EXTENSIONS of REMARKS February 25, 1980

3664 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

VOICE OF AMERICA CONTEST affairs. The level of a democratic govern dogs. When the middle class can no longer WINNER ment rises no higher than the people under afford those quarter acre lots and homes, it. Those who fall to vote at election time you know that the poor are being condo are merely abandoning the principles upon converted onto the streets, "displaced" with HON. JAMES H. (JIMMY) QUILLEN which this nation was founded. To· abuse or nowhere to go. And so it wiil be no surprise OF TENNESSEE abandon these rights and privileges that our to you when. I say that the continuing na forefathers worked so hard to obtairi is an tional energy dilemma, an irritation and in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRES~NTATIVES injustice to society. We cannot be oblivious convenience for most Americans, is breaking Monday, February 25, 1980 ·to a ·government that is with us_ever.y day. the backs of the poor. Because of this; all Americans must recog Those at the bottom rung of this coun e Mr. QUILLEN. Mr. Speaker, each nize and execute their role in America's try's economic ladder are being bumped off -year the Veterans of Foreign Wars of future. I feel that this role is the same for the ladder altogether. . The average cost of the United States conduct a scholar everyone, yet different for each individual. home heating oil went up 8 percent from ship contest called the . Voice of De The key word is patriotism. Whether it is 1975 ·to 1976, by another 9 percent in 1977, mocracy competition. demonstrated in actions, words, or an additional 12 percent in 1978, and now This year's winner for the State of thoughts, patriotism is the vital spark of the crushing blow comes, a 62112 percent in the nation's honor, · the shield of the na crease from 1978 to 1979. A projected in Tennessee is an intelligent, articulate, tion's safety.· It has created nations, gave crease to around $1.00 a gallon by the end talented ·young lady from Seymour, the Declaration of Independence to th~ · of winter will brftlg the price level of oil to Tenn.,· in my· district. Her name is world, guided us through the tragic days of 271 percent of its 1975 level. Sherri Leigh Goodman, and she is one the Revolution, maintained the Union You all ·know the old saying about the of the best examples I know of leader intact, and elevated us to a splended civiliza rich getting richer and the poor getting ship potential for her generation. tion. This one small word has had more poorer. Well, it's true. Between 1973 and Her speech, which will be entered effect on American History than has any 1976, the consumer price index rose about along with other State winners' efforts particular historicaJ. event. · 30 percent. Average Aid For Dependent My role in America's future is to continue Children benefits and Supplemen in next month's national competition, that genuine spirit of citizenship and Ameri tal Security Income rose only about 19 sums up for all of us the responsibil canism that has brought our nation honor percent. Major income maintenance pro ities and privileges of citizenship in for over two centuries. I want to make sure grams did not maintain the real purchasing this great Nation. that this small word, patriotism, has a big power of those receiving aid, real purchas As a senior at Seymour High School meaning in the hearts of every American. I ing power actually dropped. around 8 per in Sevier County, Tenn., Sherri Good want myself and iny children and thei:i: chil cent in those three years. man ·has set an- example by following dren to be able to say, "America, you are my The staggeringly high · inflation rate, we the principles set out in· her speech. country; the land that I love."• are experiencing. now, led by inflation in the She has taken leadership roles in aca basic necessities and skyrocketing energy prices, makes all consumers feel the pinch, - demics, music, forensics, and journal THE ENERGY CRISIS AND ITS but it is the poor and the elderly .Wh involve the suffering of real peopl~. those in the history of human progress, serves to Good morning. who ·comprise the most vulnerable segments remind· me of my role of patriotism · in It is both a privilege and a pleasure to ad of our society. For example, the Community America's· future. dress this assembly of those who have been Action Agency in Forest Park, Georgia kept This scene makes me aware of the great and are now on the front-lines of the strug track of the household expenditures of American heritage with. which we have all gle for l:luman diimity and equal opportuni twenty elderly households over the five been endowed-a he·ritage that represents ty for all Americans. You, who daily identi month heating season this past winter in the decade upon decaQ.es of never ending fy the problems and serve the needs of lo.w order to see how expenditures changed in battles ·that have been fought for liberty lncome ~ommunities, know that when crises response to .higher fuel and utility bills. In and justice for all. We must not let this na hit 'the nation as a whole, they batter down forty-two percent of the cases, expenditures tional tradition fade away into history. and trample on the poor. If it's getting for food went down as energy costs rose; in The call to every citizen today is to chilly in Westchester, it's already freezing · thirty-seven percent of the cases, expendi enlist-to enlist under the banner of free in Harlem. When they're buying le5s meat tures for prescription medicines dropped as dom in defense of our Constitution. We in suburban supermai'kets, they're skipping energy costs rose; and in twenty-one percent must allow no one to fail in the duties of whole meals in the inner city-and elderly of the cases higher energy costs meant no citizenship by refusing to take part in public people are .eating food made for cats and regular visit to the doctor that month. e This "bullet" symbol . identifies statem·ents . or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3665 These . twenty. house}\olds, with ages be to call your attention to senate bill 1725, tn state, local, and community levels. Govern tween 63 and 79, had average monthly in troduced by Senator Gay.ford .Nelson of Wis ment agencies and public sel"Vice commis comes· of $·212.00, almost fifty percent of consin, and whJch is now under corisidera sions hear ·too much from companies and which went to utilities. fuel and water. In tion. S. 1725 would expand and improve na corporations, not enough from consumers, one ca.Se the percentage was as high as tlonal weatherization' efforts, link them and very little from low-income- communi sixty-five percent. What I have described is with energy conservation counseling, . and ties. Community action agencies should take a continuing and worsening crisis which· crisis intervention, while restoring weatheri a lead in making the voice of the poor heard exists for all poor and near poor house zation management to the community ser\r among energy policy- and decision-makers. holds, and for the elderly among them most ices administration. This is the kind of sub · The bottom line here is that_we have a severely. It is a crisis which is not triggered stantial program which would have positive great deal to do in the coming months and by exceptionally bad weather or a family impacts in areas of employment, housing, years. We need·not hide in the trenches and emergency; but which has become a part of . small business development-as well as dugouts waiting for the bombs of the energy the no~al condition of life for. the elderly energy. I urge you to promote weatheriza war that sure as rain will fall. We cannot and the poor. Bad weather and family emer- . tion on federal, state~ and local levels-and afford . to wait for rescue operations that gen'cies Just make matters that much worse. despite all' the problems that have ham always come too· little and much too late. In Compounding the impact of inflation are pered weatherization in the past; use what stead we must arm ourselves with informa structural factors in the energy economy ever resources you have been given or can tion, ideas, cooperation ·and action to go on · which further -disadvantage the poor and get to make weatherization a success. the offense in this energy war. We must ag ·substantially restrain- ttus population from As regards energy emergencies, I ani gressively pursue every opportunity to take conserving energy. ·Firi;t among these fac deeply concerned that this nation still isn't advantage of energy strategies and pro tors is the energy pricing structure which ready for the colder, darker winter that. is grams. For if we don't, the names of the continues to utilize inverted pricing sched descending upon us, and the tragedies it will people we serve and represent will be listed ules with declining rates ·at higher usage. surely bring. We will be hearing from the a8 casualties. · · levels. In all fairness, this pricing structure President ·and the Congress from now until Thank you for your attention to these re originated· in an era of inexpensive energy election diry abDut how they provided over a marks. If you desire more information on when industry was expanding rapidly. It ap billion dollars in energy assistance to the energy problems arid proqam.s for the poor. pears fair that large volume energy consum poor. What we will not . hear enough ~ of is please contact the Center for Urban Envi ers should receive a discount rate until you the · fact that this . large-sounding · ~ sum. roninental Studies . 1012 Foqrteenth consider the social outcome-the poor pay spreads out to roughly $200 per low-income Street, NW, Suite 706, Washington, D.C. more per unit of energy than ·do the middle household and that the need is at least 20005. CUES is the -nationally recognized and upper classes. In 1979, with energy con three times as much. What we are unlikely leader in energy issues as they relate to mi servation a national priority, inverted pric to hear is that Congress considered ·other nority and low-incoine groups. Our toll free ing schedules and declining . block rates proposals, like that of Senator Jacob Javits, ehergy information telephone number is 1- reward consumption while widening the gap ·which would have provided greater assist- 800-424-9591. between the rich · and the poor in this ance, more riearly approaching the true From the bottom we are in trouble this nation. Furthermore, utilities and heating needs of the poor. Therefore, we must look winter, and I don't have ·an idea of what's to state, local, and private resources t<' fill going on at the top. oil dealers alike ·restrict credit and budget the large pps left by Uncle Sam. .plans for the poor, demandiilg instead "cash Thank you and God Bless you.e on delivery.'' Consequently, the seasonal In the city of Baltimore, we have put to impact on the cash flow of low-income gether an emergency fuel fund for the poor households is devastating. Robert Pugh, and eldei"ly. The Baltimore Fuel Fund has a President of the Texas Senior Citizens Asso commitment frmn the gas and electrfo com PRAGMATIC CONTROLS ciation tells of meeting an elderly woman pany.to match up to $200,0QO in private do who had Just· paid her utility bill by, adding nations. Our local department of social serv 67 cents to her Social Security check. She ices will distribute these monies when gov HON. JAMES M. COLLINS paid that bill, but had nothing for food, ernmenj; sources run dry. Every community rent. medicine or other necessities. She was and every utility m this nation should be OF TEXAS preparing for this winter as Baltimore is · tN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an asthmatic and a victim ·of· emphysema doing. Community action agencies can be and had to use a window air-conditioner in the catalysts for organizing similar energy Monday, February 2~. 1980 order to live. · emergency programs. Energy conservation, widely promoted but As key individuals in community action to e Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speak is er, energy creates many. critical deci largely ignored by the public-at-large, not a~dress the Pa.radox of poverty and. wealth a practical answer to the energy dilemma in America, I encourage you to examine the sions for Congress for the 1980's. The for the poor, a.t least not in. the short-term. energy situation with an open mind. Do not biggest decision is choice of altema- For economic reasons, the disadvantaged dismiss it simply as an oil-coJtipany rip-off, a tives. We must face up to strong alter long ago made energy conservation a way of government-industry conspiracy, or as inter native availabilities as our country is life. Per capita 1975 figures show the poor national gamesmanship. Whatever the becoming too dependent on Middle u8ing 50 percent less electricity and 24 per causes might be for the crisis we call energy, ·East oil. Six. years ago when we began cent less gas than the well-to-do and their the problems and their impacts are painful usage has dropped since that time. Yet the ly real. But the opportunities for energy-re a Government controlled energy pro energy the poor do use is likely to do them lated community· action are also real. Tap gram, the United States imported $3 less good, as conditions of :· low-income· any and every sourpe you can to meet the billion in oil. -Thls year the United homes, appliances and automobiles owned needs of the people through ·programs and States will import $90 billion in oil. by the poor are less efficient than the na projects which also contribute to the na One of our biggest problems . is the · tional average .. Many houses occupied by tional goal of energy independence. Some the disadvantaged need substantial rehabili strong desire to have complete envi-: community action agencies are building ronmental control achieved during the tation to even begin to retain heat. Yet even solar greenhouses with funds from the: Na modest investments in weatherstripping and tional Center for Appropriate Technology. 1980's. We will be 90 percent success caulking are ·beyond the limited budgets of A sweat-equity tenant group ·in the South ful in 1980. But to push for 100 per many poor families. Bronx, .NYC generates power from solar cent at this time can be· counterpro Government recognition and response to panels and a windmill atop their building. ductive. the special energy hardships of the elderly In Atlanta and Denver, community action At the recent Republican planning and the poor can be characterized simply ·agencies helped develop energy education conference, PETE McCLOSKEY made a too little, too late. Crisis intervention pro matertals especially 'designed for Black ·and most interesting p.ofnt. He is a great grams of the Community Service~ Adpiinis Hispanic communities. Minority oil dealers tration intended to deal with winter energy and small businesses, middlemen caught in advocate of peace~ He pointed out that emergencies have been implemented in the the energy/inflation squeeze, are banding we are becoming too dependent on spring or summertime, weli ·past program· together in Connecticut and elsewhere, they ·Middle East oil. This creates danger target dates. My home town newspaper, the need your help. In New Hampshire, CSA ous prospects of a Middle East war, Baltimore Sun reported on September 19th, funds helped identify hypothermia as an which raises the question, Is it more that the Department of Energy was Just energy-related health danger for 13 million appropriate to develop other alternate then channeling $200 million to the states older Americans: the special energy .hard energy sources, even though. we have for weatherization in fiscal year 1979, which ships of the elderly population des~rve your ended Sunday, September 30th! Only half attention and creative action. Consumer tn to trade off maximwri security on. nu of the 90 million dollars provided in the. pre f ormation and protection in the energy field clear or on air emissions stands? vious two years was spent because of various is needed. Renters are a special group, not This subject was summed up very problems with 'the program. · covered by most national energy ·strategies, well in the December 29 issue of the In regardi; to weatherization. I would like their energy problems must be addressed at Economist. This London newspaper is· 3666 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 well written and has an excellent ob- lished in Teen magazine and is · a ha.S at his disposal every color of the rain jective perspective «:>four country. member of the Sitka Chapter of the bow, but even though he now has ·a choice he still prefers the blue! THE REAL ENERGY CRISIS National Honor Society. .The following is the essay wrttten by Miss Gomez: This is the way that I feel. I have an\ op~ AMERICA'S PRICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL portunity to try many new and interesting CONTROLS COULD BLOW UP THE WORLD MY Roi.I: IN .AMERICA'S FtrruRE careers but I'm going to stick with the most To understand · the present real energy A woman in our society can, nowadays, be traditional one, that of being a homemaker! eris.is for the 1980s, do not look at Opec. and do practically anything she wants! But Indeed the balance of the women's role in Look at the prospects .before America's elec-. what can be more worthwhile or as reward- society can include almost anything, but in tric utility companies. Ing as being a homemaker? volvement is important, no matter what you President Carter has told them. ''"as a I will fulfill my role in America's future as get involved In, be it the PTA, a church matter of law", that they must use only half a homemaker for the. simple reason that group, or·your son's scout troop. No one can as much oil in the late 1980s as they are this is one of the most rewarding· roles that expect a woman to completely cut herself using now. This means they must use more I can name! Of .course.if other women want off from the outside world, so involvement nuclear and coal-fired energy, but environ- to go out and compete, in what's still consid ~ important! However, a woman should not mentalists then stop these from being used. - ered to be a man's world, that's fine, but I be so involved ·in ·things that she has no Regulatory lag in price controls during high feel my future lies in the home. time to herself as everyone does need time inflation has put all the companies' share In our COUJltry, women have a very special to be alone and think. A woman in our soci prices below their asset values; so no sensi- privilege that in many countries even today, ety need not be constricted QY the home, ble company. is inclined to dilute -Its equity is unheard of. We have the choice to pick .but neither should she have to feel the need further to finance the building of power sta- what kind of career we want for ourselves. I to go out and get a Job Just because every tions it might not be allowed to use. There think it's terrific that we have the complete one else is! The role of being a wife &."ld is therefore not going to be enough electric- choice regarding our futures, but this is why mother can be Just as fulfilling and I espe ity in the United States in the 1980s. the role that I've chosen seems to cause so cially feel it can be twice as rewarding as In South Korea it now takes less than five many problems! . holding down a Job! years to build a nuClear power plant. In the Many women feel that the role of the As homemakers have been vital to Ameri United States, beeause of environmental ob· homemaker in these modem times has~ been ca's past so will I, and others like me be im· Jections, the latest nuclear plant took 16 devalued so much that even if some women port.ant in America's future!• years from first mooting to readiness to be do admit to being a homemaker they included in this winter's temporary ban become quite defensive about it. This is from being ·used. bunk! The role of the homemaker has not HOMETOWN DOES NOT FORGET Because of quick construction the. cost of been devalued except in the minds of those ROBERT ODE-HOSTAGE IN nuclear energy in Korea is now under a half women who think it ts something to · be IRAN the cost of electricity from oil. Before this' ashamed of. Which it definitely is not! year's Opec rises, the figures were 12.4 won ·What can be more fulfilling than watching per kilowatt hour from nuclear versus 23.6 your children grow up, _helping them learn HON ..GUY VANDER JAGT won per kilowatt hour from oil-fired. As nu- and always being there when they need OF MICHIGAN clear techniques advance and Korean envi- you? Or give as much satisfaction as know :"onmentalism does not, Korea is likely to Ing that your husband is returnlng home IN THE HOOSE OF REPRESENTATIVES become a cheaper energy country than the from work to a clean home in which he can Monday, February _25, 1980. United States in the 1980s as well as being relax, with a warm meal ready for him, and.· temporarily a lower-wage one. All the other someone to whom he can not only talk with, e Mr; VANDERJAGT. Mr. Speaker, advancing countries of east Asia are there- · but who can understand and contribute we are all anxiously watching the ef- fore likely te> want to go much more nuclear ideas? I really don't think anything can forts of-the United Nations with hope too.e · compete with these things and this is why I and anticipation that the Americans especially want to be a homemaker. held hostage in Iran will soon be freed. Ariother thing ·that I know troubles Recent developments have given us. VOICE OF DEMOCRACY women is when they tell people a home the greateSt ho~ yet that our fell ow SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM maker is what they want to be, people often .assume this means they have no ambition or countrymen held in the American Em any wish to get involved in things at all! bassy in Tehran will safely return to HON. DON YOUNG. This is Just not true! Being a homemaker the United States. OF ALASKA can be one of the most active .roles there is The past 15 weeks since our Embas and there is no· way if a woman is ·a truly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI.VES sy was taken by· militant Iranians has concerned and caring person that her role is been a very trying and frustrating Monday, February 25, 1980 ever going to be p&Ssive! A woman who truly p.eriod for us all. But ·as difficult as wants to inake her home a happy one is • Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speak· going to find herself so very much involved· this period has been for us as Mem er, the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the ·day to day. existence of her family bers of Congress and leaders of our Voice of Democracy scholarship pro· that there is no possible' way of her being Government, it has been far more gram began 33 years ago through the bored or dissatisfied with her role! • trying for· the relatives and friends of jQint cooperation of several concerned · And as for. not being ambitious, bunk! the individuals held in ·Iran. They associations and in 1962 was absorbed What can be more ambitious than wanting have painfully w~tched glimmers of totally by the Veterans . of Foreign your children to grow up with the right set · hope come and then fleet away, and Wars. The veterans initiated the schol of ideas and values so that they in tum can are the most frustrated oyer the impo-· arships by sponsoring an aid package become solid American citizens and lead full tency ·of the U.S. Government to productive lives! A woman as a homemaker for $1,500. Over the past 18 years the has the responsibility of steering her chil· secure the relea.Se of t:t>.e men and dren in· the right· direction and seeing that· women who- have been victimized by ~~r:ilar~~ip fr;:gr~oraa:shfp~wnw~t~ they have a home to come back to after an act which violates · the most basic $31,500. In the' 1979-80 competition school and not Just a place where they can standards of civilized iiiternational re one-quarter million students and 8,000 sleep and eat! What can be more ambitious lations. schools participated and over the past than that? Mr. Speaker, I would like to high 18 years over-4¥2 million students have Also something that especially angers me is that often times people. confuse the term light the touching memories that one conipeted. homemaker with that of housekeeper. But community, located in the Ninth Con The theme ·of this year's contest was there is really no similarity betwee11 the gressional District that I am honored "My Role in America's Future." The two. A housekeeper is concerned with keep to represent, has for a native son who winning essay from my State of ing ~he home neat and tidy, while a· home is among our hostages held at the Em Alaska was written by Miss. Jennifer maker although concerned with the appear~ bassy. Mr. Robert Ode, believed to be Lynn Gomez. Jennifer lives in Sitka ance of the home, is more concerned with the oldest of the hostages, grew up· in and attends Sitk-a High School. She the entire atmosphere of the home, that of Manistee, Mich., and graduated from girls 200- keeping it a happy and loving one. 1933;. holds the atate record in the Let me give this example as an anal9gy as Manistee High School in Many meter medley relay and placed second to why I've chosen my future role. of his relatives, classmates, and friends in diving (,luring the Southeast Region Say there ·ts a man who builds rocking remain in the Manistee area, and have II Championships. Jennifer. has been chairs and he has always painted them blue sincerely expressed their concern for in the Letterman's Club for swimming because that was the only color .that had his safety. 1rwo recent stories in the for 3 years. She has had poems pub- been available to him, now he finds that he Manistee News-Advocate poignantly February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3667 ·describe the concern of the communi began the music. portion. of the service, Ode's ·brother Howard agreed that "Mrs. ty for his safety, the memories they "You could hear his baritone coming Scott was probably the one who first in have of him, and their continued faith through," on television. spired hitn." And Mrs. Keon, upon hearing Rohrstaff said he and Ode also used to Mrs. Scott's name, sucked in her breath at that he will weather this ordeal, the ' enjoy overnight canoe trips together. the memory, saying, "Oh1 yes. Winogene greate~t in his 29 years in the·Foreign Cara Vincent Miller, 3160 Red Apple Ramsdell Scott. Bob loved her. He wanted Service. · - · Road, who often dated Ode during their to see the world." I want to share with my colleagues junior and senior years, .remembers· he And see it he did, from his first ·assign the two articles from the Manistee called his canoe "Mariposa,'' Spanish for ment to Warsaw, Poland; to a later assign News-Advocate which were written by "butterfly~" · ,. ment in Sicily where he met his future · Diane Conners. The first describes the All of Ode's friends contacted in Manistee ·bride, Rita, also an employee of the State remember hi~ as an intelligent,· studious Department. Howard Ode said his brother reaction of older friends and relatives was transferred to Montreal, Canada after who have known Mr. Ode, and the young man. Don OISon, 506 Fourth St., three years meeting her, while she was transferred to second reports on tpe letters written younger than Ode, remen:ibers living ac_ro&s Bangkok; · Thailand. Later, when she was by students at Manistee High School, the street from him on Second St. Ode was transferred to Ottawa. Canada, Howard who do not personally know him but pals then with his brother, Dick, Olson said, said, .she. and Robert renewed their friend are, nevertheless, interested in and and they were two of a kind. ship, and married soon thereafter when he concerned over his situation. While everyone else contemp1ated who was 40 years old. The stories follow: would .be first · and second batters in the Finally, Robert Ode's well-travelled life street b'aseball games after school, Olson re has carried him to strife-ridden Iran and an CFrom the Manistee News-Advocate, Feb. 5, unsure. future. Believed to be the oldest of 1980] membered, Dick _Olson and Ode would be thinkiilg of chemistry experiments to try. the hostages, ·Ode's old· friends, his sister· AREA RESIDENTS RECALL ROBERT ODE "I remember when I wanted to do some- and his brother Howard · believe his calm nature and wry sense of humor will keep . thing and I'd say •everybody else is doing it,' him and the other hostages sane through CHRISTMAS, 1978.· Dick would razz me and say, 'ls Bob doing this ordeal. ·DEAR FRIENDS: This has been an eventful it?' to show that not everybody else was . doing it.... Olsen said, · · Mrs. Keon· said that Rev. Kaufmann, one year. The State Department asked Bob to of the ministers who visited the hostages, accept ·a temporary .assignment to the But Ode was not your quiet, shy, studious commented on Ode's calming strength. .She American Embassy, Kingston, Jamaica from type. Rohrstaff . remembers Ode as being said that in a letter to her Ode said he was February 13 to May 20 • • • tropical Jamai much Uk~ his heavy, jolly mother: "He liked walking a room 600 to 900 times a day for ca was a pleasant place to spend the to talk, but not just idle chatter." · exercise and was reading all of the books in winter! • • • Being in the Foreign Service In the junior year Hall of Fame he was the embassy library, including the Bible, to again was an· enjoyable interlude for Bob cited as the best arguer, the wittiest and relieve the frustration and boredom he said who hopes to. be called· again for a similar most original student by his peers. Ode was he was experiencing. . · assignment." · vice president of his freshman class and Howard Ode said that in a letter to him Rita and Bob Ode sent the above letter to. served on the junior high student council. his brother }>oked fun at his hair which has friends-including several in Manistee-as a In 1932 he was treasurer of the Thalian So grown long in the back, but remains bald in Christmas me~age in 1978. . ciety, the drama club, and was male lead iI) the front and his scraggly beard which "of One year later, Ode was spendiiig Christ the comedy "Peg O' My Heart." course has a reddish tiilt." . mas in Iran, against his will. He celebrated He was a member· of the speech club and a And those close to him see a wry humor in his 65th birthQaY there as well. reporter on the Chippewa Herald. He was a a quite serious message by him a5 well: In Ode had again. been -called out ·of retire member of the Hi-Y Club whose purpose urging Howard to Write the President, Sec ment by the State Department for a six-· was to ~maintain and extend thr01.1-ghout retary of State, senator8 and representatives week assignment to relieve a man in charge school and communlty high standards of to demand action, Robert Ode said, "It is . of the visa section who had come down with Christian character." And, along with Cara good that people have us in their prayers, ·heart .ailments. Ode was to have been home Vincent, he ci>-chaired the Junior-Senior but we need action, not prayers." in Falls Church, Va. by Thanksgiving. In Banquet in 1932. ... If anyone can make it through it,'' stead, he was ·taken hostage with at least 59 Now married to John Miller, Cara Vincent Howard Ode said of his brother, "it will be others Nov. 4 by the Iranians demanding Miller remembers Ode's love. of the theatre. him." the return of their former Shah, then in the She remembers rushing down after school United States. · , to the Lyric Theatre, now the Salvation Army for the· ·is-cent Tuesday matinees. According to his only sister. Majorie CThe Manistee News-Advocate, Feb. il, Keon, 69, of St. ·Louis, Mich., Ode lived in The.movies she and Ode saw featured Jean . 1980] Manistee from the time he was five until he ette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and Greta graduated from Manistee High School in Garbo. · MHS STUDENTS SEND LETTERS OF SUPPORT TO 1933. • Mrs. Miller also remembers. that Ode ROBERT ODE Their father was employed as chief engi loved to dance and often took her to the neer by the R and R Salt Co. until Morton's weekly dances at the pavillion at First DEAR MR. ODE: We are students at MHS closed its plant in Ludington and bought Street Beach. and have read and heard about the hostages the Manistee plant, Mrs. Keori said, bring- Vina Jankowski, 1105 21st St., said she in Iran. We understand you are 'a graduate . ing wtth it the Ludington workers. It was was just getting to know Ode during his of MHS and have lived and visited in Manis then, in 1933, that Ode's father, described senior year and her sophomore year. But, a .tee. Our school hopes your rPlease will Qe as thin and kind, moved his family taking a contest-winning dancer herself, she also re soon. jo~ with Olivet College. By 1937, Mrs. Keon members vividly that_Ode "was an excellent There · is no way · we· can realize the pain said, they were living . in St. Louis, where dancer. one of the best dancers in school. .. and terror you are experiencing; but by our Robert . Ode worked · until he joined· the They· danced to the big band sounds . of. letters we hope to glve you the confidence Navy. . Glenn Miller, Sammy Kaye and Benny and strength to . pull· thru this situati9n. He served for five years, she said, and Goodman, she recalled. Somehow our country will figure out a solu then in 1947, applied for a "job in the For But perhaps the most revealing thing tion to ·this, one of our· major problems. We . eign Service. He was immediately accepted those close to Robert Ode during his life ·in hope that -~his letter has lifted your spJrits . she said, eventually ·working his way up to Manistee, remember is his love of travel. and you reallze we care.- We hope· and pray the office of consul and providing 29 ye~rs Rohrstaff remembel'S Ode reading and your release comes soon and we would of service before retiring at the age of 60. dreaming of adventure. · · extend an invitation to you to visit us at He left fond memories with those who "The books he read were the. biggest influ MHS. knew him here including Reidar· Rohrstaff, ence on his life," he said. "Bob loved to read · The above letter is one of many written by 505 Seventh St., who shared Robert and , travel ·books, adventure books to ·unusual stu.dents in Neil Brennan's seniQr high gov · Rita Ode's 1978 Christmas letter. . Ode places. His. lifestyle then kind of paralleled ernment, U.S. history and current world af . served as best man at Rohrstaff's wedding. his lifestyle later in life." fairs Classes and Dave Hendricks' eleventh Rohrstaff and Lawrence ·Solberg, 340 Another strong influence in this direction grade English class. Fifth Ave., remember singing in the choir was remembered by Mrs. Miller who re Brennan explained that his students' dis and in a quartet with Ode in the old Scandi called that Wi{logene Ramsdell Scott taµght cuss the news every n.iorning, and have paid navian Methodist Church on Fifth a~d French and Spanish to the high school stu· particularly close a\tention to 'the news Walnut Streets. oents, including bde who "loved language$." about Iran and former Manistee resident "He loved to sing," Solberg remembered. , Mrs. · Scott often told fascinating stories Robert Ode, one of the hostages there. · Indeed, one of Ode's two · brothers, about her son who was a member of the for . Brennan's , .classes divided into groups, Howard, 67, of Midland, said when the min eign· service. Mrs. Miller said, ~!anting the wit.h ea.ch groun compo•dn° n lpH And isters who · we.nt to Iran over Christmas seed in Robert Ode's mind. · While the group Who Wrote tbP. lP.ttPr 800Ve 3668 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 told Ode they cannot· realize what .he tS ex hope and don't lose faith in your govern· initiative. That ls what this would do periencing, they hay-~r '.been· privY. . to . some · merit and God. · in proclaiming October 3, 1980, as special insight. · · · When you come back maybe you would American Enterprise Day. The focus Their teacher was a prisoner of war come arid visit with us if your.schedule per of such a day will be on our schools. during World War II, for about 18 months mits. iri ·Krems, Austria, about 40 miles from Local busmess and labor organizations will be encouraged to pat.ticipate in Vienna. · DEAR MR. ODE: we· are students at Manis- Some of the things Brennan remembers tee High School, your alma mater. We have school programs to emphasize the op about his incarceration were ·feelings that read and discussed the hostage ·situation in portunities available for those who Robert Ode, in his letters, expressed: loneli- many of our classes, have ideas and are willi~g to work to ness, monotony, little exercise and an ·tm- . we are thinking about you and the other carry them out. This is the American proper diet. He said it was eight months hostages. It is our hope that you and the way.e before he saw a letter from his parents. other hostages will be released soon. we Ode said everyone who is incarcerated ex- hope that you are in good health and high periences some 'fear, and that perhaps the · spir.its, in spite of your situation. PRODUCTIVITY hostages in Iran feel even more fear than he we are proud of you as an American and di~ because he was. trained to:expect that he are behind you all the way. We hope and HON. RALPH S. RE. GULA m~.ght beco~e a prisoner. . 