16144 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS JUDGE BAZELON RETIRES the land after the Supreme Court, and he to consider that these people never had a was one of the nation's most celebrated and chance, to see the unfairness of it, to look at controversial jurists. what's going on." HON. DON EDWARDS Now the tides of history are running Such sentiments are out of tune with the OF CALIFORNIA against much of what he stands for, and he current mood in political Washington and in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is stepping down. the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Tuesday, June 18, 1985 The old crusading fire still burns bright, Warren E. Burger, who was Judge Bazelon's flickering across the expressive face, radiat­ most bitter ideological adversary on the ap­ e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. ing through the gesturing hands. But Judge peals court. Speaker, David L. Bazelon, judge of Bazelon, who is 75, has not been feeling But in the nation's leading law schools, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis­ well, and he wants time to work on a book. where many of his 70 law clerks are profes­ trict of Columbia, has announced his He announced his retirement last month. sionals, Judge Bazelon's influence remains retirement. HE BECAME SENIOR JUDGE strong. His carefully drafted opinions are a Judge Bazelon, who sat on the ap­ Thus ends a judicial career that began in favorite teaching tool, according to Prof. peals court here for almost 36 years, 1949 and in which he spearheaded the ideo­ Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School, a 16 as chief judge, will be remembered logically divided court's liberal majority former Bazelon clerk, because they force before becoming a senior judge, with a re­ students to grapple with hard questions in legal history as one of the giants in duced caseload, 30 years later. rather than to memorize easy answers. the development of the law. It can be A hero to many liberals, he was assailed For Judge Bazelon, characteristically, re­ said with accuracy that the decent in­ by conservatives and some legal scholars as tirement represents a chance to start a new stincts of our country have been en­ too soft on crime, too quick to read his own project. "What I really want to do is to couraged and strengthened as a result policy preferences into the law, too eager to write on what all this is about," he said with of the work of this celebrated jurist. extend judicial power into new areas. a wave around his office. "I think I've got Fortunately for America, Judge Ba­ His many admirers reject such criticisms something to say. I'm really excited about zelon will continue his work in writing, and say he has not been a purveyor of liber­ it." al orthodoxy but a pioneer in confronting SAMPLE BAZELON VIEWS lecturing and scholarship. In addition injustices that fester under conventional to the enormous contributions he has The right-wrong test, which considers legal thinking, in challenging the status knowledge or reason alone, is an inadequate made in the past, we can look forward quo. guide to mental responsibility for criminal to a dialog from David Bazelon that Judge Bazelon once said he sought "to behavior. An accused is not criminally re­ will "blaze a path for other judges, infuse my consideration of legal principles sponsible if his unlawful act was the prod­ and grapple with questions that no with the passion and pain of life in our soci­ uct of mental disease or mental defect. one has yet considered,'' to paraphrase ety." In doing so, Justice William J. Bren­ Juries will continue to make moral judg­ the words of his good friend, Supreme nan, Jr., a close friend and regular luncheon ments. But they will be guided by wider ho­ companion, once said, he blazed a path for rizons of knowledge concerning mental Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. other judges by "grappling with questions Mr. Speaker, I ask that articles from that no one has yet considered, searching life.-Durham v. United States, 1954 the New York Times and the Wash­ Day after day I found myself reviewing for answers to problems that do not yield to the convictions of persons who had commit­ ington Post, be included below: quick analysis." ted horrible acts of violence. The over­ [From the New York Times, June 11, 19851 His hundreds of judicial opinions helped shape the law on issues including the rights whelming majority of defendants came SPOKESMAN FOR LIBERALS WATCHES TIDE of criminal defendants and mental patients, from the very bottom of our society. I didn't FI.ow OUT communications law, the Freedom of Infor­ need Rorschach tests and EEG's to explain

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16145 Outspoken, activist, creative and contro­ factors before licensing the Vermont May issue of the Merrick Community versial, Bazelon has sat on the appeals court Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, but Justice Center newsletter. While this is a fit­ here for almost 36 years-16 of those as its William Rehnquist, who wrote the opinion, ting tribute to Kitty, an even greater chief judge. said the appeals decision was an example of His career spanned the terms of eight "judicial intervention run riot" and excori­ tribute to her life is that through her presidents, beginning with Harry Truman. ated Bazelon for "Monday morning quarter­ example her children now have the He held sway over the court as it produced backing" of administrative agencies. same commitment and value toward rulings that broadened the rights of crimi­ Yesterday, Bazelon said the alternating people. At this time I would like to nal defendants and the mentally ill and al­ swing between liberal and conservative po­ share with my colleagues the article lowed consumers and environmentalists to litical and legal decisions may not be "alto­ about Kitty Anderson. challenge successfully the powers that be. gether a bad thing.'' "He was and still is a model of what a "Maybe the liberals go too far some­ KITTY ANDERSON: VOLUNTEER judge should be . . . someone who is una­ times,'' he said, "Maybe the others go too EXTRAORDINARY fraid to look behind a case to the pattern of far, and there's a way of getting an equilib­ If one were to compile a list of all the social relations it represents and say 'This is rium." places where Eastsider Kitty Anderson has unjust and intolerable in a decent society,'" Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, volunteered over the last 25 years, it might said Yale law professor Robert Burt, a clerk once a clerk to the Judge, said in 1979 when read like Stephen Speilberg's movie credits. to Bazelon in the mid-1960s. Bazelon moved to senior status that the But to name Just a few, Kitty has been a Several lawyers and educators said his re­ judges "enduring contribution" to the law volunteer for such institutions as Ramsey tirement is symbolic of "an end of an era"­ "has been that he has pressed more ques­ County Welfare, Stillwater State Prison, an era that Columbia Law School Dean tions on the system than any other judge. Phalen Area Community Council's "Kin­ Benno C. Schmidt said was one of "very He has singled out the function of the ship" program and Dayton Board and Care high activism on the court in expanding Court of Appeals more than any other Home's "Sunny Tuesday." constitutional rights and imposing judicial Judge-to raise questions, to open areas for Currently, among other volunteer work, versions on public policy and administrative discussion." she is the Chairperson of the Board for law." Chief U.S. Circuit Court Judge Spotts­ Emergency Food Services/Greater St. Paul Bazelon, who is 75 and has held semire­ wood W. Robinson III, who formally an­ Community Food Bank and co-coordinator tired senior status since 1979, said in an nounced Bazelon's retirement at the confer­ of the Loaves and Fishes program where interview at a judicial conference in Wil­ ence yesterday, said Bazelon will hear no she is "chief cook and bottle washer" once a liamsburg yesterday that he hoped to spend new cases but will participate in writing week for hungry street people. some time writing about law and his half­ opinions on cases that he has already heard. She even manages to work 25 hours a century career. "He has made his mark on the law and on week at the Church Book Store, a business "It's time to do something else instead of the history of our circuit Ccourtl which is which she and her husband own. being tied down to these cases. I'm not both indelible and profound," said Robin­ What started Kitty on her volunteer pur­ going to live forever, and you have to give son.• suits were her religious beliefs in love and yourself time Cto do some writing]," he said, brotherhood and the realization that "there adding that he is having some problems is a great deal of injustice in the world.'' with his memory and felt it was best to step KITI'Y ANDERSON: VOLUNTEER Feeling herself "fortunate" because of a down. EXTRAORDINARY happy childhood, a loving family and hus­ Bazelon said his legal opinions were "in­ band, a house and enough food to eat, Kitty fluenced by concern for people who were HON. BRUCE F. VENTO knows there are many who do not have getting the short end of the stick. what she has. "I also knew that the way to do it isn't OF MINNESOTA She helps others, she says, because "I see just to say 'this isn't good.' You have to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES value in absolutely every person. Behind every person in trouble there is a reason for have a basis for something Cin the lawl. Tuesday, June 18, 1985 There's no question that you don't tum it. What we need to do is help people realize over a judgment for somebody just to be • Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, the spirit their own value.'' helpful. But the important thing is to let of volunteerism has always been a Kitty believes that people "in trouble"- the world know that some things oughtn't strong American virtue. During times incest victims, prisoners, those with drug to be . . . Sometimes things are so outra­ of natural disaster or economic down­ and alcohol problems, for example-are geous that any person in his right mind turns, millions of Americans have been lacking in self-esteem and only through one­ would act.'' to-one contact can they better their situa­ Bazelon came to the court in 1949 when there with financial and other support tions. he was 40-then the youngest judge ever to help those in need. These volun­ A study at Stillwater Prison found that a named to the federal bench. teers are not driven by material gain majority of the inmates had been beaten as In 1954, he wrote what still stands as his or public attention. Rather, their ef­ children. Kitty is very affected by that be­ most famous opinion, in which he attempt­ forts are because of their deep person­ cause, as she emphasizes, "At the same time ed to change the prevailing legal test for in­ al love and commitment to others. that I was being loved, other kids were sanity in criminal cases. Now, more than ever, there is an being beaten. We all have the same needs to The old test held that, in general, a crimi­ urgent need for volunteers. From the be loved and wanted, and if those needs nal defendant could claim insanity as a de­ aren't met, we get in trouble.'' fense only if it could be proven that he or starving in Ethiopia to the homeless in Kitty began volunteering in the 1960s, and she could not distinguish between right and St. Paul, people need help and need her efforts passed through three stages. She wrong. the support of others. began with "safe" projects, such as visiting Bazelon, establishing what came to be Mr. Speaker, I have been very fortu­ sick patients in hospitals. Next was her known as the "Durham rule,'' said that a de­ nate to know a tireless worker, Kitty "committee" stage: she joined lots of com­ fendant should not be held criminally re­ Anderson, who is committed to help­ mittees "where nothing seemed to get sponsible-even if he or she knew that an ing the less fortunate. Kitty has dedi­ done.'' Now she is concentrating on one-to­ act was wrong-if the crime was a product cated a large portion of her life to vol­ one contacts with others. of a mental disease or defect. In 1972, the Although she is frequently in demand to appeals court abandoned that standard. unteer activities. She has worked with help, she knows that she "can't do every­ For years, the Bazelon court-considered a variety of public and private groups thing" and has narrowed her scope to what the most progressive in the nation-enjoyed such as the Stillwater State Prison, she terms as "hunger issues.'' the backing of Earl Warren's liberal Su­ the Phalen Area Community Council, Kitty says her rewards as a volunteer are preme Court, but after Warren E. Burger and the Loaves and Fishes Program. many, including meeting lots of interesting became chief justice in 1969, the tide of Her dedication to the needy has served people, making new friends and, on a more high court decisions began to turn against as an example to all those who know practical side, "My life is a lot less boring Bazelon. her. than Just working at the store and having a In 1978, his opinion in a case involving a While not every volunteer can re­ clean house.'' The people with whom she battle between environmentalists and the comes in contact also benefit, so "it's a two­ Nuclear Regulatory Agency was overturned ceive the credit they deserve, Kitty way street,'' she notes. by the Supreme Court in a stinging decision. Anderson is worthy of special recogni­ This super Eastside volunteer doesn't plan Bazelon had ruled that the agency had tion. That is why I am so pleased that to stop volunteering and will keep going as not adequately considered environmental Kitty Anderson was featured in the long as she can. "The most exciting thing a 16146 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 volunteer can do is touch another person's for my colleagues, study, an article Ing with him plans for a series of criminal life," she says. "I just value people."• from the June 14 Wall Street Journal activities, as well as other documents that by Jaime Daremblum, a lawyer who indicated the existence of a terrorist ring of some 50 people; mostly Nicaraguan. Accord­ BALTIC FLAG DAY also teaches political science at the University of Costa Rica. ing to testimony on record, the group was connected to Nicaraguan government offi­ HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI COSTA RICA RESPONDS TO THE ENEMY WITHIN cials and its funding and recruitment were SAN JosE, COSTA RicA.-Nicaragua's mili­ OF MARYLAND controlled by Managua's Embassy in San tary might and its recent incursions into IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jose. Costa Rica and Honduras have become an Nicaragua has also been linked to Costa Tuesday, June 18, 1985 important part of the debate in the U.S. Congress over continuing aid to anti-Sandi­ Rican operations conducted by extrare­ e Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I join nista rebels. However, to think that the gional groups. As a result of an alert from in noting with the Baltic States the Sandinista commandantes are preparing to Spanish police, in September 1983 a terror­ 45th anniversary of the U.S. nonrecog­ send their troops across the border to ist from a Basque separatist organization nition policy toward the illegal and occupy Costa Rica is folly. was arrested with a local accom­ forcible Soviet occupation of Estonia, Certainly, Costa Rica's social and demo­ plice and charged with plotting to assassi­ Latvia, and Lithuania. The Baltic cratic achievements are an offensive pres­ nate anti-Sandinista leader Eden Pastora. people cherish the principles of reli­ ence to the totalitarians in Managua. And if The Basque is currently awaiting an extra­ push came to shove, Costa Rica-with no dition request from Spain. gious and political freedom and inde­ army and only a scant police force-would pendence. The Union of Soviet Social­ Nicaragua's diplomatic relations with its be no match for the gargantuan Soviet­ neighbors have acquired a quality similar to ist Republics has imposed upon the equipped Sandinista army. Nevertheless, that of countries that forsake the rule of captive people of the Baltic republics this emphasis on Sandinista militarism and law while supporting international terror­ an oppressive political system which adventurism tends to overlook a more seri­ ism. Last Christmas Eve, acting in Iranian has destroyed every vestige of democ­ ous threat posed by the Sandinista regime style, Sandinista policy forcibly removed racy, civil liberties and religious free­ to its neighbors. While the Sandinista comandantes have from the Costa Rican Embassy in Managua d om. proved themselves to be very poor disciples Jose Urbina Lara, a man who had been The Baltic people, however, contin­ of Metternich and Castlereagh, they have granted asylum. Nicaragua replied to Costa ue to demonstrate tremendous courage an excellent sense of survival and have Rican complaints against such flagrant vio­ when faced with constant Soviet forms found subtle and effective means to disrupt lations of international law by torturing Mr. of repression and religious persecu­ the lives of their democratic neighbors. Urbina Lara and sentencing him to five tion, Baltic culture and tradition still Links with extremists always come in years in jail. Only after Costa Rica, El Sal­ thrive. All Baltic people retain a handy, and with the help of Cuba and the vador and Honduras temporarily withdrew strong desire for freedom, and it is this Soviet Union, local communists in Costa in protest from the Contadora discussions desire from which they get their Rica and other Central American countries did the Nicaraguan government release Mr. have become Nicaragua's proxies on site. Urbina Lara. In fact, his release was exploit­ strength. The close bonds between Costa Rican ed as part of Daniel Ortega's March "peace The Baltic people are a symbol to communists and the Sandinistas go back to offensive," prior to the U.S. Congress' vote the world of a people determined to the 1960s and provide a palpable dimension on aid for the anti-Sandinista rebels. maintain their culture, traditions, lan­ to the Nicaraguan threat. The full extent of Beyond direct intimidation of their neigh­ guage, and religion despite Soviet con­ this alliance became evident last year when bors through their foreign policies, the San­ trol over their society. Over the years, strikes and widespread invasions of farms by dinistas' misguided domestic policies have the Baltic people have succeeded in groups of squatters, promoted and directed had a disastrous effect on what Costa Rican maintaining their nationalistic spirit. by a radical wing of the Costa Rican Com­ munist Party, disrupted the economy and President Luis Alberto Monge described in It is this spirit we honor today, Baltic jeopardized the political stability of the his May 1 message to Congress as his na­ Freedom Day. Let the Baltic people nation. More recently, evidence has sur­ tion's "migratory bomb." According to know that we in the United States rec­ faced the Costa Rican communists are being President Monge, 200,000 illegal Central ognize and respect their right to free­ trained near Managua, have been tested in American immigrants are now in Costa dom and self-determination. We honor combat operations against anti-Sandinista Rica-a number equivalent to about 10% of and encourage their perseverance. rebels and are now operating within Costa the population. Press reports indicate that Their struggle is not, and will not be Rica. most of the refugees are Nicaraguan, only a forgotten.• Earlier this year, a different type of crimi­ fraction of whom have registered with the nal activity erupted in Costa Rica. Armed United Nations High Commissioner for Ref­ robberies have been committed in a fashion ugees or the Red Cross. The Sandinistas' THE ENEMY WITHIN that sharply differs from the traditional forced resettlement of thousands of peas­ modus operandi of local criminals, but ants to create "fire-free" zones is sure to ex­ which closely resemble robberies and kid­ acerbate this serious problem. HON. HENRY J. HYDE napings carried out by political terrorists in OF ILLINOIS Reacting to the latest developments, and other Latin nations. These activities include also to the rising demands of the general IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES infiltration of the target, prior rehearsals, specialized groups for each stage of the op­ public, the Costa Rican government has Tuesday, June 18, 1985 eration, the use of machine guns and com­ taken steps to reenforce and modernize its •Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, as we mando-type escape logistics. Police investi­ small security apparatus. The recent arrival debate the defense authorization bill gations soon established a Nicaraguan con­ of two dozen U.S. military advisers to train this week, it would serve the cause of nection with these events. some 700 members of Costa Rica's Civil In February, the arrest of criminals in the Guard-as the main branch of the police is the defense of freedom to be aware northern Costa Rican city of Guanacaste called-has had overwhelming support in that in our times, wars are often led to the dis­ the country. fought through subversion rather covery of about 200 members of a faction of Terrorism, politically motivated criminal than by cross border attacks by armies the Costa Rican Communist Party. Some of activity, and an uncontrollable flood of refu­ in uniform. these individuals had been trained in Nica­ gees may strain Costa Rica's institutional Just as it appears we are not ragua and Cuba, and one was a Costa Rican muscle. But our country's deeply rooted equipped to deal with Soviet espionage congressman. Documents captured by the democratic tradition will prove a formidable at home-the Walker spy case provid­ police showed that the group was planning barrier to the growing and menacing to raise funds for radical movements shadow of Nicaragua.e ing a recent example-so also are we throughout Central America. ill-equipped to understand, much less Then, last March, Costa Rican police cap­ cope with subversion in our own hemi­ tured-also in Guanacaste-a Nicaraguan sphere. who was fleeing in a car stolen during an as­ A prime case study is what is going sault on the home of a prominent business­ on in Costa Rica right now. I submit, man in San Jose. The Nicaraguan was carry- June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16147 THE TEACHER RECRUITMENT answer to a permanent salary in­ special education, computer program­ AND RETENTION ACT crease-but at least a first step toward ming, chemistry, bilingual education, pay equity. earth science, biology, and English. HON. MARIO BIAGGI Once we attract more teachers into The same survey found that the short­ OF NEW YORK the field-we must also provide ongo­ age is increasing at the fastest rate for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing professional development and not only science, but for elementary, training opportunities to keep them Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Spanish, and French teachers. there. We have all heard about teach­ Mr. Speaker, Congress must reau­ • Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, a chron­ er burnout and understand the profes­ thorize the Higher Education Act in ic and persistent teacher shortage sional problems faced by teachers, this Congress, which provides us a threatens the future of our education­ who in any 1 work day, must play the timely opportunity to advance propos­ al system and unless Congress acts in a role of educator, counselor, police offi­ als to address the teacher shortage decisive fashion to attack this prob­ cer, field marshal, and diplomat. problem. Title IV of the act is the lem-we will face the need for 1 mil­ Little, if any time is spent on learning heart of the Federal Government's lion new teachers by the year 1990. about how to become a better teach­ role in providing educational opportu­ I have introduced what I believe to er-or how to teach more effectively. nity, and is an appropriate tool in this be a responsible and reasonable ap­ The millions the Federal Government battle. Title V has traditionally provid­ proach in H.R. 27 42, the Teacher Re­ spends on educational research, in­ ed ongoing inservice training opportu­ cruitment and Retention Act. This bill cluding learning about effective teach­ nities-most of which were eliminated provides a two-pronged approach to ing-will be lost if we cannot provide a in the 1981 Omnibus Reconciliation address both the anticipated shortfall mechanism to get that information in Act. This year, I would hope that we in teachers, as well as the problems as­ the workplace where it belongs. could reexamine the Federal role in sociated with keeping current teachers This bill would provide $25 million assisting and nurturing the teaching in the system. over a 5-year period to local communi­ profession by giving serious consider­ The number of teachers entering the ties, on a discretionary basis, for the ation to H.R. 2742, the Teacher Re­ work force has decreased in the last establishment of professional develop­ cruitment and Retention Act. decade from 300,000 to 150,000. This is ment centers for inservice teacher based in large part to low pay-and training. Special emphasis would be For the benefit of my colleagues, I even lower morale. We continue to placed upon those teachers in low­ will insert into the RECORD, a copy of hear that teachers have the lowest av­ income areas and schools serving spe­ H.R. 2742. erage starting salaries of any college cial populations, where the teacher H.R. 2742 graduate with a 4-year bachelor's shortage is most acute. Minorities are A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of degree. In my own State of New York, especially underrepresented in the 1965 to provide, with respect to guaran­ the purchasing power of a teacher's teaching force-they comprise less teed, insured, and direct student loans, de­ salary has actually decreased by 12 than 12.5 percent of the K-12 work ferral of repayment and payment by the Government of the interest during the percent in the past 10 years. Quality force, despite the fact that 25 percent borrower's service as an elementary or sec­ and quantity of teachers in the work of the American school population is ondary school teacher force depend upon adequate financial minority. By 1990, these figures are Be it enacted by the Senate and House of resources as well as inservice profes­ expected to drop to 5 and 30 percent Representatives of the United States of sional development opportunities. respectively. America in Congress assembled, This bill would provide for both of Projects will be awarded through a these needs. local governing board which would be SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Specifically, H.R. 27 42 attempts to composed primarily of teachers work­ This Act may be cited as the "Teacher Re­ encourage more people to enter teach­ ing in the area to be served. Findings cruitment and Retention Act of 1985". ing by deferring repayment of quaran­ on the most effective teaching meth­ SEC. 2. FINDINGS. teed and direct student loans for up to ods, projects, and programs are to be The Congress finds that- 5 years for those who become full-time collected and disseminated by the Sec­ ( 1) excellence in education requires an adequately trained and staffed supply of el­ teachers at the elementary or second­ retary of Education. Our experience ementary and secondary school teachers in ary school level. The debt that is asso­ with previous inservice teacher train­ the classroom; ciated with financing a 4-year college ing programs demonstrated that when (2) the number of new teachers entering degree is especially burdensome for an these programs are run by teachers­ the field in the last decade has decreased individual with a lower-than-average for teachers-then they reach the from 300,000 to 150,000; starting salary. widest possible audience and are effec­ (3) the current teacher shortage is expect­ By allowing teachers to wait for 5 tive tools in reducing teacher dissatis­ ed to escalate so that by 1990, one million years before they begin to repay their faction with their Jobs. new teachers will be needed. loans, we would provide up-front fi­ Congress has already taken a first (4) starting salaries for teachers are lower nancial incentives to attract teachers step in addressing the teacher short­ than for any other program requiring a into the work force. Teacher salaries age problem by passing emergency leg­ four-year college degree and are a signifi­ cant factor in recruitment and retention of reach a ceiling sooner-within the first islation in the 98th Congress to cor­ qualified teachers; third of one's career-and at a much rect the special problem in recruit­ (5) our Nation's 2.4 million teachers must lower level, than do salaries of other ment and retention of math and sci­ be directly involved in community-based ef­ college educators. ence teachers. This responded to the forts and activities designed to upgrade pro­ It makes sense to allow teachers a fact that 10 percent of math and sci­ fessional skills of teachers for the work­ small grace period before they enter ence teachers left the field since 1982. place; and repayment of their loans in exchange Of those that have remained-30 per­ (6) the Federal Government has a signifi­ for the promise to enter the field. In­ cent are not qualified to teach and 40 cant role to play in assuring the local school flation has decreased paychecks by 15 percent will retire in the next decade. districts in recruiting and retaining quali­ percent in the past decade. According However, the $100 million that we pro­ fied teachers by providing professional de­ to the National Commission for Excel­ vided this year specifically for the velopment opportunities and adequate sala­ lence in Teacher Education, 87 percent math and science teaching problem is ries for all current and future teachers. SEC. 3. SUBSIDIES FOR STUDENT LOANS TO BOR­ of those leaving the profession cited not a cure-all, but a mere band-aid on ROWERS WHO TAKE CAREERS IN inadequate salaries as a factor. Defer­ a much larger, festering sore. Accord­ TEACHING. rals on these loans is, admittedly, an ing to a 1984 survey of teacher supply (a) INSURED STUDENT LoANs.