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KEYNOTE SPEECH OF CHARLES lungs, free of braces and free of crippling function; it represents one of the most L. MASSEY, PRESIDENT, THE in one-tenth the time required to wipe out exhilarating challenges to be met in the last MARCH OF DIMES BIRTH DE smallpox-is testimony to our people's con decades of this century. FECTS FOUNDATION scious investment of themselves to insure That's because we give the word "healing" their children's future health. a special definition with extra dimensions. And it is true to this unique heritage that Not just treating and curing birth defects in HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER March of Dimes volunteers are still laboring the present tense, but preventing birth de OF NEW YORK not for their own health but for the health fects in the future tense. And not just con of future generations. Tomorrow and the cern for the human body and its organs, but IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES following days, physicians and scientists, concern for individual human beings in the Wednesday, June 25, 1980 nurses and nutritionists, educators and lay total context of their environment. persons sitting among you tonight will star The Greek physician, Hippocrates-the e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I in a multi-media production, playing the father of medicine-said that "healing is a would like to bring to the attention of role of themselves as they demonstrate the matter of time but it sometimes is also a my colleagues the speech given earlier forces they have fashioned in pursuing the matter of opportunity." this month by Charles L. Massey, prevention of birth defects. Because, on this Yes, healing is a matter of time. We know, president of the March of Dimes Birth 25th Anniversary of the Salk vaccine we in our fight against birth defects, that we Defects Foundation, to the Sixth Na celebrate more than our remarkable victory cannot turn ahead the clock. We cannot in over polio. We celebrate our progress in the stantly eradicate ignorance or apathy. We tional Volunteer Leadership Confer war against birth defects that is in many ence of the March of Dimes. cannot immediately reverse the genetic ways, even more remarkable. faults which have been compounded I am proud to note that this organi Birth defects. They weren't even called through the centuries. And we cannot be zation, whose national headquarters is birth defects when we launched our attack given instant knowledge about many of the in White Plains, N.Y., has just cele more than two decades ago. In fact, they causes of birth defects. So, reluctantly, we brated the 25th anniversary of the were not even recognized as a separate and must recognize the need for time .in the Salk vaccine against polio and is press distinct area of medical and scientific con process of healing. In all our endeavors-re ing on in the war against birth defects. cern. There was very little coordination of search, education, community awareness As Mr. Massey stressed in his speech research or exchange of information when we have learned that we must be patient in to these key volunteers, the cure for we moved into this uncharted area. waiting for our efforts to have effect. Since that shaky beginning we have And yes, healing is a matter of opportuni this problem lies in the interrelation learned some grim facts about our new ty. But we don't have to wait for opportuni ship of so many of the causes of birth enemy. We have learned that the tiny ty-the opportunity to prevent those birth defects-biological, physical, familial, infant we saw in the intensive care nursery defects which are clearly preventable now. educational, cultural, and social. could be affected by one or any number of In our basic research programs, for in Through their many thousands of vol defects from a list of more than a thousand. stance, we are continuing our quest for new unteers working at the community It may have inherited defective genes from knowledge-because we don't know nearly level, the March of Dimes is endeavor its parents-or it may have suffered damage as much as we need to know. Yet we do ing to insure that every newborn child during its fetal development-its mother know a lot that hasn't been applied and we may have been impoverished, malnourished, must seize every opportunity to use our in this country has a healthy and pro or an alcoholic. The possible causes are knowledge wherever and whenever it is ap ductive start in life. almost endless and that is why our war propriate. That is why-as you will see later The text of Mr. Massey's remarks must be waged on many fronts. And that is in this conference-we support not just follow: why such a wide diversity and multiplicity basic research, but clinical, social, behavior On this 25th Anniversary, in this state of the projects, programs and pursuits are al and environmental research. And that is that will always be identified with the an being handled simultaneously by the March why we educate, motivate, and organize nouncement of the Salk vaccine, I am of Dimes-biomedical research, maternal communities to be concerned about the prompted to add a footnote to the polio vac and infant care, professional education, quality of maternal and newborn health. cine field trials-an epilogue, if you will, to public education, and all the rest. And, in case some of you are still wondering, the stirring evocation of the prevention of What I have just mentioned may seem that is why we try to inform teenagers polio which you have just witnessed-a foot like just a clever March of Dimes juggling about proper nutrition as well as proper note which will also serve as prologue to the act-just a way to distribute our resources esteem for themselves and for their future unfolding of the prevention of birth defects and keep everybody happy. But it repre children. you will witness in the next days. sents much more than that. One reason we In the 1940's we served a healing function The vaccine field trials of 1954, the most are able to deal with such a variety of when we put polio patients in iron lungs and massive in the history of human health, and things at the same time and do it successful worked to rehabilitate damaged bodies. But the precedent-setting validation at Ann ly is that everything we do is focused on one in the 1950's we served a more valuable Arbor in 1955, altered forever both the central objective-the prevention and ame healing function when we produced the vac design and the application of preventive lioration of birth defects. The relentless cines that rendered the iron lung obsolete. medicine. In mounting the field trials the pursuit of that objective provides an under And then in the 1960's we borrowed from March of Dimes mobilized the public health lying unity, an implicit theme that runs the experience of the early polio years and forces and their colleagues in medicine's pri through-and holds together-and provides sought to heal the consequences of birth de vate sector; the schools-public, private and a rationale for everything we do. And, start fects-to find therapies and cures. 'But at parochial; the PTA-ers and the Catholic ing tomorrow morning, you will see and the start of the 1970's we borrowed from Home and School-ers; the media that cov hear how all of our programs add up to a the experience of the later polio years, and ered with reverent commitment; nearly two total attack on the problem of birth defects it became our primary preference to prevent million Polio Pioneers-aged six, seven and in all of its dimensions. birth defects in every possible way. eight-who knew even at their young ages Tonight, however, I would like to empha W_e acknowledge, of course, that healing that they were making history, and just size another reason for our success-a in this preventive sense is not a March of plain people who gave their time and their reason that relates to the way we do busi Dimes exclusive. Biomedical scientists and dimes many times over. In all, three million ness. Tonight I want to emphasize the physicians have long recognized that pre volunteers-think of it-all unpaid, but not power of the March of Dimes as a healing ventive health is an important aspect of the unsung. And millions more from across the force in our society. You might even say medical enterprise. But the March of Dimes nation clamoring to be included. that healing is our business. All our activi has expanded the definition still further. Even then, the crucible was the communi ties, from vaccinating to superwalking, from One of our major objectives, for instance, ty-the caring community-217 communi the most basic kind of laboratory research has been to bring together the physician, ties in 44 states-where a giant leap of faith to the most down to earth, face to face the patient, the scientific researcher and was forged into scientific fact. And the sub caring-all are directed toward healing. the fund raising public into a working part sequent eradication of polio-free of iron Healing, to us, is an active not a passive nership so they will recognize and appreci-
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 16844 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 ate one another as mutual beneficiaries, as Then there is the profit sector-business So as we come together and explore what interdependent, rather than as adversaries and industry-wielding enormous economic role may be appropriate for our larger heal operating in isolation from one another. In power. And finally there is the private, or ing task, our central · mission does not this manner we are healing a human independent sector, where we find our change-it merely enlarges. And not in a breach, just as surely as the surgeon stitch selves-along with other foundations, way that requires a large expenditure of es together the edges of a wound. schools, churches, and service organizations. money-but rather a largeness of spirit and Some of you will recall that after the Salk Our independent sector has the potential of imagination. These expenditures-unlike fi vaccine announcement there were disagree wielding great moral power, but it badly nancial expenditures-can only enrich all of ments about how it should be administered. needs to be reminded of its strength-it us as well as all of those we touch with our In public clinics? Or in physicians' offices? needs to be encouraged to exercise its power power of healing.e In response, March of Dimes volunteers ar to heal our society. And the March of Dimes ranged dialogues in communities across the must continue to lead by interfacing with nation and the problem was solved. Not both the public and the private sectors-and CRUISE MISSILES BASED IN either/or, but both and private physicians thereby helping to bring together the politi UNITED KINGDOM willingly donated part of their time and cal, economic and moral power of all three service to public clinics and the task was sectors for the common good. , completed in record time. This is not to say that there is a .precise HON. IKE SKELTON And more recently, in birth defects, the patented March of Dimes prescription-or a OF MISSOURI March of Dimes participated in a unique universal cure that everyone must accept. In dialogue among obstetricians, pediatricians, our pluralistic society with its diverse cul IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES family practitioners and other health pro tures, customs, and beliefs the healer fre Wednesday, June 25, 1980 fessionals. The result was a plan which the quently must simply be the mediator, the professionals call the regionalization of per bringer-together, the orchestrator of a mul e Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, on inatal health-which to us simply means a titude of factors into harmonious coopera June 17, the British Secretary of State more effective and efficient way to organize tion, rather than dissonant competition, or for Defense addressed the House of the delivery of health services to mothers even disruptive warfare. Commons and announced that U.S. and babies. In short, we are still trying to And the peacemaker is not always blessed. ground-launched cruise missiles would bring people together-people who some I need not remind you that some people be deployed at two bases in the United times don't want to be together-who some don't seem to want to be brought together. Kingdom beginning in late 1983. This times don't know they belong together until There are those who are itching for a fight their common interests are defined. and don't even like the sound of mediation. decision is part of the previously an And, as you will see at this conference, we And I need not remind you of these loaded nounced effort to modernize NATO's are beginning to perform a still larger heal words and phrases: Fence-sitter; middle-of long-range theater nuclear forces in ing function in our communities.· We are the-roader; neutral; play it safe; compro response to the Soviet Union's large learning more about the interrelationship of mise; and, don't rock the boat. Such terms and expanding capability in this type the many causes of birth defects-not just are frequently used critically to suggest that of weaponry. biological, but physical, familial, education an organization or an individual is too weak This was a difficult and courageous al, cultural and social. to choose sides or make a moral decision. These newly perceived realities are emerg But the fact is it often·takes the greatest decision on the part of the British ing in our consciousness, in our plans, and in moral courage to steer a middle course. Government. As recent demonstra our actions. In many communities across After all, the person in the middle-of-the tions indicate, there is considerable op the nation the March of Dimes is already in road is in the ideal spot to get run over! position in Britain to placing these the center of definition and dialogue-defi Either side of the road is safer. And the U.S. ground-launched cruise missiles nition of purposes and values. Dialogue peacemaker, the person who steps in to stop in their country. Moreover, the Soviet which seeks not debate, but consensus. a fight, usually winds up getting punched Union, speaking through Moscow If you are asked what does all this have to by both sides. Radio, reacted to the decision by do with birth defects you can answer with So let us not be distracted by the extrem threatening the British with destruc another question. Can we spend such prodi ist or provoked into changing our course. In gious efforts to bring newborns whole and the interest of healing, let us honor those tion in the event of nuclear war. healthy into the world and not to be con who spend their efforts putting the pieces Mr. Speaker, the decision of the cerned about the health of the world we back together-or keeping them from British Government shows its determi bring them into? Certainly, as we meet here coming apart in the first place. nation in the face of the growing to celebrate an exciting 25th Anniversary This is not to make a virtue of vacillation Soviet threat. We owe the British a we cannot be complacent as we look ahead when action is called for. It is to make intel debt of gratitude for their commit to the next 25 years. Our work is cut out for ligent, courageous judgments on the merits ment on this vital issue. It is to be us-and it must not be more of the same but of each given set of circumstances as they more than the same. Encouraged by our relate to our mission. For example, we have hoped that other NATO countries will past success we must look forward to the worked hard and lobbied hard for an in soon announce that they are prepared kind of role we might play as healers in crease in public funds for genetic services to take similar steps in this effort to America's society. And I am talking here not and we have worked hard and lobbied hard preserve the security of the alliance, just about programs and projects, but against a cutoff of public funds for mater and to preserve world peace.e rather what we can do with the spirited nal nutrition. These were difficult decisions. thrust of our creative imaginations. And the decisions we must make in allo In this troubled city and in this troubled cating our own limited funds are no less dif THE ANTITHESIS OF EQUAL election year we need no further reminders ficult. Questions and demands come from OPPORTUNITY of the challenge we face. Listen to the im every side. "Why aren't we putting more passioned rhetoric of the political candi money into research? Why don't we support dates. Read the daily headlines, hear the more treatment centers?" More for educa HON. ROBERTS. WALKER nightly newscasts and observe the worried tion! More for generic counseling! And so OF PENNSYLVANIA faces. It would be hard not to feel that on. It goes with the territory! And at the things are coming apart at the seams and same time it demonstrates what a vital force IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES we're in for hard times. we have become in an area which only 20 Wednesday, June 25, 1980 So what can we do? We are only one single years ago was hardly recognized. organization in a vast and complex society. So on the eve of the journey you start to e Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, as I Can we help put things back together? I be morrow, I would leave you with these have stated on numerous occasions in · lieve we can by setting an example and per thoughts: Whatever decisions we face, we this House, I am a strong supporter of suading others to follow. For more than 40 cannot expect our views, our goals, or our efforts to promote equal opportunity years we have demonstrated in all of our methods to be universally approved. We do for all individuals. Accordingly, I fully programs that by planting the seeds of lead live in a pluralistic society-and if there are support the affirmative actiori concept ership we can attract large scale support some who think it may be a bit too pluralis when · it is practiced in a nondiscrimi from other sources. tic-or who yearn for simple answers, I But to be successful we must keep in mind remind them of the words from St. John: natory fashion. However, the use of who we are and where we're coming from. " In my Father's house are many mansions." quotas to further the progress of one As we have heard so many times, our Ameri We cannot work in cloister, insulated from group of individuals at the expense of can society can be divided into three parts: the world around us. But neither will we let others is a matter of serious concern First, there is the public sector-the govern the clamor and confusion of that world dis to me. By their very nature, quota sys ment-wielding enormous political power. tract us from our objectives. tems exclude some individuals in favor June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ~ 16845 of others-thereby rendering them in the doubt last week when they voted him start five players and four of them are herently discriminatory. into the lodge after what was reported to be black.' But then that person isn't equally We are a diverse people-all with careful scrutiny. concerned that another team starts four George Raveling, a black man who whites or five whites. Why doesn't he find unique characteristics and talents. We coaches the Washington State Cougar bas THAT alarming if he finds four black start are a united people, and that unity de ketball team when he is not writing columns ers alarming? That's where I have a prob pends on policies which are truly non for this newspaper, is inclined, for the lem.'' discriminatory. To set aside a group or moment at least, to go along with the NBA He also has a problem replacing five start an individual on the basis of race, Board of Governors. ers lost to graduation-any color will do creed, color, national origin, or sex to "One of the problems, from what I hear," and with the game of golf in general. While receive special privilege is, in my opin says George, who hears everything, "is that the rest of the Cougar athletic department ion, the antithesis of equal opportuni the guy has just never really dealt with the participated in a Monday morning golf tour ty for all. I have come across an excel public before. He's kind of a guy who in his nament with Seattle's WSU boosters, lent example of the inherent weak business has said whatever the hell he George demurred. Citing golf scores that wanted to his employees and associates and exceed most Cleveland Cavalier NBA scores, nesses in quota or numerically based of course, nobody was printing it. It wasn't George said, "Anybody who works that hard systems on the sports page of the Se on television and radio, and so now here he should at least get a 6-10 center for his attle Post-Intelligencer which I com is, he owns controlling interest in an NBA trouble."e mend to my colleagues' attention: team and he's making some remarks that [From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June are a little controversial." 