15822 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS
IN MEMORIAM-RUSSELL W. Rowena Jelliffe fought an uphill At this time, Mr. Speaker, I enter JELLIFFE battle to rectify this situation. two articles written about Russell Jel As a result, playwright, poet, and liffe in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: HON. LOUIS STOKES actor Langston Hughes, and television RUSSELL W. JELLIFFE performers Ivan Dixon and Robert Men of foresight and wisdom struggle dili OF OHIO Guillaume got their starts in Karamu gently to fulfill their dreams, never count IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES House. Local talent like Dr. Zelma ing the cost or the sacrifice such devotion George, a superb opera singer, were demands. Such a man was Russell W. Jel Thursday, June 19, 1980 liffe. Long before legislation decreed civil also provided a showcase at Karamu rights, he and his wife, Rowena, champi e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, thank House. oned human rights and equal opportunities you for extending me this opportunity With the Jelliffes playing such a at a time <1915> when such liberal views to memorialize a man of great vision vital role in black theater in this coun were considered radical. They concentrated and one who had the fortitude to try, I shudder to think what would their efforts on the underprivileged, the de make it a reality-Mr. Russell W. Jel have happened if it had not been for prived and the displaced regardless of race, liffe. On Saturday, June 7, 1980, Rus their unfledging commitment. creed or color. sell W. Jelliffe, founder and director The success of the Jelliffe's Karamu In addition to Karamu House, both House was the fruition of years of constant emeritus of the famous Karamu Russell and Rowena Jelliffe were very struggle, and an unnerving belief in the dig House in Cleveland died. Mr. Speaker, involved in the improvement in the nity of men. Its inter-racial and cultural arts the many Clevelanders and friends quality of life for blacks and the poor program, under their guidance, nurtured around the world who loved and re in Cleveland and around the country. painters, dancers, actors, singers and musi spected him will participate in a memo Mr. Jelliffe was one of the founders of cians who achieved national and interna rial service o~ June 25, 1980. tional fame while the founders continued to the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing concentrate on the local black and white Many of my colleagues are familiar Authority and the Cleveland Urban residents of Cleveland. The Jelliffes were an with Karamu House and the exempla League. Additionally, he was a unbeatable team. ry dramatic arts, music, dance, and member of the executive committee of Now that partnership has been dissolved theater it has provided to people the NAACP. by his death. Now in the hectic times of the throughout the years regardless of Mr. Speaker, I must reiterate that present day, our city and our nation need race, social status, or economic level. persons of the caliber of Russell Jelliffe, Mr. Russell Jelliffe and his wife men of faith and unselfish dedication who The idea of Karamu House and its Rowena dedicated their lives to the are willing to sacrifice private gain for overriding philosophy of racial har less fortunate people in our society public good. mony was the dream of Russell Jel the ones America had turned its back Unfortunately, the ranks of such individ liffe and his lovely wife, Rowena. This on. After his retirement from Karamu uals are slowly dwindling and few, if any, dream has stood the test of time and House in 1963, the Jelliffes traveled are ready to take his place. Does his death has weathered the ups and downs of around the country helping other mark the end of an Era? race relations in this country to groups establish theaters like Karamu become a shining symbol of both the House. Because of this compassion and [From the Cleveland Press, June 10, 1980] atrical and social and racial coopera achievement, I feel honored to be on JELLIFFE WAS BROTHERHOOD'S CHAMPION tion. the board of Karamu House ~ The world of race relations or of humanity lost a great champion over pleasant one. When Karamu House the weekend with the death of Russell Jel was founded, the Jelliffes were consid long as Karamu House is open, he will liffe, who with his wife Rowena· founded, in ered to be radicals. At that period in live with us. 1915, what was to become Cleveland's our history, Mr. Speaker, it was not Russell Jelliffe did so much for so famous Karamu House. fashionable for whites to be concerned many. I think that an analogy can be Thus, for 65 years, our town and that in about the well-being of blacks. Howev drawn between what Russell Jelliffe stitution have been known for their efforts er, the Jelliffes were atypical and did for the performing arts and the at recognizing that all of mankind has stood fast to their dream. following verse written by Mr. Lang within it the capacity not only for tolerance but, far more important, for active coopera From its inception as a community ston Hughes: tion and good will. settlement house in 1915, the primary I too sing America Karamu's success over the years and the purpose was to apprise blacks from I am the darker brother. Jelliffes' many honors are far too familiar the great migration from the South to They send me to eat in the kitchen when stories to recount here. Each person who company comes, has been touched by them has his own story the North on how to find jobs and to tell. And while the details will differ with housing. Later, Karamu House grew But, I laugh and eat well, and grow strong. the individual, the principle, the thread into a parent organization for adult Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when compa that runs so true through the whole fabric, education programs, a children's nurs ny comes; is the same: The conviction they held that ery, and dance, quartet, chorus, and Nobody'll dare say to me, "Eat in the kitch- with either individuals or groups, working art groups. Probably most notable was en,'' with one another is better by far than work the fact that the theater became inter Then, besides, they'll see how beautiful I ing against one another. nationally known as the first outlet am- My first association with Russell Jelliffe And be ashamed came at the time of the opening of the then for black playwrights and actors in the brand new Karamu Theaters at the corner United States. For I too, am America of 89th St. and Quincy Ave. It was Russell Jelliffe's dream that Russell Jelliffe demonstrated that The year 1949 saw Karamu House well the theater could be a place where we are all a part of America. His preoc along toward its international fame as an example-more than that, a showcase-for black plays as well as white plays and cupation with this extended from com the blending of the artistic talents of blacks actresses could be judged fairly on munity affairs to business to the per and whites. tl).eir merits. With the inequitable sit forming arts. In this day of increasing But the building of the theaters, small but uation with black plays and actors at racial strife, he leaves us a dream and modern and well equipped, was a milestone that time in this country, Russell and a powerful legacy. that required putting the very best foot for-
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15823 ward with exciting and dramatic fare that the summer Olympic games in The beginning of the trial immedi would make the world sit up and take its Moscow. ately generated public interest which second look at what Cleveland had here. Jay Mogavero and his New England greatly increased when the sentences I personally felt highly honored to be were announced in December. In fact, asked, at the time, to be the musical direc Barracuda Amateur Swimming Team tor of the opening presentation, Gian-Carlo were invited last winter by the Soviet the international reaction to the Menotti's gripping opera "The Medium." Union to represent the United States severe sentences was so strong that Russell Jelliffe convinced me, in about four in a special international swimming the Soviet Government had to reduce sentences, of the historic nature of the ven meet that was to have taken place this all of them. Of those convicted all ture-just as he was able to do with almost past January. Mogavero's team, con have gotten to the West except three everyone he talked to about it. sisting of 10 senior-level girls and an men who still remain in prison camps: Dr. Zelma George, opera singer, sociolo equal number of boys, was to have Iosif Mendelevich (32), Yuri Federov gist and a pillar of strength for artistic taken on the Russians in one of a long causes, black and white, had been cast as <37), and Aleksei Murzhenko <37). Madame Flora, the phony spiritualist who series of preparations the Russians Mendelevich, the heart and spirit of gets caught up in her own machinations and were staging in preparation for the the operation, was a student/engineer superstitions. The late Benno Frank, a prod summer Olympic games. from Riga who was given a sentence of uct of the Max Reinhardt school of the the Mogavero, a former high school and 12 years in strict regime. Despite the ater in Germany and at that time head of college AU-American, stated that this fact that he had a lighter sentence Karamu's lyric-theater endeavors, was the was the first team not from California than some of the others convicted stage director. to ever receive such a distinction. The In all, we gave about 75 performances of along with him, his release has seemed the show, and a truly gala opening produc Barracudas were invited by the Soviets incomprehensibly remote. During the tion it turned out to be: Dr. George, in fact, after research found the team to be past 10 years of internment he has made such a spectacular hit in the title role the best in New England and one of courageously persisted in strict adher that she was invited by the composer him the very top on the entire eastern sea ence of his religious beliefs despite the self to go down to New York and star in a board. resulting harassment and persecution. similar production of "The Medium." After painful preparation and exten Mendelevich's health is deteriorating The point is that Jelliffe instinctively sive fundraising efforts were undertak rapidly and he is in grave jeopardy. knew just how this and other musical, the en, President Carter issued his threat atrical and artistic ventures would help pro Federov and Murzhenko were both mote his original thesis, that the races could to boycott the Olympics if Soviet student/workers in major Soviet cities.· successfully intermingle and produce some troops were not evacuated from Af They had been in prison camps before thing that was exciting and entertaining ghanistan by the end of February. As this occurred for distributing antigov and that eventually it would be seen that a good and true American and as a ernment leaflets, had suffered perse the differences between the races had noth member of an American delegation of ing to do with it. These were people, not young people, Mogavero felt he had a cution after ·their release from prison blacks or whites or Jews or WASPS. They moral responsibility to cancel what and then joined forces with the Soviet were either good, mediocre, or bad, but cer was clearly a dream for all of the Bar Jews involved in the incident. They tainly not along racial lines. are serving 14 and 15 year terms re The show, in other words, would rise to racudas. spectively for varying charges of trea great heights or fall on its face not only ac For his selfless sacrifice and true son. Both feel strongly that they have cording to what each individual brought to dedication to his country, I would like never pursued criminal aims. In his it but what the melding of talents would to take this opportunity to commend produce. Jay Mogavero and his team of Barra statement at the close of the trial Fe Russell Jelliffe lived through several vacil cudas. They clearly deserve the com derov said, "I do not feel guilty • • • as lations of the racial-strife/racial-coopera mendation of the entire House of Rep a matter of conscience-! have done tion situation. He saw the ups and downs resentatives.• nothing." and faced them with a kind of placid equa The time is especially ripe on the nimity, knowing that one would follow the lOth anniversary of the arrests for the other, and that with perseverance and confi dence they would level off. FREEDOM NEEDED FOR Members of Congress to continue our The process is by no means complete. LENINGRAD TRIAL PRISONERS protest against the imprisonment of Karamu itself has gone through those ups Mendelevich, Federov, and Murzhenko and downs. It has been run by whites, by HON. S. WILLIAM GREEN and the treatment of all Soviet Jews blacks, and by a mixture of both. It has and other human rights activists. We done many so-called white shows. It has OF NEW YORK must continue the international pres done many black shows. It has on occasion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sure on the Soviet Government to ful been criticized by blacks as being too white, by whites as being too black. Thursday, June 19, 1980 fill the pledges they made under the But it has never really lost sight of the • Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, on June Helsinki accords, the U.N. Human Jelliffes' original idea: The ongoing coopera 15, 1980, the Soviet Government Rights Covenants, and other interna tion of the races. Which, over the years, is shocked and outraged the free world tional agreements. The release of the what it has always done best. by sentencing 11 persons to death or five Soviet prisoners of conscience last It would be difficult to think of anyone May in exchange for two captured who so confidently persevered in his princi lengthy prison terms in what has come to be known as the Leningrad trial. It Soviet spies confirms the belief that ples as Russell Jelliffe, or who made and persistence can get results. I have kept so many friends in so doing.e was the first in a series of such pros ecutions for an unsuccessful attempt joined my House colleagues in writing to seize an Aeroflot plane to emigrate to Chairman Leonid Brezhnev to pro from the Soviet Union. They were test their imprisonment and urge their JAY MOGAVERO AND THE eventually convicted on a series of release. BARRACUDA SWIM CLUB trumped-up charges of treason and I am dismayed that these three Len various crimes against the state. ingrad defendants still languish in HON. NICHOLAS MAVROULES Despite a 99-percent certainty that Soviet prison camps under conditions OF MASSACHUSETTS they would be caught and sentenced that almost defy description. We IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to labor camps, the Leningrad group cannot sit in silence in the face of such carried out the attempt as one of the suffering, repression, and denial of Thursday, June 19, 1980 only means available to them to cap basic human rights, which continues e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, I ture international attention for the unabated for countless thousands. would like to bring to the attention of dissidents' movement. They wanted These courageous men must not be my colleagues the great personal sacri their cause, that of all human rights forgotten; the world must continually fice a constituent of mine, Jay Moga activists and themselves individually, be made aware of their condition and vero, of West Peabody, Mass., has to get as much attention and support their desire to be free. In the interest made with regard to the boycott of as possible. of humanity we must forcefully voice 15824 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 our outrage and express our deepest I insert the text of Secretary "clean" bill for Oahe deauthorization would hopes for their imminent release.e Andrus' response to the delegation's be agreed to be introduced again at the be May 12 letter, along with the South ginning of the next Congress. Dakota delegation's response into the During the period between now and mid- THE SPIRIT OF LITHUANIA 1981, when a definitive choice on Oahe RECORD, in addition to a news release I deauthorization will be required, a concert STILL LIVES issued describing my thoughts regard ed and cooperative effort will be made to ing this agreement. better assess South Dakota water resource HON. LARRY McDONALD U.S. DEPARTMEIIlT OF THE INTERIOR, needs, and to develop agreement on other OF GEORGIA OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, possibilities for development in addition to Washington, D.C., June 18, 1980. the WEB pipeline. We realize that, within IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hon. THOMAS DASCHLE, the state and even within the delegation, Thursday, June 19, 1980 House of Representatives, views may differ on various alternatives and Washington, D. C. priorities, and the Administration has e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, 40 DEAR MR. DASCHLE: I am writing in re strong views as well. We should use the next years ago, the Soviet Union forcibly sponse to your letter of May 12, 1980, and 12 to 14 months as a period of working to incorporated Lithuania into the pursuant to the consultations which have gether toward agreement on issues impor U.S.S.R. Except for a short period of occurred between us since that time. tant to the water resource needs of South German occupation, Lithuania has I want to begin by thanking you for the Dakota and the appropriate contribution of been a forced member of the U.S.S.R. constructive nature of your letter, and the the Federal Government to those needs. extraordinary effort and care you have We would approach this effort with