September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24483 may Qe wa.tved in the case of exports to de­ H.R.4040 rected to enter into contta.cts by competitive veloping countries. By Mr. HUGHES: bid, subject to appropriations, tor the pur­ (3) The provisions of p~&ph (c) (1) -Pa.ge 33, a.!ter line 8, a.dd the following new chase of domestically produced alcohol or shall not apply to applications for export section: alcohol-gasoline blends containing at lea.st 1! to any country and when the President PURCHASES OF GASOHOL AS A FUEL FOR MOTOR 10 percent domestically produced alcohol for determines that it is in the n.a.tional1nterest VEHICLES use in motor vehicles owned or operated by to remove the requirement of -a. validated li­ SEc. 818. To the maximum extent feasible the Department. cense for export or sa.id oommodities to sa.ld By Mr. STRATTON: country. and consistent with overall defense needs and (4) The provisions -or pa.ra.gra.ph (c) (1) sound vehicle management pra.ctlces, a.s de­ -On page 27, line 23, section 811, delete lines shall remM.n valid for one year after the termined by the Seoreta.ry o! Defense, the 23 through 25; and on page 28, delete lines da.te of ena.otment of this Act. Deparlment of Defense 1s authorized a.nd d1- 1 &nd2.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS PUBLIC ELECTION FINANCING It wa.s these elements of the act that Alex­ assment and maltreatment. After his ander says reduced participation at the first application, he was ordered to leave gra...c:sroots level in presidential politics. his job as a pressmaker in a small button HON. BILL FRENZEL The limits fostered the "most cost-effec­ factory, and the only employment lie OF MINNESOTA tive" means of campaigning. This meant a tar broader use of television advertising, di­ has been able to find since is as a part­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rect mail solicitations for money, and cen­ time tree surgeon. Contact with his fam­ Thursday, September 13, 1979 tralization o! campaign operations. ily in Israel has been stifled by the gov­ "Cost-effectiveness," Alexander said in a ernment as well. Grigory does not re­ e Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, in last press conference la.st week discussing his ceive the letters which his parents write, Sundays Post, there was a splendid arti­ findings, in turn "brought a kind of pro!es­ and telephone contact has been halted. cle which featured the conclusion of Dr. sionalization to the campaigns which was This kind of treatment by the Soviet Herbert Alexander, perhaps America's not evident before" and a significant decline Government is disgraceful, but, unfor­ most respected observer of campaign ft­ in volunteer activity. tunately, Grigory is not an isolated case. nancing, that taxpayer financing of The Carter campaign cut bumper stickers, Alexander reports, after a cost-benefit study Thousands of Soviet Jews are harassed Presidential elections may also have showed that only one in five ever wound and discriminated against, because of significantly cut the level of grass roots up on a bumper. their wish to leave Russia. partcipation in campaigns. A Texa.s Republican offlcial displayed for We in the United States, the cradle The article follows: Alexander 5,000 buttons and 75,000 stickers of freedom and liberty, cannot stand PuBLIC ELECTION FINANCING SEEN CUTI'ING !or the entire state Ford-Dole effort. "'You idly by-we must speak out for compas­ GRASS RoOTS want to see our entire contribution to the sion and decency. I urge the Soviet (By Fred Barbash) President's campaign?' " the offlcial said. " 'There it is on the shelf over there . . . Union to grant these persons the free­ Public financing of the 1976 presidential The law says we can spend no more than dom they deserve and to recognize the election, while cutting more established can­ $1,000 and we spent $1,020, so the last $20 rights which they have as human beings. didates down to size for Jimmy Carter, may is probably a felony.'" I hope that our efforts here on their be­ have also significantly cut the level of grass­ The findings of Alexander, a political sci­ roots participation in campaigns. half will convey that message loudly and ence professor at the University of Southern clearly.e That is one of the conclusions reached by California and director of the Citizens Re­ the country's foremost analyst of election fi­ search Foundation, coincide in Ina.ny re­ nancing, Herbert E. Alexander, after four spects with an analysis recently done by years' study of the first publicly financed Harvard University for the House Adminis­ NEWSWEEK'S NUCLEAR ENERGY campaign. tration Cominlttee. POLICY Public financing, and its accompanying limits on campaign contributions, ended the Both are expected to fuel the movement era when a fund-raiser could assemble 10 toward eventual major modifications--in­ HON. JOHN W. WYDLER cluding an increase in contribution limits people in a room and walk out with a million OF NEW YORK dollars in contributions. So a well-known and an end to state-by-state spending ceU­ candidate like Sen. Henry Jackson (D­ ings--alrea.dy under way in Congress.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wash.), who could probably have done that Thursday, September 13, 1979 sort of thing, was brought down to the level of a little-known candidate, Jimmy Carter, • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, for only who couldn't, Alexander says. SHATTER THE SILENCE­ the third time in its history, Newsweek This was "the most important effect of the VIGIL, 1979 magazine has proposed an editorial public financing system," Alexander writes policy on a major issue. The subject is in "Financing the 1976 Election," his fifth energy, and in its July 16 edition the quadrennial book on presidential campaign­ HON. ALBERT GORE, JR. magazine has published a list of recom­ ing. "Better known candidates who had con­ OF TENNESSEE nections with wealthy contributors could mendations many of which I consider have swamped Carter, and without federal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sensible and feasible. Unfortunately, subsidies, Carter would have lacked the Thursday, September 13, 1979 Newsweek has a blind spot on nuclear re­ money to consolidate his initial lead," Alex­ processing, but otherwise, I am particu­ ander writes. • Mr. GORE. Mr. Speaker, today I larly pleased with their suggestions for The law, enacted in 1973, provided millions would like to bring to the attention of the nuclear power component and also of dollars in "matching funds" to primary my colleagues the case of Grigory Vig­ with their synthetic-fuels emphasis. candidates, and full financing--$21.8 million dorov, a young Soviet Jew. In 1973, Grig­ The magazine calls for the production each-to general election candidates Carter ory and his family applied for permis­ of 2 million barrels a day of synthetic and Gerald Ford. The act also imposed a sion to emigrate to Israel with his elderly $1,000 limit on contributions from any in­ fuels by 1990. This is the same goo..l set dividual, wiping out the so-called "Fa.t-cat" parents. Although the parents' visa was by this body on June 26 in its passage who donated tens of thousands ln years gone approved, Grigory was denied permission of the National Defense Production Act by. on the basis of his service in the amendment. I agree with Newsweek that At the same time, the law imposed strict army. Two more attempts to obtain a the Government's role in synfuels should new accounting requirements on candidates, visa were futile. be minimized but that some Federal sub­ limits on the uses ot campaign money, and Since that time, Grigory has repeat­ sidies will be necessary to encourage pri­ state-by-state ce111ngs on spending. edly been the victim of government har- vate investment in the production of

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these fuels, which will cost more than by Iran's crisis into a 15 per cent shortage ing the possibllity orr a "greenhouse effect"­ crude oil currently does on the world of gasollne at the nation's pumps. a warming of the atmosphere that could market. It gasoline price controls and the alloca-:­ cause catastrophic climatic changes. tion system were abolished, the market would Mining it in the arid West, where it lies The magazine endorses a continuation be permitted to ration supnly by price. Serv­ near the earth's surface, degrades hard-to­ of the use of nuclear power, which pro­ ice stations, acting ~hrough gasoline whole­ reclaim land. Mining it in the East, where it vides 12.5 percent of all U.S. electricity, salers, would buy whatever gas they could is trapped deep within the Appalachian but also advocates tough new standards get and supplies would fiow where demand, h1lls, means a nightmare of labor and safety for plant certification and operator train­ measured by price, was highest. If gas were problems. Transporting it 1s awkward and ing. Newsweek shows a firmer grasp on selllng for $1.05 a gallon in Newark and $1.25 expensive. Burning it is dirty. Coal is hardly our energy realities than do many publi­ in nearby New York City, for instance, the the energy savior many proponents bave network of suppliers would shUt gasoline to claimed, and it should not be burned where cations when it notes that "without-nu­ New York faster than government bureau­ the resulting pollution exceeds the health­ clear power-the United States would crats would. Motorists, meanwhtle, would related air-quality standards. But in the have to tum to coal on an even greater "shop" service stations for the best price, short term, the U.S. must make better use of scale to meet its power demands. De­ and some semblance of order would be re­ coal where possible to free some precious gas spite the scare at Three Mile Island, the stored. Over tlme, prices would: sta.b111ze and and on !or other uses. known risks of burning coal are greater might actually decllne to levels only slightly DIRECT COAL BURNING