December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34403 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS COMMON SENSE The U.S. government does not recognize Major Alberto Garcia Mestre described this that of Angola. In recent years this circum­ as "a part of his international duty.'' stance has been abetted by the administra­ The major and his Cuban troops say they HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. tion's policy shift to join South Africa in its are protecting the American oil companies OF INDIANA effort to find and arm the UNITA forces. against three enemies which have vowed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These revolutionaries have proclaimed their sabotage the complex where 180 Americans intentions to destroy U.S. oil installations. work: South Africa, a separatist movement Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 Ideological bedfellows in Congress, as well seeking independence for the Cabinda prov­ Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, among the many as in the administration, seem determined ince of Angola, and UNITA. to force the oil companies out of Angola by privileges which have been granted me, repre­ Around the oil fields, Cuban, American law if possible-but failing this, to force and Angolan politics is left at the gate, ac­ senting Robert Fangmeier in the U.S. Con­ them out by violence, as is implicit in the cording to American workers. "We are run­ gress stands out prominently. arming of UNITA. Thus U.S. Sidewinder ning an oil field with Sonangola's oil compa­ The following is an article written by Mr. missiles and other military aid are used to ny-the politics we stay out of," an Ameri­ Fangmeier for the Christian Century. It con­ attack American oil interests, which in tum can oil worker told the Times reporter. The tains a rare item: Common sense. are defended by Cuban troops. reporter also ,sought opinions on the efforts U.S. support for UNITA forces is indeed of U.S. conservative groups to force Chev­ IDEOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS IN U.S. POLICY perplexing if one assumes that any rational ron to pull out of Angola because it in effect TOWARD ANGOLA definition of American national interest in­ supports a Marxist government. cludes at least the protection of its citizens P.J. Demare, a drilling engineer from United States policy toward Angola serves and businesses abroad. In a well-researched Baton Rouge, Louisiana, asks, "How can to symbolize how national interest is deni­ study titled "Angola: A Matter of Justice," someone be so naive Casl to believe that if grated by conflict between virulent anticom­ the National Council of Churches observes: Chevron leaves this oil field, it will just shut munism and the pragmatism that guides Angola's economic ties are overwhelming­ down? Another foreign company will step in U.S. policy toward Marxist regimes in many ly with the West. The United States is An­ and the U.S. will lose that income.'' other countries. gola's largest trading partner. Angola is Despite Angola's obvious tum toward the Recent U.S.-Angola policy is summarized America's third largest trading partner in West, U.S. conservatives in 1987 mounted a in the May 13, 1987, issue of Africa Confi­ Sub-Saharan Africa. Two-way trade be­ furious legislative drive against it and U.S. dential, a British-based newsletter. "The tween the two countries has grown to over business interests. A stance consisting of basic irony of Angola," the newsletter re­ $1 billion since the Reagan administration sympathy for the white South African ports, "is still the one which emerged from assumed office. regime, along with virulent anticommunism, the civil war of 1975-76 when the United David Rockefeller, retired chairman of has been the hallmark of far-right conserv­ States' government supported one side and Chase Manhattan Bank, likewise notes the atives in Congress. Though they lost the U.S. capital supported the other. Since then mutuality of interest between the U.S. and sanctions fight in 1986, they have fought the oil industry, which supplies 96% of ex­ Angola: "Angola is trying to facilitate a back to win widespread congressional and ports, has been expanded, but still on the larger Western role in its economy through administrative support for their South Afri­ basis of exclusively western capital and mar­ policies promoting greater privatization and can policies. Meanwhile, they give every evi­ kets." reliance on market mechanisms." dence of being quietly supportive of South Africa Confidential goes on to say that Since 1979 the Angolan government's law Africa's military and economic destabiliza­ "Cuban troops defending U.S. oil installa­ favoring foreign investment has encouraged tion policies against its nine independent tions are still paid for with U.S. dollars. U.S. firms to invest more than $500 million. southern African neighbors. Meanwhile the U.S. administration contin­ Indeed, Chevron/Gulf Oil has plans to A reversal of attitudes since the 1986 sanc­ ues to supply the Union for Total Independ­ invest another $1 billion in new capital tions vote against South Africa can be seen ence of Angola with ever more so­ before 1990. Chevron/Gulf has often lob­ in the anti-Angolan legislation introduced phisticated weapons." bied Congress against destabilizing the An­ by Senator Robert Dole CR., Kan.>. who as The idea of Cuban communist troops de­ golan government, as have Texaco, Conoco, the majority leader led the battle to over­ fending American capitalist oil installations Cities Service and Marathon Oil. ride President Reagan's veto in 1986. Now a has an ideological Alice-in-Wonderland qual­ Angola also wins the U.S.-national-inter­ presidential candidate, Dole has joined with ity about it. Though this communist-capital­ est stamp of approval from the U.S. Export­ the conservative movement's right wing by ist collusion is not well known to the Ameri­ Import Bank, the agency charged with guar­ offering a bill CS. 1228> that would "impose can people, insiders who follow Angolan pol­ anteeing loans to support U.S. exports. The trade sanctions on Angola, require the U.S. itics have apparently been aware of it for bank has lent Angola $250 million over the Trade Representative to negotiate with U.S. some time. past five years in three separate loans. trading partners the adoption of a trade em­ "It is accurate that Cuban troops defend These loans have received the necessary en­ bargo against Angola, and target U.S. oil oil installations in Angola belonging to dorsement of the National Security Council. companies and individuals with income American oil companies working there," The ideological flag of the administra-· earned in Angola for double taxation," ac­ writes Representative Lee H. Hamilton CD., tion's policy in Angola as elsewhere is, of cording to the Washington Office on Africa Ind.), an authoritative congressional source course, anticommunism. Angola's leaders . on U.S.-Angolan policy and more recently are avowedly Marxist. After Angola's inde­ Commenting on the Dole bill, the Los An­ House chairman of the Iran-contra hear­ pendence from Portugal, it for a time pur­ geles Times found the senator's anticom­ ings. "This has been fairly common knowl­ sued socialist economic policies, but with munism somewhat flexible since "he advo­ edge for some time, as I am told, but I am disastrous consequences. In its war against cates subsidies of roughly $100 million for unsure exactly how much has been written South Africa and UNITA it has received sales to Moscow that would allow American in the U.S. press about it. I would agree that most of its military supplies from the Soviet grain to be bought cheaper in the Soviet this is a unique situation." Union. In the meantime, however, the Union than it can be purchased in the Cuban troops were invited to Angola, the Marxist leadership has become pragmatic United States. On the other hand, he would Angolan government says, to assist in pro­ and has joined U.S. business leaders in ban all trade with a Soviet-supported regime tecting its newly independent regime from trying to build a viable economic order in Africa, at the cost of hundreds of millions frequent invasions by South Africa, which devoid of sterile socialism. of dollars in trade and benefits. Perhaps still occupies a portion of its soil. Moreover, Though some American conservatives are only a Farm Belt Republican could get away South Africa provides arms, money and angered by this communist-capitalist work­ with this contradictory position.'' strategic military support to revolutionary ing relationship, some Cubans find it ironic. The Dole bill is symbolic of a series of forces seeking to overthrow the govern­ "We never thought we would be protecting right-wing steps. In June 1987 the New ment. The U.S. has joined South Africa in American interests," a Cuban officer told a York Times reported that another $15-$17 this effort. New York Times reporter in November 1986. Inillion in covert military aid is being sent to

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 34404 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 UNITA. The same Senate that overrode the fruit last year and has indicated that it will The irony of Cuban troops defending Amer­ president's veto of sanctions against South increase that amount to more than 24,000 ican oil wells against UNITA-U.S.-backed Africa in 1986 seemed to veer right when in tons in the coming year. forces which are creating tens of thousands a 94-0 vote it approved an amendment to "It has not ceased to blow my mind that of war victims who are being fed in part by the supplemental appropriations bill. The on one hand we are getting more and more U.S. aid-clearly bespeaks the contradictory amendment, introduced by Arizona's Demo­ victims of this war, and on the other hand foreign policy of the present administration. cratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, would en­ we are getting more and more food from the courage the president to impose a trade ban United States for these victims," UNICEF's on Angola. There were also other bills seek­ Babourcar N' Jie told the Post. ARE NORTH AND GOETZ ing to increase aid to UNITA and make the U.S. Angolan policy does seem to repre­ Dole bill even tougher. sent a high point in measuring the domina­ VIGILANTES? The presence of Cuban troops in Angola tion of anticommunist ideology over nation­ also serves as an excuse ·for South Africa's al interest, especially when compared with unwillingness to grant independence to Na­ the administration's positive policy toward HON. LOUIS STOKES mibia, the last colony in Africa. There are neighboring Mozambique. For the latter OF OHIO 90,000 South African troops in NamibiP -in nation too is poor and Marxist-led, and like IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES violation of UN Security Council Resolution Angola it has turned toward the West for 435, which would grant independence and economic assistance and guidance. Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 UN-supervised elections. It is from colonial Conservative senators such as Jesse Helms Namibia that South Africa launches many and Robert Dole have not missed the simi­ Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, two distin­ of its raids into Angola. The apartheid larity between Angola and Mozambique. To guished educators from Ohio State Universi­ regime thus has good reason to resent the achieve quasi-official U.S. backing for the ty's School of Journalism, Assistant Profes­ presence of Cuban troops who tend to frus­ rebel Mozambique National Resistance sors Hugh Carter Donahue and Kevin R·. trate its designs and those of its armed sur­ movement, Helms delayed for Stoner, have written a series of editorials rogates. close to a year the nomination of a well-re­ about Mr. Bernard Goetz and Lt. Col. Oliver There is now, and has been for some time, garded career foreign service officer, Melis­ North. I would like to note that these articles an agreement in principal among nearly all sa Froelach Wells, to be U.S. ambassador to have appeared in the Chicago Defender and the contending parties that Cuban troops Mozambique. He wants "freedom fighter" should be withdrawn from Angola. In early status for RENAMO, as a first step toward in a longer Spanish version published in Cali­ August the New York Times said that Ango­ military aid to help it overthrow the present fornia's La Opinion. la's President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos government. RENAMO, like UNITA in Although the Iran-Contra committee hear­ "was prepared to be more flexible over the Angola, is supported with money and mili­ ings have concluded and the report has been partial withdrawal of an estimated 34,000 tary aid from South Africa. It was first or­ published, I am sure there will continue to be Cuban troops in his country in return for ganized by the erstwhile white South Rho­ considerable debate about the impact that Mr. Cthel independence of South-West Africa, desian regime and later offered its merce­ Goetz and Lieutenant Colonel North will have or Namibia, the withdrawal of South Afri­ nary services to South Africa when Rhode­ in the minds of the American public. can troops from Angola and an end to sia became independent Zimbabwe. American aid to antigovernment rebels." The Reagan administration, meanwhile, I would like to acknowledge these editorials The Angolan leader's statement certainly has stood firmly behind its nomination of by placing them in the CoNGRESSIONAL seems to be a negotiating position. On other Wells and its policy of recognizing Mozam­ RECORD. occasions the Angolan president has implied bique. But the Helms ideological foray The text of the editorials follow: that some troops would remain to defend partly explains the confusion of U.S. policy ARE NORTH AND GOE'rZ VIGILANTES? the American oil installations, presumably in southern Africa. The senator's virulent until any South African and U.S. promises pro-South African and anticommunist (By Hugh Carter Donahue and Kevin R. have been kept for a reasonable period of agenda places administration and congres­ Stoner> time. sional pragmatists and congressional prag­ Because the media have barraged us with In addition to recognizing Angola's en­ matists on the defensive. U.S. national in­ information about Bernhard Goetz and Lt. trapment in superpower East-West politics, terest is being redefined almost entirely in Col. Oliver North, it seems important to we should also acknowledge that Angola has terms of anticommunism. The Helms theory look closely at the purifying label the been an independent nation only since reflects little concern for the independence public-duly reported by the press-has be­ 1975-"when the Portuguese fled" and "left of Namibia, human rights or U.S. business stowed on these two men. a country almost devoid of skilled Ango­ interests if they fail to fit his ideological Goetz is often heralded as the "Subway lans," according to a recent Christian Sci­ design. Vigilante,'' and North the "Foreign Policy ence Monitor article. The instant socialism The administration's policy of giving food Vigilante." Both have evoked the myth of practiced in the early years, the Monitor aid to the Angolan government and military the vigilante, claiming a right to go beyond says, has given way to decentralization, with aid to UNITA may soon be complicated by a the law for some allegedly higher purpose. "factories and farms . . . to be run on a scandal similar in legal and policy implica­ But this "vigilantism,'' which both have profit-loss basis." The Westward drift of tions to the Iran-contra affair. According to publicly relied upon to exculpate their ac­ Angola is also seen in its desire to join the the New York Times, a House foreign affairs tions and which strikes so responsive a International Monetary Fund, one of the subcommittee "is looking into possible viola­ chord in public opinion, what does it mean? major capitalist-oriented lending agencies. tions of the Clark Amendment which barred In Webster, there is a clear progression Founded immediately after World War II, it indirect or direct Government assistance to from the word vigil-to keep watch, which has a membership of over 140 nations, many the Angolan rebels" until it was repealed in implies a neutral, but careful posture-to of them theoretically Marxist but willing to 1985. If these suspicions prove to be accu­ vigilante. Vigilante committee-a seemingly abide by market principles to receive loans rate, it would be one more instance of ad­ innocuous term tucked in between vigilance and make their economies work and grow. ministration officials' implementing a policy and vigilant. Perhaps this is the team to Owing to the civil war, however, none of in direct contradiction to a law passed by which North and Goetz belonged. Such a these gestures seemed sufficient to arrest Congress. gathering is defined as "a volunteer commit­ the deterioration of Angola's economy. At The possibility of illegal aid to Angola is tee of citizens organized to suppress and the end of August the Washington Post re­ but one more element demonstrating, at the punish crime summarily (as when the proc­ ported that a government study stated that very least, incoherence in U.S. policy in esses of law appear inadequate.)" Moving "half of Angola's urban population, about a southern Africa, but more likely it indicates farther down the dictionary page, one en­ million people, faces acute shortages of a tacit support of South Africa's policy of counters vigilantism, "the summary action staple foods, a situation which may deterio­ destabilization toward its nine neighboring resorted to by vigilantes when the law rate into near famine conditions . . . from black independent states. fails." Yes, when law fails. September onwards." To achieve some rational definition of Implicit in the definition of vigilante, one "To feed people in the cities, as well as an U.S. national interest in southern Africa, a must first value and accept an ideology, a estimated 600,000 displaced people in rural full-scale congressional investigation of system of laws, else one could not discern areas, the government is seeking 245,000 legal and illegal administration programs is failure of the law from triumph. One would tons of food and other emergency aid worth needed. The media need to examine more also want to be sure that acting above the $116 million," reported an August 14, 1986, deeply the policy implications for all of· law produced a transcendent good, else his article in the Post. A UNICEF official in southern Africa that are suggested in the actions are no better than those of his an­ Angola said that the U.S. had provided domination of anticommunist ideology over tagonists, reducing him to law-breaking 12,000 tons of grits, vegetable oil and dried U.S. business and trade interests in Angola. thug. Belief first-then action. December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34405 It is here that Goetz's so-called vigilan­ the public hail both as heroes, dispensing lenged his perspective on racism. Clergy pro­ tism fails. Goetz arrived at his convenient frontier justice? The answers are ominous. tested his portrait of the relationship of reli­ rationale for attempting to kill others only Significantly, both men struck out against gion to those he wrote about. after he had completed the act. Terror and people whose crime seems to be that of premonition of harm do not an ideology color. The true vigilante pursues true crimi­ Despite this scrutiny, however, Baldwin make. Goetz struck out, nearly fatally, on nals. Evidently, any number of Americans taught us to both challenge and speak up for the same basis as will the cornered animal. see no distinction between criminals and ourselves. With his uncanny mirror images of Said goetz to police: "When I was surround­ people of color and so applaud Goetz's and the world, he demonstrated the ability to con­ ed, at that point pulling the gun would have North's actions. More tellingly, the support front himself through the daily struggle as a been enough . . . I decided to kill them might reflect a deep uneasiness on the part black American, a homosexual, and a human when I saw his face." And we do not call of whites with regard to the numbers of being. He had the courage to look at the that animal, though we may sympathize Blacks, Spanish, Asian and other "foreign" world as it was, synthesize it and paint reality with its actions, a vigilante. residents in American cities and in the Conversely, Oliver North's actions seem to Americas. Goetz, in 1963, went as far to say as boldly and clairvoyantly as he saw it. In his fit the definition of vigilante. Here is a man "we need to get the niggers and spies." This own words: with an ideology, In relation to the Iran­ is racism, not vigilantism. I am a witness to whence I came, where I Contra situation, his belief comes before the Each looks manly in standing up to au­ am. Witness to what I've seen and the possi­ experience. With this motivation, North thority. This appeals to American's love bilities that I think I see • • •. CIJn order worked to divert money from arms sold to affair with the individual challenging the for me to execute my responsibility, I may the Ayatollah to Contra rebels in Nicaragua limitations-hence frustrations-of legal have to offend them all, but that also comes despite the Neutrality Act and the prohibi­ procedure. That is anarchy, not vigilantism. with the territory. I don't see how I can re­ tions of the Boland Amendment. He admit­ Perhaps that is why each man is so dan­ pudiate it. Perhaps I did not succumb to ide­ ted lying to congressional committees. He gerous. Their popularity reveals widespread ology, as you put it, because I have never told the select committee investigating the frustration with American democratic ideals seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. scandal he shredded incriminating docu­ and institutions. Precisely because these In the church in which I was raised you ments. He worked to establish a secret fund men's actions undermine those ideals, the were supposed to bear witness to the truth. to be used for any foreign policy purpose media should think twice about adopting catchy terms that dignify the acts of thugs. The world is far richer for his witness, the the administration wanted, no matter how evidence of our shared humanity across race, illegal or dubious. class, gender and sexual preference. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., says of North: A TRIBUTE TO JAMES BALDWIN " ... He's a true believer. He's swept along by his convictions." Indeed, here is a man who seems to personify Lutheran theolo­ HON. CHARLES 8. RANGEL PUBLIC OUTRAGE GROWS OVER UNSAFE ATV'S gian Deitrich Bonhoeffer's "believer." Bon­ OF NEW YORK hoeffer used this justification as rationale IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for his part in an unsuccessful plot to assas­ HON. JAMES J. FLORIO sinate Adolph Hitler. But unlike North, Tuesday, December 8, 1987 OF NEW JERSEY Bonhoeffer was moved to action by the very Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, on December 1, real death camps, the merciless bombing of 1987, both the Nation and the world suffered IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Spain and Britain and the loss of countless a great loss upon the death of one of this Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 human lives, not merely because he feared an ideology. century's major authors, playwrights, essayists Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, public and legal Regarding the actions of the Sandinista and thinkers, James Baldwin. Advocating outrage is growing over unsafe all-terrain vehi­ regime in Nicaragua, a duly elected govern­ truth, Baldwin's works became a standard of cles [ATV's]. Since 1982, there have been ment whether one approves of it and its literature and critical thought long before his 883 deaths associated with ATV's. ATV's methods, where has American law been death. He was an oracle, unveiling humanity claim about 20 more victims every month, of broken, American ideology concretely through his writings. I am confident that all my which almost half are children under 16. threatened? colleagues will join me in paying tribute to this The following Washington Post article de­ To justify action that meets the definition great man. of vigilantism, the law or the social order scribes the growing outrage over the ATV Springing from Harlem, James Baldwin death machines: that sustains the believer, in North's case awakened the world to the depths of racial in­ democracy, must be broken or concretely CFrom the Washington Post, Nov. 30, 1987] threatened. When tested by such criteria, justice by exposing the duality of being black North loses his status as a "believer," and as in America. Through his most famous collec­ ALI.