great ever since. The Soviet Union does not given to resolving the difficult questions re but realistic expectations, and expect all like to review that part of her history garding the future water resource needs of others to do the same. A common initial un concerning the balmy days of coopera South Dakota. In spite of differences which derstanding of the conditions which will de tion between two of history's bloodiest may exist regarding some specific issues, I termine ultimate agreement will vastly im dictators-Hitler and Stalin. The facts am convinced we share a commitment to prove our capability to work together. Obvi remain, however, and in the cause of meeting South Dakota's needs through ously, there must be a mutual understand human freedom, we should not permit sound water management and development, ing that the package put together in the the Central Committee of the Commu and seeing that the Federal role is a major coming months will require Administration and cooperative one. agreement. From the Administration's view nist Party of the Soviet Union to The Administration has made clear its point, you should understand that support forget these facts. Since becoming part view that it cannot support the permanent for any additional future projects or pro of the Soviet Union, hundreds of thou authorization of the WEB project in the ab grams will be based on established planning sands of Lithuanians have been de sence of a deauthorization of the Oahe and evaluation procedures, consistency with ported to Siberia, thousands have died Unit, and I believe the reasons for this are existing Federal programs, standards set in Soviet forced labor camps, others well understood. You have made clear, in forth in the President's water policy mes have suffered untold miseries and per return, two central points. First, that if sage of June 6, 1978, and consistency with secutions, particularly those strongly Oahe is to be deauthorized, you must con existing budgetary constraints. Such stand adhering to the Catholic faith. Infor sider and address other water development ards are indeed more demanding, in some needs in the state in addition to the WEB cases, than those being applied to the WEB mation reaching the United States in project. Second, that additional time is proposal itself. dicates that the struggle for human needed to identify and analyze other pro It should also be understood that, the freedom and dignity goes on in Lithua posals and to permit adequate public consid prior decision to authorize and fund the nia in spite of the Communist Party eration of them. Oahe unit, or any speculative evaluation of and the KGB. And the Lithuanians Our reaction to these points is favorable, that authorization, cannot serve as a meas now have some support for their cause and with some variation, we are able to ure of what might be agreed upon in coming from such Soviet dissidents as Malva accept the basic premise of your May 12 months. While no reasonable alternative Land, Viktor Nekipelov, Tatiana Veli letter. What we propose is a process which can be ruled out at the beginning of this would create the time and opportunity for process, it is equally important to under kanova, Andrei Sakharov, and Arina development of other responses to state stand that agreement is unlikely if it is Ginzburg, who all signed a letter of needs, yet leave you in a position in mid- predicated on unresolvable budgetary, legal support of the rights of the Baltic na 1981 similar to that which exists today-a or political basis. We have previously indi tions to be free last year. May the fires choice between the continued authorization cated our feeling that the formulation ad of freedom burn more strongly in the of Oahe indicate that, under condi Study Commission projects in its "medium Latin porta, or gate, and a port is, in truth, tions of only moderate economic growth, growth" scenario that investment in U.S. the gateway to a state, region, or country. U.S. waterborne foreign trade will increase port and harbor facilities dedicated to inter The word "airport" has, of course, the same from the 622.2 million long tons reported in national commerce will total some $13 bil derivation and meaning.) 1975 from 1975 The nation's early settlements clustered bulk tonnage previously mentioned) to 970.0 through the year 2000, with $9.4 billion of near the sea for a variety of sensible rea million tons by 1985, 1.1 billion tons by 1990, the total coming from local and state gov sons. Fishing on the rivers and in the and 1.4 billion tons by the year 2000. exclusively-public operation. It should dem decisions. decade in the defense against the American onstrate that the purpose of collecting edu A second objection is that the parental state of the personal education rights of cation taxes from the public is to assist par grant would lead to widespread discrimina parents and students to religious liberty and ents to educate their children and not to tion against such groups as minorities and academic freedom, the National Association give government officials control over the poor. Here no one can deny the lamen for Personal Rights in Education schooling, as, for instance, through impos table failures of some private schools any respectfully urges the Republican Party to adopt the following three planks in its 1980 ing secular humanism or academic imperial more than those who so self-righteously ism on the children of this nation. It must criticize such schools can deny that in im national platform: conclude that if parents become burdened portant areas public schools have been the The Republican Party affirms that the with government education officials deter prime architects of racial segregation. But, primary right of education belongs, not to mined to control schooling, they must con whatever the past, inner-city private the state and federal governments, but to sider the curtailment of taxation. parents; schools, hanging on desperately in these in The examination must highlight that the flationary times, are providing a rich source The Republican Party endorses tax-sup personal constitutional rights of parents of quality education for many minority and ported parental grants or vouchers through and students under the establishment and poor children. which parents could be assisted in enrolling their children in public or private elemen freedom clauses cannot be denied by reason Actually, while government denial of tax of any church-state controversy. It should equity for alternative schooling falls on tary and secondary schools of their choice; demonstrate that the U.S. Supreme Court, families from all classes, it weighs particu The Republican Party calls for an exami while ignoring the establishment involved in larly heavily on families which are economi nation of the relations of American govern assigning the tax monopoly to preferred cally incapable of making a choice and thus ments to parents and students in the field schools and values, has incredibly concluded remain in a state of dependency on govern of schooling, with particular emphasis on that the Establishment Clause would be vio ment teachers. Further this condition is the distribution of education taxation. lated by giving dissenters an equitable being politically reinforced by the National One basic principle for such an examina share. In his dissent in Meek v. Pittenger Education Association, the American Feder tion should be that for many families reli <1975) Chief Justice Burger referred to such ation of Teachers, and other enemies of pa gion is essential to schooling and that, if court action as not simply tilting the Consti rental choice. From our inner-city experi governments tax the public for schooling, tution against religion but literally turning ence we assert that minority and poor fami they should so distribute the taxes as to the Religion Clause on its head. lies are generally capable of making the protect religious rights. Unfortunately The examination would reveal the wide right choices with parental grants. In any American governments have generally allo spread dissatisfaction of parents with the case we contend that the parental grant cated a monopoly of the tax to support pre academic and moral tone in many public would prove to be the most effective weapon ferred schools without regard for religious schools, with a striking example being the against discrimination and injustice. dissenters. large-scale ongoing abandonment by many_ There are other matters to be discussed, A first example is seen in the colonial New Protestants of their once-cherished public even if only briefly. One is that quality edu England congregational schools, which were schools in favor of private Christian schools. cation cannot be mass-produced or conduct based on a preferential tax arrangement be ed by armies of educational bureaucrats far tween the political community and one In conclusion, with the hope that the Re removed from the scene, but must rather be church. A second example is the state public publican Party will wholeheartedly join the carried on by parents and teachers cooper school system, which was, as the research of struggle to make certain that every Ameri ating as teams under conditions of smallness Professor Jorgenson of Missouri and other can family that wishes so, whether in public and freedom and individual attention in a scholars have demonstrated, founded in the or private schools, can at long last have family atmosphere of love and work person mid-19th century in great part on a prefer equitable access to the education tax dollar, al dignity. Such closeness was the secret of ential tax collusion between the American we again respectfully request the Republi many of the original public schools. It is the state and the dominant Protestant churches can Party to take a strong stand in its 1980 secret of many hardy inner-city private of the day, with dissenters being denied tax national platform for parental rights in edu schools. It can be the secret of attaining equity. A third example is that, with the cation, for tax-supported parental grants, quality education for American children if private Protestant values on the decline in and for the long-overdue examination of the parental power is restored through parental the public schools, the tax monopoly today relationships between the American state grants. preferentially supports the private values of and its citizens in the matter of schooling.e On a second point the role of schools in secular humanism-a life orientation that teaching, character formation, and prepara looks only to man without reference to tion of students for economic life should be God-as the new educational establishment, studied. As to the unemployment of so with the National Education Association CONGRESSMAN GREEN NOTES many young minority and poor and as well being a new national priesthood. PASSING OF RABBI BERNARD J. to the nonproductivity of so many young The U.S. Supreme Court, proceeding BAMBERGER people from all backgrounds, we ask this under the illusion that the public school is committee to examine to what extent this or can be genuinely neutral, has played a unemployment and nonproductivity may disastrous role in this matter. Thus by oust HON. S. WILLIAM GREEN be-in part-attributed to their schooling or ing residual elements of Protestantism from OF NEW YORK lack thereof. the public schools, the Court has given pow We also plead with this committee to con erful impetus to the takeover by secular hu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sider that more serious threats to American manism. The Court has also struck down Thursday, June 19, 1980 freedoms are arising from the expanding of with decisions vitiated by historical igno the state and federal controls over school rance and documentary distortion-all but a • Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, it is with ing. Many good-willed legislators support few of the many state laws enacted to recti a profound sense of grief that I rise to practically any proposal to fund govern- fy deep-rooted tax inequities to dissenters. note the passing last Saturday of 15832 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger, rabbi orthopedic consultant. At the time of my BRIBERY BEGINS EARLY emeritus of Temple Shaaray Tefila. emigration to the United States, I was head The problems of Soviet medicine begin in Rabbi Bamberger had been the of traumatology, orthopedic surgery, and the medical schools. There the practice of leader of Temple Shaaray Tefila from military surgery at a major 250-bed Moscow paying bribes for admission is so well estab clinic. lished and widespread that its study be 1944 until his retirement in 1971. The Soviet medicine is not what it seems to comes a special discipline of the science of temple, located in the 18th Congres Western visitors. For security reasons, they geography. sional District at 250 East 79th Street, are never admitted to our finest medical In Soviet Georgia, bribery is a way of life. is this year observing its 135th anni facilities. These are the "palace hospitals" So Dr. Otary Gelbakhiani, dean of the versary. It is one of New York's oldest created by the Communist Party to serve its Tbilisi medical school, routinely demanded and most prominent reform Jewish own elite-perhaps 2,000 top Party officials a bribe of 40,000 rubles from every enrollee. synagogues. and their families-and administered by Dr. would INSIDE: BRIBERY AS A DOC way approaching the level of care at a U.S. bave to work 90 years to attain the wage of TOR'S WAY OF LIFE-PART I counterpart. a beginning bus driver. My own years of ex Most foreigners assume that in this social perience and level of specialization were HON. LARRY McDONALD ized state treatment is free and readily such that, at the end, I earned the maxi available. It is neither. The hospitalized mum possible doctor's salary-500 rubles a OF GEORGIA Soviet citizen pays for everything out of his month. However, stipends from my consul IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES own pocket. He buys his own meals (since tancies at the "special" hospitals and occa sional royalty checks from my books almost Thursday, June 19, 1980 the hospital usually embezzles the miserly 82 kopecks the government allots for food doubled my income in some years. • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, one each day). He hires someone to spoon-feed How then is it possible to pay a 40,000- of the things that apologists for Com him if necessary; he rents his sheets and ruble bribe to enter medical school, when munist regimes always tell us is that hospital clothing; his family buys much of during his first five years of practice, the or medical care is free and it is good in his medicine elsewhere, since the hospital dinary doctor earns a grand total of only doesn't stock it; and he hands out money to 6,600 rubles, progressing in his fifth five socialist countries. This is not true and year period to 9,000 rubles? After 25 years, informed people know this. The free his nurses and doctor in the hope that they will give him special care and attention. such a doctor has officially earned a grand world countries deliver the best medi Often, especially if he suffers from a seri total of only 39,000 rubles-still not enough cal care and discover most of the new ous condition, he must pay for the privilege to cover the bribe he paid to get into medi medicines. However, the myth contin of being hospitalized. Mothers of asthmatic cal school. ues to outlive the facts. Dr. Vladimir children not only must pay-unofficially- To explain this paradox, I give you the Golyakhovsky, a former Soviet doctor, 1,000 rubles to have their children admitted case of a graduate of the very same Tbilisi wrote several articles that appeared in to the bronchial asthma ward of Moscow's medical school. A specialist in venereal dis Medical Economics on February 18, Hospital No. 52, but then must come to the eases in the beautiful little Black Sea resort 1980, and March 3, 1980, graphically hospital after work and clean floors. town of Gagra, he was able to pay for his Why is health care in the wealthiest and "free" medical education in two months describing how Soviet medicine really most powerful nation in the Communist with his earnings from our "free" medical operates. No American would wish to world in so sick and sorry a state? There are care. Every morning, his senior nurse ex go near a Soviet hospital after reading three principal reasons: plains to the queue of unfortunate tourists these articles. Part I describes his ex The Soviet government allots too little lined up from office door to the shore that perience with the medical education money for medicine because it receives no the doctor treats patients at his house-a system in the U.S.S.R. Part II will de cash return from this investment. Medicine charming cottage next door, set among scribe Soviet medicine in actual oper gets only what budgetary crumbs remain grape arbors. Sometimes a disgruntled pa ation. I commend these articles to the after the government has paid for propa tient complains, "I've already paid for sex in ganda, the military, and the inefficient this town, and I don't intend to pay for my attention of my colleagues: economy. Thus, Soviet doctors lack equip venereal disease, too." The nurse gives him SOVIET MEDICINE FROM THE INSIDE: BRIBERY ment adequate to diagnose, to treat, or to an appointment for two weeks hence and AS A DOCTOR'S WAY OF LIFE-PART I operate. calls the police to report him as a VD carri In 1953, the Soviet Union's secret police, The morale of doctors and nurses is very er. The disgruntled patient now has to bribe the KGB, herded nine of the country's most low. They feel they are ruining their own the nurse and