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 past 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 heritage 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 present 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 ofortitude. physicals. cine has not only managed to survive but Finally, private health plans are attractive Costner, 56 now, is blind. "I'm happy to is now beginning to fiourish in a socialized finally be finished," he said, talking about in Britain because they are inexpensive, at health system bent on its ellmination.e least by American standards. A British family the hardships he endured on the way to the can purchase private health coverage han treasured sheepskin. "It's been a very dif dling 90% of their medical costs for under ficult four years." $400 a year. (In comparison, family coverage A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE "SUGAR" Transportation, for example, was a con in the U.S. is at least double that amount.) COSTNER stant problem. Every morning, at about 6:30, Much of the reason for the low cost of he would stand in front of his apartment private insurance is, ironically enough, the on Cleveland's northeast side, waiting for NHS itself. Private patients in Britain .remain the first of four buses he needed to go back HON. LOUIS STOKES and forth to CSU each day. eligible for the NHS, and frequently elect its oF omo care for acute, emergency problems, since "We've had some bad winters lately," Cost NHS hospitals usually have specialized fa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATrvES ner said, followed by a laugh. "I almost froze a couple of times. Sometimes I got so cold clllties superior to those of the private insti Thursday, September 13, 1979 tutions. I would get on the wrong bus deliberately "Two thirds of the cost (of private plans) e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I would so I wouldn't freeze." Despite all that, he like to take this opportunity to bring to missed only three classes in four years. is underwritten by the NHS," Mr. Lee de Costner could not take notes during class clares. Indeed, the private plans are now pro the attention of my colleagues the ad lectures, so he used a tape recorder. When a viding a cash payment of about $30 a day to m~rable accomplishment of Mr. George tape would run out, the professors would patients who use the NHS, rather than a pri "Sugar" Costner of Cleveland and Cin vate hospital. These payments are not only stop talking and give him time to sUp in a an inducement to use the NHS, but represent cinnati, Ohio. fresh cassette. a portion of the private plan's savings when Mr. Costner recently received the BA Since he could not read, Costner got tapes customers do use it. degree from Cleveland State University. of entire books from the New York public NHS advocates tend to minimize the pres While this particular event is rapidly library system and from the Sight Center ent importance of the private sector but becoming more of an average occurrence in Cleveland. Tests were given to him ver worry that moves to enlarge it very much in this country, it is an extraordinary bally. He did well; he will graduate with further could create a two-class medical sec achievement for George Costner. better than a B average. tor. "It is tiny, tiny, not worth bothering Costner paid his college tuition almost George Costner, an ex-fighter, is 56 unaided, relying on a small nestegg and the about," Professor R. F. L. Logan of the Lon years old, blind, and would be considered don School of Hygiene scornfully insists. meager dlsablllty pension he receives from "People age 65 and older consume one-halt disadvantaged by our country's economic Social Security. of the NHS's total resources, and no private standards. However, his unusually keen "George is one of the most highly-moti scheme will touch them." Peter Draper, a desire to excel in the college environment vated students I have ever seen," said Mi health researcher at Guy's Hospital Medical was enough to overcome to what may chael Zuccaro, CSU coordinator of services School in London complains that "rather have seemed to some people to be insur for the physically handicapped. "He ran into than having a reforming infiuence on the mountable odds. His professors and peers considerable difficulty paying his tuition. NHS, the private sector has tended to work all agree that he was a highly motivated The average guy would rather use the money as an alternative system for a privlleged from Social Security to eat, not for an edu elite." and exemplary student. cation. In a country where there is always a "PRIVILEGED ELITE" 1 "He applied for more money from the state But this "privileged elite" may increasingly lot of rhetoric about "pulling yourself but he was turned down. He was told that, at be working its way down the income ladder, up by your bootstraps," it is interesting his age, he probably wouldn't finish col from management and professional types to to note that Mr. Costner pooled his lege and if he did he probably wouldn't be include many working class men and women. limited financial resources to pay for his able to get a job anyway." Officials of BUPA, for example, report that it college education. This is more than the Through all this Costner, who is divorced, is enrolling blue collar workers for the first usual "success story" we are all so famil pursued the usual household duties--cook time. "Individuals have available income, iar with. ing, cleaning and shopping for himself. and reallze the benefits of freedom of choice," The achievement of George Costner Bernard Offerman, a CSU professor, taught Dr. H. Berte Wright, deputy chairman of cannot be attributed to any assistance Costner in a labor course. "He's a tremendous BUPA's medical center, explains. man," said Offerman. "As a student, he had One of the first such groups to join BUPA rendered by the State or Federal Gov the courage of a fighter. It was beautiful to was 10,000 London taxi drivers, who, BUPA ernment. Both the Social Security Ad see him progress, the way he'd participate in officials say, chose private insurance to avoid ministration and the State government class. He is so youthful in spirit, yet a man NHS delays and reduce the time lost to told George Costner that he never would of infinite patience. It was an honor to have sickness. · finish college. Instead this story is a him in my class." The first union-negotiated plan was signed tribute to George Costner himself who "The professors and students were all in July for 1,500 brewery workers in Birming pooled all his resources to surpass every beautiful," said Costner, a six-footer who ham. But it is the electrical workers agree conceivable odd to reach his goal-a col speaks in the tones and cadences of a street ment, covering 2,000 contractors and one lege education. wise survivor. "They all helped me. It was third of the union's members, that really good to be associated with young people. represented the significant precedent and At this time Mr. Speaker, I would I helped a. lot of them, too. They'd get dis has accordingly split the union movement like to enter into the RECORD an article couraged and I'd talk them out of quitting." sharply. The hospital unions, claiming that on Mr. Costner's achievement that ap Costner began his college career at age 52, such employe health plans will eliminate peared in the August 28, 1979, issue of a time when many men don't care about many o! their Jobs and ultimately destroy the Cleveland Plain Dealer: much more than the TV set and a can o! beer. 24492 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 He started at Cuya.hoga Community College's Costner said he worked with the retarded section shall during the first eighteen metro campus. Why did he go to school? at a Goodwtll Industries Sheltered Work months of such enlistment be 50 percent "I couldn't make a good Uvtng," replied shop for three -years. "I loved it," he said. "It of the rate of basic pay otherwise payable Costner. "I was sick and tired of living on was very rewardfng." to a member of the armed forces with such Social Security and working part-time jobs He came to Cl~veland in 1966 to attend member's grade and length of service. (most often as a masseur). I'm still a healthy, Charlton College. of Physical Medicine, earn " (c) ( 1) A person who enlists in the Army active man and I felt I had a long time to live. ing a license as a physical therap·lst. He be under this section and completes the initial I figured there was only one thing to do--go came a masseur at Jewish Community Cen eighteen-month obllgated period of active to school." ter and other places. duty is entitled to 36 months of educational Costner's next step is to get a job. He is College changed his life. Thursday wlll be assistance as provided in this subsection. moving back to Cincinnati, his hometown, a great day. His friends and three grown " ( 2) The Secretary of the Army shall pro to be ne::~.r his 90-year-old mother and old chlldren wlll be in the CSU commence vide a person who is entitled to educational friends. With his degree in management and ment audience as the old fighter walks across assistance under this subsection- labor relations, he is hoping to get a govern the stage for his treasured diploma. Even "(A) the cost of tuition and fees of a pro ment job. He would especially enjoy a post his mother might be there. They wlll ap gram of education being pursued by such with the National Labor Relations Board. plaud. Later there wlll be embraces and person up to a maximum of $3,000 per school "I think he can land a job," said Zuccaro. handshakes and laughter. year or, in the case of a program of education "He presents himself well and can talk to "This has to be the milestone of my life," bein~ pursued at a public educational in just about anyone. People like him almost said Costner. "I feel llke I won the cham stitution, a maximum of $1,000 per school immediately. The only thing against h1m is pionship. I don't see how I could feel any year; and his age." better 1! I won the welterweight title." e " (B) a subsistence allowance of $200 per Costner was fam111a.r to sports fans in the month during the school year while such 1940s, when he was one of the top welter person is pursuing a program of education. weights in the nation. He had 91 fights, win "(d) A member who originally enli>ts un ning 48 by knockouts and 29 others by deci EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE der this section is not eligible to participate sion. A lethal left hooker, he lost only eight SERVICES in the educational assistance program es bouts. Two of them were one-round knock tabllshed by chapter 32 of tltle 38 until outs to the great Suga.r Ray Robinson. after such member has served on active Costner kept fighting after the 111-fated Varona bout, whipping a succession of HON. PAUL N. MeCLOSKEY, JR. duty for eighteen months. opponents. But by the time he was matched OF CALIFORNIA "(e) Educational assistance benefits un for the second time aga.lnst Robinson on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES der this section may not be provided an March 22, 1950, the vision in his right eye eligible person after the end of the ten-year was pretty much gone. Thursday, September 13, 1979 period beginning on the data of such per son's last discharge or release from active ''The doctors couldn't tell anything was 8 Mr. McCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, it is wrong and I wanted to fight Robinson," my understanding that the Armed Serv duty. Costner recalled. The pay was $12,000, good "(f) The Secretary of the Army shall pre money in those days. ices Committee has directed the Sec scribe regulations to carry out this section. About five days before the fight, Costner retary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve In prescribing such regulations, the Secre found he couldn't see punches coming from Affairs, and Logistics to submit a re tary shall consult with the Administrator of the right side. That was a big handicap port on the feasibility of a morB attrac Veterans' Affairs and shall, to the greatest against any fighter. Against a boxer of Robin tive educational program for all the extent practicable, provide unt:::ormlty in son's caliber, it was suictdaJ. services. such regulations with the laws and rep:ula Costner decided to try to knock out Robin A bill directly related to this request tions providing educational assistance bene son with an ea.rly punch. If it failed, he was introduced by my colleague, Mr. fits that are administered by the Adminis would lie down and live to fight another day. trator of Veterans' Affairs. When his initial flurry falled. Costner took GooDLING. Along with other Members "(g) In this section, the terms 'program of the count after Robinson's first attack. Mr. GooDLING is now attending the In education' and 'educational institution' "I felt gullty about it then and I feel gullty terparliamentary Conference in Vene have the meanings given such terms by sec today," sa.ld Costner. "It was the only fight zuela. I would simply like to note that tions 1652 (b) and (c), respectively, of title I ever gave up ln." Mr. GoODLING's proposal appears to of 38.". Amazingly, Costner, fighting with only one fer a workable plan for inducing more (b) The table of sections at the beginning eye, won his last three bouts, all against of such chapter is amended by adding at the prominent boxers. He beat Kid Gavnan on and better qualified men and women into the Service through more attractive edu end thereof the following new item: May 8, 1950; Charley Cotton on June 12, 1950, "3264. Special enlistments: educational as and administered a fearful beating to light cational opportunities. sistance; reduction in baste pay.". weight champ Tke Wllliams in a non-title I would certainly hope that the De SEc. 2. The amendment made by subsec match on July 12, 1950. It was his last fight. fense Department in their study of this tion (a) of the first section of this Act shall The doctors took away his boxing license. problem gives thoughtful consideration take effect on October 1, 1979.e Between 1951 and 1958, Costner under to Mr. GoODLING's proposal. went six eye o_!>erations. Cataracts developed. "They took out a cataract that was the size The bill follows: of a shirt button," he said. "The next day H.R. 4402 I could see real good. But a couple of days A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, CARL YASTRZEMSKI later I couldn't see anything. For a whlle the to provide improved educational assist shadows would come and go. Now there's ance benefits for persons enllsting in the nothing." Army HON. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR. What did it feel llke to go bllnd at such a Be it enacted by the Senate and House of OF MASSACHUSETTS young age? "I was lost," said Costner. "I Representatives of ttte United States of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES didn't know what to do. My friends in Cin America in Congress assembled, That (a) cinnati were very kind to me. I'd be walk chapter 333 of title 10, United States Code, Thursday, September 13, 1979 ing down the street by myself and they'd is amended by adding at the end thereof, • Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Spealt:er, Carl yell, 'C'mon, Sugar, let's go see the Reds the following new section: play.' Yastrzemski has proven that life begins "I said to myself, 'I can't just lay down "§ 3264. Special enllstments; educational as at 40. Robert Browning said "Grow old and die like this.' I went to politicians for sistance; reduction in basic pay along with me, the best is yet to be." jobs but I couldn't get anything. Then I " (a) The Se::retary of the Army may ac cept original enllstments into the Army un All of Boston and Massachusetts, New went to a rehabllltation center for aptitude England, and a.ll of America know what tests and they put me in a room with some der this section. A person who originally en other people. llsts in the Army under this section shall Carl Yastrzemski has done. I would like "I didn't know where I was or who I was serve on active duty for eighteen months to dwell on his future. with. Then I sensed there was something a.nd, unless reenlisting for service on active We will see the day of a father and wrong with the other people there. It turned duty, shall then serve in the Ready Reserve son team .. with the name Yastrzemski out they were mentally retarded. I started for four and one-half years. During each of living on in baseball history into the next doing things for them. the first three years of such service in the Ready Reserve, a member enlisted under this century. Cooperstown. N.Y. would need a "I was asked if I wanted to work with the new separate wing to hold the many ac retarded on a trial basis. My only pay would section shall serve on active duty for training be c111rfare and lunch. I said yes. I was des for a period of not less than six weeks. complishments that Carl Yastrzemski perate. When I oassed the tryout, I not only "(b) The rate of basic pay of a member will bring to the Hall of Fame on that got lunch and carfare, but $50 a week." of the Army who originally enlists under this distant day when he retires. Some of the September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24493 intangible things are the things that in KENNEDY AGAINST CARTER: THE a new lease on life and a continuation of spire those of us over 40 and those of LIBERAL SHIP IS SINKING the same ridiculous policies which have · us under 40. Carl shows the virtues of literally brought this country to its hard work and constant preparation. knees, I would do just what the liberals He keeps in shape all year round. He HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK are doing right now. For if those who knows that God gifted him with talent OF OHIO have relentlessly worked to bring about but that it is each person's responsibility IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this disaster want to remain afioat, they to develop the maximum use of that Thursday, September 13, 1979 are going to have to jump overboard be talent. cause Mr. Speaker, the liberal ship is I have seen many great ball players in e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, like sinking, and sinking fast.e Red Sox uniforms-Lefty Grove, Ted most Americans, I have been reading Williams, Joe Cronin, and Jimmy Foxx the almost daily news accounts of a pos but Yaz is my favorite. Yaz as a citizen sible challenge to President Carter by shows the same dedication and deter Senator KENNEDY for the 1980 Demo HAPPY BffiTHDAY COMMODORE mination he showed in pursuing 3,000 cratic Presidential nomination. The cir JOHN BARRY hits and 400 home runs. He is as alert and cus-like atmosphere surrounding that concerned about the issues facing this possibility, I must admit, is something to watch. The daily leaks from the Ken HON. JOE MOAKLEY country as he is about a left-hander's OF MASSACHUSETTS slider. nedy camp to a receptive news me He now joins the select circle of dia have been enjoyable. Ditto for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Carter rebuttals. And, of course, the Sen Thursday, September 13, 1979 Musial, Mays, and Aaron. He has shown ator's coy denials coupled with the all of America what hard work and deter President's downward surge in the polls e Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, today is mination can bring to a career. We in the have given the American people some the birthday of Commodore John Barry, Congress salute him and look forward to thing to think about instead of gas short holder of the first commission in the U.S. the day when he brings a world cham ages and a 13-percent annual rate of in Navy authorized by President George pionship to Fenway Park.e fiation. While these important news Washington, and often referred to as the items get kicked to the back pages, we father of the U.S. Navy. get to read what Miss Lillian has said The U.S. Government presented a while out on the stump. If I did not know statue of John Barry to the Government HERBERT A. HOLDEN, M.D.: SKILLED of Ireland in 1956, and the statue stands PROFESSIONAL, GOOD CITIZEN better, I would think that the two Demo crats were actually conspiring to take in his birthplace, County Wexford. America's mind off what their party is For many years, the. Navy League of' _HON. FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK really doing to the taxpayers. the United States honored John Barry's OF CALIFORNIA The Senator from Massachusetts has birthday with a wreath-laying ceremony IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been one of Mr. Carter's most loyai sup at his statue in Washington, D.C., located porters in Congress. On issue after issue, at 14th and K Streets. This tradition is Thursday, September 13, 1979 the Senator has voted to support the continued by the John Barry Division of • Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, the profes White House position. The only real dif the Ancient Order of Hibernians of sional and community service of another ference between the two, as far as I can Washington, D.C. of my constituents has been brought to tell, is that when President Carter wants Commodore Barry is honored as an my attention and I would like to share to spend 1 billion, Senator KENNEDY Irish-American patriot by the many Hi with my colleagues a few words about would prefer to make it 2 billion. bernian Divisions bearing his name Dr. Herbert A. Holden. When the President opposes a compara throughout the United States. Dr. Holden lives in Castro Valley, tively mild version of socialized medicine, John Barry was born at Tacumshane, Calif., and he has been in private prac the Senator wants to go all the way. For County Wexford, Ireland, in 1745. He tice in adjacent San Leandro for over the most part, however, Mr. KENNEDY went to sea in early youth and about the 30 years. He is in private family practice has carried the ball for the Carter White year 1760 settled at Philadelphia, where and has devoted his professional career House in the Congress. Take a look. The he bec-ame a well-to-do shipmaster and to the cause of the medical profession record will bear me out. owner. At the outbreak of the Revolution, generally and family practice in partic The Carter administration has been a he offered his services to the Continental ular. A list of his medical activities is e. disaster. Even the news media, who for Congress, and was placed in conunand of page long and includes such important some time played along with the antics the brig Lexington, in which, on April posts as president, California Academy of the man who said he would never lie 17, 1776, he took the British tender Ed of General Practice in 1967; president, to us, has done an about face and has ward, which was the first capture in Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Asso declared our sitting President to be fair actual battle of a British warship by a ciation, 1969; president, American Acad game. They know a loser when they see regularly commissioned American emy of Family Physicians, 1975, and one. The beneficiary, of course, is not the cruiser. president of the American Board of Republican Party which seeks to change He was soon after given command of Family Practice in 1978. He has spent the the course of Government but the Sena the Effingham, 32 guns; but the occupa last three decades playing a major role tor from Massachusetts, who seeks to tion of Philadelphia by the British in in the affairs of local, State, and na steer it down the same rocky path at a 1777 and the presence of an overwhelm tional medical organizations. more reckless pace. Never mind that Mr. ing enemy force in the Delaware pre He also has been an active member Carter and Mr. KENNEDY come from the vented this vessel from going to sea. This, of the San Leandro Kiwanis Club, a same free-spending mold. Never mind however, did not condemn the enterpris group he headed some years ago. And that the Senator has made it easier for ing commander to idleness, and during he has served as chairman of the board the President to steer his infiationary this year he performed a heroic exploit of directors of Doctor's Hospital, San programs through the Congress. in the lower Delaware. With four small L-eandro. What it really boils down to is that boats he cut out an armed British A Navy veteran an. tion well and humanely. I honor him for ment-induced energy shortage and cut Barry then volunteered for service being a skilled professional and a good our taxes. with the American army and took part citizen.