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September 18, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21291 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CONGRESSMAN McGRATH PRO of air space in which to permit its pilots to implanted in the ground to detect troop VIDES INSIGHT INTO MIDDLE practice their skills. movements or the flight of Syrian aircraft EAST PROGRAM ISRAELIS SHOWED SELF-CONFIDENCE as they leave the ground. But that didn't seem to faze the Israelis, "That is necessary because it is only a five McGrath noted. He said that when they minute plane ride from Damascus to the Is . HON. NORMAN F. LENT were "confronted with a problem that raeli border," he pointed out. OF NEW YORK seemed enormous in scope, they simply said, Another impression McGrath said he is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 'We'll find a way.' They had complete confi left with is the "manner in which the Israe dence in themselves. And that confidence lis treat the people who live in the disputed Friday, September 18, 1981 seemed universal over there.'' areas, like Jerusalem," he said, noting that • Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, during the Although it was not an official visit paid they have a lot more freedom under Israeli August work period, my good friend for with taxpayer funds, McGrath said he control than they had under Jordanian rule. still received the red carpet treatment from "I now have a tremendous understanding and colleague, Congressman RAY the Israeli Government. Government offi of the country," McGrath said. "I never re McGRATH, who ably represents a Long cials accompanied him on his tour and he alized it was so small.'' Island district adjacent to my own, had private audiences with the top members IMPRESSED WITH ACCOMPLISHMENTS traveled to Israel to learn about that of the Israeli Government, including an Despite its size, Israel has accomplished nation'.s needs and problems. In view hour and a half meeting with Prime Minis monumental tasks, McGrath pointed out. of the fact that the Congress is now ter Menachem Begin. In addition, he was es He said they have taken 1,500 underprivi considering the administration's pro corted around Jerusalem by the city's leged youngsters, who come primarily from posal to sell the AWACS plane and jet mayor, Teddy Kollek. Accompanying him immigrant families, and they house and on the trip was Rep. Guy Molinari Syria arms the PLO . All around Israel there are that virtually every home had solar panels of enemies and its yearning for peace at vir hostile countries being equipped with so on their roof to supplement a hot water tually any price. phisticated weapons and planes. heater. "They want peace more than I suspected "In spite of all of that, Israel is still will One of the most memorable moments of before I went," McGrath said. "Not only do ing to give back strategic land that it would the trip occurred during his meeting with they want peace, but they are willing to be in their best interest to keep. Everyone I Begin in the Knesset, McGrath recalled. He take immense risks to achieve it." spoke to in Israel said he is willing to take said that Begin pointed outside his window During his trip, McGrath said he visited the risk. I knew they wanted peace, but not to a place where, he said, Jordanian guns the Sinai and took note of the fact that by as badly as that.'' were located in 1967. He said that Begin told him that when the Six Day War erupt next April Israel will return to Egypt the VISITED LEBANESE BORDER ed, "They began shelling the room we are portion of that area it still controls. More His trip took him to the Lebanese border than half of the Sinai already has been re sitting in. And now they want us to give it and a meeting with Major Saad Hadad of back."e turned, including seven airstrips and one air the Christian Lebanese Army, who is pro force base that the Israelis constructed. And viding a buffer force along the border. when the rest of the land is given back to McGrath said the Israelis are "arming him THE EXEMPLARY CAREER OF Egypt, along with it will go two large mili for a good reason." tary bases and an airstrip. While on the Golan Heights, McGrath FRED M. ARNOLD "They already gave back an oil field that said he visited a kibbutz inhabited by 150 produced 15% of Israel's needs," he pointed families. He termed it a "precarious place HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN out. "The only accommodation that was ment" and noted that while there he had a made is that Egypt will let Israel have the chance to enter one of the bomb shelters in OF CALIFORNIA first crack at buying that oil-but it will be the kibbutz. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at the going rate. And this is what I mean Although he never found himself in the Friday, September 18, 1981 when I speak of the risks Israel is taking for midst of a shelling, McGrath said that just peace. They have returned a huge land area a week before his visit to a kibbutz at Kiryat e Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. that would have given them time to react (if Shimona, the settlement had been shelled. Speaker, on Thursday night, Septem an enemy struck from the west>." "When the shelling started, the people in ber 24, the citizens of Redondo Beach, McGrath noted that the United States is the kibbutz evacuated instead of seeking the Calif., will gather at the Blue Moon going to build two air bases for Israel in the safety of the shelters," McGrath said. "I got Saloon to honor a man who has given Negev to compensate for the air bases that the impression that the government did not were given up. He said that military experts like this because it may eventually mean the major part of his professional life in Israel told him that these two new bases that one day they might not return.'' in service to their city. will bring to eight the number of air bases In the hills of the Golan Heights, After 32 years in office, City Clerk in Israel, a country that has a small amount McGrath said he saw the sensing devices Fred M. Arnold recently retired, and

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 21292 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 18, 1981 his friends and neighbors, · including and justice, will be a magnificent event middle-income families denied guaran myself, feel that his exemplary career where the people of America will teed student loans. should be brought to public attention renew our common goals as a nation About 100,000 families living in sub as a model for those who are inspired and remind our leaders that Govern standard housing will have to wait in by dedication to duty. ment must invest in people to insure a Fred moved to Redondo Beach in definitely for public housing they prosperous and productive future for were promised because the Federal 1930, attending local grade school and our country. Redondo Union High School. His The members of the media have budget reduces the amount of subsi father served on the city council for 6 tried to speculate on the numbers ex dized housing modernization program years just prior to World War II. pected to tum out on Saturday, but it by $12 billion. During the war, Fred served in the is not possible. I can tell you, however, About 1 million Americans living on infantry. He was commissioned as an that there is not one available bus in the edge of poverty will no longer be officer in 1943. my home State of New Jersey or in eligible for food stamps so that the After the war, Fred returned to Re our neighbor, New York. There is not Government can save $1.5 billion. dondo Beach. In 1949, he was appoint one seat left on the trains between my Roughly 3 million schoolchildren may ed city clerk and was elected to the home city of Newark and Washington, have to drop out of school lunch pro office in a multicandidate race 2 years D.C. All told, over 1,000 chartered grams because the Federal Government later. Fred has done such a great job buses will roll out of our metropolitan will reduce its support by $1.6 billion. for the city he has been unopposed in area shortly after dawn on Saturday Despite these cruel attempts at bal every election since 1951. morning headed for the Capital. In addition to belonging to several The untold numbers who want to ancing the Federal budget, the professional organizations for munici come but cannot find transportation Reagan administration will bring in a pal officials, Fred has been actively in will be showing their support for Soli budget this year that is larger than volved in civic groups and