e This "bullet" symbol identifies statemenu or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5079 likely to be more than offset by the unfair article appeared recently in the Vietnam Vet PROBLEMS IN CENTRAL advantages they receive through habits of erans of America monthly newspaper; and, I AMERICA discrim.1nation and oversight that persist to the detriment of women and minorities in want to share it with you and our colleagues. many firms and sectors of the economy. The text follows: HON. BILL RICHARDSON Even if we can Justify the mild advantages Tm: MYTH OF THE MILITARY WOKAN conferred by goals, some critics still argue OF NEW llJ:XICO that affirmative action stigmatizes those it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESZNTATIVES purports to aid and undermines their self- In a recent article published by the Herit respect by suggesting that they cannot sue- age Foundation, Jean Yarbrough, a political Monday, March 17, 1986 ceed without government help. This is a science professor at Loyola University in Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, as we view advanced with particular force by my Chicago, advocates that women in the mill colleague Glenn Loury, who speaks with tary be limited only to service in administra move into the House debate on aid to the daunting credibllity as a black who grew up tive and non-combat duties. She expresses Contras, I would like to bring to the attention on the South Side of Chicago. concern that the distinction between of my colleagues a document which proposes One cannot deny the risk of stigma any combat and non-combat roles has blurred. an interesting new approach to the problems more than one can ignore the subtle prefer- ences implict in the use of goals. Yet despite She feels the role of women in the military in Central America. The faculty for human Loury's concern, a recent Harris poll reports has expanded too far. rights in Central America at the University of that 86 percent of blacks oppose administra- The thousands of individuals who served New Mexico has been closely following tion efforts to weaken affirmative action. in Vietnam would probably agree with Yar events in and around Nicaragua. They have And well they might. Black unemployment brough's impression that the difference be been most helpful to me as I have thought ts still more than twice that of whites. Job- tween combat and non-combat roles is often about U.S. policy in Central America, and I be less rates exceed 40 percent for black teen- nuclear-especially in time of war. But, Yar agers. Over one quarter of all black men be- brough ignores the reality of the changing lieve that their most recent proposal-the Ex tween the ages of 20 and 24 have dropped nature of modem warfare. She also ignores tended Humanitarian Aid Act-which I am out of the economy entirely. This situation the outstanding performance record of mill submitting here for the RECORD, is worthy of is above all a tragedy for blacks and other tary women and women veterans. our consideration. I highly recommend it to my minorities who must endure the depriva- -Sile -shnpllStically concludes- that "women colleagues who are thinking about the United tions of living without work. But it is also a , problem for all of us that takes its daily toll don t belong in combat or combat-support States role in Nicaragua, and possible actions through added crime, welfare payments, un- roles. that we in Congress can take to resolve the employment compensation and urban decay. In an age of long-range missiles and complex problems there. Faced with existing unemployment rates highly technological warfare, casualties will The material follows: and the persistence of discrimination in not be restricted to the front line. The serv- parts of the economy, one cannot brush ices' defense plans suggest that batt!e lines Tm: ExTE!mED HUKANIT.AllIAN Am ACT aside the Labor Department's findings that will be fluid, with the potential of extending Whereas, the Congress of the United firms subject to affirmative action have in- over great distances. Those who serve in States voted for humanitarian aid in 1985 in creased their minority employees more rap- rear areas, in medical and supply units, will the hope of advancing the cause of peace in idly than firms outside the government's be in Just as much danger as those on the Central America. program. Granted, it would be better to find so-called line. Whereas, the greatest expression of hu a way of attacking the problem of economic The exclusion of women from "combat po- manitarianism in Central America would be inequality that did not involve even the sitions" will not protect servicewomen from the establishment of permanent peace in faintest sort of preference or the slightest injury or death. Restrictions originally de- the region. threat of stigma. signed to "protect" women only serve to Whereas, once peace is established other In time, we may reach that happy state limit their career possibllities They stop forms of humanitarian aid become more through better programs of housing, early · education and training as well as greater the advance of many women midway viable, such as food, medical and education- self-help efforts within minority communi- through their careers. These restrictive poll- al aid ties. Yet, we do not see enough progress of cies shift back and forth according to the Whereas, the Contadora Group after this kind today. Community-based programs manpower needs at a particular time. three years of intensive work has produced are often underfunded, and federal pro- Behind every restriction lies an exception, the Contadora Act which, if implemented, grams have been cut and seem destined to exceptions that allow enough flexibllity to will bring peace to Central America. be cut again. ensure that women will be available for Whereas, the Contadora Act has now es- Meanwhile, poverty rates for minorities service if necessary. tablished the mechanisms for inspection have risen in the 1980s, and full-time female Today there are more-than 200,000 wottlen and verification of the agreement as well as employees still earn only 63 percent as in the military-ten percent of the mill- its instruments. much as males. In these circumstances, tary's active force. However, women are still Whereas, the Contadora Act includes a until alternative programs are funded and looked on as temporary substitutes for men. section on social and economic aid to the working well, I, for one, will continue to set Despite repeated studies designed to estab- region as well as political democratization. goals gladly, buoyed by the realization that lish the limit of a woman's capabllities, no Whereas, the United States fully supports they may at least make some contribution such limitations have ever been demonstrat- the objectives already agreed upon in the !.':i d1minishing an enormous problem for us ed. Contadora process as a basis for a solution · Dr. Lawrence Korb, assistant secretary of of the conflict in Central America. 1 defense for Force Management and Person- Whereas, Secretary of State, George THE MYTH OF THE MILITARY nel, responded to Yarbrough's article by Shultz has stated that the objective of WOMAN stating: "They Cwomenl are fulfilling their United States policy are entirely consistent responsibilities with the same competence with the broader agreed objectives of the displayed by military men." Contadora Act.• HON. DON EDWARDS Women who have chosen to devote their Whereas, the Contadora Group has pro- OF CALIFORNIA professional lives in service to their country duced a draft treaty in which all Central IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deserve to know that this nation ts commit- American countries have agreed on matters Monday, March 17, 1986 ted to affording them the opportunity to of objectives and implementation. s Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Speaker, advance according to their abilities. There despite the realities, myths continue to are thousands of military women ready to move into top-ranking positions that serve 1 Statement by Secretary of State George Shult.a, abound about the roles of women who serve as stepping stones to policy positions in the to the International Court of Juatlce, Aquat 1984. our country in the military. It would serve all of Department of Defense. They should not be • White Houae report on Nlcaraaua. November 19, us if these myths would be put to rest once held back by laws and policies based on out 1985, p. 2. and for all. a The Contadora Group produced a first draft dated warfare scenarios and outdated social treaty on September 7, 1984. A major revlalcn wu Susan Scheer, research associate at the myths. introduced by the Te1Uc1Plpa Group on October Women's Equity Action League, wrote an ex Women continue to pay an enormous 20, 1984. A new revlaed draft waa produced ln Sep. cellent article that should help to do this. The price as a result of these myths. tember, 1985. 5080 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1986 Whereas, the Contadora Group has Washington Times. The author of the article is methods, major progress on a number of gained the support of the Lima Support John Hume, a prominent member of Parlia fronts-one-man, one-vote; fair allocation of Group, 4 the Organization of American public housing; and an end to Job dJscrtmi 5 ment from Northern Ireland and a representa States, the European Economic Communi tive on the European Parliament. nation. ty,• as well as the newly elected presidents Regrettably, these reforms were not gen of Guatemala and Honduras. I know Mr. Hume personally and regard him erously and openly offered by the majority Whereas, the Contadora Group on De as a strong voice of reason for addressing the party, but had to be imposed by the British cember 6, 1985 urged all the countries with problems which plague this troubled region. government. ties or interests in the region to provide Mr. Hume points out the tragic impact of the Against this background of discord and their most decisive support to the process of violent political strife on the people of North impatience, the results achieved by peaceful peace while abstaining from political, eco ern Ireland and he outlines the hope for political methods and the philosophy of nomic and military actions that could frus reform, reconciliation and reunification which non-violence was rejected by a minority in trate the objectives of the Contadora Act. 7 could end the bloodshed. my own community. This minority followed Whereas, the Contadora process has the old law of an eye for an eye. In its pur gained momentum in recent weeks, includ Last week the House aided the peace proc ess by passing an economic support package suit of violence, it has demeaned the cause ing the forthcoming May meeting in Guate we hold dear, and lost us many good allies mala. for the agreement on Northern Ireland around the world. Sustained by its violence, Be it resolved that: reacht:id in November by the British and Irish this terrorist group is beset by the illusion The United States Congress continue its Prime Ministers. I know that my colleagues will that it can, one day, impose its will on Ire concern for humanitarian aid to the people be encouraged by Mr. Hume's favorable re land as a whole. of Central America; marks on the agreement. The article follows: This violence, together with the Unionist The United States Congress support hu NORTHERN IRELAND TRYING TO END THE intransigence, and the long continued inad manitarian aid that will contribute, first of TROUBLES equacies of British policies in tackling the all, to the establishment of permanent Today American citizens loyal to their underlying political problem, has left us a peace 1n the region; bitter harvest. The human losses and eco The United States Congress recognize the Constitution will celebrate their Irish herit age. No one will see any contradiction in the nomic costs have been enormous. The most Contadora Act as the best avenue to achieve tragic losses are the deaths of more than peace in the region; fact that he can enjoy and express his par ticular culture and identity without having 2,400 men, women, and children. These The United States Congress join our allies those values govern his political system or death.-;, in an area with a population of 1.5 in supporting Contadora; million, are equivalent in proportionate The United States Congress appropriate his society. Irish-Americans and non-Irish Americans alike will celebrate the heritage terms to the killing of approximately funds for humanitarian aid to Central and culture of the Irish. 350,000 in the United States. In addition, America to be directed through the Conta Unfortunately, in Ireland such tolerance almost 25,000 have been injured or maimed. dora Group; and political maturity are not as viable, Thousands are suffering from psychologi The United States Congress appropriate many believing that the integrity of their cal stress because of the fear and tension funds to be used by Contadora to implement tradition and their identity can be protected generated by murder, bombing, intimida the military, social, economic and political only by dominating the institutions of socie tion, and the impact of security counter agreements of the Contadora Act; ty and state. Respect for each other's tradi measures. The lives of tens of thousands The United States Congress urge the Con tions and identity is not noticeable in Ire have been deeply affected. The effect on so tadora Group to seek the participation of land. It is the absence of the consensus and ciety has been shattering. There is hardly a the European Economic Community, as well respect represented by St. Patrick's Day in family that has not been touched to some as the Contadora Group Countries, the America that is the tragedy in Ireland degree by death, injury, or intimidation. Lima Group Countries and the Organiza today. Terrorist violence, while it can never be tion of American States member countries, The story of Northern Ireland is a story of to establish a Contadora Act fund that will condoned or accepted, too often springs conflict-not a religious conflict, even from the alienation produced by intransi be utilized for the purposes stated above; though the two communities who live there The United States Congress require the gence or neglect, by the failure to tackle po draw much of their character and their co litical problems through the political proc Contadora Group to make a quarterly herence from their religious traditions. It is report on how the funds have been used. ess, and by the failure to accommodate ade rather a conflict between the aspirations of quately the identity and aspirations of com The United States Congress require that ordinary men and women-600,000 National all of the funds allocated be used in accord munities and peoples. ists, 900,000 Unionists-trapped by a tragic When a society produces alienation in the ance with the guidelines established by the error of history which obliged them none Contadora Group and the provisions of the individual, when it cannot provide for the theless to live and compete side by side in equality and the differences of its citizens, Geneva Conventions on humanitarian aid. · one comer of Ireland. These two communities in Northern Ire that society must be reshaped and trans land, Catholic and Protestant, Nationalist formed through new institutions which ac HOPE FOR REFORM IN and Unionist, behave like threatened mi commodate diversity and promote reconcili NORTHERN IRELAND norities. A just and durable solution can be ation. found only by removing their respective The majority Unionist's approach in fears. Northern Ireland seeks the exclusive exer HON. JOSEPH M. McDADE cise of political power in Northern Ireland or PENNSYLVANIA The American civil rights movement in the 1960s gave birth to the civil rights move for themselves. But, accommodation of dif IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES ment in Northern Ireland. The world in the ferences is the only basis for peace and sta Monday, March 17, 1986 '60s responded with sympathy to our non bility in our divided society. violent movement for civil rights in North An alternative is that of the Provisional Mr. MCDADE. Mr. Speaker, as we celebrate ern Ireland. My party, the Social Democrat Irish Republican Anny, and Sinn Fein, its St Patrick's Day, I want to bring to the atten ic and Labor Party, was born out of the civil political wing. tion of my colleagues an outstanding article rights movement. The military winrr bombs factories and the on Northern Ireland from today's edition of the The structures of democracy in the political wing shouts about unemployment. United States were resilient enough to en The military wing shoots a teacher in a compass the challenge of civil rights. In the classroom, the political wing lectures us •The Lima Group waa formed on July 1985 by unstable political environment of Northern about education. The military wing carries the newly elected democratic government.a 1n Ar out attacks on hospitals, the political wing gentina, Brazil, Peru and Uruguay. Ireland, our struggle was perceived as a •The Orpnfzation of American States baa adopt threat to the very survival of the society talks about protecting the Health Service. ed several resolutions 8UPPorting Contadora. State itself and was resisted by the institutions of The political wing complains about a $6 mil ment.a by Joao Clemente Baena Soares, Secretary the state. lion cut in the budget of the housing execu General of the O.A.S., UPI cable, December 14, Though the Unionist majority dominates tive in Northern Ireland, and its military 198S. the institutions of the state, it has not wing blows 1:"? $2 million worth of public • In November 1985 the EEC alllled an