1 pray your release wµI come soon. Please You don t know what.is going to happen, inforni the other . hostages of our concern OF OHIO or when it is going to happen,'.' Brennan for their return and their welfare and well IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES said, describing the fear. "In a situation ·being. · · · . · where you are isolated everyone has ~eeling · Please accept our invitation to visit Manis· Monday, February 25, 1980 th~ r~en:!!gh~~gm:~~t.'~ i . d al it tee. High School . upon your ~~tum to the . e Mr. REGULA. .Mr. Speaker last e ~an an or e • Umted States. We are also wntmg our Rep- k th B d t c i h• was expressed by some that perhaps time resentatives in concern of your welfare and wee e u ge omm ttee eld a would be on the side of the hostages. The safety hearing on the .important issue of pro- Iranians guarding them would get to know · ductivity. As you know, productivity in them as people and thus it would be harder DEAR MR. ODE: We students ot Manistee this country has been in a serious de- to harm them, it was ~aid. High School would like to write to· show our cllne and unless this trend is reversed Brennan said he found this to be .true in our • t -- .f · · ' Austria. He sald guards were changed every concern for your unfortunate situation. coun ry aces serio~s-even . six months to .stop this from happening, but We wish we could help, but we really grav~~economic problems Jn the that towards the end, when all the young don't know how. We can't image how you 1980 s. men were needed for fighting,. older men · feel OJ," what your thoughts are. All we can Too often, outstanding a:Qd thought- became their guards. Brennan said the pris- do is express our sympathy for you and all provoking- testimony ls taken at hear-. oners got to know these men quite well. the other hostages. We really don't know trigs, but only to the benefit of those Still ith B ) insi ht hi t what to say, but we want you to know that · • even w renn.an s g ' s s u- we are thinking ·of you. We would like you .members present; the testimony be-. dents recognize that Jn a situation this in- to keep up your spirits because sooner or comes buried in the tomes of the hear-· . ~~~~~~~t~f~d ~~: ~e~~e:!e~~:i\!~ ~~: later you are ·going to be free. · ings. Because last week's testimony ported seem confusing to them. We read about you in the News-Advocate was of this caliber,· I want to. share "It seems like there's no sense to it " Kim paper and have read about you being a stu- with my colleagues what I consider to MleJnek: one of Brennan's ·studen~ said. dent of Manistee High School. They printed be the salient points, along with my · "They're innocent and the shah isn't even a picture of you and your wife on vacation own perspective. · h " in this area. · _ ere anymore. . We discuss daily, in U.S. history, your Everyone seems to agree that pro- Another student, Christine Chick, said the plight and try to come up with a. solution. ductivity, like motherhood and apple. news in Iran has made her frightened to our· thoughts vary, but one thing is ·the pie is good and desirable But why? In · travel, once one of her goals. • · · "It's made me scared of what's going on in same; we have genuine concern for you and his testimony _last week, Thomas A. the world,'' she explained. "You don't know y.our fellow prisoners' conditions. Vanderslice, who ls president of G.T. if you can go places ." · We hope that this burden will be lifted & E. and who now serves as Chairman But the the students are making an effort frc:>m your shbulder8 very soon. _of the Subcommittee on Technology to relieve the hostages from some of theil' This letter was written by Debbie Cybert Policy in the United States for the fear, primarily the fear of abandonment. to President Jimniy Carter. Committee for Economic Development Hendricks' students are writing the letters DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I am writing-you in . noted five of' the most impor- for extra credit, he said with the intent of concern about the hostages. My feelings tant reasons· teaching them the value of making their about it are that I . think ·this country is · · own initiative to form letters. · · more concerned about their oil than about Lack of productivity growth makes it diffi . . Not only are· they receiving ·extra credit the hostages. · cult to control inflation. · for writing Ode, they are also getting credit I am hoping you will take further action Lack of productivity growth and inflation for learning a very important political tool: in getting the hostages free. I think there is combine to lower the real income of Amerl writing their congressmen. and the presi· too much worry about the Soviets in Iran. I cans. dent. Hendricks' students were given a list can remember a few times when two other Lack of productivity makes it difficult to of facts a~out Ode, about the situation. in countnes were fighting and the United create the Job opportunities for our expand- Iran and aboqt what polled u .S. citizens feel States has sent troops in. ing labor force. about the situation there. I hope you will give some thought in what Lack of productivity makes it difficult to The English students were urged to ex- I have said.e maintain a favorable balance of trade and press their continuing feelings about all of· protect U.S. Jobs from foreign competition. these aspects. 'Continuing' is the important ·without greater productivity in the eight· .word here, .because Hendricks said he wants AMERICAN ENTERPRISE DAY ies it will be impossible to meet the project~ the letter writirig to be an ongoing project: ed cost of social programs in the future. "We must be continually aware of this · HON ..EDWARD J. DERWINSKI Being a m~mber of the Budget Com- :~~~~m, " he explained, "not Just at Christ- OF ILLINOIS mittee, I was particularly struck by Here are some more examples of the ~HS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the fifth point. Because our popµla- students' letters. Monday~ · February 25, 1980 tion ls getting older, greater burdens DEAR MR. ODE: we are students from Man· will be placed on a relatively smaller istee High School. Since you have been held. •Mr. DERWINSKI; Mr.' Speaker. re- working population for the myriad of hostage along with your fellow workers we cently there has been widespread con- existing social welfare programs. · To have been with you .in every way.,Everyday cern about decli~ing productivity and quote Mr. Vanderslice's testimony: we think of you and wish for your safe innovation in our countr~ .. and numer- retum as soon as possible. we· are writing ti Failure to start raising productivity nciw our congressmen and senators, asking them ous 1eg 1 s 1 a ve proposals have been will harm the next generation of workers as to use every means possible to provide for made for Federal programs to reverse well as the next generation of the elderly. your release as soon as possible. · this trend. · Without· greater productivity, . the general we want you to know we are with you all Before these programs can truly be quality of living for most Americans will de- the way. We ask of you 'to keep up your effective. however. we need to insure cline. · spirits and to realize all Americans are that the public ls aware of the oppor- I was also ~truck by the. statistics behind you and proud of you. Don't give up tunities that still exist for individual Mr. Vanderslice presented. Obviously,· February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3669 investment decisions depend· on the · policy between countries. For exam~ egy-focusing not Just on productivity, · expected rate of return. But in times· pie, ·.Japan and Germany" are able · to but ·on ip.flation, Government size, tax of inflation; rate of return is overstat- invest and save more·, in part, because · policy, . and · unemployment-that ed, .beca\lse the computation is based . they pay-invest-less for defense makes the difficult tradeoffs, and that , on the historical ·cost of new plants 'than we do. . Another basis concerns mQves toward clearly defined ·goals. ! . and .equipment instead of on· replace- protection policies and their focus. We siµlply cannot afford to continue 1 ment cost. Using replacement cost to Japan, Jn particular, overtly encour- the piecemeal, stop and go ·Jerky poll- compute rates of return results in dra- ages productivity by helping sunrise -cies of the past 3 y~ars.e . matically lower rates of return: industries whereas We do just the OP• . In 1965, the real rate of return for U.S. posite. To quote. from · Dr. Thurow's nonfinancial corporations averaged about 10 testimony: THIS IS THE TIME TO EXPAND percent while the reported rate was about Economic progress is ·always envisioned as AMERICA'S STRATEGIC PART~ 15 percent. By 1978, the reported rate of . bright new products and · processes, but NERSHIP WITH ISRAEL return had risen to over 16 percent but the every new product replaces some old prod-. real rate of return had declined to a little uct and every new process makes someone's over 5 percent. skills obsolete. Economic construction is HON. NORMAN F. LENT · based ·on ec.onomic destruction. And in the OFNEWYORg I agree with Mr. Vanderslice that process of-destroying old products and proc.: the . fundamental and most Urgent IN THE HOUSE OF REPJ.tESENTATIVES . eed now is for more equitable· capital esses s9me Americans will ~uffer in their in n comes. Losers naturally want to eliminate ·Monday, February 25, 1980 cos~ recovery. This is not the only· their losse~. but this can only _be done by thing that can and should be done to · stopping the economic progress that threat· • Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ex~ . stimulate·investment, but it is a neces- ens to cause their losses. press my great concern over President ·sary step. . As long as Congress insists on protecting Carter's recent decision seeking to . Let me .now tum to the. testimony of every .American industry that falls ·behind, strengthen the .u .s. presence in the American can only fall behirid. Protec Persian Gulf area. Prof. Lester C. Thurow of MIT. I am tion creates an· o5sified· society that is in- not in agreem~nt with all of what Dr. · capable of solving its old problems or taking I am sure we will all agree, Mr. Thurow told us. For example, I am at. advantage of its new opporturtities. Speaker, that President Carter's warn odds With hiS rather cavalier glossover Why should textiles, TV manufacturers, ing to the Soviet Union ·against fur of inflation vis-a-vis · productivity steel, autos, or any other industry. take the ther aggression in the Persian Gulf policy options. Likewise, I'm not enam- hard painful steps to compete with the a.rea will be totally ineffective unless ored by his· call for a progressive value higher productivity of foreign manufactur there is a quick reversal of the .drastic ~d predict the more distant future re- smothering load of paper work. There ls rec with any degfee of ass\lrance the quires a combination of statistical drudgery, ognition, moreover, throughout the govern future of the current regimes nor of intuition and faith. The most important of ..ment, that regulations are hampering· U.S. their attitude toward world affairs. th~se ·ls faith-in ourselves and in our coun- exports. Foreign companies are snatching But we can safely predict where try-because either the presence or the ab· contracts by means of cartel methods and .sence of it can be self-fulfllling. · · by inducements · ot ·types forbidden to Israel will be, whatever t})e turbulence .America wlll come out all right. But this American firms. What cari be done to re and.turmoil in the.Middle East. AS she. ·:wm not happen . automaticaUy, through store fair competition ls not .entirely clear, has for the past three ·decades, Israel some mysterious and inborn quality of de· but, as a start, the Justice Department will be there, solid as the Rock of Gi serving, as many of us have come to imag- hopes to offer an advance review of planned braltar, offering stabllity, safety, and ine. The li'oundlng Fathers did not, with a steps by business so that U.S. firms may at protection for. American interests. · stroke of the pen, establish us for all time as least put out the maximum effort allowed · Israel's ties with the United States a superior society. What they did do was them by law. · and its wHlingness to act on America's · make it possible· for the United States and So government ls trying. But the real behalf are not dependent upon one its people to drive ahead with determlna~ effort has to come elsewhere. In every dis tion, enterprise and readiness for change. cussion of America's industrial decline, the man or on one small autocratic ruling The next moves will not be easy. We have decay of plants and equipment comes to the group. Israel's democratic institutions been shoved into a devils's stew of faltering fore. Unimaginative salesmanship ~ often insure that the ballot, not the bullet, industries, lnfiation, energy shortages, ·pol- . criticized. control Israel's Government. The lution._ rtSing crime, the nerve-racking pace These handicaps can be overcome, as the United States has one true, strong, ut of modem .life .and a frustrating sense that · textile industry ls demonstrating. Textile· terly dependable friend In the Middle the United States ls being pushed around. manufacturers have poured increased in- ~ast. That friend is Israel. That. has . Central to the struggles of industry, the vestment into equipment and technology, been t.he ·situation for 30 years. The p~rslstent defi<:its in the balance of pay- .surveyed foreign preferences in style and ments, the unceasing price spiral and the color and sent out a new wave of interested President should appreciate that fact. depl'ivations faced by individual Ameri· salesmen. Thus, in ·a single year 'the)' cut .We need a clear demonstration to cans-obviously-ls dependence on foreign the U.S. deficit in textile trade from 5 bil the entire world that. the United oll. Over the long run~ this can be alleviated. lion dollars to 4 billion; and they are driving States ls determined to resist further But it ls use1ess to cry an~ .Point a finger at ahead. The goal ls a dominant position February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3671 among the world's 100 textile-producing na SERIOUS ENERGY CHALLENGE Secondly, Congress needs to· draft a price tions. control code for firewood. It could use sever . It'.s not only the economic slippage that al different formulas to determine firewood has afflicted. the mood of Americans. They HON. JOHN J. RHODES prices, but federal oil legislation probably are bewildered also to find that their coup OF ARIZONA provides the best model for how to proceed. try, the good' and beneficient country, sud The price of firewood should be a function denly has become an object of scorn in some IN .TIIE HOUSE OF RE}>RESENTATIVES of a tree's age. parts of the world. And, too, Americans Monday, February 25, 1980 Firewood from trees which started grow suffer humiliatiQn over the contempt that is ing before 1973 should be priced at the ·visited on their mjlitary power. e Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, our lowest possible level in order to prevent N~w Nation still has no comprehensive England woodlot barons from taking advan These gri~fs will pass, but not quickly. In ·energy policy. trying to preserve · the stability all nations In the February 13 Wall tage ·or the 12-fold increase in oil prices need to live and grow, and to stay the· ad Street Journal, David Hale has written since that time. Most New Englanders with vance of a ruthlessly hostile rival, the a recommended solution to our energy old trees did not foresee the current scarCity United States entered into a number of rela problems. This tongue-in-cheek pana of energy, so they should not be allowed to tionships· that, to say the least, are not cea is an eloquent satire on the failure charge a high price for their wood today. A working out desirably. Some painful read of this Congress . and the Carter ad maximum retail pri~e ·of $35 per cord plus justments have been under way, and others ministration to really do anything some modest inflation adjustments would be. may be inevitable.· · perfectly reasonable. · about our. increasingly serious energy . Firewood from trees planted after 1973 In the. same period when American leader challenge. I recommend that my col should be priced accord.ing to ·a sliding scale. ship was underta.kiilg commitments around leagues read this article, which behind The younger . the tree, the higher the al the globe, the strength to fulfill tho&e com its humorous detailing of Federal fol lowed price for its firewood. There should mitments was allowed to run down. Now be derol, states ihe plain truth about our be no price controls at all on trees planted ginnirig is an effort to rebuild the kinds of regulating ourselves into energy pa after 1980 in order to encourage woodlot military forces needed. The effort deserves owners to plant new ones. support from all. But everyone would be ralysis. Because of transportation problems, the wise, too, to resolve th~t the country must The text of M·r. Hale's article is as federal government also will have to develop not blunder into a position where such follows: · a flexible pricing code for wood from remote forces have to be -used in contradiction of locations. The new Department of Renew- . American principles· of freedom ·and justice. TAX THE WINDFALL PROFITS ON .FIREWOOD able · Resources should create geographic The way to ~ure this is to put faith. in sub-classifications such as mountain wood, leaders who respect those principles.and will There is an urgent need for the federal ledge wood, swamp wood or wood stunted by adhere to them. And we would do well to government to impose price controls and a acid rain. . " consider that the world will not again be an windfall profits tax on New England fire The federal government permits the pe American preserve, as it was or could have wood; trolemn industry to charge a high price for been in the •40s and '.50s. - · Congress has done· its best to protect the Alaskan oil. Congress might officially desig What about the people who will have to northeastern states from greedy oil and gas nate Maine's Indian· reservations as new cope with this new world? Students Qf popu companies, but 'SO far ·it has ignored t~e eco Alaskas for purposes of firewood price cc;m- lation see cheerful signs. With the birth nomic ·injustices being inflicted upon 'the trol. . _ rate down) the turbulent millions of the region by the profit hungry woodlot barons .Whatever the exact particulars of the new baby boom . are passing thrQugh toward of northern New England. · · price control code, though, Congress should middle age. Their. annual contribution to The price of firewood has pract1ca1ly tri not spend more than one session writing it. unemployment will slack off, and new Jobs pled since 1973. The cord of Vermonf wood Federal auditors will' want to begin marking · will have a chance to catch up with Job which once fetched $30 now sells for $80-$90 New England trees with spray paint for seekers. The labor force, over all, will be locally and almost twice as much in Man price control compliance by this summer•. .. more experienced, more stable. Small.er hattan. The forest lords of New England are History shows that price controls Usu.ally families· will mean more ·money for saving making obscene profits at the expense of create shortages,· so Congress will want to and · thus for investment in expansion of both fireplace lovers in the big cities and back up the price controls program with ·business. Moreover, a· decline is predicted 'in their own village neighbors.· severe penalties for violators. The govern . problems of delinquency and teen-age crime. One-half of all· homes in Vermont, New ment should punish first time· offenders by Real hardships are coming for .some. Hampshire, and Maine now have wood making them keep a federal au~itor on their Those at the bottom of the heap will be cold burning stoves or furnaces, but only a small payroll, imprison second time offenders, and and hungry. There is realization that the . number of homeowners have their own l)ri- · burn down the trees of third time offenders. poor and old must not be made the victims ·vate woodlots. Most are totally at the mercy The best way to punish greedy forest of a natfonal misfunction, and, as one dem of local lumber nien who charge whatever owners and people willing to pay firewood onstration, a mountain of dollars is going the niarket will be.ar for firewood. In some prices above officially proscribed levels Is by out·this winter to help the poor with their . cases they also insist upon bargaiiiing only · reducing the ·amount of wood available to heating bills,_ in French. everyone. As many forward-thinking Massa Surveys of the great middle class show no Despite their courageous attaclts on the chusetts ·politicians have noted in past de oil industry, northern New England Con bates about federal <>il policy~ the smaller panic. Complaints are on the level of the gressmen have refused to speak out against the supply of wood or any other form of lack of an extra car or the high cost of a EQ.· the firewood price gouging. The political ropean vacatipn. For 111ost, America is still a energy in the nation, the easier it.will be for country, the first in history, where a . big and financial power of the woodlot barons is . the government to regulate it. · so great that they have intimidated local If this policy causes wood shortages to problem is that most of us have too much to politicians into complete silence. In fact, a become a serious political problem in New · eat. few Congressmen have ·become nothing England-say people freeze to death....:.the There is a nagging question to be ad more than mouthpieces for the firewood federal government can import wood from dressed: Is this still the country that sur lobby. But as the price of firewood today Quebec and finance it with a windfall prof vived the bloody snows of Valley Forge, a testifies, there is a strong argument for fed its tax on firewood from trees planted after Civil War, the collapse of 1929-the country eral intervention in the industry as soon as 1980. that carried the banner of freedom .for 200 the New Hampshire primary is out of the Like the proposed windfall tax on oil, this years, and gave its own prosperity generous way. · levy shoula not actually be a tax on fire ly to much of the world? First, Congress needs to establish a De wood profits. It should be an excise tax on It is if we believe it is. We have lost our in partment of Renewable Resources to regu firewood sales. Such a tax· will guarantee nocence. We have been through a lot, and late the growing, harvesting and marketing the government some revenues even if infla will have to endure · a lot more. Adversity of firewood in New England and other re tionary cost pressures.and federal price con brought us together, where affluence could . gions where it ~ now commonly used. The trol put most woodlot harvesting operations · not. Believers ·are not lacking. J. W. Mar- present Department of Energy has only out of business. · . riott, Jr., for example, who runs his hotel about 20,000 employes and is too busy regu The United States government can't pre empire-by· making the right predictions, put lating the oil industry to be saddled with r~ vent Arabs and French Canadians from it pretty well: "We have learned much... . . sponsibility for managing firewood supplies. taking .advantage of the fact that energy is We will enjpy a better tomorrow because of It will take at least five hundred federal for now a scarce commodity, but we certainly . our national resolve in dealing with these esters to police the woods of Vermont and don't want any New Englanders who are not tough problems." · New Hampshire, alone, plus a support staff on the federal payroll to look for solutions We should have no illusions about the dif· of several thousand lawyers, accountants, to the problem. Such efforts might lead. to · ficultY of making a comeback in the 1980s. and public relations experts to interpret and private profiteering, arouse strong public re It can happen, if we want. badly .enough to administer the government's new firewood sentment, and reduce the ability of our po make it happen.e · laws on a .nationwide basis. litical leaders to controi energy supplies. 3672 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 The energy policies which are good Not a single shot was . fired during the Persons-Na.tional Retired Teachers enough for the nation's oil industry are escape, police said. Association. The ·witnesses included more than genero:us enough for New Eng The men were in custody Monday for de dozens of senior. citizens · and repre land's firewood barons.e briefing by Allied security specialists.· sentatives of minority groups who The West Berlin newspaper reports said the men decided to.move when there was a were given an opportunity to tell the ANOTHER KIND OF "SJ>ORT'" change of guard and' an East German ma committee of their concerns. Those chinegun tower apparently was left un who did not have the opportunity ·to mannea. testify were allowed to submit their HON~ ROBERT H. MICHEL Most buildings factiig the wall in East comments in writing_fOr the hearing OF IJ,.LINOIS Berlin are off limitS and patrolled by secu record. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rity guards with dogs. Windows · in used The primary concern expressed by houses are blocked by iron bars. most senior citizens at the San Diego Monday, February 25, 1980 More than 1.5 million East Germaris fied · •Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, a wire to the West via Berlin after 1948. After the hearing was the crisis in healtb care. service story reports that two East wall was built in 1961, escapes have been It is no secret that medicare is paying . Germans,. using rope and · grappling rare.e less and less of the average senior citi zen's health care bill and that it is hooks, <;limbed over the broken-glass costing seniors more every year in pre and barbed wire-topped Berlin wall. CONGRESSMAN DON BONKER They had to saw through bars in· · · miums and deductibles to participate stalled in wihdows in a building near . PRAISED FOR WORK ON in the progr~. In fact, medicare now the wall, wait for 36 hours, and then BEHALF OF THE ELDERLY covers less than 40 percent ·of -the aver flee across a no man's land illuminated age senior's health bill. Congressman with spotlights. · HON. CLAUDE PEPPER BONKER has addressed this· problem with an imaginative proposal, H.R. I find it ironic that the world's · at- oF FLORIDA 4168, to. broaden the scope-of medicare tention is concentrated on the Olym- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES so that it. provides comprehensive cov pies while such an escape -takes place. Monday, February 25, l 980 No athletic feat performed in the erage. Since Congressman BONKER has games can match this incredible •Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, last ·wide experience in this field, having escape. Two men against the might of month the Daily Olympian of Olym worked as a staff member ·on the the most security-minded nation in pia, W.ash., praised the work of Con Senate Committee on Aging in 1964 the world-and the two men won. gressman DoN BONKER. a senior and and ·1965, and played· a major role in· . Since 1948, over i Y2 million East respected member of the House Select pushing the medicare bill through, the Germans have fled to the West. That Committee on Aging, of which I am Senate, his views deserve careful con flood was reduced to a trickle after the chairman. The Daily OlYlllPian com sideration. erection of the wall in 1961. Yet, still mends Mr. BONKER for exposing short Mr. Speaker. I am pr. Our citizens must realize what is Olympics wilf not only take place in establish a new program? . happening, in ~ur country as well as.coun Moscow, but the Olympic regatta is Bonker estimates his plan would cost $19 · ti'ies abro~d. To realize th~ for we as indi- scheduled to take place in Tallinn, the . billion, as compared to Carter's catastrophic viduals, to prosper and grow, we must first coverage plan at $26 billion and Kennedy's prosper and grow as · a nation. One of the capital of Soviet-occupied Estonia. "full coverage" at $80 billion. Bonker would best ways to do this is by having broad The United States is boycotting the fund coverage for the elderly from general knowledge of cur.rent events. Good commu-. Olympics, and -this includes the· re· ·revenue rather than Social Security. nication, is a vital cog in this complex ma- gatta. Practically speaking, Bonker's bill is not chine . . . the· United States. Radio, televi I would like to insert into the likely to get much of a hearing in a Cqn- · sion, newspapers, m~gazines. They are all a REcoRD at this point an eloquent state gress not (lisposed to listen to either the part of mass communications. I personally ment on this subject by the Estonian Carter or Kennedy health plans. · His hope to be a part of the radio and televisi()n American National Council: "Report To The People" then, reflects little industries as a broadcaster. I have been very OLYMPIC GAMES 1980 . more than a concern for his elderly con.: fortunate to have had an opportunity to stituents. work with my chosen profe8sion earlier . It should be noted that the Russians The problems he points out, however, are than most, having worked at a radio station themselves have 'declared that "sport is not real enough, -and Con&'ress needs to address during these high school years. During this separable from politicsn : demn the Communists? Don't hold participated in the search. "Should or ought Norwegian yachtsmen your breath. Abdul Rauf, a radio repairman who was or those from the free countries take part in At this point, I insert in the RECORD, another of the guides to Barogai, said .that a sporting contest with the Russians on oc "Massacre Described by Afghan Refu he· had been warned by soldiers who were cupied Estonian territory in 1980? If Ger gees," from the New York Times, Feb "good moslems" to hide or he would be many had won the last war, what would the killed. He said he had watched some of the Norwegians have said and thought when ruary 17, 1980: killings from the roof of his house. German-arranged winter Olympics had ¥ASSACRE DESCRIBED BY AFGHAN REFUGEES Among the dead, it was said, were Wazir been held in Oslo? Would not a participa Mohammad, a local Communist official who THEY .TELL OF SURVIVING ARMY ATTACK IN was the principal of the girls' school at tion in Tallinn be a mockery against a free SPRING THAT RAZED A VILLAGE BECAUSE IT dom-loving people over the whole world, AIDED REBELS nearby Chigha Sarai, and Mohammad and especially against the occupied Estoni Yashtee11, also a staunch party member, an?" Should not the Norwegian yachtsmen BAROGAI, AFGHANISTAN.-Viewed through who tal.lght at the local primary school. binoculars from atop a nearby mountain, and organizations show a straightforward "WE WERE ABOUT TO BE KILLED" adherence to leading principles of life the town of Kerala, where 640 men and boys reportedly were put to death in April ·Sixteen-year-old Mohammad Ashoq, who .among free people and abstain from partici was first interviewed' in a refu·gee camp in pating in Tallinn, and preferably take the 1979, has the appearance of a ghost community. · Pakistan, said he, his father and younger initiative in promoting a similar attitude brother were taken to a field near the Pech among yachtmen of other countries?" Its rice fields and large public garden were once the pride of its 5,000 residents. Appar River bridge, all realizing that "we were If, however, the 1980 Olympic Games ·about to be killed." should be carried out as scheduled, then we ently no one te1ids them now, but the story of wh,at happened there, in the valley east "My father told me to get up and·run," he can only hope that the olympic officials of said. "But a soldier stopped me. ·Again my .all nations as w~ll as the athletes and spec of Kabul between the converging Asmar and Pech Rivers, continues to command at father told me to run away, and i ran to the tators should have enough common sense to mosque. Behind me I heard the sound of see through the political aims of the Rus tention. Tales told in recent days by Afghans who gunfire. sian dictatorship and not make any miscal "From the mosque, I saw soldiers take culations that occurred, in too great a said they had survived the killings at Kerala differ from accounts published earlier in more men to another field and shoot them · number, in connection with Hitler's display after an Afghan officer shouted, 'Fire!' " in 1936 in Berlin.e · American publications. Those earlier ac count& drew· angry comment from Tass, the The youth, who joined the hike to Baro Soviet press agency, which said Western gai after the ·interview, recalled having watched a bulldozer moving into "the field SELECTIVE INDIGNATION OF news organizations had shattered all records in anti-Soviet propaganda by reporting that and pushing the dead and wounded into a LEFTWINGERS Soviet and Afghan troops had killed more pile. He said: "You could hear the wounded than 1,000 men and boys at Kerala. cry out: 'We are alive! Don't bury us!' But J'he Afghans, who were interviewed in ref all were buried by the bulldozer." HO,N. ROBERT H. MICHEL The youth said that officers marched into OF ILLINOIS ugee camps in Pakistan and during a hike to the tinY rebel-held village of Barogai, did the Kuz Juma mosque and ordered the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not say that Soviet troops had taken part in women out. Among the women were men Monday, February 25, 1980 the killings. There were far fewer Soviet ad disguised in the traditional veils. visers in Afghanistan in the spring of i979 RUMOR OF RUSSIANS COMING • Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, these than there are Soviet soldiers now, but a "There was a rumor that Russians were American critics of the U.S. involve former Afghan officer who defected to the coming to take the· women away in buses," ment in the Vietnamese war had a spe rebel side last year said that the Soviet mm-· said Mohammad Ashoq, who had also put ~ial vocabulary of abuse which they tary men then wore Afghan army uniforms on a chador. "But there were no Russians." reserved solely for acts committed by and would have be~n hard to. distinguish. He said that later the Govemor of Kunar their own countrymen.· This vocabu SURVIVORS TELL OF ROUNDUP Province in the east, Maj. Shah Nawaz, and lary included such words as "atrocity," Those questioned said they accepted the some members of the Khalq, or Communist "genocide," "barbaric'' and other such Afghan Government's count of 640 dead at party, has come to apologize for the raid by Kerala last year as forces · of the fate Presi the soldiers. The yauth reported that the descriptions. Needless to say, the con Governor had tried and said that he had duct 6f the Communists, ranging from dent Hafizullah Ainin swept in to counter an expected insurgent offensive. The survi not wanted the killings to happen but that numerous cases of burial alive to vors said Afghan troops had marched into he could not intervene because "trouble- wholesale massacres of innocent civil Kerala, rounded up males over the age of 7 . makers had come" to Kerala. · ians was ignored or explained away by and shot them on charges of having helped Now, according to Mr. Ashoq, only 20 or these leftwing types as temporary and Moslem insl,lrgents battle the Marxist 30 persons rema1n in Kerala, and only three isolated acts. , Government. of them men. Noting that he had ·found We now are learning that in April "We call it the war of Kerala," said the part-time work in Pakistan, he said: "The widow of Mullah Abdul Hakim, one of three town has nothing for me now, and there is· 1979, in a small town called Kerala in no food."• Afghanistan, somewhere between 640 resident Moslem clergymen reportedly shot and 1,000 Afghan males, from age 7 by Government soldiers. She was interviewed on a rebel-held road upward, were massacred, many buried in Afghanistan near the village of Chinar, PAUL BROWN WINS VFW alive. Those responsible for this atroc half way between the Pakistani border and CONTEST , ity are said to be Afghan troops of the Kerala. Others interviewed said that some central government. There is reason to survivors had escaped by dressing in the HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO believe, however; that Soviet advisers, long chadors of the Moslem women. Others OF CALIFORNIA who even then dominated military af told · of soldiers who had st>otted them iN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fairs in that country, may well have hiding but did not give them away. taken part, disguised 'in Afghan uni Four Afghan rebels encountered in camps Monday, February 25, .1980 in Pakistan led the hike into insurgent-held forms. territory. The mountaintop overlooking e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, Needless to say, we hear no outcry Kerala was the closest the party could get I would like to bring to the attention about this massacre from the Ramsey 'because of the continuing guerrilla warfare of my colleagues a speech given by my Clarks, Jane Fondas, and Sam Browns against the Soviet-backed Government. constituent, Paul Curtis Brown, a stu and other leftists who were so eager to REBELS TAKE REFUGE dent at Dos Pueblos High in Goleta condemn their own country. We hear - One of the four, an opium-poppy farmer Calif., as part of the Voice of Democ no weeping and gnashing of teeth named Mirza Ali, told how 32 rebels out of a racy contest sponsored by the Veter from people of this sort whose indig band of 110 entered Kerala in the early ans of Foreign Wars. I wish .to con nation is always highly selective: Con- morning of April 20 •. 