15, 1980] Still, George isn't ready to buy Stepien's major premise. "It's a game that at the pres BARNABY CONRAD KEENEY ANsWER's NoT RACIAL QuoTAS ent time is dominated by blacks, tal ued, "is a veteran minor eight thousand bucks. a year at LaSalle and children. league manager at the time with years of he's under tremendous pressure. I know Barnaby Keeney was born in Oregon experience in Puerto Rico, was named to Paul well enough to know he'd be the first and educated at the University of manage the Indians. Robinson was not guy to tell you he was right on the border North Carolina where he did his un ready Stepien said. line of maybe losing that job at LaSalle. But Stepien later formed a slow-pitch softball he leaves there and goes to the Lakers and dergraduate work. He received both a league and fielded a team which had five all of a sudden, he's going from making masters and a Ph. D. from Harvard, blacks among its 15 players. $28,000 a year to $275,000 a year in two joined the faculty of Harvard Univer "It's the highest ratio in the league," Step years. sity and was an early volunteer to ien said, "but if I had 15 black players, I "Well now, are you going to tell me that serve in the Army during World War wouldn't have a person in the stands. in two years his coaching became that II. You're talking about a blue-collar, red-neck great? Things just don't happen like that.'' Dr. Keeney commanded an infantry factory worker going to see all blacks. I'd be Raveling has the capacity to keep his company in numerous battles during crazy to field an all-black team." head when all around him are losing In an interview in Rave magazine, a Cleve theirs-except when he's discussing one of World War II for which he received land publication, Stepien said in 1979, he his recruits. For the moment, he is not pre several high decorations for bravery in was trying to purchase the Cavaliers, who pared to call for Stepien's scalp, and, in fact, combat. Following the war, Dr. had at that time, 10 black players. says, "I think you probably need a guy like Keeney became an assistant professor "This is not to sound prejudiced," Stepien that. I think it's an issue that's discussed at of history at Brown University where was quoted as saying, "But half the squad the kitchen table, in the bars and in office in rapid succession he became a full would be white. I think people are afraid to conversations, and maybe you need that professor, dean of the faculty and, fi speak out on that subject. White people kind of splash in the face, the cold water nally, president. In 10 short years have to have white heroes. I myself can't effect, you know, just to get people think equate to black heroes. I'll be truthful. I re ing. It is an issue, it's just not on.e that under Keeney's leadership, that al spect them, but I need white people. It's in people want to talk about publicly. You ready splendid institution was en me. know, of course, that the NBA's done sur-_ larged and improved dramatically. "And I think the Cavs have too many veys on it and they say it's not true. There's Barnaby was possessed of a marvel blacks, 10 of 11. You need a blend of white been a number of magazine· articles on it, ously droll sense of humor of which I and black. I think that draws, and I think but I just think in the final analysis, win and many of his friends were the vic that's a better team." ning is going to overcome everything else. If tims for a long period of time. I had Asked about the quotes last week, Stepien you're playing exciting basketball and him said they were issued "in a context of mar you're winning, people are going to come see the honor of meeting when he keting. They do not mean I'm prejudiced." you. became the first chairman of the Na Not prejudiced? Other interpretations, of "It's kind of an argument you can't win," tional Endowment for the Humanities course, are available to anyone wishing to George says. "One person says you should which was created by a bill of which I give the man the benefit of the doubt. What have five blacks, then people are upset and was the original sponsor, along with appears to the naked eye to be bigotry may, say you should have more whites. If you say Representatives BRADEMAS, MooRHEAD, upon closer examination, be nothing more you should have more whites, the people Senators PELL, J AVITS, and others. His than a combination of candor and realism. are going to ... you know, regardless of tenure at the Humanities Endowment It is one thing to withhold patronage of a what you say, you end up being wrong. was nothing less than spectacularly business because of racial mixtures; it is Whatever you say ends up sounding like a quite another simply to recognize that these racist remark. successful. Upon leaving the endow flaws exist in society and to speak openly "The thing that would concern me," he ment, Dr. Keeney became chairman of about them. The NBA Board of Governors continued, "is if a person looks at the racial the consortium of the colleges and seemed willing to give Stepien the benefit of makeup of a team and says. 'These guys universities in the District of Colum- 16846 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 bia. He finished his academic career as Maryland Legislature, 1979: A bill to pro the Conservation Fund worms "have feelings, too." among those who he characterized as Thus, kids should not be involved in such HON. RAPHAEL MUSTO activities. the "Friends of Barnaby Keeney and OF PENNSYLVANIA Others."e Even the revered Jacques Cousteau, the man who has brought life under the sea IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES into millions of homes with incredibly de tailed television footage, has raised anglers' Wednesday, June 25, 1980 ANGLERS, HUNTERS TAKE BOLD adrenalin by inferring that sport fishing is a STEP TO PROTECT THEIR IN "perversion." The man is serious. • Mr. MUSTO. Mr. Speaker, it is with TERESTS AFIELD But if the Wildlife Legislative Fund of pleasure that I rise to extend a gra America and its educational arm, the Wild cious welcome to the new commanding life Conservation Fund of America, have officer of the Scranton Army Ammu HON. JOHN B. BREAUX their way, a great many things will change OF LOUISIANA nition Plant, Lieutenant Colonel Denis as far as the average person's outlook C. Dice. A native of Pittsburgh and a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES toward hunting, fishing and trapping is con cerned. 1960 graduate of the U.S. Military Wednesday, June 25, 1980 The WLFA and WCFA has opened a na Academy, Lieutenant Colonel Dice has e Mr. BREAUX. Mr. Speaker, emo tional affairs office in Washington, and the achieved an excellent record in his re tional responses to wildlife legislative two groups promise that, "For the first markable career. considerations should never be permit time, sportsmen are represented in the Na ted to replace sound principles of wild tion's Capital by an organization with the I would like to recount some of the life resource management. Too often a single purpose of protecting their right to highlights of Lieutenant Colonel vocal public minority vigorously sup hunt, fish, trap and to protect scientific Dice's career. Soon after graduation wildlife management practices." from the Military Academy, he attend ports legislative effort that in no Since January, 1979, the WLFA/WCFA manner are responsible positions for has participated in legislative fights spon ed New Mexico State University and the benefit of wildlife, fish, the envi sored by anti-hunting groups in 24 states, graduated in 1965 with an MSME ronment, or man. Recently the Wild and WLFA officers are pleased with the re degree. After a year in Vietnam as a life Legislative Fund of America and sults. Their side won in every instance. It's combat adviser to regional forces, he its education arm, the Wildlife Con been a long time since anyone has carried moved to West Point and was an as that much clout or fought back with such servation Fund of America, have intelligent, sensible arguments. sistant professor in mechanical engi opened an office in the Nation's Capi Small wonder then that its list of endors neering; teaching thermodynamics, tal to offer an alternative voice to the ers reads like the who's who of American fluid mechanics, and heat mass and various protectionist organizations wildlife: The National Wildlife Federation; momentum transfer. While at West concerned with wildlife matters on a Joe Foss, former American Football League Point, he attended Fairleigh Dickin Federal level. The WLFA and the commissioner; Ducks Unlimited; Wildlife son University and was awarded an WCFA are charged with a singular Management Institute; Sports Afield Maga zine. You name them, they are in favor of MBA degree-magna cum laude-with purpose of representing the heritage a major in management. Following a of sportsmen to hunt, to fish, and to WLFA/WCFA. The Washington staff, headed by an at tour in Korea with the 2d Infantry Di trap under the principles of sound and torney and experienced lobbyist in wildlife vision, he attended the Command and scientific resource management. Work matters, will keep close tabs on the Con General Staff College at Fort Leaven ing for the same goals at the State and gress, the Federal judicial system and the worth, Kans., and was then assigned local levels, I believe these organiza various administrative regulatory agencies. tions can offer substantive support Stephen S. Boynton will direct the day-to to Picatinny Arsenal where he was and counsel on the multitude wildlife day operations and keep the Columbus, chief of the Technical Support Divi issues facing our Nation. Ohio, headquarters of the WLFA/WCFA sion in the Office of the Project Man appraised of national activities that may ager for Base Modernization. Gene Mueller, outdoor writer for the affect sportsmen adversely. Boynton has Washington Star, has recently written been actively involved in such issues as en Lieutenant Colonel Dice has been an article concerning these organiza dangered species, international treaties con awarded the Combat Infantryman's tions, which I would like to share with cerning wildlife, Alaska lands legislation Badge, the Meritorious Service Medal, my colleagues. and, most 'recently, intervened on behalf of and the Bronze Star. He is a registered The article follows: hunters in a Federal suit brought by the De fenders of Wildlife. The suit would have professional engineer, a member of ANGLERS, HUNTERS TAKE BoLD STEP To greatly restricted the hunting of bobcats. the project manager development pro PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS AFIELD The WLFA/WCFA office in Washington gram and an avid handball player. . The list of attempts to stop legitimate is the first of five regional satellite outlets Colonel Dice, his wife Ann, and their sport hunting in the United States seems planned in the country to help offer a four children reside in Clarks Summit, endless: rather unique political service heretofore Pa. Illinois Legislature, 1979: A bill to stop known only to powerful special interest hunting in state parks. groups. We wish to extend our good wishes Texas Legislature, 1979 and last year's ses Currently the Wildlife Conservation Fund sion of the U.S. Congress: Bills to stop hunt of America is involved in a $4.5 million, na to Colonel Dice for continued success ing with dogs. tionwide fund-raising campaign to raise the and particularly in his command of Ohio Legislature, 1979: A bill that would organization's capital base. They remind the Scranton Army Ammunition have stopped all hunting. hunters and fishermen that donations to Plant.e June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16847 THE BITTERNESS OF MIAMI cries from the community become to provide jobs for blacks and other minor deafening. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Carl ities. But he found, as president, that he Rowan has written a good column on couldn't buck institutionalized racism, or HON. LOUIS STOKES override the handicaps of inferior education the reasons for the riot and the inci- and lack of training imposed upon minor oF OHIO dent with President Carter. At this ities by years of discrimination-especially IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time, with your permission, I enter in a time when Americans were clamoring Wednesday, June 25, 1980 that column in the CONGRESSIONAL against "reverse discrimination," berating e Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, in RECORD: social programs, demanding more money for defense programs. recent weeks, we have read and heard BLAcKs SouR oN CARTER Many blacks argue that if Carter had a lot about the riot in Miami. The MIAMI.-It is painful and distressing to see been a better leader, Americans would not media has predicted that we will expe- President Carter's motorcade pelted by have drifted to the right to a point where rience a long, hot summer. Still others rocks and bottles thrown by blacks, the very they reject compassion, social and court h people who voted for him so overwhelming- h ave specu 1a t e d on w h a t caused sue ly that they gave him the 1976 election. room justice and vote proudly for Ku Klux Klansmen. an uproar. Some of the president's aides may tell him Carter's relationship with blacks is likely Miami was an uproar but it was not to forget the Miami incident-that the rocks to sour even further, and it is not pleasant sudden. It just happens that America and bottles came from "the street people," to ponder the impact that this will have on has not been listening to the cries of from that black world of cloutless people the fall elections.e despair of the welfare mother, the un- who are not likely to vote in November employed youth, or to the minorities anyhow. in this country who have been dis- But Carter surely is aware by now that PERSONAL EXPLANATIO~ criminated against time and time the other black world where people wear again. Mr. Speaker, it took only one ties and speak politely, the world of the incident to turn the volume up on this Congressional Black Caucus, also is plenty HON. ALLEN E. ERTEL angry at him. OF PENNSYLVANIA Pandora's box so that all of America The street people are enraged because IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would take note. they are the direct victims of Carter's eco- This is a sad commentary on our so- nomic policies. They are the humans behind Wednesday, June 25, 1980 ciety. It seems as though we always the statistics showing that while nationwide e Mr. ERTEL. Mr. Speaker, yesterday snap to attention when the fire engine unemployment has jumped to 7.8% it is only I was unavoidable absent during the sirens start blaring. Other times, we 6.9% for whites but 13.9% for blacks. Teen- ·f · age rock-throwers are grim reminders that House deliberations on three bills. Be sit back peacef ully as 1 we were m a · idle youth Herbert Wehner, Vorsitzender der SPD Bundestagsfraktion, Heinz Westphal, only American coal.e autonomy in the occupied territories Manfred Schulte, Helga Timm, Hell have begun once again. The Venice mut Sieglerschmidt, gez. Siegler declaration calls for the association of schmidt, Waltraud Steinhauer, Engel WEST GERMANY AND CAMP the PLO with any further negotiations bert Sander, Ulrich DUbber, Renate DAVID concerning the Middle East conflict. Lepsius, Frolinde Balser, Karl-Arnold The mere recognition of such a terror Eickmeyer, Georg Leber, Vizepra.si HON. LESTER L. WOLFF ist organ, which includes AI Fatah and dent des Deutschen Bundestages, Black September in its ranks, is a dan Marie Schlei, Gerhard Jahn, Manfred OF NEW YORK gerous threat to the entire peace proc Gebner, Vizepra.sident der Beratenden IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Versammlung des Europarates, Wil ess and to what has already been ac helm Nobel, Annemarie Renger.e Wednesday, June 25, 1980 complished. • Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I would I commend the parliamentary group like to introduce into the REcoRD an of the Social Democratic Party of the FEDERAL INCOME TAX CUTS extremely encouraging statement of Bundestag for their recognition of the support for President Carter's Camp Camp David agreement and its associ HON. DONALD J. PEASE David peace initiative from the parlia ated negotiations as the one and only means for achieving the just and last OF OHIO mentary group of the Social Demo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cratic Party of the Bundestag. The ing peace in the Middle East which we Federal Republic of Germany has all desire so much. The statement of Wednesday, June 25, 1980 been the most consistent and support the parliamentary group follows: • Mr. PEASE. Mr. Speaker, as we get ive of our Western European allies MAY 27, 1980. closer and closer to November, more through the recent months of interna Mr. LEsTER L. WOLFF, people have begun blowing the 'dust tional crisis and tension. West Ger Chairman of Select Committee on Narcotics off the old Kemp-Roth tax cut bill or many implemented significant eco Abuse and Control, House Office Build similar colossal-sized, across-the-board nomic sanctions against Iran and has ing, Washington D. C., U.S.A. Federal income tax cuts. Fortunately, been an unrelenting supporter of the DEAR SIR: Allow me to present a statement to you concerning the peace negotiations or unfortunately for the proponents of United States throughout the hostage based upon the Camp David Agreement, such measures, taking the dust off crisis, despite the hardships these ac which has been signed by members of the these proposals and exposing them to tions may cause the West German parliamentary group of the Social Demo the light of day reveals that they people. cratic Party in the Bundestag and empha promise much but deliver nothing-at The Soviet Union's savage invasion sizes the resolve fully to support the efforts least nothing that anyone would want of Afghanistan last December was met undertaken by the United States to achieve to claim credit for. by United States-West German soli further progress in the peace process. Exactly as done in 1978, the latest darity in the form of a mutual boycott With the expression of my highest large tax cut proposals are advertised of the Moscow summer Olympics. I esteem, with prominent mention of the Ken need not remind you of the level of ANNEMARIE RENGER. nedy-Johnson tax cuts of 1964 and support this important action has re 1965 and much fanfare over how a rel ceived from the rest of our allies. The STATEMENT atively small tax cut wildly exceeded contribution of West Germany to In the light of the negotiations which are Treasury's expectations. Large in NATO defense efforts is more costly in at present being conducted between Israel creases in revenue are attributed to the human terms of number of troops and Egypt with the participation of the that measure as -are reduced unem maintained on station via a draft than United States in order to resolve the Middle ployment and a generally improved East issue, we wish to reaffirm that the that of any other NATO nation. They path which the United States has taken in economy. have accepted the controversial instal making the Camp David Agreement possible While the economy did certainly im lation of American tactical nuclear was not only courageous, but represents the prove after about 1965-66, the credit weapons on their native soil. These only realistic step which can lead to Arab-Is cannot and should not be given solely specific instances of West German raeli reconciliation. In fact, this Agreement to the Kennedy tax cuts. As in most support of the foreign and defense has already made it possible for peace to be every national economic change, a policies of the United States are concluded between Egypt and Israel. number of factors must be considered merely a set of examples of the affin We believe that the vital interests of the and the siren song of across-the-board ity that exists between the German western world can only be served by a policy tax cuts must be heard carefully of steadfast and constant support of the and American people. I would like to present peace process which is based on Se before the Congress commits itself to thank the West German people for curity Council Resolutions 242 and 338. tens of billions of dollars in hopeful their courage and resolve in interna Israel has a right to existence within secure anticipation. tional affairs. I regret, however, the and recognized borders. For example: Federal revenues did recent participation of the West We are deeply convinced that the West increase after the Kennedy tax cuts. German Government in the European needs to take concerted action in order to However, what proponents of a huge Council's Venice declaration. The promote stability in the Middle East. In otir new tax cut today fail to remind us is Council's concern for the establish opinion, it is inadmissible to equate the that only part of those revenues came ment of a just and lasting peace in the Soviet Union's armed aggression in Afghani stan with the tragic problems of the Arab from increased individual income tax Middle East is shared by myself and Israeli conflict. The fate of the 50 hostages feedback. Additionally, revenue came all Americans. held in Tehran must not be linked to this from separate and unrelated payroll However, I believe that the history conflict. tax-social insurance-increases and of the Arab-Israeli conflict clearly Relations between the western world and the 1966 Tax Act. demonstrates that the most meaning the countries of Muslim persuasion, too, In any event, the Kennedy tax cuts ful progress toward solving this dilem depend in no small measure on unity be were not offered merely as a way to ma has been made within the frame tween the United States and the countries hand out $14 billion, but were de work of the Camp David agreement. of Western Europe. This also applies to signed to stimulate-through in The careful and successful negotiation making secure the vital supply of energy. creased demand-the economy and We favour a just peace in the Middle East of any agreement as complex as that and believe that at the present juncture it result in at least some revenue feed required to solve the problems of the can, also as regards Palestinian self-determi back effects. Arab-Israeli dispute must be conduct nation, only be found within the framework Those citing the Kennedy tax cuts ed slowly in a step-by-step manner. of the Camp David Agreement. We wish to as proof that a huge tax cut will work The inclusion of Jordan into the assure you, that this Agreement has our in 1980 fail to mention that one very 16852 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 large reason unemployment declined an effective and vocal spokesman for cent of its expenditures to older persons. By markedly was that escalation of the the rights of all working men and the year 2030, the commitment may exceed women and for the Nation they 40 per cent. Vietnam war had begun-taking thou Is the social security system running out sands of otherwise employable people served. Paul was one of a relatively of money? No. Because of the law enacted in out of the labor pool through con small group of seamen who joined to 1977, the experts estimate that the old age scription. In 1964, for example, the gether in 1938 to organize the SIU. He and disability insurance programs-"social Department of Defense manpower knew at firsthand the problems of the security" to most people-will be solvent for level-excluding Coast Guard-was men who man our ships for he sailed years to come unless the economy fails to 2,693,000. In 1968 that figure had himself as a wiper and as an oiler. He improve at all. The old age insurance pro grown to 3,435,000 men and women knew the men who were his shipmates gram may face a shortfall in the 1980's due who were no longer available for the and he devoted his life to improving to high inflation and unemployment, but the problem can be corrected by such meas domestic work force. their wages and working conditions ures as the reallocation of monies from the The Vietnam war also put to work and as we know, he was an articulate disability and hospital insurance programs American productive capacity that and outspoken proponent of a strong following story from the Marshall Among his many valuable contribu Geerds, who distinguished themselves in the News Messenger gives insight into the tions to the community was a project jungles of New Guinea during World War strong character and fine aspirations II. of our new president, and I commend that embodied his spirit of patriotism. Those flags will also honor all Holland It involved the placing of 30 American veterans who have served, and in several it to the attention of my colleagues flags around Holland's Memorial Sta cases gave their lives, so that freedom could and the Nation: dium, a display which would honor be enjoyed by the Danish immigrant, all the No PRACTICAL FATHER'S DAY GIFTS FOR Holland veterans who served in World other immigrants and the thousands of Hol STATE BAR PRESIDENT War II and serve as an inspiration to land native-born. those who would watch the flags While the rest of us were concerned about The new president of the State Bar of unfurl. the mud on the stadium turf, this man was suggesting the multiple flag idea as a per Texas isn't telling what he got for Father's The dreams of this Danish immi fect way to accent the stadium. His idea was Day on the grounds that it may incriminate grant became a reality, and thousands him. accepted. His only son, Franklin Jones III, works in of Holland, Mich., residents will d~ To insure its success he gave generously of light as the flags unfurl above Memo Galveston and thus was not available for his own funds and inspired fellow members the witness box. rial Stadium. And despite his vision of the Holland Exchange Club to do like Daughter Terry Jones would only admit and patriotism in pushing for the wise. These were followed by other gifts that she did not plan to get anything practi American flag display when others from friends including the Louis Padnos cal for her dad. had other priorities at the stadium, Foundation and it provided another chance for the Holland Community Foundation to "He always buys what he needs or wants, this Danish immigrant-Peter Kro coordinate worthwhile civic efforts. Contri so I don't give him practical things," Terry mann-will never see the impressive butions may be sent to Holland Community testified during a brief visit in her father's display, not that it will diminish the Foundation at 1 East Eighth St. office at the law firm of Jones, Jones & pride and patriotism in his heart as he To this man Old Glory has a special Baldwin, Inc. hears the flapping of Old Glory in the She confessed that her tall, handsome dad meaning. is a conservative dresser, except on Christ breeze. But, because of his blindness, Because this man is a special person. mas Day. Trying to suppress a giggle, Terry Peter Kromann will never see Old There was a time when he saw the ·red, blurted, "On Christmas he wears red pants Glory above Memorial Stadium as will white and blue flag blazing its colors across with red and green Christmas trees on thousands of us who have less vision. the sky. Now this man, this patriot with pride in his heart, will just hear its distinc them." Mr. Speaker, I would like to share tive flapping in the gentle breeze or gusty Jones, comfortably at ease on the over with my colleagues a very touching ed sized leather office sofa, listened and wind. watched, smiling good-naturedly while his itorial tribute to Peter Kromann The man is Peter Kromann. which appeared in the June 12 Hol daughter chatted. It has been years since Peter Kromann "On Father's Day she always gives me a land Sentinel: saw a U.S. flag. card that compares her favorably to me," A MAN WITH VISION He has never seen the stadium. Jones chimed in. An immigrant from Denmark had an idea. Peter Kromann is blind. Do they have serious father-daughter dis It was something he remembered all of his But he saw his idea take shape and cussions? "Yeah, but she seldom listens;" life and knew some day it would be a reality. become reality. And because he fulfilled his Jones quipped jokingly while his daughter Recalling his youth, he thrilled to see dream, he has seen more than the rest of took the Fifth Amendment on that ques flags in the stadiums of his native land. us.