patriotic as darity Day in a number of ways. In my last year's. The Congressional Budget sociations. Fred has held memberships home city of Newark, hundreds of Office estimates that the deficit may in the Optimists, YMCA, De Molay, people gathered last night at a rally reach $80 billion. The real reasons for and the Redondo Beach 20-30 Club. In protesting the reductions in the Feder the deficit lie in the defense increases 1957, he served as president of the Re al budget aimed at the helpless in our and the gigantic tax bill which Presi dondo Beach Coordinating Council. society. Mayors Kenneth Gibson of dent Reagan signed giving benefits to Additionally, he was a member of the Newark, Thomas Cooke of East the most wealthy of society, providing establishing committee of South Bay Orange, and Frank Rodgers of Harri a $12 billion tax break for oil compa Hospital, was chairman of the 1951 son have all pronounced their support nies and a $15.6 billion tax break for cancer drive, and for 10 years chaired for Solidarity Day. owners of estates valued at $650,000 or the Redondo Beach March of Dimes. They will be joining millions of less. The total cost of this tax package Currently, Fred is a member of Elks other Americans in sending a common will be $754 billion over the next 5 Lodge No. 1378, the American Legion, message to our Government: That the Eagles, and the Redondo Beach years. American people gave no mandate last So, in fact, the administration is not Rotary Club. He served as the Rotary November for dismantling the pro Club's president in 1953, and was cutting spending as it promised. It is grams that have brought progress and shifting spending from human pro Rotary district committee chairman in prosperity to millions of our citizens 1964. over the last 40 years. That they do grams to nonproductive ones. The cuts Fred and his wife Evelyn have raised not want their tax dollars spent for a in food stamps, subsidized housing, four children in Redondo Beach, of military buildup over the next 3 years health and nutrition, jobs programs, whom they are justly proud. that dwarfs the escalation of the Viet and education will be sacrificed to pay Mr. Speaker, Fred Arnold is the kind nam war. That America has become a for the tax bill and the defense in of man who makes America work. The great Nation by believing in and de creases. qualities of a good public servant pending on the potential of its citi Solidarity Day will show that the dedication, trustworthiness, diligence, zens. That we do not begrudge basic people of America cannot be hood and loyalty, are all abundant in Fred's assistance to our elderly, our poor and winked into believing that the invisi character. On his retirement, we wish our disadvantaged citizens. ble hand of supply-side economics will him well, and say thanks for a job well We hear this urgent message in re done.e bring back to them what the Govern sponse to a drastic tum in our Govern ment has taken away. ment policy that is setting back oppor Solidarity Day will reaffirm our SOLIDARITY DAY tunities for Americans to work and commitment to social programs that produce. For example: have provided jobs, brought millions HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. There are 7.6 million people in America who cannot find jobs. This is of Americans out of poverty, expanded OF NEW JERSEY the middle class, provided education IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an unemployment rate of 7.2 percent at a time when the Reagan budget for the disadvantaged, and care for Friday, September 18, 1981 eliminated 300,000 CETA jobs. and the elderly, and brought a greater e Mr. RODINO. Mr. . Speaker, all trimmed job training programs. measure of social justice to our minori roads lead to Washington this Satur Joblessness among black Americans ties. This march for jobs, justice, day morning. Solidarity Day, spon has reached 15 percent, and among human rights, and social progress will sored by the AFL-CIO and over 150 black teenagers it's an unbelievable 50 indeed show the solidarity of the labor, civil rights, religious, consumer, percent. American people. I hope that our lead women's ethnic, environmental and The 3 million Americans who receive ers have the wisdom to listen to the other groups, will be a representation minimum social security benefits each message and act according to the will of all America. Americans young and month will have to get along without of the people.e old, male and female, black, white, and them, as it now stands. While some brown will arrive here from every will be able to survive, at least region of the country to proclaim the 500,000-mostly elderly women living principles that have guided us through alone-will find it almost impossible to 207 years of progress. exist. Solidarity Day, named after the College will become an impossible Polish workers movement for freedom dream for over 1 million children in September 18, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21293 TRIBUTE TO REPRESENTATIVE provided valuable services for their in business, sportsmanship, and service FRANK BECKER community. A recent letter to the New to the community. York Times by a CETA beneficiary Mr. Nordskog set the direction of his HON. CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI presented a good picture of what the career as a 13-year-old aviator when OF WISCONSIN CETA program is all about. he completed his first solo flight. His IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE OF CETA's MANY SUCCESS STORIES first business venture was as a racing To THE EDITOR: car mechanic. This eventually led him Thursday, September 17, 1981 Five years ago, I wrote a letter to The to Lockheed Aviation where he e Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Speaker, it is Times in which I expressed my feelings of worked on many famous aircraft, in with sorrow that I join my colleagues apprehension and sadness about the then cluding Howard Hughes' around-the in paying tribute to one of our former proposed termination of the Comprehensive world Lockheed model14 aircraft. Members, Representative Frank J. Employment and Training Act program. The letter was published. The Nordskog Co. was founded in Becker of New York, who passed away A year earlier, as an unemployed Vietnam 1951, beginning operations out of a on September 4. era veteran with no real skills, I had been small Quonset hut with a few small It was a privilege and honor to serve hired by the City of New York and assigned machines and handtools. In just 4 with Frank Becker back in the fifties to the Housing Department as a neighbor short years, Mr. Nordskog made the and sixties. Frank was a dedicated hood aide. I had kept my eyes and ears company a world leader in the air public servant, one who was deeply re open, and I had learned from those who borne galley field. As Nordskog Indus spected on both sides of the aisle. His were willing to teach me. When I wrote the tries celebrates its 30th anniversary unrelenting hard work and drive will letter, I was not apprehensive about being out of work, I was sad because I would no this year, it is the leading manufactur be remembered by all who were lucky longer be allowed to continue to learn the er of airline galleys and ahead of the enough to know him. skills I had so desperately sought and competition in many other fields. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the needed in order to provide for myself and Robert Nordskog's excellence as a House Armed Services Committee, those who depend on me. businessman is also exhibited in his Congressman Becker made significant Collectively, we were lucky to be granted a personal life as a sportsman. At the contributions. He courageously fought stay until a new Administration stepped age of 68, he holds more victories and for the betterment of our servicemen into the picture and extended the program. championships in boat racing than and was one of the early supporters of But even after this occurred, the controver sy surrounding the CETA program contin any other competitor. He currently trials by U.S. courts for servicemen ac ued. There were those who called CETA a holds 24 national and international cused of crimes. He consistently no-show, no-good program; others said it speed and endurance records. worked to protect the right of mem just kept people off the official dole, and Directing his sports interests into bers of our Armed Forces, utilizing his still others called it a neo-welfare program. the community, Robert recently legislative skills wisely. In my letter, I said that CETA provided an formed the Nordskog Soccer Founda While Congressman Becker and I opportunity to obtain realistic on-the-job tion to promote soccer for American did not always agree on all issues, he training that would come in handy in the youth. He began his community in maintained the respect of his col future. Today, I am still employed by the Depart volvement with the support and spon leagues and fought hard for his posi ment of Housing Preservation and Develop sorship of Guide Dogs for the Blind. tions. I remember one issue-volun ment, where I hold a position of consider Today, the company maintains active tary prayer in public schools-that able responsibility. I have acquired a signifi involvement with the Boy Scouts, the Representative Becker and I did agree cant amount of knowledge in my area of YMCA, the YWCA, the Girl Scouts, on. He was one of the first Members of professional interest and, just as important, the United Way, and the March of Congress to speak out on this issue I earn a decent living. I am now waiting to Dimes. after the historic Court decision. be appointed from a Civil Service list as a result of having taken a professional experi Mr. Robert A. Nordskog is a living It was with a sense of commitment example of what can be achieved in and deep moral conviction that Con ence and training exam. My greatest feeling is one of pride, of the system of free enterprise. His gressman Frank Becker took the lead having been able to serve my people more achievements are truly remarkable ership on this controversial issue. than once: as a Vista volunteer, in the mili and deserve note as an encouragement Mr. Speaker, Frank Becker served tary and again with CETA, where I was paid to all Americans.e well his constituents in the Third, for my work in behalf of my fellow citizens later Fifth District of New York, from while I gained experience that has paid off 1953 through 1964. He will be sorely for me. FEDERAL SLOW PAY missed in the House of Representa I feel that the dollars that were spent on tives. CETA were not wasted, and I sincerely hope I extend my deepest heartfelt sym that all those CETA workers who are sched HON. CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER uled to be dismissed at the end of August OF RHODE ISLAND pathies to his family and friends.e (just days before Labor Day) have a better answer to my question of five years ago: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Where to now? Friday, September 18, 1981 WHAT CETA CAN DO: ONE NEW PETER ANTONIO AVILES.e YORK WORKER'S STORY e Mrs. SCHNEIDER. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of H.R. 2036, HON. TED WEISS ROBERT A. NORDSKOG the Federal slow pay bill. According to OF NEW YORK a GAO report, 39 percent of the Fed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN eral Government's bills are paid late. OF CALIFORNIA Small businesses and individuals Friday, September 18, 1981 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cannot pay their bills to the Govern e Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, enact ment late but Government can delay ment of the reconciliation legislation Friday, September 18, 1981 payments owed to them. In addition, slashed the CETA program by more e Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. when these businesses try to collect in than half, and eliminated public serv Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to terest on the Government's overdue ice employment. Lost in the unde Mr. Robert A. Nordskog, a man who debts the Government responds by served controversy surrounding this has achieved a level of excellence in saying that it does not pay interest. program has been the recognition that the business community that exempli Again, these same small businesses thousands and thousands of people fies many of the greatest of American and individuals have to pay the inter who participated in CETA have ideals. Beginning his career from est on any overdue bills owed to the learned a new skill, found work, and humble circumstances, he has excelled Government. Where is the equity?

7~59 0-85-26 (Pt. 16) 21294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 18, 1981 How can we in the Congress hope to 1960, he led the Ohio delegation to the what he thought was best for our expect business to reflect the highest Democratic National Convention to country, you and the Congress. standards of professionalism when the endorse John F. Kennedy for Presi Mr. Speaker, I know you are going to Federal Government does not? How dent. Ohio was the first major State to miss Gary; in fact, all of us will, and I can we in the Congress work so hard go into the Kennedy Column, and for one wish him continuing success in to provide targeted tax incentives for thus Mike DiSalle led the way for his new endeavor.e business to grow when they do not John Kennedy's election to the White have the capital to invest because they House. are being held up by the Government? Earlier in his career, Mike DiSalle THE ROLE OF THE SOCIALIST Finally, how can we in the Congress became known to all Americans as INTERNATIONAL-PART II hope for interest rates to take dramat President Harry Truman's Director of ic turns for the better when the Gov the Office of Price Stabilization. HON. LARRY McDONALD ernment creates such a demand for DiSalle's management of his office, OF GEORGIA funds through its repayment practices with its thousands of orders and direc IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES toward small business? tors, proved to be effective and useful Friday, September 18, 1981 The problem of Government delin in the effort to hold down inflation quency in payment of debt to small during the Korean war. e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, this businesses is a very real one. Small The Nation's newspapers and edito portion of the address by Count Hans business in particular is hurt as it is rial writers dubbed him "Mr. Five-by Huyn of the West German Bundestag the small firms who sell 90 percent of Five," a reference to his stature and details the role of the Socialist Inter the off-the-shelf goods purchased by girth. He understood the Nation's national in pressing upon the Western Federal agencies and other organiza need to laugh at its economic prob World what amounts to unilateral dis tions spending Federal dollars. The lems and once called a press confer armament. That the Socialists do this Government cannot continue to ence to announce he would no longer in collaboration with Moscow iS openly borrow this $11 billion per year from require price controls on french fried admitted by both Socialist and Com our small businesses. fishing worms. munist sources. The public is, of Clearly there is a need for legislation While Governor, he revealed an course, ill-served by information media like H.R. 2036, a requirement that other facet of his human side. He which · overlook or suppress these business transacted with Federal could not bring himself to authorize facts. moneys be treated like any business in the execution of several prisoners on Remarks by Count Hans Huyn the private sector, that interest is paid Ohio's death row, and as a last act of follow: for overdue bills, and early payment office, commuted their sentences to The final report of the Socialist Interna discounts are sought when payments life imprisonment. He later wrote a tional Study-Group on Disarmament was are timely. As a cosponsor of this bill I book about that struggle with his con adopted unanimously at the SI-Congress in endorse it fully and urge my col victions, entitling it, "Power of Life Madrid in November 1980. I here quote the directives given in "Bureau-Circular no. leagues to do likewise.e and Death." B13/80 of November 11th, 1980" to the Mr. Speaker, Mike DiSalle continued "Dear comrades": to be a leader after his departure from DEATH OF MIKE DISALLE "3. The role of the SI and its member par public office. Since 1963, he had ties. worked as an attorney in Washington. 