agreement found security as a people. This insecurity housing. · of cooperation In Luxembourg In a meeting with the Contadora Group and Central American states. has led the Unionists to oppose change. The real strategy and objectives are clear. The .Agreement calla for economic and 80clal aaalat- Through pressure on the British govern Have the military wing create as much dis ance. ment, including the presence of sympathetic content and deprivation as possible. Then T Decl&r&tlon of the Contadora Group, Cartagena opinion in America and the world at large, have your political wing feed off the peo . December 8, 198S, 19 pages. we were able to make, through non-violent ple's discontent. March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5081 I abhor these various approaches. They Britain and in the Republic of Ireland. It ELISA ESTRADA offer no hope for the future. My vision has has been greeted with satisfaction by a ma been to substitute for the denomination of jority of Nationalists in Northern Ireland. Catholic. Protestant. and dissenter the Internationally, there has been unprece HON.MERVYNM.DYMALLY common name of Irishman. My strategy en dented support, again including support 01' CALI1'0R1'IA reform, reconciliation, reuni compasses and from President Reagan, from both houses IM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fication along a path of steady progress, of Congress, and from such U.S. groups narrowing the gap between the reality and working to educate people on peaceful con Monday, March 17, 1986 the dream. using the political means of dia stitutional political change as the Commit logue. persuasion. negotiation. accommoda tee for a New Ireland. Mr. DYMALLY. Mr. Speaker, recently I had tion. compromise. But there has been a strong negative and opportunity to offer the eulogy for Elisa Es Violence can never heal the deep wounds hostile reaction among Unionists in North trada, wife of my field representative Thomas that divide a people. Only a healing process ern Ireland. The Unionist political parties Estrada. I wish the eulogy included in the can in time end the division in Ireland. have embarked on a determined effort to set CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD. The first necessary step is the creation of the agreement at nought, if necessary, by As we gather to mourn the passing of total equality of treatment of all the citi making Northern Ireland ungovernable. someone whom we love, let us reflect on the zens of Northern Ireland. Nationalists and One may regard this opposition from a com joy she brought to our hearts while she was Unionists alike, from basic civil rights to full munity used to having power in its own with us. expression of their identity. hands, as understandable, even as inevita We are all consoled by the rich qualities The second element is the breaking down ble: it is certainly not justifiable or justified. which follow her as the good Lord receives of barriers between the different sections of The agreement takes nothing away from her. our people. It is a task that involves every the legitimate rights or concrete interests of Elisa F.strada was a loving mother, a faith one. This will le.id to the only Irish unity Unionists, nor does it diminish in any way ful wife and a sincere friend to all of us. that really matte1"S, the only unity that all their political, cultural, or spiritual herit To those of us who knew her, she brought pre-partition leaders spoke of, a unity that age. a sense of tenderness, a profound touch of respects diversity and legitimizes differ Particular opposition has been expressed thoughtfulness, and a quiet quality that ences. There can be no solution to our prob to the Irish government's having a role in made her an exceptional person. lem that seeks to destroy or to crush either regard to the affairs and administration of My family and staff remember her as a the Protestant or the Catholic heritage in Northern Ireland. But this attitude ignores the identity and aspirations of the people I very caring person-one who was always Ireland. Those who claim that their role willing to help others. and objective in politics is to preserve, pro represent, who constitute about 40 percent of the area's population. The second major A polite and kind woman. she inspired us tect, and develop the Protestant tradition in with her warmth and her love for her Ireland surely have more interest in a proc feature of the agreement recognizes, in a binding international instrument, that Irish family. ess such as this. Mutual respect is a process Her tolerance and humility touched our and objective that no one need fear. unity would only come about with the agreement of a majority of the people of lives in a way that forced us to think about The New Ireland Forum, a deliberative our family, friends and ourselves. body of elected representatives from the Northern Ireland; and that the present wish of a majority there is for no change in that In weeping her passing we shed tears of four major constitutional Nationalist par joy because we know deep in our hearts she ties, both North and South, representing status. In this article the two governments also declare that, if. in the future. a majori was a genuinely good and kind person. more than 90 percent of the Nationalist ty of the people of Northern Ireland clearly She leaves with us fond memories. Her population of Ireland, set out the principles wish for, and formally consent to, the estab passing should inspire us to possess those and structures on the basis that the consti lishment of a united Ireland, they will intro qualities which made her so strong. tutional Nationalist dream of a new Ireland duce and support in their respective parlia We will miss her; however those emotions could be achieved. In May 1984, an agreed ments legislation to give effect to that wish. will be emotions for someone who loved us report which attracted widespread acclaim Thus the article of the agreement devoted and whom we loved so dearly. and support, including that of President to the status of Northern Ireland recognizes For her contributions to all of us-family Reagan and the U.S. Congress, was adopted the identity and aspirations of both tradi and friends-God will bless and protect her. as policy by the Irish government and taken tions there. It also makes clear that Britain May she rest in peace. as the basis for a process of negotiations has no interest of her own, strategic or oth with the British government. After 18 erwise, in remaining in Ireland and that months of arduous negotiations, the Irish Irish unity is a matter for those Irish people ATLANTIC CITY ELECTRIC COM Taoiseach [prime minister], Garret FitzGer who want it. This removes any Justification PANY CELEBRATES 100 YEARS ald. and British Prime Minister Margaret whatsoever for the use of violence. You OF SERVICE Thatcher signed a formal international cannot unite people at the point of a gun. agreement, on Nov. 15, 1985. at Hillsbor The priority now is to stand firm in up ough in Northern Ireland. holding and implementing the agreement. HON.WILUAMJ.HUGHES The agreement is a major achievement in The Unionists will have to be brought to see 01' NEW .JERSEY democratic, non-violent politics. It is a sig that, this time, they cannot defy the will of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nificant step forward on the road to lasting the British Parliament, to which they pro peace and stability. No one amongst us feels fess loyalty. as they did successfully in 1912 Monday, March 17, 1986 it is the final solution. In the agreement, and 1974. They must be brought to realize The British government accepts that the Mr. HUGHES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay that they cannot have matters all their own tribute to the Atlantic City Electric Co. as it Irish government will put forward views and way. In this way they can be liberated from proposals on matters relating to Northern the prison into which they have locked celebrates 100 years of service to its custom Ireland. The agreement establishes a joint themselves. ers and the south Jersey region. secretariat in Belfast which exercises re We must begin the process of breaking On April 23, 1886, the predecessor of Atlan sponsibility for a variety of political. securi down the barriers between us, barriers of tic City Electric Company, The Electric Light ty. legal, economic, social, and cultural mat prejudice and distrust which are at the Co. of Atlantic City, was first formed with two ters. heart of the conflict that has disfigured Ire generl tors from Thomas Edison's new com These provisions go beyond a consultative land for centuries. We have a choice. We pany to provide electric lighting to 50 custom role but fall short of an executive role for can live together or live apart. We have the Irish government. Nothing has been lived apart for too long and have seen the ers in Atlantic City. At about the same time, taken away from the rights of Unionists. bitter consequences. Or we can live togeth the Bridgeton Electric Light Co. was also orga Northern Ireland continues to be governed er, with all the painful readjustments this nized. by the British government. The agreement will require. It is the only road to peace and In 1907 the company merged with Atlantic adda a dimension without detriment to the stability. Whatever happens, we will be Electric Light and Power Co., New Jersey Hot identity of Unionists. It gives institutional sharing the same piece of earth for a long, Water Heating Co., and the Atlantic City Sub recognition to the Irish identity of those of long time. urban Electric Co. into Atlantic City Electrl~ the Nationalist tradition. It enables Nation We know that when we are dealing with alists to participate fully in the affairs of human conflict, whether in a divided com Co. They installed larger generators and mod Northern Ireland without prejudice to their munity, a divided country. or a divided ernized their distribution system. As they pro aspirations to Irish unity. globe, that it is the building of mutual trust duced more electricity for less money, a lot of The agreement has secured the su::;..pnrt of and not mutual fear that will solve the the smaller generating companies in the sur substantial majorities of the populati1Jn in problem of conflict. rounding area were merged into their system. 5082 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1986 In 1927, the Atlantic City Electric Co. and growth by making room for other customers JASON WILLIAM REED, NEVADA the Electric Co. of New Jersey (including the without the need for expensive new facilities STATE WINNER, VOICE OF DE predecessor Bridgeton Electric Light Co.) which will result in higher electric rates for MOCRACY united the eastern and western area of south southern New Jersey customers. ern New Jersey Into almost 2, 700 square During this centennial year, Atlantic Electric HON. HARRY REID miles of safe and reliable electric energy serv deserves to be specially recognized for its 100 OF NEVADA ice. years of service to the people, communities, On May 1, 1930, the company opened the and organizations of southern New Jersey. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Deepwater generating station, Salem County Monday, March 17, 1986 and began, with the DuPont Chambers Works, Mr. REID. Mr. Speaker, each year the Vet one of the oldest continually operated com MARCH: YURIY SHUKHEVYCH MONTH erans of Foreign Wars of the United States mercial applications of cogeneration in the and its ladies auxiliary conduct the Voice of United States. Democracy scriptwriting contest. This year Beginning in 1945, American Gas and Elec HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD more than 250,000 secondary school students tric Co., now American Electric Power Co., di OF MICHIGAN participated in the contest competing for the vested itself of the Atlantic City Electric Co. In IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES six national scholarships which are awarded 1949, Atlantic City Electric Co. struck out on Monday, March 17, 1986 as top prizes. The contest theme this year own under its first independent president, Its was "New Horizons for America's Youth." Bayard L England. The company worked to Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I am proud Mr. Jason William Reed was the Nevada overcome the common belief that Atlantic to inform my colleagues in the Congress that State winner of the award this year. He is an Electric served just a thin strip of sandy re March has been declared Yuriy Shukhevych 18-year-old senior at Bonanza High School sortland. For the first time, the diversity of Month. The national executive board of the and is active in student government, where he southern New Jersey-including its agricultur Ukrainian Student Association of Mykola Mich has held many positions including student al community, Its glass and chemical manu nowsky [TUSM] and the Ukrainian-American body president. Jason plans to go to college facturing, its food processing, as well as its community at large recently honored Mr. Shu and major in dramatic arts and political sci fine resorts-became widely known. khevych in this manner. I want to commend ence. In January 1950, the company reached an those organizations for their action and praise Jason is a proud example of the extraordi other milestone when the name, "Atlantic City them for their excellent work in telling the nary young leaders in our country and in Electric Co." went up on the New York Stock story of Mr. Shukhevych to America and the Nevada. I wish him the best in his future en Exchange's "Big Board". It was the first time world. deavors. The following is a reprint of this fine that any stock bearing the name "Atlantic There are many tragic stories about human young man's winning speech. City" had appeared on any exchange. rights violations in the Soviet Union. As we all In 1962, the B.L England generating sta know, the Ukraine, a once free and independ NEW HORIZONS FOR AMERICA'S YOUTH tion, Cape May County, began producing elec ent country, was forcibly absorbed into the 1985/86 VFW Voice of Democracy Scholar trical energy for the company and its south Soviet empire. The sufferings of Ukrainians ship Program Nevada Winner: Jason Jersey customers. who have attempted to preserve their national Reed, Las Vegas, NV Atlantic City Electric Co., beginning with a identity and battle for their liberties are well It was 1787 when our supreme Constitu tion was established; the young men who handful of employees 100 years ago, today known. gathered at the convention to create this employs over 2,000 persons across the south The case of Mr. Shukhevych is a particularly historic document included some of the ern New Jersey region. Over the years, the memorable and sad one. From the age of 15 most notable names in American history. company has provided community service to until now, he has been serving a continuous The roster read much like a modem day such important events in southern New Jersey sentence in Soviet concentration camps. His fourth of July oration; a patriotic hymn. It as the 1929 Atlantic City Diamond Jubilee, the only so-called crime is. the fact that his father, was a meeting of wise, young men: Charles stationing of troops during World War II at the Roman Shukhevych, was the commander-in Pickney was twenty-nine; Alexander Hamil Pomona and Rio Grande Air Bases, the build chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army [UPA] ton, thirty; Rufus Kings, thirty-two; and ing of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, and sup Jonathon Dayton, a mere twenty-six years which fought bravely on two fronts against Hit old. Fifty-five young American men, some plying a large additional amount of electric ler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia during who had signed the Declaration of Inde power necessary for the 1967 Summit Confer World War II. Roman Shukhevych, known as pendence, some who had fought in the Rev ence at Hollybush between Soviet Premier Taras Chuprynka, continued the Ukrainian rev olutionary War; all gathered together to Kosygin and U.S. President Lyndon B. John olution for national liberation into the 1950's. create an outline for American law and son. Mr. Yuriy Shukhevych, now 56 years old, is order. American youth has begun to con Throughout the company's history, impor still in a concentration camp because he failed tribute to, and participate in, the develop tant information on the safe and proper use of to renounce his father and the Ukrainian lib ment of our priceless nation. electricity has been provided by company em Just like those young men of 1787, our eration struggle. Although blind and in poor modem day youth in America play an indis ployees. The company has provided outstand health, Yuriy is serving his exile in a hard pensable role in the development of our ing leadership in energy conservation pro labor camp in the Tomsk region of Siberia. He American values. Each morning we Ameri grams throughout the State of New Jersey. In works 12 hours of manual labor every day cans can experience not only the radiance of a time of national emergency, Atlantic City under difficult conditions. the rising sun, but also the creation of Electric Co. was one of the first electric utili Why does the Government of the Soviet youthful ideas. Just as our dependable, om ties in the Nation during the 1973 oil embargo Union punish a man who has done nothing nipotent sun climbs over the horizon, so do to reconvert its generating stations to coal. On wrong? Why is the Kremlin brutalizing a man new generations of youth ascend towards November 5, 1981 Electric Light and Power who has done nothing wrong? Why is the new opportunities. As humans, we can all be considered rep