than the risk of nuclear power." higher than the old controlled prices. No one knows for certain just how decon­ Outside the most seriously polluted ueas, I am now inserting in the REcORD com­ trol would affect domestic energy produc­ ut111ties must be ordered to switch from on plete proposals of Newsweek on the issues tion. The Administration estimates that de­ to coal-fired power plants as Carter proposed of decontrol, coal, synthetic fuels, and controlllng oil prices wm add nearly 1 m11lion in his original energy plan. The Department nuclear power: barrels a day by 1985. But even 1! decontrol of Energy and the Environmental Protection merely helps stab111ze declining U.S. produc­ Agency must agree on the appropriate envi­ NEWSWEEK EDITORIAL ronmental safeguar~nd stop sending DECONTROL tion, it will be well worth it. Natural gas provides a much greater op­ confiicting signals to the industry. Decontrol of domestic oil, natural gao and portunity. Htstorically, it has been the step­ ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION gasollne prices, a course on which the Carter child of the energy industry, produced most­ The standards in the Clean At.r Act Amend­ Administration has finally embarked, is ab­ ly as a bynroduct of oil, and low prices have ments of 1977 should be retained, but Con­ solutely necessary. By keeping a cap on prices quashed the incentive to explore for more. gress should drop the requirement that and holding them below world market levels, But by some estimates, the U.S. has a bonan­ plants using low-sulfur Western coal install the U.S. Government has sought to "protect" za of natural gas-trillions of cubic feet the same kinds o! scrubbers as those burn­ American consumers. What price controls in deep basins, coa.l seams, shale-rock forma­ ing hlgh-sulfULl." Eastern co3.l. The resulting have actually done is to insulate Americans tions and high-pressure salt-water deposits. improvements in emissions are negligible, from world reality-the end of the era of The cost of finding and producing that gas a.nd the requirement is largely an effort to cheap oll. They have encouraged consumption has been prohibitive under price controls. ball out the troubled Eastern coal industry. at a time when conservation should be a top Only by assuring producers that they can SLURRY PIPELINES national priority. They have subsidized costly get an adequate return on the huge tn,vest­ imports just when the U.S. should be trying ments they must make wlll the U.S. find out By far the cheapest and most efficient way to kick its foreign-oil habit. And they have how much natural gas it actually has. to transport large quantities of coal is by effectively discouraged alternative energy In the short run, decontrol of energy prices mixing it with water to form a slurry, then sources that become economic only as the 1s sure to add to the U.S. infiation rate as its pumping it through a pipeline to its destina­ price of petroleum rises. It is time to get on impact ripples through the economy. Decon­ tion. So far, the biggest slurry project is with decontrol as fast as possible. trol of gasoline prices alone could add as ETSI (Energy Transportation Systems Inc.), which by 1984 will start carrying 25 m1llion DECONTROL OF OIL PRICES much as 20 cents to the price or a gallon at the pump. But that is one of the trade-offs tons of coal a year from Wyoming to Louisi­ Carter's plan to lift the price lids on do­ ana. But in order to win the right of way mestic production by 1981 is on the right that must be accepted. Higher energy prices wlll also cut demanp and dampen economic under railroad tracks in the pipe's path, track. But the schedule should be simplified. ETSI has to spend six years in court fight­ Rather than permit domestic price& to rise growth somewhat. But the U.S. is in a better position than it has been in the past to ing 65 separate cases. toward the world price in tortuously defined As a sign of the nation's serious commit­ categories, all newly discovered oil and oil sustain an economic slowdown with minimal damage. Accorctlng to demographers, the U.S. ment to developing its coal resources, the produced by enhanced-recovery techniques Federal government should again press leg­ should be allowed to fetch the world price is likely to experience a labor shortage in the 1980s, which would mean that a slower­ islation to ease the way for such pipelines. immediately. "New" oil (from fields discov­ At the same time, however, every proposed ered after 1972 or post-1972 additions to old growing economy would not cause as much unemployment as ln the past. slurry-pipeline project must be carefully production) should rise to the world price scrutinized for its impact on scarce water level in January 1980. "Old" oil should rise to Certain segments of society 'are sULl."e to !eel the impact of decontrol more than others. resources in the West. the highest controlled price in January SYNTHETIC FUELS 1980---and to the world level a year later. The poor, for example, will find it even harder NEWSWEEK supports a tax of approxi­ to pay their energy b1lls. But a variety of The synthetic fuel solution to the energy mately 50 per cent on the "windfall" profits Federal mechanisms-including income-tax crisis has suddenly come into vogue, with the oil companies will realize through decontrol. breaks, direct Federal grants or perhaps heat­ House passing its own version of a program The btlllons of dollars in revenues from such ing-on stamps--could ease the burden. The and a host of private lawyers, investment a tax will be needed to ease inequities and to same holds true !or geogra.phioo.l regions, bankers and economists plumping for their help fund other energy products. But all particularly the oil-dependent Northeast, pet synfuel schemes. newly discovered oU, oil from enhanced-re­ that will be especially hard-hit by higher Carter may make synthetic fuels the cen­ covery and Alaskan production should be energy prices. One promising plan, proposed terpiece of the new energy program he in­ exempt from the tax. And after 1990, the by New York Gov. Hugh Carey, calls for an tends to unvell in the next week or so, and "windfall" excise tax should be dropped Energy Corporation of the Northeast--a the proposal his advisers have submitted to altogether. bank, funded by the Northeastern states, him is a ambitious one. It would create a that would help finance development of re­ new, independent Federal corporation, DECONTROL OF NATURAL-GAS PRICES gional energy alternatives, such as Appala­ headed by a full-time chairman chosen by All prices controls on natural gas should chian 003.1. But in designing appropriate the President and dominated by appointees be lUted immediately. The Byzantine sched­ policies to help the hardest hit, lawmakers from outside the government. The corpora­ ule for decontrol enacted last year is con­ must keep two crucial principles in mind: tion would spend up to $46 b1llion by 1995 fusing and may unnecessarily delay the de­ decontrol must proceed, and measures de­ to get plants built that would produce 2 velopment of new resources. Producers cor­ signed to reduce inequities must not reward mlllion barrels of synthetic fuel a day. Only rectly complain that the legislation, which increased energy consumption. $6 blllion, however, would come directly sets separate decontrol schedules !or about COAL from the government; the rest would be twenty classes of gas, makes rational invest­ The good news about coa.l 1s that we have !rom the sale of bonds or in the form of loan ment difficult. Since gas is a clean and effi­ guarantees. cient fuel that may prove plentiful, every huge domestic quantities of it-enough to last more than 600 years at current con­ Newsweek agrees that the nation must effort should be made to speed production. sumption rates. The bad news is that we pho/.ie in a synthetic-fuels cap8ib1Ilty over the DECONTROL OF GASOLINE PRICES have to use it. The health, safety and envi­ nex_t decade. The goal should be about 2 The controls must be lifted and the gov­ ronmental threats posed by mining and million barrels a day by 1990, a target that ernment allocation system abolished. In try­ burning coal are severe; its emissions cause would reduce dependence on OPEC and ex­ ing to regulate and distribute the nation's respiratory ailments, contain carcinogens ploit the nation's vast coal reserves. gasoline supplies, the system has merely suc­ and release more carbon dioxide into the But a synfuel capab111ty w111 not come ceeded in turning a 5 percent shortfall caused atmosphere than any other fossll fuel, rais- cheaply. Synfuels--whether derived !rom oil September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24485 shale or tar sands or made by liquefying ing nuclear power plants and halt construc­ and my assets and liabilities, as well as or gasifying coal-w111 certainly cost more tion of any new ones. The U.S. cannot afford our income and taxes for 1978: than the preva111ng world oil price of $20 a to do so. Nuclear power provides 12.5 per barrel to produce, perhaps as much as $35 cent of all electricity generated in the coun­ AsSETS (AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1978) a barrel. Because synfuels are not yet eco­ try, and without it, the U.S. would have to Savings account ______$1,016.28 nomically competitive, some government turn to coal on an even greater scale to meet Cash on hand in checking ac- participation or subsidy wm be necessary to its power demands. Despite the scare at Three counts ------410.55 encourage private industry to make invest­ Mortgage escrow accounts ______Mile Island, the known risks of burning coal 1976 Volvo ______722.10 ments that could total as much as $75 bil­ are greater than the risk of using nuclear 3,063.86 lion by 1990. power. The U.S. must retain the nuclear op­ 1978 Plymouth Horizon ______3,130.46 Oil shale is fine-grained rock that con­ tion, but lt should make some immediate House 1n Broomall, Pa ______50,000.00 tains an