19706 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY TAKES serve on the National Highway Safety support reckless American interven­ THE SPOTLIGHT Commission, and his role as vice chair­ tion. He offers a provocative, if sur­ man of the 1980 Carter-Mondale cam- prising, solution. HON. ROBERT G. TORRICELLI paign. I do want to note that I do not share OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Speaker, as one who is very fond Mr. Hamill's advocacy of a return of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the entire Rodino family, it is a the military draft. I do see merit in a great pleasure for me to insert this ar­ broad-based, voluntary national serv­ Wednesday, July 17, 1985 ticle into the RECORD to share with my ice program for our youth. e Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, an colleagues. With the exception of perhaps the article appeared in last Sunday's [From the Newark Star Ledger, July 14, peace Corps and VISTA, we presently Newark Star Ledger entitled "Health 1985] have no nonmilitary opportunities for Care Industry Takes The Spotlight," Once again, the business spotlight is on young Americans to serve our country about some of the exciting changes the Garden State, in still another dimen­ that are equal to military service in and developments that have occured sion. commitment and scope. in the health care industry in New Its focus now is on the multibillion dollar, Participants in a national service multifaceted health-care industry which is Jersey. going through a performance involving program could hel:p rebuild the decay­ Prominently featured in this article major metamorphosis and keen competi­ ing neighborhoods found in many of is a young New Jersey attorney named tion. our cities. They could clean up the en­ Peter W. Rodino III-the son of our And prominent Jerseyans, past and vironment, help eliminate illiteracy, or distinguished colleague Representative present, are center stage. Also in the scene help care for our growing nursing PETER W. RODINO, Jr., the chairman of of action are such giant corporate entities as home population. With the appropri­ the House Judiciary Committee and Prudential Insurance Co. of America and ate support and guidance, they could the Hospital Corp. of America and such or­ the dean of the New Jersey congres­ ganizations as the nationwide Blue Cross redefine the idea of community serv­ sional delegation. and Blue Shield Association and its New ice. It is clear from reading this article Jersey unit; the American Hospital Associa­ I encourage our colleagues to take a that the younger Rodino has a great tion, and scampering about are a host of moment to read Mr. Hamill's many of the qualities for which we all Health Maintenance Organizations, thoughts. I think there is something know his father-intelligence, hard learn that Peter Rodino III is earning of the broad-scoped AmeriCare Health It's time to bring back the draft. I know, I tremendous success and respect. Corp. and himself in an enviable and chal­ know: the draft was one of the great bogeys When he was a young boy, Peter lenging role in the industry. of the Left during the Vietnam era. The Rodino recognized the dangers of nu­ In the latest HMO consolidation involving draft drove thousands of young men into clear war, and although he was only 10 a Jersey health insurer, the 33-year-old exile in Canada, Sweden, and other coun­ years old, he decided to do something Roseland attorney-son of New Jersey's con­ tries, where many remain. It was the focus about it. After he wrote a letter to gressional delegation dean, Peter W. of gigantic demonstrations that sometimes Rodino, Jr.-will continue as chairman of unraveled into violence. The military draft Nikita Khrushchev, imploring him to the Crossroads subsidiary and take on a di­ had a class and racial bias that sent too put an end to the arms race, young rector's portfolio on the board of the public­ many blacks, Hispanics, and working-class Peter started a program called "Little ly-owned AmeriCare. whites off to fight and die in Asia while People to Little People," a letter-writ­ A former Jerseyan, George Deubel is their more affluent white fellow citizens ing campaign to the children of the president and chief executive of AmeriCare, stayed at home, acquiring the skills that al­ Soviet Union. His idea was that the headquartered in Sacramento, CA. Of lowed them to evolve, god help us all, into children of the world could influence Deubel, Rodino says he is a "management yuppies. The draft was unfair. The draft their elders to put a stop to the nucle­ pro, among the best in the health care in­ was heavy-handed. The draft was ineffi­ dustry," a credential of vital importance in cient. I was one of the millions of Americans ar nightmare. any changing business.e who were glad to see it go. He earned a great deal of attention But now, after a decade of American life for this. He received an invitation to without the draft, I think I was wrong. the White House and met with Presi­ A NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM We can see the results of a draft-free dent Johnson, appeared on the popu­ FOR YOUNG AMERICANS America all around us. There is, to begin lar television quiz show "I've Got A with, the bizarre militarism and hyperna­ Secret," and was commended by HON. TED WEISS tionalism that infect all levels of American UNICO as "Boy of the Year" and .by life. This phenomenon is inaccurately la­ OF NEW YORK beled patriotism by the people, from Ronald the Columbian Civic Club as "Out­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standing Youth of the Year." This all Reagan down, who are spreading the virus. Wednesday, July 17, 1985 Safe, soft, well-paid American white men took place before he reached his 12th watch television and growl about the need birthday. •Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, I would to invade Nicaragua. This early promise was realized in like to share with our colleagues an in­ I don't think these armchair nationalists his later professional and academic sightful column written by journalist would be so brave if their own kids were ob­ achievements. After graduating from Pete Hamill and entitled, "Let's Draft ligated to do the fighting. In Nicaragua, of Georgetown University and Seton Hall the Yuppies." It was published recent­ course, the Reaganistas have learned at ly in the June edition of Mother Jones least one crucial lesson from the Vietnam Law School, Peter Rodino established War: instead of ending the commitment an active law practice in New Jersey. magazine. with "Vietnamization" , they have begun with it, numerous civic and political activities. being sent off to fight an American­ paying the contras to do the fighting that Among the highlights of these are his sponsored war in Central America, Mr. American soldiers should be doing them­ appointment by President Carter to Hamill observes, are more likely to selves. The so-called covert war againt the

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19707 Nicaraguan government is, of course, a young smile in a brainless way and are housing costs on low- and middle­ United States war, funded by the United happy once more. income families who make up the bulk States to further the policies of the United A national draft might change that. If we of renters. States. But the Reagan people also know follow the logic of our current national that if body bags don't come back stuffed rhetoric and invade Nicaragua, then the The study also points out that the with broken young Americans, if the only people who voted for Reagan should bleed rent increases may well far outweigh dead are Nicaraguans, there will be no and die alongside those in Central America the tax reduction renters will get from public uproar. who didn't have the chance to make that lower tax rates. But young Americans themselves are also choice. If Reagan's giddy optimism ignores The administration has promised safe from the responsibilities that should go the devastation of the cities, the heartbreak that in exchange for giving up certain with their fervid embrace of Reaganism. of the small farmers, the humiliation of wel­ tax breaks and incentives, most peo­ Most exit polls after last year's election in­ fare and unemployment, then some instru­ ple's taxes will be reduced through dicated that 60 percent of those in the 18-to- ment must be devised to make young people 24 age bracket and 65 percent of the self-de­ aware of the other America that the presi­ lower rates. But, the study argues, a scribed young professionals voted for dent chooses to ignore. That instrument rent increase is a hidden tax, far great­ Reagan, therefore licensing his murderous should be a universal, democratic, national er than the typical savings from lower policies in Central America and his hard­ service draft.e rates. line Cold War policies elsewhere. Why not? A rental household consisting of two To most of the young, Ronald Reagan is workers earning less than $25,000 a merely a principal character in a TV movie, PROPOSED TAX CHANGES MAY year for example, it argues, can expect part of the remote events that will never DRIVE UP RENTAL HOUSING tax savings of about $100 a year from have any direct consequences to them. They COSTS can sit around listening to Madonna sing the lower rates. "Material Girl" and watch Lifestyles of the If their rent goes up even half of the Rich and Famous while young Nicaraguans HON. CECIL (CEC) HEFI'EL 20 percent projected by the study, bleed in the mountains along the Honduran OF HAWAII they will, on the average, be paying border. They can do what many Americans IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $450 more a year. They will, therefore, enjoy doing all the time: being tough with Wednesday, July 17, 1985 be behind by $350. their mouths. In the world where most Another hidden consequence, the young Americans live, guns are fired only on e Mr. HEFTEL of Hawaii. Mr. Speak­ study argues, may be increases in television, violence is acted out by Clint er, one of the concerns some of us State and local taxes. If tax incentives Eastwood, and if there is pain, discomfort, have about the administration's tax for investing in low-income housing unhappiness, you merely call Daddy collect proposal is that it may have unre­ and get some money to handle the problem. disappears, local governments will The draft would change all of that. Cer­ vealed consequences. So far-reaching a have to pick up the added cost of pro­ tainly, the ideal draft would be a valuable shift in tax policy is almost certain to viding housing for those who can't pay instrument of a true democracy. If all Amer­ create fundamental changes. for conventional housing, a group icans, male and female, rich, middle-class, Analyses of these changes are begin­ which may well increase as rents go and poor, from age 18 to 25 were subject to ning to emerge and as we gain insights up. the draft, this would be a social and racial from them we need to consider wheth­ There is, then, a real possibility that equalizer. There are many Americans who er or not we are prepared as a nation local taxes will rise to pay for this had never met black people until they to accept these consequences. If we are walked into a basic-training camp. There are cost.e many blacks who had not intimately en­ not, we have to look for alternatives. countered whites until they met them in One such study has just been re­ foxholes. Some even became friends; none leased which offers some ideas worth DE EPIMAETHEUS DAMON WIL­ were ever the same again in their percep­ considering carefully. It is study of the LIAMS HONORED BY WATTS/ tions of race and class. effect of tax changes on the Nation's WILLOWBROOK CONGREGA­ Obviously, the military could not absorb rental housing market, a subject of TION ON 92D BffiTHDAY all young people who turn 18. For that special interest to me as the State of reason, the concept of national service Hawaii has one of the largest percent­ would be the best structure for any future HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY ages of rental housing in the country. OF CALIFORNIA draft. Many young Americans would enter The study, conducted jointly by Har­ the armed forces; others would serve in Job IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Corps public image. For celerated electrons, can be freed of bacteria ally, That we take great pride along with the food industry, however, radiation is es­ and other microorganisms, including such Pepperdine University which bestowed its sential, and certain kinds of radiation can be pathogens as Salmonella, giving them a highest honor in Christian Service; The a powerful and economical means of pre­ longer shelf life under refrigeration. Cooked County of Los Angeles which bestowed the serving foods and keeping them wholesome. meats that are sterilized by ionizing radi­ Community Service Award; The Rules Com­ For consumers, radiation used as a preserva­ ation after they have been sealed under mittee of the State of California which be­ tive can provide food products with less vacuum in economical containers can be stowed The Christian Service Award; The microbial contamination and a longer shelf preserved as long as heat-sterilized meats life. This adds up to better health and lower without refrigeration. American Biographical Institute which la­ food costs. beled him as a "Distinguished American Cit­ The banning of ethylene dibromide izen," Nominated by Pepperdine University WHAT IS ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION? as a fumigant has given new impetus to the and listed in the Archives for the Disciples Electromagnetic radiation is energy that search for ways to control insects in plant of Christ; Listed in the Preachers of Today moves through space at the speed of light products. Irradiation effectively controls in­ Book; and the Charles Drew Postgraduate by simultaneous variation of the intensity sects in stored grain and can substitute for Medical School bestowed a Christian Serv­ of electric and magnetic fields. The intensi­ some uses of EDB on fresh fruits and vege­ ice Award in honoring and commending De ty of the radiation at a particular point tables. changes periodically, and the period may be Epimaetheus Damon Williams on his exem­ IONIZING RADIATION plary display of service to, and concern for represented by either the number of times the spiritual upliftment of his Community, per second the electromagnetic field makes The scales in the diagram of the electro­ State and Country in that he has touched a complete excursion and returns to its magnetic spectrum show how the energy of the hearts of the poor and even the spirit of original condition or the the radiation increases as the wavelength distance in meters <1 meter= 1.1 yards> be­ decreases. As the energy of the radiation former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, tween corresponding points on two succes­ multiplies, the greater is its tendency to and the hearts of the rich, and we extend sive waves . Both methods cleave the food molecules with which it our gratitude for his great contributions to are used, and their relationship is indicated interacts into smaller ionized or electrically his community, state and country. Further­ in the accompanying diagram, where the ve­ charged particles. Light energy has this more, the new edifice underway that will be locity of propagation of the waves through property to a small degree, and the property the sanctuary of the Watts/Willowbrook space <3 x 10 8 meters per second) is equal to becomes more pronounced as the wave­ Church of Christ located in Compton, Cali­ the product of the frequency in periods or length of the electromagnetic radiation de­ fornia will be dedicated in his honor: And be cycles per second and the wave­ creases. Gamma radiation, accelerated elec­ it further length in meters. The diagram shows both tron radiation, and X-radiation have very Resolved, That a suitably prepared copy the "kinds" of electromagnetic radiation short wavelengths and a relatively strong of this Resolution be transmitted to Mr. De and the uses that are made of certain por­ tendency to produce ions. As a result, they Epimaetheus Damon Williams.e tions of the spectrum. are often called ionizing radiation. July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19709

TREATING FOODS WITH IONIZING RADIATION ation hazard. Ionizing radiation does split irradiating food with the doses needed to The value of ionizing radiation in food some molecules in foods, causing changes in control insect pests and bacteria. It has not preservation and pest control is that in chemical composition. The scientific and been proved that the effects of ionizing ra­ proper doses it can split enough of the mole­ toxicological problems raised by this ques­ diation on the chemical composition of cules in the bacteria and other living orga­ tion are discussed following the legal road­ foods are more extensive or more dangerous nisms in certain foods so they are no longer block. than those of any of the other commonly functional, without at the same time split­ THE LEGAL ROADBLOCK accepted forms of radiant energy, such as ting so many of the molecules in the foods Enough public uncertainty existed about infrared radiation or microwaves, that the foods are damaged. The ionizing the use of ionizing radiation for treating used in food preparation. radiation used to treat bulky food products foods to cause the Congress to act. In the The chemical changes produced in foods is almost exclusively gamma rays that are Food Additives Amendment of 1958, the by high of water, indirectly an economic problem. while electrons with energy of 10 million ing the toxicological evidence required for electron volts of verifying that no hazard exists can never be evidence is needed to obtain regulatory water. The relatively poor penetration of fully answered. No matter how many sub­ sanction for use of a specific dose of radi­ electrons, therefore, limits their practical stances have been found and proved to be ation on a particular product. Because of application in food preservation and pest innocuous at the levels present, one can the expense involved and the lack of assur­ control to foods that can be irradiated in never be sure that all the substances formed ance that the proposed procedure would win layers no more than 3.5 centimeters thick in as a result of food irradiation have been approval from the Food and Drug Adminis­ specially constructed units. identified or that they are all harmless. The tration, companies generally are unwilling Processing of foods by ionizing radiation same, of course, can be said for foods proc­ to invest the money required. This discour­ for preservation and pest control has been essed by heat. Heating creates more chemi­ ages the use of irradiation. As a conse­ approved in many countries. But in the cal changes than does irradiation with the quence, more energy is needed to refrigerate U.S., only minor uses have been approved, high doses needed for sterilization. and prepare food, and processors must use including irradiation of spices to reduce the THE TOXICOLOGICAL PROBLEM additional amounts of chemicals as fumi­ count of microorganisms, irradiation of An insurmountable experimental problem gants and preservatives. wheat and wheat flour to control insects, is created by the fact that the changes in IRRADIATION NOT FOR EVERY PRODUCT and irradiation of potatoes to inhibit sprout­ chemical composition of foods associated ing. Development and use of the technology with ionizing radiation are diverse and that Some food products are better candidates in the U.S. has been inhibited by a number the products are not separate from the for irradiation than others. Generally, a of problems. foods for testing in the proportions in which product that is dry, such as grain, can toler­ THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM they exist. In gauging the risk of using a ate more radiation without detrimental ef­ Excessive exposure of humans to ionizing chemical additive in our food supply, the fects than a moist product, such as fresh radiation may produce cancer, other medi­ procedure used by toxicologists is to feed fruits, vegetables, and meats. cal problems, and death. Humans need spe­ different doses of the substance to the ani­ At low doses inhibition of ation can be seen, and infrared radiation animals. The maximum dose that does not sprouting of tuber, bulb, and root crops, in­ can be felt. But ionizing radiation in moder­ produce a harmful effect is found from the cluding potatoes and onions; control of ate amounts can neither be seen nor felt, al­ response curve. This information is used to insects in some fresh fruits and vegetables, though it may have profound health conse­ estimate a practical margin of safety, that nuts, dried fruits and vegetables, cereal quences that occur later. No wonder people is, the difference between the maximum grains, and legume seeds; and delay of view it as a mysterious and lethal force <1>. "no-effect level" of intake by the test ani­ ripening of certain tropical fruits. The hazard of excessive human exposure mals and the maximum level that should be At higher doses withdrawals from profit shar­ of the administration to amend the dundant. While I am in favor of elimi­ ing will be taxed at a substantially higher Education for Economic Security Act nating unnecessary duplication of rate and <2> the amount of pre-tax deposits based upon the sum of 1) 2.25% of to be an emphasis of any Federal role urgent priorities. For these purposes, the designated payment rate multiplied by in school reform. As a distinguished $2 billion would be authorized for the number of poor children aged 5 to 17 in the be necessary for the 4 succeeding LEA, and 2) 2% of the payment rate multi­ cluded earlier this year in the report, fiscal years. plied by the number of non-poor children in Barriers to Excellence: Our Children However, we would not simply be di­ the LEA. The payment rate is the State or at Risk: recting money at a problem with this national average per pupil expenditure We reject the implication raised in cur­ bill; we would be asking for results. level, whichever is higher. If the allocation rent public debate that excellence in educa­ The school districts would have to be to any LEA or consortia of LEAs under this tion for some children can be made avail­ able to demonstrate progress after 3 formula would be less than $1000, that able only at the expense of other children. years in order to receive continued amount must be reallocated to other LEAs. Indeed, it is our deepest belief that excel­ SEC. 5 PAYMENTS FOR REFORM AND EQUITY lence without equity is both impractical and funding. Progress would be judged in incompatible with the goals of a democratic terms of general improvement in the A. State formula.-The other half of the society. educational system, including improve­ amount appropriated for the Act is to be used for reform and equity payments to This report recommended a signifi­ ments in such areas as dropout rates, instructional time, and class size, or States. After reserving 1 percent for the ter­ cant Federal role in improving the ritories and 1 percent for business involve­ quality of education for these children specific improvement in the areas on ment grants, the Secretary distributes these at risk. Similarly, a staff report of the which funds were focused. funds to the States based upon each State's Education Commission of the States, I believe H.R. 2840 provides school share of poor children as counted under prepared for its Business Advisory districts the degree of flexibility neces­ Chapter 1. Commission, stated: sary to target funds where they are B. Local formula.-Each State may re­ most needed, while providing a clear serve 15 percent of its grant for administra­ A reform movement that bypasses at-risk, tion of these projects and for State-operated apathetic, and unproductive youth . . . will delineation of an appropriate Federal role in the educational excellence categorical projects. States must distribute only invite disappointment and cynicism. It the remaining reform and equity funds to is imperative, therefore, to broaden and effort. For this reason, a number of LEAs based upon a formula that takes into deepen the reform movement now. The coa­ educational organizations and associa­ account the numbers of Chapter 1 children, litions are in place, the climate for change tions are supporting this bill. These the graduation rate, the absentee rate, and remains positive and the timing could not be groups include the following: the number of low-achieving children, with better. National Education Association; each State making its own determination H.R. 2840 confronts both the prob­ Council of the Great City Schools; about the relative weights of these factors. lem of underfinancing of school American Federation of Teachers; SEC. 8 AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES reform and the problem of providing American Association of School Ad­ A. General improvement and excellence.­ access to excellence for all children. ministrators; Council of Chief State These funds may be used by LEAs to pursue The bill authorizes two types of grants School Officers; Children's Defense educational excellence and improve instruc­ to States, one addressing each of these Fund; American Association for Coun­ tion in mathematics, the sciences, communi­ problems. One-half of the funds ap­ seling and Development; National As­ cation skills, foreign languages, technology, propriated would be distributed to the sociation of Elementary School Princi­ and where necessary, for guidance and States on the basis of school-age popu­ pals; International Reading Associa­ counseling. B. Reform and equity.-LEAs may use lation, to be used for general improve­ tion; and the National Council of these funds for the following categorical ment and excellence programs. These Teachers of Mathematics. projects: early childhood education, <2> funds would be distributed within the SECTION-BY-SECTION SUMMARY-SCHOOL school day care, (3) inservice teacher train­ State to local school districts based EXCELLENCE AND REFORM ACT-H.R. 2840 ing, <4> dropout prevention, <5> effective upon a formula which takes into ac­ SEC. 1 SHORT TITLE schools, and <6> improvement of secondary count school-age population, with a "School Excellence and Reform Act." school basic skills instruction. heavier weighting for poor children. SEC. 2 FINDINGS AND PURPOSE SEC. 7 APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS The local school districts would use The Congress finds that it is in the na­ A. State application.