Magazine named Atlantic City Electric Co. as Kremlin going to such trouble to deny basic resentatives of youth; for people of all ages the outstanding electric utility of the year. liberties to an innocent human being? can continue to grow intellectually and to In 1980 Atlantic Electric adopted a strategy I am undertaking an effort to work with develop more maturity with each new learn called the New Direction to meet customer Soviet authorities to obtain an exit visa from ing experience. As Americans, you and I needs in the future. Because a new generat the Soviet Union for this long-suffering man. I have been granted by our past generations ing station costs much more to build and to am confident that Soviets officials will under not only the opportunity to exiat, but also run than any of their existing facilities, the stand why Yurly and his family want to leave the supreme gift of and benefits from free company has encouraged its customers to the U.S.S.R. dom and liberty. History has proven that progress is most conserve electricity especially during peak Let us hope that March, the beginning of swift when people are free to worship, demand periods so that electric usage would spring, will bring a change In attitude on the create, and build. The dream of achievina be available to sell to new south Jersey cus part of Soviet authorities. It Is time to let Mr. human progress through freedom remains tomers. This energy efficiency can satisfy cur Yurly Shukhevych go and have the freedom the most revolutionary idea in the world. rent customers and stimulate economic which he justly deserves. This idea ts the heritage that Americans March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5083 bestow on each new generation, thus ena ate delivery of benefits and services to our copayment and deductibles could mean a bling new horizons of opportunity to arise veterans and their families. substantial reduction in their quality of life; and develop. Comprised of directors from 48 States, the the increasing number of older veterans How appropriate that President Reagan District of Columbia, American Samoa, the who must rely on the VFW for quality declared 1985 as International Youth Year! health care with dignity; and yes, for the It was a time to reflect on our cherished Virgin Islands, and Guam, the association is a vital network through which we can better ad over 37 ,000 veterans that are being turned freedom, to exchange ideas with other away each month. Those 37,000 who are young people around the world, to enhance minister those programs developed in grati turned away make me question: Where did the observance of human rights, and to pro tude by a nation proud and protective of its they go? What ever happened to them? mote world peace, in his youth year procla defenders. Does anyone care? Does anyone know? mation, our President stated, 'Ameria's The association recently held a luncheon youth are the proudest ambassadors of I am not speaking of 28 million veterans, I for the purpose of honoring Senator DENNIS am speaking of the 4 int million veterans that goodwill and our national values.' DECONCINI of Arizona as its man of the year As American youth, we have the freedom the VA says are presently using the VA to use our enthusiasm, creativity, and ideal with the following words: medical system, the service-connected and ism in our everyday endeavors. Our horizons In recognition of his commitment to excel non-service-connected permanently and to are seemingly limitless due to the heroic ef lence in the U.S. Senate, an Anny veteran tally disabled who are potentially eligible, forts of our American forefathers. Thanks himself, he is a courageous advocate on the increasing number of aging veterans to their courage, patriotism, and dedication behalf of America's veterans, which has who will depend more and more on the VA. to American ideals, each new generation is made him one of this country's most widely These are the men and women for whom entitled to a variety of freedoms. respected legislators. continuation of VA programs is essential, Our American system of government has During the luncheon, some very fitting re By your presence here today, I know that been built with knowledge accumulated marks regarding the association and its work, you are also concerned, and I ask your as from centuries of experience, traditions, as well as the status of veterans' benefits, sistance, at either the State or national thoughts, and deeds. Teachers and a multi were delivered by John S. Staum, Command level, whenever and wherever you can pro tude of various youth organizations have er-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. I vide it. also played an invaluable role in fostering would like to share with my colleagues these I am telling our membership that the and strengthening the traditions and morals VFW, and all veterans, must stand together of each new generation. Throughout the very appropriate and thought-provoking com ments: and let our voices be heard in unison to years our priceless freedoms have continued keep the very life of VA programs from to multiply, creating numerous liberties for Thank you Leo CLeo Anderson, Washing being snuffed out. Our opponents are pow future generations. ton, DC, liaison officer of NASDVAl, for William Bennett, Secretary of Education your warm introduction, and to all the erful entities such as the Heritage Founda for the United States stated, that the upris members of the National Association of tion, the Congressional Budget Office, the ing of our country's youth can be contribut State Director of Veterans Affairs thank administration, and the recommendations of ed to the display of their outstanding char you for asking me to be with you today. the Grace Commission. Their solutions acter with traditional American values, an Richard CRichard L. Countryman, presi sound plausible, but they are not reasona appreciation of our political and economic dent of NASDVAl, I want to congratulate ble. freedoms, and a dedication to patrirotic pri you on your leadership of this vital veterans I ask for your help, and I thank you for cipals. organization. The serious work that is being inviting me. For some two hundred years our country done by your members and State service of has thrived on the ideals of our youth. Each ficers often goes unheralded by the Ameri successive generation has made its contribu can public, but believe me, as I have trav A POEM FOR THE McAULIFFE tion to strengthening our scintillating sum eled throughout the country I have seen: FAMILY of democracy. The glowing sphere of inspi firsthand that your work is deeply appreci-' ration has created so many new opportuni ated by people who often do not have the ties for the future; your future, my future, abillty to thank you personally. HON. LOUIS STO~ our future. As most of you know, I am here in Wash As an American youth, I, too, am entitled ington this week to attend the VFW's OF OHIO to the many freedoms and liberties my annual Washington conference. Along with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES country has to offer. I have the freedom to almost 2,000 other VFW members we are receive an outstanding education, specializ here discussing a wide range of subjects: Monday, March 17, 1986 ing in any area which I choose and I can set From the always dominant veterans affairs Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, on February 10, and achieve my personal goals including issues, to national security and foreign af where to live, which career I wish to pursue fairs. After our conference concludes on 1986, in recognition of Black History Week, I and whom I will marry. These dreams have Tuesday evening, we are conducting a de visited the Moreland Hills School in Pepper become realities due to the dedication, re partment service officers meeting that will Pike, OH. I was very impressed by the ele sponsibillty, and commitments of past gen terminate on Saturday. mentary students in attendance there. They erations of Americans. I know that our service officers are going were bright, enthusiastic, and posed many ex Our young forefathers created a remarka to profit from this meeting and ultimately cellent questions that demonstrated their ble document when they wrote the Consti assist each of you in better serving the tution of the United States. Not only did needs of veterans in your home States. knowledge of the world around them. they establish an outline for American law I wish that I could spend the few minutes Mr. Speaker, I was especially impressed by and order; they also forged a legacy of histo that I have remaining here with you dis a poem written by Bill Janke, aged 9, who is a ry which would constantly provide new hori cussing more pleasant subjects than what I student at Moreland Hills. The poem displays zons for our American youth. am going to say, but I can't. The crisis con a great deal of talent, compassion, and under fronting veterans programs makes that im standing that is rarely found in a child of such possible this year. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF The continuing attacks on and piecemeal tender years. I would like to share this poem STATE DIRECTORS OF VETER reductions in veterans programs is a matter with my colleagues in the House. ANS AFFAIRS CONTINUES of serious concern to everyone in this room. BRAVB VITAL WORK It's not simply a matter of minor belt tight ening. People's lives, health, and dignity are at stake, and the VFW is concerned-Just as Brave, brave HON. MARVIN LEATH your association is. So very brave she was OP TEXAS Here's how I see our responsibility. Our To go up in the sky; responsibillty is for those veterans for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Up, up until it turned so black. whom we are advocates, the veterans who Very sad to see her eo Monda11, March 17, 1986 must rely on the VA for their health and fi So sad and very bad. nancial survival: The 1.2 million inpatients; Mr. LEATH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Na But look on the bri&ht side the 20 million outpatients; the service con Her spirit will never leave you. tional Association of State Directors of Veter nected veterans that need and are entitled ans Affairs has, for 40 years, successfully Brave, brave to VA care; the non-service-connected medi So brave she was, so brave. dedicated Itself to the timely and compassion- cally indi&ent veteran for whom a Medicare 5084 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1986 NATIONAL DRIVER REGISTER THE PRODUCT LIABILITY The third crisis is the conflict between the UNIFORM STANDARDS ACT tort and workers' compensation systems. Cur HON. BYRON L DORGAN rently, when an employee is injured in the HON. TOBY ROTH workplace, the employer has a lien against 01' NORTH DAKOTA OF WISCONSIN the plaintiff's ultimate tort recovery from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES product manufacturer. This is true even if the Monday, March 17, 1986 Monday, March 17, 1986 employer is primarily responsible for the injury. My solution is to subtract the worker's com Mr. DORGAN of North Dakota. Mr. Speaker, Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, today I am intro pensation recovery from the tort recovery and one of two Americans will be the victim of an ducing legislation, the Product Liability Uni abolish the employer's present lien ability. The form Standards Act [PLUS], to establish a na alcohol-related crash. That's a startling statis proposed solution would permit the plaintiff to tional product liability law and reform our cur tic. In 1982 Congress was startled enough to retain the very same benefits he now enjoys rent tort system. These reforms are urgently and, at the same time, shift part of the cost take action. On October 25, 1982, H.R. 6170, needed to stabilize a system that has been a bill to establish a "National Driver Register," from the manufacturer to the employer where exemplified in recent years by runaway costs it rightly belongs. became a law. The register was to be a valua and has become a definite drag on the econo The fourth crisis involves innocent defend ble tool for law enforcement officials in their my. ants being dragged into suits unnecessarily. battle against one of the most deadly crimi U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell At present, product liability suits involve suing nals-the drunk driver. Holmes wrote, "The tendency of the law must the whole chain-retailer/wholesaler I manu always be to narrow the field of uncertainty." Under a two-part phasein, the register was facturer. The retailers and wholesalers ride designed to assist State driver licensing offi That tendency has not been very apparent lately. Without certainty and predictability, along as defendants in cases in which they cials in exchanging information regarding the bear no ultimate liability. The manufacturer is motor vehicle driving records of individuals. plaintiffs sue, defendants don't know how to protect themselves and insurance companies held responsible in almost all cases. So that all States could participate as soon can't reasonably assess risks and price. To cut down on this unnecessary litigation I as possible, part one of the project would use Blame has been allotted all around-on propose to release nonmanufacturers for the existing telephone lines to relay the necessary lawyers, insurance companies, judges and case unless: The plaintiff cannot assert juris data. In just 24 hours, participating State juries who award large damages, and a litiga diction over the manufacturer; there exists a driver licensing officials could learn the driving tion-happy American public. There have been "reasonable likelihood" that the plaintiff will history of an individual who may be licensed in a number of complicated solutions offered. My not be able to collect judgment from the man more than one State. bill gets back to the basics and follows Justice ufacturer; the nonmanufacturer is charged with primary negligence. The idea is to unbur Part two of the project would involve four Holmes' advice, that is, it narrows the field of den our present court system. States in a pilot program using state-of-the-art uncertainty. The final crisis is one of ignorance. The fair electronic technology to enable State driver I see five crises in the field of product liabil ity. My legislation addresses each one of ness and economic efficiency of our tort officials to obtain information from the Nation those problems in a simple, clear-cut fashion. system depends upon appropriate damage al Register instantly. This bill is designed to meet the needs of the awards, yet we have no useful damage award Unfortunately, 3% years after the law's en great majority of industries facing product li data on which to evaluate the efficacy of our actment, little progress has been made. Only ability standards, but it does not get bogged legal rules. 11 States-Alabama, Idaho, Illinois, Mississip down on specific definitions that could tie up Consequently, I propose a comprehensive pi, New York, Washington, Wyoming, Arkan courts for years in interpretation. It does, how study of the actual facts concerning damages sas, Arizona, Virginia, and North Dakota-are ever, send a clear message to the courts of in products liability litigation. In this way, if participating in part one of the project. The this country that this current madness must there is a future need for capping amounts, statute dictates that the pilot program begin end. we will have the statistics which will be neces within 2 years of its enactment. Officials at the The first crisis is that of incomprehensible sary to make a sensible analysis. Department of Transportation inform me that standards. Currently the law regarding product We need product liability reform now. The next month the four States will be chosen and liability is unmanageably open ended which current system has grown expensive and un the pilot project will not begin for an additional makes it unfathomable to courts. predictable. The cost of insurance has 16 months later. Thus, it will be almost 5 The solution is to make negligence the sole become outrageous and sometimes coverage years before the National Driver Register ful test for all defective design and failure to warn is completely unavailable. If we don't bring fills its mandate. product liability cases. It is only logical that the common sense back into the system, society burden of proof should be with the plaintiff. In will pay the consequences. The statute also requires the Secretary of this way we can narrow the expansion of the To meet court and insurance costs, all prod Transportation to appoint a 15-member advi law of the last few years. ucts will become more expensive. And how sory committee to meet at least once a year The second crisis that needs addressing is will we muddle through-by allowing our and to publish an annual report of the Nation the rising amount of punitive damage awards. standard of living to go down a bit, by becom al Driver Register's progress. Obviously the "Punies" have become the real surprise ele ing less competitive in the international mar progress has been minimal and the committee ment in product liability cases. Just when a ketplace, by allowing a number of small com knows it-they have only published one defendant thinks he has paid all the costs in panies to go out of business. What is even annual report. It covers May 1984 through volved with the case, he is hit with an addi more frightening is that soon there may be May 1985 and was published in September of tional cost because he did not pay up fast some necessary products and services that 1985. enough. are no longer available at any price. The statistics are startling. Congress passed To bring stability, predictability