March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7075 " ( d) SPECIAL RULES.- of this section with respect to such expenses than 20 days after the decision of the Court " ( 1) ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN SCHOLAR­ for the taxable year.". of Appeals. SHIPS AND VETERANS BENEFITS.-The amounts (b) REFUND OF EXCESS CREDIT.--Subsection (3) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION.-It shall be otherwise taken into account under subsec­ (b) of section 6401 of such Code (relating to the duty of the Court of Appeals and of the tion (a) as educational expenses of any in­ excessive credits) is amended- Supreme Court of the United States to ad­ dividual for any taxable year shall be reduced (1) by striking out "and 43 (relating to vance on the docket and to expedite to the (before the application of subsection (b)) by earned income credit) , " and inserting in lieu greatest possible extent the disposition ot any amounts received with respect to such thereof "43 (relating to earned income any matter certified under paragraph ( 1). individual for the taxable year as- credit), and 440 (relating to credit for edu­ (4) SE,ARABILITY.-If any provision of sec­ "(A) a scholarship or fellowship grant cational expenses),", and tion 44C of the Internal Revenue Code ot (within the meaning of section 117(a) (1)) (2) by striking out "39 and 43" and insert­ 1954 (or any other provision of such Code which under section 117 is not includible in ing in lieu thereof "39, 43, and 440". relating to such section), or the application gross income, (c) LIMITATION ON EXAMINATION OF BOOKS thereof to any person or circumstances, is "(B) an educational assistance allowance AND RECORDS.-Section 7605 of such Code (re­ held invalid, the remainder of the provisions under chapter 32, 34, or 35 of title 38, United lating to time and place of examination) is of such section and the application of such States Code, or amended by adding at the end thereof the provisions to other persons or circumstances following new subsection: shall not be affected. "(C) a payment (other than a gift, be­ "(d) EXAMINATION OF BOOKS AND RECORDS (e) DISREGARD OF REFUND.-Any refund of quest, devise, or inheritance within the OF CHURCH-CONTROLLED SCHOOLS.-Nothing Federal income taxes made to any individ­ meaning of section 102(a)) for educational in section 440 (relating to credit for educa­ ual, and any reduction in the income tax expenses, or attributable to attendance at an tional expenses) shall be construed to grant liability of any individual, by reason o! sec­ eligible educational institution, which is ex­ additional authority to examine the books tion 440 of the Internal Revenue Code o! empt from income taxation by any law of the of account, or the activities, of any school 1954 (relating to credit for educational ex­ United States. which is operated, supervised, or controlled penses) shall not be taken into account as "(2) TAXPAYER WHO IS A DEPENDENT OF AN­ by er in connection with a church or con­ income or receipts for purposes of deter­ OTHER TAXPAYER .-No credit shall be allowed vention or association of churches (or the mining the eligibility of such individual or to a taxpayer under subsection (a) for examination of the books of account or re­ any other individual for benefits or assist­ amounts paid during the taxable year for ligious a.ctivities of such church or conven­ ance, or the amount or extent of benefits educational expenses of the taxpayer if such tion or association of churches) except to the or assistance, under any Federal program of taxpayer is a dependent of any other person extent necessary to determine whether the educational assistance or under any State or for a taxable year beginning with or within school is an eligible educational institution local program of educational assistance fi­ the taxable year of the taxpayer. within the meaning of section 44C(c) (2) .". nanced in whole or in part with Federal "(3) SPOUSE.-No credit shall be allowed ( d) EXPEDITED REVIEW OF CONSTITUTIONAL­ funds. under subsection (a) for amounts paid dur­ ITY OF EDUCATIONAL EXPENSE CREDIT.- (f) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS .- ing the taxable year for educational expenses ( 1) CERTIFICATION OF QUESTIONS OF CON­ ( 1) The table of sections for subpart A for the spouse of the taxpayer unless- STITUTIONALITY .-In any action brought in a o! part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 o! " (A) the taxpayer is entitled to an exemp­ district court of the United States, including such Code is amended by inserting imme­ tion for his spouse under section 151 (b) for an action for declaratory judgment or in­ diately before the item relating to section 45 the taxable year, or junctive relief, concerning the constitution­ the following: "(B) the taxpayer files a joint return with ality of any provision of section 440 of the "Sec. 440. Educational expenses.". his spouse under section 6013 for the taxable Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to year. credit for educational expenses) or any other (2) Subsection (c) of section 56 of such provision of such Code relating to such sec­ Code (defining regular tax deduction) is " ( e) DISALLOWANCE OF CREDITED EXPENSES amended by striking out "credits allowable AS CREDIT OR DEDUCTION .-No deduction or tion, the district court shall certify imme­ diately all questions of constitutionality of under-" and all that follows and inserting credit shall be allowed under any other sec­ in lieu thereof "credits allowable under sub­ tion of this chapter for any educational ex­ such provision to the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit involved, which part A of part IV other than under sections pense to the extent that such expense is 31, 39, and 43.". taken into account (after the application of shall hear the matter sitting en bane. subsection (b)) in determining the amount (2) APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT.-Notwith­ SEC . 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. of the credit allowed under subsection (a). standing any other provision of law, any The amendments made by section 2 of this The preceding sentence shall not apply to decision on a matter certified under para­ Act shall apply to taxable years ending after the educational expenses of any taxpayer graph ( 1) shall be reviewable by appeal di­ July 31, 1978, for amounts paid after such who, under regulations prescribed by the rectly to the Supreme Court of the United date for educational expenses incurred after Secretary, elects not to apply the provisions States. Such appeal shall be brought no later such date.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS FUELS TRANSPORTATION SAFETY needed to protect the public health and ural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1978 safety. ga.;

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CXXIV---446-Part 6 7076 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 port and import of natural gas. As of I am convinced that they significantly help erosclerosis, and gastrointestinal disturb­ Monday, there are two functioning LNG people in their later years to maintain their ances. We have provided such diets accord­ health, independence, and dignity, and ing to physician's prescriptions. Many of our importation facilities in the United thereby are cost effective by preventing or participants have been advised to modify States-the new facility at Cove Point, delaying expensive care in institutions. their diets, and also require dietary coun­ Md., and one in my district in Everett, NEEDS seling on a.n individual or group basis. With Mass. Several additional such facilities few exceptions, physicians have neither the Poor nutrition is a. fa.ct of life for many time nor the expertise to give the practical are planned for the future. older Americans. For some, starvation has But LNG also represents a very real become reality. Older Americans in Delaware advice that their patients need. potential danger. The evidence of these County a.re also faced with these problems. 4. Nutrition education should be manda­ serious dangers is now mounting. A Sep­ 1. The fixed low incomes do not permit the tory in all programs. By this I mean an in­ tember 1977 study by the Office of Tech­ purchase of sufficient amounts and kinds of formal, practical approach that helps par­ nology Assessment, entitled "Transpor­ food for an adequate diet; ticipants to plan easy-to-prepare nutritious 2. Transportation to markets 1s often not meals to supplement their noon meal; to tation of Liquefied Natural Ga.s," detailed purchase foods of highest nutritional bene­ a series of safety dangers and the inade­ available; 3 . Isolation and loneliness a.re not con­ fit within their limited incomes; to maintain quacy of Federal regulation. In an ap­ ducive to the preparation of adequate meals; food safety within the home; and to avoid pearance before the Energy and Power 4. Illness and physical disa.bili ty interfere the exaggerated claims made by health food Subcommittee on February 21, 1978, not only with the appetite but also the effort vendors who promise so much and deliver Monte Canfield, Jr., Director of the En­ needed to prepare satisfactory meals; so little in terms of dollars spent. Men, as ergy and Minerals Division of the Gen­ 5. Many older Americans la.ck knowledge well as women, benefit substantially from eral Accounting Office testified that: of what they require for good nutrition and such food talks, for many men too live alone a.re misled by those who would profit through and must arrange for their· own meals. Because LNG ls the dangerous substance 5. The direction of the nutrition program it is, and because its potential for damage 1s expensive foods or food adjuncts. GOALS by a. professionally qualified dietitian/nutri­ so great, serious consideration needs to be tionist should be mandated. The professional given to intensified safety measures. Important goals for the nutrition program and technical expertise of the dietitian is for older Americans in Delaware County and essential to efficient administration of the Mr. Speaker, at those LNG safety hear­ indeed for a.11 nutrition programs a.re these: ings conducted 3 weeks ago, witness after program; to the determination of menu plans 1. To provide a. noon meal in centers a. t and supervision of food quality in terms of witness testified a.s to the failure of the least five days a. week that furnish one third nutritive values, palatability, and whole­ Federal Government to develop a coor­ of the Recommended Dietary Allowances; someness; to the training of paid and volun­ dinated LNG policy to protect the public 2. To serve a. breakfast a.t centers for those teer staff: and to the development and super­ health and safety. Despite repeated ques­ who a.re especially in need of a. second meal; vision of the program for nutrition educa­ tioning, representatives of various agen­ 3. To deliver two meals-a hot noon meal, tion and dietary counseling. For the larger cies were unable to say when the admin­ and a. pa.eked supper-a.t lea.st fl ve days a. projects one or more dietitians employed on week to persons who a.re temporarily or per­ a full time basis is essentlal. For small proj­ istration will develop a coherent LNG manently homebound and who a.re without policy. ects a consultant dietitian can serve effec­ the financial or physical resources to other­ tively on a. part-time basis. Mr. Speaker, it is astonishing to me wise meet their nutritional needs. For those that this administration and those before who cannot meet their meal needs on week­ 6. Each nutrition program should have its ends, meals should be delivered seven -days a. own project advisory council made up pri­ it have failed to develop a national LNG marily of participants. The older American safety policy. I believe Congress must week. 4. To provide nutrition education and who eats his/her meals at the centers re­ provide vitally needed national leader­ dietary counseling on a. group or individual mains the best single monitor of the pro­ ship in this area. I urge all my colleagues basis, according to specific needs. gram. The participants make suggestions for to look closely at the legislation we have menus according to their ethnic and social introduced today. The stakes in this is­ RECOMMENDATIONS backgrounds, evaluate the quality of the sue are very high. The risks are clear. 1. Nutrition programs in the centers not food that is served, and make decisions con­ only should be continued but should be ex­ cerning the suggested meal contributions as The time is short.• panded. In 12 centers in Delaware County we well as the ways in which these contribu­ now serve 575 noon meals daily, and through tions may be used. Because of the many the use of food commodities a.bout 200 break­ concerns directly related to nutrition it is fasts. With the existing facilities we could not practical to combine such a. project HEARINGS BY THE HOUSE SELECT serve a.n additional 200 daily if we had the council with an overall center advisory coun­ COMMITTEE ON AGING IN DELA­ funds. Needless to say, there a.re a.rea.s in our cil. WARE COUNTY, PA. county with a. high target population that RECOMMENDATIONS PERTAINING TO ADMINISTRA­ we are not now serving because we do not TION AND FUNDING have the funds to open new centers. HON. ROBERT W. EDGAR 2. There is a. continuing and urgent need 1. The present act states that the programs for home-delivered meals throughout the en­ are open to all persons over 60 years of age. OF PENNSYLVANIA tire county. When center participants a.re 111 , Such a. broad statement becomes misleading IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the delivery of a. meal can ease distress and to many older Americans who find that in­ deed only a. limited number can be served Wednesday, March 15, 1978 encourage return at an early time to the centers. For other persons who have long and that priorities must be given to persons • Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, been isolated and homebound, the home­ of low income, who belong to minority March 3, the Select Committee on Aging, delivered meal affords not only nutrition but groups, who live alone, who are 75 years or represented by Congressmen MIKE some contact with the outside world. If such older, and/ or who are in frail health. There a. person with assistance can be brought to a are, indeed, persons who can afford to pay BLOUIN and DAVE EVANS, held field hear­ the full costs of services but who do not know ings in my district to gather testimony center even once or twice a week, his out­ look can be greatly improved and resocializa­ where to turn for assistance: these, too, must regarding the Older Americans Act. I tion can begin. But there are also those who be helped to use the available resources. participated in these hearings which, in cannot leave their homes at all and who have 2. Funds should be specifically earmarked my view, were quite productive. For the neither relatives nor friends upon whom for the nutrition programs. With block past few days I have inserted into the they can rely. Many of them require a range grants to the state or area agency, there RECORD portions of the testimony we re­ of services, of which the delivery of meals is could be pressures to meet other needs of ceived. The eighth section follows: an important component. older Americans at the expense of the funda­ mental need for better nutrition. However, TESTIMONY ON NUTRITION PROGRAMS FOR Presently we deliver 190 meals dally to the homebound: about 20 of these who are in the proportion of funds allocated to group OLDER AMERICANS DELAWARE COUNTY desperate need receive two meals a. day. meals and to home-delivered meals should (Submitted by Corinne H. Robinson, D.Sc., With our existing facilities we could deliver be a decision of a local area agency, and not R.D.) an additional 150 meals daily, if funds were mandated by either federal or state agencies. I am Corinne H . Robinson, president of available. There exists in Dela.ware County an The present Title VII allocation of 80 per the Advisory Council of the Delaware County unknown, but no doubt large number of per­ cent for meals and 20 per cent towards sup­ Program for Services to the Aging, Professor sons desperately in need of these services but portive services seems appropriate. of Nutrition, Drexel University, and a regis­ we cannot do outreach to find them because 3. The home-delivered meals and group tered dietitian. I appreciate the opportunity we cannot provide them with the service. meals should be administered through the to present this testimony relating to the Thus. a. need also exists for new centers. center meals program. To separate them nutrition programs of Delaware County. 3. Each nutrition program should provide would involve duplication of administrative Through my involvement in these programs modified diets such as those required for procedures and staff, fragmentation of serv­ since their inception in our county in 1974 obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, a.th- ices, and increased costs. March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7077 4. Funding for the nutrition programs Park Boys' Club. He was also one of the funds other than those that we now receive. should be through area agencies, and not founders of the Mom and Dad's Club of The Title V Act does have a. mortgage and separately funded. This permits area agen­ New Rochelle and served as its president a construction section, which at present is cies to incorporate the nutrition programs not being acted upon. If these were to be in comprehensive planning, encourages co­ for 2 years; this organization promotes opened up for our use, we could begin plans ordination of all services, reduces duplica­ funding for the school's football and for a new center, in order to meet the needs tion of administrative procedures, and assists other athletic teams. He is also an active of its people and fulfill the center's purpose. in monitoring of the programs. However, the member of the Casa Calabria Society and We need to make a place for people to come Area Agency should not be the direct pro­ American Legion Post No. 8. He has given and gather together, to keep us active in vider of the nutrition services, but should hours of his time to the United Fund society, providing us with necessary friend­ arrange for these services through and was responsible for running the ships and activities. Only by the implement­ subcontract. New Rochelle High School blood bank. ing of funds from Title V can we ever hope 5. Integrated funding accomplished to see such a. thing accomplished to and for through Title VII, Title XX of the Social It is a great pleasure to join with the our center.e Security Act, Title III, and participant con­ residents of New Rochelle to pay Peter tributions has been valuable in our pro­ Caputo this tribute.• gram. I would emphasize the importance of the voluntary, confidential contributions by NEED FOR SAFE NUCLEAR POWER participants. Only through the application of $106,000 of such contributions are we able HEARINGS BY THE HOUSE SELECT in 1978 to maintain the services existing in COMMITTEE ON AGING, DELA­ HON. WILLIAM L. DICKINSON 1977. In addition we commend the valuable WARE COUNTY, PA. contributions made by the Food Commodity OF ALABAMA Program; these foods are used as part of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES noon meals and are the mainstay of our Wednesday, March 15, 1978 breakfast program. Whether food commodi­ HON. ROBERT W. EDGAR ties are provided, or whether a cash subsidy OF PENNSYLVANIA e Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, Joel is given in place of the food commodities IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Starling, editor-publisher of the should be a. decision for ea.ch nutrition Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Andalusia Star-News, Andalusia, Ala., project. wrote a very thought-provoking editorial 6. Finally, the urgent need is for increased • Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, in the March 1, 1978, issue of the Star­ funding of these programs. In Delaware March 3, the Select Committee on Aging, News about the need for the development County, if we were to increase our group represented by Congressmen MIKE meals in existing fac111ties by 200 and our of safe nuclear power. With "dire" news home-delivered meals by 150, we would BLOUIN and DAVE EVANS, held field hear­ abounding in the world today about need approximately 50 percent increase in ings in my district to gather testimony energy scarcity-and we are presently in funds. If we were to open new centers and regarding the Older Americans Act. I the midst of a coal strike that appears to make some of these services available in participated in these hearings which, in be far from settled-we had better get other parts of the county, an increase in my view, were quite productive. For the moving on the development of safe nu­ funding would be an additional 15 to 25 per­ past few days I have inserted into the clear energy. I commend to my collegues cent. Thus, optimistically, 75 per cent in­ RECORD portions of the testimony we Joel Starling's thoughts on the subject: crease in funding would be assisting us to received. The seventh section follows: increase our services to so many who NEW NUCLEAR REACTOR SHOULD BE urgently need them. SENIOR CENTER EXAMINED Thank you for your careful consideratlon.e (By Mary Hall, Darby Township (By Joel Starling) Senior Center) The energy crisis is a problem in the United We know that Title V originally contained States, and it ls not a problem of the United TRIBUTE TO PETER CAPUTO sections for the funding of: States alone, it is a world problem. It seems (1) New Equipment that the citizens of the United States forget ( 2) Renovations there is an energy crisis. Our only concern HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER ( 3) Construction is the cost. We complain about the high cost OF NEW YORK ( 4) Mortgage and continue to use up our energy supply. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ( 5) Personnel Costs One of the main parts of any U.S. energy Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Unfortunately, we are now only funded conservation is the use of coal instead of oil. ,for new equipment and any renovations The reason being that the United States' e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, Peter needed to be done on the building. Our Cen­ supplies of coal are plentiful. But the fact has Caputo, Sr., will be honored by his ter, however. cannot properly be taken care been very vividly brought to our attention, by friends in appreciation of the many years of by simply renovating one area. We are the coal strike, that no matter how much of desperately in need of a. new building. A anything you have, it is no good unless you of service to the city of New Rochelle. new building would provide us with much can get the product. With the miners on The retirement dinner will take place more room to do things we would like to strike we find that we are running short of at the Riviera Shore Club in New do. Right now, there is hardly any room to coal. Rochelle on Sunday evening, April 9. do anything but sit at the tables and talk. This seems to indicate that we need to Mr. Caputo was appointed assistant If we would like to do our arts and crafts, move rapidly into ways of finding other custodian on April 9, 1951 and became we would take up practically the entire sources of energy. Two sources that are most a head custodian on July 1, 1959. He center's space. It leaves those wishing not mentioned are solar energy and nuclear served at Isaac Young Junior High to participate no alternative but to join us energy. School and Stephenson Elementary or feel totally left out. Our two sewing ma­ Effective use of solar energy is said to be chines are of hardly any benefit to us be­ some years down the line. But research School before coming to New Rochelle cause to open them up without disturbing should continue in developing this source of High School as the secondary school anyone else is almost impossible. energy. plant supervisor in 1963; he retired in Yes-the size definitely determines what Nuclear energy is already here. The dangers May of last year. activities are going to be installed. The more of the nuclear breeder reactor seem to be the Mr. Caputo was recognized for his rooms there are, the greater choice among major drawback to this. The main danger ls distinguished service-above and beyond the people to choose as to what they would the production of plutonium pure enough to the call of duty-during the New prefer to do. At our center, the people are so be used in bombs. Rochelle High School fire of 1968 and jam-packed in one small area, they have no American and British scientists announced subsequent rebuilding. He was a found­ choice. this week that they developed a new nuclear er and first president of the Civil Serv­ We enjoy coming to the center because it breeder reactor and fuel processing system ice Association in the New Rochelle provides us with a place to meet and socialize, that can virtually eliminate the threat of School System. The many benefits talk among friends, and do things we might atomic weapons proliferation. At the same not usually do if alone. time the new reactors permit the reprocess­ known by the employees of the Civil We want very much to find a new place ing of spent fuel from conventional reactors Service Association were fought for and with more room, giving us choices for ac­ and would make the world's supply of implemented by Peter Caputo. His dedi­ tivities and a. place to bring friends. Why­ uranium last almost indefinitely. cation and work for the youth of New at present-how can we bring any new peo­ With the problems we have with our Rochelle has been shown by the count­ ple when there is no room to put them. supplies or energy this new development less hours he has given to the F·eeney In order to expand our facilities, we need offers another avenue solving our problem. 7078 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 19i8 The new breeder reactor should be t horough­ Congress to conduct investiga t ions t o en­ any case. the A&TBCB is concerned about all ly studied to see if it can do what its de­ sure compliance wit h t he Architect ural ba~rier-related problems. It encourages and velopers claim. We need all the help in the Barriers Act ( P .L. 90- 480). The A&TBCB can promotes access even for those buildings and energy crisis we can get.e issue orders of compliance which m ay in­ facilities over which it has no jurisdiction. clude d irect ions for correct ive action or t he If you ha\·e a c ::m1plaint about an inacccs­ withholding or suspension of Federal funds. ~ible building, write the A&TBCB. No snecia l The A&TBCB always t ries to amicably re­ form or format is required. but only written REMOVINC ARCHITECTURAL solve complaints about inaccessibility. But complaints are accepted. Your name will if there is no solution to the problem. legal not be disclosed unless you give written con­ BARRIERS action is unhesitatingly taken against the sent. Just give your name, address, and as Federal agency responsible. Recently, for much of t he following as you can : example, I have iss ued legal citat ions--or 1. Exact description of the barrier-related HON. RICHARD NOLAN administ rat ive suits-against t he depart­ problem. It may be a doorway too narrow OF MINNESOTA ments of Transpor t a t ion; Interior: Housing for a wheelchair or the lack of raised numer­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Urban Development: Health. Educat ion, als on an elevator for blind persons. and Welfare; and the General Services Ad­ 2. Exact locat ion of the barrier-related Wednesday, March 15, 1978 ministration. problem. Give t he name and address of the • Mr NOLAN. Mr. Speaker, on Mon­ We are most anxious for all people­ inaccessible building or facility-the floor. day, March 6, the House of Representa­ handicapped or not -to know they have a rcom. or wherever. It can be a major Fed­ right of independent access t o and use of eral complex or a small rest :i.rea. tives passed House Joint Resolution 578 federally involved buildings and facilities 3. Name and telephone number of the authorizing the President to declare the throughout the nation. Anyone unable to person res ponsible for the building or facil­ third week of May in 1978 and 1979 as enter or use any such building s h ould write ity. The A&TBCB will make every effort to National Architectural Barrier Aware­ to me at the Architectural and Transpor­ get all the informat ion necessary to under­ ness Week. The bill was officially co­ tation Barriers Compliance Board. Washing­ stand and resolve the problem. sponsored by 219 of my colleagues; in t on, D.C. 20201 , and tell me about it. 4. Names of the building owner and tenant. addition, Mr. GOLDWATER, Mr. FORSYTHE, Al t hough compliance with Federal law re­ A Federal agency may be either the building quiring access is its major duty, the Archi­ mn1er or :i tenant of a facility. and Ms. HOLT contacted me after the tectural and Transportat ion Barriers Com­ 5. Name of t he Federal agency involved. final introduction and I want to acknowl­ pliance Board may also recommend to the The A&TBCB must determine if it has juris­ edge their support. President and to the Congress legislative diction. Even if it does not have jurisdiction, I have been receiving calls from my and administrative actions necessary to the A&TBCB may be able to work with an colleagues on various aspects of the eliminate architectural, transportation, and agency t o help solve t he problem. accessibility problems and during the attitudinal barriers. It works to bring to­ 6. Your suggestions for solving the prob­ coming weeks. I will be inserting in­ gether in a cooperative effort any agencies, lem. Though expense is not an excuse for formation in the RECORD to help them in organiza t ions, or groups with this goal. n oncompliance wit h the law, the least ex­ We share ~·our belief that " . .. once people pensive solution could be the quickest and furthering the goals outlineJ in that begin to fully realize the extent to which best. resolution. our society places obst acles in the paths of Complaints should be addressed to the Ex­ The 1973 Rehabilitation Services Act the d isabled"-and the able-bodied too­ ecutive Director, Architectural and Tra nspor­ created the Architectural and Trans­ "changes will be forthcoming." "National tat ion Barriers Compliance Board, Washing­ portation Barriers Compliance Board to Architectural Barrier Awareness Week" will ton. D.C. 20201. enforce the 1968 Architectural Barriers play a major role in creating concern and Your complaint will be handled even if you action leading to a nation free of environ­ are not able to provide all of the information. Act. The following letter from Mr. Robert mental barriers. Johnson, Executive Director of the Com­ The A&TBCB will try to get the information To support "National Architect ural Bar­ it needs, but this takes time and may delay pliance Board, provides a very informa­ rier Awareness Week," the A&TBCB will processing your complaint. tive explanatior of their role in helping launch a national public awareness cam­ The A&TBCB investig.:i tes every complaint our society move toward total accessi­ paign on architectural barriers. A national i ~ receives. The precise nature of the prob­ bility. Mr. Johnson's letter is followed by television spot about barriers will launch lem is confirmed and everv effort made to the text of a pamphlet entitled "Access the campaign entitled "Access America." amicably resolve it. Flexibillty and creativity America," available from his office in We are excited about and commend vour are used to reach the best answer for all HEW. efforts for "National Architectural Barrier parties. In any case, the A&TBCB's responsi­ Awareness Week." bility is to ensure compliance with the law. The inserts follow: Sincerely, When t he A&TBCB receives a complaint, ARCHITECTURAL AND TRANSPORTATION ROBERT JOHNSON, it determines which Feder:i. l agency is in­ BARRIERS COMPLIANCE BOARD, E xecutive Director. volved. A copy of the complaint is then sent Washington, D.C .. March 9, 1978. to the agency and to other parties involved, Hon. RICHARD NOLAN , ACCESS AMERICA : THE ARCHITECTURAL such as a government grantor, or contractor U .S. House of Representativ es , BARRIERS ACT AND You if t he building is under construction, or the Washington, D .C. Any person in America-including those owner of a leased building. DEAR MR . NOLAN : I congratulate you on who are handicapped-has the right of in­ The A&TBCB will discuss and try to ne­ s uccessfully sponsoring House Joint Resolu­ dependent access to buildings and facilities gotiate the matter. But no later than 60 days tion 578 making the third week in May constructed, leased, or altered for the Fed­ after receipt of the complaint, the executive during 1978 and 1979 "National Archi­ eral government or with the use of Federal director of the A&TBCB will rrL'lke either o! tectural Barrier Awareness Week." funds. If, because of a physical handicap two decisions: ( 1) a "determination not to As you know. the Federal Architectural you or someone you know cannot enter or proceed." which states the reasons why the and Transportation Barriers Compliance use any such buildings constructed since A&TBCB will not prosecute the alleged vio­ Board (A&TBCB) enforces Federal law re­ passage of the Architectural Barriers Act lation. and thus ends A&TBCB involvement quiring that every building or facility de­ of 1968 (Public Law 90- 480). you have the ( for example. the case may be referred to a signed, constructed. leased, or altered by the legal right to register a written complaint more appropriate authority such as a state Federal government since August 12, 1968- against the responsible parties. or local .agency if no Federal agency is in­ whether financed wholly or in part with Most Federal buildings or federally funded volved); or (2) to prosecute the case by serv­ Federal grants or loans-must be free of facilities must at least meet the Federal ing the first formal legal pleading-"cita­ architectural barriers to all people. minimum standards for accessibility and tion"-on the involved oarties. (The 60 days Because the A&TBCB is new (it was es­ useability. This means they must have au­ is not the period for corrections to be made. tablished bv section 502 of the Rehabilita­ dible and visual warning signals to aid blind It is the maximum time allowed to draw up tion Act-P.L. 93-112). its role is not yet and deaf people. There must be ramps, wide an acceptable voluntary comoliance plan.) well known. There has been some misun­ restroom doorways. and lower switches for A citation will contain a concise statement derstanding about the A&TBCB. so I'd like those in wheelchairs. of the provisions of the Rehabilitation Act to further clarify its responsibiilties and The Architectural and Transportation of 1973 and the 1968 Architectural Barriers scope of authority. Barriers Compliance Board ( A&TBCB) is the Act under which the action is being brought. The A&TBCB, which is composed of the Federal agency created to enforce the stand­ Ii will list all documents provided for an cabinet-level representatives of nine Federal ards. While not all government buildings administrative law judge to make a decision agencies, is the maJor Federal force ensur­ and facilities are covered by the Architec­ on the alleged noncompliance, possibly in­ ing accessibility wherever the Federal dollar tural Barriers Act, it does include most c~uding items such as the contract, drawings is involved in providing facilities: schools, post-1968 buildings designed, constructed. and S":>ecifications. and key correspondence. hospitals, colleges. recreation facilities, altered, or leased as well as those funded The citation will also fix a time and date, housing, office buildings. It is authorized by with Federal loans, grant'>, or contracts. In usually about 15 days after it is issued, with- March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7079 in which any party may request a hearing. the judge within eight days after a citation Dwnbarton Bridge and, in halting an Copies of the citation and documents are is issued. PER proceedings are the same as airport development south of the city filed with the A&TBCB docket clerk, who regular compliance proceedings but on an maintains all records for the judge. accelerated basis. They are less formal and which would have devastated portions Parties receiving the citation have 15 days there is a likelihood that formal legal briefs of the city by noise from aircraft. These to respond to the charges and file any docu­ will not be required. PER proceedings can two decisions will have a lasting impact ments in addition to those initially filed minimize costs to all parties, provide timely on every resident of the city now and in with the citation. !f the A&TBCB executive resolutions, and avert potentially expensive the future. director or any party receiving a citation corrective action to achieve compliance. Mayor Balentine is not running for does not request a hearing, the judge may Provisional expedited relief such as suspend­ reelection this year. Nobody doubts that decide the case on the record of documents ing or withholding funds can severely disrupt he would have been reelected easily but submitted. an agency program. Therefore, the judge must You, the complainant, need not be a party decide on the need for PER. he has decided to leave public office so to the proceedings. You will receive a copy 2. Conflict of interest-If any member of that others may also serve. While this is of the A&TBCB's formal rules under which the A&TBCB or an agency of a member is a sure to be a great loss for the Newark your case will be processed. You will be kept party in a proceeding, whether as a com­ Council, I am sure that Jim will continue up to dat e on its status. At any time after plainant or a respondent, or if it participates to serve and participate in the com­ the proceedings have begun, any individual, in the litigation, that member or agency may munity's affairs as private citizen Jim including the complainant, may ask in writ­ not participate in the consideration or deci­ Balentine. I know that everyone in ing to join the proceedings. This person sion of an appeal of that proceeding. Newark joins me in extending Jim need not have an attorney. 