-TERRAIN VEHICLES FACE RUGGED LEGAL such must forgo the purifying title of vigi­ tion of essays, "Notes of a Native Son,'' Bald­ PATH lante. win reproduced the black experience as one If ever there was such a concrete threat in of hostility toward demeaning, white racism All-terrain vehicles are three- or four­ modern American diplomatic history, it is while concurrently one of aspiration for the wheeled first cousins of the motorcycle, the Cuban missile crisis. Clearly the place­ things that white society deemed desirable. with huge balloon tires, designed to bounce ment, by a hostile government, of missiles Nonetheless, Baldwin encouraged blacks to over sand dunes and hilly countrysides at less than 100 miles from the United States speeds that, one current ad claims, "will em­ constituted such a threat. The Kennedy ad­ reject the negativeness that racism imposed barrass the wind." ministration quarantined Cuba and negoti­ upon the psyche. He was always striving for But a windstorm of legal opposition to the ated a settlement with the Khrushchev gov­ his people to turn the truth of their experience vehicles is gathering just as fast, and the in­ ernment. Strategy was kept secret, but of into a force that lifted rather than buried the dustry-almost exclusively U.S. subsidiaries critical importance, no laws were broken. human spirit. of Japanese motorcycle manufacturers-is The Sandinistas, on the other hand, ac­ Equally, he never let white Americans rest about to have its own hurricane of litigation complished no more than ridding their easy with the pace of race progress. Baldwin and legislation to cope with. country of the Somoza family's political identified racism as a disease of whites. He State attorney generals, the Justice De­ domination. partment and Congress are all drawing up What North attempted to do, by conjur­ argued that racism allowed whites to perpet­ attacks designed to, at the least, cut out a ing up a concrete threat to justify his ac­ uate the myth of white supremacy and, thus, substantial part of the market for the ma­ tions, might be called preemptive vigilan­ prevented them from facing their own human chines, which have some commercial uses in tism. But this repudiates the very definition weaknesses. "Our humanity is our burden. We remote territories but are primarily sold as of the word. This preemptive vigilantism is need not battle for it. We need only do what is fun machines. At the same time, plaintiffs at its essence no different from Goetz's at­ infinitely more difficult, that is, accept it." attorneys for victims of ATV accidents have tempt to kill because he perceived a threat Baldwin's affinity for the truth, however, did filed hundreds of damage suits that have to his being. There is no higher good here, not leave him free from the criticism of others. the potential of eating up much of the prof­ its from the $750 million in sales racked up only the misguided actions of man who From his odd-looking features and his exile to equates ideologic disagreement with person­ by the product. It is the accidents that are al threat. And that leads back to the scenar­ Paris to his open homosexuality and opinions at the heart of the pending legal actions. io involving the cornered animal. about race, Baldwin was often the subject of ATVs are accused of adding to noise pollu­ If neither man fits the dictionary defini­ controversy. Blacks questioned his dedication tion and speeding land erosion, but the tion of vigilante, why do large segments of as a spokesman for the race. Whites chal- safety issue is the one that has grabbed the 34406 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 enforcers. "These are killer machines," formal standards for ATVs, and already the Remarkable enough, the diverse commu­ argues Texas Assistant Attorney General major companies are complying with some nities of Boston have together developed a Stephen Gardner. "I think they ought to be aspects of the proposals, such as labeling climate-it did not just happen-in which yanked off the market." machines by the age of driver-8 and older­ fearing and blaming have taken second Figures compiled by the Consumer Prod­ f or whom they are appropriate. place to caring and learning. uct Safety Commission indict ATVs in 883 But if the firms substantially redesign the But that climate, like the Earth's, is very fatal accidents since they became popular in vehicles that could be taken as an admission fragile. One could almost say it is flamma­ 1982. Most alarming: one-fifth of those that the models already sold were less safe ble, and events in Boston lately have threat­ deaths were of children age 11 or younger, than they should have been. ened to ignite it. A climate of caring, in re­ and another fifth were children between 12 That's a serious concern because the man­ sponse to AIDS, could be replaced overnight and 15. More than 300,000 injuries requiring ufacturers already have their hands full by one of hatred. treatment at emergency rooms have been with product liability damage suits brought blamed on ATV accidents, and 15 percent of on behalf of accident victims. BROCHURE DENOUNCED those patients were hospitalized-an unusu­ Consider some of what has happened in ally high percentage. the last few weeks. A Boston newspaper col­ Ironically, the determination of the law umnist proposes that gay people stay on enforcement officials to do something about their side of Tremont Street, as if this city the safety problem comes as the accident needs another exclusionary boundary. The rate has leveled off. Preliminary 1987 fig­ editor of The Pilot writes, in effect, that the ures suggest that it is even declining. Sales gay lifestyle itself breeds AIDS. A doctor of ATVs are off from their peak, too, and AIDS EDUCATION whose sensibilities are offended by a frank the manufacturers say that with fewer inex­ and explicit AIDS prevention brochure perienced riders, there are fewer accidents. HON. GERRY E. STUDDS sends copies of it to members of the State The companies have also been careful re­ OF MASSACHUSETTS Legislature. Legislators denounce the bro­ cently to run advertising featuring helmeted chure with disproportionate venom. riders and containing warnings to take IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The assertion by its sponsor, the AIDS safety precautions. They have also suggest­ Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 Action Committee, that it was never intend­ ed that states license drivers and require ed for general d.Ultribution but was targeted some training before youngsters power up. Mr. STUDDS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to for people who engage in high-risk activity Honda Motor Co. once had the ATV share with my colleagues the following op-ed is ignored. The committee itself is bitterly market to itself, and still controls more than piece by James Carroll from the November attacked. half of the annual sales of the vehicles. Ear­ 29, 1987, issue of the Boston Globe. Mr. Car­ Gov. Dukakis joins the fray. Heretofore lier this month, Honda made just those roll provides an insightful and sensitive view of one of the architects of the positive public points in an all-day closed-door meeting how AIDS education must be approached if climate about AIDS, he not only condemns with a delegation of state law enforcement as inappropriately explicit the brochure officials led by Missouri Attorney General we are to successfully reduce the number of lives affected by this tragic disease: which his public health officials recognize William L. Webster. as useful, but seems to threaten to cut off Webster warned the company in advance [From the Boston Globe, Nov. 29, 19871 state funding for the AIDS Action Commit­ that unless it was ready to promise "a A TIME FOR RETHINKING ON AIDS tee. number of measures designed to eliminate is unravel­ To understand how all forms of sexual be- La Prensa speak louder than all the news ling. havior can be life-threatening, and how and commentary from that unhappy coun­ Public services have all but shut down in they can be safer, sometimes demands a use try. some areas; inflation is in the triple digits of the vernacular, even in public. Such ex- They tell us that when given the slightest ; unemployment is over 30%. we're prudish, but because sexuality has, Americans reject Communism. Electoral fraud, customarily reserved for a until now, properly belonged to the realm of The only reason they've got such a chance few close races, is now used wantonly to nul­ the private. But something has taken prece- just now is the success of the armed Resist­ lify large majorities for what formerly were dence over our traditional notions-the ance. threat of death. There would be no uncensored newspaper, facade opponents. We avoid thinking directly about death no border visits, no talk of free elections-no When to all this is added the legacy of an because doing so has always seemed like Nobel Prize for President Arias-if the Con­ abandoned agrarian revolution, leaving the staring into the abyss. AIDS is our abyss tras had not become an effective fighting largest number of landless peasants in the now, and to paraphrase Nietzsche, it is star- force with broad public support. hemisphere, it is not hard to see why ing back at us. Because death from AIDS in- If we now, out of Glasnostian haste or Mexico is the Sick Man of America. volves the link with sexual love, which is fussy budgetary rectitude, cut off military Democratic reform efforts are underway supposed to be the opposite of death, it is aid to the Contras we will not only destroy and some progress has been made. A new particularly unthinkable. the Arias peace plan, but with it the last op- generation of civil servants who disdain cor­ TOLERANCE NEEDED portunity for peace in the region without ruption is slowly taking over. The export Because death from AIDS strikes those the loss of American lives. base is broadening. But more time is needed among us-young, active people-who are The Arias plan is no different in its essen­ and time is running out. most alive, it is particularly tragic. Because tial terms from other proposals made over Although the traditional Communist it strikes the addicted to whom life has al- the past six years. What makes it important Party in Mexico City is considered a mori­ ready been overly cruel, it is particularly is that the Sandinistas, who rejected all the bund anachronism, there is reliably estimat­ heinous. Because now it threatens our chil- others, signed it. Why? ed to be throughout the country a tightly dren, it chokes us with anxiety. To do in the United States Congress what knit "cadre" of Soviet and Cuban-trained so AIDS knocks us off balance. Of course they cannot do on the battlefield or at the spetsnatz units capable of disciplined and vi­ it makes us react irrationally. But the fear ballot box: Defeat the Resistance. cious terrorism-from sabotage to sniping, of death in all these forms, like squeamish- No Marxist regime has ever held a free arson, kidnapping and murder. ness about forms of sex, no longer holds as election, much less voluntarily shared or re­ Though not by themselves able to precipi­ an excuse. AIDS is an abyss, but it must also linquished power. The Sandinistas are not tate a putsch, they are in an excellent posi­ be a new source of discipline. It requires us about to do so unless the military strength tion to co-opt a mass rebellion surging in to be exceptionally tolerant, exceptionally of the Contras leaves them no other choice. respectful of each other, exceptionally open Freed of the threat of a strong Resistance, the strong undercurrent of Marxism-Lenin­ to new ideas about ourselves. Because of the Sandinistas will find plenty of excuses ism that dominates the Mexican left. AIDS we must all simply be at our human to postpone or adulterate new elections. Bands of insurgents are already active in best. With the consolidation of the Sandinista the densely forested mountains of Chiapas, And that means for one thing supporting regime, the Soviets will have achieved not traditionally a hotbed of rebellion among people, like Larry Kessler and the AIDS only their most forward air, sea and guerril­ dispossessed and exploited Mayan descend­ Action Committee, who care for the dying la base but the psychological, as well as ants. These now assist Guatemalan gueril­ by loving them and for the living by educat- · physical, severance of Panama and the las, to whom Mexico passively affords sanc­ ing them. The AIDS Action Committee Southern Continent from the United States. tuary along the border in exchange for more than any other group has created the Notwithstanding "Glasnost'', they will Cuba's promise not to support insurgency in positive moral climate on which we all waste no time in pressing insurgencies Mexico. depend. throughout the remainder of the isthmus, In sum, a major upheaval in Mexico is im­ We must protect that climate from those including, of course, Costa Rica-all the minent and the Communists mean to make who would pollute it out of an old habit of while keeping a cold eye on their ultimate the most of it. Their chances will be immea­ fear, out of the old false comfort of igno- objective in this business, Mexico. sureably increased if their Nicaraguan satel­ ranee. Aside from our 2000-mile desert border, Magdalena Bay in Baja, California is per­ lite has been consolidated. haps the most ideal natural military harbor If we abandon the Contras now we will in the Pacific. The Gulf of California, have served notice of our acquiescence to wholly within Mexican territorial waters, is Soviet hegemony in the isthmus, an event an 800-mile-long submarine launch track immeasurably more damaging than the THE SUCCESS OF THE only missile-seconds away from our most Kennedy administration's acquiescence in NICARAGUAN RESISTANCE vulnerable strategic bases. their establishment in Cuba. Mexico's population has doubled in the The result, is soon upon us as it will be HON. JOHN P. HAMMERSCHMIDT last twenty-five years, from under 40 to just seen to have been avoidable, will be the en­ at 80 million. It will double again by 2010. gagement of American troops against pro­ OF ARKANSAS Riddled with corruption and inefficiency, fessionally trained, battle seasoned, patrioti­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Mexican economy is in shambles. Gov­ cally aroused, Soviet-backed forces below Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 ernment revenues cannot meet current ex­ the Rio Grande-either to "save" Mexico or penditures, much less re-payment schedules to contain it. Mr. HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, for on the largest foreign debt in the third That such a conflict would eventually be the benefit of my colleagues, I would like to world-over $112 billion. "won" by the United States, would in no reprint the following article regarding the cur­ Once a food exporter, Mexico now must way compensate for its incalculable propa­ rent situation in Latin America, which was writ­ import millions of tons of com, rice, wheat ganda and diversionary benefit to the Sovi­ ten by my friend, Sandy McMath. Sandy is an and even beans-and still millions of its ets. people are without. Arkansas trial lawyer, and a former chief For our ability, and willingness, at such a deputy prosecuting attorney at Little Rock. He Most of the windfall billions earned from oil in the late seventies and early eighties time to fulfill our NATO commitment would is also a former U.S. marine captain and Viet­ was mismanaged, blown on showboat tourist be considerably diminished. nam veteran as well as an accomplished projects of little benefit to the people, or General Pershing would not have made author. Sandy is currently completing his stolen. It is estimated that between 1978 the difference in Europe if he had still been second book, "Southern Passage," which and 1983 over half of the country's gross chasing Pancho Villa. 34408 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 WILL H.R. 1720 PROVIDE QUAL­ ET Program comes from the Federal Govern­ in mandatory education, training, and employ­ ITY CHILD CARE SERVICES TO ment and the remainder from State-appropri­ ment programs be funded adequately and pro­ WELFARE RECIPIENTS? ated funds. Massachusetts' strong investment vide access to quality care. Based on current in child care and related support services is reimbursement rates for welfare recipients in HON.AUGUSTUSF.HAWKINS certainly a significant factor in the successful Massachusetts and California, the provisions OF CALIFORNIA placement of more than 30,000 welfare recipi­ in H.R. 1720 are insufficient to provide quality IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ents in full-time or part-time employment child care services, particularly for younger through the ET Program since 1984. children. Tuesday, December 8, 1987 Child care services for welfare recipients With only lukewarm assurances that there Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, the House and other low-income families under Massa­ are sufficient Federal and State resources to soon will debate the issue of reforming our chusetts' contracts program vary according to support this program, the needs of children Nation's welfare system when it considers the type of care provided and the age of the and adults on welfare will not be adequately H.R. 1720, the Family Welfare Reform Act. child. Family day care homes are reimbursed addressed by H.R. 1720. As many of the wit­ The bill mandates participation in education, at an average rate of $389 per month. The nesses during the Education and Labor Com­ training, and work programs for all nonexempt State reimburses child care services in cen­ mittee hearings on this issue attested to, wel­ AFDC heads of household with children over ters at a rate of approximately $644 per fare reform, without a sufficient investment in the age of 3. Parents with children under age month for infants; $498 per month for tod­ adequate child care services, is unrealistic 3 may volunteer for the program but will not dlers; $379 per month for preschoolers; and and unfair. be required to participate unless day-care as­ $228 per month for school-aged children. sistance is guaranteed and participation in the Massachusetts also provides child care serv­ program is on a part-time basis. ices to teen parents primarily in school-based Critical to the success of this proposal is settings. These services are reimbursed at a access to quality, affordable child care assist­ rate of approximately $822 per month since ance for participants. To date, Federal funding both parent and child are served. for child care has primarily come from funds Although the State of California has not THE lOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF under title XX Social Services Block Grant completely implemented its Greater Avenues GARLOCK MECHANICAL PACK­ Program. In the last 7 years, this program has to Independence [Gain] Program for welfare ING DIVISION been severely decimated by budget cuts. As a recipients statewide, it is currently reimbursing result of reduced Federal funding, many center-based providers at a maximum monthly HON. FRANK HORTON States have reassessed their commitment to rate of $373 per' child in the 13 counties OF NEW YORK the child-care needs of working parents, par­ where the program is fully operational. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ticularly those from low- and middle-income cost for child care in the California Gain Pro­ families. The State of Massachusetts, for ex­ gram is expected to rise to approximately Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 ample, is one of the first States in the country $400 monthly per child in fiscal year 1988. Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, on September to appropriate State funds specifically for the This is $225 more than the allowable reim­ 29, I was honored to join in the 1OOth anniver­ purpose of providing child-care assistance to bursement under H.R. 1720 for children over sary celebration of the Garlock Mechanical poor and needy families. Many States, howev­ 2 years. Packing Division in Palmyra, NY. It was an er, have not replaced those lost resources. A key element of California's Gain Program honor to participate in the centennial celebra­ H.R. 1720 attempts to provide child-care re­ is that actual reimbursement for child care tion of a company that has been such a vital imbursements to the States so that welfare re­ services depend on regional market rates. part of the economic foundation of Palmyra cipients will be able to work toward economic The Gain Program allows the participant to for 98 of the company's 100 years. From self-sufficiency. The bill's reimbursement ceil­ choose the child care provider that will best simple cotton and rubber packing rings, its ing is $200 per month for children under 2 suit the child and the family's needs. product line has grown in size and sophistica­ years and $175 for children over the age of 2. According to the California Child Care Re­ tion to make it one of the world's leading pro­ However, these rates should raise concern source and Referral Network, the average ducers of seals, gaskets, and packing. because the national average cost of child costs of full time child care across the State in On this day of celebration, more than 700 care is $250 per month or $3,000 per year per centers are approximately $4 70 per month for Garlock employees and their family and child. Furthermore, the actual cost of child children under 2 years; $342 per month for friends attended the ceremonies. In the com­ care in State-sponsored welfare work pro­ preschoolers; and $467 per month for school­ pany of representatives of the corporate of­ grams, such as those in California and Massa­ aged children when school is in session. fices of Colt Industries, I presented Mr. John chusetts, already exceeds the national aver­ Family day care homes are reimbursed at av­ W. Guffey, Jr., division president of the Gar­ age and the thresholds established in H.R. erage costs of approximately $344 per month lock Mechanical Packing Division in Palmyra, 1720. Clearly, although well-intended, H.R. for children under 2 years; $329 for preschool­ with a U.S. flag that had been flown over the 1720 does not provide sufficient funds to ers; and $434 per month for school-aged chil­ U.S. Capitol on July 4, 1987. Rev. Eugene H. cover the cost of quality child care for AFDC dren when school is in session. McFarland pronounced the benediction ending recipients. Cost, alone, is not the only factor that deter­ the formal ceremony. At that moment, more In the case of the Massachusetts Employ­ mines the quality of child care services. Other than 1,000 helium-filled balloons were re­ ment and Training Choices Program [ET], the factors such as adult/ child ration, licensing re­ leased to the sky to begin the memorial cost of child care has already exceeded the strictions, provider qualifications, and the type picnic. national average at $277 per month or $3,324 of program also affect the quality of care for Others attending the celebration were per year per child. According to State officials, children of participants in welfare-to-work pro­ Warner H. Strong, mayor of Palmyra Chamber the cost of child care is expected to average grams. However, cost plays a significant role of Commerce; Edwin E. Wheeler, Palmyra about $3,800 per child per year in fiscal year in determining the nature of these and other town supervisor; and George W. Townsend, 1988. For a child with special needs or for related factors. Colt Industries vice president and a former infant/toddler care at a day-care center, the In reality, child care costs are already much president of Garlock. We gathered together as cost could run as high as $5,000 annually per higher in some States than the maximum re­ Phil Berkowitz, Colt vice president, personnel, child. imbursement available in H.R. 1720. As we at­ congratulated all Garlock employees, past and Currently, 47 percent of the total budget for tempt to make improvements to our welfare present. He presented Mr. Guffey with a the ET Program is spent on providing the nec­ system, we must be careful not to develop bronze-on-walnut Colt plague commemorating essary child care to enable thousands of cli­ two separate child care systems-one which the centennial and signed by David I. Margo­ ents to volunteer for the program. Almost 100 offers quality care to parents who can afford it