the policeman, too. brilliant physicians into a dungeon and tor health in exhausting, round-the-clock labor In season, this doctor treats 40 to 50 pa tured them until they "confessed" to poi for a miserly monthly stipend. They contin tients a day, charging about 25 rubles each. soning several top Communist officials, in ue to practice medicine out of compassion His fees are flexible, though-from 10 what the press dutifully recorded as the for the suffering, but many have fallen into rubles for students to 50 rubles for fat offi Doctors' Plot. That same year, I began my corruption and apathy. cials or their wives. At the end of a long day, own medical career in Petrozavodsk, a prin Soviet medical administrators are corrupt, the doctor cheerfully empties his pockets of cipal city near the Finnish border. incompetent, arrogant, and wasteful. There envelopes. This is his moment of triumph, Since that time, I have observed the are too many of them, and they are too because he makes about 1,000 rubles a day. I whole range of Soviet health delivery, from powerful. They manage to impose Marxist saw it with my own eyes. He would laugh at a small wooden district hospital with five ideology even on the physical sciences. They me and say, "Well, Mr. Moscow Professor, cots serving lumbermen in the frozen north seriously hamper the work of doctors who can you make as much as an ordinary to the offices of the Ministry of Health. I treat the sick. They have put Soviet physi doctor like me?" have treated patients, performed research, cians 25 to 50 years behind their American The answer, which I did not feel comfort taught medical students, and served as an colleagues. able discussing with him is that, of course, I June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15833 could if I so chose. In Russia, vzyatka-brib In 1948, for example, medical officials ment has spent about 18,000 rubles on each ery-in the medical system is all-pervasive. began a campaign to canonize Ivan Pavlov's student, and the Ministry of Health has al But I found it distasteful to demand bribes physiology teachings as the foundation of ready decided on all the new doctors' assign for operating, and neither was I happy to all medical disciplines. Millions of empty ments, so the school fails nobody. The stu accept envelopes afterward, although sever words were spoken at hundreds of confer dents understand this and consider the al times they were forced on me by grateful ences and published in thousands of disser tests a formality. patients who wouldn't take Nyet for an tations and articles. Any scientific work that The first exam-which all must pass answer. There were occasions, however, didn't quote Pavlov was unacceptable, and before they can take the medical science ex when regular patients offered tokens of ap any scientist who neglected to join the choir aminations-is on Marxist philosophy. Pro preciation-like the expensive foreign of praise found himself jobless. Pavlov, rec fessors struggle to stifle their yawns as stu record player I received from Bolshoi prima ognizing many mistakes in his theories, had dents babble incoherent answers to three or ballerina Maya Plysetskaya-and occasional intended to rewrite them before he died, but four randomly · chosen questions. Then the special privileges. this did not stop Soviet medical teachers professors give totally arbitrary grades that The most memorable came when the from mindlessly parroting his physiological depend more on what they had for break father of an important military engineer I teachings. fast than on what the students said. If ev had operated on told me to be sure to con Until the early 1960s, Soviet professors eryone is feeling especially jolly, the stu tact him when I had time for a holiday in taught that Mendelian genetic theory was a dents get good grades without even answer an official resort rest home in the Caucusus. bourgeois fraud and that Lysenko's stupid ing any questions. I saw one student get two Three years later, I remembered his offer, magic tricks were true because they were 2's Manhattan apartment-failed his first H.J. Res. 210, supplementary further Feb. 20 ...... 273 134 Vote by party: ECFMG exam. Language was an important urgent. Democrat...... 273 factor. "But," he says frankly, "it was also Vote by party: Republican ...... = 1=35== because in Russia my specialty is about 30 Democrat...... 207 62 H.J. Res. 499, continuing ...... June 17 400 16 Republican ...... 66 72 ------years behind the level here-and also be ==== Vote by party: cause I didn't prepare myself well enough." H.J. Res. 219, further continuing ...... Feb. 25...... 308 75 Democrat...... 278 1 He assiduously studies both language and Vote by party: Republican ...... = 1=22==15 U.S. medicine daily and hopes to pass next Democrat...... 228 28 H.R. 8070, HUD/Space/ Veterans ...... June 24 ...... 391 25 time around. Then comes a hospital ortho Republican ...... 80 47 ------pedic residency-which, because of his expe Vote by party: rience and department chairmanship in H.R. 4481 , emergency employment...... Mar. 12 ...... 313 113 Democrat...... 269 8 Moscow, may require fewer than the cus Vote by party: Republ ican ...... = 1=22==17 tomary five years-and the FLEX hu.rdle Democrat...... 258 25 H.R. 8122 , Public Works/ Energy ...... June 24.. 377 28 for licensure.>e Republican ...... 55 88 ------Vote by party: H.R. 4592, foreign assistance ...... Mar. 13 ...... 212 201 Democrat...... 258 8 THE MAJORITY'S Vote by party: Republican ...... =l=l9==20 MISAPPROPRIATIONS BILLS ~:~~ii:::: : :::: : :::: : ::::::::::: · ::::::::::: : :::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~~ ~~~ H.R. 8069, Labor/ HEW ...... June 25 ...... __3_ 68____ 39 === Vote by party: HON. WILUAM E. DANNEMEYER H.J. Res. -, VA additional ...... Apr. 15...... 386 Democrat...... 262 8 OF CALIFORNIA --- Repub lican...... I 06 31 Vote by party: === IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Democrat...... 261 H.R. 8365, Tra nsportation ...... July 10 ...... _ 3_92___ 13 Republican ...... 125 Thursday, June 19, 1980 Vote by party: e Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5899, second supplemental...... Apr. 15 ...... 380 14 Democrat...... 259 Republican ...... = 1=33== on April 2, I rose to identify responsi Vote by party: bility for having caused and exacerbat Democrat...... 261 3 H.R. 856 1. Agriculture ...... July 14 ...... __3_ 53____ 38 Republican ...... 119 11 ed our present inflationary spiral. At Vote by party: that time I illustrated how the major H.R. 6894, V'1etnam refugee assistance ..... May 14 ...... 381 31 Democrat ...... 249 16 Republican...... ·· ···································· 104 22 ity party has consistently voted for Vote by party: === budget deficits, specifically in the Democrat...... 246 24 H.R. 8597. Treasury/ Postal ..... July 17 ...... _ 3_93___ 18 Republican ...... 135 7 period from 1975 to 1979. Vote by party: I thought it would make an interest H.J. Res. 492 , supplementary urgent/ June 10 ...... 408 Democrat...... 261 14 summer youth. Republican ...... 13 2 4 ing and appropriate sequel to show === June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15835 VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- 1975-Continued 1976-Continued 1977 -Continued
Vote Vote Vote Bill No. and description Date Bill No. and description Date Bill No. and description Date Yea Nay Yea Nay Yea Nay
H.R. 8773. Interior ...... July 23 ...... 417 Vote by party: H.R. 7555. labor/ HEW (Hyde amend- June 17 ...... *201 *155 ---- Democrat...... 200 51 ment) . Vote by party: Republican ...... 131 2 Democrat...... 281 Vote by party: Democrat...... 103 134 Republican 136 H.R. 14239, State/Justice ...... June 18 ...... 208 ---- Republican ...... 98 21 H.R. 9861. Defense ...... Oct. 2...... 353 61 Vote by party: Democrat...... 146 H.R. 7558, Agriculture ...... June 21 ...... _ 3_80__ 28 Vote by party: Republican ...... ==62== Democrat...... 211 59 Vote by party: Republican...... 142 2 Democrat...... 264 4 H.R. 14233, HUD ...... June 22 ...... 369 18 Republican ...... = 1=16==24 H.R. 10029. military construction ...... Oct. 8...... 353 51 Vote by party: Democrat...... 246 3 H.R. 7589, military construction ...... June 21 ...... _ 3_91__ Vote by party: Republican ...... 123 15 Democrat...... 231 46 Vote by party: Republican ...... 122 5 Democrat...... 255 14 H.R. 15194, Public Works/Employment... .. Aug. 25 ...... 311 72 Republican ...... = 1=36==2 H.R. 10647, supplementary ...... Nov. 13 ...... 334 47 Vote by party: Democrat...... 243 13 H.R. 7797 , foreign assistance ...... June 23 ...... _ 2_08__ 1_74 Vote by party: Democrat...... 236 19 Republican ...... 68 59 Vote by party: Republican ...... 98 28 Democrat...... 157 95 H.J . Res. 1096. supplementary Guam ...... Sept. 21...... 372 ---- Republican ...... ==51==79 Average of 19 rollcall votes...... 357 48 Vote by party: H.R. 7932, legislative branch ...... June 29 ...... _ 2_50__ 1_56 Vote by party: Democrat...... 248 Democrat...... 246 24 Republican ...... =1=24== Vote by party: Republican ...... II 0 25 Democrat...... 202 63 Average of 16 rollcall votes ...... 324 47 Republican ...... ==48==93 VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- Vote by party: Democrat...... 225 22 H.R. 7933 , Defense ...... June 30 ...... _3_33__ 54 1976 Republican ...... 99 25 Vote by party: Democrat...... 208 51 Vote Republican ...... = 1=25==3 Bill No. and description Date VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- Yea Nay H.R. 9005, District of Columbia ...... Sept. 16 298 64 1977 ---- H.J. Res. 801. supplementary railroad ...... Feb. 18 ...... _ 2_98__ 9_5 Vote by party: Democrat...... 219 20 Vote by party: Vote Republican ...... 79 44 i>emocrat...... 215 47 Bill No. and description Date === Yea Nay Republican ...... ==83==48 H.R. 9375, supplementary ...... Oct. 25 313 98
H.J. Res. 811 , supplementary legislative .... Feb. 24 ...... _3_36__ 52 H.J. Res. 227 , supplementary power...... Feb. 7...... _3_41__ Vote by party: Democrat...... 223 48 Vote by party: Republican ...... 90 50 Democrat...... 240 21 Vote by party: Democrat...... 229 === Republican ...... ==96==31 Republican ...... 112 Average of 18 rollcall votes...... 328 68 H.R. 12203, foreign assistance ...... Mar. 4...... _2_14__ 1_52 === H.J. Res. 269, supplementary disaster ...... Mar. 3...... 411 Vote by party: ---- Democrat...... 232 30 Vote by party: Republican ...... 95 38 Democrat ...... 161 89 Vote by party: Republican...... ==53==63 Democrat...... 278 Republican ...... =1=33== *Hyde amendment. yea / nay votes are counted in reverse. H.J. Res. 857 , further continuing ...... Mar. 16 ...... _3_09__ 75 H.R. 4876, economic stimulus ...... Mar. 15 ...... 281 126 ---- VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- Vote by party: Democrat...... 227 30 Vote by party: 1978 Republican ...... __82__ 45 Democrat...... 237 31 Republican ...... 44 95 H.J. Res. 890, supplementary health ...... Apr. 5...... _3_54__ 12 === Vote H.R. 4877 . supplementary ...... Mar. 16 ...... 306 98 Bill No. and description Date Vote by party: ---- Yea Nay Democrat...... 234 Vote by party: Democrat...... 246 20 Republican ...... =1=20== H.J. Res. 746 , supplementary power...... Mar. 7...... 353 50 Republican ...... ==60==78 H.R. 13172. second supplementary ...... Apr. 13...... _3_52_ _ 35 Vote by party: H.R. 7552, Treasury, Postal ...... June 8...... 359 45 ---- Democrat...... 257 8 Vote by party: Republican...... 96 42 Democrat...... 248 9 Vote by party: Republican ...... =1=04==26 Democrat...... 244 24 Republican ...... 115 21 H.J. Res. 796. supplementary disaster Mar. 23 393 relief. H.R. 13965, District of Columbia ...... May 26 ...... _3_50__ 13 === H.R. 7557 , Transportation ...... June 8...... 391 11 Vote by party: Vote by party: ---- Democrat...... 260 Democrat...... 239 Vote by party: Republican ...... =1=33== Republican ...... =1=11== Democrat...... 263 Republican ...... =1=28== H.J. Res. 859, supplementary USRA ...... Apr. 27...... 202 196 H.R. 14261. Treasury/ PostaL ...... June 14 ...... _2_58__ 99 H.R. 7636. Interior...... June 9...... 395 Vote by party: Vote by party: ---- Democrat ...... 158 98 Democrat...... 203 34 Vote by party: Republican ...... 44 98 Republican ...... ==55==65 Democrat...... 266 Republican ...... 129 346 23 H.R, 14236, Public Works ...... June 15 ...... _3_78__ 20 === H.J. Res. 873. supplementary SBA ...... May 8.. H.R. 7556, State/ Justice ...... June 13 ...... 353 42 Vote by party: Vote by party: ---- 229 15 Democrat...... 257 8 Democrat...... Vote by party: Republican ...... 117 8 Republican ...... =1=21==12 Democrat...... 253 8 Republican ...... 100 34 297 H.R. 14235, military construction ...... June 16 ...... _ 3_61__ 22 H.R. 12930, Treasury, Postal ... June 7 98 H.R. 7553, Public works ...... June 14 ...... 356 54 Vote by party: Vote by party: ---- 54 Democrat...... 227 21 Democrat ...... 202 Vote by party: Republican 95 44 Republican ...... =1=34==1 Democrat...... 239 32 Republican ...... =1=17==22 H.J. Res. 945, black lung program ...... June 9 ...... 237 72 H.R. 14237. Agriculture ...... June 16 ...... _3_77__ 26 ----· H.R. 7554, HUD ...... June 15. 374 32 Vote by party: Vote by party: ---- Democrat ...... 260 Democrat ...... 185 13 Republican ...... 117 Vote by party: Republican .. 52 59 Democrat ...... 260 8 114 24 .. ... June 17 ...... 331 Republican ...... H.R. 12933. Transportation...... June 12 ...... 347 25 H.R. 14262. Defense ...... ---- === 15836 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- VOTE BREAKDOWN ON HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS- 1978-Continued 1979 1979-Continued
Vote Vote Vote Bill No. and description Date Bill No. and description Date Bill No. and description Date Yea Nay Yea Nay Yea Nay
Vote by party: H.R. 4289, supplemental 1-979 ...... June 6...... 127 270 H.J. Res. 430, supplementary ...... Oct. 25 ...... 290 105 Democrat...... 225 16 ---- Vote by party: Republican ...... =1=22==9 Vote by party: Democrat ...... 103 148 Democrat ...... 200 46 Republican ...... 24 122 H.R. 12929, labor/ HEW ...... June 13 ...... _3_38__ 61 Republican ...... 90 59 Vote by party: H.R. 4390, legislative branch 1980 ...... June 13 ...... 186 232 H.J. Res. 440, continuing 1980...... Nov. 13 ...... _ 3_79__ Democrat...... 231 28 Vote by party: Vote party: Republican ...... ==1=07==33 Democrat...... 159 108 by Republican ...... 27 124 Democrat ...... 246 H.R. 12934, State. Justice ...... June 14. _3_59__ 34 Republican...... = 1=33== H.R. 4388, Energy/Water resources June 18 ...... 359 29 Vote by party: 1980. Average of 19 rollcall votes ...... 288 111 Democrat...... 242 15 Republican ...... 117 19 Vote by party: Vote by party: Democrat...... 225 22 Democrat...... 20 I 52 Republican ...... 134 7 H.R. 12935, legislative branch ...... June 14 ...... 279 90 Republican ...... 87 59 H.R. 4391 , military construction ...... June 18 ...... 366 21 Vote by party: *Final of 5 votes.e Democrat ...... 207 36 Vote by party: Republican ...... 72 54 Democrat...... 227 18 Republican ...... 139 3 H.R. 12927. military construction ...... June 16 ...... 278 13 RESETTLING CUBAN REFUGEES H.R. 4387, agriculture ...... June 19 ...... 391 30 Vote by party: Democrat ...... 183 10 Vote by party: Republican ...... 95 3 Democrat ...... 258 9 HON. ED BETHUNE Republican ...... 133 21 H.R. 12928. Public Works...... June 16 ...... 263 59 OF ARKANSAS H.R. 4394 , HUD ...... June 27 ...... 359 53 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Vote by party: Vote by party: Democrat ...... 173 37 Democrat ...... 250 13 Thursday, June 19, 1980 Republican ...... 90 22 Republican ...... 109 40