• tion. Why not do the same thing in his adopted He gave her an Irish setter for Christmas land and in the city he came to love? NEW PRESIDENT OF STATE BAR two years ago. "If you could have seen us When he arrived on these shores as a cleaning up after that puppy and all the young man, he quickly adopted the United OF TEXAS trouble he got into, you would know why we States as the land of opportunity and suc named him Troubles," Jones remarked. cess. And as the years passed, he grew to HON. SAM B. HALL, JR. Wife Liz, the former Elizabeth Francisco know this nation as the greatest place on of Houston, is generally the presiding judge earth. OF TEXAS at their home. It was here he could select his vocation, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES They all went to Nashville recently for a earn his living, choose a bride and raise a Wednesday, June 25, 1980 combined business and pleasure trip. Jones family. Today, he and his wife celebrate represented Texas at the annual meeting of their 52nd wedding anniversary. • Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Tennessee Bar Association and then en He came to love this nation, its freedoms just recently an outstanding young at joyed what he called a delightful, historical and for what it stands. torney from my hometown of Mar- day. 16854 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 "We saw two things I really enjoyed-the tions of the former attorney general who Soviet authorities have charged them reconstruction of the Parthenon-fabulous went to Iran recently on his own personal with possession of resources. Although ly done-and The Hermitage, Andrew Jack mission to negotiate for the release of the several trial dates have been set for son's home," Jones informed. hostages. the Abranzons their case has never That gives an insight into the personal "I don't believe any individual should con family relationship of the professional man duct foreign policy. It must be conducted by been brought before a judge. They who defied his superstitious nature when he the State Department," the Marshallite remain imprisoned without trial, iso took the prestigious office as head of the stated emphatically. He predicted Clark and lated from their family and friends. Texas Bar on Friday the 13th. his companions on the trip to Iran are It is my belief that the releasing and "I'm super superstitious! I won't let an "going to look up and find themselves in the granting of exit visas by the Soviet umbrella be opened in the house or a hat be courthouse." Union to the Abranzons would not on the bed," he candidly revealed. The Marshall attorney allowed there may only indicate to the world that coun With an easy chuckle, the third genera be a lot of honors to go along with his presi tion lawyer said he approached the office dency of the State Bar, but the most touch try's compliance with the Helsinki ac "like an old landlubber who came up on the ing thing to him was the luncheon accorded cords, but would also affirm its desire ocean for the first time. He looked at all him by the Harrison County Bar Associ to ameliorate relations between our that water and said 'that's the first time I ation. Local president Joe Hughey led a two great nations. This action would ever saw anything that there was enough large delegation of lawyers and their wives be particularly significant, coming at a of.'" attending the Wednesday noon event at the time of increased tension between the He has a long lineage of lawYers to back Belo Mansion, the Dallas Bar Center. United States and the U.S.S.R. him up for the big job. Grandfather S. P. "He is the first president of the State Bar Jones founded the firm he is associated from Marshall and we are overly proud of I am deeply concerned over the with. Maternal grandfather G. N. Harrison him and of our link with the association," Soviet Union's disturbing treatment of was a judge in Brownwood, but his closest Hughey said. its Jewish citizens and ask that it tutelage came from his father, Franklin Special guests included Lucius Bunton, abide by its international commit Jones Sr. the former State Bar president who re ments by relaxing restrictions on im "Whatever I've accomplished, it's been be signed to accept a Federal appointment as migration policies. I look forward to cause of him," the man called Junior said. Western District judge at El Paso, and the day when there is no longer any "He made it possible for me to go to law Charles Griggs, vice president of the State need for such pleas-the day when school and has helped and encouraged me Bar. families can be reunited in Israel.e in everything I have done." Seeing his son's installation was, no doubt, His professional credentials include the an early and rewarding Father's Day experi B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Texas ence for Franklin Jones Sr. But determining at Austin. He was admitted to the Texas Franklin Jones Jr.'s best Father's Day gift TIME TO CONSIDER EXTENDING Bar in 1953 and recalls that his most chal may require the third degree.e METRO lenging case came when he had less than a year's experience. Jones and Scott Baldwin within the District of Columbia on the Metrorail system, and to insure O> shall require the Transit high pollution, and an unconscionable It is so important that we move Authority to submit to the Secretary of waste of energy at a time when our Transportation and the Congress, not later ahead with transportation planning than 18 months after the date the contract Nation is struggling for energy inde without delay. Within the Congress, I is entered into pursuant to subsection (a)(l), pendence. think it is important that we act a report on the study conducted under such Fortunately, we planned the 101- promptly because we have a House contract, which report shall contain pro mile Metro system to allow for exten and a Senate that has already demon posed routes for each proposed rail rapid sion into growth areas, and now is the strated its support for the Metro transit line extension specified in subsection time to start considering the use of system through the approval of my O>. rail transit to relieve increasing con earlier bill. "(c)(l) The contract entered into pursuant gestion in Virginia's I-95 and route 7 to subsection (a)(l) shall provide for a Fed The Representatives and Senators eral contribution to be paid by the Secre corridors, and along route 50 and I-270 know Metro, they understand its im tary of Transportation to the Transit Au in Maryland. Growth in these areas portance and its contribution to the thority to pay for the costs of carrying out has continued at a very heavy pace, quality of life in this region, and we the contract. but in many cases, rights-of-way have cannot afford to let that support slip "(2) The amount of the Federal contribu been preserved. away. tion paid pursuant to paragraph ( 1 > shall Specifically, my bill calls for study Metro has proven its worth, -both as an not exceed an amount equal to 80 percent of of: energy-saving transportation system, the costs of carrying out the contract en Extending to Burke the Springfield/ tered into pursuant to subsection (a)(l). and as a boon to regional economic "(d) Effective October 1, 1981, there is au Franconia yellow line from Alexan growth. Business near existing or thorized to be appropriated to the Secretary dria, which is scheduled to be complet planned Metrorail stations are of Transportation to carry out this section · ed by 1985, an extension of 10 miles thriving, and it is time we began plan $1,500,000.".• along the old Southern Railway route; ning for our future transportation Providing service to Reston/Dulles needs by considering the extension of by building an 18-mile rail line branch Metrorail to Burke and other fast A TRIBUTE TO CLIFFORD EVANS ing off from the orange line at the growing areas beyond the beltway. West Falls Church station to the The text of my legislation follows: HON. LESTER L. WOLFF Dulles access road, and running along H.R. 7658 OF NEW YORK the access road's median strip to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Reston and the airport; A bill to amend the National Capital Trans portation Act of 1969 to require the Secre Wednesday~ June 25, 1980 Stretching the red line up to 6 miles tary of Transportation to contract with the beyond the Shady Grove station along Washington Metropolitan Area Transit e Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise the B. & 0. railroad right-of-way to Authority for a comprehensive study of today in recognition of the outstand Gaithersburg/Germantown area; extending the rail rapid transit line speci ing work of Clifford Evans, the Wash Extending the blue line as much as fied in the Adopted Regional System ington ·bureau chief of RKO General 13 miles from its planned Addison Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Broadcasting. I have known Mr. Evans Road terminus to Bowie, via the Capi Representatives of the United States of for quite some time and have always tal Centre at Largo, a plan already en America in Congress assembled, that the been impressed with his administra dorsed by the Prince Georges County National Capital Transportation Act of 1969 tive and reporting capacity. Recently, Council; and O> The Secretary of Tran dinner. This was a remarkable honor, studied under my proposal-could sportation shall contract with the Transit for Mr. Evans was the first broadcast prove to be an extremely cost-effective Authority for a comprehensive study of the journalist to win the award. method of saving energy and preserv feasibility, including preliminary engineer Mr. Evans was honored for his ing the environment in these growth ing, of extending rail rapid transit lines- ¥arch 12 reports from Jerusalem on "(A) from the vicinity of Virginia Route 7 positive changes in the stalled Middle areas. Tunneling beneath downtown on the Virginia Interstate 66 Route of the Washington streets was a major factor Adopted Regional System to the Dulles In East peace talks. Mr. Evans had trav in Metro's high cost that is now large ternational Airport; eled with President Carter to Israel ly behind us. "(B) from the vicinity of Virginia Inter and Egypt for the President's meet I am pleased that Representative state Route 95 and the proposed Springfield ings with Prime Minister Begin and FORTNEY (PETE) STARK, chairman of rail rapid transit station of the Adopted Re- President Sadat. Mr. Evans broadcast, 16856 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 in the face of pessimistic reports in [From the New York Times, June 22, 1980] fishhooks do not cause the catching of fish, other stories, "pointed to the possibil NUCLEAR CRITIC'S SECOND-STRIKE CAPABILITY since this also involves rods, reels and GETS TESTED anglers." Thus they conclude that eliminat ity of the unbelievable happening in ing civilian reactors would indeed enable the that unbelievable part of the world," Japan: using existing BOMBS vilian research program, and the Carter Ad technology to make cars get 70 to 80 miles ministration decided last week to continue to a gallon and houses that require only a to fuel India's reactors. Israel is believed to fraction of the fuel they now consume; en HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY have developed a bomb capability, also sur couraging factories to convert waste into OF MASSACHUSETTS reptitiously. South Africa may have it, too, gas; installing compact generators where IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and others are clearly close. the power is used so leftover heat can warm But in the current issue of Foreign Af rooms instead of rivers. These alternatives Wednesday, June 25, 1980 fairs, three authors-Amory B. Lovins, a will be costly, he concedes, but not as costly physicist, L. Hunter Lovins, Mr. Lovins' wife as nuclear power plants. Indeed, he points e Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, I and an attorney, and Leonard Ross, a pro out that capital spent on uneconomic reac would like to submit for consideration fessor of law at the University of California, tors is capital not available for more effec by my colleagues two newspaper ac Berkeley-question the premise that nucle tive ways to cut oil consumption. counts of a recent important article in ar power is a necessary, o"r even effective, But even if Mr. Lovin's argument is eco foreign affairs. The article is entitled way to reduce the world's oil dependence. nomically sound, is it politically possible? "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs" They contend that the global business of "There's a certain amount of inertia oper and is authored by Amory B. Lovins, a selling nuclear power plants is already col ating here," said an aide to Senator John lapsing from an "incurable attack of market Glenn, Democrat of Ohio, who has made physicist and consultant on energy forces." Only by offering an alternative the proliferation issue one of his specialties. policy; his wife L. Hunter Lovins, a energy strategy, they argue, can the nuclear "There are countries that have simply made lawyer; and Leonard Ross, a former powers hope to prevent wanton prolifera commitments to nuclear power. To suggest California Public Utility Commission tion. that they might give it up is unrealistic. er who now teaches law at the Univer In 1976, also writing in Foreign Affairs, There have been attempts to get coopera sity of California, Berkeley. Mr. Lovins thrust himself into the epicenter tive action before, and all of them have of the energy debate with the proposition failed. Lovins is only talking about the stage The principal message of the article that the world could choose between what at which you want to take sanctions." is that export of civilian nuclear reac he called "hard" and "soft" energy technol Others argued that, even if sanctions were tors has resulted in wanton prolifera ogies. Hard technologies were epitomized by possible and if no other reactors were built, tion of nuclear weapons capability central power- stations-large, concentrated, it was too late to dismantle the worldwide around the globe. The authors argue and therefore vulnerable, as well as raven network of nuclear powerplants without for a fundamental reassessment of ous of capital and inherently disruptive to leaving a significant amount of weapons U.S. nonproliferation policy and U.S. society. Soft technologies were such small grade material behind. Still others said Mr. promotion of nuclear power. scale affairs as neighborhood generating Lovins had actually brought little new to stations-more manageable and more ac the issue, since each leg of his argument I quote from the article: ceptable, he said. He contended that an had already appeared in some other forum. With trivial exceptions unimportant to energy system of many small building "His first article was a seminal piece of this argument-radioisotope production re blocks would be cheaper yet more reliable work," said Alan McGowan, president of the actors, large particle accelerators, proposed than the centralized systems chosen in the Scientists' Institute for Public Information, fusion reactors-every known civilian route past. He called for a national energy policy a public-interest group that disseminates in to bombs involves either nuclear power or that abandoned nuclear power, relied on a formation on technological affairs. "This materials and technologies whose posses modest increase in coal to fuel the transi one is a neatly constructed argument that sion, indeed whose existence in commerce, is tion to renewable energy and, above all, ties a lot of odds and ends together. But it's a direct and essential consequence of nucle stemmed energy demand by recapturing tre not in the same class, and it's not as con ar fission power. Apologists, apparently in mendous amounts of wasted energy. vincing." tending to be reassuring, often state none Although he is still considered a dreamer Mr. Lovins concedes that he tends to theless that since power reactors themselves by many in the energy industries, most spe gather the best thinking of others, to are only one of eight ways to make cialists concede that his view of the future "cross-pollinate the grapevine," as he puts bombs, restraining power reactors is like has so far been more right than wrong. The it. But he dismisses doubts that his ap sticking a thumb in one of eight holes in a growth in energy consumption has plunged proach can succeed in the real world as dike. But the other holes were made by the even more than he suggested was possible, symptoms of the pessimism that has settled same drill. Arguing that reactors have little coal has steadily increased its share of the over the antiproliferation effort. "I think to do with bombs is like arguing that fish energy market and the nuclear reactor busi we have an extraordinary opportunity over hooks do not cause the catching of fish, ness has fizzled-starting long before the the next year or so to take advantage of the since this can also involve rods, reels, and Three Mile Island accident last year. So the collapse of nuclear power to stop prolifera anglers • • • reaction to Mr. Lovins's second strike has tion just when it seems to be getting out of been cautious. hand," he said. "If other countries don't·see Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to "There's enough importance in his basic those advantages, we are not obliged to read this crucial article, particularly in arguments not to dismiss them out of hand follow their folly. It's like the debate over light of the current controversy over by any means," said Donald R. Westervelt, the SST. Some people went ahead and built an arms control specialist with Los Alamos the Concorde, which has turned out to be the shipment of enriched reactor Scientific Laboratories. "I think he is being an economic disaster. Others were smart grade uranium to India. There is no recognized as a guy who is really trying to enough to develop jumbo jets instead." greater threat to U.S. and world secu think the problem through. The question is rity than the promiscuous spread of whether there are any economic errors in [From the New York Times, June 19, 1980] nuclear weapons capability to country his analysis, and that is something we after country around the globe. intend to look into." POWER OF THE MARKET I would be happy to obtain copies of In the current article, the authors assert that every known civilian route to bombs in WASHINGTON, June 18.