-Section indirect and temporary salary subsidy and demand, nationwide shortages are 427(a)(2)(C) of the Higher Education Act of which I believe is certainly not the found in the areas of math, physics, 1965 is amended- 16148 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 ( 1> by redesignating clauses through for fiscal year 1986 and each of the four suc­ what memories and what a sentimental oc­ as clauses through by inserting after clause the follow­ were born-Leland Dutcher, Jason Fink, ing new clause: "(vi> not in excess of five THE ROBERT REUBEN SCHOLAR­ and Chad Conrad-I was a paratrooper. It years during which the borrower is engaged SHIP RECIPIENTS AT MIRA was in 1943 and I had been ordered to Eng­ as a full-time teacher in a public or private COSTA HIGH SCHOOL land to carry cut a most difficult persuading elementary or secondary school;". task, probably the toughest sales job ever. (b) GUARANTEED STUDENT LoANS.-Section There was concern that something the 428 of the Higher Education Act of HON. MEL LEVINE Army had begun, the concept of vertical en­ 1965 is amended- OF CALIFORNIA velopment, or introducing soldiers into <1 > by redesignating clauses through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES combat by parachute and glider transport, as clauses through by inserting after clause the follow­ e Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. deal on the success of airborne troops, and ing new clause: "(vi> not in excess of five Speaker, this year is literally loaded needed the role better understood. years during which the borrower is engaged with anniversary celebrations and ob­ The job they had given me was one of si­ as a full-time teacher in a public or private servances related to the welcome dling up to war correspondents in London to elementary or secondary school;". ending of World War II, but on the make them a great story offer, having them (C) DIRECT STUDENT LoANS.-Section accompany the airborne troops into battle. 464<2> of the Higher Education Act of night of June 12, at Mira Costa High In that time period, this was about as entic­ 1965 is amended- School in my district, there is to be a ing a prospect as asking someone to stand by redesignating clauses and very special remembrance when three still while allowing somebody else to knock as clauses and , respectively; outstanding students-Leland his teeth out with a ball bat. I must say that <2> by inserting after clause the follow­ Dutcher, Jason Fink, and Chad I lost more people in mid-conversation that ing new clause: Conrad-receive Robert Reuben schol­ I could count. The trouble with what I was " is engaged as a full-time teacher in a arships. Most of the people in Man­ tossing out for their consideration was, if public or private elementary or secondary they said yes, they had to agree to go to school;"; hattan Beach who do remember him parachute and glider school, ultimately <3> striking out "or " in the second (he died in 1964), think of him as the making five qualifying parachute jumps and sentence of such section and inserting in man who established the Pen & Quill as many glider rides and landings. lieu thereof "or "; Restaurant by inserting before the last sentence of the president of the Manhattan Beach mander wanted to have somebody freeze in such section the following new sentence: Chamber of Commerce in 1955-56. the aircraft door at the last minute and "The period during which repayment may Robert Reuben was far more than jeopardize the lives of accompanying sol­ be deferred by reason of clause shall not that. He is a substantial footnote in diers who were already hazardously en­ exceed five years."; and gaged. <5> by striking out "clause " in the last the history of journalism-the first Over a period of 4 months, I was able to sentence of such section and inserting in man to get a Normandy datelined get 16 to volunteer, go through the training, lieu thereof "clause ". story out on D-day. and announce themselves as ready to go on SEC. 4. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTERS. Mira Costa High School invited Col. whatever adventure the planners were ar­ Title V of the Higher Education Act of Barney Oldfield, a retired Air Force ranging for airborne troops. Nobody said 1965 is amended by inserting before part B officer, to be the speaker for the occa­ the word out loud, but the destination of a the following new part: sion and make the scholarship awards. major commitment of three airborne divi­ "PART A-PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT He not only knew Reuben well, but sions, two American and one British, was CENTERS was the one who encouraged him to Normandy. "PROGRAM AUTHORIZED The date was to live forever in history, take parachute and glider training so just 41 years and 6 days ago. "SEC. 501. From the funds appropriated he could accompany the lOlst Air­ One of the earliest to volunteer for my op­ under section 504, the Secretary shall make borne Division into Normandy. Be­ portunity package was a young man born in grants to local educational agencies, institu­ cause what Robert Reuben did was so Omaha, Nebraska, named Robert Reuben. tions of higher education, and consortia of enterprising, courageous, and the ulti­ Although he was an America.n, he la.nded a such agencies and institutions to support job with the British News Agency, Reuters, programs <1 > providing in-service training mate in risktaking in pursuit of the adventurous profession of a war corre­ a.nd it was for them that he was accredited. and professional development for existing One of the first to complete the preparatory teachers of elementary and secondary spondent, I request unanimous con­ training, he was also one of the first to be school, <2> improving teacher preparation sent to insert Colonel Oldfield's re­ apprehensive about a Journalism impera­ for new teachers, <3> enhancing educational marks in the RECORD and commend it tive, once he has his story, and had lived leadership, and (4) providing special assist­ to the attention of my colleagues: through the la.nding, how was he going to ance to those teachers working with and in get it out? low-income areas and schools serving special REMARKS OF COL. BARNEY OLDFIELD, USAF (RET.) 1 ON OCCASION OF THE AWARD OF That was a great unknown, a very, very populations. In awarding grants under this ROBERT REUBEN SCHOLARSHIPS AT MIRA big one as he was going to be in a life-risk­ section, the Secretary shall give special em­ COSTA HIGH SCHOOL, MANHATTAN BEACH, ing situation, a.nd unless he could tell his phasis to awarding grants to school districts CA, JUNE 12, 1985 story, it would have been for nothing. And that are in low-income areas and that have he might be a dead man as well. Every com­ a demonstrated shortage of certified and CRobert Reuben Scholarship Winners: Leland Dutcher, who will enter UC, Berke­ munications need had to be carried with qualified teachers. him by parachute! "PROJECT ADMINISTRATION ley; Jason Fink, who will go to UCLA; a.nd Chad Conrad, who will enter Brigham At this Juncture in our mutual dilemma, "SEC. 502. Each project to which a grant is Young University.] a.n old army sergeant appeared in my door made under section 501 shall be adminis­ Distinguished guests, students of Mira in London. He acted as though he was em­ tered by a governing board that is primarily Costa High School: When Sally Reed asked barrassed to make such a suggestion, but he composed of teachers from the area served me to come here today to Join you for the said he did have one. Had we ever thought by the project. presentation of the Robert Reuben Scholar­ about using carrier pigeons? "DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ships, you ca.n be forgiven for not knowing He had only half entered the office, as if he expected to have to run for his life for "SEc. 503. The Secretary shall collect and having made such a ludicrous suggestion. I disseminate information on projects assisted 1 Now a consultant with Litton Industries, who must admit my first reaction was to not con­ with funds under this part and shall evalu­ not only knew Robert Reuben, but was the one who sider this too seriously, but when there's ate the benefits of such projects for the par­ encouraged him to volunteer for parachute and nothing else, one is wise not to throw any­ ticipants therein and disseminate the re­ glider training before Normandy, so he could ac­ thing away. sults of such evaluations. company the D-Day airborne invasion of Western Europe. These remarks wlll be 8'1ven exactly 41 Without Reuben knowing anything about "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS years plus 6 days to the very hour after Reuben's it, or any of my other prospects either, we "SEC. 504. There are authorized to be ap­ plane was approaching the Cherbourir Peninsula in thought we'd give it a trial run during a propriated to carry out this part, $5,000,000 France. manuever down near Land's End to the west June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16149 of England. I had one of my colleagues And for those of you for whom history is ney's Minnesota staff. In 1954, Judge loaded down with wicker cages full of carri­ not a dead subject, but a living breathing re­ Lord was elected Minnesota attorney er pigeons, who had his very own landing minder of what's possible in the lives of us general and was reelected twice. He re­ craft from which to launch them. Our re­ all, consider this: There are such things as search showed us that there are overwater enduring values. A century before, a wily signed as attorney general in 1960 and carrier pigeons, and overland varieties; the German wanted to get the jump on other fi­ was appointed U.S. attorney for Min­ overwater types being able to navigate even nancial traders in Frankfurt, Germany, and nesota in 1961. In 1966, Miles Lord was though there's no land in sight. to do that, he had to know what the London appointed to the Federal bench. As the maneuvering flotilla hovered in the markets had done. He set up an elaborate It was as a Federal judge that Miles darkness, my friend wrote little nonsense system of horsemen, courier boats, wig-wag Lord made his greatest impact on Min­ messages, put them in the leg capsules on signals, and for the link between Verviers, each pigeon, then tossed them in the air. If Belgium, and Aachen in Germany, he used nesota and our country as a whole. His all worked well, these pigeons, in 6 hours, carrier pigeons. Because he was always first issues have touched on virtually all as­ were to land at the pigeon cote in London. to know the London market situation, pects of our society from the environ­ If it worked, then, only then, would we ven­ whether to buy or sell, he became a very ment to health care. ture to suggest it to the war correspondents rich man. His name was Paul Julius Reuter, One of the environmental decisions who were to go in airborne. and that was the beginnings for the news issued by Judge Lord was to upholding I was then at Field Marshal Montgomery's service Robert Reuben worked for. And car­ headquarters in the south of England near rier pigeons, so critical in Reuters' start, fig­ the constitutionality of the Boundary Portsmouth. Twenty-four hours went by, ured again in Bob Reuben's first story from Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act. and not a pigeon showed in London. Forty­ Normandy. This decision upheld the national leg­ eight hours, and not a sign. Then I had a I recommend that each of you someday islation which protects one of our Na­ surprise call from the police chief of the Isle visit Barnaby's Restaurant, for one specific tion's largest and most popular wilder­ of Wight. That's a small bit of land near the reason. Just inside the doorway is a plaque. ness areas. entrance of Portsmouth and Southhampton Most people go by it without noticing and Harbors. He said apologetically that he felt only a few read what it says. But that was Before the national media focused he had a military security problem and he once Bob Reuben's Pen and Quill Restau­ on overcharges by defense contractors, didn't know how to talk about it on the rant, and he was president of the Manhat­ Judge Lord chastized the Sperry com­ phone. Everything was super secretiv.e then, tan Beach Chamber of Commerce in 1955- pany for overcharging the Govern­ so I told him to talk around it. Finally, he 56, and it was the chamber of commerce ment in defense contracts. which put the plaque there. It reads: said: "Old chap, are you missing any feath­ In 1980, Judge Lord broke new ered things?" Do you mean pigeons, I asked "IN MEMORY OF ROBERT REUBEN, 1918-1964" him. That's right, he said; pigeons, they're In 1940, Bob began a brilliant career as a ground against sexual discrimination all over my bloody jail and messing the war and foreign correspondent for NBC and when he ruled that the University of place something awful. What should he do? Reuters. His nose for news took him to the Minnesota had not provided women I told him with the food shortage being White House, through Europe and the Pa­ faculty members with an equal oppor­ what it was, to have them for dinner, as cific. D-Day of World War II found him tunity for advancement and was there­ they were no good to me. parachuting from the first plane into Nor­ fore liable for lost wages. A few days later, I mentioned it to Bob mandy, first correspondent to arrive in Reuben. He didn't laugh at the suggestion. Paris, first to file a story from German soil, Most recently, Judge Lord gained And that night of June 5th when the lOlst first yank in Tokyo-reported the surrender national prominence for his actions on Airborne Division was loading up for the of Japan-received a Presidential Unit Cita­ behalf of those women who had used crossing to Normandy. There was a big tion. In 1946, he was in Admiral Byrd's ex­ the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. laugh when one of the war correspondents pedition to the South Pole. In 1950, he re­ Mr. Speaker, anyone who has taken showed up with a wicker cage with two car­ ceived a U.S. army citation personally from such an active role in our society will rier pigeons inside. That was Robert General Eisenhower! Reuben. It was to be a night of long All of the winners of the Robert Reuben gain admirers and detractors. Many chances, and he decided carrier pigeons just Scholarship are a part of his considerable did not agree with all of Judge Lord's might work. heritage. He took all the cards life dealt him decisions but none can deny that As his plane approached Normandy that and played them. He courted individual Judge Lord's decisions were based on a night, he wrote on cigarette tissue the danger, took wild byways to find and tell commitment to the American people words: Have landed Normandy. Reuben. the stories he told so well. He lived his life whom we serve. All too often big busi­ Reuters. He put one of these in each of the with grace and charm, and everyone who nesses and big government have the leg capsules on the two pigeons. When he knew him felt better because he did. If you jumped out into the darkness about 3 a.m. are looking for a role model for preparation advantage of resources and time which of June 6th near Carentan at the base of for life, for readiness to know it to its full­ put the average American at a disad­ the Cherbourg Peninsula, he had a pigeon est, look no further than Robert Reuben, vantage. Judge Lord returned human clutched in each hand. He had to hold their one to whom being first was not Just an ob­ understanding to our judicial system wings down tight or the blast from the session. Life was more fun for him with that and put the process on an even play­ plane's propellor would have ripped them perspective, and it can be for you, too.e ing field for all Americans. Nowhere is off. When he hit the ground, was actually this more evident than in the Dalkon there in Normandy, he tossed both of them Shield case. Until Judge Lord became in the air where they disappeared in the MILES LORD-THE PEOPLE'S blackness of that suspenseful night. Being JUDGE involved, the claims had been mired in actually on the ground, he was entitled to courts throughout the country. Under the Normandy dateline. If the pigeons did HON. BRUCE F. VENTO Judge Lord, however, these cases their part, he would be part of history. moved forward and corporate All that day, at the Montgomery head­ OF MINNESOTA stonewalling was overcome. Efforts quarters, I was being asked for news of this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES such as this have earned Miles Lord or that correspondent. There were rumors, Tuesday, June 18, 1985 the title of the "People's Judge." but there was nothing from the far shore. It was about 9 o'clock that D-Day evening • Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, the Mr. Speaker, the American people when I had a call from Dover on the Eng­ American people lost a friend in our and our system of justice will miss lish Channel and the caller said a pigeon Federal judicial system on May 20, Miles Lord. Because of him, justice had just landed at the cote there. He was a when U.S. District Judge Miles Lord has been available for the American tired bird, but when they opened his leg announced his retirement. Judge people. He has been there when others capsule, the message read: Have landed Nor­ Lord's announcement marks the end were not. He has spoken out when mandy, Reuben, Reuters. to 35 years of public service including others were silent. In surveying his That was the first story from Normandy career, Judge Lord said "I like to think on D-Day, brought out in a most primitive 19 years on the Federal bench. way, an accomplishment of a man who rea­ Born in Crosby, MN in 1919, Judge I helped women and minorities and soned that when you're taking long chances Lord attended the University of Min­ the poor and downtrodden and op­ anyway, try anything-and something just nesota Law School. After receiving his pressed, whether they be oppressed by might work! In Robert Reuben's case, it did. law degree, Miles joined the U.S. attor- governments or industry or just life." 16150 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 Nothing more could have been expect­ Mr. Speaker, the time has come to "(4) Efforts are needed at national region­ ed.• turn back the tide of degradation of al levels to provide technical and other sup­ Africa's agricultural resource base port for projects of the kinds described in which should be providing food for paragraph (3) and to strengthen the capac­ DESERTIFICATION AND ities of African nations to provide effective DEFORESTATION that continent's people. The desertifi­ research and extension services in support cation and deforestation which has of environmentally sustainable increases in played a major role in causing the food production. These efforts include es­ HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN present catastrophe in Africa, need tablishing or strengthening soil conserva­ OF NEW YORK our immediate attention if we are to tion and forestry services; providing seeds, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES put an end to the famine cycle. seedlings, energy-efficient and resource-con­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Accordingly, I urge my colleagues to serving devices, and other needed materials; training and educating local people; and cre­ e Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I support H.R. 2782 and at this part in ating financial mechanisms to furnish credit am introducing legislation, H.R. 2782, the RECORD I request that the full text to small farmers. that will enable our Nation to help of this bill be printed: "(5) Increased research is needed with the prevent famine in Africa by tackling H.R. 2782 aim of providing appropriate materials and two of its majors causes: Desertifica­ A bill to authorize assistance for famine techniques for projects of the kinds de­ tion and deforestation. It is a timely prevention in Africa scribed in paragraph (3). The objective of initiative; only last week the United Be it enacted by the Senate and House of this research should include development of Nations issued a report stating that in Representatives of the United States of major food crops which can be grown on an the Sudan alone the number of vic­ America in Congress assembled, That chap­ environmentally sound sustainable basis in tims of the current famine will reach ter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act semi-arid areas of Africa. 11.5 million, no more than half of that of 1961 is amended by adding at the end "(6) In order to help prevent human suf­ nation's population by the end of the thereof the following new section: fering and unwanted dependence on foreign "SEC. 129. PREVENTION OF FAMINE IN AFRICA. aid, promote orderly economic development, year. It is clear that the disaster over­ and avoid calls for massive and increasing taking the Sudan will be even more "(a) FINDING.-The Congress makes the following findings: emergency food aid, it is in the national in­ devastating than Ethiopia's and is due terest of the United States to provide sub­ "(1) A major cause of the current, tragic to in large part of deforestation and famine in Africa is degradation of the natu­ stantial assistance to African nations suffer­ desertification. ral resource base due to overgrazing, fire­ ing from or threatened with famine for the Our Nation has always been a leader wood gathering, overharvesting of trees, and purpose of restoring and maintaining the in providing direct humanitarian aid overcropping on fragile soils. These activi­ natural resource base. to areas in crisis around the world. We ties have caused soil erosion, flooding, re­ "(b) AuTHORITY.-The President is author­ have financed many self-help projects moval of tree cover, loss of water supplies, ized to furnish assistance under this part to that respond to the need for long-term and desertification. support projects and efforts in Africa of the "(2) This degraded natural resource base kinds described in subsections (a)(3), (4), solutions to the poverty that plagues and <5>. In carrying out this section, the so many countries. In addition, we are cannot provide even the basic needs of human beings, as demonstrated by the cur­ President shall place special emphasis on doing much to bring to the attention rent famine. Prompt actions to restore and grants to international and African nongov­ of the leaders of the many countries maintain the resource base are essential to ernmental organizations and to United that are suffering from the current meet the needs of growing populations. If States private and voluntary organizations famine, action that they themselves these actions are not taken, continuing mas­ for projects of the kinds described in subsec­ can undertake to help their people. sive external food aid will be necessary to tion <3>. Those actions include dismantling relieve continuing famine, and even such "(c) REVIEW.