H.R. 12936, HUD ...... June 19 ...... 332 47 H.R. 4389, labor/HEW ...... June 28 ...... 327 84 e Mr. BETHUNE. Mr. Speaker, yes terday our distinguished colleague Vote by party: Vote by party: Democrat ...... 231 13 Democrat...... 239 18 from Florida North Carolina, and Illi 3. Finally, because inventory levels have nois during June, idling 5,400 workers. In a the continuing decline of the prime in remained fairly low during the recession single recent day, Dana Corporation an terest rate, and the fact that mortgage geared to lessor demand-there will not be a nounced that it was closing a Wisconsin axle money is again becoming available big burst in inventory replenishment poration said it will shut down operations at American workers inflation is no during the next year or so. Business inven a Niles, Mich., auto parts plant, idling 165, longer the chief problem facing tories jumped sharply in April-up 1.3 per and Deere & Co. of· Moline, Ill., announced them-it is unemployment. cent-according to the US Commerce De further layoffs at an Iowa plant that would partment. Still, government analysts do not bring the number idled there to 4,000. I urge my colleagues to keep in mind believe the rise is excessive yet. what unemployment means to the Meanwhile, the big-three auto manufac One other factor that could definitely turers announced that 34,965 more workers average worker, the tremendous finan affect the duration and impact of the reces would be laid off at assembly plants this cial strain to the family, as well as the sion, Dr. Shaber says, is the timing of the week. General Electric announced that 400 psychological blow of losing one's job. recession overseas. If major importing na salaried workers at its household appliance Mr. Speaker, I insert these two arti tions plunge into the depth of the recession plant 1n Louisville has been laid off indef cles from the Christian Science Moni later this year or next year, as the US pre initely and 3, 700 production workers face tor detailing the impact of the current suinably comes out of recession, that could layoffs in July. recession on American workers and mean a sharp drop in demand for American So far the unemployment impact has been exports. heaviest in the Mid-Atlantic states and the businesses. Chase Econometrics is now forecasting Midwest because of the concentration of in [The Christian Science Monitor, June 13, that housing starts cities such as Birmingham, Ala., have been [In millions] hard hit. The current economic slump-which could Tourism and service trades-including turn out to be the second-worst recession since World War 11-is already showing 1980 1981 1982 retail stores-are beginning to feel the signs of being especially damaging to a impact of inflated costs and squeezed in Housing starts ...... 1.05 1.41 1.63 comes. Layoffs are beginning.e hefty portion of US industries. New-car sales...... 9.1 9.4 10.4 For some key sectors of the economy a quick rebound from the downturn later this STEEL INDUSTRY year or early in 1981 is unlikely, some Economic Week, published by Citibank, in economists now predict. This delayed recov New York, is projecting sharp declines ery, they add, could well post long-range during the current recession for key con HON. DOUGLAS APPLEGATE problems for such important parts of the sumer goods industries that will pose diffi OF OHIO economy as lumber and home building, ap cult long range problems. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pliances, autos, and the furniture industry. For example, Citibank projects a real sales Moreover, consumer product and retail decline of more than 7 percent this year for Thursday, June 19, 1980 firms owned by minorities-particularly appliance manufacturers. That would be blacks-are assumed to be particularly vul e Mr. APPLEGATE. Mr. Speaker, two percentage points worse than the 1973 today I wish to address an issue that nerable during the downturn. downturn. Dr. Beryl W. Sprinkel, for one, who is should concern all Members of Con chief economist and vice-president of Harris Household furniture sales will drop 9 to 10 gress because of its importance to the Bank, in Chicago, says he believes the reces percent, Citibank reckons, about equal to 1973. Clothing and shoe manufacturing will Nation as a whole. I am referring to sion will be both lengthy and "severe." He one of America's most necessary and projects that by the end of this year unem drop 5.5 percent by midyear 1980, it says, worse than the 4.5 percent drop in 1973-75. vital industries, the basic steel indus ployment will be over 9 percent. try. Perhaps more disturbing, he says, it does not look as though there will be the more [From the Christian Science Monitor, June It has become very apparent to even normal V-shape recovery-i.e., a rapid drop 13, 1980] casual onlookers that the steel indus in economic activity followed by a sharp up LAYOFF TIDE SPREADS ACROSS U.S. ECONOMY try is suffering from several ills, swing. Rather, he suggests, there will likely among them a persistent importation be a "moderate policy response" at the fed of foreign steel, a chronically ill U.S. eral level, which means that such industries Layoffs that first were concentrated in auto industry, a depressed housing in as autos and durable goods will register only the auto and construction industries now dustry, and continued aggravation "moderate increases" in employment and are spreading through the economy. over Government regulations. In a rel sales right through 1981 and into 1982. When the nation's unemployment rate ative very short period of time, per Chase Econometrics also suggests a slug went up sharply again in May, to 7.8 per gish recovery. Lawrence Chimerine, chair cent of the work force, major job losses haps 6 months, we have seen the in man and chief economist at this economic were reported in rubber, glass, steel, electri dustry fall from a production capacity consulting firm, does not believe the reces cal manufacturing, wood, paint, furniture, level of 90 percent or better to one of sion will be as severe as the 1974-75 down carpet, cement, and other industries, broad less than 60 percent and falling. Over turn. But at the same time, he sees no evi- ening the heavy impact of layoffs. 33,500 employees in the steel industry, June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15839 both salaried and hourly workers, that may mean a change, a break with sumer groups are not. They are in have lost their jobs over the last year. tradition, and we all know how diffi some unnamed group, but apparently The April 1980 all-employees total was cult changing tradition can be. have no interest in legislation or what the lowest since July 1939, and hourly One such change must come in the ever. This is absurd. Anyone who con workers employed was at its lowest area of foreign trade and commerce. tacts the Congress and contributes level since June of 1933. Further, one We must develop a fair and equitable money in any form or who does not does not need a crystal ball to realize trading policy that allows us to com but is interested in something, is a spe that the situation is continuing to de pete with foreign producers. This is cial interest. teriorate, and will only worsen in the not protectionism, but equality and The authors obviously know little coming months if corrective action is fairness. We must enact legislation about the substantive issues of the not taken. that allows for an expedient recovery FTC debate. For example, they claim Representing southeastern Ohio, an of capital cost. Tax credits are also Congress decides who get regulated. area that thrives on steel production, I needed. We must also make a con This is incorrect. Congress has allowed am obviously greatly concerned about scious effort to reduce bureaucratic unelected bureaucrats to write thou what lies ahead for the industry, for regulation wherever and whenever sands of new laws each year and it is as the steel industry goes, so goes our possible, particularly in the area of en almost to the point where the Federal local economy. I would like to inform vironmental regulation. I have argued Government regulates everything. my colleagues of just what kind of sit this point many times before, but The Congress is now trying to correct uation we have in the upper Ohio cannot stress this too much. We, our this. That is why there was such vigor Valley. selves, are actually killing our own in ous debate about what the FTC is There are two major steel producers dustries because of current policies. doing. That is why now there is a two in my area, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Change, Mr. Speaker, is what is House legislative veto and perhaps and Weirton Steel, a division of Na needed now. It is quite obvious that there will be a one-House veto soon. At tional Steel Corp. Wheeling-Pitts current policies are not working. We the present time, Congress does not burgh Steel Corp. has about 14,500 must be willing to bend. We cannot be control who gets regulated. employees, half of which are in the brittle, for if we are, current economic Another assumption made by the au plants in my district or across the winds will surely break us.e thors is that because someone heavily Ohio River from it and where hun outspends an incumbent, victory is as dreds of my constituents go to work WHO OWNS CONGRESS? sured. This ignores all the issues that each day, that is, when they are not arise during a campaign and is a laid off. But this is occurring at alarm rather simplistic explanation of an ing rates today. Wheeling-Pittsburgh HON. MARTY RUSSO election victory. has about 3,500 people laid off; that is OF ILLINOIS As for my FTC amendment concern 1 of every 4 are laid off, a frightening IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing the funeral industry. I will point statistic. Thirty percent of Wheeling Thursday, June 19, 1980 out another of the authors' errors on Pittsburgh's sales is to the auto indus the subject. Sometimes I believe I will try which obviously makes matters • Mr. RUSSO. Mr. Speaker, on spend the rest of my life trying to that much worse. Weirton Steel is Sunday June 8, the Washington Post assure that journalists get their facts doing somewhat better, but not by ran an article entitled, "Who Owns straight on this particular issue. much as they have about 1,000 of Congress?" The authors of the article their 12,000 work force out of jobs. raise a very serious question about The article supposedly identifies While this company has little depen campaign financing that has been of which big business .interests control dence on the auto industry it is never concern to me for many years. They Members of Congress. In this regard, I theless being injured quite severely. also present some thinly veiled infer am mentioned along with the funeral industry at some length. Let me re According to company officials for ences throughout the article and in clude errors in the article, some relat spond: both firms, the main product being First, a funeral home is not a big sold is tinplate and oil company tubu ing to my legislative work. I feel their remarks should be addressed. The arti business. I cannot think of a smaller, lar products in the case of Wheeling more local, and intrastate industry. Pittsburgh Steel. But even the tin cle reflects on all of us here. One of the authors, Mark Green The average funeral home grosses plate market, on which Weirton Steel about $150,000 a year. The average was built and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Jack Newfield is the other author-is now running for the Congress. I would number of employees is three per heavily depends, is getting very soft home. To my knowledge there are with orders continuing to decline. assume he is accepting campaign con tributions. If he is successful in his only about 22,000 funeral homes in Both companies call third-quarter the Nation, not 34,000 as the authors prospects bleak at best. pursuit of office, it will be interesting to follow Mr. Newfield's writings in contend. There are not isolated examples the Village Voice. For these two gen Second, the funeral rule I fought however. United States Steel, also tlemen believe even if one receives was not a modest one simply requiring working at about a 60 percent capac money from a special interest, one itemized prices over the phone and ity, has about 17,000 employees laid may not even know he has been telling the truth about State codes. off and 7,000 on short workweeks. bought. Also, it does not matter how The revised rule had six major sec Company officials call 1980 third-quar much money one receives, there is tions, including paperwork require ter prospects disasterous. Such as the always an unspoken promise of future ments, and raised many purposely un c~e at Republic Steel, although not to reward. Using their own logic, Mr. answered legal questions. as much of a degree currently, but Green is already bought off by his Third, the FTC, in fact, had very prospects for the future appear as contributors no matter how large or few funeral complaints. Under oath, dark. small the amount of any contribu FTC officials told me they began their The time has come for decisive and tions. Perhaps he will vote "present" investigation with less than a dozen immediate action to be taken by the on all legislative matters and start a complaints. After 5 years of investiga Congress and this administration if we new trend in congressional voting. tion they finished with a little over intend to revive the steel industry as a The authors fail to point out that 1,000 complaints, many of which were whole and put our people back to everyone who contacts the Congress is not substantive. Ten million Ameri work. Decisions must be made. We a special interest. What disturbed me cans died during the 5 years. In addi must demonstrate leadership and during the Federal Trade Commission tion, the FTC staff themselves ad prove that we are capable of solving debates was the fact that union and mitted in their final report that com our problems. There are remedies for business groups are in the eyes of plaints were few and most consumers these problems but they are the kind some, special interest groups, but con- were satisfied. 15840 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 Fourth, the rule would have cost a doing this, they have done us all a dis law for owners of up to three single minimum of $50 million. I revised the service.• family units who do not use a real industry's study and adjusted it to a estate broker and do not sell more revised funeral rule. I used the figure than one home every 2 years. Finally, of $50 million without computing the FAIR HOUSING ACT the bill offers additional protection to cost of refrigeration facilities which AMENDMENTS State and local governments by requir probably would be required by new ing HUD to refer any case involving embalming procedures. My figure was HON. JOSEPH L. FISHER housing discrimination to local and conservative at least. OF VIRGINIA State fair housing boards where the local laws are substantially equivalent Fifth, it is true I received very little IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to Federal fair housing laws. money from funeral interests. The Thursday, June 19, 1980 money was from funeral directors in A third objection to the Fair Hous my home district who gave money to e Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, the ing Amendments Act was that it pro me in appreciation for my efforts on House has just passed by a consider vided for a civil penalty of up to behalf of all small business. This oc able margin H.R. 5200, the Fair Hous $10,000, payable to the Federal Gov curred long before my amendment ing Act Amendments of 1980. This bill, ernment, but not for compensation to fight. which I voted for, establishes an ad the victims of housing discrimination. ministrative enforcement mechanism This has always been a misunder Sixth, the authors imply that I hon for certain kinds of housing discrimi standing of the bill. Under H.R. 5200, estly believe that consumers are not nation complaints in an attempt to the administrative law judge may levy entitled to price information. This is make the existing 1968law more effec a civil penalty as well as any other ap ridiculous. I have never said that and, tive and more equitable. Even with so propriate relief, including compensa in fact, I believe the opposite. My own noble a purpose, the bill was contro tory and injunctive costs to the pre State of Illinois has a price disclosure versial in some respects. Some people vailing party in a housing discrimina law. In addition, the funeral directors thought that the bill would give HUD tion case. do not object to full price disclosure. the authority to overturn and rewrite As I said earlier, I believe that the The argument centers on how it local zoning ordinances. Others objections I have cited have all been should be done. thought that the bill established answered satisfactorily in the bill. I The subject of campaign financing is broad new housing discrimination laws am dismayed, though, in the contro a critical one and goes far beyond the that would interfere with the rights of versy over these few provisions in the issues raised by the authors. In my individuals to sell their homes. Still bill, that more attention was not fo opinion, it is unfortunate that they at others were outraged because they cused around those matters on which times are inaccurate and often are too thought that HUD could levy civil people could and did unanimously simplistic. Their basic thesis is that no penalties but not provide compensa agree: That fair housing is a desirable matter when you get a contribution or tion for the victims. I would like to ad thing, and that the existing law has accept money for a speaking engage dress these three objections and make not been very effective. The central ment or no matter how much money it clear what the final version of the purpose of H.R. 5200 is simple: To en or how little you are given, you are bill would and would not do. force existing fair housing laws more bought, whether you know it or not. I approach this bill from a back quickly and with less cost to those in Therefore, any vote is subject to this ground and perspective which may be Volved. I think the administrative en type of Monday morning quarterback unique among my colleagues in the forcement mechanism is a legitimate ing. An example-three different in House. Some years ago, as a member means to accomplish this, and I be terests give a Congressman money and of the county board of Arlington, Va., lieve this legislation will help to then a vote comes up in which the I sponsored the first local fair housing reduce discrimination in housing.e groups are interested. It doesn't ordinance ever to become law in a matter how you vote, you lose. Even if southern State. This was done before you vote the way favored by the one the first national fair housing legisla FILIPPINI SISTERS MARK of the three who gave you only a small tion was passed by Congress. I men JUBILEE amount of money, you could be voting tion this to point out that I do have a for future gain. So this type of logic unique perspective on the bill. HON. FRANK J. GUARINI convicts you of conflict of interest no The principal argument against the matter how you vote, unless you do Fair Housing Act amendments seemed OF NEW JERSEY not accept any money. Of course in to be that the bill would allow HUD to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that case you would not be in office rewrite local zoning laws. The final Thursday, June 19, 1980 anyway. version of the bill, however, prohibits any administrative law judge from e Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, this Another point I would like to make hearing any land use planning cases. weekend, in New Jersey, there will be is about the media. If a large newspa Cases involving land use, which in