-The arguments this article for interested Members of volves nuclear reactors or their byproducts. for and against nuclear power have come to Congress. "Arguing that reactors have little to do with seem at the same time familiar to us and The articles follow: bombs," they state, "is like arguing that numbingly difficult to resolve. But the June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS '16857 terms of the debate may be changing. New operated and monitored so they do not pro coin, The Crucible of Congress." We served circumstances, new facts put the old issues duce material of practical use in making together in Congress for sixteen years and in a different light-and greatly strengthen bombs. became good friends. Not only was I glad to the case against nuclear plants to generate All present power reactors produce, as read this book because of this friendship, electricity. waste, what is called "reactor-grade plutoni but also for another reason. Findley repre That is the message of a provocative arti um," which for various reasons has been sents Lincoln's old district. I represented cle in the summer issue of Foreign Affairs, considered impractical as material for the old district of Alexander H. Stephens of just out. It is a disturbing piece, one that bombs. But in fact, the authors say, govern Georgia who was a Whig too, and was in the means to shake assumptions on a funda ments or "some subnational groups" could 1847-48 Congress with Lincoln. mental subject and does. Its scientific points make it into bombs as good as those now If you like old-fashioned history, you will will be debated by the experts. But much of made from "weapons-grade plutonium"-or, like this book. It just tells a story. It is its logic rests on practical arguments that alternatively, power reactors could be oper about Abraham Lincoln's one term as a ought to be meaningful to politicians and ated so as to produce the latter without Whig member of the House. It is more read ordinary citizens in a democracy. greatly increasing costs or being detected. able than Claude Bowers' The Tragic Era, The piece, called "Nuclear Power and Nu "We cannot have nuclear power without and more scholarly than Jim Bishop's The clear Bombs," is by Amory B. Lovins, a proliferation," they conclude, "because safe Day Lincoln was Shot, both of which em physicist and consultant on energy policy; guards cannot succeed either in principle or phasize a short span of time in this era. his wife L. Hunter Lovins, a lawyer, and in practice." But ending the nuclear power At the outset the author states his thesis: Leonard Ross, a former California Public program would make it possible to limit the to dispell a "myth" advanced by Lincoln's Utility Commissioner who now teaches law spread of weapons and detect breaches of law partner, William H. Herndon, who al at the University of California, Berkeley. international controls, because goods and leged that "Lincoln was a failure in Con Amory Lovins, published a groundbreaking services now used for both reactors and gress." Findley points out that "The near article on the "soft path" in energy-the de bombs would then be "unambiguously mili unanimity with which Lincoln's biographers velopment of renewable resources-in For tary in intent." have embraced this myth is startling.... " eign Affairs four years ago. That became a Is it "a fantastic, unrealistic, unachievable Having taken his stand, the author defends basic reference point in the energy debate, goal" to wind down nuclear power pro it admirably, never losing sight of his objec and the new piece may well have the same grams? No, the authors say; governments tive. kind of impact. would just have to obey the economic prin The writer makes Lincoln a warm person. We have assumed, the article says, that ciples to which they profess allegiance. He is not portrayed from some psycho-ana the worldwide spread of nuclear power is They would just have to stop applying lytical viewpoint nor as a clairvoyant or economically desirable, is necessary to "heroic measures to resuscitate and artifi seer. Lincoln is pictured as a part of his reduce dependence on oil and can be regu cially sustain the victim of an incurable background, and is shown in the setting of lated by international agreement so that it attack of market forces." the fascinating details of Washington and will not lead to the proliferation of nuclear "To abandon nuclear power," they say, Congress. The author highlights the effect weapons. The authors squarely challenge "does not require any government to em those years had on Lincoln's life which led those assumptions. brace anti-nuclear sentiment or rhetoric. It to his presidency. Nuclear power stations, they say, have can love nuclear power-provided it loves Congressman Findley from nineteen turn~q out to be much more costly than the market more.e years' experience h...s skillfully woven into conventional generating plants. Between the Congressional career of Lincoln a com 1971 and 1978, one study shows, the capital parison with the pay, practices, and proce cost per kilowatt went up twice as fast for ABE LINCOLN, THE CRUCIBLE dures of today's Congress and has come up nuclear as for coal plants, even including OF CONGRESS with many amazing similarities. the need for the latter to meet rigorous There are two other features in this book antipollution standards. Nuclear now costs which I find delightful. One is the revival of 50 percent more than coal, and tighter HON. PAUL SIMON a history book with pictures. Not pictures safety regulation after Three Mile Island OF ILLINOIS lumped in the middle but pictures where will increase the differential. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES they ought to be. When Mary Todd Lincoln That economic reality is reflected in the is introduced, her picture is right there. market. All over the world, plans for instal Wednesday, June 25, 1980 When General Zachary Taylor's campaign lation of nuclear generating plants have • Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, the other is launched as the Whig candidate for presi been cut way back. The United States, day I happened to spot a book review dent, the campaign banner and contempo Brazil, West Germany: all kinds of societies rary drawings are right there. And scattered have simply found the cost too forbidding. in the Georgia Historical Review by through the pages at appropriate places are Only in such centrally-planned economies our former colleague in the House, not only pictures of Lincoln's contemporar as those of France and the Soviet Union "is Robert G. Stephens, Jr. And the book ies, but also numerous heretofore unpub bureaucratic power sufficient to override he was reviewing is the Lincoln book lished depictions of Lincoln. economic facts"-and even in the U.S.S.R. written by our respected colleague, The second other delightful feature is the the building of nuclear plants is way behind PAUL FINDLEY. earnest desire of Findley to add to the stat target. · The book is "Abe Lincoln, the Cruci ure of President Lincoln. This is indeed re Nor, they say, is nuclear power a rational ble of Congress." . freshing when it seems the most popular substitute for oil. Nuclear plants make elec thing today is to cast stones at any person tricity, and only about a tenth of the Bob Stephens notes that Lincoln in public life whether dead or alive. world's oil goes for that purpose. Most of it served in Congress with Alexander H. Perhaps, too, I like this book because it is used for such things as vehicular fuel and Stephens, from the same district Bob proves something few people nowadays do petrochemical feedstocks. Stephens represented with such dis not even suspect-all Congressmen are not So the most massive increases in nuclear tinction in the House. But unfortu numbskulls. power would have little effect on the urgent nately our former colleague does not RoBERT G. STEPHENS, Jr., questions of world oil prices and supplies. tell us in the review whether he is re Athens, Georgia.e For example, quadrupling Japan's nuclear capacity by the year 1990 would reduce its lated to the other Stephens. dependence on imported oil by about 10 per Bob Stephens also reflects a little of ON COMPANY BUSINESS cent. his personal philosophy in the review, "Most governments," the article says, noting that FINDLEY aqds "to the stat "have viewed the energy problem as simply ure of President Lincoln. This is HON. LARRY McDONALD how to supply more energy of any type, indeed refreshing when it seems the OF GEORGIA from any source, at any price, to replace most popular thing today is to cast IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oil-as if demand were homogeneous." But stones at any person in public life Wednesday, June 25, 1980 in fact the price and nature of nuclear whether dead or alive." power make it economically viable for only • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, ear about 4 percent of all energy uses. I insert the review in the RECORD for my colleagues to read. lier this month, the Public Broadcast As to proliferation of nuclear weapons, ing Service provided prime tele the article makes some new and extremely "Abe Lincoln, The Crucible of Congress," worrying technical arguments. It challenges by Paul Findley. "On Company Business" is a major spreading to countries that do not now have I was pleased when invited to review Con attack on the intelligence services of them: that power reactors can be designed, gressman Paul Findley's book, "Abe Lin- the United States, and was a major ve- CXXVI--1061-Part 13 16858 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 hicle for the CIA defector, Philip democratic principles. They said: "It will be as Salvador Allende, the late Marxist presi- · Agee, to further vent his hatred for a powerful weapon in arousing public opin dent of Chile, making statements supportive America. ion by documenting the contemptuous ac of Agee's thesis. It included clips relating to tions being perpetrated in our name." torture in Iran under the shah with the im Reed Irvine, chairman of the highly It would be remarkable if a project that plication that this was instigated by the regarded "media watchdog," Accuracy had been described in this manner by its CIA. It included film of the trial of merce- in Media, has taken this matter up producers had been transformed four years . naries recruited by the CIA to fight in with PBS and, for the information of later into a fair, balanced, highly responsi Angola and interviews with parents of these my colleagues I attach a copy of his ble overview of the CIA's history. or mercenaries who had been killed. letter of June 11 to Lawrence K. Our analysis of the final product indicates The archival material also included such Grossman, the president of the Public that the final product conformed closely to things as a shot of a New York Times news Broadcasting Service and to his trust the above description that the producers story alleging that the CIA had supported a submitted to prospective donors in 1976. trucker's strike in Chile. The allegation was ees. Philip Agee was the principal insider em subsequently admitted to be untrue, but it is Mr. Irvine's letter follows: ployed to narrate the CIA record. As Ter presented in this film as part of the histori JUNE 11, 1980. rence O'Flaherty, TV critic of the San Fran cal record. Mr. LAWRENCE K. GROSSMAN, cisco Chronicle has said, the final product is On the other hand the little archival ma President, Public Broadcasting Service not a documentary but rather "it is an at terial that might be considered supportive Washington, D. C. tempt to document one man's opinion of the of views contrary to those of Agee consisted DEAR MR. GRossMAN: Accuracy in Media is CIA-in this instance, Philip Agee." We of short snippets of Congressional testimo deeply concerned about the role that the agree. ny or speeches by American political fig Public Broadcasting Service played in assist Agee personally is given far more time ures-more often than not presented as tar ing the notorious CIA defector and pro than any other single individual-10% of gets for Agee and his friends to attack. fessed foe of western intelligence agencies, the total for all three programs. In addition Except for clips of the funeral of the mur Philip Agee. the views he was pushing were supported by dered Dan Mitrione, no film showing the The airing of the three hour film, "On an imposing array of friendly witnesses. victims of communist oppression and brutal Company Business," was clearly a landmark These include a half dozen former CIA em ity-the fruits of the system that Agee now victory for Agee in his declared war on the ployees who are now hostile to the agency supports and which the CIA was trying to foreign intelligence service of this country and to the policies of the U.S. government. combat, appears in this production. and on our post-war foreign policy of resist They include Agee's then live-in girl friend, An important thesis of the film is that the ing communist aggression and expansion in Angela Seixas, who was given a generous leftists and communists are good guys risk the world. three minutes in Part II of the program to ing their lives to try to make the world a imply that the CIA was somehow responsi better place. It presents the CIA as the ally This film was described by PBS as "a ble for her treatment at the hands of the of the corrupt oppressors, which is foolishly highly responsible overview of the CIA's Brazilian authorities. No basis for this nasty trying to prevent the good guys from bring history and as a major contribution to the innuendo was provided. They include A. J. ing peace, prosperity, and enlightenment to ongoing debate on the CIA's past, present Langguth identified correctly as a former all the world. Apart from a few segments of and future." New York Times correspondent, but with speeches by former presidents denouncing PBS described it as part of your ongoing out revealing that his connection with the communism nothing is presented in this effort to examine the role of the CIA in the Times was only for a brief period of about three-hour film that would assert, much less formulation of American foreign policy. one year in Vietnam in 1964-65. The exact demonstrate the falsity of this monstrous You imply that it is fair and balanced, period is a little indefinite because the per- · lie. saying that it includes "the views of advo sonnel office of the New York Times has no It is understandable that this basic false cates of a more active CIA, such as former record of him. The innocent viewer is led to hood would be propagated by a film intend CIA director William Colby and David Atlee infer that Langguth is speaking about ed to disseminate the views of Philip Agee Phillips and critics of the agency such as events in Latin America from the vantage about the great contest between the forces Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti." point of one who covered that area for the of communism and the forces of the free You have informed public broadcasting Times. That is false and misleading. Lang world. stations that it has been praised in the New guth has apparently been doing nothing but Mr. Agee is an open and admitted partisan York Post as "required seeing for every re free lance writing since leaving the Times in of the communist cause. In an article in Es ' sponsible, thinking citizen." 1965. quire of June 1975, he said, "I aspire to be a PBS's characterization of the program as The witnesses interviewed in support of communist and a revolutionary." to its content conflicts sharply with the de the Agee thesis were given about half the Mr. Agee is not actually a foe of all intelli scription of the film provided by the men total time in the film. This is in addition to gence organizations. He does not criticize all who made it. the 10 percent given to Agee. covert operations, all efforts to subvert gov In their 1976 proposal prepared to raise On the other hand the witnesses friendly ernments. He does not criticize all decep funds to complete their project, producers to the CIA numbered exactly two-former tion, all disinformation, all oppression. Allan Francovich and Howard Dratch said: director William Colby and former agent He criticizes such activities only when en "The film will be the story of 30 years of David Phillips. Colby and Phillips, unsup gaged in by the countries of the free world, CIA subversion, murder, bribery and torture ported by any non-CIA experts or personal especially the United States. He has never as told by an insider and documented with ities, were given less than 10% of the time. been known to criticize the operations of newsreel film of actual events." They said Moreover, the statements that were used the Soviet KGB or the Cuban DGI, or the the film "will make it clear that the CIA's from the interviews that Colby and Philips intelligence operations of any other commu policies have resulted in the subversion and gave the producers of this film were not in nist country. overthrow of legally constituted govern any sense rebuttals of anything said by Asked about intelligence agencies in gen ments and in the slander, arrest, torture Agee and his supporting cast. Careful read eral in an interview published in the Zurich and murder of hundreds of thousands of ing of the transcript shows that Colby's paper, Tages-Anzeiger, Agee said, "It de people who have dared struggle for a better statements were in almost every case used pends on their goals and motives. The CIA life." They added: "We expect the audience as introductions for footage that disputed or is plainly on the wrong side, that is, the cap to come out of the film moved enough to contradicted what he said. In the case of italistic side. I approve KGB activities, com want to know more and yet already under David Philips, the statements selected were munist activities in general, when they are standing enough to see the hand of the CIA in most cases used in ways that supported to the advantage of the oppressed. In fact, behind the next morning's headlines." Agee's thesis. Neither Colby nor Philips the KGB is not doing enough in this regard, The producers said they would "show the were shown disputing anything said by because the USSR depends upon the people broken lives, hatred, cruelty, cynicism and Agee, which is understandable, since neither to free themselves. Between the overdone despair which result from U.S.-C.I.A. had been informed by the producers that activities that the CIA initiates and the policy." material from their interviews would be more modest activities of the KGB there is They made it clear that their real target used in a film in which Agee would appear. absolutely no comparison." was not the CIA, which they described as The interviews themselves were obtained Agee obviously considers the communist the instrument for executing "a calculated under false pretenses, with no indication of countries his friends and allies. He made the policy determined at the highest levels of Agee's role in the film or his interest in it. first of several trips to communist Cuba in the U.S. government." The filmed archival material used to sup 1971, spending six months there. He has The producers asserted that their film plement the interviews was also overwhelm written that the Cubans assisted him "con would help prove that covert action by an ingly supportive of the Agee thesis. This in siderably" in his research on his anti-CIA intelligence agency is not consistent with cluded lengthy film clips of individuals such book, "Inside the Company." June 25,.1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16859 Agee clearly could not have obtained this WITHHOLDING ON SAVINGS AND their savings account to supplement Cuban cooperation had he not been able to INVESTMENT EARNINGS their income. By taking this money satisfy Cuban intelligence that he was a to away, the Federal Government is tally trustworthy friend and ally. It is rea-· sonable to assume that the Cubans tested HON. F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER saying that the money does not belcng the genuineness of his defection with in to the individual who saves it and that tense interrogation, ·including the use of lie oF WiscoNSIN it cannot be used by the saver as h£: or detectors, just as the CIA tests the bona IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES she sees fit; to save, spend Or USe for fides of defectors from the intelligence serv Wednesday, June 25, 1980 emergencies. ices of the communist countries. This prob e Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. -- - Nearly every ec~>r~omist agrees t?at ably explains the length of Agee's stay in Speaker, the Washington bureaucrats ~he standard .of livmg ~oday reqmr~s Cuba. It is evident that he was able to estab have been brainstorming another mcreased savmgs and mvestme:r:tt m lish that he was a bonafide defector, mean money-grabbing scheme. Their scheme o.rder to generate h~althy, non~a ing that Cuban intelligence was satisfied is to withhold tax on savings and in- t10nary growth. Iromcally, President that he was willing to cooperate fully with them. vestment earnings. Carter has. con?ede~ that the ~~rrent The proposal, as outlined by Secre- rate of savm.gs m this country IS no~ Subsequent developments have demon strated that Agee has indeed been very co tary of the Treasury G. WHliam the lowest I~ more than . 25 years. operative with the intelligence services of Miller, would require banks, savings Today, Americans are savmg at less the communist countries that are subservi and loans, investment firms, and cor- than .half the 1975 rate. And Congress ent to the Soviet Union. In 1976, the U.K. porations to withhold 15 percent of an has. JUSt acted to. encoura;ge great~r expelled him, charging that he had been in individual's interest and dividends per savmgs b~ exemptmg th~ frrst $200 m regular contact with foreign intelligence quarter, with banks and thrift institu- such earmngs. fro~ taxation. . agents and had been involved in activities tions having an annual withholding At suci: a trme, It would ~~ke ht~le that "could be harmful to the security of option. The plan was one of several sense to mtroduce a new dismcentive the United Kingdom." anti-inflation proposals outlined by aga~t saving~ and .investment by Robert Moss wrote in the Daily Telegraph President Carter on March 14. adoptmg a w1thholdmg plan that that Agee met with the Cuban DGI station The reason for offering this propos- would have th~ effect of increasing chief in London on at least 30 occasions al, as claimed by the Treasury Depart- the tax on such mcome. before being expelled from England. While ment, is that some people are not The House Ways and Means Com Agee is reported to have also made at least paying income tax on their dividends. mittee is presently holding hearings one trip to Moscow, it would appear that he is operating primarily under DGI control. The assertion fails to mention that be- on this proposal. Hopefully, this pro The DGI is virtually an arm of the Soviet tween 84 percent and 91 percent of the posal will never see the light of day KGB. Agee has been barred from several taxpayers are declaring interest and and will never be reported out of the Western European countries because of his dividend income. committee. nefarious activities. This above assertion also completely The public interest would be better Among the most nefarious of those activi glosses over the fact that IRS already served if the Carter administration ties is Agee's campaign to expose the identi has on file the records of the individ- dropped the withholding proposal al ties of Western intelligence agents. The ad uals who are not paying taxes on their together and concentrated on collect mitted goal of this campaign is to make it savings and dividends. This informa- ing the taxes from the negligent 9 to difficult for our intelligence service to func tion can be obtained by utilizing the 16 percent who fail to report.e tion. Agee said in his 1975 Esquire article, information on Treasury form 1099, "Eventually, perhaps, CIA people can be the form that every .saver receives ENERGY SECURITY ACT-S. 932 neutralized faster that Mr. Colby can hire from his bank at the end of the year them for mischief abroad." showing how much he or she has in The fact that the agents Agee identified savings and how much interest is re HON.CHmSTOPHERJ.DODD might be harmed or even assassinated is ap parently of no concern to Agee. In Esquire ceived. Unfortunately, the IRS has OF CONNECTICUT he said, "Yes, a few might suffer if I re such a muddled bureaucracy that this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES information cannot be extracted to vealed their names." He said his concern for Wednesday, June 25, 1980 former colleagues "paled beside the compre find out who pays and who does not hension that the results of their work pay. The IRS should be concentrating e Mr. DODD. Mr. Speaker, the brought even greater suffering to many its efforts to collect from the people Energy Security Act, S. 932, represents people." who are cheating on their taxes. The a long overdue commitment of Federal These facts about Agee could easily have 85 percent of the law-abiding citizens dollars to promote energy independ been ascertained by officials of the Public should, who declare the interest and ence for America. While many of us in Broadcasting Service and the Corporation dividends, should not be penalized. Congress may differ with the spending for Public Broadcasting when it was pro The imposition of a whole new pile priorities established in this bill, none posed that they fund and air these pro of forms and reports on banking insti of us can question the need to take grams on the activities of the CIA and U.S. tutions and individuals is wrong. The this first step away from our depen foreign policy through the eyes of Philip onus of paying in advance being dence on foreign energy supplies. Agee and his friends. placed on people who pay their tax be In 1970, the U.S. foreign oil bill was It is difficult to believe that any responsi cause IRS cannot catch the cheater $3.7 billion. Now, the price of our Na ble broadcasting entity, much less one fi should not be tolerated. tion's d~pendency on imported oil is nanced largely by the taxpayers, would wish Another reason for opposing this reaching perilously close to a cost of to cooperate in airing a lengthy attack on proposal is that the extraction of sav $100 billion. In 1970, the price of im the U.S. government, its foreign policies, ings will take· a large amount of very ported crude oil was $1.80 per barrel. and its intelligence service by a man who ad important investment money out of Today the base price is $37 per barrel, mittedly aspires to be a communist and who 15 an increase of 1,700 percent over the is a known collaborator with the intelli the marketplace. It will take per gence services of countries dedicated to our cent of what a person has saved out of last 10 years. Those figures spell disas destruction. his or her account where it will be ter for our economy and our national unable to earn interest, and will also security unless we can aggressively Agee's motives are clear. It is obvious that take a large slug of money out of the pursue the production of new sources he expects this film to help advance his goal of weakening the ability of the U.S. to com control of the saver. This is nothing of energy and encourage conservation pete with the KGB in the ongoing war of in more than a · way for the IRS to re techniques. telligence. This will contribute to what he ceive an interest free loan on 15 per The Energy Security Act provides presumably hopes will be the ultimate tri cent of all savings in the country. $25 billion for exploration of a variety umph of his communist friends, not only in This proposal will also have a dam of energy alternatives including syn Asia, Africa and Latin America, but in aging effect on people on fixed in thetic fuels, renewable resources, con Europe and the U.S. as well.e comes who depend on the interest in servation, and gasohol. It also man- ·.