-Each State must these funds to pursue general educa­ tional interest to reinforce current educa­ submit an application for funds containing tional reform and to improve instruc- tional excellence movements and to ensure general assurances regarding proper admin- July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19715 istration and fi.c;cal accountability and de­ during the hearing-all in opposition during the second World War. Like other scribing the intended uses of the State por­ to the administration's proposal. American soldiers, Puerto Rican veterans tion of reform and equity funds. Because section 936 involves more experienced the ordeals of battle, the com­ B. LEAs may submit a single application raderie that comes from collective action in for Sec. 4 or Sec. 5 grants, or both. For Sec. than just tax issues, the President's pursuit of a just cause, and the pride which 4 general funds, two or more LEAs may proposal warrants careful examina­ attends victory. But Puerto Rican veterans apply as a consortium. For Sec. 5 equity tion. I commend to your attention the experienced something more. funds, only those LEAs with 5,000 poor chil­ statement of one of the hearing wit­ Through their military service, Puerto dren as counted under Chapter 1 or with nesses, Millie Torres, chair of the Na­ Ricans learned about their country and the poor children constituting 20 percent of tional Puerto Rico Coalition. The coa­ world. Puerto Rican soldiers witnessed first­ their enrollment STATEMENT OF Ms. MILLIE TORRES, CHAIR, of living of any people in the world. that the projects are designed and imple­ NATIONAL PuERTO RICAN COALITION ON THE PRESIDENT'S TAX PROPOSALS RESPECTING The revelation of American wealth and mented in consultation with parents and power fundamentally altered the economic teachers; <2> that funds will be used to sup­ SECTION 936 attitudes, aspirations, and expectations of plement and not supplant funds from non­ Good Afternoon, Mr. Chairman, Members the Puerto Rican people. This revelation in­ Federal sources; and <3> that the State and of the Committee. My name is Millie Torres spired Puerto Rico's post-war economic rev­ local fiscal effort will be maintained at no and I am the Chairperson of the National olution. less than 90 percent of the preceding year's Puerto Rican Coalition. With me is the Coa­ Puerto Rico's economic revolution is re­ level, with waivers for exceptional circum­ lition's President, Louis Nunez. We appreci­ markable in so many ways. It was started by stances. ate the opportunity to testify on the Presi­ economic planners not soldiers, and it was dent's tax proposal respecting section 936 of SEC. 8 EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY sustained by ballots not bullets. Unlike most the Internal Revenue Code. revolutions, it was propelled by emulation Each participating LEA is required to The National Puerto Rican Coalition was submit to the State educational agency evi­ established in 1978 to further the social, rather than envy; its goal was to create-not dence of progress in those particular areas economic, and political well-being of the to confiscate or to capture-material wealth. for which funds are spent, or evidence of Puerto Rican community. Directly and But the fundamental distinction of Puerto general improvement in the system . No LEA is eligible lion people in Puerto Rico and over 2 mil­ nomic change, including the American revo­ for an allocation after the third fiscal year lion Puerto Ricans who reside in the States. lution, Puerto Rico's economic revolution unless this evidence demonstrates progress, Although geographically dispersed, the was based on faith in the power of private as verified by the State. States may conduct Puerto Rican community is united by a dis­ enterprise. Private enterprise would liberate audits on a sampling basis to verify the ac­ tinctive history and common cultural and the productive potential of the Puerto curacy of the local evidence submitted. ethnic heritage. Even more fundamentally, Rican people! And so, after the War, the Puerto Rican SEC. 9 BUSINESS INVOLVEMENT MATCHING Puerto Ricans are united as a community in GRANTS search of greater economic, social, and edu­ government launched a capitalist revolu­ cational opportunities. tion. This revolution, aptly called "Oper­ From the 1 percent of the Sec. 4 equity ation Bootstrap", augmented the Federal funds reserved for this purpose, the Secre­ The Coalition is currently preparing two tax policy research reports-one on section tax incentives available under section 931 tary may make matching grants to LEAs with an array of self-help measures de­ that obtain cash or in-kind donations from 936, and a larger report on all other tax issues of importance to the Puerto Rican signed to attract private American business local business concerns to conduct programs capital to the Island. under this Act. The Federal share may not community. As soon as these reports are completed, they will be sent to you. I hope In 1948, the government of Puerto Rico exceed 50 percent of the fair market value passed the Industrial Incentives Act. This of such donations. you will give them your attention and seri­ ous consideration. law gave a ten-year exemption from Island SEC. 10 DEFINITIONS Fairness, Growth, and Simplicity-these taxation to firms which established or ex­ Definitions used in the Act are generally are the three objectives of the tax proposals panded manufacturing operations in Puerto the same as those used in other Federal ele­ President Reagan transmitted to Congress Rico. mentary and secondary education pro­ in May. In addition to tax exemptions, the Puerto grams.e President Reagan often uses analogies to Rican government set up an agency, Fo­ baseball to make a point. Given the passion mento, to promote the island's development. of the Puerto Rican community for the Fomento's strategy, a strategy now followed THE ADMINISTRATION'S PRO­ President's favorite sport, I will indulge in a by State and local development agencies on POSAL TO REPEAL SECTION baseball metaphor myself. the mainland, was to entice private industri­ 936 STRIKES OUT With respect to each of the President's al investment through an array of incen­ tax objectives-Fairness, Growth, and Sim­ tives including the provision low-interest plicity-the proposal to scrap section 936 loans, leasing of plant facilities on conces­ HON. BILL RICHARDSON and to institute a limited wage-credit swings sionary terms, and government-sponsored OF NEW MEXICO and misses. It strikes out. training of new workers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES STRIKE NO. 1: FAIRNESS Over the years, Puerto Rico has adjusted You don't have to be an economist or his­ and improved its self-help development pro­ Wednesday, July 17, 1985 torian to know that Federal tax policy has gram to respond to changes in world eco­ e Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, been an essential ingredient in Puerto nomic conditions and U.S. tax law. And Rico's phenomenal post-war economic devel­ while economists argue about the precise ef­ included in President Reagan's tax fects of these incentives, no one disputes the reform package is a proposal to repeal opment. Section 936, enacted in 1976, and the even more generous exemption afforded magnitude or impact of Puerto Rico's section 936 of the Internal Revenue under section 931 have helped to propel the uniquely "American" economic revolution. Code and to establish a limited wage­ Island's economic development. The President's section 936 proposal is credit for U.S. corporations operating But more ts involved that just Federal tax fundamentally unfair and must be rejected in Puerto Rico. The Congressional His­ policy. After all, Puerto Rico remained the by Congress. panic Caucus opposes this proposal be­ "poorhouse of the Caribbean" for three dec­ This proposal should be rejected because cause of the harm it would cause to ades following enactment of section 931, and of what it is-a unilateral repudiation of a Puerto Rico, the Caribbean region, adoption of section 936 followed, rather democratic decision to pursue a capitalist and the entire United States. than preceded, Puerto Rico's explosive eco­ model of economic development. nomic growth during the 1950's and 1960's. This proposal should be rejected because On July 11, the House Ways and To understand Puerto Rico's economic of what it would do-collapse the Puerto Means Committee held a hearing on transformation, one has to appreciate the Rican economy; devastate the Puerto Rican the President's section 936 proposal. impact of World War II. Over 65,000 Puerto society; and fray the political bonds that More than a dozen witnesses testified Ricans served in the U.S. Armed Forces unite us. 19716 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 This proposal should be rejected because per worker> payrolls than low-tech oper­ unemployment and other social services; the of how it will appear to the rest of the ations, they are the very industries that list goes on and on. world-a crippling blow to the only Demo­ have been expanding and providing new em­ And when the inevitable costs associated cratic capitalist revolution in this Hemi­ ployment opportunities to Puerto Ricans. with this proposal are added up, the project­ sphere. During the eight-year period 1976-1984, ed revenue-gain evaporates! More likely STRIKE NO. 2: GROWTH manufacturing employment in Puerto Rico than not, the President's proposal would In terms of promoting Puerto Rico's eco­ increased by less than .5% annually. During prove to be a net revenue-loser! Strike nomic growth, the President's section 936 this same period, employment in construc­ four!e proposal is a guaranteed loser. It provides tion dropped sharply, agricultural employ­ no new incentives to promote the Island's ment continued to decline, and employment in Puerto Rico's petroleum refineries was economic development, and it would curtail TRIBUTE TO MRS GAIL HURLEY existing incentives for those industries scaled-back. which are most responsible for Puerto Despite unfavorable economic conditions, Rico's recent growth. employment in high-tech industries during HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS Even with the legislative restrictions con­ this period grew at an annual rate in excess tained in TEFRA and administrative restric­ of 4.5 percent. The high-tech companies OF PENNSYLVANIA tions imposed by the IRS, section 936 is which are sure to be "dislocated" under the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more generous than the President's pro­ President's proposal-pharmaceuticals and posed wage-based tax credit. No existing sec­ computers-had annual employment gains Wednesday, July 17, 1985 tion 936 corporation, and no U.S. firm con­ of better than 7 percent and 15 percent re­ sidering new or expanded operations in spectively. Last year, high-tech firms, which • Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I am Puerto Rico would gain from the President's are primarily section 936 operations, ac­ pleased to note in the CONGRESSIONAL plan, and many would lose. counted for approximately 42 percent of RECORD that I recently had the honor But section 936 is not meant to help cor­ manufacturing employment in Puerto Rico. to attend the 17th graduation ceremo­ porations; it is meant to help the people of Mr. Chairman, no set of numbers can de­ ny of the Academy of Medical Arts Puerto Rico. It's stated purpose is to assist scribe the harm to the Puerto Rican econo­ U.S. possessions in obtaining employment­ my which would result from adoption of the and Business in Harrisburg, PA. An producing investments by U.S. corporations. President's proposals. Lay-offs of section extended privilege was also granted to And it is in this regard that President 936 hi-tech employees would idle workers in me when I had the extreme pleasure Reagan's proposals to institute a wage-based all sectors of the Puerto Rican economy. to assist in presenting the Outstanding tax credit for possession corporations has a These workers would not only lack employ­ Medical Assistant Student Award to superficial appeal. After all, even with sec­ ment, but they and their children, and their Mrs. Gail Hurley. tion 936, Puerto Rico's unemployment rate children's children, would also lack any rea­ hovers around 23 percent, more than twice sonable prospect for employment. Mrs. Hurley's selection was made the national average. And so, the Treasury Economic life leaves little room for ro­ from some 30 national finalists repre­ Department argues that a wage-credit mance. Progress creates its own momentum. senting 150 schools accredited by the would be a more "direct, efficient, and cost­ Federal regulations, currency exchange and Accrediting Bureau of Health Educa­ effective" way to promote employment than interest rates, and a host of economic fac­ section 936. tors restrict the development opportunities tion Schools. The basis of her selec­ I leave to economists discussion of the rel­ available to Puerto Rico. Like the States, tion was for the excelled scholastic ative efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the the Island cannot compete with other na­ performance, attendance, professional President's section 936 proposals, knowing tions in the production of certain goods and attitude, extra-curricular activities and that I cannot resolve their wide-ranging dif­ services. Puerto Rico cannot look back to interpersonal skills she had displayed ferences of opinion on these issues. As an the tobacco, apparel, and other labor-inten­ throughout her years of schooling. American of Puerto Rican ancestry, I am sive low-tech industries which once pro­ concerned with the EFFECTIVENESS of pelled the island's development for its Not only did the American medical Federal tax incentives to promote employ­ future growth and survival. technologists recognize her for profes­ ment and economic growth in Puerto Rico. sional abilities, but she was also given That President Reagan's proposal would STRIKE NO. 3: SIMPLICITY It is hard to see how the President's sec­ special recognition by her classmates have a negative impact on Puerto Rico's em­ when they chose her outstanding stu­ ployment levels is certain. Both the Treas­ tion 936 proposal simplifies our tax scheme; ury and the President's report on section in fact, for the short term it does just the dent of the 17th class at the academy. 936 recognized that the proposed wage opposite. The grandfather clause preserves, She is currently employed by the credit may be less attractive than the exist­ for at least 5 years, the complexities associ­ Yellow Breeches Family Practice ing income-based credit for certain corpora­ ated with section 936, and the proposed Center in Boiling Springs, PA, which tions, primarily those in industries such as wage-credit is sure to generate its own prog­ was the site of her internship while at­ pharmaceuticals and electronics which have eny of regulations, revenue rulings, advisory lower than average employment levels and bulletins, and court decisions. Add to that tending school. higher intangible income, and that immedi­ the complexities associated with the option Of the 46 students who graduated ate repeal of the existing higher credit under which existing firms can elect be­ from the academy, two other out­ could cause undesirable short-term econom­ tween income- and wa.ae-based credits standing students were recognized for ic dislocation in the possessions. during the grandfather period, and you their displayed talent. Rosanne Marie How does the President propose to deal have complexity compounded. with this inevitable "dislocation"? By insti­ The only way in which the Administra­ Thompson of Harrisburg, PA, was tuting a five-year grandfather period "to tion's section 936 proposal advances simplic­ named outstanding dental assistant allow existing firms a generous transitional ity is by employing the simplistic and and Stacy J. Readinger of Tower City, period to recover their existing investments absurd assumption that repeal of section PA, was cited outstanding medical sec­ and restructure their operations." 936 would not substantially alter corporate retary. Both women are to be con­ Recover their existing investments and re­ behavior or investment in Puerto Rico. gratulated for their fine performance. structure their operations-What does this Why would Treasury economists employ mean? It means that the section 936 corpo­ such an assumption? Two reasons are obvi­ All of the women in the graduating rations have time to leave the Island with­ ous. class have exhibited their vast medical out losing money! First, it's a whole lot easier and obviously abilities and I commend them for a job But what about the Puerto Rican work­ more palatable to say that this proposal well done.e ers? How many would be idled, for how wouldn't affect Puerto Rico than to discuss long? Although these vital questions elude a its likely impact. certain answer, all available information in­ Second, the Treasury Department's rosy dicates that the number of idled workers revenue-gain projections depend on this as­ would be large, and would grow with time. sumption. Without this assumption, the The industries which would be hardest hit Treasury would have had to calculate the by the President's proposals are the high­ costs of its proposal-in terms of Puerto tech industries. While it is true that these Rico's reduced GNP; resultant Federal and industries enjoy larger profit margins and Puerto Rican revenue losses; additional Fed­ have proportionately smaller certifies that made over $300,000 in consumer and pilot project in 1975 and used VISTA Romania permits its citizens to emi­ home improvement loans for that resources to serve nearly 100 elderly in grate, or Cb> explicitly suspends that neighborhood. First Hub is the only its first year. Today work exchange re­ requirement for freedom of emigra­ credit union in Milwaukee to take part tion. A consultation of U.S. State De­ in the Neighborhood Housing Conser­ sources, including VISTA, total over partment and other reports can lead vation Program, which gave out over $87 ,ooo and the program has served to but one conclusion: Very few Roma­ $200,000 in rehab loans in the special over 500 people each year. nians are allowed to emigrate, and the reinvestment area. Mr. Speaker, as you can see VISTA rest are permitted few of the human Interfaith Program for the Elderly is alive and well in the city of Milwau­ rights enshrined in the United Nations used VISTA volunteers to create an kee. Thousands of Milwaukee citizens Declaration. over 55 job referral project. The vol­ have been helped by the fine and out­ Together with Congressman TONY unteers were successful in obtaining standing work of MAUD and VISTA. HALL and FRANK WOLF, my colleague several hundred jobs for older adults On the occasion of the 20th anniversa­ from New Jersey CHRISTOPHER SMITH in Milwaukee. Another VISTA helped ry of VISTA I would like to offer my has closely monitored the human to found the Nursing Home Informa­ deepest appreciation for all of the fine rights situation inside Romania. The tion Program, which is now serving work being done in Milwaukee and three Members made a trip there several hundred seniors each year. throughout the United States.e during the past month to examine July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19719 governmental practices at first hand. Pentecostal Church, the Baptist Church of [From the Star-Ledger, July 4, 19851 Upon returning, they addressed a Timisoara, the Baptist Church of Marghita, U.S. URGED To PRESSURE ROMANIANS ON letter to the Romanian Government and the Tiganesti Baptist Church which we RELIGIOUS, EMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS which I think will be of interest to all visited in Alexandria. their congressional colleagues. <5 > Licenses to the following pastors: loan I also attach a very interesting news Stef and Benjamin Cocar of Medias, Daniel WASHINGTON.-Rep. Christopher Smith story on the congressional trip by Mr. Cedean and Stancu Dragomir of Deva, Ilie CR-4th Dist.>, Just back from a trip to Ro­ Scott Orr of New Jersey's Star-Ledger. Tundrea of Bucharest, Daniel Chivoiu of mania, said he believes the U.S. must con­ Bacau, Viroel Codreanu of Ipotesti-Suceave tinue to put pressure on the Eastern Euro­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, and Buni Cocar of Julesti Bucharest. pean nation to ease its restrictions on reli­ Washington, DC, July 16, 1985. gious freedom. His Excellency STEFAN ANDREI, <6> Authorization for the following Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist churches to function legally: the Second Smith is among congressmen who have Republic of Romania, Bucharest. Baptist Church of Brasov, Bethany Baptist advocated using Romania's most-favored­ DEAR MR. MINISTER: We are grateful for in Timisoara, and Voluntari-Bucharest Bap­ nation trade status as a lever to force it to the hospitality and courtesies afforded us tist Church. stop persecuting religious leaders and to during our recent trip to Romania. <7> Restoration of the house built by Mr. ease restrictions on emigration. Like you, we believe that the warm rela­ Petre Popescu as the sanctuary of the Bap­ Smith, a member of the House Foreign tionship and economic ties which our two tist Church in the village of Gaujani-Rim­ Affairs Committee, was encouraged after nations have enjoyed over the years have nicu Vilcea. meeting with top Romanian officials, but reaped important benefits for the people of <8> The Baptist Mrs. Fiorica Farcas was added that he does not believe the Roma­ both the United States and Romania. We fired from her position as a French teacher nian government will institute reforms with­ recognize the constructive role Romania has out further U.S. prodding. played in promoting improved relations after a 12 year career simply because of her among diverse factions in the Middle East. Christian faith. She has not been able to Despite attempts by the Romanian gov­ We note with respect that Romania contin­ obtain employment for three years. She ernment to jam Smith's schedule with offi­ ues to demonstrate in its national pride with should be rehired. cial meetings, he said he was able to find sovereignty by pursuing an independent for­ <10> Explanation and resolution to the time to visit with religious leaders and their eign policy. On matters relating to emigra­ problem approximately 80 Romanian Chris­ parishioners. tion, it appears that new protections for po­ tians experienced in June 17, 1985, when "The religious fervor is very high in Ro­ tential Romanian emigres will soon be they were prohibited from leaving Otepeni mania. The government feels that to try forthcoming as per agreements with U.S. Airport to go to East Germany, a country and stamp it out would be useless. They Counselor Edward Derwinski. for which they had received transit visas. In allow certain denominations to exist, but We note with deep sadness, however, that particular, we would like to see the safe emi­ they put a lot of restrictions on what they religious freedom is far less than it could be gration of Augustion and Hiriscau Lidia and can do," he said. in Romania. While there is significant value their children. "They draw lines all over the place, figu­ to continued economic ties between our two <11> Meaningful jobs for Zoltan and Eliza­ ratively speaking, and if you step on those countries, we believe that ensuring human rights and religious freedoms is a moral re­ beth Egyed and permission to These churches feel they are between a rock and is the foundation for any meaningful bi­ send their daughter to school as they await and a hard place. lateral relationship. As Members of Con­ final approval to emigrate to the United "You can Just see how they are playing ball with the government, ing freedom of thought, conscience, and re­ <12> Permission to export into your coun­ because either they've been co-opted by the ligion around the globe. try as a gift, over the course of ten years, government or because they feel it is in the best interests of their has been a upsurge in interest in the United Version Bibles. church." States concerning the status of religious lib­ Mr. Andrei, we believe that the state of Smith said he was able to get a commit­ erty in Romania. Numerous reports of reli­ Romanian-U.S. relations is at a crossroads. ment from Romanian officials that Father gious repression and harassment and the As you know, the reauthorization of Most Gheorghe Calciu, a religious leader who re­ recent resignation of Ambassador David peatedly has been Jailed by authorities, will Funderburk are causing many congressmen Favored Nation Status is under and others to rethink old notions and opin­ review by the Congress. It is possible that be permitted to emigrate to the U.S. ions. MFN may be permitted for another year Smith said he also spoke with authorities While we acknowledge that there is the thereby continuing to provide Romanian in­ about the case of a Trenton couple working semblanace of some religious liberty in Ro­ dustries with open access to markets in the to allow their adult daughter and her family mania, it is clear that the fourteen denomi­ West and a yearly trade of approximately to move to the U.S. Though he said he got nations permitted by the goverment are one billion dollars. But you should be aware no firm commitments from officials in the largely circumscribed. It is our view, based that disturbing reports of new arrests of be­ case of Mr. and Mrs. Josif Boka of Trenton, on authoritative reports and our own per­ lievers-prisoners of conscience-continued he said the U.S. Embassy in Romania prom­ sonal observations, that religious practice harrassment of Christians and other viola­ ised to add the case to its agenda. puts some at great risk. tions of the Helsinki Accords have resulted Smith said the Romanian government at­ In the hope of underscoring our concerns in a serious but not irreversible erosion of tempts to limit emigration by its citizens by and pursuing a resolution to these prob­ American confidence in Romania's commit­ refusing passports and visas to those who lems, we bring to your attention a few spe­ ment to human rights. are likely to be accepted for emigration by cific examples which are eminently solvable. Be advised that Congress, unlike in previ­ the U.S. In addition, he said, those who seek These include: ous years, is now poised to begin a lengthy <1 > The immediate emigration of Father passports are fired from the jobs and their Gheorge Calciu to the West. process of serious review of religious repres­ children are denied access to state-run <2> Release from prison for Dorel Catar­ sion in Romania, a scrutiny to which we are schools. ama of Brasov, Emil Mocanu of Bacau, and strongly committed. Romania's most-favored-nation status, Constantine Sfateu of Iasi. Short of revocation of MFN, Congress has which must be renewed each year by the <3> Cessation of the demolition of Ortho­ a myriad of options available to it to encour­ U.S. President and Congress, is likely to go dox churches in Bucharest and the restora­ age reforms in Romania. We are presently through this year, Smith said. He added, tion of the Reformed Church of Brazar, the studying these alternatives, should they be however, that he will be pushing for a more Baptist Church of Bistrita, the Giulesti necessary. thorough review next year. Baptist Church of Bucharest, the Cimpia We trust you share our concern and hope The status, Smith said, is essential to the Turzii Pentecostal Church, and Baptist you will view our comments in the spirit of Romanian economy. Church of Blaj. friendship, candor and truth. "They need it desperately; that's why it <4> Authorization for the following Sincerely, churches to build new sanctuaries: The can be such an effective lever for us to use," Second Baptist Church of Oradea, Hateg TONY P. HALL. he said.e Baptist Church, Resita Baptist Church, the CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH. Pentecostal Church of Medias, Tirgu-Mures FRANK R. WOLF. 19720 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 WORLD ASSEMBLY ON VEDIC faced with unemployment, disability, Mr. Speaker, Dr. Tom Chavez, Jr., SCIENCE or old age. from the Museum of New Mexico and On August 14, 1935, then President a member of the 375th anniversary HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into commission has written a reflective ar­ OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA law one of the most historic pieces of ticle on the colorful history of the legislation in our country's history­ oldest capital city in the United IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Social Security Act. The country States. I hope that my colleagues in Wednesday, July 17, 1985 was just climbing out of the Great De­ the Congress will take the time to read e Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, I pression that challenged and virtually this thoughtful piece: would like to take this opportunity to ripped asunder the very social fabric Three hundred seventy five years ago Don inform my colleagues of the convening of this Nation. Pedro de Peralta traveled from Mexico City of a world assembly on natural law Today, because of the foresight and to Nueva Espana's far northern frontier to here in the District of Columbia. compassion of such great government establish a new, more centrally located cap· On January 9, 1985, Maharishi leaders as Roosevelt, 36 million Ameri­ ital city in an area known then and now as cans, both young and old alike, have New Mexico. Governor Peralta founded La Mahesh Yogi, founder of Maharishi Villa de Santa Fe in 1610-some ten years International University College of been given a sense of hope and securi­ before the landing of the Pilgrims and Natural Law and Maharishi Vedic Uni­ ty and the feeling that "somebody eighteen years before the Puritans. Today, versity, in Washington, DC, inaugurat­ really does care." Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the ed the World Assembly on Vedic Sci­ For families suffering from the trag­ United States. Except for a thirteen year ence, being held July 8-18 at the edy of lost loved ones, Social Security period from 1680 until 1693 when it was oc­ Washington Convention Center. has meant enough supplemental cupied by Pueblo Indians following their More than 6,000 experts in the Ma­ income for surviving spouses to raise revolt which had driven the Spaniards into their children and provide for their exile near El Paso, it has been the seat of harishi Technology of the Unified government for the northernmost frontier Field are gathered for the assembly to education. For those individuals who of the colonial viceroyalty of New Spain practice this technology twice daily have been victims of unfortunate until 1823. and create an influence of positivity career-ending injuries, Social Security After Mexico won Independence from and coherence in world consciousness. has provided disability benefits, which Spain in 1821, New Mexico, with its capital At the assembly, leading scientists are have often served as reassurance and at Santa Fe, became a part of the new re­ presenting the latest and most com­ encouragement in those troubled public until August 18, 1846 when Brigadier plete knowledge of natural law from times. For those persons who have re­ General Stephen Watts Kearny, command­ the perspectives of the different disci­ tired from the active work force and ing the Army of the West during the Mexi­ who must cope with inflation, rising can War, took possession of the city and plines of modern science and ancient proclaimed annexation of New Mexico in Vedic science as brought to light by food and shelter costs on fixed in­ the name of the United States. In the Com­ Maharishi. They are examining the comes, Social Security has served as a promise of 1850, Congress made Santa Fe discovery of the unified field of all the stable source of financial assistance. the capital of the new territory of New laws of nature in an attempt to raise I believe a statement made almost 25 Mexico. For two weeks, in the spring of the administration of every govern­ years ago by another great former 1862, Confederate forces from Texas occu­ ment to that supreme level of efficien­ president, John F. Kennedy, about the pied the city until forced to retreat after cy displayed by the government of greatness of our country being meas­ the Union victory at the Battle of Glorieta. nature in its most orderly administra­ ured not in our riches and wealth but Finally, on January 6, 1912, with the signing of the statehood bill by President William tion of the entire universe. They are in our willingness to help those who Howard Taft, Santa Fe became the new sov­ also considering, in depth, the applica­ are less fortunate, demonstrates the ereign State of New Mexico, the forty-sev­ tion of this knowledge through the continued need for Social Security. enth state admitted into the Union. Maharishi Technology of the Unified Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to For the full extent of its 375 years, Santa Field aimed at enriching all fields of join me in acknowledging the services Fe has been a mecca for "the sensitive life, including economics, education, provided by the Sacramento district minds" as Henry Adams referred to the in­ health, administration, and national office of the Social Security Adminis­ telligencia. From enlightened people such as defense and create a peaceful and tration and hundreds of other offices Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, a contemporary happy world family of nations. of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Austin, just like it, to millions of people Santa Fe has developed into a true artists' Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the citi­ around our great country. Through and writers' community. Today the city's zens of the District of Columbia, I programs like Social Security, we reaf­ long, lustrous cultural heritage is supple­ extend a warm welcome to these per­ firm to the world that America's heart mented by numerous museums, the Santa sons from all 50 States in the United is big enough and sensitive enough to Fe Opera, the Chamber Music Festival, States of America and 50 other coun­ reach out with compassion to its job­ Annual Indian and Spanish Markets, and tries and encourage them in their ac­ less, its disabled, and its elderly.e the Fiesta de Santa Fe among other events. tivities on behalf of world peace and The Palace of the Governors, the initial edi­ harmony.e face built with Santa Fe's founding, is the A SALUTE TO SANTA FE, NM oldest continuously occupied, as well as oldest government building in the United TRIBUTE TO SOCIAL SECURITY States and is today the hub of Santa Fe's HON. BILL RICHARDSON ambiance.e ADMINISTRATION OFFICES OF NEW MEXICO HON. ROBERT T. MATSUI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, July 17, 1985 TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM N. OF CALIFORNIA JOSEPH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, this year the people of Santa Fe, NM Wednesday, July 17, 1985 will join together to celebrate their HON. MARIO BIAGGI •Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, on city's 375th anniversary. The people of OF NEW YORK August 14, 1985, hundreds of local Santa Fe are justifiably proud of their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Social Security offices in cities and unique city. They look forward to a towns throughout the Nation will cele­ constructive future for they are build­ Wednesday, July 17, 1985 brate the 50th anniversary of the sign­ ing on a solid past. Santa Fe citizens, e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, today I ing of the Social Security Act, which my constituents, join with me in shar­ rise to pay special tribute to the re­ has brought much needed economic ing with the Congress the special occa­ markable accomplishments of Sgt. assistance to millions of needy persons sion of our city's 375th anniversary. Maj. Malcolm N. Joseph, a native New July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19721 Yorker who is retiring from the mili­ THE NASA BUDGET FREEZE because the NASA science budget is largely tary after. 36 years of distinguished a construction of small, short-lived parts, a service in the U.S. Coast Guard and stagnated year, such as this one, with no HON. MORRIS K. UDALL new projects actually builds a future reduc­ the New York Army National Guard. OF ARIZONA tion into NASA's scientific programs. But Sergeant Major Joseph, is a Bronx IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the budgetary effect of this reduction will constituent who was born in New York Thursday, July 18, 1985 not show up until several years in the and attended Franklin K. Lane High future. School, Boro Hall Academy, and •Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, Dr. The fact that the President's budget built Lehman College. His civilian employ­ Eugene H. Levy, the head of the Uni­ this future decrease into the NASA science versity of Arizona's Planetary Science program caused considerable concern in the ment has been with the New York Department and the director of the scientific community. The cost of basic sci­ Army Reserve National Guard where Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has entific research is not large; the entire he held clerical and administrative po­ written a recent article on the effect NASA space science budget is about one­ sitions. He is married and has three of a freeze on the NASA budget. As fifth of one percent of the federal budget. grown children. Sergeant Major Nonetheless, the symbolic value of "holding one of the Nation's foremost planetary the line" seemed important enough to justi­ Joseph was inducted into the U.S. scientists, he makes a strong case for a fy a temporarily diminishing program; and, Coast Guard in November 1943. vigorous space science program. As he for the most part, the response from space During his tour of duty he participat­ says in the article: scientists was muted. ed in the invasions of the Island of The Nation has an investment in knowl­ The more recent "freeze" action on the Luzon in the Philippines, the Island of edge, and in scientific and technical exper­ House floor changes the situation. Now, Palau, Caroline Islands, and the Island tise. That investment has built a critical na­ with an approximately $400 million de­ of Eniwetok, Marshall Islands; receiv­ tional resource upon which we rely, and crease below the previously-frozen level of which we should not fritter away.• • • effort, current programs will have to be cut. ing an honorable discharge as seaman Curiously, the House action contained no first class in March 1946. While addressing long-term budget­ instructions about how the program cuts On January 12, 1948, he enlisted in ary considerations, his immediate con­ are to be taken. The original NASA budget the New York Army National Guard cern is H.R. 1714, the NASA authori­ included several programs of basic research zation for fiscal year 1986, now await­ which have been nurtured along by the and was called to active duty with the Congress for several years, as well as some 715th AAA Gun Battalion during the ing conference action. As such, his re­ programs mandated entirely by the Con­ Korean conflict. He has also served marks are especially timely. At this gress, which otherwise would not even be in with the following New York National point I would like to submit an article the budget. Guard units: 77th Transportation into the RECORD and to commend it to Scientific programs sponsored by NASA Company, HHD 141st Transportation my colleagues. and the other federal science agencies, in­ Battalion, HHC 2d Battalion 106th In­ Tm: NASA BUDGET F'REEzE cluding the National Science Foundation, declaring Eng­ finest." and cultural freedom, and freedom to lish the official language of the United The VA was created in 1930 to centralize emigrate, as "basic human rights" of States, I read with great interest the series the federal government's responsibility for all individuals. on bilingual education. providing benefits to veterans and their de­ To my way of thinking, the series resulted pendents. Paralleling the vast increase in We must continue to work on behalf in the same conclusion that motivated me to the number of veterans over the last 55 of these powerless individuals, not introduce the ELA: There continues to be years, the VA has grown dramatically and is only the known victims of Soviet op­ no substantive or consistent evidence that now the nation's largest independent feder­ pression, but also the thousands of un­ bilingual education is having the desired al agency. known, silent victims. We have not result of assimilating language minorities The present veteran population of 28 mil­ been silenced just because our protests into the American mainstream by providing lion is almost six times the 4. 7 million veter­ are not always acknowledged. We per­ them with English fluency. ans living in America in the VA's founding sist in our protest of the Soviet Conversely, I believe that limited, experi­ year. Eighty-one of every 100 living veterans Union's repeated violations "in letter mental efforts to "immerse" students in in­ served during defined periods of armed hos­ tensive language training have demonstrat­ tilities and account for 59 percent of all and spirit," of the Helsinki accords. ed great effectiveness. Why, then, should we Americans who ever served in war in over Soviet Jews, such as Alexander continue to pour scarce federal dollars into two centuries. Pevzner, are denied even their most the unproven bilingual approach? Altogether, 81.5 million persons-veterans, fundamental freedoms: the freedom of I agree with the 1983 findings of the dependentS and survivors of deceased veter­ thought, of religious and cultural Twentieth Century Fund: "Children to ans-are potentially eligibility for VA bene­ practice, and the freedom to be with whom English is an alien language are being fits and services. This is almost one-third of loved ones. As representatives of the cheated if it remains unfamiliar to them; the nation's population. U.S. Government, and the American they will never swim in the American main­ To meet this challenge, the VA is provid­ people, we will continue to impress stream unless they are fluent in English." ing the most comprehensive and diverse The ELA would not deny language minori­ benefits programs in its history. upon the new Soviet administration ties necessary training; it would not prohibit the importance of progress on this bilingual education in areas where such an From 54 hospitals in 1930, the VA hospital issue. approach were deemed necessary by school system has grown to include 172 medical My personal vigil for Alexander will officials, and it would not undermine the centers, 228 outpatient clinics, 116 nursing cultural background of newcomers. It would home care units Chicago Cubs team these days, after a lapse of many ty, not a rag-tag field." right here in Peoria. Pete knows how to pro­ years. The Chicago Tribune recently Breathing life into professional baseball mote. Initially, you do have to wonder, will paid tribute to this team, to the in Peoria has been a long, tedious struggle. a professional baseball team play in Peoria? owner, and to this great city. Not since 1957, when the old Peoria Chiefs Well, it has." of the long-defunct Three-I League left rick­ At this point I insert in the RECORD, Every minor-league organization must go ety Woodruff Field downtown, had profes­ out in the community and push its product. "Cubs help ignite a baseball boom in sional baseball players sharpened their Peoria," by Linda Young, the Chicago Virtually every minor-league owner must be skills in this city of 110,000. With Woodruff on a first-name basis with many of his club's Tribune, Thursday, July 18, 1985: crumbling, there was no adequate place to patrons. But the Vonachens make a con­ CFrom the Chicago Tribune, July 18, 19851 house a professional team. The stadium fi­ scious effort to provide just a bit more hos­ CUBS HELP IGNITE A BASEBALL BOOM IN nally fell victim to the wrecker's ball six pitality. year ago. PEORIA Meinen Field, run by the city's park dis­ "It seems like fun here," said Chiefs' trict, was used almost exclusively for Brad­ second baseman Bryan House, a Lockport PEORIA, ILL.-The rain, which had swept ley University baseball. The sod was in sorry native. "If I lived in town, I'd want to come in viciously without warning during the shape, the wooden bleachers had lost much out and see the games." lunch hour, settled into a soft but steady of their green paint, concessions were run "It's much easier to promote here than in patter as 4 p.m. approached. Less than four out of a trailer. There were far too few rest­ a smaller town," said the elder Vonachen. hours remained before game time on this rooms. "And it's easier still when you win. It will night that the Famous Chicken was booked Nevertheless, 26 years after the original get easier still when econoinic conditions im­ to appear at Meinen Field. Chiefs folded, a group of Florida investors prove. The brass in the Peoria Chiefs' front secured a working agreement with the Cali­ "If you don't have support of the business office expected a full house of 5,500 paying fornia Angels and brought baseball back in to buy outfield space, program space and customers to see the team, in its first season 1983. They were called the Suns, but little run promotions you can forget it," added as the Cubs' Class A Midwest League farm, sun shone in that year. Long-distance man­ Vonachen, who has bought two outfield play baseball against the Springfield Cardi­ agement could lure only 49,000 people signs for his own businesses. "If you lose nals. through the gates, an average of only 700 a support of business, you're stone cold dead But now nature's cruel twist of fate, night. in the market. which had flooded much of the uncovered "Even I didn't come out here much be­ "You can't put out inflated ticket prices infield, threatened this Thursday night pro­ cause it was such a bad operation," Vona­ because you're not the Cubs, you're not the motion bonanza, the most lucrative in a chen said. St. Louis Cardinals, you're not the New season filled with promotions. No game, no So Vonachen, with plenty of prodding York Yankees. You're 25 hustling young hot dogs eaten: no game, no beer guzzled; no from his son Rocky, city officials and Cub men trying to make the big leagues. That's game, no baseball caps or T-shirts sold; no broadcaster and old friend Harry Caray, your product." game, no revenue produced. bought the team, which was still connected That's why the most expensive ticket No wonder owner Pete Vonachen and his with the Angels. He and his staff brought costs $3.50. staff could do little more than check the back history, renaming the team the Chiefs. "Dad wants to do everything first class," weather service and the clouds as they hud­ He worked out a mutually advantageous fi­ said Rocky Vonachen. "A lot of the things dled in Vonachen's plush new clubhouse nancial deal with the park district to spruce we've done, we've done on our own. This office. Ticket manager Michelle Shadid, the up the ballpark. He talked local businesses year, people and groups were coming to us. oldest of Vonachen's five children, shivered into advertising along the outfield fence and We want the players that come through at the thought of issuing rain checks on the in the team's game program. He waded here to remember Peoria and the Chiefs." some 2,000 advance tickets-an unprece­ headlong into the community and promoted Players will remember how the ballclub dented number. his product. He got 116,000 fans to buy tick­ picks up their sandwich and drink tab after Canceling the game meant canceling the ets in 1984. a particularly long, grueling game. They'll Chicken, who first clucked to fame as the "Dad makes people feel welcome, that's remember how the front office staff took San Diego Chicken a decade ago. That in what he does best," said Michelle Shadid. them to dinner and found them temporary tum mean waving good-bye to all that reve­ "He tries to make people feel like they living quarters when they first hit town. nue, to the hoped-for league-leading 150,000 belong at the ballpark." They'll remember how the ballclub sets up season attendance and perhaps even a sea­ Vonachen has not only brought people doctor appointments for medical emergen­ son's operating profit margin. into the park, but he's also brought pillows Let the rain stop, as it would moments cies. They'll remember the Sunday brunch­ to throw in the pressbox as a means of his es the ballclub picks up. later, and maybe the game could go on. Yes, objection to an umpire's call. He used to Meinen Field groundskeeper and Bradley toss a folding chair Bobby Knight-style, but Jackie Davidson, the Cubs' No. 1 draft University baseball coach Dewey Kalmer as­ complaints from press box occupants forced pick in 1983, endured the Class A Cubs' 50- sured Vonachen, give him three or four him to alter weapons. 88 record in 1984 at Quad Cities, the worst hours and a hundred bags of drying com­ Finally, Vonachen got what he really in professional baseball. Peoria is a haven pound and the soggy infield could be fooled wanted-a working agreement with the for the transplanted Texan. into believing that well over an inch of rain Cubs. Now, the Cub and Chief logos are in­ "This is not minor league," said the 20- had never soiled its basepaths. terlocked everywhere. Even the club's red, year-old right-hander. "This is like you'd Forget batting practice, forget infield, white and blue van that office and player get treated in Triple-A or the big leagues or forget all the formalities. Give Kalmer time personnel drive to Kiwanis luncheons and something. Last year, it seemed like every to groom the field, and the game-not to the like trumpet Peoria Chiefs Affiliated day I was hoping it would rain. Nobody mention the Chicken-would go on. With the Chicago Cubs in loud letters. They there cared if we won or lost. We feel like A torrent of rain can't block the sunlight take the van to speaking engagements every family here. Pete cares about us. It makes under which baseball is shinning in this cen­ day peddling the ballclub. us want to come out to the ballpark." tral Illinois city. Minor-league baseball, "The marriage, coupled with the Chiefs' "Pete's first class all the way," added first­ under the watchful eye of second-year first-place perch in the Southern Division year field manager Pete Mackanin, who owner and Peoria legend Vonachen, is at standings, seems to have provided the last spent nine seasons of his 16-year playing long last alive and healthy in this economi­ piece in the puzzle of baseball success in career in the minors. "He makes it fun to go cally distressed community where unem­ this city, whose major-league loyalties are to the ballpark. Consequently, I do my best ployment remains in double digits. split between the Cubs and the St. Louis to put a winning team on the field." "I didn't know anything about running a Cardinals. For 35 years, Pete Vonachen looked for­ baseball team, but I knew this community They considered renaming the team the ward to the day he and his wife, Donna, needed help," said the 60-year-old Voca­ Cubs. But why bother? could retire and take it easy. Oh, he still chen, who has made a more than comforta­ "Anybody in central Illinois that doesn't looks forward to the day he can retire from ble living running businesses ranging from know we're affiliated with the Cubs, I don't the blacktop business. But Donna Vonachen

51-059 0-86-38 (Pt. 14) 19728 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 can plan on retiring to the ballpark, not the Israel had degenerated to the level of its Israel is not a nation of saints, but it re­ Riviera. Arab adversaries. mains a society of law. It is the role of law "Now I can hardly wait till I retire so I This notion was reinforced by the refusal to prevent raw human emotions from over­ can do this full time," Pete said. of a vocal minority of Israelis to condemn coming civilized and decent behavior, and "This is all right," Donna Vonachen in­ the terrorists, whom advocates portray as the District Court of Jerusalem, by reaf­ sisted. "Everybody's always at the ballpark. basically good men driven to desperate acts firming this principle and by forthrightly I don't have to cook."• by the government's inability to maintain condemning Jewish terrorism as an illegal law and order in the West Bank. Some ob­ and immoral phenomenon, has done the servers predicted that the political pressure entire country an enormous service. Israel, ISRAEL, A PROVEN ALLY tactics of his minority would pervert the after all, has an army to protect it from its course of justice. Arab enemies, but only we can protect our­ HON. NANCY L. JOHNSON This expectation was strengthened when selves from our own darkest impulses. Israel released more than 1,000 Arab securi­ Zev Cha.Jets is the author of "Double OF CONNECTICUT ty prisoners two months ago, in exchange Vision: How the Press Distorts America's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for three Israeli POWs held by a faction of View of the Middle East" (William Morrow). Thursday, July 18, 1985 the Palestine Liberation Organization. Arab terrorists who had murdered Jews were al­ [From the New York Times, July 14, 19851 •Mrs. JOHNSON. Mr. Speaker, we lowed to return to their families; Jews who have a friend and ally in the Middle had terrorized Arabs were still in custody. It ISRAEL'S WORTHY DOUBLE STANDARD East in a nation where justice is sacred seemed illogical, and some politicians, nota­ Even as its air force again claimed an eye and democracy is flourishing. That bly the Likud's Yitzhak Shamir, demanded for an eye in Lebanon last week, Israel's ju­ that the trial be stopped and the Jewish de­ dical arm declared private vengeance by friend and ally is Israel. fendants be released. Jews against Arabs to be terrorism and In a region dominated by repressive The demand struck a responsive chord. A murder. At considerable political cost, this authoritarian regimes and cursed by poll taken shortly after the release of the hard-pressed democracy will jail some of its state-sponsored terrorism it is reassur­ Arab terrorists showed that almost three­ most dedicated pioneers and decorated sol­ ing to see that this hard-pressed de­ fourths of the Israeli public favored a diers to proclaim the sanctity of life and mocracy has the courage to exercise pardon for the Jewish terrorists. Opponents law. the checks and balances to effectively of clemency, led by Prime Minister Shimon Such an assertion of legal limits even in police herself. Peres, pointed out that such an action the midst of a terror war deserves wide ad­ would make a mockery of due process and miration. But for the right reason: Israel's While Syria, Iran, and Libya provide seriously jeopardize the independence of concern for justice for the Arabs under its sanctuary and training facilities as the judiciary. And, in a rare public state­ administration is no mere magnanimity. It well as arms, ammunition and even ment, Begin said that there was no connec­ is a vital act of self-definition, an effort to diplomatic cover for the militantly tion between the release of the Arab terror­ add moral armor to Israel's military anti-Western terror network, Israel ists and the trial of the Jewish ones. strength. demonstrates judicial integrity and an The opponents of clemency were right, of After a trial of 13 months, an Israeli court enduring commitment to law and course, and in the end they prevailed. The convicted three Jewish settlers of murder trial proceeded, and ultimately the terror­ and 12 others of crimes ranging from man­ order. ists were convicted-three of them of Above all, Israel has proven, again, slaughter to belonging to a terrorist organi­ murder, which carries a mandatory life sen­ zation. The defendants were not from some that it is a society of law. tence. militant fringe. They included revered army [From the Los Angeles Times, July 12, 19851 But much more than legal niceties were at officers and West Bank pioneers who justi­ ISRAEL: A Goon COUNTRY IN A BAD stake. At the heart of the clemency debate, fied their plots against Arab students, politi­ NEIGHBORHOOD which will heat up again once the terrorists cians and a Moslem holy shrine as self-de­ are sentenced, was nothing less than a struggle to define the basis moral values of fense. JERUSALEM.-When the District Court the state of Israel. Many Israelis think of them not as terror­ here found 15 members of Israel's Jewish Many foreigners are bemused by the claim ists but as an underground, necessary to terror ring guilty of murder, attempted that the terrorists are, in the words of avenge or deter Arab assaults on Jewish set­ murder, conspiracy and lesser crimes on Deputy Prime Minister Shamir, "excellent tlers. And now that the trial is ended, the Wednesday, it did more than simply render boys who took a wrong tum," but a great clamor for clemency will become a potent justice in one of Israel's most controversial many Israelis, including those who are re­ political issue, dividing an already tense coa­ legal cases. The court demonstrated that pelled by the terrorists' actions, realize the lition cabinet. The Government will be Israel, despite pressures and self-doubt, re­ truth of this remark. Almost without excep­ asked how it dares to jail its sons so soon mains, as it has been, a good country in a tion the members of the underground are after releasing 1,150 convicted Palestinian bad neighborhood. family men in their late 20s and 30s. Most terrorists in exchange for three Israeli pris­ Not everyone was certain that it would are well--educated, highly motivated patri­ oners. work out that way. From the beginning­ ots, and many served in elite combat units. Even a light punishment, however, would the maiming of two Arab West Bank mayors They hardly fit the usual terrorist profile, not obliterate the symbolic value of last by terrorists bombs in 1980-skeptics won­ and, in a country where the "us and them" week's verdict. All too often Israelis com­ dered if Israel might be succumbing to the principle ls extremely powerful, they are plain that they are judged by a double lure of vigilante violence. Some critics recognizably part of "us." standard, held to higher norms than are charged that Menachem Begin, then the Moreover, the terrorists did not act in a their enemies. To their everlasting credit, prime minister, had ordered the security vacuum. There ls truth to their claim that that is also how they judge themselves.