a ceremony honoring an individual per or TV station runs a favorable cludes zoning, must be referred to the who was born many years ago and story about a large company who owns Attorney General, who has the two thousands of miles away but who has a lot of their stock, is this a conflict? options of referring the case to the influenced the hearts and minds of What about advertisers? If a newspa courts or dropping it altogether. millions of people here in the United per chooses not to tell the local public A second argument against the Fair States. about severe union problems at the Housing Amendments Act was that On Sunday, June 22, 1980, in the stores of one of their largest adver HUD would be given broad new hous community chapel of Villa Walsh, tisers, is the paper owned by the ad ing discrimination authority. Several motherhouse since 1930 of the Reli vertiser? Does the media not have its things argue against this. First, a floor gious Teachers Filippini, retired own axes to grind? amendment by Congressman SYNAR Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton will The authors have taken a very seri was adopted which changes the origi be principal concelebrant of a Mass ous subject and treated it in a rather nal bill by requiring that the adminis commemorating the 50th anniversary unserious and simplistic manner. Nor trative law judges, who would deal of the canonization of St. Lucy did they or the paper feel any obliga with questions of housing discrimina Filippini. tion apparently, in terms of fairness, tion, be appointed by and under the Bishop Ahr's presence will mark in a to contact Members included in the ar direction of the Attorney General special way that it was in the Trenton ticle for their comments. Nor have rather than the Secretary of HUD. Diocese that the GOmmunity founded they offered any constructive sugges Second, provision was made to contin by St. Lucy 300 years ago established tions for change and improvement. By ue the current exemption in existing its first U.S. motherhouse. June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 1584'1 Concelebrating with Bishop Ahr will French and has served as a principal her. Lucy set an example of what a truly be pastors of parishes served by the on both levels. liberated woman can be-free from the order. Homilist will be Father Angelo Born in Watertown, N.Y., of Italian shackles of her own selfish whims and de sires, free from living up to an image set by Palermo, a former student of the Fi immigrant parents, Leo Basile and those who would exploit her, free to allow lippini Sisters, now principal of Bishop Mary Frances Agnesita, Sister received her instinctive goodness and purity to guide Eustace High School, Pennsauken. her undergraduate degree at Notre her relationships with others-free in effect Following the liturgy, an anniversary Dame College of Maryland. She did to say "yes, forever yes" to her Creator. dinner will be served in Mother Nin her graduate work in English and edu This is what will leap from the pages of this etta Hall. cational administration at Catholic well written biography and give the reader a St. Lucy was an early pioneer in the University of America. new understanding of all women. education of women, particularly poor I join in the worldwide salute to this I am pleased to inform my col women. Her first schools were in Mon devoted order of nuns who have more leagues of this tribute. I am sure they tefiascone, Tarquinia and Rome, Italy. than 1,100 members in the world and will join with me in extending their Today, the order also serves in Brazil, more than 400 in the United States. congratulations to this religious order Africa, England, Ireland, and Switzer The order in New Jersey is under which has contributed so greatly to the land. the direction of Sister Clare Testa, moral, religious, and intellectual fiber Five Sisters of the order first came Provincial, of Nutley, N.J. ofmankind.e to America in 1910 at the request of The contributions of Sister Lucy are Pope Pius X to staff St. Joachim being spotlighted on this -golden jubilee because she truly lived the title WELCOME TO OUR NEWLY School in Trenton. In 1921, Bishop NATURALIZED AMERICANS Thomas J. Walsh of Trenton estab of the book. Indeed, she was in tune lished a motherhouse for the order at with the Word of God within her, Villa Victoria. Today, the New Jersey within others, and within every cir HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN province of St. Lucy Filippini staffs 45 cumstance of life. OF NEW YORK schools and 4 mission centers. Sister Lucy Filippini's teaching has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been described as dynamic, prophetic, Sister Lucy Filippini organized the and magnetic. Her openness to the Thursday, June 19, 1980 worldwide Religious Teachers Filip moment and her gospel-rooted life are e Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, it is pini. I am especially proud because of evidenced in her "Forever Yes." with sincere pleasure that I congratu the great work that the Filippini sis Lucy was an extraordinary woman late the 169 Rockland County resi ters have done in Hudson County judicious, happy, practical, farsighted, dents of New York's 26th Congression where they operate elementary perspicacious. Her oneness in God al District who have recently chosen schools and day nurseries, including: gifted her with wisdom to clarify to become citizens of the United Our Lady of Lourdes-St. Anthony's, doubt, courage to proclaim justice, States, with all of the privileges, free Union City, Sister Anna Cascio, zeal to develop talents, strength to doms, and responsibilities that Ameri M.P.F., principal; St. Rocco's Day overcome all obstacles joyfully, free can citizenship entails. Nursery, Union City, Sister Mary Ca dom to spend herself totally and Our Hudson Valley region in New pozzelli, directress; Our Lady of daring to raise the dignity of women. York State is proud of its newest citi Libera, West New York, Sister Geral Yes, she was truly an extraordinary zens and I invite my colleagues to join dine Contento, principal; Our Lady of woman! me in welcoming the following newly the Assumption, Bayonne, Sister Yesterday Lucy enlightened the naturalized Americans and extending Esther D'Alessio, principal; Our Lady dark comers of her world as she pene to them our best wishes for a happy of Mt. Carmel, Jersey City, Sister trated the superficialities, the igno and prosperous life in their new home Rose Vallelunga, principal; Our Lady rance, the materialism of her age. land: of the Holy Rosary School, Jersey Today Lucy enlightens the dark John Joseph Conlon, Ariol Louis Charles, City, Sister Irma Papaleo, principal; corners of our world as her teachers Femande Colin, Jaime Agustin Pozo, Jac and St. Nicholas School, Palisades penetrate the superficialities, the igno queline Vivy, Anna D'Avanzo, Choung Cha Park, Sister Angelina Pecoraro, princi rance, the materialism of our age. Oh, Sang Sun Oh, Pauline Deshomme, pal. When Pope Pius XI solemnly in Eliana Guzman, Aubrey Lloyd Birch, Teo I am also very proud because a doro Brach, Paris Papasophocles, Maria Luz scribed Lucy Filippini in the annals of Rodriguez. Jersey City-born nun, Sister Geraldine the saints on June 22, 1930, he did so Em-Orn Bonyaviroch, Roberto Helowa Calabrese, M.P.F., coauthored with because she stands for all time as a Arias, Yeh Ooh Lai, Fazlur Rahman Chowd Sister Giacinta Basile, M.P.F., the woman who speaks to women of all hury, Mario Antunes Luis, Eliezer Shoer, book, "Forever Yes: The Story of Lucy cultures, a woman who challenges all Giovanna Caruso, Teresa Miriam Smith, Filippini." personalities to respect their dignity Fritznel Jean-Louis, Pradeep Madhusudhan Sister Geraldine is one of the eight and beauty, to recognize their sacred Gupte, Saidapet Lakshmanan Balakrishnan, daughters of Frank Calabrese and ness and power. Michael Edward Bastone, Manjulekha Joarder, Borianka Iliev. Rose Georgia Calabrese of Jersey City, However, I think a synopsis of the Vijayabhanu Mangalam Nair, Ming-Gee and has been blind since she was 24 book "Forever Yes" best describes Lee, Mary Sullivan, Rosina Cirina Viscardi, years old; but this has not deterred Sister Lucy Filippini: Yechiel Mechel Ciment, Han Yung Lee, her from her life of teaching and writ "Forever Yes" is the story of Lucy Filip John Joseph Brady, Ngurthangmawi ing. Sister has been a member of the pini, a woman whose constant affirmative Sanate, Fotini Apostolopoulos, Kyriakos Religious Teachers Filippini since response to the wishes of her God made her Somos, Rogelio Marcelino Rivera, Nella 1939. A graduate of St. Peter's College an inspiration to all those with whom she Puglionisi, Madone Phanor. in Jersey City, Sister did her graduate came into contact. Elizabeth Sutton, Gertraude Roth Li, work at Dunbarton College in Wash Lucy was a woman of accomplishment: Wendelin Glaser, Kahee Park, Marie Yva Her work in founding the Religious Teach Toussaint, Sara Berger, Raymonde Ceran, ington, D.C., where she majored in ers Filippini was in large measure responsi Benno Bayer, Joseph Avigder Altman, theology. The author of "Better Com ble for restoring the dignity of the less Henny Rosenberg, Nehame Butin, Periklis position for Everyone," a workbook privileged women of her day. Lucy and her Mitakeas, Afroditi Mitakeas. for the elementary grades, Sister is teachers gave these women an education Tula Katsihtis, Esther Segelman, Cather presently coordinator of the House of the key to freedom of mind and body from ine Frances Martin, Maria Da Paz Figuei Prayer in Trenton, N.J. the slavery of ignorance. And, of course, in redo, Esperanta Joseph, Shirley Wellington, Sister Giacinta Basile, M.P.F., has restoring dignity to women, Lucy's work re Ingrid Georgiewna Lukashova-Tsibulia, sulted in a new affirmation of the impor Josef Benjaminowitch Tsibulia, Mercedes been a member of the community of tance of the family, of which women are the Esperanza Cruz, Christoper Soundang Liu, Religious Teachers Filippini since heart and soul. Rampersaud Sukhnanand, Hong Ja Sheen, 1940. She has been an elementary and Perhaps Lucy's greatest accomplishment Turan Mithat !til, Marie Antoinette Alex high school teacher of English and was in her ability to inspire those around andre. 15842 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 Jean Mary Cham, Marie Rose Mirville, harsh choices awaiting the Cambo to build up the strength of their own en Ana Julia Chavez, Wilston George Malcolm, dians in Thailand-repatriation to war campments along the border, from which Isabel Maria Pereira Luis, Pete Anthony and famine in Cambodia-or endless they strike out to skirmish both with each Morisseau, Kei Kau Chan, Preeti Bagchi, other and with the Vietnamese troops that Diana Rose Fergus, Veronica Lynette years of waiting in Thai holding cen now rule Cambodia. Wooley, Jacques Jacob Lauture, Ofelia To ters. "Nobody had time to get ready for this," lentino Roxas, John Yiu-Kong Chan, Jong THAI OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE PROGRAM To said one highly placed relief official with Chul Sheen. REPATRIATE CAMBODIAN REFUGEES one of the agencies who will be supplying Ernst Regis, Arnold Regis, Gatien Desir, (By Rod Nordland) food and medical services to the refugees Nilly Wizman, Rufina Antonia Gomez, BANGKOK.-Thailand yesterday began an being repatriated. Laure Margareth Alzuphar, Joseph Edanat extensive program to return Cambodian ref "They just dropped this in everyone's Mathew, Clara Luz Zarzuela, Lourdes ugees voluntarily to their homeland. laps, and the Khmers don't Aquino Mangonon, Berl Kind, Kyo Jung even know what hit them." Koh, Francois Audalbert Cadet, Marie It is the first organized mass movement back to Cambodia since refugees began Relief workers at the two principal refu Francoise Cadet, Yekutiel Zeeshe Rub. gee camps involved, Sa Kaeo and Khao I Jocelyne Regis, Chiao-Nung Chen, Li-Fan streaming into Thailand last fall. In the weeks to come, the program could affect as Dang, said that guerrilla cadres in each Rau Chen, Tosca Irene Cooney, Miriam camp have been waging a campaign of mis Taub, Helene Tumanoff, Augustus Hansraj, many as 25,000 of the 175,000 Cambodians who now live in two of eight refugee camps information among refugees to convince Anjanie Hansraj, Annette Sohandrie Hans them that they have no choice but to agree raj, Janet Beshandrie Hansraj Dukhram, here, to which they fled from their war-tom homeland. to return to Cambodia. Lynet Mohandrie Hansraj, Maria Altagracia In fact, one relief worker who tried to tell Pichardo, Sushma Meera Singh, Govind More than 800,000 refugees now pack the eight camps in Thailand, straining Thai re refugees in Sa Kaeo of their choices was ar Singh, Steven Yadoonauth Kistoo. rested by Thai officials. Virginia Cacho Almiron, Antonio Pasqua, sources and hospitality. For most of them, there is little hope of resettlement in the The workers say the only action taken by Eliseo Ahmad Moreno, Leon Malebranche, the United Nations to inform refugees of Alicia Villena Flores, Mireille Lamarque, Al West, and Thai officials have become in creasingly frustrated at the growing refugee their rights has been to post copies of the tagracia Escribano, Geraldine Euphemia document that refugees must sign if they Grant, Jessie Moise Nicolas, Clifton Edwin population. Now, the officials are fearful that impend return. Peruza, Manu Shivram Patel, Yolaine Apa Although the document asks refugees chie Toto, Eva Frank, Evelyne Laine. ing famine in Cambodia will push more ref ugees across the border, causing those num whether they are returning of their own Christiana Filosca, Annamma John, Mei free will, it does not explicitly state that Tze Shaw, Sakti Prasad Bagchi, Chi Kuen bers to swell still more. At the Khao I Dang camp, where 130,000 they can choose to stay where they are. A Chan, Chi Ngai Chan, Duminada Nieves large proportion of the refugees-perhaps Fernandez, Clarise Chisholm, Charmaine refugees now live, 506 Cambodians signed up for repatriation on the opening day of 60 percent in Sa Kaeo-cannot read their Eleanor Denise Downie, Jeremiah O'Dowd, own language. Raynault Louis Milord, Marie Yvrose Char the program. Most were members of family lot, Daniela Borovec, Bohumil Borovec. groups-children, parents, grandparents In Sa Kaeo, which houses about 30,000 Chin Ho Shaw, Benjamin Rimando Ril who elected to return to Cambodia together. refugees, the Khmer Rouge guerrilla in resi lera, Trinidad Pulido Rillera, Armando The program moves to the Sa Kaeo Camp dence have threatened to execute anyone Abanes Lagda, Jr., Andromeda Rillera today. who refuses to return. Members of the Lagda, Indira Narasimhan, Marie Therese The program, jointly conducted by the Khmer Rouge support the ousted Pol Pot Bazile, Derrick Hugh Creighton, Bonifacio Thai military's Task Force 80 and the regime, which during its four years in power Bello Brillantes, Jr. United Nations High Commissioner for Ref (1975-79> caused the deaths of thouands of Laurette Mary McKercher, in behalf of ugees , was officially kept secret Cambodians through widespread executions Scott Francis McKercher; Gary Roger Law until only three days before it began. There and starvation. rence, in behalf of Matthew Joseph Law had been rumors for weeks that Thailand In Khao I Dang, most of the anti-Commu rence; Thomas Michael Demeola, in behalf would try to repatriate many of the refu nist guerrillas working for the Khmer Serei of Andrew Peter Demeola; Stephen Leonard gees, but as late as last week officials were Leader Son Sann have been actively recruit Horowitz, in behalf of Amy Dawn Horowitz; denying that any such efforts were planned. ing returnees inside the camp, telling them Andrew Eanniello, in behalf of Christina Thus, the announcement caught many relief that if they do not return voluntarily now, Elizabeth Eanniello. agencies by surprise. the Thai army will force than back at gun Norman Steven Dauber, in behalf of Me Simultaneously, That authorities banned point. lissa Elizabeth Dauber; Audrey Gastel, in journalists from the Cambodian border re In 1979, thousands perished when the behalf of Scott Jason Gastel; Scott Gordon gions where refugees who volunteer to Thai army repatriated 40,000 Cambodian Reed, in behalf of Jessica Lindsay Reed; return are to be taken, and also forbade refugees by forcing them at gunpoint into a Scott Gordon Reed, in behalf of Scott journalists to talk to any refugees in the minefield along the northern Cambodian Gordon Reed, Jr.; Roberta Gladys Jackson, camps. border. in behalf of Carianna Edith Jackson. Returnees, a UNHCR spokesman said, are The UNHCR has pledged that it will fight Roberta Gladys Jackson, in behalf of to be equipped with food supplies, farm im any such _forcible repatriation, but it favors Robert John Jackson; Eliel Mamousette, in plements and rice seed. A U.S. official, an the repatriation for willing refugees when it behalf of Ruth Danielle Mamousette; Eliel interpreter who speaks the Khmer language is safe for them to return. Mamousette, in behalf of Eliel Mamousette, and a Thai military official are to be pres The Cambodian border, however, contin Jr.; David Kwilecki; Abraham Deutsch; Jean ent while refugees in the Thai camps are ues to be a region marked by constant strife Beaurel Lynce; Chung Kowk Chow; Miche screened to see who wants to go back, the between various guerrilla factions and the line Jeanne Vanderbly; Rosaria Sarah spokesman said. Vietnamese troops occupying the country Sanzo.e The UNHCR spokesman said his organiza since Pol Pot was driven from power in Jan tion was satisfied that the repatriation uary 1979. would indeed be voluntary and that any ref Vietnam and Cambodia reacted strongly THAI OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE EF ugees returning to Cambodia would be to the planned repatriations, particularly of FORTS TO REPATRIATE CAM doing so of their own free will. the Khmer Rouge followers who fled their BODIAN REFUGEES But the program was denounced by the country because of famine and who have Vietnamese-backed government in Cambo made no secret of their plans to head for dia, which sees it as an effort to supply their hidden catches of weapons and return HON. STEPHEN J. SOLARZ fresh supporters to the guerrilla factions to battle against the Vietnamese troops. OF NEW YORK that operate along the border, where the For the past year, the Vietnamese have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES refugees will cross back into Cambodia. And scrupulously avoided attacking the guerrilla some relief agency officials criticized it be border camps in all but a few isolated in Thursday, June 19, 1980 cause, they say, it lacks safeguards to pre stances. • Mr. SOLARZ. Mr. Speaker, the hu vent refugees being forced back against But after the repatriation plan was an manitarian tragedy of the Cambodian their will. nounced Friday, SPK, the Cambodian news refugees continues. At the same time, They said most refugees being interviewed agenc.Y, darkly hinted that the country's there is very little international re had little idea of their alternatives and, in forces would attack the repatriation points. many cases, were being pressured by guerril Refugees who agree to return, the Thai sponse. las in the camps to agree to return. military's Supreme Command announced, I ask my colleagues to take note of Those guerrillas-members of both the will be taken to one of four points on the the following articles from the Phila Khmer Rouge and the 500-mile-long border, the exact locations of delphia Inquirer which spells out the rival Khmer Serei -want which are being kept secret. June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15843 They will have a choice of points con U.S. opposition. What is currently pects of cooperation. In the latter sector, trolled by the Khmer Rouge or the Khmer happening in Afghanistan has only many Italian minds have found fertile Serai. strengthened our resolve to continue ground in U.S. research laboratories and in The Thai government's Task Force 80, our support for a free Estonia, Latvia, study and experimentation circles often which oversees border area security and the with excellent results. operation of the refugee camps, appears and Lithuania.e Particularly interesting are the aspects of willing to adopt stern measures to prevent cooperation in the energy field. Through relief workers from informing refugees that joint projects for research and demonstra they have the right to remain in the refugee tion, it develops exchanges of personnel and camps under U.N. protection. ITALIAN-AMERICAN technical cooperation, exchanges of infor Last week, Peter Pond, an official of the COOPERATION mation and agreements on joint private un Thai Refugee Committee, a voluntary chari dertakings, and deals with a large range of table relief organization. passed out leaflets sectors: from solar energy to energy conser in Khmer inside the Sa Kaeo camp telling HON. DANTE B. FASCELL vation and geothermal energy and finally refugees they could demand the right to OF FLORIDA nuclear energy. And one should not forget stay and that the U.N. and other agencies IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that in October 1979 the two countries would protect them. signed in this connection a memorandum of Khmer Rouge cadres quickly moved to Thursday, June 19, 1980 understanding. confiscate the leaflets, beating up several e Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, when But the joint progress made in the health refugees helping Pond distribute them, and ever differences arise between our and environment protection fields is no less Pond promptly was arrested by Task Force country and any of our NATO allies, important, for example, the fight against 80. He was charged with entering a restrict we are quick to learn of them. We cancer and the cooperation programs al ed military area and was jailed. Pond, an ready underway-at various levels-in the American citizen and the son of the wife of hear less when things are going well. struggle against drugs and pollution. Nor a former U.S. ambassador to Thailand, was Perhaps that is why our relations with must we forget the agreements on social se moved from a refugee camp jail, where he Italy are not often in the headlines. curity and initiatives in the cultural fields, spent the weekend, to an undisclosed loca The United States and Italy have such as the famous Fulbright Program tion in Bangkok on Monday. been close allies for so long, bound by which promotes the exchange of American He remained in custody Monday, and special ties of culture, kinship, and po and Italian students and scholars. permission to enter Sa Kaeo camp, despite like any success, it required continuing As already mentioned, the "dossier" also the charges against him.e effort and strengthening. deals with two very important sectors in the The current administration has, in economy of bilateral relations: on trade : it details what has already ATION OF THE BALTIC STATES bassador to Italy, Richard N. Gardner, been done and underscores as well the enor has instituted a series of low-budget mous possibilities of development in this HON. LESTER L. WOLFF and very useful bilateral programs de area. signed to work to our mutual benefit. I In short, a rather complex panorama, OF NEW YORK would like to share with our colleagues behind which one sees-beyond figures and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a recent article from the Italian daily statistical data-the American will to inten Thursday, June 19, 1980 newspaper Il Tempo describing these sify and broaden a cooperative relationship programs, called cumulatively our that is amply justified on the political e Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, this strategy of cooperation with Italy. plane. And this is an extremely important summer the people of Estonia, Latvia, fact for Italy, which is at a stage of produc and Lithuania will observe the 40th The article follows: tive and social development, requiring a anniversary Of the Soviet Union's fore- THE RICH DOSSIER OF COOPERATION great effort towards the reconversion of in ible occupation and annexation of Some time ago, Richard Gardner. who dustrial structures, innovations in the agri their nations. It was in 1940 that the had just been named Ambassador of the cultural area, services and the organization United States to our country, said-during a of the bureaucracy. In fact, at a time when Soviets made an ultimatum to the the country is undergoing a rapid process of three governments that new pro- conference that aroused great interest-that modernization, the American experience Soviet governments be formed. When relations between technologically advanced nations and the other nations must not be can be very valuable and speed up the suc these patriotic Baltic States refused to merely considered as a series of technical cessful completion of our efforts.e submit to the Soviet ultimatum the and economic questions but rather as ele Soviet Union invaded all three na- ments of broad political negotiations; they tions. can be seen as part of a survival pact that ENERGY ALLOWANCE CHECK The subsequent formation of Soviet provides mutually agreed restrictions on the RETURNED puppet governments in Latvia, Lithua- sovereignty of each in order to protect the nia, and Estonia soon led to the annex- sovereignty of all. On the basis of this approach, Gardner, a ation of these formerly independent diplomat and politician, but above all a man HON. BOB CARR nations. In spite of Soviet measures of culture, has tried, while pursuing his OF MICHIGAN aimed at the contrary, the people of public activity, to start with Italy a cultural IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES these Baltic lands have maintained and "political" dialogue in its broadest their strong sense of nationalism. sense. In other words, he has always tried to Thursday, June 19, 1980 Their desire for independence has not base the cooperative relationship between • Mr. CARR. Mr. Speaker, the news decreased at all over the past 40 years. Italy and the United States first of all on a media have called our national atten The United States has never recog- mutual understanding of the two cultures tion to the fact that some of the nized the Soviet acquisition of the and their needs generated by a wide spec- trum of probleins. energy allowance checks mailed out Baltic States. Today we are witnessing The strategy of cooperation between the earlier this winter to assist poor fami a possible replay of history. The fore- two countries stems from this "philosophy". lies and individuals were not properly ible occupation of Afghanistan will The American Embassy in Rome recently screened. Some recipients had no fuel perhaps prove to be another similar issued a voluminous dossier on the progress bills to pay and were thus the happy event. Just as we condemn past Soviet made in recent years in this direction. Ten beneficiaries of a bonus from Uncle aggression in Afghanistan, we must "key sectors" of bilateral cooperation are Sam. The stories reflected poorly both condemn it in the Baltic States. The analyzed in this dossier. This precise and de- tailed report, which ranges over the sectors on our Federal energy assistance pro fact that the aggression occurred 4~ of energy and trade, agriculture and law and gram and on recipients, who were re Y_ears ago has not l~ssened th~ oppos1- the legal system, social security and the ex ported to be planning the purchase of tiOn of the Estomans, Latvians, or _ change of students and "brains," under frivolous items with the tax dollars Lithuanians nor has it lessened the scores the scientific and technological as- aimed at alleviating suffering and CX:XVI-997-Part 12 15844 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 hardship. Today I have the pleasure States. "Public policy" merely suggests a na leagues at the Adjutant General of setting the record straight. tional consensus that a certain thing is de Center for his dedicated contribution sirable or undesirable, right or wrong. If we to building a stronger military force. Jean Lyons of Lansing, Mich., re carry out "public policy" we must do so by cently sent me a check for $177 which enactments which are valid according to the Mr. Davis was studying at the Uni she had received as an energy allow Constitution. versity of Chicago when World War II ance for her sister, who is on social se A second major point to be noted about called him into service, and he served curity disability and SSI. Ms. Lyons "public poli«Y." in the specific context of in the South Pacific as a meteorologist explained that her sister lives in an the debate over this amendment, is that for the Army Air Force. He obtained adult foster care home, that she does there is more than one "public policy" in the rank of captain before his dis not pay utility bills herself, and that volved. The nation indeed embraces a salu charge from the Army. she had no need for the check, which tary public policy against racial discrimina Returning from the war, Mr. Davis tion. But it also has embraced, from its very Ms. Lyons asked that I return to the beginning, a public policy which fosters and continued to work with the Army by proper Federal authority. I did so with favors and sponsors religious liberty. It is to coordinating the branch's efforts in a profound sense of gratitude for her be feared that, in the consideration of this the field of language study. His out civil responsibility. amendment, this latter public policy has standing service while stationed in I hope, and I expect, that other been totally ignored. Just as you cannot put Chicago, as a civilian consultant, checks came back to Washington from down a person's freedom to be educated vaulted him to a similar position for every congressional district in our without regard to his race, so you cannot the American Army in Europe. He Nation. But I could not let the oppor smother a person's religious liberty in the served in that position for 4 years. name of a "public policy" against racial dis tunity go by without sharing with you crimination. He returned to Washington, D.C. my own experience. Facing the huge From earliest times, there has been a and continued his work for the Army volume of mail that comes into my manifest American public policy favoring re at the Pentagon. While there, he con office every day can be a dismaying ligious liberty. The history of the colonies is tinued to develop new ideas and ap task. Ms. Lyon's letter will keep me en in considerable part the history of a strug proaches in the field of language. ergized for months.e gle for religious liberty. All of the Founding Tilton Davis, Jr. grew up in Lexing Fathers were profoundly conscientious of ton, Mo., and received his early educa the great values of religious liberty. The tion at Wentworth Military Academy. IRS REVENUE PROCEDURES writings of Thomas Jefferson, the great Me morial and Remonstrance of James Madi His early interests in education stem son, the many statements of George Wash mainly from his family's involvement HON. WILUAM F. GOODUNG ington, of Franklin and others all stand as ~ that field. His dedication to the pur OF PENNSYLVANIA historic testimony to the orienting of the suit of education for our armed serv IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES young nation toward freedom of conscience ices is something of which we can be and liberty of religion. The religion clauses proud. Thursday, June 19, 1980 of the first amendment were put through John F. Kennedy once observed, e Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, Con many drafts, while the first constitutional convention earnestly debated the meaning that as Americans we would be judged gress is again debating the issue of the of religious liberty. From that time forward, by the following set of criteria: IRS revenue procedures which were the fame of America has grown as the First, were we truly men of courage. ostensibly designed to allow the IRS world's greatest practitioner of religious Second, were we truly men of judgment. to revoke the tax-exempt status of pri freedom. Many of the refugees who have Third, were we truly men of integrity vate schools which practice racial dis come to these shores have done so on ac ... crimination. The problem, however, is count of religious oppression somewhere Finally, were we men of dedication. that the IRS proposal is constructed else and the sure realization that they Tilton Davis, Jr.'s strong and con in such a way as to trample on private would find religious liberty here. The back grounds of Puritans, Catholics, Amish, Jews vincing record clearly answers the schools' first amendment rights of reli and many other religious groups testify to challenges set forth by President Ken gious freedom and on basic standards this. nedy and deserves the praise of the of fairness-by treating schools as The lengthy jurisprudence of the Su House. guilty unless they prove themselves in preme Court of the United States has been Mr. Davis is continuing to work as a nocent and by arbitrarily requiring devoted, in significant part, to the develop consultant for the Serviceman's Op schools to take burdensome actions in ment of constitutional principles protective of religious liberty. Decisions of the court in portunity College. He and his wife now order to clear themselves of suspicion. reside in Alexandria, Va.e As you know, Congress temporarily recent years have made it totally clear that everyone is entitled to the free exercise of resolved the controversy by blocking his religion and that the government, by the IRS from putting the proposed virtue of the principle of Church-State sepa WASHINGTON'S UNION STATION revenue procedures into effect during ration, shall largely keep its hands out of fiscal year 1980. But since these churches and their schools. Decisions of the HON. JAMES J. FLORIO Lemon Kurtzman, Walz amendments lose their force at the Court, such as v. v. OF NEW JERSEY end of the fiscal year, Congress must Tax Commission, Sherbert v. Verner and act again to keep the IRS at bay. Wisconsin v. Yoder should be carefully read IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES At this point I would like to share before anyone ventures to assert that some Thursday, June 19, 1980 generally stated "public policy" shall be with my colleagues a statement by Mr. used as an engine to override religious free e Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I was William Ball, an attorney from Harris dorns.e pleased to read in the Washington burg, Pa. Mr. Ball, who has been de Post recently an article about Am scribed as the "Clarence Darrow of re trak's plans to develop commercially ligious freedom," brings out an impor RETIREMENT OF TILTON DAVIS, some of its stations. Years ago, rail tant point: - JR. roads played a prominent role not Two kinds of minorities are involved here, only in this country's transportation not one: racial minorities and religious mi HON. IKE SKELTON system but also in the growth patterns norities • • • IRS has proceeded upon the of our cities. Commercial and industri totally false assumption that regulation to OF MISSOURI combat racial discrimination necessarily IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES al businesses vied for the land sur nullifies • • • first amendment rights. rounding rail passenger stations. With Thursday, June 19, 1980 the decline of rail passenger service STATEMENT BY WILLIAM BALL e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, Tilton during the 1950's and 1960's however, Unfortunately absent from the entire businesses began to relocate to other debate over this amendment has been any Davis, Jr., a native Missourian, recent real consideration of public policy. First, we ly retired from 30 years of distin parts of the city, abandoning the rail must point out, that any vaguely stated guished service to the cause of mili station areas. Today, just as rail pas "public policy" is not superior to the com tary education. On February 29, he senger transportation has reemerged mands of the Constitution of the United was honored by his friends and col- as a desirable way to travel, I believe June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15845 that rail stations and their surround [From the Washington Post, May 25, 1980] mercia! space in it," the train station's com AMTRAK: NEXT STOP mercial possibilities are attractive, Gilson ing areas will begin to attract the busi said. ness interest they once did. NEBRASKA has grown into a Frankenstein's monster. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, June 19, 1980 We have gotten to the point where govern Thursday, June 19, 1980 • Mr. GINN. Mr. Speaker, one of the ment by bureaucracy has overwhelmed gov most important issues facing this Con ernment by people and their elected offi e Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, on gress is the work to eliminate the cials. June 3 and June 6 an equipment fail burden of unnecessary Federal regula Recently our experience has been that a ure in our national defense warning Congress of the United States will enact 500 tions. Our distinguished colleague, the laws during its two-year tenure. During that system caused a false alert of a Soviet Honorable ELLIOTT LEviTAS, is a leader nuclear attack. These were not the same period of time, the bureaucracies will in this effort, and he recently au issue 10,000 rules and regulations which first instances of a breakdown in our thored an article on the subject in the have the same force and effect of law as an warning system. As a recent editorial Atlanta Business Chronicle. I com act passed by the Congress. in the Lincoln . NERC is a cooperative quirements. PLANTS: WILL WE NEED THEM? formed by electric utilities after the New Mr. Speaker, more than 100 panel York City blackout in 1964; its purpose is to see that power-generating capacity keeps ists and participants gathered in Nash HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. pace with demand. Gent said, "We've gone ville for what you can see was a very OF CALIFORNIA through the age of laying a straight edge on successful conference. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a piece of graph paper, and we've just gone Keynote speakers for the 3-day con through all the econometric models [for ference were Dr. Mark Novitch, Acting Thursday, June 19, 1980 energy forecasting] and shown they're no Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug • Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. good. And so we're back to crystal ball Administration and Dr. Channing H. Speaker, much of the national energy gazing. The effect is so enormous, on our in debate has confused an oil supply dustry anyway, because of the capital re Lushbough, vice president for quality quirements. To be wrong is just catastroph assurance at Kraft, Inc. problem with an electrical energy ic." Is it possible that all the forecasts are Noted panelists who addressed nutri problem. In fact, during the past wrong? "Absolutely," Gent said. Does that tional concerns were as follows: Dr. decade projections of electrical energy mean the future could be catastrophic for John Bieri, National Institute of Ar demand have fallen like a rock, which some? " It could be; the worst thing would be thritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Dis has vast complications upon U.S. capi- if demand is greater than we've predicted." eases; Dr. James C. Smith, Jr., Nutri . tal projections and certainly affects Like others, NERC has lowered its expec tion Institute, USDA; Dr. Ruth other policy questions, such as the tations, and Gent said that some utilities Schwartz, professor, Cornell Universi need for breeder reactors. will be canceling orders for coal and nuclear Electric utility forecasters, as might generating plants. But Gent remains firm in ty; Dr. Rida Ali, senior manager, Nu his conviction that there cannot be any real trition and Health Sciences, General be expected, have been the slowest to growth in the economy without increased Foods Corp.; Dr. Theresa Volpe, group recognize this downward trend in elec demand for energy-and particularly elec leader, New Products and Applied Nu tric energy demand, but as the cancel tricity. NERC's decision to lower its fore trition, ITT Continental Baking Co.; lations in orders for nuclear and coal cast, incidentally, has shaken others in the Dr. Johnnie Prothro, professor, Geor fired powerplants have demonstrated, field, even though NERC still is among the gia State University; Dr. Robert E. this new reality is slowly being ac high-growth forecasters. The chief forecast Landers, director, Nutrition and Toxi cepted even in utility board rooms. er for one very large company that makes cology, Best Foods; Dr. Clinton Chi Today, the most cost-effective means electrical appliances said that NERC's fore of supplying energy is through cogen cast for electricity demand upset him this ~hester, vice president, Nutrition Foun year because, for the first time ever, it was dation; Dr. David Kritchevsky, asso eration and other energy-efficiency lower than his own. He likes to think that ciate director, Wistar Institute; Dr. measures. As the largest consumer of his work is conservative, for it is used in George Miller, professor, Morehouse capital in the United States, utilities making business decisions. NERC's forecast Medical School; Dr. Nathaniel Revis, have a special need to look for the has served him in the past as a marker of senior scientist, Oak Ridge National lowest capital cost alternative, thus the too-optimistic point of view. Next year, Laboratory; Dr. Paul C. Alexander, freeing up scarce capital for other sec he expects he will scramble down to a lower Department of Internal Medicine, tors of the economy. point on the range in order to stay below Hubbard Hospital; and Dr. Edward Because of the important implica NERC. Thus the entire pack of prophets tions of reduced electrical energy moves downhill. High, chairman, Department of Bio A graphic illustration of this behavior has chemistry and Nutrition, Meharry demand upon a vast array of public been put together by Amory Lovins, British Medical College. policy decisions facing the Congress, I representative for Friends of the Earth and Mr. Richard Lewis, president, Citi commend the following article to my bete noire of the utility industry. He is one zens Saving Bank & Trust Co., Nash colleagues: of many who argue that enormous efficien ville and Mr. Francis Guess, commis [From Science magazine, June 20, 19801 cy improvements can and will be made in ENERGY FORECASTS: SINKING TO NEW Lows technology in the next two decades, and sioner, General Services Department that these will reduce energy demand far of the State of Tennessee, hosted a re Although some astute energy watchers below the present level of 78 quadrillion ception in honor of the Congressional predicted early in the 1970's that demand British thermal units (quads) per year. Black Caucus on Thursday, May 8, would soon level off, the big institutional forecasters have only begun to consider this ENERGY FORECASTS 1980. a real possibility in the last couple of years. Warren G. Jackson, president of Cir Large outfits move slowly. And their fore Year of Beyond the Heresy Conventional Supersti- culation Experti, Ltd., Hartsdale, N.Y., casts are slow to change-partly be.cause forecast pale wisdom lion was the forum coordinator and helped they often represent a record of investment, bring together this coalition of Gov not just an analysis of trends. But even the 125 140 160 190 most cautious energy forecasters are making 1972 ...... (Lovins) (Sierra) (AEC ) (FPC ) ernment, the private sector, and edu revisions today, for a new reality has forced cation. Millicent Gorham from my itself upon them. staff and Mr. William Toles, vice presi Since 1978, actual sales of petroleum in 100 124 140 160 dent of public affairs of ITT Continen the United States have declined, and elec 1974 ...... (Ford zeg) (Ford tf) (ERDA) EEl tal Baking Co. assisted Mr. Jackson. tricity demand has grown at unprecedented A special thanks is extended from ly slow rates. While demand for electricity used to increase by 7 percent annually, it is 75 89- 95 124 140 the Congressional Black Caucus to Dr. now going up less than 3 percent a year. In 1976 ...... (Lovins) (Von Hippel) (ERDA ) (EEl) Lloyd Elam, president of Meharry 1979, total energy use in the nation de Medical College and to Mr. Robert B. clined. Yet economic growth, measured by Keane, vice president of ITT Conti the gross national product . has con 33 67-77 96-101 124 nental Baking Co. for joining the Con tinued to rise. 1977- 78 ...... (Steinhart ) (NASI, II) (NAS Ill, AW ) (lapp) gressional Black Caucus in addressing The most striking indication of change lies in the shifting relation between energy a major American priority, the nutri Abbreviations: Sierra. Sierra Club; AEC, Atomic Energy Commission; FPC, tion of its citizens. and BNP. Befot:e the oil embargo of 1973- Federal Power Commission; Ford zeg, Ford Foundation zero energy growth . 1974, energy use increased each year faster scenario; Ford tf, Ford Foundation technical fix scenario; Von Hippel, frank Von It is evident, Mr. Speaker, that the than economic growth. Since then the trend Hippel and Robert Williams of the Princeton Center for Environmental Studies; ERDA, the Energy Research and Development Administration; EEl , Edison conferees issued an appeal to all par has reversed, with energy demand growing Electr.ic Institute; Steinhart. 2050 forecast by John Steinhart of the University . ties concerned that nutrition educa less rapidly than the economy. It now takes of W1~n s1n; NAS I, II , Ill, the sp!ead of the Nat10nal Academy of Sciences 10 percent less energy to produce a dollar's Committee on Nuclear and AlternatiVe Energy Systems (CONAES); AW, Alvin tion would be a favorable step toward Weinberg study done at the Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge; Lapp, the better health status of this worth of GNP than it did in 1973. The fact energy consultant Ralph Lapp. that energy demand is growing more slowly Nation. The text of the panelists will than the economy could wreck the plans of be made available to the public. I am some energy suppliers. Lovins points out that, no matter what sure that the papers will be of value One hears exasperation, for example, in the bias of the forecaster, all energy predic toward developing a national policy on the voice of Michehl R. Gent, executive vice tions for the year 2000 have been dropping nutrition.e president of the National Electric Reliabil- at about the same speed since the oil embar- June 19, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS go. He divides the prophecies into four 1985," and only those 20 percent completed feasible" for the economy to shift into a groups: beyond the pale . and superstition , which "il one branch of the Department of Energy ments to build new plants, commitments lustrated how incredibly flexible the system is about to publish a low-growth plan which they justified at the time by refer is." The CONAES study found that with this year that goes almost beyond the pale, ence to their own rising demand forecasts. continued high energy prices and low estimating we may need only 57 quads in But the forecasts were wrong. Demand has growth in GNP Oess than 3 percent annual year 2000. This report is being prepared for slowed, costs have increased, and many utili ly), the United States could, if it wished, de DOE Under Secretary John Sawhill, and its ties have been forced to increase the rates crease energy consumption from the pres summary chapter is due to be completed charged to consumers-putting an addition ent 78 quads to 58 quads by 2010 , an associ Holt has just finished reviewing 10 major annual report) will not be out until August. ation of investor-owned utilities. EEl re studies of the potential for a low energy Meanwhile, it undergoes continuous revi leases a report this month . He found sion. · Growth in the Future II> predicting that if that all agree the United States could lower Those who believe a sea change has oc the GNP grows at roughly 3 percent a its demand for primary energy in the next curred received a vote of confidence this year-EEl's "preferred rate"-total energy 20 years while population and GNP in year from several conservative institutional demand will grow by 1.9 percent a year, and crease. They agree as well that pursuing forecasters. Exxon's World Energy Outlook, installed electric capacity will grow by 3.8 efficiency would be cheaper for the nation published last December before the latest percent a year. and individual energy buyers than expand OPEC oil price increases, predicted that An earlier forecast of sorts by EEl Presi ing "conventional" supply systems. They energy demand would grow in the United dent William McCollam used stronger lan disagree on the potential contribution of States by less than 1 percent a year through guage. He told the New York Society of Se solar and renewable forms of energy, and on 1990, and by 1.6 percent after 1990. Before curity Analysts early this year that the in the relative importance of electricity, par the oil embargo, the rate of demand growth dustry was being constrained by the antinu ticularly as it applies to transportation. If was about 4.3 percent a year. Petroleum clear lobby, and that electricity shortages these forecasts have any salient flaw, Holt demand in America has passed its peak for might appear in the 1980's as a result. These says, it is that they may have underestimat ever, Exxon concluded. The report also esti might drive companies to find substitutes ed the rate at which energy prices will in mated that the recent pattern of efficiency for electric power that could "downgrade crease. Oil prices, for example, have nearly improvement will continue, so that the al productive efficiency, move the U.S. toward jumped above the highest rate of increase ready achieved 10 percent decline in energy economic decline, weaken its ability to com projected in these studies. This suggests needed per dollar of GNP will fall to 22 per pete on the international scene, and, with that conservation may occur more rapidly, cent by 1990 and 30 percent by the end of rising unemployment and declining living too. the century. This represents radical change. standards, set the stage for the eclipse of It is plain that what was once considered a The National Petroleum Council , American civilization as we know it.... This utopian vision-the possibility of improving which looks into the future for the major is an objective of a well-financed, well-orga the economy with "zero energy growth"-is oil companies, also predicts that petroleum nized political movement which has as its becoming accepted among forecasters as a demand in the United States will never goal the restructuring of the society. and plausible way out of the current energy again be as high as it was in 1978. The NPC which has chosen the destruction of nuclear bind. That does not mean that the new made two surveys of 32 petroleum forecast power as its focal point." trend in energy prophecy, the scramble for ers, one in the spring of 1979, and one in Both the forecast and the fiery words low demand estimates, will produce more ac early 1980. According to coordinator Joan seem laughable to Roger Sant, the former curate information than the old trend. But Cassedy, the NPC found a considerable drop chief of conservation policy for the Ford the abrupt reversal does suggest that a radi in demand forecasts between the two dates, Administration and current director of the cal change is working its way through the and "the feeling is that a third survey would Mellon Institute's Energy Productivity economy.e have come out even lower." Center. The EEl, Sant thinks, is one of the John Lichtblau's Petroleum Industry Re worst offenders in forecasting in that it ESSENTIAL -REAbiNG FOR search Foundation, a private consulting clings to an old paradigm that is based on FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTS group, predicts in a May publication that low-cost energy. U.S. oil demand will drop 5 percent in the "They're living in a dream world," he 1980's, and that gasoline demand will drop says. The utilities, according to Sant, "con HON. HENRY J. HYDE by 20 percent. Energy demand may grow by tinue to make us feel like the world won't OF ILLINOIS 1.4 percent a year. Unlike Exxon, it predicts work without them, but maybe it won't IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that gains in conservation will be accom work with them." If the utilities are to sur plished more slowly in the 1980's than in vive, he thinks, they must become peddlers Thursday, June 19, 1980 the last 6 years, but it noted: "U.S. primary of energy services, not raw electricity. In his • Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, I wish to energy consumption has changed radically vision of the future, the utilities will com share with my colleagues an article since 1973." The fastest growing major pete with other companies to provide cus energy sector, according to this report, will tomers with the most efficient lighting, which appeared in the June 8 edition be nuclear power. This conclusion is reached heating, cooking, and refrigeration services. of the Chicago Tribune, concerning simply by assuming that only those nuclear If the utilities fail to take advantage of new Tom Hutson, a career Foreign Service plants "in an advanced stage of construction markets for energy-saving technologies, officer who recently resigned after by the end of 1979 will be in operation by others will. Thus Sant thinks it is "totally nearly 13 years of service. 