organic material called kerogen. changes ln licensing and regulation and pro­ House in Arlington, Va ______85,000.00 When heated to temperatures near 900 mote a crash program to solve the long-term Household goods and miscellane- degrees Fahrenheit, the kerogen yields syn­ waste-disposal problem. ous personal property______20,000.00 thetic oil and gas. The shale can be mined, U.S. Civll Service Retirement LICENSING AND CONSTRUCTION then heated in surface retorts, or it can be Fund ------14,658.54 heated underground. But the problems of Since the lead time necessary to bring a U.S. Savings Bonds (approximate nuclear plant on llne ls at least ten years, producing shale oil are formidable. It re­ value) ------3,000.00 quires roughly 1.7 tons of rock to produce a the U.S. must immediately end the mora­ single barrel of shale oil. Once the oil is torium on licensing and construction and Total assets ______181,001.79 removed, the producer is left with even get planned nuclear power plants into oper­ more rock than he started with because of ation. LIABILITIES (AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1978) the "popcorn effect": the rock expands ln OPERATIONS Mortgage on house 1n Broomall, volume when broken and heated. All the Tough new standards should be set for the Pa. ------$18,007.35 spent rock must be disposed of. Shale min­ certification of plants, the training of opera­ Mortgage on house in Arlington, ing and oil production also demand huge tors and Federal oversight procedures. Key Va. ------54,873.96 quantities of water, pose the danger of nuclear workers should be trained and li­ Auto loans______7,690.40 leaching harmful materials ln groundwater censed according to strict government stand­ and produce a liquid that needs further ards, much as U.S. pilots must pass required Total liab111ties______80, 571. 71 refining to make it usable. certification procedures set by the Federal Net worth (December 31, 1978) __ 100,430.08 There are three basic ways to liquefy coal, Aviation Administration. Every nuclear plant each involving a different method !or break­ ln the U.S. should be required to have a Fed­ TAXES (1978) ing down the mix of hydrogen and carbon eral inspector on the premises with full au­ atoms and recombining them with addi­ thority to shut down the reactor ln case of Federal ------$8,911.93 tional hydrogen. Several liquefaction plants an emergency. Pennsylvania (State)------1,869.23 Pennsylvania (local)------­ 785.86 are ln operation around the world. South NUCLEAR WASTES Africa, !or instance, produces 20,000 barrels Virginia (local)------1,053.46 The Carter Administration's ban on re­ a day of synthetic oil called Sasol (!or South Total taxes ______African Coal, 011 and Gas Corp.) through a processing spent nuclear fuel should be kept 12,620.48 technique that breaks down the coal into ln force for the time being; so far, there ls carbon monoxide and hydrogen gases, then simply no way to guarantee against terrorist INCOME (1978) recombines them ln liquid form. attempts to plunder the plutonium produced Salary as a Member of Congress __ $57, 500.00 But coal liquefaction ls a massive task as during reprocessing-and, in any event, well. Each full-scale plant producing 50,000 uranium will probably remain abundant • barrels of synfuel a day would require a stag­ enough to make the recycling economically gering 30,000 tons of coal a day to run­ unnecessary in this century. IN PRAISE OF AMERICA enough to keep three to five coal mines going Meanwhile, the spent fuel rods now stored fiat out. It may prove ditftcult to expand coal­ in "swimming pools" at reactor sites should production and transportation fac111ties. The be moved to Federal dump sites, perhaps in "HON. TOM CORCORAN Nevada and Washington state. With tough liquefaction plants wm also take years to OF ILLINOIS complete. By most estimates, lt would take standards governing their transport and en­ two years simply to design a large coal-llque­ tombment, they can be made safe for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES factlon plant and four more years to build next few decades---and the relatively small Thursday, September 13, 1979 it--provided there were no delays along the amounts of added waste that will be pro­ way. And the process ls expensive: even be­ duced by the end of the century will not e Mr. CORCORAN. Mr. Speaker, during fore the first barrel of synfuel ls produced, jeopardize national safety. Later, 1! a the recent district work period, I had an the plant would cost anywhere !rom $1 bil­ uranium shortage develops or changes in na­ opportunity to talk with a constituent lion to $3 b1llion. tional policy makes reprocessing more at­ who has written some thoughtful poetry The government's role ln synfuels should tractive, the rods wlll be retrievable. about this country's events and people be minimized because market forces ought At the same time, the Federal government should launch a crash program-to be com­ who have made it the great nation that to get maximum attention ln any energy poi­ it is today. It is important to remember, ley. One route may be !or the government pleted within five years--to find out to underwrite and build one commercial­ whether there is a more satisfactory W'S.y to in the turbulent society in which we live scale demonstration synfuel plant on its own. dispose of the long-lived, highly toxic waste. caused by events such as the energy The production from the plant could supply If no solution is feasible within five years, crisis, inflation, and international devel­ a strategic petroleum reserve, but far more the U.S. may well have to abandon plans to opments, that we are truly fortunate to important, the technological information build any more nuclear reactors. No solution be citizens of the United States. to the nuclear-waste problem will ever satisfy gathered from production could be made At this point, I would like to insert in avallable to all comers. everyone. The best that can be attained is a plan that reduces the risk to a level accept­ the RECORD, a poem written by Mrs. At the same time, Washington should nur­ Marie Voights Thomas of Yorkville, ture a private-sector synfuels industry. The able to a blue-ribbon commission of scien­ m.: government would guarantee to pay a pro­ tists appointed by the President.e IN PRAISE OF AMERICA ducer !or a fixed amount of synfuel at a My country has art and literature specified price. It the world oll price at the To enthrall the noblest of birth, time of delivery turned out to be above the My country has scenic beauty government guarantee, the producer could Unrivalled by all else on earth. sell on the world market and the government FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF CON­ My country has music and song would pay nothing. If the world price were GRESSMAN AND MRS. ROBERT To uplift the most learned of men, below the guarantee at the time of delivery, W. EDGAR My country has natural beauty the government would become the buyer. rn That sings in joyous amen. either case, the private company would lose My country excells in science, money only 1! its cost of production ln dol­ HON. ROBERT W. EDGAR And its' medical research gives lars per barrel were above both the guaran­ OF PENNSYLVANIA New hope and health to all mankind tee and the world price. Thus, 1! world prices IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For as long as each of us 11 ves. continue to rise at a rapid rate, synfuels My country gives every new born child would be competitive and the government Thursday, September 13, 1979 The chances for greatness, and fame, role would be minimal. • Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Speaker, as a firm For all colors and creeds have round promi- NUCLEAR POWER nence, believer in financial disclosure of public And a reverence of their name. There is a strong antinuclear movement officials and candidates, I am submitting My country boasts a demanding that the U.S. close down all exist- for the RECORD a listing of Mrs. EDGAR'S That I most proudly own, 24486 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 My country's glorious traditions to the residents of south San Mateo FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CUBAN­ Are the greatest the world has known. County. He has been recognized by his CONNECTION I am proud of my blessed America, peers, having served as president of the Yet sad when I pause to opine San Mateo County Fire Chiefs Associa­ On the young men who gave the supreme sacrifice tion. HON. JOHN J. RHODES That so great an Inheritance be mine. Chief John W. Keller is truly deserv­ OF ARIZONA How could anyone who shares this great land ing of the honors and recognition be­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Do anything to jeopardize stowed upon As a· leader of men and him. Thursday, September 13, 1979 The greatest, most wonderful country of all as a progressive manager, Chief Keller Neath our omnipotent God's boundless skies. has made Redwood City a safer place for e Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, the Cur­ I know of naught else that I can do those of us who reside in that fine com­ rent debate over developments in CUba Than to tell of my country's praise, has genera.ted a lot of heat, but not much And be a. loyal pa.triot, munity. Although he has retired as fire And through a.ll of my Ufetime's days chief, 1 know that John Keller is not light. The Wall Street Journ·al of Sep­ Love, and respect, a.nd uphold about to retire from his community. I ex­ tember 13 points out in an editorial that The flag of my blessed land, pect to see him involved in community our problems wi·th Cuba are of the ad­ And with a. humble and contrite heart a:ffairs in the many years ahead. 1 am ministmtion's own making. By ignoring Remember tha.t great, noble band proud to join his many, many friends Cuba's expeditionary ventures and ex­ Who ga.ve their llves for America, in paying him tribute.