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Extensions of Remarks August 1, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23765 -Page 23, immediately after line 19, insert -Page 23, immediately after line IS- insert -Page 23, immediately after line 19 insert the following new section: the following new section: the :flollowing new section: SEc. 510. Of the funds appropriated or SEc. 510. None of the funds appropriated or SEc. 510. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act, not made available pursuant to this Act shall be made available pursuant to this Act shall be more than $10,000,000 shall be used for for­ used to provide military assistance, inter­ used to provide military assistance, interna­ eign military credit sales and not more than national military education or training, or tional military education or training, or for­ $1,000,000 shall be used for international foreign military credit sales to the Govern­ eign military credit sales to the Government military education and training to the Gov­ ment of Zaire. of Thailand. ernment of the Republic of Korea. -Page 23, immediately after line 19 insert -Page 23, immediately after line 19 insert -Page 23, immediately after line 19 insert the following new section: the following new section: the following new section: SEc. 510. None of the funds appropriated or SEc. 510. None of the funds appropriated or SEc. 510. None of the funds appropriated made available pursuant to this Act shall be or made available pursuant to this Act shall made available pursuant to this Act shall be used to provide military assistance, inter­ used to provide military assistance, inter­ be used to provide military assistance, inter­ national military education or training, or national military education or training, or national military education or training, or foreign military credit sales to the Govern­ foreign military credit sales to the Govern­ foreign military credit sales to the Govern­ ment of the Republic of China (Taiwan). ment of Morocco. ment of the Philippines. -Page 23, immediately after line 19 insert -Page 23, immediately after line 19, insert the following new section: the following new section: H.R. 13635 SEc. 510. None of the funds appropriated or SEc. 510. None of the funds appropriated or By Mr. HILLIS: made available pursuant to this Act shall be made available pursuant to this Act may be used to provide military assistance, inter­ used to provide military assistance, inter­ -Page 50, beginning on line 6, strike out national military education or training, or national military education or training, or "(f) reimbursement" and au that follows foreign military credit sales to the Govern­ foreign military credit sales to the Govern­ through "or (g)" on line 10 and insert in lieu ment of Bolivia. ment of Indonesia. thereof "or (f)". EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HARTFORD MODEL FOR collapsed, streets sank, fires ravaged the tors, including quick steps to clear the rubble DISASTER RECOVERY heart of the city and 700 people perished. and launch an investigation by an engineer Hartford still remembers July 6, 1944, the of impeccable credentials. Strong support was day the tent of a visiting Ringling Brothers provided by the business community, espe­ HON. WILLIAM R. COTTER and Barnum and Bailey circus went up in cially Hartford's influential insurance com­ OF CONNECTICUT flames, killing 168 persons and injuring panies. From both the city administration hundreds more. and council came a strong dose of civic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Aside from the fortuitous lack of casual­ boosterism to avert a paralyzing "moaning Monday, July 31, 1978 ties, the disaster that struck Hartford at 4:19 and bemoaning" of Hartford's loss. a.m. last January 18 was unusual in another Oaken picked up on that theme within e Mr. COTTER. Mr. Speaker, I would respect. No one could blame it on a purely hours of the roof's collapse, announcing: like my colleagues to take note of a col­ accidental occurrence, some "act of God." "We're going to make it bigger and better­ umn in today's Washington Post by Neal The great roof's collapse was a direct result with a different kind of roof." The rebuilt Peirce, on Hartford's rapid recovery from of glaring design flaws and inadequate in­ coliseum is now planned for 14,500 instead of spection procedures by the people we de­ the present 10,500 seats. the disastrous collapse of the roof on the pend on so heavily for our health and safety The city's only real disappointment-and Civic Center coliseum last winter. in this age of supposed technological per­ it's fairly minor in the overall budget-has As a life long resident of Hartford, fection-architects, engineers and govern­ been the failure of the surrounding towns and the city's