices are set. Provision is made for reduction have created a block grant mechanism the date of enactment. During this period, of those thresholds to $1 million and providing for an optional program of on a State-by-State basis, funds appropri­ $500,000 respectively. Definitions of these State certificate of need review. At the ated under the new bill will be available for terms are provided. same time, our subcommittee chair­ conforming actions under Title XV. SUBPART 3-GRANTS FOR REGIONAL HEALTH man had his own bill which would SEc. 3. Revision of State Certificate of PLANNING AGENCIES have reauthorized and extended au­ Need Programs: Provides a flexible mecha­ SEc. 1961. Grants: Sets up system of op­ thorities for the existing title XV of nism through which participating States are tional Regional Health Planning Agencies given varying periods of time to conform . clear peril. weapons. "There can be no doubt that the The Scowcroft Commission, in sum, imagi­ That reorientation may now be underway. very scope of the possible tragedy of natively addresses on side of the current nu­ The evidence is the Report of the Presi­ modern nuclear war, and the increased de­ clear-doctrine dilemma: how we get offen­ dent's Commission on Strategic Forces and, several weeks non-nuclear technology, have changed the of controls that would lead to deterrent sta­ earlier, an extraordinary set of speeches by nature of war itself. This is not only because bility, and thus set the stage for serious re­ President Reagan about the possibility of massive conventional war with modern ductions. President Reagan's speeches on developing defensive weapons. The Scow­ weapons would be horrendously destructive defensive systems last month suggest the croft Commission report addresses short­ . . . but also because conventional war be­ other side of the new doctrinal puzzle. and medium-term strategic and military tween the world's major power blocs is the Like the Scowcroft Commission, Reagan's problems, while the Reagan proposals sug­ most likely way for nuclear war to devel­ proposals have been grilled at the hardware gest a long-term realignment of the security op.... Simply put, it is war itself that must level, with editorial cartoonists having a relationship between the superpowers. concern us, not nuclear war alone." Darth Vader field day about "Star Wars" Taken together, these two sets of ideas are 3. The key standard that, in the commis­ and all the rest. Without denying at all that quite suggestive of where the · nuclear sion's judgment, should guide our strategic there are serious technological problems debate really lies, and· may be going in the policy toward the Soviet Union is stability: a with a spacebased defensive system in this future. situation in which neither side could reason­ century, however, it seems a shame that the The Scowcroft Commission was originally ably fear a crippling first strike from its ad­ doctrinal roots of the Reagan proposals born out of bureaucratic and political em­ versary. What needs to be maintained, the aren't getting the attention they deserve. barrassment. Two presidents had' failed to commission argues, is deterrent stability For what the president was saying, remark­ find a home for the country's new ICBM, that will set the baseline from which deep ably, was that there is no good way out of the MX, in which billions of dollars had arms reductions can be negotiated. That sta­ the nuclear peril without a fundamental al­ been invested over the past decade. Both bility has been unravelling for the past teration in the security relationship be­ presidents Carter and Reagan agreed that decade, because of certain kinds of force tween the United States and the Soviet there was a serious problem in the theoreti­ modernizations (primarily high-accuracy Union. One dimension of this alteration has cal vulnerability of land-based American MIRVs> and because of arms-control ap­ to do with the possibility of moving from of­ missiles tQ a preemptive Soviet attack . Both presi­ in SALT I and ID. concert with the Soviet Union. Had a Presi­ dents tried to find a way to base the MX 4. Re-establishing strategic stability dent Mondale suggested the latter, two that would give them the missile in quantity means getting our arms-reduction proposals things would have happened within a week: PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES even of those who might mistake the name IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for a baseball pitch. Wednesday, May 11, 1983 For example, carefully read bond-market Wednesday, May 11, 1983 • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, my goal in commentaries: If the economy appears e Mr. COUGHLIN. Mr. Speaker, yes­ life is to conquer root canal economic buoyant, bond experts are bearish. Econom­ terday the House approved H.R. 2175, theory. These theories of austerity ic activity is equated with higher interest come in all shapes and sizes, but they rates. If the economy looks sluggish, they're the Justice Assistance Act of 1983, bullish. which I was pleased to support. This have one thing in common: Stick it to Men like Federal Reserve Chairman bill would establish an Office of Jus­ the poor working man and woman and Volcker and his probable successor, Alan tice Assistance to administer a modest those who hope to achieve a better life Greenspan, share Feldstein's Phillips Curve program of grants for anticrime and for themselves and their family. mentality. That's why Volcker is loath to criminal justice programs. In Washington the root canal theory nudge interest rates down until he is con­ Eighty percent of the $170 million is usually embodied in the Phillips vinced the recovery will be anemic. Too authorized for this purpose would go Curve tradeoff between inflation and strong a bounce-back, he repeatedly intones, unemployment. And every time an old will "rekindle inflationary expectations." to the States on a formula basis re­ This thinking has its roots in the Great quiring a 50-percent State match. The guard conservative decides to fight in­ Depression, a shattering experience which funds could be used only for a number flation with higher unemployment, an convinced thinkers that an economy would of specified purposes which have old guard liberal comes along and says sputter if left to its own devices. Thus, to proven effective in fighting crime. we should fight unemployment with prevent stagnation, government would stim­ These include programs aimed at inflation. The result has been unprece­ ulate activity through increased spending, arson and career criminals, programs dented unemployment and inflation, through manipulating interest rates. to relieve prison overcrowding, and simultaneously, something the Phil­ So economists saw the economy as an lips Curve used to say cannot happen. engine-it wouldn't work without fuel, the programs designed for juvenile offend­ fuel being money pumped in by Uncle Sam ers. I am particularly pleased that one I have said, and I say it again today, or the Federal Reserve. of the specific program categories for that the idea is pernicious that you To economic experts, then, inflation is a which the Federal funds may be used fight inflation with unemployment. I sign that people have too much money in is community and police anticrime ac- think it is an idea that is threatening their pockets; inflation, after all, is "too tivities. • the democracies of the West. I also be­ much money chasing too few goods." Stag­ lieve that inflation is no answer to un­ nation and recession, on the other hand, Neighborhood watch and town mean people have too little money. watch programs are local volunteer employment. The supposed tradeoff between un­ The stagflation of the 1970s-when we citizen efforts to reduce crime. The had both high inflation and high unemploy­ number of these organizations is grow­ employment and inflation is some­ ment at the same time-should have ing steadily and the declining statistics thing this body has to reject sooner or prompted deep soul-searching. How could on street crime suggest that they are later. I want to commend the follow­ people simultaneously have too much having an impact. When functioning ing essay to my colleagues by M. S. money (inflation> and too little money Forbes, Jr., one of the most outspoken four years of Eng­ This bill would continue the efforts of We conclude that declines in educational lish; Cb> three years of mathematics; the National Commission on Educa­ performance are in large part the result of three years of science; (d) three years of tional Excellence and seeks to increase disturbing inadequacies in the way the edu­ social studies: and (e) one-half year of com­ the quality of our Nation's school sys­ cational process itself is often conducted: puter science. For the college bound, two Secondary school curricula have been ho­ years of foreign language in high school are tems. It calls for States to establish mogenized, diluted and diffused to the point strongly recommended in addition to those temporary commissions on teacher ex­ that they no longer have a central purpose. taken earlier. • • • cellence to evaluate the preparation, In effect, we have a cafeteria-style curricu­ We recommend that schools, colleges and certification, and retention of teaching lum in which the appetizers and desserts universities adopt more rigorous and meas­ professionals. can easily be mistaken for the main courses. urable standards, and higher expectations, May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12013 for academic performance and student con­ mation about education generally; support­ by. taking the following curriculum during duct, and that four-year colleges and univer­ ing curriculum improvement and research their 4 years of high school: 4 years of sities raise their requirements for admission. on teaching, learning and the management English; (b) 3 years of mathematics; 3 ... of schools; supporting teacher training in years of science; (d) 3 years of social studies; Standardized tests of achievement and support efforts to protect and promote adopt more rigorous and measurable stand­ identify the need for remedial intervention; that interest. It must provide the national ards, and higher expectations, for academic and (c) identify the opportunity for ad­ leadership to ensure that the nation's public performance and student conduct, and that vanced or accelerated work. The tests and private resources are marshaled to ad­ 4-year colleges and universities raise their should be administered as part of a nation­ dress the issues discussed in this report. requirements for admission. wide demonstrate a virtually unbro­ time for curriculum and professional devel­ ken decline from 1963 to 1980. Average through tampering should receive opment, programs for students with special verbal scores fell over 50 points and average severe penalties, which this legislation needs and a more adequate level of teacher mathematics scores dropped nearly 40 provides. points. Additionally, I also want to voice my compensation. College Board achievement tests also School boards, administrators and teach­ reveal consistent declines in recent years in support of H.R. 2357, the Congression­ ers should cooperate to develop career lad­ such subjects as physics and English. al Award Act, H.R. 2173, Contract ders for teachers that distinguish among Many 17-year-olds do not possess the Services for Drug Dependent Federal the beginning instructor, the experienced Offenders and S. 653, which will estab­ teacher and the master teacher. "higher order" intellectual skills we should Substantial nonschool personnel resources expect of them. Nearly 40 percent cannot lish a Foundation for Advancement of should be employed to help solve the imme­ draw inferences from written material; only Military Medicine.e diate problem on the shortage of mathemat­ one-fifth can write a persuasive essay; and ics and science teachers. Qualified individ­ only one-third can solve a mathematics uals, including recent graduates with math­ problem requiring several steps. TRIBUTE TO RABBI HILLEL Average tested achievement of students COHN ematics and science degrees, graduate stu­ graduating from college is also lower. dents and industrial and retired scientists, Business and military leaders complain could, with appropriate preparation, imme­ that they are required to spend millions of HON. JERRY LEWIS diately begin teaching in these fields. • • • dollars on costly remedial education and Incentives, such as grants and loans, training programs in such basic skills as OF CALIFORNIA should be made available to attract out­ reading, writing, spelling and computation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standing students to the teaching profes­ The Department of the Navy, for example, sion, particularly in those areas of critical reported to the commission that one-quar­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 shortage.• • • The federal government, in cooperation ter of its recent recruits cannot read at the • Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. with states and localities, should help meet ninth-grade level, the minimum needed Speaker, on Friday evening, May 20, the needs of key groups of students such as simply to understand written safety instruc­ 1983, the members of Congregation tions. Without remedial work they cannot Emanu El will join with others from the gifted and talented, the socio-economi­ even begin, much less complete, the sophis­ cally disadvantaged, minority and language ticated training essential in much of the the San Bernardino community in .minority. . students and the handicapped. modern military. paying tribute to the 20 years of dedi­ The recommendations cated service provided to them by The federal government's role includes Rabbi Hillel Cohn. I would like to take several functions of national consequence Content: We recommend that state and that states and localities alone are unlikely local high school graduation requirements this opportunity to personally recog­ to be able to meet: protecting constitutional be strengthened and that, at a minimum, all nize and commend my friend Rabbi and civil rights for students and school per­ students seeking a diploma be required to Cohn for his unselfish contributions sonnel; collecting data, statistics, and infor- lay the foundations in the Five New Basics of time and energy to both the Jewish 12014 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 and the Christian community of San rabbi serves as auxilary chaplain at five outstanding performance awards Bernardino. Norton Air Force Base. He has served during this time, as well as a special Rabbi Hillel Cohn has served as on the faculties of the University of achievement award in 1979. rabbi of Congregation Emanu El in Redlands, Calif., State college, San At his retirement dinner, held at the San Bernardino since 1963. A native of Bernardino, and San Bernardino Guv'nor Pub in Cleveland on April 7, Germany, he was brought to the Valley College. the awards continued. A certificate of United States as an infant by his par­ In 1964 and again in 1975 Rabbi meritorious service to "Mo" from ents who were refugees from Nazism. Cohn was awarded the Emanuel Ga­ myself along with resolutions from Rabbi Cohn received his undergradu­ moran Memorial Award of the Nation­ both the city of Cleveland and the ate degree (bachelor of arts) in politi­ al Association of Temple Educators for State of Ohio, honoring his many cal science from UCLA in 1959 and his the best religious school curriculum years of distinguished service, were rabbinical training was taken at design in the country. He has also presented to him at the dinner attend­ Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati been selected as the Outstanding ed by more than 100 of his friends, where he was ordained as a rabbi in Young Man of the Year for San Ber­ fellow workers, and well-wishers. 1963 and from which he received the nardino by the Jaycees, received the Morley intends to sharpen up his master of arts and bachelor of Hebrew Scroll of Honor award of State of golf game and to do some part time letters degrees. While studying for the Israel bonds and has received commen­ consulting work for a law firm in rabbinate he served congregations in dations by San Bernardino city and Cleveland.• California, Iowa, and Ohio and also county governments. served as chaplain to Jewish inmates Rabbi Cohn has written for numer­ at Marion Correctional Institution of ous publications. His sermons have FIGHTING COMMUNISM IN the Ohio State prison system. been published repeatedly by the CENTRAL AMERICA Rabbi Cohn has been active in many American Rabbi and he has edited a community organizations in the San number of educational and liturgical HON. J. KENNETH ROBINSON Bernardino area. He has served as texts. In 1977 he delivered the invoca­ OF VIRGINIA president of the San Bernardino Area tion here at a session of Congress. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mental Health Association and Family is a frequent participant on KABC Service Agency. He has served on the radio Religion on the Line and reli­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 boards of such organizations as the gious television broadcasts. He lectures e Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. Speaker, edi­ Inland Area Urban League, Planned frequently to church, community, and torials have appeared recently in two Parenthood Association, Inland Ado­ educational groups. Virginia dailies, the Richmond Times­ lescent Clinic, Kiwanis Club, American Mr. Speaker, I take great pride in Dispatch and the Winchester Star, op­ Red Cross, Arrowhead Social Planning commending to my colleagues Rabbi posing legislation pending before this Council, Arrowhead United Way, Hillel Cohn for his years of unselfish body to prohibit U.S. support for mili­ County Council of Community Serv­ service to all the people of our commu­ tary or paramilitary operations in ices, and San Bernardino Community nity. I consider myself very fortunate Nicaragua. Hospital. He was appointed a member to have Rabbi Cohn as a personal As ranking minority member of the of the Adult Detention Commission friend and I know his tireless hours of House Permanent Select Committee for San Bernardino County and served work have made San Bernardino a on Intelligence, I should like these in that position from 1974-78. From better place in which to live.e commentaries brought to the atten­ 1979 to 1982 he was a commissioner of tion of our colleagues through inser­ the Juvenile Justice Commission and tion in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at Delinquency Prevention Commission , A TRIBUTE TO "MO" MORLEY this point: of San Bernardino County. Rabbi [From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, May Cohn also serves as a member of the HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR 8, 1983] committees which approve research on OF OHIO ASSURING LIBERTY'S SUCCESS human subjects at Patton State Hospi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tal and San Bernardino County Hospi­ In his inaugural address, President John Wednesday, May 11, 1983 F. Kennedy vowed that the United States tal. He is a member of the president's would be the standard-bearer in freedom's advisory committee of Loma Linda •Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, I would fight against tyranny, promising that "we University. like to take this opportunity to pay shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet The rabbi has served as general tribute to Mr. Howard W. "Mo" any hardship, support any friend, oppose chairman of the San Bernardino Morley. The U.S. Department of any foe to assure the survival and the suc­ United Jewish Welfare Fund cam­ Labor announced his retirement on cess of liberty." That lofty rhetoric sput­ paign. He established the program of April l, 1983. Mr. Morley was area di­ tered into a fiasco in South Vietnam, whose war against communism proved to be too resettling Soviet Jewish refugees for rector of the Cleveland Central Office high a price, too heavy a burden and too the San Bernardino area. He has also of the Office of Federal Contract grueling a hardship for the United States to served as president of Paradise Lodge Compliance programs. He completed a bear. Now Congress is balking at paying the No. 237 B'nai B'rith. distinguished career, in both the mili­ price, bearing the burden and meeting the From 1975 to 1977 Rabbi Cohn tary and the Federal civil service, that hardship of fighting communism in Latin served as a member of the executive spanned over 42 years. America. The latest manifestation of this board of the Central Conference of Beginning in 1941, Morley spent 22 repudiation of the Kennedy promise was American Rabbis and from 1973 to the House Permanent Select Committee's of those years as a naval aviator vote against further American financial and 1977 served as national chairman of before finally closing the book on his military aid for the guerrillas fighting the the committee on resolutions of the military career in 1963. He retired Marxist government of Nicaragua. CCAR. He has held all of the elected from the Navy with the rank of cap­ Now, it can be argued that American­ offices · in the Pacific Association of tain. His career in the Federal Equal backed forces in South Vietnam and in Cen­ Reform Rabbis and was its president Employment Opportunity Afghanistan. ARTISTS social outlet for the artists. Equally Congress should reject the House Com­ important during this period was the mittee's recommendation and authorize the development of Howard University's continuation of aid, covert or overt, to Nica­ HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY ragua. If the United States is not prepared Art Department which depended so OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA heavily on these talents, and the evo­ to redeem President Kennedy's pledge in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Latin America, where in the world would it lution of the Barnet-Aden Gallery be willing to do so? Wednesday, May 11, 1983 which gave many of these artists first e Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, a commercial exhibitions. [From the Winchester Star, May 6, 19831 major review of the works of six The contributions of the six are so PRESIDENT Is RIGHT Washington artists-painters Richard great individually and collectively, The House Intelligence Committee this Dempsey, Lois Jones, Delilah Pierce, that we must develop a sense of how week defied the Reagan Administration and James Porter, Alma Thomas, and they have been influenced by their en­ voted along party lines to prohibit by law vironments. Like many Washington any United States involvement with guerril­ graphic artist James Wells, held at the la forces fighting the Communist govern­ Evans-Tibbs Collection is taking place artists, our six masters, while influ­ ment of Nicaragua. The vote of nine Demo­ this spring. Located at 1910 Vermont enced by a range of experiences, have crats against five Republicans followed five Avenue NW., the Evans-Tibbs Collec­ spent a significant portion of their hours of closed committee deliberation and tion is a nonprofit tax-exempt organi­ lives in an environment shaped under a last minute warning from CIA Director zation primarily formed to preserve the classical design vocabulary. Wash­ William C. Casey that forcing the CIA to and exhibit works of art by and biblio­ ington's geometric street plan and its stop supporting the guerrillas inside Nicara­ uniform building heights and designs gua could lead to a "blood bath". graphic material on African American In our judgment, the nine Democrats were artists. Located one-half block south have influenced their art. Significant­ wrong. The Nicaraguan government which of Washington, D.C.'s historic U ly, the four living continue to create came to power, not by election but by bul­ Street corridor, the museum and re­ under these environmental conditions lets, is a Marxist dictatorship seeking to search center are currently housed and as such there is a reason to sus­ export communism to its neighboring coun­ where Lillian Evans Tibbs lived. As an pect that their work provides clues