• services to go slow in investigating the the government was lax in combating Arab bombings. Begin, it was whispered, was not terrorism, and that this laxity threatened displeased by the attack, and the fact that it them and their families. They are correct FRANK GATSKI, JOE NAMATH, took four years to catch the terrorists fed when they point to an alarming rise in Arab O.J. SIMPSON, ROGER STAU­ this suspicion. violence against Jews in recent years. BACH AND PETE ROZELLE TO Finally, in April, 1984, the terror ring was What arouses the most sympathy, and the BE ENSHRINED IN PRO FOOT­ broken after an exhaustive investigation most alarm, ls the fact that the terrorists BALL HALL OF FAME that Begin had in fact initiated. The govern­ acted out of fear and frustration-emotions ment of his successor, Yitzhak Shamir, an­ that few Israelis are not subject to from nounced the arrest of a group of Orthodox time to time. There ls nothing surprising HON. JACK F. KEMP Jewish West Bank settlers, who were about this; generations of war and unremit­ OF NEW YORK charged with the attack on the mayors as ting Arab hostility have left people here in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES well as a murderous assault on students at creasingly vulnerable to such outbursts. The an Islamic college, planning the demolition fact that the perpetrators were among the Thursday, July 18, 1985 of the Dome of the Rock Mosque, and at­ best Israelis, and not simply deranged mis­ Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, enshrine­ tempting to bomb Arab buses in Jerusalem. fits, causes all of us to ponder the limits of e Critics were forced to concede that the our self-restraint and how we might react to ment in the Hall of Fame in Canton, governments had indeed caught the terror­ similar stress. OH, is pro football's highest award ists, but many pointed to the existence of This is precisely why the decision of the and a genuine slice of immortality for the "Jewish Underground" as proof that court is so important, and so reassuring. those very few and very special foot- July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19729 ball greats who reach this pinnacle. placed beside the immortal heroes Commissioner Pete Rozelle is gener­ On August 3, 1985, the professional who are in pro football's Hall of Fame. ally recognized as the premier commis­ football Hall of Fame will induct five One of football's greatest memories sioner of all pro sports. He has led the new members into its honored ranks. was engineered by a good personal NFL to unprecedented popularity in Center Frank Gatski, quarterback Joe friend of mine, Joe Namath of the his 25 years as commissioner. One of Namath, running back O.J. Simpson, New York Jets. Joe deserves credit for his finest accomplishments was presid­ quarterback Roger Staubach, and proving the equality of the American ing over the merger of the AFL with Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who cele­ Football League [AFL] with the Na­ the NFL; he also negotiated the first brates his 25th year as commissioner tional Football League in 1969. Joe league-wide television contract. And it this year, are men who will long be re­ Namath and the New York Jets, 17 has been within his tenure that the membered for their contributions to point underdogs, beat the Baltimore Super Bowl, the world's greatest football. As I said, Mr. Speaker, these Colts in Super Bowl Ill, and led our single-day sporting event, was created. men have reached the peak of profes­ old league, the AFL, to parity with the Pete's brilliance as a manger has been sional excellence. To fully appreciate NFL. The significance of Joe's charis­ shown time and again by his handling the enormity of this accomplishment, matic leadership cannot be understat­ of the many challenges facing pro we must see the Hall of Fame for what ed for his team's victory helped bring football and pro sports in general. The it represents. about the merger of the two leagues in commissioner works hard to give As I was privileged to say when I the minds of the pro football fans of people a great product and with fair­ spoke at the induction ceremonies for America. ness and class. Pete's wife Carrie is a the Hall of Fame in 1973, the real Joe played for the Jets from 1965 to dear friend of the Kemps as well, and meaning of the Hall of Fame is to 1976 and in 1977, he played for the Los she shares in this honor. Carrie and serve as an example, a symbol and a Angeles Rams. He was an all-pro in Pete have done marvelous work for beacon by which young men and 1968 and 1972. In that incredible charity, particularly the United Fund women, and indeed all people around season of 1968-69, Joe was AFL player and the Foundation for Children With this country can gain inspiration and of the year and his style reelected the Learning Disabilities, which Carrie motivation in their own lives from the enthusiasm with which he turned the created. All five inductees are "Men lives and careers of those who achieve AFL into a great success story. He now For All Seasons." They represent the greatness. In our free society, sports is an analyst for Monday night foot­ best in professional football. They are play a vital role in expressing qualities ball, he is married to a lovely lady, hard working and successful men from such as competition and cooperation Debbie Namath, and has a great varied backgrounds and with separate which prove that not just the strong career ahead of him. interests with a common bond that lies can succeed, but the weak as well. All My friend and former teammate O.J. in their desire to be the best in every­ are lifted up not only by their efforts, Simpson set the standard against thing they do. They are men to be but by the inspiration and help they which all running backs are measured. proud of, symbols of excellence. They receive from those who achieve the He received the Reisman Trophy as are Hall of Famers, and I'm proud to highest. As a microcosm of our Nation, the finest collegiate football player of be their friend.• sports help teach the type of perspec­ 1968 for his feats of skill at the Uni­ tive that is so necessary if one is to versity of Southern California. His in­ gain the hope and vision to overcome credible running electrified the Nation CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR obstacles and turn them into opportu­ and, with great expectations, he start­ SERVICE ACADEMIES' GRADU­ nities. In sports as in all human expe­ ed his professional career with the ATES rience, we win and lose, try and fail Buffalo Bills. He played in Buffalo and try again, get knocked down, and from 1969 through the 1977 season HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD get up, and learn, hopefully, to never and finished his career with the San OF MICHIGAN give up or give in. Problems are not Francisco 49'ers, his hometown team, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES roadblocks, they're challenges and where he played for the 1978 and 1979 each of these great men has proven in seasons. O.J. was an all-pro five times Thursday, July 18, 1985 their own lives and careers what they and was the NFL's most valuable e Mr. BROOMFIELD.- Mr. Speaker, are made of. player in 1973. That year, O.J. rushed each year our service academies gradu­ -The Hall of Fame honors that tran­ behind the "electric company" on his ate some of the finest young men and scendent quality of the human spirit way to becoming the first running women in our country to serve the that unites us all, black and white, back to rush for 2,000 yards in a United States and her people as offi­ young and old, male and female. The season. By the end of his inspiring cers in the armed services and the spirit that derives strength from chal­ career, O.J. had become the second merchant marine. lenge. The spirit that never gives up. I leading rusher in NFL history. They are certainly to be congratulat­ believe that is the spirit upon which The great quarterback of Dallas, ed for these young people have gone America was founded, and these five Roger Staubach, also worked hard to through a rigorous 4-year trial of their men epitomize the qualities so endem­ be the best. He was quarterback of the academic talents, leadership skills, de­ ic to our Nation and so vital to its Cowboys from 1969 through 1979 and termination and tenacity, and physical future. These five enshrinees I'm priv­ the winner of the Reisman Trophy in fitness to earn their place among the ileged to know, and while I know some 1963 while a midshipman at the Naval honored ranks of those academy grad­ better than others, they are all friends Academy. Before joining the Cowboys, uates who proceeded them. and it is my pleasure now to say some­ Roger served 4 years on active duty in While these new officers have re­ thing about each individual. the U.S. Navy; his tour included time ported to their new duty stations, we Frank Gatski was the great center in Vietnam. As a Dallas Cowboy, in the Congress join their parents, for the Cleveland Browns from 1946 to Roger led his team to two Super Bowl family, and friends in the pride over 1956 and for the Detroit Lions in 1957. victories. In his 11 years, his determi­ their accomplishments because, in Over those 12 seasons, Frank played nation to succeed led the Cowboy's to most instances, we had the privilege of on eight championship teams and in six National Football Conference appointing them to their respective 11 championship games. he was an all­ championship games and he was se­ academies. pro selection four times and his ability lected all-pro four times. Roger is a I know my colleagues in the House to anchor the line of the Browns wonderful example of a family man and Senate join me in wishing the earned him the reputation as the and the Christian life in sports and a 1985 graduates of the Military Acade­ toughest and greatest center of his fine example for the youth of America my at West Point, NY; the Naval era. It is a pleasure to see Frank to emulate. Academy at Annapolis, MD; the Air 19730 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Marine Corps. All proceeds from a spe­ The amendment I will offer would CO; the Coast Guard Academy at New cial dinner auction will go toward sup­ provide a limited number of cities an London, CT; and the Merchant Marine porting the association's patient care opportunity to operate under equiva­ Academy at Kings Point, NY, every and summer camp programs, assuring lent pretreatment programs if they success in their new careers. many other young people of the kind could adequately show to the satisfac­ Mr. Speaker, at this time, I also wish of special opportunity that so inspired tion of their State and the Administra­ to recognize and congratulate those and enriched the life of John Zimmer­ tor of the Environmental Protection graduates, listed below, from my own man.• Agency that implementation of the congressional district in Michigan. I city's locally developed program is at am proud of each of them and know EQUIVALENT LOCAL PRETREAT- least as effective and environmentally they will serve our great Nation with MENT DEMONSTRATION protective as that required by the na­ honor and distinction. AMENDMENT tional categorical pretreatment stand­ Military Academy: John Crews, Birming­ ards. ham; Fred L. Campbell, IV, West Bloom­ HON. ARLAN ST ANGELAND Under my amendment, in order to field; Richard B. Ellis, Farmington Hills; proceed with an equivalency option, a Janice Higuera, Bloomfield Hills; and Greg­ OF MINNESOTA local treatment program would have ory Kuznecoff, Union Lake. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Naval Academy: Karl T. Diedrich, Troy; to control indirect industrial discharg­ Andrew M. Fremuth, Birmingham; Stephen Thursday, July 18, 1985 ers to avoid passthrough of pollutants, Devore, Farmington Hills; Mark Fletcher, e Mr. STANGELAND. Mr. Speaker, prevent interference with treatment Romeo; Matthew Fletcher, Romeo; and Mi­ earlier today the House approved works operations, and preserve sludge chael Stepaniak, Northville. House Resolution 222 which provided disposal options. Before being ap­ Air Force Academy: Phillip J. Beaudoin, for the consideration by the House of proved for operation, the publicly Northville; Stephen S. Johnson, Farmington H.R. 8, the Water Quality Renewal owned treatment works CPOTWl Hills; Marc J . Kornmesser, Birmingham; Darren Reed, Pontiac; Charles Morrison, Act of 1985, under an open rule with 1 would have to be achieving secondary Pontiac; and Dwayne Hardin, Pontiac. hour of debate. As the ranking minori­ treatment and would have to show Merchant Marine Academy: Margaret ty member on the Subcommittee on that it had adequate funding and re­ Mooney, Rochester.e Water Resources of the Committee on sources-technical, legal, and adminis­ Public Works and Transportation, I trative-to implement the local pro­ have been actively involved in the de­ gram. A COURAGEOUS YOUNG MAN, velopment of this important and JOHN ZIMMERMAN POTW's that are not inclined or do worthwhile piece of legislation. BoB not have the resources to develop and RoE, chairman of the subcommittee, maintain a local program would con­ HON. ROBERT E. BADHAM and JIM HowARD and GENE SNYDER, tinue to be required to comply with OF CALIFORNIA chairman and ranking Republican the national categorical standards. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES member, respectively, of the Commit­ The current EPA pretreatment pro­ Thursday, July 18, 1985 tee on Public Works and Transporta­ gram, centered on national technolo­ tion, are to be congratulated for devel­ gy-based pretreatment standards, does • Mr. BADHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise oping a comprehensive and balanced today in memory of the courage of a not properly take into account wheth­ bill which will reauthorize one of the er all of the treatment required by the young man from Fountain Valley, CA, Nation's most important environment in my district. John Zimmerman, son laws. national standards is needed in every of Richard and Sandy Zimmerman, Despite my general strong support case. This can, and often does, result was a 15-year-old freshman at Foun­ for and consponsorship of the bill that in costly, redundant, and wasteful tain Valley High School when muscu­ has been developed, I intend to offer a treatment by industry and POTW's. lar dystrophy ended his life in Janu­ floor amendment, which is printed in I believe that, as a general rule, local ary. However, his final request made today's CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. conditions are handled best by local headlines around the Nation. While I support the bill in its totali­ entities developing locally responsive You see, John wanted more than ty, I also believe that there is one area programs. Because many water quality anything to become a U.S. marine. His concerning which the committee could problems are uniquely site specific and inspiration came from the friendship have done more to improve the act's cannot readily be solved by uniform he developed at camp in San Diego flexibility and its overall ability to national standards, I believe that func­ County 4 years ago with two marines ensure efficient and effective water tioning equivalent, locally controlled who had volunteered their time to act pollution control. I believe that the pretreatment programs should be able as attendants for these young MD vic­ act should be amended to allow, under to direct resources to particular site­ tims. limited and protective conditions, cer­ specific problems rather than to treat­ Gunnery Sgt. John Gorsuch and S. tain municipalities to operate under a ment for treatment's sake. Sgt. Bob Menke told John honestly local alternative to the nationally In 1977 Congress amended the act to that his crippling disease made it im­ mandated standards pursuant to sec­ provide that, if a POTW were capable possible to join the marines but they tion 307 of the act for pretreatment of of removing pollutants without caus­ offered instead to become his friends. pollutants discharged into publicly ing problems with its operations, in­ With the help of these and other owned treatment works. dustrial dischargers into the POTW friends, his family and Senator PETE The National Categorical Pretreat­ should be given credit for such remov­ WILSON, John asked President Reagan ment Program, called for under sec­ als. In response to this mandate, EPA to make him an honorary member of tion 307 of the act, is appropriate for developed the present removal credit the U.S. Marines so that he might be the majority of communities in the regulations, which were supposed to buried in the Punchbowl National United States. At the same time, there alleviate the problem of redundant Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. His are cities that can and have developed treatment by POTW's and industrial courage and love of country so and are operating their own pretreat­ dischargers. However, the regulations touched America and the President ment programs very successfully. are so complex and restrictive that that this final request was granted. These cities should be recognized for many POTW's have not applied for On August 8. 1985, the Muscular their excellent performance and al­ those removal credits. Industrial dis­ Dystrophy Association of Orange lowed to continue to operate under chargers must therefore often contin­ County will conduct the John Zimmer­ their different but environmentally ue to install treatment technology and man Memorial Dinner, hosted by Sen­ protective local pretreatment pro­ meet pretreatment limits even though ator WILSON and members of the grams. a POTW may remove some or all of July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19731 the pollutants and even though the DISINFORMATION IN GREECE? Ethnos publisher George Bobolas environment and the operation of the owns several companies. One is World­ POTW could be protected as well or HON. JIM COURTER tech Hellas Ltd. On its stationary, Bo­ better under a different locally devel­ bolas apparently proposed to the State oped program. Implementation of a lo­ OF NEW JERSEY Committee for Foreign Economic Re­ cally controlled pretreatment program IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lations of the· U.S.S.R. Council of Min­ would allow for reasonable resolution Thursday, July 18, 1985 isters in 1979 collaboration on "world­ of this problem. In most cases the na­ e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, my wide technology transfer," the hope tional program will be used. The effi­ thanks to the gentleman from Califor­ was to give a lot of help to technology ciency and savings of local control, nia CMr. LUNGREN], for organizing the trans!er on an international base. however, make a local option program special session on Soviet disinforma­ Another Bobolas enterprise was the desirable in certain situations. tion. exclusive publishing contract for the I want to stress that the a.pproach A single news item or article cancer­ Greek language version of "The Great reflected in my amendment i'> not a tainly be an effective medium of disin­ Soviet Encyclopedia." Sales were high, proposal promoted solely by industry. formation when quietly inserted into a and profits considerable. According to It is also strongly supported by the wholly legitimate newspaper. But an­ the Anastasi book, the KGB proposed, State, cities, and sewage treatment other method, far more direct, is and Bobolas accepted, plans for estab­ agencies throughout the Nation. The covert funding or ownership of an ap­ lishing a newspaper from the profits amendment I am offering has the sup­ parently independent newspaper. of the encyclopedia sales. No money port of the National Governor's Asso­ This may be occurring in Greece was to return to the U.S.S.R.; all was ciation, the U.S. Chamber of Com­ today. The largest daily newspaper to be reinvested covertly in Ethnos. merce, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, there, Ethnos, has distinguished itself The Soviet broker for this deal was al­ the National League of Cities, the Na­ by its anti-American excesses. A reader legedly Vassily Sitnikov, Deputy Di­ tional Environmental Development learns that Korean Airlines flight 007 rector of the Soviet Copyright Office, Association, and others. was a CIA provocation, that Lech and a man identified by Soviet defec­ Under my amendment, a rigorous Walesa is a CIA agent, that our Presi­ tors as Deputy Director of the KGB's monitoring program would be required dent is a "paranoid monster," and that Disinformation ·Department. Sitnikov for every local system obtaining the the United States is dropping poisons reportedly was assisted by Ivan Udalt­ authority provided. The monitoring is on Afghanistan. The Soviet empire, by chov, former Soviet Ambassador to envisioned as going beyond current contrast, is said to be "the world's first Greece and an apparent KGB agent, Federal law and would be specifically peace bloc." Of course, there are few Evgeni Chistiakov, former press atta­ barriers in Democratic societies to the che at the Soviet Embassy in Athens, designed to advance the state of the expelled as a spy in 1980, and Boris art of biological monitoring and the publication of such nonsense. What a free society can and should demand is Pankin, Director of the Soviet Copy­ development of toxicity data for re­ right Office, identified as one-time ceiving streams. that the sponsorship of openly-circu­ lated publications be open to public in­ Chief of the KGB's Disinformation My proposal would not eliminate Branch. any existing enforcement authority. spection. Considerable evidence has emerged which indicates that while The paper was born as Ethnos in Both the local and State governments 1981. Bobolas became its publisher. have undiminished enforcement au­ Ethnos appears to be an entirely Greek newspaper it is not an entirely The journalists include Britain's Stan­ thority over industrial users of a ley Harrison, until 1981 an editor with POTW through the requirements of Greek newspaper. Ethnos was begun in 1981, and im­ Britain's Communist Party paper this proposal and through the existing Morning Star, and Carl Morzani, the provisions of the act. Federal and citi­ mediately became popular. Its format is professional and slick; its tabloid U.S. correspondent, a man who served zen enforcement is available through 3 years in an American jail for not dis­ section 309(0, 505 , and (f), section character is attractive to readers in a country where most newspapers are closing his Communist activities inside 307 and EPA's general pretreat­ the OSS during the Second World ment regulations. more sober; its intensive coverage of local news and sports is appealing. Cir­ War. In summary, I believe that it is culation rose to nearly 200,000. But a Perhaps never before has there ap­ unwise to require compliance with long and important book has been peared such a heavily documented-if Federal categorical standards when published about Ethnos, creating a not yet corraborated-account of other, perhaps less costly, methods are scandal about its possible Soviet fi­ Soviet covert involvement with a pop­ available which are just as effective in nancing and direction. ular western newspaper. It remains achieving the goals of the act. Fur­ The book is "Take the Nation in difficult to draw hard conclusions thermore, a rigid approach may inhib­ Your Hands," by Paul Anastasi, about the men behind Ethnos: several it the development of new initiatives Athens' correspondent for London's lawsuits remain unsettled. But the that could greatly improve water qual­ Daily Telegraph, a stringer for the paper obviously has had ill effects on ity if greater flexibility were allowed New York Times, and the editor in Greek-American relations. It repre­ to be employed by the act. According­ chief of a New Greek paper, the sents and magnifies all which is most ly, when H.R. 8 is brought to the floor, Athens Star. It is based on profusely unfortunate about the foreign policy hopefully next week, it should be fur­ detailed documents and telexes to and of the American-educated Greek ther amended to authorize a demon­ from the Soviet Union and Athens, all Prime Minister. Its writers say about stration program for local pretreat­ obtained by a business partner to America and the world Just about ment programs which achieve pre­ George Bobolas, founding editor of what writers for Tass and Pravda say, treatment at least equivalent to that Ethnos. The evidence is remarkable. but legitimate it by saying it in Greek, required under national standards but Having seen some of it, one cannot an esteemed democratic tongue, and which employ a method of pretreat­ readily understand how the author by saying it from Athens, birthplace of ment which is different from the cate­ Paul Anastasi could lose a libel case in the principles of intellectual and polit­ gorical pretreatment standards man­ Greek courts for calling the editor Bo­ ical freedom. dated under section 307(b) of the Act. bolas an "agent in influence" of the The irony is bitter. The Soviet gain I urge my colleagues to support my Soviet Government. It is much easier is obvious. The Greek Government's amendment to allow this needed flexi­ to see how a higher Greek court, ex­ failure to carry out a fullsome official bility with respect to Federal pretreat­ amining the verdict, refused to allow investigation of the origins of Ethnos ment standards.• Anastasi to be sent to prison. is an embarrassment.• 19732 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 KOREAN WAR MEMORIAL GEN. M.B. RIDGWAY, leagues today in participating in the URGED BY VETERANS Pittsburgh, PA, June 22, 1985. 1985 Congressional Call to Conscience Hon. JAMES J. FLORIO, for Soviet Jews. The Congressional Rayburn House Office Building, Call to Conscience is an important bi­ HON. JAMES J. FLORIO Washington, DC. DEAR MR. FLORIO: I am most appreciative partisan effort of many Members of OF NEW JERSEY of your invitation for me to join you and Congress to focus attention on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES your cosponsors of the proposed "Korean gross human rights violations perpe­ War Memorial Act," and of the generosity trated by the Government of the Thursday, July 18, 1985 of your gracious remarks about my service Soviet Union against its Jewish citi­ Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I ask in combat in Korea. It was an honored privi­ zens. e lege to have been given that command as­ that the RECORD include the following sigrunent. When Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba­ letters which I have recently received While I felt that there was little or noth­ chev came into power, many of us from veterans of the Korean war. The ing of substance I could contribute at your were hopeful that the change in lead­ Korean War Memorial Act, H.R. 2205, meeting and therefore respectfully declined, ership would facilitate a change in the which I introduced in April, was the I wish to endorse enthusiastically the pro­ Soviet Union's systematic denial of subject of a hearing before the Task posed H.R. 2205, initiated by you and the basic human rights to Soviet Jews. On Chairman and ranking minority member of the contrary, the repressive measures Force on Libraries and Memorials last the House Veterans Affairs Committee, for week. The distinguished chair of that the erection and maintenance by the Feder­ used by Soviet officials against Rus­ committee, my friend and colleague al Government of a memorial to honor the sian Jews have increased both in mag­ the Honorable MARY ROSE OAK.AR, has members of the Armed Forces of the United nitude and severity under the leader­ referred the bill out to the full Com­ States who served in the Korean War. ship of Gorbachev. mittee on House Administration. I join I believe this is an honor richly deserved The level of Jewish emigration from with the 129 current cosponsors of and long overdue. the Soviet Union has declined 98 per­ With high respect, I am, cent over the last 6 years, from 51,000 H.R. 2205 in hoping that we can attain Sincerely, a speedy markup before the full com­ M.B. RIDGWAY, in 1979 to a mere 896 in 1984. Thus far mittee. General, U.S. Anny (Retired). in 1985, 499 Soviet Jews have been per­ mitted to emigrate, with the level Mr. Speaker, the names of the writ­ reaching a low of 36 people in June. As ers of the following letters are known Hon. MARY ROSE 0AKAR, Chair, Task Force on Libraries and Memori­ troubling as these numbers are, they to all Americans. Yet, as each letter is als, U.S. House of Representatives, reflect only one portion of the official­ read you will see, very readily, that Washington, DC. ly sanctioned antisemitic campaign each writer is conveying the thoughts DEAR Ms. OAKAR: I write you to express being waged against Soviet refuseniks of thousands of other veterans of that my support of initiatives recently taken in the House of Representatives to honor and under Gorbachev. "forgotten war" in Korea. I am grate­ The "Anti-Zionist Committee of ful for the remarks of General Ridg­ remember those Americans who served in the Korean War. As one of those Americans Soviet Citizens," a group founded by way, Ed McMahon, and Ted Williams. I can tell you that it is a long overdue meas­ Soviet military commander Col. Gen. It is because they cared enough to re­ ure and I am happy to see that it is finally D.A. Dragunsky, makes the outlandish member the exploits and deeds of taking place. claim that the problem of Jewish emi­ their comrades 35 years ago that we My years in the U.S. Marine Corps which gration has now been resolved since all are now so close to the success of I spent in Korea were years of sacrifice and Jews who wish to leave the Soviet having a permanent memorial ap­ pain for many Americans. Too often, I Union have already done so. The com­ proved. think, we are concerned with those who ac­ tually fought in combat and the need to mittee has also staged press confer­ Mr. Speaker, the letters follow: honor their courage and bravery. There was ences and assisted in numerous other CARSON PRODUCTIONS, INC., no shortage of heroes in Korea. But, I can't public efforts aimed at linking Zionists TONIGHT SHOW, forget those at home either. We as a coun­ to Nazis. Burbank, CA, June 28, 1985. try were fighting in Korea-and we as a While such measures are obvious ex­ Hon. JAMES J. FLORIO, country suffered in Korea. By honoring House of Representatives, Rayburn House those who fought in Korea we would honor amples of the vicious tactics used by Office Building, Washington, DC. this entire country which did in fact pre­ Soviet leaders, equally distrubing are DEAR MR. FLORIO: I was so very interested serve freedom in those years. the more subtle forms of repression to read your letter regarding the bill you I am confident that any veteran of the practiced daily against Soviet Jews. have introduced in the House of Represent­ Korean War would support this measure. I For example, the doors to higher edu­ atives. You wholeheartedly have my sup­ hope that you and the Task Force on Li­ cational institutions are gradually port for the Korean War Memorial Act. It braries and Memorials can see fit to report closing to qualified Jewish applicants has always seemed somewhat unjust that this bill, H.R. 2205, The Korean War Memo­ in the Soviet Union. Entrance exami­ there is no memorial dedicated to the rial Act on to the whole Committee on nations to universities, usually a 1- or memory of those courageous Americans House Administration for consideration. who lost their lives in this war. I certainly Many thousands of Americans will be in­ 2-hour oral examination for non­ do have recollections of that time. All of us debted to you if you did. Jewish applicants, are often extended who fought in Korea remember with sad­ Thank you for this chance to express my up to 5 hours for Jewish applicants. ness that we were caught up in a so-called thoughts to you and the Task Force. Thank Jewish students have been expelled "police action" but those who were fighting you for all of your efforts to remember the from highly ranked educational insti­ there called it a war. The Marines I flew dedication of our people over thirty years tutions and forced to enroll in lesser with had a very sarcastic phrase about the ago. institutions. The Soviet Jewish stu­ Korean War, "It's not the best war but it's Sincerely, dent population has declined at a rate the only one we've got!" TED WILLIAMS .