1979, and took refuge gratulate Paul on delivering the win- February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3675 ning speech· in the State of California and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses than half the average increase proposed for and wish him luck in the upcoming of his teammates; and the kind of leader all types of research. who inspires and encourages those around competi.tion he~~ ·~ · w~shi~&t~.~ .· The farm groups said that agriculture is In discussing the. theme, "My Role him by his example. · being treated inequitably when compared to Team pride is as vital to winning the mar budget requests calling for an 18 percent in in America's Future','' Paulraises'.some athon as training and strategy, because crease for the National Science Foundation, extremely interesting points regarding when training is over, and after strategy has a 38 percent increase for labor R&D, and a decisionmaking, leadership, and serv been employed, team pride is what remains 17 percent average increase for 17 smaller ice. I am indeed proud to have such a to get us through. Team pride can only be federal agencies. _ fine young person representing Cali established when each member brings to One of the critical problems facinf" agri fornia in the competition. I also want the team self-respect and respect for others. cultur-e, according to the coalition, is a drop to commend the Veterans of Foreign Then the team can operate on a new plane: in productivity growth after outdistancing Wars for sponsoring this contest and one in which the team members are more other segments of the economy for many for encouraging our young people to concerned with the success of the team than years. "During the last decade, we have seen they are with personal glory. This corre a 40 percent drop in the rate of increase in consider what their role should be in sponds to my interpretation of service, and agricultural productivity,'' said NCFC Presi shaping the future of America. service is the third component of my role in dent Kenneth D. Naden. "This trend must The speech follows: America's future. Service is to be my life· be reversed." MY ROLE IN AMERICA'S FuTURE style, in which I will attempt to repay our country for the many freedoms arid privi· Naden said that basic agricultural re search and related extension and teaching leges granted me through the· sacrifices activities by USDA and state land-grant in He had been running since ·dawn. It was made by previous generations. I hope my stitutions have been major contributors to then he had taken upon himself the mission example will inspire others to adopt a simi· the tremendous success of American agricul to carry the news to his countrymen: news lar lifestyle, because our country needs ture during the past century. "However," he that guaranteed .the Great Experiment people committed to serving it. added, "federal funding for these programs would be given a chance to survive. By now, Decision-making, leadership, and service: hasn't kept pace with inflation or needs in the heat of the day was so intense, and hi.S values that motivated Pheidippides to com· recent years. It's vital that we act to correct mouth so dry, he couldn't swallow. Mile plete his mission, motivate me now to begin this alarming decline." after punishing mile; every muscle rebelled mine. I am proud of my American heritage; against what he commanded it to do. Only I am eager to assume my role in America's The farm groups said that increased agri dedication to his task could drive him future; and I am honored to be running cultural research and development should onward. He could, at last, see the city in the with you as a member of' our New Marathon be high on the agenda of national priorities distance. He struggled to reach it, and with Team.e because: <1> An increasingly efficient food his dying breath, Pheidippides proclaimed production and distribution system is criti· to the Athenians that Greece had won the cal to U.S. security and to our fight against Battle at Marathon. The first Marathon DANGEROUS GAPS ·IN AGRICUL- inflation; <2> One of every five jobs in the Run had been completed, but the future of TURAL RESEARCH AND DEVEL· - U.S. is involved in the food and fiber indus democracy had just begun. OPMENT BUDGETS tries; and (3) Exports of m~re than $3~ bil· We Americans are the heirs of that infant lion in farm products are the largest smgle democracy born in Greece so long ago, and positive contribution to our U.S. interna- with it, we have inherited the challenge of a HON. WILLIAM C. WAMPLER tional balance of payments.· - New Marathon Run. This New Marathon is OF VIRGINIA Naden pointed out that research efforts in such prominent areas as alternate energy a symbol for the tremendous challenges IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES America will face in her future. This mara· sources, photosynthesis, conservation til· thon, like tbe original, will be a test of per Monday, February 25, 1980 lage, distribution efficiency, integrated pest management and nitrogen fixation are sonal will. It will require the same strength, Mr. WAMPLER. Mr. Speaker, the the same courage, and the same dedication e widely recognized as being among our most from each of us as it did of Pheidippides. National Council of Farmer Coopera urgent national needs. My role in America's future begins with tives and a coalition of farni groups Noting that the nation's vital interests are my call to all Americans to join with me to issued a press release and accompany at stake, the coalition concluded with a run as a team in this New Marathon Effort. ing letters on Friday, February 22, strong plea for long-term strengthening of Everyone must contribute his or her unique calling upon the House and Senate federal support for agricultural research. It talents to this venture. As a team, we must Committees on Appropriations, Agri is the only way, said the coalition, to help realize that this is a race we have to win. agriculture keep its edge and halt the de culture, and Budget for stronger con cline in growth of productivity in our food Our country's future depends on it. gressional support for agricultural r~ I have selected the concept of a team mar~ and fiber industry. athon to define my role in America's future search and development. , Farm groups signing the letter were: Na· because the training, · the strategy, and the As the ranking minority member of tional Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Na· team pride of a marathon, correspond to the House Committee on Agriculture, tional Grange, American Soybean Associ three personal objectives around which I and a staunch advocate of increased ation, The Fertilizer Institute, National will build my future. These personal objec agricultural research and extension, I Broiler Council, National Cattlemens Asso tives: decision-making, leadership, and serv· wish to call this communication to the ciation, National Cotton Council, National ice, comprise my role in America's future. attention of my colleagues by printing Milk Producers Federation, National Asso Let me show you how training, strategy, and this release in the RECORD. The press cation of Wheat Growers, Poultry & Egg In team pride, relate to decision-making, lead· release follows: · · stitute of America, Rice Millers Association, ership, and service. and United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Associ Just as the team marathoner knows that . FARM GROUPS WARN AGAINST DANGEROUS ation.• to win he must train day after day, I know GAPS IN AGRICULTURAL R. & 0. BUDGETS that my success in the future depends upon WASHINGTON, February 22.-The National responsible, ·day by day decision-making . . Council of Farmer Cooperatives and a coali· CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY This process will involve defining probJems, tion of farm groups are urging stronger con COLLEGE WEEK will involve listening to the opinions and gressional support for agricultural R&D, possible solutions proposed by others, and with a minimum 13 percent increase for the will require from me the strength to make, 1981 USDA research budget. HON. WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER and live by, my final decisions. Incr~asing farm and food production and OF CALIFORNIA Our marathon team cannot reach its marketing efficiency, they stressed, is cru greatest potential, however, without experi· cial in dealing with our most urgent nation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enced coaching to develop the talents of al problems such as security, inflation, and Monday, February 25, 1980 each participant, and incorporate them into international trade deficits. a strategy which specifies how the race can In a letter to members of the House and e Mr. DANN.EMEYER. Mr. Speaker, I be won. Without strategy, even the most tal Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agri would like to draw attention to a sig ented team will not win. That is why I've culture, and Budget, the farm groups noted nificant occasion in the State of Cali chosen leadership as the second part of my their request is equivalent to the 13 percent fornia. This week-February 16-23, role in · America's future. America needs increase for all government-sponsored re· leaders who will determine creative plans of search and development recommended by 1980-has been designated "California action for our country. I want to be the kind the Carter Administration. Community College Week." Set aside of leader who sets goals for himself, and is The·coalition pointed out that the Admin to reflect on their unique contribution disciplined enough to achieve them; the istration has recommended a 1981 agricul to our higher education system, this kind of leader with the objectivity to assess tural R&D budget increase which is less observance merits our support. CXXVI--232-Pa.rt 3 3676 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 Education is the foundation on chosen that lifestyle clearly works to It is my objective, in sponsoring the which society is built; a commitment the impediment of our national hous M.obile Home ·· Housing Assistance to quality education for all distin ing goal. Amendments of 1980, Just as I believe guishes ·a truly great society. The chal In my view, local units of govern it was the objective of Congress· in lenge facing our democracy is not so ment already possess many of the adopting the mobile home- provisions much educating new leaders but edu tools needed to ease the burden of ·of the Housing and Community Devel cating the. people. For our system their IOwer income mobile home resi opment Amendments of 1978, to gain cannot serve the people unless they dents. Local control ove'r zoning, subdi parity in the delivery of section 8 sub know how to govern it. · vision, and building can influence the sidies for the thousands of hereto!ore Communitf colleges 11rovide a. . vital ultimate cost of a mobile home lot as excluded lower income mobile ·home cog in our educational system. Their much as any other factor in housing residents in need of rental a.Ssistance. programs prepare students for 4-year economics. Such power 'Will be brought I ask that this Congress readily ap colleges, provide vocational training, into play as ·a result of this new re prove this legislation so that its previ and offer . continuing education for quirement. ous commitment to mobile homeown personal growth. By stressing commu Involuntary dislocations, due to con ers will be implemented.• · · nity needs they reach the broadest versions of ~obile home parks, pose ·a spectrum in society. .serious threat to this housing lifestyle. Areas of special concern which com It is one which accrues from the ever~ munity colleges address. include such MISGIVINGS ABOUT .FLAT .TIME increasing value of the underlying SENTENCING . diverse groups as the· handicapped, land· when zoned for commercial 01 senior citizens, ethnic minorities, and· other more profitable uses. But this is reentering adults. a good example of the kind .of problem HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. Yet California's community colleges which can be resolved with the assist remain · tuition free; spread through OF MICHIGAN ance of title I funds, if local officials IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 107 independent localities they dem were· adequately prepared from a plan onstrate cost-effective quality educa ning standpoint. Section 2 of this bill Monday, FebruO:TY 25, 1980 tional opportunities can be provided will accomplish this by ·muminating •Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, drafts for all without massive government these ·threats in advance 1n the com bureaucracies. · for revision of the Fec:leral criminal munity's iµp. code ate presently working .their way . As such 'they are truly California~s Section .3 of this bill amends section community colleges. By the people. through both Houses of Congress. Lit 8CJ> of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, erally thousands of s~cti<;>ns have been For the·people. I ~alute these achieve which I sponsored in the Housing and analyzed and the results can be seen in ments ana urge support of this week Community Development Amend S. 1722 and H.R. 6233, both works of as "California Community College ments of 1978, passed by the 95th Con monumental effort a.lid importance. A· Week."• · gress. The purpose of the section of major · portion of each bill concerns ·the 1978 act was to extend the "Sec the area of sentencing :r;-ef orm. MOBILE HOME HOUSING ASSIST- . tion 8 ExiSting" rental subsidy pro- . Both versions, in an attempt to ANCE 4MENDMENTS OF 1980 gram to lower income, owners of r.educe sentencing disparity, would mobile homes who rent their lots. Dis- create a sentencing commission which HON JERRY. M PATTERSON appointingly,' that amendment has not would fix permissible ranges. of sen • • borne ·the fruit that was hoped for- tences of imprisonment~ The Senate .. OF CALIFORNIA that is, eligible mobile homeowners bill ·eliniinates parole and the House IN THE HOUSE· OF REPRESENTATIVES are not being adequately served. bill. does away with good time early re- ' Monday, February 25, 1980 Although elfgible,. mobile homeown- lease. Indeterminate sentences are re , e Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker, .ers must now compete with other rent placed by flat tiriie sentences. More today I . have introduced the Mobile ers for the scarce. _number of section 8 over, under the·Senate bill, the pros• Home Housing Assistance Amend- certificates available in their Jurisdic ecution, in·certain circumstances, may ments of 1980. These· amendments are tion. As Johnny-come-latelies to the appeal the· defendant's sentence if the designed to incorporate lower income program, mobile home applicants fre prosecl,ltion feels that it is too lenient. households who reside in mobile quently wind up at the bottom of· the Although disparity may be reduced, ·homes within the Department · of -section 8 waiting list. the excessive reliance and use of incar Housing and Urban Development's The 1978 amendments to the section ceration may increase. CHUD> .section 8 and community devel- 8 program did not provide a special Both. draft versions of sentencing opment block grant CCDBG> pro- set-aside for mobile home residents. It reform have become the source of a grams. was my belief in authoring this leglsla- ~eat deal of controversy. The.re is a Section 2 of this act would direct · tion, that an enlargement of the Fed . wide range of. opinion about the pur units of local government which apply eral section 8 appropriation for this poses of sentencing, r'eliance on im . for funding uncier title I CCDBG> of purpose would not best serve the in prisonment rather than initially con- , the Housing·and Community Develop- terest· of fiscal restraint over the· pro.. sidering less restrictiv·e alternatives, ment Act of 1974 to include lower gram. Furthermore, the option of ear and flat time. · · income mobile home residents in their marking a specified percentage of the Against this background, I would housing assistance plans CHAP'S) allocated budget authority for mobile like to share with my colleagues an ar whenever these households constitute homeowners might have proven ticle which appeared in th'e.New York a significant percentage of the com- undul~ restrictive. ·· Time~ on February 4, 1980, entitled munity's lower income population. In Since the effective date of the 1978 "On Jailing and Freeing" by Alexan turn, this improvement to the. survey amendment, the. number of mobile der B. Smith and Harriet Pollack, pro and planning process SQOUld bring into homeoWllers that have been placed on fessors at the John Jay College of focus the often unique but unmet these subsidies in the Jurisdiction of Criminal Justice. They examined some housing assistance needs of the mobile the four public housing authorities in of the conflicting policies to be consid home community. . my district has been negligibJe. It also ered in reforming sentencing and con- As conventional f orins of homeown- appears that, nationally, assistance to cluded that- · · ership slip further beyond· the reach mobile homeowner;; has not risen any Some reform of sentencing .procedure is in of more ·and more .Americans; mobile where near the levels expected. order, but is the.imposition of flat sentences and abolition of parole the answer? • • • homes remain perhaps the only mode Section 3 of this ~ill would amend Before· wholesale changes are made in sen of housing affordable to low- and mod- .the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 . to re ' tencing practice. pilot projects and preim erate-income groups. To ignore that quire proportional distribution of sec pact studies are in ·order, particularly in potential and the corresponding. needs tion· 8 certifi¢~tes for mobile home those Jurisdictions where plea. bargaining is of those· in the community who have . owners. crucial to the functioning of the courts.e February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3677 UNICO'S MAN OF THE YEAR dence. As an American who has·· la to restore their independence. Last "BUBBIE" KOBY OF UNION, N.J. bored hard for his family, his commu month, Baltic nationalists addressed nity and his country, Bubble Koby has - an open letter to Soviet President HON. MATTHEW J. RINALDO . sought to fulfill that goal of the Dec Brezhnev and to U.N. Secretary-Gen laration of Independence-the pursuit eral Waldheim condemning the Soviet OF NEW JERSEY of happiness. He has never ceased to invasion of Afghanistan.. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pursue µappiness wherever he ·goes Also last month, Baltic dissidents ap Monday, February 25, 1980 and in whatever he does. pealed to the International Olympic e· Mr. RINALDO.· Mr. Speaker, the , He is a proud and loyal American· Committee to move the 1980 summer Union, N.J., .chapter of UNICO is hon who served in our Nation's Army in games outside the Soviet Union. They oring Chester _"Bubble" Koby as its Germany and who has stood by his objected to holding the Olympic regat man of the year for his many_acts ·of country in good times and bad times; ta 1n Tallinn. the capital of Estonia, generosity and community service over through economic recession and· peri because it puts in doubt "the right to· a period of several years, "Bubble," as ods of international anxiety when the self-determination" by . Estonians and he likes to. be called, has unselfishly word of America was in doubt. But he "tramples on the principles of the supported the victims of heart attack, never doubted his country. Instead, he Olympic games." cancer, mental illness, and other dis has given others opportunities to work Mr. Speaker, I applaud the Estoni- abling illnesses that force many fami and .to succeed in America. His gener . ans fight for freedom. and I believe we lies into poverty and despair. osity has given hope to the crippled can do no less than the Estonians in Bubbie Koby is one of those splen and the ill. His kindness and decency $tanding up to international aggres did American success stor..fes - that have pervaded his family life-his sion. On the anniversary of Estonian occur from time to time and raise the wonderful wife, the former Rosemary independence. I would like to call my hopes of new generations of Ameri Comunale and their children, Sandy, .colleagues' attention to a statement by cans that the future holds great prom Robert. Linda. Joyce, and Cindy. the Estonian American National Coun ise if they are willing to endure. Mr. Speaker. Bubble 'Koby adds an cil: Bubble Koby was born into a family other chapter ln the American·success STATEMENT OF THE ESTONIAN AMERICAN _of 13 children. He was the son of hard story -of poor. hardworking citizens NATIONAL COUNCIL working parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. who meet adversity with courage aild Recently 40 years elapsed -from the sign- · Stanley Kobylakiewicz. When his determination, and succeed in bringing ing of the notorious Stalin-Hitler pact of father died, Bubble Koby· went to progress and opportunities to others August 23rd, 1939, which offered to Nazi work while still in high school. The ar in an unselfish desire to repay their Germany a welcome pretense for starting duous task of studying for school and country for having been given the World War II. In secret protocols of the freedom to succeed. We need to same pact Hitler agreed to consider parts of working at night made him appreciate Eastern :turope, including the three Baltic · the· meaning of initiative and the remind ourselves of these personal t_ri Nations-Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-as value of hard work. It also gave him umphs at a time when some Ameri belonging to Soviet Russia's so-called an understanding of people that cans -despair about the future and lose "sphere of influence." cannot be learned in college. His suc faith in the past. It is evident from the Consequently, Stalin received a free hand - cess came out of the college· of hard experience· of Bubble Koby that suc to forcibly annex these three independent . knocks, as Al Smith used to say about cess is there for anyone in our great nations, which remain illegally occupied by himself. country willing to take the gamble and the USSR to this very day. Born in Linden, N.J., Bubble. Koby -do the hard work that is required. Soon after the conclusion of the said pact, The Union, N.J. chapter of UNICO Estonia signed, on September 28th, 1939, studied in high school there, and Under military threat and without the possi worked ·in a . plastics factory after should be congratulated on its choice bility of any help from abroad, a Pact of school and nights. When he wa.S only of Bubble Koby as man of the year. Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union. ,17 years old, he opened a ·diner with He is a true humanitarian, a genuine Although this pact was forced upon the his brother. Their hard-working family man. and a real American.• Estonian Government, the latter tried mother made home cooked meals, and painstakingly to fulfill its treaty obligations. their· reputation grew. Like other en The th~n Estonian foreign minister Profes terprising Americans, they had ESTONIAN !~DEPENDENCE DAY sor Ants Piip, in a private letter to one of the Estonian envoys, emphasized that at enough faith in themselves to gamble least two major things were achieved: war on the future by opening another res HON.JAMESJ.BLANCHARD was avoided, and the · Peace Treaty witn taurant. By the time they opened the . OF MICHIGAN Soviet Russia remained in force. He collSid Town and Campus in Union, their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ered _the Peace Treaty as the most impor reputation had preceded them. In tant international act of Estonia, which le later years, their successful restaurant Monday, February 25, 1980 gally guar8illteed Estonia's position among and catering business grew into three e Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr.· Speaker, other independent states. Town and Campus sites in Union, Eliz yesterday~ February 24, was the. 62d February 2nd; 1980, marks the 60th anni- - anniversary of · the independence of versary of this Peace Treaty, which was con abeth, and West Orange. cluded by Estonia after a victorious War of · Bubble Koby has entertained Presi the Republic of Estonia. Tragicaily. Independence. This war was started by Rus dents· Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford, however, the Estonians have not been sian invasion of Estonian territory at the and Vice. Pr.esidents WALTER MoNDAi.E allowed .to enjoy peace and freedom end of the year 1918. and Nelson Rockefeller. Governors, for most of those 62 years-instead, In the above mentioned Peace Treaty Congressmen, heads .of state from they and the other Baltic Nations Soviet Russia explicitly renounced voluntar . other nations and leaders in. business, were forcibly annexed by the Soviet ily and forever all rightS of sovereignty over finance, the· arts, and many other _Union apd have been subjected to con the Estonian people and territory, and rec fields have been hosted by Bubble tinuous attempts at Russianization. ognized the independence of Estonia. Estonia . had proclaimed itself an inde Koby. For the past 40 years, the ·Estonian pendent republic on February 24th, 1918. When one of his restaurants in people have given the world a moving The decision was based on President Wood Union burned, he achieved a remark example of the strength that lies in a . row Wilson's declaration about all peoples' able feat of having it reconstructed in people's desire for freedom. The Esto right to self-determination. Even Soviet only a few-months~ while carrying out nians have bravely resisted Soviet Russia under its ruler Lenin had claimed to his obligations to couples being mar domination, and their recent actions adhere to this principle. · ried, children being confirmed and bar give inspiratfon to-the free world~ The Allied Powers of World War I were at mitzvahed, and parents celebrating Last fall, on the 4-0th anniversary of first somewhai hesitant about recognizing an the newly emerged independent country. niversaries. the Stalin-Hitler pact which secretly Their postive reaction was mainly achieved The pursuit Of .happiness is the cor signed away the Baltic States freedom, tl1.anks to the fierce and successful fighting nerstone of our Nation. The _foi.inders representatives of the three . Baltic of the Estonian Army in the War of Inde of America deciared it in unmistakable - countries_of Estqnia~ Latvia. an~ Lith pendence. In May 1919, for instance, the terms in the Declaration of Indepen- uania appealed to the United Nations Baltic Commission of the Peace Conference 3678 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 1n Paris admitted unanimously that "the Es- reform, and the Senate Judiciary major probl~ms for civil liberties. First, the tonians had done mtra-cles." - Committee reported it out on Decem- Govermn:ent ls permitted to appeal sen Durtng a period _of twenty years of lnde- ber 4, 1979. Although there are some tences. This violates the Double Jeopardy pendence the Estonian people demonstrated noticeable differences in the two Clause of the Fifth Amendment and gives what a small·nation ls able to achieve 1n all drafts, many of the sections in the prosecutors a potent new weapon to coerce fields of life when it enjoys peace and free- Senate version are also contained in defendants not to pursue their own ·appel .dom. · late- remedies. Second, the parole system ls In 1940 this came to an abrupt end by the the House proposals. eliminated. While the current sentencing devious acts of a big totalitarian neighbor- The American Civil Liberties Union system, including parole reiease, will remain Communist Russia. Since then the Estonian makes it a practice to issue "Civil Lib 1n effect while the guidelines are being pro people have suffered .extremely heavy erties Alerts" on issues which it feels mulgated, parole release ls necessary for a human ahd material losses. This situation present serious threats to civil liber transitional period after the guidelines are still persists. .Estonia ls economically ex- implemented to serve as a safety valve if the ploited by the governing Moscow regime. ties. Such an alert has been issued on guidelines prove unworkable. Those who dare make any requests for free- the new criminal code, and I wish to Third, S .. 1722 emphasizes the sanction of dom and Justice, relying on the stipulations call my .colleagues' attention to it: imprisonment and- does not give serious of the· Helsinki Final Act, are either con- CRIMINAL CoDE, DEATH PEN.t\LTY MoVE TO treatment to alternative sanctions.. The Bill fined to mental hospitals or sentenced to SENATE FLOOR requires substantial terms of imprisonment prison terms. Needless to say that sucli sen- On December 4, 1979 the senate Judiciary 1n a whole range of cases. The statutory tences are made 1n conformity with the ill- Committee reported a Criminal Code maximums are too long 1n most cases, and famed mock trials of the Stalin era. · Reform Act which, overall, fs a serious blow 1n some cases are longer than existing law. Nevertheless,· again and . again bold free- to civil liberties. The vote was 13-1 1n favor Moreover, the bill omits a major reform dom fighters make their voices heard, one of the bill, s. 1722. Immediately thereafter urged by many experts, including the of the last evidences being an appeal on the it· reported a federal death penalty bill,' S. American Bar Association-a requirement 40th anniversary of the Stalin-Hitler pact 114, which would reinstate an extremely· that Judges consider alternatives prior to a and addressed to the Secretary General of broad death penalty. The vote was 7-4. sentence of imprisonment. the United Nations. This appeal was signed Preventive Detention Inserted: In a sub by 45 representatives of the three Baltic Na- DEATH PENALTY stantial setback. for civil liberties, the Com tions. Unfortunately, such urgent appeals The Senate Judiciary Committee's sur- mittee inserted in S. 1722 pretrial release from the countries which once were _mem- prise vote on s. 114, the federal death penal provisions commonly known as preventive bers of the League of Nations seem to fall ty bill, circumvented all standard legislative detention. These· new provisions of law on deaf ears. procedures. There have been no hearings on would vest Judges with broad discretionary At the same time the United Nations ha.S the bill during the 96th Congress. There power to set a variety.of restrictions upon a opened its doors to a great number of states was no Subcommittee consideration of the defendant's liberty, including incarceration, which rightly have been liberated from the provisions of the bill. Indeed, at the time even though there has been no determina yolte of colonialism. Such colonialism, how- the Comniittee vote there was no bill before tion of guilt or innocence and there ls no ever, still prevails 1n vast regions of Eastern it, only the verbal representations of Sen. evidence that the defendant will not appear Europe, where over one hundred million. Strom Thurmond's staff as to the at trial. The preventive detention provisions people ate subjugated to an intentional contents of the -proposal. The Committee's of S. 1722 violate the spirit of the ;Fifth and process of Russianization. precipitous· action has now cleared the way Eighth Amendments· and undermine a fun One of the- more imminent concerns of for early Senate floor consideration of. the damental tenet of our criminal Jurispru the Estonian people ls the fact that the death penalty either separately or as a floor dence-the presumption of innocence until · Yachting Regatta of the Olympic Games of amendment to the Criminal Code bill. proven guilty. 1980 ls to take place- 1n Tallinn, the capital The bill reenacts the death penalty for Substantive Law Expansions: In. the sub of Soviet-occupied Estonia. murder and for kidnapping, rape, bank rob- stantive law area, the Judiciary Committee As· a free nation, the Estonians would bery, airplane hijacking, and explosive of again improved S. 1722. However, a number have been delighted to welcome the wodd's fenses where death results during the com of provisions expand existing law at the ex yachtsmen to. their country. Now they are mission of the offense. Moreover, S. 114 au pense of civil liberties. looklng at ·this event With mixed f eellngs. thorizes the death penalty .for two crimes, In the .inchoate criines sections, the new They anxiously expect that the outside espionage and treason 1n peacetime, even comprehen8ive attempt section was im world would refrain from any acts which when they do not involve the death of a proved by eliminating certain offenses from would damage the Justified claims for free- victim-an apparent contravention of cur its scope. Nevertheless, numerous offenses dom. of the Estonian people or the lnterna- rent Supreme Court law on the death i:>ena,1- still covered by this section are not covered tional status of the Republic of Estonia. .. ty. under current law. The new offense of so- · · The United States has never recognized The ACLU ls opposed to the death penat- llcitation .was narrowed by an amendment the forcible annexation- of Estonia, Latvia ty as per se unconstitutional. It violates the sponsored by Sen. Birch Bayh which and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, which Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel limited its application to certain specific se fact ls of great moral support to the people and unusual punishment. It ls racially dfs rious offenses. On the other hand, the con of these nations. crimlnatory and violates the Fifth Amend- spiracy· section which expands current law The 62nd anniversary of .the proclamation ·ment guarantee of due process and equal remains a problem. of the independence of the Republic of Es- protection. No changes were .made in the expanded tonia ls approaching and Estonians over the Adoption of the death penalty by the crime of obstruction of ·government func whole world are comme111orat1ng their na- · Congress would mean a national policy 1n tions by -fraud <§ 1301>; and § 1302, obstruc tional holiday on February 24th. They con- favor of the death penalty, a dangerous and tion, of a government function by physical firm at such occasions their determination unconscionable precedent for civil liberties. interference, was only .. sllg})tly narrowed. to fight for the ' restoration of the These two offenses vest government offi independence of their native Estonia. At CRIMINAL CODE cials with .broad powers to interfere with the same time they hope that world public Although a number of improvements were the exercise of Fq"st Amendment rights. opinion will support them 1n this struggle made 1n S. 1722 during Judiciary Committee They also would make criminal a variety of for freedom and Justice.e consideration this year, the bill was made tri\ial activities such as evading FBI surveil worse 1n several respects and no corrective lance· by a trick or ripping a wiretap off a action was taken in major problem areas. S. phone. Similarly, no significant changes CIVIL LIBERTIES ALERT 1722 would have an adver8e impact upon .were made 1n the perJury and false state civil liberties and the ACLU continues to ment sections. Although a corroborative re oppose its enactment. ' quirement was added, false uiisworn oral HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. Sentencing: In the crucial area of sentenc statements to law enforcement officials OF MICHIGAN ing, improvements offered by Sen. Joseph would be punished, contrary to the recom IN THE HOUSE OF REPRJ;SENTATIVES Biden and adopted by the Commit mendations of the Brown Commission and tee do not outweigh the continuing flaws 1n theABA. Monday, February 25, 1980 • the proposed new sentencing system. The The Gommittee has added a new Jurisdic e Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, H.R. effective date of the sentencing provisions tional basis for arson, aggravated .property 6233, the House version of the crimf;. has ·been delayed so that the sentencing destruction and criminal entry prosecutions. na.l code reform bill, is ·presently being guidelines may be reviewed before the new There will be federal Jurisdiction for these system goes into effect. The composition of crimes if the facility involved ls used for the considered by the House Subcommit the Sentencing Commission ls more bal production or distribution of energy. This tee on Criminal Justice of which I am anced. Rehabilitation is eliminated as a pur provision will focus federal law enforcement a member. It is the subject of years of pose of imprisonment. efforts on various organizations concerned deliberation and debate. S. 1722 is the Notwithstanding these improvements, the with energy issues, particularly anti-nuclear Senate version of the criminal code sentencing provisions of S. 1722 still pose power groups. Since the inchoate crimes of' February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3679 attempt~ . conspiracy and solicitation will formulas~ I beileve that the provisions Minimum I I apply, law enforcement officials will have fn this bill are necessary· to safeguard Nutrient Maximum broad · authority to monitor such early growth ·and development of the Biotin ( l · 1 s• · organizations. millions of our Nation's youngsters ~ fmar::=:~.:::=..: fo • :::::::::::::::::::: The Committee did not address numerous who receive synthetic formulas as the - ~mg ...... :...... 4·0 • •• - ......