lis, Colt Industries chairman, president, and percent of the child care costs in Massachu­ and another which results in substandard care chief executive officer. The Garlock family has setts is derived from State funds. In the cur­ for the children of less fortunate families. been and will continue to celebrate this year­ rent fiscal year, for example, $1 million of the It is critical that any efforts to provide child long centennial observance. It was a ceremo­ total $41 million budQeted for child care in the care services for AFDC recipients participating ny that I will remember for years to come. December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34409 In 1887, Palmyra, NY, boasted a population 1900-20-During the years of World War JORGE OCHOA SHOULD BE EX­ of just a few thousand. With the formation of I, 77 Garlockers served their country in the TRADITED TO THE UNITED the Garlock Packing Co., Palmyra added man­ Armed Services. STATES 1921-28-The Garlock Employee's Mutual ufacturing to its list of economic activities. The Benefit Association was formed, providing a founder of Garlock, Olin J. Garlock, joined his Health Care Program that was considered HON. LAWRENCE J. SMITH two partners, Friedrick Griffith and Eugene very progressive for its time. OF FLORIDA Nichols, and opened a small office and factory 1929-39-0933) Admiral Byrd's Expedi­ in Palmyra. Based on Olin Garlock's patented tion was made to Antartica. Garlock donat­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES idea of the high-speed manufacture of large ed all the packing for the ship's involved Tuesday, December 8, 1987 quantities of packing for steam engines, the and was the first packing to reach the Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, last company grew in leaps and bounds. South Pole. month a second member of the notorious Me­ During World War I and World War II, the <1937> was the year a large celebration dellin cocaine cartel was rearrested in Colom­ Garlock Packing Co., joined in the patriotic was held to honor the 50th anniversary of fever that swept the Nation. During World War the world's largest exclusive manufacturer bia. Like his cohort Carlos Lehder, Jorge Luis I, Garlock management lent the U.S. Govern­ of mechanical packings. Ochoa is wanted in this country for cocaine ment all of its salesman-except those eligible During the Great Depression, Garlock trafficking. Unfortunately, in June the Colombi­ for the draft-for whatever tasks necessary maintained a high degree of profitability an Supreme Court ruled that the United and Garlock continued to pay their salaries. due to their enthusiastic employees. States-Colombia extradition treaty was uncon­ The company pledged full cooperation during 1940-49-0n January 31, 1942, O.J. Gar­ stitutional. Unless the Colombia Congress ap­ this war and contributed a monthly cash lock died at the age of 80. proves appropriate legislation to reinstate ex­ amount equal to one-quarter of 1 percent of In this same month, all the Garlock em­ tradition, Ochoa soon will be able to continue total salaries. ployees donated one day's pay to the World flooding this country with cocaine. Declaration of war in 1941 unleashed a War II effort and a check for $15,386.01 was I am in the process of drafting letters to wave of patriotism among the employees at contributed to the United States Govern­ President Barco and the leadership of the Co­ Garlock as large numbers of young employ­ ment. lombian Congress. Those letters will urge our ees joined the Armed Forces and the remain­ During World War II, 12 Garlock employ­ Colombian colleagues to reestablish a consti­ ing employees donated a full day's pay to the ees died serving their country; 223 Gar­ tutional extradition system between our two war effort. By the end of the war, 12 of the lockers were in Uniform. countries. I hope that all of my colleagues in 281 Garlock employees in the Armed Forces 1950-59-Garlock instituted a comprehen­ this body will sign these important letters. . gave their lives for their country. I honor all of sive Retirement Plan for all employees. Finally, I am including at the conclusion of these men and women for their brave actions Mr. Rick McMullen, founder of the my remarks an editorial from the November in this war. United States Gasket, became the new 29, 1987 edition of the Miami Herald. During its 100-year history, Garlock devel­ leader of the Garlock Packing Company. EXTRADITE OCHOA oped almost every industrial sealing product Mr. McMullen went on to become a Drug trafficking is a difficult evil to fight. used by industry. Watchful of the markets for member of the Board of Directors of Colt The traffickers' powerful mechanism of its products, the Garlock Packing Co. proved Industries. He died on December 15, 1983. money and violence, for instance, makes Co­ to be adaptable, flexible, and ingenious. As 1960-1969-In April 1960, the Garlock lombian judges fear a drug lord more after Packing Company became Garlock Inc. he is locked up in prison than when he is the years passed, Garlock changed and ex­ free. panded its product line to keep pace with the On May 24, 1964, Garlock stock was listed The new arrest in Bogota of Jorge Luis introduction of the automobile, the electric on the New York Stock Exchange. Ochoa, the drug lord most wanted in Miami motor and, more recently, nuclear power. In 1970-79-ln March 1974, George W. Town­ and the reputed boss of the world's largest the 1980's the company made history when it send became Oarlock's new President. cocaine cartel, will test the courage and re­ pioneered the research and development of <1975) Garlock constructed the world's solve of Colombia's judiciary and govern­ nonasbestos products and led the industry most modem industrial textile plant in ment. A year ago, Mr. Ochoa legally walked into a new era. Sherbrooke, Quebec. out the door of a Cartagena customs court. Despite the U.S. drug charges against him, Today the tradename Garlock is synony­ <1976) Garlock became a wholly-owned Colombian charges of illegally importing mous with the best there is in the sealing in­ subsidiary of Colt Industries. fighting bulls were given primacy. Released dustry. Garlock is one of the best known pro­ 1980-87-In 1983, the production of asbes­ on $13,500 bail, he disappeared. ducers of gasketing and packing and is used tos packings was discontinued and replaced Mr. Ochoa is wanted in Miami on cocaine­ by virtually every industry in the United States with the latest in new fibre technology. trafficking charges in the Nicaraguan Sting, and the entire world. Garlock Mechanical a 1984 case involving shipment of 1,452 <1987) Garlock set new sales records as pounds of cocaine into the United States via Packing Division, which became a subsidiary compared with past years. Garlock became of Colt Industry in 1976, joins an elite group of Nicaragua. He is accused of arranging the the leading packing, gasketing, and sealing 1985 murder in Baton Rouge, La., of Barry only 82 companies in the United States which products company in the world. Seal, .an undercover Drug Enforcement Ad­ have been in business 100 years or more. Today, Garlock stands as the recipience of ministration informer who was to testify Mr. Speaker, I salute the Garlock Mechani­ their history, their products, and the mar­ against the Medellin cartel. In 1986 Mr. cal Packing Division of Palmyra, NY, on the kets that were the result of their exception­ Ochoa and other cartel leaders also were ac­ completion of its first century in business. The al performance of all the Garlockers who cused of shipping 58 tons of cocaine into the company's exceptional performance is a result have preceded them. United States. Extradition of Mr. Ochoa to the United of the Garlock family pride that has been On July 2, 1987, Garlock dedicated an im­ around for 100 years. I am sure that the tradi­ States may not occur, however. On June 25, pressive monument of the United States in what was considered a cartel victory, the tion and the excellence of Garlock leadership Flag to all their past employees who have Colombian Supreme Court ruled 13-12 that will continue for another 100 years. served their country in both war and times the 1979 U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I am submitting of peace. This monument stands to pay trib­ was unconstitutional. Unless new legislation a historical list of the 100 year highlights of ute to those who served in the past as well is passed, there's no bilateral vehicle for the Garlock Mechanical Packing Division. as those who will serve in the future. bringing Mr. Ochoa before a U.S. court. HISTORICAL FACTS COMMEMORATING A tribute to the thousands of Garlockers The State Department nonetheless is OARLOCK'S 100TH ANNIVERSARY and their families who enabled Garlock to rightly pursuing his extradition with Co­ 1861-0n July 5, 1861, Olin J. Garlock was pledge to all of our fine customers that they lombian authorities. The Reagan Adminis­ born. will provide "The Seals of Integrity" for an­ tration is using a 54-year-old multilateral 1887-The Garlock Packing Company was other 100 years. agreement-the 1933 Montevideo Inter formed by O.J. Garlock, Eugene Nichols, American Multilateral Convention-to pres­ <"The Seals of Integrity" phrase began sure Colombian President Virgilio Barco to and Frederick Griffith. with O.J. Oarlock's patent for packing rings 1889-The Garlock Packing Company go beyond making Mr. Ochoa simply serve moved to Palmyra, New York. made from cotton duck and rubber, that he his pending 20-month sentence for the received in 1861.> fighting bulls and to extradite him. 34410 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 May Mr. Barco find the legal means-and with age, these conditions also affect more Investigation of the genetic structure and the courage-to extradite Mr. Ochoa. For than 165,000 children. Arthritis in children regulation of collagens because abnormali­ without the courage to defy the cartel's ret­ can cause pain, swelling and deformity. It ties in these connective tissues may be an ribution, Colombian officials cannot hope to can retard growth and lead to blindness, early warning sign of disease. reimpose the rule of law upon lawless drug kidney disease, or death. Continued investigation of human growth lords. The economic burden of arthritis and factors as mediators and their possible link musculoskeletal disease is also large. The to arthritis-related diseases. total costs incurred from conventional Other promising research opportunities A SPEECH BY DR. HENRY J. forms of arthritis approach $9 billion a include: MANKIN year. Osteoporosis and related complica­ Intensive search for one or more infec­ tions add another $6 billion in annual costs, tious etiologies in rheumatoid arthritis and HON. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II and back pain and lumbar disk disorders ac­ other forms of inflammatory arthritis. count for an additional $16 billion. As the Expanded research into the role of growth OF MASSACHUSETTS proportion of our elderly population in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES factors, cytokines, and other intercellular creases over the next 50 years, these costs mediators in the development of arthritis Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 are projected to increase dramatically. and collagen-vascular disorders and diseases The cause or causes of most forms of ar­ Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, Massachu­ of bone. thritis are not yet known. There are no Investigation of defects in the immunolo­ setts' eighth district is the home of the Har­ known cures and few proven preventive vard Medical School, and I am pleased to methods. However, the accomplishments of gic network in patients with lupus and other report that one of Harvard's distinguished fac­ the past decade offer significant hope that autoimmune diseases to find specific inter­ ventions to arrest these diseases. ulty-Dr. Henry J. Mankin-now serves as the enormous human costs and economic Efforts to define the structural, biochemi­ chairman of the Arthritis Research Committee burden associated with these diseases can be significantly reduced. Unfortunately, the cal, and metabolic abnormalities in articular for another of the world's great medical insti­ cartilage associated with osteoarthritis. tutions, the National Institutes of Health, and future of many of these programs is threat­ ened by inadequate levels of Federal sup­ Development of new precise means of its National Arthritis Advisory Board. port, and the Board is deeply concerned early detection of osteoporosis and optimal Dr. Mankin is the Edith M. Ashley professor that the momentum that has been generat­ regimens for hormonal and mineral man­ of orthopaedic surgery at the Harvard Medical ed will be lost if additional resources are not agement. School. This year as the spokesman of the allocated to its fulfillment. Continued research in materials and National Arthritis Advisory Board, Dr. Mankin design of metallic total joint implants, with BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NIAMS special emphasis on bony ingrowth systems. testified before the health-appropriations com­ The National Institute of Arthritis and mittees of both houses of Congress. Identification of mechanisms to monitor Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases sports-related injuries and strategies to pre­ With a majority of my colleagues I am proud is the lead agency for arthritis, musculoske­ vent such injuries to joints, muscles and lig­ to have supported the work of NIH scientists letal, and skin-related research activities. aments. through the passage of H.R. 3058, appropriat­ This new Institute requires the continued Exploration into the role of mediators and ing funds for the Departments of Labor, support of Congress to achieve the goals of physical factors in the healing of fractures. Health and Human Services, and Education. the national plan for these diseases. The Research to determine how chronic in­ As this legislation proceeds to conference, following table summarizes the Advisory flammatory joint diseases in children affect and, I hope, to public law, I want to share with Board's budget recommendations for the growth plate to cause short stature and my colleagues Dr. Mankin's testimony on ar­ NIAMS. the influence of nutritional deficiency on thritis research. His message is a reminder bone density. that health and human needs must remain a Because of the potential of these areas of 1987 1987 1988 research, the Board recommends that the national priority. recomrnen- appropriation recommend- dation ed NIAMS receive sufficient funds to support Mr. Speaker, I ask that Dr. Mankin's testi­ . 50 percent of approved competing individual mony be printed in the CONGRESSIONAL Research project grants ...... $120,817 $94,368 $148,587 research applications. RECORD and that it be printed in the Exten­ Multipurpose arthritis centers ...... 16,275 10,040 15,113 Specialized centers of research ...... 8,080 8,130 8,746 For research training, the Board recom­ sions of Remarks for today's RECORD. Research and development con- mends NIAMS receive additional funds for STATEMENT OF HENRY J . MANKIN, M.D., tracts ...... 5,108 3,027 6,442 Fellowships and career development Intramural research ...... 9,584 8,422 10,321 MEMBER, NATIONAL .ARTHRITIS ADVISORY Research career awards and other awards to teach beginning rheumatologic BOARD research ...... 7,800 5,934 8,256 and orthopedic researchers the latest tech­ National research service awards ..... 6,530 6,433 9,495 niques of molecular biology and biotechnol­ I am Henry J . Mankin, Edith M. Ashley Research management and support .. 6,354 4,542 5,300 Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard ogy. Medical School, Chief of the Orthopaedic Total ...... 180,548 140,896 212,260 Fellowships to enable established rheuma­ Service of the Massachusetts General Hos­ tologic and musculoskeletal disease investi­ pital, and a member of the National Arthri­ gators to expand their knowledge of molecu­ tis Advisory Board. I am honored to present INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH GRANTS lar biology and biotechnology, and the recommendations of the National Ar­ Scientific advances have opened up re­ Special granting mechanisms to enable thritis Advisory Board . search opportunites that strongly merit medical students to engage in research of Congress established the NAAB in 1976 to funding. Perhaps the most potent research rheumatologic and musculoskeletal disease. <1> evaluate the implementation of the Na­ tools we have ever had are the enormously tional Arthritis Commission's Arthritis powerful techniques of molecular biology, CENTERS Plan, and (2) report annually to the Con­ which enable scientists to define cellular Nine new multidisciplinary Specialized gress and the Administration with recom­ synthetic processes; identify, with infinite Centers of Research also contribute significantly to the tant cause of mortality. Approximately 37 and the Board had identified the following national arthritis program through compre­ million Americans are afflicted with one of areas of research that would benefit rapidly hensive biomedical and epidemiological re­ the more than 100 arthritis-related disor­ from the application of molecular biology search, training and education, and commu­ ders-including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid techniques: nity and health services. Over the past 8 arthritis and lupus. Millions more have mus­ Identification of possible genetic markers years, however, the number of MAC's has culoskeletal conditions such as osteoporosis. for connective-tissue diseases that would decreased and the budget of each center has Approximately one-third of our population enable early diagnosis and treatment. been reduced 15 to 20 percent. The NAAB is afflicted by joint swelling, limitation of Analysis of substances produced or inhib­ recommends that all centers be fully funded motion, or musculoskeletal pain. ited at the site of disease-related tissue de­ and at least two additional multipurpose Although the prevalence of arthritis and struction and their relationship to gene ac­ centers in arthritis and musculoskeletal dis­ other musculoskeletal problems increases tivity. eases be established within the next year. December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34411 NATIONAL ARTHRITIS ADVISORY BOARD pensated care and high proportion of Medi­ in recruiting and retaining qualified physi­ Wayne H. Akeson, M.D., San Diego, Cali- care and Medicaid patients. In addition, rural cians . Although the total number of U.S. Gile G. Bole, M.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan. furnish all the medical equipment that physi­ physicians may be sufficient-or more than sufficient-for the nation, there are short­ Maureen Drummy, Waupun, Wisconsin. cians need to provide the quality of care that Jean Goeppinger, Ph.D., Charlottesville, ages in many rural areas. Virginia. patients have come to expect. Third, the Technological changes. The rapid techno­ Dawn Hafeli, Southfield, Michigan. impact of hospital closings in rural areas ex­ logical advancement in many areas of medi­ Hugo E. Jasin, M.D., Dallas, Texas. tends beyond the loss of inpatient hospital cal practice sometimes renders rural health James R. Klinenberg, M.D., Los Angeles, services. Hospitals are often the second or care practitioners and rural hospitals tech­ California. third largest employer in a rural area and are nologically obsolete. Too frequently, facili­ Matthew H. Liang, M.D., M.P.H., Boston, a hub of economic and community activity. As ties, equipment and training are no longer Massachusetts, Health Services & Educa­ much as 60 percent of a hospital's total out­ adequate to compete with those at urban hospitals. tion Committee Chairman. lays are dedicated to payroll and for each Henry J. Mankin, M.D., Boston, Massa- There is no one strategy or solution to chusetts, Research Committee Chairman. dollar that is earned by a rural hospital that these problems. But policymakers must real­ Doris S. Melich, Salt Lake City, Utah. dollar is spent between 1.5 and 3 times in that ize that rural hospitals have fewer resources Paulding Phelps, M.D., Portland, Maine. rural community. than do their urban counterparts to adapt Darwin Prockop, M.D., Ph.D., Philadel- A recent editorial by Professor Anthony R. to change-and many needed rural facilities phia, Pennsylvania. Kovner in American Health Association News may require emergency governmental finan­ Bernhard Singsen, M.D., Columbia, Mis­ identifies six factors which contribute to rural cial support to survive. souri, Centers Committee Chairman. hospital closures. The factors identified by Anthony R. Kovner is a professor at New York some hard work ahead of us. A 1986 study inpatient services in rural areas continues to BosToN.-Senator Robert Dole is a formi­ conducted by the University of Illinois School decline, while those same services are in­ dable candidate for President: sensible, of Public Health and the American Hospital creasingly utilized by the elderly who are knowing in the ways of Washington, a con­ Association's Data Center indicated that a covered by decreasing Medicare reimburse­ servative who has no time for the fantasies total of 83 hospitals closed last year. Over 50 ment. Consequently, rural hospitals reach of Reaganomics. He has shed the meanness base levels of fixed costs with high costs per of the past, showing us instead a man with percent of these were in rural areas. The total case and low net operating margins. compassion for the dependent and rejected bed loss among closed rural hospitals was Greater competition. Urban hospitals' so­ in society. 106 percent higher than in 1985. In address­ lutions to declining utilization have includ­ But when he formally announced his can­ ing rural health care issues we must ask why ed market expansion to adjoining rural didacy last week, there was one sour note, rural hospitals are in such dire straits. areas, from which urban facilities attract small but irritating. In Iowa, the first key Mr. Speaker, my experience in the 19th mostly the younger population; access to state, television advertising and protesters Congressional District of Illinois has brought urban hospitals often is difficult for the el­ waving signs objected to his position on into focus a few basic facts. First, rural hospi­ derly, the poor and their families-who con­ South Africa, in particular his support for stitute a high proportion of the rural popu­ President Reagan's veto of economic sanc­ tals face lower reimbursement rates from lation and who are in greater need of serv­ tions last year. Medicare. In fact, payments under PPS are ices. These groups then tax rural facilities' Senator Dole was angry. "There's not a both inequitable and inadequate. On equity, resources. racist bone in my body," he said. I am sure rural hospitals are paid 17 percent less than Reimbursement changes. Although a he means that. But he has a problem here, a their urban counterparts. On adequacy, I large percentage of elderly patients utilize serious one. It is a problem of perceived in­ would point out that since 1984 the hospital's the acute care services available in rural sensitivity. market basket has risen 12.5 percent while hospitals, rural facilities are reimbursed at Not just on sanctions, but on a series of the rate of Medicare hospital reimbursement lower PPS rates than are their urban coun­ African issues, Senator Dole has lined up terparts; also, rural hospitals do not usually with the extreme right. He joined Jesse has increased by only 5.5 percent. Second, benefit from teaching-facility adjustments Helms in holding up the nomination of a rural areas face greater difficulty in attracting to DRG payment. new American ambassador to Mozambique physicians and other health care professionals Insufficient physician supply. Rural com­ as a way of pressing the Reagan Administra­ for reasons that include high levels of uncom- munities continue to experience difficulties tion to deal with Renamo, the South Afri- 34412 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 can-supported guerrillas who carry out mass A TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE power to keep his legacy alive. We must tell murders in Mozambique. HAROLD WASHINGTON our children about him, and our children must Last summer, in a letter to a Kansas con­ tell their children. Too often the history and stituent, Senator Dole denounced the Afri­ can National Congress of South Africa, the HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL good deeds of African-Americans fall deaf on outlawed anti-apartheid organization. He OF NEW YORK the ears of our historians. It is our duty to said the A.N.C. "espouses 'necklacing,'" the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES carry on the tradition. It is our duty to keep our heroes alive. gruesome practice of killing suspected Gov­ Wednesday, December 2, 1987 ernment spies in the black townships by putting burning tires around their necks. Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, death always The constituent sent me the letter. I leaves in its wake a seemingly insurmountable EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES wrote and asked Senator Dole what the void, much heartache, and great confusion. FOR THE POOR basis was for his statement: Could he please We are never prepared for it, but must endure cite an official A.N.C. document or state­ its consequences. I am sure that all of my col­ HON. JAMES J. FLORIO · ment that "espoused necklacing"? leagues joined here today to pay tribute to the OF NEW JERSEY Various spokesmen for Senator Dole Honorable Mayor Harold Washington will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES promised an answer to the question but did agree that his passing has left the city of Chi­ not provide one. Finally, last week, a spokes­ cago and this country in deep sorrow. Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 man produced a reply. But it did not cite an Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, the state of edu­ official A.N.C. position urging necklacing. I heard and read many statements and The horror was in fact carried out by public tributes paid to Mayor Washington last cation in the United States today has not angry youths in the townships, not by any week and the consistent theme from all reached out to all the children who are in A.N.C. policy. There has been no A.N.C. speakers noted his ability as a true public need. statement espousing necklacing. Winnie servant and a great political leader. He was At a recent conference, Owen Butler, the Mandela, wife of the imprisoned A.N.C. able to overcome great odds by creating a former chairman of Procter & Gamble, and leader, spoke once of liberating the country feeling of cohesive unity in the city of Chica­ Ernest Boyer, the president of the Carnegie "with our necklaces," but she does not go, breaking down the longstanding chasms Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching speak for the A.N.C. Oliver Tambo, its presi­ that has evolved over the long years of ma­ and past Commissioner of Education, ad­ dent, in an anti-apartheid meeting in Zim­ chine domination in that city. dressed the crisis in education. Indeed, as Mr. babwe in September called for an end to His prowess as an intelligent, effective Butler and Mr. Boyer indicate, our educational necklace killings. leader had its foundation in his early exposure The point of all this is not just that Sena­ system is neglecting a core group of poor chil­ tor Dole made a rough accusation that he to the political process as a steward for his dren from the inner cities and rural areas could not back up. It is that he dealt with father, who was the South Side Democratic alike. the A.N.C. and the whole South African sit­ precinct captain. Even as a young politician, Across the Nation, an estimated one-fourth uation as a matter of cheap domestic poli­ Harold Washington was able to build solid of all children are living in poverty. In urban tics. He showed gross insensitivity to a prob­ coalitions from factional groups. Always work­ areas, poverty becomes more pronounced lem that is tragic in human terms and dan­ ing for the good of his constituents, his base with the needs of half of those children not gerous in international affairs. of support continued to grow as he won seats being met. "More than any other organization the in the State house and senate and the U.S. One of those unmet needs is education. A.N.C. represents the aspirations of most of Congress. Without a proper education, the future of South Africa's blacks." That statement was I had the good fortune of working with made by The Economist, the conservative these children is not as bright as it could be. British weekly. Virtually everyone knowl­ Harold in this House. I am sure that most of If the fullest potential of these children is to edgeable about South Africa agrees. That is my colleagues who had the same good for­ be realized, the Nation must accept the chal­ why Secretary of State Shultz met Mr. tune would agree that his foresight as a legis­ lenge of providing educational opportunities Tambo this year. It is why the South Afri­ lator was unbounded. He championed the creatively. can Government itself has toyed with ap­ successful effort to preserve key features of Addressing the lack of opportunities in their proaches to the A.N.C. There can be no so­ the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was vehe­ report, Mr. Butler and Mr. Boyer have drawn lution without it. mently opposed by the Reagan administration. up recommendations to improve the educa­ Beyond that reality there is the deeper Today, all around the country, we can see tional opportunities available to all children in truth of Reaganism in South Africa. Black the positive effects of the move by Congress the Nation's schools but particularly for the groups, of which the A.N.C. is the oldest, to protect and continue enforcement of voting neediest of the children. were all peaceful for many years. But they saw blacks killed by the Government, tor­ rights. The power of the black . vote was first Included in the trade bill, currently in confer­ tured, banned, imprisoned, moved from realized in Chicago, during Harold Washing­ ence between the House and the Senate, and their homes by the millions. They had no ton's bid for mayor. It was successful voter in the education reauthorization bill are provi­ vote, no voice. In the end, they turned to registration drives and massive organization of sions, which I crafted along with Congressman guerrilla activity. the minority community that helped him over PAT WILLIAMS and Senator BILL BRADLEY, es­ To talk about black protest and violence the top. Harold's success in Chicago then tablishing a more effective Federal role in in South Africa without reference to what became a role model for other voter registra­ education at the secondary school level for brought it on-the long history of official tion drives around the country. The success of disadvantaged students. white violence and oppression-is grotesque. which can be measured by the Democratic This particular aspect of the trade bill funds How would Bob Dole feel if he and others U.S. Senate and increased number of black basic skills programs in secondary schools, like him were victims of a political system that deprived him of the most elementary elected State and local officials. improving the level of education for millions of rights for one reason only: his color? As is the case for most great African-Ameri­ children in our secondary schools. In the past, Senator Dole said recently in an interview can leaders, Harold Washington had to be secondary schools have received only 12 per that "right-wingers who don't want the [Re­ greater than great and stronger than strong. cent of all chapter I funding for the disadvan­ publican] Party to grow, so they kept out He was both of these things and more. He taged. the blacks and those kind of folk, probably won his fight against the organized self-serv­ As the inclusion of these provisions in the aren't going to be for me." But he is playing ing establishment, and returned city hall to the trade bill suggests, education, is, in part, a for the support of that extreme right with people of Chicago. matter of competitiveness. what he does on Africa. Last week, the city of Chicago and America However, education is more than a matter In today's Republican Party, the radical lost one of its greatest political leaders and of competitiveness. Rather, without the essen­ right has enormous influence in choosing tial educational foundations, these needy chil­ the nominee. But after being nominated it is public servants of our time. The unfortunate necessary to be elected-and to govern. Bob and unexpected death of Mayor Harold Wash­ dren will go without realizing their own poten­ Dole understands those realities as well as ington touched the pulse of America, particu­ tial for success and a better life. any politican. But he is not practicing that larly in its black community. The time has come for creative approaches wisdom when he alienates blacks and others His strength and conviction can never be in the improvement of education for our Na­ who care about Africa. replaced, however, we must do all in our tion's children. Avenues exist for both the December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34413 Federal Government and the community to early successes and instead produce failure." carry the scroll to Washington next become more involved in education. With He denounced what he described as a lack Wednesday. They plan to stage a public funding for basic skills programs in secondary of connection between early child care, pre­ demonstration there to express their views school education, elementary school, junior during the summit talks. schools, millions of disadvantaged children in high school and high school. He called for Their positive message will be support our Nation's high schools will have an oppor­ improved management, greater decision­ from "the next generation" for the leaders tunity to learn what they would not have had making powers in the hands of committed signing an arms control agreement. The stu­ the chance to learn otherwise. teachers, smaller schools and smaller classes dents also want to encourage future collabo­ I am including below an article from the and "a variety of social support, health care ration to improve world relations and condi­ New York Times describing the findings and and extra-curricular programs.'' tions. the recommendations of "Children in Need," The Federal Government, he said, must "We hope it will make Mr. Reagan and the report by Mr. Butler and Mr. Boyer: make sure that the poor children receive Mr. Gorbachev more aware we feel where afternoon programs of study and the kids from Chatham." The movement for educational change is play would serve children who would other­ The students, members of teacher Robert bypassing many poor children, a business wise return to unsupervised homes. Marshall's psychology class, were inspired leader and a top educator assert, and the He called for summer programs for chil­ to take action after talking Monday with consequences could threaten both the chil­ dren whose parents cannot send them to Chatham resident Elizabeth Munson. She dren's and the nation's future. camp or take them along on trips. Without said she wanted to make teen-agers think The two, Owen B. Butler, retired chair­ such programs, he said, the nation faces a about how they felt on such issues as her man of Procter and Gamble, and Ernest L. future of "an ever greater division between way of doing something about the world's Boyer, president of the Carnegie Founda­ the haves and the have-nots." problems, and asked the school principal if tion for the Advancement of Teaching, But even as he asked business to support she might talk to some students. He recom­ spoke at a recent conference of the Univer­ education, Mr. Butler said he did not sug­ mended Marshall's class. sity /Urban Schools National Task Force, or­ gest that business people should tell the "I didn't come here to stir them up," said ganized by the City University of New York. schools how and what to teach. Mrs. Munson, who said she was not a Dr. Boyer said the number of impover­ Where business can help educators is in member of any organized group. "I had in ished children under 6 years old had in­ showing them how to manage the schools mind that perhaps they could write letters creased by one-third in the last decade. Mr. better, he said. to Reagan and Gorbachev," said Mrs. Butler, vice chairman of the Committee for Nor, he concluded, should the emphasis be Munson yesterday during a strategy session. Economic Development, a committee of simply on improving the economy. A more With only a week before the summit business leaders, presided over preparation compelling reason to invest in the children, begins, the students are frantically trying to of the report, "Children in Need," which Mr. Butler said, is to develop all childrens' raise at least $1,000 to send 10 students to said that 25 percent of American children talents and to let them "enjoy the fruits of Washington. Students plan to scour the now live in poverty. The number is closer to their individual efforts." area this week for help. 50 percent in the cities. Whatever amount they raise, though, the The effort to improve education is "simply students are determined to send at least a not reaching the neediest children," Mr. CHATHAM HIGH'S COMMITMENT few representatives to the nation's capital. Butler said. He said the nation and its econ­ TO PEACE: They plan to contact the state's congres­ omy would be in jeopardy unless these chil­ sional delegation for any aid they can pro­ dren are served, beginning with prenatal vide in getting the scroll to the White care for their mothers and continuing in HON. GERRY E. STUDDS House and establishing a schedule. their early years and through elementary OF MASSACHUSETI'S Details of the trip are still sketchy, but and high school. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES students expect to take a train or van to Both men agreed that children's capacity Washington sometime Tuesday, spend the to learn is influenced by the care their Tuesday, December 8, 1987 day there Wednesday and return to the mothers get during pregnancy. Mr. STUDDS. Mr. Speaker. This week, as Cape that night. "I am convinced," said Dr. Boyer, "that President Reagan and General Secretary Gor­ While ironing out the itinerary, the stu­ there is an absolute connection between bachev hold their historic summit meetings, dents also have been working on the mes­ poor nutrition among pregnant teen-agers the world watches with hope for constructive sages on nuclear war, human rights, the en­ and their children's performance in school vironment, military build-ups and cultural later on." He also denounced parents who steps toward peace. Some do more than exchanges that will become the scroll. That feed their children soft drinks and potato watch. It will be my pleasure to welcome a document may be translated into Russian chips and expect them to develop physical group of seniors from Chatham High School for Gorbachev, they said. and intellectual strength. on Cape Cod, MA, who will travel to Washing­ Students hope to get other students to Better efforts to serve such children ton to present the President and Mr. Gorba­ sign the scroll and plan to conclude it with a would "remove much of the tax burden of chev with a scroll outlining their views on such "visionary statement" of how they see the welfare and for prisons from our grandchil­ issues as nuclear war and human rights. I world they will inherit. dren," Mr. Butler said. "Beyond that, we would like to take this opportunity to com­ "We're the next generation coming up ... can remove the despair and desperation we feel it's sort of our tum," Miss Vreeland from the lives of many of our children in mend these young men and women on their said. need." concern, vision, and initiative, and to share There is abundant evidence that poor chil­ with my colleagues the following newspaper dren who had high-quality day care and article, which outlines the students' journey in BUS SAFETY early childhood education did better in the name of world peace. school and had far fewer teen-age pregnan­ [From the Cape Cod Times, Dec. 2, 19871 cies and less trouble with the law. HON. JOHN P. HAMMERSCHMIDT Both Mr. Butler and Dr. Boyer rejected CHATHAM STUDENTS PREPARE MESSAGE OF the traditional notion that parents alone PEACE OF ARKANSAS are responsible for children's early physical George Shultz have dis­ that as first generation we have done better yet to point toward a system which is reliable economically than all other first generation agreed about early deployment. Weinberger, ethnic groups. But the questions that come or survivable. heavily lobbied by SDI contract companies, up time and again are: Where do we go from The second editorial deals with another very one of which is Lockheed missiles and Space here? How will our second generation com­ pertinent question, that of funding SDI. Ac­ Co. of Sunnyvale, wants procurement funds pare with other second generations? Will we cording to this article, a tax increase of 11 for next year. have governors, senators, congressmen and percent would be required to pay for this Shultz, aware that development funding local officials among our children like other project without increasing the Federal deficit. could threaten the ABM Treaty, provoke second generation ethnic groups have? Or is This translates into an increase of $570 annu­ opposition from Congress and America's it down hill from here on? NATO allies and scuttle hopes for an arms ally to the average family earning between control accord with the Soviet Union, has If our children do not keep up our unique­ $30,000 and $50,000 per year. This kind of ness in doing so well, it will be partially be­ called for a delay. cause we are only concerned about our pro­ burden will not be accepted by the American In testimony last week before the Senate fessional satisfaction and too busy accumu­ people, especially for a program which is pre­ Armed Services Committee, the Joint Chiefs lating wealth. We are not willing to face up dicted to spur the Soviets into building more of Staff refused to state their position. "We to our responsibilities as immigrants to this offensive weapons and escalating the arms don't know enough to make that decision," great country nor do we take the time to be race. said Air Force Gen. Larry D. Welch. The concerned about all these things. Please re­ In the third editorial, the Mercury News other chiefs agreed. alize that we are doing well. We don't have points out that the technologies necessary for Welch was answering Sen. Sam Nunn, D­ to open another office and spend a few deployment of star wars will require at least Ga., who has warned that the administra­ hours there and expand our business. Please another 1O years of research and develop­ tion's plans for a reinterpretation of the don't tell me we are doing this for our chil­ ment. I fully agree with their conclusion that a ABM Treaty, paving the way for early SDI dren. Money they can make on their own. deployment, could provoke a constitutional There is help they need now, as they are link must be established between cutting of - crisis with Congress. growing up, to live up to their potential. Let tensive strategic weapons and the deployment If Weinberger wins the debate, it means us take the time to understand the real of strategic defenses. Without such a deal, no that the first SDI procurement funds would needs of our children. Let us use our wealth real arms control can be achieved. be channeled next year to companies such and our education wisely to give our chil­ The signing of the INF treaty raises the as Lockheed that are working on ground­ dren a sense of belonging, a direction to get hope for reducing long-range offensive weap­ based missile systems capable of hitting at­ into the mainstream and pride in their an­ ons. Deploying SDI raises the fear of increas­ tacking missiles as they near U.S. territory. cestry. ing these weapons and creating a much more But while funding such systems might dangerous world. help solidify industry support-only THE INF TREATY AND THE I would encourage all of my colleagues to lukewarn while SDI is in its research FUTURE OF SDI read these articles on this very important phase-it would be wasted money. Such topic, and to reconsider the need for SDI in ground-based systems bear more similarity to ABM systems debated and rejected by HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA the future. We must question going forward U.S. planners two decades ago than to Rea­ with a massive defense program that will drain OF CALIFORNIA gan's idea for space-based defenses. America's research and will endanger, not en­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The total cost for a ground-based defense hance, nuclear deterrence. system has been estimated by scholars at Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 CFrom the San Jose Mercury News, Johns Hopkins University at $157 billion. Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, President Feb. 12, 19871 Under the ABM Treaty, such a system could Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev THE PLOY IN DEPLOYMENT legally be deployed only if limited to 100 are conducting their third summit meeting The debate within the Reagan administra­ launchers and erected at the Minutemen tion over "early deployment" of a "star site at Grand Forks, N.D. here in Washington this week. Today they are We see no good reason to spend $157 bil­ expected to sign a major agreement to elimi­ wars" defense system-a debate which has divided the Cabinet-has nothing to do with lion for a hard-site defense system similar to nate medium and shorter range missiles in the president's vision of making the United one rejected two decades ago. Europe, an agreement known as the Interme­ States safe from Soviet nuclear attack. For SDI to prove worthwhile, a precondi­ diate Nuclear Forces [INF] treaty. This agree­ So-called early deployment would be a ti_on is that science show that a space-based ment has been heralded as a significant re­ purely political move designed to create system truly could render attacking missiles duction in existing nuclear forces and marks popular support for "star wars" so future "impotent and obsolete." Once that is plau­ an important first step on the road toward a administrations would have difficulty stop­ sible, Americans can decide whether such major arms control accord. I applaud this ping it. For this reason-but not only this defenses are a better option than arms re­ agreement, and I look forward to a future reason-it is a bad idea. ductions. agreement that significantly reduces the long­ According to scientific opinion, no compo­ That day of decision is years away. To nent of the Strategic Defense Initiative push a foot in the door with early deploy­ range weapons which make up the vast ma­ could be deployed before 1992, long after ment of ground-based components would do jority of our nuclear arsenals. Reagan leaves office. The real debate con­ nothing for U.S. security, doom arms con­ However, with the achievement of the INF cerns whether some simpler SDI compo­ trol, prejudice the real debate and waste treaty there are some who continue to insist nents should receive early procurement public money. 34416 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 [From the San Jose Mercury News, week's bizarre contretemps, when Gorba­ caps in America. All of these children could Jan. 26, 19871 chev first declined, then agreed to come to potentially benefit from assistive devices that Washington, a summit meeting simply to THE SDI TAX BITE will help them to participate more fully and in­ The first thorough costing-out of the sign the Euromissile treaty is not necessary. But the Dec. 7 meeting has the possibility dependently in the classroom. Assistive de­ Reagan administration's Strategic Defense vices include such technological products as a Initiative shows that it would cost the of being more than that. The key will be equivalent of an 11 percent increase in whether the two leaders can resolve differ­ page turner, a feeding device, an optical head income taxes. ences that could prevent next year's pointer to use with a communication device, a No one, least of all Ronald Reagan, is pro­ Moscow summit, the one where an outgoing small powered modified cart, and a computer. posing such a tax hike. Yet to raise the $700 president would sign the treaty that culmi­ However, these technological advances are billion required to deploy a comprehensive nated his arms control work. not available to most children with handicaps Friday's White House statement was space-based defense system against Soviet because there does not exist a centralized long-range missiles and aircraft, could only vague on those differences, but promising. The Soviets have been insistent that, at the system to link the technology to the individual drive up the national debt and gut other child. programs-or require, beginning this year, Moscow summit, a link must be established an average income tax increase of $570 for a between cutting offensive strategic forces by Promoting the widespread availability of as­ family earning $30,000 to $50,000 annually. 