3. Consolidating cases-The judge may After a citation is i~sued and responded order a group of cases which relate to the wishes of success in his future endeavors. to, parties may engage in prehearing activi­ same problem to be consolidated and heard Success has certainly been the hallmark ties as in the courts. If a hearing is held, all together. The A&TBCB is concerned that a of his time spent in service of Newark.• parties have the opportunity to make their just and inexpensive determination of cases views known in writing, present and cross­ be made without unnecessary delay. examine witnesses, and submit evidence to 4. Post -order proceedings-When any party AIRLINE REGULATORY REFORM support their claims. To prove a violation believes corrections ordered by the court have of t he Architect ural Barriers Act, it must be been made, the party may ask the A&TBCB to LEGISLATION shown that the standards required by that remove the sanction. All parties will be sent act have not been complied with. a copy of the request and may comment for L. Official transcripts are made of all A&TB or against it. In the same manner as the HON. STEPHEN NEAL CB hearings. The law judge may also direct, original compliance hearing, a judge's pre­ OF NORTH CAROLINA in addition to the hearing, t hat the parties liminary decision on any post-order proceed­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES file briefs and proposed findings. The judge ings becomes final if it is not appealed to the will set the time for such filings, but they A&TBCB. Wednesday, March 15, 1978 must be submitted within 30 days after all 5. Documents-The A&TBCB has estab­ • Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, as the Con­ parties receive a transcript of the hearings. lished a docket file where all required docu­ gress continues to discuss the proposed Such filings, like the transcripts, become a ments (except the complainant's name) are airline regulatory reform legislation, I part of the permanent case record. available for public inspection. Documents think it would be wise for us to consider Based on the record, the judge will issue are served on individual parties by certified comments on this issue from the State a recommended decision and include find­ mail or by hand delivery.e ings of fact and conclusions of law. Such a level. decision may recommend action to be taken The North Carolina Aeronautics Coun­ by an agency and may contain such terms, cil has recently endorsed a position paper conditions, and other provisions to ensure TRIBUTE TO MAYOR JAMES by the State's department of transpor­ that the intent of the Architectural Barriers BALENTINE tation concerning airline regulatory re­ Ac t is met. As an example, the judge may is­ form. I think the paper sets forth a sue a decision that a particular federally fi­ commonsense approach which seeks to nanced building: (a) was designed and built after the effective date of the Archit ectural HON. DON EDWARDS eliminate unnecessary regulations and Barriers Act; ( b) is covered by the act; ( c) OF CALIFORNIA economic restrictions while maintaining that specific sections of the applicable stand­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRF.sENTATIVES the present high standards of safety and ards have not been complied with ; (d) does service. not therefore comply with the standards is­ Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Our ultimate airline regulatory reform sued under the Architectural Barriers Act. e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. goal should be the improvement of serv­ The judge may direct that specific remedial Speaker, I want to bring to my col­ ices to the consumer. The main thrust of action to be taken within a spzcified period of time. If it isn't, the judge may recom­ leagues' attention the outstanding rec­ such reform, I think, should be prudent mend that Federal funds be suspended or ord of community involvement and and reasonable, as outlined in the North withheld. support of Mayor Jim Balentine of the Carolina Department of Transportation's Copies of the judge's decision are given to city of Newark. Jim has been serving position paper. I would like to commend all parties including the original com­ the residents of Newark for over 20 years, it to the attention of my colleagues: plainant, even if the complainant did not first as a police officer, then as a parks DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, participate in the proceedings. The judge's and recreation commissioner and city Raleigh, N.C., February 15, 1978. recommendation become<; a final decision un­ councilman. In 1972 Jim became the first NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTA­ less appealed to the A&TBCB within 14 days. directly elected mayor for the city and TION POSITION OF AIRLINE REGULATORY RE­ If it is appealed, the A&TBCB must make its has held that post since then. FORM final decision based on the administrative law judge's entire record and any added legal Newark has thrived during Jim Balen­ The North Carolina Department of Trans­ briefs that may be required of the parties. tine's tenure of service and much of the portation has encourage,d and supported the development of a safe and efficient system of The decision of the A&TBCB is binding on credit must be given this extraordinary public servant. Many millions of dollars airports and airways, and the furtherance of all Federal agencies. The Rehabilitation Act air c:,mmerce in order to extend the benefits of 1973, which established the A&TBCB, does of commercial and industrial develop­ of a highly mobile and efficient air trans­ not allow Federal agencies to appeal to the ment has taken place in Newark, capped portation system to North Carolina's citizens courts. However, a complainant, Federal by development of a regional shopping and businesses. The Department strives contractor, grantee, or lessor of a federally center of over 1 million square feet. All through funding, promotional efforts, and financed building may seek judicial review of an A&TBCB opinion. of the development has been marked by <-echnical assistance to develop existing air­ excellent planning and balance as evi­ ports to their fullest justifiable potential, Other features of the A&TBCB rules: denced by a city-wide system of parks to stimulate the construction of new air­ 1. Provisional expedited relief (PER)­ comprised of over 100 acres of land. ports in desirable locations, and to tncrease When the executive director knows that im­ Perhaps Jim's greatest contribution to the delivery of air transportation sei"Vices to mediate and irreparable damage will occur North Carolina by airlines, charter operators, because of noncompliance with the stand­ the people though has been as an advo­ fixed base operators, and other aviation serv­ ards of the Architectural Barriers Act, he may cate of Newark's interest outside the ice organizations. In witness thereto, the De­ issue a citation asking that provisional ex­ city. His strong determination and un­ partment has obligated close to $9,000,000 pedited relief be ordered by the judge. In ceasing personal effort played large roles since 1974 for development of the air trans­ such situations there will be a hearing before in securing funds for replacement of the portation system in North Carolina. 7080 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 All of the Department's efforts are aimed at acutely aware of the crisis in energy this in the international community where seeing that North Carolina benefits from a country faces. While we debate the vari­ human rights are not ignored. safe balanced multi-modal transportation ous proposals before us, however, there The South Florida Conference on So­ system which meets the needs of her people viet Jewry has informed me that over and her economy. Accordingly, the controver­ are many fine groups across the country sial subject of Airline Regulatory Reform has who are taking an active interest in ex­ 600 people in Miami, including Mhmi been thoroughly studied. ploring the vast alternatives in energy Mayor Maurice Ferre, are participating The Department supports the principles of that could help us meet the crisis. in a 1-day hunger strike to commemo­ regulatory reform that will remove artificial I would like to take this opportunity rate the 1-year anniversary of Anatoli and unnecessary regulations and economic to inform the Congress that my alma Scharansky's arrest. our thoughts and restraints, thereby encouraging increased ef­ mater, William Jewell College, of Lib­ prayers and efforts for Scharansky _will ficiency in the airline industry, and at the not cease until he is free and reumted same time providing consumers better air erty, Mo., is sponsoring an "Energy transportation services at lower costs while Conservation Week," on March 21-23, with his family. maintaining the present high level of safety. 1978. During this period, the William I would also like to share with you a However, reform must be reasonable, and not Jewell student senate and the physical resolution adopted by the Board of bring about sudden change and instability plant ctepartment have organized semi­ county Commissioners of Dade County, to a successful industry. Reform legislation nars on such topics as solar heating, Fla., on February 15, 1978, urging the should be enacted as soon as feasible so that heat pumps, insulation, and general con­ President and Congress to use their per­ the airlin~. labor, and banking institutipns servation. suasive powers to bring an end to the may set cltar future objectives, and the fi­ harassment of Soviet Union to grant nancing commitments for extensive new­ These actions show that William Anatoli Scharansky immediate freedom generation equipment acquisitions may be Jewell College is taking the challenge and recognition of his right to emigrate. made in a stable statutory climate. of energy seriously. In addition, student The Department favors reform which fos­ and faculty are taking steps to reduce (From The Vigil, September, 1977) ters the introduction of prudent price com­ wasted consumption of natural gas, STATEMENT OF DINA BEILINA petition and expedited market entry. Rou­ gasoline, water, and electricity. It is almost impossible to testify in a case tine cases before the Civil Aeronautics Board that ls kept in utmost secrecy. But I would should be processed in an expeditious man­ It is with personal pride that I rec­ like to state the facts that may prove useful ner with a maximum time deadline set for ognize the efforts of William Jewell Col­ for Anatoly Scharansky's defense, as well as the consideration of all cases. The legislation lege. I further urge all my colleagues to for disproving the accusations, whatever they should call for a phased approach and an join me in listening to, and learning are, which I consider absurd regardless of the adequate transition period and should pre­ from, the many Americans who are manner in which they are stated. clude ruinous competition between the trunk seriously exploring ways to conserve our My name is Dina Beilina. I am 38. In 1972, and regional carriers. my family and I were refused exit visas to The Department continues to encourage precious resources.• Israel. The denial was motivated by reasons adequate air i:ervice for small communities. of "state security." Yet, the reasons have It has placed high priority on airport de­ changed frequently, and to this day I am not velopment at small community airports hav­ FIRST-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF aware of the actual reason why I am not al­ ing scheduled a.tr service, be it 2nd or 3rd ANATOL! SCHARANSKY'S ARREST lowed to emigrate. I am a. cybernetics engi­ level air carriers. The Department worked neer. closely with Wheeler Airlines (a Raleigh My husband and I met Ana.toll Scharansky based commuter) and the Coastal Plains HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN in 1973. After the departure of Alexander Regional Commission to provide technical as­ OF FLORIDA Goldfarb, who now resides in Israel, Ana.toll sistance for commuter service to the Eastern IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES took upon himself the difficult task of being part of the State. The Department is current­ the translator for the refuseniks. He fre­ ly conducting a. "Small Community Air Serv­ Tuesday, March 14, 1978 quently had to communicate the facts per­ ice Study" within the State which will pro­ • Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, today taining to persecution of Jews wanting to vide valuable information for air transpor­ exercise their right to emigrate to Israel to tation companies operating in the State. marks the first-year anniversary of all those interested in our condition, includ­ The Department considers that service to Anatoli Scharansky's arrest and isolated ing the foreign correspondents in Moscow. the majority of small communities can be incarceration in Moscow awaiting trial Quiet, modest, of medium height, wearing a. provided in a cost-effective, energy-efficient on charges of treason. The arrest of torn jacket in which he was arrested four manner by commuter/ feeder airlines or by Anatoli Scharansky and the denial of his years later, Ana.toll said "I'll try." Since then an "Alleghany Commuter" style of operation. right to counsel with family or friends he had become our translator at all press Such a third level air carrier operation must and to a lawyer of his choice is the kind conferences, and meetings with religious be fully recognized as part of the National leaders and politicians interested in the con­ Air Transportation system. Voluntary, modi­ of harassment which has resulted from ditions of emigration from the Soviet Union. fied certification by the Civil Aeronautics his desire to emigrate from the Soviet Moreover, Ana.toll had devoted his mind, his Board (CAB) for this third level of air car­ Union to Israel. Anatoli's arrest and im­ energy and kindness to all those who, like riers with appropriate route protection, joint prisonment is an example of how Jewish himself, were persecuted for their intentions fare privileges, guaranteed loans for modern­ dissidents and others who actively resist to emigrate. He took part in drafting the re­ izing equipment, and simplified reporting the Soviet Union's violations of the Hel­ views characterizing the problem of emigra­ procedures are essential to the further devel­ tion, the reviews which we wrote every six opment of such a system. Legislation must sinki Accord are treated. months, and in which we informed our allow for eased entry of new service points I have recently been informed by my friends about the lawlessness of the Soviet to be served by third level air carriers, points constituents in South Florida that Dina emigration policy, persecution of Jews con­ which should be eligible for subsidy. Beilina, an active dissident and one ()f ducted within as well as outside of the court­ In summary, the North Carolina Depart­ rooms, persecutions imposed upon them ment of Transportation believes that the the strongest witnesses who would give solely for their desire to emigrate. United States' system of airlines has done a strong testimony in defense of Anatoli Anatoli frequently traveled to other cities good job in providing air transportation serv­ at his trial, has now been ordered to where he met with Jews, attempting to aid ices. However, the system can be improved leave the Soviet Unio~ . Her application to them and give details of their condition to through moderate regulatory reform to bene­ emigrate to Israel was first made 6 years all those whose help could be ct ,mted on. He fit both the consumer and the air transpor­ understood that without such flow of in­ tation companies.e ago, and she now has 2 weeks to leave formation we would again turn into the Jews the Soviet Union. Dina Beilina 1s, there­ of Silence, and he did all he could to publi­ fore, prevented from giving testimony in cize the problems of emigration and its han­ ENERGY CONSERVATION WEEK AT defense of Anatoli at his trial. I, there­ dling. As a translator for American lawyers WIILIAM JEWELL COLLEGE interested in specific cases of Prisoners of fore, would like to take this opportunity Conscience, he accompanied them to the to make public her statement in riefense courts, offices of defenders and prosecutors, HON. E. THOMAS COLEMAN of Anatoli Scharansky, which appeared particularly in the cases of Nashpitz, Tist­ in the September, 1977 issue of The Vigil, lionak, Roitburd, Stern. and Zavurov. OF MISSOURI It was with his aid that the press con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a publication of the Washington Com­ mittee for Soviet Jewry. Dina Beilina ference for Babi Yar was organized. Ba.bi Yar Wednesday, March 15, 1978 ic; the place of mass murder of Jews during may be forced to remain silent in the Sc­ world War II. For many years the grounds e Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. Speaker, the viet Union but her defense of Anatoli were vacant, but subsequently the authori­ Congress and the American people are Scharansky will not be doomed to silence ties erected a monument, the inscription on March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7081 which in no way reminds one of the tragedy Jewish refuseniks, as well as my own, were Soviet Jews and to allow all Soviet Jews to suffered by the Jews. Refuseniks who want searched. The protocol of violations of the exercise their right to emigrate. to conduct mourning services in accordance Criminal Procedural Code did not describe Section 2. That this Board urges the appro­ with Jewish traditions, are usually not ad­ all the confiscated papers, but said, for in­ priate officials of the Soviet Union to grant mitted to the monument. There Anatoly was stance, " three pages of addresses, five files the immediate freedom and the right to arrested and warned that he will get into of papers." The typewriters were confiscated, emigrate and be reunited with his wife to trouble unless he stops his activities. The not just sealed, as the law requires. So this Anatoly Scha.ransky as guaranteed by the second warning of this kind he received as provides a lot of leeway for those preparing Helsinki Accord, 1975; and that if the Soviet a result of his participation in peaceful dem­ any case. Also searched was the apartment authorities bring Anatoly Scharansky to onstrations aimed at improving the condi­ which Lipavsky rented in Moscow. (He previ­ trial, that he be given an open and public tions of the Prisoners of Conscience. For ously lived elsewhere. He told us that he trial, and that prominent representatives of participation in these demonstrations, moved because he wanted to live in the cen­ major Bar associations and of the Criminal Scharansky served four fifteen-day Jail terms. ter of events and to work night and day for Bar of the United States be permitted to be He was warned that his activity would lead the benefit of Aliyah.) He invited Scharansky present throughout the trial of Anatoly to a long Jail term. A reason, they said, would to move in with him, but I and others pro­ Scharansky.e be found. Anatoly never did anything illegal, tested, because it would not be wise for and he considered it impossible to keep quiet. Scharansky who was constantly followed to Brilliant, and having perfect command of live in someone else's house without regis­ English, Scharansky helped us write com­ tration. We were afraid of provocations like TURKISH VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN plaints a.bout the lawlessness with which the ones carried out in the case of Alexander emigration matters are being treated. His Ginzburg. I said, "If you live with one of us, RIGHTS presentations at the seminars in Dr. Lerner's then the responsibility will rest with us, and apartments were outstanding and we shall it would not make sense for the authorities forever remember his report about the En­ to plant evidence:· HON. NEWTON I. STEERS, JR. tebbe raid-a report that ended with an Scharansky lived at the apartment of Vladi­ OF MARYLAND ovation. mir Slepak and it was there that he was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The clouds over Scharansky began to arrested. Hit on the back, he was shoved into mount. First, t he magazine New Times, the a car by six agents, who were probably trying Wednesday, March 15, 1978 newspaper Voice of the Motherland, a T.V. to avoid showing the arrest warrant. It was • Mr. STEERS. Mr. Speaker, this year, film Traders of Souls, characterized him as a only on May 30, that his seventy-year old the House will be considering the ques­ hooligan who is capable of everything, even mother had learned that he was being ac­ tion of foreign assistance to Turkey. At a fist fight; and later as a "soldier of Zion­ cused of violating Article 64A. ism." "I'm growing," he said Jokingly. But By now everyone has probably learned who the base of this debate is the question all of us, and Anatoly especially, fully under­ and what Lipavsky is. I would like to give of whether or not the human rights rec­ stood that anything could happen. one example that disturbed me very much. ord of Turkey has improved. In the summer of 1975, the Group of As­ Lipavsky would make daily visits to Professor A constituent of mine, Mr. George sistance to the Soviet Implementation of Lerner and his wife, who had suffered from Spring, has sent me an interesting arti­ the Helsinki Agreement was formed in Mos­ a serious hypertension crisis at the end of cle on this very subject that I would like cow. Anatoly had Joined the group. He con­ February. He measured their blood pressure, to insert into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD sidered the Helsinki Agreement an important gave them shots. He then signed a letter in for the benefit of my colleagues. development that could change decisively the newspaper that he well knew he could the Soviet treatment of the matter of emiga­ kill unsuspecting seriously ill people. And A "DELIBERATE WHITEWASH" ON HUMAN tion. this man will be a. witness against Anatoly? RIGHTS IN TURKEY He took part in drafting the documents of On the day Lipavsky's letter was printed (By Jack Anderson) that group, such as the one about violation in Izvestia, we didn't know which one of us The Carter administration is so worried of our telephone and mail communications, would be arrested. But all of us, including about declining Turkish military power that a.bout lawlessness surrounding matters of Anatoly, made statements that we would not it has falsified its report on human rights emigration. take part in this case even after arrest, for practices in Turkey and has portrayed the In November 1976 the authorities began to we consider this case a reprisal, and only in country as a virtual human rights paradise. prepare a case against him under charges of open proceedings, if such are allowed, would The false account, part of the State De­ parasitism, similar to the one brought against we give testimony. Moscow, July 10, 1977. partment's "Country Reports on Human Joseph Begun. Despite testimony that Rights Practices," was delivered to Congress Ana.toly made a living by giving lessons in several weeks ago. The department claimed English and Physics (I also testified since RESOLUTION URGING THE PRESIDENT AND THE it had little "conclusive proof" or "signifi­ he gave my daughter lessons in Physics) . the UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO USE PERSUASIVE cant evidence" to support allegations of authorities refused to register him as a pri­ POWERS To BRING AN END TO THE HARASS­ human rights abuses in Turkey. vate instructor and only because Professor MENT OF SOVIET JEWS; AND URGING THE A more enigmatic statement, worthy of Maiman managed to engage him as a private APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OF THE SOVIET UNION master diplomat Henry Kissinger, was issued secretary was he saved from prison. To GRANT THE IMMEDIATE FREEDOM AND on Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus. Scharansky was subjected to uninterrupted ·RIGHT To EMIGRATE TO ANATOLY SCHARAN­ Human rights questions in Cyprus, stated surveillance. In October 1976, tt had become SKY the report, "cannot be treated in isolation demonstrative. I suggested that Ana.toly write Whereas, Jews in the Soviet Union are from political considerations." an open letter describing this fact. He re­ subjected to harassment and imprisonment These conclusions are disptued by the fused saying that there are others whose when they attempt to exercise their basic State Department's own files, which contain situation is worse and that there is no need human and legal rights as guaranteed under abundant evidence of the harsh treatment to call attention to his case and divert at­ the Constitution of the USSR and the Uni­ of minority groups and political prisoners. tention from them. versal Declaration of Human Rights, ratified Indeed, the Turks have a reputation for bru­ Many foreigners had seen the KGB agents by the Soviet Union; and tality, which makes them fierce fighters and sleeping under the door of Slepak's apart­ Whereas, Jews in the Soviet Union are cruel Jailers. ment. The KGB had kept an eye on Slepak being denied their rights to emigrate and be American citizens, who have had the mis­ night and day. Anatoly slept at Slepak's reunited with their families, a right guar­ ~partment. fortune of landing in a Turkish lockup, have anteed to them by the Helsinki Accord, 1975; told of vicious beatings. A favorite Turkish The reason for my writing this in detail is and torture is to batter the soles of a. prisoner's that Anatoly is most likely being accused of Whereas, trials continue to be staged feet with truncheons, which causes excruci­ espionage. Try to imagine a man who is be­ against Soviet Jews who have attempted to ating pain and leaves him unable to walk. ing watched by agents; who lives in a bugged live full Jewish lives in the Soviet Union or The Greek government, taking exception apartment; who lives in apartments which who have applied to emigrate to Israel; and to the State Department's fa.try tale, lodged are searched without warrant or warning; Whereas, Anatoly Scharansky is being formal protests both in Athens and Wash­ who communicates only with others in a held on unspecified charges without adducing ington. And Cypriot Ambassador Ntcos position similar to his-and you will see that any evidence that might indicate complicity Dimitriou marched into the State Depart­ under such conditions a spy cannot possibly exist. Ordinary Soviet people are afraid to in criminal acts, and without access to legal ment and indignantly delivered an official even walk up to people like Ana.toly Scha.ra.n­ counsel and without trial, letter of protest. sky, to say nothing of talking to him a.bout Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board The official view of human rights in Tur­ classified matters. It is also common knowl­ of County Commissioners of Dade County, key, insiders suspect, ls a deliberate white­ edge that it is he who talks and not he who Florida: wash intended to tip-toe around Turkish listens that is responsible for giving of in­ Section 1. That this Board respectfully re­ sensitivities. The Turks a.re stlll smarting formation. It is not a recipient of such infor­ quests and urges the President and Congress from an arms embargo imposed by Congress mation that must be brought to trial. of the United States to use persuasive powers after Turkish troops invaded Cyprus witb ·0n March 4. 1977. the apartments of five to end the harassment and imprisonment of U.S. weapons. 7082 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 The Turks retaliated by closing U.S. in­ space to recount, that the State Department the Air Force Academy should be read in telligence installations in their country. deliberately deceived congress about human their full context to appreciate the co­ These electronic listening posts monitored rights in Turkey. gency of his call for a new approach to Soviet missile tests and military maneuvers. Footnote: A spokesman for the Turkish an increasingly urgent problem. I com­ At Sinop on the Black Sea, for example, so­ embassy said his government would prefer to phisticated radar devices could zoom directly eschew "polemics" and discuss "issues" in­ mend them to the attention of the Con­ on Soviet missile launch sites. stead. Turkish authorities, he said, do not gress, the Executive, and all citizens con­ At the time the bases were closed, intelli­ want to expel the Greek Orthodox Church cerned about the present and future gence sources claimed they were responsible from Istanbul, and they do not tax the health of the American people. for about a fourth of the clandestine infor­ church illegally. With respect to passports, I insert the remarks of the chairman mation gathered about Soviet military activi­ the spokesman said that all Turkish citizens of the Senate Subcommittee on Health ties. American technology and ingenuity, are limited to a single trip out of the country at this point in the RECORD. however, have produced substitutes for most every two years, in order to conserve "hard of t he Turkish installations. currency." He also claimed that the Turkish REMARKS OF SENATOR EDWARD M . KENNEDY Far more important, in the Pentagon's minority in Greece is harshly treated. I am pleased to be able to join you here view, is Turkey's role as the Mediterranean today at this symposium on risk-benefit anal­ anchor of the NATO alliance. One worried ysis in the area of health care. And I am general told us: "The big question is whether especially pleased to find a distinguished they can perform their NATO responsibilities RISK/ BENEFIT DECISIONS AND THE group like this, under the auspices of the without military aid. We get a real buy with PUBLIC HEALTH FDA, grappling with a subject which is of the Turks. Give them a few weapons, and you great importance to the public health and buy a bunch of divisions. They've got the which is becoming more current and con­ manpower, and they proved they could use HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN troversial with each passing year. it in the Korean War." OF OHIO You have available at this conference the Our sources say that President Carter has main ingredients for dealing with a complex adopted the military view. He has been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES issue of great public value. You have fine strongly influenced by the joint chiefs, who leadership from Don Kennedy of FDA and meet with him frequently. In fact, the Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Doug Costle of FPA. You have a distinguished president recently boasted to his Cabinet group of participating scientists and analysts. behind closed doors that he "has generated e Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, 6 And you also have the additional ingredients a compatibility among the strategic planners years ago, the Committee on Govern­ of distance from Washington and the fine, of our government unknown in former ment Operations issued a report on the cool mountain air of this outstanding set­ administrations." regulation of food additives. particularly ting. He reportedly is preparing, therefore, to nitrites and nitrates, under the Food, With these advantages already in place, ask Congress to approve the $I-billion de­ Drug and Cosmetic Act. I am confident that your deliberations will fense agreement that was signed in 1976 help promote our understanding of more between Turkey and the United States. The As a member of that committee, I sub­ effective ways in which we can use risk/ State Department soft-pedaled Turkish hu­ mitted additional views relating to the benefit analysis to improve the public health. man rights abuses, our sources say, to avoid arbitrary effect of the Delaney clause on Especially at this time of growing challenge irritating a Congress that is already sympa­ the Federal Government's efforts to pro­ to the traditional techniques of govern­ thetic to the Greek and Cypriot causes. tect the public health and safeguard the mental regulation, the effective application In any event, the human rights reports on Nation's food supply. of such analysis is essential 1f we are to Turkey simply do not reflect the truth. Par­ preserve the proper balance between free ticularly galling to the Greeks is the state­ In those additional views, I specifically competition and wise regulation in sensi­ ment that " there does not appear to be any addressed myself to the need for a risk/ tive areas like health care. official discrimination against individuals benefit trade-off, rather than an arbi­ I also detect a sense of urgency about belonging to minority groups" and that they trary approach, to complex scientific and this symposh.: m that has been missing for enjoy, among other rights, "freedom of technological questions affecting our food too long in discussions of this type. I speak worship." supply. To quote brieflv from the views now as an elected official and as chairman There has been a. history