~~l~~~~~inciting or aiding mutiny~ insubordination · babies~+~~~~~l~~~~ who were being fed formulas SodiUmi~~~:~ll~~~~~~~ ('"I>····--·····"· 20.0 i& mEq)• ...... 60.o (17 mE~). or desertion; demonstrating to influence a deficient in chloride ·developed symp- Potassium (mg) ...... : ...... so.o 14 mEq)• ...... 150.0 (26 m q). Judicial proceeding; obStructing a proceed- toms of metabolic alkalQsis. 'i'he situa- ~ (mg) ...... : ... 55.o 11 mEq)• ...... 115.0 (22 mEq). ing by disorderly conduct; electronic survell- tion Is all the more alarming in that • Staled per loo kilocalorie. lance and eavesdropping; and drug offenses. months after the manufacturer initiat- • Caseill equivalent. • protein efficiency ratio is ~ than 100 percent S. 1722 still contains a broad new federal ob- lhat ti casein, millinull protein can bl deCreased piq>ortionally. · scenity offense based on local community ed a recall of the deficient formulas, : f:ti:' :=:; lhis .alllOUllt in formulas which are not milk-based. standards. The Committee also doubled the they were found on the shelves· of •Calcium to p11osp1aus ratio is to be • 1ess than l.O ,. more than 2.0. penalties for trafficking in marijuana, con- stores around the count:ey .. The Over- • Milfiequivalent tor 670 kcaf/liter " formula. .trary to the nationwide trend to decriminal- . sight and Investigation Subcommittee it does not pr.ovlde nutrients in accord lze marijuana. · - of the Commerce Cpmmittee held ance with a revision of such table made On the other hand, the government proc- hearings on this situation fn Novem- under paragraph <3>. it does not meet ess crlmes of contempt and hindering law ber·and provided a sound basis for leg- ·the requirement& preseribed under para- enforcement were Improved. In a maJor graph <3>, or it is not manufactured reform amendment, spo~red by Sen. Max islative action. in accordance with procedures prescribed Baucus . the constitutional defense · My bill. would provide the Food and under paragraph <3>. to contempt was broadened to include all Drug Administration with more au- "<2> The Secretary shall·bY regulati_on es Flrst Amendment actlvlty and the penalties thority to regulate the manufacture of tablish the .min1mum nutrient level per 100 for contempt were lowered. The affirmative bifant formulas and would go a · long kilocalories for fiuoride, chromium, seleni conduct requirement of hindering law en- way toward assuring that infant forum, and molybdenum in infant formulas. forcement was strengthened, giving some mulas are adequately tested, meet ac- "<3> The Secretary may by regulation- protection to reporters who refuse to dis- cepted nutritional standar4J;, and that " revise the list of nutrients in the close corifidential news sources. good manufacturing practices are fol- table in paragraph , WhiStle-blowers were given new protec- lowed in their production. This bill " revise the nutrient levels for any no- tions from cr1minal prosection for disclosure h . trient listed in such table, · -of government information. Further, the would a1sO help to. expedite thoroug . current law intent requirements of federal recalls of deffcient or adulterated for- " establish the requirements for bio- riot offenses were reinstated by another mulas by establishing a framework for avallabllity of and other quality factors for amendment sponsored by Sen. Baucus. a package coding system and allowing nutrients required by paragraph , and " establish such procedures~ Unacceptable Risks: In the Judgment of access to certain ~anufacturers' " to assure compliance with the re- presente Y · · expe ence Gou and · Mr· • MOTl'L. have also intro- f h th t th bill uld On the . quirements and for good manufacturing dietary Committee's adoption of a preven- Ing with them and members of our praetices>, tive· detention provision and death penalty subcommittee on this issue. as the Secretary determines necessary. bill. The bill follows: . "< 4) The Secretary may by regulatior. Aside from the civil liberties aspects of H.R. 6590 exempt from the requirements of this sub- the bill, tt is :important to note "that the sec- A bill to amend the Feder&l Food, Drug, and section any infant formula which is to tions of· S. 1722 which would have signlfi- . Cosm~tic Act to strengthen the authority be used by any infant diagnosed by a physi- cantly strengthened white collar crime laws under that Act to assure the safety and clan or other appropriate health profession- were either el1minated or substantially · al as having certain inborn errors of metab- weakened by the Judiciary Committee. Pro- nutrition of infant formulas · olism, or w:hich, as determined by the ponents of the bill in the past have sought Be tt enacted b1I the Senate and' House of Secretary, is to be used by infants having to balance these sections against the sec- Representatives of the United States of unusual medical or dietary problems. tions which would adversely Affect civil America in Congress assembled, That chap- "CU Not later than 180 days after the liberties. · ter IV of the Federal·Food, Drug, and Cos- date of the enactment of this section and Other than a few sections of the bill, $; metlc Act is amended by adding 'at the end annually atter such date, each processor of 1722 now does little· to reform the criminal the following new section: an infant formula shall submit to the Secre- law from a civil liberties point of view. In "INFANT_FORMULAS tary reports .or test results which satisfacto~ 1978 the Senate overwhelmingly adopted "Si:c. 412. it does . quirements of subsection . though it will be difficult to stop S. 1722, not provide nutrients in accordance with "<2> Not later than 90 days before the first opposition may be able to slow down tl~e the "following table: processing for commercial purposes of an bill: In light of the Senate Judiciary Com- infant formula, the processor shall submit mittee's action, ft is now clear that the Nutrient Minimum • Maximum • to -the Secretary reports or test results crim1na.l code reform effort by the House which satisfactorily show that the formula should be halted. As recentt expieilrielnibcerthias Protein (gm) ...... · 2.2 ...... 4.5 •. meets the requirements of subsection . demonstrated the dangers o c v e es Fat: . For purposes of this paragraph, the first are too great. • ~":it~L...... 3_0 ...... ~~:Ui~~t ~o;n~:S~~r a change _in its M~ ...... ,...... ~ .... 300.0 ...... 0 QUALITY OF INFANT Vitamins: . "Cc> If a processor- FORMULAS A ~IU~ ...... _. 250.0 (75 l'Rl' ...... 750.0 (225 l'R)'. " acquires information indicating that ~ (~gc::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~~:::::::::::::::::::~::::: lOO.O. any infant formula .which he has processed HON. TIM LEE CARTER E(Ill) ...... 0.7 (at least 0.7 IUI and which.has left an establishl;:nent subject gm linoeteic acid). to his control may be adulterated (within OF KENTUCKY L C(ascort>ic acid) (mg) ..... B.O...... f ti 402 ) 402(b) e, (thiamine) (l'g) ...... 40.0 ...... :...... the meaning o sec on of this section> or misbranded Monday, February 25, 1980 e. (pyridoxine) II'&) ...... 35.0 (at least 15. and has not -promptly determined, aft~r a ing{o~~u~rtein . reasonable opportunity to investigate the · e Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, today I B.. (,...g) ...... 0.15...... information. that such information is incor- Niacin (equivalent) (mg) ... 1.0...... t h hall promptly notify the Secretary am introducing a bill which would Folic acid . (~) ...... 4.0...... rec • es . • help to insure the quality of infant Pantothenic acid (l'g) ...... 300:0...... in such form and -manner as may be pre- 3680 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 · scribed by the Secretary, of such fnforma- " ·prescribing such other matters as institutes a recaU of an infant formu- the requirements of this subsection. data, and personnel data other than infor · la which he has processed and which has " Regulations first promulgated under mation as to the qualifications and responsi left an establishment ·subject to his control subparagraph shall take effect as pre bilities of technical, professional, and super and institutes such recall because he has scribed by the Secretary but not sooner visory personnel performing functions relat reason to believe the infant formula may be than 180 days after the date of such pro ing to infant formulas subject to section adulterated or misbranded, he shall immedi- mulgation. Within 90 days of the effective 412)- ately notify the Secretary, in such form and date of the first regulations promulgated "(A) bearing on whether the infant for manner as may be prescribed by the Secre- under subparagraph . each processor mula processed or held in the facility in tary, of such recall. who is engaged in the processing of infant spected meets the requirements of section "<2> Information required to be contained formula shall, . as required by such regula 412 , or in a notification filed by any person with tions, submit the notice required by para "(B) required to be maintained under sec the Secretary pursuant to paragraph <1> graph . Such regulations shall tion 412 or 412.". may not be introduced as evidence in any a_pply with respect to packages or other con SEC. 3. Section 301 of the Federal proceeding against such person under sec- tainers in which infant formulas are packed Food, Drug, ~d Cosmetic Act is amended tion 303 for a violation of section 301. after 180 days after such effective date. by adding at the end the fallowing new " Except as provided in subpara- "(e)(l) Each processor of an infant for- paragraph: graph . each processor of an .fnfant formula shall- " The failure to submit reports or tests mula shall in accordance with regulations "CA> make and retain such records re- results in accordance with section 412, promulgated under paragraph <3>- specting the distribution of the infant for- the failure to make any notification re "(i) establish and implement a .food coding mula through any establishment owned or quired by section 412, the failure to system to effect and monitor recalls of such operated by such processor for the process submit a notice in accordance with section formula, and · ing of infant formulas as may be necessary 412Cd), the 'failure to revise a food coding "Cii> notify the Secretary of the establish- to effect and monitor recalls of the formula system in accordance with the requirements ment of such system and of any substantive and to otherwise trace the distribution of of that section, and the f allure to make or revisions in it. the formula, and retain records or make reports in accord "CB> The Secretary may by regulation " make such records available to the ance with section 412 or 412Cf>.". exempt · any processor from the require- Secretary Section 30l of such Act is amended ments of subparagraph if the Secretary sentative of the Secretary) for examination (1) by striking out "section 703" and insert determines that such processor is subject to and copying on or off the premises of such ing in lieu thereof "section 412 or 703", comparable requirements. processor. and (2) by striking out "section 505" and in serting in lieu thereof "section 412Ce>, "CC> If the Secretary determines that a No processor shall be required under this 412(f), 505". food coding system identified in a notice subsection to retain any record respecting ·submitted in accordance with subparagraph the distribution of an infant formula for a Section 403 of such Act is amended by is inadequate to effect and monitor a period of longer than two years from the adding at the end the following new para recall of the infant formula with respect to date the record was made. graph: which the system was established, the Sec- "(2) To the extent that the Secretary de " If an infant formula , tainer, unless the package or other contain· shall provide him with a written statement the Secretary may promulgate such regula er is marked in accordance with section of the reasons for such determination, may, tions prescribing the records required to be 412(C).". upon request, provide technical assistance made and retained under paragraph <1), the SEC. 4. Subsection of section 412 of the to revise such system to make it adequate to form and manner in which such records Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act effect and monitor a recall of such formula, shall be made and retained, and such other shall apply with and shall prescribe the time within which requirements as may be necessary for the respect to infant formulas introduced or de such processor shall submit a notice of the implementation of such paragraph. Such livered for introduction into interstate com revised system. regulations shall take effect on such date as merce on or after 90 days after the date of "C2XA> Except as provided under subpara- the Secretary prescribes but not sooner .the enactment of this Act.e graph , a food coding system required to than 180 days after the date of their pro be established by paragraph <1> shall consist muJgation, and they shall apply only with MSGR. HARRY BYRNE: THINKING of symbols to identify the following made after their effective date. ABOUT CRIME AND FEAR information: "(f) Each manufacturer of an infant· for- "(i) The name of the processor and, if dif· mula shall maintain such records respecting HON. JACK F. KEMP ferent, the packer of the infant formula the manufacturing of the infant formula OF NEW YORK contained in the packages or other contain- and shall make such reports as the Secre ers to be marked with such symbols. tary may reasonably require to assure com- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Cii> The facility at which such formula pliance with the requirements of subsection Monday, February 25, 1980 was processed or packed if such formula is Ca>. • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, in the past processed or packed at more than one "(g) For purposes of this section, the term facility. 'infant formula' means a food' which pur- two decades crime has increased in " The· name of the formula. ports to be or is represented for special di· direct proportion to the growing per " The lot or. batoh number, if any, of etary use solely as a food for infants by missiveness of our courts and lawmak the formula. reason of its simulation of human milk or ers, who are lavishing more concern on " The date on which the formula was its suitability as a complete or partial substi- the welfare of the hardened criminal packed. tute for human milk.". than on the safety of his defenseless " . The Secretary shall by regulation SEc. 2. Section 704 of the Federal Food, victim. Only a fraction of lawbreakers provide that if information required to be Drug, and Cosmetic Act is amended are punished. Thousand$ escape trial identified by any symbol of a. food coding <1> in the first sentence by inserting "Cl>" through legal loopholes or technical system is otherwise on a package or other before "For purposes" and by redesignating violations in the original arrest. container, such package or other container clauses Cl> and <2> as clauses CA> and . re shall not be required to be marked with spectively; It is time we began holding criminals such symbol. <2> in the third sentence by striking accountable for their actions-as the "<3> The Secretary shall promulgate out "The provisions of the second sentence actions of rational human beings who regulations- of this subsection" and inserting in lieu willfully violate the rights of decent "Ci) to define the processors subject to the thereof the following: citizens to live free of fear anywhere requirements of paragraph , "<2> The provisions of the second sentence in America. And I believe that the best "Cii> prescribing the ·form of the notice re- of paragraph ", and by redesignating way to stop the rampage of violent 'quired to be submitted under paragraph paragraphs <1> through <4> as. subpara crime is to impose a severe deterrent and the food coding information graphs through , respectively; and upon criminals. How else can we dis to be included in such notice, <3> by adding at the end the following: courage them from committing the " prescribing the packages or other "<3> An officer or employee making an in- containers which are to be marked with the spection under paragraph <1> for purposes crime in the first place? And how else symbols of food coding systems established of enforcing the requirements of section 412 can we keep them from repeating the under paragraph <1) and the manner in applicable to infant formulas shall be per .same crimes time and again? which such packages or other containers are mitted, at all reasonable times, to have In the February 24 edition of to be so marked, and access to and to copy and verify any records Parade, Msgr. Harry J. Byrne gave a February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3681 poignant account of his experiences as ing between property and lives; between the_ and effects": "There shall be no prohibition a priest and a citizen caring for the criminals who threaten only property and of the free exercise Cof religion> or the right victims of crime. They are the old, the those who menace life. Do we really under of _the people peaceably to assemble." poor, the handicapped. It is they stand what happens when an elderly person Our first civil liberty Is the security of our is mugged to death? A life brutally ended? persons and our lives. The elderly are triple whom crime condemns to a life of can we accept this or the threat of it with locked in their apartments at night. Mau loneliness behind locked doors, to a calmness? reen the blind girl is ln another part of the life of fear and unhappiness. I com- We must listen to the experts who tell us city, away from her friends and her parish, mend to you his moving plea that we that most crimes are committed by persist with a security guard at the entrance to her enable them to "follow after the ent offenders. And when a persistent violent building. The criminal Justice system has things that are of peace." offender is convicted, he must be contained the whole thing backwards. Maureen should The article follows: like nuclear waste, so that his lethal influ be free to ride in the elevator and walk the ence will stop. Our society needs swift and street to St. Joseph's, to ~emble peaceably CRIME AND FEAR: How INEVITABLE? certain Justice for violent criminals and with us here on Sundays, to be secure in her their prompt and perduring containment. person, to be able to run her finger over the Sunday morning masses over, I bicycled Now the criminal gets a lottery ticket in the Braille page and read to our congregation west -on New York's East 87th St. then Justice casino; and the odds, according to the words of St.-Paul: "For you have not re north on Fifth and into Central Park at statistics, are all in his favor. Our society ceived the spirit of bondage again to fear; 90th St. The park drive, closed to cars on needs a terrifying sentence incumbent on but you have received the Spirit of adoption weekends, was alive with bikes, Joggers, the possession of a gun or a knife in the of sons. . . . Therefore let us follow after roller skaters, and further south with harse- commission of a crime. For deterrence, yes; the things that are of peace ..•."e drawn hansom cabs. A cub Scout pack but more to contain the violent criminal and trooped behind its flag, all smiles. What a protect others against his repeated violence. variety of people on the bencnes and along Too strong? Too expensive to build the pris AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD the walks-kids, families, lovers of various ons? Talk to the man who lost an eye, the sexual persuasions, book readers, old and blind girl tearfully seeking a safe residence. young conversationalists. See the bodies of the elderly who have been HON. BILL ALEXANDER But New York, like most cities, Is some- slain. Sense the fear of people on the streets OF ARKANSAS what schizophrenic. A little distance away, and in the elevators. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES shifty-eyed characters watch cautiously, As a priest an(l a citizen, I am totally op nervously. The drug merchants. On the posed to capital punishment. I'm not that Monday, February 25, 1980 handsome Bethesda Fountain obscene graf- much concerned about punishment. But I e Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, I fiti expresses the anger and disorder of the am concerned that people who kill and spray-can and magic-marker wielders. They maim, who destroy eyes and hearts, should would like to insert today two more are contemporary editions of the barbarians be safely contained away from society. issues as compiled by the -American of other ages who would decapitate a stat- What IS the answer? Troops on the street? citizens abroad on the problems of ue by Praxiteles or tumble the vestai vir- More police? No. The remedy Is elsewhere. U.S. nationals living and working gins in thetr Roman temple. Our age has seen the Ten Commandments abroad. But their target in my neighborhood and relativized and made subjective to the point The material follows: in my parish Is flesh and blood-and ours Is of vanishing. At the same time, procedural ISSUE No. 17 not a high crime area. What have these bar- rules and mechanisms of law have been barians Within the walls done recently? A made into absolutes. Some commandments Short title: DOD Overseas Hiring Prac young woman killed in her apartment at should be absolutized, like "Thou shalt not tices. 89th St. and 2nd Ave., an elderly lady slain kill." And some legal mechanisms should be Summary of the problem: Over the last in the nearby Isaacs housing project, a less absolute. several decades the United States Govern nurse's aide murdered in her apartment on Look at the exclusionary rule of evidence. ment has made a series of agreements with East 91st St. Our borough president, A pollce officer does not have the necessary foreign governments which control access to Andrew Stein, at knifepoint lost his wallet warrant, but his evidence , points without civilian Jobs associated with the U.S. Gov· and overcoat to two muggers, one black, one any doubt whatever to the guilty party. The ernment as an employer abroad. white-an equal-opportunity team. In Cen- evidence Is-excluded and the crilninal goes Some of these agreements provide for the tral Park and in Carl Schurz Park at the free to shoot again. Is there not some other preferentlal hiring of foreign workers. Some east end of my street, homosexuals are at- way of discouraging abuse of pollce power? provide for such foreign labor to be selected tacked and beaten by young marauding Must society surrender its duty to contain by foreign governments. drunks. · the violent persistent offender and so pro- The net result Is that the U.S. Govern We parish priests bury the dead and talk tect others from his assault? If a pollce offi ment ls not an equal opportunity employer to the survivors. Their religious faith and cer without the necessary warrant found ra abroad To further exacerbate the difficul devotion help hold them together. The son dioactive waste, would the courts require ties faced by some Americans seeking to of our church custodian Is a Transit Author- that it be left to continue its deadly work? work for the U.S. Government abroad, there ity police officer. Attacked in the subway, Look at bail procedures: many crimes are have been several laws enacted by the hets now in the hospital. Sandra, a Hispanic committed by criminals out on ball. If United States during the last few years, medical secretary, came in to discuss her caught and found guilty of both crimes, acute depression. She had a bout with they generally receive two sentences to run which have authorized the preferential cancer and lost concurrently. So if you're out on ball, hiring of dependents of U.S. Government a parent. But a man with a gun robbed her commit another crime. There's no addition employees for certain positions abroad. · in her apartment last month. It was her al penalty. You have another free crack at a ACA's Question: Why is the U.S. Govern . breaking point. · senior citizen. Mandatory consecutive sen- ment not an equal opportunity employer John D. stopped me- after mass on a tences are needed for crimes committed on abroad? recent Sunday. "The doctors can't do any bail. ' The President's reply: The President cited more, Monsignor. The sight in that eye Is Look at the double Jeopardy rule. In New a number of different types of S\greements completely gone." He'd been m~gged. The York a Judge declared a mistrial in the case entered into by the U'.S. Government mugger took some - small change-and of a man who pushed a woman in front of a abroad either under bilateral Status of John's left eye. Margaret M., aged 82, was in subway train. He kicked her down again Forces conditions, or hi -the more general church too. She was raped a few months when she tried to climb back. A second trial NATO SOFA context. These agreements ex ago by a burglar she surprised in her apart- resulted in a clear-cut conviction. On plain how the discrimination has come ment. Have you ever talked to an 82-year- appeal, the higher court censured the Judge about, but do not. explain why we accept old woman who has had this happen? for declaring the mistrial to facilitate vaca- this discrimination against the employment Maureen S .. a 26-year-old blind girl who tion plans and ordered the criminal freed opportunities cf our own citizens. teaches blind children, was a lector in our because he had faced double jeopardy! Must The President further Justified discrimi church. She read the Scripture lessons at - the rule on double Jeopardy always be an nation against the employment opportuni Sunday mass from her Braille bible. She's absolute? Are there no ways of protecting ties of some U.S. citizens abroad as follows: not with us now. She was beaten and robbed - against judicial abuse other than freeing "The State Department and, to some in the elevator of her housing project~ We the convicted felon? Must society be put in extent, the Department of Defense are en were able to get her into an institution with double jeopardy? countering increasing employee _resistance a security guard at the door. The Bill of Rights needs protection for to overseas assignments, because spouses of What's going on in society? This violence the accused and for the potential victims. Federal employees are finding it difficult to is shrugged off the way pilfering is in a de- The real meaning of the Bill of Rights is find employment abroad. Job opportunities partment store. It's Jlist part of the cost of not only in the actions restricted but in the for foreigners in many countries abroad are doing business! That's what's going on, and things protected: "The right of the people limited and work permits are_often hard to it has to stop. We have to start distinguish- to be secure in their persons, houses, papers obtain." 3682 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 ACA"s renewed Question: We sympathize policies on the outside employment of DOD of the export to ~he consuming with the dependents of U.S. Government l)ersonnel to see if the severity in the inter country. employees abroad in terms of their desiring pretation of benign soundtilg regulations is to be able to wor~ · ·when the:f accompany·: really necessary; ACA believes that a soften The French and · other countries their spouses abroad~ . We. doubt the wiBciom . ing of some of this interpretation woulr example all employment· have learned that they ~an captlire gress enacted legislation designed to with civilian firms dealing with U.S. mm- new export markets by offering subsi permit· Eximbank to lend to countries tary personnel abroad. dizec;i financfug, lowering costs to 'the where greater than normal ·credit·risks · With regard to the standards set for the buyer. and making exports which are existed. The · act provided for a $500 sale of life insurance to military personnel tli inf i full titi abroad. we wonder why the U.S. Govern- cos er or er or Y compe ve. million set-aside from Exun's lending ment has here again taken such a draconian A few years ago many trading coun authority to finance riskier :exports stand. A number of u.s. military personnel tries concluded that competition in where a "sufficient likelihood of re choose to · retire abroad, especially those export financip.g was self-defeating. payip.ent existed.•• with a foreign spouse. The present U.S. Partially in response to congressional Because Congress faile~ to provide DOD rules preCiude such retirees from ever pre~ure, negotiati_ons were begun to Eximbank with specific criteria for U$e being ·able to :;ell U.S. life insurance to D_OD set standards and limit the . subsidy of the export expansion facility, Exim- · personnel abroad unless the retiree goes · levels of official export credit. The re bank has made- little use of it. As a back to the United States for a significant suiting document known as. the gentle- result. Eximbank has closed its doors period of time. , · . This life insurance policy seems, again. to men s agreement set minimum permis- to certain risky f oreigri markets even 'be a rathe_r draconian one designed more for sible fh:terest .charges and down pay though foreign export credit .agencies . the tranqu111ty of the DOD than for equita- ments but was silent on the issue of have continued lending to these coun ·b1e treatment of Americans abroad. "nµxed credits." Mixed credits are a tries. ACA's renewed questions: ACA would like blend of .foreign aid funds and export Our bill is designed to enable Exim to ask the DO to once again examine its credits and are wed to lower the cost ba.Iik to make greater ·use of the February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3683 export expan8fon facility. The size of we contlnue to abuse them by not pro nature museums. These mJi,Y r~cogruze com the set-uide IS doubled from $500 mil- viding sufficient funding and passing munity values, but distort the meaning of the arts and the national purpose in subsi lion to $1 billion and Eximbank is tax laws which discriminate against. dizing them. asked to establish a special reserve ac- and in some way hurt the artist. The Government should be helping to · count funded out of its profits to meet In Saturday's New York Times · an strengthen the country's best creative , any losses. In addition, we provide a · editorial appeared· entitled !'The Busi~ effort, according to quality and need, not set of four· criteria to guide Exim- ness of the Arts." The editorial recog• equality and location. In most of the arts, bank's Board of Directo1'$ in the use of nized that changes in Federal prior New York ts a testing ground for the higll the facility. The bill provides that ities ·may th:teaten New York's share est critical standards, a unique concentra lending under the facility should be of Federal .arts funding. New York, as tion of innovative and artistic power. It made to countries which: a regiQilal and national center of ai-U; f eedS regional effort in so many ways that New York really has a special claim to being . First, do not currently have suffi- and· creatMty. has a special claim to a national cultural resource. The city needs cient access to tnternational credit being a national cultural resource. - to get its cultural act together, set the·prior facilities to finance additional imports But more importantly, I recommend ities it can afford and make its voice heard from the United States; the editorial to m.y colleagues because in Washington.• Second, are ·demonstrating reason- It stresses the great importance of the able progress toward economic stabili- arts to the very .fabric ot our society. zation and development: · Whether in an urban· center. or rural SOVIET INCREASE IMPORTS· OF Third, offer adequate form8.I a.Ssur- oommUntty, the arts can and do have STRATEGIC MATERIALS ances of repayment or foreign ex- an important impact p.nd a vital role. change availability through Govern- · The following is the editorial -from HON.JAMESJ.BLANCHARD mentor other official trade or.mone- the New.York Times: - OF MICHIGAN t ary auth or iti es; and [From the New York Times, Feb. 23, 1980l Fourth. could make a significant Tm: BUSINESS OF THB ARTS IN THE HOUSE"OF REPRESENTATIVES . contribution to the long-term interests Monday, February 25, 1980 of the United States _through in- The arts produce not only ..prestige for New York. They are a business, sustaining ·•Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker.· I creased .t rad e~ the city:--and, in very special ways, all of It is our hope that these amend- America. Locally, the culttire industry yields &.;m concerned about the Soviet ments to the export expansion facility each year an estimated $3 billion in direct Union's large-scale purchase of strate-· will enable U.S. exporters to develop revenues, taxes, _service spinoffs and real glc materials, which - Congressman new markets in countries they have estate values. Nationally, it enriches an SANTINI recently brought to public at traditionally been forced to avoid for entire people. In the words · of the City tention. in a February 6 New York lack of·financing. - · Opera's Beverly Sills, that's "meat and pota- Times atttcle. This is particularly dis- It is important to note that neither toes." Yet the arts are still treated Uke mere turbing because t:tie Sovi~t.$ are al- . · frosting on the economic cake. ready self-sufficient. in most of these bill requires new appropriations. The N·ew York's bud&ets for the arts are the - goa}s of these bills . can be achieved first to be cut tn thne5 of financial crisis, minerals. within the existing borrowing author!- and they are cut deeper than others, even Soviet actions . call attention to our ty sanctioned by Col'.lgress. · though relatively small subsidies are in- own VQinera.bility concerning access tO We believe these two bills will go a. ·. volved. It is not easy, in days of tough prior- strategic materials. In light of planned long way toward reducing some of the .ities, ~ argue for culture over cops, but the liicreases lri military spending, it is competitive disadvantages faced· by price of such cuts should be recognized as crucial that we take inventory of stra: our exporters in foreign competition. disproportionately high. If the reduc;:ed teglc materials · which the United _ · . funds that remain are not used to support st t is 1 king Th p t · We do not ~eek to subsidize U.S. ex- the most essential cultural activiti~rather . a es ac · e en agon ports or to provide ~ unfair advan- than those that are politically popular-the cahnot afford to assume that U.S. in tage to our exporters, but to restore to New York art business can be badly hurt. dilstry can provide the· needed strate- ~hem equality with .their foreign coun- In short, New York needs to make some glc minerals for defense weapons. terparts.e · hlrd cultural decisions. The Depart~ent of What is the Soviet motivation for Cultural Affairs came close to being kiUed; suddenly increasing their · imports? it has survived with a minimum capacity to .The Soviet Union is already virtually T~ ARTS. AND SOClETY function. The priorities that it now needs to self-sufficient · in strategic materials, set are bound to be controversial. Providing while. the United States must import HON. FREDERICK W. RICHMOND public concerts and other visible entertain- most of its requirements. Are the Sovi ments, for . example, ~ far less important OPNEwYORK than susta1ntng the city's major institutions ets attempting to prevent the United IN THE ;HOUSE OF REPRESENTATtyES for the arts: displaying fashionable art ts States from p\lrchasing materials for not as necessary as underwriting tinfashion- defense production? Monday, .February 25, 1980 able borough arts councils. Festivals in Cen- Whatever the explanation, the situa- • Mr. RICHMOND. Mr. Speaker, the tral Park are less vital to the city~s culMlra.l tion requires that we keep close watch arts play a vital role in America's soci- life than ethnic and community activities in on U.S. strategic supplies. ~or exam-· · underserviced areas. ety. Not only in the cultural communi· The choices should be weighed on a scale pie, the United States must pay party, but also tbe· economic, educational, of social and· economic values-and against ticularly· close attention to political de national, and .international communi- alternatives. A recent study by the nonprof:- velopments in southern Africa, As ·the ties, to name but a few. 1t· CUitural Assistance Committee concludes Times article points out,· political in- For evert dollar spent on the art$, at that New York has not beeri doing enough stability in this area of the world least 3 additional dollars are spent on to capitalize on its cultural resol,ll'ces. Pro- could threaten vital strategic materi.; auxiliary services. · The arts have grams scattered around city agencies have . als such as chromium and cobalt. Proven themselves to be invaluable in beendized poorlycity institutions Coordinated. do notSome .know of theabout, subsi· or I would like t 0 commen d C ongress- helping students learn and understand do not apply for, grants from other sources. man SANTINI for attempting to publi• mathematics, the sciences, · reading, The one place to which New Yorkers cize this important issue. I am submit and writing~ The arts may be our best· should .be able to turn ts the Federal arts ting for the consideration of my col goodwill amba.Ssadors~at home and .Prograin, which has requested an 8.8 per- leagues the text of the New York abroad. - cent increase in its fiscal 1981 NationaI En- Thnes article:· · Yet every time a fiscal crisis arises, · dowment budget. But changes in· Federal . . · sovI~. THouGH SELF~Sunicim, Is the arts are among the "first to .be cut. priorities are threatening New York's fair REPORTED BUYING SollrlE STRATEGIC METALS It seems strange when you consider share. False arguments of populism versus that over 50 million Americans in elitism have been used to achieve a more · some way participate in the . arts- palatable geographical spre~ of Federal A Congressman wh9 specializes in mtner- funds. That yields too much to politics and als said yesterday that the Soviet Union had according to a Louis Harris.poll. It is neglects artistic values. Th.e stress" now is.on begun large-scale purchases abroad of stra evident that the arts .can and do give ·grass roots grants.to small institutions with tegtc materials such as lead, copper, zinc, so· much to our society. Nonetheless poor esthetic ·credentials, including zoos and alumPiuni and molybdenum. The Soviet 3684 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 Union is already self-sufficient in these min tanium, which ·ts as strong as steel but 45 are not· petty misdemeanors, nor are erals. percent lighter, became scarce last. year they so unsubstantiated as to ~ot war The purchases• . which began last year, when the Soviet Union, the largest supplier rant investigation. Therefore, a special were preceded in 1978 by Soviet entry as a of titanium, stopped signing export con buyer into· the cobalt market. Cobalt, essen tracts. The Russians, some analysts believe, prosecutor must be appointed. tial to the manufacture of Jet planes, is pro may have diverted their normal exports to -The ·Christian Science Monitor, in duced by the Soviet Union at an estimated military construction. an editorial on February 22, 1980, con rate of pver 5,000 tons annually. · Mr. Santini and· industry figures said they· curs with that opinion. The Congressman, Representative Jim found it difficult to Impress government de I pope that mr -colleagues will read Santini, ,a ·Nevada Democrat wlio sits on the partments with the gravity of the situation. this important article: · House Committee on Interior and Insular They said an unidentified high official of Affairs, noted that in 1976 the Soviet Union the Defense Department, for example, did [From the Christian Science Monitor, Feb. curtailed the publication of trade figures for· not know how much cobalt or titanium 22, 19801 would be required for 'the MX missile pro· some of these minerals. Their production THE MILLER CASE NEEDS A SPECIAL figures have always been secret, ~d m_ust gram. be estimated. _ , · "Defense has been accustomed to say 'to . PROSECUTOR Government officials confirmed that stra industry, 'This is what we need, build it.'" Two years ago G. William Miller appeared tegic materials in which the Russians were . Mr. ·Santini said, "and until now industry for Senate confirmation as chairman of the self-sufficient were being bought by the has·always had the materials to produce."