• Frankly, if I were a liberal looking for in the Trenton campaign with distinc- C:XXV--1541-Part 19 24494 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 tion. In 1778 nis vessel, the Efftngham, Thousands of my constituents, as well volved ln export trade-another evidence of against Barry's will, was burnt to prevent as others throughout the Los Angeles the free market in action. her falling into the enemy's hands. He area, will be celebrating Mexican Inde "Showcase U.S.A.", published in Woodland Hllls, Ca.ll!ornia, is a. handsome and interest then obtained command of the Raleigh, pendence Day this weekend. I join in ing magazine, filled with illustrations, and 32 guns, and in her fought a gallant and honoring our ·fast friends south of the it's performing a. real service for buyer &nd obstinate bottle against superior forces, border, and in saluting the many con seller alike. And isn't that what free enter finally being obliged to beach his ship, tributions that Americans of Mexican prise ls a.ll about?e but saving most of his crew from cap descent have made in this country-es ture. In 1781, in command of the Alli pecially in the Southwestern States. ance, 32 guns, having taken many valua Mexico's struggle for independence ble prizes, he attacked and captured was not unlike our own American revo RICKOVER ON RADIATION after a lengthy fight the British vessels lution and these similar roots serve to Atalanta and Trepassy, being severely strengthen those bonds that are already HON. JOHN W. WYDLER wounded in the action. Later in the same so strongly interwoven through culture OF NEW YORK year he carried to France the Marquis de and heritage in the area that I repre IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lafayette and the Count de Noailles, and sent.• in 1782, while continuing his series of Thursday, September 13, 1979 captures of enemy ships, he fought, in • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, the recent the Alliance, his last important battle, SHOWCASE USA accident at the Three Mile Island facility which he was obliged to break oft near Harrisburg, Pa., has been subject to on the appearance of powerful enemy HON. BARRY GOLDWATER much public debate. Unfortunately, I be reinforcements. OF CALIFORNIA lieve that many of the statements and In 1794, when the depredations of the comments which appeared in the media Algerine pirates had become insupport IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES subsequent to this accident have not con able, and Congress ordered the construc Thursday, September 13, 1979 tributed very much to public under tion of six frigates, Barry was named e Mr. GOLDWATER. Mr. Speaker, I standing of the issue. This is particularly senior captain and placed in command would like to share with my colleagues a so when the subject of media discussion of the United States, 44 guns, being, a.s radio address recently made by former turns to radiation. I strongly believe that Cooper says ectancy by two Hidalgo's proclamation of September 15, respondence reaches the proper business or days. 1810, when he set out with a poorly provides the answer such as sending a. foreign We accept the inevitab111ty of automobile equipped army of 600 volunteers to chal executive a complete roster of companies a.ccldents. By building sa.!er cars or further lenge the Spanish forces. They were making a.utomoblle a.lr conditioners. reducing speed the risk could be reduced. poor in weapons but strong in heart and This correspondence has led to a new But even a parked car is not risk free. You feature in the ma.gazine, "Trade Inquiries & could choose not to drive, yet pedestrLans the citizens of Mexico and people of New Products" which ls published ln cooper a.nd bicyclists a.lso are injured 'by ca.rs. Re Mexican descent throughout the world ation with the U.S. Department of Agricul ducing the risk of injury !rom a.utomoblles still remember that new beginning, ture and Commerce. Adding to the flavor of to zero requires moving to a pla.ce where which lead finally to Mexican independ the magazine ls the colorful and grea.t va.rlety there are none. ence and freedom. o! advertising by American companies in- These COillpa.rlsons should give some idea September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24495 o! the risk involved in things you are famil gram about one centimeter. In terms of en would be required to cause an equal number iar with. '!hey give a basis fer judging what ergy the rem is a small unit. A dose of one of deaths. The effects of radiation on hu smoking, or eating could mean to your rem would raise body temperature only two mans at doses of 100 rem are well known. health and £afety. This is the kind of per m1llionths of a. degree centigrade. The major controversy over radiation risks spective to Which people can relate. We are not accustomed to fear background today is how to extend the risk estimates to While .accepting tl'.e many daily risks of radiation; after all it is part of our natural lower levels. As we get to lower levels, it liVing, many seem to be getting the idea that environment. Yet in scientific terms it can becomes more and more difficult to detect their demands for energy should be met on be shown that its risk is not zero. More is the effects, and this becomes a problem. an essentially risk-free basis. Since this is known about radiation than almost any sub Would it be possible to determine the effect impossible, attention should be focused on stance that can affect humans. More money on the death rate of doing one sltup or one taking reasonable steps to safeguard the has been spent to learn the effects of radia pushup a day? public, on developing realistic assessment of tion on humans than for any other hazard Using the figures I just presented you can the risks, and on placing them in perspective. in our modern society. The main effect is extend the numbers to show that one rem One of the most widely distorted risks 1s cancer. Effects other than cancer have not has about the same risk of death as smoking radiation. been found for low-level radiation expe&ure one cigarette per month. I make this com At the start of the Navy's nuclear propul to adults. While genetic effects from radia parison only to show that finding out the sion program in 1916, I realized the need for tion can occur, they are so small that none effect on the death rate of one rem o! ex careful attention to radia.tion. It was clear have been found, after the nuclear explo posure Is about the same as trying to find to me that if nuclear ships were to be via sions, in 35,000 children conceived by par out the effect of smoking one cigarette a ble, there would have to be assurance that ents irradiated in Hiroshima or Nagasaki in month. workers and crews not be subjected to exces 194:5. The point is that the effect of one rem is sive radiation. To emphasize this, I designed The combination of one-tenth rem per year extremely small. There are physical ldmtts the shielding for our naval nuclear pla.nts background radiation, together with nearly to how far we can go to ascertain precisely to be many times more stringent than re the same average amount from medical diag the size of this risk, but we do know it is quired by the standards then In effect. As a nostic radiation, is estimated to cause almcst small. Those who sing the refrain of how result, the shielding built into the first nu one per cent ot oancer deaths in the United little we know about low-level radiation do clear submarine, the Nautilus was so con States. In an average group of 10,000 people, a disservice. Instead, they should explain servative that it continues tO be ra.r more 1,600 w111 die of cancer. Sixteen of these how much we do know about the small than adequate to meet the considerably lower deaths will be from background and medical actual effects. radiation levels permitted today. radiation. If the lifetime radiation exposure RISKS OF NUCLEAR POWER Insofar as the environment is concerned, of 10,000 people ls increased by an average of The public perception of radiation has a na.va.l plants have been so designed and op one rem per person-a total of 10,000 rem erated that in each of the last eight years the direct bearing on the use of nuclear power it is estimated that one additional fatal can in this country. total gamma. radioactiVity discharged to all cer may occur. Nuclear power is not easy to deal with now ha.ribors of the world has been less than This estimate of risk gives perspective on two-thousa.ndths or a curie. This quantity is because it has become a highly polarized what radlatton exposure moons in the follow issue. It Is essential that our eventual deal. for the opere.tion of over 100 ships il.nd of all ing ways: their support fac111tles. To give you .an idea sion be made on the basts o! fact, not Of a.ll industrial and medical radiation rhetoric, conjecture, or hope; nor as a result wh.a.t this means, 1f one person were able to workers tn the United States, about 15,000 die drink the entire a.mount of this radioactivity of the widespread tendency to sensationalize each ye~r from ca.ncer. The total radiation or ignore the true limits and risks of the discharged Into any harbor in all of 1978, he exposure from their work adds an estimated would not exceed the annual radiation ex alterna tlves. 25 can-cer deaths per year. According to the estimates I have already posure permitted by the Nuclear Regulatory Ra.dlatlon from the nuclear accident at Oommission for .an indivtdua.l worker. stated, the actual raddatlon exposure to Three Mile Isaand may add one fatal cancer workers and to the public from today's use The word "radiation" has come to connote death to the public within 50 miles. Of the of nuclear power can be estimated to result; danger. It Is often described as so dangerous two million people living within this 50-mile in about 11 extra cancer deaths per year that any amount is unsafe--as 1! the only radius, 325,000 are expected to die of cancer out of a total of 360,000. On this basis, to question worth addressing Is "how fast will from causes other than the radioactivity eliminate nuclear power here would then radiation harm you?" Because you cannot released from this accident. potentially save 11 lives a year, but reduce see, feel, taste, hear or smell radiation, it has (For years rumor:S have persisted that the energy available. This loss of energy an aura of mystery. But this same mystery radiation-induced oa.ncer has k1lled the crew Itself might well result In loss of Ufe. appears to be absent from other potentially of the first nuclear-powered ship, the Nauti hazardous things for which we have a lack If the saving of 11 human lives were the lus. In 1978 the Navy traced each of the 96 sole objective, better results could be ob of sensory perception, such as radio waves, officers and enlisted men of this first crew. tained from any of the following, than by carbon monoxide, and small concentrations Despite the rumors, all the men associated eldmlnatlng nuclear power: reduce cigarette of numerous cancer-causing substances. with operating the nuclear propulsion plant consumption by one cigarette per smoker These do not generate the same degree of fear as radiation. were alive and well.) per year; reduce medical radiation exposure With this perspective you are In a position by one per cent; move the po"!)ulatlon of the The fear instllled by radioactivity today Denver region to coastal areas which have is akin to the fear of electricity following to better answer the question, "Is radiation safe?" If safe means zero effect, then you lower background radiation levels, due to the invention of the electric light bulb 100 have to conclude radiation is unsafe. But to lower altitude; eliminate stock car racing. years ago. Public fear of electricity was in be consistent, you should also conclude that Concern over a nuclear accident is often flamed. Wall pla.ques had to be installed in cited as a reason for prohibiting nuclear rooms with electric lights, assuring people background radiation and medical radiation are unsafe. Or more simply, that being alive power. ObViously, a repeat of the Three Mile that "the use of electricity for lighting is is unsafe. Island accident cannot be lightly accepted, In no way harmful to health, nor does it "Safe is a. relative term. Comparisons are and corrective actions are called for. But affect the soundness of sleep." Yet electricity the record and risks of this source of energy has helped to transform man's life from a necessary for actual meaning. For a worker, "safe" means the risk Is small compared to should be put into perspective, as compared short one of drudgery to one where long life with other risks we face. and higher aspiration can be realized. other risks accepted In normal work activi ties. Aside from work, "safe" means the risk Any large-scale generation of energy Scientists have stated for decades that whether nuclear or from other sources-in radiation can cause harm. However, all of us is sma.Ia compared to other risks routinely accepted in life. From what I have said, it volves major engineering difficulties and po have been subjcted to radiation throughout should be clear that the radiation encoun tential environmental impacts. (For exam our lives from time of conception and, In ple, accidents in mining and transporting fact, even prior to conception. The entire tered in our dally activities should not be the scary subject It Ls proclaimed to be. coal, and the effects on the public from pol human race has been subjected to radiation, lutants, result in a demonstrably higher as has every living thing, throughout the A LOT IS KNOWN death rate from use of coal than !rom nu entire evolution of our earth. The average In radiation, as in other area.s, a most ef clear power.) It is incorrect to assume that person in the {!nited States receives eBA::h year fective way to frighten people is to proclaim technology and increased government spend about one-tenth rem from natural radio that no one knows what the effects are. This Ing can overcome limits nature Imposes. activity in the earth, In his body, and from has been repeated so often that 1t has become I remember the optimistic projections cosmic radiation. an articae of faith that no one knows the made !or nuclear power when it was first The unit of radiation, rem, ought to be effects of low-level radiation on humans. being developed. It was predicted that elec required knowledge in all technical societies. One could well state, "No one knows the tricity !rom nuclear power would be too It Is defined in terms of energy absorbed in risks of smoking a. few cigarettes," but the cheap to meter. These predictions sprang body tissues. Receiving one rem of gamma. risks of smoking a large number of ciga from hope, from ignorance of the engineer radiation is equivalent to absorbing 100 ergs rettes are well known. If 10,000 people smoke ing problems that would be encountered. of radiation energy for each gram of body an average of four al.garettes a day, about In similar vein, many advocates exaggerate tissue. There are 454 grams In a pound. An 100 deaths will result; data are not avail the benefits and Ignore the problems of the erg is the amount of energy required to 11ft able !or lower smoking rates. For radiation, energy sources they are promoting. The solu a mosquito weighing one-thousandth o! a doaes of 100 rem to each o! 10,000 people tion to our energy needs is not just over the 24496 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 hill at the end of the rainbow. Nature ar poor are about to be devastated by the on ing among Third World nations. Unfor ways demands its price; providing adequate rushing economic chaos. tunately, this Congress has seen fit to amounts of energy will exact its proper As hard times become impossible times, the abandon Taiwan, to give away the Pan price. fear among many of .the poor is that they are ama Canal, to cut back our military Balancing risks and beneft ts must become being pushed further and further Into inv1s potential, and to watch Nicaragua go a standard approach to evaluating environ ib111ty. In the 1960s, programs like Head mental matters. The present crisis in confi Start or Legal Services, and such laws as the down the drain. We have also stood by dence over energy requires this approach. e Economic Opportunity Act, were at least while a democratically elected Govern reminders that the poor were there and that ment in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia has faced easing their wounds was a proper role for one test after another from armed guer government. rilla groups. TODAY'S POOR PEOPLE It bas been different in the late 1970s. Dur For all of this timidity, for all of this ing the congressional debate earlier this sum concern over how the Third World might mer on food-stamp legislation, the battle cry react to our actions, for all of the mil HON. LOUIS STOKES of the conservatives in the 1960s--the poor are lazy and shiftless, let them rise by their lions spent on foreign aid to assist these OF OHIO own bootst raps-was transformed into a developing countries, we have nothing to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES newer but still contemptible argument: the show except a major policy victory by the Thursday, September 13, 1979 poor have already had enough done for them, Soviets and Cubans. Once again the so why do more? United States has been duped by a clatch e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I would Only after a dogged fight were the hungry of whining appeasers who have been like to share with you and my colleagues allowed a few more dollars. The arguments able to hold sway over foreign policy. an article by Colman McCarthy. Mr. for food stamps were bolstered by a Field Once again we have been led down the McCarthy's article, "Today's Unfashion Foundation report stating that in the past road of overlooking aggression in the able Poor," appeared in the op-ed page decade federal money for food programs was well spent. As for getting carried away with name of world peace only to find our of the September 5 edition of the Wash largesse for the poor and hungry, it was selves on the brink of yet another crisis ington Post. I found the article to be noted that the average benefit is about 30 to with totalitarian expansionism. extremely timely, particularly as I wait 35 cents per person per meal. Today, we are faced with Soviet troops to begin to mark up the second concur In the current politics of poverty, few in Cuba, as well as other signs of major rent budget resolution for fiscal year mayors and few in Congress are bothering to military activity on this island of Com 1980. get steamed up about compa.igns or programs munist tyranny only 90 miles of! our Colman McCarthy's assertion that for the poor. Helping the destitute is an idea whose time has passed. shores. We see expansion of Communist "helping the destitute is an idea whose The urgency now is to take care of the mid aggression in the Caribbean and in Cen time has passed" is not far of! the mark. dle-class and the rich. These groups have tral America at the same time that de Current and projected budgetary policies been futnlng a. t members of Congress back in mands are escalating on our own future confirm that. And while the complaints the districts for the August recess. Only a actions in that region. We are told that about the tax burden and inflation have morally daring politician would rebuke them giving up the Panama Canal would win been put at the center of our national with the obvious answer: in times of 1nfia. friends and buy leverage in the Third debate, there is scant mention of the fact tion, the nation's first obligation is to the World. What has happened? No longer that in times of inflation, it is the poor poor. They are catching it the worst. satisfied with taking our canal and our who suffer the most. The gripes of the amuent, who are nowhere btllions of tax dollars, Panama helped The article follows: near losing the necessities of life because of inflation, provide a. cover for the institution bring a Communist-leaning government TODAY'S UNFASHIONABLE POOR al kindliness the Inlddle and upper classes into power in Nicaragua. No longer satis ST. Loms.