3.1 The Socialist International and inter HON. DENNIS E. ECKART Members of his party, and the Demo party relations. The SI Bureau and Party OF OHIO cratic Party leadership, sought his Leaders' Conferences should keep disarma IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES advice often on party matters. He was ment on their agenda as one of the main items. The SI Bureau will on a continuous Friday, September 18, 1981 woven deeply into the fabric of the party here and in Ohio. basis follow up and enhance the implemen e Mr. ECKART. Mr. Speaker, this tation of the recommendations of the Study Despite his life of public service, he Group and other decisions of the SI as well Nation and the Democratic Party lost successfully made time to marry and as all work for disarmament done by the one of their elder statesmen upon the raise a family. member parties. . recent death of Mike DiSalle. Mr. Speaker, Mike DiSalle stood tall In continuation of the work of the Study Through a lifetime of public service among America's leaders, and he will Group, an advisory group on disarmament and private law practice, Mike DiSalle be missed.e and arms control will be established by the maintained an equilibrium and sense SI Bureau to monitor the developments in of humanity which this Nation will the field of disarmament and to provide sorely miss. GARY HYMEL expert advice and other services to the Bureau. It is · recommended that the Mike DiSalle was Ohio's first Gover member parties cooperate with each other nor to serve a 4-year term. After his HON. SAM GIBBONS also on a regional basis or in other limited election in 1959, he resolutely forced OF FLORIDA framework. Ohio's leaders to recognize the State IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The SI will participate to a larger extent government's responsibility to assist in existing international governmental and its citizens, His detractors claimed he Wednesday, September-16, 1981 non-governmental fora and initiate, when was a free spender, but his programs e Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, Gary appropriate, new fora for the work for disarm of increased educational support and Hymel is a fine person and I certainly ament, detente and peace." 3.2. concerns the national level activities. more services moved Ohio in the direc hate to see him leave the public serv The most interesting directive concerns tion which made Ohio one of the ice. I first became acquainted with point: 3.3 The organizational activities of greatest industrial States of the Gary when he worked with our former the member parties. "Member parties Nation. colleague, Hale Boggs. His work for should establish their own bodies on disarm Mike DiSalle was elected to the Ohio Hale was outstanding. He always han ament policies. These bodies could for ex Legislature in 1936. After service dled himself in a quiet and dignified ample plan and programme information, there, he returned home to Toledo, manner and with great understanding training and educational activities in the Ohio, and served successively as assist for his responsibility. field of disarmament. They could work out an action programme for disarmament ac ant law director, a city councilman, as After Hale's death and after Gary tivities both at party and national levels, vice mayor, and as mayor. joined your staff, I had an even great and make initiatives for international In addition to his term as Governor er opportunity to observe his work. He action. of Ohio, Mike DiSalle found the na always impressed me as a very fine The member parties should create the tional limelight on other occasions. In person who capably and seriously did necessary organisational and financial con- September 18, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21295 ditions for efficient and continuous work for munist parties had a secret conference in other is· clear evidence from the members of disarmament. Tihany on Lake Balaton on the subject of the Alliance that their obJective is to obtain Member parties should cooperate with ap the further development of cooperation a balance of forces at the lowest possible propriate organisations such as the trade with the social democrats. The leader of the level. We will not be prevented from this ob unions and fraternal organisations especial Department for International Relations of Jective by any peoples' movement, no ly in the fields of training and education as the Hungarian communists, Janos Berecz, matter how impressively staged. well as mobilisation of public opinion. stated on the 13th December 1979 that a The German Federal Government has, of Member parties should be active in the temporary alliance between the communists course, exphasized the maintenance of the work for disarmament also at the national and the social democrats was the pre-condi NATO double resolution on many occasions. level by cooperating in suitable forms with tion for the destruction of the Atlantic Alli However, more and more organs of the SPD other non-governmental organisations in ance. It is agreed that achieving this "will pass resolutions against rearmament. The their own countries." alter the political features of Europe com SED chief Erich Honecker could therefore The implementations of the program by pletely". note with satisfaction in the spring of 1981: the member parties of the Socialist Interna In 1931, Manuilski, for many years a col "In the meantime, two-thirds of the SPD re tional all over Europe is already providing a league of Lenin and chief of the Comintem, gional associations have taken up a position major boost to the multiple "peace and dis declared at the Moscow School for Political against the so-called double track decision armament" offensive conducted by Boris Warfare: "The struggle to the death be of NATO because its main emphasis lies on Ponomarev's International Department of tween communism and capitalism is un rearmament and not on negotiation." the Soviet Communist Party. By imple avoidable. At the present time, we are not The SPD, in particular, suffers from the menting this program the Socialist Parties yet strong enough to attack. Our hour will dilemma that they have heard for the last of Western Europe have virtually become come in twenty or thirty years. In order to decade that "peace has become more tools in the hands of Soviet propaganda. be victorious, we need an element of sur secure" due to "d~tente." A decade of cos The so-called "Scandilux" meetings which began last January are proposals and extraordinary concessions. proposal as a way out and Brezhnev took it an outgrowth of this action program. The capitalist countries, stupid and deca up gratefully. Only when the Federal For During the SI praesidium meeting in dent, will take pleasure in working for their eign Minister Genscher described a renewed Bonn on 15/16 July"1981 it was decided to own destruction. They will creep into a trap declaration of Soviet hegemony as unac reactivate the Study Group, renamed since baited with friendship. And as soon as they ceptable did Helmut Schmidt find himself the Madrid Congress as the Advisory Group will on Arms Control and Disarmament but still have broken cover, we smash them by forced to say "no." It becomes more and under the chairmanship of Kalevi Borsa, force"! more difficult for the Chancellor Schmidt Finnish Social Democrat Party Chairman. The Soviet international law lecturer M. to impose his will in his own party-the Walter Hacker of the Austrian Socialists is Rapoport writes in his article "The Nature SPD-against his party-chairman Willy still secretary of the Group and has close of Modem International Law" in "Soviet Brandt.e contacts with the Soviet Embassy in Vienna. State and Law" 1941 : "The strug As a result of the SI praesidium decision, gle for peace in the socialist state is basical the Group is now preparing to visit Wash ly different from bourgeois pacifism. Our HIGH INTEREST RATES ARE ington in early November 1981, then New struggle for peace is subordinate to the rev KILLING US York for talks with the UN, then Moscow olutionary struggle for socialism and is for a continuation of the dialogue with the therefore a revolutionary peace policy. The HON. J. J. PICKLE CPSU as desired by the Soviets. The Group struggle of the UsSR for peace is not a hopes to be received in Washington by struggle for peace itself. It is organically OP'TEXAS President Reagan or Vice-President Bush connected with • • • the struggle to increase IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and by Secretary of State Alexander Haig as our power, the power of the socialist state, Friday, September 18, 1981 well as by several members of the Senate. the fatherland, the world proletariat and The socialists are spreading informations for the removal of any threat to its safety". • Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, these everywhere in Europe and in Washington If we consider what a gigantic pacifist high interest rates are killing us, and I that if the Sorsa-Group is not received in movement is now going on in Europe and would like to take just a few moments Washington at the desired level, this will particularly in the Federal Republic of Ger today to talk