• Federal Reserve Board. with a reputation Soviet Union, but they could not provide a · for long public opposition to business ·brib conclusive explanation. ery in his own countey or abroad. As chair· PERSONAL EXPLANATION EFFORT TO LIMIT THE U.S. IS. SEEN man of the distinguished Conference Board he had supported research arid other efforts One. e;x:planation was that the Russians to check corruption in business. As head of hoped their purchases would limit the HON.ROMANOL.MAZZOLI the Textron conglomerate he appeared to United States' procurement of materials for OF~CKY exemplify the kind of moral and social con its own arms production. Military analysts IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cern needed to offset the stereotype of ruth· suggested that the Russians ·were startl'ng Monday, February25, 1980 less business executives. It is hard to believe the production of a new generation of weap that he would deliberately lie to the Senate ons, including a swing-wing bomber resem e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I w~ Banking Committee. bling the abandoned American B-1; and fast unavoidably absent from the House ot Yet the chairman of that committee, Sen nuclear submarines, wanted to stockpile ma Representatives on February 22, 1980. ator Proximre, has written to Attorney Gen terials for their expanded production. eral Civiletti that "there is every good ob· · Economist said world prices for these ma Had I been present,. I would have voted: "Aye" on Roll No. 65, approval Jective reason to believe that Mr. Miller terials had been rising rapidly. and the knew his testimony before this commitee in . Soviet Union might be ·buying them as . a of the Journal for Thursday, February 21; "aye" on Roll No. 67, the rule for 1978 was false and misleading." Mr. Prox hedge against future price increases. Alumi mire calls for a special prose~utor. Mr. CM· num, for example, has riSen in price by 300 H.R. 6081,. to amend the Foreign· As lettl ought to reconsider his previous deci percent since Jan. 1, 1974," and there have sistance Act of- 1961; -"aye" on Roll No. sion not to ask · for court appointment of been price rises in copper, lead, tin and 68, to resolve in~o the Committee of such a prosecutor. Reportedly the JJlstice Ilickel, though not in zin~. theWhole.e Department has not ye~ done the kind of · The reported Soviet actions have focused questioning of Textron officials that· could the attention of some politicians and leaders help shed light on whether ·a special pros- of the minenils industry on American weak MONITOR CALLS FOR SPECIAL ecutor is demanded. . nesses in ·strategic ininera.LS. The Soviet PROSECUTOR IN MILLER CASE On the face of it, a special prosecutor Union depends on Imports for only six of its seems ·neciessary to clear the air both for strategic minerals and the Imports of only Mr. Miller and the public-not to mention two of these approach 50 percent of. the HON.ROBERTF.DRINAN the Carter administration, which hq,s high total required. The United States, according OP MASSACHUSETTS regard for Mr. Miller in his present post as to industry figures, is dependent on foreign IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT~TIVES Trea.s'ury Secretary· but cannot afford an sources for over 50 percent of 24 of the 32 other "Bert, l'in proud of you" episode as in minerals essential to industrial production. Monday, Fe.bruary 25, 1980 the Bert Lance affair. Republicans in Con Cobalt and manganese are two of them. , Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, on Feb gress and on the campaign trail are begin . STRATEGIC MATERIALS IDENTIF!p> uary 13 I Joined my colleagues, Rep ning to notice a new target of opportunity. Mr; Santini named 10 minerals on which esentative ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN o.f According to sources close to the situation he said national defense depended: manga N'ew York and Representative JOHN since 1978, much of the turmoil could have nese,, cobalt, copper, chromium, titanium, CONYERS of Michigan in· calling upon been avoided if Textron had complied with silver, tin, lead, zinc and aluminum. regulations•to report to the Securities and , Copper is one mineral in which the United Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti Exchange Commission . the· questionable States is virtually self-sufficient. Over the to appoint a :;pecial prosecutor to in payments abroad which are now again in last io years, copper Imports have averaged ·vestigate Treasury Secretary 0. WU~ the spotlight. Other companies did comply, · less than 10 percent of consumption. liam Miller's possible involvement in reporting even larger payinents, and they In an mterview Mr. Santini emphasized violations of Federal criminal law. . have gone about their business. Instead, Mr. the vulnerability of American access to The Securities and Exchange Com Miller was Jeft telling the senators that "my cobalt and chromium. Zaire, which supplies mission, in a complaint and consent · company didn't bribe anyo~e." Now that most of the cobalt needs, was the· target of decree,· has alleged that between 1971 the brib.ery has been· exposed in an SEC insurgency in 1978 and could be again. At and 1978, when Secretary Miller was lawsuit against Textron-which the comp~ the worst it is close to Ailgola, where 20,000 ny settled without denying or admitting cul Cuban troops are available to carry out first president and then chairman of pability...:...the Question is whether he knew Soviet policies. Even without outside inter Textron Inc., his company expended or should have known what was going on. vention, Mr-. Santini said, "two well-placed at. least $5.4 million in bribes and kick- Mr. Proxmire describes a key situation, in· hand grenades could hold up production for backs overseas. - · v,olving alleged bribery in Ghana: months." · · During Senate confirmation ·hear "One day after Miller first appeared America's chromium, used in stainless ings, Mr. Miller· ass.erted "My company before this CoIIUllittee ap.d was requested to steel, comes from Rhodesia and South pid :riot bribe anybody." This raises inquire into the Ghana matter, Textron de Africa. The results of the coming elections questions of possible perjury. stroyed a dociiment which revealed that a in .Rhodesia are therefore regarded as sig bribe was paid to a Ghanaian government nificant for the United States. The special prosecutor legislation re official. Senior officials of Textron knew quires the appointment of a special that the Ghanaian bribe had been paid. CONCERN OVER A VIcrORY BY !IUGABE prosecutor in cases involving a Miller discussed the Ghana transactions A victory by Robert Mugabe, one of the member of . the Cabinet accused of with those officials in connection with his guerrilla leaders, may result in a cutoff of committiilg a Federal · crime other testimony to this committee on the Ghana Rhodesian chrome exports to the United than a petty misdemeanor unless the transaction. I believe Miller had reasons to States, Mr. Santini said. Mr. Mugabe, a know that a bribe was paid .bY Textron in .Marxist, has promised to nationalize indus- matter is SO UnSUbstantiated that no Ghana." try ·and to reallocate exports. · further investigation or prosecution is With questions like that to be resolved, Soviet behavior on titanium is a reason for warranted. the Attorney General wo'dld have to make a the American suspicion that Soviet pur Secretary Miller is clearly a member formidable case to remain opposed to a spe chases-are linked to defense programs. ·n. of the Cabinet. The crimes involved cial prosecutor.• February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3685 LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE An address ·by the Chief Justice But much more needs to be done. The Juat would not eliminate the necessity for ciary, the legal profession .and the legisla congressional hearings on the state. of tures must be energetic and imaginative in seeking new methods, practices and proce .HON. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM our Nation's judiciary. But in a similar dures, if we are to fulfilf our obligation to OF NEW YORK way that a prehearing ·conference can serve the consumers of Justice. It is not stir IN Tlf:E HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES eliminate some. issues and narrow ·prising that the public is not very well in others, an address by the Chief Justice formed about courts and their problems, . Wednesday, February 13, 1980 would tend to focus attention on prior sf.µce the proposals for improvement and •Mrs. CHISliOLM. Mr. Speaker, on ity items .and provide an impetus for . change have little "news" appeal. February 16, Americans of Lithuanian congressional action. 1979 DEVELOPMENTS: LITIGATION COSTS ANl> descent. celebrate two · significant An annual address by the Chief Jus.. CONTROL events in Lithuanian history: The 62d tice each year would be proper and One of the most enco~aging d~velop anniversary of the reestablishment of meaningful from a number of stand ments in 1979 was a program flowing from Lithuanian independence and the points: the 1976 '!Pound Revisited Conference." 729th anniversary of the founding of It would be a dignified ·approach The American 1'ar Association formally ini from the head of one coordinate tiated a five-year program aimed at improv tlie state of "Lfthuaiila. The celebra ing consumer access to speedy and effective tion of both these events are commlt branch of GOvernment to the branch justice. It comes as no surprise, but it ments to the ideals that these two responsib1e for both legislation and should be a matter of regret; that many liti events commemorate. The ideals of appropriations. gants m.aY well be denied access to our legal freedom and liberty which guided the It would inform the public of prob~ system because costs of litigation make all founders -of Lithuania are the very lems · in an area now largely hidden· but large claims uneconomfcal to process. s~me ideals and principles on which from public view, thereby sen'ing as Exceptions to this serious problem are our. own country was found.ed. an impetq.s for appropriate remedies. found only when cla.ims are covered by in However, it is ironic that these It woul caseload is at a new high even though there has been an increase in the number of OF ILLINOIS The purpose of any legal system and the judges and a 14 percent improvement over IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES responsibility of those that operate it. is to last year in . the percentage of civil cases produce . the best quality of justice, with closed. Monday, February 25, 1980 minimum delay, at the lowest possible cost e Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, today for those who use it. The judiciary and the COURTS OF APPEALS legal profession are responsible for the per The situation may be even more serious in I am introducing legislation that formance of the s·ystem, but to function well the Courts of Appeals. The marked increase would direct the Chief Justice of the it must be assisted by the legislatures~ the in the number of cases closed-a 6.9. percent U.S. Supreme Court to address o.n an organized Bar-and the public. There have increase from last year-has been more than annual basis a joint session of Con been a number of developments in the past offset by the increase in new cases filed, re gress on the "state of the judiciary." year, steps toward our ultimate objective. sulttng in a 7 .8 percent overall increase in Footnotes at end of article; 3686 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 pending cases last year. Thus. in spite of im ·senior Judges of demonstrated experience This will provide s\lbstantial savings at time mense efforts b7 Judges and the increase in who can be assipect to help where needed. and money. the number .of .federal Judges. the Courts of The Judicial Conference has established a A pilot program in the Unitied States Appeals. like the District Courts. continue subcommittee wkich. -tt ls antlclpated. will Court of Appeals for the Third Clreuit has made a similar showing. to improve efficiency. as well a8 the necessi problem.3 · The Federal Judicial Center monttored the ty of exploring alternatives to litigation in OPERATION 01' THE .JURY SYS'l'EI& test m the· Third Circuit and found a 25 per both the ~edenl mld state conrta. cent ·adng in time required tn the prepara Those who h1Lve been Called to serve on ~ 52 MINOR DISPUTE RESOLuTION ARBll'RATION tion of opinions. and a percent Juries know how often their tinle iS wasted saving tn the eaee of per curiam opinions. Innow.tlve pracrama which provide · the as they watt for asstgnmeats. The Federal Secretaries •ved 50 pement of. tbeil" timei consumers -of Justice with experimental al Judicial Center and the National Oenter for their productivity rme ~ to IOO percent. ternative to State Courts have both undertaken projects 9P.PI'Oaches traditional litiga 001'Tllm'Ill0 llT!lalIAL ED'OCAUOlr tion continued to expand at both the feder on the operation of tbe jury system. There al and state le'V!els Jn 1979. As & · ..ll'iin-off .. of is now cood reason to hope that the use of The United States• . unlike systems of Jus the 19'1~ "Pound Revisited Conference.•• computers in selecting. ma.nadng. ·and tice on the O>ntlnent. has nerer made the pilot programs In thriJe federal Judicial dis paying Jurors will help to overcome the Judicial function the subject of lengthy tricts providfnc for court-annexed arbitra wastes of the past. trainin&. For most of the history of this tion of certain civil eases have. been closeIY AUTOlllATION AT THE cOUR'l'S' SERVICE country. one day a man or WOIJ).an is a prac . . ticing attorney, the next day a judee. This _monitored and evaluated during the past The world .of Judges and lawyers tradition has _changed. As ~r A. Leo Lemi. Di three years. The Federal Judicial Center. in ally looks backwaµ-ds to precedents. but in cooperation with the Department of Justice. rector of the Federal .Judicial Centa' said our .busy. &rowing nation. we must look for recent~ · ls engaged in a two-year evaluation· of these ward also. ta.kine advantage of all the·gains experiments. Lessons m tbe atata suggest our innovative technoJQgy can provide. An · "Of all the changes in Judicial 8.dminlstra that court1.nnexed arbit.tation may reduce tian in the recent decades; perhaps the most example of the numerous benefits of auto dralll&tic hM been the programs of educa substantially the time and cOllt& of resolving mation can be seen in the COURTRAN pro certain types of civil disputes.· tion for judges and for supporting person gram. a comprehensive case-flow m.anag"e nel. The quantum of education available has NEIGHBORHOOD .JUSTI9£ CENTERS ment system for crim1na1 and ctvn doekets increased dramatically. arid, perhaps. even developed by the Federal Judicial Center. more striking has been the increased. recep At the state and local "1evel. the "Pound COURTRAN hu many · specific compo Revisited Confeft!nce•• 8tlmulated the cre tivity of Judges and others to these· pro~ nents. a number of which are already in grams. ' ation of three lietghbarhood JusUce Cen service. ters by the Departlilent of Justice; Griffin This has been true at both the state and Bell chaired the American Bar Association SPEEDY l'RUL llAJL\GEIO:NT the federal level. These ·programs· have Pound Follow-Up Committee before he The Speedy Trial Aecounting and Report gro\Vn out uf pilot projects instituted by became Attorney General. and these pro ing System or-the Criminal. Case Warren ()lneY. when he was Director·of the grams became adininistration projects when F'lftl ll&nagement SJS&;em bMe lleerl made Admhilittrative ottiee of the United States he took office. The 1979 reports on these available to about balt of the federal dis Courts prior to the aeation of the Federal programs~ .Atlanta. Kansas City. and Los tricts in order For any system. especl8lly the Judiciary, vide citizens with effectJve alternatives to to provide· automated assistance in monitor which is composed of professionals. to courtroom dispqte resolution. They hav~ re ing compliance with the SJJeed7 Trial Act. absorb in a -short time a 25% increase in its ceived wide-spread support from Judges. at Only with such methods can the stringent top professional fortes seriou8 problems torneys. and-more importanhthe consum requirements of the Speedy Trial Act be arise. The logistics alone create problems as ers of justiee. A variety of conflicts-land met. to space for new courtrooms and Judges' lord-tenant arguments. shopkeeper-custom . INDEX chambers. Some logistical problems ma:y er quarrels. neighbc:r conructa. and ·other only be resolv~ through systematic change. domestic disputes-are beinc resolved out Another use now being made of automa such as dev'istng a method for determining of-court in &n expedient manner. at little tion tecbnlQues · Is in the 'District Court judgeship needs. However. the judiciary has cost by trained medtators tuld dedicated vol Index System aild the Cour.t- Appellate responded to the challenge of training unteers. In the Atlarita Nei&hborhood· Jus Index System . These automated 'in· newly ®pointed Judges by ·expanding its tice Center~ 60 percent to 70 percent of the .formation .systems replace the cumbersome programs so that ·newly . appointed Judges cases are referred by the local courts. Vigor IJlanually-prepared card ·indexes on which may coumel ·wtth experienced Judges in the ous efforts by- Congressmen IrestaJmeier courts traditionally stored caseload informa practical matter of transferring traditional and Railsback resulted in House approval of tion. lawyer skills into daily Judicial work. the "Dispute Resolutipn Bill'• tn December. COURTRAN In 1979. the Federal Judicial Cent.er of That legislation wil,l extend and strengthen STARS and the new lndeJces are the fered a total of 1~1 workshops, conferences this program on a nationwide and expert-· result of the woi:k of the Federal Judicial and seminars reaching some 5,000 partici mental basis, Center. The Center has not only studied the pants. or nearly half of all federal court per PROTltACT!:D l.ITIGA'l"rolr adaptation of new technology to day-to-day sonnel. These programs included orienta operation of the courts. but has also en tion seminars for 69 newly appointed Dis Over the past de9ade -there has been a gaged in experimentation as well as pilot trict Judges. The orientation seminars pro substantt&l increase in the number of long projects which have helped keep coUrt costs vide the judges with an extensive series of civil trials. -From July 1. · 1978 to June 30. .from escalating and improved the ability of lectures and materials on federal rules and 1979, there were thirty-one such Jury trials the courts to serve citizens. procedures. Information on case manage averaging 35 days in length in the federal ment is provided and · the sessions are a courts. This causes problems-Justice ·is de Once in full operation, all courts employ ing CO~TRAN services would be ·able to useful forum for sharing ideas, not only layed. costs mount. Although these lengthy store caseload data in.a centralized comput with their new colleagues, but with some of cases are relatJvely few, they disrupt the er. which would provide an instant docket the most able sitting federal Judges. The schedulinc of all other cases in their monitoring capability and a centrally locat Center will offer seminars for more of the district. They also present serious prob ed data base for planning and research. newly appo~ted federal District Judges and lems for the Jurors. In some lengthy cases. for the newly appointed Court of Appeals the treatment of the Jurors can bo_rder on WORD PROCESSING Judges in 1980. Pursuant to the Ba.nkroptcy cruelty. They are kept from their ·families Experiments in the Supreme Court of the Reform Act of 1978, the Center has also cre and business for·five or even six-day weeks. United States and at the Court .of Appeals ated a series of · special seminars to assist sometimes for months at a time. and then level have demonstrated the value of new bankruptcy Judges and ·clerks In exercising they may sit for-hours or even days liS a word-processing . machinery for achieving responsibilities enlarged by the Act. · Judge explains the law to be s.pplied to the speedier, less costly Justice. The National ·Judicial College at the Uni complicated facts of the case.1 · After two years' experimentation with versity of Nevada, now sixteen years old, The Federal Judicial Center and the Na word-processing equipment in several of the has achieved another significant milestone. tional Center for State Courts are studying Justices' chambers in the Supreme Court. It has awarded it.s 10,000th certificate of the ·prQblem and searcping for solutions to the equipment has Proved to be cost effec completion of it.s training program. Attend meet the needs both of litigants a,nd of the tive. As a result. with Congressional approv ance at the College reflects ~ awareness public. The Conference of State Chief. Jus al, the Supreme Court has begun to imple among state · Judges of the imPortance . of tices appointed a Committee in August to ment a sophisticated word-processing and training at the time of -selection and of con deal with the problem. The Judicial Confer.: publication system in which the· initial de tinuing education. AB many Judges attended ence of the United States this past Septem velopment• .the editing. and printing of Su the National Judicial College in the last ber authorized creation of a special panel of preme Court opinions would be expedited. four years 4s in the first twelve years. Many February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3687

Judges are returning to the Colleg~ every them.·Law schools must take account of the CRIMINAL CODE three to five years for continuing education. pledge of cooperation in this matter by the The Senate has passed the massive revi- The University of Virginia School of Law, American College of Trial Lawyers. sion of the Federal Criminal Code, which is assisted through grants from LEAA and the The Devitt Committee report emphasizes also receiving the careful attention of the Charles E. Culpepper Foundation, is about as well the · need for participating pilot House Committee on the Judiciary. to commence an experimental two-year courtS to support continuing legal education . RELIEF FOR THE SUPREME COURT Master of Laws program in Judicial process programs on trial advocacy and federal for appellate Judges. The program is headed practice subjects, · and to encourage mem- · There is more to be done. Congress should by Professor Daniel J. Meador, former As bers ~ of the federal b~r to attend these . begin to examine ways to relieve the Su sistant Attorney General in charge of the courses. preme Court of the United States from its Office for Improvements in the Administra . bers of bench and bar and all law overwhelming burden of cases. Several years tion of Justice. He is a Professor of Law at All mem ago a committee of distinguished practition ·the University of Virginia. school faculties ought to cooperate to insure ers .and scholars , all inttniately familiar with the :MPROVEMENT OP TRIAL ADVOCAC'1C representation at trial. . work of the Supreme' Court, co~cluded that What has been happening with the prob lem of the inadequate representation of liti BROOKINGS' CONFERENCES ON THE the growth in volume and the changing ADMINISTRATION OP JUSTICE complexion of the workload of the Court re gants at trial? After some initial protests by quired a remedy. . They proposed the cre- those who disagreed about the seriousness Ouring 1979 the Judiciary benefited again ation of a new national intermediate appel- of the problem, the LawPoll of the Ameri from enlarged cooperation among the three late court to afford review of cases which can Bar Association Journal and survey~ branches on matters affecting the adminis- the Supreme court could no longer effec sponsored by the academic profession con tration· of justice. The annual Williamsburg tively review, with certiorari review open to firmed that this is a major problem. A poll Conferences on the Administration of Jus- the Supreme Court. Subsequently, a Com of federal trial Judges showed 41 percent of tice began in 1978, held under the auspices mission appointed by the President, the them believed there was "a serious prob of the Brookings Institution. For two years Chief Justice, and Congress. and chaired by lem" of inadequacy. Studies since then indi these conferences have provid~d a unique Senator Roman L. Hruska, recommended cated this was a conservative evaluation. forum for representatives of the three the creation of a new national court of ap A committee of trial lawyers, trial Judges brancl:ies of government-the Hous~ and peals, "designed to increase the capacity of and law profes8or8· came to the same general Senate Committees on the Judiciary as well . the federal judicial system for definitive ad conclusion. In September 1979, the Judicial as representatives of the Department of Judication of issues Of national law. subject Conference of the United States unani Justice and the Judicial Conference of the always to Supreme Court review!' mously approved the final recommendattons United States-to sit down with each other Two types of relief must be considered. of the·Committee to Consider Standards for and explore some of the major problems First, Congress should immediately end the Admission to Practice in the Federal Courts connected with the operation of our courts. present mandatory Jurisdiction of the Su . Three years of These conferences, which have been.attend- preme Court. providing that the review of study and hearings throughout the nation ed by ·senator Kennedy and Representative all cases be by the route of certiorari. There produced proposals to be implemented by Rodino, .have proven to be an extremely is no opposition to this change. which is the .following standards, on a pilot basis, in useful vehicle facilitating interbranch coop- consonant with the purpose t>f the Judiciary selected federal District Courts: eration. The third such conference will take Act of 1925. The Senate last April passed ·S. 1. Four supei-vised trial experiences, at least two of -which involve .actual trials, in place e~ly in 1~80. 450, The Supreme Court Jurisdiction Act of FEDERAL COURT ImRoTI;MENT ACT 1979. which would limit this mandatory ap state ·or federal courts as a condition· to pellate Jurisdiction. practice in the federal trial courts; . · Ouririg 1979 there were a number of legis- Second, serious study must be given· to · 2. A written exainlnation. on the Federal lative developments of interest. The United major structural changes to aid the Court's Rules of Civil, Criminal, and Appellate Pro States Senate passed the Federal Court Im- work, In these studies. various proposals for cedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence; provement Act of 19.79, whic~ makes a National Court of Appeals ought to be federal Jurisdiction, and the Code of Profes changes in the structure and administration considered, along with· other ideas which sional Responsibility; of the federal courts. One of the maJor have been put forward by a variety of quali 3. A peer review procedure established to changes· reqµired by the Act would be the fled and serious observers_. Adequate study ·assist federal bar practitioners who have ex hibited marginal trial abilities. · merger of the U. S. Court of Claims and the of the problems and the action that ulti U. S. Court of Customs and Patent App~als · mately will be effected will take a number The Report also recomniencis tnat the ABA consider amending its law school ac into a new court, named the U.S. Court of of years. But against the background of pre creditation standards to require that all Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The bill has vious studies now is the time to begin. Let schools provide basic courses in trial advoca -not been improved by an· amendnl:ent added us hope that this effort to relieve an over cy, including student participation in actual on the Senate (loor which could potentially burdened Supreme Court will not take the or simulated trials taught by lawyers having increase the workload of the federal courts century that creation of the ~ourts of A~ litigation experience. by altering the existing standards of Judicial peals did. .l"eview of ·agency rules or regulations. SUMMARY The decision ·of the Judicial Conference reflects the · consensus that has emerged itmtCIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS The most pressing problems of the Judi- among lawyers, Judges, and law school fac That amendment shoUla agam remind us cial systems are procedural. American law is. uities that action is necessary to insure that of the need for closer legislative focus on basically sound. In spite of e.normous recent every consumer of justice receives ~ ade the potefttial effect of legislation upon the improvements, we still lack effective mecha quate quality of . reoresentation in trial courts. The. need for Judicial impact state- nisms which would not affect how a case courts. ments, which I proposed some years ago. to would come out, but would expedite its dis· HARVARD-NORTHEA~TERN JOINT ADVOCACY accompany all new legislation affecting the position. PROGRAM courts has been· discussed at the Williams- The creation of the position of Circuit Ex As a result of the work of the "Devitt burg Conferences. The National Academy of ecutive· in 1970 provided a "business 'man Committee," it is 1;tow clear that we must Sciences, working through its National Re- ager" aide to the Chief Judge and Circuit have a great expansion of training prognims search Council, created a panel on Legisla- Council of each Circuit. We are again asking in trial advocacy, both for law students·and tive Impact on the Courts during 1977. Con-· Congess to provide similar aides for each of for attorneys. Many law schools have recog gress has in the past -few years requested the Metropolitan Districts which have 15 or nized the drastic need for integrating clini several such statements from the Office for more Judges. · cal education programs into. their tradition Improvements in the Administration of Jus- The computer programs CCOURTRAN> al curriculums. A $21/s million joint advocacy tice. The Subcommittee on Jurisprudence have· substantially improved Judicial per program between the Harvard and North and Governmental Relations of the Senate formance. Control · of cases by the trial eastern Law Schools is now 1h operation. Committee on the· Judiciary, under the judge .before the trial itself has helped. The Cornell, Southwestern, Georgetown, Anti chairmanship of Senator Howell Heflin juror utilization programs . have saved on och, artd William Mitchell College of Law , and others 3688 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 must be at the same place at the appropri· constantly.displayed ·his ability, integ provement of the society. This devel· ate time. The. more complex the case, the rity.; and courage. opment has been the direct and inevi· more difficult is the solution to the prob· Ben has always been dev-0ted to serv table result of the AU-Volunteer Force lem8. When any one component of this and now demands the attention of the "cast of characters" is late or absent, the ing the public. After graduating from entire process is jeopardized and made more Southern University with a degree in Congress. expensive. Far from dehuman~ing courts, business management and serving in Over a year ago, I fu.st voiced my making them responsive to peoples' needs is the U.S. Marines, he ·held .several im criticism. of the existing system and the essence of making them perform their portant positions in Louisiana State proposed legislation calling for the mission. government. He was the director of creation of a Public Service System To perform their mission is what I and my the division of human resources and whereby the youth of the Nation colleagues are dedicated to, and we will the director of the division of social would be called upon to .contribute of spare no appropriate effort to this end. and rehabilitative services iri the Lou their time and effort. to preserve, pro· isiana Department of Health and FOOTNOTES tect and improve their society-H.R. Human Resources. Most recently, Ben 3603. I believe that n<>W is the time for· • These figures represent confirmations as of De· cember 17, 1979. Additionally, 18 vacancies in Dis· served as chairman of the Governor's the C~ngress to foeus its attention on trict Court Judgeships and 14 vacancies in the Conference on Aging. He also had his the need for a new system which will Courts of Appeals have been filled as of December own management and marketing con serve to meet the needs of the Nation, 17. sulting firm in Baton Rouge. It ts truly •See, for example, United Sta.tea v. United Sta.tea both civilian and military, in the fair Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. 422 <1978). remarkable that Ben has accom est possible way and at the least cost . a Committee on Juries and Protracted Civil Cases plished all this by the age of 35. in the years ahead. However, before Appoirited by the Conference of state Chief Jus · I am hELPJ:>Y that Ben Jeffers will be the Congress can move to fashion a tices: Chief J:ustice Edward F. Hennessey, Massachu· able to continue his service to the remedy for the problem, a consensus setts, Chairman. public. Not only· is he· well qualified, must ·exist as to what the problem Chief Justice Albert W. Bame:v. Jr., Vermont. he also has the special qualities of really is. ·. Chief J'ustice Bruce F . Beilfuss, Wisconsin. dedication, integrity. and compassion Chief Justice Frank D. Celebrezze, Ohio. . The Carter administration has pro Chief Justice John P. Cotter, Connecticut. that will make hfin invaluable to both posed a return to registration for a Chief Judge Robert C . .M:urpby, llla.ryland. HEW and the people of the five-State strictly military draft in response to Chief .Justice H. E. Nichols, Georgia. region he will serve. I wish· my friend· Chief Justice.John F . Raper, Wyoming. the recent Soviet invasion of Afghani Chief Justice Robert N . Wilentz, New Jersey. Ben Jeffers well in his new position.• stan, an action which I consider·to he Judicial Conference Subcommittee to Examine an ineffective response to .the wrong Possible Alternatives to Jury Trials in Protracte4 question. The basic issues fuvolved Complex Cases: Judge Alvin B. Rubin, U.S. Court of Appeals for ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMED here are· the fairness and adequacy of the Fifth Circuit, Chairman. our current system of military man;, Judge .John D. Butzner, 3r.. U.S. Court of Appeals FORCES power procurement and the effective for the Fourth Circuit. . . Chief Judge Ray McNichols, U.S. District court ness of the Armed Forces which that for Idaho. · HON. JOHN J. CAVANAUGH system produces. Even as President Juiige Earl E. O'Conner, U.S. District Court for OF WEBltASKA Carter steadfastly defends the All-Vol Kansas. Judge Milton Pollack, U.S. District Court for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRES~ATIVES unteer Force, an increasing number of Southern District of New York.e defense experts are giving voice to the . Monday, FebruaT11 25, 198·0 many weaknesses whiclf I have point e Mr. CAVANAUGH. Mr. Speaker, as ed out. In an effort to further eluci· TRIBUTE TO BEN JEFFERS increasing scrutiny is being brought to date the problems in the AVF, I will bear upon All-Volunteer Armed periodically insert· into the RECORD ar HON.-GILUS W. LONG Forces, it becomes ever more clear ticles which substantiate ~he crisis OF LOUISIANA that the concept. in effect for the past which has·resulted from the AVF. The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7 years, has been a dismal failure in first o-f these articles appeared in the many respects.· In addition to the February 10 edition of the Washing- Monda'lf, February 25, 1980 8.slleet of fairness which I have repeat ton Post, and follows: · e Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speak· edly emphasized and which I still con [From the Washington Post, Feb. 10, 19801 er, one of Louisiana's most 8.bl~ lead sider to be the most serious shortcom ers has recently been appointed to a ing of the All-Volunteer Force, there THIS Is THE ARMY? position of prominence and responsi remain grave doubts in the minds of my Fred Reed> bility. I take special pride in the ac many. if not most, of the leading mili I see .that Clifford Alexander, secretary of complishments of my fell ow Louisian- tary manpower analysts in this coun· the Anny, is treading the long grey road . ian and long-time friend, Ben Jeffers. try as to the effectiveness of Army toward new. and better Afghanistans. More an precisely, he asserts that the Volunteer HEW Secretary. Patricia Roberts that is made up of almost 50 percent Anny works well. Alexander, a political ap Harris has asked Ben to serve as Chief blacks and other minorities who, pointee, is playing the game ol let'&11>retend HEW officer for the States of Louisi through no fault of their own, lack the that got Us into Out' present dangerous posi· ana, Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, requisite skills to operate the ultraso tioil-saying what suits the political needs and Oklahoma. phisticated weaponry upon which the of the administration rather than what Ben is an outstanding choice for this defense Qf this -country so heavily de suits the military needs of the Anny responsible and demanding position~ pends. B~yond the question of ability I have seen the Volunteer Army; for sever His experience· with State health and lies the more subtle issue of motiva~ al years I have written for the magazine of human services has ·prepared him well tion. How can we expect those individ the Anny Times papers-an odd occupation for a Washington reporter, requiring one to for serving in a comparable Federal uals to whom society has given the spend tu,ie with troops in the field. I sug department, and has made him espe~ least opportunity to expose them gest to Alexander that the All-Vol is a grim cially ·sensitive to the concerns of selves to the greatest risk in order to joke. those people he will serve. He will be protect the more fortunate members Last summer I followed an infantry outfit responsible for the coordination and of that society in the event of any from an average division through jungle administration of all HEW activities in armed conflict? And the bottom line in training in the Canal Zone. The level of in the entire region. He will also serve as this analysis remains that of the in telligence was far lower than .it was when I liaison for the ·public, for interest herent unfairness of this system of was a Marine in 19~. I saw radio operators groups, and for State and local offi racial and economic conscription who could barely operate their radios, men cials. which has preyed upon the economi who c.ouldn't read, soldiers who couldn't comprehend a simple lecture ·on jungle sur This past year, Ben Jeffers was the cally and educationally disadvantaged vival.· The Pentagon says that the percent first black candidate for a major and which has worked to relieve our age of high scho.ol graduates is high. Per statewide office in Louisiana. He middle and. upper middle class young haps it is, given the quality of the schools. waged an energetic, hard-fought cam people from any sense of obligation to Nonetheless, those troops were, on the aver· paign against very tough odds and contribute .to the protection and image, very slow. Almost as bad, ·they lack the February 25, 1980 EX.'TENSIONS OF RRM ARKS 3689 leavening of conscripted intelligence to run cient administration of ·this country's art, now in hiS 13th season at Mis complicated weaponry. antitrust laws. At the · present time, souri. During his tenure, Coach Stew Further, rac.ial. antagonism .is.serious~ Be-·. both the Federal Trade Commission art has ta.ken Missouri basketball to cause it ls desperate ,for manpower.- the and the Department of Justice are unprecedented heights of. success. His Army recruits an'ybody ' it pa.fr ,get: '. white charged with enforcing the antitrust country kids who don't much ·like · blacks, lifetime winning percentage at the black street kids who don't like whites at all, laws. The Department of Justice car Tiger helm exceeds 60 percent, and Chicanos . who aren't entbusiastic · about ries out its statutory responsibility by this season is the . fifth 20-victory either. Tight discipline can hold such an ex- ·bringing antitrust cases in the Federal season for Coach Stewart at Missouri. plosive mix together, but discipline Isn't the district courts. The enforcement Prior to his 1;1.rrival, no Tiger team had All-Vol's strong suit. · scheme of the Federal Trade Com.mis- accomplished this feat. This year ·s Big . An instructor in the jungle echoed what sion, on the other hand, is substantial.. 