-No benches were in sight, so now enjoy. In "Small Future5," a. new book fied with the elimination of a close Amer the black woman stopped to sit on the steps written for the Carnegie CouncU on Children, ican ally in Central America, Panama of a church. She lay down her bag of gro Richard de Lone reports that 15 times as joined Cuba and other nonalined na ceries. The bus from downtown had dropped much fedeml money goes to the nation's tions in calling for this Nation not only her off on a corner in the near north side, one wealthy-through tax exemptions on mu to abandon its important military base of .the poorest sections of St. Louis. nicipal bonds, capital gains and other aids- at Guantanamo, but to give up the Terri In a few minutes, she would get up, suck in than to the poor through the welfare pro some air on this hot, swampish summer af tory of Puerto Rico, an island that has gram. representation in this very Chamber and ternoon and walk two blocks to her house. As the old black woman in St. Louis walked But first she talked. She bad worked in a down her street, it was almost certain that has expressed its desire to remain a part factory for 25 years. But the firm went out she would have a harsh and pathetic winter. of the United States. What we are seeing of business and she was laid off without a As she disappeared into her home, the wom is the work of e. boa constrictor that is pension. Her husband died 10 years ago. She an was like all of America's poor-out of tightening around this Nation every time lives alone on a small Social Security check. sight. It is worse now, because today they are we weaken our resolve. It is unrealistic to She took pride in having made it this far. also out of fashion. e expect that Panama, Cuba, Nicaragua, But now, for the first time in her life, she was or any of these other nations will cease frightened. She survived being poor and black, and she had made it being poor, black their demands. No matter what this Na an:l old. But now, on top of it all, "You can't tion does to placate the howls of these depend on the money." She kicked her gro THE LEGACY OF ANDREW YOUNG third rate dictatorships, there wtll be cery bag: "I pay double the prices and get more demands. half as much." This winter, she said, she HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK What the leaders of this Nation do not would have no money for fuel. OF OHIO understand is that these totalitarian The old woman bad too much dignity to leaders do not want justice, they want to say more. Complaining wasn't her way. Nor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES carve out their own piece of the action would she pity herself. She spoke of moving Thursday, September 13, 1979 in a world they hope will be led by the into her neighborhood 30 years ago when Soviet Union. The nonalined nations she was "only .the second colored person" on e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, it is a the block. People respected each other then, fitting commentary on the foreign policy conference in Havana exemplifies these and the north side was an address to be proud personif.ed by the soon to be deoarted goals. In the first place, to consider the of. Now much of it is a shambles of urban Andrew Young that the so-called non primary client state and henchman of the decay and squalor. alined nations conference anouted a U.S S.R.. Cuba, a nonalined nation is "It's over now," she said. "We bad some resolution denouncing the United States to stretch reality toward the surreal. Un hope here 10 or 15 years ago. Back then, it and calling for further surrender by this der the direction of Castro the conference was only us poor blaclrs they said were worth Nation. For the past 2% years we have played with a stacked deck from the less. We could fight that. But now the dollar been fed a steady diet of people in the outset. is worthless, too. Nobody can fight that. Not In sweeping aside the warnings of here, especially." State Department, the White House, and the U.N. delegation pleading to the Tito and other more moderate leaders The foreboding of this woman--one of 25 of the nonalined bloc, the conference m1llion citizens the government says are Nation to give up just one more military poor-is part of what most pollticians and outpost, or just one more overseas pos soon became a mouthpiece for the propa. economists now accept as unavoidable: the session in order to assure our good stand- ganda machine in the Kremlin. Its final September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24497 act of passing a resolution condemning great-great-great grandson of Lafayette. quise de Chambrun and the Honorable the United States as imperialist and With the Marquis and helping with the Hyman Aaron Pressman, comptroller of calling for the withdrawal of American ceremony was his lovely wife, the Mar Baltimore City. influence around the world was in keep quise Muriel de Chambrun. The 222d anniversary ceremonies ing with the rhetoric espoused by Com Making up the color guard and dressed closed with the benediction by the Rev munist puppets since the Russian rev in authentic uniforms of the Revolution verend Dr. Herbert Stein-Schneider, rec olution. Lenin and Stalin would have were members of the Lafayette Camp of tor of St. John's Episcopal Church in been proud to see the sight. the Heroes of '76, Baltimore Chapter No. Lafayette Square opposite the White Throughout the week of meetings 7, National Sojouners. House. This church has several Presi leading up to the resolution, I could not The invocation was given by the Rev dents' pews, as many of our former help but think of all the words poured erend Kenneth E. Jones, pastor of the Presidents worshipped there. It is also out on the floor of Congress and in the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist known as the French Church and was statements from the White House on Church which is located on the site of the built in 1815 under the supervision of how the Carter/Young policy of ap former home of Francis Scott Key, com Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of our peasing the Third World was working · poser of our national anthem. Nation's Capital City. out so well. Editorialists and other com Greetings were extended by the Hon The Reverend Dr. Herbert Stein mentators fell all over themselves ex arable Hyman Aaron Pressman, comp Schneider led all present in singing the plaining how the dipomacy of surrender troller of the city of Baltimore, who re "Marseillaise," the French national an was winning friends by the bushel bas cited a poem that he composed shortly them. ket. Just watch, they would say, Andrew before the ceremonies. The colors composed of the United Young is going to open up Africa and Mrs. Romaine S. Somerville, director States, France, Malryland, and Balti steal it away from the Soviets and Cu of the Maryland Historical Society in more city flags were retired by Lt. Ed bans. Just watch, they would state fur vited all present to attend an illustrated ward K. Henry, Jr., commander of La ther, by allowing the Communists to win lecture on the li.fe of the Marquis de fayette Camp Heroes of '76. a few, we will benefit from the growing Lafayette prepared by the Marquis de The honorary chairman for the 222d goodwill in the world and eventually Chambrun, direct descendent of Lafay anniversary of the birth of the Marquis prevail. Just watch, they cried, Andy ette, and narrated by the Marquise de de Lafayette were the Honorable Louis L. Young knows what he is doing, all we Chambrun to be held in the Jacob and Goldstein, comptroller, State of Mary need to do is let him renege on another Annita France Auditorium at the Muse land and the Honorable William Donald U.S. commitment to a friend and all will um and Library of Maryland History, Schaefer, mayor of Baltimore City. be well. Maryland Historical·Society. Mrs. Som Coordinators were Warren A. Bur Andrew Young is about to leave office. erville thanked the Ensign C. Markland dette, Mrs. Nita Schultz, and Gordon M. Behind him is a swath of foreign policy Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation for par F. Stick who should be congratulated for disasters and miscalculations that will tially funding through a grant the illus their dedication and efforts for the re~ take years to repair. It is possible that trated lecture on the life of the Marquis membrance of the Marquis de Lafayette. we mav never recover the full trust of de Lafayette. She complimented Harold Benno Kohn was the official photogra our friends or the respect of our adver E. Wilmoth, his wife Blanche Wilmoth, pher for the event.e !arles. Long ago the Carter/Young com and Mrs. Warren A. Burdette for the bo had made the United States a help most hospitable luncheon arrangements HELP FOR THE LEATHER less giant, given more time and effort held at the Engineering Center at 11 they might have made this Nation a West Mount Vernon Place. INDUSTRY? helpless dwarf. Lenin and Stalin would Mr. George W. Cyr, executive director have been proud to see this sight, too.e of the Bicentennial Council of the 13 HON. NICHOLAS MAVROULES Original States Fund, headquartered in OF MASSACHUSETTS Alexandria, Va., reminded all present IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that there continues to be many more MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE historic bicentennial dates in conjunc Thursday, September 13, 1979 tion with the Revolution and urged all e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, Pea to support by attending and funding. He body, Mass., was once known as the HON. CLARENCE D. LONG particularly mentioned that there was leather capital of the world. It no longer OF MARYLAND to be a reinactment of the march of holds that honor although it is still one IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES General de Rochambeau's troops from of the major tanning centers in the Na Thursday, September 13, 1979 Newport, R.I., to Yorktown, Va., where tion. Peabody used to have 200 tanneries. the final battle of the Revolution took Now, it only has about 30. • Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, place. The Bicentennial will actually end Peabody is not unique in its present September 6 of this year marked the 222d in 1990. Although the Constitutional plight. Other major tanning cities anniversary of the birth of the Marquis Convention completed its actions in 1787 around the Nation have similarly suf de Lafayette, the man whose deeds in the Constitution was not finally ratified fered because of the past failures of Con battle helped in such a great degree to until the middle of 1790. gress to come to the aid of a beleaguered bring about the founding of the United The Marquis and the Marquise both industry. Congress has the chance to States of America. extended remarks of appreciation to the rectify the situation if it approves the On September 6, a special ceremony citizens of Baltimore City in remember Shannon-Mavroules amendment to H.R. took place at the Baltimore equestrian ing this day in the birth of the Marquis 4034, the Export Administration Act. The statue of Lafayette that is located at the de Lafayette. amendment seeks to reduce the current foot of the Washington Monument at The Marquis, who as a result of the export level that allocates roughly 10 Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place. The act of Congress in 1794 giving dual citi million hides to an industry that re monument is the first started in honor zenship to direct male descendents of La quires at least 19 million hides to keep of our Nation's founder. Its cornerstone fayette, is both an American and a the plants open. was laid July 4, 1815. Frenchman. He is most proud of his If the wholesale exportation of cat The eo.UPstrian statue of Lafayette was father who as a member of the French tlehides is not limited, it is estimated dedicated September 6, 1924, at a special Parliament was the only one to vote that over 1 million people in this coun ceremony where President coolidge against the Vichy government during try-500,000 employed in all facets of spoke and laid a special wreath. Since World Warn. leather manufacturing, tanning, andre George Washington looked upon Lafay Two live decorated wreaths provided tailing and 600,000 employed in ancillary ette as a son, it was appropriate that by Flowers and Fancies, Stevenson, Md., service industries--could very well join these two monuments should stand so were placed at the base of the equestrian the unemployment lines. These figures close together. statue of Lafayette by the Marquis de are by no means illusory. Just last Participating in this year's ceremony Chambrun and the Reverend Leighton E. month, one of the major tanneries in my and presentation of wreaths was the Harrel, Jr.• president of Baltimore Chap district, employing over 250 people, an Marquis Jean Pierre de Chambrun, ter No. 7, National Sojourners, Mar- nounced its forced closing. August's toll 24498 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 Mr. Beilin is a forestry technician who not possibly survive. Whlle the United States for my district was 250 people. There has a representative-type government, a are only 23,000 tanners left in Massachu lives in a small Jewish community in world government would most likely be based setts, with the heaviest concentration Tula. Most of his family, eight aunts and on majority rule, giving one man one vote. being in the North Shore area that I uncles who previously lived in Vilna, were Because the United States is a minority com represent. How soon before they become exterminated with their young children pared to the rest of the world, this would victims too? during World War ll. greatly impact us in several ways. But, I would be remiss if I failed to In 1973, Mr. Beilin's father died after An example of the type of government we a long illness. Before he died, his last would be likely to have can be seen in the mention the adverse impact the present way the United Nations is run. In past years, export level of cattle hides will have on stated wish was that his family move to the main powers. such as the United States, every consumer in America when he or Israel where his only sister resided. This Russia, and Great Britain, through their con she goes to buy a pair of shoes, a hand request the widow Beilin decided to trol of the Security Council, had most of bag, a leather jacket, or any other fulfill. the authorlt'y. Gradually, though, the pro leather product. The average price for a Yakov Beilin's mother was granted liferation of third-world nations has been pair of men's shoes will increase $6 to perm;ssion to emigrate to Israel, but taking over because of its greater re!)resenta Yakov Beilin, his wife, and two children tion in the Assembly. This is the same thing $10 at the retail level; an average pair that would happen if a world government of women's shoes, along with those for were refused. Despite her age and frailty, were established. children, will go up by $4 to $8 per pair Yakov Beilin's mother decided to make Another problem that would arise would at the retail level; and women's boots the move. be the loss of advanced :agricultural and will increase somewhere between $12 His mother remains most distressed by manufacturing techniques. Nations such as and $18 per pair. being separated from her family. She the United States, Japan, and Western If I have just painted a grim picture writes: Europe which, due to free enterprise, have for the American tanning industry and I have but one desire. I beg you to help me been able to develop a much higher standard bring my son and his f<9.mlly to Israel. The of living than other countries, would lose the American consumer, Mr. Speaker, I their incentives to better themselves 1! they am not to blame for its cause of continu few years that I have left to live I would were subjected to a "share everything" pollcy. ation. But, Mr. Speaker, I want to re like to spend together with him. A modified version of this has already been verse this disheartening situation and Mr. Speaker, as one of many concerned seen in the Law of the Sea Conference, a help Peabody, my hometown, and other Members participating in this year's world-wide congress which has been discuss tanning cities that are enduring a pain ing fishing and mineral rights. Underdevel vigil, I hope the Soviet Union will exhibit oped nations feel that companies who put ful demise because of the present state respect for basic human rights and privi their knowledge and technology to work in of their native tanning industry. I can leges, as guaranteed under the Soviet international waters should be forced to not help all of these cities by myself. But Constituti.on and the Helsi.nki Accord, share their profits as well as what they have my colleagues can help me by supporting and reunite the Beilin family and other learned with the entire world. the Shannon-Mavroules amendment. Soviet families in similar circum While the benefits from these industries Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the great stances.• would greatly help a limited number of city of Peabody, Mass., and the Peabody people and aid everyone indirectly, if every thing had to be divided equally among all the City Council, I would like to bring to the world's people, no one's standard of living attention of my colleagues a resolution KRISTIN FARRELL'S ESSAY ON would rise much. People would simply be dis submitted by Councillor John J. Fer WORLD GOVERN:MENT couraged from trying to improve themselves rante and approved by the Peabody City at all. Council. Their message is simple. They In addition to this, because of the under ask the President and Congress of the HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN developed nations, a world government would United States to come to the aid of an OF CALIFORNIA probably have to be socialistic. This would ·be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES disastrous, as very few American businesses industry that was once strong and viable. are presently government-owned. The private I hope that their message will be heard. Thursday, September 13, 1979 businesc:man would be lost. The resolution follows: e Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I would The United States. by being deprived of AUGUST 23, 1979. private commerce, fret~dom of choice, and Whereas. the City of P~abody, Massachu like to commend to the attention of my suddenly becoming a very small part of the setts. once known as the leather capital of colleagues, an outstanding essay written world at large, would lose its individuality. the world, is highly dependent on leather by a young constituent of mine, Kristin We would be like any other country ... just and leather related industries for its liveli Farrell. I was delighted to attend the working to survive, not striving for the better hood and economic stab111ty; and Palos Verdes annual Fourth of July cele life that lies ahead. Whereas, the bleak outlook of the leather bration and present to Kristin the award KRISTIN FARRELL .• industry which is caused by the export of for first place in the 9th and lOth grade domestic hides to other nations at inflated prices is threatening those industries located division of the Herbert Albright Ameri in the City of Peabody and the North Shore ca'1ism Essay Contest. of Massachusetts with extinction; and The topics of Kristin's essay, world "ENERGY FUTURE"-A HARD PUSH Whereas, the demise of these industries government against democracy, is one FOR SOFT TECHNOLOGY? would be a severe blow to thousands of citi which has been debated for decades. Yet, zens employed by them, therefore be it; I was most impressed with Kristin's Resolved, That the Peabody City Council fresh insight into the inevitable difficul HON. JOHN W. WYDLER hereby urges the President and Congress of ties which would ensue under one-world OF NEW TORK the United States to pass legislation whereby IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATrvES a limit shall be placed on the number of rule. hides which may be exported from the United I always find it inspiring to he-:tr from Thursday, September 13, 1979 young people who are committed to our States. and be it further; • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, there has Resolved, That copies of these resolutions country's ideals and political way of be forwarded to the clerk of the U.S. House of life--who recognize freedom for the pre been much attention given in the past Representatives. the President, and Repre cious gift it is. few wee~s to a recent publication of the sentative Nicholas Mavroules. I am ever more convinced, even amidst Harvard Business School entitled, "En PETER TORIGIAN.• the negativism of our age and the some ergy Future" edited by Robert Stobaugh times disheartening commentaries on and Daniel Yegin. I think it is important youth, that our young people are, indeed, to highlight the shortcomings of the SHATI'ER THE SILENCE, VIGIL 1979 book since it has become extremely fad our greatest resource for the futur~s pecially those with wisdom, dedication, dish to pmise it at the other end of HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI and sensitivity---qualtties which Kris Pennsylvania Avenue. I believe that it should be recognized that the authors OF KENTUCKY tin so obviously displays through her have clearly taken a position of strong IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATTVES essay, which I am privileged and proud to insert in the RECORD at this time: advocacy for soft technology. Their en Thursday, September 13, 1979 ergy approach is focused on conserva CAN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE SURVIVE UNDER tion, particularly institutional aspects in . • Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I would A WoRLD GoVERNMENT? like to bring to my colleagues' attention In the event of a world government, Ameri the near term, and distributed solar sys the plight of the Beilin family. can independence as we know it today could tems in the long term. September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24499 The position is taken that "external drafted without congressional input and aggerating the requirements of the costs" of coal; that is, the environmental the badly partisan manner in which the uranium enrichment activity. As a re penalties, and of nuclear-societal administration attempted to run it sult, their critique that the nuclear costs-in terms of health and safety con through were major contributing factors. power "chain" is much more complex cerns are much too great to encourage The longer the conferees debated, the than the coal chain is rendered patently these options in the near term to lessen more obvious became the defects in the absurd. In this regard, let me remind our dependency on foreign oil. This posi bill which the administration had my colleagues that the scrubber waste tion is not taken on firm ground by meas proposed. disposal problem from coal plants is a uring the comparative risks of these The authors do not seem to under major problem we are just beginning to technologies, but rather from a visceral stand the technological promise of un wrestle with. The other shortcomings "feel" on the part of the authors that conventional sources of natural gas and, of the book on the nuclear issue are: such costs, tangible and intangible, are as a result, they are more pessimistic There is no understanding of the simply too great. It sems to me that the about gas supply from synthetics and technology for the isolation of nuclear thrust of the national energy policy and these other long-term sources than, I be waste and no appreciation of the fact its implementation can hardly be based lieve, is the technical community at that a reasonable goal of 1,000 years or on such tenuous grounds as is the case large. so would be eminently sensible. for this study. There is, as alluded to in the chapter The discussion of the international BREEDER REACTOR on natural gas and as is ignored in breeder reactor program is simply incor The authors present a distorted nu the chapters on coal and nuclear, no rect. The French Phoenix reactor, al clear picture of the Clinch River breeder real appreciation shown for getting at most 300 megawatts electric, is referred reactor controversy and leave the reader comparative risks of energy technologies. to as a "small pilot plant" and the with the impression that the costs for The authors' unwillingness to tabulate authors clearly do not realize that the this first-of-a-kind plant are represent anything except the most rudimentary French Super Phoenix reactor is 1,200 ative of the price of generating electric projections of energy contributions is a megawatts electric and definitely a pro ity from breeder reactors 20 years from serious fiaw and leaves a gaping hole in totype machine. now. Again, this is done in the a.bsence their argument on environmental and There are serious other inaccuracies of any firm quantative discusson of cost societal costs. They are apparently not and omissions which demonstrate the elements. even aware of potential problems with authors' unfamiliarity with this tech FUSION the radiation from radon contained in nology which fiaw the entire discussion There is no discussion of why nuclear natural gas or the generally accepted on nuclear power. reprocessing is such a major issue for the scientific view that, of all the carcino The authors are confused about the United States; that is, why this Nation genic substances known to man, radia character of the waste isolation pilot must consider the retrieval of the pre tion is certainly the best understood. plant facility in New Mexico cious energy from spent fuel in the form CONSERVATION and have confused this defense facility of uranium and plutonium. It is fascinating to note that the study with the civilian waste program. The authors make no mention at all of constantly mentions the conservation A bizarre note in the discussion on nu fusion power as a source of electricity benefits of deregulation yet never comes clear safety is the authors' observation early in the next century. Apparently to grips with assessing the prudent lim that perhaps the United States should this omission stems from the antiutility its of decontrol to optimize supply with not complete construction of the 90 or so bias which emerges particularly in their out disrupting the economy. The authors reactors already being built. This is a chapter on Solar America. Our Com fail to recognize the constraints on in stunning statement in light of even the mittee on Science and Technology has dustrial conservation which they feel is most pessimistic electrical demand sensed a growing optimism about the the "key energy source" in the near to scenarios and is simply synonymous with magnetic fusion program and there is intermediate term. They ignore studies brownouts in the late 1980's. much sentiment in the Congress for ac which have been done on the technical SOLAR celerating the program so that fusion and economic promise on conservation The authors concentrate on a "·Solar power would be demonstrated before the options for industry in cogeneration. Al Future" unmindful of several key facts: end of the century. I cannot conceive how though they cite instances of significant Solar hot water heating systems costs a study purported to be reputable and, industrial conservation they do not seem are not projected to