• portation of subversion in this hemi­ And in my pride I bow, sphere, the carter foreign policy has been And thank our grea.t a.nd gracious God For America, then, and now. perceived abroad as one of weakness, an MABm VOIGTS THOMAS.• open invitation to aggressive behavior by SHATrER THE Sn.ENCE other nations. I urge my colleagues to read this thor­ ough and factual analysis of the predica­ ment our hesistant foreign policy has TRIDUTE TO JOHN W. HON. BILL FRENZEL KELLER­ created. REDWOOD CITY FIRE CHIEF OF MINNESOTA Text of the Journal editorial is as fol­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lows: Thursday, September 13, 1979 THE CUBAN CONNECTION HON. BILL ROYER Over the past week, the news that there OF CALIFORNIA • Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, "Shatter are perhaps 3,000 Soviet comba.t troops 1n IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Silence" is a reminder of the many Cuba has generated a. vigorous boOm of reac­ families detained in the Soviet Union as tion among American pollticians a.nd pun­ Thursday, September 13, 1979 a result of that Government's repressive dlt.s, who are now bu!:y viewing with a.la.rm, • Mr. ROYER. Mr. Speaker, on the eve­ emigration poli~y. But, this reminder will demanding rectification and discovering yet ning of September 14, 1979, many close not end with the citation of a few case other exa.mples of Soviet-Cuban influence examples. We will continue to remind the a.nd geneMl disorder in the politics of the friends and professional associates w1ll Western hemisphere. The SOviets seem a.n­ gather to honor a dedicated public serv­ Soviet Union of its commitment to all its noyed at this sudden burst of energy; oth­ ant of over 40 years, in my hometown, citizens for basic human rights. ers a.re predicting cynically tha-t it's not Uke­ Redwood City, Calif., Fire Chief John w. I invite the attention of this body to ly to 1'8St very long. Both reactions a.re to Keller. the plight of Vladimir and Irina Cherkas­ be expected. Nothing in Amerioa.n foreign Chief Keller, a lifel0111g resident of Red­ sky and their 3-year-old daughter. pollcymaking of the past severa.l years gives Alia, who live in Moscow. Vladimir much C81use to believe that the current show wood City, became a firefighter for the of co.n.cern has any deep roots or 1s llkely Redwood City Fire Department on April graduated from the Moscow State Uni­ to have much sta.ying power. 10, 1939. He was promoted to captain versity in computer science. But, he can­ The furor began, of course, with on January 25, 1947. On July 1, 1961, he not find employment because he is a Jew the newti about the troops' presence a.nd their was promoted to training officer, and on and desires emigration from the Soviet threat to the SALT trea.ty. But tha.t waa May 1, 1966, he was promoted to battal­ Union. We are uncertain of their destina­ OIIlly the beglnnlng. ion chief. On February 16, 1967, he was tion, but Vladimir's mother and brother Legislators and journalists bega.n specu­ live in the United States. They have been lating that the troops were there to guard promoted to deputy chief. On April 6, Soviet electronic surveillance fac111ties ca­ 1970, in recognition of his outstanding denied emigration on two occasions for pable of monitoring vast numbers of Ameri­ leadership capabilities, John W. Keller reasons of security. I have little infor­ can communications. The Sena.te Select was appointed chief of the oldest fire mation on the Cherkasskys. But, I do Committee on Intelligence announced hear­ department in San Mateo County. know that the family wants to leave the ings to see whether intelligence failures on I had the distinct pleasure of attending Soviet Union and has been denied this our part had prevented us from knowing high school and later working with Chief right. all this earller. The President personally en­ The Soviet Union is a signatory of the tered the fray to urge national ca.lm and Keller during the 16 years in which 1 warn the Russians of the present danger to served as a councilman and mayor of Helsinki agreement, which included a U.S.-Soviet relations, a.nd the a.dministra­ Redwood City. pledge to facilitate the reunification of tion announced it was reviewing the whole President Carter has proclaimed the divided families. However, the Cherkas­ issue of Cuban force bulldups over the last week of October 8-14, 1979, as Fire Pre­ sky family, and the many others like it, several years. vention Week. I call this to your atten­ are living proof that the Soviet Govern­ Senator Henry Jackson called for the tion for the reason that Chief Keller ment has failed to keep that promise. withdrawal of not only Soviet combat troops We are all aware of the increase in but Soviet armaments as well. Ex-President has been a leader in California in empha­ Gerald Ford announced tha.t those Soviet sizing that fire prevention is every bit emigrants allowed to leave the Soviet troops sure hadn't been in Cuba during his as important as fire suppression. He suc­ Union in 1978. And we are thankful for term of omce, whlle reports started circu­ cessfully convinced the Redwood City it. But, many of the emigrant.s have en­ lating around Washington that what all Council to adopt one of the strongest dured years of harassment prior to their troops really signaled was the presence in building sprinkler laws in California, and departure, and there are many others Cuba of nuclear weapons. increased the roles and responsibllities who have been refused and are still wait­ Then the Latin American news began of the fire prevention and inspection bu­ ing. pouring in on other fronts as well. It ha.p­ reaus of the department. So, even as we applaud the increase in pened that the nonaligned nations were holding their summit conference in that Chief Keller took the leadership in emigrants, we still mourn for those who well known nonaligned caoltal. Havana, and establishing mutual aid agreements with are unreasonably not allowed to leave. President Castro carried out his previously neighboring cities and fire districts to We must continue our efforts until the formulated plan to lay some particularly insure that efficient. effective, and cost­ SOviet Union has met its Helsinki pledge virulent a.nti-American and pro-Soviet beneficial fire service would be provided in full.e rhetoric on his assembled pa.rtners in- neu- September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24487 trality. The timing was not terrific for de­ ''No": Rollcall No. 462, removing the ing from the U.S. Treasury to the Amer­ tente. The administration freed four Puerto Selective Service registration provisions ican Cancer Society. Rican terrorists who had been in U.S. jails of·H.R. My wife, Lee, joins me in offering con­ for shooting five Congressmen and trying 4o4o.e to kill President Truman; the released free­ gratulations to Joseph Zaninovich on dom fighters promptly began a round of ral­ being named "Man of the Year.'' The lies and press conferences, denouncing honor is one well deserved. To him and American imperialism and vowing to con­ JOSEPH ZANINOVICH-SAN PEDRO his lovely wife, Vesna, we send our best tinue their fight for Puerto Rican liberation. MAN OF THE YEAR wishes for a future fllled with continued In Washington the administration, which success and happiness.• had vigorously denied that there had been any Cuban-inspired funny business going on HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON in the recent Sandinist coup in Nicaragua, OF CALIFORNIA warned Congress that it shouldn't deny aid IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION to the new regime just because it was mak­ ing some suspiciously Marxist-sounding Thursday, September 13, 1979 noises. Over in nearby El Salvador, Sandin­ e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. HON. RICHARD C. SHELBY ist-aided forces continued their escalating Speaker, the San Pedro ::: hapter of the OF ALABAMA campaign against the current rightist gov­ ernment. And in Europe, we hear, observers Boy Scouts of America has selected Jo­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES seph Zaninovich as recipient of their are somehow taking the whole mess as a Thursday, September 13, 1979 sign of the growing weakness of the West. 1979 Man of the Year Award. Knowing The American concern and attention are personally of his involvement in civic e Mr. SHELBY. Mr. Speaker, I wish very loud and visible at the moment. But affairs, I can report this choice to be a to call to the attention of my colleagues how can anyone, Soviets and Cubans in­ fine one indeed. To the benefit of the which appeared in the Birmingham cluded, take them very seriously? The troop south bay area, Joe Z, as he is often Post-Herald on July 21, 1979. Mr. Cox buildup has been going on in Cuba for years. affectionately called, has selflessly de­ eloquently expresses what millions of The Soviet survelllance of American citizens has repeatedly gotten attention on the voted his time and energies to numerous Americans have been saying for some front pages of American newspapers. For community betterment efforts. Joining time. Unfortunately, it appears to me years the Cubans have been a major orga­ his friends and associates in paying trib­ that the people who have been elected nizing force in the network of aid that sup­ ute to Joseph Zaninovich for all his to Congress are not listening to their ports anti-Western terrorist and guerrllla good works, I want to share with my constituents and the people like movements throughout Africa. and Latin colleagues some highlights of his career Vernon Cox who have given so much to America. For years Cuba has been a chief as community leader. their country. agent of the anti-American rhetorical pos­ Joseph Zaninovich's participation in The editorial follows: ture now spawning very · concrete conse­ quences !or this country's relations with the community improvement spans many Ma. PaEsmENT, GET GoVERNMENT OFF Otnl Third World. years and covers a wide range of con­ BACKS The