15852 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 Mr. Hutson's comments should be "After the hostage-taking in Iran and ried out the Bay of Pigs, we didn't do it required reading for all foreign policy South America, we have a constituency right.'' now," he said. "People are interested. It's On the use of ambassadorships as presi experts, including those of my col time to go out on the sidewalk and say, dential patronage jobs: "I think it's an inevi leagues in the Congress who view 'Look, my friends, the world is more compli table problem. I think that all we can do is themselves as more knowledgeable cated now than it was 10 or 15 years ago. to attempt to minimize the disasters.'' than our Foreign Service officers. And yet we have a foreign service the same On our China policy: "The only thing I The article follows: size, [and] people are so overworked they know about it is that it causes the Soviets Ex-AIDE BLASTS U.S. FOREIGN POLICY can't absorb-all the information.' great unease. But the Chinese have not "It's really insane. The foreign service has been noted for their consistency. We're in and the granite hills of Vermont. I am Right now, there are plants in operation in As I stand before you today, I thank God forest, field, mountain and desert. I am other countries. A highly successful process for two things: first, that I have the privi quiet villages and cities that never sleep. I to convert coal to gas has been in operation lege and freedom to stand before you and am Babe Ruth and the World Series. I am for 25 years. The fact that a United States speak as an American youth, and second, 169,000 schools and colleges and 250,000 corporation was a designer and builder of that I am an American that is able to cele churches. I am a ballot dropped into a box. I these plants makes it clear we could do this brate this Memorial Day. am Eli Whitney, Stephen Foster, Thomas A. too. Originally called Decoration Day when it Edison, Billy Graham, Walt Whitman, George Washington Carver and Thomas 3. Continue and accelerate energy conser was originated on May 30, 1868, General John F. Logan set this one day aside to Paine. Yes, I am the nation. I was conceived vation programs throughout the United in freedom, and God willing may I always States for everyone. mark the tribute made in the United States to the dead of all our wars. possess the ilitegrity, the courage and the Without coal, this nation's industry could strength to keep myself unshackled, to never have been developed. Now, coal power Unfortunately, like what so many other remain a citadel of freedom and a beacon of can save us. We've got to break the black Americans have done to other holidays, Me hope to the world." mail of OPEC oil. Stand up for coal. Make morial Day has lost most of its meaning to At this time, I would like everyone who is coal a top national energy priority. commercialism. One-fifth of the people in America couldn't tell you what Memorial age 25 and younger to please stand. Please remain standing for just a Federal elected body closest to the moment. Ladies and Gentlemen . . . I pre three day weekend in which they can have sent to you the future generation of the people, to halt this OPEC blackmail. drinking parties, fool around, and ignore all United States of America. And members of It is up to us to move quickly on the Memorial Day connotations. It's a shame this generation, I challenge you to go out coal conversion plan that is presently how one of the most glorious days of the into the world striving for a democratic in the Energy and Power Subcommit year will end in tragedy for so many people. future, -living by God's word and exceTling in tee chaired by Mr. DINGELL. It is up to Some of you are probably saying, what do His grace. Yes, we are the future genera you mean tragedy? Well, it's quite simple. tion, and let's be one that many generations us to approve the conference report on All the people that are driving drunk that the Energy Security Act, a measure to come will be proud of. have fatal accidents will never live to see an Thank you.e that provides: $20 billion for the devel other Memorial Day. All the people that opment of a synthetic fuels program, take their own lives or die in other careless synfuels made from coal and other ways won't even be able to enjoy the day in natural resources; $3 billion for solar which we commemorate our war heroes. We TRUTH IN TESTING energy research; and new initiatives the people of America should do what we can to get rid of commercialism and put Me for conservation, among many other morial Day back into its right perspective. HON. WILLIAM F. GOODLING provisions. Now, taking a completely different aspect, Also, I believe we should give our OF PENNSYLVANIA I would like to convey to you a youth's view IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES support to President Carter as he of Memorial Day. leaves for the economic summit, be First, I see it as a day of celebration. Espe Thursday, June 19, 1980 cause one of the objectives of the cially here today when this whole program e Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, for . President's trip is to reach agreement. is dedicated to us, the youth of America. So the benefit of my colleagues, I would on a long-range energy plan with our many times you hear only the bad we are doing and the good things are overlooked. like to include a synopsis of the re allies, based significantly on America's When the draft is brought up again, who marks of New York State Commission vast coal resources and potential for will be required to go? Not the older genera er of Education Gordon Ambach developing synfuels. tion, but we, the 18-25 years old who are which were submitted to the Elemen World coal reserves already discov just starting out in life. Now don't get me tary, Secondary, and Vocational Edu ered constitute five times currently wrong. I'm not saying the youth are perfect, cation Subcommittee on June 11, 1980, proven world oil reserves. Under pro but I am saying we are the future genera during hearings on H.R. 4949, the jected rates of increase in coal use, tion and it's up to us to make sure our coun try retains "its democratic freedom. The only Educational Testing Act. Commission which would mean a tripling of coal way we can do this is through the support, er Ambach is truly an expert witness production by the end of the century, the caring, and the trust that we receive he is the individual charged with the only 15 percent of coal reserves would from our elders. responsibility for administering the be used up by the year 2000. And new Second, as youth we are facing many newly enacted New York State law on coal reserves are being discovered problems as we go out into life: Iran, Iraq, which H.R. 4949 is modeled. An under daily. Afghanistan, and the Soviet Union. Names standing of his experience with this Mr. Speaker, we have the answers for of countries that will have great effects on legislation is valuable to those of us in those Americans who are asking the our entire lives as well as add names to our veterans lists. We as American youth have a Congress who are considering national question, why not coal? We must now battle to fight. It is not a · battle that is a legislation to regulate college and pro move forward to formulate our an dead end street but rather one that can be a fessional school admissions testing, swers into real policy.e victorious feat. This battle of democracy re which includes a requirement for ques tainment cannot be won if the youth of tion and answer disclosure. Commis America sits back and takes an "I don't care sioner Ambach's remarks follow: YOUTH'S INTERPRETATION OF attitude". We must fight for what we be MEMORIAL DAY SIGNIFICANCE lieve in, accomplish what we strive for, and TRUTH IN TESTING retain what we are rewarded. The concern of the Regents and the De The poem, "I Am The Nation" by Otto partment throughout the discussion of ad HON. DAN MICA Whittaker tells us of a striving nation and missions testing legislation has been that OF FLORIDA best tells aspects of Memorial Day being the interests of test candidates as a class not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES shown throughout history. be harmed because of the concerns of those "I was born July 4th, 1776, and the Decla candidates who might seek the opportunity Thursday, June 19, 1980 ration of Independence is my birth certifi to review test questions and to compare e Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, last Memo cate. I am many things to many people. I their own answers with the correct answers. am 20 million living souls and ghosts of Our concern has been that access to exami rial Day, I had the opportunity to many who died for me. I am Nathan Hale nations in New York would be substantially listen as young people spoke on the and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and reduced and that the cost of examinations impact and significance of the veter fired the shot heard around the world. I am to New York candidates would be greater ans' sacrifices to our great Nation. Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. I than that charged in other states because of 15854 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 19, 1980 the added administrative costs of the New York, on January 21 in a suit brought by May 27, 1980. However, since then, York disclosure law to test agencies. In the American Association of Medical Col MSHA has announced in the June 6, other words, we have been concerned that leges seeking exemption of the test from the 1980, issue of the Federal Register the remedy not exceed the problem or, requirements of Chapter 672. The suit is that it will extend the period for com indeed, become the problem. based on several constitutional and statu ment to August 5, 1980. Test Availability-The enactment of the tory challenges, including circumvention of New York testing law has created difficul due process and equal protection rights, in At this time, I insert MSHA's Feder ties for candidates by reducing their access fringement of copyright laws, unlawful seiz al Register announcement in the to undergraduate, graduate, and profession ure of property without compensation, and RECORD: al admissions tests. violation of trade secret laws • • • DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, MINE SAFETY AND The administrations of the two major ad Conclusion-The New York State experi HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ence with standardized test disclosure is far missions tests used by colleges nationwide 30 CFR PARTS 55, 56, AND 57 the Scholastic Aptitude Test New York City Special Administration Serv and benefit to the members of this Subcom Address: Interested persons are invited to ice test center for the GRE program was mittee. submit written comments and suggestions to closed. I have presented these observations for the Office of Standards, Regulations and Similarly, SAT administrations were re your consideration in the hopes that they Variances, MSHA, Room 631, 4015 Wilson duced from eight to five in New York State will prove helpful as you continue your de Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203. between January and June, 1980, with three liberations on a national test disclosure For further information contact: Frank A. regular test dates and two test dates for Sat policy. I urge you not to enact new Federal White, Director, Office of Standards, Regu urday Sabbath observers and, once again, policy in this area until there is more expe lations and Variances, MSHA, phone <703) drastically reduced special test administra rience with state laws such as those in New 235-1910. tions for handicapped students. The Janu York. The New York State Education De Supplementary information: On March ary administration of the SAT in New York partment will be pleased to provide this 25, 1980 <45 FR 19267), MSHA announced was cancelled as was the January Achieve Subcommittee with any further documenta its intention to solicit public comment in ment Test administration. While specifically tion and material developed over the next conjunction with its comprehensive review exempt under the law, the Achievement few months.e of safety and health standards applicable to Test was cancelled because of the high cost the metal and nonmetal mining and milling of opening test centers for a comparatively industry. Interested persons were urged to small vol\.une of candidates. The College describe any problems relating to organiza Board, sponsor of the above mentioned MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH AD tion, indexing, style and format, as well as tests, has indicated that it is seriously con MINISTRATION EXTENDS THE particular areas of substantive concern, sidering cancellation of all future January DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS ON with respect to any regulation appearing in and November testing dates in the state. In REVIEW OF STANDARDS RE Parts 55, 56, and 57 of Title 30, Code of Fed addition, the SpaniSh version of the SAT LATING TO STONE, SAND, AND eral Regulations. The comment period was has been withdrawn entirely because the GRAVEL MINES scheduled to close on May 27, 1980. Al sponsor does not feel it is economically fea though the agency has received many com sible to identify even one form of the test ments in response to the notice, several or for disclosure in New York. HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS ganizations and other interested parties One of the more disturbing aspects, how OF PENNSYLVANIA have requested an extension of time so that ever, is the dramatic affect the statute has their input could be included at an early had on the health professions field, where IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stage of the standards review process. In virtually all test sponsors in that area indi Thursday, June 19, 1980 order to allow the fullest possible public cated they would withdraw their services participation, MSHA has decided to extend from the state entirely. Of those tests origi e Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, I would the comment period until August 5, 1980. nally scheduled to be withdrawn from the like to inform my colleagues that the Persons who have not yet submitted their state, two-the Pre-Admission Assessment -Department of Labor's Mine Safety comments are urged to participate during for Practical Nursing and the Pre-Nursing and Health Administration has recent this phase of the rulemaking process. and Guidance Examination-probably will ly announced that it will extend the MSHA appreciates the efforts of many per be available. The Dental Admission Test deadline for comments on its review of sons and organizations who have submitted originally scheduled to be adminis safety and health standards contained written comments by May 27, 1980. They tered in April 1980 was withdrawn but may 55, 56, 57 30 may submit additional comments within the be rescheduled specifically for New York in parts and under title of extended time. In reviewing its regulations, State examinees at a later date in the year, the Code of Federal Regulations. The the agency will conduct an evaluation based if the law is amended, to exempt the percep standards being reviewed are those on many factors such as: the need for clar tual ability component of the test which which relate to stone and sand and ity; technical accuracy; redundancy; necessi measures manual dexterity and spatial rela gravel mines as well as those for metal ty; and relevancy. tions abilities. There is, however, no specific and nonmetallic open pit mines, and Because many MSHA standards incorpo amendment to the law pending in the state metal and nonmetallic underground rate a variety of requirements from sources at this time which would exclude this com outside the agency, MSHA also specifically ponent. mines. In the April 1 issue of the CONGRES requests public comment with respect to the The Medical College Admission Test appropriateness of the incorporation of esti express my deep concern about the negative mates that the CCRA would result in Order of the Sons or rtaTy was instru impact of the present tax structure on the "static" revenue loss ranging from $4.8 bil mental in helping the immigrants of retailing industry and the economy as a lion in 1980 to $32.0 billion in 1984, based on the early 20th century in adjusting to whole. a ten year phase-in period. It is im your district. I hope that the thought I out homeless in America, and created "Op portant to note, however, that the Treasur eration Heartbeat," a program which line in this letter will be the basis for con er would realize a feedback of tax revenues tinued discussion between us on the best from the newly stimulated economic activi has brought over 50 children to Amer ways to bring about the economic strength ty. The CCRA would raise fixed business in ica for open heart surgery. we both desire for our Commonwealth. vestment by an average of $10 billion a year The Order of the Sons of Italy has In my view, as well as the view of other re between 1980 and 1984, would add 0.3 per raised literally millions of dollars for tailers and members of the business commu cent to the Gross National Product, would such charitable organizations as the nity,