of religious dis­ I expressed in that August 1972 commit­ of a Senate Subcommittee whose prime re­ crimination against the Greek Orthodox sponsibility is the protection of the health of Church in Turkey. The best evidence can be tee report: our citizens. I deal daily with the political found in the statistics: the Greek Orthodox We all want to assure that the food people consequences of regulation and the people population in Turkey has dwindled from eat will not harm them. And, insofar as it is it affects. I am concerned that our regula­ 111,700 in 1924 to 13,500 today. A confidential posible, government should assure this. But tory health authorities are growing more diplomatic document, reporting on the op­ it must be recognized that absolute guar­ and more distant from the people. Our cit­ pression of Greeks in Turkey, cites these antees may not always be possible-and for izens no longer fully understand or trust flagrant abuses: something as big, pervasive and powerful as the agencies created by Congress to pro­ A deliberate campaign of harassment has the Federal Government-in an area where, tect their health. And these negative de­ been reported against Greek Orthodox clerics surprisingly, so little is scientifically prov­ velopments come at a time when the num­ in Istanbul, the very city where the head able. ber of preventable threats to the public of the church traditionally resides. Greek health is growing larger each day. religious leaders have been denied passports In view of my position on this issue, it was with considerable interest that I re­ Our major challenge-yours and mine­ to travel abroad, even for pressing personal is to enhance their strengths and eliminate reasons. Editorials in the Turkish press have cently read the remarks of the chairman the weaknesses of these agencies and their railed against the church. Following one of the Senate Health Subcommittee on missions. Part of the challenge is to perfect series of articles. demonstrators laid a "black the need for a Government approach to the methodology of risk/ benefit analysis, wreath on which were pinned slogans asking these problems based on a realistic ap­ so that regulatory decisions of the FDA, for the expulsion of the [Greek Orthodox) praisal of the limitations of existing Fed­ EPA, and other agencies can more accurate­ Patriarchate from Turkey." eral operations in the health field. ly reflect our public goals. The challenge Turkish authorities are cracking down on In an address delivered February 15, also requires us to do more to educate the Greek minority schools. Teaching of the public about regulation and its limits, and Greek language has been "severely curtail­ 1978, at the Food and Drug Administra­ to involve the public more directly in the ed," and Turkish official have refused to tion symposium on ''Risk/ Benefit Deci­ regulatory process. appoint principals to Greek high schools. All sions and the Public Health." Senator I need hardly remind this audience of repair requests in excess of $15 were refused KENNEDY made a major contribution to­ certain facts that underlie the regulatory last year. And the Turks have begun assess­ ward moving Government policy on this dilemmas we face today. We live in an ing heavy taxes on Greek schools, though said: expanding sea. of man-made chemicals­ they are owned by charity institutions, whlch drugs, food additives, industrial chemicals, are supposed to be tax-exempt. We must begin educating the public to the reality that there is no such thing as abso­ and pesticides. Last year, Turkish officials began "the close American industry manufactures 70,000 lute safety. Regulation can never completely surveillance of persons who visit the Greek chemicals a year. One to two thousand new General Consulate in Istanbul" and "sys­ and totally protect the public. Large seg­ chemicals enter the market annually. An tematically ask for [their) identity cards." ments of the American public already accept average auto worker is exposed each day to Leaders in the Greek Orthodox minority this fact. But it is time for persons in posi­ between 100 and 500 different chemicals. have also begun to "receive anonymous let­ tions of leadership to strengthen this under­ we know that some of these substances ters. threatening the property and lives of standing with more candid discussion of the are dangerous. Six million Americans are the recipients and conta.in!ng demands for limits of regulation. regularly exposed in the workplace to chem­ ransom." Senator KENNEDY'S complete remarks icals known to have caused cancer in ani­ There is other evidence, which we lack the delivered at this FDA symposium held at mals. One million Americans have been ex- March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7083 posed to asbestos, of whom 200,000 may die speak of banning saccharin, when medical absolute safety. Regulation can never com­ of lung cancer. Approximately two mlllion opinion is widely split on whether it may pletely and totally protect the public. Large Americans are regularly exposed to benzene. confer potential health benefits. segments of the American public already which has now been demonstrated to be a And we quite appropriately restrict the accept this fact. But it is time for persons in very potent carcinogen. use of laetrile, even for patients dying with positions of leadership to strengthen this But clearly, these cases are only the tip of known cancer. But we allow millions of understanding with more candid discussion the iceberg. The real or potential dangers of healthy Americans to be unwittingly exposed of the limits of regulation. these myriad substances may not be known to a pesticide like toxaphene, which clearly This approach does not mean we should until we have much more information­ causes cancer in animals. leave open the chemical flood-gates and let whose collection may take years or even In most cases, these inconsistencies are not Americans drift in the rising flood of toxic generations. exclusively the fault of regulators. They also substances. We should give the benefit of the I am reminded of a story which Dr. Irving reflect the contradictory mandates and in­ doubt to the public. The burden of proof Selikoff told last spring before our Heal th consistencies in regulatory law, which in turn should be on those who profit from the sale Subcommittee. When cigarette smoking was are often the product of pressures by special of chemicals to show that their distribution first becoming widespread, a physician asked interest groups that are capable of swamping and use should be permitted. a distinguished cancer expert whether the the public interest. Congress has a special But we must be honest in discussing the practice worried him. Not at all, the expert responsibility to review these laws to ensure limits of our current resources and tech­ replied. Cigarette smoking would reduce the they reflect the public's wishes. We cannot niques. Risk/ benefit analysis is, after all, an smoking of clay pipes. And the smoking of tolerate a situation in which inconsistent imperfect art. Its application will necessarily clay pipes was known to cause cancer of the regulatory actions heighten the public's prove fallible. But the American people will lip! confusion and skepticism. accept this result and be more tolerant and It took more than twenty years of massive With all these problems, it is no surprise supportive of regulation, as long as they experimentation with cigarettes on an un­ that America's public faith in government understand the basis on which the decisions witting American public to demonstrate that regulation is strained to the breaking point. have been reached. society was the loser in that trade-off. Our private capacity to generate hazards to Perhaps our greatest national resource is Whether we are now losing on a comparable health has outstripped our public ability to the informed common sense of the American scale on any other substances remains to be evaluate and control the hazards. people. Inevitably, we shall encounter situa­ seen. One step we can take to deal with this tions in which the known risks and benefits The problem is clear, but the solution is deteriorating situation is to commit more re­ of substances are closely balanced. When much less so. The American people have sources to perfecting the methodology of risk these situations occur, and when citizens can reacted by giving the Federal government benefit analysis. In particular, we need more control their own exposure to such sub­ a mandate to screen chemicals for hazards, research aimed at improving our ability to stances. the correct approach is to inform and to regulate their distribution and use as evaluate the risks of chemicals. We must the public about the nature of the risks and drugs, food additives, or industrial chemicals. reduce the uncertainty involved in these risk benefits, and to let them make their own But this is only half the answer. For we assessments, and we must make these assess­ decisions about exposing themselves to the lack both the money and the manpower to ments cheaper and faster. chemicals involved. test all these man-made substances for all In particular, we need to devote more re­ Americans are ready for this responsibility. their possible consequences. Even if we could In fact, they are demanding it, as the lesson sources to perfecting alternatives to animal of the saccharin controversy now makes test all these substances, a vailable method­ testing as a mean of assessing the toxic po­ ologies could not tell us with certainty which clear. A recent poll showed that 76 percent ten til or chemicals. This work goes on now of Americans continue to oppose a ban on are dangerous to humans and which are at the Cancer Institute, at the FDA, at the not. And even among the dangerous com­ saccharin manufacture and that 77 percent EPA, and at the National Institute of Envi­ of those who use it plan to keep on doing so. pounds, we would not know precisely the ronmental Health Sciences. But it is research magnitude of the threat. By contrast, in the case of laetrile, the that needs better support and better coordi­ saccharin precedent does not apply. As pro­ This uncertainty is a central element in nation. the regulatory dilemma we face. It is diffi­ posed for use in cancer treatments, laetrile In the long term, research on risk and is a drug, and it should be held to the same cult to believe that cigarettes and asbestos benefit analysis wlll probably prove more im­ are unique in their enormous adverse pub­ strict tests of safety and effectiveness which portant than any other single step we can all prescription drugs are required to meet. lic effects. But which other chemicals will take to improve our capacity to protect the turn out to be the gross offenders? So far We should also remember that the popu­ public health through regulation. It is work lation using laetrile is an especially sensi­ we can only speculate. There is no such that will allow legislators and regulators to thing as a simple, straight-forward answer. tive group. Cancer patients are 111 with a speak with much greater confidence when dread disease. They are much more prone to But we face the alarming possibility that they warn of the hazards of a drug, a pes­ , ~g the enormous number of substances grasp at straws, and to choose a treatment ticide or a food additive. In this way, our without proven effectiveness, especially when that our highly industrialized society is research work will enhance the scientific spewing into the environment are some that the alternatives are as grim as chemotherapy credibility of our regulatory institutions. or surgery or radiation. As a result, these even now may be causing massive cancer But research is a long-term strategy. There '-epldemics for the current and future genera­ patients are entitled to a degree of regu­ tions of Americans. are also short-term solutions that are equally latory protection which the average Ameri­ important, but more difficult. The dilemma ls also complicated by our can may not require. One key element is to improve the way Informing the public, however, does not increasing technical ability to detect the regulatory agencies set priorities. It is clear presence of chemicals at smaller and smaller mean printing a few lines in the Federal concentrations. In our preset state of par­ that FDA, EPA and other regulatory institu­ Register, while manufacturers fill ~merica's tions do not have the people or the money tial knowledge, potential dangers are every­ living rooms with enticing advertisements to carry out the huge job assigned by current for potentially hazardous products. Regu­ where. but certain dangers are rare. We are law. in the impossible position of walking through lators must fight fire with fire. They must a minefield blindfolded, with the knowledge But it is not clear they are taking maxi­ start using the print and broadcast me~ia that the devices we trigger today may not ex­ mum advantage of the resources they now to inform the public in ways effective plode for many years, or even decades. have. Our regulators need to plan better. enough to make their message heard and Moreover. as science and technology ad­ They should publish and circulate more un­ understood. vance, there are increasing numbers of prod­ derstandable plans and priorities for dealing In doing so, they must show a creativity with the multiple chemical threats for which and ingenuity they have shown too seldom ucts and activities that pose potential in the past. They must make the esoteric threats to the public health. Recombinant they are responsible. This action will enable DNA is a case in point. them to carry out their missions more effec­ concept of risk and benefit analysis under­ standable to ordinary citizens by using terms For the first time in history, scientists tively. And it will enable Congress and the public to deal more effectively with the iso­ and images which relate to their daily lives. voluntarily ceased their work out of fear of This aspect of public education is essen­ potentially harmful effects of their work on lated chemical hazards so frequently reported in the media. tial to successful regulation in our increas­ public health. That issue has become a case ingly complex modern world. By this ap­ study of the pitfalls we encounter when Another key element in strengthening our proach, public education w111 become a way scientists and public officials trv to work to­ regulatory approach is improved public edu­ of involving citizens in regulatory decision­ gether to apply the risk / benefit calcnlation. cation. Unfortunately, public education is making. They will become partners in pro­ In large measure. this difficultv results from often seen today as a tired and meaningless tecting themselves from potential hazards. dealing with a novel scientific technioue concept. It is our responsibility to give it new we must also search for other ways to pro­ whose ultimate implications are probably life and content. Public understanding of the mote this public partnership. In particular, impossible to know at the present time. regulatory process has always been the cor­ we must find better ways of directly includ­ Even when we find that risks exist. how­ nerstone of successful regulation in the past, ing the public in regulatory decisions. ever. the federal government too often treats and it will be essential for the success we The Environmental Protection Agency has them inconsistently. On one hand, we sub­ hope to achieve in the future. considered experiments with public partici­ sidize tobacco-growing, and we ship tobacco We must begin educating the public to pation in its regulatory process, and the Na­ abroad as foreign aid. On another hand, we the reality that there is no such thing as tional Academy of Sciences recently made 7084 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 recommendations along these lines in its and Hungary became a wholly independ­ ing a.nd/or boarding homes, unfit for human study of EPA decision-ma.king. We cannot ent nation. habitation? There should be some mecha­ overestimate the importance of public par­ In celebrating Hungarian Independ­ nism set up, to monitor these home~. All of ticipation in regulation. these homes can't be bad but, the numbers ence Day, we honor the courage and are so great until it gives good homes a. ba.d It is increasingly clear to the average vision of those who led their people's name. I can testify to the condition and the American that there is a large dose of sub­ struggle for national freedom in the last deprivation of many of these places. jective judgment in the rules which pour century. More than that, we remember With additional funds, we would be able out of EPA, FDA, OSHA and other regula­ to have larger fa.c111ties to serve more people; tory agencies. Even under the best circum­ that spirit of patriotism which sustained Hungarians in every age and which has we would be able to reach more shut-ina stances, this subjectivity is inevitable. It re­ and home-bounds. flects the limits of risk/benefit analysis and flourished in our own time. The memo­ (Mrs.) ETHEL o. SMILEY, the realities of politics. It is nothing to ries of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 Executive Director.e apologize about. are still fresh and vivid in the hearts and But if decisions are subjective, then the minds of Hungarians, which is testimony process by which these decisions are made to their acute desire for real independ­ becomes of great importance. That process TAXES wm not be accepted as legitimate unless it ence. is open and understandable. And the way The Revolution of 1848, even as that to make it open and understa.ndable is to of 1956, aroused great sympathy in the HON. GEORGE M. O'BRIEN ensure that representatives of the public United States. Kossuth's visit in 1851 OF ILLINOIS have direct access to it. was a dramatic occasion for celebrating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Regulation has become one of the foun­ American support for Hungarian free­ dations of modern public health in the dom. Since that time countless thousands Wednesday, March 15, 1978 United States. The legitimacy and strength of Hungarians have come to America, • Mr. O'BRIEN. Mr. Speaker, it is time of FDA and EPA and other regulatory insti­ seeking larger liberties. Today, there are tutions a.re national health resources. They that we talk common sense about the deserve far greater emphasis and attention well over a million Hungarian-Ameri­ Carter administration's proposed tax by Congress a.nd the public than they have cans, whose contributions to our national cut. Similar to the old shell game where received in recent yea.rs. I look forward to the life are outstanding in every area of en­ the pea appears under one shell and then recommendations and suggestions of this deavor including science and industry, disappears, the tax cut proposal is like a symposium as a. useful step in meeting the music and the arts, journalism and clever shell game. The closer you look at growing challenge. And I also look forward entertainment. it, the trickier it appears. to working with you, a.s we build a. wiser and more effective future for our nation's Mr. Speaker, on this special day I join If the tax cut goes forward, we will system of public hea.lth.e with our fellow Americans of Hungarian see a reduction in some taxes but an in­ descent in celebrating the independence crease in-others. If we consider the grow­ that the great patriot, Louis Kossuth, ing problem of inflation, the hard-work­ helped establish. However, it should not ing taxpayer will be the loser again. THE 130TH ANNIVERSARY OF go unnoticed that the same Russian im­ This problem of the taxpayer and in­ HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENCE perialism that prevailed in 1849 is still flation has been highlighted in a recent present today and continues to oppress book published by the Heritage Founda­ the legitimate aspirations of the Hungar­ tion: "Indexing the Inflationary Impact HON. JOHN G. FARY ian people for real independence and to of Taxes: The Necessary Economic Re­ OF ILLINOIS be free of foreign domination. Let us form" by Dr. Donald J. Senese. Dr. Se­ pray that those noble aspirations are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nese describes how our present system realized one day soon.• allows the Federal Government to make Wednesday, March 15, 1978 a "profit" from inflation as the burden • Mr. FARY. Mr. Speaker, today marks increases on the individual taxpayer: the 130th anniversary of the Hungarian Inflation ha.s become a. factor which every Revolution of 1848, in which the people HEARINGS BY THE HOUSE SELECT taxpayer must take into consideration in his of Hungary rose up against the domina­ COMMITTEE ON AGING, DELA­ everyday lifestyle. Some of the implications WARE COUNTY, PA. a.re obvious-notably that a.n individual's tion of the Hapsburg Empire. Early in nominal or regular income must increase in March of that year, the great patriot order to continue to purchase the same leader, Louis Kossuth led the national HON. ROBERT W. EDGAR goods a.nd services. Most taxpayers a.re also demand for parliamentary government. OF PENNSYLVANIA a.ware that a.s they receive higher levels of income, they wm have to pay higher rates of Just a year before, national elections had IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES supported the movement for autonomy, taxation. Yet, it is not a.s frequently recog­ Wednesday, March 15, 1978 nized that a.s a. person's income increases to culminating the famous ten points, in­ match inflation, the person's ta.x burden in­ cluding responsible government, popular • Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, creases still faster a.nd thus income taxes representation, religious liberty, aboli­ March 3, the Select Committee on Aging, take a.n increasingly larger share of the budg­ tion of serfdom, equality before the law represented by Congressmen MIKE et of the consumer taxpayer, even if real in­ and other principles basic to a free soci­ BLOUIN and DAVE EVANS, held field hear­ come remains constant or even declines. The ety. These were adopted by the deputies ings in my district to gather testimony taxpayer experiences the effects of a.n in­ regarding the Older Americans Act. I creased cost of living a.nd a. disproportionate of the Hungarian diet on March 15, 1848, increase in taxes a.s pa.rt of this increasing and they thereby became equivalent to a participated in these hearings which, in cost. Considering this major effect of infla­ constitution. my view, were quite productive. For the tion, a larger proportion of the national in­ Tragically, the new government was past few days I have inserted into the come ha.s been switched from the private to t.> be ruthlessly suppressed by invading RECORD portions of the testimony we re­ the public sector through increased govern­ armies, which occupied Budapest in ceived. The ninth section follows: ment revenues from ta.x collections. January of 1849. Resisting to the bitter BUNTING FRIENDSHIP FREEDOM HOUSE, INC., The author suggests that we consider end in the face of overwhelming odds, Darby, Pa. indexing our tax system in order to re­ the Hungarian diet proclaimed a republic move this "profit" from inflation for the in April, decting Kossuth as "governor­ THE HOUSE SELECT COMMIITEE ON AGING Government bureaucrats. president." The republic collapsed under The Bunting Friendship Freedom House, Inc., would like to go on record a.s stating The Carter administration's record on the combined assault of Austrian and that the Government is to be complimented spending, on inflation, and on these tax Russian troops, but Kossuth escaped. for a.t lea.st recognizing the plight of its older cuts will leave the poor taxpayer worse Nevertheless, the people's will for free­ Americans. we think it ha.s been a. long time off than ever. The individual will suffer dom lived on, and in 1867, only 16 years coming a.nd even now, we have only scratched and our whole economy will experience after the uprising, the constitution of the surface. Even though we are providing the result of this ill-conceived economic health screening, socialization, recreation, program. The ramifications of this pro­ 1848 was restored peacefully and Hun­ nutrious meals, nutrition information a.nd gary acquired responsible government. lawyers for the writing of wms for some gram was well illustrated in two edito­ After the First World War, the political people, how a.bout the thousands we a.re not rials which appeared in the Chicago union with the Hapsburg dynasty ended, reaching; some who a.re stored away in nurs- Tribune Commander.e attainment levels of the entire popula­ tion. Rather than being considered a cost to society, adult education expenditures FUNDING FOR ADULT EDUCATION are an investment in people. I look for­ INADEQUATE FUNDING LEVEL IN ward to the subcommittee appropriating ADMINISTRATION'S BUDGET RE­ the needed funds to continue adult edu­ QUEST FOR VETERANS' ADMIN­ HON. LOUIS FREY, JR. cation.• ISTRATION MEDICAL PROGRAM OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE 59TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE Wednesday, March 15, 1978 AMERICAN LEGION OF TEXAS • Mr. FREY. Mr. Speaker, in a time IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which is characterized by rapid and momentous changes, the Nation's adults HON. FRANK ANNUNZIO Wednesday, March 15, 1978 need improved access to appropriate OF ILLINOIS • Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, the na­ learning opportunities ; opportunities IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional commander of the Disabled Amer­ which will insure a higher quality of life Wednesday, March 15, 1978 ican Veterans has brought to my atten­ by enabling them to develop skills and tion again the inadequ~,te funding that attitudes necessary to cope with social, • Mr. ANNUNZIO. Mr. Speaker, 59 years the administration's fiscal year 1979 ago, the American Legion pledged: economic, and technological change. To promote peace and good will on earth; budget request contains for the Veter­ Today, the House Appropriations Sub­ to safeguard and transmit to posterity the ans' Administration's medical program. committee on Labor-HEW begins hear­ principles of justice, freedom and democracy, While I am very familiar with this in­ ings on education appropriations. Ade­ and to consecrate and sanctify our comrade­ adequate funding level, I thought each quate funding for adult education is ship b y our devotion to mutual helpfulness. Member would be interested in the re­ most essential. Today, the American Legion perpetu­ marks of the national commander, Oliver At a recent conference on adult liter­ E. Meadows. This gentleman, in my opin­ ates its founding pledge in its persever­ acy, the needs of adults for relevant and ance "For God and Country." On ion. is the most knowledgable individual pertinent earning opportunities were in this country when it comes to veter­ March 15, Legionnaires celebrate the an­ clearly outlined. Adults need opportuni­ niversary of their organization, which ans' benefits, services, and programs. The ties to develop skills that will enable letter to me is as follows : first met in Paris, France, on March 15, them to resolve increasingly complex life 1919, when delegates from the 1st Amer­ WASHINGTON , D .C., March 8, 1978. problems. They need experience that will Hon. OLIN E. TEAGUE, ican Expeditionary Force acknowledged U .S. House of Representatives, enable them to be contributors to a free that their responsibility to each other Washington, D.C. society rather than recipients of services and to their country's citizens did not DEAR CONGRESSMAN TEAGUE: As National such as welfare that are provided by that end with the signing of a treaty of peace. Commander of the Disabled American Vet­ society. They need opportunities to de­ The continuing dedication of the erans, representing the interests of over 2.6 velop an inquiring mind that is free of Legion to the adjustment of the veteran million service-connected disabled veterans, prejudice and is open to new ideas; op­ to civilian life, restoring his health and their dependents and survivors, I am com­ portunities to expand potential for eco­ usefulness to society, maintaining his pelled to bring to yo-..ir attention certain nomic and social contributions. dignity, and assuring the welfare of the glaring deficiencies contained in President veteran's widow and children is cele­ Carter's Fiscal Year 1979 budget request for Let us assume that a literate person the Veterans Administration. is one who can continue his or her edu­ brated with this commemoration of the The Administration request contains in­ cation, can retain a job, and effectively Legion's founding. The American Legion adequate proposed funding levels for several contend with or adapt to most of the has also performed outstanding service important veterans programs, however, my routine conditions of life and society­ to the veterans of our wars with its primary concern centers upon what I con­ in other words, a person with a reason­ sponsorship of the GI bill of rights and sider to be a callous, shameful disregard for ably good high school education. Recent the Korean GI bill. By serving the vet- 7088 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 eran in this way, the Legion serves all of was perhaps more noteworthy for what human rights to Marshal Tito, you will man­ America, for our men and women re­ was not accomplished than what was. ifest to the nations of the world that our government is not merely engaged in rhetoric turning to American communities from Despite the pleadings of a prestigious and propaganda but truly a policy of reaf­ military service face singular problems group of 16 clergymen from 10 cities to firmation of human dignity. and pressures. In addition, financial aid the President, he failed to even discuss We, the undersigned Clergymen, pray you, to former servicemen and women in­ with President Tito the fate of some Mr. President, will use Marshal Tito's visit creases their opportunities to contribute, 6,000 to 10,000 political prisoners in as the time to make your human rights dec­ in turn, to America. Yugoslavia. larations meaningful. While caring for veterans the Legion I consider this to be another extension Reverend Mladen Culvalo, Reverend Leon has not forgotten the veteran's children, of the selective application of this admin­ Galic, Reverend Ivan Bradvica, St. Cyril and Methodist Church, New York, New York for promoting child welfare legislation istration to its own human rights policy. 10036. benefits all children and, therefore, the To be effective it must be applied Reverend Celestin Raguz, Reverend Dionl­ Nation. Youth programs like American wherever and to whomever stands in vio­ zije Laslc, Reverend Kristijan Ban, Reverend Legion baseball have produced stars-­ lation of adherence to human rights Gracijan Raspudic, St. Anthony's Monastery, Musial and Spahn-while encouraging standards. Yugoslavia's incarceration of Chicago, Illinois. youth in good sportsmanship. The political prisoners, and the deprivations Reverend Peter Topic, Croatian Catholic American Legion sponsors thousands of of rights which occur in the prisons is Mission, San Joe, California. Boy Scout units and offers a cash schol­ worthy of our most serious concern and Reverend Stjepan Lackovic, Our Lady Queen of Croatian, La Cavana, New York. arship in the national high school ora­ criticism. Reverend Silvije Grubisic, Assumption torical contest. Such training and en­ Despite the fact that the President Church, Stilton, Pennsylvania. couragement i;1 American ideals multi­ missed a golden opportunity to approach Reverend Domonic Coric, Spiritual Direc­ plies the dividends resulting from these these issues with President Tito, I hope tor of Croatian Catholic Union, Getty, In­ investments in our country's youth. he will pursue this matter with Tito as diana. Mr. Speaker, an update of American soon as possible. We cannot overlook Reverend Felix Diomartic, Reverend Janko Legion activities in 1977 follows: the fact that Yugoslavia incarcerates Segaric, St. Anthony's Church, Los Angeles, California. In 1977 the American Legion continued the the highest percentage of political pris­ youth citizenship training programs it be­ oners per population than any other Reverend Anthony Cuva.lo, St. Jerome gan in the 1930's. Some 30,000 boys in all Communist nation including the U.S.S.R. Church, Detroit, Michigan. part s of the country participated in the I now wish to insert into the RECORD Reverend Castimir Majic, President of the Legion's Boys State programs, at a cost to the League of Croatian Priests for U.S. and the text of the mailgram sent by the 16 Canada, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Legion of $1.7 million. Two boys were se­ clergymen including 3 from St. Cyril lected at each state convention to partici­ Reverend John Juricek, St. Peter and Paul pat e in the Boys Nation convention held at and Methodist Church and St. Raphael's Church, Omaha, Nebraska.e the American University in Washington in Church. I also wish to acknowledge the July. The 19 ,000 girls who participated in work of a good friend Mr. Jules Somner the Girls State programs elected delegates to who himself is an ardent advocate for the Girls Nation convention, which was also human rights in Yugoslavia. ANNUAL LABOR MANAGEMENT held in Washington. CLERGY PRESS PRESIDENT CARTER TO URGE DINNER DANCE The American Legion, its Auxiliary, and MARSHAL TITO TO FREE 6,000 POLITICAL AND the Eight and Forty service organization of RELIGIOUS PRISONERS IN YUGO-SLAV JAILS the Auxiliary spent a record $14.6 million on The text of a plea to President Jimmy 6ar- HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN children and youth activities in 1977. ter by 16 Clergy from ten cities, to urge OF CALIFORNIA American Legion National Commander Marshal Tito to release 6,000 political and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Robert Charles Smith recently announced religious prisoners in at least 15 Yugo-slav that the Legion is in the process of organiz­ ja.lls, was made public today (Monday, Wednesday, March 15, 1978 ing what will be the first nationwide energy March 6th, 1978) as the 85-year-old Marshal • Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, the conservation program conducted by a grass­ Tito arrived in the nation's capital on a American Trade Union Council for Is­ roots, volunteer organization. The American State visit. Legion project takes a three-point approach, (Verbatim mailgram follows:) rael Histadrut will hold its Annual including energy conservation emergency Labor Management Dinner Dance on meetings at local Legion posts, establishing MARCH l, 1978. May 13, 1978, in Los Angeles. A most local Legion posts as energy information President JIMMY CARTER, happy and appropriate choice of the per­ clearing houses, and organizing a person-to­ The White House, son to be honored this year is Leonard person "help your neighbor" camnalgn in Washington, D .C. Levy. Devoting almost half a century to conjunction with other local organizations Mr. PRESIDENT: The State visit of Marshal the needs of working people, Leonard to assist the elderly and disabled. Tito of Yugoslavia. represents a unique golden opportunity to implement by deed Levy will be celebrating his 75th birth­ Mr. Speaker, after 59 years of vigorous your Administration's highly laudable goal day on the date of the event. The posi­ service in America. it is clear that to improve international human rights. tions he has held, and is holding, and his America still needs the American Legion In about 15 Yugoslavian jails, there ls es­ community activities have certainly with its continued and important civic timated to be 6,000 political and religious earned for him a place high on the list service for those who served their Na­ prisoners; the New York Times claims there of those who work for the betterment of tion in war, and I am honored to join the are 10,000. Yugoslavia incarcerates the high­ their fellow men and women. He is vice est percentage of political prisoners per pop­ president of the Amalgamated Clothing members of the American Legion in cele­ ulation that any other Communist nation, brating the 59th anniversary of their including the Soviet Union and China. and Textile Workers Uni.on, AFL--CIO; proud traditions. I commend the Legion­ We are not concerned primarily with the manager of the West Coast Regional naires of Illinois and our Nation for their political and military ramifications of Mar­ Joint Board and of the Southern Cali­ dedication to the ideals of our American shal Tito's State visit but foremost with the fornia Joint Board, ACTMU. In addi­ heritage, which they practice as a way notorious violations of human rights. In this tion, he has been a vice president of the of life, and extend my best wishes to short communication we cannot dwell at Los Angeles County Federation of Labor them as they go forward in greater serv­ length about 600 Catholic priests who were since 1957, and a member of the execu­ murdered ruthlessly; the late Cardinal tive board. Federac1on Interamericana ice to secure the blessings of liberty for Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb sentenced us an .