about a measure I am in drive them into the arms of Moscow-as if many, it becomes clear who the opponent is. troducing aimed at bringing credit they were not already in Moscow's arms. Something is passing through Europe once Only a few weeks ago, the.General Secre again, like a ghost from the past and Just as back to Earth. tary of the Socialist International, Bernt seductive and diabolically false as ever: As some of you may know, Senator Carlsson, outlined suggestions and argu "obtain peace without weapons!" BENTSEN this week introduced a reso ments for supporting a socialist peace policy In the thirties, the British Prime Minister lution aimed at getting interest rates on the Moscow line. This policy is particu Chamberlain and the French Premier Dala in this country back where they larly directed towards the Federal Republic dier tried to ensure peace with Hitler by a belong-down. Senator BENTsEN feels of Germany and the anxiety of its people. It one sided policy of appeasement. But Hitler that a major reason for the dangerous is a means of escape from the hardships of took no notice and continued with rearma ly high interest rates afflicting us economic and financial policies. Carlsson ment: eventually, there was no alternative held a so-called "strategy speech" in the SI to war. today is the great amount of available secretariat. A socialist campaign on a mas Considering the unilateral Soviet rearma credit which is sopped up by huge cor sive scale is to be undertaken after this ment, it is a psychological masterstroke of porate mergers and market specula year's summer recess and will oppose the the peace campaign in Western Europe di tion. "perverse confrontation course of Washing rected from Moscow that practically every I applaud Senator BENTSEN's noble ton with respect to Moscow". Carlsson's on~ is talking about NATO rearmament-al efforts in this matter. He is a brilliant final comment was: "The struggle of all the though this does not exist and will only and successful businessman, and for a socialists in Europe for peace must be dra come into force at the end of 1983-but no small-town boy from Mission, Tex., he matically strengthened. We reject the de mention is made of the unilateral Soviet re ceptive suggestion of the Americans that armament in all sectors-particularly with is not a bad "shade tree economist," Western rearmament guarantees peace, respect to the medium range missiles direct either. whereas in fact it is leading directly to the ed against Western Europe. We also want Mr. Speaker, I happen to agree with Third World War. We want the zero solu disarmament, the sooner the better. But not him on this. Now, when giant compa tion, the people will understand that. It is disarmament without security, disarmament nies absorb every drop of credit in not the allegedly excessive social benefits with security, i.e. the achievement of an ap sight, it only serves to worsen the which threaten our free society but the re proximate balance between East and West. hardship on people who really need armament billions demanded by the profit The obJective of the NATO double track loans. When DuPont bought Conoco requirements of the American multis and decision is to ensure peace by a balance of the imperialistic desires of the political lead forces. The common resolution to modernize recently, the merger did not create ership in Washington". the Long Range Tactical Nuclear Force. any new jobs, it did not invest the After the double track decision of the At In Europe on the one hand and to press economy with new vigor, it did not lantic Alliance in December 1979, 29 com- for armament control negotiations on the even create a more efficient business 21296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 18, 1981 operation. But it did dry up a lot of No one is ever turned away from the for such activities as community capital, perhaps $4 billion worth, that Airport Marina clinic. If the problem mental health clinics, a cold, imper could have gone to more productive is one which the center's capable staff sonal Government will never be able purposes-to farmers, or homebuild is unable to solve, the individual is re to provide the kind and compassionate ers, to home buyers, or small business. ferred to someone who can help. treatment offered by a private associa These people, who would put the The key to the center's success is tion of committed individuals. money back into the economy and that 85 percent of its clinical and cleri On their 20th anniversary, the Air meanwhile expand the job market and cal staff are volunteers. They have a port Marina Counseling Service is create usable services, cannot get loans part time clinical staff of 60, including pointing the way toward effective help because the money is not there, or is 4 psychiatrists, 4 psychologists, 15 li for those in need-community based too expensive to borrow-driven up by censed clinical social workers, and 7 and funded organizations providing the unwise lending practices of a few marriage, family, and child counselors. excellent services in a cost-effective mammoth banks. In addition, the staff is augmented by way. I am proud that the Airport My resolution seeks to complement 8 interns from local universities and 30 Marina Counseling Service has made Senator BENTSEN's efforts to have the men and women who have completed the Westchester area a shining exam Federal Reserve pull a tighter rein on their professional education in a ple of a community with a heart.e lending banks, to undertake a "jaw mental health field and are accumu boning exercise" aimed at convincing lating supervised training hours for li its members not to contribute to the censing. NATURAL GAS DEREGULATION: inflationary spiral. The quality of this dedicated staff is EDITORIAL COMMENTS It is not our business to tell this or rated outstanding by local mental that company they should not own health professionals. The clinic pro HON. TOM CORCORAN this or that other company. But now, vides not only superior service to its OF ILLINOIS at a time when thousands of small clients, but also serves as an excellent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES businesses are going under for lack of training facility for tomorrow's vitally simple loans-now is not the time for needed mental health specialists. Friday, September 18, 1981 us to be financing huge, unproductive The clerical staff exhibits the degree e Mr. CORCORAN. Mr. Speaker, in corporate takeovers. You do not use to which the community is actively in view of the increasing interest in the your eggs for baking cakes when the volved in the daily operation of the issue of natural gas deregulation, I am family's got nothing for breakfast. clinic. Over 30 people volunteer to submitting for the REcoRD several I hope many of my colleagues will answer the telephones, do the book 1981 editorial comments on this issue. lend their help in this by publicly or keeping, and other related tasks in These editorials from around the privately expressing their support.e order to keep the price of the clinic's country generally favor accelerating services at a minimum. An active guild natural gas deregulation. Because of A SALUTE TO THE AIRPORT association also helps to raise money space limitations, I am not including MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE for the clinic with the same goal by several other editorial statements in ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY operating a gift shop in the neighbor support of accelerating the deregula hood. tion of natural gas. Such statements HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN Airport Marina Counseling serves as were published last month by the New an example of a private organization Orleans Times Picayune, the Dallas OF CALIFORNIA which provides better service with Morning News, and the Rocky Moun IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES greater cost efficiency than compara tain News of Denver. Friday, September 18, 1981 ble public facilities. The clinic provides The editorial comments follow: e Mr. DORNAN of California. Mr. quality mental health care at 50 per [From the New York Times, Aug. 31, 19811 Speaker, during the recent budget de cent of the costs of any other medical NATURAL GAs, UNNATURAL CosT bates, we heard many people say that model, licensed community mental Natural gas regulation: just mentioning without Government funding, essen health clinic in the county. the subject makes Congressmen uneasy. tial social services would be nonexist Over the last 5 years, AMCS has in The last time Congress rewrote the