tries. President Reagan, we think, is right in internationally acclaimed lyric sopra­ about our behavior in this environ­ attempting to prevent such action.e no known professionally as Madame ment. Evanti, Mrs. Tibbs sponsored many Richard Dempsey spent his early SMALL BUSINESS WEEK artists and art activities during her years in California under the influence life. The six Washington masters exhi­ of muralist and sculptor Sargent John­ HON. DOUG BARNARD, JR. bition is one of many such activities son 0887-1967). Arriving in Washing­ OF GEORGIA held by the collection in continuance ton during the New Deal, the east of that tradition. coast cityscapes consisting of row IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The six artists have lived in Wash­ houses are reflected in his abstract Tuesday, May 10, 1983 ington for many years. Of this group art. Dempsey recalls the rear of homes e Mr. BARNARD. Madam Speaker, Miss Thomas and Mr. Porter are now that have provided the imagery in this when it comes to innovation and hard deceased. The important achievements art. In all of Dempsey's work there is work, I do not know of anyone who is made by each artist have been individ­ concern for time and place as fourth doing a better job than the small busi­ ually recorded in various publications dimensional pictorial qualities where nesses of our Nation. over the years. However, a review of color and line placement is based di­ Even during the recession, 1981 was their work through a catalog exhibi­ rectly on where the work was done a record year for new business starts. tion specific to them as a group has and at what time it evolved. Dempsey In my Sun Belt area, there was even never occurred. In filling a gap, this is therefore documenting time, place, an increase in 1982. exhibit reveals their collective achieve­ and feelings in his work. Statistics are nice, of course, but ments in the visual arts. What is excit­ Born in Boston, Lois Jones attended behind the numbers are dozens of men ing is that these six managed to sur- the Museum of Fine Arts school on a 12016 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 4-year scholarship from 1922-27. On 1960's, concurrent with the rise in Af­ on Saturday, May 14, 1983, at the Co­ request from Prof. James Herring at rican sociopolitical expansion. As a lumbus Country Club in Columbus, Howard University, she joined that de­ result, this later work is of extreme Ga. partment of art in 1930-a position she cultural importance. Rabbi Goodman is that rarest of would hold for the next half century. Alma Thomas moved to Washington human beings-he can combine the A general education board grant in 1907. Like James Porter her enroll­ majesty that makes people instinctive­ 0937-39) allowed her to pursue fur­ ment at Armstrong Technical High ly want to follow him in crowds, with ther study at the Academy Julian in School in Washington was significant. the humility that makes people trust Paris. It was in 1941 that Jones won She developed her interests in art, ar­ him and open up to him. His qualities the Robert Woods Bliss Landscapes chitecture, and drawing under the of leadership are known not only prize in oil painting from the Corcoran philosophical guidance of organizer throughout the Jewish community in Gallery. Interestingly enough, a friend and first principal Wilson Bruce Evans Columbus, but also throughout the and fellow entered the painting and whose belief in "work with the hand, entire city, and across the State of when the identity of the true artist the mind, and the spirit," set the at­ Georgia. was revealed there was some discus­ mosphere for the training available to Although he is retiring, his influence sion of recalling the award in much his students. The work that Thomas will continue to be felt. A spirit of in­ the same manner that Afro-American pursued reflected this training philos­ volvement such as he has is not can­ artist Edward Bannister had been ophy. By the time she had retired celed simply by the passing of a chron­ treated in Philadelphia at the 1876 from the public school system in 1960, ological milepost. He will stay in­ National Centennial. By the early Alma Thomas began to exhibit widely. volved, and all the citizens of Colum­ 1940's and through the suggestions of Thomas was invited by Prof. James bus will be better for it. Dr. Alain Lock, Jones documented the Porter, who directed Howard's Gallery Rabbi Goodman was born in Cleve­ Afro-American personality. She devel­ of Art to exhibit a retrospective of her land, Ohio, and educated in the public oped the Jones-Tabary studio repre­ work. Late in life Thomas received her schools there. He is a graduate of senting the first Afro-American artist greatest recognition with exhibitions Western Reserve University in Cleve­ atelier or school where art ideas and at the Whitney Museum and the Cor­ land, Ohio, and the Jewish Institute of techniques were exchanged. Her pri­ coran Gallery. Thomas donated a Religion in New York City, where, in mary focus today is her documenta­ large body of her work to the National 1945, he was ordained. In 1970, Rabbi tion of the icons of Afro-America both Museum of American Art which gave Goodman was awarded a doctor of di­ in the United States and the Caribbe­ her a major retrospective last year. vinity degree from the Hebrew Union an and is her design legacy. Known as a master printmaker, College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Born in Washington, D.C., Delilah James L. Wells' early religious training Rabbi Goodman began his career in Pierce studied at Howard in the late permanently influenced his art. In 1944 at the Temple Beth Israel in 1930's with James Porter. In 1962 1921, the 135th Street Branch Library Lima, Ohio. After 2 years of military Pierce received an Agnes Meyer Fel­ in New York City sponsored his first service, he returned to Temple Beth lowship to study and travel in several exhibition, and later that year, the Israel and stayed until 1950, when he African countries. The realities of an Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity also spon­ moved to Temple Israel in Columbus, American of part African ancestry vis­ sored an exhibition of his art. These Ga. In August 1983, Rabbi Goodman iting Africa was significant for it not early exhibitions gave Wells encour­ will retire after 33 years of service to only represented links to ethnicity in a agement. Wells first explored the rais­ Temple Israel. historical sense, it provided for Pierce ing interest in African imagery in his Rabbi Goodman is currently serving an opportunity to become one of a work paralleled the emergence of a as the president of the Family Coun­ handful of African-American artists to cultural renaissance in the Afro-Amer­ seling Center in Columbus, Ga.; the travel to Africa and to do so before it ican community centered in Harlem. Jewish chaplain for the Warm Springs became popular in the late 1960's. In During his nearly 40 years as professor Foundation, Warm Springs, Ga.; exec­ doing so, Pierce was exposed to color of graphics at Howard University, utive board member of the Georgia esthetics and environmental design in­ Wells' greatest achievement has been Council on Human Relations; and the fluences that would emerge in her late the leadership he has shown as the auxiliary chaplain at Fort Benning, work as abstract surrealism to be dean of printmaking in an institution Ga. called Post Modern Expressionist where so many have developed their These are only a few of the organiza­ where color is as important as form. It individual printmaking techniques tions that Rabbi Goodman has been is this expressionism that offers a under his guidance and encourage­ associated with throughout his many fresh stylistic evolution essential to ment. Wells' ever present concern with years in Georgia. He is truly a man to the artistic leadership Pierce is about African themes, and on themes of be admired and emulated and I am to exert. man's reflection and isolation in a happy to take this opportunity to wish James Porter was an art historian changing world are evident. His work him an enjoyable and productive re­ and artist. His early life was marked forms a cohesive body of design state­ tirement.e by enormous success as a painter of ments, richly African-American, and a scenes and portraits. His important lit­ historical record for all humanity.e erary work "Modern Negro Art" was THE PONTIAC FIERO: QUALITY published in 1943. The result of these MADE IN AMERICA scholarly activities was the develop­ RABBI ALFRED GOODMAN HON­ ment of an important group of docu­ ORED AT RETIREMENT PARTY ments which for the first time report­ IN COLUMBUS, GA. HON. BOB CARR ed as well as interpreted the contribu­ OF MICHIGAN tions of Afro-American artists. In fact, HON. RICHARD RAY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES many of his publications continue to OF GEORGIA Wednesday, May 11, 1983 be the most complete account of an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES artists' work and as such so many e Mr. CARR. Mr. Speaker, the Ameri­ cannot avoid referencing him in their Wednesday, May 11, 1983 can auto industry is facing enormous research. In 1962-63 Porter traveled e Mr. RAY. Mr. Speaker, it is a great challenges. How the industry meets throughout west Africa. Work influ­ honor for me to recognize an outstand­ those challenges means a great deal to enced by this travel documented the ing citizen upon the occasion of his re­ our Nation's economic strength and to reacquaintance with Africa that many tirement. Rabbi Alfred L. Goodman is the jobs of hundreds of thousands of were indulging in during the late being honored at a retirement party Americans. For cities such as Pontiac, May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12017 Mich., the largest city in my district, If Sharp can do it in Memphis, the folks INTERFAITH CONFERENCE OF that response is particularly critical. who run the Fiero plant can do it in Ponti­ METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON That is why I am pleased to bring to ac. HONORS DAVID KREINDLER the attention of the House the com­ They intend to, and it would be foolish to mitment by the Pontiac Motor Divi­ doubt their resolve. The "bottom line" obviously is that Amer­ HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES sion and the United Auto Workers to ican automakers no longer have the option produce a new automobile with the of turning out products of lesser quality OF MARYLAND most up-to-date technology and with than those turned out by the Japanese. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the best quality workmanship and Too many would-be buyers are no longer Wednesday, May 11, 1983 management. The Pontiac Fiero, and in a mood to put up with it. the commitment to quality which will To be a success, to keep the workers on •Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, the go into it, are described in this editori­ the job, the Fiero is simply going to have to Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan al by Neil Munro of the Oakland be as good or better than the competition.• Washington is honoring David Press. Kreindler, who is retiring after 2 years [From the Oakland Press, May 1, 19831 of exceptional service to the organiza­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION FIERO PLANT OFFICIALS TAKE UP QUALITY tion. Mr. Kreindler, approaching his CHALLENGE 80th birthday, is a resident of my dis­ have gotten our act together, thorize additional appropriations; The Interfaith Conference brings to­ we're going to give all our competition a run "Aye" on H.R. 2174, to amend title gether the religious leaders of the for their money. The Pontiac Fiero, built Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic, right here in Pontiac by Pontiac people, is 18 of the United States Code to pro­ going to be competitive both in terms of hibit certain tampering with consumer and Islamic faith communities in the quality and price." products; Metropolitan Washington area, for Lewis and Schaefer also say they've invit­ "Aye" on S. 653, to amend title 10 of interfaith dialogue and joint action on ed all of you who responded to the why­ the United States Code to establish a issues of social justice. The Coalition aren't-cars-selling question to visit the plant Foundation for the Advancement of for the Homeless works as an advocate and "talk to the people about the quality of for the homeless. our new Fiero." Military Medicine; These guys are laying it on the line. "Aye" on House Resolution 184, a Mr. Kreindler retired after 50 years They're serious. bill providing for consideration of H.R. as general manager and comptroller of There is no reason they can't do what 2175, the Justice Assistance Act of a major hotel and moved to Washing­ they say they're going to do. 1983; ton to be near his family. In his late For one thing, the Fiero will be powered 70's, he stepped forward 2 years ago to by the Pontiac-built engine that has bene­ "Aye" on agreeing to the Speaker's fited so enormously from Japanese-style approval of the Journal; help the Interfaith Conference. He quality control methods. "Aye" on the amendment by the brought our financial records into a The division, you may remember, now em­ gentleman from Pennsylvania to add more complete set of books with hun­ ploys the same man, an American, ironical­ programs to help fight crimes against dreds of hours of volunteer labor and ly, who taught the Japanese how to do it. the elderly; has maintained the conference's books It has been demonstrated many times that in perfect order. When the Coalition American workers and managers are fully "Aye" on final passage of H.R. 2175, capable of turning out Japanese-level qual­ the Justice Assistance Act of 1983; for the Homeless was spun off by the ity. "Aye" on House Resolution 185, a conference 16 months ago, he became The Wall Street Journal tells, for exam­ bill providing for consideration of H.R. its bookkeeper as well. ple, of a Japanese-owned Sharp Electronics 2587, to authorize appropriations to Now, as he approaches his 80th television and microwave oven plant in the Department of Energy for civilian birthday, Mr. Kreindler is once more Memphis, Tenn., which meets their high "retiring." He can never be replaced, standards. research and development programs; Their secret is simple. They demand qual­ "Aye" on House Resolution 183, a only succeeded. The Interfaith Confer­ ity and get it. The workers are pleased with bill providing for consideration of H.R. ence and t_he Coalition for the Home­ the Japanesee management style and are 2066, to authorize appropriations to less are deeply grateful to him for his proud of what they do. the National Science Foundation for selfless labors. We hold him up as a The story is not the same for some of fiscal years 1984 and 1985.e shining example of how a person's Sharp's competitors. faith and interests can combine to sat­ For example, a supplier of plastic TV parts to the Sharp plant says "they demand isfy both himself and the larger needs jewelry. There just is not any comparison of society, and we give thanks to God between the quality Sharp demands and for him.e that demanded by RCA and Zenith." That tells you a lot.

11-059 0-87-28 (Pt. 9) 12018 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 JOHN P. HRZICH: POLICEMAN OF burglar on a crowded street-he did so rates of interest and identifying bur­ THE YEAR while endangering his own life for the densome Federal regulations. We must benefit of his community. now pursue this course in order to HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ This has been the hallmark of John allow the small business people of this OF NEW YORK Hrzich's career: Sacrificing himself, country to make the best possible use IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES putting his life and his livelihood on of their creativity, imagination, and the line, for the benefit of others. For hard work. Such an effort is absolute­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 this reason, the organizations in ly critical to the future health of our e Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, this Greenpoint which are taking time to economy and our society in general.• week the House of Representatives honor him deserve to be honored began debate on the Justice Assistance themselves. Act of 1983. Once enacted into law, We as a society owe so much to our A SALUTE TO OUR CIVIL the legislation will provide $170 mil­ courageous police officers. And we as SERVICE SYSTEM lion in grants to States and localities citizens, who owe so much to this cou­ for anticrime programs, . activities to rageous few, should seize every oppor­ HON. FRANK J. GUARINI control arson, to deal with career tunity to respond, at least with a OF NEW JERSEY criminals, to respond to serious crimes thank you, for the great work they do. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by juveniles and the like. This is a As the Congressman from Green­ worthy effort, and I intend to do all point, I salute Officer Hrzich for his Wednesday, May 11, 1983 that I can to insure that this legisla­ service as 1983 Police Officer of the e Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, I rise tion passes the Congress in a timely Year.e in tribute to the civil service system, fashion. which has supplied our communities Ultimately, the success of our pro­ and Nation with an army of dedicated grams to control crime rest on the SMALL BUSINESS WEEK servants of the people. shoulders of a few individuals who On January 4, 1983, Public Law 97- have the courage and the commitment HON. OLYMPIA J. SNOWE 420 of the 97th Congress, in joint reso­ to make the fight against crime their OF MAINE lution, adopted the following, desig­ profession. I am talking, of course, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nating January 17, 1983 as Public Em­ about our Nation's police. All too often Tuesday, May 10, 1983 ployees Appreciation Day: their contribution, a contribution Whereas public employees have made more important than all others, re­ • Ms. SNOWE. Mr. Speaker, National great contributions to American society in ceives an insufficient amount of recog­ Small Business Week is an appropriate many areas including health care, crime nition. From time to time, community time for us to reflect on the important prevention, science, transportation, agricul­ groups help bring to the attention of contributions small businesses and ture, housing, energy, and the national de­ the public efforts by policemen which small business people make to our so­ fense; really should not go without notice. I ciety and our way of life. It is also a Whereas public employees are the often forgotten individuals who make government am pleased to bring to the attention of time to focus our attention on some of run smoothly; my House colleagues one such in­ the problems facing the small business Whereas professionals in the public work stance. community and to concentrate our ef­ force provide continuity and security in gov­ On Thursday, May 12, Police Officer forts on finding ways to alleviate ernment operations in times of national John P. Hrzich will be honored by the them. emergency and stress; Greenpoint Lions Club, the Green­ As President Reagan has correctly Whereas the merit system of employing point Merchants Association, and the pointed out, small business is the cor­ public employees has provided our Federal, New York State Assembly as the 1983 nerstone of our free enterprise system. State, and local governments with the finest public work force in the world; and Policeman of the Year. Police Officer Small businesses account for nearly 40 Whereas the Congress of the United Hrzich, after 10 years of valiant and percent of our gross national product; States recognizes the dedication, talents, meritorious service, is winning the they employ over half of the American and contributions made by public employees kind of recognition that he, as a dedi­ work force; and they provide an over­ at all levels of government; Now, therefore, cated public servant, richly deserves. whelming majority of the new jobs be it Mr. Hrzich is a lifelong resident of created each year in this country. The Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep­ New York City. He attended Martin small business sector is the source of resentatives of the United States of America Van Buren High School where he let­ many of our most creative ideas and in Congress assembled, that January 17, 1983 is designated as "Public Employees' tered in baseball and basketball. After new inventions. In fact, according to Appreciation Day" and the President is re­ high school, John worked for 6 years the National Science Foundation, quested to issue a proclamation inviting the at the Chase Manhattan Bank, small businesses provide 25 times more Governors of the several States, the chief though his tenure was interrupted by innovation per research dollar than officials of local governments, and the a 2-year absence during which he larger firms. In addition, the small people of the United States to observe that served in the military. business community provides invalu­ day with appropriate ceremonies and activi­ His Army career lasted from 1967 to able opportunities for women and mi­ ties. 1969; he served 1 year in Vietnam. norities to fulfill their goals of eco­ The U.S. civil service system is cele­ During this period, he was awarded nomic self-reliance. brating its lOOth anniversary this year, the Army Commendation Medal. Since America's small businesses while in New Jersey the 75th anniver­ Wishing to further his education, he play such a vital role in our society, we sary is being celebrated. enrolled at the New York Institute of cannot afford to turn our backs on the To further honor these dedicated Technology, from which he graduated problems that many are now facing. employees, I have asked the U.S. in 1976 with a B.S. degree in behavior­ Small firms, with their narrow profit Postal Service to issue a commemora­ al science. margins and limited capital reserves, tive stamp, which would pay tribute as On April 30, 1973, Mr. Hrzich real­ have been particularly hard-hit by well as being inspirational. ized a dream: He received appointment recent high interest rates, economic The New Jersey State Civil Service as a probationary officer in the New recession, and overly restrictive Feder­ Commission is composed of Eugene J. York City Police Department. During al regulation. Mccaffrey, Sr., president, and commis­ his 10-year career, he received three We must take steps now to create a sioners S. Howard Woodson, Jr., of departmental decorations. Among more favorable climate for the small Trenton, Mercer County; Charles M. these, he was awarded the Meritorious businesses of this country. We have al­ Walther, Jr., Upper Montclair, Essex Service Medal for capturing an armed ready made progress in lowering the County; Barbara Claman, of West- May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12019 field, Union County; and Philip Mata­ sands of hours and millions of dollars any other Federal official. Unfortu­ lucci of Middle Township, Cape May in voluntary efforts to aid causes nately, as a consequence, there is no County. aimed at relieving human suffering. procedure for removal of a judge who An important arm of assuring the They have worked in the causes of may be senile, disabled, dishonest, or proper administration of laws and reg­ peace, knowing that this is the noblest in any other way unfit to fulfill his or ulations to the employees in New work of God-fearing men and women. her constitutional responsibilities. Jersey is its excellent New Jersey Civil They have worked for the success of According to article III of the Con­ Service Association, whose officers are: our State and Nation, knowing that if stitution, Supreme and inferior court president, John Lazzarotti of Mount they make this a great land to live in, judges are appointed to their office for Holly; first vice president, Charles reflecting our energy and strength and a term of good behavior. I certainly King of New Brunswick, second vice vitalities throughout the world, then president, Olga Sachenski of Clark; and only then, will the cause of free­ recognize