-The Administrator of the state controlled agricultural programs, massive aid may be insufficient or suscepti­ Agency for International Development and adopting market oriented strategies ble to delivery delays. the Director of the Peace Corps- and reducing some of the disincentives "(3) There is substantial and growing evi­ " shall assess the opportunities for that hinder corporate investment in dence that the most effective, quickest, and their agencies to support projects and ef­ their nations. least costly way of maintaining and restor­ forts in Africa of the kinds described in sub­ However, we are doing far too little ing the resource base is through small-scale, sections <3>, (4), and <5>; and affordable, resource-conserving, low-risk, "(2) place a high priority on providing in regard to the one major factor in local projects, using appropriate technol­ such support, either from funds authorized the famine equation that impacts di­ ogies and methods suited to the local envi­ to be appropriated by this section or from rectly on all other efforts undertak­ ronment and traditional agricultural meth­ other sources. en-the current degradation of the re­ ods in Africa, and featuring close consulta­ "(d) REQUIREMENTS ON USE OF FuNDs.­ source base itself. Sub-Saharan Afri­ tion with and involvement of local people at Funds made available to cp,.rry out this sec­ ca's productive land is undergoing all stages of project design and implementa­ tion shall be used as follows: such a change for the worse, that the tion. Sustainable increased agricultural pro­ duction must be responsive to the environ­ "<3>. Every effort shall be made will make each preceding one seem energy and resource-conservation tech­ to disburse these funds quickly (beginning mild in comparison. niques and use of organic or regenerative where necessary with modest grants for This bill provides specific assistance methods where feasible>; construction of check dams and terraces and other erosion­ project identification and design), for building up and sustaining the nat­ control projects; tree planting for wind­ "(2) A significant portion of such funds ural resources of those areas and coun­ breaks, soil stabilization, or firewood; energy shall be used for national and regional ef­ tries in Africa which are suffering, or conservation and small-scale energy produc­ forts of the kinds described in subsection on a long-term basis are likely to tion to reduce consumption of firewood and <4>. suffer from exceptional food supply animal wastes otherwise usable as fertilizer; "(3) Such funds may be used to support problems and where the natural re­ and local education and training efforts. research of the kind described in subsection source base has suffered deterioration Often, the best way of actively involving the <5>. due to deforestation, desertification, affected local people is through local gov­ "(4) Such funds shall be available only in ernment organizations and shall include the list of such areas in ing bill. The fight between Phil Gramm of Texas the reports to the Congress required by sub­ I am hopeful that my colleagues in and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts was section Cf). the House of Representatives will take over a measure that dilutes the Davis-Bacon "(e) HOST COUNTRY AND PRIVATE SECTOR a few moments to read the following Act as it aplies to military construction. CONTRIBUTIONS.-The host country shall be letter from William L. Reece: Davis-Bacon, a relic of the Depression, encouraged to contribute its own resources, MAY 20, 1985. forces the federal government to pay inflat­ to the maximum extent possible, in conjunc­ Congressman CARROLL HUBBARD, Jr., ed wages on construction projects. tion with the projects and efforts supported House of Representatives, Washington, DC. The law was supposed to prevent Wash­ under this section. The private sector in the DEAR CONGRESSMAN HUBBARD: As you are ington from forcing wages down. It requires host country, and subsidiaries of United aware, you will soon be asked to express contractors getting federal contracts to pay States companies operating in that country, your opinion by voting on H.R. 20 and Re­ the "prevailing wage." That has generally shall also be encouraged to participate, to gional Banking Legislation. We feel this is been taken to mean the highest wage. Be­ the maximum extent possible, in those one of the most important issues to face the sides raising the cost of housing projects projects and efforts. banking industry in many years. and highways, the law protects union con­ "(f) ANNUAL REPORTS.-Each annual It is our opinion that our industry has sur­ tractors against nonunion competition. It is report required by section 634(a) of this Act vived and thrived very well under the provi­ dear to organized labor. shall include a report on the implementa­ sions of the Douglas Amendment, which is The Congressional Budget Office estimat­ tion of this section. The report required by the foundation of our diversified financial ed in 1983 that repeal would save $1.5 bil­ this subsection shall describe- system. We believe each state should contin­ lion a year in budget authority. The Reagan "the uses of funds pursuant to this sec­ ue to have the right to determine its own fi­ administration has made changes in how tion, including a description of each project nancial structure. the law is administered, but their effect or program supported with those funds and Very simply, we do not wish to see the isn't known yet. They surely won't be as val­ the amount allocated to it; the identity of money center financial giants in our indus­ uable as simply killing Davis-Bacon. each recipient of those funds, and the try come to our local community or state to The amendment offered by Sen. Gramm, amount of funds each received; and the drain deposits from our local economy only Texas A&M's contribution to sound eco­ amount of those funds used for assistance in to be invested in questionable, high risk nomic policy, doesn't do that. It only re­ each country; and loans with foreign developing countries that duces the scope of the law on military con­ "(2) the estimated need for actions to may never be able to repay. Also, we do not struction. Right now, it applies to contracts maintain or restore the natural resource wish to see our deposits used to promote of $2,000 or more; Gramm raises the thresh­ base in African nations in order to prevent foreign manufacturing in lieu of the provi­ old to $1 million. His proposal relaxes job famine, and the projected contribution of sion of jobs within our local community. classification rules, so that contractors the United States for the next three fiscal We know you share our concern for the won't have to pay an electrician's wage to years to meet an appropriate share of those local community, and for states' rights to an electrician's helper. It also codifies some needs. control their own destiny. We urge you to of the administration's regulatory reforms. "(g) EFFECTIVENESS STUDY.-Within 5 express that concern by voting "NO" to leg­ The changes exempt about 90 percent of years after the date of enactment of this islation that would permit federal authority military construction contracts from Davis­ section, the Administrator of the Agency for to override states' rights as provided under Bacon, involving 40 percent of the dollar International Development shall carry out a the Douglas Amendment. We urge you to volume. The Defense Department says they cross-sectoral study of a representative continue to support legislation that will would save $150 million a year. sample of the projects funded pursuant to allow each state to continue to exercise au­ But Ted Kennedy, that fierce opponent of this section to determine their effectiveness thority over factors that influence the local Pentagon waste, was eager to defend it this in helping to prevent famine, and shall economy. time. In the June 4 floor debate, he called report the result to the Congress. Thank you for your support and attention Gramm's proposal "an indefensible assault "(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.­ to this most important issue. on the wages of construction workers" and In addition to the amounts otherwise avail­ Respectfully, warned that lower wages would mean less able for such purposes, there are authorized WILLIAM L. REECE, productive workers and "shoddy work." to be appropriated $75,000,000 for fiscal President, and C.E. 0., Both charges are nonsense. The point of year 1986 for use in providing assistance The Farmers National Bank.• Davis-Bacon is not to prevent wages from under this section. Amounts appropriated being driven down, but to raise them above under this section are authorized to remain their competitive level. It is no crime available until expended.".• NEW WAY TO CUT DEFENSE against carpenters to pay them what their COSTS labor is worth in the marketplace. DON'T OVERRIDE STATES' Nor is there any reason to believe that HON. HENRY J. HYDE paying workers more ensures higher qual­ RIGHTS ity. I have racked my memory in vain to OF ILLINOIS find an occasion when Kennedy argued that HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES paying more to General Dynamics guaran­ OF KENTUCKY Tuesday, June 18, 1985 tees better fighter planes, or that a $700 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES toilet seat is 28 times better than a $25 •Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, as we model. Tuesday, June 18, 1985 embark on debating the defense au­ In fact, Kennedy took this opportunity to e Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, last thorization bill, a test looms for all of denounce those high-priced seats, thus ex­ Wednesday, June 12, the House Com­ us to prove our devotion to fiscal re­ hausting Oramm's always-limited supply of mittee on Banking, Finance and Urban straint. As we proceed to slash de­ patience. "We are talking about more Affairs fense, the questions arises as to money here on this one vote,''he retorted, whether certain sections are sacro­ "than we have ever paid for toilet seats and marked up banking legislation that is crescent wrenches and cathode ray tubes in of great interest to our Nation's finan­ sanct, or whether every aspect of this the whole history of the Republic." cial institutions. bill is open to reduction. If firms paying high wages boast higher During the markup, I read in its en­ Chicago Tribune Columnist Stephen productivity and better work, they will un­ tirety an excellent June 4, 1985, letter Chapman has something useful to tell derbid contractors employing sloppy, low­ that I had received from William L. us on this topic, and I hope my paid workers. If Kennedy truly believed in Reece, president and chief executive budget-cutting colleagues will pay at­ the superiority of unionized companies, he officer of the Farmers National Bank tention to what he says. would welcome the chance to prove it. [From the Chicago Tribune, June 14, 1985] Given Congress' avowed determination to of Scottsville, Kentucky. restrain defense spending, you might expect Because of the impact of the inter­ A NEW WAY TO CUT DDENSE COSTS Oramm's measure to sail through. But Ken­ state banking measure, I felt my col­ nedy's amendment to delete it, which leagues on the House Banking Com­ It's not every day that you find a conserv­ needed a majority to pass, fell barely short mittee would be interested in Mr. ative Republican senator trying to cut the by a 49-49 vote. Among Democrats who 16152 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 voted for higher defense spending: Gary more than academic significance, since few NEW NERVE-GAS WEAPONS Hart, Alan Cranston, John Glenn, Howard blacks and other minorities have been THAT WE DON'T NEED Metzenbaum, William Proxmire, Paul trained as media managers or are independ­ Simon-a profile in courage, every one. And ently wealthy. Gramm still has to get the House to accept The glib dismissal was hasty, to say the HON. BERKLEY BEDELL the idea. OF IOWA Unfortunately, a lot of members of Con­ least. Think of Forbes Four Hundred gress who think the Reagan administration member John H. Johnson of Chicago, owner IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Ebony, Jet and Ebony Jr. magazines and is too generous to the Pentagon won't Tuesday, June 18, 1985 temper their own benevolence toward the three radio stations, and worth $150 million. AFL-CIO. Liberals who are serious about Or Motown Records owner Berry Gordy Jr., e Mr. BEDELL. Mr. Speaker, this cutting the defense budget can't exempt also worth more than $100 million. week, we shall once again be faced their friends from sacrifice.e In fact, Bill Cosby, the black entertainer with the decision whether to approve whose prime-time sitcom, The Cosby Show, funding for the production of new is the hottest show on rival NBC, has al­ INCREASING MINORITY OWNER­ binary chemical weapons. While the ready spied the opportunity. Cosby owns a proponents of the "Bigeye bomb" tell SHIP OF BROADCAST PROPER­ majority of Cozzin Communications, which TIES us it is necessary to ensure American bought Channel 69 in Gainesville, Fla. nine deterrence against Soviet use of chem­ months ago, and is talking with Cap Cities/ ical weapons against the United States HON. MICKEY LELAND ABC about acquiring Detroit's WXYZ-TV, one of four stations Cap Cities/ABC is plan­ and its allies, I remain unconvinced OF TEXAS and prepared to support the Fascell­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ning to divest to stay within the 25% cap. Murphy and Cap Cities President Daniel Porter amendment which will delete Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Burke have credibility with minorities. In all funds for the procurement of • Mr. LELAND. Mr. Speaker, I would 1979 they helped a black group, Seaway binary chemical munitions. In this like to take this opportunity to submit Communications, become the first minority regard, I would urge my colleagues to for the RECORD an article by Allan group to own a VHF station, Channel 12 in read the following comments that ap­ Dodds Frank, of Forbes magazine, en­ Rhinelander, Wis., and in 1982 to add a peared in both the Washington Post titled, "Affirmatively Activated Loop­ second, Channel 7 in Bangor, Me. and the Wall Street Journal on · this hole?", which originally appeared in While Murphy is welcoming all bidders on subject. the July l, 1985, issue of Forbes. the properties, there is no denying that a NEW NERVE-GAS WEAPONS THAT WE DON'T Minority ownership of telecommuni­ group 51 %. owned by Cosby would be attrac­ NEED cations properties is abysmally low. tive. For now, Murphy sounds coy. Says he to FORBES: "That's a terrific idea, and if I Minorities presently own less than 2 could do it in Detroit, I would." Murphy ex­ Would you support a new Pentagon pro­ percent of broadcast licenses and less plains that the FCC prohibition against gram that adds billions of dollars to the than 1 percent of television licenses. $200 billion deficit, that has never been field "cross-media ownership" in the same tested because it has failed 80 percent of its The article demonstrates that creative market rules out Detroit. If Cap Cities/ABC mechanisms geared toward increasing controlled laboratory tests, that has been retained a 49% interest in WXYZ-TV, he rejected by our closest allies in NATO, that minority ownership of broadcast prop­ says, it would have to sell off a Detroit AM­ if put into effect would kill civilians in erties can work. The article also un­ FM radio station as well as the Oakland droves while leaving protected enemy sol­ derscores the commitment of Capital Press in Pontiac, together worth $100 mil­ diers unharmed, and that makes chemical Cities Communications, Inc., to in­ lion. Says Murphy: "The capital gains we'd weapons proliferation and terrorist use crease minority ownership of broad­ have to pay doesn't make it economically more likely and arms control less so? cast properties. sensible." Of course not. I am pleased to present this article, Okay, so what about a minority deal to That's why a bipartisan majority in the and I urge my colleagues to read it. get into a new market altogether? Sure, House has decisively rejected over the past Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Murphy says enthusiastically. "Miami three years the Pentagon's request to produce new binary nerve gas weapons, a CFrom Forbes, July 1, 19851 would be a wonderful market if you could do it. The other ones are Atlanta and proposal supported on this page May 21 AFFIRMATIVELY ACTIVATED LoOPHOLE? Denver and Phoenix. They're the great ["Chemical Weapons: The Real Issues," by growth markets." Sens. John Glenn, Barry Goldwater, Sam Wanted: Minority group investors with Nunn and John Warner] We strongly sup­ Right now, Murphy insists a 51 %/49% port, however, the administration's request broadcasting savvy. Contact T. Murphy, deal is not a top priority. But that may soon chm., Capital Cities/ABC, NYC. for over $1 billion to improve chemical pro­ Tom Murphy has not yet run that ad, but change. With the eight stations it plans to tection for our troops and to continue chem­ he likes the idea behind it. As head of the retain, Cap Cities/ABC now hits 24.4% of ical research efforts. newly merged Capital Cities/ABC broadcast the nation's households, and a minority The message from Congress has been empire, Murphy is splendidly positioned to group deal could boost market share to 30%, clear: if the chemical threat from the Soviet take advantage of a loophole in the Federal leaving CBS with 20.6%, and NBC with only Union is as dangerous and real as argued, Communications Commission regulations 19.8%, far behind. To close the gap, the then the priorities of our chemical program governing the ownership of television sta­ other two networks will themselves have to should be the protection of our troops, the tions. go station shopping and will no doubt be maintenance of our current adequate retali­ When the FCC in April raised the limit on tempted to pay hefty premiums for attrac­ atory stockpile and the pursuit of a verifia­ TV and radio station ownership from 7 sta­ tive properties. ble arms control ban on chemical weapons. tions to 12, it chose to prevent undue mo­ CBS might pay handsomely for the 3.25% As Rep. Les Aspin said: "We want more de­ nopoly power by capping the reach of a additional market penetration it could fense, not more production line." group's stations at 25 percent to the na­ achieve by acquiring its own affiliate sta­ In its technical evaluations of the binary tion's television homes. But within the regu­ tions in Houston, Tulsa and Sacramento, all Bigeye bomb, the General Accounting lations lurks a bit of social engineering: A currently owned by the broadcasting subsid­ Office found that binary weapons are not as network can raise its national audience cap iary of A.H. Belo Corp. Likewise, NBC safe, modem or reliable as claimed by the to 30 percent-in effect, add 4.25 million Department of Defense. For example, one homes to its profit base-if two or more of would doubtless pay a large premium for binary component is at least as toxic as the its stations are 51 percent owned and con­ the 5.26% additional reach that could be chemical that leaked at Bhopal, India. trolled by minority group interests. gained by owning affiliates in Philadelphia Citing moisture, temperature, purity, fusing With TV stations being among the most and Boston. And those two deals would still and structural deficiences, GAO concluded profitable of all network-owned media, the leave the trailing networks slightly short of that "technical problems still plague the chance to own 49 percent of the cash flow 25%. Bigeye bomb development." from TV stations serving an additional 5 Who knows, before long maybe NBC and This conclusion was preceded by the infa­ percent of the country could be worth tens CBS will also be looking for some black or mous 1982 test in which the Bigeye bomb of millions of dollars annually. But most Hispanic businessmen with big bucks.e prematurely exploded and spewed deadly broadcasters figured the clause was of no gas at an Army test facility. Just two weeks June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16153 ago, the GAO reported that the Bigeye has NEEDED: A SOLID DEFENSE AGAINST GAS MICHIGAN MEETING THE NEEDS failed to meet test standards at least eight Stark) OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION out of 10 times over the past year. STUDENTS In an effort to sell the binary program, Joseph Douglass Jr.'s editorial-page piece Pentagon reports have argued that the May 23 on the Defense Department's pro­ binary stockpile would be substantially posal for a new binary chemical-warfare ar­ HON. WIWAM D. FORD smaller than the current usable unitary tillery shell was an interesting blend of alar­ OF MICHIGAN chemical stockpile. That hardly seems a mism and common sense. While I believe credible deterrent to the Soviet chemical Mr. Douglass exaggerates the danger of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES threat. Furthermore, a Defense Department Soviet biological weapons activity, he is ab­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 blue-ribbon panel has already concluded solutely right about one thing: American that the current stockpile is adequate and "addition of binary munitions to what is al­ e Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speak- , constitutes a credible retaliatory deterrent ready deployed in Europe is unlikely to have er, at a time when our society appears into the 1990s. It's hard to understand why any significant effect on Soviet plans for fixed on higher education as the only the Pentagon would want to replace the cur­ war in Europe.'' acceptable preparation for work of rent stockpile in Europe, where the greatest The Soviets have the most extensive any significance, and particularly threat of chemical warfare exists, with one chemical-warfare capability in the world. when parents and educators alike are that is smaller and not acceptable to the Eu­ pushing for higher academic standards ropeans. Afghanistan makes clear that the Soviets will use their plentiful offensive chemical and have greater expectations of chil­ It is clear that in order to form a credible weapons if they believe it will be militarily dren as students, we must continue to deterrent, the new weapons would have to advantageous. From this, the Pentagon con­ be watchful that we do not continue be pre-positioned in Europe. Moving massive cludes we should build new binary chemical past trends to downgrade the intrinsic amounts of nerve gas munitions in the open­ weapons to deter Soviet use of gas. ing phases of a crisis, as the Pentagon value of education that prepares argues, would only worsen the situation and The Pentagon overlooks two important young people for an immediate transi­ convince the Soviets that we were preparing points. First, the U.S. currently maintains tion into the world of work. Higher to strike first. stockpiles of functional chemical munitions, education and indeed life-long con­ If pressed, the issue of binary chemical both in Europe and the U.S., sufficient for tinuing education is an important goal, 30 days of all-out chemical warfare. The weapons in Europe would become one of the but we cannot assum~ that the mere hottest issues facing NATO, placing into Army admits that the proposed binary pro­ demand for more technical academic jeopardy more important defense and for­ gram would leave us with fewer weapons courses in math and science or preen­ eign policy objectives-joint research on than we have today. And our NATO allies will not accept the deployment of new gineering is the best and only accepta­ SDI, theater nuclear deployments, and im­ ble preparation for life. -To do so ig­ provements in conventional defenses. The chemical weapons in Europe. supreme allied commander in Europe, Gen. The second point is more telling. In fact, nores a basic fact of life-the fact that Bernard Rogers, aptly described this reality it is a scandal. Much of a nation's chemical­ high school students who do not in April: "The issue has become too tough warfare capability is derived from the de­ intend to go on to college, and who to handle. I find it is put in the too-sensi­ fensive capability of its troops. Chemical purposely choose vocational education tive/too-tough-to-handle box and it just re­ weapons make no sense if used against a programs-have needs that must be poses there." The secretary general of well-protected opponent armed with his own met by parents and educators. The NATO, Lord Carrington, said as much at a chemical weapons. greatest need among these students is recent congressional reception. Our Europe­ The U.S. falls on its face in defensive the one that says "don't treat me like an allies do not hesitate to wonder why we equipment and training. The Soviets have a second-class citizen because I am would hand Mikhail Gorbachev such a supplied their troops with both in abun­ taking vocational education classes." public relations opportunity in the middle dance. Excerpts from a recent report by the of his peace offensive. The State of Michigan is one that General Accounting Office illustrate the de­ has not made the mistake of valuing Confronted with decisive bipartisan de­ ficiencies in U.S. defensive posture. feats in the Congress, the Pentagon has only the college-bound students within tried to rescue the binary program by ap­ The GAO reports the protective suit re­ the walls of their public school system. pointing a commission. A majority of the cently issued by the Army "does not lower It has not ignored the differences in commission were already pro-binary, and heat stress levels, and does not provide student interests and abilities. As a the panel did not include a single opponent flame resistance for aviators.'' The Army's matter of fact, Michigan's Department despite our recommendation that Ed Be­ gloves "have limited tactility and are highly of Vocational-Technical-Adult Educa­ thune, a former Republican colleague and flammable," while Army overboots "are flammable, non-durable, require 15 minutes tion acknowledges that its high school recognized expert, be appointed. students, college bound or not, st111 In addition, the commission's executive to don, and cannot be laced up at night.'' secretary, the Defense