and fairness This legislation does not attempt to rewrite a law to assist States with the vital task of re to punitive damages, we need clearly articulat 200 years of tort law. It is designed to not fur ducing the risk of alcohol-related accidents. I ed standards that set forth the kind of aggra ther complicate the system or interfere with am astounded that this administration has not vated conduct for which courts will impose pu the rights of States unduly. It will not confuse judges or juries. My PLUS plan fairly address followed through with its obligation to imple nitive damages. Thus, in my legislation plain tiffs would have to prove by "clear and con es both the concerns of injured parties and ment a law with such important conse vincing evidence" that the defendant was in the rights of manufacturers. I urge my col quences. violation. This is a standard higher than the leagues to give this moderate and restrained Today I am sending a letter to the Secretary current "preponderance of evidence." Hence, proposal speedy consideration. of Transportation and to the chairman of the punitives can be awarded where truly de The text of the bill follows: advisory committee asking that they respond served, but the judge is given a mechanism to Be it enacted b11 the Senate and House of to me regarding the delays in the implementa reject punitive damages when the plaintiff fails Representatives of the United States of tion of the National Driver Register. to clearly demonstrate egregious fault. Amertca in Congress assembled, March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5085 SECl'ION 1. SHORT TITLE. loss or damage caused by a product to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, This Act may be cited as the "Product Li extent that this Act establishes a rule of law Compensation, and Liabillty Act of 1980 <42 abillty Uniform Standards Act". applicable to any civil action brought U.S.C. 9601(22)), and, in addition, the term SEC. Z. DEFINITIONS. against a manufacturer or product seller for includes any depositing or placing into the As used in this Act- loss or damage caused by a product. environment. <1> the term "claimant" means any person <2> This Act shall not be construed to SEC. (. LIABILITY. who brings a product liabillty action, and if waive or affect any defense of sovereign im In any product liabillty action in which such action is brought through or on behalf munity asserted by any State under any the claimant alleges that the product ts de of an estate, the term includes the claim provision of law. fective because of improper design, failure ant's decedent, or if such an action is <3> Nothing in this Act shall be construed to warn, or failure to provide adequate in brought through or on behalf of a minor, to supersede any Federal law, except the structions, the manufacturer or product the term includes the claimant's parent or Federal Employees Compensation Act. seller shall be liable to the claimant only if guardian; <4> Nothing in this Act shall be construed the claimant establishes by a preponderance <2> the term "clear and convincing evi to waive or affect any defense of sovereign of the evidence that the manufacturer or dence" is that measure or degree of proof immunity asserted by the United States. the product seller was negligent, in that the that will produce in the mind of the trier of <5> Nothing in this Act shall be construed conduct which brought about the defective fact a firm belief or conviction as to the to affect the applicabillty of any provision condition of the product resulted from the truth of the allegations sought to be estab of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of failure to act as a reasonable manufacturer lished; the level of proof required to satisfy 1976 (28 U.S.C. 1602 et seq.) (b) ENVIRONMENTAL LAws.-(1) Nothing in or product seller under the same or similar this standard is more than that required circumstances. The standard of care set under preponderance of the evidence, but this Act shall be construed to supersede- any environmental protection law that forth herein shall govern whether the less than that required for proof beyond a action is based on Cl> strict liabillty or abso reasonable doubt; authorizes a State or a person to institute an action for civil damages, civil penalties, lute liabillty; <2> breach of implied warranty (3) the term "commerce" means trade, of fitness for particular purpose. Nothing traffic, commerce, or transportation be injunctions, restitution, cost recovery, puni tive damages, or any other form of relief re set forth herein shall prevent a claimant tween a place in a State and any place out from bringing a cause of action for express side of that State; or which affects sulting from contamination or pollution of trade, commerce, or transportation de the environment, or the threat of such con warranty or any intentional tort. scribed in clause ; tamination or pollution, caused by any prod SEC. 5. RESPONSIBILITY OF PRODUCT SELLERS. <4> the term "manufacturer" means uct defined by State or Federal law as a A product seller shall be treated as the any person who is engaged in a business to toxic substance or waste, hazardous sub manufacturer of a product and shall be design or formulate and to produce, create, stance or material, hazardous waste or other liable for harm to the claimant caused by a make, or construct any product ; CB> a product seller CB> a right arising under the common law the product if- with respect to all aspects of a product which are cre sance or otherwise protect against contami service of process under the laws of the ated or affected when, before placing the nation or pollution of the environment, or State in which the action is brought; or product in the stream of commerce, the the threat of such contamination or pollu <2> the court determines that there is a product seller designs or formulates and tion, caused by any product; or reasonable likelihood that the claimant produces, creates, makes or constructs an any law relating to a civil action for would be unable to enforce a judgment aspect of a product made by another; or CC> any prod or injunctive relief, if the loss or damage for SEC. 6. EFFECT OF WORKER'S COMPENSATION BEN uct seller not described in clause which which a remedy is sought was caused by the EFITS. holds itself out as a manufacturer to the release into the environment, or the threat IN GENERAL.-ln the case of any prod user of the product, of release into the environment, of a toxic uct liabillty claim brought by or on behalf <5> the term "person" means any individ substance or waste, hazardous substance or of an injured person entitled to compensa ual corporation, company, association, firm, material, hazardous waste or other contami tion under any State or Federal worker partnership, society, Joint stock company, or nant or pollutant. compensation law, damages shall be reduced any other entity AB used in this subsection- by the amount paid as worker compensation tal entity>; the term "contaminant or pollutant" benefits for the same injury plus the <6> the term "preponderance of the evi includes m anything defined or designated present value of all future worker compen dence" is that measure or degree of proof as a contaminant or pollutant under any sation benefits payable for the same injury which, by the weight, credit, and value of Federal or State law, and (ii) any element, under the worker compensation law. the aggregate evidence on either side, estab substance, compound, mixture, or organism (b) SUBROGATION, CONTRIBUTION, IMPLIED lishes that it is more probable than not that which, after release into the environment INDEMNITY.-Unless the manufacturer or a fact occurred or did not occur; and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, product seller has expressly agreed to in <7> the term "product" means any object, impact, attachment, or assimilation into any demnify or hold an employer harmless for substance, mixture or raw material in a gas organism either directly from the environ harm to an employee caused by a product, eous, liquid or solid state which is capable of ment or indirectly by ingestion through neither the employer nor the worker's com food chains, will or may reasonably be an delivering itself, or as an assembled whole in ticipated to cause death, disease, injury, be pensation insurance carrier of the employer a mixed or combined state or as a compo havioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mu shall have a right of subrogation, contribu nent part or ingredient, which ts produced tation, physiological malfunctions , or physi ufacture or product seller or a lien against which has intrinsic economic value, and cal deformations, in such organisms or their the claimant's recovery from the manufac which ts intended for sale or lease to per offspring; turer or product seller, if the harm arose sons for commercial or personal use; CB) the term "environment" has the from the sale of a defective product by the <8> the term "product seller" means a meaning given to such term in section manufacturer or product seller. person who, in the course of a business con 101<8> of the Comprehensive Environmental (C) THIRD-PARTY TORT1'EASOR.-ln any ducted for that purpose, sells, distributes, Response, Compensation, and Liabillty Act product liabillty action in which damages leases, installs, prepares, blends, packages, of 1980 <42 U.S.C. 9601(8)); are sought for harm for which the person labels, markets, repairs, maintains, or other CC> the term "Hazardous waste" has the injured is or would have been entitled to re wise ts involved in placing a product in the meaning given to such term in section ceive compensation under any State or Fed stream of commerce; 101<29) of the Comprehensive Environmen eral worker's compensation law, no third <9> the term "State" means any State of tal Response, Compensation, and Liabillty party tortfeasor may maintain any action the United States, the District of Columbia, Act of 1980 <42 U.S.C. 9601<14»; for implied indemnity or contribution the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the the term "hazardous waste" has the against the employer or any coemployee of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the meaning given to such term in section the person who was injured. Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Terri 101(29) of the Comprehensive Environmen SEC. 7. PUNITIVE DAMAGES. tory of the Pacific Islands, and any other tal Response, Compensation, and Liabillty IN GENJ:RAL.-Punitive damages may be territory or possession of the United States, Act of 1980 <42 U.S.C. 9601(29)); awarded to the claimant if the claimant or any political subdivision thereof. CE> the term "law" means any law or au proves by clear and convincing evidence SEC. a. PREEMPl'ION OF OTHER LAWS. thority, whether statutory or common; and that the harm suffered was the result of the 11' ODD.AL.-( 1 > This Act supersedes CF> the term "release" has the meaning product manufacturer's or seller's reckless any State law regarding recovery for any given to such term in section 101<22> of the disregard for the safety of product users, 5086 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1986 consumers, or others who might be harmed fiscal year 1985. Such sums shall remain <2> by inserting before the period at the by the product. available until expended. end thereof "and such sums as may be nec TRID OP FAcr.-The trier of fact shall SEC. 9. REVIEW ABILITY. essary for each of the fiscal years 1987, determine whether punitive damages should It is the intent of the Congress that, in 1988, and 1989". be awarded, and the amount of those dam. other than exceptional cases, the Supreme SEC. 2. CONSISTENT TREATMENT OF ENERGY AS ages, if any. In making this determination, Court of the United States shall not review SISTANCE PAYMENTS. the trier of fact shall consider- issues relating solely to the sufficiency of Section 2605Cf> of the Low-Income Home <1 > the likelihood at the relevant time the evidence in cases arising under this Act Energy Assistance Act of 1981 <42 U.S.C. that serious harm would arise from the which have been finally decided by the 8624 the degree of the product manufactur or indirectly for the benefit of,", and er's or seller's awareness of that likelihood, INTRODUCING LOW-INCOME <2> by adding at the end thereof the fol <3> the profitablllty of the misconduct to HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE lowing: the product manufacturer or seller, REAUTHORIZATION "For purposes of determlnlng any excess <4) the duration of the misconduct and shelter expense deduction under section 5 any concealment of it by the product manu HON. DALE E. KILDEE of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 <7 U.S.C. facturer or seller, 2014Ce»- <5> the attitude and conduct of the prod OP KICHIGAN "C 1> the full amount of such payments or uct manufacturer or seller upon discovery of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES allowances shall be deemed to be expended the misconduct and whether the conduct Monday, March 17, 1986 by such hou.Sehold for heating or cooling ex has been terminated, penses, without regard to whether such pay <6> the financial condition of the product Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to ments or allowance are provided directly to, manufacturer or seller, be introducing today, along with Mr. TAUKE, or indirectly for the benefit of, such house <7> the total effect of other punishment the ranking minority member of the Human hold; and imposed or likely to be imposed upon the Resources Subcommittee, Mr. SHARP, chair "<2> no distinction may be made among product manufacturer or seller as a result of man of the Energy and Commerce Subcom households on the basis of whether such the misconduct, including punitive dam.age payments or allowances are provided direct awards to persons slmilarly situated to the mittee on Fossil Fuels, and Mr. MARKEY, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Sub ly to, or indirectly for the benefit of, any of claimant and the severity of criminal penal such households.". ties to which the product seller has been or committee on Energy Conservation and may be subjected, and Power, legislation to reauthorize the Low SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. <8> whether the harm suffered by the Income Home Energy Assistance Program This Act and the amendments made by claimant was also the result of the claim [LIHEAP] for 3 additional years. this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1986, ant's own reckless disregard for personal or on the date of the enactment of this Act, The Congress has long been concerned whichever ls later. safety. with the impact of high energy costs on the SEC. 8. PRODUCT LIABU..ITY REVIEW PANEL poor and those living on fixed incomes. PANEL.-The Judicial Conference of LIHEAP, as we now know it, grew out of a the United States shall establish a Product IN SUPPORT OF REAUTHORIZ Liablllty Damages Review Panel to conduct the studies required by energy costs. Many of these earlier programs GRAM this section. The Panel shall consist of three were administered by the then Community individuals selected on the basis of their ex Services Administration under the auspices of HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY pertise regarding civil actions and recovery the Economic Opportunity Act. LIHEAP, ad for loss or damage caused by a product. ministered by the Department of Health and OP llASSACHUSETrS STUDY.-The Panel shall conduct an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES empirical study of damages in relation to Human Services, is currently authorized under the product liablllty litigation system. As title XXVI of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act. Monday, March 17, 1986 part of this study the Panel shall evaluate- Coping with high energy prices continues to Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to <1) the nature and adequacy of damages in be a problem facing many low-income individ join as an original cosponsor of legislation to providing recovery for any loss oi- damage uals and families. Testimony presented before reauthorize the Low-Income Home Energy As caused by a product, a joint hearing of the Human Resources, <2> the relationship between economic loss sistance Program. The bill would authorize Fossil Fuels, and Energy Conservation and such sums as are necessary for the next 3 and pain and suffering damages, Power Subcommittees indicated that while <3> whether damage awards differ among fiscal years. In addition, it would make clear product categories and location of litigation, many are being helped, the need for assist that funds made available to poor families for <4> whether damage awards for economic ance far exceeds the program's ability to pro energy assistance should not be counted for loss, pain and suffering, and punitive dam. vide it. Based on a telephone survey done in purposes of determining food stamp benefits. ages differ depending on claimants' econom January, the administration estimates that In this way we ensure that poor families are ic status, sex, race, or ethnic origin, LIHEAP will serve about 7.3 million people in not put in the untenable position of having to <5> the financial impact on industry and fiscal 1986. That represents about 31 percent consumers of punitive damage awards, choose whether to heat or eat when applying of the total eligible population of 23.4 million for Federal assistance. <6> the impact of attorney's fees on the across the country. Even when one takes into product llablllty system, and The LIHEAP Program is a critical part of the <7> all such other relationships between consideration the fact that many States set Nation's tattered safety net for poor house damages and the operation of the product their eligibility criteria lower than the Federal holds. However, this net is small and the llablllty system that the Panel shall see flt standard, only 50 percent of the eligible popu threads are very thin. The fact is that most to investigate. The results of the study shall lation is being served. families eligible for this program never receive be submitted to the Congress within 2 years LIHEAP has long enjoyed strong bipartisan any help. There are three primary reasons for after the date of enactment of this Act. support. I welcome my colleagues' support for COllPDSATION.