and compliment the wisdom third vice president, Richard D'Elena dom, human dignity, and freedom of of the framers of the Constitution of Delran; fourth vice president, Paul opportunity be strengthened. who, by separating judicial officials Kalnas of Phillipsburg; fifth vice The Shield, in its editorial of April 2, from the political process, preserved president, Thomas Tammaro of Vine­ 1983, reminds us: and defined the principle of separate land; sixth vice president, Virginia The dramatic adoption of Civil Service for but equal branches of Government. Clancy of Monmouth; recording secre­ the national public workforce-a direct However, I continue to believe that tary, Carol Cash of Burlington; treas­ result of the murder of President Garfield this separation has resulted not in a urer, Theresa Long of Williamstown, by a disappointed office seeker-showed in more effective judicial system but financial secretary, Isadore G. Padula, the clearest of terms how the U.S.A. was rather in a greater disparity between Jr. of Belleville; sergeant-at-arms, Wil­ shocked by the powerplay of job seeking the various branches of Government. liam Carter of Jersey City. and job rewards for political services. As an antidote America wanted merit, compe­ The life tenure of these judges has The presidents of the local councils tence, as shown in competitive examina­ made them less, not more accountable of the New Jersey Civil Service Asso­ tions. for their actions an~decisions. ciation are Essex No. 1, Tally Talbot; States, counties, municipalities, school dis­ Furthermore and ma.re significantly, Hudson No. 2, Frank Basillo; Passaic tricts joined the procession-all by popular is the increasing use by judges of their No. 3, Charles Arangio; Mercer No. 4, referendum, thus proving that what the judicial power as a forum for legislat­ Norman Leavens; Bergen No. 5, Agnita people wanted was not politics as usual but Hastings; Morris No. 6, Betty Lisovsky; appointees to public jobs who deserved their ing social policy. Our judicial system Middlesex No. 7, Ann Montanti; Union appointments because of their competence, was established to interpret law, not to No. 8, Olga Sachenski; Monmouth No. not because they could line up votes or con­ formulate national policy. However, in tribute large sums of money for campaign the last several years, many of our 9, Virginia Clancey; Camden, No. 10, purposes or even worse, to line pockets. William James; Kearny No. 11, Ray­ Federal judges have taken to backdoor mond Duger; Ocean No. 12, Mary It is my privilege to prepare this legislating on such controversial issues McDonald; Hunterdon No. 15, Andrew tribute in time for the New Jersey as school prayer, abortion, and school Weiman; Burlington No. 16, Richard Civil Service 72d Annual Convention, busing. D'Elena, Warren No. 17, Paul Kainas, which will be conducted at Atlantic I sincerely believe that neither this Cumberland No. 18, Thomas Tam­ City from May 21 to May 25, 1983. legislative body nor the American maro; Cape May No. 19, Andrew Ci­ I am asking all my colleagues in the public can stand by and watch this paldo , vious differences, SBA officials have It would not encourage corporate re­ then we went out to collect money." said that: organization into cooperative form, It really wasn't that simple but, before Co-ops are nonprofit in the same sense since board members would have to long, the students set a goal of $100 to send that the American Heart Association is non­ resign or not be involved in the oper­ on to the statue repair fund. They solicited profit. ation of the co-op; it prevents this the help of their other classmates. They Therefore, they can receive such aid type of abuse by still requiring size de­ made posters. They decorated small cups for money collection and, every day, they made only if each and every member of the termination of a co-op's principals­ the rounds of the classrooms at Kinder in co-op completes the SBA's form 355 such as board members or other gov­ their search for donations. and is certified as being small. erning officers. One of the big contributors was classmate To anyone who understands the It would not waive size standard de­ Jimmy Osborne. "I told my family about it nature of agricultural co-ops and the termination for SBA assistance under May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12021 otherwise normal free market condi­ were unveiled and dismissed, and as MX The president still wants the MX, al­ tions; for aid other than disaster as­ proponents made clear its importance to though he asserts that its deployment is sistance, the SBA could still require them as the centerpiece in nightmare sce­ now needed as part of a strategy for achiv­ size standard compliance by all co-op narios for "nuclear war fighting." ing the longer-term objectives of the com­ The freeze concept was born in the minds mission report. How this can be so, he has members. of analysts conversant with nuclear strategy not demonstrated. He correctly sees the idea Mr. Speaker, last year was not the and exasperated by the failure of tradition­ of a small, single-warhead ICBM as a way to first time and west Texas is not the al approaches to arms control. It was an move toward nuclear stability, but the Pen­ only area in which the SBA's interpre­ idea simple, audacious and available at a tagon suggests that this idea is a price it is tation of an unclear law has resulted time when the American people realized willing to pay only under duress, in order to in the unjust disqualification of co­ that humanity was in profound danger. get the MX. operatives from small business assist­ Whether or not its intellectual premises The president asserts that he intends have been vindicated, freeze forces have eventually to blend these ideas into a new ance. Now is the time to rectify this challenged the foundations of orthodoxy approach to START, but he states that his problem and the legislation I am sub­ and shown that the freeze compares favor­ existing proposals in Geneva are completely mitting does so in a way that is fairest ably to the Byzantine scenarios that led to consistent with the Scowcroft recommenda­ to all concerned: It will eliminate red­ "dense pack" and "racetrack" before it. tions, which they are not. tape, redress a present inequity, and They have forced the experts to revisit the Once again, the initiative and the burden speed relief to small businesses owned essence of the issue: not how best to design fall to the Congress and especially to the by hard-pressed farmers who are al­ imaginary geopolitical scenarios but how House. There, a vote in favor of the presi­ ready suffering in today's weak econo­ best to save civilization from the horror of dent's proposals is far more difficult, given nuclear destruction. all that has happened, than in the Senate. my.e Sophisticated critics of the freeze resolu­ But the Congress, too, has changed. Be­ tion seized upon qualifications made in the cause of the freeze, there is now some of the BEYOND THE FREEZE debate as evidence that the idea and the same sense of nuance and detail in nuclear movement behind it suffered an intellectual matters that formerly was reserved for tax and moral defeat. But that the freeze re­ laws and highway construction bills. HON. TOM LANTOS mained unacceptable to the president in a Ronald Reagan now has what no other OF CALIFORNIA sense confirms its victory. The final vote in president has had: a Congress that is able to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the House was therefore the closest we can engage in a dialogue on the problems of the come to a vote of no confidence. nuclear age and that is motivated to support Wednesday, May 11, 1983 Were this to be the only outcome, we a line of march that makes sense. would now be facing a bleak prospect: yet •Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, my another president at bay, and unable to Last Monday, two letters-one from a friend and distinguished colleague, lead; a country polarized and unable to sup­ group of senators, the other from a group of Mr. GORE, a recognized authority on port coherent policy; the Soviets at liberty representatives-went to the president. Con­ strategic issues, recently made a valua­ to develop their strengths and play on our sistent on basic points, they say that agree­ ble contribution to the debate on our weaknesses. ment is possible with the president on the Fortunately, however, something else has basis of the Scowcroft Commission report, Nation's future in an article called but that Congress must have at the begin­ "Beyond the Freeze." occurred. The House has realized that the freeze was not an end in itself but a propos­ ning and at critical points along the way (1) The article was published in the al for a new beginning. Moreover, there now his assurances of support for the report and May 9 issue of the Washington Post, appears to be a consensus that in this new <2) evidence that he is moving vigorously on and I commend it to the attention of beginning we must try not only to reduce arms control and on serious technical ques­ my colleagues. the number of nuclear weapons in the world tions hanging over MX and the single-war­ but also to ensure that nuclear relationships head ICBM. BEYOND THE FREEZE The self-education of the House was the projects of our intelligence Pennsylvania to be the recipient of the In all, Mount Hermon has 600 new agencies were undertaken with no account­ Master Coaching Award presented by residential units. Yet the figures ability whatever to the Congress. In 1974, the Hughes-Ryan amendment the National Football Clinic in Atlan­ cannot show the new streets, and the was attached to the Foreign Assistance Au­ tic City, in recognition of his outstand­ fierce pride taken by each resident in thorization bill which required the CIA to ing achievements. their own home and in their communi­ report all covert projects to a total of eight Mr. Gurski graduated from the Uni­ ty. Theirs is not a typical Government House and Senate Committees. Restrained versity of Pennsylvania with a degree operation. In this community, the resi­ by that kind of requirement, covert actions in economics and received his masters dents run the program themselves. came virtually to a standstill. degree in education from Bucknell Thanks to Joe Parker's efforts, 75 per­ The action taken by the Congress in 1980 University. He received honorable cent of the original families stayed to reducing the reporting requirement of the intelligence agencies to the two Select Com­ mention All-American honors in col­ rebuild. mittees on Intelligence, i.e., the House and lege football. Coach Gurski has always To work the miracle, Joe Parker per­ Senate Select Committees on Intelligence, stood as an inspiration to the members suaded the city to apply for Federal was intended as a permanent solution to the of his teams, who have sought his urban renewal funds to help his neigh­ problems of excessive or ill-conceived advice and have learned from his years bors rebuild. The private investors "covert" projects. of service and excellence. were willing to take a chance because The specific statutory authority adopted He will be sorely missed by his play­ of Joe Parker's drive and vision. In all, at that time imposes upon the President of ers and all those who love the sport of $16.9 million came from community the United States the requirement to report all covert activities to these two Congres­ football. I know that my colleagues funding. sional Committees "in a timely fashion." will join me in paying tribute to John In 1980, Joe Parker received an Former President Carter interpreted this Gurski on the outstanding job he has award for the community's design language to permit him to postpone the re­ done in coaching and working with from the U.S. Department of Housing porting of the abortive hostage rescue mis­ young people. He is a man of principle and Urban Development. Communities sion of 1980 until after that covert project May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12023 had ended in a stark and humiliating disas­ The more recent suggestion is for a Con­ forces. The Soviet Union seems now to ter. Despite the tragedy and Carter's inex­ gressional "veto" or the substitution of the be reluctantly moving toward the con­ cusable delay in informing the Members of judgment of the House or Senate Intelli­ the House and Senate Intelligence Commit­ gence Committee for what is clearly a re­ ception of reducing arms and not tees, several members who are sharply criti­ sponsibility reposed in the President and simply strengthening them. I am con­ cal of President Reagan's present reporting the intelligence agencies of our nation. Such vinced that this program is the direct practices were noticeably silent when is not the law today, and it seems unlikely result of their perception that the Carter's representatives finally tried to ex­ that a Committee of the Congress could ful­ United States has the will and the plain why the mission had been so poorly fill such a role. strength of purpose required to main­ planned and so miserably executed. Several additional observations seem to tain an adequate and creditable deter­ Still, there was no demand then, as there me to be pertinent. First, there is the ques­ rent. appears to be now that Congressional over­ tion as to why a policy should be imple­ sight of covert actions should be subject to mented by covert as opposed to overt action. There are other problems with a approval or "veto" by one or the other of The CIA and other intelligence agencies freeze. First among them is verifica­ the Congressional intelligence committees. have a great preference for secret, under­ tion. It is relatively easy to determine Too often members of the intelligence cover activity. Even when overt and above­ whether or not a nation has specifical­ committees of the House and Senate are board military or economic aid would have ly reduced the arms and weapons sys­ plagued by one or two members who utilize broad public acceptance, the intelligence tems it promised to cut back. A freeze their committee positions for publicity or community seems bent on concealing its ac­ is a different proposition. It is very dif­ political ends. This should be particularly tions. noticeable today while great national atten­ Still, in other instances, the beneficiaries ficult to examine the whole spectrum tion is focused on covert actions in Central of our aid frequently insist that the aid of a defense complex as intricate as America which seem to be largely misunder­ must be furnished clandestinely. When this that of the Soviet Union and guaran­ stood and where the "cover" of some of develops-as it does-we are left with no al­ tee that it is maintaining a status quo. those participating in the covert actions has ternative but to help our cooperating This problem in verification must be been blown by media zealots who regard the friends or allies in the manner in which measured against the backdrop of the public's right to know above the need to they choose to be aided. That attitude could Soviet record of breaking every inter­ protect the identity of those whose safety is explain some not so covert actions taking endangered by media exposure. place today in which the American public national agreement they have entered It is or should be no secret that numerous and the President may be overtly support­ since Yalta. covert actions may be deemed necessary in ive. Mr. Speaker, I honestly believe that order to protect our vital national security At any rate, committees of the Congress we are not debating the question of interests. That responsibility is necessarily can do little or nothing to ease this dilemma world peace. All of us are dedicated to vested in the President and the Executive as I learned the hard way as a Member of that goal with equal fervor and com­ Branch of our government. Any temporary the House Select Committee on Intelligence mitment. The difficulty here concerns public, Congressional, or media dissatisfac­ since its creation in 1976 and until my re­ tion with decisions relating to our national tirement from the Congress in January of the best way of getting there. security should not justify substituting this year.e I firmly believe that mutually judgments formulated by a committee of agreed upon reduction talks conducted' the Congress for in an atmosphere of respect provide what is necessarily an executive department PASSAGE OF THE NUCLEAR our most viable option. I intend to prerogative. FREEZE A MISTAKE work as hard as I can to achieve that Some may even question the wisdom of goal in my service on the special panel the establishment of the two intelligence HON. RICHARD RAY , appointed by the Armed Services Com­ committees in the House and Senate. It might be preferable to vest that entire au­ OF GEORGIA mittee on disarmament. No one will thority in the Executive Branch and then IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES work harder than I will to this end but hold the Executive accountable for intelli­ · Wednesday, May 11, 1983 I think we are making a mistake today gence failures and abuses. A temporary Con­ and I cannot support House Joint Res­ gressional committee could then investigate •Mr. RAY. Mr. Speaker, while I olution 13.e and report its findings. This was the pur­ think that the nuclear freeze resolu­ pose of the Pike and Church Committees tion has been improved by the 40-plus which the Congress created in 1975. hours of congressional debate which COMMEMORATING ITALIAN­ A more logical oversight committee for have been devoted to it, I am still of AMERICAN WEEK keeping a constant check on the CIA is the the opinion that its passage by the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board , currently headed by the House of Representatives is a mistake. HON. DON RI'ITER very capable Anne Armstrong, former Am­ In my judgment, this is not just the OF PENNSYLVANIA bassador to Great Britain and former Presi­ right time in our history to approve a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dential Assistant. Such other members of nuclear freeze resolution. PFIAB as Allan Greenspan and Eugene The action that we take is important Wednesday, May 11, 1983 Rostow are fully competent to review pro­ not only for the provisions it contains, e Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, I am posed covert actions and probably better but also for the signal that it sends. happy to announce that this week is able to do so than are the members of the Congressional intelligence committees, all of History tells us that both Tokyo and being celebrated as Italian-American whom have other committee assignments to Berlin closely monitored congressional week in Allentown, Pa., and I, as the attend to. debate on national defense in the Representative of the Lehigh Valley, Individual or committee inspired letters years preceding World War II. Encour­ would like to extend that Italian­ protesting a proposed covert project can be aged by the strength of the "peace American week throughout our fraught with potentially dangerous conse­ movement" and by the defeat of nu­ Lehigh Valley cities, townships, and quences as occurred a little over a year ago merous rearmament measures, the boroughs. To culminate the celebra­ when erroneous information from such a letter was "leaked" to a newsman. We Axis powers seriously misread Ameri­ tion of this week's activities, a special should be thankful that Qaddafi did not retaliate militarily or I fear that this House is sending the Lehigh Valley, will feature tenor with a terrorist mission. Soviet Union much the same message Walter Rinaldi, soprano Patricia Another abortive effort to frustrate policy that it sent Germany and Japan in the Jensse, and accompanist Carl Suppa in positions in Central America occurred when late 1930's. Only recently, Mr. · Andro­ a special celebration of America's fa­ a "staff report" was published following the initiative of a few members of the House In­ pov has proposed to the President that vorite Italian music "From Verdi to telligence Committee. This may have warheads as well as missiles should be Volare." The event, to be held in Al­ strained relations between the Committee counted in the START talks as a lentown's Symphony Hall on May 14, and the CIA but it did nothing to advance means of determining a balance be­ will be a fitting way to end the week­ our national interests. tween Soviet and NATO nuclear long celebration dedicated to a people 12024 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 who have contributed much to the We in the Lehigh Valley are proud legislation to terminate such covert ac­ greatness of our Nation. of the I Paesani singers and dancers tions. I have the pleasure of representing and their dedication in preserving the Following are excerpts from the let­ an area in Pennsylvania which is eth­ rich and colorful heritage of Italy. ters of Sister Raquel from December nically diverse. The steel mills, slate The term "I Paesani" means fell ow 14, 1982, January 13, 1983, March 22, quarries, cement factories, foundries, townspeople and is a fitting name to a 1983, and April 13, 1983. They were truck assembly lines, and other indus­ group whose members' ancestors, no prepared by Sister Margaret. tries attracted settlers from many doubt, came from the same villages DEAR MARGARET: • • • Crimes and kidnap­ parts of the world. They came seeking and towns in Italy. Today, many of pings at the border continue almost daily. a better life and chance to start anew their names do not reveal the heritage • • • The couple that hosted the delegation in a land filled with hope and promise. they honor and love. Yet, when they of religious last September in Esteli were appear on stage with the men in black both kidnapped diated the very goals of economic expansion LEWIS LEHRMAN: LET US TALK and job growth for which his government MONEY AT WILLIAMSBURG Williamsburg is an economic summit with­ out an agenda. That shouldn't be surprising, was elected. for the West today has no coherent econom­ In Germany in 1982, Helmut Schmidt's HON. JACK F. KEMP ic order-unless you count austerity and sac­ Social Democrats also presided over rapidly OF NEW YORK rifice. rising unemployment occasioned by the gov­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Recently, I returned from a trip to Euro­ ernment-sponsored Bundesbank policy of pean capitals. Central-bank officials and credit austerity, monetary targeting and Wednesday, May 11, 1983 ministers of trade did acknowledge the pro­ high interest rates. By the summer of 1982, •Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, the eco­ found problems of monetary disorder, ex­ Mr. Schmidt's coalition fell apart as his nomic summit meeting this month in change-rate fluctuations and their protec­ Free Democrat allies, sensing repudiation, Williamsburg, Va., provides an unpar­ tionist effects. Yet, while the French gov­ switched affiliation to the Christian Demo­ ernment now calls for a return to the Bret­ crats. What made Hans Dietrich Genscher alleled opportunity to begin to end the ton Woods system-profoundly flawed itself and his Free Democrats jump ship was mas­ worldwide economic misery which but certainly more effective than the sive defections from the Schmidt economic began with the breakdown of Bretton present float-no minister with whom I policy, as measured by opinion polls. Ger­ Woods, the last stable international spoke believed international monetary prob­ mans of both parties rejected the policies of monetary system, in 1971. lems would be formally discussed at Wil­ austerity. One of the foremost advocates of liamsburg. This pessimism about the possi­ Capitalizing on discontent with austerity, such international monetary reform bilities of reform is striking, coming only six Helmut Kohl's CDU negotiated a deal with has been Lewis Lehrman, who was months after Treasury Secretary Regan the FDP and shrewdly called for early elec­ called for a monetary conference. tions in March 1983. They won those elec­ both a distinguished academic and a The issue of international monetary tions by a decisive margin, campaigning for successful entrepreneur, before becom­ reform and the new arguments for different a program of economic