50 percent and the deployment of strategic sistive devices will enable children with severe The figures, in a study done for the Johns defenses. handicaps to participate fully and independ­ Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, fill a hole Reagan, who mistakenly believes strategic ently in their educational environment. This defenses are the key to national security, in the SDI debate that has been unfilled new technology will make the difference be­ since 1983, when Reagan first announced has been rigid on that point. In Friday's statement, however, he was more amenable, tween a handicapped child who is capable of his plan for strategic defenses. For four achieving and manipulating her /his environ­ years, the only mystery greater than wheth­ agreeing that "flexibility" on deployment of er SDI could work is how much it would strategic defenses was one of the points that ment and one who is not progressing and is cost. would be discussed during the Washington dependent on others. Neither the administration nor Congress summit. As a first step to solving this problem, I has ever given a detailed estimate of SDI Flexibility most likely means the two na­ have introduced H.R. 3602, the Technology tions would agree not to withdraw from the costs. Unofficial estimates have pegged To Educate Children With Handicaps Act, SDI's ultimate cost at between $60 billion 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty for an agreed period, perhaps 10 years. The treaty which will amend part G of the Education of and $1 trillion, but none of these up to now the Handicapped Act to establish assistive has been rigorous or detailed enough to be prohibits the deployment of space-based de­ classified as more than a rough guess. fenses. device resource centers in each State. These Written by defense analysts Barry M. We have long believed that a "grand com­ centers will serve as a vital link between Blechman and Victor A. Utgoff, the new promise" linking offensive missile cuts to state-of-the-art technology and handicapped report rightly urges that if the nation goes limits on "star wars" defenses was the direc­ students through a statewide system that pro­ ahead with SDI, that the program be fi­ tion this nation should take. Reagan, so close to leaving office, need vides a variety of services. The population to nanced through taxes, not borrowing or be served by the centers are handicapped in­ massive cutbacks in other programs. not worry about tying the hands of future administrations on strategic defenses. dividuals from birth through age 21. Each Borrowing, it says, would create "many center will provide a range of services; for ex­ near-term adverse macroeconomic effects, Most experts agree that "star wars" tech­ such as increased deficits or greater infla- nologies are at lea.St 10 years away from de­ ample, informing local educational agencies tion." . ployment. The more difficult task will be and nonprofit community organizations about Steering clear of the controversy over for the two leaders to define what technol­ assistive devices and their availability training · ogies could be tested during the interim 10- whether space-based defenses could work, year period. to specialists on proper evaluation techniques; the authors analyze the program strictly in and instructing others in the appropriate use its economic consequences. Some of the reasons for the delay in summit preparations became clear last of assistive devices. They conclude that a program of SDI's The "Tech Act" will take the advances in magnitude is economically feasible, but re­ week. Soviet officials leaked a story to West­ quiring a commitment of 0.5 to 1 percent of ern reporters that, Oct. 21, Gorbachev came technology and place it into the hands of gross national product for 15 years, would under attack at a Central Committee meet­ those who will benefit the most-children with cause a reallocation of economic, technolog­ ing for fostering a cult of personality. The handicapping conditions. Access to an appro­ ical and human resources on a scale unlike attack was led by Politburo member Boris priate assistive device is a key determinant to N. Yeltsin, who has been a principle Gorba­ anything the nation has done in peacetime. whether a child with a handicap will be an It is not to accept all the authors' figures chev supporter. Also last week, in a rare interview, Mar­ active participant in all aspects of his/her edu­ to say that they have done a valuable serv­ cational environment. The centers will serve ice. With their well-documented assump­ shal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet chief of tions and projections, they have moved the staff, told the New York Times that 50 per­ as brokers to ensure that handicapped chil­ debate further along. The administration's cent cuts in offensive strategic weapons dren receive the assistive devices and training silence on the economic costs of SDI has without limits on strategic defenses "would they need to maximize their educational po­ weakened its case. radically step up the military threat toward tential. If handicapped children are to benefit the Soviet Union." Gorbachev is coming to the United States equally from educational opportunities they [From the San Jose Mercury News, must be afforded the means for doing so. Nov. 2, 19871 on Dec. 7 as the strongest Soviet leader since Leonid Brezhnev, but he is far from H.R. 3602 will make recent technologies ad- . THE ON-AGAIN SUMMIT omnipotent. vances widely available; rural as well as low In extremis, the third Reagan-Gorbachev The key to the success of the third and income families will be able to take full advan­ summit has been saved, with the promise of fourth summits will be to understand that, tage of these services. a fourth being held next year. If all goes as without limits on putting defenses in space, This bill provides us with the opportunity to planned, after failing to meet with s.oviet there will be no limits on reducing offensive bring in the full range of handicapped children leaders at all in his first term, President weapons on Earth. Reagan will have made it an annual event in who have so far been shut out from the reality his second. . of equal education opportunities. With a Mikhail Gorbachev, architect of glasnost TECHNOLOGY TO EDUCATE modest investment of $20 million we can con­ and the man who Soviet experts say is lead­ CHILDREN WITH HANDICAPS tinue our commitment to the goal of appropri­ ing the third Russian revolution, will come ACT ate education to all handicapped children to Washington on Dec. 7, his first visit to under the Education of the Handicapped Act. this country. This is a small amount to invest in the lives of Most likely, it will be a restrained one, not HON. MAJOR R. OWENS the coast-to-coast extravaganza originally OF NEW YORK young people who have so much to contrib­ planned. The two leaders will sign the Euro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ute. missile treaty and discuss Reagan's trip to I would urge my colleagues to support this Moscow next spring. Tuesday, December 8, 1987 legislation and be a partner in this next chap­ Whether two more summits is overdoing Mr. OWENS of New York. Mr. Speaker, ter of education of handicapped children. things depends. As we said during last there are over 4 million children with handi- The text of H.R. 3602 follows: December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34417 H.R. 3602 "(2) instruct teachers, therapists, para­ dren, and youth and in no case to supplant Be it enacted by the Senate and House of profressionals, parents, family members, such State and local funds; Representatives of the United States of other significant individuals, and handi­ "CG> provide assurances that the State America in Congress assembled, capped students in the appropriate use of will pay from non-Federal sources the non­ SHORT TITLE assistive devices; • Federal share of the cost of the application; "<3> provide follow-up services for individ­ and SECTION. 1. This Act may be cited as the uals who have received services by the "CH> provide such additional assurances as "Technology To Educate Children With center when appropriate and collect data to the Secretary requires to carry out the pro­ Handicaps Act". determine the effectiveness of the services visions of this subpart. FINDING; DECLARATION OF PURPOSE provided; "<2> Each application submitted under SEC. 2. (a) FINDINGS.-The Congress finds "<4> develop a statewide service delivery paragraph <1 > shall be submitted by the that assistive devices are beneficial in help­ system for severely handicapped infants, Governor of the State for a period not to ing severely handicapped infants, children, toddlers, children, and youth that ensures exceed 3 fiscal years. and youth improve their educational per­ all handicapped children and local educa­ "(3) Any public agency or private nonprof­ formance and increase their interaction tional agencies have access to the services of it organization or institution may submit an with other handicapped and nonhandi­ the center; application to the State for a grant to estab­ capped children in the least restrictive envi­ "(5) have the ability to assist in the devel­ lish an assistive device resource center in ronment. opment, design, fabrication, and modifica­ the State to carry out the services described Cb) PuRPosE.-Therefore, it is the purpose tion of assistive devices to meet the needs of in subsection . of this Act to provide financial assistance handicapped individuals; "PAYMENTS; FEDERAL SHARE for the establishing of assistive device re­ "(6) disseminate information to local edu­ "SEC. 667. (a) PAYMENT RULE.-The Secre­ source centers in each State to allow severe­ cational agencies and nonprofit community ly handicapped infants, toddlers, children, tary shall pay to each State having an appli­ organizations on assistive devices and their cation approved under section 664 the Fed­ and youths to reach their maximum poten­ availability; and tial in least restrictive environments. eral share of the cost of the activities de­ "(7) provide in-service training to special­ scribed in the application. ASSISTIVE DEVICE RESOURCE CENTERS PROGRAM ists, teachers, administrators, parents, fami­ "(b) FEDERAL SHARE.-The Federal share AUTHORIZED lies, and other significant individuals work­ shall be- SEC. 3. (a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.-Part G ing with handicapped students on the bene­ "(1) 70 percent for fiscal year 1988; of the Education of the Handicapped Act is fits of assistive devices to promote improved "(2) 65 percent for fiscal yar 1989; and amended- educational performance and increased "(3) 60 percent for fiscal year 1990. <1> by inserting before section 661 the fol­ interaction between handicapped and non­ lowing: handicapped individuals. "DEFINITIONS "Subpart I-General Authority"; and "(C) PRIORITY OF SERVICE; CONSTRUC· "SEc. 668. For the purpose of this sub­ TION.-(1) Each State shall assure priority part- (2) by adding at the end thereof the fol­ "( 1 > the term 'assistive devices' includes lowing new subpart: of services for handicapped infants, tod­ dlers, children, and youth from birth adaptive learning devices, mobility and seat­ "Subpart 2-Assistive Device Resource through age 21. ing systems, augmentative communications Centers "(2) Nothing in this subpart precludes the systems, writing and reading devices, and "ASSISTIVE DEVICE RESOURCE CENTERS provision of services available from the as­ environmental control devices; AUTHORIZED sistive device resource center to handi­ "(2) the term 'assistive device resource "SEC. 663. (a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.-The capped individuals who are no longer eligi­ center' means a center established by a Secretary shall, from amounts appropriated ble for services under the Education of the public agency or a private nonprofit organi­ pursuant to section 669, make grants to Handicapped Act. zation or institution designed to facilitate States to pay the Federal share of the cost "(d) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.-Cl) Each the appropriate use of commercial and non­ of establishing assistive device resource cen­ center receiving assistance under this sub­ commercial available devices that will assist ters, in accordance with the provisions of part shall establish an Advisory Committee. severely handicapped infants, toddlers, chil­ this subpart. "(2) No Federal funds may be used for the dren, and youth, and other handicapped in­ ''ALLOTMENT operations of the Advisory Committee. dividuals to reach their maximum potential; and "SEc. 664. The Secretary shall, from the "APPLICATIONS "(3) the term 'severely handicapped in­ amount appropriated for this subpart for "SEC. 666. (a) APPLICATIONS REQUIRED.­ fants, toddlers, children, and youth' means each fiscal year, allot to each State an Each State desiring to receive its allotment handicapped infants, toddlers, children, and amount which bears the same ratio to such under this subpart shall submit an applica­ youth who, because of the intensity of their amount as the number of children with tion to the Secretary at such time, in such physical, mental, or emotional problems, handicaps counted under section 611 of this manner, and containing or accompanied by need specialized educational and technologi­ Act for the fiscal year prior to the fiscal such information as the Secretary may rea­ cal services in order to reach their maxi­ year for which the determination is made sonably require. mum potential in the last restrictive envi­ bears to the total number of such children "(b) CONTENTS OF APPLICATIONS.-(1) Each ronment. in all States, except that no State shall re­ such application shall- "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS ceive less than $150,000. "CA> describe the manner in which the "SERVICES State will carry out a plan to meet the re­ "Sec. 669. There are authorized to be ap­ "SEC. 665. (a) ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICES.­ quirements of this subpart; propriated to carry out the provisions of Each assistive device resource center estab­ "CB> describe the severely handicapped in­ this subpart $20,000,000 for the fiscal year lished with assistance under this subpart fants, toddlers, children, and youth who will 1988 and such sums as many be necessary shall serve- be eligible for services provided through as­ for each succeeding fiscal year ending prior to October 1, 1990.". "(!) severely handicapped infants and tod­ sistance under this subpart; dlers as defined by the State in the applica­ "CC> describe the types of services that (b) TECHNICAL AllENDMENT.-Section 662 of tion required under this subpart; will be offered by the assistive device re­ such Act is amended by striking out "part" "(2) severely handicapped children and source center and the manner in which serv­ and inserting in lieu thereof "subpart". youth as defined in the State application ices will be provided; approved under this subpart; and "CD> provide assurances that the State NEWARK REMEMBERS PEARL "<3> severely handicapped individuals who will ensure that activities of the assistive have attained 21 years of age if the State device resource center are coordinated with HARBOR AND ARCHIE CALLA­ plan prescribes a targeted population of Rehabilitation Engineering Centers in the HAN handicapped individuals who have attained State; 21 years of age. "CE> describe the procedures that will be HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. "(b) ScoPE OF CENTER SERVICES.-Each used to evaluate the effectiveness of the OF NEW JERSEY center receiving assistance under this sub­ services provided by the assistive device re­ part shall- source center; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "( 1) train and assist specialists in local "CF> provide assurances that the State will Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 educational agencies and nonprofit commu­ use Federal funds only to supplement and nity organizations to evaluate a handi­ increase the level of State and local funds Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, yesterday capped student's potential to benefit from expended for assistive device resource cen­ marked the 46th anniversary of the Japanese the use of assistive devices; ters for handicapped infants, toddlers, chil- attack on Pearl Harbor. This unexpected and 34418 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 unprovoked attack truly changed the course the tragedy of Pearl Harbor, we continue to gratulate the Fall River Chamber of Com­ of history. The death and destruction precipi­ fullfill this pledge. merce for the excellence of its choice. tated America's entry into World War II and Robert Karam is a first-rate example of a the countless acts of heroism by brave men TRIBUTE TO·COUNCILMAN good citizen. In his business career, in his and women united our Nation. The United LESTER J. REESE civic activities, in his devotion to his family and States emerged as a world leader prepared to friends, in his celebration of his ethnic herit­ ensure the triumph of democracy over totali­ age-in all of these and other ways, Bob tarianism. It was, as President Roosevelt told HON.ROBERTK.DORNAN Karam demonstrates the best in American life. a stunned Nation, "a day that will live in OF CALIFORNIA I have had occasion to work with him on sev­ infamy." The shock and the horror of this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES eral occasions in the course of his economic event remains, even 46 years later, vividly Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 development activities, and I can testify first etched in the collective memory of America. . Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. Speaker, I hand that his intelligence, his dedication and One of those brave Americans killed at rise today to pay tribute to a good friend and his energy are great assets for the people of Pearl Harbor was Archie Callahan-a sailor respected community leader from my 38th Fall River. aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma and the first California Congressional District, Buena Park Mr. Speaker, in the November 19 issue of black resident of Newark, NJ, to give up his Councilman Lester J. Reese. the Fall River Herald News, Marion Flanigan life in the service of his country during World On November 16, 1987, Les retired from wrote a comprehensive article which very well War II. An Eagle Scout and graduate of Cen­ public life after 23 years of distinguished serv­ expresses the spirit of that evening, and gives tral High School, Archie Callahan enlisted in ice to the citizens of Buena Park, CA, the a good description of the qualities that make the Navy in 1940. He was only 19 years old home of Knotts Berry Farm and the Holly­ Bob Karam so important to Fall River and when he was killed and he was posthumously wood Wax Museum. Les' years of service in­ which led the chamber of commerce to honor awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for cluded 9112 years on the city council where he him. his unselfish and noble service. served two terms as mayor, and 13112 years At the dinner in which Bob Karam received I am very proud that Archie Callahan's sac­ on the Buena Park Planning Commission. this award, his good friend, Mayor Carlton Vi­ rifice has not been forgotten by his fellow For more than 30 years Les worked as a veiros, who has done so much to promote the Newarkers. In 1942, a monument to his economic advance of Fall River, pointed out memory was erected in Douglas-Harrison Park civil engineer for the California State Depart­ ment of Transportation. His expertise in trans­ that Mr. Karam is "truly a role model." I agree, in the Central Ward and it continues to pro­ and in the interest of having that role model vide inspiration as a reminder to all of us of portation and related issues brought him ap­ pointments by the Orange County Division of widely available, I ask that Marion Flanigan's the bravery of Archie Callahan. Herald News article be printed here. At the same time, the Emmet Guyton Amer­ the League of California Cities to the Arterial ican Legion Post No. 152 in Newark, named Highway Financing Program Policy Committee ROBERT KARAM Is HONORED BY CHAMBER after the black World War I veteran, was re­ in 1986 and to the "Super" Committee in Karam; his son, tive efforts to improve truck and bus safety. I, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Stephen, 18, a freshman at Babson College; believe therefore, that its new proposal war­ his daughter, Melissa, 14, a freshman at rants consideration by the Congress. At this Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 Durfee High School; and his two brothers, point, I believe many provisions contained in Mr. GALLO. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, De­ Durfee basketball coach Thomas "Skip" Karam, and real estate developer James A. the bill, if enacted, would enhance safety. cember 6, 1987, over 250,000 people gath­ Karam. All joined in the celebration. Some proposals in the legislation closely par­ ered on the Mall in Washington, DC, to rally The Ceremonial Unit of the Massachu­ allel proposals the committee has had under on behalf of Soviet Jews. These people, Jews setts Army National Guard began the ban­ consideration, while other provisions raise and non-Jews, came from all over our country, quet with a patriotic ceremony. The Durfee issues that have not been heretofore actively from as far away as Alaska, from my district in High School Orchestra played during the considered, but, in my view warrant consider­ New Jersey, and from virtually every other social hour, and organist Roger Dufour, ation. State. during the banquet. The Bus Safety Act of 1987 calls for full On the eve of the historic summit between safety regulation of private carriers of passen­ President Reagan and General Secretary Gor­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION gers as mandated by the Motor Carrier Safety bachev, these individuals brought with them Act of 1984; however, it would expand the ap­ one message-"Let my people go." HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II plication of the act to most for-hire vehicles Mr. Speaker, hundreds of thousands of OF WEST VIRGINIA transporting fewer than 15 passengers. The Soviet Jews have been waiting years to re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bill also requires: One, elimination of the com­ ceive permission to emigrate to Israel. The mercial zone exemption in the safety arena; years of waiting and hoping have been long Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 two, that all passenger carriers maintain evi­ and painful. It is time to end this struggle and Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I regret that I dence of insurance in their vehicles; three, open the doors to peace and to freedom. was unavoidably absent from a vote on codi­ that all passenger carriers not certificated by The Soviet Government has made some fying the fairness doctrine into law as part of ICC be assigned an identification number progress this year in increasing the number of the continuing resolution that was passed by which must be prominently displayed on all refuseniks who have been allowed to emigrate the House on Thursday, December 3. Had I vehicles; four, DOT to implement the Motor to Israel. I recently had the opportunity to join been present, I would have voted "present" Carrier Act of 1984 with respect to inspection the congregation of Temple Emanu-EI in Liv­ on the Dingell amendment to House Joint standards and State reciprocity for inspections ingston, NJ, in welcoming the Karlin and Man­ Resolution 395. carried out in accordance with those stand­ evich families of Leningrad to their new home Mr. Speaker, I missed this vote because I ards; five, the "on-duty time" definition for bus and to see them reunited with their children, was attending a memorial service for a dear drivers be changed; and six, an Office of Bus Cantor Manevich and his wife, Emma Karlin friend of ours from West Virginia, Phil Safety be established in the Federal Highway Manevich. McGance, who for many years served as ad­ Administration. However, the people who gathered here on ministrative assistant to our former colleague, Plainly, better identification methods for ve­ Sunday have reason to suspect that this in­ the Honorable Jennings Randolph. Phil, a hicles and easier verification of compliance crease is part and parcel of the Soviet cam­ native