laws ent. According to this school of creased its caseload 84 percent. Cur that limit natural gas prices it took more thought, no one cares about people rently, the clinic has an average open than a year of bitter struggle. And the but the Federal Government~ caseload of 367 for any given period. result, the Natural Gas Polley Act of 1978, is Well, I have evidence that people In 1981, they have averaged 1,187 badly flawed. Unless Congress and the who think that way are wrong. In the client therapy sessions every month. Reagan Administration can clean it up, there might well be significant losses to the heart of my 27th Congressional Dis The clinic's aim is to offer preventive economy and an even nastier political battle trict, within sight of the huge Los An care by treating small problems before in 1984. geles International Airport, a group of they grow into major forms of malad President Carter had reason to be proud public spirited citizens have banded to justment. In this way, the clinic saves of the reforms he finally squeezed out of gether in support of a nonprofit ven taxpayer money by keeping people Congress. The act greatly reduced the ture that illustrates the tremendous healthy and on the job. chance of another regional gas shortage, capacity for good that abides within The clinic's competent staff, led by like that of 1977, by eliminating distinctions each one of us: The Airport Marina board of directors president, John between "interstate;• gas and gas used in the state where it was produced. The act stimu Counseling Service. Brierly; administrative assistant lated exploration by raising price ceilings on This year marks the 20th anniversa Myrna Kayton; and executive director newly discovered gas. And it provided for ry of the Counseling Service, a com Mary Ellen Cassman, is doing a tre gradual price increases, to be followed in munity mental health clinic funded mendous job in managing an expand 1985 by total decontrol of all natural gas primarily by voluntary donations from ing community resource. discovered since 1977. corporations and private individuals. Mr. Speaker, it is community organi What, then, needs to be cleaned up? The Airport Marina Counseling offers a zations like the Airport Marina Coun problems arise from the price of oil. The large array of counseling services to seling Service, supported, staffed, and gradual gas price increases sounded gener area residents on an ability-to-pay funded by enthusiastic volunteers at ous enough when the act was passed-but no one anticipated how fast oil prices would basis. Though the clinic receives no the local level who believe in what run up after the revolution in Iran. In fact, Federal, State, or local funds, and is they are · doing, which provide the controlled natural gas now costs less than not a United Way agency, it provides backbone of our social services. half the price of oil. superior counseling to anyone who While an ever-growing Government That creates obvious incentives to Wji.Ste needs help. may be able to provide larger budgets this precious domestic fuel. And there is a September 18, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21297 reverse problem. On the day of full decon with gas prices ready to fly up when the coming through the pipelines regardless of trol in 1985, natural gas will jump suddenly controls on a lot of gas expire in 1985. the world's ayatollahs and sheiks. Whether to the market price. In keeping with the administration's devo cold turkey now or gradually by 1985, we The Reagan Administration solution tion to the free market, it wants real decon have to get to market pricing to restore in seems to be to phase in decontrol over the trol. You let the market decide the price of centives for producers to produce more and next three years. It would allow newly dis gas relative to the price of oil. You provide consumers to consume less, so that the covered gas to rise gradually to the price of incentives for new production. And you let country can use this premium energy re competing fuel oil. That is a fair solution high prices promote conservation. This is source most efficiently. provided Congress also allows the price of where the administration wants to go, but it "old" gas to rise and then taxes away most is divided on the question of how fast. [From the Chicago Tribune, Feb. 24, 19811 of the resulting windfall profits. The problem is that no one really knows Phased decontrol, with a windfall tax, what would happen with deregulation. Nat UNNATURAL GAs LAws might have a far less painful effect on con ural gas has been under price controls for President Reagan had hardly learned his sumers than first appears. Higher natural four decades, perhaps longer than any other way to the White House water cooler when gas costs would be at least somewhat offset major commodity. A vast and expensive in he liberated oil and gasoline from the bonds by conservation, and by decreased depend frastructure-from pipelines to residential of federal price controls. This was wise but ence on imported oil. According to the furnaces-has grown up on the basis of low largely symbolic, since the chains were due Energy Department, phased decontrol of price and might become obsolete quickly if to be lifted in October anyWay. So far, how new gas would raise the real price to resi prices soar suddenly. There is a substantial ever, Mr. Reagan has averted his gaze from dential users by about 13 percent a year; de economic likelihood that prices would soar the shackles the federal government has controlling "old" gas as well might double even above the price of oil for a time while placed on the production and use of natural that. new supplies were brought on line, and a gas. These, much more than the controls on In return, says Michigan economist Glenn substantial political risk that this price oil and gasoline, threaten to make the yoke Lowry, higher prices would stimulate an in spike would arrive just in time for the 1982 of the foreign oil cartel heavier on all of us. crease of perhaps 15 percent in domestic elections. Natural gas is the closest thing we have to production. This extra gas, combined with Whether this would happen depends on a perfect fuel. It is clean, versatile, and the incentive to conserve, could reduce the how fast new gas comes on line, and also on abundant. And unlike oil, its price and demand for imported oil by two million bar the contract structure of the gas industry, supply are not controlled by OPEC. In fact rels a day, or more than a third. which is as complicated as a Rubik cube and we have plenty of it right here at home. But If America has to buy less oil from OPEC, as difficult to figure. Gas is sold on long so far we have not exploited the numerous we'll pay less for the oil we do import. Just term contracts, but in addition to those advantages of gas. how much less depends upon how much which routinely expire and have to be re Why not? There are two main obstacles. OPEC lowers production in response. But a negotiated, others have escalator clauses The first is the Natural Gas Policy Act, two-million-barrel reduction in imports pegged to a variety of prices, with some which established a Byzantine maze of price would give us immense bargaining room. clauses setting prices above market, some controls on more than two dozen categories That is roughly the difference between last below. There would be incentives for pro of gas. The uncontrolled price of a barrel of year's tight oil market, when prices soared, ducers to share their new-found gains with, oil is now about $36. But the equivalent and today's oil "glut." say, pipelines about to go bankrupt and amount of gas sells for less than $16. Since The case for decontrolling gas discovered leave wells unconnected. But no one knows gas has several advantages over oil, this is before 1977 is quite different. Decontrol of how quickly all this could be sorted out. like pricing French wine below beer. The such "old" gas would obviously bring no So even in this administration, gradual de result is that energy firms are putting most bonus in production, and by 1985, it would control has its advocates. It is considering a of their money into the search for oil in raise the nation's gas bill by perhaps $20 bil plan to immediately decontrol the price of stead of gas, even though most experts esti lion a year. But this decontrol would avert a newly discovered gas, and to allow the price mate our gas resources to be considerably crap game in which some lucky consumers of already discovered gas to rise every greater than those of oil. Last year, the get "old" gas for as little as $1 per thousand month by lfse of the difference between the drilling rate for natural gas was up only 7 cubic feet, while others pay five or six times controlled price and the equivalent market per cent; for oil it was up 39 per cent. that for new gas. And complete decontrol price of oil. This would avoid the mistakes The federal government has even taken would encourage all to conserve. Yes, there of the NGPA, by letting the price of gas go measures to discourage the use of natural would be a windfall profit: most of it can up smoothly over three years to minimize gas. The chief culprit is the Fuel Use Act, and should be taxed away. economic shocks, and by insuring that the which forbids the construction of new gas Natural gas deregulation is widely viewed price of gas would have parity with oil by boilers by utilities or industrial companies as an ideological issue. Liberals side with 1985 and be free to find its market price. and requires existing ones to be switched to consumers, conservatives with the produc There are also, however, advocates of coal by 1990. This has limited the use of gas ers. But in the long-run phased decontrol is cold-turkey decontrol. They abhor the very in favor of coal In fact, the Presi If the President and Congress want to Act of 1978. After a long and mean battle, dent probably does not have the votes for make natural gas a weapon in the fight to Congress settled on the notion of decontrol immediate decontrol, and with major battles reduce our dependence on imported oil, by 1985. So it whomped up a bunch of cate shaping up ton the budget and military they should discard both of these policies. gories of different types of gas, kept about spending, he has to juggle along with the Decontrol of prices will increase supplies, . half of them under price controls indefinite rest how much political capital he should but they will be useless as long as demand is ly, deregulated deep gas and other pets, and spend. artificially depressed. Removing the impedi escalated the price of the rest toward parity What is clear is that something must be ments to greater use of gas likewise will be with what it thought oil would sell for in done. Gas belongs on our energy menu; it pointless unless coupled with steps to in 1985, namely $15 a barrel. So we don't have doesn't require costly pollution equipment; crease gas supplies. Taken together, these deregulation and consumers don't have the it won't scare anybody by threatening a measures would do much to subvert OPEC's protection their advocates sought, what meltdown; and-best of all-it'll keep tyranny without sacrificing public health or 21298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 18, 1981 the environment. Freeing gas would help to Reagan faces the tough decision because consumers also get struck with paying the free us all. the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 is not bill for the huge energy bureaucracy as well working well. It was supposed to bring the as the energy.e [From the Chicago Tribune, Aug. 13, 19811 prices of natural gas and oil in line by 1985. UNSHACKLING NATURAL GAS But Congress thought the price of oil would Natural gas is an excellent energy be $15 a barrel then, and it already has hit GARY HYMEL source-clean, versatile, safe, and, perhaps $35. most important, abundant here at home. It If nothing is done to the act, natural gas HON. PETER W. RODINO TR. has the potential to displace millions of bar prices abruptly will more than double in rels of foreign oil every day. But gas' poten 1985, jolting consumers and the economy. OF NEW JERSEY tial hasn't been realized because of a rigid This argues in favor of Reagan and Con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES system of federal price controls that dis gress agreeing on a creeping decontrol over courages production and federal laws that the next three years, spreading out and Wednesday, September 16, 1981 inhibit the use of gas by factories and utili cushioning the price shock. e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I want ties. There is no good alternative to decontrol. Natural gas is the only energy source whose to join my colleagues in recognizing Now a group of President Reagan's Cabi the dedicated service that Gary Hymel net officers has urged the removal of all price is fixed by the government, and this is natural gas price controls by 1985. They rec unfair to producers who have to pay market has given to the House of Representa ommend two changes in the 1978 Natural rates for goods and services. tives since 1965. For 15 years he has Gas Policy Act, which provided for a phased Reagan should be impelled toward decon been a professional to be emulated by decontrol of new gas prices: a speeded-up trol by the success of his move last winter to all staffers on Capitol Hill. Whenever schedule for this decontrol and extending it free crude oil prices. It has touched off a Members of the House needed infor to all gas. These are wise recommendations, boom in drilling and exploration, production mation, Gary did his best to provide it. is up a bit. Imports have dropped and, de which the president should make a top pri His handling of th~ legislative issues ority. spite doomsayers, gasoline costs only rose a The NGPA obviously needs fixing. It few cents. and his responsivenflss to the press holds gas prices far too low-about half the There is a final reason the president earned him high marks with everyone cost of the energy equivalent in oil. This en should take the risk of ending price con who worked here. courages waste and discourages production. trols. This country probably contains vast Throughout his 16 years working Last year, thanks to the decontrol of new oil undiscovered supplies of natural gas, first in the majority whip's office, prices, oil drilling increased by 41 per cent enough in fact to move it toward energy in then in the majority leader's office over 1979. But gas drilling rose only 6 per dependence. The best way of getting from and then finally in the speaker's cent-even though the U.S. has much great here to there is letting the free market er reserves of gas than of oil. work. · office, Gary took on all the tough The NGPA's formula for phasing out con issues for Speaker O'NEILL, and he trols also failed to provide for the big jump [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Aug. always kept his cool. I greatly appreci in oil prices that occurred in 1979, which 12, 1981] ated Gary's professionalism, good means that gas prices will climb sharply PHASE OUT NATURAL GAS CONTROLS judgment and friendliness when I when the controls expire in 1985. And its The myth that the government can some served as a whip and I know that continuation of controls on already-discov how spare consumers from paying the full many other Members have said the ered gas will make it unprofitable for gas cost of energy still is widely held by many same. In short, Gary was more than producers to use expensive methods to ex Americans. tract gas from old fields. an aide to Speaker O'NEILL-he was a Thus when President Ronald Reagan's man truly dedicated to the swift and The Cabinet officers didn't examine the top energy advisers are reported to have rec other side of the natural gas coin, namely ommended unanimously a plan to phase out effective functioning of the House of the federal government's restrictions on use. all controls on natural gas produced in the Representatives. I will miss him, but I Under the 1978 Fuel Use Act, industrial United States, the claim is quickly made wish him all the best as he joins the firms and utilities are barred from installing that this could double natural gas prices by private sector.e any new gas boilers, and are required to con 1985. vert existing ones to coal. That makes sense Under present law only 40 percent of nat only if you assume, as Congress and the ural gas price controls would be phased out TRIBUTE TO OUR HISPANIC Carter administration did in 1978, that we by Jan. 1, 1985. Reagan's advisers are said to HERITAGE have nearly exhausted our gas supplies. But favor phasing out 100 percent of natural gas now everyone acknowledges that vast sup controls by that date. plies remain. Unless restrictions on prices The government never should have gotten HON. MICHAEL D. BARNES and demand are removed, though, that gas into the energy price-fixing business in the OF MARYLAND will stay in the ground. first place. Virtually all of the shortages and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Reagan no doubt understands all this. distortions began when