• three times greater than that of the As much as I would like to participate at overall Soviet Jewish population since the hearing on July 10, I'm sorry to say that THE PLIGHT OF SOVIET JEWRY 1968. I have to decline. My wife and I leave for a three-week trip to Europe on June 29 and The cruelty of these policies is ab­ will not be returning until July 22. If I can HON. ALAN WHEAT horrent and a source of continual be of any other help in showing my support OF MISSOURI strain on efforts to improve relations for those forgotten veterans please let me IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES between the United States and the know. Soviet Union. In light of the deterio­ All good wishes. Tuesday, July 16, 1985 rating situation encountered by Soviet Cordially, •Mr. WHEAT. Mr. Speaker, I am Jews today, it is particularly impor­ ED McMAHON. proud to join with a number of my col- tant that President Reagan forcefully July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19733 present our concerns that the Soviet everything American. The walls were cov­ FIRST SLOVAK CATHOLIC Union respect the basic human rights ered with posters and album covers of the CARDINAL, JOSEF TOMKO of its minority populations and allow latest rock stars. There, in this island within emigration for refuseniks when he an island, he had transported the culture meets with Mr. Gorbachev in Novem­ and freedom of a far-off land. He could not HON. JACK F. KEMP ber. The prospects for improved rela­ wait to get me in that room and tum the OF NEW YORK tions between our two countries would music up. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Weeks later I was living in a dollar-a-night be greatly enhanced if the leaders of Thursday, July 18, 1985 the Soviet state took meaningful steps hotel room above the old walled city of Je­ rusalem. Each evening I would wander •Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, I would to dismantle their system of oppres­ through the Arab quarter, following the like to rejoice with my Slovak Ameri­ sion against the entire Jewish popula­ maze of passageways and shops that wind tion. I call upon my colleagues and all can constituents, as well as all the Slo­ through the city. Peering through the dis­ vaks in the Free World, on the eleva­ concerned Americans to join in this plays of leather goods and ornaments, I tion of Archbishop Josef Tomko of the collective effort to raise the world's could see a familiar picture hanging in the Vatican to the rank of cardinal during awareness and concern for the re­ little shops. It was that of Muhammad Ali, the recent ceremony in the Eternal pressed people of the Soviet Union.e the American boxer. City. In Cairo, I made my way through the crowded streets, besieged by young boys. Cardinal Josef Tomko, born in Slo­ FREEDOM "Do you know John Wayne? Do you know vakia in 1924 and ordained a priest in Muhammad Ali? Don't say anything against Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, was, prior HON. DON EDWARDS Muhammad Ali; he's my friend." to his elevation, secretary general for OF CALIFORNIA I had seen it all before. During my two­ the World Synod of Bishops in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES year stay in southern Africa I had come in Catholic Church. As cardinal, he has regular contact with older British expatri­ been appointed Prefect for the Evan­ Thursday, July 18, 1985 ate families who spoke lovingly about "the gelization of the Peoples, a most im­ e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Yanks" and Fred Astaire and Ginger portant position in the church. His Speaker, I wanted to call to the atten­ Rogers. They had come to appreciate Amer­ portfolio includes oversight over some tion of my colleagues a stimulating ar­ ica during World War II and felt all the 1,200 bishops and 52,000 clergy world­ ticle which appeared in the Christian wonders of a country that spoke the same wide. Science Monitor on Wednesday, July language and had the same democratic insti­ His studies included the Pontifical 10. tutions but whose freedom was so much Lateran University and the Pontifical Authored by your own administra­ more real than in the class-ridden isles they Gregorian University where he ob­ tive assistant, Chris Matthews, this el­ had left behind. tained doctor of theology, canon law, I had seen the love that desperate black oquent essay is a timely reminder that South Africans felt for anything American, and social sciences degrees. He also there are people all over the world particularly jazz, that freest of all musical taught at the International University who yearn for the freedom we enjoy in forms. For them, aspiration and freedom "Pro-Deo" (1955-56) and the Gregori­ this country. Although it would be were synonymous with the promised land of an University <1970-78). Besides his easy to get the impression from what America. It was a place where people could Slovak mother tongue, he speaks Ital­ we see and hear that America is do things, man! ian, Polish, English Czech, French, scorned by the world community, this It takes strangers to show us what we German, and Spanish. article highlights the reasons why, have in America. It was John Lennon who He was vice rector of the Pontifical happily, that is not the case. once called New York "the center of the Nepomucene College (1950-65) and of I know my colleagues will be inter­ consciousness of the universe." For him, the annexed school of higher studies ested in reading this outstanding arti­ freedom was not just an ideal, but a city, a for priests of various nationalities in­ cle. place to be and to enjoy. cluding missionaries from Latin Amer­ FREEDOM What some Americans cannot see is that ica. From 1962, he was an official, Life, Justice, Peace, and of Laity. Peoples. The motto of the new cardi­ MANAGUA, NICARAGUA.-President Daniel In the midst of these serious engage­ nal: "ut Ecclesia aedificetur" is a most significant sign to the RECORD, "Sandinista Asserts War Has function here. Slavic nations yearning for freedom of Taken 12,000 Lives," by Stephen "Dissidence has a space in Nicaragua," he worship. The erudite inculturation of Kinzer, the New York Times, July 18, said. "We are going to respect this space. the Gospel which was accomplished by 1985: That is a guarantee." July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19735 Lino Herenandez, an attorney who is a America over the last century," Mr. Ortega minor salmonella outbreak also oc­ leader of the Permanent Commission for said. "President Reagan is only inheriting curred last August which involved Human Rights, a non-Sandinista group, this vision which the United States has, milk produced at the Hillfarm dairy. challenged Mr. Ortega's assertion. which has caused it to make innumerable "Their respect for the opposition only errors in dealing with Latin America.''• I wish to bring this issue to the at­ exists in limited doses for foreign consump­ tention of my colleagues, not to tion," Mr. Hernandez said. "The fact is that unduly create alarm or to suggest that we are constantly hearing of members of po­ SALMONELLA OUTBREAK IN the cause of the incident in Chicago is litical parties and independent labor unions ILLINOIS endemic to the entire milk-producing who are being arrested or pressured to industry. Rather, this incident raises become informers for the security police. HON. CARDISS COWNS some fundamental questions regarding The Government allows these groups to OF ILLINOIS the efficacy of our milk safety pro­ subsist only as long as they remain small IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grams at the State and Federal level. and pose no threat." For example, was the accident at Hill­ SANDINISTAS SAID TO BE CONSULTED Thursday, July 18, 1985 farm an isolated fluke? Do the FDA's Six months after assuming the presidency, e Mrs. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, in voluntary milk requirements, which which he won overwhelmingly in an election March of this year, a serious health are to be enforced by States, provide last year, Mr. Ortega said he was continuing problem erupted in the State of Illi­ to make major decisions in concert with the adequate health protection? Are the other eight members of the Sandinista Na­ nois and a number of Midwestern pasteurization and blending processes tional Directorate. States involving contaminated milk. used at other dairies around the coun­ Mr. Ortega said the powers of the Nation­ Marked as the Nation's single largest try like those employed by the Hill­ al Assembly which is now virtually impo­ milkborne outbreak, this crisis has farm plant? Are other dairies equipped tent, would expand after it completes work taken its toll on over 16,000 people and or designed in a manner similar to on a new constitution. He said the Assem­ reportedly has caused two deaths. My Hillfarm and thus could pose a health bly, where the Sandinistas hold a large ma­ concern over this matter stems from hazard? And what lessons can be jority, would ultimately be able to review two facts. First, countless numbers of the national budget because "that is ele­ learned from the Hillfarm episode and mental" to any parliament. my constituents have contracted sal­ should corrective action be pursued? Mr. Ortega also said the Sandinistas monella poisoning as a result of drink­ Only after the evidence is in will we would support proposals to hold local elec­ ing the impure milk. I should digress know whether the tragedy in Illinois is tions, and he predicted that some would be to note that salmonellosis is fairly a temporary blip on the safety record won by opposition parties. He would not say common in many foods, and is so wide­ of the fluid milk producers or whether when such elections might be held. spread that it is the leading cause of more stringent safeguards are needed. A long conversation with Mr. Ortega is ar­ death due to foodborne disease in this I have been monitoring the situation ranged and conducted with a tropical flavor. country. According to the U.S. Centers The invitee is advised to remain near a tele­ in Illinois very closely and searching phone, and finally, usually well after dark, for Disease Control, the number of sal­ for answers to these and other ques­ it rings. monella poisoning cases has risen tions. Notwithstanding the fine efforts sharply since 1977, to an estimated 2 PRIVATE LIFE IS GUARDED of the State and Federal agencies to to 4 million cases every year. In this case the President, who jealously uncover the reasons why this incident guards his private life, declined requests to The second reason for my interest in happened, I believe it is important, be interviewed in his lavish home, which sits this matter is that the dairy at which perhaps imperative, for us in Congress behind an imposing wall in a section of Ma­ the contaminated milk was produced to review the matter in a more generic nagua known as El Carmen. Instead, he re­ is located in a Chicago suburb and light. We in this country go to great ceived a visitor Monday at his office in one within my district. lengths to investigate major disasters of the few downtown buildings that survived Fortunately, the tide has turned and the devastating 1972 earthquake. in order to turn hazards and errors in the rising numbers of victims have judgment into increased margins of As Mr. Ortega spoke, an unobtrusive but abated. Efforts are now underway to attentive waiter in white shirt and black safety for our people. In my mind, the bow tie served Nicaraguan coffee, heavily determine the cause of the outbreak. mishap at the Chicago dairy is no less sweetened with Nicaraguan sugar. Experts from the U.S. Food and Drug serious and it deserves the same Mr. Ortega recalled his meeting at the Administration and the CDC, State health officials, representatives from degree of scrutiny. White House in September 1979 with Presi­ As dent Carter as "truly historic" because "it the Hillfarm dairy, and microbiologi­ with any accident, however, we left us with the sense that it was possible to cal testing consultants have been must be careful not to arbitrarily overcome the problems which we have had brought together to form a task force indict a whole industry. The milk in­ with the United States over 100 years of his­ which is inspecting the plant facilities dustry is no exception. According to tory." and its various milk suppliers, in addi­ the FDA, less than 1 percent of popu­ But he said that in the months that fol­ lation outbreaks of foodborne illness lowed, Mr. Carter became weakened by the tion to reviewing the chain of events leading up to the crisis. results from milk. This supports the Iran hostage crisis and was unable to be­ fact that the fluid milk producers friend Nicaragua. Early in May, the task force released Soon after the White House meeting a preliminary report of its findings have had a largely good track record President Carter criticized the Sandinistas, which indicated that the exact cause as far as safety is concerned. after accusations arose that they were send­ of the incident has not yet been pin­ But given the tremendous volume of ing weapons to revolutionaries in El Salva­ pointed. However, the report did milk and milk products consumed by dor. reveal some anomalies in the plant's Americans each year-approximatey Mr. Ortega said that members of the Nica­ design which, it theorized, could have 26 billion quarts of milk according to raguan armed forces had aided such ship­ 1983 figures-and its high nutritional ments but that they had done so without a casual connection to the milk con­ Government sanction. tamination. benefits, we must determine whether Mr. Ortega was restrained in his com­ The investigation is still ongoing in there exists the chance for another ments about President Reagan, whom he the hope that the factor or factors outbreak from another U.S. plant. has previously accused of genocide and com­ contributing to this accident can be In view of the Chicago episode and pared to Hitler. President Reagan has por­ identified. While sabotage has not the more recent troubles with two trayed Mr. Ortega as a committed Marxist­ been completely ruled out, it is unlike­ southern California dairies which pro­ Leninist who is acting in concert with Soviet duced tainted cheese that has led to and Cuban strategies to subvert American ly that willful tampering of the plant's interests. equipment took place, given that the the death of over 60 people, I have "The problem is that President Reagan salmonella contamination resulted written the General Accounting Office has not been able to rise above the failure from three separate production runs to request that an independent investi­ of American leaders to understand Latin at least 1 week apart. A comparatively gation be conducted. I have asked the 19736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 GAO to examine the safety designs The investment tax credit and accel­ SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. and procedures of other U.S. dairy erated depreciation are important The amendments made by this Act shall plants, as well as whether current measures to help American businesses. apply with respect to property placed in FDA standards and State enforcement But, unfortunately, this tax break service after December 31, 1985, in taxable activities are adequate. I have also does not necessarily provide much years ending after such date.e asked GAO to determine whether cor­ help for the American worker. It is rective actions by the milk industry or time we began weeding out laws which CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK by State and Federal health authori­ help American businesses, but not nec­ ties are needed, and if congressional essarily the American worker. The legislation might be useful in provid­ "trickle down" theory of economics HON. MARIO BIAGGI ing greater safeguards in the fluid which this administration holds has OF NEW YORK milk industry. never worked. It is time for us to act IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I will keep my colleagues informed for fairness for the American worker. Thursday, July 18, 1985 of the outcome of the GAO investiga­ The reprinted bill follows: e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, this tion and as more information about H.R. 3051 the Chicago incident comes to light.e week marks the 26th anniversary of A bill to deny an investment tax credit and Captive Nations Week, commemorat­ accelerated cost recovery for any property ing the millions of freedom-loving not made in the United States and having MAKING THE TAX CODE FAIRER less than 85 percent domestic content, people in captive nations throughout TO THE AMERICAN WORKER except property for which there is no sub­ the world. This year its observance is stitute having not been made in the of greater importance than ever HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR. United States with at least 85 percent do­ before. A new sense of optimism per­ OF OHIO mestic content vades the Soviet bloc countries as un­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Be it enacted by the Senate and House of precedented steps are being taken to Representatives of the United States of resist Soviet-imposed rule. In addition, Thursday, July 18, 1985 America i n Congress assembled, the improved United States-Soviet re­ e Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, SECTION 1. DENIAL OF INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT lations have given new hope to the FOR PROPERTY NOT MADE IN THE captive people of the world for im­ since I first came to Congress several UNITED STATES WITH INSUFFICIENT months ago I have been speaking out DOMESTIC CONTENT. provements in their situation in the and introducing legislation to help the Section 48 of the Internal Revenue near future. American worker. Code of 1954

and Ford fell short in 1983 nation? How, in 1985, can we justify the 1978-79 led consumers to skew their pur­ and 1984 and are likely to do so once again chases much more dramatically towards continued regulation of passenger-car fuel in 1985. A manufacturer is penalized five smaller cars. The sales of Japanese imports economy? dollars per car for each one-tenth of a soared, and the average size of U.S.-pro­ CAFE: THE STANDARD MENU gallon that its average fuel economy falls duced cars fell. But fuel economy is not just below the standard. For example, if, as In 1975, Congress decreed that every seller a matter of car size; manufacturers can in­ seems to be the case, GM has no carryfor­ crease the efficiency of their automobiles, of automobiles in the U.S. market had to ward or carryback credits to use in 1985 and large as well as small, by redesigning trans­ achieve, for its fleet of new cars in the 1978 if it averages 25.5 MPG-instead of the 27.5 missions, ignition systems, body shapes, and model year, a minimum average fuel econo­ that the standard requires-across a produc­ fuel injection systems. In recent research, 1 I my of 18 miles per gallon . Thereaf­ tion of 4 million cars, it could be liable for have found that between 1970 and 1983 the ter, this standard was to rise in increments, $400 million in fines. In order to avoid large rates of improvement in fuel economy for reaching 27.5 MPG by the 1985 model year penalties, GM and Ford are now pleading vehicles of any given weight and engine size unless modified by the secretary of trans­ for a reduction of the standard to 26.0 were almost precisely what would have been portation. The secretary does have some MPG. Chrysler, on the other hand, expects expected given the costs of engineering and latitude under the statute to make adjust­ to meet the standards and wants it to building in fuel economy and the shifts that ments, but it appears that she cannot remain at 27 .5 so that virtue will be reward­ took place in gasoline prices. It seems clear reduce the fuel economy standard below 26 ed. The difference, of course, is that large that as a factor in inducing fuel-efficient MPG for 1985 or future model years. Do­ cars account for a smaller proportion of design innovations, CAFE has been largely mestic automobile companies may not count Chrysler's production than of GM and irrelevant. their captive imports in calculating their Ford's. Since 1981, the price of motor fuel has compliance with the standard. However, if U.S. manufacturers do derive some benefit fallen by more than 10 percent Why should we have supposed that Con­ ORIGINS gress was able to divine well in advance, OOE In 1975, when Congress passed EPCA, oil with only partial information and in a polit­ Model year Chrys­ ical process, the optimal rate of fuel con­ stand- GM Ford ler and gasoline prices were being held below ard equilibrium by regulatory programs devised sumption for passenger cars in any given in response to OPEC's 1973-74 successes. year? Even if it had done the best job of 1978 ...... 18.0 19.0 18.4 18.4 standard-setting imaginable in those circum­ 1979 ...... 19.0 19.1 19.1 Congress could have and should have en­ 1980 ...... 20.0 21.8 22.0 ~~ : ~ couraged petroleum conservation by allow- stances, the subsequent intrusion of reali­ 1981 ...... 22.0 23.2 23.3 26.4 ing prices to rise, but that course of action ty-for example, changes in economic condi­ 1982 ...... 24.0 24.3 24.5 21.0 was discouraged by a political imbalance: tions and in the technology of automobile 1983 ...... 26.0 23.5 23.8 27.0 Many more buyers of petroleum products production-would have made its handiwork 1984 ...... 27.0 I 24.8 I 25.3 27 obsolete. And why should Congress have 1985 ...... 27 .5 2 25.1 2 25.9 ·! than sellers vote in congressional elections. Since Congress had artificially suppressed worried only about the consumption of gas­ 1 Mid-year. gasoline prices, so that they did not reflect oline by automobiles? Surely, it makes no 2 Predicted by the companies. the scarcity of petroleum, Detroit had no sense to regulate automobile fuel economy 3 Not available. signal to produce appropriately fuel-effi­ and to let energy use in other sectors con­ Source: NHTSA and Automotives News, January 7, 1985, p. 1. cient cars. public image. For automobile safety by pushing consumers would then have to weigh the desirability of the food industry, however, radiation is es­ into smaller cars. This may occur to some low oil prices against the costs of instability sential, and certain kinds of radiation can be extent, but not all of the shift in car buying in the Middle East. a powerful and economical means of pre­ will be toward smaller cars. Larger automo­ WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? serving foods and keeping them wholesome. For consumers, radiation used as a preserva­ biles will be outfitted with more fuel-effi­ One would hope that we have learned cient, and less powerful, engines. These cars tive can provide food products with less mi­ something from our counterproductive crobial contamination and a longer shelf will deliver less performance on the dollar, interventions in energy markets during the but they probably will not be less safe­ life. This adds up to better health and lower 1970s. We have now deregulated oil and gas­ food costs. except on the acceleration ramps of Califor­ oline and are moving towards the deregula­ nia or Texas freeways. tion of natural gas. There is serious discus­ WHAT IS ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION? The CAFE standards, it must be said, are sion of deregulating the generation of elec­ Electromagnetic radiation is energy that a form of trade protection for U.S. workers. tric power. In short, we seem to be reaching moves through space at the speed of light General Motors will be less free to import a societal consensus that markets generally by simultaneous variation of the intensity fuel-efficient small cars from Japan or work better without than vlith government of electric and magnetic fields. The intensi­ Korea if CAFE remains, because these im­ meddling. ty of the radiation at a particular point ports do not count toward its CAFE rating. At the very least, the supporters of CAFE changes periodically, and the period may be If it brings its small cars in from overseas, should be asked to articulate a colorable ra­ represented by either the number of times and produces only large cars in its domestic tionale for continuing this form of social en­ per second the electromagnetic field makes plants, it will fall far short of CAFE. gineering. Gasoline prices are no longer a complete excursion and returns to its This implicit limit on imports will reduce held below market-clearing levels. If we original condition is equal to ers, who are less productive than their Japa­ clear, except for political obstructions: We the product of the frequency in periods or nese counterparts, earn about 60 percent should let CAFE pass into memory, along cycles per second and the wave­ more than the average U.S. industrial wage. with all of those other pleasant events of length in meters. The diagram shows both With CAFE in place, U.S. producers will not the 1970s.e the "kinds" of electromagnetic radiation be able to use as a bargaining chip the and the uses that are made of certain por­ threat of foreign supply of small cars. tions of the spectrum. Chrysler, which currently imports a larger EXPLAINING THE ATTRIBUTES Wavelengths of electromagnetic waves share of its cars from Japan than either OF FOOD IRRADIATION cover a great range, and several portions of Ford or GM does, may benefit if those com­ the spectrum are given different names. panies cannot increase their captive im­ HON. MARILYN LLOYD The longest are radio waves. They range ports. But if Ford and GM continue to be from many meters down to one-thousandth constrained by CAFE, they may have to OF TENNESSEE of a meter. The shortest radio waves overlap lower the prices of their smaller cars while IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES infrared radiation. Infrared radiation, visi­ raising the prices of their larger ones. This Thursday, July 18, 1985 ble radiation (light), and ultraviolet radi­ will obviously hurt Chrysler, since it sells ation occupy successively shorter wave­ mainly smaller cars. Perhaps Chrysler is set­ • Mrs. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, I would lengths. X-radiation overlaps ultraviolet ra­ ting up its rivals for a costly predatory pric­ like to bring to the attention of my diation, and gamma radiation overlaps both ing suit. colleagues the following article on ultraviolet radiation and X-radiation. Not July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19741 shown in the diagram is cosmic radiation, Foods can be treated with accelerated food additives on the basis that it may which has wavelengths shorter than those electrons and X-rays as well as with gamma affect the characteristics of food. Because of gamma radiation. Also not shown is an­ radiation. On the microscopic or atomic of the wording of this law, the Food and other kind of radiation, accelerated elec­ level, the effect is the same. They all cleave Drug Administration, prior to approving trons. some molecules into smaller ionized parti­ any use of ionizing radiation as a food treat­ RADIATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION cles. But the penetrating power of electrons ment, had to be assured that the proposed Electromagnetic radiation plays an essen­ is very limited. Gamma rays with energy of use satisfied the requirements for safety of tial role in food production. Some of the 1.3 million electron volts can penetrate 20 to chemical food additives. This legal road­ energy from the visible light range of the 30 centimeters (8 to 12 inches) of water, block created a toxicological problem and electromagnetic spectrum is captured by while electrons with energy of 10 million indirectly an economic problem. electron volts psychologically to the process of exposing The standard toxicological procedure to as a fumigant has given new impetus to the foods to ionizing radiation. Public concerns estimate a margin of safety for human con­ search for ways to control insects in plant fall into two categories. One is a general sumption works well for chemical food addi­ products. Irradiation effectively controls in­ aversion to any use of nuclear energy and tives, which are expected to remain in foods sects in stored grain and can substitute for the radiation it produces. Second is the fear to serve a specific purpose, but it is unrealis­ some uses of EDB on fresh fruits and vege­ that treating foods with radiation may tic for irradiated foods. Although new chem­ tables. make them unhealthful. ical products from irradiation can be identi­ There have been two questions about IONIZING RADIATION fied, their concentrations are very low, gen­ health effects. One is that if direct exposure erally measureable in parts per million or The scales in the diagram of the electro­ to ionizing radiation is hazardous to parts per billion. Some of the new products magnetic spectrum show how the energy of humans, isn't indirect exposure also hazard­ could be added in increasing quantities for the radiation increases as the wavelength ous when one eats foods that have been testing purposes like chemical food addi­ As decreases. the energy of the radiation treated with ionizing radiation? This anxie­ tives, but it is unlikely that all the new multiplies, the greater is its tendency to ty about exposure to radiation is without products will ever be known, and certainly cleave the food molecules with which it scientific foundation. Ionizing radiation is they cannot be added in increasing quanti­ interacts into smaller ionized or electrically merely radiant energy. It disappears when ties in precisely the proportions in which charged particles. Light energy has this the source is removed, the food products they occur. This means that the standard property to a small degree, and the property that have been treated are not made radio­ kind of evidence needed to verify that the becomes more pronounced as the wave­ active, and there is no radiation hazard in levels of chemical food additives are safe length of the electromagnetic radiation de­ consuming them. cannot be obtained for the substances that creases. Gamma radiation, accelerated elec­ Another worry is how do we know if we have been formed in foods by irradiation. tron radiation, and X-radiation have very have tested for all possible hazardous sub­ However, in 30 years of extensive animal short wavelengths and a relatively strong stances that may have been created in foods feeding studies with irradiated foods in the tendency to produce ions. As a result, they by irradiation and that we have verified U.S. and other countries and on several dif­ are often called ionizing radiation. that no hazard exists? This question is more ferent species of animals, there has been no TREATING FOODS WITH IONIZING RADIATION serious than the one about the alleged radi­ confirmed evidence of any harmful effect of The value of ionizing radiation in food ation hazard. Ionizing radiation does split irradiating food with the doses needed to preservation and pest control is that in some molecules in foods, causing changes in control insect pests and bacteria. It has not proper doses it can split enough of the mole­ chemical composition. The scientific and been proved that the effects of ionizing ra­ cules in the bacteria and other living orga­ toxicological problems raised by this ques­ diation on the chemical composition of nisms in certain foods so they are no longer tion are discussed following the legal road­ foods are more extensive or more dangerous functional, without at the same time split­ block. than those of any of the other commonly ting so many of the molecules in the foods THE LEGAL ROADBLOCK accepted forms of radiant energy, such as that the foods are damaged. The ionizing ra­ Enough public uncertainty existed about infrared radiation or frozen meats, poultry, nard Betrand once said: eral, the highest ranking National fish, and shellfish, such doses can increase Guard officer in the jurisdiction con­ the shelf life under refrigeration and can Were we to eliminate from our world the results of his work, the wheels of industry cerned. While I recognize that an in­ greatly reduce the level of bacterial patho­ would cease to turn, our electric cars and ternal review procedure is better than gens, such as Salmonella. Fresh plant com­ trains would stop, our towns would be dark, having no rights at all, I fear that a modities with high water content, however, our mills would be dead and idle. His name system where an appeal is decided by generally do not tolerate irradiation doses marks an epoch in the advance of electrical exceeding 3 kilograys without detrimental the same individual who is responsible science. From his work has sprung a revolu­ for the original adverse action does effects. Irradiation in doses of 2 to 4 kilo­ tion. grays, which are effective in controlling not lend itself to fairness and objectiv­ decay of fresh fruits and vegetables, ad­ Nikola Tesla was not just an excep­ ity. The Merit Systems Protection versely affects their quality, especially tex­ tional scientist, but an exceptional Board without greatest scientists.e their governing statute. detrimental effects on their flavors. This Today I am introducing legislation treatment also modifies the textural quality of dried vegetables and legumes and has APPEAL RIGHTS FOR CIVILIAN which amends title 32, United States been shown to reduce the cooking time. TECHNICIANS IN THE NATION­ Code, to extend to civilian technicians AL GUARD in the National Guard the same ad­ THE VERDICT verse action procedural and appeal A large and impressive collection of scien­ HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY rights which are afforded other Feder­ tific evidence from across the years and the OF CALIFORNIA al employees under chapter 75, sub­ world suggests that properly applied doses chapter II of title 5, United States of irradiation are no more harmful than any IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Code. In conjunction with H.R. 917, of the conventional processing and cooking Thursday, July 18, 1985 this bill will give a unique group of techniques. And irradiated food is far less •Mr. DYMALLY. Mr. Speaker, as a employees who are intimately involved dangerous than spoiled or member of the Committee on Post in our Nation's defense the statutory buggy food.e Office and Civil Service, I have right of due process and the right to July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19743 present their case in an adverse action undergraduate and graduate merit a member of the 375th anniversary situation before an impartial panel, scholarships, visiting professorships, commission has written a reflective ar­ the MSPB. This is the third bill I have and fellowships for scholars and scien­ ticle on the colorful history of the introduced during this Congress which tists. oldest capital city in the United attempts to ensure that Federal and There also is Berman the collector. States. I hope that my colleagues in postal employees can receive an objec­ Trustees of the Philadelphia Museum the Congress will take the time to read tive review of conduct-related adverse of Art recently dedicated a Muriel and this thoughtful piece: personnel actions. I am hopeful the Philip I. Berman room, honoring the Three hundred seventy-five years ago Don appropriate committees will act favor­ couple for their gift of 2,400 drawings Pedro de Peralta traveled from Mexico City ably on this bill.• by the old European masters. This is to Nueva Espana's far northern frontier to only a portion of the work he has lav­ establish a new, more centrally located cap­ ished on colleges, universities, and mu­ ital city in an area known then and now as PHILIP I. BERMAN: A LIFE AS seums worldwide-even to the pontiff. New Mexico. Governor Peralta founded La CHALLENGE He participates in the Art in the Em­ Villa de Santa Fe in 1610-some ten years before the landing of the Pilgrims and bassy Program for the U.S. State De­ eighteen years before the Puritans. Today, HON. DON RI'ITER partment, with collections in 50 em­ Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the OF PENNSYLVANIA bassies. The Philadelphia Inquirer in United States. Except for a thirteen year IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1982, in recognizing his level of pa­ period from 1680 until 1693 when it was oc­ tronage, labeled him the "Medici of cupied by Pueblo Indians following their Thursday, July 18, 1985 the Lehigh Valley." revolt which had driven the Spaniards into •Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, even Finally, but hardly least, there is exile near El Paso, it has been the seat of decades later, the impression made by Berman the parent. He and his wife government for the northernmost frontier one student in the one-room school­ Muriel, a doctor of optometry, have of the colonial viceroyalty of New Spain until 1823. house near Klinesville, PA, remained raised three children who are credits After Mexico won Independence from vivid. "I remember you," teacher Ches­ to both their parents and to the com­ Spain in 1821, New Mexico, with its capital ter Sames told Allentown resident munity. Nancy, a Wellesley College at Santa Fe, became a part of the new re­ Philip I. Berman after a gap of some scholar, is director of the Skirball public until August 18, 1846 when Brigadier 40 years. "You were the 8-year-old Museum in Los Angeles. Nina received General Stephen Watts Kearny, command­ who always used to catch on fast." a master's degree from Bryn Mawr ing the Army of the West during the Mexi­ Fast indeed. In the intervening where she was elected to Phi Beta can War, took possession of the city and years, Phil Berman has not had time Kappa. Steven, after graduating with proclaimed annexation of New Mexico in honors from Brandeis University, re­ the name of the United States. In the Com­ to be told anything twice. The crowd­ prolnise of 1850, Congress made Santa Fe ed list of his accomplishments could ceived a master's in business adminis­ the capital of the new territory of New fill a book many times this size. tration from Harvard University. Mexico. For two weeks, in the spring of Consider Berman the businessman, Last month, fulfilling a promise, 1862, Confederate forces from Texas occu­ not content with a highly successful Berman stepped down as chairman of pied the city until forced to retreat after career in trucking and heavy equip­ the board and chief executive officer the Union victory at the Battle of Glorieta. ment. In 1968 he ventured into an en­ of Hess's Department Store. He told Finally, on January 6, 1912, with the signing tirely different field by purchasing an interviewer from the Morning Call of the statehood bill by President William Hess's Department Store in Allen­ in Allentown that he has no regrets. Howard Taft, Santa Fe became the new sov­ "I'm in no way retiring," he said. "I'm ereign State of New Mexico, the forty-sev­ town, PA-to the Lehigh Valley what enth state admitted into the Union. Macy's is to New York City. Under going to continue to fine-tune my ac­ For the full extent of its 375 years, Santa Berman's continuing guidance, even tivities in areas which I've been in­ Fe has been a mecca for "the sensitive under the subsequent ownership of volved in all my life." minds" as Henry Adams referred to the in­ Crown American Corp., Hess's has There are sure to be many surprises. telligencia. From enlightened people such as blossomed into one of the fastest Such is Philip Berman's life and life's Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, a contemporary growing department chains in the work. of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Austin, United States. As he explained to a New York Santa Fe has evolved into a true artists' and Times reporter in 1971, "People in writers' community. Today the city's long, There is Berman the civil activist. lustrous cultural heritage is supplemented His awards are too numerous and business need a challenge. Expansion by numerous museums, the Santa Fe Opera, varied to begin to list. As a sampling: gives it to them and challenge, in tum, the Chamber Music Festival, Annual Indian He helped fund the Pennsylvania creates further expansion. It's a circle and Spanish Markets, and the Fiesta de State Public Television Network Com­ that need never end as long as people Santa Fe among other events. The Palace of mission, and led the board for the respond to challenge."• the Governors, the initial ediface built with Lehigh Valley's station, WLVT-TV. He Santa Fe's founding, is the oldest continu­ ously occupied, as well as oldest government was a founding member of the Allen­ A SALUTE TO SANTA FE, NM building in the United States and is today town Housing Development Corp. He the hub of Santa Fe's ambiance.• sponsored the Muriel and Philip Berman Campership Fund, aiding dis­ HON. BILL RICHARDSON advantaged boys to participate fully OP NEW MEXICO THE BURR TRAIL SHOULD BE with the Lehigh County Boy Scout IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PAVED Council programs. He served as na­ Thursday, July 18, 1985 tional director for corporate sales of e Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, HON. JAMES V. HANSEN bonds for Israel. He was a U.N. Dele­ this year the people of Santa Fe, NM, OF UTAH gate to the 43d ECOSOC meetings in will join together to celebrate their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Geneva. city's 375th anniversary. The people of There is Berman the philanthropist. Santa Fe are justifiably proud of their Thursday, July 18, 1985 Lehigh University in Bethlehem now unique city. They look forward to a e Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, in has a Philip and Muriel Berman Pro­ constructive future for they are build­ southern Utah there has been an issue fessor of Judaica. This is only the first ing on a solid past. Santa Fe citizens, raging for years over the paving of the phase in announced plans for a Lehigh my constituents, join with me in shar­ Burr Trail. The word "trail" is a mis­ Valley Center for Jewish Studies. At ing with the Congress the special occa­ nomer. The Burr Trail is a dusty 66- Hebrew University in Jerusalem there sion of our city's 375th anniversary. mile road between Boulder and Bull­ is the Philip and Muriel Berman Pro­ Mr. Speaker, Dr. Tom Chavez, Jr. frog which is used by 18 wheelers, gram, supporting teaching fellowships, from the Museum of New Mexico and automobiles, trailers, and campers. 19744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 Some of it does ·run through scenic ports the paving of the Burr Trail. Finney's example is a positive one, and areas and a small portion of a National The entire congressional delegation will give impetus to a heightened sense Park. But the main point is the Burr and the Governor of Utah supports of achievement among his fell ow Trail is an existing road. It has a road­ the paving of the Burr Trail. If you South Carolinians. bed. It has been graded, however, it wish to enject partisan politics, the I am very proud of Justice Finney, does need additional engineering, previously elected Senator Ted Moss Mr. Speaker, and wish him the very roadwork, and paving. and House Member Gunn McKay, best of luck in the future.e The controversy over the road is both Democrats, also favored the quickly becoming a rallying point to paving of the Burr Trail. The two pre­ those of us who want progress. We vious Governors, both Democrats, also PROPOSALS TO DELAY THE want to improve a road and allow favored the paving of the Burr Trail. SCHEDULED TRANSITION OF more people into a region while stri­ The State Legislature recently passed THE MEDICARE PROSPECTIVE dent environmentalists fear that a resolution recommending the paving PAYMENT SYSTEM REPRESENT damage would arise from the influx of of the road. In short, every major BAD PUBLIC POLICY the traffic. To paraphase Shake­ elected official in Utah pass and speare, "to see or not to see" or "to present from both political parties HON. RONNIE G. FLIPPO enjoy or not to enjoy" the region is have supported this project. The OF ALABAMA the real question regarding the paving people of Utah have spoken on this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of this road. issue through their Representatives Thursday, July 18, 1985 The proposed road is not a super and they want the road paved. highway, far from it, it is a strip of as­ This is not a partisan issue. It is a •Mr. FLIPPO. Mr. Speaker, the time phalt following existing roadway with clash between those who want to see is drawing near for the various com­ minimum cuts and fills. The cost has better access to beautiful scenic areas mittees of the House to begin the dif­ been estimated at $21 million. The av­ on a paved road against those who ficult and painful task of reconcilia­ erage speed would be 30-45 miles per' fear such access will destroy the envi­ tion. Never any easy task, reconsider­ hour. A dirt road on the other hand ronment. ation will be particularly difficult this discourages traffic into the area plain To summarize, the road is meritori­ year because we are being used to cut and simple. ous. The people of Utah and their into the bone of programs that pro­ What would the road mean to south­ elected representatives want to see the vide vital services to millions of Ameri­ ern Utah? road paved. It will improve the park cans. The Medicare Program is a First, it would offer a paved road ex­ and not destroy it or change it ad­ prime example of the difficulties in­ perience through Capitol Reef Nation­ versely. It will provide important herent in the reconciliation process. al Park where a normal passenger car access to southern Utah and will be a The administration has proposed could safely and pleasantly travel. asset and not a liability economically several changes in the Medicare Pro­ Second, the road could provide more to the region. And finally, I look for­ gram designed to substantially reduce access to the Lake Powell region. ward to demonstrating these points to outlays. The keystone of the adminis­ Lake Powell has over 2 million visi­ my colleagues on the Parks Committee tration budget recommendations for tors a year and tourism in the area is during an upcoming inspection of :M:edicare is the proposed freeze on growing by leaps and bounds. It has as Utah's parks and scenic attractions payments to hospitals and physicians many visitors as Yellowstone National and I am hopeful that they will ap­ in fiscal year 1986 at fiscal year 1985 Park. In addition, visitors to Lake proach these issues with sensitivity to levels. The House passed budget reso­ Powell continue to increase while Yel­ Utah's desires and an open mind.e lution projects that such a freeze lowstone's numbers have leveled off. would result in savings of about $2.45 The point is that Lake Powell has billion in fiscal year 1986. been growing in spite of the poor A TRIBUTE TO JUSTICE ERNEST The likelihood of a freeze on Medi­ access into southern Utah and studies FINNEY, JR. care providers has prompted some indicate that 250 more people could Members to introduce legislation to travel through this area daily with HON.CHARLESB.RANGEL delay the scheduled transition of the such a road. OF NEW YORK Medicare prospective payment system The road would enhance the tourist IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CPPSl from the current ratio of 50-50 business in southern Utah and those percent to the 75-25-percent level of who have examined it in Utah Govern­ Thursday, July 18, 1985 regional/national and hospital specific ment all agree with that point. These •Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to prices. Some have even introduced leg­ same people also believe that it can be commend Ernest Finney, Jr. for his islation to permanently freeze the built in such a way that it will not recent election to the Supreme Court transition at the 50-50-percent level. hinder the environment. In fact, a of South Carolina. Justice Finney is I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to register paved road will stop the dust pollu­ the first black supreme court justice my strong opposition to any delay in tion, the erosion problems and deter since 1877, when, J.J. Wright stepped the transition schedule. And, further, people from driving off an existing down after serving on the bench for 7 to advise my colleagues that this issue road to the detriment of the adjoining years. is not related to the administration areas. This is quite an accomplishment, budget recommendations regarding Recently, there were three National Mr. Speaker. South Carolina was at Medicare. The adoption of this pro­ Park Service hearings in southern one time a stereotype of all that was posed transition freeze would not Utah regarding the paving of the Burr wrong in the South. Jim Crow thrived produce budget savings, improve the Trial. The overwhelming majority of at all levels of public life. Blacks were delivery of Medicare services, or make those in attendance [roughly 98 per­ denied economic, political, and social the delivery of hospital care more effi­ cent] favored the paving of the road. equality. They could not travel where cient. In fact, Mr. Speaker, a pause in This is a significant point because a they wanted to travel, live where they the transition could have the opposite preliminary environmental assessment wanted to live, or worship where they effect, weakening the prospective pay­ and other documents prepared by the wanted to worship. ment system and, in the end, return­ Park Service have not accurately rep­ Times have certainly changed for ing the Medicare Program to the cost resented the intensity of the feeling to the better in South Carolina. In less plus reimbursement scheme that was pave the road. than one generation, black profession­ the root cause of the outrageous infla­ In the 12-county radius of the Burr als and public officials are steadily tion in Medicare prices for far too Trail, every county commissioner sup- climbing the ladder of success. Justice long. July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19745 The intentions of the sponsors of In response to the concerns of hospi­ enced difficulty adjusting to the 50-50 transition pause or freeze may be tals experiencing severe financial split, the majority of hospitals have benign. I along with many others be­ problems adjusting to the new pro­ overwhelmingly responded to the new lieve that this would be the wrong spective pricing system, the American payment incentives under prospective course for the House to follow. There Hospital Association developed an al­ pricing. This favorable response by are many within the hospital industry ternative price blending proposal in hospitals which now operate more effi­ who support moving on schedule to 1984. During the fiscal year 1985 ciently should not be disrupted with a the fully national PPS rate schedule. budget deliberations, the American transition delay. They should be re­ The hospital association in 16 States Hospital Association requested that warded with the scheduled move to a located throughout the United States Congress delay the transition from the 75-25 rate in October. We should not have adopted a resolution supporting 25-75 ratio to the 50-50 split for 1 year delay implementing a system that is the transition to the 75-25-percent while considering the alternative price providing positive benefits while we at­ level of regional/national and hospital blending proposal. The administration tempt to solve what may be intracta­ specific prices on schedule and in op­ opposed any delay and Congress re­ ble problems. position to any delay or permanent fused to delay the phase in. Supporters of the transition delay freeze. The State associations adopt­ The administration's proposal to advance several arguments as justifica­ ing this resolution include: Alabama, freeze fiscal year 1986 prospective pay­ tion for the delay. Their major argu­ Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Ken­ ment prices at fiscal year 1985 levels ment appears to be that if Congress tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mon­ has been incorporated in the budget freezes the overall Medicare payments tana, New Jersey, New York, Oklaho­ resolutions adopted by the House and to all providers, doing so should not ma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Senate. The freeze on provider pay­ subject the hospitals already penalized and Utah. ments would affect all hospitals receiv­ by the 50-50 payment rate to the addi­ A review of the legislative history of ing Medicare payments. However, tional financial impact that a move to the prospective payment system shows some historically high-cost hospitals the 75-25 level would provide. Conse­ that a pause or freeze in the transition would be particularly hard-hit by the quently, transition delay supporters schedule is unwarranted and unjusti­ combination of the freeze on pay­ argue that for these hospitals a "bad fied. It would be counterproductive ments and the scheduled move to the situation should not be made worse." and negate the tremendous progress 75-25 split between regional/national Transition delay supporters also we have made in strengthening the fi­ and hospital specific prices. argue that certain regions of the coun­ nances of the Medicare Program and The cries of anguish are not surpris­ try with lower cost labor should not be health care in general. ing. Prospective pricing was intro­ permitted to benefit from a move to duced into the Medicare Program to The PPS payments methodology is the 75-25 level at the expense of some reduce costs and penalize high-cost regions of the country which are faced in a congressionally mandated 4-year hospitals. A business-as-usual ap­ transition from a cost-based, retro­ with higher cost labor situations. It proach is no longer a managerial was inevitable that some hospitals spective system to prospective pricing. option for hospital administrators. It Congress designed the prospective with higher labor costs would seek is also not surprising that the high­ some protection from the incentives of payment system to control Medicare cost hospitals have joined together to costs and to provide incentives for all the system and call for a delay in the ask Congress for a delay in the transi­ transition. Additionally, arguments Medicare hospitals to operate more ef­ tion to a fully national rate. ficiently. This process was initiated are advanced that the intensity of care As noted previously, legislation has provided in certain regions of the with the cost-per-case limits imposed been introduced in the House to delay by the Tax Equity and Fiscal Respon­ country is higher than that provided the transition for 1 year or for as long in the low-cost regions. However, this sibility Act of 1982 are dramati­ this phenomenon at the level of con­ would severely disrupt the necessary cally down from just a year ago. In that gressional districts within a given predictability for hospitals which have same year, lengths of stay have been re­ State; New York for example. responded to the system in good faith. duced nationally by over two days. Hospital Last year the New York State unem­ Clearly all PPS hospitals have had to productivity is at an all time high. The pro­ ployment rate was 7.3 percent; this modify their operating behavior, and, spective payment system has also fostered rate represents a wide range of em­ over the same amount of time. long-term financial stability for the Medi­ ployment situations. The Fourth Dis­ I agree with hospital representatives care program. Besides saving the federal trict had the lowest unemployment in government billions of dollars, the prospec­ the State with 4.4 percent. Twelve of who argue that any delay in the con­ tive payment system has benefited third tinuation of the phasein would indi­ party and private payers, as well as benefici­ the State's 34 congressional districts cate that Congress does not have any aries in the Medicaid program. enjoyed an unemployment rate below long-range intentions of using incen­ Fiscal predictability for hospitals was one 6 percent, which is considered by some tive-based programs to deal with of the cornerstones of the prospective pay­ to be an acceptable employment rate. health care financing. This signal will ment system. Stopping the transition will At the same time, however, 9 of these prompt some to propose harsh regula­ severly disrupt the necessary fiscal predict­ 34 districts suffered from unemploy­ tory hospital cost control legislation ability for hospitals, which have responded ment at or above 9 percent. which will stifle innovative, cost cut­ to the system in good faith. Such a delay Unemployment in the city of New ting by the States and punitive State will prompt some members of Congress to York was estimated to be 8.4 percent hospital cost containment legislation propose harsh regulatory hospital cost con­ in 1984. This figure is as misleading as will proliferate as a result. tainment legislation which will stifle inno­ the national and statewide unemploy­ Very little data is available that vative, cost cutting initiatives already under ment rates; of the 19 congressional dis­ shows how higher and lower cost hos­ way. Such action will not be overlooked by tricts that are a part of New York pitals are responding to the incentives the States, and punitive state cost contain­ City, 7 of them had rates higher than ment legislation will proliferate as a result. of the PPS. Clearly, the scheduled We urge you to strongly oppose all efforts 9.4 percent; 5 of the 19 districts en­ transition phasein has brought about to delay the scheduled Medicare prospective joyed unemployment rates under 5.4 noteworthy changes in the delivery of payment transition.e percent. health care by our Nation's hospitals. The State and national unemploy­ Full-time equivalents CFTE'sl are dra­ ment rates are good rough estimates matically-down from just a year ago. of the condition of the economy in In that same time period, lengths of general, but they do not help us assess stays have been reduced nationally by the actual employment situations for July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19747 smaller cross-sections of the American The case of In re: Cement and Con­ banking, namely, the impact of inter­ population. General and overall esti­ crete Antitrust Litigation, 515 F. Supp. state banking on consumers, the mates are also not very useful to us as 1076 illustrates the ab­ safety and soundness of the Nation's lawmakers if we wish to knowledgably surdity in the current law. In that financial system, concentration of re­ address our country's unemployment case, the judge had to disqualify him­ sources, regional banking arrange­ problem. We must examine smaller self in the trial's sixth year after the ments versus nationwide banking, the areas, such as congressional districts, court had entered 75 pretrial orders viability of small banks and the dual in order to understand the employ­ and decided countless motions. This banking system. ment situations of millions of Ameri­ disqualification took place simply be­ Today I would like to submit com­ can workers. Clearly we need a nation­ cause the judge's wife owned stock in 7 ments on two of those issues, con­ al economic and legislative policy of 210,000 class members involved in sumer benefits and safety and sound­ which will fairly address the specific the class action and her financial in­ ness, as described by the Comptroller employment needs of all Americans.• terest in the case was calculated to be of the Currency's office and the Fed­ between $4.23 and $29. 70. To transfer eral Deposit Insurance Corporation. JUDICIAL DISQUALIFICATION 5 % years of work and paper to a new On April 25, the Comptroller's office REFORM ACT OF 1985 judge seems absurd and a waste of ju­ said the following about consumer dicial resources given the minute size benefits from interstate banking: HON. ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER of the wife's interest. We believe bank customers would benefit The bill I am introducing today from increased competition. The removal of OF WISCONSIN eliminates this problem by classifying geographic barriers to bank expansion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an absent class member as a person would be especially beneficial to consumers Thursday, July 18, 1985 with an interest that could be affected and small businesses. Unlike large corpora­ by the outcome of the case. Therefore, tions and wealthy individuals who often can e Mr. KASTENMEIER. Mr. Speaker, purchase financial services from a nation­ I rise today to introduce the Judicial an absent class member would no wide market, lower and middle income Disqualification Reform Act of 1985. longer be considered a party for pur­ households and small business are generally This bill amends title 28, United poses of the disqualification statute. limited to the financial services of local in­ States Code, section 445-relating to Thus, judges would only have to dis­ stitutions. Full interstate banking should judicial disqualification-in order to qualify themselves if they or a family expand the range of products and services solve problems that have arisen when member's interest would be substan­ available to these customers. The experi­ judges disqualify themselves because tially affected by the outcome of the ence in branch banking states compared to that in unit banking states demonstrates, we either the judge or members of the suit. believe, the benefit of more permissive geo­ judge's family are class members or Other alternatives I considered in­ graphic expansion laws. Statewide branch­ own a financial interest in a class cluded permitting the judge to contin­ ing has led to the availability of a wider action. ue to sit on the case if the judge or range of services for local communities. Fur­ Currently, the statute requires a members of the judge's family divest­ thermore, the banks that operate statewide judge to be disqualified if the judge or ed their interests within 2 weeks of consistently employ a greater proportion of members of his family are parties in the certification of the class. However, their deposits for loans. We are aware of no the case or have a financial interest in a problem arises with this solution be­ evidence to support claims that banks use a party to the proceeding. In addition, cause it may permit a judge with an their branches to transfer funds to head of­ fices in urban areas. Rather banks transfer recent case law holds that class mem­ actual conflict to decide preliminary funds among their offices as dictated by de­ bers are sometimes considered parties motions-including a class certifica­ mands for credit. for purposes of the disqualification tion motion-subject to the limited 1 On April 25, the Federal Deposit Insur­ statute. These rules are easy to apply sanctification possible through a sub­ ance Corporation's representative addressed in simple, nonclass action litigation. sequent divestiture. Therefore, this al­ the safety and soundness aspect of inter­ The judge can simply compare the ternative language would appear to be state banking in the following manner: families' financial holdings with the unworkable. As the deposit insurer, one of our major names on the caption of the com­ The solution I did choose will result concerns relates to the effects of interstate plaint. However, in a complex multi­ in a more efficient judidical system banking on safety and soundness of individ­ district class action, the litigation may while maintaining the integrity of ual banks and of the system as a whole. As be well underway before a comprehen­ judges. I would like to thank Mr. John indicated earlier, geographic expansion sive class list can be compiled or a Frank of Phoenix, AZ, for bringing should afford the opportunity to diversify motion for class certification decided. and reduce risks. Although the benefits of this problem to my attention.• geographic lending diversification should In most cases, the judge may not real­ not be disregarded, perhaps the most signifi­ ize a conflict exists until the class list cant risk reduction for many banks to rise is compiled. At that point, the judge THE FEDERAL REGULATORS from building a more stable retail deposit must remove himself from the case ADDRESS INTERSTATE BANKING base. This may mean that an increased and a new judge must be appointed. number of banks compete for a relatively Switching judges at that point wastes HON. GEORGE C. WORTLEY fixed amount of retail deposits in local mar­ judicial time and can constitute a sub­ OF NEW YORK kets that could result in reduction in the ex­ treme funding vulnerability of a few institu­ stantial financial burden for the par­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ties. A new judge has to educate him­ tions. Another concern relates to the danger Thursday, July 18, 1985 that banks or bank holding companies may self concerning the case, delaying the be willing to pay an unjustifiable premium trial and ultimately the relief sought e Mr. WORTLEY. Mr. Speaker, on to gain an early entry into selected markets. by the parties. April 24 and 25 the Subcommittee on While mistakes undoubtedly will be made, Financial Institutions Supervision, the need to capitalize acquisitions and the Regulation and Insurance held hear­ accounting treatment of premiums paid, 1 In re Cement and Concrete Antitrust Litigation, 515 F. Supp. 1076 CD. Ariz. 1981>. ; In re City of Houston, representatives of the Federal Deposit Perhaps the greatest risks to the insur­ 745 F.2d 925 <1984>. surrounding the debate on interstate mally mean that larger failing bank situa- 19748 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 tions are more difficult to handle than unusual people who upon entering a one's personal freedom. All of these things small to moderately sized banks, and can room instantly became the focus of affect our lives, environment, and how we result in a proportionately larger exposure the group, because he brought joy-he live and adapt in our environment. to loss. However, in a world of interstate To live in a perfect environment and socie­ banking, there probably would be a larger brought news and insights and hope to ty is quite impossible, because of conflicting number of eligible potential acquirers which the crowd. He was effervescent, an opinions within. Therefore, laws are needed may more than counterbalance the negative ebullient human being. He was loved to regulate disputes among people. Any law effects of the greater number of large insti­ and will be missed by all who knew limits your freedom, but most laws are di­ tutions.• him. rected toward bad behavior and made to JOHN CUNNINGHAM; RAN FUNERAL HOME insure what is considered the common good. Everyone needs law. Law sets boundaries A TRIBUTE TO JOHN A funeral service for John K. Cun­ which are necessary in a society and points CUNNINGHAM ningham, owner and president of a funeral one's choice toward the good. home, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Visita­ Law is an opinion of what is good and bad, tion-Holy Ghost Church, 4515 Evans hoping to insure the good. By doing this, it HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY Avenue. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. protects one's personal freedom from being OF MISSOURI Mr. Cunningham, 70, died of leukemia infringed upon by another. For example, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Saturday at Barnes Hospital. He had been the law strictly forbids the murdering of a in the hospital since Feb. 28. human being. If one commits murder, they Thursday, July 18, 1985 Mr. Cunningham, of north St Louis are taking away another's freedom to live. founded the Cunningham & Moore Funeral • Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, one of my Home in 1952. He was owner and president One has the freedom to choose between constituents, a dear friend and out­ of the home at the time of his death. Mr. good or bad. Law insures not only personal standing business and community Cunningham earned a bachelor's degree freedom, but also, freedom for others. leader, Mr. John Cunningham, passed from Webster College and graduated from SECOND PLACE ESSAY-JUDITH MARIE FARRIS away on Saturday, July 13, 1985. I the St. Louis College of Mortuary Science. Quite contrary to the beliefs of some citi­ wish to enter his brief obituary from He served in the Army Air Force in the zens, this country could not be the "land of the St. Louis Post Dispatch in the South Pacific in World War II and was dis­ the free" without laws. Without some form CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, but I cannot charged as a sergeant in 1945 after more of order, the nation would be in a chaotic than three years of service. state. There must be an accepted govern­ let his many, many contributions to Mr. Cunningham was a past president of mental system in which someone has an au­ the St. Louis community go unrecord­ the St. Louis and Missouri chapters of the thoritative position. John Locke explained ed without mention of the kind of Embalmers & Funeral Directors Association this situation as the theory of popular sov­ person that he was. and a member of the Gateway Funeral Di­ ereignty. This theory explains the fact that John Cunningham was visionary. He rectors Association and the National Funer­ people must give up some of their rights championed causes that were not only al Directors & Morticians Association. Mr. and freedoms in order to live in harmony unpopular but dangerous in the 1950's Cunningham was a life member of the Na­ with other people. By giving up some of and 1960's. He and his wife, Nettie, tional Association for the Advancement of their rights, people are able to obtain to­ were among the staunchest supporters Colored People. gether what they might not be able to Surviving are his wife, Nettie; a son, Elvin; obtain alone. For example, if there were no of the N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council, two daughters, Inez Griffin, and Susie Cun­ laws, simple subjects such as property rights when it was in the forefront of attack­ ningham, all of St. Louis; a sister, Sue Lewis would become major issues. People would ing racial barriers in our city. They of Dayton, Ohio; and two grandchildren.e claim that they could live anywhere they provided the meetingplace, the impe­ wanted and conduct themselves in any tus to go forward with commitment manner which they saw fit. The laws are set and dedication, and often paid the cost LAW WEEK NATURALIZATION up to protect the rights of every citizen, not for such meetings. John walked the CEREMONY ESSAY WINNERS to limit them. Americans must recognize some people to have higher authority than picket lines at the banks and restau­ themselves in order to protect these rights. rants and other places of public ac­ HON. DON SUNDQUIST Without an established group of people commodation. He did so proudly at the OF TENNESSEE with higher authority, anyone could claim front of the crowd and was an inspira­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES power. Although there is a presidential tion to all of us-I was among the office, no one person has enough power to young people serving as the youth Thursday, July 18, 1985 decide the fate of the nation. The House of leader who valued his contributions so e Mr. SUNDQUIST. Mr. Speaker, re­ Representatives and the Senate were set up much. cently I had the privilege of attending as authoritative organizations in order to John was among the first of the rec­ the Memphis and Shelby County Bar prevent the Executive of the nation from Association Law Week Naturalization having absolute power. Thus we are protect­ ognized and established business and ed from living under any type of dictator­ community leaders to participate in Ceremony. As part of the week's fes­ ship. Yet, at the same time, we are not in an the sometimes humiliating experience tivities an essay contest on "Law unruled anarchy situation. As a result, we of the sit-ins. Makes Freedom Work" was held for are "free". When I first ran for Congress, John Memphis and Shelby County High THIRD PLACE ESSAY-ANGELA MIDDLETON was a strong supporter in every way; School students. The first-place The precept perhaps most cherished in financially, as an adviser and wise winner of the contest was Jina Marie America is the idea that this country is the counsel, as a worker in my headquar­ Rhodes of Kirby High School; second home of the free. Americans believe them­ ters and as a writer of slogans, and place went to Judith Marie Farris of selves to be one of the last bastions of de­ provider of meetingplaces. His wife, Briarcrest High School; and third was mocracy in a world quickly becoming social­ Nettie, was the first treasurer of my awarded to Angela Middleton of Cen­ istic and communistic in nature. Congressional Campaign Committee. tral High School. The text of the The idea of this country as a "free" nation above-mentioned winners' essays is as has its roots in the American Revolution. You can see that the close working The war was fought to "free" people from and personal relationship goes back to follows: the tyranny of the British government. the fifties. My admiration and respect FIRST PLACE ESSAY-JINA MARIE RHODES However, the revolutionary leaders soon re­ for this great community leader and To explain how law makes freedom work, alized that freedom must be protected if it businessman is without bounds. one must make clear several things. We was to continue. Freedom in name was John Cunningham was more-much must first define freedom. Freedom is one's much different from freedom in fact. more-than a visionary and committed right to choose. Without freedom, our world The Founding Fathers discovered that leader. John was a warm, vibrant, and would be one of insensitive persons without well-constructed laws were a good way to personality, goals, or compassion. Next, protect freedom. These laws insure that personable human being. I never saw what is a law. Can you see it, or touch it? each person is free to do as they wish but him when he did not have a smile for Law is an idea of how we think we can not free to interfere with the wishes of everyone, a joke to tell, or ·an upbeat insure every man or woman Justice. Justice others. No person is "free" if they cannot story to relate. He was one of those can be seen as getting what one is due, or think and act for themselves. Laws protect July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19749 freedom by protecting society from over­ very important segment of my planned There is the call of conscience: redemp­ bearing and malicious individuals. If too income for retirement years. tion, expansion, healing and unity. Leader­ much freedom is given to each individual, Thanks for your time and hopefully, your ship must heed the call of conscience, re­ their own personal desires might bring assistance in getting these items deleted demption, expansion, healing and unity, for harm to other persons. from the proposal. they are the key to achieving our mission. In essence, law makes freedom work by re­ Sincerely, Time is neutral and does not change stricting freedom. Unquestionably, everyone J. WILSON WITTER.e things. values their freedom very highly. Society LEADERSHIP has developed a variety of ways of protect­ ing this prized possession. The construction JACKSON'S LANDMAH.K CONVEN­ With courage and initiative leaders of good laws is one of the best methods.• TION SPEECH: CULMINATION change things. No generation can choose OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FOR­ the age or circumstances in which it is born, EVER CHANGED AMERICAN but through leadership it can choose to TAXES ON PROFIT SHARING make the age in which it is born an age of POLITICS. enlightenment-an age of jobs, and peace, and justice. HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. Only leadership-that intangible combina­ OF KENTUCKY OF MICHIGAN tion of gifts, discipline, information, circum­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stance, courage, timing, will and divine in­ spiration-can lead us out of the crisis in Thursday, July 18, 1985 Thursday, July 18, 1985 which we find ourselves. e Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, I am e Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, It was Leadership can mitigate the misery of our receiving hundreds of letters, post­ exactly a year ago this week that the nation. Leadership can part the waters and cards, and telephone calls from my Reverend Jesse Jackson's historic cam­ lead our nation in the direction of the paign for the Presidency of the United Promised Land. Leadership can lift the constituents about the President's tax boats stuck at the bottom. reform proposals. I would like to share States culminated. in his historic I have had the rare opportunity to watch an excellent June 21 letter to me from speech to the Democratic National seven men, and then two, pour out their J. Wilson Witter of Paducah, KY, who Convention. In his brilliant prose, he souls, offer their service and heed the call of has written about his concerns regard­ won the hearts and minds of millions duty to direct the course of our nation. ing the President's tax reform pack­ of Americans by building bridges of There is a proper season for everything. age. unity among a sea of divided philoso­ There is a time to sow and a time to reap. Wilson Witter, like so many others phies and goals. There is a time to compete, and a time to co­ who have contacted me, is strongly op­ During this campaign Reverend operate. Jackson unleashed a torrent of hope I ask for your vote on the first ballot as a posed to changing the taxation of vote for a new direction for this party and profit-sharing programs that are actu­ and optimism among millions of Amer­ this nation; a vote of conviction, a vote of ally designed to encourage savings. icans who previously felt all political conscience. I urge my colleagues to read his com­ options foreclosed to them. In doing But I will be proud to support the nomi­ ments and reflect upon his views in op­ so, he renewed our alliance with de­ nee of this convention for the president of position to profit-sharing program mocracy. Today, the reverberations of the United States of America. changes and tax increases. I, too, his historic campaign are still to be I have watched the leadership of our share his views. felt. American politics were changed party develop and grow. My respect for both forever by it. Mr. Mondale and Mr. Hart is great. The letter from J. Wilson Witter fol­ I have watched them struggle with the lows: Even to his critics and skeptics, the Reverend Jackson won the praise of cross-winds and cross-fires of being public PADUCAH, KY, June 21, 1985. servants, and I believe that they will both Hon. CARROLL HUBBARD, nearly all as the man of principle, bril­ continue to try to serve us faithfully. I am Rayburn House Office Building, liance and commitment. I enter the elated by the knowledge that for the first Washington, DC. speech into the CONGRESSIONAL time in our history a woman, Geraldine Fer­ DEAR CARROLL: Recently, President RECORD at this point. I am sure it is raro, will be recommended to share our Reagan proposed to Congress major not to be forgotten. ticket. changes in our income tax laws. Many of JESSE JACKSON'S SPEECH TO DDIOCRATIC Throughout this campaign, I have tried to these proposals, I agree with. However, CONVENTION offer leadership to the Democratic Party there is one key proposal I do not agree healed some wounds, rekindled some hope 1. Under present law, lump sum distribu­ Tonight we. come together bound by our or stirred someone from apathy and indif­ tion is taxed under 10 year forward averag­ faith in a mighty God, with genuine respect ference, or in any way along the way helped ing. Under the proposed method as I under­ and love for our country, and inheriting the somebody, then this campaign has not been stand, ordinary income rates would apply. legacy of a great party-a Democratic in vain. 2. At present, partial withdrawals are not Party-which is the best hope for redirect­ For friends who loved and cared for me, taxed unless it exceeds my after tax depos­ ing our nation on a more humane, just and and for a God who spared me, and for a its. The proposed method would fully tax peaceful course. family who understood, I am eternally the withdrawal if there remained any accu­ This is not a perfect party. We are not a grateful. mulated income in the account. perfect people. Yet, we are called to a per­ If in my low moments, in word, deed or at­ 3. A penalty tax of at least 10 percent fect mission: our mission, to feed the titude, through some error of temper, taste would be applied to my taxable profit on hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the or tone, I have caused anyone discomfort, withdrawals from the fund before I reach homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide created pain, or revived someone's fears, the age 591/2. jobs for the jobless, and to choose the that was not my truest self. 4. My pre-tax deposits of 10 percent would human race over the nuclear race. If there were occasions when my grape probably have to be reduced to 5 to 7 per­ We are gathered here this week to nomi­ turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its cent. nate a candidate and write a platform which resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to I have been working for 25 years in the will expand, unify, direct and inspire our my head and not to my heart. My head is so hopes that when I retired, I would have ac­ party and the nation to fulfill this mission. limited in its finitude; my heart is boundless cumulated an appreciable sum that would My constituency is the damned, disinher­ in its love for the human family. I am not a allow me to live in a fairly comfortable ited, disrespected and the despised. perfect servant. I am a public servant. I'm manner for the balance of my life. They are restless and seek relief. They've doing my best against the odds. As I develop I plead to you for your support in deleting voted in record numbers. They have invest­ and serve, be patient. God is not finished these items from the overall tax package. ed the faith, hope and trust that they have with me yet. Can I count on your support? in us. The Democratic Party must send This campaign has taught me much: that I also oppose any taxation of income from them a signal that we care. I pledge my best leaders must be tough enough to fight, Municipal Bond income. This is another not to let them down. tender enough to cry, human enough to 19750 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 make mistakes, humble enough to admit passion for social justice at home and peace lesbians and gays. No American citizen them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and abroad. We must seek a revival of the spirit, ought be denied equal protection under the resilient enough to bounce back and keep on inspired by a new vision and new possibili­ law. moving. For leaders, the pain is often in­ ties. We must return to higher ground. We We must be unusually committed and tense. But you must smile through your are bound by Moses and Jesus, but also con­ caring as we expand our family to include tears and keep moving with the faith that nected to Islam and Mohammed. new members. All of us must be tolerant there is a brighter side somewhere. These three great religious-Judasim, and understanding as the fears and anxi­ BATTLE IS OVER Christianity and Islam-were all born in the eties of the rejected and of the party leader­ revered and holy city of Jerusalem. We are ship express themselves in many different I went to see Hubert Humphrey three bound by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and days before he died. He had just called ways. Too often what we call hate-as if it Rabbi Abraham Heschel, crying out from were deeply rooted in some philosophy or Richard Nixon from his dying bed, and their graves for us to reach common ground. many people wondered why. And, I asked strategy-is simply ignorance, anxiety, para­ We are bound by shared blood and shared noia, fear and insecurity. To be strong lead­ him. sacrifices. We are much too intelligent; He said, "Jesse, from this vantage point, ers, we must be long-suffering as we seek to much too bound by our Judeo-Christian right the wrongs of our party and our with the sun setting in my life, all of the heritage; much too victimized by racism, speeches, the political conventions, the nation. We must expand our party, heal our sexism, militarism and anti-Semitism; much party and unify our party. That is our mis­ crowds and the great fights are behind me too threatened as historical scapegoats to go now. At a time like this you are forced to sion in 1984. on divided one from another. We must turn We are often reminded that we live in a deal with your irreducible essence, forced to from fingerpointing to clasped hands. We grapple with that which is really important great nation-and we do. But it can be must share our burdens and our joys with greater still. The Rainbow is mandating a to you. And what I have concluded about each other once again. We must turn to life," Hubert Humphrey said, "When all is new definition of greatness. We must not each other and not on each other and measure greatness from the mansion down, said and done, we must forgive each other, choose higher ground. and redeem each other, and move on." but the manger up. Our party is emerging from one of its RAINBOW COALITION GROWING Jesus said that we should not be judged most hard-fought battles for the Democrat­ Twenty years later, we cannot be satisfied by the bark we wear but by the fruit that ic Party's presidential nomination in our by just restoring the old coalition. Old wine we bear. Jesus said that we must measure history. But our health competition should skins must make room for new wine. We greatness by how we treat the least of these. must heal and expand. The Rainbow Coali­ make us better, not bitter. We must use the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION insight, wisdom and experience of the late tion is making room for Arab-Americans. Hubert Humphrey as a balm for the wounds They too know the pain and hurt of racial President Reagan says the nation is in re­ in our party, this nation and the world. We and religious rejection. They must not con­ covery. Those 90,000 corporations that must forgive each other, redeem each other, tinue to be made pariahs. The Rainbow Co­ made a profit last year but paid no federal regroup and move on. alition is making room for Hispanic-Ameri­ taxes are recovering. The 37,000 military cans who this very night are living under contractors who have benefited from Rea­ AMERICA IS A QUILT the threat of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, and gan's more than doubling the military Our flag is red, white and blue, but our farm workers from Ohio who are fighting budget in peacetime, surely they a.re recov­ nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, the Campbell Soup Company with a boycott ering. The big corporations and rich individ­ black and white-we're all precious in God's to achieve legitimate workers rights. uals who received the bulk of the three­ sight. America is not like a blanket-one The Rainbow is making room for the year. multibillion tax cut from Mr. Reagan piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the Native Americans, the most exploited are recovering. But no such recovery is same texture, the same size. America is people of all, a people with the greatest under way for the least of these. Rising more like a quilt-many patches, many moral claim amongst us. We support them tides don't lift all boats, particularly those pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven as they seek the restoration of their ancient stuck on the bottom. and held together by a common thread. land and claim amongst