recovery. ing an equally dynamic political systems of fixed exchange rates arise from In the U.S., President Reagan came to leader. In an article in today's Wall the failures of the managed currency float office in 1980 after a brilliantly successful Street Journal, Lehrman writes: of the past 10 years. During this period, campaign based on job creation, new invest­ The evidence is compelling that reconsid­ economies of the West declined and protec­ ment, stable money, lower interest rates and eration of the world monetary system is tionism intensified. Ideas of reform originat­ economic growth. It is true that inflation overdue. One need only review the history ed in the 1960s, with the purpose of curing has come down. And it is true that, unlike of the last few years in America, Britain, the primary defect of Bretton Woods-the most of his Western European counterparts, Germany and France, as their economies de­ reserve currency status of the dollar, which Mr. Reagan has significantly reduced mar­ clined under the weight of the monetary led to a permanent balance-of-payments ginal tax rates. But the real cost of credit and interest rate disorders engendered by deficit in the U.S. These ideas have not yet for homes and business is still unacceptably central bank money market manipulation. been sufficiently considered. Now is the high. Industrial production does not yet time to do so. exceed 1979 levels. There are still over 11 The failure of attempts to solve an The evidence is compelling that reconsid­ million unemployed. international problem with national eration of the world monetary system is The credit policy of Fed Chairman Paul methods is apparent, Lehrman argues: overdue. One need only review the history Volcker has brought down inflation while Diligently pursued austerity programs of the last few years in America, Britain, producing one of our greatest recessions, a have left 35 million workers unem­ Germany and France, as their economies de­ world banking crisis, and a political setback ployed in the major industrial coun­ clined under the weight of the monetary for the Republicans in November 1982. But tries. "And so the West sways between and interest rate disorders engendered by the policy of monetary austerity, and the expansionist central bank credit poli­ central bank money market manipulation. recession it caused, was not President Rea­ cies that lead to the euphoria of infla­ In Britain in 1979, Margaret Thatcher's gan's program of 1980. It was instead the Conservatives campaigned against the policy of the Fed and the Office of Manage­ tion, and austerity policies of credit Keynesian credit policy of the Bank of Eng­ ment and Budget. Like Mrs. Thatcher, Mr. contraction, which lead to the despair land and the sterling depreciations of the Reagan unwittingly fell into the trap of his of unemployment, and spiritual pover­ Labor government. Mrs. Thatcher's cam­ advisers who advocated credit austerity. ty"-a tradeoff which "has impover­ paign called for a stable currency, economic And so the West sways between expan­ ished us all." The economic contrac­ growth, low interest rates and financial sionist central bank credit policies that lead tion and monetary instability leads di­ order. After nearly four years of austerity to the euphoria of inflation, and austerity rectly to protectionist tendencies and an unapologetically monetarist central policies of credit contraction, which lead to banking policy, Britain still has 13 percent the despair of unemployment and spiritual which worsen the problem. unemployment. Output is no higher than Lehrman continues: poverty. In a larger sense, and to some prac­ four years ago. Meanwhile, the pound's tical extent, this stop-go economics has im­ The truth is that there is only one econo­ value fell from $2.50 to $1.45-beneath the proverished us all. European and American my. It is the integrated world economy. lowest level under the Labor. The cost of workers are punished by Socialists and Con­ Therefore, national economies need a mone­ credit, the touchstone of economic growth, servatives for the "sin" of wanting wages tary coordinating mechanism. And that is hovers at real rates of 8 percent to 10 per­ that keep up with inflation. why an integrated world economy needs a cent, depending on the quality of the bor­ In the meantime, because of unemploy­ common monetary standard, which is the rower, even as the public-sector borrowing ment, Western governments are preoccupied best neutral international coordinating requirement has diminished as a percentage with the balance of trade-an all-time falla­ device. But no national currency will do; of GNP. cy. The specter of protectionism is on the only a world currency will work. That is FRANCE'S CURRENCY COLLAPSED rise. But our disorders in the world trading why having national currencies convertible In France, Francois Mitterrand's Socialist system cannot be cured by GATT or by to gold-an international money-has campaigned in 1981 against the credit and trade agreements. Those disorders are mon­ worked in the past and will work again. budget austerity of President Giscard. They etary in origin. Protectionism thrives on Without such a mechanism, Lehr­ promised a statist industrial program of eco­ competitive exchange-rate policies, brought man concludes: nomic expansion. However, Mr. Mitter- about by the abrupt currency depreciation May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12027 and appreciations of well-meaning but .un­ atives will rely on neo-Keynesian central support of a common program. This certain central bankers and politicians. bank credit expansion to create economic block was christened the Group of 77. Many central bank officials in Europe booms in order to end austerity and get re­ speak with pride about the new austerity. elected. The G-77, as it is called in U.N. par­ They look with equanimity on the 35 mil­ The international monetary system is in lance, often sets the agenda for U.N. lion unemployed of the OECD countries. deep trouble; we won't just muddle along conferences. The question is: Must policy makers put 2.5 much longer. The time to deal with the so­ The second UNCTAD conference, million people out of work in Germany, 3 called "structural" problems of our mone­ held in 1968, adopted a resolution million in Britain, 11 million in the U.S.-in tary order is now. If we do, we can once urging the industrialized nations to order to reduce inflation? Surely those who again create conditions of rapid non-infla­ contribute at least 1 percent-now 0.7 still believe in the future of the Free World tionary growth. If we don't make the re­ and in the American dream must answer: forms, sooner or later the world economy percent-of their annual GNP to de­ No, there is a better way. Only national and will founder. velopment in the Third World. This international monetary reform can cure our Only the U.S. can take the lead. We must figure is the benchmark against which monetary disorders. begin at Williamsburg.e the Third World judges the First It was the German monetary reform of World's commitment to development. 1948, based on a new convertible currency­ a deutschemark tied to gold-that along UNCTAD RESOLUTION The 1972 UNCTAD meeting gave with deregulation produced the German birth to the concept of the least of the Miracle. It was the creation in 1959 of a con­ HON. DON BONKER less-developed countries, or LLDC's, vertible gold franc, which brought forth the whose annual per capita income is savings and investment, that made the Fifth OF WASHINGTON $340 or less. Two years later, the Con­ Republic of De Gaulle rich enough to create IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gress drew upon this notion for the both nuclear defense and national prosperi­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 ty. The gold convertibility of the dollar, and new directions mandate in the U.S. multilateral convertibility in Europe-the e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, I am Foreign Assistance Act: Our foreign hallmarks of the Bretton Woods system­ today introducing a concurrent resolu­ aid should be directed toward meeting created the conditions for postwar prosperi­ tion relating to U.S. participation in the basic human needs of the poorest ty. But the Bretton Woods system had the the sixth meeting of the United Na­ of the world's poor. great flaw of being based on the official re­ tions Conference on Trade and Devel­ The U.N. General Assembly's sixth serve currency status of the dollar. opment . on May 26, 1983 for her 25 years of I would like to take this opportunity One need not be a hide-bound free-market dedicated service to Mater Dei High to wish Bill the greatest success and capitalist to wonder why it makes sense to School. Mrs. Heffernan has contribut­ happiness in all his future endeavors, encourage spending more money to drill for ed greatly to the home economics de­ and to hope as well that we will con­ oil than the oil is worth. Such activities are tinue to benefit from his wisdom, his usually called "waste." partment by her pioneering spirit in 1. For a fuller examination of the tax­ the dissemination of education experience, and his guidance.• shift policies of the past several years, and through the various forms of media how they have hurt both tax fairness and and by demonstrating her patience May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12031 PROFESSOR WILLIAM J. QUIRK countries of the world on a basis that has funds so the poor countries can continue to TESTIFIES ON IMF BEFORE worked out very well, I think, for both of pay the cartel price for oil. The IMF even HOUSE BANKING SUBCOMMIT­ us." provides direct support to the OPEC cartel. The bankers' money financed the Soviet Venezuela, the Wall Street Journal reports, TEE armaments build-up. Any dollar you give will soon apply for funds; Ecuador already your enemy frees up his other resources and has an IMF agreement. Nigeria may soon HON. CARROLL A. CAMPBELL, JR. permits him to spend more on missiles. In appear. The absurdity of providing funds to OF SOUTH CAROLINA some cases, the military aid has been direct. OPEC countries to tide them over a bad IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Chase loaned $150 million dollars to con­ time should be clear to any reasonable struct the Kama Ford truck plant. The person. U.S. policy, instead of financing the Wednesday, May 11, 1983 world watched these trucks move the Red cartel, should be aimed at destroying it, e Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, on Army into Afganistan. The multi-billion which would give American business a April 27, William J. Quirk, professor of dollar Hula Katowice steel works in Poland strong boost without inflation. If Venezuela law at the University of South Caroli­ is served by one railroad-the railroad heads has a debt problem, let them sell some oil at straight East. Mr. Thomas Theobold, head market prices; same for Nigeria. na, testified before the Subcommittee of citibank'r international division, puts the By financing the OPEC oil tax beginning on International Trade, Investment issue simply: "Who knows which political in 1973-74, the bankers killed U.S. business and Monetary Policy of the House system works? The only thing we care about with a double blow-first the oil tax itself Committee on Banking, Finance and is: can they pay their bills?" Taking a page and then to finance it, they shipped the Urban Affairs. I believe his remarks from Mr. Theobold's book and putting money overseas-creating a shortage of make very interesting reading, and I things simply-the simple phrase that money at home and driving interest rates would like to take this opportunity to comes to mind is economic treason. up. In 1972, the rate on prime commercial share his statement with my col­ Then there was OPEC and "Recycling." paper was 4.7 percent and mortgages were 8 Again the public was in the dark and the percent. leagues: Congress was by-passed. In 1973, the Arabs At the same time the bankers were rolling STATEMENT BY WILLIAM J. QUIRK, PROFESSOR decided to go out of the oil business and over Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hunga­ OF LAW, SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF into the .tax collection business. They ry, and Argentina, they-in 1982 alone­ SOUTH CAROLINA sought to extend their corner on oil to all of drove 50,000 American businesses into bank­ Mr. Chairman, and members of the com­ the West's capital and real wealth. The ruptcy. The owners of established business­ mittee, I am honored to accept your invita­ bankers financed the tax collection. Poor es could not make them go at 20 percent in­ tion to appear before you today. countries couldn't pay their tax, so the terest and $40 a barrel oil. The results were Over the past 10 years the West has given banks loaned money to Zaire so it could pay devastating: in the 1970s American labor away its wealth to Reds, Arabs and Third its tax to the Arabs, who then deposited lost 30-40 million private sector jobs; 70 per­ Worlders in the greatest transfer of capital their tax collections back in the banks. That cent of private sector jobs existing in 1970 in the history of the world. We have given set up a classic debt merry-go-round or were gone by 1980. The bankers turned away some $800 billion of accumulated Ponzi scheme. Each year the banks had to down meritorious domestic borrowers with wealth and all the figures are not in. lend Zaire more for that year's tax collec­ the simple, unanswerable question: "Why To be sure, they were not called gifts tion, plus interest on the old principal. should I lend money to you when I can when they were made-no Congress appro­ Every Ponzi scheme depends on new money. make so much more lending to Mexico." priated the foreign aid-they were called and new money in accelerating amounts as The United States has undergone "dein­ loans and they were made by international the debt snowballs. The figures show we are dustrialization," which means that low-cap­ bankers. The bankers had figured out a way now in the last stages. In 1978 the total ital service industries-like McDonalds­ to profit from brokering away the West's volume of international debt of developing boom . wealth. nations was $340 billion; in 1982 it was $640 On the other hand, capital intensive indus­ They had two cover stories-called "De­ billion. Already we hear the IMF appropria­ try can't make it; a basic one, steel, is dead; tente" and "Recycling." What was "De­ tion will not be enough. Third Worlders say and another, autos, is dying. Clearly, you tente"? The American public was highly the only insurance company that would be cannot have a serious country without a skeptical about detente; but, since Congress enough is the U.S. treasury. steel industry. Economists said that Ameri­ never appropriated any money or passed In 1972, the Arabs received $24 billion can management and labor could not com­ any laws, and since there was no apparent from the rest of the world; in 1982, they re­ pete with foreign competition and that was cost, the opposition had nothing to grab ceived $230 billion. The Saudis-with a lift­ it. onto. To the Russians it was not vague at ing cost of 50 cents a barrel-were collecting Businessmen, such as W. P. Tippett, chair­ all-it had a very clear and concrete pur­ $40 a barrel. Since all oil prices followed man of American Motors, said it was not a pose. In the late 1960s, after 50 years of OPEC up in the United States, the cost of straight deal; you could not "compete Party rule, the Soviet economy was bust. In oil went from $20.3 billion in 1972 to $225 against government-subsidized foreign com­ 1968 the Red tanks rolled into Prague to billion in 1981. The extra cost came to $820 petition." Which was true enough, but Mr. snuff out the beginnings of freedom. The per person or $3,300 for a family of four. An Tippett missed the real irony-that we were Reds knew that economic freedom had to incredible foreign tax imposed upon Ameri­ giving the foreigners the money to subsidize lead to political freedom and, ultimately, cans and financed by the banks of the cult for the United States to undertake. Unfortunately the administration industrial democracies was more than three So nuclear weapons give the Soviets clear decided to play down these reports times larger than the combined GNP of the advantages. Of course the present balance and increased support for a govern­ Warsaw Pact countries. traditional values are a trillion dollars-social spending had quad­ dom. scoffed at." rupled in one decade. The budget for the But if John Ashbrook was a rock solid It was a long-standing American consen­ Department of Health and Human Services conservative he was also a conservative who sus based on these traditional values that became the third largest entity in the world, broke the mold. He hardly fit the image of John Ashbrook struggled to reinstitute in just behind the national budgets of the the stuffy or parochial reactionary some this country, a struggle we continue today. United States and the Soviet Union. One tried to attach to him. A graduate of Har­ And in searching for the solution of our social program, food stamps, had grown vard, an adept and effective public speaker, social or economic problems today, we can from a $70 million experimental program in the concise eloquence he brought to his speak of a matrix, a formula that unlocks 1965 to an $11.25 billion program in 1981- views made the liberal establishment take the solutions to many different problems. an incredible 16,000 percent increase. notice. And, most important, he was willing And I believe it is in the political wisdom The government was draining off Ameri­ to take the kind of chances that few older and the social consensus that began this ca's productivity and placing an enormous and more traditional members of his party country, the consensus that still abides here drag on the economy. Higher and higher would ever have dared. He even challenged in the heartland of America and was so evi­ taxes and inflation were discouraging work, an incumbent President of his own party dent in the career of a John Ashbrook, it is risk, and the willingness of business and when he felt that President needed to be re­ this consensus that holds the key to our labor to invest time or money in economic minded of his original mandate. modern dilemmas. expansion. In John Ashbrook's youth, his erudition, From their own harsh experience with in­ Now this tremendous slowdown in the and his willingness to challenge long-estab­ trusive, overbearing government, the economy was more than a statistical event. lished political precedents, we saw a new Founding Fathers made a great break­ It hurt those who could least afford to be kind of Republican, a new kind of conserva­ through in political understanding: They hurt. Particularly hard hit were those tradi­ tive. It was in this sense that he was ahead understood that it is the excesses of govern­ tionally lower income groups that make up of his time, a forerunner of many conserva­ ment, the will to power of one man over an­ such a high percentage of the unemployed. tive officeholders to come. other, that has been a principal source of in­ Minimum wage laws-with no allocation And the voters of Ohio, even those who justice and human suffering through the made or allowance made for young people didn't agree with him on every point, saw in ages. The Founding Fathers understood doing marginal work-kept many young him a man to be trusted, a leader who had that only by making government the serv­ people from gaining the entry level posi­ clearly charted out the future and knew the ant, not the master, only by positing sover­ tions that mean invaluable job training and direction he wanted it to go. Even those who eignty in the people and not the state can eventually fulltime careers. view the world from a different political we hope to protect freedom and see the po­ Or take the slowdown in economic perspective can honor this man's utter devo­ litical commonwealth prosper. tion to principle, and his understanding of In 1776, the source of government excess progress made by those with low incomes. the essence of political leadership. John was the crown's abuse of power and its at­ As pointed out in a recent article by Charles Ashbrook knew that the first duty of public tempt to suffocate the colonists with its Murray in The Public Interest magazine, life is to responsibly speak the truth-even overbearing demands. In our own day, the the great expansion of government pro­ if the moment's fashion is against the truth. danger of too much state power has taken a grams that took place under the aegis of the For it's through such consistency and coher­ subtler but no less dangerous form. Out of Great Society coincided with an end to eco­ ence, such constant attention to principle, the best of intentions, government has in­ nomic progress for America's poor people. that the public trust is eventually won and a tervened in areas where it is neither compe­ From 1949 until just before the Great Socie­ political consensus mobilized. tent nor needed nor wanted by the mass of ty got underway in 1964, the percentage of In many ways, John Ashbrook symbolized Americans. [Applause]. American families in poverty fell dramati­ the beginnings of a new conservative move­ There is no better example of the wisdom cally-from nearly 33 percent to only 18 per­ ment in America. As he grew in prominence, of limited government and the price paid by cent. But by 1980, with the full impact of so did the movement he helped to lead. In societies that forgot that wisdom than the the Great Society's programs being felt, the the 50's and 60's, it was labeled a lost cause, economic problems we've encountered in trend had reversed itself and there was an in the 70's it was thought of as another recent years. The notion that government even higher proportion of people living in pressure group, and in the 80's many could planners could fine-tune the economy from poverty than in 1969. argue it was the dominant force in Ameri­ Washington led to a vicious cycle of boom The simple truth is that low inflation and can political and intellectual life. [Ap­ and bust, periods of high inflation followed economic expansion in the years prior to plause]. by periods of high unemployment. the Great Society meant enormous social We mourn John Ashbrook's loss to this Ohio has suffered from the practice of and economic progress for the poor of movement and to his country. But as his Washington-based meddling more than America. But after the gigantic increases in longtime friend and fellow activist in that almost any other state. Today, because of government spending and taxation, that movement, William Rusher reminded us: this vicious cycle and following decades of economic progress slowed dramatically. If Surely our highest consolation is knowing growth in government, there are 13 percent we had maintained the economic progress that John Asbrook did live to see his politi­ unemployed in your state. And in states 1 made from 1950 through 1965, black family cal principles victorious and his public like Canton, the rate is as high as 17.5 per­ income in 1980 would have been nearly career vindicated. [Applause]. cent and in Youngstown, 20.1 percent. $3,000 higher than it was. Yet we do this memory and ourselves a These are not just statistics. They repre­ The great social spending schemes failed disservice if we too exclusively identify John sent human hardship and suffering, they for the vast majority of poor Americans. Ashbrook's political principles with one stand for unhappy families with lifetime They remain trapped in economic condi­ man, one party, or one political movement. savings eaten up and dreams for the future tions no better than those of a decade-and­ Through all of his writings and speeches, it destroyed. a-half ago. The poverty programs failed pre­ was John Ashbrook's insistent claim that Now all of us hope, of course, that the un­ cisely because they grew without regard for opposition to the cult of state power-the employment situation will ease much more the burden they and other social programs cult that has so badly infected our centu­ quickly than current predictions suggest. were imposing