Department's assist­ Even harder to believe is OAO's finding can and do benefit greatly from a mix ant secretary on chemical matters and the that the Navy's protective suit "provides 6 of academic and vocational courses, Pentagon's chief lobbyist for the binary pro­ hours of protection, but not if wet.'' This, with enough elective options to match gram are one and the same person. The despite the fact that the Navy intends to de­ their interests and their learning commission's three-page testimony, hastily contaminate its vessels with, you guessed it, styles. produced in just five weeks, predictably en­ water. Michigan's educators, in partnership dorsed the Pentagon's binary request. The U.S. defensive capability is criminally defi­ with business and industry, have seen commission even hired a few public rela­ cient in collective protection gear, decon­ to it that many of their schools, while tions consultants at $250 a day to spread the tamination equipment, and detection/warn­ helping students achieve intellectual, word. ing systems as well. We dangerously lag social, and personal goals, are also w111- Except for adding even more to the feder­ behind in protecting the crews of armored ing and able to help them achieve vo­ al deficit, nothing has changed on this issue vehicles. No number of new chemical muni­ cational education goals as well. since the House, by a bipartisan majority, tions will enhance our deterrent to Soviet overwhelmingly defeated the binary nerve use of gas if our defensive capability is not Vocational education in Michigan gas program. Already 119 Democrats and drastically improved. helps develop individual students in Republicans are sponsoring legislation to five broad areas: First, personal skills delete this unwarranted program once Someday, our existing chemical munitions and attitudes; second communication again. For sound reasons of defense, foreign will need replacement. But I will not sup­ port any funds for new chemical weapons and computational skills; third, em­ policy, arms control and budget, Congress ployability skills; fourth, broad and should once again say no. until the Pentagon gets serious about a de­ fensive capability to deter Soviet use of gas specific occupational skills and knowl­ (Dante B. Fascell is a Democratic repre­ edge; and fifth foundations for career sentative from Florida and chairman of the on American soldiers. I expect my col­ House Foreign Affairs Committee. John E. leagues in the House to do the same.e planning and life-long learning. Porter is a Republican representative from These purposes are part of the lllinois and a member of the House Appro­ whole secondary school system in priations Committee.) Michigan, and are shared with exter- 16154 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 nal programs, agencies, and extracur­ published a report entitled: "The Un­ Eighty-nine percent of adult voca­ ricular functions of the schoolwide finished Agenda." Reflected in that is tional education completers in Michi­ system of education. the Commission's findings of a need gan enter the labor force; My overriding concern for education for stronger bridges between vocation­ Vocational education in Michigan at all levels is that it be of good qual­ al and academic instruction in order to schools gives students the skills and ity and that it take into account the maximize learning and career opportu­ self-confidence to find satisfying Jobs; vast differences among the needs of all nities for all of America's youth. and 71.3 percent of Michigan's voca­ individuals pursuing an education, so The National Commission found tional education graduates obtain a that the education students carry that recent studies and national re­ Job related to their training, or go on away with them is the education they ports on the condition of education in to enter community college for further wanted, the education they worked to this country have not adequately dealt vocational education. obtain, and the education most rele­ with the role of secondary vocational Under the old Vocational Education vant to their particular lifestyle and education in addressing the problems Act, it was mandatory for States to in­ goals for their futures. It is a tall of quality in American education. We clude representatives of business, in­ order, but even if we can't guarantee must assure that the role of vocational dustry, and labor on their vocational the final outcome, we can lay the education is included so that second­ education advisory committees, but foundations. ary school reforms achieve the neces­ this mandate was not retained in the Educators, lawmakers, parents, and sary balance. new Carl Perkins Vocational Educa­ students alike are aware that unac­ Congress has not only continued to tion Act. The State of Michigan, ceptably high numbers of students are recognize the importance of vocational noting their past successes, has contin­ still dropping out of high school, and education through its recent reauthor­ ued this representation, and now has some are even leaving high school ization of the Carl Perkins Vocational more than 2,000 vocational education with a diploma when they still cannot Education Act, with an emphasis on advisory committees comprised of read, write, or compute. When stu­ training for youths and adults, but it local business, industry and labor rep­ dents do that, we lose them-and with has also provided incentives for more resentatives. Continuing this practice them goes our ability and opportunity partnerships between schools and not only assures better placement op­ to help them. business and industry, particularly portunities for graduates of their voca­ It is the critical educational task high-tech programs. tional education programs, it is an im­ that we take into account the students Business and industry has given its portant linkage, that should be re­ who may march to a different drum­ vote of confidence to vocational educa­ tained by all States for purposes of mer, and to find the catalyst that will tion. In a recent survey, vocational providing successful vocational educa­ reawaken their interest, and rekindle a education graduates are rated as tion opportunities. commitment to academic instruction "good" to "very good" among 37 per­ There is an increasing demand in perhaps through vocational education. cent of those surveyed. In a survey of Michigan for quick start, or custom­ With our urgent need to find ways manufacturers, 85 percent prefer voca­ to reduce unemployment, especially ized, training programs for new, as tional education graduates. Of employ­ well as for developing, businesses that among young people, we must have ers surveyed, 65 percent prefer voca­ more successful vocational education have a need for a skilled work force tional education programs to retrain for new jobs and for employers who programs at secondary and postsec­ workers. ondary education levels. Successful are about to retool or replace obsolete programs can, and do, make such This vote of confidence in vocational equipment for existing jobs. They youths more employable. Vocational education by business, industry, manu­ want their current employees to be re­ education prepares youths for adult facturers, and other employers is true trained, rather than firing them and life immediately after high school, and nationally, and I am pleased to state hiring already-trained workers. for entry-level Jobs in the labor that it is also true in the State of Through the Michigan Department of market. Michigan. Vocational-Technical-Adult Educa­ Despite our best intentions and ef­ For example, the William D. Ford tion's Economic Development pro­ forts, the fact remains that some stu­ Vocational-Technical Center in Michi­ grams, these customized training pro­ dents lack marketable skills after gan has received grants from various grams are so frequently requested that graduation from high school. This employers to train and retrain employ­ the department is expert in designing may occur in part because of the pres­ ees for local business and industry. them. It needs only a 10-day turna­ sure by parents and school counselors One of its programs for youths and round time between receiving the re­ and teachers on students to pursue adults gives intensive training to dis­ quest and getting an approved pro­ college degrees that are unrelated to placed autoworkers in "industrial digi­ gram ready to begin classes. Through their personal values and career goals. tal electronics. These laid-off auto customized training/retraining pro­ Many students refuse to even consider workers also receive counseling, aca­ grams, more than 6,000 adults and vocational education at the high demic upgrading where needed, and youths, working for 150 different com­ school level, lest they be relegated to placement assistance upon completion panies, have received training for new second-class-citizen status, in the eyes of retraining. or existing Jobs using new technol­ of parents, teachers, and peers. This same Vocational-Technical ogies. The importance of vocational I would not argue against encourag­ Center provides other kinds of train­ training schools to be able to offer ing all students in high school to take ing for handicapped students and "customized" training quickly and ef­ more highly structured academic drop-out prone youths who experience fectively is that 95 percent of com­ courses, nor would I argue against par­ greater difficulty succeeding in regular pleters have jobs waiting for them. ents and educators having high expec­ academic and vocational education Eighty-two percent of Michigan citi­ tations for students in a push for ex­ programs. zens surveyed believe that high school cellence through school reforms. I The Michigan Department of Voca­ students should be trained in vocation­ would argue only for an increased em­ tional-Technical-Adult Education con­ al education, and this support is re­ phasis on a balanced approach to at­ ducts surveys and gathers data 6 flected in the current statewide enroll­ taining that excellence through voca­ months after every vocational educa­ ment of 330,405 students taking voca­ tional educational courses designed to tion class graduates from its schools. A tional education courses in high complement academic requirements recent such survey showed that: school. for high school students. Vocational education graduates in Michigan, I am pleased to note, is That National Commission on Sec­ Michigan earn $2,000 more annually working well against the backdrop of a ondary Vocational Education recently than general education graduates; rapidly changing economy and educa- June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16155 tion reforms, to assure that these re­ and Kristi, continued success and all market mechanisms for accountability forms include a balanced perspective the best in the years ahead. will be removed and the exchanges with regard to vocational education. These three teachers have improved may find themselves engaged in a This is crucial in our State, where 75 the quality of life and the quality of "race for the bottom" as marketplaces percent of all jobs require vocational learning in San Pedro. It is with great compete for listings and trading and technical training.e appreciation for their contribution to volume. This point did not elude the our community over these many years New York Stock Exchange's Subcom­ A CONGRESSIONAL TRIBUTE TO that I rise to pay tribute to them. mittee on Shareholder Participation THREE FINE TEACHERS- While these three teachers will be re­ and Qualitative Listing Standards. ALTHEA CLARK, CHARLES tiring, the contributions they have After suggesting that the SEC may DONNELLY, AND STANLEY made by providing a quality education have authority to establish minimum SORENSEN for the youth of my district will be standards for shareholder participa­ with us for many years to come.e tion, the subcommittee observed: HON.GLENNM.ANDERSON Cllf it appears that differentials in such OF CALIFORNIA INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLA- standards result in a significant movement TION PROMOTING SHARE- of issuers from markets with rules directed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to shareholder participation in corporate af­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 HOLDER DEMOCRACY fairs to those with lesser or no such rules, e Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I then sound public policy may compel the rise to pay tribute and offer a special HON. JOHN D. DINGELL Commission to intervene to protect the in­ OF MICHIGAN tegrity of markets and the investors and thanks to three teachers who will be shareholders of all publicly held companies. retiring after many years of service at IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Richard Henry Dana Junior High Tuesday, June 18, 1985 John C. Whitehead, the recently re­ tired leader of Goldman, Sachs & Co., School in San Pedro, CA. These three e Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise teachers have contributed a great deal had this to say in a speech on Febru­ to introduce legislation promoting ary 2, 1985: to the residents of my district and shareholder democracy and respond­ their presence at Richard Henry Dana If the New York Stock Exchange lowers ing to bipartisan concern about the its standards, I fear what has been called Junior High School will be sorely continued viability of our system of missed. The teachers to whom I refer "the race to bottom" will quickly occur, that corporate governance and shareholder all companies will move to whatever is the are Althea Clark, Charles Donnelly, democracy. lowest common denominator that the Ex­ and Stanley Sorensen. As takeovers have increased in quan­ change will permit . . . that corporate de­ ALTHEA CLARK tity and competitiveness, corporate mocracy, a as we have known it, will disp­ Born in Panama, Althea Clark raiders have developed creative bid­ pear. moved to the San Pedro area as a ding strategies (front-end loaded, two Arthur Levitt, in May 22 testimony small child. She attended the 15th tier and boot strap) and corporate before a House subcommittee, detailed Street Elementary School, Richard managements have developed equally a number of negative effects-other Henry Dana Junior High School, and aggressive defenses, including the use than shareholder disenfranchise­ San Pedro High School. She then of separate classes of common stock ment-that will result from nonaction went on to study at UCLA and Golden with unequal voting rights. by the SEC and adoption of the NYSE State University. During her 33 years Since 1926, the New York Stock Ex­ proposed rule change. I believe that at Dana Junior High School, Ms. change has prohibited the listing of his concerns have merit and ought to Clark taught art, civics, and leader­ nonvoting or diminished voting be considered in any public policy dis­ ship. Her future plans include working common stock. In a January 3, 1985, cussion of this issue: in communications and continuing to press release, the NYSE announced teach at the adult school level. My First, if the vote is taken away or that its Subcommittee on Shareholder watered down, public investors will in wife, Lee, joins me in wishing Althea Participation and Qualitative Listing Clark and her children, David and time feel that the cards are stacked Standards had issued a report to the against them by some inside group Karen, continued success and all the Public Policy Committee of the NYSE best in the years ahead. that controls the votes. Before long, Board of Directors, urging the Ex­ they will no longer want to invest in CHARLES DONNELLY change "not to abandon its tradition Charles Donnelly was born in Cali­ stock. of upholding shareholder participa­ Second, much of our Nation's wealth fornia and spent his early years as a tion in the affairs of corporations," child actor in the Our Gang comedies. but nonetheless recommending that and resources will end up in the hands He taught mathematics at Dana of self-perpetuating private bureaucra­ listed corporations be permitted to cies. If we allow management to use Junior High School for 15 years. His create two classes of common with dis­ future plans include a move to San proportionate voting rights-subject to this ultimate anti-takeover device, our Diego and work involving the con­ entrepreneurially driven competitive the approval of shareholders holding system of product and service delivery struction industry. My wife, Lee, joins two-thirds of the outstanding-wheth­ me in wishing Charles Donnelly and er or not affiliated with management. would be weakened. his family continued success and all With the growth and acceptance of Third, outside shareholders will the best in the years ahead. NASDAQ as a national trading market suffer immediate and large wealth STANLEY SORENSEN competitive with the Big Board, New losses. Recent instances of creating Born in Minnesota, Stanley Soren­ York Stock Exchange-listed compa­ two classes of common stock with dis­ sen attended Kansas State University nies, seeking the protection of two­ proportionate voting rights have dem­ and the University of Minnesota. He class common or to further transac­ onstrated that this is the case. taught in Rapid City, SD for 12 years tions like the recent GM/Hughes deal, Fourth, severing voting power from before moving west to San Pedro. Mr. are willing to delist if necessary to equity ownership, the two principal in­ Sorensen taught math and metal shop escape New York's commitment to dicia of ownership, will totally distort for 25 years at Dana Junior High shareholder democracy. NASDAQ has the concept of a common equity secu­ School. His future plans include build­ no such listing requirements nor do rity. ing a home in Oceanside, CA, charity most State corporate laws bar the issu­ Fifth, public shareholders will not work, and travel. My wife, Lee, joins ance of nonvoting stock. receive the benefits of a takeover me in wishing Stanley Sorensen, his If two class common is permitted, battle. Rather, they would stand on wife Joan, and their children, Randy and becomes widely used, one of the the sidelines while the voting stock, in 16156 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 the hands of management or a control carry disproportionate voting rights America's own experience with racism and group, will receive any premium. may not be quoted on an over-the­ an evolutionary civil rights movement. Sixth, proxy battles will be effective­ counter automatic quotation system South Africa is simply not the United ly eliminated and the proxy rules of States. It is a totalitarian police state that operated by a registered national secu­ constitutionally denies the most basic of po­ the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, rities association. litical freedoms to its citizenry. And its ma­ which are designed to protect and Paragraph (i)(2) provides a grandfa­ jority-minority relationships are reversed: foster shareholder democracy and cor­ ther for those securities carrying dis­ whites are a minority in South Africa, des­ porate governance, would be rendered proportionate voting rights which, perate to hold onto their privileged position void. prior to June 18, 1985, were quoted on and power. Unless we understand that this I commend the exchanges and the an automatic quotation system and reversal of the majority-minority relation­ NASO for scheduling a meeting for which, within 2 years, meet the listing ship inevitably creates a different political last Friday, June 14, in order to ex­ dynamic, we are going to continue a foreign standards with respect to dispropor­ policy that can only be counterproductive. plore the basis of a common initiative tionate voting rights in effect on June The sanctions in Anti-Apartheid Act of by the self-regulatory organizations 18, 1985, of the national securities ex­ 1985, adopted by a better than two-thirds bi­ of e Mr. LEVINE of California. Mr. are advocating sanctions are really insensi­ the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to Speaker, this past Saturday, June 15, tive to the prospective suffering that might resolve this problem, the Congress the Washington Post published a fine be created for South Africa's black popula­ must address this issue directly. Ac­ piece written by our distinguished col­ tion. Nothing could be further from the cordingly, today Senator D'AMATO and league from Michigan, Mr. WOLPE, truth. The tragic reality is that it is the ad­ chairman of the House Foreign Affairs ministration's policy of "constructive en­ I are introducing companion bills to gagement" that is in fact producing more effect a uniform policy among the Committee on Africa. Under the title suffering, more violence and more repres­ principal trading markets concerning "South Africa: The Issue is Justice, sion. That is very simply because the mes­ voting rights. I thank the Senator for Not Jobs," Mr. WOLPE writes eloquent­ sage that "constructive engagement" has his commitment to this important ly about why the United States voted, conveyed to the South African regime is issue and look forward to working with "by a better than two-thirds biparti­ that it now has a much freer hand to do my colleagues in the Senate on a solu­ san majority," to pass the Anti-Apart­ what it will-not only internally, but tion that will best serve the interests heid Act of 1985. Writing in response throughout the region. Because of the cur­ to a previous, objectionable Post edito­ rent policy, the South African government of shareholders and of corporations knows in advance that no matter how much whose securities are or will be traded rial on this very subject, Mr. WOLPE repression there is, and no matter how on the Nation's securities markets. writes: much aggression it unleashes against the The bill prohibits trading on securi­ It is simply wrong to focus more American neighboring states in the region, there will ties exchanges and in the over-the­ concern on the 70,000 jobs American firms be no cost imposed in terms of the Ameri­ counter market of nonvoting shares provide black South Africans than on the 26 can-South African relationship. and shares carrying disproportionate million South African majority, which not It is simply wrong to focus more American only lacks economic opportunities but is de­ concern on the 70,000 jobs American firms voting rights. Section 1 of this legisla­ humanized daily by a minority government. provide black South Africans than on the 26 tion adds a new subsection to sec­ The struggle in South Africa is not primari­ million South African majority, which not tion 12 of the Securities Exchange Act ly about jobs but more fundamentally about only lacks economic opportunities but is de­ of 1934, relating to listing on national justice, dignity and political freedom. humanized daily by a minority government. securities exchanges. Paragraph 1 of Our colleague has it exactly right. I The struggle in South Africa is not primari­ subsection provides that nonvoting commend his article to your attention. ly about Jobs but more fundamentally about justice, dignity and political freedom. securities and securities which carry SOUTH AFRICA: THE ISSUE IS JUSTICE, NOT disproportionate voting rights may not In the final analysis, apartheid will be dis­ JOBS mantled as the result of South Africa's in­ be registered on a national securities The offensive paternalism of The Post's ternal political struggle. But the United exchange. editorial "The South African Sanctions" States and the international community can Paragraph <2> grandfathers cer­ (June 51 was only outdone by its historical play a significant role in accelerating the tain stocks by providing that stocks case against sanctions-"that the country's process of change and, thereby, in reducing carrying disproportionate voting economy is its most effective engine of the duration of the struggle and the dimen­ rights may continue to be registered social transformation." sions of the associated violence and blood­ on a national exchange if they were This old argument, that somehow eco­ shed.• nomic and social change lead inexorably to listed on that exchange prior to June political liberalization and to democratiza­ 18, 1985, remain listed on that ex­ tion is more than Just an unproven assump­ change, and, within 2 years, meet the GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF THE tion; it is blatantly false. We only have to SOCIETY OF REAL ESTATE AP­ listing standards with respect to dis­ look to the experience of Nazi Germany, proportionate voting rights in effect Stalinist Russia, Fascist Italy, Communist PRAISERS on June 18, 1985, of the national secu­ Poland-indeed, to the experience of South rities exchange which had the second Africa itself-to see the fallacy of such a HON. CARDISS COWNS highest trading volume in 1984. thesis. In all of these instances there has OF ILLINOIS been progressive industrialization, economic Section 2 adds a new subsection to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES section 15A of the Exchange Act, re­ and social change-and greater repression. In making this old argument The Post is, Tuesday, June 18, 1985 lating to all securities traded on the surprisingly, making the same mistakes as over-the-counter market. those who have a limited knowledge of e Mrs. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, it Paragraph (1)(1 > provides that non­ South Africa's history or current reality: to gives me great pleasure to rise today voting securities or securities which project onto the South African situation and commend the Society of Real June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16157 Estate Appraisers on their golden an­ gation, FBI agents disguised them­ before a neutral magistrate-a judge who niversary. The society, which is head­ selves as church members in order to hears the government's probable cause for quartered in my congressional district gather enough evidence to bring planting the informants and then decides is dedicated to the highest level of pro­ charges. Not only were the churches whether the government has shown compel­ fessional standards and conduct for its invaded without a warrant, the agents ling, specific reason to compromise the holy profession. also saw it necessary to use tapes of place? When the society was formed in Bible studies and personal conversa­ As it is now, no undercover agent, whether 1935 it only had 200 members. It has tions as the key evidence in their case. he slips into a church or a congressman's since grown into the largest independ­ Using the fourth amendment as a jus­ office, need a warrant. Responsible for this ent association of professional real tification, the Government agents saw largest hole in the ever more tattered fabric of the Fourth Amendment is the Supreme estate appraisers in North America. probable cause to violate the sanctity Court, which has never understood that a The organization is now 16,000 mem­ of the church. But what is legal and covert informant is far more instrusive than bers strong with 189 chapters in the permissible under the fourth amend­ a wiretap or bug. United States, the Caribbean, and ment may violate the first amend­ The constitutional significance of the Canada. ment-our right of the free exercise of sanctuary workers' case is that it may final­ The Society of Real Estate Apprais­ religion, our right to peacefully assem­ ly produce some warrant requirement for ers is dedicated to the pursuit of excel­ ble, and our freedom of speech. Seri­ undercover operatives, at least in a church lence and committed to meeting new ous first amendment questions must setting. At issue and at risk are First challenges in the real estate market­ be raised when people are afraid to as­ Amendment protections for free exercise of place. It also continues to search for semble, when they are scared to speak, religion and, within that context, for free­ improved methods, advanced tech­ and when their religious services are dom of speech and association. The inform­ niques with which to improve per­ threatened by warrantless searches. ants, it should be kept in mind, did not tape formance and client satisfaction. As James Oines, pastor of the only meetings in which those "conspiring" In recognition of the society's golden Alzona Lutheran Church, said, "the to smuggle aliens were present. They picked anniversary, I have introduced a reso­ deepest aspect of their faith and trust up the conversations of a lot of other lution commending them on this spe­ was violated" -all because these church members. Yet, only the government cial occasion. A copy of the resolution church members felt the responsibility handlers of the government informants de­ to provide safety to refugees who face cided what was to be taped and when. No follows: detached magistrate was supervising Oper­ H. RES. 202 a war in their Salvadoran homeland. I urge my colleagues to read Nat Hen­ ation Sojourner. Resolution to commend the Society of Real The defense maintains that the warrant Estate Appraisers on the occasion of its toff's commentary on this important legal controversy. clause of the Fourth Amendment must be golden anniversary invoked whenever the government intends Whereas the Society of Real Estate Ap­ [From the Washington Post, June 14, 19851 to use undercover informants in ways that praisers was founded in 1935, during the UNDERCOVER AGENTS Go TO CHURCH may threaten significant First Amendment Great Depression, in an effort to bring sta­ Although the use of undercover agents values. Like sending them into a church to bility to the troubled residential real estate has become as American as light beer, until pick up anything they can. market in the United States; now no government agency has admitted to During the pretrial hearings in Phoenix, Whereas, since the founding of the Socie­ planting them in a church. In trying to Pastor Eugene Lefebvre of the Sunrise Pres­ ty, members have been pledged to the high­ make a case against sanctuary workers in byterian Church testified that a woman est standards of appraisal performance; Arizona, however, the U.S. government con- Whereas Society members have dedicated ducted a 10-month undercover investiga- who took part in a church discussion that themselves to acquiring the knowledge and tion, Operation Sojourner, which led to the was later found to have been surreptitiously skills necessary to adapt to changing mar­ indictment of 16 people oater reduced to taped is now afraid that the FBI has opened kets and technologies; 12>. The charges include bringing undocu- a file on her and that she could be targeted Whereas the Society is the largest inde­ mented aliens illegally into the United when she applies for a teaching position. pendent professional organization of real States and then concealing them. And James Oines, pastor of Alzona Lu- estate appraisers and analysts in the United The government's case is based on about theran Church, said from the stand that he States; and 100 covert tape recordings, many of them no longer holds Bible study classes because Whereas in 1985 there occurs the 50th an­ made in church, by two paid government in- some members of his congregation are niverary of the founding of the Society: formants, who had disguised themselves as afraid to come to the church. They no Now, therefore, be it ardently religious supporters of the refu- longer have faith that the person sitting Resolved, That the House of Representa­ gees. Among the tapes are Bible study class- next to them is revealing his true heart. tives hereby commends the Society of Real es and prayer services. Estate Appraisers on the occasion of its During recent pretrial hearings in Phoe- Oines added: "The deepest aspect of their golden anniversary.e faith and trust was violated. It turned out nix, U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll has not that we were as gentle as doves but not so appeared particularly impressed with de- fense arguments based on the state of wise as serpents." SANCTUARY INVESTIGATION human rights in Central America or the Among the defendants are a Protestant CONTROVERSY notion that international law can transcend minister, Roman Catholic priests and nuns, American immigration rules. Judge Carroll a social worker, a college student and a HON. MORRIS K. UDALL has, however, been disturbed by testimony Quaker rancher. The lawyer for one of OF ARIZONA about the government's creation of a new them, James Brosnahan, told the National frontier for undercover agents. Sending Catholic Reporter that "the government IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "people paid to do it and wired to do it into has not made a practice of invading church Tuesday, June 18, 1985 places of religious activity,'' the judge said, buildings to apprehend people. I would like e Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, I am means "the whole process has been sullied to think of it as an aberration that will in a sense." never happen again." deeply disturbed by the tactics that An argument is being made by lawyers for Immigration agents used in seeking in­ the American Civil Liberties Union and the It all depends on what ~he courts say. dictments against a group of church Center for Constitutional Rights, among 'J'.his, after all, is an administration con­ people who allegedly provided asylum other attorneys involved in the case, that all . VIDced that God, being on its side, would not to Salvadoran refugees. The following the "sullied" evidence obtained by the false consider an undercover agent to be trespass­ article by Nat Hentoff examines their congregants should be thrown out. ing in one of His churches under these cir- investigation, known as Operation So­ The question, they say, is not whether the cumstances.e government can never send an informant journer, in light of the first amend­ into a church. Crimes can be flaunted in ment questions that have been raised. holy places, as is richly evident in the histo- Recently, 16 sanctuary workers were ries of England and Russia. But in this charged with bringing illegal aliens country, can covert agents constitutionally into the United States. In the investi- be sent into a church without first going 16158 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 MRS. MARTHA ODELL SANDS refer to Mr. Robert David Garcia, who last week, American victims of interna­ will be vacating his position as presi­ tional terrorists almost always held HON. JIM COURTER dent of the San Pedro Peninsula some official capacity with the U.S. OF NEW JERSEY Chamber of CommerC,e on the 28th of Government. The story of contempo­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this month. rary terrorism reached an ominous Bob's track record as president is a new high when radical Shiite Muslims Tuesday, June 18, 1985 formidable one, which includes: Kick­ took more than 100 American tourists e Mr. COURTER. Mr. Speaker, for ing off the San Pedro Marketing Pro­ hostage; torturing their captives and over 39 years, Martha Odell Sands has gram,_bringing the chamber over the murdering at least one American sol­ dedicated herself to the education of 500-member mark, initiating Anna dier. young people, primarily in the Newark Fisher Day to honor San Pedro's first Certainly our President intends to school system. On June 20, 1985, she lady astronaut, and the San Pedro do everything within his power to pro­ will be honored at a retirement dinner CARE Program for downtown revital­ tect Americans still held hostage by after having served as a guidance ization. He sponsored decorations and the Shiite Muslims in Beruit; and counselor for the past 24 years. a tourist center during the Olympics, indeed to protect all America from the As an educator, Martha Odell Sands lobbied effectively for the Harbor threat of terrorism. But terrorism has has been an asset and an inspiration, Freeway busway, and developed a reached new heights. The administra­ not only to young people, but also to closer working relationship with the tion's history of dealing with interna­ her colleagues. Her strong, positive ap­ Port of Los Angeles. He had served tional terrorism has not stemmed the proach to counseling has provided the two terms on the chamber board of di­ crisis. If anything, American counter­ youths of Newark with an excellent rectors prior to his tenure as presi­ terrorist efforts may have acerbated role model in addition to a committed dent. anti-American terrorist activity. Ter­ educator concerned with their total Bob is pure southern Californian, rorism is a contemporary incident of development. having grown up in San Pedro where war that challenges our Nation's diplo­ A native daughter of North Jersey, he attended high school. He has matic skill and foreign policy and ulti­ Martha Odell Sands attended school worked with the Bank of San Pedro mately undermines world peace. It is in Belleville, NJ; Dunbar High School since its founding in 1975, where he time for all American leaders to offer in Washington, DC; and Barringer started as a consumer lending officer a more effective response to terrorism; high School in Newark, NJ. and has risen steadily through its the terrorist problem warrants imme­ She started her undergraduate work ranks to the position of regional vice diate attention and more creative solu­ at St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, president which he holds today. Prior tions. I commend the following article, VA. After 2 years she transferred to to this, Bob worked for 3 years as a "Presidential Restraint," to my col­ North Carolina College, now known as loan officer with Crocker Bank and leagues as we contemplate the fate of North Carolina Central University, in for 3112 years for Beneficial Finance as the American hostages and the future Durham, NC. She received her B.S. in manager of the Redondo Beach office. safety of all our citizens. home economics from this institution. In addition to his contributions to CFrom the Washington Post, June 18, 19851 After being invited back to St. Paul's the community through the chamber, College to teach, Martha remained for Bob is chairman of the Los Angeles PRESIDENTIAL RESTRAINT 8 years. Harbor Improvement Corp., as well as abortions combined dropped May 30, 1985. pro-choice group C()ncentrated on the steadily from some 300 in the 1950s to 160 The film, "Silent Scream," has been mother." Yes, we do look at the preborn by 1967 and to 36 by 1973, when abortion­ castigated a good deal in the past 4 child to determine whether abortion is right on-demand was legalized nationwide. This is months. I think that the following or wrong. When we do, we see that the indi­ still a serious matter, but one about which commentary represents the reality of vidual human being begins life at concep­ the pro-abortionists are wont to do a little abortion, the killing of the unborn, tion. This is a scientific fact. Dr. Andre E. fudging in from time to time. and calls it what it is: The obliteration Hellegers' professor of obstetrics and gyne­ And remember, the legal abortion picture of the innocent. cology at the Georgetown University Hospi­ is not that pretty either. The same Supreme The article follows: tal and former president of the Perinatal Court that supposedly vindicated a woman's CFrom the Buffalo News, May 30, 1985] Research Society, states in testimony to a rights to have an abortion also ruled that a U.S. Senat::i subcommittee: "I do not believe state cannot regulate abortion even in the "SILENT ScREAM" Is DEFENDED BY Two PRo­ there is any question when biological interest of maternal health during the first LIFE .ADVOCATES human life begins. It is at conception, by trimester, when over 90 percent of abortions ING PRESIDENT OF THE nity. The world is full of conflict, hate, confusion, WOMEN'S DIVISION OF THE On June 28, 1985, the members of fear and doubt. SAN PEDRO PENINSULA CHAM­ For Mars, the bloody god of war, now grimly the Family Medical Practice Group stalks about. BER OF COMMERCE will honor their colleague, Dr. King, While petty tyrants ruthlessly by slaughter with an open house celebration for his hack their way, HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON 34 years of service in Berk County. And murder and corruption are the order of OF CALIFORNIA Few people have contributed as much the day. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the community as Dr. King over the To all man's killings add the toll which last several decades. He has worked Mother Nature takes, Tuesday, June 18, 1985 tirelessly to establish family medicine By fire, flood, volcanos and her devastating e Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I in the community and indeed was with quakes. take this opportunity to congratulate "Would a just God allow such things?" I his colleagues a pioneer in family med­ hear the skeptics ask. Willa Mae Wilson, who will end her icine, establishing the first practice in Convincing them God must exist is now my tenure as president of the Women's Berks County. Dr. King has a close re­ humble task. Division of the San Pedro Peninsula lationship with St. Joseph Hospital Upon man's shoulders rests the blame for Chamber of Commerce on June 28. and all other institutions in the area. many of his ills, A native of Fort Worth, TX, Willa He was an innovator of the concept of His greed, injustice to his own, brutality Mae resided there until moving to San medical centers over 25 years ago. that kills. Pedro, CA, where she currently works Without question, Dr. King's efforts His many talents may be used for better or for Atchison Realty. Willa Mae previ­ for worse have truly played a major part in med­ To build up or just to destroy-it's his to ously worked for 2 years as an install­ ical care in his community. He has make the choice. ment loan officer with the First Na­ worked with the elderly, given unself­ What the Creator's purpose was perhaps tional Bank, 8 years as a real estate ishly of himself through charitable we'll never know salesperson with Vernon Evans Real­ work and is well known and respected In starting life-and after death, where does tors, 3 years as a multiple listing secre­ by the residents of Berks County. I the spirit go? tary, and 3 years with the Museum of would like my colleagues to join me in What is the special mission of our troubled Western Art. saluting his life's work and in wishing human race? Willa Mae has a long history of civic him continued future success. I am What lies beyond the center rim of endless involvement. While still in Texas, she time and space? indeed thankful that I had this chance was a member of the Women's Divi­ to bring some of Dr. King's accom­ A complex clock can't make itself; someone sion of the Hurst-Euless-Bedford must make it go. plishments to your attention.e To function well each cog, each wheel must Chamber of Commerce and a member mesh exactly so. of the Northeast Tarrant County Then who conceived and built and set the Board of Realtors. She was named As­ MIRAMAR, FL, 30TH BIRTHDAY endless clock of time? sociate-of-the-year by the board in CELEBRATION Whose skillful, patient hands contrived that 1968 in recognition of her achieve­ masterpiece subiime? ments. Willa Mae is also a charter HON. LAWRENCE J. SMITH Man sends his ships across the sea, his member and past president of the OF FLORIDA trains across the land. Women's Council of the National As­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Who sets the planets on their course? sociation of Realtor Boards. In addi­ Whose word gave the command Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Who is the Being or the Force before whom tion to her active participation in the all must bend? San Pedro Peninsula Chamber of e Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Who activates an acorn, grows a staunch, Commerce, Willa Mae is a member of I want to take this opportunity to majestic oak? the San Pedro Christmas Parade Com­ commemorate the 30th birthday of a And who can rend that mighty tree with mittee and the Harbor Police-Com­ great and growing city, the city of Mir­ just one lightning stroke? munity Council. amar. FL. In Spanish, Miramar means 16162 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 "to see the sea," an appropriate name BALTIC FREEDOM DAY their religion and preserve their pre­ for a city and populace that have set cious customs and culture. their sights on such an expansive HON.F.JAMESSENSENBRENNER The Baltic people of Estonia, Lativa, future. The city of Miramar is certain­ OF WISCONSIN and Lithuania stand out as true cham­ ly one of the most outstanding cities IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pions in a struggle for liberty, justice, of the Sunshine State. and freedom. These people serve as in­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Miramar was incorporated by a spe­ spiration to all people subjected to for­ cial act of the State legislature on May e Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. eign domination and subversion. 26, 1955. In January of 1959, Miramar Speaker, we passed House Resolution Today, by honoring these people with held its first city election, and the Mir­ 263 which proclaimed June 14 as Baltic Freedom Day, we will hopefully amar government was born. Since Baltic Freedom Day. On this anniver­ entice these admirable people to con­ then, the city has maintained a strong sary we recognized that for 45 years tinue their struggle against Soviet the United States has refused to rec­ domination in the hope for freedom.e municipal form of government whose ognize the Soviet takover of Estonia, reputation is reinforced by the present Latvia, and Lithuania; we remember mayor, Frank R. Branca. Elected in that 44 years ago the Soviet began de­ FURTHER ACTION ON HOSPICE 1983, Frank Branca had served for 10 porting several thousand people from BENEFIT NEEDED years on the city commission and has their beloved Baltic homeland; and we proven himself to be an integral force honor the Baltic people for their HON. MARIO BIAGGI in the development of this wonderful struggle to survive and retain their and proud community. Today's city OF NEW YORK culture under brutal Soviet domina­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES commission also is providing strong tion. leadership for the future of Miramar. Forty-four years ago the Soviet Tuesday, June 18, 1985 The seal of Miramar bears the in­ Union invaded Estonia, Latvia, and e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, timely scription "beauty and progress," and Lithuania to impose a puppet Commu­ consideration of H.R. 17 42, a bill de­ Miramar has unquestionably lived up nist government. The Soviets held signed to revise the requirements of to these two ideals. Successful efforts rigged elections where only Soviet offi­ the Social Security Act relating to to improve the quality of life in Mira­ cials were elected to Baltic State gov­ nursing care provided by certain hos­ mar have included youth and senior ernments. These two acts violated the pice programs, is sorely needed if we citizens' programs, landscaping Tartar Treaty signed by Soviet Union are to assure hospice services to those projects, and recreational facilities and and Estonia in 1920, and similar trea­ we intended to assist when Congress parks. Plans for orderly and controlled ties with Lithuania and Latvia which adopted the Medicare hospice benefit growth have resulted in a projected recognized the independence of these in 1982. doubling of the city's present popula­ countries. The present requirements, which tion of 39,000 by the year 2000. A Following the Soviet takeover of the specify that a hospice must routinely little-known fact about Miramar is Baltic governments, the Soviets began provide substantially all of four specif­ that it is one of the largest residential deporting several thousand natives of ic core services, including nursing, cities in Florida, although only 30 per­ the Baltics on June 14, 1941. During medical social, physician, and counsel­ cent of the available land is used. This these mass deportations, Soviet offi­ ing services, to qualify for Medicare has given Miramar a reputation as cials arrested 60,000 Estonians, 45,000 coverage, rule out many hospices being the "sleeping giant"-a giant Lithuanians, and 30,000 Latvians from which cannot meet the criteria man­ that is now awakening. all walks of life. After World War II, dated by law. Such· rigid requirements, Future plans include the completion the Sovi~ts returned in 1944, forcing designed by Congress to prevent abuse of the federally funded 1-75 highway 63,000 Estonians, 115,000 Latvians, and of the benefits and to ensure quality extension, which will link all the 20,000 Lithuanians to flee their home­ care, make it almost impossible for major south Florida arteries of trans­ lands to escape Soviet domination. many hospices to serve Medicare pa­ portation and make Miramar the gate­ Historians estimate that between 1941 tients. By easing the restrictions on way to the North. The new Miami Dol­ and 1949, the Soviets deported ap­ hospices in rural areas and in health phan football stadium is scheduled for proximately 500,000 people. manpower shortage areas, the new re­ construction in Miramar, and plans for On June 14, the United States quirements would enable Medicare pa­ a bullet train route from Orlando to honors these people who endured ex­ tients to receive hospice services and Miramar are also in the works. treme hardship imposed by the Soviet still ensure quality care. Union. They continue to fight for Progress was made last year in relax­ Miramar's manner of celebrating its their freedom and certain inalienable ing the core service requirements. 30th birthday is further testimony to rights. Today, these people are suffer­ Under provisions of the Deficit Reduc­ this city's innovative and progressive ing from "russification." tion Act, the Secretary of Health and outlook. On June 22, Miramar has Today, the Baltic people are with­ Human Services may now waive the planned a "U.S.A. for Africa" fundrais­ standing Soviet "russification" in nursing care core service requirements ing concert at C.B. Smith Park. The order to save their culture. These for hospice located in rural areas, pro­ concert hopes to raise $70,000 for this people have distinct and independent vided that the hospice was in oper­ worthy cause. By dedicating their f es­ cultures dating back to the 10th centu­ ation on or before January l, 1983, tivities to famine relief, the people of ry. Yet, the Soviets are attempting to and that it made a good-faith effort to Miramar are reflecting a philanthropi­ russify these people. Only Russian is hire its own nurses. Even with these cal concern for one of the most signifi­ to be spoken in schools, only Russian changes, there are still many hospices cant and gravest issues of our time. I history and customs are taught, and which cannot meet the rigid require­ am proud to be speaking at this birth­ all loyalty is directed to the Commu­ ments for Medicare coverage. day celebration, along with such celeb­ nist state. Furthermore, the Soviets During the development of the hos­ rities as Miami Dolphin receiver Jim are attempting to destroy the Baltic pice organization in New York State, Jensen and boxer Alexis Arguello. people's deep roots in the Lutheran there was concern about the inability It is an honor to represent this grow­ and Catholic Churches. The churches to contract out for nursing. There are ing and beautiful city, and it is with may not publish anything and church still difficulties in the need to transfer great pleasure that I extend my best attendance has dropped to a stagger­ fund contracts to the nursing staff. wishes to the people of Miramar as ing new low. However Estonians, Lat­ This bill would be consistent with New they celebrate their city's 30th birth­ vians, and Lithuanians have been able York State legislation which already day.e to remember their history, hold to mandates that hospices be Medicare- June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16163 I certified except for the provision con­ from the unified budget would fore, our current Social Security sur- cerning direct nursing care. H.R. 1742 strengthen the integrity of the system pluses reduce Government deficits. would provide more latitude to hos­ as a self-financed program and under­ In reality, the Social Security sur­ pices, allowing them to concentrate on score our national commitment to pluses cannot be spent for any other providing quality care to the terminal­ maintain the financial security of the purpose than Social Security. They ly ill. Social Security System. are invested in Treasury securities, Hospice is a relatively new concept The recent Senate budget compro­ which reduces Treasury's need to in health care; it is a special way of mise which freezes Social Security borrow in private capital markets. But dealing with dying patients. The ter­ cost-of-living adjustments [COLA'sl is this hides the fact that the real Feder­ minally ill differ physically and emo­ another compelling reason to take al deficit is not in Social Security, but tionally from other patients in many Social Security off budget. I strongly in other parts of the Federal budget, ways, primarily in their inability to oppose altering COLA's because it im­ which don't have their own earmarked escape the immediacy of pain and poses a real hardship on thousands of revenues. It is time we made this rela­ death. The hospice treats the total pa­ America's elderly, many of whom tionship explicit and removed Social tient, providing emotional support depend on Social Security as their sole Security from the unified budget. along with medical services. Hospices source of income. The Congressional This bill advances a reform already also help and work with family mem­ Budget Office estimates that 400,000 required by the Social Security bers, who suffer along with the pa­ Americans, mostly elderly and two­ Amendments of 1983, which will take tients. Hospice care continues after fifths of them single women living Social Security off budget in fiscal the patient's death, giving emotional alone, would fall below the poverty year 1993. My bill would immediately support to the family for up to 1 year level if COLA's were frozen 1 year, remove all Social Security trust funds after their loss. I believe that this ap­ even if SSI benefits were also in­ from the unified budget and authorize proach is both effective and impor­ creased. the appointment of two additional tant, demonstrating one alternative to Under the Senate proposal, over 23 trustees to the boards of these trust standard health care services. million Americans would suffer an av­ funds. This bill is the same legislation I believe this bill will allow hospice erage loss of $280 in benefits. And that as my colleague Representative MARY services to continue operating effec­ loss is progressive. By skipping 1 year's RosE 0AKAR has recently introduced, tively, providing quality care to the COLA benefits, the benefit base will showing the bipartisan support for terminally ill. As an original member be permanently lower. protecting Social Security benefits. of the House Select Committee on Keeping Social Security COLA's also Taking Social Security off budget Aging, I support this mechanism for makes it unnecessary for Congress to helps assure that Social Security bene­ improving the Medicare Program, and adjust-and less tempting for Congress fits would be changed only to protect I encourage other efforts to enhance to overadjust-benefits from time to the solvency of the trust fund and not this Nation's health care services.e time. We should reject the heinous for cosmetic deficit reduction. I urge precedent of allowing inflation to si­ Congress and the President to support IT'S TIME TO REMOVE SOCIAL lently erode Government benefits. this effort to improve accounting pro­ SECURITY FROM THE BUDGET Unfortunately, proposals to tamper cedures and to reaffirm our national PROCESS with Social Security benefits come at a commitment to provide a secure and time when many young workers are al­ adequate retirement for all Ameri­ HON. JACK F. KEMP ready doubtful whether Social Securi­ cans.e OF NEW YORK ty will be around when they qualify for benefits. And frankly, many retir­ SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ees are scared. They have come to Tuesday, June 18, 1985 depend on Social Security benefits to HON. J.J. PICKLE keep themselves and their families fi­ • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, today I am OF TEXAS introducing a bill to remove the Social nancially secure. They are fearful that Security Retirement Program from Congress will reduce their benefits. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the unified Federal budget. This im­ The best way to restore public trust in Tuesday, June 18, 1985 portant reform will help restore the the Social Security System is to depo­ •Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, I con­ confidence of young workers and retir­ liticize it by taking Social Security off gratulate this body for passing the ees in the Social Security System, budget. Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments strengthen the system as a self-financ­ The major reason for changing of 1985. I do so because I feel it is a ing program with its own trust fund, Social Security COLA's is misguided. necessary responsibility of the Federal and thwart the efforts of those who The Social Security fund does not add Government to play a role in the pres­ want to tamper with Social Security to the budget deficit: it is a self-financ­ ervation and conservation of this Na­ benefits in an effort to reduce Govern­ ing program with its own trust fund. tion's drinking water supplies. ment deficits. The Social Security trust fund isn't Our State and local governments Taking Social Security off budget available for the Government to have done a commendable job of en­ also provides a more visible and accu­ spend, it is an inviolable fund to pay acting laws and programs designed for rate accounting of the condition of the off current and future commitments the preservation of water supplies. For Social Security trust fund as well as to retirees. many years it looked as though these the real deficit in the rest of the Fed­ Of course, even though Social Secu­ governmental units could adequately eral budget. rity is not part of the deficit problem, handle the local pollution problems Social Security is a unique program nonetheless, it is true that reducing themselves. However, the problem has unlike any other that the Federal Social Security benefits currently grown. Pollution from one area spills Government operates. It is not an would show up as a reduction in the into an area under a different govern­ annual budget outlay like defense or Government deficit. Social Security mental jurisdiction. One State cannot social welfare expenditures. Social Se­ has been on the unified budget since agree with another on how to resolve curity is best viewed as a long-range the Johnson administration; all Social the problem. Citizens of one city are compact between the Government and Security benefit payments add to Gov­ unknowingly polluting the drinking the American people; in return for ernment expenditures and all desig­ water of another city. For these rea­ contributions during working age, nated Social Security taxes are count­ sons, Congress must act to maintain Americans build up a fund for a secure ed as general Government revenues. the quality of drinking water for the retirement. Removing Social Security In a catch-all unified budget, there- Nation. Mr. Speaker, I believe the 16164 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 measure before us today goes a long Bruce Rothrock was selected be­ alize that he or she is risking their way in dealing with this critical issue. cause of the quality of performance of own lives. This activity can put the As the Congressman from the 10th his dealership, his service to the indus­ lives of millions at risk and the penal­ District in Texas, where a portion of try, and his commitment to civic and ties must be severe. our drinking water is supplied from an community service. Mr. Rothrock has Although action is now being taken underground source called the Ed­ been an automobile dealer for the past to strengthen our security measures, wards Aquifer, I am particularly con­ 22 years. we need strong legislation such as this cerned with the sections of this meas­ His recent expansion taking on the to serve as a deterrent to those who ure dealing with the protection of Chrysler-Plymouth lines in addition to would in the future contemplate dis­ groundwater supplies. This bill takes the Dodge-Nissan dealerships makes closing for profit sensitive information the initiative in dealing with this im­ for more jobs and more services for damaging to our national security. portant national resource. In my part Lehigh Valley citizens. Similar legislation has already been in­ of the country we are very dependent While maintaining an active dealer­ troduced in the other body, and I urge on the Edwards Aquifer for drinking ship, Mr. Rothrock found the time to my colleagues to join me in supporting water. Yet this important supply of become involved in various civic orga­ this important legislation.e water is already being threatened with nizations. He was a member and later various forms of contamination and director of the Whitehall Chamber of the possibility of total depletion. Commerce and he currently is a BETTY C. STREET, RECEIVES Our State and the local governments member of the Allentown-Lehigh POSTMASTER OF THE YEAR who use the Edwards Aquifer have Chamber of Commerce. He also spon­ AWARD made many valuable contributions in sors various charities, including the protection our groundwater resources. Allentown Good Shepherd Home, the HON. WIWAM HILL BONER However, the interests of those using United Way, and the Arthritis Foun­ OF TENNESSEE the aquifer vary within its overall dation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES area. The Edwards Underground He is personally known for his quiet Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Water District has made good progress enthusiasm and his skill in dealing in bringing the many diverse interests with people. •Mr. BONER of Tennessee. Mr. together for the common good of pro­ Bruce Rothrock's story resembles Speaker, I wish to commend an out­ tecting the aquifer. This bill will help one of those proverbial Horatio Alger standing citizen of the Fifth Congres­ the Edwards Underground Water Dis­ tales, where hard work and teamwork sional District of Tennessee, Betty C. trict by providing Federal funds and combined with savvy and intelligence Street, Postmaster of the Year for the additional technical expertise to their to once again prove that the American Tennessee branch of the National efforts. Dream is alive and well. League of Postmasters. Another section of this measure Mr. Rothrock is a great asset to the In 1963, the post office in Antioch, would require States to develop their Lehigh Valley, to Pennsylvania, and to TN, centered around a good old pot­ own plans to deal with the protection the U.S.A. Please join me in congratu­ bellied stove. There were two carriers, and conservation of groundwater sup­ lating Mr. Rothrock on winning the one 4-hour clerk and a new acting plies. Under the leadership of our postmaster, Betty C. Street. State legislature and Governor, Texas "Dealer of Distinction" award for 1985 .• Betty Street came to the job with a already has a proposal that will come history of being active in community, up for a vote by the people of Texas in civic, and political affairs. She saw the November. This bill would provide as­ FEDERAL OFFENSE OF possibilities for growth and took the sistance to Texas in maintaining one TREASONOUS ESPIONAGE exam for postmaster. She received of its most precious natural resources. that Presidential appointment in 1965. Many of the experts in the area of HON. GUY V. MOLINARI In the interim, the potbellied stove water supply have predicted that the was replaced by a new post office, and 1990's could see the same crisis in OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an additional route was added. drinking water shortages that we saw The growth in the Antioch area con­ for oil in the 1970's. Where are we Tuesday, June 18, 1985 tinued and in 1974, a larger post office going to import safe drinking water e Mr. MOLINARI. Mr. Speaker, today was needed. Now, the search is on for from, in the 1990's, if we do not have I have introduced legislation to create yet a larger building. Betty Street's re­ enough in the United States to go a new Federal criminal offense of trea­ sponsibilities have grown as well. She around? What kind of crisis manage­ sonous espionage, consisting of the un­ now oversees 30 employees, 5 city ment legislation will Congress enact at authorized disclosure of classified in­ routes, and 8 rural routes. a time when it is too late to do other­ formation damaging to our national Her talents have been recognized as wise? The answer is to plan ahead. It security for profit. During the past well. She was placed on the Postmas­ is for the good of the country.e few weeks, we have been shocked to ter Selection Board and has served as learn of an espionage ring which has an assistant deputy director since BRUCE ROTHROCK, DEALER OF apparently been operating for several 1982. DISTINCTION years. The damage done to our nation­ On May 21, 1985, she was presented al security may never be fully as­ with the Postmaster of the Year HON. DON RITTER sessed, but it is suspected that valua­ Award at the National League of Post­ OF PENNSYLVANIA ble information has been made avail­ masters annual able to the Soviet Union. convention banquet. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This espionage case is particularly She has been the recipient of other Tuesday, June 18, 1985 repulsive as the single motivating awards as well. In 1974, she received e Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, I would factor seems to be that of greed. The an Executive Award in Recognition of like to take this opportunity to point legislation I have introduced today Outstanding Achievements from the out to my House colleagues that Bruce would separate those who supply in­ Nashville Chapter of National Women Rothrock, owner of Rothrock Motor formation for profit from those who Executives, Inc. Sales in Allentown, PA, has been hon­ would do so for ideological reasons. In Her life as described in her own ored with the 1985 American Interna­ addition, the legislation allows for a words is: "God is first, my family tional Automobile Association-Sports penalty of death in the case of trea­ second, my job third, and everything Illustrated "Dealer of Distinction" sonous espionage. A person who en­ else falls into place. My family is and award. gages in this type of activity should re- has been my greatest pride and joy." June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16165 I applaud Betty C. Street. Her ac­ rage. The perpetrators of this particu­ hang in an honored place in our sanc­ complishments and awards are well de­ lar act of terrorism cite their griev­ tuary," according to a letter I have re­ served and I wish her many more in ances and, therefore, feel that their ceived from Pastor John A. Werley. the future.e methods are acceptable because they Mr. Speaker, 100 years ago the mem­ believe their cause is just. The end bers of the Methodist congregation in HONORING HEROES WHO SAVED cannot justify the means. Their acts DeRuyter were filled with spiritual op­ A LIFE are reprehensible. timism and a desire to express their As we sift and analyze events in the religious commitment by building and Middle East over the last several gen­ dedicating a new house of worship for HON. HAROLD ROGERS erations, we find a myriad of groups their families and their families' prog­ OF KENTUCKY and nations that justify their particu­ eny. Then, their new church building IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lar act of violence by citing recent or became a visible and useful means of Tuesday, June 18, 1985 ancient grievances. Invariably, many displaying their faith in God and in •Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, tomor­ more innocent people suffer than do the blessings of America. row here in Washington, five men the guilty. Retaliation is then piled on How inspiring it is to us, 100 years from McCreary County, KY-in my top of retaliation and the end result is later, that this spirit continues to Fifth Congressional District-will re­ anarchy that shatters the lives even of shine brightly.e ceive a special group honor award tourists from Illinois, Massachusetts, and California. In this case, it also from Secretary of Agriculture John IN CELEBRATION OF FLAG DAY Block. took the life of a young sailor from These five men-Brenton Hale, Dave Maryland. Baugh, Ed Strunk, Ronnie Vaught, The only way out of this cycle of vio­ HON. C. W. (BILL) YOUNG and Charlie Cash-played a significant lence is to change our means of ad­ OF FLORIDA role in helping save a victim of a terri­ dressing the problem. Instead of insist­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ble auto accident 1 year ago. ing that the other side cry "uncle," Tuesday, June 18, 1985 people have to learn to say "brother These men came upon the scene of • Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speak­ the accident along U.S. Highway 27 and sister.'' We must give our support to the er, Americans proudly flew the Stars near Whitley City, and immediately and Stripes Friday in celebration of began doing what good Samaritans President for his efforts to resolve the crisis peacefully, without a further Flag Day. have always done-helping the needy. Throughout our Nation, and the They helped direct traffic, called loss of life. I offer my prayers to be heard with the prayers of so many world, the American flag is the symbol medical and ambulance personnel to of freedom and democracy. Our allies the scene, and administered first aid to others that the hijackers will release their hostages to permit a proper envi­ are secure in seeing the American flag help stabilize the woman driver, who flying over U.S. embassies and military had suffered a serious head injury ronment to develop where their griev­ ances can be addressed and resolved. installations in their countries. The with a great loss of blood. flag represents to these people Ameri­ Thanks to their efforts, Eula Gar­ The longer the crisis continues, the more difficult that task becomes.e can friendship and support. land survived the accident and is now Here in the United States, the Stars back to work in Williamsburg, KY. and Stripes evoke a great feeling of Mr. Speaker, all too often we become THE CENTENNIAL OF THE patriotism among the American cynical about society. We hear stories UNITED CHURCH OF DE- people who are reminded by the flag of those who refuse to help people in RUYTER'S CHURCH BUILDING of 'our Nation's traditions, freedoms, need for fear of getting involved. But BESPEAKS FAITH IN GOD AND and ideals as expressed in the Consti­ then there are stories like this one COUNTRY tution. Seeing the American flag which help reaffirm our trust in the flying above the U.S. Capitol and goodness and humanity of Americans HON. GEORGE C. WORTLEY homes and businesses in communities everywhere. throughout our country also is a stir­ These five men, whom Secretary OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ring reminder of those who have de­ Block will honor with a special heroic voted their lives to the defense and action award, deserve our thanks, and Tuesday, June 18, 1985 guidance of our Nation. It is also a our congratulations for a job well •Mr. WORTLEY. Mr. Speaker, since sign of welcome to the millions of ref­ done. Their action as employees of the the early years of our Nation, when ugees who have sought shelter here to U.S. Forest Service and workers at the the first amendment to the Constitu­ escape the oppression of their home­ Pine Knot Civilian Conservation tion ensuring freedom of religion was lands. Center in McCreary County is to be ratified, God and Country have been During my 15 years as a Member of commended. intrinsic with the spirit of America. the House of Representatives, I have I ask my colleagues in the House to Under the motto "in God we trust," enjoyed the privilege of having thou­ join me in saluting these men for their religious freedom and all basic free­ sands of flags flown over the Capitol heroism and their caring. Without doms have flourished. for my friends and neighbors in Pinel­ people like these, our world would be a Today, the American spirit of God las County, FL. It is inspiring to me to much less desirable place to live.e and Country has never been stronger, see so many flags flying in Pinellas as epitomized in the village of De­ County, not only on Flag Day, but HOSTAGE CRISIS IN THE Ruyter, NY, in my congressional dis­ throughout the year. MIDDLE EAST trict. While most Americans fly the flag to This past May 7 was the lOOth anni­ represent a sense of pride in their HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR versary of the dedication of the beau­ Nation, there are some people who de­ OF OHIO tiful church building of The United liberately desecrate and degrade the Church of DeRuyter. On the same flag as an affront to the dignity of our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES day, an American flag was flown over Nation. We can all vividly recall pro­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 our Capitol. The same flag was subse­ tests and demonstrations where the e Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, the air­ quently displayed at the church's cen­ American flag has been burned, torn, plane hijacking and kidnaping of tennial celebration and before the con­ cut, plastered with symbols, or flown American tourists in the Middle East gregation at a rededication service on asunder. This is a willful and violent evokes as much sadness as it does out- Sunday, May 19. The flag "will soon act of aggression against the symbol of

51--059 0-86-12 (Pt. 12) 16166 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 American democracy and I believe is a BIXLER'S JEWELER'S in much demand, both locally and in crime for which the offenders should BICENNTENIAL surrounding States. This fact was be severely punished. made very evident as thousands of Legislation I have introduced today HON. DON RITTER tourists visited the Sixth Annual would make it a Federal offense to OF PENNSYLVANIA Fudge Festival for a taste of the deface the American flag. The penalty famous fudge and to enjoy the f estivi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ties. for each offender would be a $1,000 Tuesday, June 18, 1985 fine or a maximum sentence of 1 year In addition to the creation of a 200- in prison. e Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, I would foot bar of fudge-the world's larg­ like to take this opportunity to con­ est-the festival boasted a large and The American flag is the sacred gratulate Bixler's Jewelers of Easton, colorful parade. Mackinaw City pa­ symbol of our Nation which flies as a PA, on their 200th anniversary. rades are extremely popular with both constant reminder of the struggles we Bixler's Jewelers is the oldest the local population and tourists. I have endured to preserve our demo­ family-owned jewlery business in the was honored to participate in this cratic form of government. Those who United States. It was founded in 1785 memorable event and invite my col­ seek to use our flag for other purposes by Christian Bixler III, a clockmaker leagues to visit the "Fudge Capital of should be punished accordingly.e and silversmith. Six generations later, the World."• Bixler's is still operated by the Bixler family. Christian's great-great-great­ AMERICAN LEGION HOLLYWOOD grandchildren, Philip Bixler Mitman JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL POST 43 COMMEMORATES THE and Joyce Mitman Welken, are presi­ OF GREATER LOS ANGELES END OF WORLD WAR II dent and vice president respectively. HONORS MURRAY WOOD For 200 years Bixler's has thrived HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN doing business in the private, free-en­ HON. HOW ARD L. BERMAN terprise system of America. The orga­ OF CALIFORNIA OF CALIFORNIA nization is a shinning example of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American work ethic and the continu­ ing vitality of small businesses in the Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Tuesday, June 18, 1985 United States. •Mr. BERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise •Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, from Bixler' has a long history of contrib­ today to pay special tribute to an out­ this July 4 to 7, Hollywood Post 43 of uting to civic functions as well as standing member of the community the American Legion will be sponsor­ aiding the business community in and a personal friend, Murray Wood. I ing a celebration of the end of the Easton. From 1798 to 1802, Christian ask my colleagues to join me in honor­ Second World War in honor of Ameri­ Bixler III was a burgess in Easton. In ing this great man who is being hon­ ca's veterans who gave so much in that 1980, Philip Bixler Mitman was elect­ ored at a roast thrown by the Jewish war. I wish to commend them for orga­ ed mayor of that city. Community Relations Committee nizing this event. It is remarkable that Bixler's Jewel­ [JCRCJ of the Jewish Federation ers has been in the same family for Mr. Speaker, the nature of America's Council of Greater Los Angeles. 200 years. But then, it is truly remark­ Murray Wood's record of service to adversaries in the Second World War able family. Clearly, _1985 is a special made this war different from all those the Jewish community of Los Angeles year for Bixler's-America's oldest has been a long and dedicated one. He we had ever fought before, and ex­ jewelers.e plains why our gratitude to them is so has served both as assistant director of profound. In the Second World War, the San Francisco Jewish Community America faced an alliance of adversar­ MICHIGAN CITY'S SIXTH Relations Committee and as staff asso­ ies wishing not simply to conquer ter­ ANNUAL FUDGE FESTIVAL ciate in Los Angeles. In addition to his ritory or acquire national prestige, but responsibilities at the JCRC, Mr. HON. ROBERT W. DAVIS Wood is a faculty member at the Los wishing to impose new ideologies on Angeles-based Hebrew Union College all those it conquered. These were OF MICHIGAN and the University of Judaism. He ideologies totally repugnant to our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES teaches classes relating to Jewish com­ values of freedom and respect for indi­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 munity relations and public affairs. vidual choice; they sought not only to • Mr. DAVIS. Mr. Speaker, the week­ Murray also writes a weekly column prescribe how their citizens would live, end of June 14-16 I was honored to for the L.A. Jewish Community Bulle­ but to determine which would have participate in the Sixth Annual Fudge tin. the right to live and which would be Festival in Mackinaw City, MI. This It has been my honor and pleasure forced to die. historically rich city, located along the to know such a fine person and I know It was against this monstrous evil scenic Straits of Mackinac, Joining the Jewish community of Los Angeles that our Nation mobilized its strength Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, is the feels appreciation and gratitude for 44 years ago and fought on to victory gateway to the Upper Peninsula and his dedicated service.e 40 years ago this summer. It was in world-famous Mackinac Island. Fudge containing that evil and then destroy­ making is one of the city's leading in­ ARMY RANGER'S MOTTO ing it that so many of our soldiers­ dustries, second only to tourism. In FULFILLED the veterans that will be celebrating fact, in northern Michigan fudge and with us and their comrades who tourism is synonymous. Tourists to cannot be there-risked or gave their the area have been affectionately la­ HON. WILLIAM F. GOODLING lives. beled "fudgies" by local residents to OF PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Speaker, it is important never to uniquely illustrate this association. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This yearly festival originated in for get that it is only for the sacrifices 1980 and was adopted in an effort to Tuesday, June 18, 1985 made by these people that today we promote and recognize the importance e Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, can commemorate the defeat of of fudge to the local economy. Macki­ today I have introduced a resolution nazism and fascism 40 years ago. I naw City, which lies in the shadow of which would honor the members of simply would like to add my voice to the famed Mackinac Bridge, boasts a the Airborne Ranger companies who those who say thank you.e supply of fudge that is well known and served in the Korean war. June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16167 During the Korean war, a total of 18 attempts at spelling out my full name. In addition, the bill would require the Ranger companies were formed. No­ Many of these must present a particu­ Secretary to publish a list of those air­ w here else in American military histo­ lar challenge to our postmasters, but ports with documented deficiencies in ry is the volunteer spirit better ex­ they have pe:formed flawlessly. I the Federal Register and to promi­ pressed. Almost all of these men were know of no piece of mail which was ad­ nently post this information at U.S. volunteers for the Army of the Air­ dressed to me under any manifestation air carrier airports. This will give pas­ borne. Seven of the companies fought of my name which was "returned to sengers an opportunity to change in Korea, and the mix was generally sender." their itinerary if they wish to use a one Ranger company per infantry divi­ The big question for me, now, is how safer airport, thereby putting further sion. At a time when U.N. forces num­ and when to respond. My goal is to be pressure on foreign governments to bered over 500,000, less than 700 of as efficient and effective as the U.S. improve their airport security. One of these men were spread across the Postal Service has been in getting the the tragedies of the recent hijacking is width of the Korean peninsula. They people's comments and support to that the lax security at the Athens air­ fought to the front of every American Capitol Hill.e port was known in the aviation com­ Army division; doing scouting, patrol­ munity but not among most of the ling raids, and spearheads. Their FOREIGN AIR TRAVEL flying public. This bill will solve that awards include two distinguished unit SECURITY ACT OF 1985 problem. I urge my colleagues to sup­ citations and the Korean Presidential port it and look forward to its early unit citation. Their casualties ranged passage.e from 40 to 90 percent. HON. JOHN P. HAMMERSCHMIDT In these men, the Ranger motto was OF ARKANSAS fulfilled; "Rangers Lead the Way."e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE AIDS EPIDEMIC Tuesday, June 18, 1985 HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN POSTAL SERVICE RIGHT-ON e Mr_ HAMMERSCHMIDT. Mr. OF CALIFORNIA WITH DELIVERY OF "ROSTY" Speaker, we were all shocked and an­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAIL gered by the recent hijacking of TWA flight 847. Perhaps there is little this Tuesday, June 18, 1985 HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI body can do now to end this particular • Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, today OF ILLINOIS tragedy. But there are certainly ac­ I would like to call my colleagues' at­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions we can take to help prevent tention to a real need for biomedical these sorts of terrorist acts from hap­ research-research on treatment and Tuesday, June 18, 1985 pening again in the future. That is therapy for AIDS. As the numbers e Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speak­ why I am introducing the Foreign Air that I will submit demonstrate, the er, I want to take this opportunity to Travel Security Act of 1985. need is growing stronger every day. compliment the U.S. Postal Service on The primary problem, and the Over the past 5 weeks I have been its remarkable performance in han­ reason that the hijackers were able to reporting the Centers for Disease Con­ dling a challenging situation which it seize TWA 847 in the first place, is the trol's statistics of the AIDS epidemic. had no reason to expect. I refer to the lax security in Athens where the flight During that time, more than a thou­ phenomenal public support for tax originated. It appears that many for­ sand new cases have been reported. If reform which has come through the eign governments do not take the ter­ the epidemic continues to grow at this mails. rorist threat at their airports as seri­ rate, it can be conservatively estimated On May 28, when I had the privilege ously as they should. This seems to be that by 1990 there will be over a quar­ of delivering the Democratic response particularly true of the Greek Govern­ ter of a million American cases of the to the President's tax reform proposal, ment. The bill I am introducing today disease. I solicited the public's backing for a will attack that problem. It will re­ Although the Secretary of HHS once comprehensive revision of the Tax quire the Secretary of the Department made public promises that a vaccine Code. In doing so, I took the liberty of of Transportation CDOTl to assess the against the disease would be ready by inviting the listeners to address their security arrangements at foreign air­ next spring, scientists working on the comments simply to "Rosty, Washing­ ports to ensure they meet internation­ study of the disease-both researchers ton, DC." ally approved standards. If the De­ within the Public Health Service and At the time, I thought of it only as a partment finds those arrangements to medical school and university re­ clever way to end my pitch for sup­ be lacking, the foreign airport will searchers-do not expect a vaccine to port; but the next morning, it occurred have 120 days to correct the problem. be available within the next 10 years. to me that I had not given the Postal At the end of that period, if the prob­ Many of the same scientists estimate Service advance warning on what I lem is not corrected, the Secretary will that between 1 and 2 million Ameri­ was about to put them through. have the authority, with the approval cans have already been exposed to the I need not have worried. Within of the Secretary of State, to ban virus, and that over the next 2 to 5 hours of the telecast, emergency pro­ flights of U.S. airlines to or from that years 10 percent of them will contract cedures were employed by Postal Serv­ airport and to ban the airline of the the disease. ice headquarters alerting all post of­ foreign government involved from I cannot quarrel with most of the fices to send the "Rosty" mail to the flying to the United States. Public Health Service's initial prior­ central post office here in Washing­ This bill will have several benefits. It ities: When funds were severely ra­ ton. The very next day, the first let­ will put pressure on foreign govern­ tioned by the administration, the ters arrived in my office. A trickle ments to improve security at their air­ OMB, and the Department of Health grew quickly to a flood. By now I have ports. If security is not improved, it and Human Services, it seemed reason­ received nearly 50,000 letters and can be used to ensure that U.S. carri­ able to attempt first to understand the cards . The vast ma­ lives will be placed in danger. number of cases escalates geometrical­ jority have been in support of tax Our bill has a further beneficial fea­ ly, every year saved by prevention re­ reform. ture. For the first time it will require search avoids another doubling of The items are addressed to "Rosty," that passengers be informed, when cases in the future. "Rusty," even "Rocky." Some who they buy their ticket, of security prob­ But when preventive measures are choose not to abbreviate make brave lems at airports that they plan to use. so far away, we cannot continue a 16168 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 policy that rations funds so severely. PERSONAL EXPLANATION the maximum power and leverage to We cannot dismiss the loss of 250,000 implement the savings in spending Americans. As part of the 1986 budget, HON. ROBERT E. WISE, JR. that the Congress wishes. The final we must devote significant resources OF WEST VIRGINIA recommendation on every individual to research on the treatment of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES program is reserved absolutely to the disease, as well as to its ultimate pre­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 committees with jurisdiction over the vention. Perhaps if the administration programs. After all, a nice juicy di­ had paid attention to its own scientists •Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, at the be­ vorce between committees sounds and begun comprehensive research at ginning of today's proceedings, I the beginning of the outbreak, we missed a quorum call, rollcall No. 161. much more exciting than reconcilia­ might now be able to predict preven­ Having just been to the floor, and tion. tive measures and we might not need having been advised that the next vote Mr. DoMENrcr wants reconciliation to plan for the sickness and death of a would be on a motion to suspend the instructions which mandate a certain quarter of a million citizens. Since the rules and pass H.R. 2369, I returned to level of savings. Mr. GRAY says many funding of the AIDS epidemic has my office to attend a previously sched­ of the spending reductions-mainly been too little too late, we must now uled meeting. This meeting, with Adm. nondefense discretionary programs­ pay double and double again, first for Tom Davies and Ambassador Jim can be taken care of through the prevention research and then for Leonard, was at my request and con­ normal authorization-appropriations treatment research as well. cerned the upcoming vote on funding process. Mr. Speaker, if we are serious Mr. Speaker, I submit the following for chemical weapons. I deemed this about deficit reduction, we must be statistics for the week ending June 16: meeting too important to miss. willing to make major program re­ Thank you.e forms and adopt strict reconciliation ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME [AIDS] WEEKLY instructions. SURVEILLANCE REPORT, JUNE 17, 1985, U.S. CASES FIRST DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS For fiscal year 1986, the House ARTS COMPETITION WINNER Reported Reported budget reconciles $11 billion out of cases deaths $56.6 billion in reductions. The Senate HON. CHARLES A. HAYES budget reconciles $29.4 billion out of Adult/adolescent ...... 10,879 5,345 OF ILLINOIS Pediatric (under 13 at diagnosis) ...... 1,312 96 $56 billion in reductions. These num­ ---- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Total...... 11,010 5,441 bers highlight the significant differ­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 ences between the House and Senate •Mr. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, today I budgets. The Senate also achieves Age of AIDS patients would like to ask my colleagues to join major reductions in the outyears while Under 13 ...... 131 the House does not. 13 to 19...... 61 with me in honoring an outstanding 20 to 29...... 2,310 student from my district, Mr. John The contracting-out provision is an­ 30 to 39...... 5,212 Davis. John is the first place winner of other example of illusory savings. The 40 to 49...... 2,305 the First Congressional District of Illi­ House budget estimates a $3.9 billion Over 49...... 991 nois Art Competition with an entry savings from reducing contracting-out ---- entitled, Ida B. Wells. Total...... 11,010 services. These savings will be John was born in Chicago in 1968 achieved by having the Federal work­ Residence: and attended the Robert S. Abbott El­ ers perform the work that has been New York ...... 4,030 ementary School. He is now a junior at done by outside contractors. At the California ...... 2,546 Simeon Vocation High School and Florida ...... 728 plans to pursue his studies in commer­ same time, the budget calls for a 2-per­ New Jersey ...... 688 cial art at the Art Institute of Chicago cent reduction in the Federal work­ Texas ...... 548 upon graduation next year. force. Therefore, fewer workers will be Pennsylvania ...... 226 responsible for more work product. Illinois ...... 219 I extend to John my congratulations Massachusetts ...... 201 on his accomplishment and I com­ This is as unlikely a scenario as the Georgia ...... 175 mend him on his artistic ability. He is authorizing committee chairman District of Columbia ...... 170 truly an inspiration to those young agreeing to the policy in the first 138 artists who will follow him. I know place. ~~rsi:~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 127 that all of my colleagues will join me Puerto Rico ...... 124 Even when the conferees agree on Connecticut ...... 123 in wishing him the very best in all his the numbers, the House would rely on Washington ...... 113 future endeavors.e the appropriations process to see that Virginia ...... 96 the numbers are ultimately achieved. Colorado ...... 88 As demonstrated by our annual sup­ Michigan ...... 68 SHADOWBOXING OVER THE Ohio ...... 68 ISSUE OF RECONCILIATION IN­ plemental appropriations bill, this is Missouri ...... 53 STRUCTIONS rarely the case. North Carolina ...... 53 Mr. Speaker, we must insist on strict Arizona ...... 48 HON. LYNN MARTIN budget reconciliation, make the tough Hawaii ...... 36 OF ILLINOIS policy decisions which will give us Indiana ...... 34 Oregon ...... 33 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES large spending reductions in the out­ Minnesota ...... 26 Tuesday, June 18, 1985 years. This is the only way to guaran­ Kentucky ...... 25 e Mrs. MARTIN of Illinois. Mr. tee to our constituents and the finan­ South Carolina...... 25 cial markets that we are indeed serious Wisconsin ...... 25 Speaker, throughout the House­ Alabama ...... 22 Senate budget conference, Mr. DOMEN· about deficit reduction. It desperately Oklahoma ...... 19 rcr and Mr. GRAY have been shadow­ matters whether the House or Senate Delaware ...... 14 boxing over the issue of reconciliation "wins" the custody battle; real savings Nevada ...... 14 instructions. This has not received depends on the decision on reconcilia­ Rhode Island ...... 14 tion.e Utah ...... 13 much attention during the budget Tennessee ...... 12 debate. No one quite understands it Other States (12) ...... 68 and it sounds a bit boring. ---- Reconciliation gives the individual Total...... 11,010• committees of the House and Senate June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16169 BETTER DEFENSE FOR LESS since the 1960's, the study offers an alterna­ SUPERFUND CLEANUP TECHNOL­ MONEY tive five-year defense plan that would save OGY RESEARCH AND DEMON­ millions of dollars while enhancing military STRATION ACT OF 1985 strength. HON. ST AN LUNDINE Beefing up conventional forces requires OF NEW YORK two important changes from the current HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES program. One is increased funding for the OF NEW YORK National Guard and all military reserves. Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Without a return to the draft, they are the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. LUNDINE. Mr. Speaker, on the only source of manpower in the face of the Tuesday, June 18, 1985 eve of our consideration of the De­ continuing shortage of 18- to 22-year-olds fense authorization for fiscal year until the late 1990's. Second, is a shift from e Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, I am buying cargo aircraft to buying fast trans­ pleased to be one of the original co­ 1986, I wish to share an article from port planes. The Administration's pro­ sponsors of the Superfund Clean-up the New York Times of June 9, 1985. grammed investment in airlift prepares Technology Research and Demonstra­ This thoughtful piece by Mr. Paul America to respond quickly only to a crisis Warnke, former Director of the Arms tion Act of 1985, introduced today by in Europe. Fast sealift could deliver more at Mr. TORRICELLI. Control and Disarmament Agency, un­ a lower cost, and enable America to meet si­ derscores my belief that spending multaneous contingencies in Europe, the Over the last several years, the Sub­ more money on defense does not nec­ Middle East and Korea. committee on Natural Resources, Agri­ essarily make us more secure. Insofar The committee also recommends restart­ culture Research and Environment of as national security requires a healthy ing production of A-10 aircraft, to give the the Committee on Science and Tech­ Army better close air support during a land nology, which I chair, has heard testi­ economy as well as a strong defense, battle's crucial early stages. Even accepting we must strike a sensible balance in mony about the agonzingly slow pace the Administration's prefervid view of the and poor quality of Superfund clean­ defense spending in these times of external threat we face, American forces budgetary strife. could be substantially better shaped and ups. We asked the Office of Technolo­ To quote Mr. Warnke, "cuts in de­ prepared. gy Assessment to study whether ad­ fense spending, properly made, com­ The savings would result from the con­ vanced technologies could help play a bined with investment in greater con­ certed effort to restore order to the defense role in achieving permanent and cost­ ventional clout, can significantly en­ budget. Some ill-conceived or misdirected effective cleanups of our Nation's hance America's long-term military ef­ Administration programs must be scaled abandoned hazardous wastesites. back or canceled. In May, OTA released the final fectiveness." I commend this article to Two examples are the overblown, oversold the attention of my colleagues in the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") report on Superfund strategies at a hope that it will enrich the debate and the 600-ship Navy. Holding Star Wars hearing before the subcommittee. over the crucial issue. funding to fiscal 1985 levels would insure a OTA found that the Environmental Protection Agency's typical method CFrom the New York Times, June 9, 19851 necessary research capability but avoid the risk of stimulating an offensive and defen­ for cleaning up Superfund site consist­ To CUT MILITARY SPENDING sive arms race that would leave us with ed of a combination of removing con­ more nuclear arms and less security than taminated materials to new hazardous WASHINGTON.-The momentum of the before. waste disposal sites and the construc­ Reagan Administration's military buildup The Navy has failed to make the case for tion of containment barriers to reduce finally has been slowed. Congress has made expanding from 12 to 15 aircraft carrier clear that the once sacrosanct defense battle groups: 12 provided ample means to the migration of wastes from the site. budget must bear a portion of the deficit­ protect sea lanes and, when advisable, to But the OTA report noted major prob­ cutting burden. With the overall spending project American power in the third world. lems with both methods. Many of the level chosen, the crucial process of deciding Over the next five years, injecting realism disposal sites to which Superfund what and where to cut begins. How these re­ into these two programs could save $83 bil­ wastes were being brought were them­ ductions are made will affect the shape and lion from the Administration's initial pro­ selves leaking and threatening ground direction of national security policy for the posals. water. Containment barriers could not rest of this century. Further savings would result from elimi­ provide permanent protection. In es­ Unfortunately, the easiest, least political­ nating weapons systems with overlapping ly painful cuts will not correct the buildup's missions. Haunted by its vision of awesome sence, Superfund cleanups were a so­ fundamental problem-buying too many Soviet military might, the Administration phisticated shell game, in which the weapons to quickly. Traditionally, Congress has concentrated on buying as many weap­ risk from hazardous wastes was being has shied away from canceling weapons sys­ ons as quickly as possible, but has shown shuffled from one community to an­ tems in favor of reducing the funds to man only minimal concern for whether these other and from one generation to an­ and maintain them. This yields savings new systems are really necessary. The Ad­ other. more quickly because such funds are spent ministration also appears enamored of the At the same time, the OTA report immediately, whereas weapons production supposed symbolic value of a big defense noted the potential of several promis­ costs are spread over several years. budget to impress the Russians with our re­ Yet because the Reagan program concen­ solve. This apparently carries more weight ing new technologies to cleanup Su­ trates on arms procurement each developing its own weapons for its own ing the wastes, themselves nonhazar­ genuine attempts to restrain defense costs purposes, regardless of the resulting dupli­ dous. The report listed a plethora of cannot succeed unless weapons programs cation. From the numerous systems for physical, chemical, and biological tech­ are cut. Otherwise, like a sponge temporari­ North Atlantic Treaty Organization air de­ nologies which could be used at Super­ ly squeezed dry, the defense budget will fenses to the nuclear programs for "hard fund sites to reduce permanently and grow back to its original size as earlier com­ target kill capabilities," the budget land­ significantly the hazard of toxic mitments to purchase hardware come due. scape is increasingly littered with redundant Ironically, debate fails to focus on the real weaponry. wastes. alternative-America could have more capa­ Canceling the least effective of the dupli­ Yet, as the OTA report and our ble forces at a substantially lower cost. In­ cative systems would save billions and, more hearings have demonstrated, EPA has vesting in improved conventional capability important, provide the basis for a sound, done little to encourage the develop­ to meet the most realistic threats, and thor­ sustainable program. As the budget battle ment and use of these new technol­ oughly weeding out redundant or misdirect­ rages, remember that cuts in defense spend­ ogies. Direct research funds support­ ed weapons programs, would provide better ing, properly made, combined with invest­ ing development and demonstration defense and significant savings. To demon- ment in greater conventional clout. can sig­ are limited. Further, EPA's programs , strate this, the Committee for National Se­ nificantly enhance America's long-term curity has prepared such an alternative. military effectiveness. Without that per­ are biased against new technolog', ·s. Using data complied by William Kaufmann spective, an important opportunity to re­ While EPA requires new technologies of Harvard, a defense budget adviser to Re­ store realistic objectives and the programs to demonstrate their effectiveness publican and Democratic Administrations to fulfill them, will be lost.e before being used in cleanup actions, 16170 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 EPA has used conventional contain­ system known to man today, democra­ and baggage security on the ground ment techniques which have not been cy. This historical development was and in the air, the use of detection de­ proven to be effective for hazardous one we in America cherish. Like our vices, airport security forces and their wastes. Further, EPA has given no forefathers Thomas Jefferson and training, and the control of access to guidance to developers of new technol­ George Washington, Jose Marti, the the airport. ogies on the proper tests and proce­ leader of the Cuban struggle, valued In conducting these assessments, the dures which they must use in order to most highly his people's aspirations of Secretary of Transportation is to use, prove their effectiveness to EPA's sat­ independence and freedom. It is no co­ as a minimum, the current interna­ isfaction. Because of this regulatory incidence that Marti's search for liber­ tional standards, recommended prac­ attitude and the uncertainty it creates, ty did, in fact, bring him to America, tices and procedures adopted by the many technology firms are finding it where in New York for 14 years he or­ International Civil Aviation Organiza­ difficult to raise research funds from ganized his patriotic quest. tion CICAOl as set forth in annex 17 the priviate sector. However, despite the valiant efforts to the Convention on International The bill introduced today is a signifi­ of Marti and the successful aid the Civil Aviation and related documents. cant step toward turning this sorry sit­ United States offered Cuba in the Among the groups and agencies which uation around. It harnesses the power Spanish-American War, the Cuban participated in the development of of technology to help in the battle to people once again find themselves sub­ these standards and procedures are clean up the hazardous byproducts of jected to the same despotism suffered the 156 nations that are members of technology. under the reign of the Spanish empire. ICAO, the International Criminal The Superfund Clean-up Research Deprived of the freedom to speak and Police Organization, the Airport Asso­ and Demonstration Act of 1985 pro­ think, to pursue life, liberty, and hap­ ciations Coordinating Council, the motes the use of alternative and inno­ piness in accordance with their natu­ International Air Transport Associa­ vative treatment technologies in the ral rights, the Cuban people individ­ tion, and the International Federation Superfund Program, provides needed ually and collectively are prevented of Air Line Pilots' Associations. funds for research and