administration has been in posses­ cerns. He has held or shared the top It was gratifying to read a complete text sion of all these rather obvious facts and omcer positions of the following organi­ of President Carter's July 15 speech be­ has quite deliberately and consistently chos­ zations: The Southern California Amer­ cause a.fter reading remarks by Senators en to minimize their significance and refuse ican Committee for Yugoslav Relief; the Stewart and Hefiin, Congressman Buchanan, to a.Uow them a significant place in deter­ Mayor Vann, Commissioner Doss and sev­ American National Red Cross, San Pedro eral other politicians I found out that Coun­ mining American policy. Senator Church, it and Peninsula branch; the Southern must be said, has been a loyal ally in the en­ cilman Larry Langford and I had not lis­ terprise. What could the Soviets have California American-Yugoslav Cultural tened to an entirely different speech. thought of this, except that it is the Carter Hour, Inc.; Personnel and Industrial May I use "Another View" to accept Mr. administration's settled intention to allow Relations Association, Long Beach dis­ Carter's invitation to "let your voice be such behavior to continue? How can any­ trict; the Urban Action Committee; the heard" and present the thoughts of a very one believe that the admlnistration has Los Angeles City Board of Parking Com­ average American who, for 44 years, ha.s changed its fundamental convictions on missioners; the Yugoslav-American Club worked for and with many people in the this basic tenet of its foreign policy? How construction and a.llled industry, all of u.s of San Pedro; and the Yugoslav-Amer­ with a great deal of pride and the happy can the Carter people's present agitation be icans for Political Action. seen as anything but a piece of opportunism feeling tha.t goes with building something, that wlll last no longer than the moment's The labor movement has also received to produce a high quallty, reasonably priced political noise? Joe's support. Over 25 years ago, he structure to owners. As long as the administration keens acting helped form the welfare and pension I now wa.tch, with tea.rs in my eyes, as my so as to make this kind of perception plaus­ trusts of the United Cannery & Industrial ,governments tear the industry apart ible, it can expect nothing from the Soviets through their preva111ng wage requirements, Workers Union. A continuing commit­ their amrmative action plans, their man­ but their current habits of constant prob­ ment has followed as he still cochairs the dated minority participation deals, their re­ ing, reaching, and scrambling for more ad­ boards which oversee these benefit plans. quired reporting procedures, their licensing, vantage. And as long as this continues. our In his current position as corporate di­ permit a.nd inspection controls, their costly forehm policy invites a whole succession of Cuban crises.e rector for the Star-Kist Co.'s industrial and unrealistic safety standards and on relations division, his performance has and on. been described by union ofilcials as one Mr. Carter stated that the main threat to characterized by sense of fairness and America and the American way of life was PERSONAL EXPLANATION a "a crisis in confidence." Also, "for the first genuine concern for workers. time in the history of our country a majority This man's career of service extends of our people believe that the next five years HON. BOB STUMP further. He has received appointments to wlll be worse than the past five years." Yet, OF ARIZONA seven advisory bodies of the city of Los Mr. Carter never addressed himself a.s to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Angeles: The community development why Americans had lost confidence and ex­ committee, the mayor's community ad­ pected a worsening. Mr. Carter also stated Thursday, September 13, 1979 "The productivity of American workers is visory committee, the mayor's council actually dropping." • Mr. STUMP. Mr. Speaker, because of for international visitors, the board of May I ask, "Mr. President what did you an illness in my family, I was unable to parking commissioners, the board of expect?" In the construction Industry you, be present on Wednesday, September 12, transportation commissioners, the park­ the top dog in our government structure, al­ 1979, for consideration of H.R. 4040, the ing management steering committee, low your bureaucrats and legislators to make fiscal year· 1980 Defense authorization and the Peck Trust Committee. In addi­ contractors pay the same sizable wages for bill. Had I been present I would have tion, he served as a member of the State the sorriest carpenter, painter, mason, etc. as voted as follows: tor the best, most productive craftsman. of California Industrial Welfare Board. Your rules won't let us weed out those who "Yes": Rollcall No. 461, an amendment In recognition of his contributions, won't or can't produce and thus takes all to retain the Selective Service provisions Joseph Zaninovich has received citations Incentives away from those who can and ot H.R. 4040. from more than 10 organizations rang- wm produce. 24488 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 Then, too, Mr. President, you surely must You asked us not "take unnecessary trips." worth since 1970. Under Ayatollah Ruhollah realize that about 10 percent of the work Would you consider it impertinent 1f I sug­ Khomelni, Iran canceled some $7 b1llion force on the publlc payroll never produces gested you stay at the White House? 'lhat worth of orders e.nd left open the possib111ty anything except more paperwork to penalize would be leadership by example, Mr. Presi­ of buying about $5 b1llion worth that Wash· the production of those who are trying to dent.e ington had agreed to sell the Shah. eftlciently produce buildings, cars, gasoline, O.fllcials said the Administration was in­ stoves, refrigerators, etc. And your unneces­ terested in supplying the arms to improve sarily high mandated wage scales, including POSSIBLE FUTURE-.ARMS SALES TO relations with Iran. The arms te.lks and the m1n1mum wage scales, confiscatory employer mAN decision this week to sell heating on to Iran taxes, "timely" deposits of those taxes with are seen as enhancing what little influence their attendant penalties for being "un­ the United States has there. timely" and the fact that government has HON. LEE H. HAMILTON MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS overspent so freely and "borrowed" so much Pentagon officials believe Iran's interest money there is not enough left for a private OF INDIANA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in American arms stems primar1ly from the employer to finance a business, even with rapidly deteriorating state of the country's outrageous interest rates, make it quite un­ Thursday, September 13, 1979 armed forces. Although earller purchases by desirable to even try to be an employer. the Shah left the mmtary with a huge ar­ If you were in the construction business, e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would senal, o.fllcials said fighting against the Kurds Mr. President, the cash flow problems would like to bring to the attention of my col­ was exhausting supplies, crittoa.l equipment make you wince. Why do you think Ameri­ leagues a letter I received from the State and spare parts. cans expect to be worse off in the next five Department August 31, 1979, concerning Asked whether t.he fighting between Kurds years? Most of the answers Ue within your and Iranian forces had led the Administra­ Sunday night speech. We have watched you press reports alleging the resumption of U.S. arms sales and arms deliveries to tion to consider an arms sale, a State Depart­ waste 22 billion tax dollars on a Department ment o.fllcial said: "So far, the Kurdish prob­ of Energy to create such total confusion in Iran. The State Department says that addi­ lem hasn't entered our calculations." the energy field that all anyone can now say Military aides said Iran was also having 1s "I've got to have more money." tional sales of sophisticated military problems maintaining and servicing ad­ Instead of trying to rectify this great er­ equipment has not been discussed and vanced American-built equipment, particu­ ror in judgment you propose to compound that the subject of U.S. military ad­ larly planes. They attributed recent crashes tt by creating an Energy Security Corpora­ visers in Iran has not been addressed by of several Iranian fighters to inadequate tion and an Energy Moblllzation Board. This either the United States or Iran. maintenance. will only add to the confusion and further In assesSing Iran's mmtary, one Pentagon shackle the producers in America who can The State Department has agreed, however, that the United States will pro­ aide said most of the high officers had been get things done if left alone. Also we realize executed, had retired or had left the country. you are the prime mover behind the pro­ vide Iran with some $300 million in non­ "There is a complete lack of m111tary disci­ posed separate Department of Education, an sensitive spare parts already paid for pllne," he said, asserting that the only forces even greater boondoggle. and in the pipeline, conditional on a de­ st1llin good condition were those close to the You propose great new spending programs termination on the solvency of the Ira­ Soviet border. by borrowing through bonds and by taxing nian arms sales trust fund. The United However, officials sadd Iran was regularly "windfall profits." By innuendo you are States now feels that the prospects for sending large transport jets to the United guilty of making it sound llke the oil com­ States to pick up equipment paid for earlier. panies are ripping off the American publlc, trust fund solvency is considerably im­ proved and that deliveries of these spare Washington and Teheran are also discuss­ but the tax wm be paid by the American ing new training programs for the Iranian consumer not the on