• to 16 yeaJ"S; the over 2,000 Catholic priests de Trabajadores de la Industrial Textil, sentenced to from one to 20 years for their Vestuario y Cuero ak. There are twenty other simi­ pany, to continue, but barred such questioa­ lar big-city Catholic school situations around I am happy to note that the news re­ ing in the future. the country, varying only in size. ports emanating from last week's Fed­ A third proposal was aimed at ex- • • • rule I want to begin by thanking two o! your eral Reserve Board meeting plainly in­ on contract recission to open-ended credit members, Congressman Schulze and Con­ dicate that Chairman Miller is coming plans. The current rule provides that in any gressman Lederer, for encouraging me to down on the side of the consumer, in the closed-ended credit transaction in which a come here today. I am also gratified by the Federal Reserve's rulemaking under the security interest is taken in a consumers' support o! other legislators from our area, various consumer credit laws. principal residence, the consumer has three o! both parties. business days in which to rescind the trans­ Nevertheless, some of you may be puzzled Mr. Speaker, I hope that the new action. by my presence here today, since the matter Chairman will continue to maintain this "I think we may be opening a market we at issuf! is one of tax benefits to parents, not proconsumer stance even though at times don't want," Mr. Miller said as he sponsored to aid legislation for schools. he will find himself in a minority posi­ a successful move to have the proposal re­ Indeed, many leaders or religious schools tion on a Board that has never been re- turned to the staff for further study. hesitate to appear here for fear or con!us- March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7091 lng the real issue; whether, when parents in his treatise "On Taxes" : "Exorbitant taxes, dren in Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese exercise their free choice in the education like extreme necessity, destroy industry by of Philadelphia, I endorse a.nd support the of their children, public policy should en­ producing despair". These parents are the tax credit legislation currently being consid­ courage such freedom by offsett ing the grow­ principal objects of each new tax imposed by ered by the Ways a.nd Means Committee. I ing financial burden of parents through re­ government at every level; they are the chief support it primarily because it is a. matter storing a portion of their tax dollar to them. victims of inflation; they respond with hope of justice. I hav0 chosen to present my views on an to pledges of aid for the education of their One of the most important fundamentals issue affect ing parents' rights, because I see children; and they are filled with despair and of our Constitution is freedom of choice. But those right.;; brushed aside in some of the anger when public policy seems to hurt the fact is that freedom of choice in educa­ statements and testimony concerning tui­ rather than help their children, the most tion in this country is quite limited. Our pol­ tion tax credits. Also, parent s of Cat holic precious possession of their lives. iticians voice this philosophy. Our citizens school students see their Superintendent in a Is it too rhetorical to say that this is what revere it. We oppose monopolies, yet when it leadership role, and wonder whether he cares is happening to the American dream today? comes to the basic education of our most val­ enough abcut parents' rights to be distressed And remember that these are the people who uable assets, our children, we allow a monop­ at the way these rights can be ignored so have been paying the bills to solve the social oly to exist. Increasing domination of educa­ readily by certain public officials. problems of our society, which they had no tion by the public schools is creating an Let me answer that concern: I do care, and part in creating. economically and academically inefficient I am distressed-perhaps outraged is a better I plead with you not to listen to those who educational monopoly. Competition among word. And so, I appear before you today. tell these citizens that they will have to wait, various school systems, like competition in However, to emphasize the real issue-par­ that there are more important priorities, or every other field of human endeavor makes ents rights-I am accompanied here today that college relief must come first. See for for quality products, and in the case of edu­ with a. delegation of parents with children in what they are the transparent efforts to pla­ cation, makes for academic excellence and our schools. They represent 100,000 other cate one set of parents-a portion of these economically efficient operations. parents at home in the Philadelphia. area. with children in college-and to ignore the Critics of aid to non-public schools main­ I shall not speak of the "aid to schools" plight of parents with children in elementary tain that Americans do in fact have freedom issue at all. The United States Supreme Court and secondary schools. Waiting is cold com­ of choice in education. However, it parents' has effectively closed the door on significant fort for the drowning man, particularly when exercise of that choice must be purchased at direct aid to relii6ious schools. his plea not to be drowned is interpreted as a prohibitive cost, while they still pay for the Nor shall I speak to the constitutional is­ the seeking of some kind of unfair advan­ unused choice, it is not freedom. sue as it may or may not affect tax credit leg­ tage. And this is the plight of the parent From a financial justice viewpoint, Chief islation. You will undoubtedly hear at length awash in taxes and inflation, and tuition Justice Warren Burger in his dissenting from experts on this matter, and so I shall bills. And see through the argument that the. opinion in the Nyquist case said, "It is no spare you my non-lawyer reflections. I shall parent's school will profit from this legisla­ more than simple equity to grant partial re­ simply say that I would be most surprised tion, when It too is barely afloat and must lief to parents who support the public if, at the end of that kind of testimony, any of necessity hold the line on tuition to be schools they do not use." clear-cut answers have come your way. accessible to the parents that it serves. There has been some criticism that the I shall, then, focus my attention on the And don't be a party to pledges of improved tax credit legislation would be inflationary. public policy issue I raised before: Is tax ESEA benefits offered as a sop to such par­ This is an incredibly shortsighted view of relief for tuition good for our nation and its ents. Such a parent knows that, after thir­ economic realities. Initially, the tax credit people? Is it the just thing to do for parents? teen years, Health. Education, and Welfare is legislation would cost the federal govern­ As you know, in our country one child in only now getting the first benefits to eligible ment more money; however, one would ex­ ten of elementary-secondary school age at­ non-public school students in several of our pect that the law would enable more students tends non-public school. Only a small per­ states; he knows how limited the number of to remain in non-public schools and since centage of these children are the children of beneficiaries of that law are; and that ESEA non-public school costs are only about Y., the rich. It is a distortion of the facts to will not help his burden of tuition and those of public schools, it follows that there present the potential beneficiaries of this taxation. would be a sizable saving to the American proposed legislation as anything other than But I am not here primarily to discuss the public over the lon,6 term. For every student what they largely are: middle-class and difficulties of existing legislation. It is enough who transfers to the Philadlephia public hard-working poor. It is likewise a distortion to say that there is nothing currently on the school system from a non-public school, the to misrepresent their reasons for choosing books to relieve the burden of the tax-pay­ taxpayers in our city would be assessed non-public schools, particularly religious ing, tax-strangled parent, and it's dishonest another $1800 for operational costs alone. It schools. Our parents are not fleeing from to offer improvements in present legislation this legislation does not pass, you can expect the real or imagined problems of their local as a real remedy. progressively more students to enter the public schools so much as they are attracted I want to emphasize that I am well aware public school systems, necessitating greater to something positive-a value-centered that most of theirdered so tar wm continue communications regularly received from English is the official language of the pro­ through 1985. Later requirements for the Byelorussia. gram, and all of the European people asso­ replacement of other aircraft and sales to The year 1976, which marked America's ciated with the program speak English very other countries could extend coproduction, Bicentennial, also marked the 58th anniver­ well. Nevertheless, there's never such a thing according to some estimates, for as long as sary of the proclamation of the Byelorussian as. a one-to-one translation. Different words 20 years. Democratic Republic. The celebation o! the mean different things." That's a long time for the people of five latter merged as it were with the festivities As an example, an American in the program countries to get to know one another. Some­ of the former Activities of Byelorussian­ a while back decided to call the program thing more than aircraft could come of it.e American organizations in general constitute 7096 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 a. bridge connecting a. free American with the A policeman is a. composite of what all men do so much for the people they are en­ land to which Byelorussia.n-Americans a.re are, a. mingling of saint and sinner, dust a.nd trusted to protect and serve. To be bound by blood and tender memories. They deity. honored by such a noble organization as are grateful, therefore, to all those who help Culled statistics wave the fan over the maintain this bridge. Traditions of freedom stinkers, under.score instances of dishonesty theirs, is an honor that I will truly in America nourish aspirations , for freedom and bruta.llty because they are "news". What cherish the rest of my life.e in Byelorussia.e ' that really means is that they are excep­ tional, unusual, not commonplace. Buried under the froth ls the fact: Less than one-half of one-percent of policemen DR. THOMAS 0. JONES RETIRES THE POLISH AMERICAN POLICE misfit that uniform. FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUN­ That's a better average than you'd find DATION ASSOCIATION among clergymen. What is a policeman made of? He, of all HON. JOHN G. FARY men, is at once the most needed and the HON. GEORGE E. SHIPLEY most unwanted. OF ILLINOIS OF ILLINOIS He's a strangely nameless creature who ls IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Sir" to his face and "fuzz" behind his back. Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Wednesday, March 15, 1978 He must be such a diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that • Mr. FARY. Mr. Speaker, I would like each will think he won. e Mr. SHIPLEY. Mr. Speaker, today to take this opportunity to bring to the But ... March 15, Dr. Thomas 0. Jones is retir­ attention of my fell ow colleagues one of If the policeman ls neat, he's conceited; ing as Special Deputy Assistant Director the most outstanding and respected or­ lf he's careless, he's a bum. for International Affairs with the Na­ ganizations in Chicago-the Polish If he's pleasant, he's a flirt; lf he's not, he's tional Science Foundation after more a grouch. th':tn 20 years of service. American Police Association. He must make in an instant decisions This organization is comprised of po­ It has been my privilege and pleasure which require months for a lawyer. to work with Dr. Jones during the past 20 lice officers that are of Polish and Slavic But ... years. Certainly his devotion and many ethnic origin. Initially, this body was _· If he hurries, he's careless; lf he's deliber­ composed of men and women who were ate, he's lazy. contributions to the National Science full-time officers of the city of Chicago · He . must be first .to .an a.ccldent and Foundation will long be remembered and Police Department. However, their rec­ infallible with a diagnosis. held in the highest reg':trd. I think it is He must be aLle to start breathing, stop appropriate that we take note of the re­ ognition soon spread to the outlying bleeding, tie splints and, above all be sure tirement of thi~ splendid public servant. areas and membership requests from the victim goes home without a limp. For the RECORD I would like to insert throughout Cook County began to come Or expect to be sued. the following biographical sketch of Dr. in. It was not long before police officers The police officer must know every gun, Thomas 0. Jones as well as the commen­ throughout the whole State of Illinois draw on the run and hit where it doesn't became aware of this organization's ef­ hurt. dation given Dr. Jones by the National forts to enhance the image of its mem­ He must be able to whip two men twice Science Board: bers in police service, and soon their his size and half his age without damaging COMMENDATION TO DR. THOMAS 0. JONES membership mushroomed and eventually his uniform and without being "brutal." Whereas, Thomas Oswell Jones joined the If you hit him, he's a coward; lf he hits National Science Foundation staff more than became an officially chartered organiza­ you, he's a bully. twenty years ago; and tion of the State of Illinois. They now A policeman must know everything-and Whereas, Dr. Jones' career prior to coming have members in the adjoining States of not tell. to the Foundation advanced our knowledge Wisconsin and Indiana and one member He must know where all the sin ls-and of Heavy Water and the chemical atomic is on active duty with the military police not partake. wei~ht of hydrogen; and overseas. The policeman must, from a single human Whereas, Dr. Jones served twenty years as The activities of the Polish American hair, be able to describe the crime, the weau­ a sklllful teacher at Haverford College, a on and tbe criminal-and tell you where the small high quality liberal arts college Police Association initially were limited criminal is hiding. focused on undergraduate education; and to a summer picnic, a Christmas party But ... Whereas, Dr. Jones, following his arrival for their children and the St. Joseph's If he catches the criminal, he's lucky: if he at the Foundation, directed with special Day celebration, but as membership and doesn't, he's a dunce. sklll and dedication a team which made out­ interest increased, so did the demand for If he gets promoted, he has political pull. standing contributions in organizing, coor­ more activitie'S. The Man of the Year Jf he doesn't, he's a dullard. dinating, and carrying out the mission of Award was later originated and coupled The policeman must chase !ma leads to a the U.S. Antarctic Research Program and dead end, stakeout ten nights to tag one wit­ which met and solved a broad range of sci­ with awards that are presented to those neE"s who saw it happen-but refuses to member officers who have distinguished entific and administrative problems, many remember. of which were unique and required the ut­ themselves in the field of law enforce­ He runs files and writes reports until his most finesse or ingenuity, including valuable ment. eyes ache to build a case against some felon counsel to the Department of State leading . This association showed its compas­ who'll get dee.led-out by a shameless Shamus to the Antarctic Treaty, and as a key con­ 'ltonate nature when, in the summer of or an "honorable" who isn't. tributor to the successful representation of 1975, a disease known as encephalitis, The policeman must be a minister, a social the United States to the Treaty and its con­ caused the death of the aunt of one of worker, a diplomat, a tough guy and a gen­ tinued development through biennial con­ tleman. sultative meetings; and its members. The Polish American Police And of course he'll have to be a genius ... Association reacted by conducting a tele­ Whereas, under his leadership the Antarctic For he'll have to feed a family on a police­ Program made important scientific advances thon which raised over $6,000 for re­ man's salary. in marine biology, glaciology, upper atmos­ search to aid in combating this disease. On March 18, this orga.nization will phere physics, and earth sciences; and Although this organization engages in Whereas, Dr. Jones' contribution to the a multitude of social functions. it should present its annual St. ,Toseoh's Dav Man high reputation of the Nation's Antarctic be remembered that its members are of the Year and Awards Dinner Dance. Program has been immortalized through the above all else, police officers. Theirs is a This year. I have th.f' privilege of being naming of the Jones Mountain Group in hls profession that demands so much yet the recipient of this great honor. of honor; and their efforts often go unrewarded' and which I am extremelv grateful. Those Whereas, under his leadership, the U.S. many times, unnoticed. Many peoole who have previously been bestowed this Antarctic Research Program became a model coveted award include mv fellow col­ activity in the field of international coopera­ wonder what kind of man would become tive research; and a police officer. Paul Harvey, a national league from Illinois. Hon. DAN RosTEN­ Whereas, while accompanying countless radio commentator with the American KOWSKI and Thaddeus "Ted" Lechowicz, distinguished visitors, including many Mem­ Broadcasting System said it best in his the majority leader in the Illinois State bers of the Congress, to the Antarctic, Dr. essay: Legislature. Jones provided clear and understandable WHAT Is A POLICEMAN MADE OF Mr. Speaker. the Polish American descriptions of the scientific research, its -Police -Association are proud of their importance, the unique aspects of research Don't credit me with this mongrel prose· in the Antarctic, relations among the Treaty lt ha.s many parents; at lea.st 420 thousand heritage and their organization. Thev are nations, the logistics of research in the Ant- <>f them; Policemen. proud of their men and women who daily March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7097 arctic, and the interrelationship between sci­ support of research in the atmospheric sci­ reached Vienna, Pozsony, and Budapest, entific research and logistics there; and ences, including aeronomy, meteorology, a series of events unfolded which car­ Whereas, Dr. Jones, as Director of the solar-terrestrial interactions, and weather ried Hungary rapidly down the road to Division of Environmental Sciences helped modification; the solid earth sciences, in­ independence. lead the Foundation into greater involve­ cluding geology, geophysics, and geochem­ ment in programs relevant to the needs of istry; physical oceanography; and the U.S. Upon hearing of the Parisian upris­ our society; and Antarctic Research Program. The Division ing, Louis Kossuth, busy pushing through Whereas, Dr. Jones served with distinction also had responsibility for overseeing the a program of reform, assumed the lead­ as Deputy Assistant Director and Acting scientific program of the National Center for ership of the opposition forces in Parlia­ Assistant Director for National and Inter­ Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at Boulder, ment. Counterrevolutionary forces in national Programs and Special Deputy Colorado. Austria incited Croatian armies under Assistant Director for International Affairs, Upon reorganization of the National Gen. Josef Jellasic to attack the reform­ including participation in developing effi­ Science Foundation in 1969, Dr. Jones was cient managerial and diploma.tic agreements promoted to the position of Deputy Assistant minded Hungarians in September 1848. for establishing several astronomical ob­ Director for National and International Pro­ The Croatian armies were defeated, but servatories, especially at Cerro Tololo in the grams. He served alternately as Deputy As­ further troubles lay ahead as the Aus­ Southern Hemisphere; and sistant Director and Acting Assistant Director trian Government, in March 1849 de­ Whereas, Dr. Jones has demonstrated of the Directorate between November 1969 clared Hungary to be a mere second-rate throughout his career a rare sense of pro­ and July 1975. The Directorate was respon­ power within a new centralized empire. gram judgment, political awareness, and sible for programs in support of research Louis Kossuth responded to this op­ ability to communicate with scientists and related to Polar Programs (Arctic and Ant­ pression with a declaration of Hungarian statesmen, both national and international, arctic), Science Information Service, National candor, common sense, humor, physical Centers and Facilities Operations, Computing independence. He was carried forward durability, and integrity; Activities, International Programs, the Inter­ on a flood of victories until the fateful Now Therefore Be It Resolved That the national Decade of Ocean Exploration, and summer of 1849. At that time, Emperor National Science Board expresses its deep Ocean Facilities and Support. Dr. Jones also Franz Josef appealed to Czar Nicholas appreciation and heartfelt thanks to Dr. served as Chairman of the Interagency Arctic I for Russian assistance. In an ominous Thomas Oswell Jones for his monumental Research Coordinating Committee, an inter­ prelude to the events of the following contributions to the Nation, his exceptional agency group of experts on the Arctic estab­ century, the Kossuth revolution was diplomatic skill, his exemplary career as lished to evaluate proposed research in the brutally crushed and the courageous scientist-administrator, and his leadership Arctic environment. During his association at the Foundation for two decades; with the National Science Foundation, Dr. Hungarians forced to surrender. And Be It Further Resolved That the Na­ Jones has made fourteen trips to Antarctica Americans reacted immediately to this tional Science Board extends its personal to observe and direct the U.S. Antarctic Re­ imperialistic intrusion by Russia. Short­ regards to Dr. Thomas Oswell Jones and his search Program. A large mountain group, the ly before the invasion in June 1849, Pres­ family for good health and happiness in his Jones Mountains, located at 73 •32·s. 94•oo·w, ident Zachary Taylor had issued special new undertakings. has been named in his honor. instructions to an American diplomat In 1963, Dr. Jones was awarded the Order then in Europe to proceed to Hungary BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. THOMAS 0 . "Al Merlto" by the Chilean Government for JONES his work in advancing U.S.-Chllean relation­ and give assurances of American recog­ Dr. Thomas 0 . Jones was named Special ships, and has been elected an Honorary nition to the Kossuth government. Un­ Deputy Assistant Director for International Member of the " Chilean Antarctic Circle" So­ fortunately, the Russian armies crushed Affairs, Directorate for Scientific, Techno­ ciety for the same reason. In 1970 Dr. Jones the revolution before he arrived. logical and International Affairs, in July was awarded the Meritorlus Service Award I join with our fellow Americans of 1975, where he is the senior official responsi­ by the Director of the National Science Foun­ Hungarian descent in celebrating today ble for representational and policy develop­ dation for "his inspirational administration that brief period of Kossuth indepen­ ment in international scientific affairs for of environmental science programs, partic­ dence. Let us all take heed of the sober­ the Foundation. ularly his worldwide acclaimed eminence in ing example of Russian imperialism Dr. Jones was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, antarctic research activities and his develop­ on May 13, 1908. He received his baccalaure­ ment of scientific cooperation programs." which sought to destroy those noble as­ ate in Chemistry at the University of Wis­ Published articles by Dr. Jones include the pirations. And let us hope that soon we consin-Oshkosh in 1930 and was awarded his foreword to Richard S. Lewis' book, Artarc­ will see "That single and simple point­ Doctorate in Inorganic and Physical Chem­ t ica, A Continent for Science ( 1965 ) ; An Ap­ Hungarian control of Hungarian desti­ istry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison proach to Polar Research (1963); The Orga­ nies" which Secretary of State Daniel in 1937. His research work at Wisconsin was nization of Antarctic Biological Research by Webster dreamed of back in 1851.e on Heavy Water, having prepared one of the the United States of America (1964); New first major quantities of this material. Dur­ U.S. Research Station in the Antarctic Penin­ ing this period he redetermined the chemical sula (1964); USNS Eltanin, The USARP Re­ atomic weight of hydrogen. a value which search Ship ( 1965) ; and Life at Antarctic U . still stands in the international tables. Dr. ( 1965). Earlier writings include a Glossary of RESEARCH WITH ANIMALS­ Jones was on the faculty at Haverford Col­ Terms in Nuclear Science and many research PART III lege at Haverford, Pennsylvania., from 1937- papers in physical chemistry and geochemis­ 1956, serving as instructor, assistant profes­ try. sor, associate professor, and professor of Dr. Jones is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, HON. ROBERT F· DRINAN Chemistry, as well as Head of the Depart­ Sigma Xi, the American Geophysical Union, OF MASSACHUSETIS ment of Chemistry. On leave of absence from the American Chemical Society, and the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Haverford from 1943 to 1947, Dr. Jones did Cosmos Club. He ls married to Phyllis J. research and served as Assistant Section Jones and has two daughters; they reside at Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Chief of the Chemistry Division and later as 7504 Holiday Terrace in Bethesda, Mary­ o Mr. DRIN AN. Mr. Speaker, today I Section Chief of the Information Division at land.e wish to share with my colleagues the con­ the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Univer­ clusion of a recent three-part series on sity of Chicago (now called the Argonne Na­ research using animals by Christian Sci­ tional Laboratory) , where the processes and HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION techniques for making and extracting plu­ ence Monitor staff correspondent, David tonium were carried out. F. Salisbury. Dr. Jones came to the National Science HON. JAMES J. DELANEY In "Animal Rights Against Consumer Foundation in 1956 as Acting Head of the OF NEW YORK Protection," Mr. Salisbury examines the Office of Science Information Service. Begin­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES massive impact of the Toxic Substances ning in 1958 he was in charge of the Foun­ Control Act on the number of animals dation's U.S. Antarctic Research Program, Wednesday, March 15, 1978 first as Program Director ( 1958-1961), then used in 1·esearch. as Head, Office of Antarctic Programs (1961- e Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, today With greater public awareness of the 1965). In November 1965 Dr. Jones was ap­ we commemorate the 130th anniversary agonizing deaths of up to 1 million ani­ pointed Director of the newly-established of the Kossuth Hungarian Revolution mals annually for the testing of newly Division of Environmental Sciences, into of 1848, and are once again reminded introduced substances alone

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when he sees poachers using the magnetos Fortune 500,000. Unlike International Paper, hills of hardwood are being killed off with of crank. tei ep.hones- to shock fish to the Weyerhaeuser; Georgia Pacific, and the-other herbicides, cleared, and fertilized with chick­ surface. When.poachers put wires in: t:!le rlve~ large companies that own.almost four:million en litter to grow grass for cattle. and " telep:hone" fish, Junio.r goes to his acres in Arkansas and dominate its.. timber Last year Tyson Foods, Inc., of Springdale house trailer and' telephones tlie law: im:lus-try, Delmar operates a small mill:. a 4-40 grossed about 225 million dollars. Each J,un!Qr· i-s 5"3 and iS> content in his- nati-ve ~011wy;. on. a· few acr_e.s in. tlie- Ozarlts. He uses morning red Tyson buses take some 300,000 Arkansas. " L. have, been around quite· a. bit," a 5'4.-ih--ali: circular saw to cut oak; hickory, chicks from their hatcheries to contract he says,. "d1fl:er.e.n.t countries while r w.a.s, im anti gum: into railroad. ties, lumber· fol: g_ro,­ farmers all over the Ozarks, who raise them tne. Army .. I. do) like to go to other· places- and cery pallets, and. bal.'.k- s"labss for charco.al.. to. broiler size. see other- things.. But this is where> mv. old Mo.re, than liarr of Arkansas- is commerci"ar CHICKENS BY TH.E FIS!l'FUL den. tree, is:.. They say an old. coon_ fikes- to forest-, and· a fourth_ of· all Arkansans in_ come back and dip. in his den tree. Al:kansas, When the sun goes down, Jimmy Graham manufactruring are employed. by- the forest­ g-0es into chicken houses and snatches thou­ has been goad to me,. I believe- I. ca.rt fin:d. p.nodru:.ts ind.ustry:. Fectcerwood mills-as­ en'l)ugl'.4 to; do) here, and then some." sands off their feet. He heads one of Tyson's tho.se like Delmar's are calle.d in this region.