on the overall economy. As ry-was deeply and irrevocably part of But if past recessions were the rule, unem­ social spending multiplied, economic growth America's past and that the principles of ployment will remain a lagging indicator in slowed, and the economy became less and limited government was America's greatest an otherwise brightening economy so the less able to generate the jobs and incomes contribution to constitutional and political unemployed will be among the last to feel needed to lift the poor out of poverty. Not history. the benefits of the recovery. to mention the fact that inflation stimulat­ He spoke movingly of America's tradition­ But those who have for so long preached ed by government growth hit the poor the al values and how too often in recent years the benefits of bigger government should be hardest-the hardest especially by devaluat­ we as a nation had drifted from those asked to acknowledge that the economic ing the payments of those on welfare. values. At the beginning of his second term conditions that led to recession and unem­ The growth of government programs did in 1963, John was one of the senior mem­ ployment were created by years of growth little for the poor, they were sometimes bers of a special five-man committee investi­ in government and the climate of govern­ even counterproductive. From 1965 to '74 gating the Ku Klux Klan and its involve­ ment expansion and interference. When for example, the Federal Urban Renewal ment in the murder of civil rights workers this administration took office, federal Program spent more than $7 billion and in the South. ended a total failure, destroying more hous­ "The minute I walk into those hearings," ing units than it replaced. The federal regu­ he said, "it is like entering another world 1 Cities. lations and grants of the Model Cities Pro- May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12037 gram in the late 1960's spent more than $2.5 Well, here I would submit is the central for a frontal assault on drugs and organized billion and didn't halt urban decay. But all political error of our time. Instead of seeing crime. Or take our federalism proposals: We of these programs-while they did fund jobs the people and their free institutions as the want to cut back on federal intrusions to for an army of federal bureaucrats and con­ principle means of social and economic local and state governments, and so those sultants, put a huge burden on the produc­ progress, our political opposition has looked local and state governments can be more re­ tive sector of the American society. It was at government and bureaucracy as the pri­ sponsive to the people. the working people who had to pay the mary vehicle of social change. And this Or take the national security area, where taxes, carry the burden of inflation and get marked the on-slaught of special interest we're trying to make up for years of neglect thrown out of work when the inevitable eco­ politics, the notion that every noble social when spending declined from 40 percent of nomic slowdown occurred. goal is the business of government, that the budget in 1970 to less than 24 percent in Today because of our attempts to restrict every pressure group has its claim on the 1980. And let me take a moment here for an and cut back on government expansion and tax dollars of working people, that national important aside. During the past 10 years, to retarget aid toward those most in need, legislation means brokering and bartering the Soviet Union has improved, developed and away from those who can manage with­ with the largest share going to the most and deployed more than a dozen large new out federal help, the working people of powerful of the noisiest political constituen­ ICBM systems while the United States has America are directly benefiting. We have cy. been thinking about developing one, much brought inflation down from double-I can't This is the antithesis of fair government, smaller Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. get that out-double-digit-Claughterl-I of democratic rule and orderly government. The debate over a new ICBM and our stumble over inflation all the time. [Laugh­ As Mr. Oakeshott has observed, it is the entire strategic triad has cost the country ter, applause]. But it was double-digit levels. conjunction of utopian dreaming and gov­ millions of man hours and billions of dollars And now for the last six months, it has been ernment power that degenerates into tyran­ and it still hasn't been decided. less than one-half of one percent. [Ap­ ny. Even beyond the raids on the national I wanted to get some answers, once and plause]. I have less trouble saying that. treasury, the huge deficits, the high infla­ for all. So I created a blue-ribbon, bipartisan [Laughter]. For a family on a fixed income tion and taxation-the very abuses that commission this past January to study the of $20,000, the improvement in inflation has brought down so many empires and nations strategic forces of the United States. The meant about $1,700 more in purchasing in the past-this trend toward well-inten­ commission conferred with over 200 experts power. And because of our tax program a tioned but overwhelming government also and consulted closely with the Congress and median-income family of four in 1983 will diminishes personal freedom and the auton­ produced a thorough report that made pay $700 less in federal income taxes. And if omy of those branches of government clos­ three basic recommendations. First, that we they try to do anything about that third tax est to the people. continue with our strategic modernization cut, I sleep with a veto pen under my pillow. Even two centuries ago, the founding fa­ program; second, that we build and deploy [Applause]. thers understood this. They anticipated the the MX missile and develop a single­ But beyond all this, however, cutting back danger. John Adams wrote that government simple, single-warhead missile; and, third, on government instrusions into the market­ tends to run every contingency into an that we continue ambitious arms control ne­ place and its drain on the economy has excuse for enchancing power in government. gotiations that promote nuclear arms stabil­ meant the beginning of a solid recovery. And Thomas Jefferson put it. more directly ity and reduction of nuclear arms. [Ap­ Auto production is up 40 percent in the when he predicted happiness for America plause]. first quarter over the same time a year ago. but only "if we can prevent the government Eighteen senior officials from the three And in March, new home sales were up over from wasting the labors of the people, previous administrations, including six 50 percent, building permits were up more under the pretense of taking care of them former Secretaries of State and Defense, than 70 percent and building starts were up agree that all three parts of this commis­ by 75 percent over the same time last year. Now, some, of course, mistake this to sion's recommendations are essential to the [Applause]. Consumer confidence has had mean the negation of government. Far to future security of our country. The National its best monthly gain in nine years, all the the contrary, it is by clearly restricting the Security Council agrees. The Joint Chiefs of way to 77 percent as measured by the Con­ duties of government that we make govern­ Staff agree. And I agree. ference Board. We now have the lowest ment efficient and responsive. By prevent­ But I more than agree. I believe with prime interest rate in 4 112 years, inflation is ing government from overextending itself every fiber of my being that these steps are better than the double-digit figures of a few we stop it from disturbing that intricate but essential to ensuring arms control progress years ago and the stock market is healthy orderly pattern of private transactions and our nation's future safety and security. again. among various institutions and individuals Only when the Soviets are convinced that And this need not be a temporary recov­ who have different social and economic we mean business will arms control agree­ ery. If we can continue to cut the growth in goals. In short, like the founding fathers, we ments become a reality. We're not building spending, if we can continue to hold the line recognize the people as sovereign and the missiles to fight a war; we're building mis­ on taxes, consumer and business confidence source of our social progress. We recognize siles to preserve the peace. [Applause]. will remain high and the recovery will be government's role in that progress but only And that's why the Congress must act sustained over a long period of time. Once under sharply defined and limited condi­ soon on these recommendations, especially again, America's working people will know tions. We remain aware of government's the MX. If the Congress rejects these pro­ that hard work, saving and sound invest­ urge to seek more power, to disturb the posals it will have dealt a blow to our na­ ment will pay off for them and their chil­ social ecology and disrupt the bonds of co­ tional security that no foreign power would dren in the future. And this will mean far operation and interchange among private ever have been able to accomplish. I call on more to the lower income groups that have individuals and institutions through unnec­ the Congress to support this bipartisan pro­ been so badly hit by unemployment and in­ essary intrusion or expansion. gram, a program that combines vigorous flation than all the government programs of When new management takes over a fail­ arms control with the modernization of our the past. It will mean economic growth and ing business or a coach tries to revitalize a strategic forces. expanding opportunity over a long period of sports team, both will frequently find that Now, discussion of Justice Department time. Instead of having government trying the key to success is cutting out the extra­ personnel or economic statistics may seem a to redistribute a shrinking economic pie, neous or extravagant, while returning to long way from the insights of Michael that pie will be expanding and everyone will basics and emphasizing those resources that Oakeshott or the lofty thoughts of the have a chance at a larger share. have been traditionally successful. founding fathers. But I would argue that But if we are to continue this progress, we Well, this is precisely what we're trying to John Ashbrook would never have found it must resist that well-intentioned statism of do to the bloated federal government today: so. For him, conservatism was not so much a those who urge even more spending and Remove it from interfering in areas where it political pressure group as it was a modern higher taxes. The British political philoso­ doesn't belong, but at the same time reflection of the insights and wisdom that pher, Michael Oakeshott, has warned us strengthen its ability to perform its consti­ began the American Republic. about the dangers of government that tries tutional and legitimate functions. In the His career as a public servant is testimony to do too much: "To some people, govern­ area of public order and law enforcement, to this kind of enlightened conservatism. ment appears as a vast reservoir of power for example, we're reversing a dangerous John Ashbrook believed in study and which inspires them to dream of what use trend of the last decade. While crime was thought. He was close to Ashland College, might be made of it. They have favorite steadily increasing, the federal commitment he did all in his power to encourage the projects of various dimensions which they in terms of personnel was steadily shrink­ growth of conservative ·think tanks and sincerely believe are for the benefit of man­ ing. This administration has reversed this policy groups. kind. They are thus disposed to recognize trend by adding more than 1,000 new inves­ But he was a practical man as well. In the government-an instrument of passion, the tigators and prosecutors to law enforcement face of redistricting and an unfavorable po­ art of politics to enflame and direct desire." rolls and we have redirected our resources litical climate for conservative candidates, 12038 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 he won 11 consecutive terms in the House of office in Albuquerque, but this con­ termination, dedication, and talent, Representatives. He believed in political sists mainly of silt removal in order to and I am sure that there is even more action-he was among those select few who keep the channel open. Such mainte­ success in its future. began the Draft Goldwater movement in 1963 and stunned the political world by suc­ nance would in no way interfere with Executive director Charlotte Grif­ ceeding a year later. a wilderness designation. fith, bakery supervisor Maureen I first came to John's district at a dinner This proposed wilderness area is di­ Sweitzer. and employees Helen here with Bill Buckley the spring after that rectly behind an area known as the Ravenscroft, Teri Roy, Trina Bray, election. He was not discouraged. John Glenwood Hills subdivision in Albu­ Margie Bell, Mildred Crone, Paul looked at the Goldwater campaign as a first querque. The homes in the area back Miller, Rich Buckingham, and Mary step toward the eventual triumph of his po­ up to the area I am proposing for the Lucas are all to be commended for this litical principles. Those principleli are in the wilderness area. outstanding achievement. I hope that ascendency today in large part due to his ef­ forts. [Applause.] The flood control requirement came their fine example will inspire other We owe it to him, to ourselves, to our chil­ about because of the housing develop­ handicapped individuals throughout dren to stand by those principles, to perse­ ment, which was built in the 1960's. In the country.e vere until-as it was said that night in 1964 1974 a bond issue was passed for flood in San Francisco by the presidential candi­ control, but none of the money was date John Ashbrook had worked so hard to specifically allocated to enlarging this ETHIOPIA IN NEED OF FOOD nominate-"until our cause has won the dam. Then in 1976 the Glenwood Hills AID day, inspired the world, and shown the way Homeowners Association was informed to a tomorrow worthy of all our yester­ days." by the Forest Service that the city HON. BARNEY FRANK Thank you all and God bless you. CAp­ planned to build a new dam in Sunset OF MASSACHUSETTS plauseJ .e Canyon. It was to have been about 30 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES feet high at grade level and 50 feet from the basin floor. The catch basin Wednesday, May 11, 1983 STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD was to be riprapped and a road built •Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, Ethiopia BY REP. MANUEL LUJAN, JR. high on the hillside to go over the top is experiencing its most severe drought of the dam structure. since 1973. An estimated 3 million HON. MANUEL LUJAN, JR. This planned action was protested people, in the Gondar, Tigray, Welo, OF NEW MEXICO and the Forest Service requested the and Eritrea regions, are in desparate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES city to reconsider its plans. In March need of emergency food relief. Wednesday, May 11, 1983 1980 the city council passed a resolu­ During the 1972-73 drought, 200,000 tion whereby the city's policy is to up­ people and millions of livestock per­ •Mr. LUJAN. Mr. Speaker, I am in­ grade the existing structure and line ished. This year, 90 people and nearly troducing a bill today to provide for the North Glenwood Hills Aroyo chan­ 200,000 cattle have already died in the the addition of about 20 acres to the nel with concrete. Gondar region alone. With the govern­ Sandia Mountain Wilderness within My bill will insure that no greater ment's treasury strained, emergency the Cibola National Forest of New action is taken by the city. It will pre­ stockpiles nearly depleted, logistical Mexico. serve the existing character of the headaches, and attendant health prob­ This legislation is similar to a bill area and prevent destruction of the lems, Ethiopia has been forced to turn which I introduced in the 97th Con­ canyon. I will work for early passage to the world community for assistance. gress, and was opposed by the Depart­ of this bill and I will be requesting The Agency for International Devel­ ment of Agriculture because of misin­ hearings shortly·• opment has already granted food re­ formation about a proposed flood con­ quests from Catholic Relief Services trol project in the designated wilder­ and the World Food Program, both of ness area. COUNTRY OVEN BAKERY which have been operating in the im­ When the Endangered American NAMED SMALL EMPLOYER OF pacted areas. Another request is still Wilderness Act of 1978 was being con­ THE YEAR FOR 1983 pending and more supplies may be re­ sidered and subsequently enacted by quested in the future. Congress, approximately 20 acres of HON. BEVERLY BYRON I urge my colleagues to read the fol­ the then proposed Sandia Mountain OF MARYLAND lowing article from the Baltimore Sun Wilderness were excluded to provide IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which provides a useful overview of for ultimate construction and mainte­ the crisis. For those who wish to fur­ nance of a flood control project imme­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 ther involve themselves in this unfold­ diately above the city limits of Albu­ • Mrs. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, I would ing tragedy, I would suggest a letter to querque, N. Mex. like to take this opportunity to con­ the Director of the Agency for Inter­ Since that time the city of Albuquer­ gratulate the Appalachian Center and national Development in support of que, on close study after citizen groups Country Oven Bakery of Oakland, humanitarian and food relief requests. questioned its basis and value, discard­ Md., for being named the Small Em­ [From The Sun, May 2, 1983) ed the proposed flood control project. ployer of the Year for 1983 through ETHIOPIA, IN GRIPS OF SEVERE DlWUGHT, HAS Because the project will not now be the President's Committee on Employ­ "CRITICAL" NEED OF FOOD, SUPPLIES built, there is no longer any reason for ment of the Handicapped. excluding this acreage from the wil­ The Country Oven Bakery began op­ EBINAT, ETHIOPIA.-From the air, the derness area. erating in 1980 with the assistance of a country is the color of scorched parchment The area proposed for wilderness HUD block grant. Since then, the stretching as far as the eye can see beyond designation is referred to as Sunset bakery has become virtually self-suffi­ the Simien mountains. A vast network of Canyon, which lies literally in the cient, and has established an excellent slate-gray riverbeds testifies to prospects for backyard of many residents of Albu­ reputation in the Garrett County com­ irrigation and bountiful harvests, but on the querque. munity. ground this year is nothipg. At the present time a structure Of the nine employees, seven are Drought has robbed the northern prov­ called a diversion dam exists in the handicapped. The bakery has given inces of their crops and watering places and hundreds of square miles of cornfields and canyon. It was built in 1964 for flood them an outlet for their energy and rangelands have merged into a virtual control and has been maintained only enthusiasm, and also an opportunity desert stretching from the Sudan to the once since then. Further maintenance to succeed in business and to contrib­ Red Sea. work is now in the process of being ap­ ute to the community. The Country Tens of thousands of people have become proved by the Forest Service regional Oven Bakery is a tribute to their de- totally dependent on foreign food aid deliv- May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12039 ered to relief stations and refugee camps. There are said to be 450,000 severely HIGH SCHOOL HONORING STU­ Help for uncounted thousands more, who drought-affected people in the Gondar DENTS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVE­ live beyond the nation's airstrips and roads, region, and government officials say they MENTS is nowhere in sight. An estimated 3 million have counted 600,000 people in similar cir­ people are said to be in serious need of food cumstances in Tigray, 566,000 in Welo and and, in some places, water. more than 530,000 in Eritrea, where the sit­ HON. ALAN WHEAT For most of the northern country the uation is complicated by continued fighting OF MISSOURI rains came too early, too late or not at all between government and rebel forces. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES last year, and the little corn that did break A drought report and letter requesting ground failed to mature. Even before the emergency food aid that was distributed to Wednesday, May 11, 1983 harvest, which is due about now, thousands foreign embassies in Addis Ababa last Octo­ of families have abandoned their fields and •Mr. WHEAT. Mr. Speaker, tomor­ pegged their survival to towns and refugee ber has drawn a limited response, and the row Hickman Mills High School is camps. nation's current emergency food reserve in honoring the outstanding academic The World Food Program has estimated a the capital stands at about 15,000 tons of achievements of its students. At a 250,000-ton national grain deficit for 1983, grain provided through the World Food Program and the United Nations Food and ceremony at the school the students but says American satellite projections of a will receive awards ranging from scho­ 2 million-ton shortfall are probably more ac­ Agriculture Organization. curate. However, the emergency in Gondar alone lastic scholarships to perfect attend­ The government has declared a state of could swallow the nation's emergency stock­ ance. I would like to take this opportu­ emergency, and Trevor Page, head of the pile, and Adane Mumuye, chief of the gov­ nity to commend those students. program's emergency service in Geneva, and ernment's Relief and Rehabilitation Com­ These young men and women have not other foreign observers believe the drought mission in Gondar, has requested 15,000 been content with the mediocre, but to be worse than the one in 1972-73, when tons of wheat and 3, 700 tons of powdered have demonstrated perseverance and about 200,000 people and millions of live­ supplements and vegetable oils to carry his dedication in the pursuit of excellence. stock perished. 