go down much, be in any sense, scholarly can completely to recognize that the easy things; that cause of the large fraction of residential ignore this clean, safe way of tapping is, "business practice fixes," have been costs and the very high inflation rate for virtually unlimited supplies of energy. made and that future commitment to this activity. OIL AND GAS conservation will require significant in The authors are far more optimistic Surprisingly enough, the book is more vestments on the part of many indus about the usefulness of Federal "buys" 1n optimistic about our domestic oil future tries. These industries will also be reluc stimulating solar system technology than than myself and many Members of the tant to retrofit equipment which has the Department of Energy or the major Congress who are pushing for increased considerable useful life remaining. Al ity of the technical community. energy supply. Not surprisingly, how though the Government has provided tax There is an unfortunate emphasis on ever, the authors assume that "environ credit encouragement for conservation the promise of distributed systems, ·be mental restrictions on nuclear power" in the NEA, the authors called for much cause of the authors' obvious opposition are a sufficient basis for ignoring the tre higher levels for cogeneration to make to any utility role in marketing or serv mendous savings that can be achieved in these incentives strongly competitive icing these systems. electrical power generation by shifting with encouragement for adopting new The 55-60 percent tax credits which from oil to nuclear as well as coal. Al technologies. This approach seems at the authors suggest for solar heating sys though the authors present a somewhat odds with our national energy goals to tems such as offered in California are credible history of the perils of the ad rapidly commercialize advanced technol unprecedented incentives for any com ministration's National Energy Act ogies. There is no discussion of cogen mercial technology and yet there is no ~-~r.Speaker,yesterday arrangements have not been formalized would not be capable of meeting a national the House defeated the proposal coming such as agreements with States, identifica security emergency that required a rapid, out of the House Committee on Armed tion o! sites, and logistical arrangements major increase in present force levels. Services which would reinstate registra tor forms. The mmtary wm not be able to ensure ade At the time of our prior report and tes quate medical support in a major conflict. tion of young males 18 years of age on timony the System said it could not meet Shortages in surgeons, nurses and enlisted January 1, 1981. DOD's manpower requirements (deliver medical manpower are so grave that thou I do not believe the matter is closed first inductees at mob1Uzation plus (M+) sands o! unnecessary deaths would occur and I trust that the report which the 30 days and 100,000 people at M+60 days) from the lack o! medical treatment. Nor House asked the e:cecutive department with its existing personnel and $7 million would the Army possess sufficient troops to to make will point up the need for sub budget. man its combat units. Combat manpower stantial changes in this country's Selec Jn recent testimony the System stated that shortages would be especially acute in the tive Service System. if it were provided the $9.8 million budget most critical skills: infantry, armor and requested, it could meet DOD's requirements My colleague from Wssiss1pp1, the chemical warfare specialists. The shortages without returning to peacetime registration. would be so severe that the secretary ot de Honorable G. V. ~ONTGOMERY.in July of To meet these requirements, the System said fense has barred them from the publlc view this year asked the omce of the Comp it would use the State election machinery by classifying the terrifying statistics. The troller General for a report on the capa in combination with a system of highly au publlc is told about the lack or enough tanks bilities of the Selective Service System, tomated data processing equipment to con and equipment, but not about the lack of and I am submitting their response duct a mass 1-day registration. The System enough people to operate what the military which I believe points up the urgent need stated in the testimony that 1t had made already has. for some improvements in that System. I considerable progress in developing the rapid Peacetime registration wm not by Itself am also submitting for the RECORD an registration and input concept but has some solve the problems, but It can make a cru distance to go before considering its emer cial contribution by providing trained man article appearing in the July 27 issue of gency registration plan as fully ready for power to units 100 days earlier. the Washington Post by my respected implementation. Expert opinion, including that of the Selec colleague 1n the U.S. Senate, the Honor In addition to using the State election tive Service director and the secretary ot able SAM NuNN of Georgia. entitled machinery and data processing, the System defense, is unanimous that our Selective "The Case for Peacetime Registration,'' has to take numerous other actions before Service System cannot now meet the stated and recomemnd these two articles for and after mob111zation day to meet DOD's requirements ot the Department of Defense requirements. These include such things as reading by every ~ember of this body: for the delivery of Inductees upon mobll1za pre,Positioning supplies and equipment, re tion. The public Is largely unaware that DOD WEAKNESSES IN THE SELECTIVE SERVICE cruiting and training local and appeal board moblllzation plans have never included reU SYSTEM'S EMERGENCY REGISTRATION PLAN members, identifying sites for registration, ance on the All-Volunteer Force in case of a (Report by the Comptroller General o! the and arranging the delivery of induction no war or emergency but rather on the delivery United States) tices. Time frames established under this ot inductees under a. reinstituted m1litary The Selective Service System has been de emergency registration plan to meet DOD's draft. veloping an emergency plan to meet DOD's requirements of 100,000 inductees at M+60 The DOD 'requlrements call !or delivery of manpower requirements without the use o! days call for ( 1) having a. mass registration the first inductees for training within 30 days continuous registration ot Americe.'s youth. at M+10 days, (2) proces~ing registrant data. following the d~ision to mobiltze (M-Da.y), The Selective Service System agrees wltb between M+ll and M+15 days, and (3) de with a total of 100,000 Inductees within 60 GAO that having continuous registration livering induction notices at M+20 days. days and 650,000 within six months. Unfortu would strengthen its operation but says its We have examined the procedures being nately, all experts agree 'that the Selective emergency plan w111 work, given the neces developed for implementing the emergency Service System today could not deliver the sary funds and people. registration plan and have serious reserva- first inductees for training untU three or four September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24501 months after M-Day, and would be capable agents within six to eight weeks who will the Commissioners Court of Ward County, of supplying less than 60 percent of the 650,- check to ensure public buildings are meeting Texas, the governing body of Ward County: 000 inductees required within 180 days. The the new 78° temperature mandate. The De and time frames and numbers have become even fense Department mob111zation plan assumes Whereas, we are highly alarmed and con more critical because of the severe shortages that mlllions of men can be called up, reg cerned about the policies of the Federal Gov in our reserve forces. istered, examined, cla!Esi:fied and sent to com ernment with respect to the matters listed The rapidity of the call-up required by the bat-training facilities in half the time lt below, to wit: DOD war plan 1s based in part on the changed takes to teach 200 federal workers how to 1. Yearly deficit spending, one major character of a war in NATO in which the read a thermometer. cause for the skyrocketing ln:ftat;ion rate of Soviets are prepared for blltzkreig warfare. The Defense Department plan has been re this Country ( 12 to 13 percent in 1979 as If we cannot meet this type of attack with viewed by committees in both houses of Con opposed 4¥2 to 5 percent ln 1976); conventional forces that depend on man gress and by outside agencies. The only peo 2. Highly excessive spending each year: power, NATO might be forced to early use of ple who appear to believe in the feasib111ty of 3. The bloated National bureaucracy; nuclear weapons as the only option. In a the scheme, which is only a collection of un 4. Revenue sharing (money the Federal real sense, the choice is between realistic tested ideas, are the director of the Selective Government does not have), which is a preparation of our conventional forces, in . Service, the assistant secretary of defense luxury we cannot afford at this time; cluding peacetime registration, or more and for manpower and the secretary of defense. 5. The CETA program which is a farce and more reliance on quick use of nuclear Except for them, there seems to be a general another luxury we cannot afford at thts weapons. consensus that only peacetime registration time; To close the gap between present require can meet our mobilization requirements for 6. The Department of Energy which 1s ments and present capabilities without going inductees. The chief of staff of the Army does stifling the oil, shale, and coal industries; to peacetime registration, the administration not believe the present plan will work, and 7. The various departments, a.dministra. has dreamed up a Selective Service plan to all the Joint Chiefs support peacetime reg tions, bureaus, and other agencies in the institute registration after mobilization. The istration. The top deputy at Selective Serv unelected bureaucracy including, but not a.dministra tion scheme would be unleashed ice headquarters was :fired on June 28 be limited to, the Bureau o! Alcohol, Tobacco, on the youth of our nation in the following cause he voiced his belief that the plan was and Firearms; the Law Enforcement Assist fashion: totally unworkable and endangered our na ance Administration; the Occupational Sa!e On M-Day, the president announces that tional security. tyand Health Administration; and the Inde all males between 19 and 21 years of age As material for a Walt Disney cartoon, the pendent Environmental Protection Agency, would be required to register 10 days later DOD mobilization plan would be an instant all of which have adopted a pattern of reg at some 50,000 election sites around the coun best seller. Unfortunately, it is the basis for ulations and administrative decrees exceed try. At the same time, the president would meeting our wartime requirements and pre ing their Congressional mandates further mobilize the assets of the Selective Service serving our national security. sti:filng our industries; System-750 Reserve omcers and 100 paid Defense Secretary Harold Brown counsels 8. The ridiculously high cost of medical staff-who would locate, organize and train that we should walt untH the administration care which has been caused by interference tens of thousands of local precinct election plan ls fully tested (two years at least) be in the marketplace by the Federal Govern personnel in towns all across the nation. fore considering a simple call for our young ment through the Department of Health,• These measures would be taking place in men to furnish their names and addresses in Education, and Welfare; · the midst of a national emergency when the a calm and orderly manner. If our nation 9. Interference by the President and the entire country would be trying to prepare for remains at peace while we continue our State Department in the affairs of other wartime conditions. Indeed, the presidential reliance on the current unworkable scheme, sovereign nations; order to conduct mass registration in the we will simply look back on it as politically 10. The prevention by ·the Federal Gov middle of a period of international tension motivated nonfeasance. If, however, we have ernment of the production of lumber and could itself be considered an escalatory act, a war or emergency mobilization during this minerals from the vast areas of Alaska and increasing the chance of war. As a result, the period, those in the chain of command re the Western States at a time when such registration order would be delayed. sponsible for basing our nation's security on items are so sorely needed; But, let us assume that by M-Day plus 10, this hoax and those who know better but sit 11. Any "windfall" profits tax on on (if all 6 million draft-age males register after silently by wm be held accountable, by an such increased "profits" are plowed back into the president's announcement. The plan enraged nation, for their gross negligence.e exploration for and production of more oil) continues: By M-Da.y plus 15, m1llions of per at a time when such action would be ex sonnel records, handwritten by legions of un tremely harmful to increased oil production; trained election personnel at 50,000 as-yet WEST TEXAS VIEWPOINT 12. Failing to remove the minimum wage undetermined polllng places, wm all be law insofar as it affects young people who picked up, sent to 10 regional Selective Serv cannot get jobs and thus significantly con ice omces, and there entered into computers HON. JAMES M. COLLINS tribute to the nation's spiraling crime rate; and transmitted to one control computer at OP TEXAS 13. Policies of the State Department which Selective Service national headquarters. (The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES penalize our friends (such as Rhodesia and computers do not now exist, but are requested South Africa) and which are in the process in this year's budget.) Thursday, September 13, 1979 of giving "most favored nation" treatlment Assuming that the computers are infalll • Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, to China and Russia; ble, on M-Day plus 16, the national lottery I received a resolution that was passed 14. Entering into the SALT II Treaty un commences. On M-Da.y plus 19, a tape 1s less it gives the United States equal defen tra.rumitted to Western Union to dispatch by the Commissioners Court of Ward sive capabilities with the Soviet Union; the first 200,000 mallgrams ordering induc County out in west Texas. 15. Even considering socialized medicine; tions. What they say represents common 16. Failing to let the market place (supply The director of the Selective Service has sense Americanism. Their desire to re and de-mand) determine the true price for testified that, because of court decisions dur verse the present policies of the Federal goods and services; ing the Vietnam era, if omic.sions of the pri Government expresses the thoughts 17. Continually imposing excessively high mary age group occur, whether by lost most Americans have from coast to taxes on industry which prevents plant mod registration cards, local- or regional-head coast. In plain language, they specifical ernization and, thus, etreotive trade compe quarters error, or computer breakdown, the tition with other nations; entire induction order could be subject to ly sum up that we have too much Fed 18. Forced school bussing which is wasting successful legal challenge. erai Government, too much' Federal reg mUlions of barrels Of on yearly; and M-Day plus 20 to M-Da.y plus 30: The :first ulation, and too much spending by Con 19. All of the other socialistic programs of 200,000 inductees arrive at the examination gress. I am mighty proud of County At the Federal government too numerous to list stations, including the blind, the crippled, torney Keys. at this time.e the retarded and the conscientious objectors, The commissioners court is com since no pre-screening has occurred. After posed of County Judge R. D. Sitz and their examination, those :fit for military serv ice would then depart immediately out the Commissioners H. A. Collins, Lenora REBECCA BREAZEALE back door !or training (presumably without Price, J. H. Raglin, and Robert Spinks, picking up their toothbrushes or telllng their with the resolution being signed and wit loved ones goodbye). Subsequent call-ups nessed by Pat V. Finley, county clerk. HON. BILL FRENZEL would continue at this pace in this fashion This is part of the record of the Commis OF MINNESOTA for months. sioners Court of Ward County, Tex. I can't help noting the contrast between Here is the resolution: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Defense Department's manpower mobili Thursday, September 13, 1979 zation plan and the Energy Department's RESOLUTION plan, as reported in The Washington Post, to Whereas, the undersigned, the elected e Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to mob111ze and train some 200 enforcement County Judge and Commissioners, comprise day to recognize the contribution of a 24502 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 woman who has played an important role It's something he's been looking forward INDOCHINA REFUGEES AND in getting young people in my State and to ever since he came to the United States AMERICAN POLICY around the country more involved in the last summer to study Vietnamese under political process. Southern Ill1nois University-Carbondale lin guistics professor Dinh-Hoa Nguyen. HON. GEORGE MILLER For the past 5% years, Rebecca He's the third Japanese diplomat in three "Becky" Breazeale has been employed years who's been sent to SIUC to learn the OF CALIFORNIA by the Close Up Foundation, an organiza Vietnamese language in preparation for join IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion which has had a tremendous im ing Japan's Ministry of Foreign A1fairs staff Thursday, September 13, 1979 pact on our young people. Through its in H3no1. seminars and workshops, many teenagers "I am excited about going to Vietnam, but • Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. learn that participation at every level of I am leaving the United States with mixed Speaker, I delivered a speech to the Com Government is vital to the future of this emotions," said Ouchl. "I ,have seen much monwealth Club of California on the and enjoyed myself during my stay here." subject of American Policy and the In democracy. During that yearlong stay, Ouchl has seen Ms. Breazeale, through her dedication, as much of the United States as he could, dochinese Refugees last Friday, Septem personal enthusiasm, attention to detail both out of interest and a desire to learn ber 7, 1979. The subject of the refugees and, above all, hard work, has helped to what he could of American culture and will be discussed in depth by this House make this educational experience pos people. in the coming weeks, as will other as sible for thousands of students from He has visited California, New Orleans, pects of our policies toward the nations around the country. I have recently Chicago and cities on the East Coast. He also of Southeast Asia. I would like to share spent a week in Montreal with his father at this speech with my colleagues. learned that Becky will be leaving the tending a Lions Club international con foundation to return home to Mississippi vention. The speech follows: and, as a member of the foundation's "America is a very free country. It seems THE INDOCHINA REFUGEES AND AMERICAN board of advisers, I want to salute her you can do just about anything you have the POLICY: AN EYEWITNESS REPORT for her valued contributions.• wm to do. I am impressed by the 'cowboy One month ago, I was In Southeast Asia spirit' of self-dependence that Americans as a member of a fact-finding mission ap seem to have, as well as by the many dif pointed by the Speaker of the House of Rep ferent attitudes I have found people to have," resentatives. he said. We went there for a very speclflc reason. JAPAN PREPARES FOR VIETNAM Ouch! said American m'iterialism staggered One week earlier, over 70 nations of the TRADE; WE DON'T him a.t first. It wlll not be easy, he said, to world had concluded that the international adjust to the austerity he expects to find in community could no longer watch the ter Vietnam. rible plight of the Indochinese refugees. HON. PAUL SIMON "It w111 be challenging to go there, but it The United States delegation, of which I OF ILLINOIS w111 probably be d1mcult to adjust to the was a member, went to Geneva for two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hard life I expect to be living there. It is an purposes: To tell the world community that opportunity to see a part of the world that we were w1111ng to do our share to help those Thursday, September 13, 1979 ordinuy people cannot see," said Ouch1. in camps, and also to insist that other na • Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, as my col "My goal is to remain objective in judging tions accept their respons1b111ty in this effort. life in Vietnam." I am pleased to repoxt that this effort was leagues in the House know, for some time In Hanoi, Ouch1 will round out a six-per successful, and that thousands of the refu I have believed that it is not in our best son embassy staff. Japan is one of several gees will, in fact, be resettled in other coun interests as a nation to continue our nations which maintain diplomatic relations tries. stubborn a,nd ridiculous stance of not with Vietnam. Others include France, Great In an effort to get first hand information, recognizing the Government of Vietnam. Britain, Australia and Canada. the Speaker appointed a select delegation, They are eager for such recognition The assignment 16 the culmination of years with the concurrence of the Secretary of and eager to begin a trading relationship of preparation for Ouch!, who first became State, to secure the facts we needed to make interested In diplomatic work in high school critical decisions about the future of Amer with us that can be helpful to our econ in his hometown of Ta.kasaga City near ican policy. omy. Osaka. A report will be submitted to Congress More important than that, it is a way "I have wanted to travel internationally next week. Today, I want to share with you of encouraging Vietnam to maintain in since I was a small child, and 1n high school my observations and conclusions after a dependence both from the Soviet Union I decided that being a diplomat would be a hectic, informative and depressing journey and from China. good wa.y to do that," said Oucht. of 80,000 miles through the relocation camps Interestingly, among the nations which After graduating from Sophia University and capitals of Indochina.. in Tokyo, he studied in Australia and the The Congress, and the American people, are maintain diplomatic ties with Vietnam Ph111ppines, where he made the decision to soon going to have to confront some complex are Japan, France, Great Britain, Aus try for a position in the Southeast Asia Divi questions and come up with some answers. tralia, and Canada. sion of the Ministry of Foreign A1fairs. For example- And even more interesting is the fact "There are very few Vietnamese specialists Is the American taxpayer willing to pro that Japan sends her diplomats to the In the Ministry, and that appeared to be vide basic humanitarian assistance to some United States for training in Vietnamese. where the greatest opportunity was," said of the 395,000 Vietnamese, Laotian, and They come to Southern illinois Univer Ouchl. Cambodian refugees who are barely surviv sity in Carbondale, Dl., which I am proud Shortly after joining the Ministry of For ing in makeshift relocation camps? eign Affairs, Ouchi was dispatched to SIUC We must ask: Who are truly "refugees"? to say is in my district. to learn English and Vietnamese. Who is fleeing Vietnam? Are they etltn1c I fl.nd this interesting for two reasons. sruc is one of three universities in the Chinese who have been subjected to racial First, the Japanese have the good sense United States where Vietnamese is taught. persecution, or Catholics subjected to rell to train their diplomats in the language The others are the University of Ha.wau and gious oppression? Are· they fleeing concen o!f the country before they send them to Cornell University. tration camps and torture? the country. Second, they look around SIUC has been the choice of the Japanese We must ask whether many of the "refu and find the best possible training site Ministry because of the quality of the pro gees" are really people who are dissatisfied gram-headed by Nguyen-and the un with the primitive economy of Vietnam who in a language and then send them to that prefer the economic prospects in the United site. matched wealth of Vietnamese-language pub lications in the University's Morris Library, States. I am inserting ln the RECORD at this according to Ouchi. wm the refugee flow continue indefinitely, so that the international obligation is never point the news release from Southern "We've gone to great lengths to maintain Illinois Universitv which details some in ending? wm the Vietnamese halt the exodus the quality and quantity of our Vietnamese of its people, whom it cannot feed, or shelter, formation about the most recent alumnus language holdings with the help of Ubrarles or employ? of the program at Southern Dlinois Uni 1n Paris, Washington, Tokyo and Hong Kong," Should we look to new policies to allow the versity: said Nguyen. growth of that economy so that, absent per NEWS RELEASE FROM SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Publications like Nhan Dan-the People's secution, people wm choose to stay in their UNIVERSITY Dally in Hanoi-have helped Ouchi learn homeland rather than to seek refuge In about Vietnam. He said his academic train CARBONDALE, ILL.