­ 15 catching crews. Jimmy is slight of build, C!:.OME'ETING WITH: TELE.VISIO..N 'S L.trnE; are' remnants, o.f t-hfr past, when_ timbe;:ing but he has the grip of a blacksmith. Tonight ,Tim Hatch came to Arkansas, becau.seo he:ei was d'one. mostly by· small entrepreneurs I watch him catch chickens at a farm near he , too, practically, are the likes of Delmar chickens. musicianship. He finds the attitude toward Mtddleton_ The chicken house-the length of a foot­ art more genuine here than in New York " It ain't much," he says, .. but- it'"s a git: by_"' ball field-is bathed in dim blue light, City. Jim is tall. slender, 31, and adroit with Half the furniture manufa~urecl: in the enough for the catchers to see, but not children. state is ma:de around Fort Smith, as are ~ups enough light to arouse the chickens, which "OK, tonight when you're watching 'Char­ by Dudes, appliances by Whirlpo@l, peanuts squeeze together in a warm, sleepy se.a of lie's Angeles: I want you to cross the strings by Planters, and. baby food hy Gerber. Her­ white. The air is full of dust, feathers, am­ like this.. . . " man Udouj (You-dodge) started Riverside monia, and the muted "puks" and "yeeoks" " I don't watch 'Charlie's Angels: ., Furniture in 1946 with a bottle of glue and of 19,000 contented chickens. Like umpires "OK, 'The Waltons,' whatever . . . . Who some orders for baby furniture. He's now dusting the plate, Jimmy and his cat chers · watched Rostropovich last night?" chairman of the board of the largest furni­ bend at the waist, grab chickens by the legs, "Who's that? I watched 'Charlie's An­ ture company in Arkansas, where nostalgia is invert them, and rapidly stuff the legs be­ gels.' ·· put into " nostalgia furniture" with whacks tween their thumbs and fingers. Lugging For years opportunity was what Arkansas of a chain. The Udoujes own 200 Thorough­ nine birds from his left fist and three from had little of, squeezed out by drought, the breds, which they race at Oaklawn (Hot his right. Jimmy stuffs them into a coop and Depression, the overlogging of the Ozarks. Springs) and other tracks around the coun­ grabs more. "Used to be, twenty thousand By World War II, Arkansans were streaming try. The bronze front doors of their elegant chickens was a hell of a night," he says. "Now out of the hills and the Delta, heading for home in Finanna Hills, a Udouj development twenty thousand is not hing-now it's about the aircraft plants in California. overlooking Fort Smith, weigh half a ton. 35,000." Don't arm wrestle with a chicken In his youth Orval Faubus followed the Unlike the Deep South of the Delta, Fo,t catcher. strawberry harvest to Michigan, thinned Smith is a town of the West--once the end The Ozarks have traditionally been hills apples and cleared slash in Washington, of the rope (Hanging Judge Isaac Parker'i:) of hard times and ticks, of row cropping and hoboed in Chicago. for outlaws who terrorized western Arkansas timbering for barrel staves, then emptiness "I slept in that fine park on Michigan and the adjoining Indian Territory. "'!.t's a when the trees went down and the soil played Avenue," he told me, "and a policeman would solid town," says Herman. "Between them, a out. Ozark people still look upon their hills come through every day at 4 p.m. and blow husband and wife at our plant earn maybe as "a good place to live, but a tough place to his whistle to move us out of sight so the $17,000, have a little farm, raise their own make a living." hoi_ polloi could walk by on their way to the vegetables and meat, but they'll have two In the fall Arthur Gunter picks apples in World's Fair. The next time I stayed in Chi­ cars and a good bass boat. It just doesn't t ;\ke Missouri, and in the winter he traps coon, cago, I was governor, and I could afford to as much to live here." bobcat, and coyote in the Ozarks. On his farm stay in a suite." CRAFTSMANSHIP FOR SALE near Pelsor he has some cows and hogs, and he plows with a mule. He cooks and refrig­ BRINGING JOBS TO ARKANSAS Not the least of the state's attractions for erates with butane, heats with a wood stove industry is the attitude toward work. •·Tbe The irony was not lost on migrating Ar­ and lights his house with Coleman lanterns'. work ethic," Governor Pryor says, '·!s ex­ kansans-Faubus among them-that their Arthur, who is 54, grew up not knowing how tremely strong here. In Arkansas workrna1:i ­ reputation as industrious workers got them to hunt for turkey and deer, and neither did jobs not in Arkansas but outside it. ship means something." his father. In these devastated hills t here In 1955, with the state almost drained eco­ Arkansans make everything from turkey weren't any. calls to violins. At his home in Russellville, nomically, Governor Faubus appoint ed the Now deer, t urkeys, and some bears are re­ Jimmy Lile makes knives: dropped-point late Winthrop Rockefeller to the newly turning to t he Ozarks. One morning recently hunters and skinners, Arkansas t oothpicks, formed Arkansas Industrial Development Arthur hunted for a turkey, shot it, found Bowies, folding knives that close with the Commission. What Rockefeller may not have some wild ginseng, picked 80 dollars' worth, click of a Rolls-Royce door. Chairman of the known about industrial development, he went home, and plucked the bird. When I Knifemakers League of Masters, Jimmy more than made up for in his influence with walked into his yard, he was stretched out on shapes handles out of wood, India stag ant­ the industrialists. As chairman of AIDC, he the seat of his pickup, shoes off, doors wide ler, ivory from elephant tusks (which he helped organize (and sometimes fund) an open, listening to the ball game on the radio. aggressive sales campaign to attract industry keeps in a bank vault). He grinds the blades to Arkansas. AIDC compiled encyclopedic out of D-2 high-carbon, high-chrome tool A NEW LIFE IN THE HILLS facts about the state and, particularly, the steel, and heat-treats them in a Thermolyne Tourists come to the Ozarks to see the Pas­ towns where plants might best locate. The furnace. He sharpens the cutting edges on sion Play at Eureka Springs, the Ozark Folk communities looked around at their assets, Washita and hard Arkansas oilstones, mined Center at Mountain View, or to nose around vacuumed, set the t able, and switched on the by one of the state's oldest industries from the hills trying to photograph people like porch light. Forrest City got a hoist-manu­ the uplifts of novaculite in the Ouachitas, Arthur Gunter. Many want to return-per­ facturing plant, Baldwin started building a stone so abrasive that it quickly wears out manently-and increasing numbers are doing pianos in Conway, and soon neighboring splitting mauls, quarrymen's boots, and the just that. Land in much of the Ozarks can stat es were looking over the fence with envy. cleats on huge crawler backhoes. Diamond be bought for a few hundred dollars an acre, In the years since AIDC was established, saws are used to cut this stone. (Diamonds and state and local taxes are the lowest per Arkansas has reversed its declining popula­ come from Arkansas, too, from a state park capita of any state in the U.S. Between 1970 tion (now more than two million). Com­ near Murfreesboro. Find one, and it's yours.) and 1975, about 39,000 more people moved panies have invested four billion dollars in In 1946 Paul Klipsch found space in a shed into the Ozarks than moved out. They come building and expanding 3,500 plants here. in Hope to make loudspeakers. Klipsch now out of snowbanks and traffic in Chicago to A fourth of all Arkansas workers now hold has 90 employees and lots of space. His live in retirement communities and to fish. Klipschorns, the woofers of which are built Many are homesick natives returning from manufacturing jobs. Lumber, paper, furni­ of nine-ply birch from the U.S .S.R., are con­ ture, electric motors, buses, food processing, California. Some are dropouts from the '60's, sidered by many to be the finest loudspeakers back-to-the-landers who build lofted cabins aircraft components. Of this country's 500 in the world. Made in Arkansas. largest companies listed by Fortune maga­ of battened green oak with heavy doors like Millions of chickens are made in the safes, live off the land (and their own kind of zine, 120 have plants in Arkansas. Ozarks. Hatched after World War II, the grass) , and learn why so many natives gave Delmar Middleton is not in the Fortune chicken industry now employs thousands of up and left: More self goes into these rocky 500. Nor-were there one-would he be in a Arkansans, particularly in the Ozarks, where hills than subsistence comes out. CXXIV--448-Part 6 7108 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 Cindy put her finger on Arkansas. "Things ereignty in the Canal Zone, proponents argue When Lewis Grabbe and his wife came to that the United States only has treaty rights the Ozarks, near Rushing, eight years ago, around here have different values than dol­ Lewis knew nothing about masonry. But lars and cents. These people really know how to operate and defend the Panama Canal in stone by stone, year by year, he has been to malrn do."e a 500 square mile Canal Zone which bisects the Republic of Panama. building a house to leave to his children and a. Do you consider the Canal Zone part of grandchildren. Lewis Grabbe is 55 ye::i.rs old, scarred. and muscular. His big fists are the United States? Yes. 68 percent; No., 32 gnarled from fi ghts in the Navy (boatswain's RESULTS OF FIRST DISTRICT QUES­ percent. mate) and lifting stone in the Ozarks. b . Do you see anything to th.e argument TIONNAIRE ON PROPOSED PANA­ that the presence of the Uni.ted States Canal Lewis removes by hand only enough trees MA CANAL TREATIES to let in the sunlight needed to gr.ow pasture; Zone in the midst of the Republic of Panama his 42 acres look like a London park. In a is .similar to other colonial arrangements? grove of oak, persimmon, and hickory is a HON. BILL ALEXANDER Yes, 39 percent; No, 61 percent. compartmented bathtub he built of stone: 5. Un.der the new Canal trea.ty, the United. a dry well at one end. where he stands and OF ARKANSAS States will retain primary responsibility for scrubs, a fireplace at the other to heat water. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the operation and defense of iihe Canal until December 31, 199'9. During this transition He exudes a spiritual joy about hard labor. Wednesday, March 15, 1978 "They're hauling stone out of Stone County period, the Administration argues that Pan­ like you wouldn't believe," he says. "Some e Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, late ama will 'be trained and that the Panama­ people will say, 'That stone's in my way.' But 1as.t session, I sent a detailed question­ nians wlll nire or acquire the necessary skills I look at it as something that's b een here for to e..'ficiently operate the Oanal. naire on the various provisions of the a . Do you feel that twenty-three years is eons. I wanted to build my own house from proposed Panama Canal treaties to materials off the land. I face my ,house east, a sufficiently long period to prepare Panama 'cause that's where all our learning comes 172,000 households in the First Congres­ for the responsibility of the operation of the from. I want to put m y house square with the sional D i-strict of Arkansas. Canal? Yes, 49 percent; No, 51 percent. world. Maybe r:m a little odd, but I ap_preci­ With the ab1e ·assistance of junior high 6. The neutrality treaty will give the ate what God's done for me." and high school civics and government United States the permanent Tight to defend students from throughout the 21 coun­ the Canal from .any threat for an indefinite SEARCH FOR A NEW BEGINNING period. Some miles away Cindy Berman stands at ties that make up the district, the 10.444 a. Do you feel the neutrality treaty wm the entrance to her first Ozark home, looking responses <6 percent) have been tabu­ adequately protect the United States' right across a canyon to the green hills beyond. The lated. I would like to share with my col­ to the non-discriminatory use of the Canal? Ozarks, like the Ouachitas to the south, are leagues the tabulation of the responses Yes, 27 percent; No, 73 percent. intimate hills, not awesome mountains, and I received: b. Do you feel the neutrality treaty will one must spend time here to fully ·absorb QUESTIONNAIRE ON PROPOSED PANAMA CANAL deter any intentions by foreign aggressors to their beauty. Cindy'-s single piece of furni­ TREATIES play a role in Panama? Yes, 29 percent; No, ture, where I sit, is a cot of lashed-together 71 percent. pine branches-t11e first functional product (Prepared by the Congressional Research of her hands. This dwelling, like Lewis Service at the Library of Congress.) c. Do you feel the neutrality treaty will Grabbe's, is of Ozark stone, but no human 1. In recent weeks President Carter an­ be adequate for the United States to take hand shaped it. Cindy Berman came to nounced that the United States and Panama military a.ction, if necessary. against any for­ Arkansas from Long Island three years ago have reached agreement on two new Panama eign aggressor? Yes, 35 percent; No, 65 per­ with only a knapsack anrl an issue of Mother Canal treaties. cent. Earth News. In this cliff is where she lived a. Have you read or heard about the pro­ 7. The new canal p::i.ct will provide Pan­ for the first nine months. In a limestone cave. posed new treaties? Yes, B4 percent; no, 6 ama compensation from Canal tolls of be­ Of those like Cindy who try to live off the percent. tween $50 and $70 million per year. While Ozarks, probably far more leave than perse­ b. Have you talked to friends about the this is a substantial increase from present vere. (A master's degree and a tree house, matter? Often. 54 percent; seldom, 37 per­ payments, none of it will come from appro­ many natives say.) Most of them find loneli­ cent; never, 9 percent. priated funds. Since current toll fees will not ness. fear, and hunger. But Cindy also found c. Does the issue interest·you? Not at all, generate sufficient revenues to reach the herself, and that's what she moved here for. 5 percent; slightly, 18 percent; very much, compensation level to Panama, it is expected 77 percent. SHEDDING SOME ACADEMIC BLINDERS that tolls will be increased to meet this re­ 2. The 1903 treaty with Panama granted quirement of the treaty. Cindy is 26, tall, has thick eyelashes, brown the United States extensive rights to operate hair, a full mouth, long, strong arms and legs, a. Do you feel the compensation to Panama the Panama Canal "in perpetuity". Propon­ is: To:, small, 3 percent; about right, 26 per­ and an enthusiasm for life that would ents of the new treaties, the Republic of astoun:i Norman Vincent. Peale. cent; too much, 30 percent; far too much, Panama, and most of the states of Latin 41 percent. "When I came down here, I just wanted to America argue that the "in perpetuity" clause sit by this creek and be by myself. In a covert is out of keeping with present times Opponents of the treaties argue that way I thought I was better than these people. and that the United States is mature enough Panama is a tiny country, run by a Lic­ Eoy, oh boy, was I wrong. The smartest peo­ to accept a new arrangement. tator, which is incapable of operating the ple are the self-educated ones. Now I see that Canal. Proponents argue that Panama has plain old life experience is the real education. a . Do you feel the treaty rights granted in been friendly to the United States over the I'm a whole lot more humble than I ever 1903 and which run in perpetuity, or forever. years, that Panamanians have never at­ was." provide a sound moral basis for the United tempted to clo,;:e the Canal, that three­ Cindy now lives in a cabin she built of pine States to retain full control in the Canal fourths of the Canal Company employees are from her hillside. She got her door and win­ Zone? Yes, 79 percent; no, 21 percent. Panama:iians, and that Panama has every dows from a dump. Her wood stove cost $35. b. Do you feel a renegotiation with Panama interest in keeping the Canal open. Pro­ Her table is a telephone-cable spool on end. is possible, provided that American interests ponents argue that Panama can be relied She carries her water in buckets from the are protected? Yes, 54 percent; no, 46 percent. upon to fairly operate the Canal. creek far below. Cindy studied to be a teacher, 3. While the construction of the Panama a. Do you see Panama as a country that but she has had difficulty finding work in the Canal was an engineering triumph for which is unfriendly to the United States? Yes, Ozarks, and what she has found, like catch­ all Americans can be proud, the Administra­ 49.8 percent; No, 50.2 percent. ing chickens, has not held her interest. tion argues that the use of the Canal, not b. Do you fear that Panama might at­ She barters for things. for labor, for food. ownership or control, is the prime interest tem"'>t to "lm;~ tr-e C"n'l.l to U.S. use? Yes, She grows vegetables and spices, and sun of the United States at the present time. Our 72 percent; No, 28 percent. dries apples, t::matoes, and watermelons, last four Presidents (Johnson, Nixon, Ford, which shrink to a leatherlike candy. Cindy Carter) have felt that a new treaty with c. Does Panamanian insistence on a new exists on about $500 a year. Panama is the best way to insure continued, treaty cause you to have reservations about She no longer invites friends down from uninterrupted use of the Canal. the negotiated treaties? Yes, 78 percent; No, 22 percent. New York, and enjoys going there even less. a. In your opinion, is the Panama Canal Her city friends belittle her way of life and vitally important to the United States? Yes, 9. Overall. what is your opinion of the try to talk her out of it: "You're a school­ 90 percent; No, 10 percent. two new Panama Canal treaties? Stron<2:lY Favrra'ble. 6 percent. teacher-you ought to be teaching." 'b. Do you feel that the use of the Canal is "Even some of the natives can't under­ Favorable, 16 percent. sta!ld why I en ioy chopping wood with an more important than control of the Canal? Neutral, 8 percent. ax." she says. "They'd buy a chain saw. What Yes, 41 percent; No, 59 percent. Opposed, 17 percent. I enjoy as a simple, beautiful life, they see as c. Is the Canal important enough, in your Strongly Opposed, 53 percent. poverty. opinion, to justify the use of military force. 10. Do you consider this questionnaire "I've just gained faith in my ability to do if necess3.ry, to maintain our present posi­ fair and unbiased? anything I want. I grew up believing you tion? Yes, 79 percent; No, 21 percent. Yes, 88 percent: No, 12 percent. learn everything from a book. Now I learn 4. While opponents of the new treaties *Based on 10,444 responses from citizens by doing, or watching someone else do it." argue that the United States exercises sov- in the First District.e March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7109 FREDERICK SONTAG MAKES CON­ But why did they want me? Because on aries it pays with those of judicial officers, STRUCTIVE LAW PROPOSALS IN Oct. 21 my new, carefully locked car had been since it's all really the taxpayers' money.) NEW YORK TIMES broken into, along with six others, in the No one I asked knew which of the big new locked garage at my apartment house. The buildings I should go to, and the summons thief had used a crowbar, or something like certainly didn't give any clue. I finally lo­ HON. GILLIS W. LONG it, to force open the right front door. cated the r:.ght building and noticed its park­ I thought that master keys or coat hangers ing lot. I ask whether, had I driven t.o Ne·.v­ OF LOUISIANA were used for such purposes, but I guess that ark, I could have parked my car in the court's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was when you and I were youngsters. I also lot. Wednesday, March 15, 1978 thought that $2 was a lot for most working .(ITEM: The fact that there are separate victims to have to pay, as I did, to get a lots for jurors, which I was not, and wit­ • Mr. LONG of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, Xerox copy of the police report. nesses, which I was, was never made clear the American Bar Association recently The car was finally repaired by Nov. 4, until I got inside the "holding area" and had held its annual meeting in New Orleans after all the insurance company approvals plenty of time to interview people. The loca­ and the need for better relations between were obtained. tion of the lots, and the rights of legitimate You can therefore imagine my surprise persons to park there, might be on forms the legal machinery and individual citi­ when I was suddenly served with a sum­ that the judges, County Clerk and the Dep­ zens struck a responsive chord among mcns, which, incidentally, had no telephone uty Clerk of the Superior Court could agree some of the more farsighted observers of number one could call to get more informa­ on-and before the judges are granted their our courts. tion. pay raise.) A graphic example of how an individ­ (ITEM: Mr. Hughes, you might tie into Once inside the building, I showed the ual citizen can help make the legal sys­ your pay-increase request one fur new forms guard my form, and_he said he thought the tem more effective is pointedly illustrated that list the names of persons to be con­ place I was suuposed to R"O was on tJ-;e fourth by Frederick H. Sontag's article on the tacted and their telephone numbers, includ­ floor, but that he wasn't sure. When I got ing ones for weekends and evenings, if we to Holding Room No. 400, I experienced an­ op-ed page of the New York Times, New are supposed to help the courts on such other shock. Jersey section. February 26. short notice, as well as a soecific address of The man took my form and said I could From his extensive service in both the where one is supposed to show up.) wait. That I knew, but where were the words private and the public sectors, Mr. Son­ The summons server finally said that he of greeting, or welcome, or any explanaticn? tag knows that mutual respect and im­ could give me the name and number of The room was totally without signs. proved treatment of the citizen are nec­ someone to contact on Monday, if I so (ITEM: I suggest that signs be put up list­ essary for strengthening our legal system wanted. He asked that working on Saturday ing where the bathrocms are, where one could in the years ahead. His article contains afternoons wasn't something that he espe­ get coffee or milk-I got some for a woman cially wanted to do. with a small child who couldn't get it her­ numerous good, specific suggestions and I modestly expressed the hope that he self-the location of telephone booths, whom the editor of the New York Times was being properly paid for his trouble, at to ask for information, maybe even a hul­ thought the piece was important enough the same time reminding him that I would letin board indicating what cases were being to give it top location and fine art work get no pay from anyone on Monday, not heard-where. Some reading materials about on the editorial page. even expen~e money. the courts and the legal system also might be I hope my colleagues, the media, and I did get the man's name, and he finally provided, if only to help jurors and witnesses men and. women who want to improve showed me his identification. He reportedly cope with the emotional problems of these our system of law will weigh carefully the left another summons at a wrong apart­ court appearances.) ment. During the wait, Mr. Hughes, I overheard type of citizen reaction which Frederick (ITEM: So long a,s summonses are being some pretty frank talk among a few of the Sontag as a public affairs and research delivered to people unexpectedly, court offi­ police persons, and this might be the sub­ consultant brings to the situation he de­ cers might at least wear badges, which would ject of a private talk between us another day. scribes. Even though he is not a lawyer, serve to reassure us a little.) Suddenly, a !ic;t of persons who were "ex­ he served for 14 years as the consultant During the weekend, I faithfully dug out cused" was read out, and I heard my name to the general counsel of a legal depart­ all the documents about the crime and among them. I asked the men at the desk ment, so he knows where improvements Xeroxed a spare set for the grand jury's use. what had happened and they said they didn't I called my insurance agent arid told his an­ know. are possible. swering service that the courts had sum- I asked when I might find out, and was told The sympathetic response of Chief 1noned me. maybe in 10 days or so. Justice Richard J. Hughes is further in­ I carefully wrote out my notes on possible dication that citizen interest and aware­ answers I would be called upon to give in SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY, ness can generate a meaningful dialog court, and also saw that the insurance com­ Trenton, N.J., February 28, 1978. between citizen and public official that pany, with its deductible, would repay me Mr. FREDERICK H. SONTAG leads to better understanding and hope­ les;; than $50. South Orange, N.J. fully to better government as well. I figured out, too, what the whole thing DEAR MR. SONTAG: I read with concern and would cost in lost time and effort, in addi­ sympathy your message to me in Sunday's The article and Judge Hughes' letter tion to repairs, calls, driving around, and so Times, "The Law in Action-One Man's follow: on. It came to more than $1,000. Nightmare." The points you make are per­ THE LAW IN ACTION-ONE MAN'S NIGHTMARE Early Monday morning, I called the jury fe::tly valid. So far as the Judiciary can act (By Frederick H. Sontag) officer, since it was snowing and I thought I to cure these defects, we shall try to assert might be late. He said not to worry and that, more c:mtrol on the bureaucratic maze. My I was in the gallery of the State Legisla­ in view of my questions on what this was first step will be to place copies of your ture in Trenton when Chief Justice Richard all about and shortness of time, I would article in the hands of Essex County Assign­ J. Hughes of the State Supreme Court asked not have to appear if it would be a genuine ment Judge Arthur J. Blake and the 11 for an $8,500 pay increase for all judges. hardship to do so. other Assignment Judges, who represent the I thought perhaps he might want to add I made it very clear that I was not trying Chief Justice in local administration in the a new section to his printed text concerning to bug out of a court appearance, adding 12 New Jersey vicinages. Each will be asked the needs of witnesses and jurors; if Mr. that I felt most legal officers deserved the to prepare a point-by-point report dealing Hughes and the legislators would be willing legitimate cooperation of citizens, especially with the deficiencies and suggestions men­ to tie these two considerations together, a those witnesses whose possessions had been tioned in your article. I will then meet with stronger legal machinery might very well injured m: taken. them within a month, after these reports result. have been submitted and anal:vzed. We shall, Let me tell you, Mr. aughes, about the The jury officer was very courteous, and I took his name for our mutual use. This man like the Avis Compimy, "try harder." latest example of New Jersey law-in-action In the 1947 Constitution the people (by that I know of. was one of the few persons I contacted all day whose name wa,s e.:i.siJy available; others an unprecedented plurality, 653,096 to 184,- On the afternoon of last Dec. 3, a Satur­ did not wear badges or give their names. 632) vested heavy administrative responsi­ day, a tall, thin gentleman in civilian clothes bility, expressed as follows: "The Chief Jus­ came to my apartment and presented me (ITEM: Let's have all court officers wea~· tice of the Supreme Court shall be the ad­ with a summons to appear at 9 :30 A.M. the identification tags so we can address one ministrative head of all the courts in the following Monday at the Essex County Court­ another courteously.) State." In 1948 our first Chief Justice Arthur house complex in Newark, specifically before I took the earliest buses to Newark I could, T. Vanderbilt, pledged the full use of this Grand Jury No. 2042B in Grand Jury Room snow, sleet and rain notwithstanding. It took p::iwer: No. 2. I think you will agree that that isn't three difl'crent buses to get me there. "We of the Supreme Court are determined much time for a professional person to re­ (ITEM : Transport of New Jersey is an ex­ to a man to give the St9.te the finest judicial arrange his or her schedule, however willing pensive ;1rganization and often lacks even crg,mization and administration within our he or she may be to lose a day's pay. timetables. You might compare the high sal- power **•." 7110 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 Yet the administrative and rule-making these years in the Boy Scouts of America, agreement would transfer power at the end of power, while producing a flexibility which Knights of Columbus, Holy Name Soci­ this year to the population's black majority is helping the court system function, indeed ety, Radnor Fire Co., Italian-Amer­ after nearly 90 years of white rule. survive, does not extend to the providing of The settlement represents a triumph for needed resources. The latter depends upon ican Club of Wayne, Voiture 518 of ranity and moderation and democracy. It the Legislature, Governor and County Free­ the Delaware County Forty and Eight provides for establishment of a multi-racial holder.;;. My November Legislative Message, Society, the Concerned Citizens of society that will give Rhodesia's 6.4 million copy enclosed, points out the massive, frus­ Radnor Civic Association, Radnor Town­ blacks political control while promising rea­ trating overload of litigation on the courts. ship Memorial Day Bicentennial Com­ sonable protection for the economic inter­ It sought a pay increase equal to that earlier mittee, the United Way, and numerous ests of the 268,000 whites who, until eco­ granted federal court trial judges, as well as business and professional organizations. nomic sanctions were imposed in the 1960s, other resourecs including a Judiciary com­ He is now retired from the Federal had made the country one of the mo.;; t pros­ puter to enable us to cope. On January 10, perous in Africa. 1978, the Legislature granted an $8,000 in­ civil service, having served as suner­ Now, under the sponsorship of black dic­ cre;1.se, which hopefully will keep on the visor at the Germantown District Office tators who rule most of the African nations, bench some of our very fine judges who had of the Social Security Administration. an attempt will be m3.de to get the United thought of retiring. The question of other His interest in and devotion to the Nations to denounce the settlement. Their resources hangs in the balance pending Ap­ cause of veterans has been shared by idea is to refuse to recognize the new gov­ propriation Committee study. his family. His wife of 32 years, the ernment that would be established by the The fees for jurors and witnesses are fixed former Ellen DaBundo of West Chester, Rhodesian people, black and white, in free by the Legislature and are beyond the cen­ hRs served as president of the auxiliary elections. tral of the courts. Of course they should be The black dictators will be showing they increased to reduce the hardships you men­ of Post 668. and his son, Flavio, who is don't stand for majority rule in Rhodesia tion-if someone can find the money. a veteran of service during the Vietnam any more than they do in their own coun­ I appreciate your citizen concern in the conflict. h!is also served as commander tries, where most of them have imposed by administntion of justice. At any convenient of Post 668. brutal, and in many cases, barbaric methods, time when you wish to discuss it further, I On Saturday. March 25, his comrades military or one-party rule. will welcome a visit to my chambers in in the 8th district of the Ame-ricon L~­ What is particularly shocking about this Trenton. week's scheduled Security Council debate is gion will gather at the Ram<>da Inn in that Prime Minister Ian Smith, who.:: e pa­ Respectfully, Fssington to honor Jules at a testimonial RICHARD J. HUGHES, tience and perseverance brought about the Chief Justice.e dinner. settlement with Rhodesia's moderate black I honor ,Tules Falcone of Wayne, Pa., leaders, is being denied the opportunity to here today.e participate in the debate. The British govern­ ment has taken the position that he cannot come to the United States to address the AMERICAN LEGION HONORS JULES Security Council because bis government, FALCONE OF WAYNE, PA. RHODESIA-TEST FOR CARTER having declared its independence of Great Britain in 1965, is illegal. Please remember that Yasir Aarafat, the HON. RICHARD T. SCHULZE HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO ruffi3.n-leader of the Palestine Liberation Or­ OF rENNSYLVANIA OF CALIFORNIA ganization which is not a government and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES therefore not a member of the United Na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions, was allowed to strut up to the General Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Assembly podium with a pistol strapped to his hip. Now unbelievably Prime Minister e Mr. SCHULZE. Mr. Speaker, my col­ e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Sreaker. leagues, it gives me great pleasure to Smith is barred from participating in a de­ I have been pleased with the turn of bate concerning the destiny of his own coun­ bring to your attention the accomplish­ events in Rhodesia and believe that the try. ments on behalf of our veterans of one internal settlement reached bv Ian Smith The British government has invited the of my constituents, Jules Falcone, now and the three moderate black leaders two terrorist le3.ders of the so-called Patri­ serving as commander of the 8th district deserves U.S. suoport. However, I am otic Front, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mug­ of the American Legion, which includes abee, to attend the Security Council debate mo<;t concerned ahout the Cart.er admin­ along with two of the black leaders-Bishop Chester and Delaware Counties in Penn­ istration's attitude toward this settle­ sylvania. Muzorewa and the Rev. Sithole-who con­ ment. cluded the agreement with Ian Smith. Not Jules is my friend, but more impor­ I would like to bring to the attPntion only has Smith been ignored, but so has the tantly, he is and has been a friend to all of my colleaguec; the following editorial t~ird black signer of the settlement, heredi­ veterans of our armed services. bv William Randoloh Hear~t. Jr. Mr. tary trib3.l Chief Chirau, a senator in Rho­ Jules served in the U.S. Army from Hearst examines the choices available to desia's parliament who represents all the tribe3 throughout the country, and who is July 1941, through September 1945, with the President as he deals with thi8 Afri­ estimated to have as much popular support 2 % years of that time spent in the Alas­ can issue and concludes that, if the Pres­ in Rhodesia as Nkomo and Mugabe com­ kan-Aleutians theater. Returning to ci­ ident does r,ot. order a TT S. veto of the bined. vilian life he immediately joined An­ appearance of Nkomo and Mugabe tefore Nkomo and Mugabe. operating from neigh­ thony Wayne Post of the American Le­ the SPcllrit:v Council unlec;s Jan Smith boring Zambi::i. and Tanzania. are trying to gion in 1945 and remained active in that and Chief Chirau are also allowed to terrorize Rhodesia's black population into post until 1960 when he transferred his attend, then the President will "have ccoperating with the misnamed "Patriotic membership to the Bateman-Gallagher betrayed the principles of American Front." They are demanding that Muzorewa and Sithole be barred fr~m addressing the Post 668 of Wayne. As a member of those democracy." Security Council and that they have the sole two posts, he served in every post posi­ The article follows: right to do so. tion. RHODESIA-TEST FOR CARTER Both Nkomo and Mugabe, armed and fi­ At the county level. he served as com­ President Carter this we?k faces a crucial nanced by RuPsia. have a record of heinous mander in 1974-75, and as chairman of test of his capability for leadership. atrocities against blacks and whites in legislative, countersubversive and pub­ It will be a test of his statesmanship in the Rhodesia. lic relations committees and as editor of conduct of America's foreign policy. Beth have rejected invitations from Smith the American Legion Post. It will be a test of bis commitment to and the moderate black le1ders to renounce America's traditional dedication to the prin­ terrorism and participate in free elections. Prior to becoming commander· of the ciples of democracy and self-determination Both have demanded that Britain give 8th district, he served as deputy com­ for people. them, in effect. control of Rhodesia before mander, chairman of the countersub­ It will be a test of his adherence to the elections are held-a demand based un­ versive activities committee, adjutant. chart?r of the United Nations, which com­ doubtedly on the estimates they would poll and as a delegate has attended all na­ mits its members not to interfere in the le3s than 15 per cent in free elections. tional conventions since 1968. At the na­ internal affairs of other countries. New thi<; is where the crucial decision tional level he has served on both the The issue will be this week's special debate facing Pre~ident Carter comes into the pic­ countersubversive and legislative com­ at the United Nations Security Council on ture The Carter a dministration is still insist­ Rhodesia. ing that Nkomo and Mugabe must be brought mittees. A move is afoot to sabotage the settlement into the settlement. Jules. however, has not confined his Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith has Britich Foreign Secretary David Owen. who efforts and talents to serving veterans. reached with the leaders of that country's originally maintained that poc:ition. is back­ He has been actively engaged during three major black political parties. That ing away from it. He announced in London March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7111 this past weekend that the British govern­ lives anew, and they turned to the concern to us all, and also resulted in a ment might have to accept the settlement church to help them in this effort. The lengthy study by the Kerner Commission. if it could be shown through fair and free jobs were often hard to get, but the work There were demands and promises that elections that the Rhodesian people approved that was available demanded strenuous the situation would improve. Wars were o! it. physical exertion and usually paid very declared on crime and poverty which If President Carter does not support that position; if he does not instruct Ambas~ador little. Most of the men and boys worked nurtured hope. I would like to bring to Young to veto the appearance of Nkomo and on the docks down by the old riverbed the attention of my : olleagues an edito­ Mugabe before the Security Council unless or at "Irishtown Bend." Up and down rial which appeared 10 years after the Prime Minister Smith and Chief Chirau also inclined wooden ramps, they pushed Kerner Commission Report in the March attend, then he will have betrayed the prin­ wheelbarrows loaded with iron ore 11 issue of the New York Amsterdam ciples of American democracy.e shipped into Cleveland from the mines at News. the western end of Lake Superior. The The editorial reminds us that the fear backbreaking work of these men and is forgotten, the concern has decreased, boys helped to build the steel mills that and the hope is gone. The problems of ANNIVERSARY OF ST. PATRICK'S would become a major industry for the ghettos have not been solved, they PARISH Cleveland. The Irish families whose have been ignored. If we continue to pre­ fathers and sons workeC: on the docks tend that the danger of riots do not exist, HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR settled together on the bluffs above the and those of us who went through last OF OHIO Cuyahoga River and in that day devel­ summer in New York know that it does, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oped into a close-knit community in we will face an explosion more painful which St. Patrick's Church played a than that of the late 1960s. Wednesday, March 15, 1978 leading role. The text of that March 11 editorial • Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, it is fitting As more and more immigrants flooded follows: on this St. Patrick's Day that this year into Cleveland during the 1850's and (From the New York Amsterdam News, the people of Cleveland will be celebrat­ 1860's, St. Patrick's increased in size ac­ Mar. 11 , 1978] ing the 125th anniversary of the found­ cordingly, so that in 1871 , St. Patrick's KERNER COMMISSION REVISITED ing of St. Patrick's Church, the second School alone had 950 pupils and the con­ Last week, the New York Times has been oldest parish in the city. When St. Pat­ gregation numbered 2.100 families. In running a series of articles attempting to rick's was built back in 1853 under the time, St. Patrick's would expand into a assess where race relations stand today-IO years after the Kerner Report. leadership of Father James Coulon, no larger church on a piece of land facing The Kerner Report was commissioned in one could have foreseen that this church Bridge Avenue, but only after the death 1968 by President Johnson in an attempt to would become a haven not just for Irish of Father Coulon in 1875 and after the discover the underlying causes of the rioting immigrants, but for displaced and im­ denression which lasted from 1872 to by Blacks that had struck hundreds of cities poverished people of all faiths and na­ 1879. A new past0r would arrive. Father across the country. tionalities. Father Coulon erected his Eugene O'Callaghan, and his dedication The Report found that the country was church with the bricks of faith and held would in'-pire the parishioners of St. moving toward two societies, one white and Patrick's to travel by horse-drawn wagon one Black, one affluent and one largely under­ it together with the mortar of love. And privileged, and that dangerous implications today we commemorate the achievement to Sanduskv to cut stone from a quarry for the total society could be drawn from of this heroic priest and pay tribute to and haul it back to Cleveland. In that this fact. the church which still stands as a living way, enough stone was quarried to build The Report recommended a massive fed­ testament to one man's courage and the new St. Patrick's. eral program to combat this tendency and to faith to provide shelter for the homeless Thus was the present structure built. upgrade the quality of life for Blacks. Irish immigrants who fled their famine­ This is the story of the building of one The New York Times has found that 10 ravaged land in the late 1840's and early years later, the recommendations of the church. People who were poor. but de­ Cc.mmission have been largely ignored, racial 1850's. voted to the heritage, their community attitudes have become more divergent and When we speak of St. Patrick's, we and their church, donated their energies the society has become more segregated, in speak not only of history and tradition, to their families and to t.he community. most ways, than it was a decade ago. · but VT~ speak also of faith, of love,.and of The history of St. Patrick's Parish has Some of the Times' most startling findings courage. Especially courage. Imagine, if been eloquently narrated more than are in the area of attitudes. Blacks and you will, what it must have been like several times by Father Nelson Callahan, whites have almost precisely opposite views crossing a vast ocean on a masted historian of the diocese of Cleveland. of whether there has been real progress for schooner in the 19th century. Fright­ Blacks and whether or not things are getting St. Patrick's today continues to serve " better" for Blacks. Moreover, Blacks have ened families from County Cork and the near west side community. It is a btcome much less hopeful about the pros­ County Armagh, driven from their diverse community made up not only pects for the future. home and land because potatoes rotted of the Irish, but of every race and ethnic For example, a national poll conducted by in the earth and would not grow, hud­ origin. St. Patrick's continues to serve the Times and CBS found that in 1968 49 dled together in cramped and open quar­ its needy. Those of us who were educated percent of the Blacks in this country had ters with all t.heir worldly belongings at St. Patrick's grade school and who "real hope" that racial prejudice would even­ stuffed into three cloth sacks. Turbulent tually end; in 1978 only 37 percent had any consider it to be their parish, are proud such hope. waves lashing at the shio's sides and of itg past. We are indeed proud of the :rn 1968, 63 percent of Blacks felt that a lot splashing on the wooden decks, the howl­ present--proud of the devoted parish­ of progress had been made in ending racial ing winds of sudden rainstorms. the infi­ ioners, pastor, Father Patrick McMan­ discrimination in the previous 10 to 15 years: nite spreading darkness of the night skv, amon and the pastoral staff. We join in 1978, only 45 percent thought there had the fevers and pneumonia from exoos­ with the entire Cleveland community in been any real _progress. ure to the cold, the sickness and diseases In 1958, 33 percent of Blacks believed that saving on this St. Patrick's Day, ''All whites; didn't care about the plight of Blacks; from a diet consisting mainly of stale Praise to St. Patrick."• bread and water, and all the while, the in · 1978, that percentage had risen to 44 percent. steady, knowing, dreading drift toward a · These are only a few of the findings. In strange land in a far part of the world. ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS general, the stories painted a picture that is But these people endured and survived BACK all too familiar to those of us who live or this suffering, and came to this country work in Black urban communities-a picture impoverished in m!lterial goo failed to advise Immigration brainwashing inflicted in North Korean pris­ Exposes by conservatives-or exposes about Burchett's brutal interrogation of on camps. with a less-than-liberal stand-are by allied prisoners of war during the Korean Later, when PW's returned from the Viet­ and large met in the liberal media with and Vietnam wars. nam war they too told of Burchett's direct The Immigration official who approved the involvement in interrogations and how he underwhelming silence. Or, as M. Stan­ waiver, Ralph Kramer, deputy assistant com­ ton Evans said in a recent article on masterminded "confessions" from their missioner for adjudications, told the Post alleged use of germ warfare. Wilfred Burchett's activities and his in a recent Washington interview that the Those confessions, in which Burchett recent visitation upon America, they State Dept. never advised his office of played a major role-actually writing and are "treated· as crashing nonevents." Burchett's KGB status, or his involvement rewriting many himself-were extracted In fact, the notorious Burchett tour is in the torture and brainwashing of American under threats of death combined with physi­ a perfect case in point. PWs cal and mental torture, the PW's revealed. Over the protests of conservatives " If we had known that, you can be sure it The Communist newsman's KGB activities would have been given heavy consideration," were vividly detailed under oath in 1969 and across the country and in spite of ex­ Kramer said. "I don't understand why that poses by the conservative press, the De­ 1970 by KGB defector Yuri Krotkov. information was withheld." Krotkov, now living on the West Coast partment of State allowed Mr. Burchett, Ironically, when Burchett filled out his re­ under another name, testified before the U.S. an avowed Communist sympathizer and cent visa application he denied being a Com­ Senate Internal Security Subcommittee at probable KGB agent, to spread his vicious munist Party member, a statement that is that time and identified Burchett as a paid anti-Western poison coast to coast, col­ in total conflict with his State Dept. status. KGB agent whom he worked with in Europe That fact alone could have denied him lege to college. entry to the country. It could also deny him and Moscow. Now, the fact that State allowed this future entry if enforced by U.S. officials. HUNGARIAN RISING person to enter the country comes as no In that testimony Krotkov disclosed how surprise to those of us who have '\lln­ REQUEST APPROVED Burchett reported on Hungarian dissidents nessed the double standard of the De­ Edward Hurwitz, the State· Dept. country prior to the 1956 Hungarian uprising: how partment toward leftists during the last director for Australia (Burchett travels on he developed a scheme, never used, to bladt­ an Australian passport), told the Post that mail the wife of an American Air Force gf)n­ 20 years. After all, these are the samr he approved the request for a waiver after eral; and how he lured a New York Timf\s people who also allowed entry to an the deoartment's Paris office had refused ap­ correspondent in Moscow into the hand.;; of English "punk-rock" group whose only proval· when Burchett applied there. the KGB, which eventually tried unsuci:,~ss­ talent appears to be the ability to sp-rt4 Hurwitz said he was "not sure" why Immi­ fully to blackmail him. long periods of time in jail and to vom· ... gration was not advised of Burchett's back­ When questioned about Krotkov, Burcllet t at will on front-row groupies. ground, or even at what level the final insisted that Krotkov had since recanted that decision was made. testimony. In a telephone conversation with Nor is it surprising that the onlv pub­ Four days later a spokesman for Hurwitz lished criticism of the proposed visit was the Post, however, Krotkov reaffirmed his said the State Dept. "had assumed Immigra­ testimony and Burchett's invoivement wlth found in the conservative press. tion was aware of Burchett's past activities the KGB. What was surprising was the coverage because that same information was reviewed That involvement was also affirmed by Ed­ given to the "Quisling" Burchett descent when previous waivers were granted." ward Hunter, a retired CIA agent now living upon our shores by the New York Post­ Those waivers however were limited to 10 outside of Washington. a well-respected member of the eastern days and when Burchett received his first Hunter, a psychological warfare expert, fourth estate. w'liver to cover the UN General .ru;sembly for engaged in covert activities for the CIA. He the leftwing American newspaper. The said he regularly reviewed top secret CIA re­ The other surprise was the outcome of Guardian, his stay was limited to 10 days and ports that repeatedly identified Burchett as the visit itself. Far from being the he could only travel within a 25-mile radius a KGB agent. triumphant progress the radical left of Columbus Circle. "There is no question this man was and hoped it would be, the tour proved to be GETS OK still is one of the chief propogandist s for the a disaster for Mr. Burchett, his leftist During that visit he was also kept under KGB," Hunter said. sponsors and his Marxist message of FBI surveillance. An FBI source said that "He personally developed and direcrnd the death, by degree. What James Burnham surveillance has not been requested for his germ warfare propaganda campaigns in Korea calls the suicide of the West. current tour. and Vietnam and we know he was dlt·ectly involved in the brutal interrogation of U.S. Since it is so rare that occurrences of Burchett was actually denied a passport by his native Australia for 19 years because of prisoners of war as well as those of other this type receive the coverage they de­ his activities in Korean prison camps. During nations," he added. serve, I ask unanimous consent that the that period he traveled on a North Korean "He's one of the best known spies in U,e Post articles on Mr. Burchett's visit be travel permit until 1968 when Fidel Castro world," he said. "And I'd like to find out how reprinted in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. personally issued him a Cuban pa<:sport. he got into this country so easily." In this way, those of my colleagues who In 1970, after the socialist regime of Aus­ SPY CONFRONTED read neither the New York Post or con­ tralian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam took Yesterday The Post brought former Korean servative publications will have a chance power Burchett again received an Australian War PW Derck Kinne to confront Wilfred I to learn the true story behind Burchett. passport. Burchett about their prior meetings in PW I commend highly the courageous and In ari interview yesterday Burchett smil- cam pi.:. March 15, J.978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7113 Kinne (whose story along with those of movement around the nation on a waiver Oct. 24: State University of New York, other PW's will be told in future articles) granted by the Dept. of Immigration. Buffalo, "Zimbabawe, Namibia and South told of Burchett's threats to have him shot That waiver was given on the recommen­ Africa." and the subsequent torture and solitary dation of high-ranking State Dept. officials, Oct. 26: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, confinement he suffered when he resisted who failed to disclose Burchett's KGB back­ Canada, "Eurocommunism." him. ground or his involvement in the brainwash­ Oct. 28: DePaul Law School, Chicago, open Burchett, angry over the confrontation ing and torture of PWs. meeting. which he had not expected, denied that he MADE AVAILABLE Oct. 31: University of Iowa, Iowa City, open had ever been a Communist or had been meeting. involved in any interrogation of PWs. Immigration officials have since com­ Nov. 1: Ripon College, Ripon, Wis., open "I was simply a journalist doing my job, plained about that withholding of informa­ meeting. reporting from the other side," he insisted. tion, saying such data had been made avail­ Nov. 2: University of Oregon, Portland, He said Kinne had mistaken him for some­ able in previous waiver requests. "Revolution: A View From the Sidelines." one else in the prison camp. A State Dept. source insisted that the de­ Nov. 2: Williamette College, Portland, Ore., Kinne, who testified under oath along with cision to withhold that information and "Revolution: A View From the Front Lines." other PWs at a 1974 libel trial involving Bur­ push for more liberal travel fnr Burchett Nov. 3: University of Washington, open chett in Australia, replied simply: "You're a went directly to the 1971 White House meeting. ' lying bastard and you know it. You know directive. Nov. 4: University of San Francisco, "From what you did to me and a helluva lot of "You have to understand how the State Vietnam to Angola." other men." Dept. works,'' he said. "Once a suggestion Nov. 7: University of California-Davis Law In that libel suit the stories of the PWs comes down from the White House and be­ School, open meeting. were upheld and Burchett was ordered to pay comes part of someone's file, it would be fol­ Nov. 8: Stanford University, Palo Alto, $100,000 in damages to the defendant. He is lowed blindly until someone else-perhaps Cal., "Southern Africa." appealing that verdict. decades later-directed that it be changed." Nov. 8: Un-iversity of Callfornia at Berk­ "This was no conspiracy to help Burchett," eley, "Southern Africa." [From the New York Post, Nov. 17, 19771 he added. "This was a typical bureaucratic Nov. 9: University of California at San KISSINGER GAVE THE OK FOR KGB foul up." Diego, open meeting. During his present tour, the Communist MAN'S TRAVELS Nov. 10: San Diego State University, open (By Wllliam Heffernan) newsman-who spoke yesterday before the meeting. prestigious Nieman Fellowship Society at The ability of Soviet KGB agent Wilfred Harvard-is presenting his views on Euro­ Nov. 11 : Independent Publishers Forum, Burchett to travel freely throughout the Los Angeles, radical politics seminar. communism, the "coming revolution in Nov. 13: Atlanta Center for Disease Con­ United States on a speaking and fund-rais­ South Africa" and other matters of interest ing tour can be traced directly back to to the Soviet bloc. trol, Atlanta, "Health Problems in Vietnam." former Secretary of State Kissinger "as pay­ Nov. 16: Harvard University, Cambridge, ment for favors received," a State Dept. ON SOUTH AFRICA Mass., open meeting with the Nieman Fellow­ source has revealed. During a recent speech to students and ship Society. Burchett, 66, a Communist newsman who faculty at Ripon College, Ripon, Wis., Bur­ Nov. 17: Hampshire College, Amherst, has worked for various publications chett predicted that the Communist-led Mass., open meeting. throughout the world, is known to govern­ revolutionaries in South Africa would soon Nov. 18: Lowell University, Lowell, Mass., ment officials here as a paid agent of the wage open warfare there. "Crisis in South Africa." KGB who was involved in the interrogation "South Africa is the very center of the Nov. 21: State University of New York, and torture of American PWs in Korea and anti-Imperialist struggle,'' he said. "We've Binghamton, seminar on radical journalism. Vietnam. tried many nonviolent demonstrations and Nov. 21: New York City cocktail party, He is presently, however, traveling tactics and they've all been met with force fundraising. throughout the nation presenting his views and violent reactions. Only organizing for Nov. 22: ABC-TV, New York, "Like It Is" on college campuses and raising money to armed struggle can get anywhere," he added. program. further his "future journalistic assign­ Throughout his tour Burchett has been Nov. 23: Howard University, Washington, ments" in Europe and South Africa. raising funds to help pay the expenses of D.C., open meeting. An investigation by The Post has found his future work in Africa. Nov. 24: Institute of Policy Study, Wash­ that Burchett, an Australian national who He is described in CIA reports as a top ington, D.C .. "Eurocommunism." was strictly limited in his travels here in KGB propagandist, with close ties with the Nov. 30: Yale University, New Haven, open the past, had those restrictions removed on Chinese Communists and Cuba, who is sent meeting. orders from Kissinger's office during the to potenti~:i. trouble spots. Dec. 4: State University of New York, Nixon Administration. In testimony before the Senate Internal Westbury, open meeting. AIDED HANOI Security subcommittee, KGB defector Yuri Dec. 7: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Krotkov identified Burchett as a paid KGB open meeting. Burchett, it was found, served as a liaison agent he had worked with in Europe and for the Hanoi government during the Viet­ Dec. 9: National Emergency Civil Liberties Moscow. Dinner. nam war and was responsible for passing on Burcilott has also been identified by Ameri­ diplomatic signals that led to the Paris peace Dec. 10: Philadelphia Workers Organizing can, British and Australian PWs from both Committee, public rally. talks. Korea. and Vietnam in sworn testimony as the He also conferred with U.S. negotiator person who brutally interrogated them, in Dec. 10: University of Pennsylvania, Phila­ Averell Harriman just prior to those talks to some cas-es threatened them with death and delphia, "Southern Africa and the Struggle present the North Vietnamese position. who urged many to defect at the end of the Against U.S. Imperialism." Burchett also met with Kissinger in his war. Dec. 12: Guest of honor, American Human­ White House office in October, 1971, to help ist Society, Rossoff's Restaurant, New York. pave the way for President Nixon's visit to Burchett. denies those charges, saying that China the following February. "at best I was mistaken for someone else." He also claims he is the victim of a smear [New York Post; Nov. 18, 19771 During a recent interview, Burchett ac­ BURCHETT TOLD PW: I CouLD HAVE You SHOT knowledged that he "helped with the Paris campaign directed by the John Birch So­ peace talks" but insisted he had little to do ciety which he terms "one of the small prices (By William Heffernan) with Nixon's China trip. one must ;>ay to retain one's journalistic in­ To the prisoners of war who dealt with Burchett acknowledges that he was a close tegrity while pursuing the truth from the Communist newsman Wilfred Burchett in friend of both North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh people's sicie of the barricades." Korea and Vietnam he was a brutal inter­ and China's Chou En-lai and "may have dis­ rogator who filled them with fear, a man o! cussed those matters with them." He insists, HE INVITED Us-TILL YESTERDAY great power who could say if they lived or however, that his role was "minor at best." Wilt'rPd Burchett abruptly withdrew an in­ died. RESTRICTIONS EASED vitation extended to The Post to attend his Derek Kinne, now a businessman in Tuc­ closed lecture last night before the Nieman son, Ariz., was one of those men. A State Dept. source said, however, that Fellowship Society at Harvard University. Kissinger "apparently had a different view As a member of the British Army he was of Burchett's role." Shortly after the 1971 A spoketiman for Burchett s3.id that after captured in Korea and taken to a prison White House meeting, he added, word came reading yesterday's story about himself; the camp in Chong Song where he first met down from Kissinger's office to case Burch­ Communist, newsman decided to cancel the Burchett, now 66. ett's travel restrictions in the future. invitation. The spokesman said Burchett con­ EMOTIONAL ON THE SUBJECT sidered the article "gutter journalism." Prior to that time Burchett was strictly Kinne, who holds the George Cros~ne limited in his visits to this country. In 1969, BURCHETT'S U.S. TOUR of Britain's highest honors-for his actions in fact, while covering the UN for an Ameri­ Oct. 21: Washington Irving High School, as a prisoner of war and about whom the can left-wing newspaper, he was limited to a New York City, "The World Struggle Against book "Wooden Boxes" was written detailing 10-day visit and travel within a 25-mile Imperialism." acts of heroism, still becomes emotional radius of Columbus Circle. Oct. 23: Unitarian Universalist Church, when he speaks of Burchett, who is now on On his present trip Burchett has free Buffalo, "The World In Crisis." _a controversial lecture tour of the U~S. 7114 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 "I first met him when he came to our on North Korea and China., said he first met asked me: "Why does Comrade Burchett camp to give us a lecture," he explains. "And Burchett 10 days after his plane was shot hate you so much?" we all went because we thought the bastard down in 1952. "When I told him I didn't know," Apple­ was one of us." IN BRITISH UNIFORM gate said, "he just smiled at me and said: "He started to give us this talk, this lec­ 'He who plays with cake get& his head cut "The first time I met him," Kniss said, "he ofi.'" ture," Kinne said. "It was so one-sided it was in a British uniform and I t hought he wasn't even funny. He kept referring to the Burchett is currently making a speaking was a PW too. He asked me my outfit, how and fund-raising tour of the U.S., over the Americans as 'your side' and to the Com­ I was shot down and then he came into this munists as 'our side.' strong objections of several members of Con­ germ warfare bit." gress. "Then this one guy in the audience, an­ The former fighter pilot said the Chinese other prisoner, he fashioned a noose with Despite previous limitations on his abillty began interrogat ing him the next day, trying to travel in this count ry, Burchett was * * • . his belt and shouted 'You'll hang, you to get him to sign a germ warfare confession. bastard.' And we all joined in and before That visa was granted by the U.S. Depart­ "The interrogation went on day after day, ment of Immigration at the urging of offi­ long a lot of us had nooses.'' sometimes 24 hours at a t ime," he said. "They TALKS WITH HIM cials in the State Dept. last October that has would hit me with rifle butts and sometimes no limitations. Kinne explained that Burchett became they would give me this little effeminate slap angry and began to ga.ther up his papers across the face. I hated that, it made me feel [From the New York Post, Nov. 19, 1977) to prepare to leave, then turned to the men a.shamed.'' and told us not to hope that the Americans Kniss said Burchett interrogated him as BURCHETT: THEY'RE ALL FILTHY LIARS were going to come and rescue us, because well, "but mostly served as an editor. He did (By William Heffernan) if they did we would be taken to Red China.'' most of the editing of the confession, manip­ Wilfred Burchett sat in a quiet West Side Kinne said that before Burchett could ulating the story, changing it where needed, bar this week, sipping scotch as he brushed leave he rushed up to him and began to so it would come out right and correspond aside charges that he brutalized American argue with him. to confessions already signed by other pilots. prisoners of war in Korea and Vietnam. " We got into a heated debate," Kinne "My confession was a work of art," Kniss 'These men are all filthy perjurors," added, "and he turned on me and said: 'I said. "This man was very good at what he Burchett said. "The best I can say for them could have you shot.' did. I thought the Chinese were good too, is that they may have mistaken me for some­ "I said, 'Look you bastard, you see that the way they asked questions. But then one one else." hill over there?' I said, 'There's over 600 men day one of them dropped a piece of paper as The 66-year-old Australian newsman, who who have died of malnutrition, dysentery, he was leaving my room. It had a list ·or ques­ has been identified in sworn testimony as a bari-beri, lack of medical facilities for tions in English on it, the questions I had Soviet KGB agent who interrogated and tor­ wounds, men who have been bewten and just been asked. At the bottom 1t was signed tured PWs in North Korean and Vietnamese tortured in this camp, so if you've got any 'W. Burchett.' " prison camps, said he had been "the victim spunk in you you'd do something about it.' Kniss said Burchett often reminded him of a McCarthyite smear campaign directed And he said to me, 'What can I do about it?' " that only through full cooperat ion with the by the John Birch Society." "And I told him he could tell them about Chinese, could he ever hope to return home. When it was suggested that the Birch So­ it at Panmunjom (where p(;lace talks were "He kept me in constant terror," he said. ciety would have difficulty organizing a Sun­ being held then] and he said, a good .thing "Then, when I finally had that chance, he day picnic, the cherub-faced Burchett if 'I had you shot, I think I will have you came to me and urged me to defect," Kniss laughed but insisted "there is a great deal shot.'" said. of evidence they are involved in this." GUARDS ARRIVE "When I told him I wasn't interested, he Speaking in a clipped Australian accent, An hour later, Kinne said, two Chinese started to warn me how badly I would be Burchett said the testimony of KGB defec­ guards came and took him to a small room treated in the States because of my confes­ tor Yuri Krotkov before a Senate Subcom­ "and then he tied my a.rm behind my back, sion. But this time he couldn't scare me, all mittee in 1969 and 1970 identifying his KGB tied a noose around by neck and put another I wanted to do was go home," Kniss said. work was "total fabrication." noose from the same ropes around one of Former Air Force Col. Walker Mahurin, one When asked about the American, British my feet and pulled it up behind me. of the most decorated men in Air Force his­ and Australian prisoners of war who traveled "Then they took another rope from my tory, also recalled similar encounters with to Australia to testify against him in a libel arms and threw it over a beam and pulled me Burchett. action he brought there, Burchett insisted up until I was just balancing on my left "When I got to the prison camp," Mahurin their stories too were "a tissue of lles made foot." said "Burchett was there with some other up by the Birchers." Burchett lost that suit Kinne said the guards then "told me I men'. He was dressed in a Chinese officer's but insists it was a "moral victory." wasn't a very good student in the way I'd uniform and he just stared at me the way a Many-of these same former prisoners have talked to Comrade Burchett, and that I was snake would stare at a mouse." since told The Post that their expenses were sick in the mind and they were going to cure The retired colonel said he underwent paid by the defendant, an Australian maga­ me. beatings until he signed a germ warfare con­ zine, and each insisted he had not been ap­ "I had a hernia and they hit me repeatedly fession, beatings so brutal that at one meet­ proached by any members of the Birch Soci­ right in the hernia in the groin until I ing with Burchett "I was trembling so hard ety. They also repeated the charges and in­ doubled up and began to choke from the I could hardly sit down. I was absolutely sisted they were true. noose around my neck," he added. terrified in his presence. Burchett, who is now touring the U.S. on For the next 13 months, he said, "I was "I felt he was my court of last appeal to a speaking and fund-raising visit, arranged kept in solitary confinement and beaten go home, because I ha~ been condemn.ed t~ with help from State Dept. officials, also daily while they tried to get me to sign a death as an international war criminal, denied he was a member of the Communist confession. One of the parts of that con­ Mahurin said. "I told Burchett anything he Party or had ever worked as a paid propa­ fession," he added, "was that I had a hostile wanted. I told him whatever he wanted me gandist for Communist regimes. He has been attitude to Comrade Burchett.'' to tell him." identified as such by various federal agen­ A CONFRONTATION Another person who knew Burchett in cies, and as such requires a special waiver Panmunjom was Richard Applegate, former to enter this country. Kinne, like the other former prisoners Southeast Asia manager for United Press. The tour, Burchett said, will hopefullJ quoted in this article, testified in a libel suit Now retired and living in Boston, Apple­ "raise enough money to finance my work brought by Burchett in Australia. over a mag­ gate, 65, told The Post how Burchett had next year in Europe and Africa. azine story identifying him as a KGB agent told him and other newsmen here that he "Africa is the important place," he said, who interrogated PWs in Korea. and Vietnam. was a. Communist. adding he had made three recent visits there. Burchett lost that suit and was ordered to "We didn't much like him and we decided pay $100,000 in court costs. "Believe me, Africa is headed for open to express that distaste," Applegate said. We armed conflict. Preparations are now being Earlier this week during an interview with gave him an insulting birthday cake. · Burchett, The Post brought Kinne to that made by South African black leaders, mem­ Applegate said that a few days later he bers of the African National Congress." meeting. took a sailboat that he had purchased out Upon seeing Kinne, Burchett blurted out: to sea, for a. shakedown cruise that he had Throughout his career Burchett has stead­ "It wasn't me who threatened to have you fastly reported from the Communist side, or boasted a.bout to the entire press corps, in­ what he terms, "the people's side of the shot, it was another man named Shapiro. cluding Burchett. You're confusing me with him." "A few miles out I was intercepted by a barricades." Kinne stared back at Burchett, saying: "l Red Chinese gunboat," he said, "and forci­ Those governments have given him un­ could never forget the person who did that bly towed to Red China. usual treatment in return. to me and you're that man.'' "They kept me there for 18 months," Ap­ Burchett lived in Moscow after the World Another PW who remembers Burchett is plegate added, "trying to get me to sign a War II, in a building reserved for prominent former U.S. Air Force Lt. Paul Kniss, now a confession that I knew about the American Soviet citizens. airline pilot for United Airlines. germ warfare program but was not report­ In 1971 Fidel Castro personally issued him Kniss, who after months of day and night ing it." a Cuban passport, after learning that he was interrogation signed a false confession that One of the interrogators almost knocked traveling on a North Korean travel docu­ he had been dropping germ warfare bombs me off my feet one day when he suddenly ment. (Burchett's Australian passport was March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7115 lifted by that government for 19 yea.rs and Dept.'s role in obtaining a U.S. travel visa ment wm come from increased toll charges. not returned until 1972) . for Communist newsman Wilfred Burchett. It becomes more apparent with ea.ch pass­ "The North Korean t ravel document was The bipartisan group-Mario Bia.ggi (D­ ing day that the economic effects of the an enormous thing," Burchett said, "and N .Y.) , Lawrence McDonald (D-Ga.) and treaties have not been made clear and should Fidel had heard about it and offered me the Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif. )-each ques­ be given closer examination, especially now Cuban passport a.s a. convenience." He added: tioned the wisdom of allowing the 66-year­ that the full Senate is considering them. "I believe that is the thing that truly ,got the old Burchett into this country in light of Sen. John G. Tower (Texas), of the Senate U.S. government so concerned a.bout me, charges that he has been an agent for the Armed Services Committee, recently released that Cuban passport." Soviet KGB and that he brutally inter­ his testimony before that Committee which rogated prisoners of war in Korea and Viet­ contained some startling revelations. BURCHETT DENIES HE'S A PAID SPY FOR THE nam. "The Committee devoted substantial time SOVIET Burchett, an Australian who acknowledges to hearings recently concluded on the eco­ (By William Heffernan) that he reports from the Communist per­ nomic aspects of the treaties in addition to the relevant national security considera­ Communist reporter Wilfred Burchett de­ spective, entered this country last month, and has been crisscrossing the nation on a tions. nied today he was a paid agent of the Soviet "Information being placed on the public KGB secret police or involved in the torture speaking and fund raising tour with the blessing of State Dept. officials. record by the Committee includes testimony of U.S. prisoners of war in Asia. by numerous expert witnesses as well as a The 66-year-old Australian, in a press con­ As reported in The Post last week, those officials aided Burchett in obtaining a visa detailed economic impact assessment pre­ ference at the Americana, said he was the pared by American Management Systems, victim of a "McCarthy-type smear campaign without advising the Immigration Dept., which issues visas, of his past activities. Inc," Tower said. launched by the New York Post." "The study provided showed that the pro­ The Post ran a. four-part series last week WON'T NAME THEM posed Panama Canal Commission being disclosing that Burchett was making a fund­ When questioned by reporters at the State created to replace the present Panama Canal raising speaking tour of U.S. college cam­ Dept.'s daily briefing in Washington yes­ Co. could have a deficit as high as $133 mil­ puses despite his being known to govern­ terday, spokesman Rodding Carter declined lion by 1985, increasing to $548 m1llion in the ment officials as a. KGB agent who had inter­ to identify the officials involved in getting year 2000. To avoid such a deficit, the canal rogated POW's both in Korea and Vietnam. the visa. He insisted, however, that Immigra­ tolls would have to be dramatically increased NAMES CL\ tion personnel should have been aware of and, since the commission would be a U.S. Today Burchett said the only intelllgence Burchett's background based on informa­ government agency, any deficit would be the agency that had ever attempted to recruit tion provided to them in 1969 and 1971. responsibility of the U.S. Treasury," the him was the CIA. At a press conference here yesterday, Bur­ Texan continued. He said he received a. $100,000 cash offer chett denied being a paid agent of the KGB Tower cited four specific areas in which from the CIA during the Panmunjom peace or being involved in torturing American additional costs will accrue to the U.S. gov­ negotiations "about 25 years ago," when he prisoners of war. He acknowledged he had ernment if the treaties are approved: was covering the Korean war from the North "interviewed" POWs in both the Korean and Loss of interest payments to the Treasury: Korean side. Vietnam wars, but insisted his role had been The annual payment of about $20 million in At that time Burchett was best known a.s merely that of a correspondent, not as inter­ interest on the net U.S. investment in Pan­ the leading publicizer of charges that the rogator. ama will cease under the terms of the treaty. U.S. was using germ warfare against Com­ 'SELECTIVE LAXITY' This will cost the U.S. Treasury at least $440 munist forces. Taking issue with the State Dept. on the million in revenues between now and the CONFIRMS REPORT visa, Biaggi yesterday charged that officials year 2000. He said reporter Ed Hymon of Hearst's In­ there "seem to practice a policy of selective Early Retirement Benefits: Current em­ ternational News Service acted as intermedi­ laxity with respect to granting visas.'' . ployees of the Panama Canal Co. are to be ary for the CIA and confirmed reports by McDonald, talking from his Atlanta, Ga. given early retirement pay by the Civil Serv­ columnist Jack Anderson that Hymon had office, said he had spoken to several high­ ice Commission costing from $6.5 to $8.4 said, "My outfit wants to pay you $100,000 ranking State Dept. officials and "I have be­ million per year. Between now and 2000, a cash down to write the story of your life. come convinced that some people there are conservative estimate of these additional But you must write it on our side of the now lying and trying to cover their tracks." costs is $165 million. line ..." Dornan, who said he requested and re­ Impact on the Department of Defense Burchett claimed today he had forgotten ceived a top-secret CIA briefing on Burchett Budget: Transferring hospitals, schools and the offer until Anderson found records of it last week after reading The Post articles, other support functions to the responsibil­ in newly opened CIA files and called him for said there "is no question of his KGB back­ ity of DOD will require funds of about $5 confirmation. ground or his brutal treatment of prisoners million each year in DOD outlays that will Acknowledging he had "interviewed" U.S. of war. not be reimbursed by the Commission. prisoners in both Asian wars, Burchett in­ DOD Relocation Costs: The required relo­ "It seems inconceivable to me that this cation of U.S. military bases in the Canal sisted his role had been merely that of a cor­ same State Dept. could hound (rock star) respondent, not an interrogator. He appeared Zone will incur a one-time cost of $43 mil­ John Lennon over one marijm1na arrest and lion. nervous under questioning. then defend letting this Soviet apologist of Asked if he knew the PWs had been tor­ Adding these additional costs for the 22- torture and murder enjoy a propaganda orgy year period from now to the year 2000 yields tured either before or after his "interviews," from coast to coast."