450,000 people for the next six months The awards are the culmination of "We just know the situation is critical, but alone. He says that even if he receives his their excellent achievement. we just don't know how critical," said quota, he will only be able to reach 60 to 70 Martin Moch, the program's senior adviser But the meaning of excellence is percent of those in need. found not in its accomplishment, but in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. Mr. "We don't have the trucks and we can Moch says that the country's limited trans­ only supply those who come to the relief in its pursuit. Excellence is a quality portation system had defied efforts to reach stations," he said. "Those people have to acquired not at the end of the race the most distant northern settlements, and and not at the starting line. Excellence says estimates of casualties and needs were travel two to four days on foot, and the weak cannot make it." is attained in slow degree that requires based conservatively on an outdated popula­ fierce dedication, persistence, and de­ tion count of 31 million people. The death toll directly f!.ttributable to Here on the flat, dusty outskirts of Ebinat drought in Gondar so far this year is about termination. I know that these exem­ in the southeastern Gondar region, a relief 90 people and 177,000 cattle. By Mr. Adane's plary students learned that valuable station set up for a few hundred refugees projection, between 135,000 and 180,000 lesson. last October has become a permanent settle­ people could perish in Gondar this year if It is true that American public edu­ ment for 10,000. food is not forthcoming. cation faces constant criticism, some­ People have walked for up to a week to Shimelis Adugna, the Relief Commission­ times deservedly so. But it is also true get here, carrying a few personal posses­ er in Addis Ababa, said that the Communist that American public schools have un­ sions and their youngest children on their states that supported the overthrow of Em­ dertaken a unique challenge-to edu­ backs. They have stripped the landscape of peror Haile Selassie in 1974 have given next cate all Americans and to give every vegetation, and gathered every rock within to nothing in the way of assistance. He said the radius of a mile to build low stone cor­ the military government of Mengistu Haile student the opportunity to pursue ex­ rals and brush shelters against the sun and Mariam was hopeful that the United States cellence. I am encouraged to see that dust. No one knows when they will be able would forget differences and help fill the these students at Hickman Mills have to leave. food gap. made the most of that opportunity. I In their brown, tattered robes, they move He said he was certain that Western gov­ would also like to commend the efforts across the landscape in grim camouflage ernments would have responded more gen­ of Principal Douglas M. Lawrence and with their surroundings, collecting firewood the school's faculty. for cooking and foraging for a few goats and erously if Ethiopia were not a socialist state. donkeys. As the camp has grown older, Since the revolution, he said, the nation had The awards issued will remind each larger and more demanding on the environ­ averaged only $8 per head of population in and every student of the rewards of ment, the daily trek for these basics has foreign aid, compared with a $22 average for the dogged pursuit of excellence. I am grown from a few hundred yards to a round other developing countries with similar proud to acknowledge their achieve­ trip of several miles. problems. ments and I wish them the best of The Ebinat River, which has been the U.S. aid and humanitarian assistance to luck in their future endeavors. camp's only source of water, is so polluted Ethiopia slowed to a trickle when the revo­ from overuse that government relief offi­ lutionaries seized American property in 1974 cials have restricted access for drinking and refused to pay compensation. The AT LAST A NUCLEAR FREEZE only. Dutch, who also have a strong record of for­ There have been no medicines or medical eign aid to developing countries, have simi­ personnel at Ebinat since it opened, and lar claims outstanding, and Italy's contribu­ HON.THOMASJ.RIDGE every second child appears to have an eye tion this year has been facilitated only by OF PENNSYLVANIA infection, sores or respiratory problems. the settlement of its claims by a National IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES There is little movement in the camp. Fami­ Compensation Commission that was estab­ lies conserve their energy huddled beneath lished recently in Addis Ababa. Wednesday, May 11, 1983 their shelters, and apart from the low, con­ Ethiopia's treasury is feeling the pinch of e Mr. RIDGE. In 1945, the United stant whimper of small children, a visitor is a military budget that according to the U.S. struck by the eerie silence of the place. States led mankind into the atomic State Department drains 27 .8 percent of its and nuclear age. The United States is The maximum food ration in camps like annual gross national product for arms this across the north this year is 66 pounds the only country that has ever used of grain and 11 pounds of milk and soys against Somalia in the Ogaden region and such weapons. The United States has meal for a family of five. That is the equiva­ rebel armies in Eritrea. a special responsibility, a moral imper­ lent of about 360 grams of protein a person ative, to do whatever it can to put that per day, against the 400-gram minimum United Nations agencies say is necessary for destructive genie back in the bottle. survival in drought conditions. The ration During the course of the debate on ignores the fact that a family of 5 is only av­ the House floor, a debate consuming erage in Ethiopia and that the allowance several weeks, I monitored practically must sometimes be shared among 9 or 10. every minute of dialog, talked to sever- 12040 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 al experts, read numerous studies and them to the bargaining table with comfortable future with funds he or reports, and attempted to answer one pretty persuasive evidence of how she invested earlier in life.e basic question: Does the United States strongly the American people and in May 1983 have a credible nuclear their elected representatives feel deterrent capability? In other words, if about reducing the danger of nuclear DEFENSE SPENDING: I the Russians and the United States war. entered into a complete bilateral Finally, some observers have sug­ HON. LEE H. HAMILTON freeze on production and deployment gested that the freeze resolution was OF INDIANA of nuclear weapons, would this coun­ weakened during the long congression­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES try find itself at a strategic and mili­ al debate be the many amendments Wednesday, May 11, 1983 tary disadvantage during the course of the House added to it. On the con­ subsequent arms reduction talks? trary, I do not believe those amend­ e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I I conclude that the answer is "No." ments weakened the freeze, I think would like to insert my Washington Each country has an identifiable ad­ they strengthened it. I think it was im­ Report for Wednesday, May 11, 1983, vantage with various elements of its portant to clear up some of the many into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: nuclear capability. Neither country ambiguities in the documents as it was Futuristic talk of particle beams and has a superior position overall. It is originally drafted. other exotic weapons has animated my belief that deterrent does not During the first day or two of the debate on the year's most controver­ mean parity. We have sufficient nucle­ debate, even the chief sponsors of the sial issue, defense. However, the main ar capability to deter the Soviet Union freeze resolution admitted that in argument centers on money. from initiating a nuclear conflict and many ways they themselves could not The present defense buildup really will be able to maintain that capability agree on how the freeze would work, began when the Carter administration during the next several years. or which weapons systems they mean initiated a program to address the From time to time Congress will be for it to apply to in actual practice. post-Vietnam neglect of our military. called upon to review different weap­ All too often, I think, Congress is too A firm consensus emerged in the ons and delivery systems in order to vague about what it really intends in Nation on the need to strengthen our insure that such deterrent is not lost the legislation it passes. So the biparti­ Armed Forces. The growth of Soviet simply through the passage of time. san effort to make the freeze resolu­ military power and the increasing mili­ We cannot wait indefinitely for bilat­ tion a bit more precise was, in my tary demands on the United States in eral agreements freezing and/or reduc­ view, a critically important effort to the world combined to pose the cen­ ing nuclear weapons, but we can be as­ strengthen it. tral question for our defense policy sured that our efforts to do so in the Above all, however, the most impor­ today: not whether we should toughen next few years can be done from a po­ tant thing about this whole debate is up our defenses, but how much we sition of real strength. that here in America, in May 1983, we should spend on a buildup and what Working together, a bipartisan have taken the first step toward reduc­ we should buy. group of Congressmen-Republicans ing-and hopefully removing-the President Reagan's answer has been and Democrats alike-succeeded in threat of nuclear war from the face of to expand and accelerate the spending writing specific language into the the Earth.• plans formulated by President Carter. freeze resolution to do two critically For the period from 1984 to 1988, important things: President Reagan has requested more First, to state explicity that is a bi­ NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST than $1,800 billion in defense budget lateral, not a unilateral freeze, that is, NONWORKING SPOUSE authority. If approved, this will result we do not freeze unless and until the in a real rise of 50 percent in defense Russians do; and, HON. MANUEL LUJAN, JR. spending over the previous 5 years. Second, to guarantee our right to on­ OF NEW MEXICO The cost of the President's defense site inspections within the Soviet IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plan is attributable in part to a new Union to see for ourselves that they definition of the American military's are doing all that any agreement re­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 role in the world. His basic strategy quires them to do. •Mr. LUJAN. I am today introducing envisions simultaneous military action Critics of the freeze also argued that legislation which would increase from on several fronts, including a major such a resolution would tie the hands the current level of $250 to $2,000 the war against the Soviets in Europe and of the President and his negotiators. amount of nonworking spouse can a simultaneous conflict with them in That criticism is unjustified, in my invest in an individual retirement ac­ the Persian Gulf. Such a strategy view, because I do not know of a single count. means more spending for larger con­ Member of Congress-whether for or In my legislation, the married couple ventional forces. Furthermore, the against the freeze-who believes that can invest up to $4,000 in an IRA, Reagan administration wants strategic the United States should be represent­ $2,000 for each partner. It would en­ modernization. Both these policies ed at a bargaining table by 435 nego­ courage savings and provide an incen­ have helped swell the percentage of tiators. And that is what we would be tive for an additional $1,750 in tax de­ the Pentagon's budget going to pro­ doing if we were to lock our negotia­ ductions from income. There is no cure military hardware. Ambitious tors into specific positions ahead of reason to discriminate against the procurement programs will modernize time as a result of individual votes nonworking spouse by limiting the our Army divisions, supply four new taken in the House. amount of money that can be invested. tactical Air Force wings, and provide a The nuclear freeze is intended as a The only condition in this bill is that 600-ship Navy and several new strate­ statement-as a symbol-of the U.S. the working spouse must earn at least gic systems by the end of the decade. willingness and desire to call a halt to the amount being invested in the IRA. In 1981, President Reagan's defense the nuclear arms race. It is not a As an example, if the working spouse proposals sailed through Congress. In treaty-the Senate, not the House, ap­ earns only $3,500 in a taxable year, 1982, he pushed through another big proves treaties. It is not a diplomatic that is the maximum that can be in­ increase in defense spending. As the instruction-those come from the vested in the IRA by both partners. It economy languished in recession, how­ White House or the State Depart­ is my belief that the IRA is a very im­ ever, the consensus behind the build­ ment. No, the nuclear freeze does not portant tool in assisting a person in up began to erode. Stagnant business tie the hands of the President or his providing for the future. With the activity and high unemployment have negotiators. In my view, in fact, it state of various retirement systems, reduced tax revenues and raised Fed­ strengthens their hands by sending this would insure the investor of a eral outlays for jobless benefits. There May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12041 have been fears that large deficits Congress likes to spread defense con­ In testimony before the House For­ could prevent sustained economic re­ tracts around to as many places as pos­ eign Affairs Committee last year, Rev­ covery. Experts wonder if the defense sible. After it approves a weapon erend Sullivan 'urged quick action on a budget has been thoroughly reviewed system, management, labor, and the mandatory code. He expressed dismay or if the economy can absorb the system's friends in government fight that while some 146 companies has buildup in so short a time. to keep the program alive. During the signed the Sullivan code, another 142 The defense buildup probably will 1970's, Congress chose to kill few U.S. firms operating in South Africa not have adverse effects as long as our weapon systems. had not. In addition, over one-third of economy is not recovering from the re­ The search for defense savings leads the signatory companies had failed to cession. If the economy recovers Congress into another problem: an old, make any progress in implementing strongly, however, the civilian sector established pattern of cutting first and the six principles of the code: could begin to take up capacity and most the funding for spare parts, fuel, Nonsegregation of the races in All Eating, credit. This competition for capacity ammunition, depot repair, and other Comfort, Locker Rooms, and Work Facili­ and credit could lead to shortages of elements of the operations and main­ ties capital, manpower, and materials. tenance accounts-items affecting Equal and Fair Employment Practices for Some crowding out of private invest­ military readiness. Cutting these items All Employees ment is likely, and cost increases in Equal Pay for All Employees Doing Equal yields the biggest near-term budget or Comparable Work for the Same Period of the defense sector may spill into the savings, but these items are essential Time larger economy and cause a resurgence to fighting a sustained conventional Initiation and Development of Training of inflation. war. Thus, readiness suffers and our Programs that Will Prepare Blacks, Col­ The defense budget has always frus­ forces are not as prepared as they oreds, and Asians in Substantial Numbers trated Congress, and indications are should be. for Supervisory, Administrative, Clerical, that the frustration will last. In prac­ Congress will face a new problem as and Technical Jobs tice, Congress has been able to exert procurement and modernization take a Increasing the Number of Blacks, Col­ only limited influence on defense larger share of the defense budget. It oreds, and Asians in Management and Su­ policy. Members of Congress are pervisory Positions will be hard for Congress to cut the Improving the Quality of Employees' seldom privy to the kind of informa­ readiness-related accounts, as it has in Lives Outside the Work Environment in tion required to evaluate a weapon the past, since these moneys will be Such Areas as Housing, Transportation, system. Much of Congress action on needed to maintain the new weapon Schooling, Recreation, and Health Facili­ the defense budget takes place after systems being delivered. We approach ties. the military has already decided that a what many experts call an outyear di­ Mr. Speaker, since many of my col­ weapon system should be built. lemma in which Congress either must leagues are deeply concerned about One problem making consistent cut ongoing procurement programs or the plight of South Africa's blacks funding of defense difficult for Con­ must face a very serious erosion of who suffer under the most systematic, gress is the volatility of public opinion. military readiness.e legally enshrined system of discrimina­ Congress tends to fund defense in tion, known as apartheid, I ask that roller-coaster fashion-big increases in Reverend Sullivan's article be reprint­ some years and drastic declines in REV. LEON SULLIVAN SAYS IT IS ed in today's CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. I others-depending on public thinking TIME FOR A MANDATORY would also like to take this opportuni­ at the time. This problem may arise FAIR EMPLOYMENT CODE FOR ty to say that this Nation owes a debt again in connection with the Reagan AMERICAN FIRMS OPERATING of gratitude to Reverend Sullivan and defense program. Americans now seem IN SOUTH AFRICA his supporters for the tremendous to be more concerned about the econo­ work that they have done over the my and rising Federal deficits, and HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ years to improve the condition of they want Congress to cut the defense South Africa's 24 million black inhab­ request. OF NEW YORK itants. This public opinion is reflected in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May I also urge my colleagues to changes that the Pentagon construct­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 join me in cosponsoring H.R. 1693 and ed defense budgets too hastily and in working for the passage of legisla­ that almost all of the weapon plans •Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, since tion in this House which would indi­ conceived during the past three ad­ 1977, the Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, cate to the world that the United ministrations were included despite pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in States is willing to act against the day­ their ineffectiveness. To the extent Philadelphia has led a valiant and tire­ to-day horrors of the apartheid that these charges are believed, Mr. less campaign to encourage American system. Reagan will find it hard to convince firms operating in South Africa to vol­ the public that his defense programs untarily adopt a fair employment code [From the Washington Post, May 10, 19831 make sense. that would eliminate discriminatory, IT's TIME To STEP UP THE PREssuRE ON Another problem Congress constant­ racist, and unjust practices toward SOUTH AFRICA ly faces is explosive growth in the cost their black employees. But for some CBy Leon H. Sullivan> of defense systems. Waste in some pro­ time Reverend Sullivan has been The so-called Sullivan principles that I grams and cost overruns due to delays saying, to all who would hear, that it initiated six years ago were intended to and steeply rising prices are aspects of is now time to mandate a fair employ­ bring the actions and influences of Ameri­ can companies in South Africa to bear the problem. The Reagan administra­ ment code for U.S. firms operating in against the racist practices and apartheid tion tried to contain this cost growth, South Africa and to impose heavy pen­ laws of that country. It was my hope that but the most recent report on its pro­ alties on firms which would continue the principles would initiate similar efforts curement initiatives is not encourag­ to discriminate or exploit their black by multinational companies from other ing. The defense sector is so inflation­ workers. parts of the world, thereby creating a global ary that cost increases are beginning Yesterday in the Washington Post, multinational campaign in South Africa to stymie the progress we have made Reverend Sullivan published an Op-Ed against the racial injustices that have exist­ in strengthening our conventional piece eloquently explaining why he ed there for 300 years. It was also my intent that the principles would serve as a catalyst forces. Also, many weapon systems now favored the adoption of a manda­ to help change segregation practices in that should be canceled because of tory code and why he supports legisla­ other private and public places throughout cost survive because of the jobs they tion that I had introduced-H.R. the country. create. The effect of these jobs should 1693-which is cosponsored by 44 of I have attempted to make it clear from not be underestimated. By nature, my colleagues. the beginning that the principles are not 12042 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 the total solution to the South African lution in industrial race relations in South for blacks, there should be no new expan­ problem, and that even if they were imple­ Africa. sion in South Africa by American compa­ mented to the optimum, the principles Unfortunately, even considering these be­ nies, no new bank loans to the South Afri­ alone could not end apartheid. Apartheid is ginnings, the vast changes necessary are not can government, and no sales to the South a ruthless, inhumane system of practices happening fast enough. The necessity for African police or military. and laws deeply embedded in the world's greater changes-visible, broad, effective Perhaps the Sullivan principles and the most racist society, and in order for apart­ and quick-is imperative. No one is more other codes in the world will only do so heid to be completely eradicated, it requires aware than I that the principles and other much, and only go so far. Perhaps the only the combined efforts of many forces, includ­ codes must be pushed harder for greater way South Africa can be fundamentally ing governments, companies, churches, and faster results. It is my view that if the changed is by massive conflict and a devas­ unions, the United Nations, those who be­ principles and codes of other nations are en­ tating war. But I believe that attempts must lieve injustice within the country, and world forced and vigorously implemented and be made to find peaceful means for change public opinion. But it is my firm opinion monitored, they can work for change, but in if it is still possible. that the multinational corporations have a order to bring this about, more pressure is If these world multinational company ef­ major role to play. In the past they have needed on the companies for fuller and forts are aggressively initiated, and broadly been the main beneficiaries of cheap labor swifter compliance. and effectively applied and closely moni­ and profits from this evil and unjust system In my opinion, the voluntary support of tored, they will have to make a difference. and among its main supporters. It should be the principles has been effective, but is not None of us can be sure the total goals of the responsibility of these companies to getting the desired results quickly enough. the principles will ultimately be attained; help change that system. Otherwise, they More enforcement is needed. As I have testi­ but things are beginning to happen in have no moral justification for remaining in fied before congressional committees on sev­ South Africa as a result of the principles. South Africa, and should be compelled to eral occasions: "the full compliance with the They are a catalyst for social change in leave the country. principles of all American companies with South Africa. The principles were never intended to be a operations in the Republic of South Africa In this endeavor, powerful support will be camouflage for corporations to hide behind, should be made mandatory by the United needed beyond the companies, including un­ but were meant, along with other thrusts, to States government, and backed up with em­ relenting and much clearer commitments to help end race discrimination and apartheid bargoes, tax penalties, sanctions, loss of gov­ racial justice in South Africa from the presi­ in South Africa. It was hoped this could be ernment contracts and any other effective dent of the United States, Congress and done by peaceful means, without the need means." other government leaders and nations. But I for devastating war and the loss of millions There are 150 American companies oper­ have faith that with God's help, and with of lives and the predictable involvement of ating in South Africa that have not as yet all the forces for human justice-within and most of the rest of the world, particularly signed the Sullivan principles, and against without South Africa-aggressively pursu­ the superpowers, that could lead to an those companies there should be immediate ing their aims, there is still hope for a non­ atomic confrontation. divestment actions by stockholders, institu­ violent solution to the elimination of apart­ Though progress is still limited in compar­ tions, pension funds, government bodies and heid. Considering the awesome conse­ ison to the enormous size of the problems, other fiduciaries. These companies repre­ quences and magnitude of death and de­ the principles are beginning to work. Start­ sent 20 percent of the investments of Ameri­ struction and international upheaval should ing from where we began six years ago at a can companies in South Africa. these efforts fail, somehow we must suc­ near "zero" base where blacks were not even Of the remaining 150 companies that have ceed.