16860 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 dates two actions especially critical to tematives to continuing oil imports. GAO COMMENTS ON FEDERAL the Northeast-the filling of our stra We must devise an effective national FOOD LABELING PROPOSALS . tegic petroleum reserve and a study of strategy to break the hold of OPEC, the acid rain problem. and energy conservation in our homes HON. WILUAM C. WAMPLER Fully $20 billion is authorized in S. and businesses ·is a vital part of that OF VIRGINIA 932 for the development and produc strategy. For future generations, tion of synthetic fuels from coal, peat, though, the answers to our energy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES shale, and tar sands. A. U.S. Synthetic problems may well lie in the develop Wednesday, June 25, 1980 Fuels Corporation would be es ment of renewable resources such as • Mr. WAMPLER. Mr. Speaker, to tablished to provide loans, loan and solar, wind, hydro, and biomass morrow the House Appropriations price guarantees, and joint ventures to energy. Committee is scheduled to take up Ag stimulate private industry investment riculture, Rural Development, and Re in synthetic fuels production. This legislation would also expand the current utility audit program to lated Agencies Appropriation Bill, The goals of the SFC as set out in Fiscal Year 1981-H.R. 7591. One of the bill are to produce the equivalent include small commercial offices and the items contained in the report to of 500,000 barrels per day in synthetic apartments as well as residences and accompany the bill is a discussion of fuels by 1987 or 8 percent of our cur permits utilities to make loans to their several food labeling proposals an rent imports of fuel and 2 million per customers to make energy-saving im nounced jointly last December by the day by 1992. The development of syn provements. I have long been a sup Department of Agriculture, the Food thetic fuels offers great promise for porter of the house-doctor concept and Drug Administration, and the the future, but there are a number of that encourages utilities to offer Federal Trade Commission. American problems and uncertainties connected energy audits of homes to show home agriculture is deeply concerned by with synfuel production. So far, we owners how they may best reduce these proposals. On May 28, 1980, the have not found a way to produce an their conception of energy. Expanding Comptroller General of the United adequate supply of synthetic fuel eco this program will insure that weatheri- · States sent a critical evaluation of nomically and without unacceptable zation and insulation measures will these proposals to the heads of these damage to the environment, particu also be applied to larger buildings. departments and agencies. Inasmuch larly in the Rocky Mountain States. ·Another key provision of this omni as I want to discuss the GAO's evalua This bill, however, requires annual bus energy bill requires the adminis tion with Members of the Appropri reports to Congress on progress in syn ations Committee during considera tration to fill our Nation's strategic pe tion of the bill H.R. 7591, I insert the fuel projects so we will have the op troleum reserve to a level of 500 mil portunity to review research and de letter from the Comptroller General lion barrels of crude oil or a 75-day Elmer B. Staats, dated May 28, 1980 to velopment efforts and reassess the supply of fuel. The reserve now con entire synthetic fuels program after 4 Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland years. Environmental impact state tains only 92 million barrels or a 12- and the enclosures, Comments on Pro ments must also be made on all of the day supply, far short of the 500 mil posed Food Labeling Regulations corporation's projects. lion barrel goal set by the administra school Our evaluation, however, indicates that impacts and want them assessed before programs, (3) media advertisements, (4) re the proposed regulations will fall short of changes are made. inforcement by the health professions, <5> the agencies' original objectives as they do point of sale leaflets, and <6> package in not constitute a comprehensive strategy for FOOD-LABELING PROPOSALS NEED INPUT FROM serts. AND COORDINATION WITH OTHER SOURCES informing the public about food and nutri Set interim and long-term goals and time tion. We believe such a strategy should be The Federal agencies have succeeded in frames for measuring accomplishments, ad developed before proposed food-labeling reg generating needed debate and increasing ulations are issued. Furthermore, this strat consumer awareness about food. The recent justing approaches as needed. Market-test egy should emphasize consumer education publication "Dietary Guidelines" is an ex alternative information approaches and rather than industry regulation. While the ample of Agriculture and Health, Educa measure their effect. agencies have generated needed debate and tion, and Welfare's cooperating and taking Thank you for the opportunity to respond increased consumer awareness, more must initiative to coordinate data, research find to the food-labeling proposals. We hope our be done. To succeed, the project must be ac ings, and nutrition messages. Also, other preliminary analysis and suggestions will be cepted by everyone affected. For this agencies within the Departments, such as helpful to the agencies in finalizing their reason, we believe the strategy should be de the Public Health Service, have developed food-labeling regulations. If you have any veloped cooperatively by the many parties material describing a range of education questions about this letter, please call Mr. with knowledge of food and nutrition. and information methods that the media, William_ E. Gahr, Senior Group Director, 16862 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 Community and Economic Development Di prevailing wage. This was not really A SALUTE TO THE VETERANS' vision, (202) 275-5525. necessary, because the wages had al ADMINISTRATION GREGORY J. AHART, ready been set at the union rates from Director.e noncontiguous Davidson County. HON. FRANK J. GUARINI These h1.gher rates and the additional OF NEW JERSEY reporting requirements doubled the REPEAL OF DAVIS-BACON ACT projected cost of the room. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In spite of such mismanagement, Wednesday, June 25, 1980 HON. ROBIN L. BEARD proponents of Davis-Bacon argue that e Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, this oF TENNESSEE prevailing wage determinations can be year marks the 50th anniversary of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES made with greater accuracy. GAO, the Veterans' Administration. In New Wednesday, June 25, 1980 however, maintains that modifications Jersey we have an efficient operation, of this procedure is unlikely to be sue and I would be remiss if I did not pay • Mr. BEARD of Tennessee. Mr. cessful. Nearly 50 years of Labor De tribute to the New Jersey facility, Speaker, inflation continues to erode partment determinations tend to con under the direction of James Purdy. the purchasing power of the American firm this claim. Even though union Nationally, the Veterans' Adminis dollar. And now, due to high interest rates prevail in just 42 percent of the tration, with Max Cleland as its Di rate economic policy, unemployment rector, administers various programs rolls are swelling. The grim reality is cases, the Department of Labor in the area of hospitalization, pension that inflation for 1980 will run at 13 awards union rates-typically 20 to 40 compensation, housing, education, percent and unemployment rates for percent higher-in 66 percent of the training, counseling, and other areas. the year will approach 8 percent. determinations made. It attends to programs affecting 30 It appears the President has deliber- Not only is Davis-Bacon costly, it million veterans nationally from ately chosen to sacrifice American jobs also conflicts with other Federal poli America's wars and their families. in order to halt escalating prices-per- cies. For instance, the Federal Govern In New Jersey, the Newark office, haps feeling this is an easier course to ment decides to build a low-cost hous which handles the 14th District, repre follow than resisting special interests ing project to provide low-income fam sents 1,108,000 veterans who, with and cutting Government spending. ilies with affordable shelter. Davis their families, number 6 million. The constituent input I have received Bacon requirements, however, increase Mr. Purdy and his staff of 362 rejects this view, and so do I. the cost of building the apartment handle all the veterans problems in Today, I am introducing a bill ex- project by 15 to 20 percent. Thus, !a the State except the three VA hospi pressing the sense of Congress that borers employed in the Government tals. President Carter use his discretionary construction effort receive higher More than $500 million is pumped authority to suspend the Davis-Bacon wages than they would if they were into the State's economy annually for Act. This act, passed during the De- employed privately, but the cost of pensions and other programs. pression in 1931, was intended to pre- subsidized housing is driven up beyond Mr. Purdy, a Navy veteran of World vent itinerant labor from underbid- the reach of targeted families. War II, was graduated from Hartford ding local wage rates. At the time, This year the President and Con University, received a degree from there were neither minimum wage gress are engaged in a concerted at New England Law School and earned a laws nor unemployment compensa- tempt to balance the Federal budget. I master's degree from Suffolk Universi tion. The act requires payment of pre- commend and wholeheartedly endorse ty in Boston. He is president of the vailing wage rates, which results in this concept, but am very much op New Jersey chapter of the Federal Bar considerably higher wages than would posed to raising taxes to match Gov Association. be the case under free market, com- In order to spotlight the great work petitive bidding. The General Ac- ernment expenditures. Quite simply, the VA nationally, especially the New counting Office has documented the its nothing more than a sham to pia Jersey office, is doing daily, I am inflationary impact of the act, estimat- cate special interest groups and then meeting with Mr. Purdy on Monday, ing that its direct effect is over $700 pin the burden on the general public. June 30, at brief informal ceremonies. million annually. Other sources indi- The Congressional Budget Office con I have asked Hudson County's three cate that this total may be as high as servatively projects a $134 million Congressional Medal of Honor win $6 billion if indirect costs are included. fiscal year 1981 budget saving from ners, Francis X. Burke, John Meagher, Elected officials in both the legisla- repeal of Davis-Bacon. Obviously, this and Steve Gregg, to join me on this oc tive and executive branches are is another significant justification for casion, along with representatives searching to find cures for the ailing Congress to reassess the need, value, from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of economy. Hearings and meetings have and impact of this almost 50-year-old which I am proud to be a lifelong been held, and theories examined. legislation. member; the American Legion, the Ironically, steps that can be taken The legal and economic environment Disabled American Veterans, the within the context of current law seem in 1931 was very different than it is Jewish War Veterans, the Catholic to have been overlooked. Davis-Bacon War Veterans, the Amvets and the is a perfect case in point. A suspension today. Workers now enjoy the protec- Veterans of World War I. of the act would be an administrative tion they deserved, but were not af dream, only requiring the President to forded during the Depression. Davis The work of America's servicemen exercise authority he already pos- Bacon is an anachronism. Not supris and the Veterans' Administration has sesses. ingly, calls for repeal have been sound- special significance this year because ed for several years, only to be stifled of the many international problems One often nationally cited example by organized labor. Still, a Presidential our Nation is confronted with. of the act's inflationary tendency oc- I believe the attitude of so many of curred in my district-in Dickson. The suspension is entirely appropriate at our servicemen can most succinctly be city received Federal aid for the con- this time. It would aid the construc reiterated in the following quotation struction of a single room added to the tion industry, lessen inflationary pres by Daniel Webster. water plant, and consequently, the sure in the economy, and eliminate small project was covered by Davis- needless Government spending. Equal AN AMERICAN Bacon requirements. Three months . ly important, a suspension would pro I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American; and I after the wage determinations were vide the experience necessary to deter intend to perform the duties incumbent made, the Department of Labor under- mine if Davis-Bacon should be re upon me in that character to the end of my took a local survey to determine the .pealed once and for all.e career. I mean to do this with absolute dis- June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS '16863 regard of personal consequences. What are nists-which threatens our democracy even Few understood the connection between the personal consequences? What is the in more seriously. these• events. Yet they marked the begin dividual man, with all the good or evil that It is dismaying to see how our Left intelle ning of a grandiose plan for the penetration may betide him, in comparison with the gentsia, swayed by subtle Communist propa and eventual conquest of American social, good or evil which may befall a great coun ganda, have transformed the triumph of su political and governmental institutions-a try, and in the midst of great transactions perhuman fighting will of the Russian new Communist conspiracy. which concern the country's fate? Let the people into a triumph of the totalitarian NEW DISGUISE consequences be what they will, I am care Communist regime. The Russians had no less. No man can suffer too much, and no choice but to fight under whatever regime For many years the American Communist man can fall too soon, if he suffer, or if he they had, and they rightly decided that for Party functioned, with a frank program of fall, in the defense of the liberties and con eign tyranny would be worse than native. overthrow by violence, as an open revolu stitution of his country. But what shall we say of American "demo tionary party. The result was complete fail crats" who, instead of praising the Russian ure. The American people repudiated this Mr. Speaker, our Nation takes great people and hoping they may reap the overt attack on democracy, and the party pride in the valor of our men, and we reward of freedom, praise the regime that remained a small isolated group. In all these stand proud, tall, and most exalted oppresses them and compare it favorably years it never elected one Representative or when we salute our veterans of all with our democratic way of life? Senator, and at Presidential elections never wars and the Veterans' Administration The unspeakable tragedy of the Russian polled much more than 200,000 votes. The that has served them so well for the people is · that they are compelled to fight sole pro-Communist elected, Representative past 50 years. the foreign aggressor without any rights or Marcantonio, of New York, campaigned as a liberties of their own. Every second family representative of democratic organizations. I am pleased to inform my col of these Russian fighting men has lost But Marcantonio's success was significant, leagues of this tribute, and I am sure someone in a purge, or to one of the concen and it taught the Communists a lesson. that they will join with me in extend tration camps in which at least ten million They began to tone down their extreme pro ing their congratulations to the Veter victims of the dictatorship are still enduring gram, and to penetrate our established po ans' Administration.• a living death. I litical institutions in disguise. It was not, however, until the Soviet HAPPY ACCIDENT Union was attacked by Hitler, and needed Under cover of this undiscriminating vastly increased help from American cap THE NEW COMMUNIST praise of "Russia," the totalitarian Commu italism, that the Communists started going • CONSPIRACY nist habit of thought is ·penetrating insid through the motions of suicide. This began iously into the body of American democra in February 1943 when the Party published cy. The credit which was passed from the in full-page ads in 16 newspapers through HON. LARRY McDONALD Russian people to the totalitarian regime is out the country a speech of its General Sec being further handed along to the American OF GEORGIA retary, Earl Browder, entitled "Hitler's Communists-those rabid isolationists Secret Weapon-the Bogey of Commu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES during the Stalin-Hitler pact and "patriots" nism." Browder laughed at democratic Wednesday, June 25, 1980 only since Hitler attacked Russia. But for Americans for taking seriously the Commu the happy accident that Hitler made his nist threat. "American democracy," he said, • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, in attack on Russia before instead of after · "must grow up and stop believing in ghosts the October 1944 issue of Reader's Pearl Harbor, these Communists would now and witches." Digest, Mr. Alexander Barmine, a be in jail with the Nazis. But that does not Probably nothing like that had ever hap high-level defector from the Soviet prevent them from playing, with the help of pened before-a political party spending Union, attempted to explain the Com high-up New Dealers, a more and more im $56,000 Czechoslovakia, the function of the legal party was to set the ness! It was to be replaced by a "Communist signs now abound that we are about to stage for a seizure of power by the control political association." But this association ling underground group. To "liquidate" the would "oppose all strikes" and champion go back to the peace-at-any-price capitalism, the "big bourgeoisie," the pro policy, and forget this lesson. There legal party altogether in certain situations was a recognized, frequently discussed ma gram of the National Association of Manu fore, I especially commend this article neuver. The American Communists have facturers-everything to which Communism to the attention of my colleagues. now executed that maneuver. Unless you is diametrically opposed. understand this, you will never find your The nation's bewilderment at this volte The article follows: way in the present maze of Left-Wing poli face was typified by a New York newspaper, THE NEW COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY tics. which called it "the most amazing episode Recently the American press has talked in the history of American Communism," Four events recently followed one another and asked: "What is left of Communism?" less and less about the Communist danger. in quick succession: Yet that danger has never been greater What is left of Communism is exactly than it is today. As one who worked 20 years 1. The transformation of the Communist what existed at the beginning-an astute under the Communist dictatorship in close Party of America into an "educational" as and unscrupulous conspiracy to lay the association with the Soviet leaders, I feel it sociation; groundwork for eventually seizing political is my duty to warn the American people 2. The winning by the Communist Left power in the United States and transform against this insidiously growing menace to Wing of control of the American Labor ing this country into a totalitarian Commu their free institutions. Party; nist dictatorship. The reason Americans are bewildered is that they cannot understand The present situation is a curious para 3. The emergence of the Political Action totalitarian methods. They imagine that a dox. The United States is waging a deadly Committee of the CIO as a major force in group aiming to transform America from struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. All its Democratic Party politics; and capitalist to Communist must necessarily energies, labor, wealth, thousands of its 4. The "dismantling" of certain special de advocate Communism. But totalitarian con lives, are being sacrificed to destroy this partments investigating Communist activity spirators do not care what they advocate. enemy of democracy. Yet, at the same time, in our Army and Navy Intelligence, and the All they want is to get their accomplices in in the press, on the radio, in the Govern attempt to destroy their files. key positions. All they care about is power. ment and among liberal circles supposed to Ideas, faiths, programs, parties, political as represent the vigilant conscience of the 1 Victor A. Kravchenko, Soviet official who re· sociations-to them, all these things that nation, there is in process a moral and psy cently resigned in Washington, places the number Americans take so seriously are merely chological disarmament before another to at 15,000,000. ("1 Broke with Stalin's Russia," Cos tricks and implements for the seizure of talitarian conspiracy-that of the Commu- mopolitan Magazine, July, '44.) power. 16864 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980