• Burchett said: "I don't believe so. Some may a total estimate of $785 million, Tower said. have been under pressure, but then, all "The figures I have referred to could well prisoners were under pressure then." run these total costs not just into the mil­ lions, but well over a billion U.S. dollars," Yesterday, referring to the testimony of THE NEW MORALITY: PAY PANAMA; he continued. "President Carter is simply KGB and Viet Cong defectors as well as. that GYP VETERANS . not telling the whole story when he claims of former PWs who gave sworn testimony 'payments to Panama will come from tolls against him. Burchett had insisted they were paid by ships which use the canal.' The all "fantastic stories." HON. GEORGE HANSEN public has a right to know more about what CALL THEM 'HILARIOUS' OF IDAHO we are being asked to agree to in under­ writing Panama if the proposed treaties "In fact, when you read some of them IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES they were hilarious," he said. should be put into effect," the ranking mi­ Asked if he intended to sue The Post for Wednesday, March 15, 1978 nority Committee member concluded. It is not difficult to understand why the the alleged false statements about him, both • Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, as a mem­ Burchett and his lawyer, Marshall Perlin, Carter Administration is reluctant to make said they were "exploring that possibility" ber of the Committee on Veterans' Af­ all the pertinent economic details available a.s well as "investigating other appropriate fairs, I call to the attention of my col­ for public scrutiny. The silent majority who steps." leagues a recent article by Dr. John have been opposed to the new treaties from the outset would most certainly raise their If his many articles about Communist gov­ Wasylik, commander-in-chief of the Veterans' of Foreign Wars, which ap­ voices in unified protest if all the facts were ernments over the years, Burchett conceded known. none had been critical of those regimes. peared in the March 1978 issue of the ·It is significant that Sen. Robert C. Byrd "No, my writings have always been sym­ VFW magazine. This presentation (W. Va.), who is leading the Administra­ pathetic to those causes," he said. clearly expresses the opinion of not only tion's fight for ratification in the Senate, the VFW, but the Nation as well. conceded these points on the second day of (From the New York Post, Nov. 22, 1977) PAY PANAMA; GYP VETERANS the debate over ratification. THREE IN CONGRESS SCORE VISA President Carter has been telling us that It will be interesting to see how many (By William Heffernan) giving the canal to Panama will not cost the more misrepresentations of the facts will be Three Congressmen today urged the House ·American taxpayer one cent since all monies exposed as the Senate continues to hash Judiciary Committee to investigate the State which will be paid to the Torrijos govern- over the treaties' provisions. 7116 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 Once again the Carter Administration has Corva1.:1s Chamber of Commerce. either opposed transferring the property cut veterans' programs by $38 million and Dallas Senior Center to Panama or were leaning against the eliminated a new proposed VA hospital in Estac.1.da Chamber of Commerce. Camden, N.J., despite t he lengt hy studies Eugene Chamber of Commerce. transfer. The number included almost that showed the area's need for such a facil­ Eugene Communications Workers of Amer­ an equal breakdown of Democrats, 106, ity. The hospital's construction was ap­ ica Local No. 9206. and Republicians, 102. proved by President Ford and reaffirmed by Grants Pass & Josephine County Chamber A total of 131 Members either favored President Cart er just last year. But now of Commerce. the transfer or were leaning that way. there is no need for it, says VA Administra­ Heppner-Moro County Chamber of Com­ These findings show a sharp contrast tor Max Cleland. merce. between the House, all of whose Mem­ That isn't the only shocker. Holcomb-Outlook-Park Place Neighbor­ bers are up for reelection this year, and The VA budget eliminates over 3,100 beds hood Association. from existing hospitals to save $32 million. Jackson County Chapter 415 National As- the Senate, only one third of which is up Yet vet erans must go wit hout medical treat­ sociation of Retired People. reelection this year. Senator Alan Cran­ ment because they are turned away from VA Junction City Chamber of Commerce. ston told the Scripps League last week hospitals by the thousands. Klamath Falls Board of Commissioners. that 62 percent of his Senate colleagues Medical research from which veterans and Klamath Falls Quota Club. were prepared to vote for the treaties, all other Americans benefit is cut by more Lake Oswego Kiwanis. which is an interesting contrast to just than $500,000 and 34 personnel positions are Lane County Farm Bureau. 300 percent of House Members so in­ lost. This action ironically follows last year's Lane County Labor Council. award of Nobel prizes for medical research Lents Citizens for Youth Commission. clined as disclosed in the Scripps poll. to two VA doctors. Madras Chamber of Commerce. Unfortunately not many have seen the Medical treatment for the nation's veterans Marion County Pomona Grange No. 4. results of the poll of House Members will suffer a still further reduction of $5.5 Medford Chamber of Commerce. because of the shockingly restrictive re­ million because cost-of-living pay raises for Medford C.W.A. Local No. 9208. porting by the national media regarding all VA employees are not in the budget. They Metro East Jaycees. negative factors involved in the treaty will have to come from within the agency. Milwaukee Jaycees. debate. The same is true of the news re­ President Carter's budget does not include Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce. porting the classic constitutional fight a cost-of-living increase in payments to Mt. Angel Development Corporation. Multi-purpose Dallas Senior Advisory by the House to exercise its legal and Vietnam veterans studying under the GI traditional role in measures involving Bill. Council. National Governors Conference. the appropriations process and the dis­ In another blow to veterans that will have National Retired Teachers' Association, a far-reaching effect, the VA department position of property led by 231 Members Tillamook County Chapter. who are sponsoring necessary legislation handling veterans' claims and problems is to Oak-Grove Lodge Jaycees. lose 667 people under the proposed budget. Mr. Speaker, for the benefit of my Oregon AFL-CIO. RECORD You can be assured the V.F.W. will fight Oregon Architectural Barriers Council, Inc. colleagues, I include for the a in Congress to restore t hese and other dras­ Oregon Building Congress. copy of the Scripps League article of tic cuts.e Oregon City Hilltop Booster Club. March 10, 1978, as well as an article by Oregon City Kiwanis. Mr. Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media Oregon Coast Association. on March 10, 1978. The articles follow: NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS Oregon Collectors Association, Inc. HALF OF HOUSE MEMBERS WOULD VOTE POLICY Oregon Gray Panthers. AGAINST CAN AL TRANSFER Oregon Hospitality and Visitors Associa- ( By Lee Roderick and Mike Richins) tion. HON. JAMES WEAVER Oregon State Grange. WASHINGTON.-If the House of Representa­ tives voted today on whether to transfer the OF OREGON Oregon State Jaycees. Pacific Northwest Travel Association. Panama Canal to Panama, nearly half of its IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Polk County Chapter AARP No. 587. 435 members say they would definitely or Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Polk Elderly Transportation, Inc. Board. likely vote no. Less than one-third say they Portland of Arlington. would definitely or likely vote yes. • Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, a large Roseburg Chamber of Commerce. This is the key finding of an off-the-record number of public and private organiza­ Salem Area Seniors Inc. survey of all 435 offices by Scripps League tions, at the request of the telecommuni­ Salem Chamber of Commerce. Newspapers. The telephone survey was con­ cations industry, have taken positions Scandinavian Benevolent Society. duct ed between March 3-9. It suggests the expressing concern that Congress should Seaside Chamber of Commerce. treaties are in even more trouble on Capitol Senior Citizens Council of Benton County, Hill than generally believed. expeditiously review and determine the Inc. The House's role in the canal negotiations national telecommunications policy. Stayton Chamber of Commerce. is a hot issue, with Carter administration They are also concerned that any policy Stayton Grange No. 340. holding that the Senate alone, .through its not have an adverse impact on either the The Dallas Chamber of Commerce. treaty power, can tran~fer Canal Zone prop­ cost or quality of basic residential and Umatilla County Board of Commissiomir~. erty to Panama. Others cite Art icle IV, Sec­ basi:~ long distance services. Warrenton Chamber of Commerce. tion 3 of the Constitution to argue that the Western Governors Conference. full Congress must vote on property aspects The Oregon organizations who have Winston-Dillard Chamber of Commerce.e of the canal treaties as part of the ratifica­ submitted their formal position on tele­ tion process-rather than after the fact. The communications policy: House at least will be voting on implementa­ Corbett Kiwanis Club. tion of the treaties. Linkvllle Kiwanis, Klamath Falls. HOUSE WOULD VOTE 2 TO Members of the Hou~e or their key aides Newport Chamber of Commerce. were asked this question in the Scripps Toledo Chamber of Commerce. AGAINST TREATIES League survey: "Tf the House were allowed City of Happy Valley. to vote todav on transferring the Panama Albany AARP Chapter No. 668. HON. GEORGE HANSEN Canal and related property to Panama, how Albany Chamber of Commerce. would you vote?" Offices not ,ziving a firm American Business Women's Association. OF IDAHO "yes" or "no" were then asked : "Are you Arlington Chamber of Commerce. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leaning for or against the property transfer?" One hundred seventy con!!'res'>ional offices Arlington Senior Citizens. Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Astoria-AARP. said they would vote no on transferring the Astoria Chamber of Commerce. • Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, Members property to Panama. An additional 38 said Baker County Chamber of Commerce. of the House would oppose transferring they are leaning against the transfer. The Bend AARP Chapter No. 438. two groups total 208 representatives--48 per Bend Chamber of Commerce. the Panama Canal to Panama by nearly cent•of the House membership. City of Arlington. a 2 to 1 margin according to a poll of Congressmen who say they would vote for City of Carlton. Member's offices by Scripps League transf'erring the canal to Panama number City of Heppner. Newspapers. 102. Another 30 report they are leaning in City of Klamath Falls. that direction, for a total of 132 who favor The survey asked: ''If the House were t he property transfer. The figure represents City of Medford. allowed to vote today on transferring City of Pendleton. 30 per cent of House membership. City of Warrenton. the Panama Canal and related property Seventy members are uncommitted on the Clackamas County Senior Citizens Council. to Panama, how would you vote?'' issue and another 25 declined comment. Commercial Club of Portland. The story by Mr. Lee Roderick and Mr. Almost an equal number of House Demo­ Condon Senior Citizens. Mike Richins said 208 Representatives crats and Republicans-106 and 102 re- March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7117 spectively-are against, or leaning against, the resolution from being voted upon untll into task forces that focused on a spe­ giving the canal to Panama. Only 22 Repub­ after the Senate ratifies the Panama Canal cific issue. Each task force met in the licans say they would definitely or likely Treaties. It would then be more difficult for vote for the transfer, along with 110 Demo­ the House to enforce what it considers its morning and afternoon and presented crats. constitutional right to vote on the disposi­ recommendations at the closing session. On ~- regional breakdown, only 13 mem­ tion of property owned by the Federal Gov­ Subjects covered by the task forces in­ bers from southern and border states are ernment. cluded community impact, capital gen­ for, or leaning for, transferring the canal to This right is based on Article IV, Section eration, environmental control. Federal Panama, with 76 southerners going the other 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution which says, and State investment policies. labor. and way. In the Northeast, 47 members favor the "The Congress shall have power to dispose of transportation. transfer, with 44 members opposed. In the and make all needful rules and regulations Midwest, 41 members are in favor, with 53 respe::ting the territory or other property I would now like to draw the attention opposed. In the far West, 31 members are in belonging to the United States.'' There have of my colleagues to a resolution adopted favo~·. with 31 opposed. been four previous occasions on which the by the steel conference which outlines The Scripps League findings reveal a sharp U.S. has turned small portions of the Canal suggestions for future actions to help contrast between the House and the Senate, Zone over to Panama. In 1932 and 1937 the solve the problems of the steel industry. which is debating the two canal treaties. transfers were effected by Acts of Congress. The resolution voices support for the rec­ Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston (D­ In 1943, an executive agreement transfering ommedations made in the Solomon re­ Calif.) said Thursday that 62 senators­ property was approved by a Congressional port as well as further measures that which also means 62 per cent-are "almost Joint Resolution. In 1955, one provision of imrely" prepared to vote for treaty ratifica­ the treaty specifically recognized the need for should be taken. tion, as opposed to only 30 per cent who feel implementing legislation. Two others did not AGENDA FOR ACTION that way in the House. have a specific provision for such legislation, At its closing session, the conference, It is generally believed that representa­ but a State Department official acknowledged by acclamation, adopted the following tives, a great majority of whom must face that they would require such legislation, ac­ cording to a Library of Congress study. three recommendations which repre­ voters in November, reflect the sentiments sented an agenda for immediate recom­ of their constituents more accurately than This study concluded: "It is clear that mendations action: their Senate counterparts. Only one-third Congress has often asserted an exclusive right of the senators are up for reelection this to dispose of federal territory and property. First. Pennsylvania Steel Conference year. It is also apparent that both the Executive urges the Carter administration to pro­ More than 230 members of the House have and the Senate have recognized that claim vide immediate support for the steel signed a resolution introduced by Rep. in past dispositions of property in the Canal industry: Enforce strictly the anti­ George V. Hansen (R-Idaho), which calls Zone to Panama." dumping provisions of existing interna­ for a House vote on property aspects of the Now that the entire Canal Zone is to be tional trade agreements to prohibit the treaties as part of treaty ratification. given to Panama, this previously recognized right of the House of Representatives to sale of foreign steel in the United States Constitutional scholars are divided on below cost; and maintain import restric­ whether the House has a right to participate have a voice in the decision is being ig­ in the property transfer aspects of the nored. That is not, perhaps, too surprising. tion agreements on specialty steel prod­ treaties. The Senate alone clearly has the since the clearly expressed feelings of the ucts that represent a small but vital power, on a two-thirds vote, to ratify or re­ people in this matter are also being ignored. share of the domestic steel production. ject a presidential tre3.ty. However, Article The Carter Administration's big campaign Second. The Pennsylvania Steel Con­ IV, Section 3 of the Constitution says "The to swing public opinion behind the Canal treaties has been a flop. This was demon­ ference calls upon the Carter adminis­ Congress shall have Power to dispose of ... tration and the Congress to give high the Territory or other Property belonging to strated by the reaction of the public to the the United States; ..." President's televised fireside chat on the tre:1- priority to those targeted public invest­ ties on February 1. Scholars agree that, if the House did have ments that will stimulate a long-term a say in the canal transfer, it would take a The public was turned off by the fireside demand for steel and promote balanced majority of its voting members to approve chat. That night and the following day, growth throughout the national econ­ the action. The Scripps League survey in­ The White House received 1,509 telephone omy. dicates that if such a vote were taken today, calls opposing the treaties and only 193 favoring them. For some mysterious reason, Third. The Pennsylvania Steel Confer­ the House would deny President Carter the ence reaffirms its intention to review right to sign away the canal and adjacent treaty supporters called the White House property to Panama. in greater numbers on February 3, but the thoroughly all Government programs fin:1.l tally was negative by 1937 to 807. The which affect the steel industry and to HOUSE DEMANDS VOI CE ON CANAL DECISION; White House won't say how many letters it MEDIA MUFFLE IT develop quickly recommendations aimed got, but after stalling for nearly a month, a at providing a more favorable climate for WASHINGTON.-Did you know that over spokesman told me the mail had been against half of the members of the House of Repre­ the steel industry and for the hundreds the treaties by a ratio of 4 to 1. of thousands of Americans who depend sentatives have demanded that the House The House reflects popular will more be given a voice in the Panama Canal de­ closely than the Senate, which is why its upon it for their livelihood. cision? Did you know that 219 members of right to vote is being denied. Big media are In the time that has fallowed, the the House, one over a majority, had co­ helping by muffing the cries of protest.e President's Task Force on the Steel In­ signed a resolution saying that no U.S. prop­ dustry, headed by Undersecretary of the erty in the Canal Zone should be transferred to a foreign country without authorizing Treasury Anthony M. Solomon, an­ legislation being passed by both houses of nounced a plan to protect the steel in­ Congress? Not if you depended on Big Media PENNSYLVANIA STEEL CONFER­ dustry against unfair imports and to for your news. ENCE-AGENDA FOR ACTION help provide financing for moderniza­ I didn't know this until a member of tion. In some areas, the President's task Accuracy in Media called me all the way force report is quite consistent with the from California to verify a report that she HON. DOUGLAS WALGREN proceedings of the Pennsylvania Steel had seen in a weekly Washington paper, OF PENNSYLVANIA Spotlight, published by the far-right Liberty Conference, while in others the confer­ Lobby. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ence proceedings suggest the need for I checked the story out and found that Wednesday, March 15, 1978 the administration and the · Congress to not only had the resolution been signed, but e Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, on No­ refine, extend, or amplify the task force that Congressman George Hansen of Idaho plan. had taken the highly unusual action of vember 10, 1977, the Pennsylvania Con­ going to the Senate chambers on February 10 ference on Steel was convened in Pitts­ Now the conference presents a further and personally delivering a copy of the res­ burgh-the heart of America's steel in­ agenda for action by both the Federal olution to Senate Majority Leader Robert dustry. The conference brought together and State governments. This agenda was Byrd. Congressman Hansen asked that the leading figures in the steel industry, or­ developed in consultation with the mod­ resolution be entered into the Senate record ganized labor, government, interest erators and comoderators of the confer­ of the current Panama Canal debate. groups, and the academic community in ence panels and seeks to pinpoint specific Congressman Hansen made this unusual a common effort to develop and discuss move because even though the resolution steps which should be taken to deal with has been co-sponsored by a majority of the · ideas relating to the current steel crisis. the community impacts of the steel in­ members of the House, House Speaker Tip As a means of dealing with the issues dustry decline, alleviate some of the bur­ O'Neill has indicated his intention to keep involved, the conference was divided dens of pollution control, and provide 7118 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 new economic stimulus and new tools to bodied in H .R 9849, and hearings may be NAVAL RESERVE ASSOCIATION assist in steel industry modernization. sch eduled on it this spring, before the health JOINS IN OPPOSING THE PRO­ end environment subcommittee. Walker has POSED PANAMA CANAL TREATIES GOALS enlisted 21 cosponsors for his bill. All Pennsylvania conferees and ob­ Rep. Charles Whalen, Jr., R-3, has charged servers agreed that s:Jme mechanism is his staff with studying the need for com­ HON. GEORGE HANSEN plet e ingredient disclosure to aid consum­ OF IDAHO necessary ton ·.:tore the competitive bal­ ers oq special diets. ance that exi. ·t~d before unfair steel Walker's bill would require depicting the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES import practice cut deeply into domestic relat ionsh ip of calories to nutrients in a Wednesday, March 15, 1978 steel production. Whether this takes the food, " using a system of symbols, figures, or form of a reference price system, in­ othe:- devices, which will readily enable con­ e Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Speaker, I re­ creased enforcement of international sumers to comprehend the information." cently received a letter date March 9, trade agreements, or some other remedy, Walker recommends a system developed by 1978 from Capt. Fred D. Carl, USNR Albert Heijn of Hol!and. ; Whalen, meanwhile, is soliciting comments On behalf of the 19,000 member Naval Re­ Third. Clarify pollution standards and from persons who have been advers~ly af­ serve Associat ion, I respectfully urge your allow for consideration of economic im­ fe cted by un'isted food ingredients. His support for disapproval of the two proposed pact in determination compliance sched­ address is 1035 Longworth House Office Build­ Panama Canal treaties. Enclosed herewit h is ules; and ing, Wac_;hington. D.C. 20515. a copy of the posit ion statement adopted by One case Whalen cites is that of Michael the National Executive Committee of the Fourth. Target Federal and State as­ Gr:vbsank's "ice cream death," in 1962. Gryb­ Naval Reserve Association on February 25, sistance programs toward areas th,\ t sank was extremelv allergic to pe3.n11t butt er. 1978, following an intensive review of the have been or could be ad ersely affected He died as a result of eating b11tterfirnrnr issues involved. It is believed that the treat­ by the steel situation 1 ') that future ice cream, wtiich cont ained candy, which ies, even with the proposed amendments, are €·conomic development c n be realized contained peanut butter. But the peanut not in the national interests of the United b utter was not listed on the ice cream label States. and relieve the immedi. ~e impact on as ~n ine-reciient. communities that have a steel based Having visit ed the Canal Zone and Panama This is possible because standard foods, of several times during the past year, most re­ economy.• which ice creinion that the ratification of the new Pan­ ent lists on food? ,none, or only some, of their ingredients. ama Canal Treaties as proposed by the Ad­ T wo congressmen assume you would. And 64 % listed "spices, flavoring, colorings, ministration, or even as amended as proposed Rep. Robert Walker, R-Pa., is recommend- and vegetable oils in general terms." t o clarify certain points in the treaties, would 1ng we switch from our present system of nu­ In the three years since, the Food and Drug be cont rary to the national interests of the trition labeling to a graphic system popular Administration has moved to require identi­ United States. The Naval Reserve Associa­ ln Europe. fication of oils (effective this July 1) and has tion is opposed to these treaties for the fol­ Walker's recommendation is already em- proposed listing of tartrazine.e lowing reasons : March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7119 1. The protracted discussions concerning holding of payments due under the terms of the position to make things very difficult for the interpretation of "neutrality" and the the treaty-which may not be feasible due the U.S. if we did not acquiesce to future drug traffic t hrough Panama are diversionary to Panama's ability to retaliate in other ways Panamanian demands, due to Panama's con­ 2-nd tend to mask the principal defects of the (see 4 above). Following expiration of the trol of the police, courts, and the Canal Zone treat ies, without which these problems would proposed new treaties, we would have no territory ( under the terms of the proposed not arise. The relinquishment by the U.S. of means of securing observance by Panama of treaties). The same rationale that has given its rightful and necessary control of the the terms of the treaties, short of force, rise to the.se treaties could be used to justify Canal Zone, and the consequent inability of which might be inhibited by considerations further demands and concessions in the fu­ the U.S. to enforce compliance by Panama of our relations with other Latin-American ture. with any of its treaty obligations would not countries. 18. Increased payments. to Panama, if be possible, once Panama has taken control 11. The Panama Canal operation presently deemed appropriate, should be possible under of the Canal Zone. pays about $26 million annually into the the presen..t operating arrangements, without 2. The instability of Panamanian govern­ U.S. Treasury on unrecovered investment. If the necessity of destroying the treaty that ments (59 revolutions in 75 years) raises a the proposed treaties are ratified, this income enabled the Canal to be built and which serious question as to the degree of reliance will be lost and will have to be made up by today remains the foundation of a vitally we can place on honoring of treaty obliga­ the American taxpayers. This is one of the important link in U.S. security and world tions by Panamanian governments, both pres­ additional hidden costs in the treaties. commerce. The proposed treaties will enable ent and future. The unreliability of the pre­ 12. The U.S. presence in Panama is legiti­ Panama, after the year 1999, to charge ex­ sent government has already been indicated mate m every respect, and our rights there orbitant and/ or discriminatory shipping tolls by the numerous recent violations of the ex­ were lawfully obtained under the 1903 treaty. if it chooses, with no recourse by other na­ isting treaty provisions. In addition, the U.S. purchased all property tions except to ship overland at other points 3. The near-unanimity of retired U.S. Navy rights in the Canal Zone from the individual or to go around the Horn. flag officers in opposition to the proposed new owners and paid $25 million to Columbia in 19. The U.S. has other treaties in perpetuity treaties (241 out of 245) strongly suggests 1922 for a quitclaim agreement. The Panama with other nations concerning the Panama that senior active-dut y officers are under Canal itself was designed, constructed and Canal, e.g., the Hay-Paunce!ote Treaty o! pressure by the Administration to endorse paid for by the United States, a tremendous 1901. With Panama in control of the Canal, the treaties. engineering feat which stands today as a we could no longer· guarantee fulfillment of 4. Panamanian control over land and roads monument to U.S. enterprise, determination, our obligations under such treaties. of the Canal Zone would jeopardize the secu­ courage and ingenuity. 20. The U.S. successfully defended and op­ rity of the Panama Canal and make effec­ 13. Four former Chiefs of Naval Operations erated the Panama Canal through two world tive operation impossible as well as greatly issued a joint statement calling for continued wars, the Korean War, the Cuban Crisis, interfere with operation and supply of re­ U.S. sovereignty and control of the Panama and Vietnam. This would seem to answer the maining U.S. military installations, should Canal and the Canal Zone, based upon the argument that the Canal cannot be success­ the Panamanian government ':lecide to op­ vital necessity for having reliable availability fully defended. Sabotage attempts or actions pose U.S. policies or extract new concessions. of the Canal for U.S. Naval forces, and the by local dissidents to put one or more of the '5. Joint military planning and defense of ability to deny use of the Canal to enemies Canal locks out of operation would require the Panama Canal and Canal Zone by the of the U.S. Admiral Moore further stated, a team of well organized demolitionists and a United States and Panama is not realistic, "In military affairs, there is no substitute considerable amount of time to be successful. since it is based on the tenuous assumption for ownership of the territory and the abil­ ity to control or to deny the waters and air Thereis no milibry reason why the security that Panama will be a willing and cooper­ of the locks cannot be successfully defended ative partner. If this assumption proves to be space." 