companiP.s. parts can proceed. To date, the Iranians milttary. In the old American program, sev­ You're not being honest with us, Mr. Pres­ have not made arrangements for the de­ eral thousand Government and civilian ad­ ident, because all one has to do is look at who livery of any of these items. The United visers were scattered across Iran. winds up with the money. It has been the 85 States also intends to offer each Iranian The aides said there had been no discussion percent increase in government spending in military service the opportunity to pur­ of adding to the small American military the past five years and the accelerating pace chase a limited quantity of additional, contingent in Iran. Only 17 American mili­ since you became president that make the tary people are there now and the number next five years look pretty bleak. And you unclassified spare parts provided Iran deposits $5 million in advance to cover is scheduled to fall to 6 before the end of·the must know that you already have about year. However, they swid the Administration three-fourths of a tr1llion dollars out in the costs. wanted to continue training programs for notes and bonds. Adding another 1l ve b1111on An article on the subject of arms sales the Iranian m111tary in the United States. ain't going to help that problem any. to Iran and the letter from the State De­ About 100 Iranian officers are attending But more pessimism is created by your partment follow: American m111tary schools. Sunday statement, "Our nation must be fair UNITED STATES AND IRAN TALK ABOUT RESUMP­ At the same time, o.fllcials said, Iran re­ to the poorest among us. So we wm increase TION OF ARMS SHIPMENTS cently renewed its offer to sell its 70 advanced aid to needy Americans to cope with rising F-14 fighters back to the United States. The energy prices," than by any other action or WASHINGTON, August 23.-Defense Depart­ ment officials ooid today that the Darter fighters, among the most advanced in the inaction you might take. It is this type of so­ world, were sold to the Shah in the early cial program which will do most to defeat Administration was talking with the Govern­ ment of Iran about resuming large-scale 1970's. The present Government has said they America, if America 1s to be defeated, be­ are too difficult to service. cause we Americans made America what it is shipments of American arms to that country. The officials said authorities in Teheran, The Administration is interested in buying by hard work, saving, and helping those who them back, but officials said Iran had not can't help themselves. faced with e. Kurdish rebelllon in western Iran and polltical unrest elsewhere, had produced an inventory of the planes and Let us handle aid to those who can't cope their missiles or quoted a price. with high energy costs, Mr. President. I'll recently shown new interest in signing con­ guarantee you we'll do a better job than even tracts for a part of some $5 blllion worth of the United States government can. arms and other m111tary equipment ordered WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 1979. Both the Declaration of Independence and by the Government of Shah Mob.e.mmed Riza DEAR MR. HAMILTON: YOU have asked for the Constitution use the word "11berty" Pahlevl. information on recent press reports of re­ where you use the word "freedom." Although They said that about four weeks ago, offi­ newed arms sales to Iran. These reports synonmous they do not mean exactly the cials in the American Embassy in Teheran contained some misleading illlformation and same thing. began talks with Ibrahim Yazdi, the Deputy I am pleased to clarify our position for the Even as The Declaration of Independence Prime Minister, on delivering the equipment, record. expressed the need and the desire to be "free" which is said to include spare pe.rts for First, let me deal with what has not of the tyrannies of the government as admin­ American equipment already in Iran, am­ occurred. There have been no talks of the istered by King George, perhaps the Ameri­ munition, new helicopters and artlllery. sale of new equipment to Iran. There have cans of today need to be "freed" from many CONFUSION PREVENTS PROGRESS been no talks of training of Iranians by of the inequities, injustices and tyrannies U.S. technicians and Iran has not re­ omcials said American m111tary advisers quested the U.S. to resume a mil1tary sup- of the government as administered by you, were also helping Iranle.ns define the coun­ port program in Iran as we had before the Congress and the Supreme Court. try's mmtary needs. They said, however, that I feel I speak for millions and millions of little progress had been made in the talks revolution. Specifically there has been no other Americans when I say, "Yes, Mr. Pres­ because of confusion, infighting and divided discussion of sale of hel1copters, artillery ident, we'll go all out to save America. We responsibilities in the Iranian Government. or ammunition as reported in one news­ only ask that you limit your help to our ef­ "It isn't clear who's in charge or what they paper. fort by keeping government off our backs and want to do," one omcte.l said. Since the revolution we have had con­ out of our hiar. Have everyone in govern­ Before the Shah was ousted early this tinuing discussions with the Iranian Gov­ ment shuffle their papers if they have to, just year, Iran was the leading recipient of Amer­ ernment about the status of the FMS trust don't send them to us." ican arms, having bought over $17 billion fund and the Iranians' interest in obtaining September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24489 spare parts to keep previously supplied U.S.­ OBEY substitute which provided for 4 tense interest ln destablllzing our ally in origin equipment operating. Payments to percent, rather 2 percent, withholding of Nicaragua., do you see any inconsistency the trust fund !!rom Iran became sporadic foreign assistance appropriations under between the lack of interest in a. government about a. year ago. On 3 February we signed that ha.s collaborated in the murder of a a. Memorandum of Understanding with the H.R. 4473. Had I been present, I would U.S. Ambassador and anti-U.S. activities? Iranian Government which cancelled most have voted ·'no.'· I aJso was absent for CARTER. Our interest in Nicaragua is to of the. Iranian orders and ga.ve us the au­ rollcalls No. 448 and No. 449 on Septem­ stablllze the situation and end the civil war thority to cancel or divert contracts in order ber 7, 1979. Had I been present, I would for reascns which have to do with the people to assure the solvency of the trust fund. have voted "aye." • there. And I don't have any comment to Actions pursuant to this MOU have been make whatsoever on the Afghanistan proceeding since February. From 3 February situation. .•• through 31 July recoupments !rom the sale IRVINE. It's a .totally dlflerent s.ttua.tion? and diversion of cancelled Iranian orders WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON? We don't have any interest ln destabll1zing returned $603 mUlion to the trust fund. Ta.rakl? Is that what you're saying? Disbursements !from the trust fund amount­ CARTER. I don't have any comment on ed to $716 million during the same period. HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK that.... " The balance in the trust fund on 28 Au- · gust is approximately $500 mllllon. OF OHIO What 1s going on here? Is it possible As long a.s there was a serious risk to the IN THE }{OUSE. OF REPRESENTATIVES that our own State Department, the sup­ solvency o! the trust fund we maintained Thursday, September 13, 1979 posed foreign policy arm of a nation that a. suspension of all deliveries of FMS mate­ characterizes itself as the leader of the rial to Iran. However, in July when the e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, dur­ free world, views the fall of pro-Com­ Congress approved the purchase of !our ing the gleeful celebration that was SPRUANCE-class ships by the U.S. Navy, launched within the State Department munist Afghanistan with alarm? Why the prospect for trust fund solvency con­ on the collapse of the Somoza govern­ should our State Department cheer on siderably improved. Accordingly, we were ment many of my colleagues may have the collapse of pro-American Nicaragua, able to tell the Iranians that we no longer and at the same time have a hands off needed to ma.lnta.in a claim on spare parts missed various news i terns regarding policy on a possible Soviet defeat? The that were previously ordered and paid for another nation that has a government answers to these questions is too terrible and that were caught in the pipeline at the in trouble. The nation I am referring to to consider. It 1s shocking that this can time of the revolution and, hence, we were is Afghanistan. I would like to refresh go on without any major criticism from willing to release nonsensitive spare parts some of my colleagues' memories on the the press or from this Congress. I hope on a selective basis. Currently we estimate situation in this nation by relating some that the value Qf such spare parts and re­ that as this Congress and this Nation of the recent developments happening consider such major issues as SALT II, lated items in the pipeline is approximately there. $300 m1llion. As yet, the Iranian Govern­ and the 1980 Presidential ele: tions that ment has not made arrangements to take President Noor Mohammad Tarald they keep these questions in mind. One delivery of the spare parts, and no dellveries seized power in Afghanistan in a coup day we might find out whose side Mr. have been made. in April1978. The creation of the Taraki Carter and his regime is on. My betting The pipellne is a. residue of various con­ regime and his consolidation of power money says it will not be on the side of tracts and not a. complete inventory of had the support and the blessings of the what is good for Ameri_ca.e spare parts to keep mmtary equipment op­ Soviet Union. In the