-A member of the this unfortunate situation. this legislation. First, funding has never been sufficient to Panel who is not an officer or employee of The bill follows: the Federal Government shall be entitled to serve the 22 million eligible households. Cur receive compensation at a rate of basic pay H.R. 4422 rent appropriations are only about $2 billion. in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Be it enacted b11 the Senate and House of Yet, if everyone eligible were to receive the Schedule pursuant to section 5332 of title 5, Repreaentatives of the United States of average amount provided by each State United States Code, for each day during which the member is en SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. gaged in the actual performance of the Section 2602 of the Low-Income Home tion of nearly $5 billion. duties of the Panel. Energy Assistance Act of 1981 <42 U.S.C. Second, it is very difficult to reach eligible AUTBORIZATION.-There are authorized 8621 by striking out "2,140,000,000 for the themselves through AFDC or SSI. Yet this is section such sums as may be necessary in fiscal year 1985, and", and fundamental to running a fair program. The March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5087 working poor and the nonwelfare elderly con service. They are best known for their spon I take this opportunity to commend the Cuy stitute the majority of eligible households. sorship of Hamburg's king frost parade. The ahoga County Bar Association and congratu They need energy assistance as much, if not parade is held each year at the end of Octo late the five public service award recipients. more, than those receiving welfare. Many ad ber and has become a popular attraction Mr. Speaker, each of the honorees has ac ministrators have tended to take the easy throughout Pennsylvania. Also, through their cumulated an average of 30 years of service route by simply sending assistance to people community services, the Jaycees have bright within the Cuyahoga County court system. whose names and addresses are already in ened the lives of countless citizens in our The honorees are: Mr. Alfred Fietko, chief their computers. But in this case, administra area. deputy court administrator, court of appeals, tive simplicity can exclude the majority of the I want to congratulate the Hamburg Jaycees eighth district; Mr. Francis J. Hogan, casework intended beneficiaries of LIHEAP. on their 35th anniversary and I wish them a supervisor, probation department, juvenile Third, even those who get assistance actu most successful celebration on May 10. I court; Mr. Andrew Ladika, bailiff, deputy clerk ally receive, on average, only enough to cover know that my colleagues will join me in honor to presiding Judge Francis J. Talty, probate about 45 percent of their heating bills, not to ing them for their 35 years of dedicated com court; Mr. Thomas F. O'Toole, intake supervi mention the rest of their home energy costs. munity service and in wishing them continued sor, probation department, Cleveland Munici These families find themselves, in effect, success in the future. pal Court; and Mr. James E. Paul, project co drowning in a raging river, but when the Fed ordinator, county clerk's office. eral Government arrives to help these drown TRIBUTE TO OLOF PALME At this time, I would like to share the ac ing families, it doesn't pull anyone ashore. It complishments of the honorees with my col doesn't even throw them a lifering. It throws HON. DANTE B. FASCELL leagues. them half a lifering, and expects these families Mr. Alfred Fietko began his career with the to find the other half out there in the rapids. Or FLORIDA court system in 1960 as a personal bailiff to In 1984, Congress reauthorized this pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Judge Thomas Parrino. He currently serves as gram for 3 years. For fiscal year 1986, we au Monday, March 17, 1986 chief deputy court administrator in the court of thorized $2.275 billion, but appropriated only Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, on Saturday the appeals where he directs and supervises the $2.1 billion. This was subsequently reduced by funeral of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme the fiscal year 1986 Gramm-Rudman cuts to administrative staff of the court, directs and took place. Once again the world was remind assigns all of the court's hearings, panels and $2 billion. Nevertheless, those of us who have ed of the vulnerability of government leaders fought for this program are proud that these proceedings, prepares all statistical data re to an assassin's bullet. Mr. Speaker, the as quired by the court, and serves as liaison be levels have been maintained over the vigor sassination was a tragic and pointless act of ous opposition of the administration. The tween the public, the bar, and the bench. violence. An Army Air Force veteran, Mr. Fietko is a President tried to cut this program by 24 per Mr. Palme was a man of peace. He sought cent in 1982, by 31 percent in 1983, by 34 graduate of Kent State University and has to bridge the gap between rich and poor na also studied court management at Cleveland percent in 1984, and by 1O percent in 1985. tions and promote economic development Then, for fiscal year 1986, the President College. through his work on the Brandt Commission. The second honoree, Mr. Speaker, is Fran tried to shift 38 percent of the funding-$800 He served as a United Nations emissary in an cis J. Hogan, who serves as a casework su million-from regular appropriations to trust effort to resolve the Iran-Iraq war. He also pervisor with the juvenile court's probation de funds held in escrow for consumers who were headed an international commission that partment. Mr Hogan supervises probation offi the victims of oil overcharge violations. This sought to advance the process of reducing source is very unreliable, since there is no re nuclear weapons stockpiles through a number cers, presents cases in court when necessary, quirement that any oil overcharge funds be of concrete proposals. and counsels both parents and juveniles. spent on LIHEAP. While Mr. Palme often took positions in dis Mr. Hogan holds a master's degree from Given this history, I am pleasantly surprised agreement with United States policy, his criti Western Reserve University and in 1967-68 at the administration's request for fiscal year cisms of the Soviet invasions of Czechoslova was recipient of an award from the Ohio 1987. For the first time since the President kia and Afghanistan and his handling of Soviet League of Civil Service Commissions in recog took office, he has asked for a cut. Taking in submarine intrusions in violation of Sweden's nition of meritorious public personal service as flation into account, the request of $2.1 billion sovereignty made him a consistent defender president of that organization. will probably keep the program frozen for of the Swedish tradition of neutrality. What Mr. Speaker, the third honoree, Mr. Andrew fiscal year 1987. ever disagreements we may have had oncer Ladika, has spent 25 years in public service I look forward to working with my col tain issues, United States-Swedish relations and is currently bailiff and deputy clerk to leagues in reaffirming our commitment to this remained successful and mutually beneficial. Judge Francis J. Talty of the probate court program at the eartiest opportunity. I wish to express my sympathy to the family where he is in charge of the jury and wit of Mr. Palme in their great personal loss and nesses, keeping order in the court and assist SALUTE TO THE HAMBURG to the Swedish nation in the loss of their na ing the court administrator. He began his JAYCEES tional leader. I am confident that United career in 1960 as a civil bench process States relations with Sweden will continue on server. the productive course that Mr. Palme helped Mr. Thomas F. O'Toole, the fourth honoree, HON. GUS YATRON to establish. has dedicated his entire 30 year career to or PENNSYLVANIA public service. A graduate of John Carroll Uni IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY BAR versity, he began his career in 1955 as a Monday, March 17, 1986 ASSOCIATION 40TH ANNUAL caseworker in the probation department of the Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, May 5, 1986 PUBLIC SERVANTS MERIT Cleveland Municipal Court and rose to the po marks the 35th anniversary of the chartering AWARD RECIPIENTS sition of supervisor. As intake supervisor, Mr. of the Jaycees Chapter in Hamburg, PA. In O'Toole oversees the performance of six pro conjunction with this important occasion, the HON. LOUIS STOKES bation officers who perform pre- and post-sen Hamburg Jaycees will be holding their 34th tence investigations. or OHIO Mr. Speaker, Mr. James E. Paul is the fifth annual president's ball. At the ball, outstand IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES ing Jaycees of the past year are honored and honoree this year. He began his affiliation with officers for the coming year are installed. It Monday, March 17, 1986 the court system in 1955 as a title cashier for has come to be one of the top social events Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, on Wednesday, the clerk of courts. Currently, he serves as for the Jaycees. February 26, 1986, the Cuyahoga County Bar project coordinator in the automobile title de I can think of no better occasion to honor Association hosted its 40th Annual Public partment of the clerk of courts and is respon the Hamburg Jaycees. They have provided Servants Merit Award luncheon to salute the sible for the leases for all five auto title loca BerU County and the surrounding area with exceptional work of five county court system tions as well as answering subpoenas for the 34 years of selfless, dedicated community employees. title section.
71--059 0-87-28 (Pt. 41 5088 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1986 Mr. Speaker, I am extremely honored to join other Members of the Florida delegation have ly newsletter to Daniel Yohalem, which I com in the salute to these dedicated public serv introduced legislation prohibiting OPIC from mend to all my colleagues: ants. Mr. Fietko, Mr. Hogan, Mr. Ladika, Mr. supporting financially the export of citrus DEDICATION O'Toole, and Mr. Paul have served the city of crops. This issue of our newsletter would not be Cleveland in exemplary fashion, and serve as We encourage all our colleagues who sym complete without a few words about and to a fine example of the Cleveland court system. pathize and understand how damaging this our departing Program Director, Daniel Yo I join with the Cuyahoga County Bar Associa decision could be to our domestic citrus indus halem. tion, its president, Mr. Joseph G. Schneider try to join with us on this important legislation. Dean of the CDF official family, Dan has and the merit awards committee chairman, Mr. become an institution within the institution. Franklin A. Polk in paying tribute to the 1986 This man of conflicting character facets has Public Servants Merit Award recipients. MR. DANIEL YOHALEM, IN given generously and steadfastly over the DEFENSE OF CHILDREN years of his skills, energy and time to help build CDF into the organization that it is H.R. 4332-FEDERAL FIREARMS HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY today. His caring and attention in charting LAW REFORM ACT OF 1986 a safe path through sometimes murky OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA waters has been a testament to his commit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment-even in the face of impossible time HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. Monday, March 17, 1986 constraints, harassed and irascible co-work OF NEW JERSEY ers, conflicting considerations, and the lone IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, Daniel Yoha liness of doing what he knew was right-to lem-a leader in the national and local District Monday, March 17, 1986 the principles for which CDF stands. of Columbia movement for the past 12 years Dan leaves CDF at a crucial time while Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I wish to inform on behalf of poor, handicapped, and minority the organization is at a fork in the road of the Members of the House that I will request children-has recently left the Children's De its internal development. It somehow seems the Rules Committee to grant a rule on H.R. fense Fund, where he served as program di contradictory that he who knows so much 4332-Federal Firearms Law Reform Act of rector. about CDF is leaving at this time, but there really would never be a 'right' time for Dan 1986-which was unanimously (35 to 0) voted The Children's Defense Fund, the District of to leave CDF. out of the Committee on the Judiciary. Columbia's and America's citizens under 21 But whatever the effect of Dan's depar I intend to request a rule which provides for have indeed lost a compassionate and caring ture from the organization, the fact is that 2 hours of general debate, making in order champion, who over the past dozen years has it is an imminent reality. And on that basis germane amendments to the bill which have been instrumental in many court break we must now look to making his departure been printed in advance in the RECORD. throughs on behalf of handicapped and disad as guiltless as possible-he has more than Any Member wishing to have an amend vantaged children. He has litigated civil rights, paid his dues-and let him know how much ment made in order should make sure that it education and deinstitutionalization cases in a his efforts have been appreciated. We have is printed in the CoNGRESSIONAL RECORD in variety of States, including DC, Mississippi, all benefitted from this pa tience, good will, relative pragmatism, and advance. Louisiana, and New York. He has been at the intellect. We expect to continue to benefit vanguard of congressional and administrative from the onobstrusive, more obvious, and advocacy to improve Federal enforcement of LEGISLATION TO · PROHIBIT indelible marks he will leave with us when health, welfare, and education programs for he goes. OPIC FROM SUPPORTING FI children. We accept your departure serenely, Dan, NANCIALLY EXPORT OF Originally from Mount Vernon, NY, he re because it is what you seem to wish. But we CITRUS CROPS ceived his BA from Yale University in 1970 give back to you the good will and support and his law degree with honors from Columbia that you have shown us over the years. So HON. TOM LEWIS University law School in 1973. we bid you good luck in your future under OF FLORIDA Mr. Yohalem joined CDF in 1973 as a staff takings and know that we will be hearing about them from you, for you will keep in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES attorney and was responsible for the bulk of touch. And we wish to do one other thing to Monday, March 17, 1986 the fund's special education and deinstitution show the great esteem in which you are alization cases on behalf of the Nation's poor held. We dedicate this issue of our newslet Mr. LEWIS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the and minority children. ter to you, Dan. Overseas Private Investment Corporation In 1979, he became the Children's Defense From all your friends at CDF. [OPIC] announced its intention to change its fund's legal director. In this capacity he policy regarding assistance to U.S. sponsored worked on the full range of the fund advoca investments in projects involving citrus. Ac cy of issues including education, child health, POLISH HOLOCAUST cordingly, OPIC will now consider insuring and foster care, child care and income support. In financing projects which result in the exporta addition to his years as a litigator, he has HON. WILLIAM 0. LIPINSKI tion of frozen concentrated orange juice worked on Federal regulatory and enforce OF ILLINOIS [FCOJ] to the United States. ment matters, testified before Congress on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES If implemented, this decision will have a numerous occasions, organized parent and Monday, March 17, 1986 devastating effect on citrus growers across advocacy group efforts for Federal policy this country. reform, coauthored handbooks on Federal Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I wish to bring to Strong opposition has already been heard special education laws and on policy activity the attention of my colleagues the plight of throughout the domestic citrus industry re for nonprofit organizations, and written about Polish Gentiles under Nazi rule during the garding OPIC's decision. Their concerns are the role of litigation as part of multistrategy Second World War. World attention has fo understood when one considers the ever-in law reform. cused, and rightfully so, on the mass extermi creasing supply of FCOJ from abroad, the dra Mr. Yohalem became program director of nation of the Jews during the War, but very matic drop over the past year in the pound Children's Defense Fund in 1981. In this ca little heed has been paid to another group that solid price for oranges received by growers, pacity he was responsible for planning, coordi suffered extensively