of Grafton, WV, served Senator Ran- with Federal insurance requirements will help paign to better their world image and is not a 34420 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 true step forward in reforming their emigration WHY IS GORBACHEV THE ONLY Her heart went out to individuals with prob­ policies. We know of at least 400,000 Soviet ONE WHO CAN LEAVE? lems ranging from job loss to AIDS. Her inter­ Jews who are still waiting for visas. Many of ests included a poetry group that sought to these individuals have been refused again this HON. JIM COURTER appreciate as well as to heighten awareness year. OF NEW JERSEY of the beauty of the English language. For instance, I learned recently that my IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES People are amused about stories that a per­ adopted family, the Kagans of Leningrad, re­ Tuesday, December 8, 1987 son's "500 best friends" showed up at a par­ ceived permission for their two children to ticular event, but that is how many were at Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, I have sent leave, but Abram, their father, was denied. Lany's memorial service. The fact is that each General Secretary Gorbachev a letter subse­ This decision to force this family to separate person there considered Lany Narot a very quent to his visit here pertaining to the Genis close and special friend. No one I've ever is contrary to the Helsinki accords, to Soviet family of Moscow and their repeated requests efforts at glasnost, and will fuel the fires of known understood how to understand people to emigrate. Because the letter draws atten­ as did Lany. suspicion that have for too long clouded rela­ tion to the limits of glasnost I believe it merits Lany Narot was also known as a talented tions between the Soviet Union and the congressional notice at this time of summitry and committed professional. Her work as a United States. and all its attendant enthusiasms. The letter clinical social worker, as well as the people The Kagan's struggle has served as a con­ follows: she helped, meant a great deal to her. As a stant reminder to me to keep the pressure on HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, professional, and as a sensitive, aware human Washington, DC, December 8, 1987. the Soviet Union to honor the fundamental being, Lany touched people at many levels, rights of individuals to emigrate and of families His Excellency MIKHAIL s. GORBACHEV, General Secretary of the Central Committee from street people to the intellectual elite. to be together. of the Communist Party of the Soviet No one can capture the life of such a This week, President Reagan will discuss Union, the Kremlin, Moscow, U.S.S.R. person in a few paragraphs, but the eulogy this important human rights issue with General DEAR MR. GENERAL SECRETARY: On the day given by Cantor Jacob Bornstein of Temple Secretary Gorbachev. It is my great hope that before your arrival here in Washington, Israel in Miami comes very close. I want to the outcome of these talks will be that permis­ there was as you know an enormous parade share with my colleagues some of what he of American supporters of Soviet Jewry. sion for the Kagans and the countless other Some 250,000 persons from all over the said about this remarkable woman. Soviet Jews to emigrate is granted. country demonstrated. The parade began EULOGY FOR HELENE "LA.NY" NAROT Mr. Gorbachev, please heed the call of the near the White House, where you signed an We embrace and cry in utter disbelief at thousands who gathered here in Washington important treaty with President Reagan the shocking word that Lany Narot has on December 6 and let these people go. today, and then wound its way to the west died. And we are left numb and silent in the front of the Capitol building. Many in the face of its reality as we grieve and mourn throng carried signs showing support for in­ the death of this lovely, this caring, loving, dividual Soviets who are not able to emi­ giving woman whom we knew as a daughter, grate because of various rulings by Soviet a mother, grandmother, sister and dear, authorities. Some placards questioned dear friend, and as a beloved. whether glasnost means anything real. Of We all know that Lany was a courageous those, Jhe most striking read simply: "Why woman. The tragic losses in her life were TRIBUTE TO THE SAVANNAH is Gorbachev the only one who can leave?" more than enough to test and to try the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Mr. General Secretary, Anatoly Genis and spirit of any human being. And yet, Lany his wife Galia, mathematicians now living had the capacity to find a renewal of life with their family in Moscow, want nothing each time, although in diverse ways, as she HON. JOE KOLTER so much as to relocate abroad to begin a so eloquently wrote in a chapter which she new life and obtain immediate attention for contributed to a book published in 1981 en­ OF PENNSYLVANIA some very serious medical problems. They titled "What Helped Me When My Loved IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES first applied for permission to leave the One Died." She wrote, in part, "There are country of their birth-which is certainly a new losses every day. Sometimes I have im­ Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 right we all have by nature-in 1977. They mense confidence I can cope with them all, were refused. They have since been refused Mr. KOL TEA. Mr. Speaker, it is with excep­ using my past experiences as models. Other repeatedly, most recently on March 10, times, the loneliness takes over and even tional pride and privilege that I rise today to 1987, fully two years after you entered feelings of despair. Friends lend their sup­ pay tribute to a church located in my district. power promising broad changes and reform. port and love, family remains very impor­ The Savannah United Methodist Church of Constituents of mine from the B'nai tant, but my own growth through life's ex­ New Castle, PA, has a long and rich history in B'rith Hillel Foundation at Princeton Uni­ periences seems to be the most reliable and western Pennsylvania. The Savannah congre­ versity in New Jersey have taken a strong constant source of strength. My own inner interest in the welfare of the Genis family, gation was organized in 1820. Over the past strength helps me carry on." and have asked me, as their Representative, The Psalmist said that in his affliction he 167 years, its parishoners have established an to assist them. I am only too glad to do so, learned the law of God, that not unavailing unfailing spirit of industriousness and coopera­ and I hope that you will direct the appropri­ will be our grief, if it send us back to serve tion. That spirit was manifest as early as 1851, ate authorities in Moscow to make their re­ and bless the living; for we learn how to when one of its first church structures was lease possible. counsel and colnfort those, who, like our­ Sincerely, selves, are sorrow-stricken. This Lany per­ built primarily by the free labor of Savannah's JIM COURTER, worshipers. That tradition has, moreover, ex­ sonified in the colnfort she brought to Member of Congress. untold numbers of people. tended to the present. On December 20, In so many ways Lany stood as a spiritual 1987, a new sanctuary will be dedicated-a giant among us, not in the conventional pi­ product of a 16-year effort which, again was REMEMBRANCE OF HELENE eties of religious rituals, but in the deeply­ attributable to the perserverence of the "LANY" NAROT felt quality of her human spirit. What a church's parishoners. I can most appropriately dear friend wrote about her said it for all of HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN us: "She was so beautiful to look at, so kind conclude by citing the words of the church's and non-judgmental." pastor, the Rev. Frederick H. Gilbert, who OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lany was indeed a "woman for all sea­ stated that church structures are for "* * * sons." She loved and deeply appreciated . the people of God to seek a word from the Tuesday, December 8, 1987 works of art, good music, dance, theatre and Lord, to drink from his fountain and com­ Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, on literature. She was always so eager to rec­ memorate the most significant events in the ommend a new book that she had just read November 22, Lany Narot died and our Miami or a play that she had just seen. There was seasonal cycle and the rhythm of life." community lost a very wonderful and special a radiance about her that was readily infec­ No where is the truth of that statement lady. Lany was not a president or chairperson, tious, with a smile that easily conveyed more evident than at the Savannah United nor did she lead any troops. But she was warmth. And while she was usually soft­ Methodist Church in New Castle, PA. always there for the causes that mattered. spoken, the words she spoke were invariably December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34421 so very appropriate, so right, so sensitive, so Last month, Mr. Carpenter left his business anniversary of the Soviet revolution in Novem­ understanding. behind to work as a volunteer in my Washing­ ber all the current religious prisoners would be Her family, and we, her friends will re­ ton office, or as close to it as we could ar­ released. November 7 came and went with no member her. You and we will remember the cherished hours and days of our relation­ range. Actually, he didn't work in my Washing­ new releases reported. We know of approxi­ ships with Lany. And we will all be enriched ton office, because the only desk we had mately 170 Christians who continue to lan­ by our memories of her for she left us all a available was in a small, windowless room guish in the gulag for openly practicing their good heritage, a heritage that moves us for­ across the hall that is more like a closet. But faith. ward to life in the face of adversity; to re­ Ron didn't complain. Instead, he set himself to In spite of Kharchev's promise and the newal in the face of loss; and to nobility in work designing a wholly new approach to one much-heralded changes taking place in the the face of human need. Let us then, as we of the major issues facing the 1OOth Con­ Soviet Union today, Christian persecution now memorialize Lany Narot, think of this gress. After careful study, and after many behind the Iron Curtain is alive and only too hour as a celebration of her life. And finally, permit me to conclude with meetings and consultations with people from well. I am afraid that George Will's hypothesis the reading of one of Lany's favorite poems across the political spectrum, he came up with that glasnost is "the policy of changing almost by Edna St. Vincent Millay: what I believe is an exciting and sensible al­ everything so that everything can remain the I am not resigned to the shutting away of ternative to the movement for mandated ben­ same" is only too true. Democratization has loving hearts in the hard ground. efits. not gone so far that Soviet leaders have So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been Most people say we have no choice. The abandoned Marx's dogma that "religion is the time out of mind: Into the darkness common view is that at least until we get the opiate of the people." they go, the wise and the lovely. deficits under control, Congress can either Specific cases of Christian persecution-in Crowned with lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. mandate a better deal for the working poor, or psychiatric hospitals, labor camps, prisons and Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with do nothing. But Ron Carpenter has helped in their everyday lives-will probably not be you, be one with the dull, the indis­ convince me that there is a better way-one aired over the ABC or CBS news over the criminate dust. A fragment of what that serves both liberal ends and business in­ coming week as Mikhail Gorbachev visits us you felt, of what you knew, a formula, terests, and that saves money. All we need is in Washington. But the facts remain. What a phrase remains-but the best is lost. a new way of looking at old problems. better time than the dawn of a second historic The answers quick and keen, the honest My thanks to Ronald A. Carpenter, for summit to send a signal to the Soviet Union look, the laughter, the love- showing me how it can be done. that the United States Congress and the They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled American people will no longer sit idly by and Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I watch such egregious, Stalinesque repres­ SOVIET VIOLATION OF HUMAN sion? As President Reagan asks the Soviets know. But I do not approve. RIGHTS More precious was the light in your eyes for an honest and fair agreement toward than all the roses of the world. achieving world peace, let us also add the Down, down, down into the darkness of the HON. BEAU BOULTER voices of those in Congress concerned about grave OF TEXAS international human rights, challenging the So­ Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES viets to deal honestly and justly with their own the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, Tuesday, December 8, 1987 people. I urge all my colleagues to join us in co­ the brave. Mr. BOUL TEA. Mr. Speaker, once again I I know. But I do not approve. And I am not sponsoring this resolution and letting the Sovi­ resigned. rise today to remind the Congress of a Soviet ets know that we are aware of their imprison­ violation of human rights that is widespread ment of Christians and care enough to make and severe behind the Iron Curtain-the per­ this persecution known. TRIBUTE TO RON CARPENTER secution of Christians by Soviet authorities. Along with Congressman CHRIS SMITH and HON. BUDDY MacKA Y over 70 of our colleagues, I am introducing a TRIBUTE TO BETTY TICHO OF FLORIDA resolution today which draws the attention of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress and the United States to the anni­ versary of the millenium of Christianity's arrival HON. TONY COELHO Tuesday, December 8, 1987 in Russia in 988 A.O. Next year, believers of OF CALIFORNIA Mr. MACKAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay trib­ all Christian denominations in the Soviet IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ute to a man you should know about. Al­ Union will be celebrating the 1,000th birthday though Washington may have more think of Christianity in their country. Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 tanks per square inch than any city in Amer­ It is our hope that this resolution will accom­ Mr. COELHO. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ica, we have a shortage of original thinkers. plish several goals. First, it enumerates specif­ take this opportunity to commend Betty Ticho, Too often we are bound by partisan divisions ic contributions of the Russian Orthodox the executive director of the Los Angeles and conventional habits of thought. For this Church to the religious faith and culture of the County Epilepsy Society [LACES] upon her re­ government to succeed, we must instead rely Soviet Union, pointing out to the Soviets as tirement for 30 years of service to the epilep­ on the fresh perspective, creativity and civic well as to Americans how very significant the sy movement. virtue of people like Ron Carpenter. church has been in Russian history. Even LACES is the only organization in Los Ange­ The citizens of Gainesville, FL, know Mr. more importantly, the resolution calls for the les County set up specifically to serve people Carpenter as the head of a well-respected law open publication and distribution of Bibles as with epilepsy and was established as a non­ firm. They also know him as a man who gives well as for the opening of churches and se­ profit voluntary corporation in 1956. Betty has his time freely to such worthy causes as the minaries closed in recent decades to serl~ served as the sole executive director for the Alachua County "Tum in a Pusher" program the spiritual needs of the people of the Soviet past 30 years of the organization and is direct­ and the local jaycees. ln legal circles, Mr. Car­ Union. Finally, the resolution expresses the ly responsible for providing such services as penter is appreciated throughout the State for united sense of the United States Congress information and referral, counseling, advocacy, his service as a member of Florida's Board of that all Christian prisoners within the Soviet and education. As my colleagues may be Bar Examiners and for his other bar activities. Union should be released in observance of aware, the incidence of epilepsy in Los Ange­ But Mr. Carpenter has another dimension. the millenium and in accord with the human les County affects more than 1 in every 50 He is also a man who has thought long and rights agreements signed by the Soviet Gov­ children and 1 in every 100 adults, totaling hard about the large issues and problems ernment. more than 150,000 in the county. Under the facing our Nation. Much more than that, he is Mr. Speaker, 2 months ago the Minister of direction of Mrs. Ticho, LACES, as an affiliate a man who put his own professional interests Religious Affairs, Konstantin Kharchev, met of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, is en­ aside in order to make what I believe is a real with Senator RICHARD LUGAR here in Wash­ gaged in an ongoing public information cam­ contribution toward solving at least one of ington. Minister Kharchev promised Senator paign to bring the facts about epilepsy to the those problems. LUGAR that with the celebration of the 70th attention of the community.

91-059 0-89-28 (Pt. 24) 34422 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 On behalf of all of us with epilepsy, I would tenth King's Day Regatta weekend. This "We want everyone to come out and have like to extend my sincere appreciation for the weekend (the one closest to November 17 a good time; eat or Just walk aroung the gar­ 30 years of service that Betty Ticho has pro­ each year) is set-aside for holding in the St. dens. It's a chance for those who haven't vided to those with this disorder so that they seen it to see Epping Forest." Johns River an annual sailboat regatta. This is Dinner isn't mandatory . but those who do want to eat and employment. United Kingdom and the United States should contact Alicia Dorsey-Frank at 389- through the years. It revives a King's Birthday 6042 for information on reservations , late registration at the FYC Satur­ ing event was covered by the news media and day morning 00-noon>. mail-in registration IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES some of these stories are included herewith. check-in at 8 a.m. Sunday, skippers' meeting Tuesday, December 8, 1987 KING'S DAY REGATTA To FEATURE DIFFERENT at 9 and race start at 10. LooK, DIFFERENT COURSE Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, on the For more information on registration or The largest cruisers-only regatta between other aspects of the race itself, call Camell eve of this historic day in the quest for world Chesapeake Bay and Fort Lauderdale is Mosley at 772-5192 Edwina Sandys, British artist and grand­ festivities. Rick Peper decided from the start to play The Saturday night pre-regatta party will it safe yesterday. daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, presented be held for the ·first time at a site other It paid off. The Jacksonville attorney kept identical copies of her sculpture, "War & than the Florida Yacht Club, which will his cards close to the vest and sailed his J-24 Peace" to Deputy Secretary of State John still host the race itself on Sunday. Dixie across the finish line first on correct­ Whitehead and Soviet Ambassador Yuri Du­ The site for the pre-race festivities is the ed time to win the Carl z. Suddath Trophy binin. They accepted on behalf of President Epping Forest YC, the newest member of for first boat in the 10th annual King's Day Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail the sponsoring St. Johns River YC, which Regatta on the St. Johns River yesterday. Gorbachev. encompasses the major sailing clubs in the Peper, a perennial contender but not a The polished aluminum sculpture reveals immediate area . of the 65 boats in the fleet were taken into peace-a soaring dove. The sculptures were And the start this year will be different. account-in the race that is billed as the created to commemorate the summit meeting "We're going to have a weather start for a biggest cruisers-only regatta between Chesa­ of 1987. change," said race commtitee chairman peake Bay and Fort Lauderdale. At the presentation, Secretary Whitehead Henry Mullen of the FYC. "With a down­ Peper came in with a corrected time of 3 said he was glad both sculptures were facing wind start, the big boys always shoot out hours, 17 minutes, 13 seconds to Pentecost's the same direction. The Soviet Ambassador, there first because their masts are 20 feet 3:20:20. higher than everybody else's. This'll make "We sailed it conservatively," said Peper, his hand tracing the outline of the dove, ex­ the start more even, and the boats that get who crewed for Pentecost aboard J-27 More pressed his hope that the dove would "get good starts will get paid for them." Apparitions when it won the Suddath larger and larger and the plane would get Mullen said that the exact course, which Trophy in last year's King's Day. "Our main smaller and smaller until there were only will be around the St. Johns River Sailing question was always 'Where is he [Pente­ these kind of birds flying in the sky-and in Association's new permanent racing marks cost], and what is he doing?' The fact is, we outer space." and Coast Guard aids to navigation, won't Just tried to stay out of the dead air. We Letters to the President and the General be determined until race morning in an chased the wind and didn't take any Secretary from Miss Sandys accompanied the effort to set the best route possible. chances. We were lucky.'' In last year's race, there was virtually no It was the second year in a row that the sculptures. Dated November 30, the 114th an­ air and Levon Pentecost on J-27 More Ap­ regatta, established to commemorate a race niversary of her grandfather's birth, Miss paritions literally drifted across the finish held on the site by British sailors to cele­ Sandys wrote each leader about their peace line ahead of Ed Burroughs on Stoner 32 brate the birthday of King George III in efforts, saying of her grandfather that "if alive Wild Hare. Those were two of only a hand­ 1775, has been plagued by light air. Last (he), would have wanted to share with you the ful of skippers in the 67-boat fleet to finish year, only 12 boats in the 65-boat fleet fin­ thrill of raising the Iron Curtain to reveal a the race within the allotted three-hour time ished within the four-hour time limit. stage setfair for the 21st century." period. "We felt that we had to shorten the Miss Sandys at this important time has in­ Mullen said race organizers are hoping for course in order to finish in time," said a larger fleet this year-the largest in the Henry Mullen, race committee chairman voked the spirit of her famous and beloved regatta's history was in 1981, when 125 from the Florida Yacht Club, one of the six grandfather who fought for freedom and boats participated. organizations forming the St. Johns River sought constantly the path for peace. I thank "We have had calls from St. Augustine Sailing Association that sponsors the event. her for offering to President Ronald Reagan and Savannah, so I think we may be spread­ The course was shortened from its original and to the Soviets a source of inspiration ing out a little," Mullen said. length of 16.45 Iniles to 11.5 miles. which perhaps has best caught the spirit of As usual, guests of honor for the party First boat across the finish line-period­ this historic summit. Saturday night and the race Sunday will be was Kaos, a Hobie 33 skippered by Rich U.S. Rep. Charles Bennett, D-Jacksonville­ Brew that took the horn from the commit­ who inspired the establishment of the regat­ tee boat in 3:23:57 on the course between TENTH KINGS DAY REGATTA, ta in 1977 in commemoration of a race held the Fuller Warren and Buckman bridges. JACKSONVILLE on the site by British sailors to celebrate That corrected to 3:22:53 which made King George Ill's birthday in 1776-and an Brew sixth in fleet. Ron Campbell, another official representative of the British govern­ J-24 sailor, was third overall on High Volt­ HON. CHARLES E. BENNETI ment. This year, that's Brian Crowe, minis­ age in 3:20:35, while John MacDonald on OF FLORIDA ter, commercial, from the British embassy Morgan 27 Prowler was fourth in 3:20:32. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Washington. In spinnaker classes, Brew took the cup in Tuesday, December 8, 1987 Mullen emphasized that the Saturday PHRF "A"; Bill Coolidge won PHRF "B" on night party, 6-11 p.m., was open to all sail­ Tartan 10 Balls N' All in 3:21:50; Ed Bur­ Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Jacksonville, ors in the area, not Just those participating roughs was first in PHRF "B" on Stoner 32 FL on November 21 and 22 celebrated its in the regatta. Wild Hare in 3:21:50; MacDonald won PHRF December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34423 "D": Peper was tops in PHRF "E"; Bert I urge my colleagues to consider the wel­ Given the much-heralded death of the Verway on Stoner 24 March Hare won fare dependent family. Do we really believe algae-choked Lake Erie during the 1960's, PHRF "F" in 3:25:40; and Bob Woolverton that by giving them more money and relieving water quality in the Great Lakes has im­ got the cup in PHRF "G" on C&C 24 Carou­ pressure to work we are helping them break proved, mostly due to the progress made in sel in 3:24:05. In non-spinnaker classes, Alan Geiger was through the web of dependency? I think not. I controlling direct discharges of wastes from the winner in PHRF "H" on Tartan 34 Cha­ urge my colleagues to vote against H.R. 1720 municipalities and industrial sources. The in­ risma in 3:28:44; Robbie Roth on Tartan 30 and for the substitute. strument of this progress was the 1972 Great Sandi Carol won PHRF "I" in 3:37:42; and Lakes Water Quality Agreement, signed by Conrad Jurgens took PHRF "J" on O'Day Canada and the United States, which empha­ 23 Obsession in 3:25:51. PEARL HARBOR SHIPYARD DAY sized reduction of phosphorus entering the lakes. While eutrophication is no longer a seri­ RALEIGH SMALL BUSINESSES HON. MIKE SYNAR ous threat to water quality, the five Great EXCEL OF OKLAHOMA Lakes face additional problems in the 1980's, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the most pressing of which is toxic contami­ HON. DAVID E. PRICE Tuesday, December 8, 1987 nants. This current concern is reflected in the most recent Water Quality Agreement, which OF NORTH CAROLINA Mr. SYNAR. Mr. Speaker, today the Oklaho­ was signed November 18, 1987, and which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ma Club of Hawaii is honoring the Pearl adds additional goals for reduction of toxic Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 Harbor Naval Shipyard employees who saved substances and acid deposition. Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I the lives of 32 sailors on the U.S.S. Oklahoma The International Joint Commission [IJC], want to take this opportunity to congratulate December 7 and 8, 1941. the United States-Canadian organization re­ two firms in the Fourth District of North Caroli­ On that day of infamy 46 years ago today, sponsible for developing bilateral water quality na which have been -listed among Inc. maga­ 19 shipyard employees came to the aid of the agreements, has identified 42 "areas of con­ zine's 500 fastest growing private companies sailors perishing on the capsized battleship cern" where beneficial uses of Great Lakes in the United States. U.S.S. Oklahoma. The shipyard workers cut waters are impaired. Most of these areas are The first is Captive-Aire Systems, owned by through with pneumatic chipping drills to located near the mouths of tributaries where Robert Luddy, which manufactures kitchen rescue 32 men trapped in pitch black com­ cities and industries are located, including the ventilation systems. The company employs 65 partments slowly filling with water. The U.S.S. connecting channels of the St. Clair and Niag­ people and grew more than 1,500 percent Arizona was still burning nearby, casting an ara Rivers. Pollutants are concentrated in from 1982 to 1986. The House Small Busi­ eerie light on the shipyard employees as they these areas because of long-term, direct dis­ worked. For over an hour there was antiair­ ness Committee had the pleasure to hear charges of wastes from local sources, non­ craft firing all around the harbor. Yet those from Mr. Luddy in a September field hearing in point source leaching of contaminants, and courageous workers persisted until the sailors Raleigh, and the company's phenomenal accumulation of pollutants from upstream. were brought safely ashore. growth is a tribute to him and his employees. Nearly all the areas of concern have contami­ Today if you were to visit that scene, you The second firm is Computer Intelligence of nated sediments. would find photographs and the helm of the Raleigh. This company experienced growth of Understanding all the sources, fates and ef­ 820 percent in the same 1982-86 time period U.S.S. Oklahoma along the staircase leading up to the shipyard commander's office. The fects of toxic contaminants in the Great Lakes and employs approximately 50 people. Rick ecosystem is still at a relatively early stage. Mitchell, owner and president of the company, U.S.S. Oklahoma Association has donated a commemorative plaque. Governmental programs to address toxic sub­ and his fellow owners and employees deserve stances are attempting to bring current recognition for their work in customized com­ Attending today's ceremony in Honolulu are Adm. Ronald Hays, commander in chief of the sources under control to levels that protect puter software. human health. However, it is not clear that I am pleased to have such dynamic compa­ U.S. Pacific Forces; Albert Willis, paymaster aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma and last sailor to such levels are fully effective in the rehabilita­ nies in my district. And I wish them continued tion of the Great Lakes, with their long food success in the Mure. be saved by the 19 shipyard employees; and Richard Goings of Kaneohe, HI, the last sur­ chains and high degree of bioaccumulation. viving shipyard employee honored by today's Also, toxic chemicals released during earlier, INFLATED WELFARE PROGRAM commemoration. less regulated times, remain within the system As we pause to observe the anniversary of and continue to cause problems. As a result, HON. J. ALEX McMILLAN a day of darkness, let us not forget those all Great Lakes States and the government of Ontario have issued fish advisories suggesting OF NORTH CAROLINA whose selfless and courageous action ex­ that consumption of certain species and sizes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pressed the most noble instincts of the human spirit. Through the example of such humanity, of fish should be avoided because of the high Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 we come to know and believe when light level of mercury, lead or other toxic chemicals Mr. McMILLAN of North Carolina. Mr. shines in the midst of darkness, that light present. Most disturbing is a recent IJC report Speaker, this week the House leadership cannot be overcome. noting an increase in the number of dis­ plans to wipe away any progress we plan to I join with the Oklahoma Club of Hawaii in charges into the lakes, more expired dis­ make toward deficit reduction with an insidi­ honoring those brave men by observing today charge permits, and fewer governmental en­ ous vote to inflate welfare programs by over as "Pearl Harbor Shipyard Day." forcement actions against polluters. $7 billion. As a wise man once said, "Know thy H.R. 1720, disguised as reform, costs a enemy." This bill is designed to give Great great deal of time and money. Americans are THE GREAT LAKES COASTAL Lakes regulators and researchers a handle on being asked to swallow $7 .2 billion more in POLLUTION INVENTORY the types, amounts and sources of pollutants Federal spending and are given no idea how now damaging the Great Lakes-the Nation's we are going to finance this added expense. HON. ROBERT W. DA VIS largest source of freshwater. The resulting in­ Under H.R. 1720, we would spend $413,000 OF MICHIGAN ventory, which will be computerized to allow on each family to get them off of welfare. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fast access and quick updating, will aid U.S. Under this reform package, we would increase efforts to fully implement the new water qu~l­ the number of families dependent on welfare. Tuesday, December 8, 1987 ity agreement. The U.S. Environmental Protec­ By raising the amount of benefits each family Mr. DAVIS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, today, tion Agency has used pollution inventories receives each month, in some States, like Senator JOHN GLENN and I are introducing prepared by NOAA for the Atlantic, Gulf of California, H.R. 1720 would require a family to bills authorizing the National Oceanic and At­ .Mexico and west coasts to set standards for find an entry level job that pays $14,000 a mospheric Administration to prepare a com­ pollutant discharges under the Clean Water year-matching their combined welfare bene­ puterized inventory of all pollutants and their Act. This valuable tool should be made avail­ fits. sources which enter the Great Lakes. able to the Great Lakes, especially now that 34424 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 we have renewed our commitment to cleaner, stan, to Olivier Warin of French television and piro as "a brave man bent on bringing to the safer waters for our future. the Agence France Presse correspondent in world the tragic story of the atrocities being Islamabad on October 5, 1984, "I warn you, committed against the Afghan people." TRIBUTE TO MR. IRVINE KRAUT and through you, all of your journalist col­ leagues: stop trying to penetrate Afghanistan A TRIBUTE TO MR. WILLIAM F. with the so-called mujahedin. From now on, RUMMELL HON. HOWARD L. BERMAN the bandits and the so-called journalists­ OF CALIFORNIA French, American, British and others-accom­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES panying them will be killed. And our units in HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 Afghanistan will help the Afghan forces to do OF OHIO it." Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pay tribute to an outstanding member of my WIFE OF SLAIN FILMMAKER ACCUSES SOVIETS community, Mr. Irving Kraut. For the last 6 tries. Space technology is typical. Although the weapons production. PEKING.-Since establishing diplomatic re­ Chinese officials and experts have been But although Mr. Galligan's slides and lations 14 years ago, China and the United given significant access to the technology diagrams had been prepared with Chinese States have developed a scientific partner­ underlying American space programs, the titles, his audiences neither commented ship that has become an important conduit gesture does not appear to have been recip­ upon nor questioned his presentation, and it of advanced Western technology to the rocal. A large delegation of Chinese space was impossible to discern how much had most populous land on earth. But although officials invited to Cape Canaveral, Fla., wit­ been absorbed. many fields of Chin~se research are now nessed the destruction of the space shuttle "One of the frustrating things," said an­ progressing rapidly on their own, growing Challenger last Jan. 28, but to date, no other of the scientists, "was the almost total numbers of American scientists say the flow American observers have been permitted to lack of feedback from the Chinese." Said of scientific information from China to the watch a launching from the new rocket pad another: "Going to China for a scientific ex­ United States remains a mere trickle. in western China. change was a great experience for all of us. The lopsided character of American-Chi­ As guests of the China Association for Sci­ But it's one I'm not personally anxious to nese exchanges of scientific information was ence and Technology . the American repeat." brought home to 14 American chemists who chemists who visited China this month were concluded an exchange visit to China this treated to some of the most spectacular month. Dazzled by China's scenic wonders sights in China-the Great Wall, the pictur­ and sumptuous cuisine, the Americans were esque sugarloaf mountains of Guilin, the ar­ JACK J. PIERCE RECOGNIZED AS nevertheless left wondering if they had cheological wonders of Xian, and ancient A HERO learned anything of substance in exchange parks, pagodas and palaces of Peking, for the professional insights they had of­ Canton and Changhai. They visited a collec­ fered to their Chinese hosts. tive farm and exchanged innumerable toasts HON. GEORGE MILLER In their two-week visit, delegates from the with Chinese officials at a series of ban­ OF CALIFORNIA American Institute of Chemists presented quets. The chemists also saw some tantaliz­ talks and research material based on their ing intimations of advanced Chinese tech­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES specialties, some of which were linked to in­ nology. Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 dustrial and military technologies vital to One of the American delegates was Dr. Chinese interests. The men and women in Abraham L. Landis, a senior scientist at the Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise the group also brought money for a fund Hughes Aircraft Company in El Segundo, today to pay tribute to a true hero. Jack J. that subsidizes some of the 30,000 Chinese Calif., who had needed special permission Pierce, who resides in Pittsburg, CA, which is scientists and students China has sent from his employer, a military contractor, to in my district, has recently been awarded a abroad to learn from the West. discuss technology with Chinese counter­ medal by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commis­ At the conclusion of their trip, the Ameri­ parts. Dr. Landis' specialty is a class of plas­ cans professed themselves amply rewarded tics called polyimides, which remain ex­ sion in recognition of his rescuing Donnel J. by the chance to tour China, but most also tremely strong even at high temperatures, Marion from burning in July 1986. lamented the fact that the scientific ex­ and therefore have important applications In a world in which true heroism is a rare change had been essentially a one-way in space and advanced electronics. occurrence, Jack Pierce stands out as a hero transaction. Their experience appears to Speaking before an audience of about 20 and role model for all to follow. On July 16, have been shared by many of the American Chinese chemists at the Chinese Academy 1986, Mr. Pierce was working as a mainte­ scientific missions that have visited China of Sciences in Peking, he briefly summa­ nance man in an apartment complex when he in recent years. rized the chemistry and applications of pol­ heard an explosion in a second floor apart­ Dr. Philip H. Abelson, an organizer of the yimides in the United States, and then lis­ first delegation sent to China by the Ameri­ tened to a presentation by Prof. Lu Feng­ ment. Rushing to the apartment, Mr. Pierce can Association for the Advancement of Sci­ Cai, a scientist whose son is a graduate stu­ opened the door and saw the fire enveloping ence in 1978, believes that one reason for dent in the United States. After describing Mr. Marion's apartment. He shouted for the inaccessibility of such information is some of the quantum-mechanical calcula­ Marion and hearing him, Mr. Pierce entered the relative backwardness of Chinese tech­ tions that the Chinese team had used in de­ the apartment, the walls and ceiling of which nology. veloping advanced polymers, Dr. Lu showed were aflame. Despite the intense heat and "The Chinese don't have all that much to Dr. Landis a perfectly formed polyimide blinding smoke, Mr. Pierce penetrated 25 feet show, and they are naturally reticent about ring with characteristics that might have into the apartment and found Mr. Marion in his exposing their shortcomings," he said. "Ide­ suited it for use as a bearing or machine ological resistance to disclosing privileged part of some kind. bedroom. He then dragged Mr. Marion from information appears to be declining, but it's "I had expected the Chinese to have read the apartment thus saving him from the fire. still a factor. On top of all that, China has up the chemical literature on polyimides," Jack Pierce's heroic behavior epitomizes always had a negative attitude toward for­ Dr. Landis said, "but I was unprepared for the ideals represented by the Carnegie Hero eigners, and attitudes cannot be changed as that sample of molded polyimide, which Fund Commission. Established by Andrew easily as switching off a light." graphically demonstrated to me the extent Carnegie in 1904, the commission was cre­ Dr. Abelson added, "I would consider to which Chinese technology has advanced. ated to recognize outstanding acts of selfless making another trip to China myself only if And as for Dr. Lu, I can only say that if I heroism. People who voluntarily risk their lives really substantive information were to had been in China as a student it would become available from the Chinese." have been a privilege to have had her as a in order to save the lives of others are those A contrasting explanation for Chinese ret­ teacher." eligible for this award. Recipients of the "Car­ icence was offered by William W. Havens, But the Americans were accorded little negie hero awards" exemplify selflessness executive secretary of the American Physi­ more than glimpses. Dr. Rodney Lu-Dai and bravery. Jack Pierce clearly exhibits these cal Society. Sung of Fishkill, N.Y., a Chinese-born gaso- qualities. 34426 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 I am proud to recognize Mr. Pierce today, Two CONSERVATIVES ON U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchanges, freedom of travel and the sover­ and know that my colleagues in the U.S. Con­ TREATY eignty of nations, were signed on a Friday gress will join me in offering their sincere ap­ WHAT THE AGREEMENT WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH morning. By Saturday night they were dead. preciation for his act of heroism. By way of example: In 1979, the Kremlin confiscated 34 American books sent to the Yes, the recent "agreement in principle" book fair in Moscow. Officials defended the between the United States and the Soviet THE REALITIES OF THE INF Union fairly may be described as a break­ action as "the highest affirmation of free­ TREATY through. Given the inflation that affects dom of speech." language no less than economies, one might Why do we treat with these people? At even call the agreement historic. But at the Krasnoyarsk the Soviets have nearly com­ HON. PHILIP M. CRANE risk of raining on a pretty parade, let me pleted a huge new radar facility. Ostensibly OF ILLINOIS suggest that we hold the euphoria. Nothing its purpose is to track satellites; actually its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES much has changed. purpose is to track incoming missiles. Con­ The tentative agreement is to eliminate gress and the DOD repeatedly have charged Tuesday, December 8, 1987 medium-and short-range nuclear weapons that the structure violates the 1972 treaty Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, this week, Secre­ over a period of three to five years. I say on antiballistic missiles. Under the ABM tary Gorbachev and President Reagan are ex­ "tentative," because a formal protocol re­ treaty, permissible radar units must be lo­ cated close to national borders; the giant pected to sign the Intermediate Nuclear Force mains to be drafted. Between the principle and the fine print, pitfalls may yet develop. Krasnoyarsk station is 750 kilometers from [INF] Treaty here in Washington. The INF The truly hard bargaining lies ahead. the nearest Soviet border on Mongolia. Treaty will, for the first time, result in the re­ In the midst of the Jubilation over what What have the peace-loving Soviets done duction of arms through the elimination of an the agreement may accomplish, let us keep to us lately? These are the good friends who entire class: intermediate-range missiles. This a cool eye on what the agreement will not planted so many bugs in the U.S. Embassy is considered to be a significant improvement accomplish. in Moscow that at least five fioors of the in relations between the United States and the The proposal will not affect strategic nu­ building will have to be destroyed. These U.S.S.R., and therefore world peace. clear arms; it will not affect conventional are the nice chaps who conspired with a Nonetheless, controversy has surrounded forces; it will not affect basic Communist Japanese manufacturer to acquire top­ goals of world domination. If all goes well, secret milling machines. What Jolly good this ·monumental event. Premature enthusiasm the elimination of these weapons will rid folks! They blow up the children of Afghan­ has erupted throughout the administration, the world of no more than 3 or 4 percent of istan with toys that explode in their hands. and at this time, the signing of the INF Treaty the nuclear arsenal. It is possible, of course, that the "great seems inevitable. Critics are terming the treaty This past March, the Department of De­ changes" mentioned by State Secretary a "treaty for treaty's sake" and a "rushed fense released its annual appraisal of George Shultz are real, that the recent treaty." These accusations are justified for Soviet military power. Consider some sober­ agreement will lead to more significant they question the intentions of the administra­ ing figures. agreements, that a new era of peace has Between 1977 and 1986, the Soviet Union tion and the Soviet Union. begun. Let us pray; but let us not bet the built 3,000 long-range nuclear missiles. In ranch. The INF Treaty provides the Reagan admin­ this same period, the United States built istration the opportunity to sign its first arms 850. The Soviet Union has developed a giant treaty. In doing so, the White House will be missile called the 88-25; it is "road-mobile." DON'T PuT MY NAME ON ANY SUCH TREATY able to offer the American people, and the The Soviets also are developing an SS-X-24; goes to Mikhail Gorbachev is not like past Kremlin a paper institution , the norms themselves suffer. Gorbachev may not be a carbon copy of his children and his mother. Neglect of the law, like neglect of the mus­ predecessors, but he still has troops in Af. cles, inevitably leads to atrophy and, even­ ghanistan and harbors imperialistic designs. tually, death. World history suggests that tyrants do not RESPONSE TO THE KRAUTHAM­ 2. The U.N. has shown itself "utterly dis­ respect treaties. They respect strength, MER INDICTMENT OF THE pensable" in its last remaining "peacekeep­ using treaties to weaken their adversaries' UNITED NATIONS ing" role, the interposition of U.N. troops in defenses and resolve. The military buildup a conflict zone. during the Reagan Administration and his When Nasser ordered the U.N. peacekeep­ Strategic Defense Initiative have HON. DOUG BEREUTER ing forces out of the Sinai in 1967, they left. begun to put the Soviet Union on notice OF NEBRASKA "Belligerents that want to make war can get that they cannot win in a military confron­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rid of the U.N. And belligerents that want tation with us. And our work and technical Tuesday, December 8, 1987 to make peace do not need it." The chronic superiority in the area of strategic defense chaos of Lebanon demonstrates that there puts them on notice that they won't be able Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, I encourage can be war amidst U.N. peacekeeping forces; to use nuclear blackmail much longer. my colleagues to read the following editorial the current situation in the Sinai shows But we still have some domestic fools response by Mr. George Weigel in the Novem­ that there can be peace without them. trying to undermine our military prepared­ 3. The U.N. as a kind of badge-of-sover­ ness, whimpering that SDI is too costly and ber 1987 issue of American Purpose, the pub­ lication of the James Madison Foundation, to eignty for small, Third World members can never be 100 per cent effective against states adds to, rather than subtracts from, all incoming missiles. That's a hidden­ the critique of the United Nations by Mr. the sum total of international conflict. agenda argument. They want to scrap SDI Charles Krauthammer in a recent edition of This "playpen" theory of the U.N.'s pur­ and the military buildup so more of our tax the New Republic. Of particular note is a dis­ pose requires that micro-states and mini­ money will be available for handout pro­ cussion of an idea offered by Dr. Morton powers "develop a position on the Persian grams. Kaplan of the University of Chicago. Kaplan Gulf, Central America, and parking slots for Saving SDI cannot be 100 per cent effec­ has proposed the creation of an Association satellities in geosynchronous orbit." Then tive, and hence should not be built, is as lu­ the bloc politics of the U.N. takes over, and dicrous as saying, during World War II, that of Democracies, and Weigel suggests that the "U.S. should consider, whether or not it conflicts are exacerbated rather than since anti-aircraft guns aren't 100 per cent solved. effective against all incoming aircraft, they leaves the U.N. and especially if it leaves, the 4. The U.N. further intensifies interna­ shouldn't be built. What SDI will do is creation of an Association of Democracies." tional conflict by its fondness for, and offi. create uncertainty in the Soviets' minds as This Member certainly does not support the cial approbation of, all manner of "libera­ to the success of a missile attack. abandonment of the United Nations by the tion movements," including the PLO and Ronald Reagan ought to reject any U.S.