• legally considered "employees" in that signed the principles, one-third are receiving country, some significant changes are occur­ "failing grades" in compliance, according to \-- ring: the annual Arthur D. Little report. These MEDICARE REFORM BILL Throughout South Africa, plants are companies should be contacted by stock­ INTRODUCTION being desegregated in spite of the laws. holders and fiduciaries and asked for writ­ Blacks and other nonwhites are being up­ ten assurances they will do better in the graded, for the first time, tci administrative coming yeai-, accompanied by a plan for HON. BILL GREEN and supervisory jobs. doing so. Otherwise there should be target­ OF NEW YORK Blacks are supervising whites, for the first ed divestment actions against those compa­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time, in South Africa. nies. Companies receiving "passing grades" Blacks and nonwhites are being trained according to the Little. Report should be Wednesday, May 11, 1983 for skilled jobs in ever increasing numbers. urged by stockholders to remain in their top e Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, today I Black representative registered and unreg­ categories, or face divestment. istered trade unions are now beginning to be American companies employ less than 1 am introducing the Medicare Reform recognized. percent of the workers in South Africa. For Act of 1983, which seeks to extend cov­ Technical schools training blacks and these efforts on the part of multinational erage under the medicare program. I other nonwhites are being built. companies to be broadly visible and effec­ am pleased to be the sponsor of this Black businesses, in increasing numbers, tive, participation will have to be global. I bill, which is aimed at providing more are being initiated. have traveled abroad and have urged divest­ services to senior citizens and designed Equal pay for equal work is begining to be ment actions against foreign companies in to reduce the cost of the program by instituted. South African subsidiaries that are not including some preventive measures. I Companies are beginning to improve the living up to their codes. I have appealed for quality of life for blacks and other non­ strong government action by the nations hope that my colleagues in the House whites outside the workplace: in housing, and their parliaments as pressure against will give this legislation serious and health care, and education. company noncompliance. thoughtful consideration. In the past, For the first time, some company execu­ Foremost, I see the necessity for the rec­ I have introduced and seen passed pro­ tives are beginning to lobby for an end to all ognition of the rights of association for visions of my bill extending coverage. racial discriminatory laws and the apartheid black workers, and the recognition of their This bill is a continued effort to enact system. representative registered and unregistered reforms in our system. Also, the principles have led the way in trade unions, thereby empowering black I realize that many of us here today the initiation of similar codes of conduct for workers to speak out for their rights on the companies operating in South Africa from job, as they will one day speak out for their are concerned about the Federal around the world, including a group of rights in society. The growing strength of budget and are trying to balance fiscal South African companies that employ the black worker is one of the greatest restraint with adequate funding levels nearly 1 million workers, most of them hopes for peaceful change in South Africa. for social services and health care. I black. It is clear that the main problem in South feel, however, that health care for sen­ In conjunction with the principles, the Africa is not just fair employment practices, iors is not an area in which we are Arthur D. Little Co. has formulated the or equal opportunity, or better schools, as spending unnecessarily. Our seniors most stringent and comprehensive measure­ important as all these needs are. The main are a resource and, as their numbers ment requirements for fair employment and problem is freedom, including the end to grow with our demographic changes, social responsibility practices ever developed influx control, an end to the incredible for multinational corporations operating in homeland policy, and full political equality are an active and important part of a foreign country. for the black population. Therefore, beyond our Nation. Because their health is As a result of the principles, the last six the principles, it is my position that until vital to them and to their participa­ years have marked the beginning of a revo- apartheid ends and full equality is achieved tion in all sectors of society, I think it May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12043 is important for us to aid seniors in daughters of South Philadelphia High Cleri Seminary, Saskatchewan, and paying for health care. They, more School. was ordained by Cardinal O'Boyle on than any other sector of our popula­ As they gather on May 11, 1983, to May 31, 1958, at St. Matthew's Cathe­ tion, utilize health care services more celebrate those 75 years of glory and dral. frequently and extensively. The cost triumph, we can only hope that the He was an associate pastor at St. An­ of this health care is fast becoming next 7 5 years are as generous to the thony's Parish for 3 years following prohibitive. My bill would include cov­ Philadelphia area and to America as ordination, then joined the faculty of erage under the program for the fit­ were the previous 75. Cathedral Latin School, where he was ting, prescribing, and cost of eye­ Again, Mr. Speaker, I offer my con­ chairman of the religious education glasses, hearing aids, and dentures. It gratulations.e department. He remained there until also provides coverage for dental work, 1967, and from 1963 until 1967 was annual physical examinations, and THREE CELEBRATE 25 YEARS IN also assistant director of the Archdioc- routine foot care. It liberalizes the re­ PRIESTHOOD esan Confraternity of Christian Doc­ quirement for reimbursement for trine Office. home health care and includes "rou­ From 1970 . until 1973 Father tine chore services" as part of a home HON. ROY DYSON Murphy was on the faculty of the Uni­ health program, as well as eliminating OF MARYLAND versity of San Francisco, and on re­ the $60 deductible under part B of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES turning to the Washington Archdio­ program antl authorizing reimburse­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 cese was appointed director of the ment for orthopedic shoes. Archdiocesan Office of Education, a Over the long term, many of my pro­ • Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, it is with post he held for 3 years. In 1975 he posals would decrease costs for the great pleasure that I recognize three was appointed director of the Arch­ program by decreasing the need for dedicated Catholic priests in the First diocesan Office for Research, Plan­ hospitalization. For instance, if the District of Maryland, all of whom will ning and Development, and in 1977 medicare program covered annual be celebrating the 25th anniversary of was named assistant to Bishop Eugene physical exams, beneficiaries would be their ordination to the priesthood on Marino on the Archdiocesan Evangeli- more likely to go have the exam, May 31, 1983. zation Coordinating Committee. which would result in inexpensive A native Washingtonian, Father In 1978 he accepted a 1-year ap- early detection and treatment of a Paul F. Liston attended St. Paul's pointment as a visiting professor at problem instead of requiring more se­ us mi!1istry at selfless years to the church, and it is rious later in life and, in the end, put Americ3:n ymvers~ty, with residence at with deep appreciation that I con­ more financial strain on the system. Annunciation Parish. . gratulate them on their long record of I do feel that this is an area in which After a year of sabbati~al study from · service to humanity.e we have a responsibility to provide 1979 to 1980, Father Liston was as- support, and I am hopeful that we signed to St. Francis Xavier Parish, shall give some time to discussing this Washington, as associate pastor. He BILATERAL FOREIGN AID: THE issue during the 98th Congress.• was appointed pastor of Holy Face CHINESE LESSON Parish, Great Mills, in 1981. Father Richard J. Smola, a native of HON. JACK KEMP THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF Cleveland, Ohio, attended John Car­ OF NEW YORK SOUTH PHILADELPHIA HIGH roll University there and St. Mary's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SCHOOL Seminary in Baltimore. He was or­ dained to the priesthood by Cardinal Wednesday, May 11, 1983 HON. THOMAS M. FOGLIETT A Patrick A. O'Boyle on May 31, 1958, at •Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, it is OF PENNSYLVANIA St. Matthew's Cathedral. always gratifying to have other na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Father Smola's first assignment was tions follow our example of generosity. to St. Ignatius Parish, Oxon Hill; and Unfortunately, in the field of foreign Wednesday, May 11, 1983 he has also served as an associate aid there appears to have been a prob­ e Mr. FOGLIETTA. Mr. Speaker, pastor at St. Peter's, Washington; St. lem in translation. today I want to commend the students Mark's, Hyattsville; Holy Angels, The People's Republic of China, a and Alumni of South Philadelphia Avenue; St. Ambrose, Cheverly; and vast and underdeveloped Communist High School on this the 75th anniver­ Holy Redeemer, Kensington. economy has initiated a bilateral for­ sary of the school. In 1974 he was assigned as pastor to eign aid program. On the eve of his Few schools in this Nation, let alone Holy Face Parish, Great Mills, and in visit to Yugoslavia, Communist Party in this city, have contributed more to 1976 was appointed the vicar for St. Secretary Hu Yaobang has announced every sector of our society. This list of Mary's County. In 1981 he became a foreign aid package of $120 million graduates who have made their marks pastor of St. Aloysius Parish, Leonard­ to that nation. The Financial Times on the canvas of America's landscape town, and dean of St. Mary's County. reports that the aid package is being is awesome, to say the least. Father Francis J. Murphy was born used as a foreign policy tool to "pave The arts, government, science, medi­ in Jersey City, N.J., and attended the way for a cordial reception." cine, business, the field of education schools in New York City and St. Pius While this is normally one of the aims and the field of sports-all have been X College, Saranac Lake, N.Y. He re­ of foreign aid, I question the financing profoundly influenced by the sons and ceived his seminary training at Regina mechanism being used by the PRC. 12044 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 Many of our colleagues will recall This move follows on a trade protocol SACRAMENTO'S LARRY that the PRC has recently begun bor­ signed by Mr. Mijat Sukovic, the Yugoslav WREYFORD rowing substantial amounts from the Vice-Premier, in Peking in March. This calls World Bank, including the interest­ for a substantial increase in two-way trade, from only $50m last year to a surprising HON. VIC FAZIO free, 50-year loans disbursed by the $1.2bn in 1984. Yugoslavia has also agreed International Development Associa­ to reconstruct Chinese factories in Tientsin, OF CALIFORNIA tion. In 1983, this lending will amount in return for oil which China is owed in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to $260 million, with about half in the barter deals from the Middle East and interest-free category. In other words, Africa. Wednesday, May 11, 1983 the PRC will borrow, free of interest Cutting Yugoslavia's oil import bill settled e Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I rise with 50 years to repay, exactly the in hard currency is a Government priority. today in the House of Representatives funds which it is using to "pave the On his trip to Belgrade in March, Mr. Niko­ lai Tikhonov, the Soviet Prime Minister, to pay tribute to Larry Wreyford, an way" for Mr. Hu. promised a 20 per cent increase this year in Air Logistics Command management It may surprise many of our col­ Soviet oil shipments under the bilateral leagues to know that they are financ­ specialist at McClellan Air Force Base. clearing arrangement between the two I am pleased to announce that Mr. ing the PRC's foreign aid program. It countries. may further surprise them to know In fanning out across Eastern Europe, Wreyford has recently been honored that their generosity is about to in­ Chinese officials are also giving their ver­ with the Department of Defense Indi­ crease. The supplemental appropria­ sion of remaining obstacles to Sino-Soviet vidual Value Engineering Award for tion bill reported out of the Foreign rapprochement. At a Bucharest dinner in fiscal year 1982. This award honors a Operations Subcommittee includes an his honour late last week, Hu made only an valued engineering proposal that will oblique reference to past hostilities with the save the Air Force nearly $110 million extra $245 million for IDA. This is in Soviet Union by thanking Romania for in­ addition to the $700 million already valuable support in China's defence of "just in equipment and fuel costs over a 2- provided for fiscal year 1983. norms of international relations and of rela­ year period. The plan proposes switch­ Of course, not all of these additional tions between Communist parties." ing support generators, now used to IDA funds will be provided for relend­ In an interview with Tanjug, the Yugoslav generate power for bomber and cargo ing in foreign aid programs. The news agency, however, Hu said that Indo­ aircraft on the ground, to the same World Bank's Monthly Operational china, where Moscow and Peking are back­ use for fighter aircraft. These genera­ Summary for March indicates that ing rival claimants for power in Kampu­ tors burn 38 gallons of fuel an hour, funds will be made available for im­ chea, was "obviously" the main obstacle. He also criticised the "military occupation of but Wreyford found that generators proving facilities for mining, petrole­ one socialist country by another," an appar­ burning 7 gallons per hour would um production and petrochemicals, all ent reference to the Red Army's presence in produce adequate power for the of which are owned by nationalized in­ Afghanistan. dustries and compete directly with our bomber and cargo aircraft. The fighter domestic, privately owned industries. aircraft, which have greater power de­ So that my colleagues may review RABBI LANDSBERG-FIFTEEN mands, will make more efficient use of the lessons to be drawn, I ask that the YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE these generators, and new fuel effi­ Financial Times article be printed in cient generators can be purchased for the RECORD. HON.BERNARDJ.DWYER the bomber and cargo aircraft. [From the Finance Times, May 10, 1983] Congress is now engaged in a crucial OF NEW JERSEY debate over the adequacy of our Na­ CHINA LENDS YUGOSLAVIA $120 MILLION ON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EVE OF HU VISIT TO BELGRADE tion's defense capabilities, a debate • Mr. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, it is an sions of weapons research and develop­ China has taken the unusual step of honor and privilege to call to the at­ ment, and the procurement of billion making Yugoslavia a short-term hard cur­ tention of my colleagues the many dollar weapons systems. This timely rency loan of $120m, thereby helping pave achievements of Rabbi Alfred B. recognition of Larry Wreyford serves the way for a cordial reception in Belgrade today of Hu Yaobang, its top party leader, Landsberg who is celebrating his 15th to illustrate the important role that on the second leg of his East European tour. anniversary at Temple Emanu-El in our people in operations and mainte­ Hu's first trip abroad in his new capacity Edison, N.J. nance play in securing our Nation's de­ as general secretary of the Chinese Commu­ Rabbi Landsberg is a humanitarian fense. We can look with pride on the nist Party is clearly designed to reward non­ in the truest sense of the word. He has contribution of Larry Wreyford in in­ aligned Yugoslavia and maverick Romania made a vast contribution not only to for maintaining friendly ties with Peking, suring that the funds appropriated by the synagogue, but to our community Congress are used to build a defense even during the worst of Sino-Soviet hostil­ as well. ities. It also seems aimed at sounding out re­ that is second to none in strength and action to current reconciliation moves be­ He has served twice as president of efficiency. tween China and the Soviet Union. our local clergy association and has Mr. Wreyford has compiled a distin­ The Chinese official is confining his trip also presided over the Rabbinic Asso­ guished record of service to his coun­ to Yugoslavia and Romania, where he held ciation of Middlesex County, N.J. weekend talks with President Nicolae Among his special interests is his try, beginning in World War II as a B- Ceausescu. But senior members of his en­ work as chaplain of the Woodbridge 17 pilot and continuing for 21 years in tourage are due to go on to the other five State School where his example and the logistics field, before retiring in East European countries that are close guidance have enhanced student life. 1963. Mr. Wreyford began a second allies of Moscow. career in 1964 at McClellan Air Force China has now joined 15 Nato and neutral At Temple Emanu-El, he is a most governments in the West, as well as Kuwait, caring and responsive rabbi, serving Base, where he has advanced steadily in giving Yugoslavia financial loans and his congregation with a sense of pur­ to his present position of program trade credit extensions worth $1.3bn to help pose and compassion for people that is manager for aircraft ground support it overcome its debt servicing crisis. Peking, truly inspiring. generators and other equipment. like the rest apparently judges Yugoslavia Our community is celebrating Rabbi Larry Wreyford has set a high stand­ to be a valuable buffer between Nato and Landsberg's 15 years of dedicated serv­ ard of cost consciousness in Govern­ the Warsaw Pact. Unlike the Western countries, whose aid ice and showing our appreciation ment service for his colleagues and all to Yugoslavia is in the form of government through "A Gala Evening of Song," a Federal employees to emulate.e agreements, the Chinese loan is a short­ most fitting tribute to a man whose term deposit with the Yugoslav national unselfish efforts and spiritual guid­ bank. ance have been a gift to us all.e May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12045 "YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD CHAP­ the early 1930's his management of VICTOR POPOVSKY PIE" WESTCHESTER COUNTY, the Corpus Christi Church teams built N.Y., DEMOCRATS HONOR them into a semi-pro club that had a "CHAPPIE" POSILLIPO working arrangement with the New HON. TOM HARKIN York Yankees as a farm club. So suc­ OF IOWA HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER cessful were their games that Chappie IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF NEW YORK agreed to design a 2,000-seat ball park Wednesday, May 11, 1983 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with an advanced night lighting e Mr. HARKIN. Mr. Speaker, I am Wednesday, May 11, 1983 system. Any tribute to Chappie suffers from honored and obligated to raise my e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise voice on behalf of a family denied the today to call to the attention of my the fault of leaving out so many of his right to emigrate freely from the colleagues the distinguished career of accomplishments. In Westchester Soviet Union, contrary to the Univer­ Anthony "Chappie" Posillipo, who is County, Chappie's work on behalf of sal Declaration of Human Rights. The retiring after 15 consecutive years as others and his popularity are legend. I Soviets are a signatory to this and the supervisor of the town of Rye, N.Y. I can only conclude by saying, as Chap­ Final Act of the Helsinki Accords, am proud to be among those who will pie has always been fond of saying to which guarantees expeditious han­ honor Chappie at the annual West­ the legions of people whose lives he dling of requests to emigrate. Their chester County Democratic dinner on has touched, that you, Ch,appie, are behavior in the case of Victor Po­ May 21 at the Rye Hilton in New indeed "looking good."• povsky and his family of Sukhumi, York. Georgia, contravenes this internation­ During his administration, Chappie al agreement. always satisfied both the desires and WORKING TOGETHER FOR Almost 8 years have passed since the needs of his constituents. Under Chap­ EQUALITY Popovskys and their six children first pie's 30 years of leadership, the town applied for visas to leave the country. of Rye has grown and matured, yet HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT This request was unjustly denied. The has maintained the personal and or­ reason was that Mr. Popovsky's pass­ derly character of a small New Eng­ OF MARYLAND port stated his nationality as "Rus­ land village. With Chappie's guidance, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sian," despite the fact that his birth the town of Rye has become the home certificate shows his mother is of of sophisticated shopping centers, the Wednesday, May 11, 1983 Jewish origin. Regardless of this na­ beautiful Rye Town Hilton, and most • Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, today I tional classification, Mr. Popovsky and recently, the new world headquarters would like to take the time to recog­ his family should be allowed to live in for the General Foods Corp. He has nize recent actions of the Human the country of their choice. Bureau­ brought prosperity and pride to the Rights Commission of Howard County cratic subterfuge is being used to deny people of Rye. condemning hate groups and their ac­ the Popovskys this internationally rec­ When Chappie Posillipo picked up tivities. As a representative of a por­ ognized human right. the gavel of town supervisor, he laid tion of Howard County, I would like to I extend my hand toward Victor Po­ aside the mason tools he had used for commend the commission for its im­ povsky and his family. May the Soviet more than 30 years. At the age of 11, portant work and voice my strong op­ Union abide by the treaties it has he had to abandon his plans to enter signed and allow them to emigrate.e the priesthood and assume the head of position to activities of hate groups a household of six sisters and one across the country. This resurfacing of brother. His father was a master racial and ethnic hatred surely repre­ ANTI-SEMITISM IN NICARAGUA stonemason and Chappie followed in sents the baser side of humanity. A his footsteps by apprenticing to his fa­ side of mankind we cannot afford to ther's union local 48. ignore and just hope it will go away. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE In a few years, Chappie was an I feel we in the State of Maryland OF ILLINOIS adroit mason. Having grown up at­ are taking some positive steps toward IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tending mass in a small one-room reducing the incidence of hate group basement chapel, Chappie supervised activities. The Maryland General As­ Wednesday, May 11, 1983 the construction of the Corpus Christi sembly has increased the penalties for e Mr. PHILIP M. CRANE. Mr. Speak­ Church, which stands today as a certain hate group activities and made er, as the House continues to deliber­ monument to Chappie's dedication to many of them felonies. The commis­ ate our policy in Central America, I helping his fell ow citizens and his sion in its resolution also offered sev­ would like to call to the attention of skills in planning and masonry. eral constructive ideas as to how the my colleagues a little known but none­ Steadily, Chappie moved up the Howard County government can theless disturbing element in the in­ leadership of his union and at 18 years reduce the activities of hate groups. creasingly restive situation in Nicara­ of age was elected corresponding secre­ For instance, the resolution calls upon gua. To those who consider the Sandi­ tary of the local in 1926. In 1937 he the county executive and county coun­ nistas a group of gentle agrarian re­ was elected as the union's full-time cil to enact legislation that prohibits formers interested in social justice, business agent and financial secretary distribution of hate group literature their treatment of the populace ex­ and held these positions until his elec­ on county-owned or supported proper­ poses them for what they are-totali­ tion as town supervisor in November tarians, replete with repression every 1953. He then resigned the position of ty and makes such actions grounds for bit as bad as any other totalitarian business agent, but has continued to dismissal for county employees. state behind the Iron Curtain. this day as the financial secretary of I encourage the county executive Mr. Speaker, the Sandinistas' perse­ local 48. Many times, Chappie has and county council to take the neces­ cution of minorities and denial of reli­ used his mediating abilities and knowl­ sary steps to insure that this legisla­ gious freedom should be as disturbing edge of industrial relations to resolve tion is passed. In addition, I would en­ to our liberal, elitist friends in this difficult labor problems in Westchest­ courage other Members of this body to country as to freedom-lovers. In a zeal er County. work with local elected officials and to hold to account the Government of Yet, for all his time devoted to work, concerned citizens to combat the re­ El Salvador, which at this very Chappie found time in his youth to be pulsive acts perpetrated by these vi­ moment is battling an assault on de­ both athlete and sports manager. In cious hate groups.e mocracy mounted from the capital of 12046 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 Nicaragua, many individuals seem to terity, he guided the chamber through revenue bonds after December 31, have lost their perspective. 1982 with a balanced budget. 1983, and S. 1061, to revise certain IRS I have just received, and would like Steve Owens' commitment to the provisions relating to the tax treat­ to insert in the RECORD at this point, a community does not stop there, how­ ment of bonds guaranteed by certain profoundly disturbing report which ever. He serves as a member of the Federal agencies. SD-215 contains the following statement by board of directors of the United • Labor and Human Resources Rabi Morton Rosenthal, Latin Ameri­ Chambers of Commerce, as the adviso­ Business meeting, to mark up S. 772, can director for the Anti-Defamation ry group legislative chairman of the proposed Smoking Prevention Health League of B'nai B'rith, concerning the North Valley Occupational Center, and Education Act, S. 1129, proposed overtly antisemitic aspects of the San­ and on the Police Athletic League As­ Community Volunteer Service Act, S. dinista takeover in Nicaragua: sociation, the San Fernando Valley 564, proposed U.S. Academy of Peace Nicaraguan Jews say that the main reason Board of Realtors, the Valleywide Act, Senate Concurrent Resolution 22, for their flight is the fact that they were Committee Executive Board, the San expressing the sense of the Congress treated in a discriminatory manner by the Fernando Valley Business and Profes­ with respect to implementing the ob­ revolutionary government. They claim that sional Association, the Parent and jectives of the United States Decade of their properties were among the first to be Teachers Association, and the Holy Disabled Persons (1983-92), an original confiscated; Jews who owned factories and Cross Hospital Century Club. bill authorizing funds for fiscal years stores were summarily ejected from the Steve Owens has been honored by 1984, 1985, and 1986 for the Education homes and places of business and the prop­ for the Handicapped Act, and an origi­ erties turned over to workers. Many accusa­ the San Fernando Valley Board of Re­ nal bill authorizing funds for fiscal tions were made against them, without altors, and, in 1977, was named Man of years 1984, 1985, and 1986 for the Re­ proof. Often, their individual safety was the Year by the Mission Hills Cham­ habilitation Act. threatened. ber of Commerce. He has served as a SD-430 After the earthquake, the Jewish commu­ director, as vice president and as secre­ nity built a synagogue to replace that which tary before becoming president of the 10:00 a.m. had been destroyed. In September 1978, the chamber in 1982. Energy and Natural Resources doors of the synagogue were torched by It is a pleasure, Mr. Speaker, to join Business meeting, to consider pending Sandinista supporters while the congrega­ calendar business. tion was worshipping. Now, the synagogue is with the members of the Mission Hills SD-366 a Sandinist building with propaganda post­ Chamber of Commerce in commend­ ers covering the religious symbols at the ing Steve Owens for his outstanding MAY 16 front entrance and anti-Zionist posters on year of service as president. I would 9:00 a.m. the walls. like to take this opportunity to extend Judiciary To any student of history, this devel­ to him my personal congratulations, To hold hearings on the substance of S. opment should come as no surprise. and best wishes in all of his future en­ 66, proposed Cable Telecommunica­ Collectivist-statist totalitarians of deavors.e tions Act. every stripe, be they Fascist, Nazi, or SD-226 9:30 a.m. Communi~, have consistently perse­ SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Finance cuted Jews and other minorities. The Health Subcommittee Sandinistas clearly fall into the same Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February To hold hearings on the administra­ category as all the memorable thugs in tion's budget proposals for fiscal year history who taught them everything 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a 1984 to revise beneficiary cost-sharing they know when it comes to the com­ system for a computerized schedule of requirements under the medicare and mission of crimes against humanity.e all meetings and hearings of Senate medicaid programs. committees, subcommittees, joint com­ SD-215 mittees, and committees of conference. 10:00 a.m. TRIBUTE TO MR. STEVE OWENS This title requires all such committees Commerce, Science, and Transportation o notify the Office of the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN Daily Digest-designated by the Rules To resume hearings to examine the ef­ Committee-of the time, place, and fects of coal slurry pipelines on the OF CALIFORNIA rail industry, shippers, and consumers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES purpose of the meetings, when sched­ uled, and any cancellations or changes SD-253 Wednesday, May 11, 1983 in the meetings as they occur. Labor and Human Resources Aging Subcommittee e Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise As an additional procedure along To hold hearings to discuss the progress today to call to the Members' atten­ with the computerization of this infor­ made in the treatment of Alzheimer's tion the distinguished service given to mation, the Office of the Senate Daily disease. the community of Mission Hills, Calif., Digest will prepare this information SD-430 by Mr. Steve Owens. Mr. Owens has for printing in the Extensions of Re­ given freely of his time and energy in marks section of the CONGRESSIONAL MAY17 the last year as president of the Mis­ RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of 9:30 a.m. sion Hills Chamber of Commerce. each week. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs During his term as president, Steve Any changes in committee schedul­ To hold oversight hearings on the Inter­ Owens has brought a greater sense of ing will be indicated by placement of national Monetary Fund's gold re­ political knowledge and awareness to an asterisk to the left of the name of serves. the Mission Hills Chamber of Com­ the unit conducting such meetings. SD-538 Meetings scheduled for Thursday, Energy and Natural Resources merce. Members have had opportuni­ Public Lands and Reserved Water Sub­ ties to become more familiar with the May 12, 1983, may be found in the committee issues of utility rate increases, immi­ Daily Digest of today's RECORD. To hold hearings on S. 285, to designate gration, gun control, and crime certain lands in New Mexico as the through his efforts. Steve Owens has MEETINGS SCHEDULED Bisti Badlands Wilderness, S. 626, to also worked to create a closer relation­ designate certain lands in Arizona as ship between the chamber and local MAY 13 o the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness, S. schools and community groups. He 9:30 a.m. 862, revising certain provisions of the Finance Omitted Lands Act of 1962 with re­ helped to organize area cleanup ef­ Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ spect to omitted lands along the Snake forts, and assisted in the refurbish­ mittee River in Idaho, and S. 1042, to convey ment of a building in nearby Pacoima. To hold hearings on S. 137, to permit certain lands in Lane County, Oreg. And, of some note in this time of aus- the continued issuance of mortgage SD-366 May 11, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12047 Rules and Administration Energy and Natural Resources 9:45 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 85, to provide for Business meeting, to consider pending Labor and Human Resources public financing of U.S. Senate gener­ calendar business. To hold hearings on health care cost. al election campaigns, S. 151, to limit SD-366 SD-430 contributions to U.S. Senate cam­ Foreign Relations 10:00 a.m. paigns by certain multicandidate polit­ To resume hearings on Senate Resolu­ Environment and Public Works ical committees, S. 732, to increase in­ tion 43 and Senate Joint Resolution Environmental Pollution Subcommittee dividual and party participation, to 28, resolutions calling for negotiations To hold hearings on S. 696, to provide provide for the adjustment of contri­ prohibiting the testing, deployment, for the ratification of the Memoran­ bution limits, and to allow candidates production or use of all weapons based dum of Agreement between the U.S. to control expenditures made on their in space. Department of the Interior and the behalf, S. 810, to provide for certain SD-419 State of Texas for the Management of adjustments in campaign contribution Judiciary Criminal Law Subcommittee the Matagorda Island State Park and limits, and other pending legislation. Wildlife Management Area A Unit of SR-301 To resume hearings on S. 829, to strengthen law enforcement in the the National Wildlife Refuge System 10:00 a.m. area of violent crime and drug traf­ in Calhoun County, Tex. Environment and Public Works ficking. SD-406 To hold hearings on the water resources SD-226 Foreign Relations provisions of S. 267, to facilitate the Veterans' Affairs Arms Control, Oceans, International Op­ development of interstate coal pipeline To hold oversight hearings to review ad­ erations, and Environment Subcom­ distribution systems by granting the verse health effects from exposure to mittee Federal power of eminent domain to agent orange, and other related mat­ To hold hearings to examine the grow­ those interstate pipelines which are ters. ing trend within various international determined to be in the national inter­ SD-628 organizations to produce draft interna­ est. 1:30 p.m. SD-406 tional guidelines and regulations Foreign Relations which restrict or impede U.S. exports. Judiciary To hold hearings on the nominations of Business meeting, to consider pending SD-419 Myles R. R. Frechette, of Washington, Judiciary calendar business. to be Ambassador to the United Re­ SD-226 Courts Subcommittee public of Cameroon, and Robert E. To hold hearings to discuss bankruptcy 10:30 a.m. Keating, of the District of Columbia, Select on Intelligence to be Ambassador to the Democratic matters relating to the Manville Corp. Closed briefing on intelligence matters. Republic of Madagascar and to serve in Denver, Colo. S-407, Capitol concurrently and without additional SR-418 2:00 p.m. compensation as Ambassador to the 10:30 a.m. Environment and Public Works Federal and Islamic Republic of the Energy and Natural Resources Water Resources Subcommittee Comoros. To hold oversight hearings on the geo­ To hold hearings on proposals to pro­ SD-419 politics of strategic and critical miner­ vide for the operation, maintenance, 2:00 p.m. als and construction of national water­ Judiciary SD-366 ways, including S. 196, S. 207, S. 433, S. To hold hearings on pending nomina­ 2:00 p.m. 455, s. 456, s. 635, s. 674, s. 812, s. tions. Foreign Relations 850, s. 878, s. 912, s. 987, s. 1028, s. SD-226 To hold hearings on the nomination of 1073, S. 1075, S. 1112, and S. 1131. Veterans' Affairs Curtin Winsor, Jr., of the District of SD-406 To continue oversight hearings to Columbia, to be Ambassador to Costa Foreign Relations review adverse health effects from ex­ Rica. To hold hearings on the nomination of posure to agent orange, and other re­ SD-419 David F. Emery, of Maine, to be lated matters. Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms SD-628 MAY20 Control and Disarmament Agency. MAY19 9:30 p.m. SD-419 9:30 a.m. Finance Governmental Affairs Commerce, Science, and Transportation Oversight of the International Revenue To hold hearings on the nomination of To resume hearings on S. 372, to pro­ Service Subcommittee Stephen F. Eilperin, to be an associate mote interstate commerce by prohibit­ To hold hearings on efforts to reduce judge of the Superior Court of the ing discrimination in the writing and taxpayer burdens. District of Columbia. selling of insurance contracts. SD-215 SD-342 SR-253 10:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. Governmental Affairs Foreign Relations Judiciary To resume oversight hearings on the To hold hearings on the nomination of Separation of Powers Subcommittee management policies of the Depart­ Richard B. Stone, of the District of Business meeting, to mark up S. 462, to ment of Defense, focusing on the im­ Columbia, to be Ambassador at Large. clarify certain provisions of the Hobbs plementation of cost accounting stand­ SD-419 Act relating to Federal jurisdiction ards. Judiciary over labor extortion matters. SD-342 To resume oversight hearings on orga­ SD-226 Judiciary nized crime in the United States. Criminal Law Subcommittee SD-226 MAY18 To continue hearings on S. 829, to Judiciary 9:30 a.m. strengthen law enforcement in the Constitution Subcommittee Governmental Affairs area of violent crime and drug traf­ To hold hearings on the constitutional­ Governmental Efficiency and the District ficking. ity of private lobbying with public of Columbia Subcommittee SD-226 funds. To resume hearings on the status of Judiciary SD-628 emergency preparedness in the Wash­ Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub­ ington, D.C., metropolitan area. committee MAY23 SD-562 To hold hearings on S. 1201, to provide 10:00 a.m. copyright protection for the semicon­ 9:30 a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ductor chip industry. Judiciary Consumer Affairs Subcommittee SD-562 Criminal Law Subcommittee To hold hearings to examine credit and Joint Economic To resume hearings on S. 829, to debit card fraud and its impact on the To hold hearings to review the adminis­ strengthen law enforcement in the cost and availability of consumer tration's future position on farm area of violent crime and drug traf­ credit. policy. ficking. SD-538 SD-124 SD-562 12048 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. relative to equal rights for women and Appropriations Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs men, and on related measures. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit­ Securities Subcommittee SD-628 tee To hold hearings on S. 117 4, proposed 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es­ Public Utility Holding Company Act Energy and Natural Resources timates for fiscal year 1984 for certain Amendments. Business meeting, to consider pending programs under the subcommittee's SD-538 Judiciary calendar business. jurisdiction. SD-366 SD-124 Juvenile Justice Subcommittee To hold hearings on the problem of pa­ Judiciary Judiciary Administrative Practice and Procedure To resume hearings on S. 610, to encour­ rental kidnaping. SD-226 Subcommittee age college student-athletes to com­ Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on title XIII, relating plete their undergraduate education To continue hearings on health care to Federal Tort Claims Act amend­ before becoming professional athletes. cost. ments, of S. 829, proposed Comprehen­ SD-226 SD-430 sive Crime Control Act. 1:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m. SD-226 Finance Energy and Natural Resources Joint Economic Energy and Agricultural Taxation Sub­ Business meeting, to consider pending Agriculture and Transportation Subcom­ committee calendar business. mittee To hold hearings on S. 237, to allow sur­ SD-366 To hold hearings to review the future di­ face mine operators to establish a re­ Governmental Affairs rection in farm policy. serve for mining land reclamation Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga­ SD-124 costs and to deduct additions to such tions 2:00 p.m. reserve, and S. 1006, to repeal the 15- To continue hearings to investigate the Judiciary percent reduction in percentage deple­ use of offshore banks, trusts, and com­ To hold hearings on plea bargaining tion for iron ore and coal. panies to facilitate criminal activity in matters. the United States. SD-215 SD-226 2:00 p.m. SD-342 Governmental Affairs Judiciary MAY27 Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub­ Energy, Nuclear prolife:ration and Govern­ ment Processes Subcommittee 9:00 a.m. committee Finance To hold hearings on patent term restot To hold oversight hearings to review Federal debt collection policy. Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ ration. mittee SD-226 Room to be announced Select on Intelligence To hold hearings on miscellaneous tax MAY24 To hold closed hearings on intelligence measures, including S. 654, S. 738, S. matters. 1147, S. 1194, and S. 1195. 9:30 a.m. S-407, Capitol SD-215 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Joint Economic 9:30 a.m. Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee Agriculture and Transportation Subcom­ Judiciary To hold hearings on certain provisions mittee Constitution Subcommittee of the proposed Mortgage Retirement To hold hearings to review farm policy To hold hearings on S. 81 and S. 141, Account Act. in the post-PIK era. bills to revise current law relating to SD-538 SD-124 civil actions for the deprivation of Labor and Human Resources 10:30 a.m. rights. Labor Subcommittee Judiciary SD-562 To hold oversight hearings on the Em­ Separation of Powers Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. ployee Retirement Income Security To resume hearings to explore certain Judiciary Act . Labor and Human Resources SD-226 SD-430 Labor Subcommittee To hold hearings on S. 1173, proposed JUNE 13 JUNE 20 Federal Mine Safety and Health 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Amendments. Finance Finance SD-430 To hold hearings to examine the tax To hold hearings on S. 19 and S. 888, bills structure applicable to property and to revise current Federal pension law JUNE 29 casualty insurance companies. with respect to the rights and benefits 9:30 a.m. SD-215 of working and nonworking women. Judiciary Labor and Human Resources SD-215 Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub­ To hold hearings on home health care 10:00 a.m. committee services. Judiciary To hold hearings on Federal Govern­ SD-430 Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcom­ ment patent policy. mittee SD-226 JUNE 14 To hold hearings on proposed authoriza­ 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. tions for refugee programs. Veterans' Affairs Labor and Human Resources SD-226 Business meeting, to consider proposed Labor Subcommittee legislation providing for certain veter­ To hold hearings on proposed legislation JUNE 21 ans' compensation. revising certain provisions of the SR-418 Labor-Management Reporting and 9:30 a.m. Finance Disclosure Act . JUNE 30 SD-430 To continue hearings on S. 19 and S. 888, bills to revise current Federal pen­ 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation sion law with respect to the rights and Judiciary Aviation Subcommittee benefits of working and nonworking Juvenile Justice Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on airline de­ women. to hold hearings on juvenile offenders of regulation. SD-215 serious and violent crimes. SR-253 SD-226 JUNE 22 10:00 a.m. JUNE 15 9:30 a.m. Judiciary 9:30 a.m. Judiciary Administrative Practice and Procedure Judiciary Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub­ Subcommittee Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks Sub­ committee To hold oversight hearings on activities committee To hold hearings on S. 737, proposed of the Office of Administrative Law To resume oversight hearings on activi­ Joint Research and Development Ven­ Judges, Department of Agriculture. ties of the Patent and Trademark tures Act. SD-562 Office, Department of Commerce. SD-226 SD-226 Labor and Human Resources JULY6 Labor and Human Resources Business meeting, to consider pending 9:30 a.m. Business meeting, to consider pending calendar business. Labor and Human Resources calendar business. SD-430 Business meeting, to consider pending SD-430 10:00 a.m. calendar business. 10:00 a.m. Labor and Human Resources SD-430 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Family and Human Services Subcommit­ Aviation Subcommittee tee JULY 13 To resume oversight hearings on the To continue oversight hearings on air­ 9:30 a.m. line deregulation. breakdown of the traditional family unit, focusing on causes and remedies. Labor and Human Resources SR-253 Business meeting, to consider pending Veterans' Affairs SD-430 Veterans' Affairs calendar business. To hold oversight hearings to review SD-430 certain health care and other services To hold oversight hearings on certain provided Vietnam veterans. health care services for veterans. SR-418 SR-418 JULY 20 10:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m. Labor and Human Resources Judiciary Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on the nominations of To hold hearings on pending nomina­ Business meeting, to consider pending Ford B. Ford, of California, to be tions. calendar business. Under Secretary of Labor, and Made- SD-226 SD-430

11-059 ~-29 (Pt. 9) 12050 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 11, 1983 JULY 27 MAY13 JUNE 15 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources Labor and Human Resources Business meeting, to consider pending To hold hearings to examine fire safety Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcom­ calendar business. matters. mittee SD-430 SD-430 To hold hearings on the proposed Alien Education Assistance Act. SEPTEMBER 20 MAY19 SD-430 11:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Veterans' Affairs Judiciary JUNE 20 To hold hearings to receive legislative Immigration and Refugee Policy Subcom­ 9:30 a.m. recommendations for fiscal year 1984 mittee Labor and Human Resources from the American Legion. To consult with administration officials SR-325 To hold oversight hearings on activities on the midyear refugee numbers. of the Equal Employment Opportuni­ SD-226 ty Commission. CANCELLATIONS SD-430 MAY20 MAY12 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Labor and Human Resources Judiciary To hold hearings on the effects of chem­ Juvenile Justice Subcommittee otherapy ir. the treatment of cancer. To hold hearings on certain tragedies in­ SD-430 volving children. SD-226