8 title was his second, and will certain I've heard · throughout the military: "You ly different, even though both agen ly result in his third trip to the NCAA can't discipline the blacks because they yell cies are essentially enfarcing the same racism, and the officers are scared of being tournament. Taking a team that was called racists so they won't back you up. If statutes. The FTC antitrust cases are 13 and 15 last season, Coach Stewart you can't discipline the blacks, you can't dis- tried· by the FTC staff in front of an s1'illfully · blended returning veterans cipline the whites. That's where we are. It FTC administrative law Judge with the and talented newcomers into a win·· ought to be equal discipline for everybody, five Federal ·Trade Commissioners ning unit. . but it Isn't. ·It's no discipline for anybody." acting as the final judge in determin- The record achieved. by this year's The best men leave. They leave because ing whether a violation of 'the anti Tiger. basketball team was primariiy they are military men and the .Army Isn't trust laws has indeed taken place. Any the result of teamwork, dedication, very· miiitary now. The problem ls serious: appeal from this FTC decision then and unselfishness. With no individual folklore to the contrary, brains and leader- goes into the Fe eral court system. ship are . critical in the middle enllsterm proved more valuab_le than ever to the ~example of the difficulty his administration doors and windows, this facility will community, sacrificing their own lives is having in adjusting to the post-Afghani contain a conference room fo~ civic to save others. This dedication gar stan world. At the top, there is ·no doubt meetings, including public speakers on nered St. Francis approval of the that Carter has made a basic shift toward a energy conservation. Mr. . Speaker, I American College of Surgeons in 1921, . February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3691 an accolade met by only 13 percent of successively occupy its terrority. In concern is that it is not being struck careful airexisting hospitals in the country. the final months of World War Hr.the ly..enough ·in some pending proposals. In 1937, the. medical staff was reor- Soviet Union forceably annexed Es For example, President Carter has pro posed that U.S. intelligence agents, with the ganized with, rules and by-laws. Iil tonia along with the other Baltic authorization of a secret court, be allowed 1939:. the ladies auxiliary was formed, States· of Lithuania and Latvia, thus to burglarize the homes and offiCes and an ·organization. that continues to effectively ending a 20-year period of open. the mail of Americans suspected' of donate time and talents to helping the freedom and liberty in the Republic of spying. . hospital in its work. In 1947, a convent Estonia. We worry about that, and. about a bill was added to become a "home of their The spirit of Estonian independence sponsored by Sen. Daniel Moynihan. D own?' for the Sisters of Saint Mary. and a hope that Estonia will eventual- N. Y .• that would exempt the CIA from the The growth has never stopped for ly be liberated from Soviet oppression Freedom of Information Act and make it a crime to reveal the. identity of intelligence St. Francis hospital, and its progress is shared by Estonians throughout the agents or sources. Moynihan's bilr would has meant a booming community hos- world~ Through the efforts 'Of organi extend criminal sanctions to private persons pital for Blue Island, a proud and pres- zations such1as the Estonian American and the press in some. instances, and -appar tigious friend for the area. Open heart National Council, Estonian. immi ently would have made it illegal for the surgery, neurodiagnostics,. intensive grants in the United States have pre Wasl}ington Post to have reported· that care nursery, cardiac rehabilitation, served their language, customs, and King HU.SSein of. Jordan. was taking money and other programs rival the- finest most of all: tl\eir determination to from the CIA. · facilities in the Chicago.area. fight for tlie restoration of the inde- ProposalS for· intelligence charter. reforms haye been pending_for the past-four years, SoCial' events, including the annual pendence.of their native Estonia. · ever since congressional investigators docu Carnation.Cotillion, a tr.ibute to-volun- The· United States has never .recog mented Watergate~era abuses by the CIA teers-for their hard work and. dedica- nized the· Russian) annexation of, Esto and other intelligence ag~cies. So far• . tion, to ~ the hospital. and the_Charity nia, nor. tttat1 of< the· other Baltic while there-has- been a lot· of-rhetoric, there Invitational, the_ hospital's annual States-. Tfii&· iS- of great mora11support has been little reform. And now the impulse fundrais.er-which has, been copied to the natives of these natibn$ r urge toward intelligence agency reforms seems to and.modeled.after because of its huge all Americans· to rememb.er9 however, be withering. successes each succeeding year~on- that colonialsim still. tfirives . in, much The confrontations in Iran and Afghani stan have prompted a · revival' of Cold, War tinue to highlight the areal&social.cal- of Eastern. Eur.ape depriving over 1 emotions, and the Washington mood has endar. · - . milliOn. people of the right to deter- shifted from. restraining our intelligence And lbng before the voluntary, effur.t mine. tlb:eizr own, f Ol'tm of~ goverrunen~ agencies to making thei;n. stronger. That's and cost containment, be£ame a popu- We. must· notl. furget the· great injus fine-but agaih, only if- the. revisfons are lar notion,. St. Francis. ihstituted. a tices that ttle' Erstonian- people have ltept in balance. The. proposals should pre number, of c.ost-saving_methodS for its suffere~ at the ttancll; or· their totali· vent abuses. by· intelligence-gathering agen patients, includihg pi:eadinismon test~ · tarian-.neigftttor. cies, .but also give them some of the· authori ihg,, ambulatory surgery, utiliZation I sihcerelY,. fioJ;)e.. that Americans will ty they seek. At issue are two lengthy charters. one for review, clinical engiheerihg- and good Joih with the Estonian people in cele· the FBI and the- other. covering._ the CIA. general fiScal management'.: brating their independence day and in and. both replete. with multiple. amend St. Ftancis. wilL continue to lead.the reaffirming:. tJfieir ·deditrattontt.b:ttte Es ments. Most or tlie provisions conform to health care industry and to meet the tonian struggle for- freedom and jus present regulations for the intelligence needs or the people it·, serves-.. I know tice.e· agencies. and others would. subject some my colleagues- Join) with. me. ih com.. FBI activities to speciffe regulations and mending and congratulating. St~ . Fran.. SPYING' ON OURSELVES court review for. the first t1me ..We think it's iinportant:.....and ~ gpod:...that the CIA charter els.hospital.on the occasion or-this mo~ does not substantially affect the CIA'S' abili mentous '15th anniversary.e HONi. DON· EDWARDS. ty to gather intelligence overseas. O»CAL1F.ORN14 • Bllt we do question som~ or·the proposals. For example; the· proposed . FB:L charter E&IIONIANt INIDEPENDENCE DAY·· Il'fiTHE HOUSE -OF REBRtJSENTATIVES would.give that agjmClC the-power to: Monaay,, Fi!brucmrzs, u1so~ Secure with an. FBI' "tilvestigat1ve HON-~ CARL D. PURSELL demand.''. ihformation atiout' an ihdlvidual e. Mr• . EDWARDS' of California~ - Mr. tiank OF MICHIGAN from hiS or insurance company. A Spealter,.I want. to,· bring taithe atten.; searclt warrant woultl" not' be· needed~ and IN, T-HE,HOUSE· OF. REPRESENTATLVES tion~ of my· colleagues the ~ very the bank would'be required to tum over the Monday, February1 25;.1!fBO· thoug)ltful, editorial which. appeared information. The individUal"would not·have in the. SamJaseMere.ury1rec.entJy .- .'rhe to be-nottfied a! tlie: demarnl,for 60.'daY.s •. e Mr; PURSELL. Mr. Speaker, Fet>ru:. comment-a-and: obsenvations·,ga•r.ight' to Search .ll- person's tl'ash. cans without ·a ar~ · 2"4' marks- the· 62d' -anniversary of the, heart:of . the debate.on . the St.Jbiect warrant. the· proclamatli:>rr of the independence of intelligence: gathering, practices of Require the. U!S .. Post" Office. to. tum over of Estonia~ I.t was·on- this-day, iiI 1918~ unopened mail of an. individual to see if the our Government• ." The· concerns,, ex>: FBI can· determine.who the sender is. that Estonian nationalists removed pressed- will be.· par.amount~ int the the yoke of· Soviet colonialism. bY. de'!' One congressman tbld us; ...K few of us on minds .of: many. Members. if legjslation the Hill are-~ scared tn·deattt about' these pro· claring Estonia an independent, sover is considered.this)ye~r .. posals."· eign nation. This action was. based on Tha:article follows:. The CIA' charter would give that· agency President· Woodrow: Wllsori's declara• tiroad authority, to collect informatltJn at tion· that· all peoples have the right to SPYING o~ : OURSELVES' home, as weu·as abroad: self-determination. For 2 yeanr the· Es We are concerned· about the civil liberties For exani.ple, under pr~ent' law. Ji the tonian Armyvaliantiy·and successfulJ.y implications·. of' pending proposals to CIA wanted to search the home of an deterred Soviet efforts to reacquire Es strengthen the Central. Intelligence Agency• American suspected of spying,. the agency tonia's territory. The defiant spirit the· Federal Bureau- of Investigation;. and would have to go· to to a judge, describe other American intelligence-gathering-agen, what item is being sougtit• .where it may be that characterized the Estonian ctes.. · found. get' a search warrant. and notify the people during their war of independ We don't que~tion the need.to.conduct ef owner when tlie premises are searched. ence finally won them worldwide rec fective intelligence operations aimed at po · Under the proposed new charter, tHe in ognition as a p·eople with little toler-" tential enemies abroad, and there's evidence telligence agency would be able to go to a ance for·violations of the basic human that u.s~ efforts in that area ·need to be secret court in Washington, D.C., get a right to ·self:.determination. stronger than they have been in the recent search warrant, and then enter the premises By the late 1930's, however, Estonia past. What happened in Iran is only too without the knowledge of the owner. found itself in a desperate situation; painful .an-ex-ample. The secret court is a special seven-member But when the powers of our own intern. body created in 1978 and appointed by the Sandwiched-between· the t\vo ominous gence agencies can be turned against Ameri chief Justice of' the U.S. Supreme Court. powers of Nazi Germany. and the can citizens at home, national security has The court now reviews FBI and other intel Soviet· Union, Estonia had no choice to be ·balanced against the rights of individ· ligence agencies' requests ·for permission to but to allow ~hese two superpowers to uals. Th~t balance is a delicate one, and our use wiretaps or other electronic surveillance CXXVI--233-Pa.rt 3 3692 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 in foreign intelligence cases. All proceedings has penetrated the Western· Hemi- . glous disease would spread rapidiy to all sec- - are secret. and even written decisions are sphere. The first time was in 1971 in tlons of the country. . classifiedThe proposed information. CIA charter would expand CUb· a, w h en over one-· third o f the is • It is my hope that this important the power . of the coutt to inchlde cases land's swine either died or were de-: legislation can be enacted as expedi where permission is needed to burglarize stroyed to wipe out the. disease. The · tiously as possible so that America's the home of an American or open his mail. Food and Agriculture Organization of swine producers, the pork industry, To allow a secret court to have such ex- the United Nations estimates that and consumers can be protected from panded power con~radicts our concept of there are only one-third' as many live any possible invasion of _African swine the American Judicial system. pigs in the Dominican Republic now as fever.e current law allows break-ins and mall there were before ASF infected the openings against any American only when t there is specific evid,ence of criminal con- coun ry· duct. The proposed legislation would allow No effective vaccine has· been devel.:. HUMANITARIANS AT these intrusions if an American is believed oped to combat this disease and no PEPPERDINE to be acting as a foreign agent.. treatment is known.· At present, That's an Important difference. slaughter of exposed animals is the HON. BARRY M. 'GOLDWATER, JR. The specific-evidence requirement that a only eradication technique. The ef OF CALIFORNIA crime has been or will be committed falls in f ects of this dread disease if it were to line with present Fourth Amendment pro- invade the United States almost defy IK THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tections. It's the same standard required for imam..-.atlon. Swine in ' the United Monf/,a11. Februarv 25, ·1980 the warrants police use in everyday searches 1:o ... u. for stolen property. drugs or the like. States have no resistance to this dis- • Mr. GOLDWATER. . Mr. Speaker, One only has to recall some of the search.; ease, thus mass death and slaughter the r~nt noodillg disaster in mY 20th es of civil rights and anti-Vietnam war would result from outbreaks, causing a Congressional District and surround groups that occurred during J. Edgar Hoo- severe economic crisis for· swine pro- ing areas in· southern California has ver's reign_to realize how many Americans ducers and the pork industry. Result- also brought out the best humanitar could be affected if intelligence agents ·are ing shortages of pork and pork prod- given a domestic fishing license. . ucts would Ca.use higher consumer ian instincts in many people, and nota- SuPporters of .these charters and various bly, iri the student body at Pepperdine amendments say that if .they are adopted, .food prices. University. There are untold there will be an unleashing of these agen- . While African swine fever does not heartwarming stories of selfless indi cies so that more intelligence information affect human beings, the economic · ,viduals who voluntarily and under. dif can be collected. But critics claim that while devastation this disease can bring war- ficult . ·personal conditions assisted there has been a lot of talk. the agencies rants the serious consideration of this others in need.·Many of these individ never were leashed in the first Place, and Congress at the earliest possible time. uais who have helped have been Pep the proposed charters award them more power than ever. These critics include the The proposed Swine Health Protec- perdine students. · American Civil Liberties .Unioh, which is tion Act goes to the heart of the prob- For weeks, these students in·Malibu, launching a nationwide campaign to defeat lem area. African swine fever ·ts spread who .hail from every comer of this some of the new proposals. . primarily through infected pork great Nation, have cleaned flooded · We th\nk the ACLU campaign will serve a scraps in raw or improperly cooked homes, cleared mud and .debris laden useful purpose if it prompts more debate garbage fed to swine. The virus can yards, and constructed ·sandbag walls about. what should and should not be in- live for fong periods of time in pork for people who.were strangers to them cl~~;t · ~~1: n:;ein~~e~po~~rsio an from infected hogs -and can · pass until the rairi began a few weeks ago. Americans th&n the way we balance our na- through the food chain without af. It would be impossible to tally the tional security and the individual rights of fecting other animals ·or human monetary value of these efforts. It is our citizens.e beings. But once the infected garbage also impossible to reckon the gift of is fed to swine, an outbreak of ASF is spirit and kindness these students PROTECT U.S. SWINE. almost a certainty. have given their neighbors. The The proposed legislation would regu- school's founder, George Pepperdine, late the processing of garbage to be always strived to instill the ideals of HON. PAUL FINDLEY . . fed to swine and, except when prohiti- compassion and generosity in the goals OF ILLINOIS ited by State law, provide that garbage of the university; he would be proud IN THE HO_USE OF REPRESENTATIVES may be fed to swine .only if treated to of the students there now. Monday, February 25, 1980 · kill disease organisms in ·accordance It is truly satisfying to .know· there • Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, Afri with regulations issued by the U.S. De- are students such as those at Pepper can swine fever, a deadly infectious partment of Agriculture. dine in our midst. They help to remind disease of pigs, threatens to invade the While officials of the u .s. Customs us of the true meaning of friendship, United States unless effective precau Service and USDA's ·Animal and Plant and of the real meaning of the word tionary measures are taken to protect Health Inspection Service are cooper- humanitarian. I salute them.e American swine producers. My col ating in Inspecting pork:-related prod- Ie'ague, Mr. MADIGAN• and I, today are \1.Cts entering the United States, it is introducing the Swine Health Protec recognized that co~plete surveillance REGISTRATION AND INCREASE tion Act, "legislation designed to keep . is .impossible considering·· the tremen- IN MILITARY BUDGET this deadly and costly disease out of dous volume of traffic among the Ca- -- our country. ribbean islands and the United States. HON. TED W_EISS African swine fever is the most The one sure way of protecting Ameri. OF NEW YORK deadly of all foreign diseases of hogs. can swine is to require treatment to IN THE HOUSE OF.REPRESENTATIVES The acute form kills almost all of the kill all disease-causing organisms in hogs that become infected. Outbreaks garbage fed to swine."" That is the Monday, February 25, 1980 of this disease cause widespread death · intent of the Swine Health Protection •Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, I would losses iii swine-from the disease itself Act legislation introduced today by like to submit for the record the~e two and the slaughter of exposed animals Mr. MADIGAN and myseli. news articles, one from the February required for eradication of the disease. The seriousness of the situation, 14 New York Times and the other New outbreaks-which spread so fast with the disease prev.alertt in islands from the February 23 Washington they almost seem to explode-have off the shores· of the United States, Post. The,se articles should caution us been advancing toward the United was underlined recently by F. J. Mul from speaking of and acting on mili States in recent months and have now hern, Administrator of USDA's tary escalation with ·the ardor and reached Cuba. The disease was discov Animal and Plant Health Inspection ease that has characterized the recent ered in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Servi~e. who said: calls for registration and increase in · and Brazil in 1978-79. ·This is the .If an outbreak should occur 1n the United the military budget. second time that African swine fever States, it is probable that this highly conta· The articies follow: February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3693 .[From the New York Times, Feb. 14, 19801 "One of the most ·serious post-attack the Carter plan-would save only seven days THINKING ABOUT THE UNTHINKABLE public health problems," Dr. Hiatt said,. "is over Selective Service's recommendation. disposal of the dead. The presence of more Under .the Carter plan, the first draftees than 2.2 million bodies will pose a continu would be inducted within 10 days after an WASHINGTON, D.c. .:....George Bush was ing and serious hazard to the health of the emergency was declared. Selective Serv'ice's drawn from his rather sheltered position as survivors." wait-until-afterward option would take 17 a candidate last month in an interview by Dr. Hiatt said all .this in a quiet voice, and days. War plans call for getting the first ll.obert Scheer of The Los Angeles Times. It the audience listened in·dead silence. Then people inducted within 30 days of mobiliza was a revealing interview in general, but he said: particularly in these exchanges: tion. "The preparati9n of these rei:il.arks was The same seven-day difference between Question. Don't we reach a ·point with for me a stressful experience. What pur these strategic weapons· where we can wipe pose, I ·wondered initially,' to describe such the Carter and Selective Service plans each other out so many times that it really almost.unthinkable conditions. But the con would apply to the induction of the first doesn't matter whether we're 10 percent or ditions are not unthinkable. Rather, they .100,000 people-26 days versus 33 days after 2 percent lower or higher? are infrequently thought about." mobilization. The Pentagon wants the first An&wer. Yes, if you believe there is no Americans have reason for concern about 100,000 within 60 days. such thing as a winner in a nuclear ex the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and Similarly, Carter's plan would save only change, that argument makes a little sense. reason to act against the potential threat to seven days-117 versus 124-in getting the I don't believe that. the Persian Gulf. But the action should be first 650,000 people to training camps. Pen Q. How do you win in a nuclear exchange? related to. the threat. Demonstrations of a tagon war' plans call for getting this number A. You have· a survivability of command in commitment in the Gulf, refusals to carry into uniform within 180 days, leaving a com control, survivability of industrial potential, on business as usual with the Soviets and, . fort able margin, as Selective Setvice sees it. protection of a percentage of your citizens, most important, action to reduce our and you have a capability that inflicts more dependence on oil from the region: These "We believe that we now have a·capabllity damage on the opposition than it can inflict are the kinds of steps that make sense. to respond in an emergency" without resort ing to advance registration. The word "now" upon you. That's the way you can have a What does not make sense-what ·will winner, and the Soviets' planning· is based indeed drain. our economic and psychologi is underlined in the report. on the ugly concept of a winner in a nuclear cal strength-is undifferentiated militarism. · Selective Service said it had improved its ·exchange. Nor do I believe that the American public ability to act by stl"eamlining procedures Q. Do you mean like 5 percent would sur will write. a blank check. The United States and working out arrangements with the vive? Two percent? response to Afghanistan will be effective, U.S. Postal Service to rush into registration A. More than that-if everybody fired ev and convincing, the better it meets the test if an emergency occurs. erything he had, you'd have.more than that of relevance in public scrutiny. Hysteria is "The post-mobilization option is by far survive. . · . not effective. And least J'listifiable of all is Bush's comments were a dramatic exam the most cost effective, and least intrusive, easy talk about "survivability" ·in a nuclear and is the optiop chosen by Selective Serv ple of a· phenomenon that has developed in war. this country in the weeks since the SoViet ice." occupation of Afghanistan. As part of a gen John White, White House . manpower etal surge of hawkishness, of strident talk [From the Washington Post, Feb. 23, 19801 · chief,. confirmed last night that Selective about war, there· is a new tendency to talk. SELECTIVE SERVICE TOLD CARTER Service•s Jan. 16draft report came to him as . in a matter-of-fact way about the use of nu he was p~eparing for -Carter an interagency clear weapons. report on registration. But the text of the It is . apparently necessary to remind President Carter's plan for registering report was not sent in that form to. the people what nuclear war would mean, not in 'oung men and women for the· draft was president, White said. · the abstractions of politics but in human re .ermed "redundant and unnecessary" by "The problem" with the Selective Serv ality. Exactly that was done a few days ago ~he Selective Service before he adopted it ice's recommendation, White said, wa.s that in Cambridge, Mass., at an extraprdjnary according to an internal report obtained it assumed that "the system is up and run two-day symposium on the medical conse y'esterday. ning and all -working well." quencies of nuclear weapons. The sympo In his · 29-page study sent to . the ·White .. · ,, sium was organized by Physicians for Social House, Selective Service Director Bernard' The world. has chan~ed, he contin~ed. Responsibility and spon.5ored by the Har D Rostker said his agency could carry out ' White said. that by calllng for registration, - vard and Tufts medical schools. There was a the war plans without resorting to register- the president "is indicating to the world our large, heavily scientific audience. Ing. people in advance of a national emer- .resolve." . . Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the Harvard gency. Also, White said, "Carter . wanted to be School of Public Health, spoke in measured Carter ignored th.is advice. His call for reg- sure the [Selective ·service] system would medical terms about the effects of a single istering this year all men and women born respond. The key element is registration." nuclear weapon on the Boston area. He in 1960 and 1961, has touched off a national A spokesman, for Rostker said last night drew on a .respected study published in 1962 controversy. by the New England Journal of Medicine. It that the study included the caveat that Critics of. Carter's registration decision are changed world conditions might require ex assumed· a bomb equivalent to 20 million demanding that the administration release tons of TNT-a thousand times as powerful the report, .which was obtained by The ercising some option other than post-emer- as the Hiroshima atom bomb but by no Washington Post. The American Civil Liber gency registration. · · means. the largest now in the armories. ties Union and Rep. Patricia Schroeder· have gone so far as to file papers State of the Union address on Jari. 23, de thing within four miles. The bomb crater under the Freedom of Information Act to claring that "we must be prepared for Cthel itself would be half a mile in diameter and get the document. · · possibility" of returning to the draft. several hundred feet deep. Beyond the four- _mile ·radius of total destruction a pressure The ·study, dated Jan. 16 and stamped · In subsequent elaborations, Carter said he • wave, followed by winds over 1,000 miles an "draft" copy on its cover, makes these intends to register women, as well as men. It hour, would build an enormous fire storm. points, which are sure to fuel the national· will take congressional legislation to register Forty miles away, people looking in the di debate over registration: · women, but Carter can order the registra rection of the explosion would be blinded by Registering people after a national emer tion of men by issuing an executive order. retinal burns. gency is called, rather than ahead of time as Of the 3 million people living in the Carter has decided upon,· "iS preferable" Congress seems certain to reject legisla and "should substantially exceed defense re Bost~:m metropolitan area, 2.2 million .would .tion to draft women, leaving it up to Carter be killed at once by the blast or fire storm. quirements, employs the fewest number of to order the regi$tration of men in an elec Of the survivors, Dr. Hiatt said, many "are full-time personnel and costs the least." tion year. .Selective Service has not set a While costs and staffing should not be the badly burned, blinded and otheri.rise seri7 date for begflming registration, saying only ously wounded. Many are disoriented. These determining 'factor, the reduced delivery that it would start in the spring. are the short-term effects; the problem of time provided by other options is redundant and unnecessary. The next formal congressional examina radiation sickness will grow." tion of the issue is scheduled for Tuesday, Most of Boston's gteat hospitals would •iThe post-mobilization option" [register have been destroyed. Of the 6,560 doctors in ing people after· a nat.ional emergency is when ·a House Appropriations subcommittee the area; almost 5,000 would be dead and called], su~ject to field testing later this will conduct a hearing on the president's re only 900 in physical condition to work. If year and the international situation at any quest for money to gear up Selective Service doctors spent an average of 15 minutes with time; is recommended as the basis for an ef for registration. each injured person and worked 16 hours a fective standby Selective Service.'~ · The administration is requesting an extra day, it would take about three weeks for Requiring people to register at their local $21.9 million for fiscal 1980 and $35.5 mil ·each casualty to be seen once. post offices before an emergency occurs- lion for fiscal 1981.e 3694 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 ED BE~D SALUTES OLYMPIANS mental belief that our individual role is ·val exemplified. success as a small nation uable to preserve the freedoms we enjoy as exulting freedom and justice. citizens. However, it was only for a ·short HON. EDWARD P. BEARD If I feel a sense of mission to my country I period that the Estonians were able to OF RHODE ISLAND will · contribute to her present and her exercise their rights to self-determina IN .THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES future. It is not enough to have an idea, it must be interpreted-it must be acted upon. tion. The Soviet Union entered the re . Monday, Feb~ary 25, 1980 · For if flag flying and patriotic music, al public again in 1940. Since then, the •Mr. BEARD of Rhode Island. Mr. though good, distract us from action on Estonians have suffered the loss of Speaker, I am proud of ·the magnifi ·meaningful issues we are not meeting our their freedom. Their right to self-de cent contributions of' our Olympic ath responsibilities as citizens and there may be termination has been annihilated. no future. Mr. Speaker, I wish to focus atten letes to their Nation. Their exemplary My sense of mission must involve action conduct, team spirit, and remarkable positive, intelligent action-f.rom being law tion on the human and national rights skills were of inspiration to a world au abiding to being vocal ·and. if possible or ap in Russian-occupied Estonia. This past dience. propriate, actively involved in the govern Sunday, Estonians . throughout the Grit, stamina, and strength were the ing. world have reaffirmed their determi imprimatur for the U.S. competitors. An active role is what brings about change nation to fight for the restoration of The unprecedented five gold medals of and if I l)nd -others with the same beliefs independence for their homeland and Eric Heiden and the 'excellence of our don't tak"e part-if I am disinterested and to insure peace and justic~ within lazy-then those enemies of my beliefs will their nation. hockey team sparkle at the very pin take a<;ti~. I~ I ever let my will to continue nacle pf' a litany of splendid sports · building a great America go dormant, the 1'qe United States has never recog achievements. - freedoms----r<>uglit for IDtile -past WIIrffave nized the forcible annexation of Esto I salute our participants and thank been in vain. nia or the other Baltic States of Latvia them for their indelible imprint on our For as earlier Americans built and pre and Lithuania by .the Soviet Union. memory. The realization of their served this country for me, -it is necessary Let the United States reiterate its re dream reserves for them . a unique that I now endeavor .to help maintain a free, spect and concern for the Estonian place in history which will be forever · strong and iildependent country for my chil- people and offer once again our moral dren and future generations. ' support.• cherished as one of the greatest I have as much responsibility to be in American Olympic achievements. For formed, to obey laws, to question what is the joy they. brought us I congratulate happening in Congress or city hall, a.'ld to CONGRATULATIONS .TO GARY; them.e vote when the time comes, as the President STUART BELKIN, NEW YORK of the ·united States or any other elected STATE WINNER- IN 'VETERANS politician-because I am · no less a citizen VOICE OF DEMOCRACY and no less affected by what happens to my OF FOREIGN WARS "VOICE OF country. · DEMOCRACY CONTEST" . · HON. RON MARLENEE . I see my role, then in America's future as already happening and it is this: HON. NORMAN F. LENT OF MONTANA To get an education and stay informed on IN THE HOJ]SE OF REPRESENTATIVES all meaningful issues. OF NEW YORK l'N THE.HOUSE OF REPRESENTA~IVES Monday, February 25, 1980 To obey the law but be willing to work for change in laws that are not good. Monday, February 25, 1980 •Mr. MARLtNEE. Mr. Speaker, .the To vote intelligently when the time comes. Veterans of Foreign Wars of the To ·express my QPinions when I feel there • Mr. LENT. Mr:. Speaker, it is with United States ·anriually holds a Voice is a need for this. · great pride that. I rise to info'rm my of Democracy contest throughout our To act on beliefs and ideas that I think colleagues that the winner of the New country. Each State winner is brough,t are for our country's good: York St~te "Voice of Democracy" to the Nation's Capital to· present To be proud of what we have accom- . scholarship contest, sponsored by the their award winning essay and to com plished for ourselves and the rest of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is a young pete for five national scholarships. world. man from my Fourth Congressional This year the contest theme was To work for change where needed. District, Gary Stuart Belkin, son of To be outraged at injustice that endangers Dr. and Mrs. Myron Belkin of Merrick, "My Rol'e in Amerfoa's Future." I am the dignity, equality and safety of all men. pleased to be able to share with my To sacrifice when sacrifice is called for, ~.Y. ~olleagues the very fine winning essay knowing that the good of the nation is more I congratulate ·Gary on this out from Montana written by Lori T 0 !\n important than individual wants. standing _achievement, which ls only Hoffman of Glendive: To enjoy this country . . . her culture, her the _latest accomplishment in a MY ROLE IN AMERICA'S FuTuRE beauty, her music and entertainment, and number of honors won by this talent even her hamburgers, and finally. ed young man. He is an Eagle Scout, To keep aild spread a steadfast faith, hope and was named Outstanding Medical I am an American ... therefore I have a and trust in the good of America. Explorer · Scout in Nassau County by responsibility in preserving and developing This is my role-for I am an American.e the land, the freedoms .and the heritage the American Medical Association. that comes with being a citizen. Gary is the editor-in-chief of his One of the chief responsibilities I feel is to ESTONIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY school yearbook at the J. F. Kennedy live and speak this love of. country. Perhaps High School in Bellmore, N. Y. He is a it sounds like a trite ·concern, but more and member of the National Honor Soci more, there seems to me to be creeping HON. EDWARD J. PATTEN ety, and vice president of the school's across the land, a feeling of being "2nd OF NEW JERSEY debate team, where he has been best", "2nd class'', or "being a helpless, wasteful giant". I see in my _role as an IN: THE HOUSE OF REPRp;5ENTATIVES named an outstanding debater. Gary American-now and in the future-a 'duty to Monday, February 25., 1980 has -won the DAR Good Citizenship speak up, and to put it bluntly, brag about Award, the Long Island Science Con- America and her good, generous and strong e· Mr. J>ATTEN. M.r. Speaker, Sunday, gress Award for Meritorious Work on .character. This is not to deny there are February 24, 1980, marked the 62d an- Independent Research, and a National weaknesses, for a country is her people and niversary of the proclamation of the Science Foundation grant for ·a re therefore subject to human faults. But I independence of the Republic of Esto- search project. feel my first role is to build up and maintain nia. After a victorious. war ·for inde- Gary's Voice of Democracy entry, a tranquil and steady dedication to Amer pendence, which was initiated. by the "My Role in America's Future," dem ica-to put country ahead of self and to maintain thi.S dedication for a lifetime. aggression .of the Soviet Union, Esto- ·onstrates a remarkable depth · of I believe, to a degree, the times tnake the nia proclaimed herself an independent thought and appreciation of American man-but I further believe the man makes republic on Pebruary 24, 1918. Finally, - principles and their promise for the the ttines. Pathetic, tragic examples of this ·after years of German rule and, Rus- future, and deserves the highest com age going on in different parts of the world sian aggression, ·a democratic system mendation. Gary Belkin's vision and at present. It is essential to have a funda- of government was established. They _his commitment to carry forward the ~ebruaru 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3695