THE GRAB FOR POLITICAL POWER have liquidated their legal party, camou tion in responsible Army and Navy circles, a This was made clear in the second of flaged themselves as democrats and procapi dismantling of those branches of the Army those four events previously mentioned. talist patriots of Americanism, and are con and Navy Intelligence which dealt with the With the help of Sidney Hillman, a small spiring in this new and more subtly unscru activities of Communists and Communist thinly camouflaged Communist minority pulous manner to destroy our democratic in fronters, and a destruction of their files. took over the American Labor Party, repre stitutions. In the Third Naval District which includes senting half a million votes in New York WHAT IS THE COMMUNIST PROGRAM? New York City, headquarters of the Ameri State. This might easily put into their can Communists, the Navy had build up an The reader may find it hard to believe intelligently informed "Communist desk" hands officials trips by various American sports officials so employed or unemployed and in need will attend the Moscow meetings that key positions in the federations, and of more education to solve their prob which coincide with the 1980 Olym American influence, in general, would not lems. pics. Mr. Speaker, this is the height of be lost, according to Joseph Onek, deputy I am sure that DAVE BONIOR will still hypocrisy. We are barring our athletes counsel to the president. struggle to help Vietnam veterans from participation in the Olympics Willie Davenport, who has competed in but the USOC officials will have the both the Summer and Winter Olympics, even though his term as chairman of said, "They're gonna lose their positions on the VviC has ended. The House owes opportunity to attend the meetings various boards? Well, the hell with it. We're a debt of gratitude to DAVE for his cou and may even be able to participate as losing our position in the record books." rageous, capable leadership of the scorers during the games. Am I to un Kardong was equally unimpressed with VVIC, and for helping to chart a derstand that we not only have two the reasoning. "They're saying they need to course which Congress can follow in standards about human rights viola be there or the structure of sport will be its efforts to help the Vietnam veter tions but also degrees of boycotts for damaged. How much more damaged can it an. I am confident that DAVE will con the Olympics? get? Isn't this supposed to be a national se tinue to flourish as a true leader in Mr. Speaker, I think that it is time curity issue?" this and other areas of national impor for us to reconsider the move to boy "What we objected to all along is that the boycott is specific to us," he continued. "It tance.• cott the Olympics. We asked our allies doesn't apply to any other U.S. citizens to boycott and have only received Libya to losing momentum. We are also losing our made on a step-by-step basis, with the obtain bomb-grade plutonium. While positions." "development of all sites under the in we have not stopped entirely the Benji Durden, who earned a position on dependent scrutiny of the Nuclear worldwide transfer of sensitive tech the Olympic marathon team, when he fin Regulatory Commission," in the words nologies, in some cases we have cer ished second in the trials last month with a of Sheldon Meyers, Deputy Assistant tainly slowed that process. In 1978, for 2:10:41, accepts the reason for the officials' Energy Secretary for Nuclear Waste example, we succeeded in persuading attendance. Management. 14 countries to agree on rules to limit "If they want to go, let them go," he said. "They can't hurt me anymore than they al "Early involvement in all activities the sale of sensitive nuclear compo ready have ... But it's frustrating." for sites which are intended to be sub nents to less-developed nations. Today, "And I'll tell you something else that's ject to future licensing" is an for example, we are seeking to discour frustrating," he continued. "I got a letter important element in our waste man age Pakistan from developing weapons this morning from the USOC. It says, agement program, according to technology and to encourage India to 'We're attempting to find a competition you Meyers. Further, in his words, "Ab refrain from further weapons testing. might be interested in attending at USOC sence of this involvement could lessen Reprocessing does pose proliferation expense. Do you have any ideas?' "e the likelihood of NRC approval of un risks. That conclusion appears in the licensed demonstration repositories report earlier this year of the 66- HOUSE TAKES BACKWARD STEP for full-scale development." nation International Nuclear Fuel ON NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGE In other words, the NRC effort is Cycle Evaluation which spent 2 years MENT vital to the early stages of the DOE studying this question at the request program. In order for the Commission of the United States. to be able to issue a license for the op Reprocessing is not needed for nu HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY eration of the eventual repository, it clear waste management. That conclu OF MASSACHUSETTS must be involved at each succeeding sion appears in the INFCE report also. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES step in the repository development What's more, reprocessing will actual process. In addition, the NRC's exper ly make our waste management job Wednesday, June 25, 1980 tise must extend· to new technical more difficult, not easier. e Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, the areas-including new waste forms and In the words of an expert review of vote yesterday in the House of Repre new proposed geologic media. All this this question in the American Associ sentatives to reject the amendment of requires a beefing up of the NRC's ation for the Advancement of Science the gentleman ft:om Pennsylvania to eliminate extortionate tutes normal sale~ expenses, these amend practices that occur on the docks, <2> to ments strike the reference to "business so title 49, section 10526 of the United ensure that clear notice is given to owner licitation" expense. This is consistent with States ~ode.e operators when they are responsible for the Committee's original purpose. loading and unloading their trucks, <3> to identify any compensation that the owner Mr. Speaker, in addition to that JUSTICE FOR OLDER operator is to receive for such loading or un series of amendments which were con AMERICANS loading, and <4> to ensure that-any compen sidered en bloc, I offered another tech sation provided for is received by the owner nical amendment. The House also operator. These amendments convey this agreed to that amendment which made HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR intent in a more clear manner than does the clear that section 7 of the bill exempts OF OHIO bill as reported. th~ transportation of certain "agricul IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The amendments also provide for a study tural" plants from ICC jurisdiction, Wednesday, June 25, 1980 of loading and unloading practices. The and not all plants. study was added because the Committee • Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, as a wishes to know more about these practices Finally, Mr. Speaker, as I indicated to you, my colleagues, and Mr. AN member of the Select Committee on so that it can more accurately deal with any Aging, one of my major concerns has other problems in this area. It is a matter DREWS at the time of the consideration that will be scrutinized closely in the Com by this body last Thursday-June 19, been abuse of our older Americans. I mittee's annual oversight hearings on the 1980; CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 15593- am submitting for the RECORD today effects of this legislation. an article from the Plain Dealer by of this legislation, I would be getting John Coyne which relates an out MIXED LOADS I SECTION 21 I an answer to the gentleman from standing example of a Cleveland po This amendment deals with mixed loads North Dakota's question about clarifi of regulated and exempt freight. The bill liceman and policewoman who have cation of what our committee intended gone above and beyond the call of now permits a regulated carrier to transport to be covered as livestock and poultry in the same vehicle at the same time mixed duty to assure justice for one abused loads of regulated and exempt freight. The feed in section 7. I am also amplifying older American. Patrolmen Donald F. bill lists the types of exempt freight that the Journal for those proceedings to Milia and Marilyn S. Mason of the carrier:; can transport under this provision. fulfill that commitment. Cleveland Police Senior Response Unit Freight transported incidental to air trans It seems to me that that section as should be commended for their stead portation inadvertently was left off of the written is clear. Further, pages 18 and list. This amendment adds such freight to fast and dedicated efforts to serve this list. 19 of the committee report also ex senior citizens. Additionally, Homicide plain the provision by stating: Detective James A. Carbone should SMALL COMMUNITY SERVICE STUDY (SECTION 28) To help alleviate this backhaul problem, also be commended -for the assistance This amendment extends by one year the the Committee believes that the unregulat he provided. I need add no further de period of time the Interstate Commerce ed motor carrier should be allowed to trans tails to the following story which re Commission has to study the effect of the port certain farm supply items back to areas lates their efforts on behalf of senior bill on small community service. The bill o! agricultural production. Accordingly, sec citizens in my district: now directs the Commission to submit its tion 7 provides that the transportation of report by September 1, 1981. We now are livestock and poultry feed and certain seeds COMPASSIONATE POLICE WORK LEAns TO convinced that that simply is not enough and plants be l..Am>LORD'S TRIAL time to assess all of the effects of the legis exempt from regulation by the Commission. lation. Accordingly, the amendment The · Committee expects this provision, Cleveland Patrolmen Donald F. Milia and changes the report date to September 1, along with other sections in the bill which Marilyn S. •Mason, members of a special 1982. help ease the way for owner-operators to senior citizens response team, pride them get operating authority from the Commis MINIMUM FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR selves on knowing the old people living on sion to transport processed foods and agri the southwest side. MOTOR CARRIERS ISECTION 301 cultural fertilizers, should improve the oper These amendments make three changes. The two policemen take food to the elder ating efficiency of those carriers engaged in ly; they check on their health. They worry First, they reduce the minimum level of fi agricultural transportation and save fuel. In nancial responsibility for interstate for-hire when they see old people living in substand turn, that should help reduce the transpor ard surroundings. And they fret when their carriers of general freight from $1,000,000 tation costs on food items and on commod elderly friends get sick. to $750,000. The purpose of this change is to ities used by farmers. meet recently expressed concerns about the And so, Milia and Mason were concerned ability of the insurance industry to write This section of the bill also exempts the this spring when they learned that Joseph $1,000,000 policies for entire truck fleets. transportation of fish or shellfish by-prod Jablonski, 75, was not at the boarding house $750,000 is a more approachable figure for ucts not intended for human consumption. where he lived for the past five years. this type of freight. The bill's minimum Currently, fish and shellfish . Blow the Whistle on Crime, the U.S. Department of Labor. These old man. Jablonski, elated, would kiss and others. Working with homeowners instructions specifically directed that Mason's hand. · associations, and the Apartment both military retirement pensions and It was in early April, when volunteers Owners and managers association, he social security benefits must be de with the Meals on Wheels program said has initiated other special neighbor ducted from unemployment insurance ·that Jablonski's food was being returned, hood and community awareness pro benefits in the same manner as all that Milia and Mason learned of the old grams such as Operation Open Door. other pension payments based on the man's death. Operation Identification-which in previous work of such individual. They asked the county coroner's office to examine the body. After tests, deputy coro scribes permanent identification codes I would like to emphasize that New ners said Jablonski's death was caused by on property of high value-and the Jersey's law has a flexible provision multiple blows to the head. It was ruled a Neighborhood Crime Scoreboard. For which would allow it to immediately homicide. the safety and protection of children, conform with any future Federal Milia and Mason, with homicide detective he has worked with the PTA to devel amendments as proposed in H.R. 4612. James A. Carbone, interviewed about two op programs such as Block Parent, The current inequity can be rectified dozen witnesses and pieced together the Safety Aide, and Telephone Tree. by language incorporated into H.R. beating story. A county grand jury then in Mr. Speaker, this is indeed an im dicted Bak. 4612, which is currently pending in a "Milia and Mason did a fantastic job in pressive list of accomplishments, but House/Senate conference committee. this investigation," Carbone said.e more remarkable about Don Hartel is It is unfortunate that the conferees his dedication and his consistency in have as yet been unable to resolve giving freely ofhls time, energy, and their differences. experience for the benefit of others. Because of the severe impact Public DON M. HARTEL-1980 TORRANCE My wife, Lee, joins me in congratulat DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN Law 94-566 is having on many of my ing Don Hartel on being named to re constituents, I have in response to this ceive the Distinguished Citizen Award. deadlock sent a letter to all House con We also extend our best wishes for ferees urgently requesting expeditious HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON future years of good fortune to Don, action for an end to this stalemate. OF CALIFORNIA his wife, Nancy, and their children, New Jersey is one of only two States IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Kerry, Karen, Pamela, and Jill.e which withold unemployment benefits Wednesday, June 25, 1980 from workers paychecks. During these e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. UNEMPLOYMENT times of economic hardship it is im Speaker, each year the Torrance COMPENSATION BENEFITS perative that the citizens of our Chamber of Commerce presents a Nation receive the benefits to which "Distinguished Citizen Award" in rec they contributed and I again urge the HON. HAROLD C. HOLLENBECK conferees to correct this situation as ognition of outstanding community OF NEW JERSEY service. I am pleased to announce that soon as possible.e this year's award winner is Torrance IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Police Officer Don Hartel. Today I Wednesday, June 25, 1980 share with my colleagues some high e Mr. HOLLENBECK. Mr. Speaker, I FTC INVESTIGATION OF J.S. & A. lights of his remarkable career as a am deeply concerned over the numer dedicated crime fighter and concerned ous inquiries received by my office re HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER citizen. I feel this will illustrate quite garding the treatment of pension OF NEW YORK clearly why he is one so deserving of benefits under the unemployment IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this coveted award. compensation program. Don Hartel has been a public serv The benefit changes many individ Wednesday, June 25, 1980 ant in Torrance for 27 years, starting uals are now experiencing are a result e Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, for as a law enforcement officer in August of the Unemployment Compensation the last several months, many of our 1953. Presently, he serves as communi Amendments of 1976-Public Law 94- colleagues have received inquiries con ty relations officer, the position he 566. Unfortunately, I was not a cerning the Federal Trade Commis has held since 1972. Here he has ex- Member of Congress at the time this sion's investigation of J.S. & A. 16870 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 Group, Inc. As you may know, the ious Specifications). JS&A again refused to not raised before the FTC, and so that de charges leveled against the FTC by produce or make available the documents fense, too, will be dismissed on grounds of J.S. & A.'s president, Joseph Sugar covered by the Various Specifications at an ripeness. investigational hearing on January 17, 1980. Affirmative Defense Number 1, an un man, raised serious questions regard In addition, the FTC alleges that JS&A has clean hands defense, is really just another ing the Commission's investigatory not fully complied with Specification 18. In avatar of Count I of the Counterclaim practices. Because my Subcommittee this suit, the FTC seeks a court order for joined with Affirmative Defense Number 4. on Consumer Protection and Finance the production of the documents identified Therefore, the court will proceed to a con has oversight responsibility for that in the Various Specifications and in Specifi sideration of the merits of the latter agency, I was particularly concerned cation 18. defense. JS&A has defended this action by alleging Affirmative Defense Number 4 sounds in abuse of sift through the conflicting claims and five affirmative defenses and a three-count process. More specifially, JS&A alleges that determine if the FTC had, in fact, Counterclaim. The court will consider the the Regional FTC staff really wanted to acted improperly in pursuing its inves viability of each of these contentions force it to pay $90,000.00 in civil penalties, tigation against J.S. & A. As I noted in seriatim. and that this subpoena has been used for an earlier statement on this subject JS&A's response to Paragraph 14 of the the sole purpose of aiding the Staff in ille FTC's Petition would seem to satisfy the gally extorting that money from respond (CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Nov. 13, 1979, agency's demand concerning Specification ent. If proven, this allegation would, of 32237), I believe the Commission's ac 18, and the FTC does not mention that re course, justify the court's refusal to grant tions were appropriate and proper. I quest in its Reply Memorandum. Hence, the the relief sought by the FTC in this case. am pleased to inform my colleagues court will not order any production under CF. United States v. Powell, 379 U.S. 48 that a Federal court, in rejecting Mr. Specification 18. <1964). Moreover, as this objection to the Sugarman's claim, reached the same JS&A objects to enforcement of the sub subpoena has been timely raised, it is incon conclusion. The court noted: poena with regard to the Various Specifica testable that it may properly be considered tions on the ground that it was issued pur by this court. Respondent, on the other hand, has made suant to an investigation of violations of the Finally, in Affirmative Defense Number 5 no "substantial showing" of agency bad FCC's Mail Order Merchandise Rule to existent. The record contains no facts that Stanke to so much as hint at the impropriety of the tion, as they merely claim that, prior to the not disclose them to any one outside of its conduct of the staff in the premises. to return them at the end of objections to enforcement discussed above, cern was whether JS&A had violated the its investigation of JS&A; to officially the allegation of abuse of process, along Rule. JS&A has not suggested that any of deem them not to be "agency records" with its concommitant request for discovery the requested documents could not have within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. §§ 552 et seq. and a stay of this and a related proceeding, been subpoenaed in regard to a "secondary" or "records of the Commission" within the constitutes an unsupported attempt to delay FTC concern: whether, irrespective of the meaning of 16 C.F.R. § 49; and to desig the enforcement of this subpoena. . . . Rule, JS&A was violating 15 U.S.C. nate the documents as exempt from produc § 415.' tion in response to Freedom of Information Mr. Speaker, for the information of The court believes that JS&A's attempt my colleagues, I append the entire Act under 15 U.S.C. Miller, 549 F.2d 452 <7th Cir. 1977). Thus, The FTC also has a procedure by which it § 49. Respondent, JS&A Group, Inc. Count I of the Counterclaim and Affirma tive Defense Number 2 are dismissed as not can designate a document as entitled to con < 1>. During the course of this investi found in Affirmative Defense Number 3, or its con tial treatment to any of them, or to provide gation, it commenced an inquiry into the fidentiality objections, in the context of the Motion the further protections that respondent has business practices of JS&A. A subpoena to Quash that if made before the FTC, despite the requested. On the other hand, it has offered duces tecum directed to respondent was fact that it was directed by this court's Order to served on it on July 30, 1979. In response to Show Cause to include any such explanation in its a Motion to Quash, the FTC modified the response thereto. Therefore, the court alternatively • JS&A does not now challenge the subpoena on subpoena on September 19, 1979. On Octo holds that it is barred from raising these objections grounds of burdensomeness or relevance. before it under the doctrine of exhaustion of ad • There are other exceptions to this rule in the ber 23, 1979, JS&A refused to comply with ministrative remedies. See FTC v. Stanley H. contexts of court ordered or Congressionally re Specifications 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, Kaplan Educational Center, Ltd., 433 F . Supp 989 quested production, but JS&A agrees that they are 22, and 23 of the modified subpoena ; United States v. Wright Wednesday, June 25, 1980 that "confidential" documents may acciden Motor, Co., 536 F.2d 1090 <5th Cir. 1976); Mr. GOLDWATER. Mr. Speaker, tally be disclosed by the FTC. United States v. Turner, 480 F.2d 272 <7th e The court finds two fatal flaws with these Cir. 1973)j r,Tnit~d ~tCkteS v. National State yesterday the House of Representa arguments. First, as they were not made in Bank, 454 F.2d 1249 (7th Cir. 1972). tives wisely agreed to pass an amend the course of the disposition of the motion ment which has restored $107.4 mil to quash filed before the FTC-and no Paul W. Turley ; cf. Wearly v. FTC, No. 78-1115 action does not represent an abuse of proc have seriously compromised our Na (3rd Cir. Feb. 8, 1980); Dresser Industries, ess. tion's energy research and develop Inc. v. U.S., 596 F.2d 1231, 1238 (5th Cir. Respondent, on the other hand, has made ment future. 