­ United States of America, even though that in­ SWAPO. Soviet disarmament agreement. If he signs an agreement on behalf of the American stitution has many frailities, faults, and ineffi­ Thus, in the case of the Middle East, "the people, I'd appreciate it if he'd write an ad­ ciencies, and even though it is used as a con­ U.N. rejects not only the first Arab-Israeli venient forum for constant anti-American rhet­ peace treaty, but any other compromise dendum to the treaty to the effect, "Walter that does not satisfy the most extreme Pal­ E. Williams does not accept, nor will he oric and convenient cover for espionage di­ estinian irredentists. The U.N. role in the abide by, any condition of this agreement." rected against this country. However, the ad­ intractable Mideast conflict is thus modest vantages of the Kaplan idea for such a sup­ but unmistakable: it is a warkeeping func­ A TRIBUTE TO JACK C. plementary association of democratic nations tion.'' BODENHAMER deserves careful consideration by our Govern­ 5. When there is no crisis at hand, the ment, our political leaders, and by the Ameri­ U.N. system tends to create one. can people: For example, the U.N. General Assembly HON. IKE SKELTON has called for an end to the current Antarc­ SINK THE U.N.? OF MISSOURI tica treaty, which disarms the bottom of the all reject Krauth­ would be the guarantee against violation of larly bludgeoned; Cuba is never discussed. ammer's "get out" prescription. One need human rights by either right-wing or left­ No U.N. body investigates Ethiopia's forced not accept Krauthammer's policy conclu­ wing governments. Membership would also resettlement program, which has resulted in sion to welcome so forthright a statement of give protection against non-members.'' the deaths of hundreds of thousands of in­ it, and from one who has worked hard to re­ Kaplan's proposals are not without their nocents: instead, the General Assembly suscitate the liberal internationalist vision own problems, but they at least take a cut votes $73.5 million dollars for a conference that once underlay the U.N. Krautham­ at addressing a crucial fact of international center in Addis Ababa. mer's verdict ought to be in play as this life today: namely, that the world is being There is inore. Cambodia is "Democratic" debate continues, which it undoubtedly will. organized, culturally, economically, techno­ Kampuchea on the U.N. roster and tote­ Leaving is, in theory and in practice, an logically, and politically. Thus the really board, as is "Democratic" Yemen. "Rights" option. Perhaps acknowledging it as such urgent questions have to do with the language and claims proliferate, but little or will, as Doctor Johnson said of hanging, nature, purpose, and effects of that process no attention is paid to the abuse of such concentrate impressionable minds. of organization, which will continue with or basic human rights as free speech, religious But suppose, for the sake of argument, without the U.N., and with or without the liberty, or habeas corpus. "Freedom," in that one were to accept both the Krautham­ United States in the U.N. Charles Krauth­ UNESCO's Orwellian "New World Informa­ mer indictment and the "Let it sink" ver­ ammer has made a powerful case that the tion Order," turns out to mean censorship, dict. Then what? present U.N. system is an obstacle, not an or in U.N.-speak "regulation of the right to Charles Krauthammer himself knows aid, to the task of organizing the world so information by preventing abuses of the that this is hardly the end of the policy that peace, freedom, and security are en­ right of access" charter mandates the agency to tion, which has ended smallpox and seems circumstance. One hopes that Charles ensure the safe and orderly growth of inter­ on the way to doing the same for such Krauthammer will turn his energetic intel­ national air transportation; but ICAO has scourges as "river blindness" in West Africa, lect toward addressing it. given special observer status to the PLO, is the paradigm case here. Strengthening bi­ "inventor of the political airline highjack­ lateral aid programs also makes sense, with ing.'' or (perhaps especially) without the U.N. TACT AND DISCRETION IN THE Given these manifold and undeniable cor­ The political task of getting the Congress PRESS-A SHORT HYMN OF ruptions-and the list could be multiplied on board such a reform is another, and tenfold-Krauthammer argues that "the more difficult, task that Krauthammer does PRAISE issue is not improving U.N. efficiency." not address. Rather, "the United States should make the But there is surely more to do than this. HON. PA TRICIA SCHROEDER very deliberate decision that the U.N. serves There is the task of reforming those inter­ neither its original purposes nor ours." national agencies that ought to serve impor­ OF COLORADO Therefore, the U.S. should leave the U.N. tant functions, and don't because of their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and "devote the money instead to worthy, gross politicization. If UNESCO wishes to non-politicized, U.N.-affiliated organiza­ corrupt its charter, then why not do more Tuesday, December 8, 1987 tions, such as the World Health Organiza­ than leave? Why not establish a new organi­ Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, this week­ tion, and to bilateral aid, which the United zation, open to democracies and to pre­ end Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith of Harvard States, not a bloc of hostile countries, will democratic states willing to take seriously control." freedom of the press, of scientific inquiry, University spoke to the press concerning the Why not stay and fight? Because, accord­ and of culture? If the ICAO wants to give recent stock market crash, the reasons ing to Krauthammer, it is corrupting (per­ the PLO observer status, then perhaps we behind it, and who's to blame. I found his manent minority status leads to strategies should leave the ICAO-but then establish words very thoughtful, and I would like to of damage limitation, which mean compro­ a new organization to serve ICAO's impor­ share them with you. mise of principles>. Because it is wasteful tant functions. Do we really want an inter­ TACT AND DISCRETION IN THE PREss: A SHORT (bilaterral aid makes more sense, in both national air transport system that is com­ HYMN OF PRAISE humanitarian and strategic terms, than in­ pletely fractionated and unregulated? The vesting resources in buying our own bloc at same course could be followed for refugee . And because it is self-defeating affairs, weather, postal service, and all the braith, Harvard University, to the press. . whether or not it leaves the U.N. and espe­ cation. And, as will others no doubt, let me Thus the Krauthammer indictment and cially if it leaves, the creation of an Associa­ tell also of my pleasure in having this op­ verdict. tion of Democracies. The world's democrats portunity to improve my standing with so The indictment has got to be considered need more than bilateral instruments for influential an audience. This I do in highly soberly by anyone who truly cares about the common strategic, political, and functional traditional fashion; I seize the occasion to future of international public life and the tasks. If the U.N. has failed to live up to the tell you of the press of your intelligence, in­ prospects for a world in which law and poli­ bright promise of its charter, then perhaps tegrity and, as it may be said, wide-focus tics slowly replace mass violence as the the time has come to establish an organiza­ perspicacity. I am restrainted in my praise means for settling arguments and resolving tion that would meet those standards. only by the knowledge that of so many of conflicts. The U.N.'s organized advocates in Morton Kaplan of the University of Chi­ these qualities you already know and have the United States, such as the United Na­ cago has proposed such an association. It frequently spoken. tions Association, have traditionally avoided would include the advanced democracies, But there are other qualities of which you or tried to deflect a critique such as Krauth­ each of which would have equal voting are perhaps less aware. They are your ammer's. That luxury ought no longer be rights. Mini-states, such as the Caribbean superb discretion, your kind and thoughtful indulged, especially since Charles Krauth­ island democracies, could hold associate tact. Of these especially I wish to speak to­ ammer is not from that part of the U.S. po­ membership. The new organization "would night. litical spectrum that once put "Impeach have a secretariat that each year would We meet on this otherwise happy evening Earl Warren" and "U.S. out of the U.N.'' assess the policies of the organization and in the aftermath of the most traumatic eco­ billboards side-by-side on the interstates. the member states on democracy worldwide. nomic event of our time. That was the great Krauthammer's indictment ought to be A parliament and a small executive branch stock market crash of October 1987, an oc­ taken most seriously precisely by those who would legislate with respect to human and currence rivaling and even exceeding in want to bring a measure of civil and politi­ political rights and control small milltary extent in associated disorder and fear the cal order to international public life. and police forces. A charter of human and Great Crash of 1929. It is your treatment of His verdict-"Let it sink"-is surely more political rights and a court would adjudicate this drastic event that I wish to talk about controversial than his indictment. Ambassa- violations of the charter by or within and, in a manner of speaking, to commend. December 8, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34429 Except for your tact and discretion there toward a balanced budget, it would not be Colleen O'Hara, who contrasts the Greenberg would have been serious extra suffering helpful to mention that this was what Her­ commentary with another health care article from what happened. And a very small mi­ bert Hoover had urged in the aftermatch of that followed 2 days later. nority of our people could, in the aftermath, 1929. Nor could it be said that, some of the have been, in their own view, gravely at risk. problem having been created by the tax re­ Ms. O'Hare's letter and the two articles But let me deal first with the factors con­ duction on the rich, their taxes above all follow: tributing to the event in question. should be the ones restored. Especially it v A MEDICAL CARE DESERVES COVERAGE BASED In Wall Street in these last years we have could not be suggested that the tax reduc­ ON GOOD HOMEWORK had one of our periodic outbreaks in finan­ tion now scheduled for next year should be postponed. Here arose the need to protect DEAR EDITOR, Flanigan and Greenberg-a cial dementia. These are normal; they grow lesson in contrasts. out of the assumption that intelligence is that vulnerable minority. And here again the press was wonderfully cooperative and James Flanigan, "Health Care: We both measured and enhanced by association Demand Best-and Pay For It", Their It is appalling to see a purported editor/ can trigger the eventual, inevitable and very advertisement called for further cuts in publisher afforded so many column inches rude rush to get out. public expenditures, cuts affecting all but to expound his unfounded, self-serving ver­ However, the reputation of Wall Street the very poor, and suggested, as a last biage. For surely it is evident he did no re­ for minimal intelligence was seriously in resort, increased taxes, always excluding search. If he lacked the resources to con­ jeopardy in this situation. So was the minor­ those that might adversely affect initiative duct sound investigation, he should at least ity of which I spoke earlier. This latter was and enterprise. That last, as all know, was have said: "In my opinion". our rich, our newly rich, including many of code for no increase on those signing the pe­ Observational evidence far surpasses hear­ our very rich. They were prominent among tition. say ... those involved in the speculation; their par­ There was here the special danger of Has Mr. Greenberg been in a VA hospital ticipation was both encouraged and fi­ highly offensive comment, even laughter. as either patient, visitor, researcher, or in­ nanced by the funds that recent tax reduc­ But here again the tact and discretion of vestigative reporter? tions had put into their hands. The tax re­ the press were nearly perfect. Thus my bow Has he observed first hand the quality of ductions were supposed to encourage hard, to all in this room assembled. In large mat­ care over a 12 year period? productive enterprise. Instead, not surpris­ ters and small our recent financial debacle Has he talked with patients and/or their ingly, that gratifying windfall had gone ex­ was handled by you with grace and re­ families? tensively into the purchase of common straint, with a minimum of obtrusive de­ Has he observed staff at 6 in the morning, stocks. scent to raucous criticism. 3 in the afternoon, 11 at night, or at 2 AM? None of this, however, could be said. Mar­ I have, I trust, said enough to ingratiate Has he witnessed the compassionate care kets in our time are a totem, a symbol of our myself for all the near future. You would of an off-duty resident who volunteers to secular religion. They can do no wrong. To understand my motives in offering this salu­ stay with a patient through the grueling find flaws in their behavior is both theologi­ tation were I contemplating office. But in second 12 hour period following open heart cally and ideologically incorrect. And we this year of the Constitution I reflect only surgery? cold not put our rich fellow-citizens at risk on the indefensible bar it imposes on citi­ Has he seen the nurse on her day off stop by saying that they and their much-appreci­ zens of Canadian origin as regards the rele­ in to check on a patient out of professional ated tax relief contributed to the debacle. vant employment. Still, my unqualified pride and personal concern? For both of these reasons the responsibil­ commitment to private life does not lessen Has he a friend who was finally accepted ity for the crash had to be removed from my desire to be agreeable or my wish for as a patient at a VA hospital and only then Wall Street. Accordingly, it was moved to your enhanced respect, even affection. In had a diagnosis after 4 years of seeking one Washington. Arriving here, it was attributed this spirit I offer this brief but deeply felt through "free enterprise medical facilities"? to the federal deficit. This deficit had not tribute to your virtue. May I wish you many This writer has. been a source of effective adverse concern more of the same. Greenberg speaks of VA's "own research for the preceding five years. Now, overnight, programs"-Is he aware that medications it became the central cause of the stock VA MEDICAL CARE DESERVES must be tested extensively in this country market collapse. This, however improbable, before they can be mass-manufactured and was the immediately available belief. There COVERAGE BASED ON GOOD dispensed? Is he familiar with the aspirin/ was, indeed, something cruel about this HOMEWORK persantine studies conducted at VAs in the transfer of blame by Republicans in New early '70s? Does he know that only after York to Republicans in Washington-from a HON. G. V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY this research did the FDA approve persan­ much-loved institution to a much-loved OF MISSISSIPPI tine? My husband, in Los Angeles, was a vol­ President. However, there was, to repeat, no unteer participant on that study; my broth­ choice. Some of the blame could then be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES er, in Florida, a private pay patient, is now passed from Washington on to Germany Tuesday, December 8, 198 7 taking persantine for his heart condition. and Japan for handling their economies Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, although Hardly does VA conduct research programs with greater good sense and restraint. This I am no journalist, I would think that, to write for its own benefit. too was done. But much of the blame had to Does Greenberg read the New England stay on Pennsylvania Avenue. an objective article or even to editorialize, one Journal of Medicine, Science News and In all this the press showed its tact and should either already know the subject matter other esteemed publications or does he just discretion. It could have emitted loud guf­ or go to the trouble of learning something hang out with his "high priced national faws and other intensely vulgar sounds. about it. Failing to do so can obviously lead to medical economy" cronies and lobbyists That would have been very damaging. This gross errors, distortion, and misleading con­ picking up material during rounds at the was an exceedingly delicate exercise in clusions. A case in point is an article by local watering holes? It is evident he does buck-passing; it required the cooperation of Daniel S. Greenberg, "A Cabinet Post? Vets not conduct verifiable research. Had he, he all. would know how moronic and conflicting In consequence, blame for the Wall Street Really Need to Abolish Archaic VA Hospital his statements are: aberration was effectively shifted. This then Chain," which appeared in the Los Angeles "Regarded in medical circles as a backwa­ resulted in the need for a further exercise Times on November 20. ter of medical service"-yet he says "new of tact and discretion. As deeply symbolic Greenberg's opinions prompted a well-re­ medical graduates log time at the VA satisfy steps were being taken in Washington searched, eloquent response from Ms. Katy residency requirements." What he neglects 34430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 8, 1987 to say is that these residents request to ing member of society-thanks to superb by Congress, the VA is unable to compete serve their residencies at VA hospitals be­ medical ca.re-at a VA hospital. successfully for nurses. Nurses, she said, are cause they offer a broad base of experience CFrom the Los Angeles Times, Nov. 20, pressured into working extra shifts and to and frequently are located near major 1987] handling duties normally assigned to non­ teaching medical centers, e.g., UCLA, A CABINET POST? VETS REALLY NEED To nursing staff, to the detriment of patient Scripps/La Jolla. These teaching institu­ ABOLISH ARCHAIC VA HOSPITAL CHAIN care. tions respect these residencies. More money for the VA would seem to be "High rate of accidents and mistakes in the easy answer, but the problems extend patient care as well as a disturbing number dedicated to a class of patients consisting VA as opposed to private sector hospitals If Ronald Reagan really wants to help vet­ mainly of elderly, low-income men. The nar­ who quietly ignore their "accidents and mis­ erans, he should pursue a simple goal: clo­ rowly defined patient population creates an takes." Ever hear of Cedars, Aids, babies­ sure of the Veterans Administration medical aura of medical isolation in the VA enter­ seven years to own-up to an "unreported empire, the country's biggest and worst hos­ prise. The agency seeks to counter this by problem"? pital chain. cultivating ties with medical schools and "Cardiac surgery units at four VA medical Instead, he is pandering to the shrill vet­ running its own research programs. centers were closed for unacceptable per­ erans lobby by backing cabinet rank for the But in terms of quality of medical service, formance" -ever hear of the regulations VA, an elevation that would perpetuate a the VA does not have a good reputation. and standards for operating cardiac surgery system of medical care whose time has gone. Two years ago, cardiac surgery units at four units, e.g., "must perform minimum of 150 The medical part of the VA absorbs $10 VA medical centers were closed for unac­ surgeries per year." Perhaps because it is billion of the agency's $27-billion budget, ceptable performance. And a study by the VA and they do not perform needless sur­ but rarely are there plaudits for the quality General Accounting Office found a high geries as one finds rampant in the private of VA medicine. rate of accidents and mistakes in patient sector-this could be a consideration. Veterans need to get into the mainstream care, as well as a disturbing number of unre­ "In terms of quality of medical service, of modem medicine. They least of all need ported problems. the VA does not have a good reputation"­ to be relegated to an anachronistic, heavily The real solution to veterans' health care perhaps that's because they aren't in to self­ bureaucratized system that manages at once matches that of the rest of the population; aggrandizement, but are in to quality medi­ to be expensive, dangerously understaffed a national financing system that will rise cal care. Verifiable evidence: two urology pa­ and often shoddy. above the present patchwork of socialized tients, one private sector and one VA pa­ There's little chance that the President medicine for the vets and free enterprise for tient. Private sector waited 4 days for re­ will back off from his ill-advised Veterans most others. Until that arrives, politics sults. VA had results in 2 hours. Same tests, Day commitment, or that Congress will should recognize that medical facilities and but hundreds of dollars more costly via the spare the country and its veterans from this personnel are so abundant in almost all slow, expensive pass-through-many hands folly. The VA's payroll, spread among 172 parts of this country that there's ample ca­ private sector. hospitals and 200 clinics throughout the pacity to meet the needs of the veteran pop­ "No medical sense in a nationwide health­ country, commands reverent political atten­ ulation. The $10 billion that's enmeshed care system dedicated to a class of patients tion. So does the VA's natural constituen­ cy-the American Legion, the Veterans of each year in the VA medical system could consisting mainly of elderly, low-income Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veter­ buy a lot of medical insurance and care on men"-both male and female veterans re­ ans and an assortment of other veterans the open market. ceive VA outpatient and inpatient services. groups, all notable for their political sting. Forget about cabinet rank for the VA, Mr. Some of these patients have private pay in­ Pulling at patriotic heartstrings, and dish­ President. Since you're not running for any­ surance that reimburses VA. Many of these ing out campaign contributions, these orga­ thing, you can back what's best for the vet­ patients go to VA because the quality of nizations depict the VA health-care system erans: abolition of the archaic hospital care exceeds private sector care. Also, by as medically necessary for many vets and system that so often fails to meet their virtue of their patient load, the cost-effec­ morally requisite for the country that called needs. tive VA hospitals can absorb a part of the them to service. burden of Medi-Care, the financially No one can argue about the nation's debt CFrom the Los Angeles Times, Nov. 22, strained, costly, private sector reimbursed to veterans who suffered disabilities in serv­ 19871 health care system. ice or who are unable to afford medical care. All in all, Mr. Greenberg took a cheap HEALTH CARE: WE DEMAND BEST-AND PAY Together, these two groups comprise about FORIT shot at VA Medical Centers. He attempted 94% of the nearly 1 million veterans who re­ to take a news item <"Cabinet Post"> to get ceive medical care in VA facilities. But the