us. We support For the boats stuck at the bottom there is The white, the Hispanic, the black, the them as they seek the restoration of land a misery index. This administration has Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native Amer­ and water rights, as they seek to preserve made life more miserable for the poor. Its ican, the small farmer, the business-person, their ancestral homelands and the beauty of attitude has been contemptuous. Its policies the environmentalist, the peace activist, the a land that was once all theirs. They can and programs have been cruel and unfair to young, the old, the lesbian, the gay, and the never receive a fair share for all that they working people. They must be held account­ disabled make up the American quilt. have given us, but they must finally have a able in November for increasing infant mor­ Even in our fractured state, all of us count fair chance to develop their great resources tality among the poor. In Detroit, one of the and fit somewhere. We have proven that we and to preserve their people and their cul­ great cities of the Western world, babies are can survive without each other. But we have ture. dying at the same rate as Honduras, the not proven that we can win or make The Rainbow Coalition includes Asian­ most underdeveloped nation in our hemi­ progress without each other. We must come Americans, now being killed in our streets­ sphere. together. scapegoats for the failures of corporate, in­ This administration must be held account­ From Fannie Lee Hamer in Atlantic City dustrial and economic policies. The Rain­ able for policies that contribute to the grow­ in 1964 to the Rainbow Coalition in San bow is making room for the young Ameri­ ing poverty in America. Under President Francisco today; from the Atlantic to the cans. Twenty years ago, our young people Reagan, there are now 34 million people in Pacific, we have experienced pain but were dying in a war for which they could poverty, 15 percent of our nation. Twenty­ progress as we ended American apartheid not even vote. But 20 years later, Young three million are white, 11 million black, laws; we got public accommodations; we se­ America has the power to stop a war in Cen­ Hispanic, Asian and others. Mostly women cured voting rights; we obtained open hous­ tral America and the responsibility to vote and children. By the end of this year, there ing; as young people got the right to vote; in great numbers. Young America must be will be 41 million people in poverty. We we lost Malcolm, Martin, Medgar, Bobby politically active in 1984. The choice is war cannot stand idly by. We must fight for and John and Viola. or peace. We must make room for Young change, now. The team that got us here must be ex­ America. panded, not abandoned. Twenty years ago, Under this regime we look at Social Secu­ The Rainbow includes disabled veterans. rity. The 1981 budget cuts included nine tears welled up in our eyes as the bodies of The color scheme fits in the Rainbow. The Schwemer, Goodman and Chaney were permanent Social Security benefits cuts to­ disabled have their handicap revealed and taling $20 billion over five years. dredged from the depths of a river in Missis­ their genius concealed; while the ablebodied sippi. Twenty years later, our communities, have their genius revealed and their disabil­ Small businesses have suffered under black and Jewish, are in anguish, anger and ity concealed. But ultimately we must judge Reagan tax cuts. Only 18 percent of total pain. people by their values and their contribu­ business tax cuts went to them-82 percent Feelings have been hurt on both sides. tion. Don't leave anybody out. I would to big business. There is a crisis in communications. Confu­ rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Health care under Mr. Reagan has been sion is in the air. We cannot afford to lose Reagan on a horse. sharply cut. our way. We may agree to agree, to agree to The Rainbow is making room for small Education under Mr. Reagan has been cut disagree on the issues; we must bring back farmers. They have suffered tremendously 25 percent. • civility to these tensions. under the Reagan regime. They will either Under Mr. Reagan there are now 9.7 mil­ We are co-partners in a long and rich reli­ receive 90 percent parity or 100 percent lion female-head families. They represent gious history-the Judeo-Christian tradi­ charity. We must address their concerns and 16 percent of all families; half of all of them tions. Many blacks and Jews have a shared make room for them. The Rainbow includes are poor. Seventy percent of all poor chil- July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19751 dren live in a house headed by a woman, Unemployment reached 10.7 percent; we gle and achieve; provide a plan to show the where there is no man. experienced skyrocketing interest rates; our way out of our dilemma, and then lead the Under Mr. Reagan, the administration has dollar inflated abroad; there were record way. cleaned up only 6 of 546 priority toxic waste bank failures; record farm foreclosures; dumps. record business bankruptcies; record budget JUSTICE Farmers' real net income was only about deficits; record trade deficits. Mr. Reagan In 1984, my heart is made to feel glad be­ half its level in 1979. brought inflation down by destabilizing our cause I know there is a way out. Justice. Many say that the race in November will economy and disrupting family life. The requirement for rebuilding America is be decided in the South. President Reagan justice. The linchpin of progressive politics is depending on the conservative South to BUDGET DEFICIT in our nation will not come from the North; return him to office. But the South, I tell He promised in 1980 a balanced budget, they in fact will come from the South. That you, is unnaturally conservative. The South but instead we now have a record $200 bil­ is why I argue over and over again-from is the poorest region in our nation and, lion budget deficit. Under President Reagan, Lynchburg, Va., down to Texas, there is therefore, has the least to conserve. In his the cumulative budget deficit for his four only one black congressperson out of 115. appeal to the South, Mr. Reagan is trying to years is more than the sum total of deficits Nineteen years later, we're locked out of the substitute flags and prayer cloths for food, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter Congress, the Senate and the governor's and clothing, and education, health care combined. I tell you, we need a change. mansion. What does this large black vote and housing. But President Reagan who How is he paying for these short-term mean? Why do I fight to end second primar­ asks us to pray, and I believe in prayer-I've jobs? Reagan's economic recovery ls being ies and fight gerrymandering and (unintelli­ come this way by the power of prayer. But, financed by deficit spending-$200 billion a gible) and at large. Why do we fight over we must watch false prophecy. year. Military spending, a major cause of that? Because I tell you, you cannot hold He cuts energy assistance to the poor, cuts this deficit, is projected over the next five someone in the ditch and linger there with breakfast programs from children, cuts years to be nearly $2 trillion, and will cost them. If we want a change in this nation, re­ lunch programs from children, cuts job about $40,000 for every taxpaying family. inforce that Voting Rights Act-we'll get 12 training from children and then says, when When the government borrows $200 bil­ to 20 black, Hispanic, female and progres­ at the table, "let us pray." Apparently he is lion annually to finance the deficit, this en­ sive congresspersons from the South. We not familiar with the structure of a prayer. courages the private sector to make its can save the cotton, but we've got to fight You thank the Lord for the food that you money off of interest rates as opposed to de­ the boll weevil-we've got to make a judg­ are about to receive, not the food that just velopment and economic growth. Even ment. left. money abroad-we don't have enough It's not enought to hope ERA will pass; I think that we should pray. But don't money domestically to finance the debt, so how can we pass ERA? If blacks vote in pray for the food that left, pray for the man we are now borrowing money abroad, from great numbers, progressive whites win. It's that took the food to leave. We need a foreign banks, government and financial in­ the only way progressive whites win. If change. We need a change in November. stitutions-$40 billion in 1983; $70 to $80 bil­ blacks vote in great numbers, Hispanics win. Under President Reagan, the misery index lion in 1984 (40 percent of our total); over If blacks, Hispanics and progressive whites has risen for the poor, but the danger index $100 billion (50 percent of our total) in 1985. vote, women win. When women win, chil­ has risen for everybody. By 1989, it is projected that 50 percent of dren win. When women and children win, Under this administration we've lost the all individual income taxes will be going to workers win. We must all come up together. lives of our boys in Central American, in pay just for the interest on that debt. The We must come up together. Honduras, in Grenada, in Lebanon. U.S. used to be the largest exporter of cap­ I tell you, with all of our joy and excite­ A nuclear standoff in Europe. Under this ital, but under Mr. Reagan we will quite ment, we must not save the world and lose administration, one-third of our children be­ likely become the largest debtor nation. our souls; we should never short-circuit en­ lieve they will die in a nuclear war. The About two weeks ago, on July 4, we celebrat­ forcement of the Voting Rights Act at every danger index is increasing in this world. ed our Declaration of Independence. Yet level. If one of us rises, all of us must rise. With all the talk about defense against every day, supply-side economics is making Justice is the way out. Peace is a way out. Russia, the Russian submarines are closer our nation more economically dependent We should not act as if nuclear weaponry is and their missiles are more accurate. We and less economically free. Five to six per­ negotiable and debatable. In this world in live in a world tonight more miserable and a cent of our gross national product is now which we live, we dropped the bomb on world more dangerous. being eaten up with President Reagan's Japan and felt guilty. But in 1984, other While Reaganomics and Reaganism is budget deficit. folks also got bombs. This time, if we drop talked about often, so often we miss the real To depend on foreign military powers to the bomb, six minutes later, we, too, will be meaning. Reaganism is a spirit, Reaganom­ protect our national security would be fool­ destroyed. It's not about dropping the bomb ics represents the real economic facts of life. ish, making us dependent and less secure. on somebody; it's about dropping the bomb In 1980, Mr. George Bush, a man with rea­ Yet Reaganomics has us increasingly de­ on everybody. We must choose developed sonable access to Mr. Reagan, did an analy­ pendent on foreign economic sources. This minds over guided missiles, and think it out sis of Mr. Reagan's economic plan. Mr. Bush consumer-led but deficit-financed recovery and not fight it out. It's time for a change. concluded Reagan's plan was "voodoo eco­ is unbalanced and artificial. Our foreign policy must be characterized nomics." He was right. Third-party candi­ DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE by mutual respect, not by gunboat diploma­ date John Anderson said that the combina­ We have a challenge as Democrats: sup­ cy, big stick diplomacy and threats. Our tion of military spending, tax cuts and a bal­ port a way out. Democracy guarantees op­ nation at its best feeds the hungry. Our anced budget by '84 could be accomplished portunity, not success. Democracy guaran­ nation at its worst will mine the harbors of with blue smoke and mirrors. They were tees the right to participate, not a license Nicaragua; at its worst, will try to overthrow both right. for either the majority or a minority to that government; at its worst, will cut aid to Mr. Reagan talks about a dynamic recov­ dominate. The victory for the rainbow coali­ American education and increase aid to El ery. There is some measure of recovery, tion in the platform debates today was not Salvador; at its worst our nation will have three and a half years later. Unemployment whether we won or lost; but that we raised partnership with South Africa. That's a has inched just below where it was when he the right issues. We can afford to lose the moral disgrace. It's a moral disgrace. It's a took office in 1981. But there are still 8.1 vote; issues are negotiable. We cannot moral disgrace. million people offically unemployed, 11 mil­ afford to avoid raising the right questions. When we look at Africa, we cannot just lion working only part-time jobs. Inflation Our self respect and our moral integrity focus on apartheid in southern Africa. We has come down, but let's analyze for a were at stake. Our heads are perhaps blood­ must fight for trade with Africa, and not moment who has paid the price for this su­ ied but not bowed. Our backs are straight. just aid to Africa. We cannot stand idly by perficial economic recovery. We can go home and face our people. Our and say we will not relate to Nicaragua Mr. Reagan curbed inflation by cutting vision is clear. When we think, on this jour­ unless they have elections there and then consumer demand. He cut consumer ney from slaveship to championship, we've embrace military regimes in Africa, over­ demand with conscious and callous fiscal gone from the planks of the boardwalk in throwing Democratic governments in Nige­ and monetary policy. He used the federal Atlantic City in 1964 to fighting to have the ria and Liberia and Ghana. We must fight budget to deliberately induce unemploy­ right planks in the platform in San Francis­ for democracy all around the world, and ment and curb social spending. He then co in '84. There is a deep and abiding sense play the game by one set of rules. waged and supported tight monetary poli­ of joy in our soul, despite the tears in our Peace in this world. Our present formula cies of the Federal Reserve Board to deliber­ eyes. For while there are missing planks, for peace in the Middle East is inadequate; ately drive up interest rates-again to curb there is a solid foundation upon which to it will not work. There are 22 nations in the consumer demand created through borrow­ build. Our party can win. But we must pro­ Middle East. Our nation must be able to ing. vide hope that will inspire people to strug- talk and act and influence all of them. We 19752 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1985 must build upon Camp David and measure Our time has come. Suffering breeds char­ July 21, 1985, with a solemn litergy at human rights by one yardstick and as we acter. Character breeds faith. And in the the Cathedral of St. Maron in Montre­ (unintelligible) too many interests and too end, faith will not disappoint. al. few friends. Our time has come. Our faith, hope and There is a way out. Jobs. Put Americans dreams will prevail. Our time has come. The Maronites are one of the oldest back to work. When I was a child growing Weeping has endured for the night. And, Christian religions in the world. The up in Greenville, S.C., the Rev. (unintelligi­ now joy cometh in the morning. church was founded in the late fourth ble) who used to preach every so often a Our time has come. No graves can hold and early fifth centuries by St. Maron, sermon about Jesus. He said, if I be lifted our body down. a Syrian hermit who brought Christi­ up, I'll draw all men unto me. I didn't quite Our time has come. No lie can live forever. anity to the previously pagan region in understand what he meant as a child grow­ Our time has come. We must leave racial Lebanon and Syria. Hardy, independ­ ing up. But I understand a little better now. battleground and come to economic If you raise up truth, it's magnetic. It has a common ground and moral higher ground. ent mountaineers, the Maronites have way of drawing people. With all this confu­ America, our time has come. always valiantly preserved their liber­ sion in this convention-there is bright We've come from disgrace to Amazing ties and folkways, even under difficult lights and parties and big fun-we must Grace, our time has come. conditions of occupation, ranging from raise up the simple proposition: if we lift up Give me your tired, give me your poor, the Byzantine Empire in the 7th cen­ a program to feed the hungry, they'll come your huddled masses who yearn to breathe tury to the Ottoman Empire in the running. If we lift up a program to study free and come November, there will be a 20th century. The Maronites endured war no more, our youth will come running. change because our time has come. many difficult times, including a If we lift up a program to put American Thank you and God bless you.e brutal massacre in 1860 and an Otto­ (sic) back to work~ an alternative to welfare and despair, they will come working. If we man-imposed famine that claimed cut that military budget without cutting our LAWYERS ABUSE TAX CODE 100,000 victims from starvation and at­ defense, and use that money to rebuild tendant diseases during the 4 years of bridges and put steelworkers back to work, HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) ST ARK World War I. The Maronites were not and use that money, and provide jobs for OF CALIFORNIA afraid to die for their faith. our citizens, and use that money to build One of the major themes of the schools and train teachers and educate our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Third World Maronite Congress is the children, and build hospitals and train doc­ Thursday, July 18, 1985 tors and train nurses, the whole nation will plight of contemporary Lebanon and come running to us. •Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, many the role of Maronites in the resolution As I leave you now, vote in this convention people say that America has too many of the conflict there. The major focus and get ready to go back across this nation lawyers. I have a way to solve that for the World Maronite Community in a couple of days, in the campaign, I'll try problem. this year is on youth. The preparatory to be faithful ~my promise. I'll live in the Ten thousand lawyers have gone to committee for the Congress has estab­ old barrios, and ghettos and reservations, London this week for an American Bar lished a special program for youth and housing projects. I have a messa:ge for which includes sports, social, cultural, our youth. I challenge them to put hope in Association Convention. More have their brains, and not dope in their veins. I gone to London for their convention and religious activities. told them like Jesus, I, too, was born in a than came to Washington for the first The Maronites have proven to be a slum, but just because you're born in a half of the convention. The reason: resourceful people. They understand slum, does not mean the slum is born in the Tax Code is picking up a large the difficulties their communities face you, and you can rise above it if your mind part of the cost of the trip by allowing and the role they must play in helping is made up. I told them in every slum, there the convention expenses to be deduct­ to resolve some enormous problems. are two sides. When I see a broken window, ed as a necessary business expense. By facing them squarely at their Con­ that's the slummy side. Train that youth to gress and by preparing a constructive be a glazier, that's the sunny side. When I Baloney. see a missing brick, that's the slummy side. As the papers are reporting, many role for their young people, they take Let that child in the union, and become a lawyers are not really attending the the first important step toward a brickmason, and build, that's the sunny convention meetings-they are out better future for their homeland and side. When I see a missing door, that's the shopping and sight seeing. their communities. I join all the slummy side. Train some youth to become a As a tax reform measure I am intro­ friends of the World Maronite Com­ carpenter, that's the sunny side. When I see ducing a bill denying the tax deduct­ munity in wishing them a successful the vulgar words and hieroglyphics of desti­ ibility of foreign conventions, effective and productive Third World Con­ tution on the walls, that's the slummy side. today. gress.e Train some youth to be a painter, an artist-that's the sunny side. We need this This ntaY also solve the lawyer glut place looking for the sunny side because by causing many of them to stay in PERSONAL EXPLANATION there's a brighter side somewhere. I am England rather than return home at more convinced than ever that we can win. their own expense.e We'll vault up the rough side of the moun­ HON. WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER tain; we can win. I just want young America OF CALIFORNIA to do me one favor. THIRD WORLD MARONITE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Exercise the right to dream. You must CONGRESS face reality-that which is. But then dream Thursday, July 18, 1985 of the reality that ought to be, that must HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR e Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, be. Live beyond the pain of reality with the unfortunately I was not present for dream of a bright tomorrow. Use hope and OF OHIO imagination as weapons of survival and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the latter part of the session on July 17, 1985, and I subsequently missed progress. Use love to motivate you and obli­ Thursday, July 18, 1985 gate you to serve the human family. five rollcall votes numbered 236 to 240. Young America, dream. Choose the •Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, this Had I been present I would have human race over the nuclear race. Bury the morning in Montreal, Canada, the voted: weapons and don't burn the people. Dream Third World Maronite Congress con­ "Aye" on the Hiler amendment to of a new value system. Teachers, who teach vened to consider the present situation strike $95 million for small business for life, and not just for a living, teach be­ of Maronites in Lebanon and through­ loan obligations from the Business cause they can't help it. Dream of lawyers more concerned with justice than a judge­ out the world. Thousands of Maronite Loan and Investment Fund; ship. Dream of doctors more concerned with Catholics from some 40 countries will "Aye" on the Frenzel amendment public health than personal wealth. Dream participate in seminars, the election of that sought to reduce each discretion­ preachers and priests who will prophe­ new officers, drafting of resolutions, as ary funding amount by 4 percent; sy and not just profiteer. Preach and dream. well as traditional entertainment fea­ "Nay" on the motion to rise and Our time has come. tures. The Congress will close Sunday, report the bill back to the House; July 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19753 I would have subsequently agreed to SERBIAN-AMERICANS CELE­ Mr. Speaker, I cannot help but the DeWine amendment to prohibit BRATE "GLORIOUS DEFEAT" admire the courage of the Serbian any Legal Services Corporation funds people in their continual fight to to be used for litigation with respect retain their cultural heritage against to abortion; HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS all odds. This struggle, which is em­ "Aye" on the second motion to rise OF PENNSYLVANIA bodied in the commemoration of the and report the bill back to the House IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Battle of Kosovo, demonstrates the as amended; Thursday, July 18, 1985 dedication of a people to patriotism and freedom, and thus is an incentive "Nay" on the final passage of the • Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, the bill H.R. 2965, making appropriations people of Serbian descent celebrate an to all peoples. I join, with pride, Mr. for Departments of Commerce, Jus­ event every year known as Vodovdan, Speaker, the Serbian-Americans who tice, State, Judiciary, and related or the Battle of Kosovo. This battle commemorate the Battle of Kosovo.e agencies for fiscal year 1986.e marks the defeat of the Serbian people by the Turks in 1389 and marks CHINABERRY CUP CAPTURED TRIBUTE TO CITIZENS AND the beginning of over 400 years of BY MARIETTANS OFFICIALS OF MEDFORD Turkish rule over the Serbs. Normally such a defeat would be the low point for a country but for the Serbians it is HON.GEORGE(BUDDY)DARDEN HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY a glorious defeat. Their final endeavor OF GEORGIA OF MASSACHUSETTS at the Field of Kosovo not only dem­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES onstrated their refusal to be subjugat­ ed, but their strong belief in their reli­ Thursday, July 18, 1985 Thursday, July 18, 1985 gion because although they were ruled •Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, many by the Turks they kept their religious • Mr. DARDEN. Mr.· Speaker, one of Americans were shocked and outraged faith alive and strong and finally over­ the most coveted prizes of competitive by the recent hijacking of TWA flight tennis, the Chinaberry Cup, has once came this rule in the 1800's. again been claimed by a .group of ama­ 847 in Beirut. The average citizens' The Turkish drive to conquer all of teur tennis players from Marietta, GA. feelings of anger were compounded by Europe began in the 1330's. By 1371, At the Eighth Annual Chinaberry Cup the frustration of being unable to do the Turks had surprised the Serbian Tennis Tournament at prestigious anything to relieve the situation. In a King, Vukashin Mrnyavchevick, at the Litchfield Racket Club- on April 27, nation of achievers, most felt unusual­ bank of the river Maritsa. The unpre­ ly helpless. Marietta's team earned the right to pared Serbian army was defeated and carry home the coveted trophy from a The knee-jerk reaction on the part their king was annhilated. This battle, spirited team from Cheraw, SC. of many was to call for immediate ret­ which was nicknamed the "Serbian ribution against those responsible for Disaster," enabled the Turks to con­ The opponents from Cheraw, a team the hijacking and their associates. trol all of Thrace and Macedonia. Al­ of highly disciplined, skilled tennis This, however, would only have led to though this decisive Turkish victory professionals, made a valiant effort to more bloodshed and an increase in gravely injured the Serbs, they contin­ retain possession of the trophy, but tensions in an already volatile region. ued to fight until the Battle of the efforts of the Marietta team to re­ Fortunately, there were citizens who Kosovo. This battle, which marked the trieve the prize were overwhelming. were able to see beyond blind indigna­ fall of the Serbs as an independent The Cheraw, SC, team captain was tion and instead to realistically at­ state, did not weaken the Serbian W. Glen Anderson, gentleman farmer tempt to make what difference they people. Instead, they continued to and brick manufacturer. The team could. struggle for religious and personal coach is Malloy Evans, assisted by Among these foresighted and pru­ freedom with the encouragement of Fred Craft, both of Cheraw Yam dent groups stand the citizens of Med­ the Serbian Orthodox Church. Mills, Inc., a Pride in America Manu­ ford and their city council. Under the The battle on the fields of Kosovo facturer. Other members of the unsuc­ direction of Deputy Mayor Frederick eventually led to the complete domi­ cessful team were Frank Andrews, pro­ Dello Russo, the city of Medford ar­ nation of the Serbian people. By 1459, fessional wrestler employed at Palmet­ ticulated to me and to other Federal Serbia had become part of the Otto­ to Brick Co.; Dr. B.E. Coggeshall, Jr., officials the need for the hostages to man empire and was under the cruel surgeon; Dr. Walter Crosby, dentist; be given the just treatment they de­ domination of the Turks. For the next W.F. . died on January 28, 1971, while en­ VIETNAM VETERANS RECALL But at night, the silence was something gaged on a combat mission into Cambodia We were all kids, really. All we knew you felt-heavy and oppressive. And there with a helicopter assault team. He was re­ about war was what we saw in the movies. was a cold, dripping acid fear that made you turned to America in February, 1971, and in­ And being able to compete successfully with start awake at the slightest sound-was that terred in Arlington National Cemetery: other young men from across America is your buddy getting his throat cut by those Grave 154-a, Section 25. stimulating. phantom VC-or just snoring? You just He was awarded the Bronze Star, two When we go to 'Nam, it wasn't fun any never knew. decorations from the Republic of South more. The big camps weren't too bad, but THE MOTHER SPEAKS Vietnam, the Army Good Conduct Medal, out in the boonies, you really felt you were the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Para­ all alone, a long way from home. The holidays are the worst. And January. I dread January 28, and there's no place to trooper's Wings, and recommended for the THE MOTHER SPEAKS Purple Heart. Survivors: mother, Mrs. Wil­ hide. I force myself to send a wreath for liam