development of from achieving their potential by the If the airports are found to be defi­ such technologies, and creates other Soviet Union's and Castro's systematic cient from the ICAO standards, this incentives for the development of such suppression. legislation will require the Secretary technologies. The bill establishes 10 Therefore, the Cubans look to May of Transportation to notify the for­ national technology demonstration 20 not only with pride in their past, eign authorities of the deficiencies and sites, one in each EPA region, and re­ but with hope for the future. The make recommendations to bring them quires the Administrator to carry out Cuban people have fought for and at­ up to international standards. If those coordinated demonstration projects at tained liberty before and they will do standards are not met in 120 days, the those sites. EPA is also required to es­ so again. May 20 stands not only for Secretary is required to publish the tablish procedures by which new tech­ the independence gained by Jose name of that airport in the Federal nologies can prove to EPA and the Marti, but for the hope for a new inde­ Register, to post the name of that air­ public that they are safe and effective. pendence, a new winning of freedom port at all U.S. airports having airline This bill requires a small investment and autonomy. We in the United service, and to require that the airlines in order to ensure that the billions of States join the Cuban people in antici­ notify all U.S. passengers who wish to dollars we will be spending on clean­ pation of this new independence, ea­ travel to these airports. ups of hazardous wastesites will be gerly awaiting the international bene­ In addition to such mandatory publi­ buying more than an elaborate shell fits a truly free Cuba will offer.e cation, the Secretary of Transporta­ game, a game that represents an intol­ tion is authorized to suspend, revoke, erable gamble with the public health or impose conditions on the authority and environment. By removing the IMPROVING THE SECURITY AT FOREIGN AIRPORTS of any carrier, United States or for­ regulatory obstacles, and by providing eign, operating between that airport some modest support for the entrepre­ and the United States. Such action is neurs and innovators who are develop­ HON. NORMAN Y. MINETA to be taken only after consultation ing this technology, we can begin to OF CALIFORNIA with the appropriate foreign authori­ develop the new technologies that can IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ties and only after approval of the destroy and detoxify hazardous waste. Tuesday, June 18, 1985 Secretary of State. I urge my colleagues to join us in sup­ porting this important legislation e Mr. MINETA. Mr. Speaker, the Through such action, we can reduce, during the Superfund reauthoriza­ recent hijacking by terrorists of TWA if not eliminate, the danger to Ameri­ tion.e flight 847 brings into sharp relief the can citizens flying abroad and bring need for stronger U.S. involvement in some indirect economic sanctions to improving the security at foreign air­ bear on any foreign government CUBAN INDEPENDENCE DAY: A ports that are served by U.S. carriers choosing to ignore these international DAY OF PRIDE AND HOPE and by foreign carriers flying to U.S. safety standards. points. This recent epidemic of hijackings HON. MARIO BIAGGI There are several things that can be suggests that we have not seen the last OF NEW YORK done to help improve the level of secu­ of efforts by terrorists to seize aircraft IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rity at these foreign airports as well as containing U.S. citizens. We have to warning U.S. passengers of airports stop this sort of crime. We should im­ Tuesday, June 18, 1985 that should be considered a risk. I am plement security procedures designed e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I would Joining with several of my distin­ to protect our citizens. That is what like to note that May 20 was the 83d guished colleagues of the House Public this legislation is designed to do. anniversary of Cuban independence-a Works and Transportation Committee It has become obvious that the inter­ day of pride and hope for Cubans to introduce legislation that requires national aviation community-the air­ worldwide. the Secretary of Transportation to lines, FAA, Air Line Pilots Association, It was a day of pride because of the conduct assessments of security meas­ and ICAO-and the U.S. State Depart­ accomplishments that that day repre­ ures at foreign airports served by U.S. ment have all known for a long time of , sents. Cuba's attainment of independ­ carriers and foreign carriers that serve extreme security problems at Athens ence from Spain marked the end of an U.S. points. The security assessment Airport. What is less clear is why nei­ older tyrannical order of imperial rule will cover both physical and personnel ther the FAA nor the State Depart­ and the advancement of the most just security measures, including passenger ment has acted on this information June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16171 under the existing security provisions "I could see he was losing interest and his child, the families of SIDS victims contained in section 1115 of the Feder­ parents didn't care. It was very sad to often experience feelings of guilt and watch, but very few kids have the self-disci­ confusion. al Aviation Act. pline to continue to practice on thir own." The fact that it took last Friday's Thompson, a native of Toms River, has In the past several years, progress tragic events to focus attention on the spent the last 16 years teaching general has been made toward understanding lax security at Athens Airport and the music and directing choral groups at four of SIDS. Yet because funding for SIDS apparent inadequacies in existing law Haddon Township's five elementary schools. research is very limited, diagnosis and to correct the situation to protect the Formerly, she taught music in Rumson prevention of SIDS remain unattained safety of Americans flying abroad is and Berkeley townships. goals. inexcusable. I hope we can now exer­ At 46, she said she is ready to retire, but The resolution I am introducing cise the political will necessary to does so with mixed emotions. She said she will not miss the strain of trying "to be fun today with 83 of my colleagues will ensure that adequate protections are and dynamic" for as many as eight, 30- designate October 6-12, 1985 as "Na­ adopted so no more Americans will minute classes a day. Nor will she miss the tional SIDS Awareness Week." It is have to experience the terror and triple bind of directing, policing and accom­ our hope that by calling national at­ horror experienced by the passengers panying the choral groups on thJ piano. tention to SIDS, we can promote a and crew of TWA flight 847.e "I've viewed my class as a valve for the greater understanding of this mysteri­ students to let off steam from the pressure ous and tragic medical phenomenon. of their academic classes. Lots of times they TRIBUTE TO JUNE THOMPSON won't loosen up until I get in there and act NATIONAL SIDS AWARENESS WEEK nutty. But once I do, then they know it To provide for the designation of the week HON. JAMES J. FLORIO must be OK for them, too." beginning October 6, 1985, as "National On the other hand, she is aware that few Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness OF NEW JERSEY parents and school administrators take her Week." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES classes seriously. Resolved by the Senate and the House of Tuesday, June 18, 1985 "Basically, the class is perceived as a way Representatives of the United States of to provide prep time for the other teachers America in Congress assembled, • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, I would and to generate some public relations for Whereas Sudden Infant Death Syndrome like to call your attention to June the school by holding concerts. I know aca­ is a recognized disease entity which kills Thompson, a gifted teacher from my demics are important, but I think here they thousands of infants each year in the district who has brought music and are too important and there's not enough United States; song to children for the last 25 years. emphasis on the arts." Whereas Sudden Infant Death Syndrome I commend June, who is retiring this Thompson, who began piano lessons in is the leading killer of infants between the year, for sharing her talent and dedi­ second grade and also plays the flute, is not age of one week and one year; cation to music with the young people an advocate of formal music education for Whereas Sudden Infant Death Syndrome of our community. A good education preschoolers. In the primary grades, she knows no boundaries of race, ethnic group, said she considers youngsters who can sing region, class or country; requires not only English, mathemat­ on key or dance or beat time to music excep­ Whereas the victims of Sudden Infant ics, and science, but the fine arts as tional. Death Syndrome are babies who appear well. June has demonstrated this by As for the future, she plans to wed in Oc­ healthy but who nonetheless die without enriching the lives of her students tober and to relocate from a condominium warning during sleep and nap time; with the appreciation of music. in Maple Shade to a log cabin in Cape May Whereas the parents and siblings of The four elementary schools in Court House. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome often Haddon Township, where June taught "I'll probably give private lessons in piano suffer anguish because many people are un­ and organ, but I'm not sure what else I'll do. aware of the existence of the pernicious for the last 16 years, will greatly miss I've never been married before. I've never her special contribution. South Jersey killer; owned a single-family home before. And I've Whereas research is underway throughout is proud and grateful that people like been going to school since I was 4. So come the world to identify the causes and process her are involved with the education of Labor Day, I'm looking forward to a lot of of the syndrome and to treat infants who their children. I thank June for her changes."• can be identified as potential victims; and many years of service and wish her all Whereas an increase in the national the best in her retirement. awareness of the problem of Sudden Infant I am inserting for the RECORD an ar­ NATIONAL SIDS AWARENESS Death Syndrome may ease the burden of ticle which appeared in the Courier­ WEEK the families of victims and may stimulate Post telling of June Thompson's re­ interest in increased research into the tirement and career. HON. GEORGE MILLER causes and the cure of Sudden Infant Death OF CALIFORNIA Syndrome: Now, therefore be it [From the Courier-Post, June 17, 19851 Resolved by the Senate and the House of HADDON TOWNSHIP MUSIC TEACHER PLANS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Representatives of the United States of NEWTuNE Tuesday, June 18, 1985 America in Congress assembled, That the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights His most recent experience as chief WASHINGTON.-Edgar Cahn, who exudes Under Law was an example of his far­ of staff and deputy mayor of the city ideas as easily as the rest of us exude sweat, sightedness and commitment. Today, of Chicago drew upon these strengths was in town last week trying to sell his the aggregious abuses of apartheid are and experiences. Bill added a new di­ latest brainchild to the District of Columbia very much a part of the public con­ mension, as he sought to apply, in government. The idea is "service credits," sciousness. In 1974 and 1975, however, practical ways, the principles for and my advice is: Buy it. Bill already understood that the bar­ Florida already has. The Legislature there which he fought and by which his life recently passed Cahn's proposal, and as a barous disfranchisement and oppres­ was guided. It was no surprise to us result, senior citizens in that state are now sion of the majority black population that Bill was reform minded in his ap­ able to earn the special services they require in South Africa had relevance and re­ proach to his role, since much about by doing volunteer work for others. A simi­ verberations for the struggle for the city of his birth cried out for lar program has been in operation in Mis­ equality in the United States. reform. It also came as no surprise souri since early this year. As legislative director of the Ameri­ that the tenacity and diligence that Depending on their energy and skill, the can Civil Liberties Union, Bill won the characterized his life would be seniors earn the service credits by providing respect and support of his colleagues brought to bear on his new task-not tutorial help, day care, technical advice or respite care <"say you're taking care of an in Washington, DC, and around the always winning friends and perhaps older relative and you need to get away for country, for his work on the Bakke creating new enemies, but always earn­ a day or two to take care of personal busi­ case, affirmative action, privacy, and ing respect. That respect which he ness or Just to preserve your sanity"). The civil rights. consistently compelled from all those credits thus generated can be used to pur­ In 1976, the new Chair of the Equal with whom he came in contact was the chase respite care or up to five days a week Employment Opportunity Commis­ hallmark of his professional and pri­ of homemaker help, including shopping, sion, Eleanor Holmes Norton, recog­ vate life. meals or companion services. The entire ar­ nized Bill's talent and legislative prow­ Mr. Ware received his undergradu­ rangement is computerized, and no money changes hands. ess and appointed him Director of Leg­ ate and law degrees from the Universi­ "In theory, private-market mechanisms islative Affairs. During his tenure, ty of Chicago. He is survived by his are supposed to supply what people want," Bill's competence proved indispensible. parents, Mr. and Mrs. William L. says Cahn, a law professor and research Largely through legislative activity, Ware, a brother, Philippe Ware, a fellow at the Southeast Florida Center on the EEOC obtained major new author- sister, Patricia Ware Owens all of Chi- Aging. "But the medium of exchange under June 18, 1985 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16173 that theory is money and elder citizens proposal is the culmination of exten­ must call upon the expertise of mem­ often don't have it." So he has created a sive work and is in response to the bers of both committees, the banking new currency: service credits. growing realization that this activity is "I looked around and I said 'This is community and law enforcement and crazy.' " Cahn says, explaining the genesis the lifeblood of much violent, criminal banking officials in our effort to pro­ of the idea. "We're putting old people on activity in the United States. As drug mote this important legislation. This the scrapheap and at the same time, the trafficking has increased in this body is equal to the difficult task need for services keeps building up while Nation, so have the number of seem­ before us. The proposal we are intro­ the money to pay for them is diminishing. ingly legitimate business persons de­ ducing today provides us with an ex­ Money is supposed to take care of this, but voted to moving drug profits through cellent vehicle for our goal. It is it occurred to me that the real value is not the banking system. The seriousness founded on much research, study, ex­ money but service." He describes his service-credit plan as "a of this activity has eluded many of us perience, and careful thought. mix between the old blood-bank idea and a because the typical money launderer The House of Representatives is state-operated barter system." Like a blood has little in common with the sleazy, duty bound to protect the banking bank, participants can build up credits gun-toting drug dealer he services. For system and our communities from against future need; like a barter system, it example, a hooded witness told the money laundering. I believe that if we allows them to purchase services without Subcommittee on Crime last week that stop money laundering we would elimi­ cash. one condition precedent to his involve­ nate the profit of the underlying Under the Florida act, only persons aged ment in the money laundering which 60 or older can earn the credits; either that crimes because the purpose of money person or their spouse can draw on the cred­ ultimately led to his arrest and convic­ laundering is to make illegal profits its. tion was that he was a well-dressed appear as legitimate income. If this But that is just the beginning, says Cahn, business man. can be stopped, criminals would be who is the author of the Neighborhood The white collar nature of money unable to spend their ill-gotten gains Legal Services Program, a leader in Indian laundering does not diminish the without detection. services reform and, with his wife, Jean wrongfulness of this service industry. The administration's proposal would Camper Cahn, a co-founder of Washington's Money laundering is no less onerous make the laundering of ill-gotten gains Antioch School of Law. than the organzed crimes it promotes. "The Florida law also provides for experi­ a crime for the first time. The Right mental programs, which means the idea can Federal law enforcement officials esti­ to Financial Privacy Act would be expand drastically. You could have mem­ mate that $50-$75 billion in illegal amended to protect financial institu­ bers of a congregation earning credits for drug money is earned in the United tions who wish to notify the law en­ older members so they don't have to go into States each year. Some $5 to $15 bil­ forcement community when such nursing homes. The Little Havana Nutrition lion of it probably moves into interna­ banks find themselves the unwitting Center in Miami is already committed to a tional financial channels and virtually conduits to money laundering activi­ program that would have older people run all of it is laundered to make it look ties, the Federal Rules of Criminal day-care centers and tutor young people, like it came from legitimate sources. Procedure would be amended to pre­ with the parents paying for the service by The Comprehensive Crime Control driving or providing other services." vent notice to the launderer of specific Interest in the idea is spreading. Already, Act of 1984, Public Law 98-473, con­ investigations, and the Currency and the Southeast Community Hospital Founda­ tained the first recent response to the Foreign Transactions Reporting Act tion here is doing preliminary computer and dramatic increase in money launder­ would be amended to provide more ef­ market studies to launch the program. ing. A portion of this new law im­ fective investigations through subpoe­ Eastern Airlines is working out details of a proved our Federal law enforcement na authority for the Secretary of the plan that would use its retirees to provide capacity to address the illegal exodus technical advice for mechanics and other Treasury. The penalties for violations service personnel, with the seniors earning of funds from the United States for of the act would also be increased. Sev­ the opportunity for travel packages. An­ laundering in other nations. In Octo­ eral existing criminal statutes would other program would use retired journey­ ber 1984, the President's Commission apply to the money laundering activi­ men to teach young people the skills neces­ on Organized Crime issued an interim ty. Finally, forfeiture of these ill­ sary to render homes and apartments bar­ report, "The Cash Convention: Orga­ gotten gains to the Federal Govern­ rier-free for the handicapped. The young nized Crime, Financial Institutions ment would occur under the act. workers not only learn job skills but also and Money Laundering." This report Mr. Speaker, I am appending the fol­ gain the chance to obtain low-interest loans provided an excellent and frightening lowing section-by-section analysis of for technical school and community college view of the money laundering phe­ tuition. the Money Laundering and Related "When a society has vast unmet needs and nomenon. The Commission f ormulat­ Crimes Act to the extension of my re­ at the same time large numbers of talented, ed a draft legislative proposal in re­ marks. energetic, potentially productive human sponse to its findings, and I introduced SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS OF THE MONEY beings for whom it has no use, then some­ this legislation as H.R. 1367 on Febru­ LAUNDERING AND RELATED CRIMES ACT OF thing is wrong," Cahn says. ary 28, 1985. The chairman of the Sub­ 1985 He has come up with a brilliant idea for committee on Crime of the Committee Section one of the bill sets out its title, setting it right.e on the Judiciary, Mr. HUGHES, also in­ the "Money Laundering and Related Crimes troduced a money laundering propos­ Act of 1985.'' REGARDING THE MONEY LAUN- al, H.R. 1474, in March of this year. Section two sets out a new money launder­ DERING AND RELATED Extremely beneficial information ing offense by adding a new section 1956 to has been obtained from hearings on title 18. CRIMES ACT OF 1985 The new section 1956 directly proscribes the subject called by the distinguished certain types of transactions involving mon­ HON. BILL McCOLLUM chairman of the Committee on Bank­ etary instruments and wire transfers of OF FLORIDA ing, Finance and Urban Affairs, Mr. ST funds to launder the funds generated by or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GERMAIN and the chairman of the derived from illegal activity. Section 1956 Subcommittee on Crime of the Judici­ would cover any money laundering which Tuesday, June 18, 1985 ary Committee, Mr. HUGHES. I have affects interstate commerce. Criminal liabil­ e Mr. MCCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I am the distinct privilege of serving on ity and civil sanctions under the new section proud to join several distinguished col­ both committees, which must formu­ may be imposed if the government can show that the person had actual knowledge or leagues in the introduction of the late and pass any comprehensive legis­ acted with reckless disregard of the fact most comprehensive response to the lative response to money laundering. that the money instruments represent the growing phenomenon of money laun­ The Money Laundering and Related proceeds of an unlawful activity. dering. This important bill is Presi­ Crimes Act of 1985, which we are in­ Subsection Ca> provides that one who con­ dent Reagan's Money Laundering and troducing today, addresses both cur­ ducts, causes to be conducted, or attempts Related Crimes Act of 1985. This new rent banking and criminal laws. We to conduct a transaction involving either 16174 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 18, 1985 the wire transfer of funds or involving mon­ Federal grand jury subpoena must be re­ to believe that the information would be etary instruments, which affects interstate turned and actually presented to the grand useful to a matter within the jurisdiction of or foreign commerce or which is conducted jury. the receiving agency. through or by a financial institution which Subsection 3(g) adds a new section 3423 to The revised § 5319 also would authorize is engaged in or the activities of which Title 12 to make explicit that the Right to the Secretary to provide report information affect interstate or fo'reign commerce, is Financial Privacy Act preempts any state fi­ to other federal agencies for national securi­ guilty of an offense provided the govern­ nancial privacy law or judicial interpreta­ ty purposes with or without a request. ment can show either of the following: first tion that is more restrictive of disclosure to Subsection 5(c) contains several amend­ that the person acted with the intent to a Government authority concerning a possi­ ments to 31 U.S.C. § 5319, the t..1vil penalty promote, manage, establish, carry on, or fa­ ble violation of law. provision of the Bank Secrecy Act. Subsec­ cilitate the promotion, management, estab­ Section four amends Rule 17 of the tion 5 provides for a new penalty of not lishment or carrying on of any unlawful ac­ Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to more than the amount of the transaction up tivity or, second, that the person knew or clarify the authority of the district courts to to $1,000,000, or $25,000, whichever is great­ acted in reckless disregard of the fact that issue, and set standards for the issuance of, er, for all reporting violations. For non-re­ the monetary instruments or funds repre­ orders commanding a person to whom a sub­ porting violations, the penalty will continue sent the proceeds of, or are derived directly poena duces teem is directed, not to advise, to be up to $10,000. A new paragraph (4) is or indirectly from the proceeds of, any un­ for a specified period, any other person of added to 31 U.S.C. § 532l(a) providing for lawful activity. The punishment would the existence of the subpoena. Rule 17 increased civil penalties for willful viola­ extend to imprisonment for up to twenty would be amended to allow the attorney for tions of 31 U.S.C. § 5314 or a regulation pre­ years and a fine of up to the greater of the government to seek, and the court to scribed thereunder relating to records and $250,000 or twice the value of the monetary issue an order not to tell anyone of the ex­ reports of foreign financial agency accounts instruments or wire-transferred funds in­ istence of the subpoena for a specified and transactions. volved in the transaction. In addition, sec­ length of time if the court determines that A new paragraph (5) is added to provide a tion nine will allow for either the civil or there is reason to believe the material that penalty for negligent violations of the rec­ criminal forfeiture of funds and proceeds is the object of the subpoena is the object of ordkeeping and reporting requirements of derived from the funds involved in a viola­ a legitimate law enforcement proceeding $10,000 per violation in cases in which the tion of the new section. and there is also reason to believe that noti­ facts do not support a finding of willfulness. Section 3 sets forth several amendments fication of the existence of the subpoena A new paragraph (6) is added to § 532l(a) to the Right to Financial Privacy Act of will result in endangering the safety of any to clarify that criminal penalties under 1978