at the hands of the the damage incurred to my State of Florida's nation and managing CDF's programmatic Nazis-non-Jewish Poles. It is for this reason citrus trees due to three severe freezes, and agenda for the District of Columbia and the that I would like to include in the RECORD a the problems surrounding the industry's battle Nation. book review published in the March 1 edition with citrus canker. He left CDF in December to write, explore of the Polish National Alliance newspaper, At a time when a domestic industry is sorely and spend more time with his family. Yet he Zgoda that deals with this tragic and nearly in need of the deserved assistance from its remains committed to the plight and problems forgotten chapter in Nazi atrocity: own Government, OPIC's decision serves only of America's youth, and we shall expect to A FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST: POLISH HOLOCAUST to put the squeeze on the U.S. citrus industry. hear much more from him in the future. In order to reverse this industry-threatening Upon his departure, the newsletter of the "The world has rightly been made aware decision, myself, Congressman IRELAND, and Children's Defense Fund dedicated its month- of the fate of mlllions of European Jews March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5089 under the Nazis' "final solution", but it is movement and sabotage). The book ends ty, and to assuring the welfare of the veter much less aware of what Richard C. Lukas with a powerful description of the tragic an's widow and children, is most commenda calls "the forgotten holocaust", whose vic Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, a dramatic ble. thns included three million non-Jewish example of the extent of determination of Throughout the last 67 years, the Legion Poles. As this landmark study shows, the the Poles to fight and liberate themselves. German treatment of Polish Gentiles was The Poles have paid a high price for their also has tirelessly worked to promote child scarcely less barbaric than their treatment heroic behavior: 6 million perished on the welfare, national security, and patriotism. of Polish Jews, and a brotherhood of suffer battlefields, in prisons and in the concentra American Legion posts have contributed ing existing under the German oppression tion camps. More than half of them were mightily to the strength and greatness of that must not be forgotten." non-Jews. Those impressive facts recalled by America-building community houses, play This introduction by the editor of the Prof. R.C. Lukas brings us today a clearer grounds, swimming pools, and parks through newest book by professor Richard C. Lukas, vision about the meaning of W.W. II on the out the United States. Each year, posts have a respected authority on Polish history in Polish territory. Without hiding numerous the U.S. describes very accurately the im controversies and complex subjects this sponsored thousands of baseball and other portance of "The Forgotten Holocaust, the book demonstrates how difficult and hard athletic teams and Boy Scout Troops. In addi Poles Under German Occupation, 1939- was that time for the inhabitant of Poland. tion, in order to promote the study of the U.S. 1944", recently published by the University At the same time the book confirms the Constitution and the bill of rights, the Ameri Press of Kentucky. Indeed, this study gives image most of the Poles involved in strug can Legion holds an annual national high us, finally, "one of those missing parts gle-both inside their country and on the school oratory contest, offering a cash schol making a critical aspect of the history of side of the Allies-maintained. As a nation arship to the finalists. the twentieth century more understand and as a society the Poles revealed a unique Mr. Speaker, I am glad to join with the able." moral virtue in the moment of the harshest members of the American Legion in celebrat The author confesses in the afterword historical trial, during the Nazi occupation, that the additional motivation for his work and that image should be finally recognized ing the 67th anniversary of their proud tradi was not only "a lack of understanding of the and accepted by the western world after 41 tions of service to our veterans and this coun Holocaust in its broadest terms", but a dan years from the end of W.W. II. try, and I commend the Legionnaires in the gerous and not justified tendency in the 11th Congressional District of Illinois which I recent years to identify the horror and cruel am honored to represent, and American Le experience of the Nazi terror in Europe only THE 67TH ANNIVERSARY OF gionnaires all over this Nation, for their dedi with the extermination of the Jews. He uses THE AMERICAN LEGION cation to the ideals of our American heritage. I several examples showing how contempo extend to all members of the Legion my best rary mass media (including American TV and movies> had reinforced the negative and HON. FRANK ANNUNZIO wishes for success as they continue to build even false image of the Poles during W.W. OF ILLINOIS on their splendid record of excellence and II. Just to mention a few are Gerald Green's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES achievement in service to America. "Holocaust", William Styron's "Sophie's Monday, March 17, 1986 Choice", Herman Wouk's "Winds of War", "The Wall" and recently-"Shoah." Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, on March 15, FOR A NATIONAL PARENTAL All those pictures, strongly appealing to the members of the American Legion cele LEAVE POLICY the imagination of the millions of the view brated their 67th anniversary of the founding ers, perpetuated constant distoration of the of their fine organization, committed to the HON. LOUIS STOQ:S Poles and their history despite existing doc service and care of our Nation's veterans. uments and the historical truth of that OF OHIO Today, after 67 years of service, the American period. Unfortunately, because of the limit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed number of scholarly publications in Eng Legion and its 3 million veterans, with the lish on this subject, and again, a common motto of "For God and Country," remains one Monday, March 17, 1986 tendency to overshadow the Polish Holo of our country's leading patriotic organizations. Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, last week, our caust by the Jewish, the better understand The American Legion has maintained the distinguished colleague from Missouri, the ing of complexity and paradoxes of Polish high standards it set for itself on March 15, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor-Man Jewish relations was not possible. 1919, when the delegates from the First "The Forgotten Holocaust" describes in agement Relations, introduced the Parental detail the terms of the German occupation American Expeditionary Force met in Paris, and Medical Leave Act of 1986. This vital and in Poland, which started on Sept. 1, 1939 France, and reaffirmed that their responsibility timely legislation sets out to address the real with a total war against the nation, mass to each other and to their country's citizens needs of young families struggling to cope in street executions and systematical extermi did not end with the signing of the armistice today's hard-pressed economy. There is a nation of the intelligentsia, the core of the agreement. Their commitment to these stand growing need to reduce the economic strain society. At the same time Richard C. Lukas ards was embodied in the preamble to the on family life and H.R. 4300 goes a long way presents broad and restless Polish efforts to constitution of the Legion, which states: organize the military resistance and the toward providing for the basic needs of our Home Army, to encourage the people in For God and country we associate our children. Later this month, the Subcommittee their determination to survive, and to dem selves together for the following purposes: on Labor-Management Relations will conduct onstrate to the enemy that their rule is tem to uphold and defend the Constitution of hearings on this most important legislation. As porary. In the most exciting chapters the the United States of America; to maintain we prepare to address this subject I recom book presents all the activity of the Polish law and order, to foster and perpetuate a mend the following editorial "For a National underground organizations and the govern one hundred percent Americanism; to pre Parental Leave Policy" St. Louis Post-Dis ment in exile-to help the Polish Jews and serve the memories and incidents of our as patch, March 8, 1986-to my colleagues. apprise the world by using the obtained evi sociations in the great wars; to inculcate a dence of the Holocaust. All those documents sense of individual obligation to the commu FOR A NATIONAL PARENTAL LEAVE POLICY and facts prove that the Polish wartime ex nity, State and Nation; to combat the autoc Reps. William L. Clay of St. Louis and Pa periences were special and deserve full re racy of both the classes and the masses; to tricia Schroeder of Colorado have intro spect. make right the master of might; to promote duced a much-needed bill that would allow The author shows how consequent and peace and good will on earth; to safeguard men and women up to 18 weeks of unpaid, consistent was the strategy of the Poles and transmit to posterity the principles of job-protected leave to care for a newborn, from the beginning of W.W. II. No collabo justice, freedom and democracy; to conse newly adopted or seriously ill child. Now ration with the Nazis, strong commitment crate and sanctify our comradeship by our that there are more and more two-pay for fighting the occupants, very well orga devotion to mutual helpfulness. check families, the proposed Parental and nlud underground uniting most of the Today, members of the American Legion in Medical Leave Act of 1986 woud ensure that nation. Such structure was unique in all about 16,000 local posts continue in their con working parents have time to care for their children without risking their jobs. As Mr. German-occupied Europe. This explains not cern for the welfare of their fellow veterans only the splrit of the Poles, but also the sub Clay puts it, working parents now face the stantial military achievements little-known team-"Off-Broadway," as Coach advised to scrap some of those high-cost weapons systems that don't." Property has long been an important in Mackey put it-that has brought its act to the "The GI Bill gives up to $10,000 tuition gredient in the stability of the nation's big time and prevailed. As one of the NCAA benefits to qualified recruits who enlist for democratic system, and home ownership tournament's "Sweet Sixteen," the Vikings three years and contribute $1,200 from their long a cornerstone of the American Dream, travel to East Rutherford, NJ, Friday to face paychecks." leading households to work harder, provid another outstanding team, the Midshipmen of "Pentagon officials recently testified that ing savings through equity and inspiring Navy. I wish both teams the best of luck. the GI Bill has been responsible for a 17 faith in free enterprise. But the opportunity Today, though, I join all of the other Cleve percent increase in the number of high to own a home, once available to the majori quallty recruits." ty of families, has moved beyond the reach land State basketball fans in saluting an out "Estimated cost-$70 million for the first of many-particularly of young people seek standing team and fine group of young ath three years is about the same as for 44 ing to buy homes for the first time, whose letes. We appreciate the thrills you've given Bradley Fighting vehicles, which critics real incomes would have allowed them to do us so far and we look forward to the rest of claim would be rolling death traps on the so in past generations. As Anthony Downs, a the tournament. battlefield." real estate authority, put it in a Brookinp March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5091 Institution study last year, "The percentage an average of $71 a month for all other lion children have enjoyed the benefits of this of all potential first-time homebuyers who needs. Even the places where people used to program since its creation in 1965, and Head can actually afford to purchase homes at go when they could not afford apartments Start's parental participation requirement has today's high nominal interest rates and single-room-occupancy hotels or rooming home prices is much lower than it was in houses-have been converted and demol served to strengthen whole families. Head the 1950's, 1960's and even the 1970's." De ished at a rapid rate. Start has demonstrated that it is a cost-effec spite recent declines, interest rates, and THE FEDER.AL ROLE tive investment for society, as its services can home costs, remain historically high. Increasingly, said Anne Christensen of help prevent the need for other expenditures Jersey City, a board member of the National in such areas as remedial education or wel CFrom the New York Times, Mar. 16, 19861 Coalition for the Homeless, families sup fare later on. Reauthorizing a strong Head THE NEW HOMELESSNESS HAS ITS ROOTS IN ported by breadwinners with low-paying Start bill will reaffirm the Congress' commit EcONOMICS jobs or those on welfare find no housing in ment to one of our Nation's highest prior their price range because public assistance ities-the education and care of our children. This winter, operators of emergency shel levels and salaries have not kept pace with Follow Through focuses on the continuing ters acros.s the country have been coming to skyrocketing rents in newly gentrified or re developmental needs of children who were a common conclusion: The homeless are no developed urban areas. When emergency longer the lone drifters and former mental shelter is unavailable or parents fear that previously enrolled in Head Start or similar patients who were the vast preponderance their children may be moved from shelters quality preschool programs as they enter kin of that population just a few years ago. In to foster homes, shelter operators say, dergarten through the primary grades. Follow dozens of cities, including New York, Wash homeless families sometimes take to sleep Through is a modest, cost-effective program ington DC, and Los Angeles, and even in ing in abandoned buildings, cars or even that has a broad impact: 58 local school dis rural communities, emergency programs for outdoors. tricts are served directly and approximately the homeless are being flooded by function Critics of the Reagan Administration 700 additional communities are served ing adults and families with children. blame Washington for what they say is a withdrawal of Federal support for low through its unique dissemination efforts. Main The reason for the change, social scien taining Federal support for Follow Through will tists say, is that the same economic forces income and moderate-income housing. Ches that make it impossible for middle-class ter Hartman, a fellow at the Institute for enable this model program to continue to help people to buy their first homes prevent Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., agrues disadvantaged children make the critical tran some of the poor-those who have been that without increased Federal money for sition from preschool to the public schools. evicted, burned out or priced out-from housing the problem will grow. The Community Service Block Grant finding any housing at all. Such talk brings a sharp retort from the Administration, which argues that it has [CSBG] has as its mandate funding "a range The story of Dennis and Suzanne Powell of services and activities having a measurable and their five daughters, who lived on his not wavered in its commitment to low income housing June Koch, a Deputy As and potentially major impact on the causes of modest carpenter's income in a three-family poverty." The services and programs carried house in Glendale, Queens, is typical. Three sistant Secretary of Housing and Urban De years ago, when accidental damage to their velopment, said the number of Federally fi out by Community Action Agencies under its building forced them to move, they discov nanced housing units created annually had auspices are designed wit_h the specific intent ered they could no longer find a large apart grown from 3.1 million to 4.2 million since of moving poor from dependent situations to 1981. self-sufficiency. In testimony presented before ment at anything close to the $270 monthly Dr. Koch placed the blame elsewhere. In rent they had been paying. For months they New York, she said, the destruction of hous the Subcommittee on Human Resources, nu slept in their automobile. ing stock can be traced to rent control and merous witnesses indicated the success of "No one wanted to rent a family with five other policies discouraging private develop CSBG in achieving its goals and the General kids in our price range," said Mrs. Powell. ment, James C. Miller 3d, director of the Accounting Office also found that CSBG was "But soon we went condo-we got a van." To Office of Management and Budget, summa not duplicative of existing services. It is the avoid having their children placed in foster rized for a Congressional committee last care, she said, the family agreed to move unique ability of Community Action Agencies month the Administration's view of the situ to apply comprehensive solutions to the prob into one-and-one-half rooms in a crowded ation. "We believe," Mr. Miller said, "the welfare hotel, the Martinique Hotel, at homeless are not a Federal responsibility lems of poverty, enabling these agencies to Broadway and 43d Street in Manhattan, but a state and local responsibility." respond to the needs of low-income people which houses more than 400 homeless fami and to help them get work and be self-sup lies. Today, they say, they've all but given porting contributors to our society. up on finding a real home. INTRODUCING REAUTHORIZA- The bill also extends two small but impor THE TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT TION OF HEAD START, tant programs authorized for the first time in The Powells are no longer unusual, ex FOLLOW THROUGH, COMMUNI the 1984 Human Services Reauthorization Act perts say. "The new homeless are what we TY SERVICE BLOCK GRANT, (P.L. 98-558). The Community Food and Nu would think of as normal men and women COMMUNITY FOOD AND NU trition Program assists in the coordination of and children," said Frederic Robinson, and TRITION PROGRAM, AND associate professor of urban studies at the community-based, local, and statewide efforts University of the District of Columbia who STATE GRANTS FOR DEPEND to meet the nutritional needs of low-income has investigated the homeless population of ENT CARE PROGRAMS people. The grants for child care information Washington. "If a young middle-class couple and referral systems and school-based "latch can't afford a home," Mr. Robinson added, HON. DALE E. KILDEE key" children's programs provide an important "imagine what is happening to people at the OF MICHIGAN incentive to encourage States and local com lower end of the spectrum." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES munities to address the increasing needs for According to Kim Hopper, a Revson such services. fellow at Columbia University who has con Monday, March 17, 1986 ducted several studies of the homeless while I am pleased to introduce legislation to Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I am introducing extend these worthwhile programs and I wel working at the Community Services Society today, along with my colleague Mr. TAUKE, the of New York, nationally half a million low come my colleagues' support for the bill. income units have disappeared annually ranking minority member of the Subcommittee through building conversions, arson, aban on Human Resources, legislation which would donment, inflation and (lemolition in recent extend several essential human services pro UNIFICATION IN NICARAGUA years. Moreover, rents are taking a higher grams under the subcommittee's jurisdiction. proportion of tenants' salaries. These programs are Head Start, Follow HON.ROBERTK.DORNAN In the 1950's and 1960's, the median Through, the Community Services Block American renter paid 20 percent of his 01' CALIFORNIA Grant, the Community Food and Nutrition Pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES income for housing; the figure grew to 27 gram, and the State grants for dependent percent in 1980: Seven million low-income Monday, March 17, 1986 renters were paying more than 50 percent care programs. for housing by the early 1980's Mr. Hopper Head Start provides comprehensive serv Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, I said. Among the poorest households, those ices to meet the educational, social, nutrition, rise today to voice my support for the unifica with incomes below $3,000, half were paying and health needs of preschool-aged children tion of the democratic resistance forces fight more than 72 percent for rent, leaving them from low-income families. More than 9112 mil- ing in Nicaragua. Most of us are aware that 5092 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1986 various factions are trying to reclaim the With neither totalitarianism nor return to great high-wheeled freight wagons, drawn stolen revolution of 1979. However, in order to the past. by teams of twenty mules driven with a affect national reconciliation in Nicaragua it LEONAL E. TELLER, single Jerk line. Assistant to the Commander in Chief. All of these impressive statistics are re will be necessary to unify the following opposi Democratic Revolutionary Alliance. corded in the history of the Salt River tion groups: Opposing Block of the South Water Users' Association. [BOS], the Opposing Nicaraguan Unity [UNO], My friends, in a very real and meaningful the Nicaraguan Democratic Coordinator THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF sense that dam is built of dreams and vision, [CON], and Nicaragua's various ethnic groups. THE DEDICATION AND sacrifice and dedication. Most of my colleagues recognize that the NAMING OF ROOSEVELT DAM We are forever indebted to those men and women who, when confronted with disaster, United States must pursue a two-track policy HON. JOHN T. MYERS threatened by the vagaries of nature, Joined in Nicaragua in which military pressure is used together to create a dependable water to encourage the Communist government in OF INDIANA supply for Central Arizona. Managua to negotiate in good faith. When and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Every citizen living and enjoying the bene if a national reconciliation does occur, the co Monday, March 17, 1986 fits of this accomplishment is indebted to operation fostered while fighting the Sandinis the pioneers. Every new citizen who will Mr. MYERS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, this come here in the next hundred years will be tas will ensure that _negotiations include all le month marks the 75th anniversary of the dedi indebted. gitimate members of the resistance. cation and naming of Roosevelt Dam, in Ari Most of the folk enjoying the s~.:aming Commander in chief of the southern forces, zona. Roosevelt Dam was the first such struc pools and the golf courses, the libraries, the Eden Pastora, has issued various proposals ture constructed under the National Reclama common schools, and the universities in for unification which I endorse. For this tion Act to conserve precious water for multi Central Arizona take for granted there will reason, I include in my remarks, Mr. Speaker, ple uses. be an adequate supply of water. It was not an open letter to all members of Congress On this special occasion, Congressman always so. ELDON RUDD, in whose district the massive In the beginning, those venturesome pio from Commander Pastora's spokesman, neers, led by Captain Jack Swilling, dug a Leonel Teller, which articulates his hopes for cement and stone structure remains as a dam single ditch to divert water from the flowing unification. Mr. Teller represented Nicaragua for Roosevelt Reservoir, gave the keynote ad Salt River to their farms. Diversion was ac at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and dress. His important statement provides an complished by crude rock and brush dams, also fought alongside the Sandinistas until historical account of the labor and foresight extending from the shore out into the cur their commitment to communism became which led great men like President Theodore rent. Over the next three decades, from 1867 to clear. I believe that his statements represent Roosevelt to inspire the most important single event ever to take place in the Southwest 1897, other men dug other ditches, until the views of millions of Nicaraguans who hope United States. Mr. RUDD'S statement follows: there were seventeen canals serving almost to see neither totalitarianism nor a return to one hundred thousand acres of farm land. the past. We are gathered here in commemoration Cities were planned and built: Mesa, Tempe, of the 75th anniversary of the dedication of Phoenix, Glendale. A new county, Maricopa, ALIANZA REVOLUCIONARIA the dam named Roosevelt. was created. Then, in 1897, drought struck DEMOCRATICA, The construction of that structure was, Washington. DC, March 10, 1986. and is, the most important single event ever the area. There were no winter snows in the To the Nicaraguan people and free coun mountains, no rains. The Salt River literally to take place in the southwest United dried up. Almost half the Valley's popula tries of the world, States. This is the first such structure con tion moved on. Those who would not quit By direction of our Commander in Chief, structed under the National Reclamation dug in their heels, united against the Comandante Eden Pastora, I am writing on Act to impound and conserve surface water for agricultural, municipal and industrial common peril. behalf not only of the Democratic Revolu Obviously, what was needed was a storage tionary Alliance . the Opposing Nicaraguan needed funds be found? Numerous schemes Unity . the Nicaraguan Democratic of native stone, cut from the mountainside, put in place and held together with three were examined and abandoned, but no one Coordinator , and Nicaragua's ethnic hundred fifty thousand barrels of cement. gave up hope. groups to get together to find definitive so You may know it took five years to com In the Congress of the United States, lutions for the achievement of liberty and plete. Henry Clay Hansbrough, the Senator from Justice in our country. The outcome of these That the construction site was sixty-five North Dakota, and Francis Newlands, the meetings should be expressed in a National miles from the nearest railroad. representative from Nevada, drafted legisla Democratic Project reflecting political-mili That before construction could com tion to permit the federal government to tary unity of purpose that would force the mence, a road had to be built through the assist in the financing of reclamation nine "Comandantes" to accept the return to tortuous canyons of Salt River-a road projects. original promises of the revolution or face which cost more than half a mtllton dollars. B.A. Norton of Glendale and George H. the anger of the now betrayed Nicaraguan That every bit of machinery, every ton of Fowler, an evangelist for reclamation people. supplies, had to be hauled over that road in projects and the founder of the National March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5093 Reclamation Association, Joined with Hans ager of the project inspired the construction fled by its new name, the Salt River Project, brough and Newlands. of three additional storage reservoirs on the for permitting me to participate in this cele The original language of that legislation Salt River, creating Apache Lake, Mormon bration of the most significant single event provided federal funds could be advanced Flat Lake, and Saguaro Lake. After C.C. ever to take place in my native state. for the development of public lands in the Craigen, came those who were instrumental West with money collected from the sale of in development of two storage reservoirs, public lands. Bartlett and Horseshoe on the Verde River, AIRCRAFT NOISE IN NATIONAL The land in Central Arizona was no longer and those who contributed to the subse PARKS in public ownership. It had been homestead quent development and utilization of water ed by the settlers. George Maxwell persuad resources in Central Arizona. ed the drafters to put a comma after In the early 1940s and in the late 1940s, HON. CECIL (CEC) HEFI'EL "public," in that first draft, then insert two this area experienced another disastrous OF HAWAII words, "and private." drought. We reached a point where all the Theodore Roosevelt, who was elected vice reserviors were empty, no more water could IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES president in 1900 and became president be delivered, and then, as Lynn B. Orme Monday, March 17, 1986 when William McKinley was assassinated in had predicted Che was the president of the Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, association), it rained. Mr. HEFTEL of Hawaii. Mr. Speaker, for had emotional ties to Arizona. He supported At that time, the cities secured all their many of our citizens, our national parks are a the legislation. water from wells. But that drought inspired refuge from the noise and clamor of everyday The National Reclamation Act was passed action. The association agreed to permit in life. These areas have been set-aside be by the Congress of the United States on corporated cities to pay the assessments cause each possesses some rare quality that June 17, 1902, and signed into law. But the levied against city lots and to take the water is worthy of preservation in a near-pristine problems of the people of Central Arizona belonging to that land into a closed pipe state. This allows millions of visitors to enjoy were not solved by the mere passage of that system for delivery as municipal and indus the unmatched natural wonders of our Nation. act. trial water. Before they could receive the promised Today, seventy percent of the M and I Unregulated aircraft overflights, however, are federal assistance, the government required water consumed in Central Arizona is sup creating significant conflicts between different the formation of a single legal entity to rep plied by the Salt River Valley Water Users' users of our national parks. resent all of the Valley's potential water Association. Today, my distinguished colleagues from users. It was also necessary for every land The information I have supplied to you California [Mr. CoELHO and Mr. LEHMAN], and owner to agree to mortgage his land to the today is readily available. Unfortunately, it I are introducing legislation establishing a federal government for repayment of any is ignored by most of the beneficiaries of study to explore the significant problem of air funds advanced. There were, believe me, this development. The public understanding craft noise in our national parks, and lay the complications. of our water supply system is limited to the The owners of first and superior water Central Arizona Project, which will bring foundation for meaningful flight operating rights, those who had commenced diversion water from the Colorado River into the rules. The study would be conducted in at in 1867 and 1868 and 1870, said the scheme Central Valley, and in a few years, on down least 1O national parks, and would provide in would be most beneficial to the Johnny to Tucson. formation on the hazards to climbers and Come-Latelies who had arrived in the '80s We should constantly remind our friends hikers that aircraft noise may cause, disruption and early '90s. The water rights established that waters from the Colorado River will of visitor enjoyment, and other negative ef by the various canal companies had to be not be sufficient to meet anticipated future fects on the natural, historical, and cultural re surrendered. But somehow the Job was demands, and water is the one natural re sources for which our parklands were set done. source upon which our future depends. The Salt River Valley Water Users' Asso Let us here and now acknowledge with aside. Five national parks, including Hawaii ciation was formed. Former governor and reverent gratitude our indebetedness to Volcanoes National Park, are specified for Judge Joseph H. Kibbey wrote the articles those pioneers of the past. study because of the numerous complaints re of incorporation and B.A. Fowler was named Let us resolve to do what we can to ac ceived from visitors, and the high potential for the first president. quaint those who presently live in Central conflicts in these locations. I mentioned the names of Breakenridge, Arizona with what went on before they In Hawaii, we are blessed with two spectac Norton and McClintock, and I have ac came here and of the need for the conserva ular parks: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park knowledged the contributions made by tion of all available supplies and continued and Haleakala National Park. Both serve a va George Maxwell and B.A. Fowler. Now let development. riety of users, but most often, visitors seek the me tell you about Vernon Clark. I am confident we will find the necessary Clark. a young man from Kentucky, was mechanism to pay for and import surplus unique wilderness experience each offers. not a farmer. He was in the harness busi Colorado River water and dedicate that Sunrise at Haleakala Crater is world famous ness. But he recognized that salvation was water to recharging the aquifers in Central for its tranquility and breathtaking beauty. at hand and he was not about to let it slip Arizona. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park offers the through his fingers. I am persuaded that some day we will best views of an active volcano available any Kibbey, a gregarious man, dillied and dal build a dam at the confluence of the Salt where. Many individuals enjoy challenging lied and postponed completion of the arti and Verde and capture those flood waters hikes to witness these sights. The serenity of cles. Clark went to his office, camped out in which now flow down the river to Painted the front room and told Kibbey he would Rock Dam-more than six million acre feet these settings is an essential part of the na stay there until the articles were completed. in the last seven years. tional park experience, and the natural sounds When they were, he left. He spent hours in But to accomplish these objectives it will that visitors encounter are as worthy of pres his buggy visiting his farmer customers, be necessary to make every citizen-every ervation as any scenic overlook. helping them with their chores, and then lawyer, every accountant, every banker, Each year, I receive complaints from con persuading them to sign the mortgage every businessman, every school teacher, stituents or visitors to Hawaii who have been agreement. every school child, every employer, every disturbed by noisy and intrusive flight oper Prior to filing the articles of incorporation employee-aware of the truth of the impor ations over Hawaii Volcanoes or Haleakala written by Kibbey, the owners of one hun tance of water to life. dred and fifty thousand acres of land had My grandfather was a pioneer doctor National Parks. They are dismayed to learn signed a willingness to accept the proposal, lawyer in Apache County. He came to the that there are no regulations governing aircraft but the holdouts were an obstacle. By July territory in 1867. I was born in Arizona. I operations over noise-sensitive areas such as 17, 1903 two hundred thousand acres had love this land and its people. I urge you to national parks. Currently, a non-binding pilot's been irrevocably pledged to the construction remember the pioneers of the past, keeping advisory, FAA AC 91-36C, recommends that of the Tonto Basin dam. The tentative orga in mind that a people who forget the past pilots make every effort to fly at least 2,000 nization of the Water Users' became perma have no future. feet above national parks. Too often, this di nent and John P. Orme was elected first Let us find renewed inspiration in the rective is ignored over parks, including those president. knowledge of what they did and resolve to The recital of this magnificent accom devote our energies and our resources to the in Hawaii. plishment and the significance of today's future development and protection of the This study, to be conducted by the Interior celebration would not be complete without limited supply of water available to us. Department with the cooperation of the FAA, mentioning those who came after the I thank you and I thank the Salt River will enable Congress to determine whether founders. C.C. Craigen, who as general man- Valley Water Users' Association, now identi- commercial, civil, military, sightseeing, or all of 5094 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1986 these aircraft are responsible for the majority is also not true. War is violent and terrible. stand is that the Sandinlstas use prolonged of the problems. We will also learn which of But the contras have a record of working negotiations to further consolidate their our national parks suffer the most serious ad hard to avoid harming civilians. They have power over the economy, church, schools, done nothing that compares with the sys press, military-and all other aspects of Nic verse effects of aircraft noise. It is time for the tematic brutality the Sandinista govern araguan society. Federal Government to confront this problem ment visits on dissenters and opponents. Is Nicaragua's exiled democratic political squarely, and obtain reliable data on its it possible that Babbitt has not read the parties and other democratic groups, includ extent The FAA, the National Park Service 1985 report of the Nicaraguan Commission ing trade union councils, have formed a and the Fish and Wildlife Service entered into on Human Rights, which documents the single umbrella organization called the an agreement in 1984 to train Park personnel shocking denial of rights and spread of Coordinacion Opositora Nicaraguense. CON to collect data on aircraft noise and minimum terror in Nicaragua? recently addressed a letter to the foreign advisory altitude violations as part of a coop Babbitt tells us to "begin from the ministers of the Contadora countries in erative program to reduce aircraft noise. Judg premise that the contras are not going to which they pointed out that by prolonging win." And he argues strenuously against negotiations the Sandinlstas give them ing from the consistent level of complaints giving them the arms necessary to defend selves time for definitive consolidation of since the program was adopted in 1984, and themselves against Soviet armored helicop power. "This is very important. Every day FAA's persistent refusal to address the prob ters, missiles and heavy weapons. Babbitt that they acquire at the expense of your lem, further action is necessary. Congress asserts that U.S. aid to the contras helps good intentions is a day that our country should back this less-than-effective interagen the Sandinista government Justify its re loses in its Just struggle to achieve its inde cy agreement with the study we propose pression. Apparently he does not know that pendence and liberty.'' today, to bolster the case for more rigorous the repression of Nicaraguans preceded the Unilateral disarmament of the contras in contras. Repression caused the contras, not the face of the Sandinlstas' Soviet arms can regulations. I urge your support for this meas the contras repression. eventually stop the war in Nicaragua. But it ure, and thank you for your consideration. Babbitt asserts that the contras' struggle cannot stop the terror that advances day by has a negative impact on Nicaragua's neigh day. bors, all of whom now enjoy democratic gov WHY THE BIG DEBATE? ernments. Apparently Babbitt is unaware that large majorities of neighboring popula VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS HON. JOHN PAUL tions regard the Sandinista government as a ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF threat to stability in their own countries. CONTRA AID HAMMERSCHMIDT A poll conducted this winter by the highly OF ARKANSAS reliable Consultoria Interdisciplinaria in De IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sarrollo reveals that 92 percent of Costa HON. TONY P. HALL Monday, March 17, 1986 Ricans, 89 percent of Hondurans and 63 per cent of El Salvadorans regard Nicaragua as OF OHIO Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, I a military threat to their respective coun IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would like to submit for the attention of my tries. Unlike Babbitt, a majority of Costa Monday, March 17, 1986 colleagues, an editorial that appeared today in Ricans, El Salvadorans and Hondurans want the Washington Post. The subject, which has the United States to provide military assist Mr. HALL of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I wish to dominated the editorial pages for the past few ance to the contras, according to the same place in the RECORD the text of a letter from poll. weeks, concerns President Reagan's $100 the executives of some American voluntary Like many other opponents of U.S. aid, agencies on the issue of U.S. assistance to million request for assistance to the Nicara Babbitt believes the United States should guan opposition. negotiate a settlement with Nicaragua and the Contras. It was sent last week to Mem The writer, Mr. Speaker, is a well-qualified agree to "sever our bonds with the contras bers of the House and Senate. scholar and professor of foreign affairs and provided the Sandinlstas agree to expel At this point we are all caught up in an in our country's former Ambassador to the Russians and CUbans, reduce their armed creasingly emotional and politicized debate United Nations, the Honorable Jeane Kirkpat forces and forswear the support of Marxist about U.S. assistance to the Contras. Letters rick. As the debate continues, I urge my col rebels among their neighbors." He does not from Members of the administration and leagues to take the time and read one of the explain why the Sandinlstas should agree to "Dear Colleagues" to each other are circulat make such concessions when he and so ing. A House delegation made a brief visit to most poignant and knowledgeable editorials many other congressional Democrats are on this issue, which is appropriately entitled, willing to forswear unilaterally U.S. aid. In Central America last week. The President "Why the Big Debate?" fact, Babbitt's "deal" has already been re made an impassioned appeal on national tele The article follows: jected by the Sandinlstas, who rely on vision last night and the administration is lob CFrom the Washington Post, Mar. 17, 19861 public relations firms and the Democrats to bying intensively for its aid request. The media are tracking the issues closely and our con WHY THE BIG DEBATE? block aid for Nicaragua's freedom fighters. But why should the Democrats be so re stituents are expressing their views. luctant to help freedom fighters so close to Amidst this whirlwind, however, we are Debate over aid to Nicaragua's contras is our borders? giving very little attention to the effects which bitter and intense. One wonders why, of the They-at least many of them-understand $15-plus billion in economic and military as that Nicaragua's rulers have established a aid to the Contras would have on the people sistance that the United States provides an harshly repressive, Marxist-Leninist dicta in Nicaragua and neighboring countries. The nually to diverse governments in Africa, torship. They understand that there has letter we have received reminds us that the Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, been a massive flow of Soviet and Soviet aid we are being asked to approve will affect this particular $100 million Is so hotly con bloc arms and material-totaling approxi people in the region, which is after all its pur tested. mately $500 million to $700 million. They pose. The writers, based on their first-hand Such opponents as Arizona's Democratic understand that Nicaragua has actively pro experience as humanitarian agencies active Gov. Bruce Babbitt say it Is because "Nica vided weapons and other support to guerril throughout the area, view the effects as nega raguan rebels are not democrats," but that las in El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia Is demonstrably wrong. The contra leader and elsewhere, and participates in the drug tive. ship Is drawn almost wholly from men who and terror network that wreaks havoc in the What is being called humanitarian aid, they actively opposed Somoza, fought to over hemisphere. They understand that neither believe, is not really humanitarian and, like the throw him and sought to bring democracy the U.S. government, nor the countries of military aid itself, will "continue to create to Nicaragua. Can it be that Babbit-who Central America, nor the Contadora group needless suffering among the poor in the bothered to write an op-ed piece that op has been able to persuade the Marxist com region." At the same time, they support the posed aid to the contras and was published mandantes who govern Nicaragua to cease provision of bona fide humanitarian assistance in The New York Times on March 12-has the militarization. Sovietization and totali and urge U.S. policy to press for diplomatic not bothered to inform himself about the tarianization of Nicaragua. background and beliefs of top Nicaraguan The Democrats in Congress know that the solutions. resistance leaders Adolfo Calero, Alfonso Sandinlstas already lend their country as a I commend these views to my colleagues Robelo and Arturo Cruz? base for Soviet intelligence gathering and and express the hope that we will be mindful Then, again, Babbit says the contras have other military activities. What the Demo of them as we proceed to vote. Should the fought a "notably dirty little war." But that crats in Congress apparently do not under- administration's request be turned down, I March 17, 1986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 5095 would urge that any new proposals for assist tive Director, Oxfam America; Alden Ohio's Lincoln is an attractive richly illus ance to the region take their concerns into ac R. Hickman, Executive Director, trated and scrupulously documented hard count. Heifer Projeet International, Inc.; cover book of 366 pages. It consists of five Mr. Speaker, I ask that the letter from pri Sister Sheila McGinnis, Superior, parts. In Part l, the Most Rev. Bishop Sector North America, Medical Mis Edward Pevec contributed a beautiful intro vate agency executives be reprinted in the sion Sisters; Richard S. Scobie, Ph.D., duction, entitled, "Senator Lausche, do you RECORD at this point. Executive Director Unitarian Univer know why I like you?" Part 2, "Frank J. LE'l'TER FROM Exl:cUTIVES OF PRIVATE AND salist Service Committee; Reg Toews, Lausche: Life History of Ohio's Lincoln," VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS CONCERNING Associate Executive Secretary, Men authored by Dr. Gobetz, presents carefully AID TO THE NICARAGUAN CONTRAS nonite Central Committee. documented highlights on Mr. Lausche's life MARCH 13, 1986. For further information, please contact and career, based on a large number of pub DEAR MEMBER OF CONGRESS: As you pre Jim Matlack, American Friends Service lished sources, as well as on personal inter pare to vote on ~istance to the Nicaraguan Committee, 1822 R St. NW, Washington, views. Part 3, under the title, "What Contras, we ask that you consider the views DC 20009 (483-3341> or Larry Minear, Manner of Man?", consists of 19 Festschrift of organizations such as ours with long in Church World Service/Lutheran World articles, authored by prominent scholars volvement in providing humanitarian ~ist Relief, 122 C St. NW, Washington, DC 20001 , edi ance and with some familiarity with the <783-7501). tors . former House Speaker Carl We recommend that you vote against pro OHIO'S LINCOLN Albert, and other American and Slovenian viding $30 million in so-called humanitarian authors, in addition to "Glimpses of ~istance to the Contras. Such aid distorts Lausche's Personality and Character, com the concept of humanitarian aid as under HON. DENNIS E. ECKART piled by book editor Gobetz from carefully stood internationally and in the United OF OHIO selected excerpts from the press, ranging States. It does not meet the customary tests: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from American Home and numerous Ameri that humanitarian aid be made available can newspapers to such nationwide sources solely on the basis of human need, not for Monday, March 17, 1986 as Saturday Evening Post, Newsweek, and political purposes; that it be offered impar Mr. ECKART of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, today I Time magazine. The internationally promi tially to all sides in a conflict; and that it go would like to salute the man regarded as nent Greek American sociologist and poet, solely to civilians and non-combatants. Mis Ohio's Lincoln, former Senator Frank J. Dr. Panos B. Bardis, also contributed two of labelling the $30 million imperils the integ his famous poems, one of which was read at Lausche. rity of bona fide humanitarian aid and of a conference banquet in Geneva, Switzer agencies like our own that seek to provide it. Mr. Lausche, who recently turned 90, is of land, at the request of some of the world's It also risks the future of people whose life Slovenian descent and very proud of his herit greatest scholars, including several Nobel depends on it. age. Mr. Lausche fought to come to America Prize winners. The $30 million is, of course, part of a and then, through integrity, intelligence, and The culmination of the book is Part 4, en larger $100 million request that includes $70 compassion, rose to fight for opportunities for titled, "Lausche Speaks," which contains million for outright military aid. The pur many Americans as a Senator from Ohio. the gems of Lausche's speeches and articles, suit of a military solution to the current A book has recently been published about including an article on his late wife, Jane, conflict between the U.S. and Nicaragian which he wrote especially for this volume. governments is likely, we believe, to contin Mr. Lausche's eventful life. Written by Prof. From beautiful statements on his Slovenian ue to create needless suffering among the Edward Gobetz, the book is titled "Ohio's Lin heritage to prophetic words on frugality and poor in the region with whom we and our coln." economic stewardship and profound expres colleague agencies work. We urge Congress Our friends in other countries who are not sions of his religious, moral and political to insist on U.S. actions that are regional as fortunate as we, who are not free, we re wisdom-here is Lausche whom thousands and diplomatic in character. Such actions member. And our friends in America who have will undoubtedly admire for his wisdom and would be in keeping with the counsel of U.S. struggled to make this country great-and whom even critics will respect for his cour allies in Central and South America and in age and sincerity. Europe who have all opposed military aid to above all free-we must never forget. We Finally, Part 5 presents numerous histori the Contras. We particularly lament the must, therefore, never forget Frank J. cally pl'ecious testimonials, messages and pressure brought by the Administration Lausche. tributes in honor of Senator Lausche, now against governments that have opposed I am submitting for the RECORD an article 90 years young. These messages, many of such aid, most recently the holding up of an from the Slovenian newspaper "Ameriska Do them written and others generously contrib AID development loan payment to Costa movina" about the book and about this great uted by Prof. Cyril Zebot, Mr. John Lokar, Rica. man. and others, show in what great respect Sen We therefore urge your rejection of the ator Lausche is held by many of America's Administration's $100 million request, both REAGAN SALUTES LAUSCHE BOOK most prominent personalities-political, reli its so-called humanitarian ~istance and gious, civic and ethnic leaders, and guests military aid elements. While some are con One of the most treasured historic docu from other countries, ranging from Arch sidering a "compromise" that, in one way or ments which are published in Prof. Edward bishop and Metropolitan of Slovenia, Dr. Al another, would approve the former while re Gobetz's newest book, "Ohio's Lincoln, oysius Sustar, Cleveland's Bishop Anthony jecting the latter, what would be compro Frank J. Lausche," is the following letter Pilla, President of National Conference of mised, we believe, would be the integrity of contributed by President Ronald Reagan: Catholic Bishops, Most Rev. James Malone, humanitarian aid itself. "You are aware, I am sure that it has to Bob Hope, numerous senators, congress Given the reality of human need in the become customary to call you the Lincoln of men, and governors Tax Reform Act of 1986