Congressman, I take pride ment inspectors. to contribute significantly toward a $100,000 in the way the town, and its officials, Totally unobstructed spectator view of coli­ suburban-aid fund to help Hartford through acted swiftly to work toward an even seum events had been the architects' goal in its hard time. "bigger and better" coliseum. designing a 4,455-piece steel lattice roof, 21 When any type of disaster hits a city, says feet deep and 366 by 300 feet long and wide, Oaken, it's essential for the city government, The article follows: supported by only four plyons near the out­ business and community leaders to move [From the Washington Post, July 31, 1978] side corners. decisively and in unison. "We had a pre­ THE HARTFORD MODEL FOR DISASTER RECOVERY But an independent engineering firm hired plan for emergencies and everyone responded (By Neal R. Peirce) to investigate the collapse found that the like clockwork." Other cities, Oaken suggests, roof had been a time bomb from the moment should do a simula·tion exercise of how they'd HARTFORD, CONN.-NO one who witnessed it was lifted into place in 1972-that "the respond to a disaster. The planning needs to the wreckage of the collapsed roof of this most severely overstressed members began identify economic and social power points in city's Civic Center Coliseum last winter will to bow out and fail on the day the lifting the community, "so that if one kind of a ever forget the sight. of the space truss [roof] began." The inves­ thing or another does occur, you know who The delicate steel-frame "space roof," de­ tigating engineer found that the "visually to pull together from the public and private signed to give the semblance of "floating" apparent" bending of steel trusses "should sector to formulate a quick course of action over spectators at sports and cultural events, have been a red flag" to inspecting parties emphasizing positives, reconstruction, a bet­ lay in ruin. Jagged shards of metal super­ of engineers, construction firms and the city ter way out of what was calamity." structure poked into the sky at awkward government. But planning has its limits, Oaken ac­ angles, the beams bent and twisted in But if Hartford showed how not to build knowledges. He sometimes wakes in the mid­ grotesque shapes as if they had been made a coliseum, it has now reversed course and dle of the night wondering if any of Hart­ of plastic rather than high-strength steel. is providin!?: a model of how a city recovers ford's recovery efforts would have succeeded The main structure of the roof lay in a sea of quickly and effectively from a disaster that if 5,000 or 10,000 people had been in the col­ snow, metal and concrete rubble on crushed could have sapped its civic strength and cen­ iseum the hour its roof came thundering spectator seats. ter-city economy for years to come. to the ground .• Not a soul died in the Hartford roof col­ The collapsed roof's wreckage has been lapse, but it was a narrow escape. Hours be­ cleared. Rebuilding plans are virtually com­ fore, 5,000 persons had watched a hockey plete; with a new (and more traditionally SALUTE TO DR. JOHN CHASE, VA game in the coliseum, blissfully unaware of designed) roof the coliseum should open for CHIEF MEDICAL DIRECTOR the disaster building above their heads. On business in the fall of 1979. Reconstruction other evenings, up to 10,500 people filled the financing plans. including strong assists from coliseum's seats. A less fortunate timing the state and federal governments, are al­ HON. RAY ROBERTS would in all likelihood have taken thousands most finished. Almost forgotten now are last OF TEXAS of lives, conceivably the worst peacetime January's dark forebodings of economic disaster in U.S. history. havoc following loss of downtown Hartford's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American cities have often endured disas­ prime people-drawer. If anything, the cen­ Tuesday, August 1, 1978 ters, and they have taken many forms. The ter-city renaissance has continued and Great Chicago Fire of 1871 consumed 17,450 accelerated. e Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. Speaker, July 28, buildings and exacted a death toll of 250. In What made the quick recovery possible? 1978. was the la.cst da:v in office for one of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, buildings City Manager James Oaken lists several fac- the finest chief medical directors in the Statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor will be identified by the use of a "bullet" symbol, i.e., • 23766 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1978 history of the Veterans' Administration. of my constituents and others have ap­ Soviet situation that I have re::!.d in re­ Dr. John Chase and Mrs.
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