Washington began The administration's excuse for not raising imposing price ceilings on natural gas, and Friday, September 18, 1981 the gas issue has been t~at it didn't want to then repeated all of its mistakes in applying jeopardize its tax and budget cuts. Now that • Mr. BARNES. Mr. Speaker, Presi oil price controls. dent Reagan proclaimed the third those have been enacted, the President It will be recalled that when President should move quickly to free the gas market. Reagan advanced the date for total decon week in September as National His Next year is an election year, and the closer trol of oil, the critics claimed that the price panic Heritage Week. Washington has Congress gets to election day, the more re of a gallon of gasoline would skyrocket and witnessed in the past few days the luctant it will be to do what needs to be keep on climbing. It did rise for a brief time gathering of national figures to com done here. The President has accumulated but then leveled off and actually has been memorate the Hispanic tradition and an impressive store of political capital on declining in recent months as supplies have the Hill. Now is the time to spend some. achievements of the Hispanic commu caught up with demand. nity throughout the United States. As The same thing can be expected if natural £From the Cleveland Press, Aug. 12, 19811 gas controls are phased out. Initially there chairman of the Subcommittee on GAS DEREGULATION SHOULD Go SLOWLY will be a fairly sharp rise, but then produc Inter-American Affairs, and as Repre President Reagan has been handed a po tion should rise to meet the demand and sentative of a district with a signifi litical and economic time bomb: a recom prices will begin to level off, perhaps within cant and active Hispanic community, I mendation by his top energy advisers that a year after the decontrol program begins. would like to add my own personal he push for an end to all price controls on No one yet has invented a way for provid tribute to those Hispanics that have natural gas by 1985. ing an adequate supply of energy that contributed the development of our In principle, the advice from his Cabinet doesn't require those who use it to pay the Nation. This is a unique opportuntiy Council on Natural Resources is sound. De going price. About all that govern control would spur natural gas exploration ment controls do is provide jobs for energy for all of us who follow issues affect and production. It would force consumers to bureaucrats to juggle prices and think up ing the Hispanic community to pause conserve that fuel. And increased supplies unnecessary regulations and paperwork. and reconsider the accomplishments would replace a sizeable amount of import Sooner or later the prices have to be raised and contributions of this prominent ed oil. to induce the needed production, but the group and to learn more about the September 18, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21299 needs and problems affecting Hispanic especially as Members of Congress, strators. It is my hope that tomorrow's Americans. should make it our duty to learn more effort will remind legislators and all of According to the Census Bureau, the about and be more responsive to the our Nation's citizens that America's Hispanic population in the United important issues facing the Hispanic fundamental goals are social and eco States has grown by more than 60 per community. Some of the areas that I nomic justice for all American cent in the last decade to nearly 15 follow very closely include: Programs people.e million. The Hispanic community in to deal with poverty; bilingual educa itself is a melting pot of cultures and tion and educational opportunities; traditions. Composed of Cubans, equal employment opportunities; the Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, and other impact of Federal budget cuts on MICHAEL V. DISALLE groups from Central and South Amer social programs; immigration policies; ica and the Caribbean, the Hispanic social security; and the extension of HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. identity has surfaced to represent the the Voting Rights Act. OF NEW J'ZRSEY common interests and traditions of During this time of celebration and this mosaic of people. reflection I would like to commend es IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The result of this unique mixture of pecially the Hispanic Americans of Friday, September 18, 1981 talents is that in all spheres of govern Montgomery County, Md., who have e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, I ment and private life we can see exam greatly contributed to the progress of learned yesterday with great sadness ples of the political, economic, and my district. I look forward to continu that Michael V. DiSalle, a valued social gains of Hispanic Americans. ing to work closely with Hispanic In the politicial arena, more Hispan friend of many of us in this body, died Americans in the realization of all of in his sleep while on a visit to his be ic figures are surfacing each day. our goals and objectives.e Having had the pleasure of being in loved Italy. vited to become an honorary member Mike DiSalle devoted much of his of the Hispanic Caucus, I would like to SOLIDARITY DAY life to serving not only the citizens of praise the work of our Hispanic col his home State of Ohio but also of the leagues here in Congress. I am talking HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER Nation. In Ohio he was a State legisla about my good friends EDWARD tor, the mayor of Toledo and the Gov OF NEW YORK ernor. He understood well the prob ROYBAL, BALTASAR CORRADA, ROBERT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GARCIA, KIKA DE LA GARZA, HENRY lems of people and he was determined Friday, September 18, 1981 GoNZALEZ, and MANuEL LUJAN. Other throughout his career to improve the Hispanic figures that are receiving na e Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise quality of life for his constituents. tional recognition are Maurice Ferre, to express my strong support for the And, not the least of the many diffi mayor of Miami, and Henry Cisneros, AFL-CIO/NAACP "Solidarity Day" cult tasks in his career, he served for 3 mayor of San Antonio. The hard-work demonstration to take place on Sep years in the Truman administration in ing Hispanic community is also becom tember 19, 1981. The grassroots, rank the thankless job of Director of Price ing more prominent in organizing and-file demonstration will bring to Stablization and then Administrator labor unions, participating in sports gether labor, civil rights organizations, of Economic Stabilization. events, contributing personalities to senior citizens groups, and numerous For the last decade and a half Mike the media and show business, and public interest groups to protest in one DiSalle had practiced law here in making inroads among the leaders of voice the Reagan administration's Washington, and to his death he re the business world. attack on vital social programs. The mained a compassionate, concerned Hispanics have proven that integra alliance of labor and civil rights orga and extremely astute politician to tion into the American mainstream nizations was responsible in recent whom others constantly looked for can be achieved in conjunction with past for the historic civil rights legisla counsel. the preservation of a group's ethnic tion, and tomorrow they will join In his lifetime, Mike DiSalle re tty. The rest of the population is also again to reaffirm their historic com ceived many honors for the qualities profiting from this unique mixture. mitment to social and economic jus that earned him so many friends and Many of us have learned to enjoy the tice, and to make demands for jobs, admirers: For his innovative ways, for Hispanics' delightful and varied cui food, and housing. his dedication to his principles, for his sine, their colorful arts, and their The administration and this Con courage and for his decency. lively music. gress which has recently passed a He shall always be remembered for But aside from the festivities, I feel budget denying Government responsi these virtues that guided his life. He that this occasion should also serve to bility to meet the needs of the poor, was a brilliant and principled politi create a greater awareness of the aged, disabled, and working people of can, a wise counselor, a fine lawyer. needs and problems of Hispanic Amer this country should be prepared to Above all else, he was a good and icans. I strongly believe that all of us, hear the voice of tomorrow's demon- decentman.e