months that fol­ erating. Therefore, we responded to the lowed, this Soviet presence grew into a Iranian request for parts by offering to permit each service-Army, Navy and Air major factor in the country. Mr. Taraki Force-to purchase a limited quantity of showed early on that he was no friend LT. RALPH SCALZO urgently needed unclassified parts provided of America. In February 1979 the gov­ they deposited $5 milllon in advance to ernment of Afghanistan and some Soviet cover the cost. Thus far the Iranian Govern­ personnel had a hand in the murder of HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING ment ha.s ~ot given us a. decision on this American Ambassador Adolph Dubs. OF OHIO offer. Both offers on the supply of parts Following the death of Ambassador IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were made well before the outbreak of the Dubs relations between the United Sta.tes Thursday, September 13, 1979 recent fighting in the Kurdish areas. and Afghanistan have drifted apart. We belleve it important for stab111ty in e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, Lt. th~ region and the preservation of civil Within the country Mr. Taraki's hold on order in Iran that the authority and the the nation has deteriorated. Today the Ralph R. Scalzo of the U.S. Capitol Po­ effectiveness of the Baza.rga.n Government Afghan Army of over 100,000 along with lice went on terminal leave August 8, be strengthened. The Prime Minister ha.s 4,500 Soviet advisers and technicians is 1979, after 25 years of faithful service promised the Kurds greater autonomy than crumbling in the face of armed rebellion to the Congress. they enjoyed under the previous regime of anti-Communist rebels in all 28 prov­ Lieutenant Scalzo was employed by and financial aid has been offered to the the House from March 1954 to May 1956 region. We hope these moves can lead to inces in that nation. Mr. Taraki has tried to ruthlessly destroy political dissent by and was then appointed to the U.S. Cap­ an end in the fighting and that the Kurds itol Police on May 22, 1956. Lieutenant and the Iranian Government ca.n reach a. murdering over 3,000 political prisoners, peaceful accommodation of their differ­ yet, the opposition to his regime grows. Scalzo served with the U.S. Army in the ences. Under the circumstances I would think European theater during World War II If you need additional information on that the United States would view the where he earned four battle stars. He Iran we would be pleased to arrange to possible downfall of Taraki's inhuman served in the Armv from August 9, 1937, answer your questions. We understand that and pro-Communist regime with some to January 31, 1951, and was retired for you are meeting with Charge' La.lngen next medical reasons. He has a grand total of week. happiness. After all one of our Ambassa­ 39 years of Federal service. Sincerely, dors is dead because of that government During Lieutenant Scalzo's tenure, he NELSON C. L!:DSKY, as is thousands of that nation's citizens. has had the privilege of participating in Acting Assistant Secretary for Congres­ Unbelievably, the U.S. State Department the inauguration of six Presidents and sional Relations.e is hesitant to say anything on the serving under five Speakers of the House. Afghanistan situation. I am particularly pleased to record At a recent press briefing at the State these highlights of Lieutenant Scalzo's Department Mr. Reed Irvine from Ac­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION career, because he is a native of my own curacy in the Media had the following home city of Akron, Ohio, where he grew discussion with State Department up, went to school, and lived until he HON. ABNER J. MIKVA spokesman Hodding Carter: joined the U.S. Army. He has certainly lf OF U.LINOIS IRVINE. Could you tell us on record the brought credit to his native city. State Department would welcome ... the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Only 10 Representatives in current crumbllng of the Taraki regime and lts army service have been here as long as Lt. Thursday, September 13, 1979 and their overthrow? CARTER. I don't think I have much obser- Ralph Scalzo. He is to be commended • Mr. MIKVA. Mr. Speaker, I was absent vation to make on the record about the in­ for his loyalty and dedication. The for rollcall No. 444 on September 6, 1979, ternal affairs of a sovereign regime. House of Representatives will miss on the MILLER of Ohio amendment to the IRVXNE. Well, Hodding, in view of our in- him.e 24490 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 FREE ENTERPRISE STn..L THE BEST What can be said on t he positive side for d oes offer some salient lessons to U.S. and the American free enterprise economy? Quite other politicians bent en enlarging the state's a little. role in furnishing health care. HON. JOHN J. RHODES The US economy has produced a standard The persi:;tence and growth of private of living which defines poverty at a level medicine here shows that even when the gov­ OF ARIZONA higher than the average income in the Soviet ernment provides free medical treatment for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Union and 800 percent above the average everyone, many citizens will nonetheless pay Thursday, September 13, 1979 world level. for the privllege of being able to get treat­ Tbe US has an agricultural economy ment more quickly, choose their own phy­ • Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, the most which is producing food surplu ses which sicians and hospitals, and obtain a. private popular game in America today is to sit much of the world urgently needs because room and other amenitie:;. (Quality of care around amidst our trappings of affluence of its own inetnciencies and an industrial seems to be less of a factor, since most and hurl stones at the free enterprise technology and know-how which the com­ British physicians who treat private patients munist countries want to buy, beg, or bor­ also practice in the NHS.) system. Roscoe Drummond, the astute row! The vitality of the private sector here also and long-time reporter for the Christian In its 200 years, the United States has demonstrates that even the most compre­ Science Monitor, has written a trench­ grown to be the economic wonder of the hensive state medical scheme cannot satisfy ant and perceptive column about this world, bringing forth a richness and a stand­ all consumer demands-particularly as pa­ American pasttime entitled "Free Ener­ ard of living from its farms and factories tients become more sophisticated about their prise Still the Best." It appeared in the unprecedented in all history. needs. Monitor September 12. Some businessmen have shown themselves The best indicator of disaffection with the I urge my colleagues to take the time dishonest and corruot. Because a dozen or government health service is the burgeoning more congressmen have been indicted for membership in the private health plans­ and read this realistic assessment of the taking bribes and misusing public funds, no Britain's equivalent of Blue Cross-Blue virtues of our beleaguered free enterprise one is proposing to ab:mdon Congress. Shield. There are eight such plans now, with system. Let's not disparage what has been working 2.5 million members-almost 15 times their Text of Mr. Drummond's article is as so well for so many so long.e membership when NHS started three decades follows: ago. The plans are adding more than 100,000 FREE ENTERPRISE STILL THE BEST members a year and the largest, British United Provident Association, or BUPA, (By Roscoe Drummond) THE DECLINE OF THE BRITISH which has more than half the total private WASHINGTON . •plan membership, is growing at a rate of 10 It seems almost incredible that American NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE percent a year. competitive enterprise economy should be THE PRIVATE SECTOR the target of so much attack and disparage­ ment. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE Altogether, the private sector accounts for It is a barrage which rarely lets up. Hardly OF ILLINOIS 2 percent to 3 percent or up to $550 mill1on of Britain's annual $18 billion outlay on a day passes when some big-name professor !N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATTVES or social critic isn't producing a story which medical care. Thus, while the private sector yields a headline like this: "US Economic Thursday, September 13, 1979 is still relatively small, it's growing steadily System Under Fire." and likely to take on greater importance in • Mr. PHn..IP M. CRANE. Mr. Sneaker, future years. "These numbers wlll double in Harvard's Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith when the health of ourselves and our constantly w:es his book reviews and other the next five years," predicts D. V. Damerell, loved ones is at stake. we naturally want chief executive of BUPA. articles as a platform to advocate more gov­ For one thing, private medicine is now gen­ ernment control and intervention in busi­ the best medical care available. If the ness. "best care available," however, is to be erating enough capital to finance a substan­ put on a waiting list to receive attention tial expansion in its own fac111ties. The num­ Barry Commoner, professor at Washington ber of large private hospitals in Britain is University in St. Louis, fi~ds the nation's in the future, if the ''best care available" increasing at a rate of almost 10 percent a. concern with the environment and with en­ is to be told which doctor you will see in­ year, and now is up to 117. BUPA, which ergy shortage a tempting way to make his stead of choosing a physician you trust, runs the largest private hospital chain in case for socialism and more of it. if the "best care available" is to be placed the country, is building three new hospitals Multinational corporations, which expand in a crowded hospital room instead of a year, and studying the need for sophisti­ world trade and benefit the consumer, are