1979), cert. denied, 100 S.Ct. 731 <1980); FTC no "substantial showing" of agency bad A substantial amount of funds are v. Texaco, Inc., 555 F.2d 862, 883-885 (D.C. faith. The averments contained in the Affi needed to continue operation of basic Cir.) .• dential status. See FTC v. Texaco, Inc. 555 Accordingly, respondent is hereby direct to place our energy future. I was ap F.2d 862, 884 could be saved per year by the year 16872 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 2000, but these benefits will only The extended length of the resulting ous small businesses to continue their accrue if we support solar energy now. litigation and the uncertainty created operations. This is a worthy proposal I am happy to know that my col by the FTC decision has left a strong and I hope the President will not hesi leagues have not abandoned efforts to possibility that an important segment tate to sign this bill into law.e realize the potential this project has of the industry-small business-will to offer. be adversely affected before the courts Mr. Speaker, the House of Repre can settle the anticipated appeals. For FUNDING FOR THE TENNESSEE sentatives, having passed this amend this reason, it is important that the TOMBIGBEE WATERWAY PROJ ment, has shown itsell to be very seri Congress enact H.R. 3567 as soon as ECT ous ·about doing something to solve possible. our energy crisis. I urge the future co Without this legislation, many small HON. W. HENSON MOORE operation of my colleagues in pursuit bottlers would be forced out of busi of those avenues which allow us the ness and the large bottlers would con OF LOUISIANA opportunity to become energy-inde trol the market and price the products IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pendent.e as they pleased. The large bottling Wednesday, June 25, 1980 companies with regional distribution systems and large amounts of capital e Mr. MOORE. Mr. Speaker, last SOFT DRINK INTERBRAND would move into a small marketing week I voted against providing addi COMPETITION ACT area and drive the local firm out of tional funds over and above the 1980 business by undercutting its prices. regular annual appropriation for the Without the passage of this bill, there Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway proj HON. THOMAS B. EVANS, JR. ect during consideration of H.R. 7542, OF DELAWARE would be greater market control by the largest bottlers. In summary, the providing supplemental appropriations IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES elimination of exclusive territories will for the current fiscal year. I did so as Wednesday, June 25, 1980 not improve competition in the indus fiscal discipline requires observance of the regular appropriations process and e Mr. EVANS of Delaware. Mr. Speak try and, as the smaller bottlers disap pear, it will bring about the exact op outlays should be held to levels pro er, as one of the earliest cosponsors of vided during this process. I did not be the Soft Drink Interbrand Competi posite result of the intent of our anti trust laws. lieve circumstances involving the Ten tion Act, I am pleased my colleagues in nessee-Tombigbee water project were the House have passed this critical Mr. Speaker, this bill is designed to of sufficient gravity and urgency to piece of legislation. resolve the chaotic situation that has waive observance of the regular appro This proposal will preserve a unique prevailed in the industry since the priations process. The supplemental and competitive industry practice-the FTC decision. Specifically, H.R. 3567 appropriation when added to the regu manufacture, bottling, and distribu provides that exclusive territorial li lar 1980 appropriation is above the tion of trademarked soft drinks by censes to manufacture, distribute, and 1981 regular appropriation. sell trademarked soft drink products local companies operating under terri Today I voted to keep the $255 mil torial licenses. The soft drink bottling shall not be deemed unlawful as long as-and this is the most important lion for construction of this project industry has been in an uncertain intact within H.R. 7590 as it is the reg state for nearly 10 years since the Fed provision of the bill-there is "sub stantial and effective competition" be ular annual energy and water appro eral Trade Commission decided to priations bill for next fiscal year, is challenge the territorial provisions in tween the bottling companies. By in suring that both interbrand arid intra less than the 1980 figure, with the sup the bottlers trademarks licenses. After plemented funds, and such funds are extensive hearings were conducted brand competition will be considered in judging the legality of a territorial warranted to honor established time over a 6-week period, the administra tables for project completion. tive law judge at the FTC issued a de license agreement, this legislation will tailed and lengthy opinion which preserve the vigorous system of com Regular annual funding of this proj upheld the legality of territorial provi petition which has prevailed in the ect began in 1972. While it has always sions and trademark licenses. soft drink bottling industry for over 75 been surrounded by controversy, we years. must realize the project is underway The administrative law judge not and will likely be completed. By pro only ruled that the franchise system This is clearly not an effort by a single industry to remove itsell from viding $225 million during the regular was lawful, but it also positively fos appropriations process, ample funds tered competition. The judge, in his the application of existing antitrust 91-page ruling, went to great lengths standards. In repeated litigation, the are provided to avoid substantial cost legality of those contracts has been overruns later when inflation would to explain that the present system surely further add to its costs.e stimulates intense interbrand competi upheld. It would therefore be unfair tion in terms of price, product innova to allow the FTC decision to stand and tion, and marketing techniques. The thereby potentially subject small THE NEWEST INDUSTRY AT THE judge also found that removing the bottlers to punitive damages for oper GOVERNMENT TROUGH franchises would actually change the ating in a manner they believed to be industry in several undesirable ways. legal. The industry reacted with disbelief In addition, any bottler who operat . HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN when the full Commission made only ed in a market without substantial and OF OHIO token reference to the evidentiary effective competition would still be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES record, overruled its own administra subject to treble damages after the tive law judge on a split decision, and passage of this legislation. There is no Wednesday, June 25, 1980 held that the industry's territorial re permanent exemption from antitrust • Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, strictions violated section 5 of the Fed laws for any industry under the terms the Wall Street Journal, in today's edi eral Trade Commission Act. In making of this bill. The bill cannot be used as tions, printed an article that eloquent their finding, the FTC Commissioners a cover for price fixing, horizontal ly expresses several of my reasons for never tried to rebut the judge's opin market divisions, or customer or opposing the conference report on S. ion that there was intense price com wholesale boycotts. It is simply draft 932. In particular, it illustrates the petition in the sale of soft drinks. Un ed to correct the confused application corporate wellare scheme nature of derstandably, the industry was out of the antitrust laws by the FTC. the proposed Synthetic Fuels Corpora raged with the incomprehensible and Mr. Speaker, this legislation is de tion. inconsistent FTC ruling and pr'omptly signed to insure that competition in I insert the article at this point in turned to the Federal courts to appeal the soft drink industry continues the RECORD, and commend it to the at this misguided bureaucratic action. while allowing the industry's numer- tention of my colleagues: June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16873 [From the Wall Street Journal, June 25, The smart money, he notes, bid up the Under the "Red Tape Cutter" program, I 19801 price of his company's stock a year ago, am asking small business owners and citi WASHINGTON GLASSES RAISED HIGH IN TOAST when the subsidy program was first dis zens to become "Red Tape Tipsters" by TO NEWEST INDUSTRY AT GOVERNMENT cussed. Since then, he says, stock prices sending me examples of government regula TROUGH have dropped as investors sensed that the tions and government forms which serve no synfuels craze may prove as fickle as the useful purpose, are impossible to under determines that fensive distance. Yet it is precisely will increase funding for the critical there is no effective competition; such additional weaponry that the area of high energy physics, which I Gives railroads authority to enter into Saudis have now requested and the long term supply contracts with shippers; President is presently considering strongly support.e Requires the Secretary of Transportation to annually report with regard to the safety, giving to them. There is no question public health, and deferred maintenance of that the President's approving this REPUBLICANS SUPPORT REGU each railroad; new sale would amount to a direct vio LATORY REFORM OF THE RAIL Phases out the anti-competitive aspects of lation of the promise given to the Con ROADS joint rate making through rate bureaus; gress in 1978. The Members specifi Increases efficient use of capital equip cally prohibited any supplementary ment by easing entry requirements and by equipment sales when approving the HON. BUD SHUSTER encouraging restructuring of existing lines; OF PENNSYLVANIA 1978 sale; we cannot allow ourselves to Provides fair labor protection benefits for be forced from that wise position now. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES employees affecte.d by abandonments of bankrupt railroads. At the same time, it sub Furthermore, Mr. Speaker, when.the Wednesday, June 25, 1980 stantially tightens the benefit package pro original sale to the Saudis was being e Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, the vided under the Regional Reorganization contemplated, I urged as a candidate House Republican Policy Committee Act of 1973. that the Congress reject it because of voted to endorse H.R. 7235, the Rail The Committee recognizes that there are the extreme sophistication of the F-15 concerns about the ability of the ICC under aircraft, the most advanced aircraft Act of 1980. This legislation strikes this legislation to protect so-called "captive" the proper balance between Govern shippers and consumers. Consequently, the that the United States produces. I ment regulation to protect the public Committee would not necessarily recom argued that a smaller quantity of a and the operation of the free market mend opposition to amendments strength considerably less sophisticated plane, system. There is no doubt that the ening the ICC's authority, so long as the the F-16, would serve the purpose. But current regulatory scheme, regardless basic thrust of deregulating the industry Congress approved the F-15 sale, put of its effectiveness in the past, is was not vitiated. The House Republican ting into the Saudi hands-the hands strangling the railroad industry to the Policy Committee recommends support of of a nation committed, publicly, to Is point that it cann.ot meet the demands H.R. 7235 by all Members of the House.e rael's destruction-a weapon of the placed upon it. We must act now if we highest capability. Can there be any are to revive the industry so that it UNITED STATES SHOULD REJECT doubt by any Member of Congress may play its rightfully important role F-15 EQUIPMENT · SALES TO that, with the supplemental equip in the Nation's economy in the future. SAUDI ARABIA ment now requested extending the Following is the text of the policy range and the striking power of anal committee's statement: ready deadly weapon of immense HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER speed and firepower, Israel's future REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE SUPPORTS OF ILLINOIS RAILROAD REGULATORY REFORM would be directly endangered? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The House Republican Policy Committee Mr. Speaker, the Saudis make veiled strongly endorses H.R. 7235, The Rail Act of Wednesday, June 25, 1980 threats of oil cutoffs and loss of Saudi 1980. The Committee believes that this leg e Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, the support if we do not comply. But our islation will help make the rail industry Saudi Arabian Government has re commitment is clear. For over 30 years once again a healthy, efficient part of the cently requested that the United we have been the guarantor of Israel's nation's economy. territorial integrity-of her very sur Beginning with the Interstate Commerce States increase the combat capability Act of 1887, the rail industry has been of the 60 F-15 fighter planes which vival in a sea of enemies. To allow oil forced to obtain the federal government's the Saudis purchased from us in 1978. blackmail to deter us for even one approval of the most basic management de The Carter administration is presently moment from our commitment would cisions. While this system was necessary considering the Saudi request. In my further undermine the credibility of when rail had a virtual monopoly on freight judgment it is incumbent upon the an American foreign policy already bulk transportation, as well as long distance Members of Congress to take a stand, under seige as a result of repeated ad passenger traffic, the phenomenal growth even at this early point in the adminis ministration errors and false signals. of the inland waterways, trucking and air Let us make a clear signal now: the industries has drastically altered this situa tration's consideration, against ap tion. For example, the average return on in proving any such request. The security United States will not tolerate sophis vestment in the rail industry during the last of Israel, one of our staunchest allies ticated weaponry of this type in the decade has been 1.3%. This compares with and the only democracy in the Middle hands of Israel's avowed enemies. an average return for all transportation in East, is of the highest concern to our Mr. Speaker, the violent situations . dustries of 8.2% and for all manufacturing country and is endangered by this pro in Iran and Afghanistan have made an of 15.9%. The Policy Committee realizes posal. Furthermore, we must not allow already unstable region increasingly that the rail industry must play an integral dangerous. Some would argue that be role in the country's future transportation ourselves to be blackmailed by Arab system, particularly if this nation is to de oil, nor can the Congress permit the cause of the upheavals in the Middle crease its dependence on foreign oil through Carter administration to go back on East since 1978, it is all the more im development of its domestic coal reserves. the promise it made to Congress when portant to give support to the Saudi The final report of the National Transpor the F-15 sale was approved in 1978. request. But we have learned from tation Policy Commission, for example, esti During the debate on the original Iran not only that excessive arms pur mated that domestic coal movement, meas sale in that year, the Congress acted chases can destabilize autocratic gov ured in ton-miles, may increase by as much to insure that the F-15's would only be ernments, but also that arms intended as 600% by the year 2000, and that railroads for use by one government for one would be largely responsible to help meet equipped sufficiently to provide for this demand. Saudi defense purposes. In testimony purpose can end up in the hands of If railroads will, in fact, be able to meet on May 9, 1978, Secretary of Defense another being used for entirely differ this increased demand depends in large Harold Brown assured the Congress ent purposes. Even if the Saudis pres measure on getting the shackles of the fed that the Saudis would not receive ad ently intend no harm to our ally, eral government off the industry. H.R. 7235 ditional bomb racks, advanced air Israel, the dangers for the future are takes several giant strides toward accom borne radar systems, air-to-air mis real ones. plishing this goal. Specifically, the legisla siles, additional fuel tanks, aerial re I urge my colleagues in the Congress tion: fueling capabilities, or any other addi to be prepared to act decisively to re Provides an opportunity for railroads to tional weaponry which would make scind any proposal the President may earn a reasonabl~ return on investment by allowing greater rate freedom. At the same the F-15's capable of offensive action. make for further sales of F-15 weap time, the consumer is protected from unrea For example, additional fuel tanks onry to Saudi Arabia. Increasing the sonable rate increases because this provision would increase the range of the planes quantity and sophistication of offen does not apply where the Interstate Com- from 450 to 1,000 miles-hardly a de- sive weapons in the Middle East can June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16875 only serve to increase the chance of easy answers. It will require coopera ducer Clare Crawford-Mason who make it. even greater violence.e tive action by business and labor to re It was directed and co-produced by Ray organize plant operations and archaic Lockhart. thought processes. It will also require Alas, in an element where ratings are the chief nutrient, it also contains the same action by the Government to stimu seeds of destruction that felled "Weekend." THE NASHUA CORP.-A LEADER late investment and capital formation After all, who wants to watch an hour and a IN PRODUCTIVITY and to facilitate the flow of informa half on productivity when all you really tion among the various sectors of our want is to find out who shot J.R.? HON. NORMAN E. D'AMOURS economy. And above all it will require Just one more thing, for whatever it's the continued dedication of the Ameri OF NEW HAMPSHIRE worth: The -video- cassettes from which this can people to channel our vast re program was previewed were made in Japan. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sources to their most productive uses. Wednesday, June 25, 1980 I'd like to share with my colleagues [From.the New York Times, June 24, 19801 e Mr. D'AMOURS. Mr. Speaker, last two reviews of this excellent program TV: "IF JAPAN CAN ••• WHY CAN'T WE?" night NBC-TV correspondent Lloyd which appeared in the Washington Dobyns and executive producer Post and the New York Times: Tonight's "If Japan Can ... Why Can't Reuven FTank presented an excellent [From the Washington Post, June 24, 19801 We?" on NBC-TV at 9:30, is a 90-minute program on the problem of productiv "white paper" examining the slow-down in "If ity in the United States entitled, PRODUCTIVITY: IF JAPAN CAN, WHY CAN'T the growth of American productivity. Some Japan Can, Why Can't We?" WE? of the reasons mentioned are the size of the This in-depth white paper analyzed United States Government and its regula the decline of productivity in America tory requirements, the losing of markets to other countries, the underestimating of and the striking reversal of roles be Have you looked at the economic news tween the United States and Japan lately and wondered who really did win long-term investments and a corporate un since World War II. Thirty-five years World War II? willingness to take risks. ago Japan was a virtual colony of the Somebody at NBC News evidently did, and All of this is compared to Japan, much United States, totally dependent on us came up with "If Japan Can ... Why Can't smaller than the United States and now the for manufactured goods, technology, We?"-an "NBC White Paper" on Japan's world's third most productive country and redevelopment financing. Today burgeoning productivity and our lagging behind the United States and the Soviet the situation is reversed and it is the one-to be aired tonight at 9:30 on Channel Union. Japan's productivity increases are 4. running at an annual rate of 10 percent; the United States which exports agricul It is a thoughtful, often depressing and American figure· is down to almost zero per tural goods and raw materials to sometimes fascinating examination of what cent. The Japanese unemployment rate is Japan and imports high technology makes and maintains a work ethic, and why around 2 percent. goods. we may end up freezing to death in the dark One of the keys to Japan's success is a One of the leaders of Japan's rein but the Japanese won't. strong bond of loyalty between worker and dustrialization in the postwar era has It is also an interesting piece of television company. At one extreme, this takes the been an American, Dr. W. Edwards · journalism, using interviews, factory shots, form of curious rah-rah-team sessions as the Deming. Dr. Deming's teachings and even personality profiles to punch home the employees prepare for work each morning. bad news (if it is news> that bureaucracy, advice have been closely followed by grasping management and grubbing unions On a more practical level, a "quality circle" many Japanese companies and have are wreaking havoc with American produc system has been devised to enable the work resulted in spectacular increases in tivity and that the Japanese, with what nar ers to participate in a sort of consensus productivity for those companies. rator Lloyd Dobyns calls their society-by management of the company. Ironically, an The Japanese have thought so consensus It has been said "To live in the hearts of derestimate the dedication of liberals Oi\K RIDGE.-Somewhere today, there's a those you love is not to die." to ideas that do not work. But even seven-year-old girl who owes her life to Walter Barton will live forever in the . · th · · t" f Walter. If God had made Walter just for memories of all those in the Diocese of Pa more puzz1 mg 18 elr reJec Ion that, his life would have been worthwhile. terson, led by Bishop Frank J. Rodimer, ideas that do. ° This was the eulogy of Father Richard who were enriched by him. He certainly did The Kemp-Roth tax cut proposal is Oliveri, associate director of the diocesan his best and will receive a just and proper an excellent example. The tax cut of special education department, for the frail reward. 