principles of democracy, justice, and - ESTONIAN DAY_QF 1 ELECTRIFYING THE UPPER freedom·· give us great assurance for INDEPENDENCE HARLEM. DIVISION the future of our country. Mr. Speaker, I ask that the full text HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER of Gary Belkin's speech. "My Role in HON . .WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD OFNEW,YORK America's Future:· be entered in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECORD at this point· SO that my col~ OF MICHIGAN leagues may have the. benefit of this Monday, Feb,ruary 25, 1980 young man's thought-provoking re Di THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. OTTINGER. ' Mr. Speaker, I marks: have addressed this body many times :r.;ronday.. February 25, 1980 concerning the need to adequately fund commuter rail improvements, MY ROLE IN AMEl\ICA'S FUTURE e Mr. BRODHEAD. -Mr. Speaker, Feb using as an example the incredibly ruary. 24, 1980, marked the 62d. anni poor condition of one dilapidated · What is my role in America's future? The versar¥ of the Estonian Declaration of diesel line in Westchester County, answer iS simple. My role is no different Indep~ndence. After a~hieving inde · N.~.-the· upper- portions of the from the role of generations of Americans pendence in 1918~ Estonia enjoyed na Harlem line owned by the Metropoli before me. My role is no different from tional sovereignty ~and self-determina tan Transportation Authority and ru:n. those who have sacrificed their lives for our by ConRail. Despite truly unsafe and nation. My role is to preserve a way of life tion for 21 years, o:QlY to hav:e it bru tally sweot away in 1939 when the · \inhealthy conditions. 6,000 West- - that is envied all. over the world; It is to chester commuters have continued' tQ · keep the world safe· for democracy. Soviet Union coerceci. the indepena use "this line daily, thereby reUeving I-am the product of o.ur cherished Ameri ence-loving Estonian Government the county's parkways of an estimated can ideals, of her saccesses and of her fail into signing a defense treaty. The Es 3,500 cars per day. ures. MY. country's goals are mine. I share tonian leaders signed the treaty in her aspirations jl.nd I share her· dreams. I Earlier this . month. aQ agreement fear ·of a Soviet invasion. Their fears was reached between local, State, and am a link to those who have molded her his were well justified. Within a year of tory. Yes~ I am America and iny future is Federal officials to perform the long ·the signing of the trea_ty. the Soviet overdue and necessary electrification · hers. · Union t.vrannizecf the-:Baitic states: ·:Es- . Just as I am a reflection of her history of the Upper Harlem commuter line. and ideals, so will I reflect the greater glory tonia, 'Lithuania, and Latvia. Th~ inva The impetus behind the drive for·elec that is to come, the history that is yet to be sion ·Was part of a Stalin-Hitler plot to trification has been the Upper Harlem written. Just as I am the patriot, starving divide Eastern Europe. As Germany· Line ·Commuter Council under the a.Ild shivering through the· cold winter at lost the war, its occupied territories able leadership of_Mr. Frank Gorhain, . Valley Forge, so will I be the keeper of the were ·liberated. The Soviet Union's the former chairman. · peace in the years ahead. ·Just as I am the were not. Thus Estonia, . Lithuania, Mr. Gorp.am wrote the following ar farmer in Kansas feeding our Nation and and Latvia have all suffered the tor ticle on electrifying the Upper 'Harlem the businessman in New York helping to: ment of totalitarian rule. division which appeared in the Novem build the economy, so will I be the scientists ber issue of Westchester Illustrated. It and technicians creating new sources of Despite the Soviet oppression. the is the first in ·a series of accounts on energy to keep the torch of democracy Baltic people Continue a valiant strug.. the issue. Mr. Gorham's observations burning. Just as I carry the heritage of gle agaihst 'their tormentors. Their George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, of the problems . which plague the most recent effort wa.S an appeal on commuter rail system in Westchester and Thom:as Jefferson, so will I be among the 40th anniversary of the Stalin the legislators and statesmen working to County are also appli,cable to many keel> this country strong. Just as I have· Hitler· pact addressed to the Secretary rail mass transit systems throughout fought on the battlefields with men who General of the United Nations. The the country. I commend Mr. Gorham's gave their life for this country ~ times of appeal was signed by· 45 representa article to the attention of my col- war, so shall I share the laurels which will tives of the·three Baltic nations. They _leagues: come to those who bring peace. fear, however, that the appeal has COMMUTING-ELEC'!RIFYING THE UPPEP I will go to wherever liberty ls threatened, fallen on deaf ears. HARLEM DIVISION wherever people.cry out for· democracy. Just One of the Estonian peoples' great The commuter rail system of Westchester as I traveled in the hold of· an overloaded County affects all of us. Shortage of trains; ship bringing· immigrants from Europe, so est dilemmas today is whether or not standing room only, and lack of air condi will I be with the new immigrants-Those to welcome the Olympics. The. yacht tioning are only some of the problems that escaping the bonds of tyranny and· poverty. ing_regatta of the.Olympic games is to have plagued the electrified ·· Harlem, I will be with them all. The· rich, poor, take place In Tallinn, the capital of Hudson, and New Haven lines. since this. young, and old. I shall be with the farmer in Soviet-occupied Estonia. On the one summer, the results of additional riders and Iowa, the steelworker in Pittsburgh; the ex hand, the Estonians ·welcome the in deferred maintenance. Less apparent to the ecutive in New York and the rancher · in majority of commuters are tlie grave trou Texas. For they are the true spirit of Amer- ternational athletic competitfon. How bles of the non-electrified upper . lines, ica, and this spirit is mine. - ever, -they Jear that this event on their whose diesel-electric- engines and trailer In the past. freedom has been threatened · soil would legitimize Soviet occupa coaches .are desperately ill. ·The -Upper both ·here and abroad. both in peacetime tion.· Our Estonian friends yearn for Harlem. Upper Hudson, and some New and wartime. As I carry the heritage of the the day when Olympic games will be Haven service"must pool equipment, and en~ minutemen, the doughboys and the G.I.s. as route breakdowns in electrified territory played on free Estonian soil. But for often delay the modem equipment on the I carry the heritage of the statesmen, diplo now. they stand opposed, for they same tracks: The damaged engines and mats, and ambassadors. I will be present could not justifY'-8.PY symbol of Soviet "lower top speeds of the diesels cannot com when our 'country faces problems in the legitimacy in their great nation. pete with the performance capabilities of future. For as much as I am America's past the newer, modem trains. · and her present. I am. above ·an, America's On the occasion of the 62d anniver . · The on-going energy crisis has brought future. I am a future that Will d1'fend the sary of the Estonian Declaration of In many driving commuters back to the trains. oppressed and rise up against the. oppres dependence, I join with my Estonian On the upper lines they have found crowd .sor.s. la.in a future that will break the bonds friendS in issuing. my' stongest protest ed conditions in the ancient and often filthy of .poverty and ease the pain of misfortune. to the Soviet Government for its op coaches, and delays of more than an hour ram a strong and confident future, bringing are common. -They have also suffered un with me the ideals and values of the past. pression ~ and denial of human rights, couplings enroute, engines on fire, unlight values we must all' carry with· us as this l.nd my sincer_est hope that one day ed cai:s, filthy or inoperative toilets. leaking country faces the future." For we are.Amer the great· nation of Estonia will once windows and roofs, broken doors and tom ica. And we are America's future.. . again be free.• or broken seats. 3696 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 Some commuters have returned to thetr Train No. 942, Due OCT 9:10 , 9 REQUEST TO CHRISTIANS cars, driving to the·. electrified lines to ride times, 3 hrs. total. - AROUND THE WORLD in modem equijjtt)eil,t', ·f QlJowing Qt-tier 1-egu-· · Train No. 963, Lv OCT 5:17 New York City. Obviously, most amples of this type of progression can bette Wampold of Montgomery, Ala., would opt for the adjacent or lower rail be seen in the Westmoreland County who is active in the fight to, free the lines, thereby compietely clogging parking Boroughs Association, now celebrating religious persecuted from the Soviet lots and Jamming the electrified lines with its 30th anniversary. An organization additional standees. Union, received a letter from Lidia Management and money are two sources that got its beginning when a group of V.ashchenko. one of the seven. She of the illness. MTA allocates its money on a Westmoreland County representatives wrote about the plight of Andrei Sa- crisis basis to those wheels which squeak banded together at a meeting of the\ , kharov, the Russian human rights the loudest. The relatively small number of State Association of Boroughs, has 'leader·who has been sent into internal Upper Harlem commuters have historically steadily progressed and has estab exiie to eliminate him from the been unable to get their fair share of the re· lished its effectiveness in aiding its human rights struggle. Mrs. Vash sources, and without electrification they chenko also pleads for us not to forget cannot utilize the more modem equipment memb_ers. At the Borough Associ purchased for the lower riders who out ation's inception in 1948, 15 boroughs tl~ose ~ho _ are existing under religiou~ number them ten to one. With the highly were repr~sented. Today. its member and political persecution, s·tich as Sa specialized FL-9 diesels and new trailer ship includes 37 boroughs and the pos kharov. Her letter, addressed: Request coaches no longer available from any U.S. sibility for growt_h is ~pparent. to Christians Around the World, fol manufacturer, commukrs now face a con lows: By working in conjunction with the tinuing cycle of rebuilt engines and refur REQUEST TO CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD bished former electric coaches. Pennsylvania State Association of Bor Governor Carey has made a firm commit· You shall not follow a multitude to do oughs, the Westmoreland Association evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, ment to use 1979 "Energy Conservation has accomplished countless achieve Through Improved Transportation Bond turning aside after multitude, so as to pre· Act" funds to electrify the Upper Harlem ments to better local communities. vent Justice.-Exodus 23-2. line, but only if the Act is passed in the No Those achievements include the cre With these words from the Bible I would vember referendum, and requested federal ation and adoption of borough legisla like to characterize A. D. Sakharov. funds are not forthcoming by the end of tion, increased efficiency of the local He does not forsake· the truth, although tJ:iere are so few who maintain it in my this year. But, it is up to all of the residents gov~nments, procurement of Federal country and the oppr~ssion is difficult for of Westchester County to insist that the and State assistance to maintain and commitment be fulfilled. Real benefits will them to bear. - flow to the entire county, and particularly construct projects, and generation of He does not know of God as we Christians to the other lines' commuters when the revenues to support and expand essen know Him, but he has been trying. to gain Upper Harlem is improved. Without broad tial services. protection for Christians in the USSR be support from the county's residents, a per cause God is able to work his will even petuation of the present disgraceful decay However, most importantly, we must through those who do not recognize Him. will result in the death of the service. We remember that none of these efforts His influence has been a means of protec have the ability to prevent that. would have been possible without the tion for Christians from the tyranny of the sincere dedication of the Westmore KGB. He has been a fighter for the rights land Association's membership. These of the suffering people of this country and he does not deserve. any punishment by the THE FIVE WORST TRAINS OF THE UPPER fine people have given their. time, Soviets government. HARLEM LINE talent, knowledge, and leadership We saw him twice when we were in the re abilities to heed the organization's suc ception room of the Consulate Section. The During recent months, there have been cess and progress. · first time he came up to us and found out what was happening and why we were here? numerous incidents of late, terminated and It is the outstanding efforts of these cancelle~'nbound trains. Following is a list . are not included. We told him about our situation but he Train No. 983, Lv OCT 6:27 (pm), 3 times, ors. May they always work for the bet was not able to advise us because he could 4 V2 hrs. total. terment of our local governments and not forsee a pessible solution to our prob Train No. 944, Due COT 9:31 "We simply had to do something," a Fed we ourselves have no control over that. officfal said half-apologetically, half-help Quietly-although officials won't admit lessly. We asked him to intercede on our behalf anything publicly-the Carter administra before the Soviets and he promised to write tion is reexamining its anti-inflation posture But even in the policy vacuum created by a letter to Brezhnev. Also he warned us that to see where it might be made more credible Carter, the Fed has options other than an he would not receive an answer for this within the next 30 to 60 days or so. In part, ever-higher interest rate that will plunge letter from Brezhnev because he never re this is a response to presidential candidate the nation into deep recession. ceived answers for any of his -other letters. Ted Kennedy's blistering attack on Carter's For example. despite Chairman Paul His next visit to the Embassy we found out that But it is afso a response to the reality of a a wide range of people running from Ro he wrote the letter and that he did not re deteriorating situation in which inflation is hatyn to Democratic presidential candidate ceive any response. getting worse, instead of· subsiding as carter Jerry Brown of California. Even at present Now I feel that l.t is our obligation to had promised. high interest rates, there is nothing to dis come forward and speak out for the protec A high official who would not risk being courage borrowing for speculation and less tion of such a fine person who had so many quoted by name admits: "We obviously can't productive investments that· help feed the times protected others. go on this way much longer. The Cadmlnis inflationary cycle. When Christ's help was needed by the trationl policy Just isn't"adequate." So far, the Carter administration's public centurion who did not believe in God the In his Economic Report and Budget Mes posture has been to try to muddle through, people went to his defense and said to sages Just three weeks ago, the president promising that things will get bettei:. But Christ, "He is worthy to have you do this had predicted a decline in the consumer in there· is no objective reason to believe that for him, for he loves our nation." Luke 7, 4- flation rate from 13.3 percent in 1979 to 10.6 story any more. In an economy out of con 5. Therefore we are turning to all the Chris trol, as this one is, there is a greater risk in tians around the World-he is worthy that percent his year. But the producer price index increased at an annual rate also for the protection of many of the other of 2~.7 percent in January, foreshadowing suffering Christians such as Dmitrii Dudko further pressure on consumer prices. INFLATION CZAR NEEDS CLOUT • There is little wonder, therefore, that the (By PAUL SIMON) and the many many others. idea of wage and price controls, as part of a They wait for your help! Listen to them at comprehensive program, is gaining new re The news that the Producer Price Index last! You who have remained silent so long spectability ·from private persons with au Jumped more in January than in any month and please, help thQSe who already been since 1975 is' not good. It means more and thentic "establishment"' credentials. This higher inflation. hearing and helping. would not be the case If the administration With the disappearance of such people could point to a meaningful anti-inflation I have no sense that we are doing any the world has 195t very good and honest policy of its own. thing much about it. Many believe that in people from its ranks and it becomes harder The "policy" has been to let things drlft flation is like the weather, there is nothing and harder to live when Justice and good relying on the Fed's tight-money measures you can do about it. In faet, inflation is 99% people are flouted and because of acts of created by human beings and can be cor- violence they are no longer present on this to produce a mild recession that would slow rected by human beings. · planet. - · down the pace of inflation. That, coupled with a prayer that OPEC wlll not raise I have periodically outlined steps which And those who are acquainted with th6 prices as· precipitously this year as in 1979, can be taken to fight inflation. friendly embraces of the KGB, know that is all that the Carter's administration has I could once again outline steps 'the Presi they watch the reaction however big or had to offer. dent-who must lead in this battle, but so small and then they wait for the convenient Clearly, President Carter would not relish far has declined-must take to· conquer in moment to smother. the need to confess, in the middle of a polit flation. I don't sense those steps, which are Therefore be courageous, look truth in ical campaign-and with the ink on the not any secret, have much appeal, particu the eyes, and understand the menacing re paper hardly dry-that his January analysis larly in an election year. ality of the situation. of the economy needs to be Junked. But a But one thing he could do that he should May God help you! policy reversal can conveniently be blamed see the necessity of doing, and which the LIDIA VASHCHENKO, either on the need for inore defense spend American people could understand: give Embassy of the United States. ing to counter the Russians, or on the next some power to. Dr. Alfred Kahn. the so January 27, 1980.e OPEC price increase, when It comes. called "inflation czar." There are really only two· options open to Dr. Kahn is an able economist who knows Carter, according to Insiders. The first, what needs to be done. He Is given the title HOBART ROWEN AGAIN WARNS more bold and less likely because Kennedy of inflation czar, but no muscle. For exam OF ECONOMIC DRIFT DANGERS has embraced controls, would be to ·adopt ple, he issues statements about the errors of the rationale offered him by economist the Bureau of Labor Statistics and why that Barry Bosworth, Brookings President Bruce agency's actions spur inflation, but as far as HON. PAUL C. SIMON MacLaury, New York banker Felix·Rohatyn I can see no one in that branch of govern OF ILLINOIS and others: massive inflation has been ment-also under presidential control-pays IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES caused by a series of "shocks." anq its mo any attention. mentum can be broken only by a new shock. He is an articulate showpiece · who looks Monday, February 25, 1980 But a political consensus for cont~ols is not great. holding the anti-inflation flag, but his yet-established-merely gaining strength. base of support is limited and regularly e Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, the col eroded. umnist who has again and agajn point The second approach would be to try to make the existing "voluntary guidelines" What Dr. Kahn says is heard by the Presi ed out the ineffectiveness of the pres stronger. One possibility under discussion is dent, but so are the voices of William Miller, ent administration's economic policies to require "pre-notification" of proposed Secretary· of the Treasury, and Charles is Hobart Rowen .of the Washington wage and price increases. Whether this Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Eco Post. would do much to restore any faith in a nomic Advisors, and others. The evening before his column ap guidelines system that now will permit an And the President, who appears ill at ease peared I wrote my weekly column for April steel-industry wage settlement run entering di~cusslons on economic issues, lis the newspapers in my district and said ning over 11.5 percent is doubtful.· curately-does not know whose advice to column 'Of February 21 said, only my · There is also talk in Carter's Economic follow •. what to do, so he tries to find some Policy Group, led by Treasury Secretary G. middle ground in all of the advice, and the~ writing said it less eloquently. William Miller.. of trying to make fiscal acts with hesitancy and without confidence. The time for drift is past. The time policy tougher. A principal and legitimate The President's actions are not likely to for action is now. complaint about the Carter budget is that it change unless he really recognizes the hor I am taking the liberty of inserting is much looser than was portrayed by the rors of this inflation and the damage it will the Hobart Rowen column and ·my administration last month. do to the country-and then puts someone column in the RECORD for my col Without· any real tightness on the fiscal in charge to do something about it. As far as side, all oi the burden, of course, has. fallen I am concerned, Dr. Kahn would be an ex leagues, in case any missed reading his on the Federal Reserve, which last Friday cellent choice. But if he does not have confi column, and in the remote event that raised the discount rate to 13 percent, a new dence in him, name someone else. any of my colleagues might be inter record. That was done with no real convic I am not supporting President Carter for ested in my· comments on the same tion that the higher interest rates thus gen the Democratic nomination, in part because subject: erated throughout the economy will do any- of the drift I sense on this issue. 3698 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 But he is likely to be the nominee of my people who are joined by marriage, tiy 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a. party as things stand now, and unless h~ · adoption, or by blood relation. A home system for a computerized schedule of tackles inflation, he will be a weak candi- consisting of parents and their born or all meetings and hearings of Senate date. · adopted children would be the same as committees, subcommittees, joint com But far more important than that, unless a homosexual . couple or a commune, mittees, and committees of conference. he gets hold of this-and Congress and the from a legal standpoint, if their radi people back him up-the nation will be This title requires all such committees ·weakened. cal ideas prevail.. to notify the Office of the Senate And so I wish him well in this fight. According to Carol Kleinman in the Daily Digest-designated by the ,Rules He must first recognize that he really can January 20 Chicago Tribune, every Committee-of the time, place. and do something about inflation. I am not sure one-whether nuclear, single parent, purpose of all meetings. when sched he understands that. · brother and sister, or homosexual uled, and any cancellations or changes Second, he must realize that so long as he couple-said the same thing: "We are in the meetings as they occur. does not provide leadership, the Federal Re- family." Under the · "Family . of serve Board has no choice but to provide As an interim procedure until the leadership in the·1mly way they can: tight Choice" approacl:t, we would stop con- computerization of this information money and higher inte.rest rates. cerning ourselves with marriage, becomes operational. the Office of the Third, because Jimmy carter is mortal having or adopting children, and kin Senate Daily Digest will prepare this and cannot be on top of everything , one of his areas of are family" would be family. I would GRESSIONAL RECORD on Monday and weakness is economics. Knowing that, he like to serve notice that I, for one, will Wednesday of each week. had better hand that problem to someone fight this diseased distortion of our Any changes in committee schedul he trusts and then really b.ack up that most sacred institution until we are rid person. f · ing will be indicated by placement of We wm all be better off if-and when~ o it. an asterisk to the left of the name of that happens.• Whatever the motives of the the unit conducting such meetings. "Family of Choi<;e" advocates, their Meetings s~heduled for Tuesday, definition would include Jim Jones' February 26, 1980, may be found in AMERICAN RED CROSS AWARD "family" and Charlie Manso:Q's the Daily Digest of today's RECORD. OF RECOGNITION "family." Both of these groups consti tuted a group.of people living together MEETINGS SCHEDULED HON. IKE SKELTON voluntarily. Manson's and· Jones' fol FEBRUARY27 OF MISSOURI·· lowers always said "we are family.'' 8:00 a.m. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES While I neither understand nor con Judiciary done their actions. I do not propose .to To hold hearings on the nomination o·f Monday, February 25, 1980 persecute or harass homosexuals who Charles B. Winberry, Jr., to be U.S. e Mr. - SKELTON. 'Mr. Speaker, on live together, but I believe that a soci district Judge for the Eastern District Sunday, March 2, 1980, .I will have the ety which gives a homosexual house of North Carolina. distinct honor of presenting the hold the same legal standing as a true, 2228 Dirksen Building American National Red Cross Award traditional family is committing sui 9:00 a:m. of Recognition to three young men in Appropriations cide. Interior Subcommittee my district. Doug Hawley, Greg The Government is already doing all To receive testimony from public wit Sprigg, and Kyle Naylor are being rec it can to destroy the family. We are nesses on programs administered by · ognized and honored by the American making it economically impossible for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Depart Red Cross for their extraordinary per a large number of our young people t1> ment of the Interior, and the Iridian sonal actions in saving the life of their have and raise families decently by Health Service, Department of HEW. football coach, Cecil Naylor. crushing taxation, by breaking up of 1224 Dirksen Building Through their quick actions these neighborhoods by busing, by anti 9:30 a.m. young men were able to move Coach family biases in textbooks, by Federal Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Naylor from the site of a tractor· acci To continue hearings on S. 2199, 2258, har~sment of independent religious 2264, 2277, and 2315, b111s to alleviate dent and get him to a hospital for schools, by encouraging abortion, by the economic impact of the ·Soviet treatment. Medical authorities indicat taxing married couples more than sin grain embargo on American farmers. ed that the quick action saved Coach gles living together outside of wedlock~ 324 Russell Building Naylor from jeopardy of a much more by borrowing all the money that Commerce, Science, and Transportation serious condition. should be building home~ to finance To -continue hearings on S. 2245, pro It is fitting and proper that these the Federal deficit, and by driving reli posed Motor Carrier Reform Act. young · men be recognized by tfie gion out of our. public life. Now the 235 Russell Building American Red C.ross with its highest "Family of Choice" advocates seem to· Commerce, Science, and Transportation award. I am proud to join that organi want to complete the destruction by Science, Technology, and Space Subcom zation in extending my congratula simply defining the nuclear family out . mittee tions to Doug Hawley, Gregg Sprigg, of existence. If President Carter's up To resume hearings on S. 2238, authoriz-· and Kyle Naylor.e coming White House con!erence re ing additional funds for fiscal year 1980, and S. 2240, authoriziI\g funds fuses to give official sanction to this for fiscal year 1981, both for research warped definition, it will only be be and development programs of the Na DEFINING THE AMERICAN cause of the efforts of grassroots pro tjonal Aeronautics and Space Adminis FAMILY OUT OF EXISTENCE family activists who so far have had to tration. fight Mr. Carter's · appointees every 6226 Dirksen Building step of the way. 10:00 a.m. HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK I do not pretend to know what moti Appropriations OF OHIO vates "Family of Choice" advocates. •Labor-HEW Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es IN THE HOUSE O~ REPRESENTATIVES Frankly, I don't care what ·motivates them. To destroy the family is to de timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De Monday, February 25, 1980 partment of Education. stroy America. ' We must fight this S-128, Capitol e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, mentality, and all the powers behind .there is a movement underway to de it, just as we fight any other disease, •Appropriations clare that any two or more people who State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, or .any .other enemy.• and Related Agencies Subcommittee choose to live together constitute a To hold hearings on proposed budget es "family.'' Under this so-called Family SENATE COMMITTEE; MEETINGS - timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In· of Choice fraud, any group of people ternational , Trade Commiision, and who live together would be as legiti Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, the Legal Services Corporation. mat~ . i~ ~~_e_ .eY'.es _of Government as agreed to by the Senate on February S-146, Capitol February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3699 Armed Services tered _by the Bureau of Indian AffatrS, · To continue hearings on S. 1934, pro To continue open and closed hearings on Department of the Interior, and the posed · Municipal Solid Waste to S. 2294, authorizing funds for fiscal Indian Health Service, Department of Energy Act. year 1981 for the Department of De HEW. 3110 Dirksen Building fense. 1224 Dirksen Building. Finance 212 Russell Building Veterans' Affairs Business meeting, to resume considera Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on S. 1188, to revise tion of the committee budget; and S. Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee the vocational rehabilitation programs 350, 351, 748, and '160, bills to encour To hold oversight hearings to examine administered by the Veterans' Admin· age and · facilitate the availability,. the scope of rental housing. istration. through private insurance carriers, of 5302 Dirksen Building 412 Russell Building basic health insurance · at reasonable 9:30 a.m. premium charges. · Budget Appropriations To continue hearings in preparation for 2221 Dirksen Building Agriculture, Rural Development and Re Foreign ·Relations reporting the first concurrent resolu lated ·Agencies Subcommittee tion on the fiscal year 1981 Congres To hold closed hearings on U.S. military To hold hearings on proposed budget es capabilities and requirements in sional budget. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De· 6202 Dirksen Building Southwest Asia. partment of Agriculture. 4221 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources 1114 Dirksen Building Judiciary Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom Environment and Public Works Criminal Justice Subcommittee mittee To review those items in the President's To hold hearings on S. 240, proposed To hold hearings on S. 1934, proposed budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall Federal Computer Systems.Protection -Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Act. within its legislative Jurisdiction and Act. 3110 Dirksen Building consider recommendations which it 6226 Dirksen Building Foreign Relations will make thereon to the Budget Com Labor and-Human Resources To hold hearings on Southwest Asia: mittee, receiving testimony from offi. Education. Arts, and the Humanities Sub The U.S.-Soviet Context. cials of the Nuclear Regulatory Com committee 4221 Dirksen Building mission. Business meeting, to continue considera Governmental Affairs 4200 Dirksen Building tion of S. 1839, authorizing· .funds Energy, NucJear Proliferation, and Feder Governmental Affair8 through fiscal year 1985 for programs al Services Subcommittee •Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder under the Higher Education Act. To continue hearings on proposed legis al Services Subcommittee 4232 Dirksen Building lation to -increase the authority of the To continue hearings on proposed legis Select on Indian Affatn, President and Congress in postal oper-' lation to increase the authority of the To hold hearings_on S. 2223, to· allow ations and to provide a sound financial . President and Congress in postal oper members of Indian tribes to transfer base for the future of the Postal Serv ations and to provide a sound financial restricted indian lands to heirs who ice. base for the future of tbe Postal Serv 3302 Dirksen Building are not member of the reservation ice. where the land ls located. Labor and Human Resources .· 457· R~ell Building Education, Arts, and the Humanities Sub· 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m~ committee · Appropriations Select on Indian Affairs Business .meeting, to consider S. 1839, HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit- Business meeting,' to resume considera authorizing funds through fiscal year tee . tion of H.R. 3979, to modify and ease 1985 for programs under the Higher To hold hearings on proposed budget es certain Federal laws restricting com Education Act. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the. mercial transactions between Indians 4232 Dirksen Building Veterans' Administration. and Federal employees; and to begin 1:00 p.m. 1318 Dirksen Building ·markup of S. 1998, to provide for cer Select on Intelligence Appropriations . tain public lands to be held in trust by Budget Authorizations Subcommittee Labor-HEW Subcommittee the U.S. for the TUle River Indian To hold a closed meeting to discuss pro To hold hearings on proposed budget es Tribe; S. 2055, tO establish a reserva posed budget estimates for the intelli· timates for fiscal year 1981 .for the tion for the Confederated Tribes of gence activities of the United States. Community Services Administration, Siletz Indians of Oregon; S. 1466 and S-407, Capitol and the Railroad Retirement Board. 2155, bills to provide for the 'payment 2:00 p.m. S-128, Capitol of Judgment funds to the Delaware Appropiations Appropriations Tribe of Indians. Energy and Water Development Subcom State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary .457 Russell Building mittee and Related Agencies Subcommittee 2:00 p.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es- · To hold hearings on proposed budget es Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Nu timates for fiscal . year 1981 for the Labor-HEW Subcommittee clear Regulatory Commission. Board for International Broadcasting, To hold hearings on proposed budget es S-126, Capitol and the Securities and Exchange Com- timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na Budget . mission. tional Commission on Libraries and To continue hearings in preparation for S-146, Capitol Information Services, Corporation for reporting the first concurrent resolu Armed Services Public Broadcasting, Occupational tion on the fiscai year 1981 Congres To continue open and closed hearings on Safety and Health Review Commis sional budget. s. 2294, authorizing funds for fiscal sion, Mine Safety Review Commission, 6202 Dirksen Building year 1981 for the Department of De· and the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. 2:30 p.m. fense. S-128, Capitol Foreign Relations 212 Russell Build~ng To hear and consider the nominations of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Appropriations Marvin Weisman, of Maryland, to be Insurance Subcommittee Legislative Branch Subcommittee Ambassador to Bolivia; Guy F. Erb, of To hold hearings on proposed authoriza To hold hearings on proposed budget es California, to be Deputy Director, U.S. tions for fiscal year 1981 for the flood timates for fiscal year 1981 for the International Development Coopera insurance program ·and the crime and Joint Economic Committee, Congres tion Agency; and David Bronheim, o,f riot-reinsurance program of the Feder sional Budget Office, Government Connecticut, to be Associate Director al Emergency Management Adminis- . Printing Office, Library of . Congress for Policy and Budget, U.S. Interna tration. · and Congressif:>nal Research Service. tional Development Cooperation 5302 Dirksen Building . S-146, Capitol Agency. Budget 2:00 p.m. S-116, Capitol To continue hearings in preparation for Budget reporting the first concurrent resolu To continue hearings iil preparation for FEBRUARY28 tion on the fiscal year 1981 Congres reporting the first concurr~nt resolq 9:00 a.m. sional budget. tion on the fiscal year 1981 Congres Appropriations 6202 Dirksen l3uilding sional budget. "interior Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources 6202 Dirksen Building To continue to receive testimony from Energy Conservation and Supply Subcom- Select on Intelligence public witnesses on programs adm4tI~~ mittee . To resume hearings on S. 2284 ~ proposed 3700 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 legislative charter governing the·intel within its legislative Jurisdiction and Protectiott Subcommittees llgence actlvltie8- Of the United States. cons'ider recommendations .which it To resume Joint markup of S. 1480, to · 5110 Dirk.sen Building will make thereon to th~ Budget Com provide for the · adequate and safe -2:30p.m. mittee, receiving testimony from offi .treatment of hazardous substances re Foreign Relations . ,. cials of the Army Corps of Engineers, leased into the environment. International Economic Polley Subcom the Water Resources Council and the 4200 'Dirksen Building mittee Office of Water Research and Tech Finance . . To hold hearings on international mone nology. Taxation and Debt Management General- tary issues including the International · 4200 Dirk.sen Building ly Subcommittee . Monetary Fund's quota increase. Foreign Relations To resume hearings on miscellaneous 4221 :pirk.se~ Building East Asian and Pacific Affairs·Subcommit tax legislation. · 3:00p.m. tee 2221 Dirk.sen Building Environment and Public Works To hold closed hearings on proposed Small Bqsiness To hold hearings on the Audit Report of future atms sales to Taiwan. To hold hearings on S. 22~4, to provide the Inspector General of the General S-116, Capitol for an increase in the amount of fund Services Administration on lease pro ing for th& solar energy and energy spectuses for certain public .buildings. MARCH3 conservation loan program. 4200 Dirk.sen Building e:30 a.m.- · · 424 Russell Building FEBRUARY29 Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.In. Handicapped Subcomnlittee Appropriations 9:30 a.m. . Foreign· Operations Subcom.mttte-e Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold oversight hearings on the tm . plementation of the Education·for . All To hold hearings on proposed budget ·es Science, Technology and Space Subcom timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain mittee Handic.apped Children Act . programs admlnlstered by the Depart · To resume hearings on S. 2238, authoriz ment of State~ ing additional funds for fiscal year 4200 Dirk.sen Building 10:00 a.m. 1318 Dirksen Building 1980, and S. 2240, authorizing funds Appropriations for fiscal year 1981, both for research Appropriations Labor-aEW Subcommittee Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit and development programs of the Na tee tional Aeronautics atid Space Admtnts To hold hearings on proposed bu(lget es . timates for' fiscal year 1981 for the To -hold hearings on proposed budget es tration. timates for. fiscal year 1981 for the 235 Russell Building Social Security Admlnlstration. S-128, Capitol Indian Health Service. Finance 1223 Dirk.sen 'Building Revenue Shar~g. Intergovemment Reve !\ppropriations Military Construction Subcommittee Appropriations nue Impact, and Economic Problems Labor-HEW Subcom.illittee Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es timates for fiscal year 1981 for mili To h,old hearings on proposed budget es To hold hearings on ·proposed general ~imates for fiscal year 1981 for public revenue sharing extension. tary construction of the DOD. 1318 Dirk.sen Building service Jobs, special youth programs. 1114 Dirk.sen Building · the Job Corps, and Jobs for the elder Finance Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ly. Taxation and Debt Management General To hold hearings on S. 2290 and S. 2291, 1223 Dirk.sen Building ly Subcommittee bills to extend and improve the regula- · ·Appropriations To hold hearings on miscellaneous tax tions implementing the Home Mort Legislati:ve Branch Subcommittee legislation. gage Disclosure Act, which was de To hold hearings on proposed budget es 2221 Dirk.sen:'.Building signed to provide tnformation to deter timates for fiscal year 1981 . for the mine whether depository institutions., Office of Technology Assessment, and Labor and Human Resources are fulfilling their obligation to serve the Copyright Royalty Tribunal. •Employment. Poverty, and Migratory housing needs of their communities. S-146, Capitol Labor Subcommittee 5302 Dirk.sen Building Appropriations , Business meeting, to consider proposed Labor and Human Resotl.rces Transportation Subcommittee legislation authorizing funds for fiscal Health ·and Scientific Research Subcom- To continue hearings on· proposed year 1981 for the Legal Services Cor mittee · budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 poration. .To resume hearings on S. 568~ to pro for the Department of Transportation. 4232 Dirk.sen Building mote the advancement of women in 1224 Dirk.sen Building scientific, professional, and technical 10:00 a.m. l!.in~cgy ana ~atural Resources . Appropriations cai:eers. Business meeting, to consider those mat HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit 2'228 Dirk.sen Building ters and programs which ·fall within tee 2:00 p.m. the committee's Jurisdiction with a To continue hearings on proposed Appropriations view to submitting .its views and budg budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Labor-HEW Subcommittee etary recommendations to the Com for the Veterans• A~tration, and ·To review those programs· admlnistered · mittee on the Budget by March 15; for the American· Battle Monuments by the Department of Labor. and other pending calendar business. Commission, and U.S. Army cemeter- · S-128, Capitol Appropriations 31UfDirksen Building. ial expenses. · · 11:30 a.m. i318 Dirksen Building Military Construction Subcommittee · To continue hearings on . proposed· Veterans' Affati-s Budget To hold hearings to receive legislative To continue hearings in preparation for budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 for military construction of the DOD. recommendations for fiscal year 1981 reporting the first concurrent resolu from Veterans of Foreign Wars. tion on the fiscal year 1981 Congres 1318 Dirk.sen Building Appropriations 318 Russell Building . sional budget. 