cated fac111ties for kidney care--fac111ties being continuously smeared and rarely de­ receiving close personal attention, a ra­ tional man would begin to look for some which are becoming too costly for the NHS. fended. American Medical International Inc., a U.S. It just doesn't make sense. alternative to Government health care. firm, is investing $85 mllllon to build seven If the spokesman for free enterprise, which For years the Britons have had to tol­ new private hospitals in England and Wales. transformed America from a nation of widely erate such health care, because the Moreover, the new Conservative govern­ shared poverty to one of widely shared pros­ Brit\sh National Health Service was ment has promised to "encourage the private perity, do not do better expounding the sys­ practtcally the only care available. Dis­ provision" of health care. As a first step, it tem, it may be in danger of being talked to is expected to restore the tax exemption for death. affected with their government's form of national health insurance. many Britons workers of some $110 million in employer­ The reasons this drumbeat of disparage­ financed health insurance benefits. Labor ment of the US economic system is so fan­ are now turning to private health care­ Party politicians made such health fringe tastic, so paradoxical are numerous and, I an innovative alternative. A recent Wall beneft ts taxable in 1976, in an effort to dis­ think, would be fully persuasive 1f they Street Journal article documents this courage their spread. could break their way through the wall of resurgence of private care: The shift back to tax-free status could criticism. PRIVATE HEALTH CARE IN BRITAIN significantly expand the market for em­ The two industrialized countries which (By Jonathan Spivak) ployer-employee plans, private health ex­ have yielded the most to socialist take-over­ perts claim. "The private sector has grown Britain and Jtaly-are near the brink of eco­ LoNDON.-Tbe Electrical and Plumbing as an employment-based health service," nomic disaster. Trades Union has just negotiated an aston­ argues Michael Lee, an economist who has The Soviet Union, which has been totally ishing fringe benefit in this land of socialized made several studies of the private health communized for more than a half century, medicine--a. complete package of private market. has produced the lowest standard of living health care benefits for 45,000 members and A marked deterioration in the NHS is also of all the industrial powers. their fam111es. helping to boost private care. In the past two With all its resources and discipline. the The automobile association will soon offer years, a succession of labor disputes, govern­ communist economy of mainland China its 5.3 million members a new health insur­ ment budget restraints and management can't begin to compare with the productivity ance plan guaranteeing private medical care crises have racked the health service. and living standard achieved by the competi­ whenever admission to a National Health At times last winter, union workers seek­ tive enterprise of Taiwan. Service hospital takes more than slx weeks. ing higher pay were refusing to wheel The vigor and prosperity of free-enterprise IBM has just purchased private health In­ patients to elective surgery. Increasingly, West Germany exceeds by at least 33 percent surance benefits for its entire British work­ scarce NHS resources are directed towards the the communist economy of East Germany. force of 15,000; previously only a !'mall group acutely lll, and patients with less acute medi­ As Al Smith used to remark when he was of 600 executives had been covered. cal problems are subject to long delays before running for president, "Let's look at the rec­ This recent spurt in Britain's private getting treated. ord." By any standard of comparison, the health care sector does not spell the end of The NHS "waiting list" for hernias, hemor­ socialist and communist alternatives to capi­ the massive tax-supported National Health rhoids, plastic surgery, gallstones, hip re­ talism are unattractive, unproductive, and Service, which still provides the bulk or placements, varicose veins, tonsillectomies aneinic. medical care in the United Kingdom. But it and other "elective" operations grew by 40% September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24491 over the past two years-to some 750,000 the NHS, have bitterly denounced the elec­ Ex-FIGHTER WINS STRUGGLE TO EARN HIS patients. In several cities, elderly patients trical workers and promised to try to have COLLEGE DEGREE must now walt two years for hlp replace­ them censured at the Trade Unions Congress (By Bob Dolgan) ments, and children must walt three years general conference this fall. "It's considered It was May 9, 1949, in Philadelphia. George for tonslllectomles. To dramatize the situa­ apostasy in the worst form," says one union (Sugar) Co3tner, a 26-year-old nationally tion, two private London hospitals last year negotiator. ranked welterweight boxer, was drubbing began the practice of operating without Some private sector experts foresee pri­ tough Chico Varona. In the sixth round, charge on an NHS patient a week, but that vate medicine filling in more and more of the however, Varona landed a left hook to Cost­ obviously has had Uttle impact on the back­ NHS shortcomings in non-emergency care, ner's right eye. log. until a full-fiedged partnership develops. The "All of a sudden I saw the brightest light A royal commission that recently exhaus­ NHS would continue to concentrate on life­ in the world," Costner recalled the other day. 'ttvely examined the NHS concluded that the threatened and acutely ill patients, while the "It felt like a ball of fire. I didn't know it "private sector probably responds much more private sector takes over the less severe then, but I had suffered a detached retina. directly to patients' demands for services cases-at a price. It didn't bother me that much. I thought it than the NHS and provides a useful pointer Officials of the Conservative government to areas where the NHS is defective." Among was a broken blood vesGel." are toying with a move in this direction: a Costner went on to knock out Varona, but the NHS gaps it cited were there: Most nurs­ government-run voluntary health insurance he never forgot tha.t punch. It was the be­ ing home care for the aged in Britain is pro­ scheme under which Britons paying a special vided by private fac111ties; 6{)% of the 150,000 ginning of a 30-year odyssey that will have health premium could obtain extra benefits, its finest chapter Thursday night when abortions performed last year were performed such as free choice o

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Friday, September 14, 1979 The House met at 10 a.m. on Agriculture, may be permitted to sit the long history of the American League, The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, today to consider the bill, H.R. 3905, dur­ the league of Cobb, Ruth, DiMaggio, and D.D., offered the following prayer: ing the 5-minute rule. Williams, among others, to attain this The SPEAKER. Is there objection to remarkable feat. Behold, how good and pleasant it is the request of the gentleman from Iowa? But statistics tell relatively little about when brothers dwell in unity .-Psalms There was no objection. what Yaz has meant to the Red Sox for 133: 1. 19 years. He has had innumerable hits 0 God, quicken our spi'rits so that we in the clutch. He won the triple crown will know the blessings of living together WHY NOBODY LIKES THE DEPART­ in 1967, and was the man most responsi­ in unity and peace. We have our personal MENT OF ENERGY ble for getting the Red Sox the pennant aspirations and ideas of what is best, yet golden glove in Fenway Park, where he ment. Mr. DANIELSON. Mr. Speaker, I mastered the intricacies of the "Green Teach us to treat one another with understand that the Department of Monster," the tricky left field in Boston. respect and honor as we keep our vision Energy cannot understand why it is Carl Yastrzcmski is a man whom all to those noble objectives that are our about as popular as a case of hives in a citizens of the Bay State and all Ameri­ common heritage. heat wave, but we had a good example cans can cheer. He has distinguished Thi.s we pray, 0 Lord. Amen. in my omce these last few days. himself through remarkable achieve­ ments in our national pastime. I One of my constituents wrote in and am proud to say that I know him not just THE JOURNAL wanted to know where he could get hold of some information on solar heating. as an admirer of his extraordinary The SPEAKER. The has ex­ We called the Department of Energy. talent, but as a friend, and I am de­ amined the Journal of the last day's pro­ lighted to offer him my sincerest con­ They responded by saying, "Try the Na­ gratulations, as well as the heartfelt best ceedings and announces to the House tional Solar Heating and Cooling In­ his approval thereof. formation Center. The telephone num­ wishes of the First District of Massa­ Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour­ chusetts, on his attainment of this re­ ber is 800-523-2929." markable milestone. nal stands approved. My secretary called that number 24 times, and constantly got a busy signal. On the 25th time a phonograph record MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE DILATORY TACTICS-MAJORITY OR replied, but before it was finished the MINORITY? A message from the Senate by Mr. line was cut of!. Sparrow, one of its clerks, announced I think they ought to do something tions for the fiscal year 1980 for certain Mr. BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, you, better maritime programs of the Department than most know that your party controls of Commerce, and for other purposes," CARL YASTRZEMSKI'S 3,000TH HIT the House of Representatives by a 2-to-1 requests a conference with the House margin. Yet we hear continually rumors

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