-August promiees to be other countries, including our own. a very big month in the 11!e of Aklra Ouchl. ing during the past year has been top-notch. When I left for Southeast Asia, I largely That's when tlie Japanese diplomat trainee "But when I get to Vietnam-that is when shared the views of the Vice President and is due to arrive in Hanoi to begin the first I w111 really begin to learn," he sald. the Secretray of State. The refugees, we were big assignment of his young career. He is due to arrive in Hanoi Aug. l.e told, were the victims of religious and pollti- September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24503 cal persecution. Their plight was a latter day cratered countryside looked like the far payer nothing. It would not,require, and we holocaust. side. of. . the moon, where transportation Wt\S need not recommend, any form of direct U.S. Over the course of the next five days, we primitive or non-existent, where destitution assistance to Vietnam. spoke with hundreds of refugees in reloca has become a normal way of life. But 1! American oll companies want to pur tion camps. We toured camps in which tens It ls a country where the average annual chase offshore oll leases in Vietnam • . • o11 of thousands of people were crammed into a income today is $150, about the sa.m.e as lt which we could use, or 1f Denmark wants to piece of territory the size of a few city blocks. was twenty years ago. Before the wars, Viet bulld dairies, or 1f American companies want We spoke to local Government officials, and nam exported rice throughout famine-prone to sell spare parts for machinery lying idle with representatives of the United Nations southeast Asia. Today, it must import hun in the fields, why should our government and private religious and charity organiza dreds of mllllons of dollars of food to feed prohibit or discourage that investment activ tions. Its own people. Despite strict rationing, ex ity? It became clear that the overwhelming perts predict widespread starvation and Perhaps no one wlll want to Invest In the majority of the current residents of theso famine throughout Indochina unless agri future or the Vietnamese economy. That will camps simply can never go home again. cultural production is reestablished. be their choice. But 1f the interest is there, Whether it is because of their ethnicity, or Currently, the agricultural sector 1s in a and the evidence strongly suggests that it their past association with the Saigon or U.S. shambles. The irrigation systems have been is, we ought not stand In the way. Invest Governments, or merely because they had al decimated, llvestock have been slaughtered, ment and tra.de can help establish an eco ready tied, they cannot return to their own and fields have been destroyed by defoliants nomic foundation for that country and w111 countries. and landmines. Droughts and floods have stimulate the creation of jobs which will I am deeply committed to the concept that ruined up to 25 percent of the lrrigable land reduce the pressures from which hundreds the United States uphold its historic role of in the last two years. of thousands have fled, and !rom which accepting true, and I stress the word "true", The Vietnamese Government has hoped to milUons more may st1ll try to escape. political refugees. develop "new economic zones•• of agricul Since neither we, nor the other nations I am similarly committed to the proposi tural production. But it is llttle wonder that of the world can possibly asslmilate the vast tion that other nations also meet their many of the city dwellers, who moved to the numbers of people who might choose to leave obligations. cities in large numbers during the war, are Vietnam, I believe we must seize the oppor I believe that we must explore all ways unwilling to subject themselves to the rugged tunity to Initiate policies which w111 reduce of mitigating those conditions which have llfe in the zones. Even the prospect of as the enormous pressures within Vietnam. forced so many people to risk their own signment to an NEZ ge.,erates enough fear Those pressures are not only economic. lives, to put their own children into open among many Vietnamese to persuade them to The political and m111tary turmoil in South boats on the high seas, and to risk death flee. Many of these urban residents were east Asia not only continues, but threatens or robbery, rather than to remain in their merchants, 80 percent of whom were of to escalate into major power confrontation. own homeland. Chinese ancestry, who see no future tor War anywhere 1s a threat to the security Of For whatever reason that terrible choice themselves in this Communist society. our Nation. was made-economic, political, or a com These are some of the circumstances from While some may dismiss this scenario as a bination of many-it is an intolerable situ which the refugees are fleeing. There 1s such battle between the Communist superpowers, ation. The world community inust provide widespread despair about the economic fu I think we must all recognize it as a grave asylum to such people, and must demand threat to world peace. ture and the repressiveness of Vietnam that We must use our growing polltical and that the responsible governments, includ people are willlng to take the great risks to ing Vietnam, halt those reprehensible pol economic intluence with China, including gamble their llves on the sUm chance of the granting of "most favored nation," trad icies which compel their citizens to flee. escape. ing status, to discourage another invasion. But we learned more. We learned that In addition, many have left, especially Failure to do so may very well increase the unless there are significant policy changes ethnic Chinese, because of the continual likelihood of another Chinese aggression. I by the world community, the 395,000 people threat of a new invasion from China. Over recall that the prevention of such Chinese now in camps w111 be only the vanguard of a quarter of a mi111on of these ethnic Chinese expansionism was a major justification for an eventual "refugee" population which have already fled into mainland China, and our long and costly involvemen.t in .the war could total 2 to 2 'h million people! more may soon go. There can be no doubt in Vietnam. We learned that neither the United that the Hanoi government, tearing that So It seems to me that we !ace, in the next States, nor the other countries of the world, many of the ethnic Chinese collaborated with few weeks, some very clear and critical can possibly assimilate such a large number the Chinese invaders, mandated the reloca choices. of people. tion or expulsion of ethnic Chinese in the We can either redefine our poUcies 1n When economic conditions absent political North, the area adjacent to China. Southeast Asia and help to relieve the In persecution drive hundreds of thousands Many more were expelled as a form of re credible pressures contributing to the out of people from their homelands, we cannot prisals after the war. As a result of these pouring of refugees, or we can redefine our merely throw up safety nets and accent un complex Issues, we all are !acing some very definition of "refugee" an.d prepare for mu limited numbers of immigrants. Under tough questions: llons of new ones; standable as their desire to come to America Can the U.S. be truly concerned with the We oan either allow private companies of is, I do not believe we should encourage or continuing flow of refugees, and not use all any nationality to invest in Southeast Asia permit the resettlement of such people in ot our growing economic and political influ· by lifting our embargo, or we can ask . the the United States. ence with China to discourage a new Inva American taxpayer to commit billions of Instead, we must look to the eradication sion, which will produce hundreds of thou dollars in aid !or hundreds of thousands of those adverse economic conditions which sane's of new refugees? more refugees; have produced the refugees, and which wlll Can the U.S. be truly concerned with the We can either take actions which will continue to produce m1llions more. refugees and not remove obstacles to foreign strengthen the economic sel!~sufficlency of Acknowledging the widespread economic investment in Vietnam? Asian nations, or we can pursue policies destitution in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Can we be truly concerned about the ref which w111 drive them deeper into exclusive does not minimize the oppressiveness of ugees and the loss of human lives and yet do reliance on the Soviet Union, which I belleve these governments. nothing to enable the people of Indochina to they would rather not have to rely on. We all are aware that Pol Pot systemat feed themselves? We are all very aware that any discussion Ically exterminated perhaps half of the pop If your answer to these fundamental ques ot the future relationship between Vietnam ulation of Cambodia in only a few years. tions is yes, then you must also be wilUng to and the United States is bound to be difficult. Whlle such Uqul'iations do not appear to spend blllions of dollars to provide for a Vietnam was, an~ remains, the source of deep have occurred in Vietnam, no one oue:ht to continued flood of the refugees. divisions and strong emotional responses in be under any misconceptions about the You must be wllllng to see again thou this country. leaders of that country. The men I met with sands of people taking to the seas in open The redirection of policy which I am rec are tough, hardened and callous, tempered boats, and to hear of the casualty rates as ommending today 1s not one of support !or by 30 years of war. They are determined to high as 50 percent. the Government of Vietnam. Rather, it Is one survive. You must be wUUng to push the Viet of compassion !or the people of that im The condition of Vietnam today is an namese ever closer towards total domination poverished and war-torn region of the world. outgrowth of those three decades of war and by the Soviet Union, with the real possib111ty If we cannot flnd the wisdom to help im mammoth destruction. The U.N. hiJ!h com of Russian confrontation with China. prove the conditions of the milllons who re missioner on refugees has said that the But I don't belleve that the answer to these main In Asia, we cannot hope to provide crisis of the refugees "is Inseparable from questions 1s yes. I don't think we have the assistance or refuge to those who continue the political and economic developments re right to tell the American people, in good to flee. lating to Indochina." I agree with this eval conscience, that we must spend hundreds of The third option-to do nothlng-ts uation. The continuing flight of the refugees milllons of dollars In tax money In an at morally unaccep.table and politically short is inevitably linked to the devastation and tempt to solve this problem when less costly sighted, and clashes with our entire history hopelessness of the local economy. alternatives remain untried. as a nation. When I flew over Vietnam into Hanoi I say that the simple act of removing the The future of this crisis will largely depend last month, I observed a country whose trade embargo would cost the American tax- on the decisions and efforts of those 1n the 24504 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 private sector-the companies who will make if other people thought the free system That situation trlvlallzes genuine freedom. decisions about investment and trade, and wasn't good enough for their children, they The preferred status of publtc education pre the private charities and church organiza shouldn't complain about having to f~t the vents some. and tends to discourage all, tions which have provided the backbone of bUl for private schools. Besides, what if a from supporting pluralistic education. Jus the international relief effort. dime of public funds should wind up in tice requires nondiscriminatory tax relief. at I suggest that our own Government merely some priest's pocket? That would violate the a minimum, to parents of private-school remove the barriers which I believe we have First Amendment, wouldn't it? pupils. And that mean'! no discrimination helped to create and permit the process of I'm a.fraid this was, and is, a rather ~ean against religious schools.e restoration and resettlement to proceed in attitude. PeOple don't choose private schools the homeland of these unfortunate people. out of ingratitude, but out of love. They I appreciate having had the opportunity to make sacrifices to give their chlldren the NUCLEAR IS THE SAFE POWER share these views with you today, and I would best education. they can. They deserve at be pleased to respond to any questions you least some consideration for that. may have on this subject.e Besides, there is a matter of principle at HON. LARRY McDONALD stake, a principle we have nearly forgotten. OF GEORGIA Education means, finally, the shaping of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATTVES young. This Is a grave duty, and it rests RESPECTING A PARENT'S FREEDOM primarlly with parents, and only secondarlly Thursday, September 13, 1979 OF CHOICE IN EDUCATION (if at all) with the state. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, most our leading advocate of tax relief for parents of the rabid critics of nuclear power are HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE of private-school pupils, points out that the always posing hypothetical questions OF NEW YORK issue hasn't really been weighed on its mer concerning the safety of nuclear power. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATTVES its. Liberal opponents of even that mild a In this they were aided and abetted by fonn of aid to private schools insist it is un the superficial press reporting of the Thursday, September 13, 1979 constitutional; but that question can be Three Mile Island accident. Dr. Petr • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, we have temporarily waived. The main question is Beckmann, a professor of electrical en witnessed considerable debate during the simply whether aid to private schools is a gineering at the University of Colorado good idea.. Both the Democratic and Repub last Congress concerning aid to private lican platforms of 1976 agreed that it is. recently pointed out how dangerous other schools. Most often, the controversy cen Liberal ideology generally wants govern forms of energy are, not just in theory, tered around granting tax credits for ment to supervise things. It is suspicious but in actual practice. As compared with tuition paid to private schools. Whlle we of private schools as havens of privllege and other forms of energy, even the nuclear spent a great deal of time discussing the subterfuges for segregation. In addition, the waste problem is minimal as Dr. Beck validity and the constitutionality of such public-school establishment--state omcials mann points out. For those of my col a measure, I would like to point out that and teachers organizations-resents inde leagues who would like to gain a little pendent schools as it resents parental pres we obfuscated the real issue. sure. It prefers the rule of accredited state perspective on nuclear power, I commend 'Uhe singular issue, which we have "experts," and has been harassing private Dr. Beckmann's editorial from the Lon avoided, ls a parent's right to choose the schools--especially the proliferating religious don Daily Telegraph, of London, for type of education he wants for his chll schools of the Southeast--in the name of August 7, 1979: dren. Clearly, education is primarlly a "standards." NUCLEAR Is THE SAFE POWER parental responsibillty, and government There is irony, not to mention impudence, The case for nuclear power is one of simple has the obligation of supporting that pa in this. Parents choose private schools in morality: it saves most of the Uves now lost rental responsib111ty. Private education part because the standards o! public schools in generating comparable amounts of elec have deteriorated so badly. And private tricity by less safe sources. If it were not also is a vital element in the American edu schools generally do a better job of teaching cational system today and I believe it is reliable, economic and assured of free-world by all measurable criteria. supplies for mlllennia., we would be faced important that this dual system continue But measurable criteria are only part of with a moral dllemma, but fortunately, it Is to exist. It provides an extremely impor the story. Parents choose private schools for all of these as well. tant option for parents who feel their less tangible reasons. They want their chil The comparison with our present (or sug children cannot receive the same quality dren taught in the atmosphere of moral and gested future) power sources is one that any of education in public schools. Without religious values that are (to some extent layman can check out for fhtmself. Moreover, aid to private education, however, this necessarily and properly) excluded from pub the results have rareLy been disputed by the Uc schools. They feel that what the private nuclear foes; they have simply been ignored. freedom of choice and the traditional schools supply is not extra. luxuries, but And the comparison works not just for sa.fety pluralistic educational system in this vital necessities. Private schools are in a from accidents; it works equally well for country may become threatened. special sense free schools: free to be purpose radiation, waste disposal and terrorism. I attended both public and private ful, free to reflect parental values. 0! course nuclear power is not perfectly schools, and can attest to the quality of All this runs counter to the instincts of safe-no large-scale power source can be education I received in both. I certainly modem liberallsm, which lmpllcitly regards but per unit of energy produced, its price in education a.s a process of "liberating" the human suffering is very much smaller than hope that this opportunity to attend both young from the presumably backward values is made economically available to those for any other source. Nor can this be dis of the home. Though tactfully downplayed, puted by pointing to the short history of who can not afford anything other than this attitude shows up in the campaigns for nuclear power: not only do we have several the public schools. sex education and !or the minors' "rights" to reactor-centuries of experience but in the 22- I have never heard anyone deny a par contraception and abortion. year history of nuclear power many thou ent's right to select a child's education. It also shows up negatively. The fashion sands have died in the fossll-fuel cycle-even Like many other rights, however, it is able intellectual journals have almost wth.en only the correspondingly small traction nothing to say on behalf of parents• rights of energy is considered. nearly meaningless unless it is economi a strange anomaly in·a.n age that elaborates cally feasible. Only if we make such a A nuclear power plant oa.nnot undergo a the rights of minorities, women, homosex nuclear explosion; the only danger is a sig right an economic reality will we be giv uals, even animals. Nobody openly denies a nificant release ·of radloa.otivity, and that ing the parent's freedom of choice any parent's right to select a. child's education. danger ls localised in a. few cubic metres of viabillty. But it is a. right that is losing weight fast. space, where it can be surrounded by a In this light, I would like to share with Usually, liberals argue that a right worth multilayered defence in depth. Moreover, the my colleagues an article which appeared having is a right worth subsidizing. We are time scale of a. possible accident is so slow in the Washington Post on July 25, 1979. told that poor women don't really have the (melting of the fuel, melting through the I believe it provides cogent and compel right to a.n abortion unless they have "a.c pressure vessel, possible fa.llure of the con cess"-in the form of tax monies-to abor taJnm.ent bullding) tha.t there is time to ling reasons for respecting a parent's tion. We are also assured that subsidizing bolster the defences wherever they are in freedom of choice and providing aid to abortion in no way implies approval of it. danger of growing weak. And even if this private schools. Why isn't this logic applied to private educa slowly prOgressing battle threatens to be [From the Washington Post, July 25, 1979] tion? lost, there is time to evacuate the endang PRIVATE ScHOOLS AND PARENTS' RIGHTS In essence, public education has the status ered ·area.. of a.n established church. All, regardless of (By Joseph Sobran) Nuclear safety, then, is not based on the personal conviction, are required to support infalllblllty of operators or the perfect func Like many people, I used to oppose govern it. Dissenters are "free" to support alterna tion of gadgets, but on defence in depth and ment aid to private education in any form. tives only a!ter they have paid their dues slow tline scale. No other energy facility I attended publlc schools, and I felt that to the estabUshm.ent. bas even one of these two protections. September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24505 The da.m of a hydro-electric pla.nt, for. ex would use a weapon that kUls 15 to 40 years well done, they're faced with a.n overwhelm ample, can brea.k a.nd k111 thousands in 'mf~ later, would not kill many people even then. ing cynicism toward government. utes, because it lacks a. second, third, a.nd is extraordinarily hard to acquire, can imme Why they quit is our concern as well as seventeenth safety dam, and because there diately be detected in absurdly small quanti theirs. It's a. vicious circle: Most members is nD time to ta.ke counter measures. ties, a.nd _is more valuable tha.n gold? of Congress are frustrated, as is the publlc, Both points were dramatically 1llustra.ted Reliabillty? In America 10.6 per cent of with the seeming inablllty of government to by none other than the Harrisburg accident. electric ca.pa.city is nuclee.r, but it pulls al confront national problems. It the public After !our horrible failures, both human and most 13 per cent of the load. And that 1n feels its leaders can't govern, then it won't mechanical, there wa.s not a. single death or spite of the fact that the