2:00 p.m. 6202 Dirk.sen Building Transportation Subcommittee .To hold hearings on proposed budget es Appropriations Commerce, Science, and Transportation timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De Labor-HEW Subcommittee Surface Transportation Subcommittee partment of Transportation. To hold hearings on proposed budget es To hold hearings on S. 2156, proposed 1224 Dirk.sen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for general Northeast Corridor Completion Act. manpower training programs, private 457 Russell Building .MARCH4 sector initiatives. State employment Energy end Natural Resources 8:00 a.m. security agencies. To hold hearings on the recent repor.t Veterans' Affairs 1114 Dirk.sen Building entitled· "Energy -in Transition: 1985- To resume hearings on the Federal Gov Appropriations 2010" of the Committee on Nuclear ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam-era Military Construction Subcommittee and Alternative Energy Systems veterans in readjusting to society and To continue closed hearings on proPosed of the National Academy finding employment and education op budget estimates for ftscal year 1981 of Sciences. portunities. for military construction of.the-DOD. .. 3110 Dirk.sen Building 412 Russell Building S-146, Capitol. Environment and 'Public Works ~:30 a.m. Appropriations To review those items in the President's Environment and Public Works Transportation Subcommittee budget for fiscal year 1981 which fall Environmental Pollution and Resource To continue hearings on proposed February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3701 budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Employment Standards Admiriistra 1985 for the urban mass transporta for the Department of Transportation. tion. B~eau of Labor Statistics, and tion program. 1224 Dirksen Building Presideat's Committee on Employ. . 5302 Dirksen Building ment of Handicapped. Energy and Natural Resources MARCH5 1114 Dirksen Building· Busine8s meeting, to consider those mat 9:00 a.m. Judiciary ters and programs which fall within Labor and Human Resources Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights the committee's Jurisdiction with a Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Subcommittee · view to submitting its vtews and budg Labor Subcommittee To hold Joint hearings with the ·Select etary recommendations to·. the Com To holc;t hearings on S. 1129, 2021, and · Committee' on Small. Business on S. mittee on the Budget by March 15; . 221&, bills to provide career employ 2251. to prohibit restrictions on thf and other pending calendar business. ment opportunities for disadvantaged use of credit instruments in the pur 3110 Dirksen Building youth; and S. 1312, proposed -Work chase of gasohol. Room to be announced Select on Indian Affairs and Training Opportunities Act. To hold hearings on S. 1507, to provide 4232 Dirksen Building Small Business To hold Joint hearings with the Judici for the purchase of certain facilities; 9:30a.m. · ary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Mo lands, and water rights in and around Environment and Public Works nopoly, and Business Rights on the the San Luis Rey River, San Diego, Business meeting, to mark ui> S. 2181, substance of S. 2251, to prohibit re Calif., to be held in trust for, and oper autborizing funds through fiscal year strictions on the use of credit instru ated and maintained by certain boards 1982 to assist States in developing fiSh ments in the purchase of gasohol of Mission Indians. and wildlife conservation programs; S. Room to be announced 5110 Dirksen Building 1882, to provide for the contrQl of in terstate and foreign commerce in fish MARCH7 and wildlife, and to explore.the preser MARCH6 vation of wildlife on an international 8:.00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. level; and to consider those matters Agriculture. Nutrition, arid Forestry Appropriations · , . and . programs which fall within the To hold hearings on S. 2249,. to increas~ Labor-HEW Subcommittee committee's Jurisdiction with .a view to the minimum level of pri~e support on To hold hearings on proposed budget es submitting its views and budgetary quota peanuts for the 1980 and 1981 timates for .fiscal year 1981 for the De recommendations to the Committee crops. . · partment of Health and Human Serv on the Budget by March 15. 324 Russell .Building ices. · 4200 Dirksen ·Building 9:00 a.m. S-128, Capitol 10:00 .a.m. Labor and Human Resources 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Employment, Poverty, and Migratory •Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit:. Labor Subcommittee International Finance Subcommittee tee To continue hearings on S. 1312. pro To resume hearings on S. 864, 1499, To hold hearings on proposed budget es posed Work and~ Opportuni 1663, 1744, bills to facilitate the forma thDates for fiscal year. 1981 for the · ties ~ct. tion of U.S. export trading companies Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 4232 DirkSen Building to expand export participation by and Enforcement. 9:30 a.m. smaller U.S. companies. 1223 Dirk.sen Building Environm:ent .and Public Works 5302 Dirksen Building: Appropriations Bu8tness meeting, to continue considera Labor-HEW Subcommittee tion of those matters and progranis MARCHlO To hold hearings on proposed budget es which fall within the committee's Ju 9:30a.m, timates for fiscal year 1981 for the risdiction with a view to submitting its Labor and Human Resources Labor-Management Services Adminis views and budgetary recommendations Health and Scientific Research Subcom tration, Pension Benefit Guaranty to the Committee on the Budget by mittee Corporation, Occupational Safety and .March 15. To hold hearings on S. 2144, proposed Health Administration, and the· Mine 4200 Dirksen Building .Health Professions Educational Assist Safety and Health Administration. ·Veterans' Affairs ance and Nurse Training Act. · . 114 Dirksen Building Business meeting, to consider those 4232 Dirksen Building Appropriations items in the President's budget for 10:00 a.m. State, Justice, ; Commerce, the Judiciary fiscal year 1981 which fall within its Appropriations . and Related Agencies Subcommittee legislative Jurisdiction and to consider Military Construction Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budg~t es recomniendatlons which it Will make To resume hearings on proposed budget timates for fiscal year 1981 for the thereon to the Budget Committee by estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili U.S. Trade Representative, and the March 15. tary construction of the DOD. Federal Trade Commission; · 412 Russell Building 1224 Dirksen Building S-146, Capitol 10:00 a.m. ·. Appropriations Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Commerc.e, Science, and Trwportatlon Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Merchant Marine and Tourism Subcom F~reign Operations Subcommittee . mittee To hold hearings on. proposed bud&et es . To resume hearings on S. 1928, proposed timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain Fair, Financial Information Practices To hold hearings on S. 2248, authorizing Act, and S. 1929, proposed Privacy of funds for fiscal year 1981 for the U.S. international security· assistance pro Travel SerVtce. · · grams of the Department of State. Electronic Fund Transfer Act. 1114 Dirksen Building · 5302 Dirksen· Building. 23.5 Russell Building 2:00 p.m. Energy and Natural Resources. Appropriations · HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit- Appropriations Business meeting, to co:nSider those mat tee · Military Const11.1ction Subcom.mlttee ters and programs which fall within To resume hearihgs on proposed budget the committee's Jurisdiction with a To hold hearings on proposed budget es timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mill· view to submitting its views and budg tary construction of the DOD. etary recQmmendations.. to the Com tional Credit Union Administration mittee on the. Budget ·bY March· 15; 'and NeighborhoQd Reinvestment Cor 1224 Dirksen Bull~g and other pending calendar business. poration. Approprtat1ons 1 1318 Dirksen ·Building State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary ? • " ntrksen Building 1:00 p.m. Appropriations and Related Agencies Subcommittee Ap·propriatlons Interior and Related Agencies SubCommit 'to hold hearings on proposed budget es Military Construction Subcommittee tee timates for fiscal year 1981 for general To continue closed hearings on proposed To hold .,_earings on proposed budget es administration and legal activities of budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na the Department of Justice. for military construction of the DOD. tional Endowment for the HUJJlanitfes. S-146, Capitol 1224 Dirksen Building 1223 Dirksen Buildint 2:00p.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs MARCHll Appropriations •Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommit- J:30 a.m. Labor-HEW Subco.nunittee tee . Energy ILnd Natural Resources To hold hearings on proposed budget es~ To hold hearings on proposed legislation To resume closed heat"ings to assess the ~imates f o~ fiscal year 1981 for the autho!fzing funds through fiscal year· · political, military, economic, and social 3702 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 factors affecting world oil ·production To resume hearings on proposed budget Foreign OperAtlons.SubCommtttee and consumption over the next estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the To hold hearinp on proposed budget es decade. Department of Agriculture. t.hna.tes for flscal year 1981 for the In· S-407, Capitol '!318 Dirksen Building ternattonal Development Cooperation 10:00 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation ·Agency• . and · certain proerams of the App:oopriations Science, Technology, and Space-· Subcom Agency for International Develop. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit- mittee ment. tee . To hold hearings on proposed legislation 1114 Dirksen Building To hold hearings -0n proposed budget es authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Se for the National Bureau of Standard:;. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit lective Service System . 235 Russell Building , tee 1318 Dirksen Building Labor and Human Resources To hold hearings on proposed budget es- · Appropriations •Health and Scientific Research Subcom tfmates for fiscai year 1981 for the Interior and Related .Agencies' Subcommit- mittee . Office of .the Secretary, and the Office . tee · To resume hearings on S. 2144, proposed of the Solicitor. To hold :hearings on proposed budget es health Professions Educational Assist 1223 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for c·ertain ance and Nurse Training Act. Appropriations · programs administered by the Secre 4232 Dirksen Building tary of Energy. Transportation Subcommittee 10:00 a.in. To resume hearings on proposed budget 1114 Dirksen Building J\ppropriations Appropriations estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Interior and Related A1rP.ncies Subcommit Department of Transportation. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, tee . and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold·hearings on proposed budget es 1224 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es timates for fiscal year· 1981 for· .the 2:00 p.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Office of Indian Education, and the Appropriations Federal Bureau of Investigation, De-. Institute of· Museum Services. Transportation-Subcommittee partment of Justice. 1223 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed S-146, Capitol Appropriations . budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Appropriations State,. Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary for the Department of·Transportation. Transportation Subconimittee and Related Agencies Subcommittee · 1224 Dirt&en Building To resume hearings on proposed budget To hold hearing$ on propo8ed budget es estimates for fiscal year 1981 for thE. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the MARCH14 Department of Transportation.. · Drug Enforcement Administration, 1224 Dirksen Buildinir Department ·of Justice. 8:30a.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs S-146, Capitol Energy and Natural Resources To resume closed hearings to assess the Consumer Affairs Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · To continue hearings on S. 1928, pro political. military, eeon<>mic, and social Business meeting, to consider those mat factors affecting world oil production posed ~air, Financial Information ters ·and prograins which fall within Practices Act, and S. 1929, proposed and consumption over the next the · committee's jurisdiction with a decade. ' Privacy of Electronic Fund Transfers view to submitting its views and budg Act. etary recommendations to the ·Com 5-407. Capitol .5302 Dir~en Building mittee on the Budget by March 15. 9:00 a.m• . 5302 Dirksen Building •veterans' Affairs Governmental Affairs Governmental Affairs To hold hearinp on the recruitment Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder . Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Feder- · and retention of qualified health-care al Services Subcommittee al Services Subcommittee · professionals to staff the Veterans' To hold hearings on . S. 1699; propo~~d - To continue .hearings on S. 1699, pro Administration's health-care facilities: Energy Impact Ass~tance Act. posed Energy Impact Assistance Act. . . 412 Russell Building 3302 Dirksen Building · 3302 Dirk.Sen Building 10:00 a.in. 2:00p.m. · Labor and Human Resources. . Laber and Human Resources Appropriations Business Meetirig, to mark up S. 1076. to Education, Arts, and the Humanities Sub State, Justice; Commerce, the Judiciary committee improve the regulation of multiem and Related Agencies Subcommittee ployer penston insurance plans, and to Business meeting, to resume markup of To hold hearinp on proposed budget es- - S. 1839, · .authorizing funds through provide sufficient funds to pay bene timates for fiscal year 1981 for the fits. fiscal year 1985 for programs .under Federal Prison System, and Office of the Wgber Education Act. - 4232 Dirksen Building Justice. AsSistance, Research and- Sta 2:oo·p.m. tistics, Department of Justice. 4232 Dirksen Building Appropriations S-146, Capitol · State, Justice~ Commerce, the Judiciary, MARCH17 and Related Agencies Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on proposed budget es 9:00 a.m. Banking, Hou.Sing, and Urban Affairs timates for fiscal year.1981 for the Im Labor and Human Resources International Finance Subcommittee migration · and Naturalization Service, Child and Human Development Subcom- To hold hearings on ·s. 2097, proposed Department of Justice. mittee · Joint Export Marketing Assistance S-146, Capitol To hold hearings on proposed legislation Act, ~d on the substance of S. 2040, Appropriations to establish Commissions on National proposed Sµiall Business Export Ex Transportatio?l Subcommittee Youth Service and Volunteerism. • .pahsi~n Act and S. 2104, proposed To continue. hearings on proposed 4232 Dirksen Building Small J111sfness Export Development budget .estimates f~al year 1981 tor Labor and Human Resources Act. for the Department of Transportation. 5302. Dirksen Building · 1224 Dirksen Building Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor Subcommittee Commerce, Science,.. and Transportation To continue heartngs on S. 1129, 2021, To hold hearings on S. 2322, authorizing MARCH12 and 2218, bills to provide career .em funds for fiscal year 1981 for certain 9:00 a.m. ployment · opportunities for disadvan- . maritime progr.atils of the Department · Labor and Human Resources taged youth. · of Commerce. ~ployment, Poverty, and Migratory 6226 DirkSen Building . 235 Russell Bullding Labor Subcommittee 9:30a.m. ;elect on Indian Affairs . '9;o re~;ume ·hearings on S. 1129, 2021. Appropriations To hold hearings on S. 1181. proposed and 2218, bills. to provide career em Agriculture, Rural Development, and Re·· Tribal-State Compact Act; and on the ployment opportunities, for disadvan lated Agencies Subcommittee substance of Part C-Amendment Re taged youth. To continue he&rings on proposed lating to Indiana, Title 25, U.S.C., Sec. 5110 Dirksen Building budget estimates for fiScal year 1981 161, ·to authorize Indian tribes to petl 9:30 a.in. for the Department of Agriculture. tlon the U.S. to reassume Federal ju-. Appropriations · · 1318 Dirksen Building risdictlon of s. 1722, to codify, revise, Agricwture, Rural Development and Re· 10:00 a.m. and reform the criminal code. lated Agencies Subcommittee Appropriations 457 Russell Building February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3703 MARCB18 .SeleCt OD Indian Affaira· To resume hearings on the U.S. embargo 10:00 a.m. ·To continue hearings on s. 1181,' pro • of grain and technology exports to the Appropriations. ~ Tribal-State Compact· Act; and Soviet Union. Foreign Operations Subcoinmittee· on the substance of Part C-Amend 5302 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on propoied budget ~ ment Relatins to Indian&, Title 25, Energy and Natural Resources tlmates for fiscal year 1981 for certain u#s.c•• Sec. 161, to authorize Indian To hold oversight hearings on the activi· programs of the Agency for Interna tribes to petition the United States to ties of the Department of Energy. tional Development. reassume Federal Jurlsdlct1on, of s . 3110 Dirksen Building . UH Dirksen BulldlDg 1722, to codlfy. revise, and reform.the 2:00 p.m. Appropriations criminal code. · Appropriations 461. Russell BUndlng Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit State, Justice. Commerce~ the Judiciary, tee 2:30 p.m. and Related Agencies Subcommittee To hold .hearlng1i on proposed budget es Finance To hold hearings on proposed budget es· timates' for tlscal year 1981 for alter Health Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for. the native fuels program of the. Depart To continue heiµ'lngs on s. 1968, pro Bureau of Census, general admlntstra ment of Enera. posed Health Incentives Reform Act. tion, and economic and statistical . 1223 Dirksen Bulldfug 2221 Dirksen Building analysts, Department of Commerce. Banking. Housin& and Urban Affi.lrs S-146, Capitol International Fina.nee Subcommittee MARCB20 To continue hearings on S. 2097, pro 9:00 a.Di. MARCH25 posed Joint Export Marketing Assist Vetera.Ds• Attain 9:30 a.m. ance. Act, and on the substance of s. Business meeting. to consider s. 1188, to. Appropriations 2040, proposed Small Business ExP<>rt revise the vocational rehabilitation Agriculture, Rural Development and Re ExpanSion Act and S. 2104, proposed programs administered by the Veter lated Agencies Subcommittee Sm.all Business Export Development ans' Admintstration .To resume hearings on proposed budget Act. 412 Russell Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 5302 Dirkaeri BUlldlng 10:00 a.m. Department of Agriculture. Energy and Natural Resources Appropriations S-128, Capitol En~rgy Resources and MaterlalS Produc Foreign Operations Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es 10:00 a.m. · tion Subcommittee ApproprlatJons To hold oversight hearings on the .hn· t~ for f1scal year 198°1 for certain Foreign Operations Subcommittee plementation of the Outer Continen- programs of the Agency for Interna tional Development. and for the Peace T9 hold hearings on proposed budget es tal Shelf leasing program. · · . timates for fiscal year 1981 for certain · 3110 Dirksen Building Corps. 1114 Dirksen Building programs of the Agency for. Intern&· Select on Indian Affairs Appropriations tional Development; the international To continue hearings on s. 1181, pro BUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit narcotics conirol program of the De p<>sed Tribal-State Compact Act; and tee partment of State; and for the Inter on the substance of Part C-Amend· American F'Oundation. To h~ld hearings on proposed .budget es ment Relating to Indians, Title 25, timates for Oscal year 1981 for the En 13.18 Dirksen Building U.S.C., Sec. 161, to authorize Indian vironmental Protection Agency. Appropriations tribes to petition the UDtted States to . 1318 Dirksen BU:ildjng Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· reassume Federal .Jurisdiction, of s. Appropriations tee 1722, to codify, revise, and.reform the Interior and Related Ageneles Subcommit· To hold he~gs on proposed budget es criminal Code. tee timates .for fiscal year 1981 ·for certain .1318 D1rkseri Building To , continue , hearings on proposed programs of the Department of 2:00p.m. budget estimates for ftscal year 1981 Energy. Appropriations for the :Pureau of Indian Affairs 1223 Dirksen Building 'filltary Construction Subcommittee 1223 Dirksen.Building Appropriations To ·resume hearings on proposed budget State, Justice, Commerce,, the Judiciary, estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mill· Energy and Natural Resources · and Related Agencies Subcommittee tary constructioli of the DOD.· Energy ResoUrcell and Materials Produc To hold hearings on proposed budget es . 1224 Dirksen Building tion Subcommittee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 2:30p.m. To resume ovendaht hearings on the im Economic Development Admhiistra Finance plementation of the Outer Conttrien- tion, and Regional. Planning Commis Health Subcommittee tal Shelf leasing program. · sion, Department of Commerce. To hold hearings on S. 1968, propC>sed 3110 Dirksen Building S-146, Capitol Health Incentives Reform Act. 2:00p.m. Appropriations 2221 Dirksen Bull~ ·Appropriations MWtary·construction Subcommittee Transportation Subcommittee ·To resume hearings on proposed·budget To resume hearings on proposed budget MARCH19 estimates for f1scal year 1981 for mill· estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the 9:~0a.m. tary construction of the DOD. Department of Transportation. Appropriations · 1224 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building Agriculture, Rural Developmen~ and Re- Energy and Natural Resources Ba~ng, Housing, and Urban Affairs . lated Agencies Subcommittee · Energy Researbh and Development ·sub- Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget committee · To hold hearings on proposed legislation estimates for fisc&l year 1981 for the To hold hearings on proposed authorlza· authorizing funds for fiscal year 1981 Department of Agriculture. tions for ftscal year 19Rl for the De. for housing, community development 1318 Dirksen Building partment of Energy. progra?n$ and the:Urban Development 10:00 a.m. 3110 Dirksen Building Action Grant of the Department of Appropriations . Housing and.Urban Development. Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- 5302 Dirksen Building tee ·· MAR€H 21 Energy and Natural Resources To hold hearings on proposed budget es 10:00 a.m. Parks, Recreation and Renewable Re· timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Appropriations sources Subcommittee Bureau of Indian Affairs HUO-Independent Agencies Subeommit To hold hearings on S. 2233 to permit 1224 Dirksen Building tee the Forest Service to acquire lands Ba:nkin& Housing, and Urban Affairs To continue hearings on proposed outside the boundaries of the Los Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee budget est~ates for fiscal year 1981 Padres National Forest in California. To resume he~ on proPQ.Sed le~la for the Environmerital Protection 3110 Dirksen Building. tion authorlzing funds · through fiscal Agency, and for the Council on Envi· 2:00p.m. year 1985 for the urban mass transpor ronmental Quality. 3118 Dirksen Building Appropriations tation program._ Legislative Branch Subcommittee 5302 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es Energy and Natural Resources MARCH24 timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Business meeting, to oonsider pending 10:00 a.m. Cost Accounting Standards Board, and calendar business. Banking. Housing, and Urban Affairs the General Accounting Office. 3110 DirkSen Bulldina International Finance Subcommittee S-128, Capitol 3704 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 Appropriations Veterans' Affairs To continue hearings on proposed Transportation Subcommittee To hold hearings to receive legislative budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 To· continue hearings on proposed recommendations for fiscal year 1981 for the National Science Foundation, budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 from AMVETS. Paralyzed. Veterans, and for the Office of Science and for the Department of Transportation. Blinded Veterans, WWI Veterans, and Technology Policy. 1224 Dirksen Building Military Orders of the Purple Heart. 1318 Dirksen Buildin.1 1202 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs MARCH26 Consumer Affairs Subcommittee 9:00a.m. 10:00 a.m. To continue hearings on S. 1928, pro Labor and Human Resources Appropriations posed Fair Financial Information Child and Human Development Subcom HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit Practices Act, and S. 1929, proposed mittee tee Privacy of _Electronic Fund Transfers Business meeting, to mark up S. 1843 To hold hearings on proposed budget es Act .. and H.R. 2977, proposed Domestic Vio timates for fiscal.year 1981 for the Na 5302 Dirksen Building lence Prevention and Services Act; and tional Science Foundation proposed legislation to establish Com 1318 Dirksen Building MARCH31 mi&Sions on National Youth Service Appropriations Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· 2:00 p.m. and Volunteerism · Appropriations 4232 Dirksen Building tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary 9:30a.m. and Related Agencies Subcommittee Appropriations timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Smithsonian Institution. · To hold hearings on proposed budget es Agriculture, Rural Development and Re timates for fiscal year 1981 for the lated Agencies Subcommittee 1223 Dirksen Building •Appropriations Chrysler loan guarantee program. To continue hearings on proposed S-146, Capitol budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, for the Department of Agriculture. and Related Agencies Subcommittee 1318 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es APRIL 1 10:00 a.m. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Patent and Trademark Office, and sci Appropriations Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit· ence and technical research, Depart Foreign Operations Subcommittee tee ment of Commerce. To hold hearings on proposed budget es· To hold hearings on proposed budget es S-146, Capitol timates for fiscal year 1981 for foreign timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Appropriations assistance programs. Office of Water Research and Tech· Transportation Subcommitte«l 1318 Dirksen Building nology. To resume hearings on prop()sed budget"" Appropriations 1223 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the ' Interior and Related 4_gencies Subcommit· Appropriations Department of Transportation. tee · State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, 1224 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es- and Related Agencies Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs timates · for fiscal year 1981 for the To hold hearings on proposed budget es Consumer Affatrs Subcommittee Office of Territorial Affairs. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the In· To resuine hearings on S. 1928, proposed 1224 Dirksen Building dustry and Trade Administration, Mi· Fair Financial Information Practices Appropriations nority Business Development Agency, Act, and S. 1929, proposed Privacy of State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary and the U.S. ·Travel Service, Depart Electronic Fund Transfers Act. and Related Agencies Subcommlttee ment of Commerce. · 5302 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed S-146, Capitol Energy and Natural Resources · budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Banking, Housing, and Urban.Aflairs To hold hearings ·on. s. ·1784, to improve for the Department of Commerce. Housing Urban Affairs Subcommittee the electric generating efficiency of __ S-146, CtLpitol To continue hearings on proposed legis joint Federal-civilian pooling_practices Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs lation authorizing funds for fiscal year in Alaska. Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee 1981 for housing, .community develop. 3110 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed legisla· ment programs and the Urban Devel~ 11:30 a.m. tion authorizing funds for fiscal year opment Action Grant of the Depart Appropriations 1981 for housing, community develop ment of Housing and Urban Develop Tr&n$portation Subcommittee ment programs and the Urban Devel ment. To continue hearings on proposed opment Action Grant of the Depart 5302 Dirksen Building J.>ud.get ~timates for fiscal year 1981 ment of Housing and Urban Develop Energy and Natural Resources for the Department of Transportation. ment. Busine5s meeting, to consider pending 1224 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building calendar business. 2:00p.m. 3110 Dirksen Building Appropriations APRIL2 2:00p.m. Military Construction Subcommittee 9:30 a.m. Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed Veterans' Affairs Military Construction Subcommittee budget estimates for ·fiscal year 1981 To resume hearings on the Federal Gov· To resume hearings on proposed· budget for tnilltary construction of the DOD. ·ernment's efforts to assist Vietnam-era 1.318 Dirksen Building veterans in readjusting to society, and estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mili Appropriations tary construction of the DOD. the use of excepted appointments for State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, disabled veterans. · 1224 Dirk$en Building and Related Agencies Subcommittee Appropriations 412 Russell Building To hold hearings on proposed budget es 10:00 a.m. State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na and Related Agencies Subcommittee Appropriations tional Telecommunications and Infor HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit To hold hearings on proposed budget es mation Administration, and the Mari tee timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na time Administration, Department of tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad· To hold hearings on proposed budget es Commerce. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Se mintstration, Department of Com· S-146, Capitol metce. Appropriations lective Service System•• and the Na S-146, Capitol tional Conun~ion on Air Quality. Transportation Subcommittee . 1318 Dirksen Building To continue h~arings on proposed Appropriations MARCH27 budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit 9:30 a.m. for the D'eDartment of Transportation. tee Appropriations 1224 ·Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed Agriculture, Rural Development and Re· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 lated Agencies Subcommittee MARCH28 for the Office of-T..erritorlal Affairs. To continue hearings on proposed 10:00 a.m. · 1224 Dirksen Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture. HUD-Independent Agencies Subc9mmit- Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs S-128, Capitol tee · Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee February 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 3705 To continue hearings on proposed legis service-connected disabilities to the APRIL18 lation authorizing funds for fiscal year extent that they have health insur 10:00 a.m. 1981 for ho\ising, community develop ance or similar contracts, and S. 1523 Appropriations ment programs, and the · urban and H.R. 4015, proposed Veterans HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit- development action grant of the De Senior Citizen Health Care Act. tee · pai:-tment of Housing and Urban De · 412 Russell ~uilding ·To.hold hearings on proposed budget es velopment. 10:00 a.m. timates for fiscal_ year 1981 for . the 5302 Dirksen Building Appropriations Federal Emergency· Management Energy and Natural Resources Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit Ag~ncy. Business meeting, to consider pending tee 1318 Dirksen Building calendar business. To hold hearings on proposed budget es 2:00 p.m. 3110 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na Appropriations tional Gallery of Art, and the Commis- Military Construction Subcommittee APRIL3 sion of Fine Arts. · To continue hearings on proposed 1223 Dirksen Building budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 10:00 a.m. Appropriations Appropriations for military construction of the DOD. Treasury, Postal Sel'Vice: and General 1223 Dirksen Building HUD-Independent . Agencies Subcommit· Government Subcommittee tee To hold hearings on proposed budget es· To continue hearings on proposed APRIL22 budget estimates for fisc~l year 1981 timates for fiscal year 1981 for the l:OO a.m. Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and for the Department of the Treasury. 1318 Dirksen Building Appropriations the National Institute of Building Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- Sciences. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs tee · 1318 Dirksen Building International Finance Subcommittee To hold hearings on proposed budget es Appropriations To continue hearings on proposed' au timates for fiscal year 1981 for . the Interior l.nd Related Agencies SUbcommit· thorizations for fiscal year -1981 for Economic Regulatory Administration. tee the international affairs programs of Department of Energy. - To resume hearings on proposed budget' the Department of the Treasury; and 1223 Dirksen Building - estimates for fiscal year 1981 for cer on proposed legislation to increase the Appropriations tain programs of the Department of U.S. quota in the International Mone Trea.Sury, Postal Service, and General Energy tary Fund. Government Subcommittee 1224 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget. Energy and Natural Resources 2:00p.m. estimates· for fiscal year 1981 for the To hold hearings on the ·environmental Appropriations Dep&.ftment of the Treasury, and on effects of. carbon dioxide present in Military Construction Subcommittee the U.S. Postal Service. the atmosphere. To resume hearings on proposed budget 1318 Dirksen Building · 3110 Dirksen Building estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mm-· ~:00 p.m. tary construction of the DOD. · Appropriations APRIL 15 1224 Dirksen Building MUitary Construction Subcommittee 10:00 a.m. To resume hearings on proposed budget Appropriations APRIL 17 estimates for fiscal year 1981 for mill· Interior and Related Agencies ·subcommit· 9:30 a.m. tary construction of the DOD. •Labor Human Resources . . 1224 Dirksen Building tee and Appropriations _ To hold hearings on proposed budget es Child and Human Development Subcom tlln.ates for fiscal year 1981 for the mittee Treasury, Postal Service, and General Federal inspector for Alaska pipelfu.e. To hold oversight hearings on the devel-, · Government Subcommittee · and the Energy Information Adminis· opment of children who benefit from To continue bearings on . proposed tration, of the Department of Energy. adoption by facilitating their place budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 1223 Dirksen Building ment in adoptive homes. for the Department of the Treasury. Appropriations 4232 Dirksen Building S-146, Capitol Transportation Subcommittee· ·10:00 a.m. To resume hearings on proposed budget Appropriations _ . APRIL23 estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit to:oo a.m. Department of Transportation. tee Apprppriations · 1224 Dirksen Building -To hold hearings on proposed budget es Interior and Related Agencies Subcommit- Appropriations _ timates for fiscal year 1981 for the tee ' Treasury, Postal Service, and General Forest Service, Department of Agricul To ·hold hearings on proposed budget es Government Subcommittee ture. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Na To hold hearings on proposed budget es 1223 Dirksen Building tional Endowment for the Arts. timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De· Appropnations · 1223 Dirksen Building partment of the Treasury. Transportation Subcommittee Appropriations 1318 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on proposed budget Treasury, Postal Service, and General Banking, Housing; and Urban Affairs __ estimates for fiscal year 1981 for iJie Government Subcommittee ~ · International Finance Subcommittee Department of Transportation. To llold hearings on ·proposed budget es To hold hearings on proposed authoriza· 1224 Dirksen Building timates for fiscal year 1981 for the Ex· tions for fiscal year 1981 for the inter Appropriations · ecutive Office of the President. · national affairs programs of the De Treasury, Postal Service, and General 1318 Dirksen Building partment of the. Treasury; and on pro Government Subcommittee 'l:OO p~m. posed legislation to increase the U.S. To· continue hearings on proposed . Appropriations quota in the International Monetary budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 Military Construction Subcommittee Fund. for the Department of the Treasury. To .continue hearings · on proposed 5302 Dirksen Building 1114 Dirksen Building budget estiinates for fiscal year 1981 2:00 p.m. . for lnilltary construction of the DOD. APRIL 16 Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m. Military Construction Subcommittee Veterans' Affairs To continue hearings on proposed APRIL2'4 Business meeting, to consider proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 legislation on the recruitment and re· for military construction of the DOD. 10:00 a.m. tentlon of qualified health-care profes 1318 Di!'ksen Building Appropriations sionals to staff the Veterans' Adminis· Appropriations HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit tration health-care facilities, S. 759, to Treasury, Postal Service, and General tee provide for the right of the United Government Subcommittee T<> hold heartnP on proposed budget es States to recover their costs of hospi To continue hearings on proposed timates for fiscal year 1981 for the :Na tal, nursing home, or outpatient, medi· budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 tional Aeronautics and Space Adminfs. cal care furnished by the Veterans• for the Department of the Treasury. tration. · · Administration to veterans for non· S-146, Capitol ·1318 Dirksen Building 3706 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 25, 1980 Aoorooriations To continue hearings on proposed To hold hearings on .proposed budget es Interior and Related Agencies Suocommit· bu.dget estimates for fiscal year 1981 timates for fiscal year 1981 tor the De· tee for ·military construction of the DOD. partment of the Interior. To hold hearings on proposed budget es" 1223 Dirksen Building · 1223 Dirksen Bullding timates for .fiscal . year 1981 for ~he Appropriations 'Bureau of Land Management. MAYl Transpor.tation Subcommittee 1223 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. To resume he.,nngs on, proposed budget Appropri~tions . . Appropriations -estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Department of Transportation. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit· 1224 Dirksen Building Government Subcommittee tee To continue hearings on prQposed To hold hearings on proposed budget es budget estima.tes for· fiscal year 1981 timates for fiscal year 1981 for the De MAY15 for the Executive Office _of the Presi· partment of Housing and Urban De· dent. 10:00 a.m. velopment Appropriations 1114.Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommit· Appropriations . tee Appropriation8 Interior and Related Agencies·Subcommit· Military Construction Subcommittee To resume hearings on proposed budget To continue hearings · on proposed tee estimates for fiscal year 1981 for the budget estimates for fiscal year 1981 To nold hearings on proposed budget es Department of Housing and Urban timates for fiscal year 1981 for the · Development. and Independent Agen for .military construction ot the DOD. Land and Water Conservation Fund of 1224 Dirksen Building cies. the Heritage Conservation and R~re· 1318 Dirksen Building APRIL25 ation Service. Appropriations 10:00 a.m. 1224 Dirksen Buildomes Commerce, Science, and TranSpartatlon tic programs of ACTION; National MARCH19 Science, T.echnology, and Space Subcom Labor Relations Board, Federal Media 9:30 a.m. mittee . tion and Conciliation Servic.e, and the Commerce, Science, and Transportation To resume liearingg on proposed legi:da National Mediation Board. Science, Technology, and Space Subcom·· tion authorizing funds for' fiscal ) ear · S-128, Capitol mittee . 1981 for programs under the National Banking, Holising, and Urban Affairs To hold hearings on propose~ legislation Climate Program Act. Insurance Subcommittee · authorl.Zing funds for fiscal year 1981 235 Russell Building

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