14. A strong possibility exists that the against such attempts. In addition, the eco­ invalid, effect ive joint planning and defense nomic disadvantage that would be suffered would not be possible. Panaima Canal will come under communist control if Panama is given control of the by Panama if the Canal were to be put out 6. Contrary to popular opinion the U.S. of operation would be sufficient to expect Navy no longer has sufficient ships for con­ Canal Zone. The present Torrijos government is unelected, having seized power by force of that Panama would take measures to prevent stituting a "two-ocean Navy" to fulfill its acts of sabotage. global missions and commitments simultane­ arms in 1968. The communist ties of that government and its close relations with the 21. Should Panama later decide to abro­ ously (the number of Navy ships has de­ gate certain treaty rights granted to the creased from 976 in 1968 to 457 in 1978). Castro government in Cuba strongly suggest that the Canal could easily come under U.S. under the proposed treaties, the U.S. Therefore, our ability to shift Naval power would put itself in the :;>0sition of "im­ from one ocean to another, as the need arises, strong communist influence or control, perialist aggressor" if it attempted to use is dependent upon unrestricted access to the should the U.S. relinquish its present rights. The possible uses of the Canal by our oppo­ force to ensure those rights. Thus, the Panama Canal. The same is true with respect treaties, rather than solving a current issue, to U.S. maritime commerce in view of the nents as a tool in cold war tactics are not · difficult to imagine. may actually create greater problems in the fact that over 90 percent of our raw mate­ future. rials are imported and depend to a major ex­ 15. The proposed treaties provide no com­ tent on transit through the Panama canal. pensation to the U.S. for th~ tremendous in­ 22 . It is not re:;i.sonable to expect that a very The proposed clarification of the treaties trestment it has made in the Panama Canal small country such as Panama, as landlord that U.S. warships would have the right of and the Canal Zone. Not only is this huge in­ of one of the world's most strategic water­ expeditious transit of the Canal for an "in­ vestment, amounting to about $7 billion, ways, would remain immune from interna­ definite" period is not adequate assurance, with all U.S. property rights, handed over tional pressures, despite the dechrations of since the term, "indefinite", could be con­ gratis, but the U.S. is committed to pay Pan­ the proposed neutrality treaty. The long strued to mean a short period of time. ama an estimatej $60 million annually, plus term interests of the U.S. and all nations 7. The credibility of the United States as hundreds of millions more under economic would be best served by having control of a world leader in resisting communist ex­ and military programs during the life of the the Canal remain with the U.S. whose record pansion would be greatly undermined by sur­ treaties-after which we would have no of Canal management and operation has rendering control of the Panama canal to rights at all except a nebulously worded per­ been very creditable and fair. Panama, which to say the least is sympathe­ mission to help defend the Canal. In addi­ 23 . The State Department has indicated tic toward communism-particularly in the i tion, a reasonable possibility exists that the that .the primary problems with Panama are face of threats and warnings of violence and proposed Panama Canal Commission would political in nature. The only reasons thus far sabotage if we fail to do otherwise. 'find it politically expedient not to raise ship­ advanced for surrendering U.S. control are : 8. The current ability of the United States ping tolls in order to cover the greatly in­ a. Threats of violence and sabotage if the to deny use of the Canal to its adversaries is creased payments to Panama, but instead to proposed treaties are not ratified. (To suggest not addressed in the new treaties and would pay them from U.S. government subsidies. that the U.S. should negotiate from fear and be completely lost if control is relinquished These aspects are not only unacceptable but blackmail, particularly when the potential to Panama. are an affront to U.S. citizens and taxpayers. opposing force is so miniscule, is unworthy 9. On expiration of the proposed new trea­ 16. Relinquishment of U.S. control raises of a great power and is a policy of appease­ ties, Panama's ability to charge exorbitant the possibility of frequent and prolonged ment.) and/ or discriminatory tolls could be a con­ shutdowns of the Canal. Should the treaties b. Surrendering control of the Panama tinuing source of friction and possible vio­ be ratified, many employees of the Panama Canal would improve our relations with lence between Panama and shipping nations. Canal Co., including key personnel, may Latin-American countries. (Any good will so Panamanian control could also be used as a elect to return to the U.S. in a relatively short obtained would very likely be forgotten by lever to promote communism in countries period of time, seeing no future there for succeeding governments, who certainly would which are presently democratic. themselves and the encroachment of an un­ not appreciate the higher ship tolls that 10. Despite assurances to the contrary, Pan­ friendly Panamanian government. This could these treaties .can be expected to bring.) This a·manian leaders have publicly expressed an lead to operational errors by inexperienced massive "giveaway" may even be regarded intention not to abide by the terms of the Panamanian personnel with consequent dis­ as justific:;i.tion for demanding more U.S. aid proposed neutrality treaty. After Panama has rupticn of ship traffic. for themselves. Further, many Latin-Ameri­ taken control of the Canal Zone, our only 17. The operating arrangements detailed in can leaders and officials are inhibited from means of ensuring that they will honor the the proposed treaties contain considerable supporting continued U.S. control of the terms of the treaty will be the possible with- potential for trouble. Panama would be in Canal because such would be unpopular and 7120 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978 To hold hearings on S. 408, to extend MARCH 20 contrary to the "get Uncle Sam" syndrome. 8:00 a.m. It is probable that many Latin-American certain benefits to ASCS county em­ countries are actually uneasy over the possi­ ployees. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry bility that this waterway, so vital to their 357 Russell Building Agricultural Research and General Legis- world commerce, will come under the control Judiciary . lation Subcommittee Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub­ To resume hearings on proposed exten­ of an unreliable Panamanian government. sion of the Commodity Futures Trad­ 24. The State Department's contention committee To hold hearings on S. 2094 and S. 2389, ing Commission. that the 1903 treaty should be scrapped be­ 324 Russell Building cause the same terms could not now be ob­ to provide access to the Federal courts tained from Panama is a ridiculous argument for the redress of citizens' grievances. Appropriations 5302 Dirksen Building Agriculture Subcommittee because: To hold he:nings on budget estimates for a. Conditions are not the same now as 9:30 a .m . they were then, i.e. the Canal had not been Commerce, Science, and Transportation FY 79 for the Department of Agricul­ To hold hearings on numerous pending ture and related agencies. built then-and may never have been built 1318 Dirksen Building had Panama not made concessions, since we nominations to the U.S. Metric Board. were also considering Nicaragua as a possi­ 318 Russell Building 9:00 a.m. ble canal site at the time. Energy and Natural Resources Governmental Affairs b . -The same argument could be made for To hold hearings on the nomination of Federal Spending Practices and Open Gov­ suggesting that we return Alaska to the Robert D. Thorne, of Cailfornia, to be ernment, and Civil Services and Gen­ Soviet Union, Florida to Spain, and the an Assistant Secretary of Energy. eral Services Subcommittees Louisiana Territory to France, since none of 3110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings jointly on transport­ those countries would sell those territories Human Resources ing hazardous materials by rail. to us now for the prices that we paid at the Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ 1224 Dirksen Building time of purchase. The 1903 Treaty with mittee Judiciary Panama is no less valid than those other To resume hearings on S. 2040, the Com­ Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub­ purchase treaties, and should be no less prehensive Drug Amendments Act. committee permanent. Until 12 :30 p.m. 4232 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on S. 2094 and 25. Recent transfer to Panamanian registry Select Ethics S. 2389, to provide access to the Fed­ of a significant number of merchant ships To continue closed hearings concerning eral courts for the redress of citizens owned or controlled by the Peoples Republic alleged attempts by representatives of grievances. of China is cause for concern with regard to the Republic of Korea to improperly 2228 Dirksen Building possible significant Chinese influence in influe'1.ce Members and employees of Citizens and Shareholders Rights and Panamanian affairs at some future date. the Senate. Remedies Subcommittee 26. Toe proposal for two treaties could lead Until 12:30 p .m. S-407, Capitol To hold he::i.rings on S. 2390, the Citizens' to irreparable difficulty by putting Panama Access to the Courts Act. in a position to announce nullification of the 10:00 a.m. 6226 Dirksen Building Budget Neutrality treaty, after the U.S. had given To receive testimony from Secretary of 9:30 a.m. away its rights in the basic Canal Treaty, HUD Harris in preparation for report­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation a separate legal instrument not dependent ing the first concurrent resolution on To hold hearings on S. 2616, FY 79 au­ upon compliance with the Neutrality Treaty. the FY 79 congressional budget. thorizations for the National Trans­ Toe above position statement was adopted 6202 Dirksen Building portation Safety Board. by the National Executive Committee of the 235 Russell Building Naval Reserve Association on 25 February Environment and Public Works Water Resources Subcommittee Environment and Public Works 1978 .• To hold hearings on S. 2444 and S. 2437, Resources Protection Subcommittee relating to a national program of dam To hold oversight hearings on the imple­ SENA TE COMMITTEE MEETINGS inspection. mentation of the Solid Waste Disposal 4200 Dirksen Building Act. Title IV of the Senate Resolution 4, Foreign Relations 4200 Dirksen Building agreed to by the Senate on February 4, To meet in closed session to discuss the Judiciary 1977, calls for establishment of a system Middle East situation. Administrative Practice and Procedure for a computerized schedule of all meet­ S-116, Capitol Subcommittee ings and hearings of Senate committees, 11:00 a .m . To hold oversight hearings on the wit­ subcommittees, joint committees, and Select Intelligence ness -orotection progr'l.m of the Orga­ Special Investigations Subcommittee nized Crime Control Act (P.L. 91-452). committees of conference. This title re­ 6226 Dirksen Building quires all such committees to notify the Closed business meeting. Office of the Senate Daily Digest-desig­ S-126, Capitol 10:00 a.m. nated by the Rules Committee-of the 2:00p.m . Appropriations time, place, and purpose of all meetings Finance Interior Subcommittee Taxation and Debt Management Subcom­ To hold hearings on budget estimates when scheduled, and any cancellations mittee for FY 79 for the Bureau of Mines. or changes in meetings as they occur. To hold hearings on H.R. 7320, to revise 1114 Dirksen Building As an interim procedure until the miscellaneous timing requirements of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs computerization of this information be­ the revenue laws. International Finance Subcommittee comes operational, the Office of the 2221 Dirksen Building To resume hearings on FY 79 authoriza­ Senate Daily Digest will prepare this Select Ethics tions for t he Export-Import Bank. information for printing in the Exten­ To continue closed hearings concerning 5302 Dirksen Building sions of Remarks section of the CONGRES­ alleged attempts by representatives of Budget SIONAL RECORD on Monday and Wednes­ the Republic of Korea to improperly To receive t estimony from Representa­ influence Members and employees of tive Bolling in preparation for report­ day of each week. the Senate. ing the first coricurre'1.t re!>olution on Any changes in committees scheduling Until 5:00 p .m . S-407, Capitol the FY 79 congressional budget. will be indicated by placement of an 6202 Dirksen Building asterisk to the left of the name of the MARCH 18 9:30 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources unit conducting such meetings. Energy Research and Development Sub­ ·Select Ethics Meetings scheduled for Thursday, To continue closed hearings concerning committee March 16, 1978, may be found in Daily alleged attempts by representatives of To resume hearings on S. 2692, FY 79 Digest of today's RECORD. the Republic of Korea to improperly authoriz-a.tions for the Department of Energy. MEETINGS SCHEDULED influence Members and employees of 3110 Dirksen Building MARCH 17 the Senate. Until 12:30 p .m . S-407, Capitol Governmental Affairs *Energy and Natural Resources To re~ume hearine-s on S. 991, to create To hold hearings on the nomination of 2 :00 p.m. a separate Cabinet-level Department H. William Menard, of California, to Select Ethics of Education. be Director of the Geological Survey. To continue closed hearings concerning 3302 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building alleged attempts by representatives of 9:00 a .m. the Republic of Korea to improperly Select Small Business Governmental Affairs influence Members and employees of To resume hearings on the SBA minority Civil Service and General Services Sub­ the Senate. contracting program. committee Until 5:00 p.m. S-407, Capitol 424 Russell Building March 15, 1978 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7121 10:30 a .m. Appropriations 10:00 a.m. •commerce, Science, and Transportation Transportation Subcommittee Appropriations To hold oversight hearings on the To hold hearings on budget estimates Transportation Subcommittee Marine Protection, Research, and for FY 79 for the Federal Highway To hold hearings on budget estimates for Sanctuaries Act (Titles 1 and 2). Administration. FY 79 for the U.S. Coast Guard. 318 Russell Building 1223 Dirksen Building S-146, Captol 1 :30 p.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Appropriations International Finance Subcommittee To resume mark up of S. 2065, 2470, and Legislative Subcommittee To continue hearings on FY 70 authori­ 2545, to protect consumer rights and To resume hearings on budget estimates zations for the Export-Import Bank. to provide remedies in electronic fund for FY 79 for the Legislative Branch. 5302 Dirksen Building transfer systems. S-128, Capitol Energy and Natural Resources 5302 Dirksen Building MARCH21 Energy Research and Development Sub­ Commerce, Science, and Transportation 8:00 a.m·. . committee Merchant Marine and Tourism Subcom­ Agricultift.e, Nutriticm, and Forestry To continue· hearings on S. 2692: FY 79 mittee Agricultural Research and General Legis­ authorizations for the Department of To hold hearings.: on S. 2158, to permit la tiun: Subcommi1ttree Ehergy. the storing of_ foreign-caught shark 'Fo contim1e lle:arings on propaae Ln.­ Allen Adjustm.en t and, Employment. To continue heatings on S. 991, to create form~tion wnd1. CC>st. Savings: Ac:t. Act. to separate Cabinet-level Department 1202. Di!llks.,.m Building. 2228 Dirksen B.uildlng_ of Educati.on. Judiciary 11:00 a.m. . 3302. filirksen Building Imp:ir(j)vements in Ju.diclal Machinery Sub--­ Confel!ees. Judiciary committee On H.R. 917"1, to ex.tend until September To hold hearings on FY' 79 authoriza­ To continue- hearings cin s_ 2094. ay,--.ef 30, 19&1, the oasic operating authority tions for the. Department of Justi:re. S. 2389), to provide access to the, Fed­ of the 0'1Zerseas Private- Investme.n.t 2228 Dirksen Building eral courts for the redress .:>! citizens' Corpora..tion. Select Ethics grievances. S-116, Capitol To resume- ct~.sed hearings concerning 5110 Dirkse...'1. Building 2 :00 p .m.. alleged attemp.ts by representatives o! Judiciary Appropriations the Republi~ of Korea to improperly Antitrust and Monopoly Su':>committec Treasury. Postar Service, and Genera] Gov­ influence Members and employees of To resume hearings on S. 1927, tu pro­ ernment Subcommittee the Senate. mote competition in the e:c.ergy To hold hearings on budget estimate:,, Until 12 :30 p.m. S-407, Capitol industry. fair FY 10 for the Defense Chil Pre­ Select Small Business 6226 Dlrks~n Building paredness Agency. CSC-, Federal Labor To resume hearings on S. 807, to author­ 9:15 a.m. Relations Council, and the FEC, and ize grants to assist individuals and •Human Resources on supplemental appropriations for small business concerns in develop­ Child and Human Development Subcom­ FY78. ment of solar energy equipment and mittee 1224 Dirksen Building energy-related inventions. To hold hearings on S . 258, the Children MARCH 22 424 Russell Building and Youth Camp Safety Act. 9:00 a.m. Select Indian Affairs Until 10:00 p .m. 4232 Dirksen Building Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry To resume hearings on S . 2460, to amend 9:30a.m. Foreign Agricultural Policy Subcommittee the Indian Self-Determination and Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on the problems of in­ Education Assistance Act. Transportation Subcommittee spection standards of U.S. produce S-207 Capitol To resume hearings on S. 2440, proposed versus foreign imported produce. 1:30 p.m. Federal Highway Improvemer.t Act. 324 Russell Building Select Ethics 4200 DirksE.n Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation To continue closed hearings concerning Judiciary Consumer Subcommittee alleged attempts by representatives of Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee To continue hearings on S . 2604, author­ the Republic of Korea to improperly To resume oversight hearings on t:ie izing funds through fiscal year 1980 for influence Members and employees of Drug Enforcement .\dm:ni&tration·s the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle the Senate. efforts to control drug trafficking on Safety Act and the Motor Vehicle In­ Until 5:00 p.m. S-407, Capitol U.S. borders with Mexico. formation and Cost Savings Act. MARCH 23 318 Russell Building 318 Russell Building 8 :00 a.m. Joint Economic Judiciary Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Energy Subcommittee Agricultural Research and General Legis­ To receive testimony from Energy 1:=ecre­ Constitution Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 35, the pro­ lation Subcommittee tary Schlesinger on oil supply a1.d de­ To resume hearings on proposed exten­ mand in the 1980's. posed Civil Rights Improvem~nts Act. 5110 Dirksen Building sion of the Commodity Futures Trad·­ 357 Russeli Building ing Commission. 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Environment and Public Works · 324 Russell Building Appropriations 9:00 a.m. Foreign Operations Subcommittee Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee To resume hearings on budget estimates To continue hearings on proposed legis­ Commerce, Science and Transportation for FY 79 for foreign aid programs. lation to provide a means of safe nu­ Consumer Subcommittee S-128, Capitol clear waste disposal. To continue hearings on S. 2603, author­ Room-to be announced izing funds through fiscal year 1980 Appropriations for the National Traffic and Motor Ve­ HUD-Independent Agencies Subcommittee Environment and Public Works To hold hearings on budget estimates Tra.nsportation Subcommittee hicle Information and Cost Savings for FY 79 for the National Science To continue hearings on S. 2440, pro­ Act. Foundation. posed Federal Highway Improvement 1202 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building Act. 9:30 a.m. Appropriations 4200 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Interior Subcommittee *Human Resources Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ To hold hearings on budget estimates To hold hearings on s. 2084, the admin­ mittee for FY 79 for the Federal Highway istration's proposed welfare reform To hold oversight hearings on the Office Management. legislation. of Science Technology Policy. 1114 Dirksen Building Until 12 :30 p.m. 42_32 Dirksen BuildiI15 235 Russell Building 7122 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978

Environment and Public Works 10:00 a.m. '9':30 a .m . Transportation -Subcommittee Appropriations Environment and Public Works To hold .hearings on the st atus of pro­ Interior .Subcommittee Resource .Protection Subcommit tee posed _c_onstruction of a Federal in­ To hold hearings on budget esti m ates 'for -To continue oversight hearings on the terstate .Jlighway near Memphis, Ten- FY 79 for the National Endowm-en.t for EnvJronmental Noise Control Act (P.L. nessee. :the 'Humanities. R2-,5114). 1224 Dit-ksen B.\illding 1114 Dirksen 'B.tilldmg 4200 Dkdure.n .Building Environment and.:Public'\Wo.I;.ks ..Banking, 'Housing, and Urban _:Affairs fiovennment al Affairs Resource ;Prote_ction .Subcommittee To .hold ov.ersight hearings on .the con­ Fed.era! 'Spending P.na-cti'c:es and (()_pen Dirk-sen .13~ "Jlo .resume hearings on 'S. 2 B,l;B, :t:Jhe pr0- p :o.sed .Bu_y Amer.lean A ct. ment . ~ ommerce, Science, ti.nd 'Transporta.t io.n 21.8 :Russeu ~~ 4200 :lillrk-sen :;13.ulldin_g To hol:d,:ooi_ersight lrearings cm nhe Ooa'&t!tl '1'0 :00 Go~mrnmental ,Affail!s ~one :Management Act (lP...L. ·92-,5..83) .. a .m . Apprs.0prla1lions Fede.ral £_pending ~ractic.es and Dpen .G.ov­ 235 Russell B~g Tr.an-sportation Subcommii'tilee ernment Subcommittee wloreign Relations To.hold hearings on S. 281!.8, the _proposed To hold hearings lll)n 1bu :dget est'imares 'Ro.reign .Assi:Stance Subuommi't.t.ee !.or FY '7.9 f-or the _Fled.er.al Awia.11:ful>lil B\ly .American .Act. To hold hearings on FY :79 ,a:.u.t.llr.Jm:en J3uild:i:n_g Admirustr.atinn_ for security asststan..-ce progr8lIDS . 1.224 Dirksen :Bm ldmg Human 'Resources 4221 .Birks:e.n B'.miilltl.1ng To continue hearings on£. 2084, tthe Ad­ Banking, Housing, and Urb.an Aff:a.in; APRIL 4: ministration ':S JPI'Oposed w.eliame ~.eform Int.ernat ional Fina.nee Suhoonmnttee legislation. 9:00 .a.m . To hold .hearings on U.S. p11ograms .and Commerce, Science, and Trans.pOI'iila!ii.olil Until 1.2 ~30p.m. 4232 DiTiksen:'.Bnillrung f.acilities designed t o increase U.S. Consumer Subcommittee Judiciary exports_ To hold bearings on FY 79 .amrth!llrizatill>ns Room to be announeed Administrative :Practice .and Pl\ooedure for the Consumer Product Saff:ty Oom- Subcommittee Commerce, Science and Transportation mission. "l1o !hold oversight hearings into how the To resmru! oversight bearings .on the \\ri t­ 1202 Dirks.en .Bnililmg n.ess pmteetion program .of the Orga­ ILS. Coast Guard will benefit from t wo Judiciary proposed Intergovernmental Maritime nized Crime 00ntnol Ac:t ( PL. '91-452). Antitrust and Monopoly Subeom.mit t.ee .5110 DiT°k£en Bu il ding Consultative Organization treaties. To resume oversight· hearings on ICC 235 Russell Building Veterans' Affairs regulation in the motor common car­ To mark up S . '2384, the Veterans and Judiciary rier industry. To continue hearings on FY 79 authori­ Survivors Income Securit y Act. Room to be announced 412 Russell Building zations for the Department of Justice. 10 :00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 2228 Dirksen Building Environment and Public Works Appropriat ions Select Indian Affairs Foreign Operations Subcommittee Resource Protection Subcommittee To hold oversight hearings on the cur­ To resume hearings on budget estimates To hold oversight hearings on the rent status of the reorganization of for FY 79 for foreign aid programs. Environmental Noise Control Act the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 8-126, Capit.ol (PL. 92-574). 318 Russell Building 4200 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10:30 a .m. To mark up S. 1010 and H.R. 2777, to Judiciary Veterans' Affairr. establish a National Consumer Coop­ Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee To hold hearings to receive legislative erative Bank. To resume oversight hearings on ICC's recommendations from AM-VETS 5302 Dirksen Building price regulation in the motor common Paralyzed Veterans of America, and carrier industry. Veterans of World War I. • Energy and Natural Resources 2228 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the price differen­ Until 1 :00 p .m . 6225 Dirksen Building tial between leaded and unleaded 10:00 a .m. APRIL 6 gasoline. Appropriations 9:00 a.m. 3110 Dirksen Building Interior Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation 10:30 a.m. To hold hearings on budget estimates Consumer Subcommittee •Judiciary for FY 79 for the Bureau of Indian To continue hearings on FY 79 authori­ To resume hearings on S. 2252, proposed Affairs. zations for the Consumer Product Alien Adjustment and Employment 1114 Dirksen Building Safety Commission. Act. Appropriations 5110 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building Treasury, Postal Service, and General 9 :30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Government Subcommittee Commerce, Science, and Transportation Appropriations To resume hearings on budget estimates Science, Technology, and Space Subcom­ Treasury, Postal Service, and General Gov­ for FY 79 for the Department of the mittee ernment Subcommittee Treasury, Postal Service, and General To resume oversight hearings on the To hold hearings on budget estimates Government items, and on supple­ National Bureau of Standards. for FY 79 for certain Independent mental appropriations for FY 78. 235 Russell Building Agencies, and on supplemental appro­ S-126, Capitol 10 :00 a .m. priations for FY 78. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Appropriations 1224 Dirksen Building To continue oversight hearings on the Interior Subcommittee To hold hearings on budget estimates MARCH 24 condition of the banking system. 5302 Dirksen Building for FY 79 for the Geological Survey. 10:00 a .m. 1114 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Judiciary To resu me hearings on FY 79 authoriza­ Appropriations To hold oversight hearings on the Transportation Subcommitt ee impact of building codes on housing tions for the Department of Justice. 2228 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on budget estimates rehabilitation. for FY 79 for the National Railroad 5302 Dirksen Building 2 :00 p .m .' Appropriations Passenger Corporation

10:00 a.m. .U11di:ctacy ::Sa.nkin,g, Rousing, and Urban Affairs Banking, 'Housing, a.mi ·urban Affair,1; !I'o resume ·heart:n,gs on :FY '7-9 .a.n'thmlza.­ .In'tenna.tion-al Finance SubcG>ID.m.ittee m t.e:nna tlonal .iF'lmme.e S.tihaammi:tte.e ltions if.or :llhe ll>~ent .o! .3n6:tlioo. T.o resume :heltrln_gs on FY '79 Jmtboriza­ 'T.o T..esmne 'heanngs un :FY :7:9 ·mn'thcn:.i­ .22281Dinksen~ m.mns for the Export-:hnport Bank. zailiens .f.'©r the 'Export-:1:m_port "Bank. .&elect Ei:ihics .53D2 Dirksen :!BnD:dlng .530.2 Jll)ir:lts.en ..iBnildin,g ".Ila ,00ntinJJ.:e clos:ed hearings _c_Qlil[e.emil!n,g ;:Jud1ciaT_y Ommmence., 'Science,, ian'd 'T,ramip:cuila:tiian .alfile_g:ed '.a±:tem_pts by ~e.senrtatlves of '.To aGli.l.1lbme lh't!Mllng-s on FY W :aitrhhor­ ''Ito lb01 d heamin.gs j.oLD-tiy wtl"th tne :Ruman the Bepnbli:e till ~a. tlil in:Iplui>;J!)er1y il:zatiims -tor the Depa:r.tment of .J'nstiee. -Reso:ur.ces Sn.lllommm:ttJ1ie:e @n Educa­ influence .Melnll>ers .and employees .oi 2228 Dirksen .Blllldmg tion, .Mts, :llll!ld ttihe Hinmam mes 1GI1 PJlO­ 1"ihe ,Selilate. APRIL 14 Jl!)OSed FY 7~0 :amthurtzatirms 11ill>r tl1ile Ulll.til 1:2::30 _p.m. .$-407~ O&pltol :9~0{1 .a.m Na~ Sea Gr.ami;:t Qillege progrAm.. 1 :30p..m.. :HJ:il'Dl.1m :Re.sou:n,es :23:5 Russel1 l31lll:lllng SelectEtl!l.iies Eln_playm_ent, P.overty. ana Mlgratory .Labor 11: 00 a..m. 'lb continue -c1osed hearlngs .c.onoernmg Su bcomm1tte.e Approprl:ations alleged att.ellil.pts by :representa..tiwes ,of To resu:me :mark up o.f S . .50, the Full .HUD--:lndep:enden t A:genci.,es :Snil:l>:ommmiiittee til-e :Repnblie of ..K.o11ea to -unprop~l:Y Eln_p1oyment .and Balanoed Growth 'Tu hold hearings on 'bu1ilget estimates infl.u:eiroe Members :a.rui employees of Ac!. :for FY 7:9 "for th-e Offioe of Revenue the Senate. 4232 Dirksen Building Sharing, and New York City 'Se.asonal Until .5 :00 p.m. S-407. capitol 3m:ilictar;y Financing Fund., Department of the .Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee Treasury. APRIL 12 To continue hearings on S. 1927. to pro; 1318 DiTksen Building 9:30 a .m. mote competition in the energy in ... Environment and Publle Works dustry. APRIL 10 Transportation Suboommlttee 9:00a.m. 2228 Dirksen Building To mark up proposed 1edera.J. aid high­ Select Sm.all Business Constitution Subcommittee way legislation. To hold hearings on S. 571, to provide for To hold hearings on the nomination of 4200 Dirksen Building Milton D. Stewart, of New York, to be direct enforcement action by HUD in Human Resources discriminat.ory housing practices. Chief Counsel for Advoca<:y, Small Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ 2228 Dirksen Building Business Administration. mittee 424 Russell Building Human Resources To continue hearings on S. 2040, pro­ 10:00 a.m. Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor posed Comprehensive Drug Amend­ Appropriations Subcommittee ments Act. HUD Independent Agencies Subcommittee To mark up S. 50, the Full Employment Until 12 :30 p.m. 4232 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on budget esti­ and balanced Growth Act. mates for FY 79 for HUD. 1202 Dirksen Building 10:00 a .m. Appropriations 1318 Dirksen Building 9:30 a.m. Human Resources Transpotatton Subcommittee APRIL 17 9:00 a.m. Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ To hold hearings on budget estimates mittee for FY 79 for the Federal Railroad Human Resources Administration. Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor To hold hearings on S. 2549, FY 79 au­ Subcommittee thorization for the National Science 1224 Dirksen Building Foundation. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To mark up S. 2090 and S. 2081 propos­ ing an extension of certain programs Until 12 :30 p .m. 4232 Dirksen Building To continue hearings to consider the reestablishment of housing goals and of the Economic Opportunity Act. 10:00 a.m. 4232 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. proposed extension of existing housing programs. Judiciary To hold hearings to consider the re­ Criminal Laws and Procedures Subcom­ establishment of housing goals and 5302 Dirksen Building mittee proposed extension of existing hous­ Commerce, Science and Transportation To resume hearings on S. 2013, to re­ ing programs. To hold hearings on proposed FY 79 quire the additional labeling of ex­ 5302 Dirksen Building authorizations for the U.S. Coast plosive materials for the purpose of Select Ethics Gual'd. identification and detection. To resume closed hearings concerning 235 Russell Building 2228 Dirksen Building alleged attempts by representatives of Energy and Natural Resources V:30 a.m. the Republic of Korea to improperly Public Lands and Resources Subcommittee Environment and Public Works influence Members and employees of Transportation Subcommittee the Senate. To hold hearings on S. 242, 1812, and 2310, bills to amend the Federal land To resume markup of proposed Federal Until 12:30 p.m. S-407, Capitol reclamation laws. aid highway legislation. 4200 Dirksen Building 1 :30 p.m. 3110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a .m. Select Ethics Judiciary To continue closed hearings concerning Commerce, Science, and Transportation To continue hearings on FY 79 author­ To hold hearings on H.R. 9370 and alleged attempts by representatives of izations for the Department of Justice. the Republic of Korea to improperly S . 2582, to provide for the develop­ influence Members and employees of 2228 Dirksen Building ment of aquaculture in the United the Senate. Select Indians Affairs States. Until 5:00 p .m. S-407, Capitol To resume oversight hearings on the 235 Russell Building APRIL 11 current status of the reorganization APRIL 18 9:00 a .m . of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 9 :00 a.m. Judiciary 1202 Dirksen Building Human Resources Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub­ 2:00 p .m. Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor committee Appropriations Subcommittee To hold hearin~s on S . 225, to encour­ Transportation Subcommittee To continue markup of S. 2090 and age prompt, informal, and inexpensive To continue hearings on budget esti­ s. 2081 , proposing an extension of cer· resolution of civil cases by use of arbi­ mates for FY 79 for the Federal Rail­ tain programs of the Economic Oppor­ tration in U.S. district courts. road Administration. tunity Act. 4232 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 9:30 a .m . APRIL 13 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Human Resources 9:00 a.m. International Finance Subcommittee Health and Scientific Research Subcom­ Judiciary To resume hearings on U.S. programs mittee Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee and facilities designed to increase U.S. To resume hearings on S . 2040, proposed To resume hearings on S. 1927, to pro­ exports. comprehensive Drug Amendments Act. mote competition in the energy indus­ Room to be announced Until 12: 30 p.m. 4232 Dirksen Building try. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 10:00 a .m . · 1202 Dirksen Building Financial Institutions Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 2096, Right to To continue hearings to consider the re­ Appropriations Financial Privacy Act, and S. 2293, to establishment of housing goals and HUD Independent Agencies Subcommittee modernize the banking laws with re­ proposed extension of existing hous­ To hold hearings on budget estimates gard to the geographic placement of ing programs. for FY 79 for HUD. electric funds transfer systems. 5302 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building 5302 Dirksen Building CXXIV--449-Part 6 7124 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 15, 1978

Judiciary APRIL 24 APRIL 27 To resume hearings on FY 79 authoriza­ 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. tions for the Department of Justice. Human Resources Judiciary 2228 Dirksen Building Employment, Poverty, and Migratory La­ Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee Select Indian Affairs bor Subcommittee To continue hearings on the impact of To hold hearings on S. 2375, to establish To mark up S. 2570, to extend the Com­ company mergers and economic con­ guidelines to be followed by the De­ prehensive Employment Training Act centration. partment of the Interior in response (CETA). 2228 Dirksen Building to petitioning Indian tribes seeking 4232 Dirksen Building 10:00 a .m . an acknowledgment of a Federal rela­ 10:00 a .m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation tionship. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs To continue oversight hearings on the 5110 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on monetary Fishery Conservation and Management policy. Act (P.L. 94-265) . APRIL 19 5302 Dirksen Building 6226 Dirksen Building 10 : 00 a.m. Conunerc_e, Science, and Transportation Appropriations To hold heat.Lngs on FY'79 authorizations APRll, 2.8 Transportation Subcommittee for th-e, Fishery Conservation and 9 :00 a .m. To hold hearings on budget estimates for Management Act (P .L. 94-2-65) . COmlJlfil'ce~ Scienc.e, and' Transportation fiscal year 1979 for the Urban Mass­ 235.JR-ussell Building Science, Technology, and Space, Subco.m,, Transportation Administration. mittea 1224 Dirksen Building APRIL 25 To resume oversight hearings to exam­ 9J:0Qa.m. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ine- the science, andl technology aspects Kuman Resources- F inancial Institutions Subcommittee of the Federal Research and Devorop­ Employment, Pa.ve-rty, and Migratory La­ men.t budge_t. To continue hearings on S. 2096, the bor Subcommittee Right to Financial Privacy Act, and 2.:151 Russell B uildi:ng, To cantiD.ue markup oi S. 2.570, to ex­ S. 2293, to modernize the: banking tend the- Qom:prehensfve Employmen.t 9·30 a.m. laws with regard to, the geog:napbtc­ Training.Act (CETA). Judiciary placement of electric: funds tlia!llsfer 4332. Dirksen. RuITding. Citiz.ens and Shareholders Rights and syst ems. 9:30 a .m. Remedies Suhcom.mittee- 5302. Dirksen. Building Judiciary To hold hearings on S. 2559, ro provld'e­ Judiciary To resume oversight hesrfngs- on the a judi.£:ial remed.}' agalinst the U.S. and FY 79 To continue hearings on authori­ appllcati

SENATE-Thursday, March 16, 1978

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