Government wlll make an effort to keep the best qualified in injury. What other 845-mega.wa.tt power shut down not one but a.ll nuclear pla.nts of om.ce. And it gcod leaders aren't elected or plant could contain such a. sequence of fail the same type as soon aa a. ludicrously small are driven out of oftlce, the public's cynlclsm ures without loss of life? fault is detected, or even merely suspected. eventually wm be justified. Yet a.t Harrisburg the defence in depth Then there is ava.llabUlty. The already Most did not quit for· lack of time or never retreated close to a. meltdown; and mined and stored American supplles of ura money. Although members of Congress work even a. meltdown would most probably ha.ve nium ore fertlle for breeding could supply six to seven days a week for long hours (and been contained without loss of life; for the America. with a. century of electricity. So why it's assumed that anyone competent to serve prime purpose of the containment building the opposition? in Congress could make more money else is to contain the da.nger after a. meltdown. Tbat 1s not a.n easy question. Perhaps much where) , these would be happy sacrifices 1t As for the time scale, one of the teams of of the "Why?" is answered by the "Who?" they brought results. They quit because Con experts ca.lled to the scene a.t Ha.rrisburg Who, indeed? Statistically speaking (with gress doesn't work, because the nation lacks ha.d the Ralph Nader-like task of enga.ging plenty of exceptions), the well educated, the strong leadership and the public support to in "wha.t-1!" fantasies to prepare for any a.ftluent, the non-producers, the ones who do sustain it, and because when members of possible further !allures. They found a.ll not make a. living by customers coming to Congress speak out on their own, their ideaa credible failures protected by back-up sys them voluntarily but who are used. to plan are seldom heard. Some suspect that they tems, but 1! the entire electric supply failed, ning, a.na.lysing, a.nd redistributing a.t other will be able to do more outside of ConK~"ess they bad only one a.uxllia.ry diesel aggregate people's risk. than in 1t. to generate emergency power; so they fiew They are not against nuclear power in Accompanying the rise of voluntary re in a. second one. What other 843 MW facUlty particular, but against a.n abundance of en tirements has come a.n unprecedented string gives that kind of time when it threatens ergy in general, against industria.l and eco of defeats of incumbents, often by one-issue disaster? nomic growth, and most of all a.ga.lnst cap candidates or independents who owe little to A nuclear accident with large-scale loss italism, the system that baa brought material the party system or to consistent politics. of life rema.ins very improbable, but even wealth a.nd political freedom to more people Last year, 97 members of Congress were u one were to happen, the loss of life could than any other in history. freshmen. In all, more than half have served hardly be the same as we are now tolerating Listen to them carefully, and you will hear two terms or less. The new-style politician tor other power sources. Some 20,000 Ameri them saying: "There are too many of you has learned it's possible to bypass the tradi cans die premature deaths every year due others." Watch their actions, a.nd you wUl tional means of gaining om.ce with a.n \'mo to coa.l-fired power plants; throughout the see their largely paraaitic well-being threat world, coal-fired power takes a. toll of be tional issue or with a well-funded, scientif ened by the upward mob111ty of the eco ically organized campa.lgn. The net effect has tween 40 and 200 lives per year per 1,000 MW nomica.lly less fortunate. rt Is the old story (mostly via. air pollution, but also in trans been an upset in the balance of personal as of a. class that wa.nts to freeze the world in sociations, party loyalty and experience that portation and in the mines) . 011 fires, oil the sta.te where it has power and influence. smoke, gas explosions, not to spea.k of hydro kept Congress functioning in the past. power (2,000 deaths in a. dam failure in Italy This "small is beautiful" crowd is talking In this vacuum of power, the influence of in 1963), can kill victims by the tens of humanity and environment. But it their special-interest groups has increased. Politi thousa.nd&-and with incompe.ra.bly higher dream of de-industrialisation by stifiing en cal-action committees channel millions into probe.bllities. ergy sources came true, the result would be selected campaign funds. Lobbies threaten Radiation? The na.tura.l radioactive back a retrogression to an America of plantation and badger politicians. To satisfy these llm ground in Colorado is twice the American owners, a. Britain of the la.nded gentry, a. ited constituencies, some adopt fanatical po average (the difference !rom sea. level 1s France of the ancien r~gime and a. Germany of feuda.l Junkers.e sitions, robbing the publlc of an objective equivalent to 5,000 nuclear plants), yet the look at the issues. cancer rate 1s so per cent below it. But let's Congressmen soon learn there is more to keep it simple. The radioactivity of coal lose than to gain by confronting these pres smoke (due to the ra.dionuclides in coal) 1s sure groups openly. Collectively, they substi up to 50 times higher than routine emissions CONGRESSMEN QUITTING-WHY? tute the long-term interests of the majority !rom a. nuclear plant. Anyone who really with the immediate interests of a. few. believes that "every llttle bit of radioactivity hurts" should first stop Ct')S.l, jet flights a.nd HON. PAUL SIMON Dt>spite overriding problems like inflation and a. shortage of energy, Congress has llttle radiotherapy of cancer, as well as evacuat OF ILLINOIS ing Colorado, Wyoming and Switzerland. substantive legislation to show !or its recent Waste disposal is perhaps the biggest single IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES efforts. Yet it's not a body without ideas. advantage of nuclear power (which may ex Thursday, September 13, 1979 Some who have chosen to remain in oftlce plain why it haa been singled out for such a say they are in a sort of holding pattern, ferocious attack). Compared to coal and • Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, one of the waiting for the political climate to change other fossil fuels it bas two overwhelming more respected Members of the Senate whlle doing as much as they can in commit advantages. The volume is minuscule, and is Senator ADLAI STEVENSON ill. tees and in their home states. But the public th"l toxity temporary. Nuclear wastes 8.re the I was pleased to read an article by has little idea of their daily efforts, or what only wastes of a.n industrial society that ca.n his son, Adlai E. Stevenson IV, com they would do 1f given a chance. be completely and permanently removed menting on the situation in which the And t-he press seems incapable of telling !rom the biosphere. N9.tion finds itself today. the public about Congress or the issues upon A 1,000 MW nuclear unlt produces 2 cubic which it must act. Members of the press claim metres of wastes per year; a coal-fired plant What he says makes sense, and he says objectivity both as a defense and a. sign of produces 20 lbs of solld wa.srtes not per year, it well. their greatest contribution. In fact, they but per second. Nuclear wastes can be solidi It is good to see another generation of choose from many sources of authority or fied, sealed into ~lass, put into waterproof, Stevensons contributing to the national sets of facts to fashion stories they think earthquake proof steel drums, burled in ea.lt dialog. will get the public's attention. Their most !ormstions (which wlll sea.l up rather tba.n The article follows: important editorial consideration is also their let water enter), and monitored !or 650 years, greatest copout: They print or air only what by which time their radioactivity wlll decay CONGRESSMEN QurrriNG IN DRoVEs--WHY? (By Adlai Stevenson IV) they think the public can understand. This below the level of the ore they originally "headline" approach to news tends to con came from. Last year, 59 members of Congress retired fuse rather than enlighten because it fails to Coal wastes, on the other hand, contain 19 voluntarily, topping 1976's record of 53. This recognize basic issues. toxic metals ( arst>nic is one) . they wlll be is a surprising rate of attrition from a. job around forever. and some of them are "dis that requires a tremendous effort to attain, The news media are now as powerful as posed of" in your lungs. that should offer the potential for making politicians themselves. And while the media Can nuclear power be abused by terrorists? meaningful decisions a.tfecting the nation do not determine what people think, they do Yes, but not very eft'ectAvely. They ca.n inflict and the world, and that supposedly com determine wha.t they think about. incomoa.rably heavier losses much more mands respect. News can be interesting and informative, easlly by other means (which I am not about Jnstead, some have found tension and but this requires reporters who are better to describe in a. newspaoer). Some of the strain are their rewards. Their efforts are informed and wllling to co-operate with scares are plain sllly. Plutonium dispersal, compromised by contradictory pressures and politicians rather t-han confront them. The for example. Whst self-respecting terrorists interest groups. Instead of respect !or a. job press is easily manipulated by those who mis- 24506 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 use their authority, but dimcult to reach by is incorporated into the forest residue mak gains while maintaining their cultural those who work quietly but d111gently. ing what ts already a. highly reactive material identity and essential dignity. Perhaps debate, risk-taking and commit even more reactive. In this way, gaslflcation While Hispanics have made signifi ment are the temporary casualties of mass occurs at lower temperatures. The reactor cant gains and contributions in our Na electronic communications. It's not surpris used in the study 1s a multisolid fluid-bed ing that non-solutions have ,become so pop gas11lcation unit developed by Battelle. tion's history, and hold potential for ular in an age where non-action is often the This unique gasification system has four even more significant gains in the future, most feasible politica.l alternative. Too many major advantages over existing systems: I believe that we as legislators must rec people are misled to the glib assumption that Elimination of the need for an oxygen ognize the barriers that have been over our problems are not as bad as they seem.e plant. This improvement alone can reduce come, and those that have yet to be over plant investment requirements to approxi come, for our Nation to achieve an equi mately 50 percent. table and pluralistic society. One area The ab111ty to handle a wide range of wood feed-from sawdust to chips-without front in which I have a particular legislative GASIFICATION PROJECTS COULD interest is the field of science and engi EASE ENERGY PINCH end preparation and with minima.l pre drying. neering. The capabntty of operating at very high I had the opportunity this week to HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD soltd feed rates because of the high velocities speak with Dr. Eugene Cota-Robles, until at which the system operates. recently vice-chancellor of the Uni OF PENNSYLVANIA The production o! a lower carbon dioxide IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES versity of California, Santa Cruz, and a content gas which reduces distribution cost recent appointee to the National Science Thursday, September 13, 1979 as well as the cost of acid gas removal. Studies have shown steam to be a more Board. e Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. effective gas11lcation agent for wood than He presented to me a number of sig Mr. Speaker, the Journal of Commerce hydrogen because steam gasification proceeds nificant facts that I wish to share with in an article published September 11 em at a higher rate than hydrogen gasification my colleagues. phasizes how gasification projects could and results in a greater net BTU recovery Dr. Cota-Robles indicated that while in the produced gas. 11 percent of Americans hold baccalau ease the energy pinch in the United Assuming the experimental work demon States. Research now underway could strates the economtc potential of the tech reat degrees, the average for Hispanics speed their commercialization in any nology, subsequent phases of the work would is about 1.6 percent. This disparity be synthetic fuels effort. be aimed at bringing it to commercialtzation comes even greater when comparing sta The article, which deals with recent de at a rapid speed. tistics of Ph. D.'s generally and Ph. D.'s velopments in both biomass and coal re In a separate study-also for the Depart in the fields of science and engineering. search, indicates some future directions ment of Energy-Battelle ts studying the use Of the total number of doctoral degrees which might be associated with any na of Ume as a catalyst to help eltminate two awarded in the United States, only major problems associated with using East 0.7 percent are held by Hispanics. tional synthetic fuels effort. ern coals for gas11lcation. The first 1s the The text of the article follows: tendency for Eastern coals to agglomerate And of those doctoral 1egrees held in GASD'ICATION PROJECTS COULD EASE ENERGY (stick to themselves when burning), the sec the sciences, only 0.4 percent are by PINCH: MAY SPEED COMMERCIALIZATION ond stems !rom the !act that Eastern coal Hispanics. This is an alarming fact when (By Herman F. Feldmann) 1s less reactive than Western coal. you consider that this group is soon to severa.l research projects involving gas11lca By chemically incorporating Ume (calcium be recognized as the largest minority in tion under way at Battelle's Columbus Lab oxide) or lime mixtures into Eastern coal, the country. oratories could help in solving the nation's experiments have shown that agglomeration While some would argue that the scien energy shortage. One involves a method for can be greatly reduced or ellminated. Coal tific field is not the forum to raise ques converting forest residue and other biomass treated by this process has been shown to be a superior feedstock for all of the gas11l tions of social eouity, I believe it is essen into a methane-rich gas that .could be used tial that we seek to accomplish goals of in place of natural gas. The other involves ca.tion processes currently under develop the use of lime as a cata.lyst when Eastern ment as well as for commercial gas11lers. racial equality in all professions and in coals are gas11led. Both projects are being Gas11lcation of the Battelle Treated Coal all levels. funded by the U.s. Department of Energy. (BTC) also .results in the production of Given the statt~t.lcs cited by Dr. Cota more valuable organic Uquids (benzene, Robles, and similar statistics relating to It the first research program is successful, toluene, and xylene) and light on by-prod forest residue-which includes everything ducts rather than the tar produced when the women and other minorities. I feel that from the leftovers of forestry and mill opera raw coal is gasified. In addition, conventional the science establishment should take the tions to trees grown on a "fuel fa.rm"-oould slurry feed systems can be used in the treat time to reflect on its present policies and be turned into a substitute for natura.l gas seek ways of creating greater opportuni by using a chemically-incorporated catalyst ment process, thus allowing the treatment in a novel reactor system gasifying biomass. process to be conducted as part of coal feed ties for these groups. ing and thereby minimizing additional plant It is an elementary fact that our sci COULD USE AS FUEL Investment. entific establishment is not as strong The gas produced could be used either as Research efforts continue in thts area: a fuel interchangeable with natural gas for To evaluate appllcation of the treatment and vital as it would be if Hispanics, industrial or ut111ty purposes or for the syn process to d11ferent coals. women. blacks. and others were fre~ of thesis of a variety of products-ranging from To develop a unique hydro-gasification the barriers which impede a possible ammonia to gasoline. process made possible by the treatment scientific career. Use of gas !rom biomass could help reduce process. Both the strength of science and thn energy imports while conserving the domestic To continue to test the treated coal for equity of our entire society would be up .. supply of natural gas. In addition, the an appltcation to other gasification processes. graded by breaking down those barriers. ticipated method of production is simpler To develop conceptua.l designs for commer I agree, of course, that in order achiev~ than conventional cost-gasification processes, cial treatment processes.e to thus allowing the use o! smaller plants. This greater plurality in the sciences w~ feature, in tum, should help reduce capita.l should provide greater incentives in sci• investment requirements a.llowing plants to entiftc education at the elementary anrt become commercialized at a quicker pace HISPANICS IN SCIENCE secondary levels. once the technology has been demonstrated. But I strongly believe with Dr. Cota CATALYSTS USED Robles that the scientific community has The research program involves enhancing HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. a role to play in this effort. One suc the rate at which wood converts to gas (re OF CALD'ORNIA cessful program is being conducted by activity) by catalyzing it either with ca.lcium IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the American Geological Institute which, oxide or wood ash. These materials are widely through a program of scholarships and avaUable, relatively inexpensive, and were Thursday, September 13, 1979 other means, is able to increase the par identified as increasing gasification rates in ticipation of Hispanics in the Earth sci earller experiments at Battelle. Whtle the • Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. catalysts were originally used in experiments Speaker, in this week designated as His ences profession. I urge other scientiftc involving coal-gasification techniques, they P9.nic Heritage Week, I would like to disciplines to look to their own resources also have been.shown to be effective 1n bio note the many contributions of the His to define such affirmative steps to include mass gasification. panic community and their efforts to greater numbers of Hispanics and other In one process, calcium oxide or wood ash make significant social and economic minorities.• September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24507 CASTRO'S SPIES IN THE ranks very high among the tasks that have year was that of the successful coup by the UNITED STATES been assigned to the DGI in the United "New Jewel" movement on tiny Grenada. States by its Soviet mentors. Weapons for the coup were purchased ROMANTIC GUERRILLA from private arins dealers by black Grenadan HON. LARRY McDONALD The KGB has long appreciated that many students from Washington's Howard Uni versity and stored in a house at Hyattsvme, OF GEORGIA Westerners-in Europe as well as the United only ten miles away from the American capi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES States-feel far fewer inhibitions about deal ing with Cubans than about dealing with tal. Thursday, September 13, 1979 Russians or East Europeans. GUN LAWS This is no doubt attributable to Castro's The pollee investigating breaches of the • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, for the surviving image as a romantic guerrma gun laws discovered that these studenta past 10 years the Directorate General de leader and to a widespread !allure to under were being advised by Chilean exlles who, in Intelligencie new left to obtain he ran the DGI's notorious Section m, re deed, do well, to glance around the neigh information on all aspects of our elec sponsible for deploying "lllegals" (spies who bouring territories to see what kind of men tronics industry, and particularly de do not use diplomatic or other omcial cover) Dr. Castro has selected as his ambassadors of tails of our semiconductor and laser in target countries. neutrallsm In Central America. technologies. This industrial espionage The division chief's previous employment The Cuban representatives in St. Lucia and is not for any direct Cuban advantage, provides a clue to why the KGB sets a high Dominica are both men with long back valuation on Castro's Secret Service when grounds in the Department of America. but is performed as a surrogate service it come-s to spying on the United States. to the Soviet Union whose KGB directs Given the presence of a Cuban exlle com In Jamaica, which is one of the most im and funds the DGI in this area. munity of some 70o,ooo--not to mention portant bases !or CUba's efforts to expand its At a third level the DGI working several m11Uon other Spanish-speakers, lnfluence over the region, the Cuban Ambas through organizations such as the Insti mostly of Mexican or Puerto Rican origin sador, recently appointed, is Sr. Ulises Es tute for Policy Studies and its Transna it is singularly easy for the DGI to smuggle trada. He is a prominent member of the tional Institute, has established "agents in Ulegals. DGI's "Palestinian Mafia." FBI OPTS OUT He is a close friend of the Department of of influence" in the highest levels of our America chief and was previously DGI sta academic community, our national media The task is made even simpler by the breakdown of internal security inside the tion chief in Cairo. According to Western in and in our political process. United States exempllfled by the fact that telligence sources, Estrada is not only work A recent article in the London Daily the FBI is no longer even trying to keep ing to push Michael Manley, Jamaica's Prime Telegraph, by Robert Moss, a well re tabs on some of the identified DGI officers Minister, further down the road to Cuban spected writer on defense and inte111- who are working under United Nations cover style socialism, but is encouraging him to gence matters, underscores these latter in New York when they regularly brea.ch play a more prominent role in marrying up activities by the DGI. I commend this the omcial ban on travel inside the United diverse radical Third World causes. article to the attention of my colleagues, States beyond a radius of 250 miles. In Costa Rica, the most important Cuban The CUban Mission to the UN in New in-residence over the months preceding the most especially to those who are still re York, which occupies an imposing mansion Sandlnista take-over in neighboring Nica luctant to believe that our defenses at 6 East 67 Street, has become the largest ragua was Julian Lopez Dias. against subversion need strengthening DGI base outside Cuba itself. by reestablishing the House Internal RECENT CONFmMATION Over the past three years, the number CYf Lopez Dias has received high honors !rom Security Committee. "diplomats" accredited to the Mission, whooe Dr. Castro !or his work in assisting the Nica The Robert Moss article of Septem nominal chie-f is Ricardo Alarcon de Que raguan revolution. (The recent expulsion of ber 3 follows: sada, has expanded !rom 35 to 77. Trotskyites !rom Managua was a confirma CAPITOL HILL VISITOR Is A SPY FOR CASTRO Most of them report to either the DGI tion of Cuban influence over the Sandinistas, One of the most assiduous visitors to or the Department of Americar-an organisa not the contrary; commentators who prattled Capitol H111 these days is a very sociable, tion directed by the former DGI chief, about "a crackdown on the ultra-Left" had nattlly dressed black Cuban called Teofllo Manuel Pineito Losada. (whose nickname is clearly forgotten that there is rl!t in the Acosta Rodriguez. "Barbaroja" or "Red Beard") under the world Communist movement and that the auspices o! the Central Committee of the Cubans stand squarely on the SoViet side o! He is supposedly a First Secretary in the Cuban Communist party. Cuban Interests Section that has been set the argument.) up inside the Czech Embassy in Washington. The Department of America has special Lopez Dias has received new assignments in The section has a staff of 12 accredited diplo responsib111ty for subversion and terrorist Central America. The principal target that mats and is headed by Sr. Sanchez Parodi. support operations in the Western hemi has now been assigned to him is belleved to In fact, Acosta is the station chief of Cas sphere but there is no hard-and-fast dis be Guatemala. This would fit in with the past tro's secret service, the DGI, in Washington. tinction between its role and that o! the background of this more-than-usually ad DGI 1n the fleld. According to a Cuban intell1gence defector, venturous DGI omcer. who now lives in Miami, Acosta was formally PROFESSIONAL SPIES In 1966, when he was working for the DGI recruited as a DGI omcer in 1967 after a not Some Western analysts suggest that there in Mexico City under cover as a Cultural particularly distinguished career as a jour is no such thing as a legitimate Cuban dip Attache at the Cuban Embassy, he was caught nalist. In his DGI capacity he toured the lomat, not merely because two-thirds or redhanded passing arins and money to a PLO camps in Syria in 1969, becoming a more of Cuban diplomats abroad are pro revolutionary Guatemalan. member of the so-called "Palestinian Mafia" fessional spies, but because the Ministry of Three years later he was the architect of within the Cuban Secret Services whose in Foreign Affairs in Havana 1s under the de what the DGI called "Operacion Estrella"--a. fluence is particularly marked today in the facto control of the DGI. successful attempt to spirit a hunted guer campaign to subvert Central America. The freedom of manoeuvre that the DGI rUla leader from the Dominican Republlc out Acosta boasted recently to a Congressional has been able to establish for itsel! inside of the Hague and via Paris and Geneva to staffer that he "ha.d a number o! Senators the United States has allowed it to pro sanctuary in Moscow. and Congressmen in his pocket." vide staff back-up an.d logistical support Lopez Dias wlll be a man to watch wher Whlle that may be dismissed as a piece o! for the series of Castro-backed political up ever he next surfaces, in the next phase o! crude braggadocio there is no doubt that the heavals that are convulsing the Caribbean. Dr. Castro's ambitious powerplay in Central effort to influence Congressional opinlon The first case that came to light this America.e 24508 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 19, 1979 SHA'ITER THE SILENCE, VIGIL 1979 and Canada; and many others. In addi to Chairman Rubin that Judaism 1s a re tion, we had discussions with members ligion and ought to be recognized as such of the Institute for U.S.A. and Canada; by the Soviets with all the attendant HON. LESTER L. WOLFF the Institute of Oriental Studies, the rights that the Muslims and the Russian OF NEW YORK Ministry of Health; and many private Orthodox have. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES discussions. In each of these meetings While we confirmed that the Soviet Thursday, September 13, 1979 we sought to· enlist. the cooperation of Government is indeed allowing more Soviet officials in ending the harass people to emigrrt te, the m,Imber of people • Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, from Au ment and repression of rellgious · and applying for exit visas has also in gust 17 to 24, 11 of my colleagues and I ethnic minorities. creased. There is even, a.t this point, a were guests of the Supreme Soviet of the In my opening remarks at the plenary 6-month wait in some Soviet cities to ob U.S.S.R. As chairman of the delegation, I session, I state very clearly that it was tain the necessary applications needed to welcomed this opportunity to meet with "mandatory that we have frank and de apply for emigration. high-ranking Soviet officials in order to talled discussion today and tomorrow Over 200,000 people have official invi broaden our mutual understanding and about the refuseniks and dissidents." tations from rei-1tiV'esin Israel, approved enhance our cooperation. Our delegation Over and over during these sessions, we by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised many questions of critical im impressed on our Soviet hosts the deep and over 5,000 Pentecostals have applied portance to our two countries. In some ;feelings of our fellow Americans for for exit visas. There is no saying how areas we were able to agree with our these people whose plight has done so many other Soviet citizens would emi Soviet hosts, in others, we remained sep much to exacerbate Soviet-American grate if given t.he chance. The only thing arated by more than the conference relations. that we can prove is that those people table. One of these latter issues was As I said in my press conference in who apply for and are refused permis human rights. Soviet officials claimed Moscow, "Continued progress in the area sion to leave suffer severe consequences. that human rights was an internal mat of human rights is an essential part of I have for many years spoken out in ter, not one in which I, any member of the process of negotiating bllateral support of the Soviet refuseniks, Jews the delegation, or anyone in the United agreements of mutual economic and who applied for permission to emigrate States should be interested. They are strategic concern." At the plenary ses and were refused on a variety of pre wrong in their assumption. Indeed we sion, I told the Soviets frankly that texts. During this trip to the Soviet Un were interested, and will continue to be, "scientific exchanges between our two ion I finally had an opportunity to meet in the pllght of fellow human beings who nations will become increasingly difficult and talk with some of the refuseniks suffer. What is more, the fact is that the unless the concerns of the thousands of whose names h1ve always been synony question of human rights in the Soviet scientists who have signed petitions on mous in my mind with courage and Union is of international concern, as the behalf of Orlov and Shcharansky, for steadfastness. Soviet Union is a signatory to the Hel example, are addressed." In officially sanctioned meetings in sinki agreements and the Universal Dec With all due respect to our Soviet Moscow and Leningrad, I heard first laration of Human Rights. These inter hand of the h~rdships, the petty harass national documents endorse basic human hosts, they did not tell us the whole ment, the frightening persecution these freedoms which American and other truth and at times even provided misin people endure simply for asking permis peoples hold sacred. If the Soviet Union formation. Soviet officials assured us sion to emigrate to another country. We is not llving up to these principles, then their citizens were free to practice the met with Dr. Alexander Lerner, a world it is up to all countries to protest. religion of their choice. In Tashkent, our renowned cyberneticist who 7 years ago delegation had the opportunity to meet was refused an exit visa because of the Soviet officials told us that their record the Grand Mufti and he confirmed that on human rights was very good, better secret nat.ure of his work. statement. But he has not worked with computers than that of most countries. Citing re He explained that Muslims are allowed duced waiting time for visas and in since he wpplied 7 years ago and any in to have their own schools, to train their fonn'ltion he might have had is long: creased visits of religious delegations as own mullahs, to publish their writings in examples of improvement there, officials since outdated by advances in the sci their own language, and to build new ence. v..re met with Ida Milgrom, the claimed that my colleagues and I had mosques. Unfortunately, the same can unreliable facts about llfe in the Soviet mother of Anat'Oly Shcharansky, a man not be said of the Baptists, the Jews, the who was tried for anti-Soviet actdvities Union and complained that we were Pentecostals, or the Catholics. spending too much time on irrelevant and espionage and sentenced to 13 years While the Soviet Constitution pro a.t hard labor in a Soviet prison camp. In subjects. Our delegation strongly pro fesses to guarantee religious freedom, we tested this attitude of Soviet officials and actuality, he was tried and convicted for learned that Soviet law pertaining to re want~ng to emigrate to Israel and for presented a strong united front on the ltgious practl-es is very restr.ictive. It is monitoring Soviet compliance with the issue of human rights to Soviet officials. illegal for children under 18 to attend Helsinki agreements. We had a number of opportunities to religious services and it is illegal for par We met with Maria Slepak. whooe hus express our shared beliefs that every ents to teach their children about band Vladimir, was sent into exile for human being in every nation has the religion. creating a public nuisance and hitting universal right to practice his or her Furthennore, the Soviet State reserves a policeman. The Slenaks have waited rellglon free of harassment by others or the right to veto the choice of a religious 10 years to join their sister, mother, two restriction by their government and to leader and to reject candidates for reli sons, and grandson in Israel. To attract reaffirm the right of every human being gious training. While religious organiza attention to their cause, thev hung a to free emigration, especially if they are tions are free to publish materials they banner from the balcony pleading for Joining family members in other coun need, there are only three authorized exit visas. tries. In our meeting with Vasilliy Kuz pubFshing houses: One for Russian Or Their trial was a sham; only aft~r the netsov, candidate member of the Polit thodox, one for Baptists, and one for trial was Vlasirilir accused of hitting a buro and First Deputy Chairman of the Muslims. To make it more difficult for policeman and if he had actually done Supreme Soviet, we discussed the issue Jews t.o practice their religion, Soviet of so, he would have gotten 5 years in a of human rights frankly. ficials declared that "Jew" is a national prison camp instead of just in exile. We We met twice in plenary session with ity, not a religion. met with two Pentecostals who have had representatives of the Supreme Soviet, Moreover, the Government recognizes repeated brushes with Soviet law en including- Vitaliv Rubin, Chairman of Yiddish as the official Jewish language, forcement authorities for demanding the the Council of Nationallties; Lev Smir even though most Jews do not speak right to form their own church or else nov, Chief Justice of the Soviet Supreme Yiddish and the language Of Judaism is to emigrate to a country in which the:r" Court; Victor Paputtn, First Deputy of Hebrew. The clincher is that te~hing could practice their religion freely. the Ministry of Internal Affairs; Army Hebrew is strictly prohibited at home or We met with many other whose stories Gen. Sergey Skhomeyev, First Deputy in school and Hebrew books are banned. were equally depressing. Most of them Chief of the General Staff; Georgi Ar At the plenary session, I vigorously pro had been waiting more than 5 years for batov, Director of the Institute for U.S.A. tested such a classification, emphasizing permission to emigrate; some as many· as September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24509 10 years. All of them had relatives living Americans are not interested, or that it sendl.ng to a colleague. The book rate for 1 abroad , and is an irrelevant subject of discussion dur pound had gone up from 48 to 59 cents. had still been refused exit visas. ing bilateral meetings. I would like to see In my omce, the calculator alerted me to the troublesome aspect of a mere 11 cents. I bad None of the people with whom we scientific exchanges and I would hope to witnessed a sudden lnfla.tlon of 22.9 percent. talked were employed in the field for establish a broader economic relation Reca.Lllng that the prtce for the same service which they had been trained: One ship with the Soviet Union. 1n January 1977 had been 25 cents, the rise mathematician who lost his job after ap Trade is mutually beneficial and thP. over 2Y:z years had been a frightening 132 plying had finally years later found work granting of most-favored-nation status pe of a post as Deputy Secretary of Energy. complex energy dilemma on a daily basis producing well can be included. Jack O'Leary has spent many hours will miss his assistance and unsurpassed My bill would eliminate the require testifying before the Energy and Power capabilities. ment that the land be within the area of Subcommittee on a wide range of topics I am sad to see him go, and I am hope a producing well. Thus all land within a involving complex and cr1tically impor ful that he will continue to participate in known geologic structure could be leased tant energy matters. I have always found developing a sound energy policy for our competitively. This will provide for im him to be an extremely knowledgeable country. Jack O'Leary is an able, honest mediate expansion of existing KGS's to and candid witness. and courageous person. Through people include areas not greatly removed from Over the past few years, Jack O'Leary like him the bureaucracy is in danger of drilling activity and new areas where and I have fenced verbally when we dis getting a good name.e geophysical and geological data are agreed, and we have found the oppor available. There would no longer be the tunity for good humor as well. I have requirement which depends upon a pro enjoyed the debate and the repartee im ducing well or limits the area of the KGS mensely. When I asked him a question, EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT to that included in the sphere of infiu I got a forthright answer. The knowl OF OIL AND GAS RESERVES ence of a well. edge he has amassed over 30 years of The amended KGS concept would in experience is impressive, but is leavened crease the amount of land leased com by a self-depreciating humor and sense HON. PETER A. PEYSER petitively and the amount of income de of perspective. OF NEW YORK rived from bonus bids under the competi Jack O'Leary did not spring into high IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tive system. The incentives for develop position by virtue of having backed the ment by the leaseholder would be greatly right horse in a political race. In the Thursday, September 13, 1979 enhanced due to the increased prices early 1950's, he began his long and varied e Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Sp•3aker, today I paid for the lease. career in top administrative positions am introducing legislation designed to These simple amendments to the Min dealing with coal, oil, natural gas, and promote exploration and development of eral Leasing Act of 1920 will provide a nuclear energy issues. Unlike so many of oil and gas reserves on Federal lands. My spur to increased oil and gas exploration the businessmen, academics, and poli bill will accomplish this by reducing the on Federal lands at a time when we so ticians who accede to top positions with leasehold period for noncompetitive desperately need to develop our domestic the executive branch, he is not at the leases, which include the so-called "lot oil and gas resources. mercy of his sta1f. Witnesses usually ap tery" or simultaneous oil and gas I urge all of my colleagues to join me pear before the subcommittee sur leases, thus encouraging early develop in cosponsoring this bill which will pro rounded by a multitude of aides, each a ment of the lease. The bill will also allow vide one more step in a comprehensive specialist in some narrow and esoteric the Deuartment of Interior to lease ac approach to solving our energy problem.• segment of an issue. Not so with Jack reage under the competitive bidding pro O'Leary. Without assistance from his gram which presently can only be leased aides, his answers have always been com under the noncompetitive SOG system. plete, pertinent, obviously unrehearsed A recent report compiled by the De and insightful. MERCHANT MARINE ACT BULK partment of Interior indicates that 98 SHIPPING AMENDMENTS OF 1979 I will miss Jack O'Leary also because percent of new leases issued each year of his exemplary sense of duty. He is one are noncompetitive oil and gas of the most issue-oriented public serv leases and that about 80 percent of all HON. PAUL S. TRIBLE, JR. ants I have encountered in Washington. onshore production from Federal lands OF VIRGINIA I understand he has had several di1fer comes from these noncompetitive leases. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ences of opinion over policy issues with Despite this fact, it is estimated that 90 other Government officials. However, percent of the noncompetitive leases are Thursday, September 13, 1979 these di1ferences of opinion have not dis held for up to 10 years without ever being • Mr. TRIDLE. Mr. Speaker, on Au suaded him from his concept of what is developed or explored for possible oil gust 2, 1979, I introduced H.R. 5145, ~e right. When he d11fers with someone over and gas deposits. Merchant Marine Act Bulk Shippmg an issue--and we have had our di1fer In order to encourage more explora Amendments of 1979. The summary of ences--the d11ference is confined to the tion from noncompetitive leases my bill H.R. 5145 was printed in the CONGRES issue. He does not carry policy di1ferences would reduce the leasehold period from SIONAL RECORD WithOUt the full text Of 24512 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 the blll, which I now Insert into the were engaged pursuant to an operating-dif thereof, directly or indirectlY' to own, ferential subsidy _contract tn an essential charter, act as an agent or broker for, or REcoRD as follows: bulk service computed as a daily rate. The operate any foreign-flag vessel which com H.R. 6146 Secretary or Commerce shall review such de petes with any American-flag service deter A blll to promote competitive United States termination and . recompute the per diem, mined by the Secretary of Commerce to be flag bulk cargo carrying vessels in world operating component, 1! - ~ecessary, whenever essential as provided in section 211(a) of this trade, to stimulate construction of mod the vessel engages in foreign trade after a Act." and ern bulk cargo carrying vessels for do period of service in domestic trade. . (2) by striking paragraphs· (c), (d), and mestic and foreign trade built in shipyards "(d) The construction and operating com (e). of the United States, and for other pur ponents of per diem financial assistance shall SEc. 6. Section 805(a) of the Merchant poses. be combined in one monthly payment to be Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1223(a)) is Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of paid with respect to an ellgible vessel upon amended by inserting the following para Representatives of the United States of certification by the vessel operator with re graph at the end thereof: "The prohibitions America in Congress assembled, That this spect to the number of days the vessel was of this subsection shall apply only with re Act may be cited as the "Merchalllt Marine engaged in foreign trade during the preced spect to contractors providing essential serv Act Bulk Shipping Amendments or 1979". ing month. ices pursuant to section 211 (a) of this Act.". SEc. 2. Title IV of the Merchant Marine " (e) The day commencing and the day SEC. 7. Section 901(b) of the Merchant Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1141), is amended- terminating period of foreign trade shall be Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1241(b)) ls ( 1) by amending the title to read "TITLE treated as a full day !or the purpose of com amended- IV-BINGLE FACTOR PER DIEM RATE FI puting the assistance payable. ( a) by amending the first sentence of NANCIAL AID". "(f) The operator of an eligible vessel shall paragraph ( 1) to the first colon to read as (2) by striking out section 401 through notify the Secretary of Commerce prior to follows: "Whenever the United States shall section 404, inclusive, and inserting in lleu the commencement of any period of foreign procure, contract for, or otherwise obtain thereof the following: trade and promptly upon the termination for its own account, or shall furnish to or "SEc. 401. From and after the date of en of any such period of service. !or the account of any foreign nation with actment of this Title IV, a proposed ship "SEc. 405. For the purposes of this title IV, out provision !or reimbursement, any equip purchaser who is a citizen of the United the term 'other national requirements' as ment, materials, or commodities, within or States or shipyard of the United States may employed in section 211 (b) and section 211 without the United States, or shall adve.nce make appllcation to the Secretary of Com (c) of this Act is defined to include the con funds or credits or guarantee the converti merce for financial aid as authorized by this struction and operation of bulk cargo carry b111ty of foreign currencies in connection title IV for the construction and operation ing vessels intended for employment in with the furnishing of such equipment, ma of a vessel or vessels to be used in essential domestic or foreign trade pursuant to this terials, or commodities, or provide any form bulk cargo carrying services as described in title IV. It is the intent of Congress that of grant, advance, credit, or guarantee what section 211 (b) and section 211 (c) of this any vessel constructed and operated pur soever to any party to a. transaction involv Act. suant to a 'Certlflcate of Title IV Ellgib111ty' ing the furnishing of equipment, materials, "SEc. 402. 1f the Secretary of Commerce not be impeded in any manner with respect or commodities, the appropriate agency or determines that a vessel proposed to be con to its employment in domestic and foreign agencies shall take such steps as may be structed is suitable for such service, he shall trades or transfer between such trades. necessary and practicable to e.ssure that at furnish the applicant a 'Certificate of title "Szc. 407. The Secretary or-Commerce shall least 50 per centum of the gross tonnage of IV Eligtbillty.' Such certlflcate shall provide promptly promulgate regulations governing such equipment, materials or commodities that upon construction of the vessel in a the general administration and implementa (computed separately for dry bulk carriers, shipyard of the United States, pursuant to tion of this title IV.". dry cargo liners, and tankers) , which may plans and specifications approved by the SEc. 3. T"e second sentence of section 503 be transported on ocean vessels shall be Secretary, and upon documentation under . of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. transported on privately owned United the laws of the United States, the vessel shall 1153) is amended to read as follows: "The States-flag commercial vessels, to the extent such vessels are avallable -at fair and reason be ellgtble for per diem fin~ncial ac:sistance vessel shall remain documented under the payable for each day the vessel ls operated laws of the United States for not less than able rates for United States-flag commercial in foreign trade. Such certlflcate shall also ten years, or so long as there remains due vessels (world market rates and rates equal provide that the vessel shall be ellltitled to the United States any principal or interest on to those charged by vessels operating under engage in all domestic trades without re account of the purchase price, whichever ls the flag of the recipient nation shall be striction of any kind and to enter or leave the longer period, and may thereaf.ter be doc presumptively !air and reasonable subject to the right of United States-flag vessel foreign or domestic trade subject only t.o the umented under any other flag subject to the notice requirements of section 403 (f) of this owners to rebut such presumpt'on through provisions of this Act: Provided, however, the written presentation of appropriate cost title IV. That unless the vessel has been documented "Szc. 403. (a) Per diem financial assistance data to the Secretary), in such manner as under the laws of the United States for a will insure a !air a.nd reasonable participa shall consist of a const.ruction component perioi of twenty-five years, the net proceeds and an operating component. tion of United States-fie.g commercial ves of sale of the vessel lf transferred to another sels in such cargoes by geographical areas:". "(b) The construction component of per nationality shall be deposited in the owner's (b) by amending paragraph (2) to read diem flnanclal assistance shall consist of a Capital Construction Fund and committed principal element and an interest element as follows: within a perlo1 of two years in the construc "(2) It is the intent of Congress that this computed as follows: tion of a quallfled replacement vessel or ves subsection be construed and implemented by "(1) The Principal element shall be sels.". each department or agency pursuant to an the construction-differential subsidy which SEc. 4. (a) Section 607(a) of the Merchant amrmative plan of action so that its stated would be paid for each eltgtble vessel 1f the Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1177(a)) ts purposes and objectives are promptly and vessel were built pursuant to title V of this ~ended by .c:triki':lg o••t "nonconti"!"