1964, proposed by President Kennedy 69-year-old Walter Barton who died June 8. I would like to express my special feelings to Father John Wehrlen who is doing such before his assassination, worked For the past seven years Walter was cared magnificent work with retarded adults. A almost too well to be believed. The for in the department's Finnegan House graduate of St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City, idea was that, by cutting taxes, the here. For two years before that he was in recognition of his work goes well beyond the economy would be stimulated suffi- Murray House, Paterson. Both are diocesan State of New Jersey. ciently to pay the first year deficit re- residences for.retarded adults. Of special significance is the effort that suiting from a tax reduction. But "All of us want our lives to be of value, Father Wehrlen made assuring that Walter there was not even a deficit in the first and pray that we might be in the right place Barton would receive such treatment which Year. The liberals' reaction to this at the right time, when our response just at many times seems to be reserved for those that one great moment, will make our lives with more of our worldly goods. enormous success was to abandon tax meaningful," Father Oliveri said at the fu-· I believe the poem below written many cuts. Throughout the Johnson admin- neral Mass offered in St. Thomas the Apos years ago by Oliver Wendell Holmes excel istration, there were more taxes, more tie Church here Thursday. lently sums up this tribute to our friend deficits, and a surtax. Under Carter, "Walter had that moment." he said. He Walter, who saved the life of a little girl he there have been yet more tax in- recalled the winter of 1973, when Walter never got to know. creases. was the only one at Finnegan House who THE VOICELESS Liberals have always declared con- made a daily trek to the roadside mailbox. servatives who warned about deficit "We didn't get much mail back then, and We count the broken lyres that rest usually mostly bills, so we'd only check Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, spending to be alarmists, until now, every few days," Father Oliveri said. But o'er their silent sister's breast when the only way to keep taxpayers One day Walter found a tiny baby girl, The wild flowers who will stoop to from getting a break is to sound a less than 12 hours old, in the box. He era number? warning against deficits. Faced with died her in his arms and carried her into the A few can touch the magic string, the imminent threat of a tax cut, lib- house, saving her, "according to Father Oli And noisy Fame is proud to win them: erals today are making Robert Taft, veri," from almost sure death from suffoca Alas for those that never sing, Sr., speeches look soft on the national tion or exposure. He was retarded, but his But die with all their music in them! debt. Anything is preferable to a sue- reaction was the right one, "Father Oliveri 0 hearts that break and give no sign cessful policy. said. Save whitening lip and fading tresses, "Some of us may never get that moment," Till Death pours out his longed-for wine Another laudable program of Presi- Father Oliveri said. "But there is a different Slow-dropped from Misery's crushing dent Kennedy's short term of office way to look at Walter's life. He built no presses- was the space program. Here again, it bridges. He amassed no fortune, he was not If singing breath or echoing chord is the liberals who wanted to stop the a great public servant, but he brought much To every hidden pang were given, Jupiter orbital program and cripple to the lives of everyone he met, just by What endless melodies were poured, our space program. Every year, it is being Walter." As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven! the liberals who want to reduce Ameri- "It's funny how we never realize till they Walter's life proves "Those who know the ca's thrust into space, and all the are gone how much the people we love give path to God, can find it in the dark."e . · 1 t h 1 · 1 d to us, how much of what we are comes from b ene f1c1a ec no ogica a vances , their just being what they are," he said. which derive from it. "Speaking directly and personally to the Liberal thinking has never made l mourners in the church who remembered RED CHINA SHOULD NOT BE much sense to me. Frankly, seeing its Walter's strength and fierce independence FAVORED results, I consider that a blessing, e not always easy to cope with-he referred briefly to the.60 years Walter had lived with HON. ROBERT E. BAUMAN his mother in Jersey City, and how "he A TRIBUTE TO WALTER knew everybody and everybody knew him." OF MARYLAND BARTON: "HE DID HIS BEST" It was after his mother's death that Walter IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES found a home with the diocese. Wednesday, June 25, 1980 "We lived with him and shared with him, HON. FRANK J. GUARINI and helped him t-o be happy." the priest • Mr. BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, on June 10, I had the opportunity as OF NEW JERSEY said. "But it was not one sided. Walter brought joy, life, spontaneity to our lives." chairman of the American Conserva IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Concelebrating the Mass were Father tive Union to testify before the House Wednesday, June 25, 1980 John B. Wehrlen, department director, and Ways and Means Subcommittee on Father Patrick Scott, pastor of Our Lady of Trade on the subject of continuing the e Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, in the Good Counsel . Church, Pompton Plains, most-favored-nation status with Com June 19 edition of the Beacon, the of who recalled later that Walter and some of munist China. As I told the subcom ficial organ of the Paterson Diocese in the other Finnegan House residents and mittee, I believe it is a serious mistake New Jersey, there appeared a touching Father Oliveri had kept him company at what would otherwise have been a lonely for the United States to extend this article regarding a former Jersey City Christmas dinner in his rectory last Christ privileged status to a nation that has resident. Because of the special prob mas. yet to vary from its stance against our lems Walter Barton had, I believe the The mourners for Walter included some Nation, our people, and our way of following is worthy of the attention of Finnegan House residents and staff, as well life. I certainly believe it is difficult to all of us who have received a better as those from Marathon House in Wayne, defend a policy that would have us June 25, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16877 turn our backs on one of the most tive to briefly recall the nature and result of Taiwan> and by its centralized economy. trusted and loyal allies in the Republic similar ventures with the Soviet Union. China also lacks foreign exchange and has of China on Taiwan, as the Carter ad During the 1920's over 200 Soviet economic shown recent signs of chronic instability in concessions were made to western firms. its economic planning. In the Spring of ministration is doing. The USSR depended greatly upon the 1979, for example, economic goals had to be For those who embrace this policy in influx of foreign capital, expertise and tech drastically curtailed, resulting in the sus the belief that our Nation will benefit nology to develop its industrial might. Some pension of 22 contracts held by Japanese from the promised markets on the of these enterprises included the largest firms. Chinese mainland, I believe there are projects then underway in the world. In the final analysis, we must bear in some sobering facts in my remarks During World War II Stalin estimated that mind the severe difficulties associated with that will g1ve- tlie-m pause. -The fact is about two-thirds of all the large-scale indus a socialist system of 900 million people. The that we have nothing to gain and a try in the USSR had been built with U.S. obstacles of the "China Market"-and the great deal to lose by continuing most help or technical assistance. Small satisfac factor which makes it a myth-resides tion, indeed, to those nations brutalized inside the system itself and the philosophy favored-nation status with this oppres after the German-Soviet Pact of 1939! Even which governs it. sive giant. I urge my colleagues to con less satisfaction in 1980 with Kama River sider these points carefully and to trucks, aided by American technology and 4. MFN CONTRADICTS THE ADMINISTRATION'S help turn our Nation away from the finance, mowing down Afghan freedom HUMAN RIGHTS DIPLOMACY fighters! disastrous course onto which the The Administration has failed, in my view, President has placed us: Obviously, even today, the Soviets have no qualms about using western economic con to meet both the spirit and the letter of sec STATEMENT oF HoN. RoBERT E. BAUMAN cessions for their own ambitions. As the tion 402 of the 1974 Trade Act to a Communist country the nature and exteil!- nf the President's de reality behind this facade, however, under which flagrantly violates the trust and con cision, the ACU is equally sUspicious of close cuts the argument. fidence of international banking? economic relations with the PRC. It is my The PRC is naturally very anxious to find Another unresolved issue, and another view, and one which is shared by the vast willing partners in its program to obtain U.S. concession, concerns financial compen majority of ACU members, that the con higher technology. But the gains will not be sation to those Americans who still hold tinuation of MFN status for the PRC is a mutual. Nor has Peking ever really been a $220 million in Chinese government bonds. mistaken policy, derived from false assump major trading partner with the United Other nations which have received MFN tions and one which can provide little long States. status-Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland and term good for the American people, and one American trade with the PRC has never Romania-agreed to pay their past debts which, finally, can only further prolong the constituted more than two percent of the and there is no reason not to demand the headlong retreat from sound foreign poli total U.S. trade. The highest point of U.S. same good faith from Peking. cies which we have unfortunately witnessed China commercial relations occurred in the over several years. In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, I feel 1930's and 1940's during the mainland rule strongly that the extension of MFN status In the time allotted, let me develop sever of Chiang Kai-Shek. During that period, al hypotheses to support this viewpoint. U.S. share of the China trade was about 15 to the PRC in its present form is not in the best interests of U.S. foreign policy or the 1. THERE IS NO NECESSARY LONG-TERM COM percent. Even assuming that the U.S. could gain a similar share with the PRC-an as American people. Apart from the interna PATIBILITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND tional objections I have enumerated, it has THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA sumption even the most optimistic deem very unlikely-U.S.-Peking trade would still been estimated by AFL-CIO testimony that The United States has a natural interest be less than our trade with South Korea or between 50,000 and 100,000 U.S. workers in promoting and supporting those coun Hong Kong, and still much less than with would lost their jobs because of MFN to tries, such as the ROC, which have had a Taiwan. China. In a time of high domestic unem long and close relationship with us. Now in Today, the United States holds approxi ployment we should be actively protecting the process of unilaterally abandoning some mately 9 percent of the Chinese import our workers, not undermining them of those allies, we find ourselves entering market. Japan has a dominant 25 percent through utopian and misguided foreign poli into an unchartered vacuum area, especially and is likely to remain dominant for the cies. Unless the conditions of MFN drasti with the Peking government. The PRC has foreseeable future. Even though there will cally improve, including protection and sup never, to my knowledge, relented in its ideo be growth in U.S. exports to China, mutual logical hostility the American system. Its port from the Republic of China and its to trade levels will remain only a small factor people, MFN does not deserve extension. behavior in foreign policy has changed very in the overall U.S. balance of trade. This be little. There is, in fact, no real concrete, eco A final warning comes from Alexander comes evident when one compares the 1978 Solzhenitsyn, who knows communism's true nomic or cultural mandate to continue MFN and 1979 trade figures between the U.S. and status to Peking. The policy of this Admin nature far more than western businessmen Taiwan <$7.5 and $10 billion>. Trade with eagerly plying the mythical China market. istration seems predicated almost exclusive other industrialized Asian nations reveal a ly upon the thin reed of a mutual fear of similar disparity: Korea, $3 and $4 billion, His prophecy on the timeless charades of the Soviet Union. History is replete with ex and Japan, $37.4 and $43.7 billion. Indeed, communism should serve us well in the amples of how this type of awkward and the real economic gains for the U.S. will MFNdebate: contrived affiliation can fall like a house of continue to be with those free nations we "Communism is unregenerate; it will cards. A set of mutual negatives seldom always present a mortal danger to mankind. promises anything positive or fulfilling. have close ties with. The promise for the future with China It is like an infection in the world's orga 2. THE SOVIET CASE STUDY HAS SET A will not be markedly better than the past. nism: it may lie dormant, but it will inevita DANGEROUS PRECEDENT China's consumer market remains severely bly attack with a crippling disease. There is As we debate the wisdom of extending restricted by its low level of per capita no help to be found in the illusion that cer MFN status to Peking, it would be instruc- income <$152 in 1978, compared to $1400 for tain countiies possess an immunity to com- 16878 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1980 munism: any country that is free today can CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN pers commenting on the proposed sale be reduced to prostration and complete sub WOMEN at this point in the REcoRD: mission. In expectation of World War III ANALYSIS OF A POOR REPUBLICAN WOMAN [From the New York Times, June 18, 19801 the West again seeks cover and finds Com Check these characteriStics to see if you munist China as an ally! This in another be recognize any that fit you. No SAUDI SALE THis TIME trayal, not only of Taiwan, but of the entire Unworthy characteristics: As the above editorial suggests, the cost of oppressed Chinese people. Moreover, it is a 1. Indifference-! am not interested in oil dependence cannot be measured only at mad, suicidal policy: having supplied billion politics. the pump. Saudi Arabia now asks for the strong China with American arms, the West 2. Laziness-! am too busy to bother with missiles and hardware that would turn its 60 will defeat the U.S.S.R., but thereafter no politics. - F-15 American fighter planes from defen 3. Greed-! get my check every month. sive into offensive weapons, with sufficient force on earth will restrain Communist range to reach some targets in Iraq, and any China from world conquest."• Why should I worry about who runs the government? place in Israel. The extra missiles, fuel 4. Prejudice-! am voting for him because tanks and bomb racks were excluded from he is one of our kind. the plane sale two years ago, not by over CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF 5. False Pride-It is all dirty politicS. Why sight or miscalculation but because the REPUBLICAN WOMEN should I get mixed up in it? Saudis and the Carter Administration stipu 6. Cynicism-My vote won't make any dif lated a strictly defensive mission for the ference one way or another. planes and thus disarmed the opposition to HON. DAN LUNGREN 7. Hopelessness-It is only the pressure the deal in Congress. OF CALIFORNIA groups who run things anyway. "They've thrown down the gauntlet," an 8. Ineligibility-! forget to register. American official said on our front page yes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES terday. "We need a lot of things from the Wednesday, June 25, 1980 ATTRIBUTES OF A GOOD REPUBLICAN WOMAN Saudis," another wailed, "and there's not 1. Interest-! must study the records of much we can do but to grant the request." e Mr. LUNGREN. Mr. Speaker, in the "Afghanistan," said the State Department. height of this political season, I would candidates and know more about public af fairs. Nonsense. There are at least two other like to pay tribute to one of the most 2. Ambition-! must develop a reputation things to do. One is to deny the request, to active and remarkable political orga for getting things done, and I must not shy pick up the gauntlet, and say plainly that nizers in the State of California-Be away from bold initiatives. straight dealing and firm promises by the atrice Hawkins. 3. Magnanimity-! must not be seliish United States to its people, to Israel and She is the woman behind many who with my time, but -help others to under other watching nations are as essential to have reached public office and is re stand the blessings of our country. American power as oil-a power supporting sponsible not only for getting people 4. Understanding-! must show apprecia not only Israel but also Saudi Arabia. The elected but for getting people involved tion for those who differ in race, creed, or other course is to defer the request until the color. Saudis give signs that they are fuliilling the in the political process for the first 5. Pride-! must wear my patriotic em diplomatic obligations implicit in their bid time. blems with dignity and leave a heritage for for closer economic and military ties to the The success of her career as a politi the next generation to emulate. United States-evidence that they are using cal activist can be judged from the 6. Confidence-! must stimulate others to their wealth to promote stability in the fact that the Republican women's club participate in political meetings. Middle East, to support Egypt's pact with she founded in Seal Beach Leisure 7. Eligibility-! must find those who are Israel and to encourage other peace efforts. World in Long Beach is today the not registered and urge them to assume Either response carries some risk. The single largest Republican women's their moral obligation to God and country. Saudis alone could manipulate the world's club in the United States. 8. Bravery-! must not be afraid to pro oil supply to produce pinching shortages claim my loyalty to the flag of our country, and to raise the price still further. But if Beatrice is a friend and confidant to and give the pledge from my heart. Saudi oil is now to be used to demonstrate just about every Republican statewide If you possess these attributes, then you American helplessness and faithlessness, official in California and has been a are a Federated Republican Woman. the shock of some reduction in supply friend and help to me also. Let us remember the following: might as well be brought home to a nation Beatrice's political career extends "There is a destiny that makes us brothers that still refuses to free itself from the oil back to her teaching days when she None goes this way alone. noose. If every Saudi desire is America's taught Richard Nixon during his "All that we send into the lives of others command, then what of Iraq's desires, and junior year at Whittier Union High. Comes back into our own." Libya's, and. for that matter, Indonesia's? She taught for 35 years; and after re EDWIN MARKHAM.e What's a few missiles, bomb racks and air tiring in 1953, she made public service borne tankers in return for no gas lines through another election season? That is and politics her career. how the question may define itself for Presi · She is the founder of no less than dent Carter in the days ahead. To which the three Republican women's clubs and IN OPPOSITION TO OFFENSIVE American people might well reply: What's has been on innumerable State com WEAPONRY FOR THE SAUDIS so important about the political fate of one mittees and attended many Republi President and one Congress when they will can conventions. HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN not present the true bill for excessive de She has given of her time and serv pendence on imported oil? That bill threat OF NEW YORK ens to become the step-by-step destruction ice so generously that it's our turn to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the economic and diplomatic integrity of recognize her achievements and to the United States. honor them. Wednesday, June 25, 1980 I would not want to end this tribute, e Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am however, without pointing out that pa alarmed about reports that the admin [From the New York Post, June 18, 1980] triotism-not partisanship-is the istration is preparing to supply Saudi SAUDI ARABIAN BLACKMAIL: NEW CHALLENGE basis of Beatrice's appeal. Arabia with military equipment de TO WASHINGTON Her contributions can be best signed to enhance the offensive capa "rs surrender to Saudi Arabian blackmail summed up by the guidelines she pub bilities of the 60 American F-15's sold about to become a new tactic of desperation lished for Republican women in one of to the Saudis recently. in the Administration's feverishly fluctuat her clubs in 1974. As anyone who I was opposed to that sale when it ing Middle East policy? reads them can see, they proclaim was initially proposed. I now hope The word from Washington is that the values and ideals which can be adopt that the Senate and House will act to Saudis are now asking missiles, extra fuel ed by everyone regardless of what po block this additional shipment of of tanks, and bomb racks for its force of litical pa1·ty they belong to. fensive weaponry if the President pro American-built F-15 fighters. Mr. Speaker, I insert a copy of Be Officials concede that approval of the poses such a sale. Saudi formula would expand the F-15's two atrice Hawkin's guidelines for Republi Mr. Speaker, for the information of way range to more than 1000 miles . to provide for the orderly devel Commerce, Science, and Transportation the selling points was that the jet fighters opment of the renewable resources of Science, Technology, and Space Subcom could not threaten Israel. forest, range, and associated lands. mittee The Carter people convinced Congress 324 Russell Building To hold hearings on H.R. 2743, to pro that the planes in the projected sale had 10:00 a.m. vide for a national policy for materials limited ranges that made them incapable of Environment and Public Works research and development and to attacking Israel, and were sought by the Environmental Pollution Subcommittee strengthen Federal and private pro Saudis only for defensive purposes. "Saudi To resume oversight hearings on the im grams of materials research and devel Arabia has not requested nor do we intend plementation of the Clean Water Act opment to insure national security and to sell any other systems or armaments that . mittee 235 Russell Building 235 Russell Building To hold hearings on S. 1424, authorizing 10:00 a.m. funds for fiscal years 1981-84 for the JULY 24 Labor and Human Resources advancement of international coopera 9:30a.m. Health and Scientific Research Subcom tion and assistance in health matters. Commerce, Science, and Transportation mittee 4232 Dirksen Building Science, Technology, and Space Subcom To hold hearings to review the Food and 10:00 a.m. mittee Drug Administration's evalution of the Governmental Affairs drug dimethyl sulfoxide