•ous" consistently achieved. Each department or Act divided by the economic life of the vessel and by inserting Immediately after "domes agency shall develop an aftlrmative action and computed as a fixed dally rate. For the tic" the fol!owing: "coastwise, in·tercoastal, plan and submit it to the Secretary of Con purposes of this paragraph, economic Ufe and noncontiguous." merce within ninety days of the date of shall be twenty years. (b) Section 607(1r) of such Act (46 U.S.C. enactment of this subsection. Within ninety "(2) The principal element shall accrue 1177(k)) is amended by striking out "non days thereafter the Secretary shall approve throughout the vessel's economic llfe contiguous" in paragraph (2) (c) thereof and such plan together with such amendments whether or not the vessel is employed tn inserting tn such paragra~h Immediately to the plan as he deems necessary or appro foreign trade, but shall be payable only dur after "domestic" the following: "coastwise, priate to further achieve the purposes and Ing periods of employment in foreign trade. intercoastal, and nonconti!ruous." objectives of this subsection. Thereafter, no "(3) At any time during the economic Ufe SEC. 6. (a) Section 61'8 of the Merchant department or agency may alter or deviate of a vessel, the unamortized balance of the Marine Act, 1936 ( 46 U.S.C. 1158) ls amended from the approved action plan without first construction-differential subsidy as defined by inserting before the period at the end consulting the Secretary and securing his in paragraph ( 1) above shall consist of such thereof the phrase "engaged ln any service as concurrence. Each plan, as submitted for subsidy less the accrued principal element. defined in section 211 (a) of t,., is Act.". approval of the Secretary and any subse "(4) The interest element shall be the (b) Section 804 of the Merchant Marine quent amendment thereof, shall be publlshed product of the unamortized balance of con Act, 1936 {46 U.S.C. 1222), ts amended in the Federal Register by the Secretary for struction-differential subsidy as defined in (1) by amending paragraph (a) to read~ public comment and he shall give due con paragraph (3) above and a dally rate of in follows: sideration to such comments. Each approved terest which rate shall be establtshed by the "{a.) Jt shall be unlawful for pny con plan shall be published in the Federal Regis Secretary of Commerce in the 'Certlflcate of tractor recetutng a.n o~era.ttng-d!fferentlal ter. Each department or agency shall sepa Title IV Ellgiblllty.' subsidy under title VI or for any charterer rately publish in the Federal Register upon "(c) The operating component of per diem of vessels under title VTT of this .Act, or any approval of Lts action plan a statement set financial assistance shall be the operating holding company, subsidiary, a.m.Iiate, or as ting forth the name, omce address and duties d11ferentia.l subsidy that would be payable sociate of such contractor or such charterer, of each supervisory person having responsi pursuant to title VI o! thls Act U the vessel or any omcer, director, agent, or executive bility for the admlnlStration of this subsec- September 13, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24513 tion. Every department or agency having re The U.S. section of the Fourth Inter directed in fact against Gen. Jack Harman, sponsibllity under this subsection shall ad national is the Socialist Workers Party commander of the British Army of the Rhine. minister its program with respect to this . SWP members travel on as Both weapons and expertise reach I.N.L.A. subsection under regulations issued by the from European countries and the Middle Secretary of Commerce. The Secretary of signment for the Fourth International East. A connection with the West German Commerce shall review such administration and the SWP is the financial mainstay Revolutionary Cells, successors of the Baader and shall annually report to the Congress of the FI. SWP cadre are assigned to Meinbof gang, may Ue in the four-month with respect thereto.". act as liaison with various terrorist visit to Ireland earller this year by Rudolf SEc. 8. Section 905(a) of the Merchant groups including the IRA and the Pales Rahbe, who was finally recognized by Irish Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1244(a)) is tine Liberation Organization, and yet police as a West German wanted for bomb amended to read as follows: thanks to the Attorney General's guide attacks in Mainz, Germany. Rahbe was ar "(a) The words 'foreign commerce' or rested and then, through a "blunder," 'foreign trade' mean commerce or trade be lines for the FBI and to the President's released. tween the United States, its territories or order regulating CIA activities, our BaussELS, August 28.-In an attack which possessions or the District of Columbia, and American intelligence agencies are no may be related to yesterday's outr~es. a a foreign country, except that in the con longer able to monitor the activities of large bomb destroys a platform which should text of liquid or dry bulk cargo carrying serv SWP members traveling abroad and have been occupied at that moment by a ices as defined in section 21l(b) of this Act, carrying out tasks on behalf of the British Army band. Due to a traffic jam, the the said words 'foreign commerce' or 'foreign Fourth International. band had not yet arrived. This circumstance trade' shall also include trading between The safety of the lives of American suggests a timing device rather than a radio foreign ports or between points at sea and controlled weapon detonated by an observer. domestic or foreign ports.". citizens as well as of others depends on SLIGo, August 28.-Lady Brabourne, 84, SEc. 9. (a) Section 209(b) of the Merchant this Congress removing such dangerous mother of Earl Mountbatten's son-in-law, Marine Act, 1936 (46 U.S.C. 1119(b)) is restrictions from the upcoming intelli dies of injuries suffered in yesterday's bomb amended by redesignating paragraphs (1) gence charters. attack, and Mountbatten's surviving twin through (10) as paragraphs (2) through (11) The following excellent summary of grandson is reportedly in danger of losing respectively and inserting the following new international terrorist activities in his eyesight. Further deaths are re~orted paragraph immediately preceding paragraph volving the Trotskyite INLA and the among the soldiers ambushed in mster. (2): SUSAN L. M. HUCK .• "(1) payment of obligations incurred for West German Revolutionary Cells is single factor per diem rate financial aid;". taken from the September 5 Lc:sue of the (b) Funds authorized to be appropriated weekly Review of the News: by law for fiscal year 1980 pursuant to sec VICIOUS ASSASSINATIONS IN IRELAND tions 209(b) (2). 209(b) (3), and 209(b) (4), SLIGO, IRELAND, August 27.-Earl Mount CLEVELAND: PRIDE OF THE NATION of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as redes batten of Burma, 79, a cousin of Queen ignated by section 9(a) of this Act shall also Elizabeth n and great grandson of Queen be available without fiscal year limitation Victoria, is killed when a powerful bomb de HON. LOUIS STOKES for the purposes of section 209(b) (1) of stroys his cabin cruiser in Donegal Bay. such Act as enacted by section 9(a) of this OF OHIO Act.e A grand~on, Nicholas Brabourne, and a local youth Paul Maxwell, are also killed outright. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The ves!;el is blown out of the water and Thursday, September 13, 1979 strewn in splinters by a remote-controlled bomb estimated at 50 pounds which was • Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, the eyes of TROTSKYISM AND TERRORISM placed aboard despite intermittent pollee the Nation were focused on Cleveland, IN .IRELAND checks. All other passengers, relatives of the Ohio this week. The point of interest was Earl, are seriously injured. the desegregation of the public school WARRENPOINT, N. IRELAND, August 27. system. HON. LARRY McDONALD Eighteen British soldiers are k1lled in a well I am proud to report to my colleagues OF GEORGIA laid double ambush at an mster border point. that Cleveland had a peaceful desegre IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A 1,000-pound bomb concealed in a hay wagon is detonated by remote control as a gation of its schools this week. The city Thursday, September 13, 1979 British Army truck pasc;es by, kill1ng eight should be commended for this. The ac men. As rescuers and reenforcements arrive tion taken in Cleveland this week will un e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the on the scene, a second very large bomb doubtedly enhance the quality of educa murders of Earl Mountbatten of Burma hidden in a farm building almo3t brings tion and learning experiences of our chil and others in Ireland on August 27 has down a helicopter laden with wounded sur dren in Cleveland. served to bring into sharp focus the ac vivors, and kllls 10 more men. But, the desegregation process in tivities of a Trotskyite cadre operating Responsib1Uty for the Mountbatten a~sas Cleveland was only the culmination of within the terrorist movement in Ire sination is initially claimed on behalf of the events spanning many years in this coun land. The murder of Earl Mountbatten Irish National Liberation Army (I.NL.A.) by means of an anonymous telenhone call. Later try. All of us can recall when schools was claimed initially by the Irish Na calls insist that the Provic;ional Wing of the throughout this country were segregated. tional Liberation Army of merging with expert John Rees, the modus operandi points ate speed." However, many years after Bernedette Devlin McAliskey's Movement strongly to the I.N.L.A. Mr. Rees explains in this decision, only meager attempts to for a Socialist Republic , the Information Digec:;t that the I.N.L.A. is the armed wing of the Irish RepubUcan Socialist desegregate the school systems in this Irish section of the Trotskyite terrorist P3.rty, a Trotskyite Communist group wl'>lch country had been made. In an attempt Fourth International. Later, as usual, is in the process of merging with the Fou!'th to carry out the law, court ordered busing the Provisional ffiA also claimed re International, an amance of Trotskyite Com to achieve desegregation became preva sponsibility for the murder. munist terror groups worldwide. Members of lent in many States. The Brussels-based Fourth Interna I.N.L.A. have boasted to the London Dally Finally, this summer, a constitutional tional is actively engaged in ter Telegra:!)h that, whereas the Provos (Provi amendment to prohibit busing was pro rorism in several countries of Western sional I.R.A.) have five members for every posed in the U.S. House of Representa Europe, Latin America, Japan, and the gun, I.NL.A. has five guns for every member. The use of large remote-controlled bombs tives. After that amendment was de Middle East. Not only do Fourth Inter and the targeting of high-ranking or highly feated, the first school system to be de national cadre provide extensive logis visible victims is characteristic of I.N.L.A. segregated was in Cleveland. tical support to terrorist groups, but they methods. Ju~t before the recent British elec The news media, the Justice Depart also participate directly in terrorism. For tions which brought Margaret Thatcher to ment and every parent in this Nation examole, not only does the West German nower as Prime Minister, they k1lled one of watched the situation in Cleveland Fourth International section maintain her key advisors, Airey Neave, with a bomb closely to see if the emotion tied to the liaison with the descendents of the planted in his car and detonated by radio. whole busing issue would prohibit a Members of I.N.L.A. last year murdered the Baader-Meinhof gang called the Revolu British Ambassador to The Netherlands. The peaceful desegregation of the school sys tionary Cells, but several German Trot June 25 bombing of the limousine of Gen. tem. The outstanding job the Cleveland skyites havebeen arrested as members Alexander Haig, Supreme Allied Commander community did with the busing situa of terrorist groups. in Europe, is believed by some to have been tion will quell many of the misgivings 24514: EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 13, 1979 that Americans have about the whole physically and mentally handicapping Rehabilitation will be the model for all process. conditions, and the program has grown the States.• On the first day of classes, I visited to the point where in fiscal year 1979, a some schools in Cleveland to get a first Federal entitlement of $880 million has hand observation on the busing situa been provided for the State grant pro CAPT. ROGER LINLY MAlRS-29 tion. I watched anxiously as the yellow gram of vocational rehabilitation. YEARS WITH THE LOS ANGELES school buses unloaded students at their When the Dlinois DVR was established POLICE DEPARTMENT respective schools. in 1921, it was a relatively small pro At one school, a bus drove up with gram and responsibility for its operation only black children on it. A short time was placed under the board of vocational HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON later, another school bus arrived with education and rehabilitation. This was OF CALIFORNIA only white children. Finally, a few min consistent with its size in terms of dol TN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lar expenditures and numbers served. utes later, the third bus pulled up with Thursday, September 13, 1979 both black and white schoolchildren on Over the years, however, the number of the bus. Three different buses were clients served, and the number of serv e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. bringing these children together for one ices provided, have grown substantially. Speaker, the demands of society on our purpose-a quality education. As of July 1979, the Illinois division of law enforcement officials are enormous. The only surge of emotion in Cleveland vocational rehabilitation had a staff of Few of us have time to consider the com that day was displayed by a group called 2,100 and a budget of $86 million, Con plexities of the police officer's job in mod Welcome. As the children walked into the sequently, in July the Illinois Gen~ral ern days. The vigorous enforcement of schools, Welcome, a group of black and Assembly decided that services provided laws to control crime and to make our white concerned citizens, greeted the to disabled citizens should be consoli streets and homes safe, while at the same cheery-eyed students. Armed with only dated and the division of vocational re time being ever aware of individual posters of black and white fists joined, habilitation upgraded to cabinet status. rights, all must be accomplished with the actions of the group symbolized the A factor which was instrumental in this limited resources and are most often coming together of the city for quality decision was the recently enacted 1978 taken for granted by the individual education. This scene was repeated on amendments to the Reh!ibilitation Act. citizen. both the east and west side of Cleveland. Under the newly authorized Federal Roger Linly Mairs is one individual As I chatted with the children, I found legislation, the authority of the State re who has truly excelled in meeting the that they were not distraught about be habilitation agency was expanded to the challenge of law enforcement within ing bused. Rather, they were concerned extent that, in addition to providing these constraints. After completing over about the new friendships they would be services to those handicapped individuals 29 years service as a member of the Los making in school and the new exper with vocational potential, it was also Angeles Police Department, he retired on ience. The members of Welcome were authorized to provide comprehensive re August 15, 1979. On September 28, confident that this experience will not habilitation services, including helping friends, associates, and many members only be an educational lesson but also a disabled persons live independently. of the communities he served will pay lesson on how to live and communicate Under the consolidation effort, the Illi- tribute to him for his many years of with all people. nois State School for the Deaf, the dedicated service. His career with the Therefore, at this time, I would like State School for the Visually Impaired. Los Angeles Police Department and his my colleagues to join me in commending the Illinois Visually Handicapped Insti contributions to the citizens of Los An the school officials, parents, children, tute, the Community Services for the geles is worth sharing with my colleagues. and Welcome in Cleveland on a peaceful Visually Impaired and the nunois Chil After serving 6 years in the U.S. Navy desegregation. They have set a shining dren's Hospital School, all previously ad <1940-46) , where he attained the rank example and a challenge for everyone in ministered by the Department of Chll of chief pharmacist's mate, Roger Mairs this Nation.• dren and Family Services, were trans attended college, worked in private in ferred to the new Department of Reha dustry as an accountant and office man bilitation Services. ager, and then in 1950 joined the Los In addition, the In Home Health Care Angeles Police Department. His early REHABILITATION SERVICES OF Program for the Disabled, previously assignments were in uniformed patrol, ILLINOIS under the administration of the Depart vice enforcement, juvenile, and narcotic ment of Public Aid, has been transferred investigation. He was promoted to ser to the new department. This program geant in 1958, lieutenant I in 1964, lieu HON. PAUL SIMON provides supportive services to the dis tenant II in 1971, captain I in 1971, cap abled to increase their capacities for self tain II in 1972, and captain m in 1973. OF ILLINOIS support, self-care, and responsible citi As a sergeant, his assignments included IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES zenship and to assist them in maintain vice enforcement supervision and detec Thursday, September 13, 1979 ing and strengthening famlly life. The tives. While in the lieutenant rank • Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, recently the goal of the program is to provide services he supervised homicide investigations, I11inois General Assembly and Gov. which help people to stay in their homes served as department advocate under James R. Thompson acted to upgrade rather than being forced into institu former Chief of Police William H. and consolidate the rehabilitation serv tional care. Parker, and was the adjutant to the chief ices of the State of nunois. As chairman Also, effective July 1, 1980, the division of detectives. of the Subcommittee on Select Educa of services for crippled children, which Upon his appointment to captain, he tion, and as a Representative from the was previously under the auspices of the took command of the detectives head State of Dlinois, I am pleased to note University of I1linois, will be adminis quarters division. He later commanded that as a result of the actions of the tered by the Department of Rehabilita the 77th Street Detective Division. His General Assembly and the Governor, the tion Services. final and perhaps his most notable as State of Illinois now has the first cabi signment with the department was as net level department of vocational re Mr. Speaker, I believe that the State commanding officer of the harbor area - habilitation in the Nation. of illinois, which has long been a leader where he served over 6 years. While in When the State/Federal partnership in services to disabled persons, has taken this assignment, he provided the leader for vocational rehabilitation was estab a positive step in this consolidation of ship to encourage community-police co lished in 1920, the Congress authorized services and the elevation of the Illinois operation which resulted in numerous only $1 million to provide services to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to successful efforts against crime, por physically handicapped. Since that time, cabinet status. I expect that these ac nography, and prostitution. Also, dur the program's authority has been ex t1ons will result in improved services to ing this time, crime was reduced in the panded to provide vocational rehabilita the citizens of minois and I hope that harbor area for each of 4 consecutive tion services to individuals with both the illinois Department of Vocational years. September 14, 1979 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 24515 Much of Captain Mairs' time involves complishment. We wish him and his son, issues. They are particularly vexing in participation in community betterment John Jay Mairs, a future of continued these days of higher inflation. concerns including work with the Rotary success and many rewards in the years I believe all Federal employees--in Club, chamber of commerce, Harbor to come.• cluding high-ranking executive and Area Youth Foundation, the local mili judicial branch employees--should re tary affairs committee, and many other ceive a cost-of-living adjustment. organizations. He founded and was FEDERAL PAY RAISES But, I do not believe Members of the chairman of the Harbor Areas Ad Hoc House and Senate should receive any Public Safety Committee. He is a mas salary increase whatsoever this year. ter Mason and a member of Mother Col HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI Unfortunately, the bill reported by the ony Lodge, No. 750, Anaheim, Calif. OF KENTUCKY Legislative Appropriations Subcommit Roger Mairs, by his work in the Los IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tee of the House Appropriations Com Angeles Police Department and by his mittee on September 11, included a 7- involvement in the community, has dem Thursday, September 13, 1979 percent pay raise for Members of Con onstrated the best qualities of citizen e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, pay gress. I hope this provision will be ship. My wife, Lee, joins me in offering increases for Federal employees and deleted during floor action on this our congratulations on his record of ac- Members of Congress are always hard measure.•
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 Chair 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 D This symbol represents the time of day during the House Proceedings, e.g., D 1407 is 2:07 p.m. • This .. bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor.