September 7, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19943 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS PRIME MINISTER MANLEY But I must say that everything that myself that if I can strengthen my defenses URGES INTERNATIONAL RE George can achieve, if he will forgive me the against a transshipment of hard drugs or SPONSE TO DEVELOPMENT, familiarity, everything that we can achieve against the export of marijuana and that DEBT, AND DRUGS in all the areas in which we work, I believe that will help you to some extent with your can be overwhelmed if we do not deal with a own terrible problem, then we are dealing threat which I see standing like a dagger at with people to whom the world is Just a HON. PETER H. KOSTMA YER the throat of civilization. I'm very proud wide canvas of opportunity. OF PENNSYLVANIA that we have had him with us tonight, al If I can shut off the roots in Jamaica, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES though I think he has now had to leave, I'm they can find ten other ways to go because sorry he did not hear my words. they operate globally. Already they tell me Thursday, September 7, 1989 But there is a man who was with us to that the people who run this international Mr. KOSTMAYER. Mr. Speaker, I would like night who has played a tremendous part in cartel feel that the U.S. market is about to call my colleagues' attention to a recent awakening the conscience of the United saturated with cocaine. So let's not increase speech by Prime Minister Michael Manley de States to the threat of which I speak and I supplies to the U.S. They are now probing speak of drugs and I speak of the Reverend Britain and probing Western Europe. And livered at the TransAfrica Forum dinner on Jesse Jackson. There was a time when June 10, 1989. we are beginning to understand this but I people deluded themselves into believing don't think we really understand completely In his speech, Prime Minister Manley ad that apartheid was a problem between the how massive is the thing that we face. dressed the connections between the depth black majority and the white minority of I will confess to you that I do not know of poverty experienced in the Third World, the South Africa. And then in due course we how to build a society in Jamaica worth burden of debt payments, and the growing came to understand that it really was an having on the basis of a drug culture. I do narcotics problem. Developing countries are international threat. not know how to build a nation which can There are people today who believe that be overwhelmed and corrupted in its judicial faced with the dilemma of servicing their debt the threat of drugs or drugs abuse and that at the expense of growth. In Jamaica 51 cents and its security forces by the massive re companion in death, drug trafficking, is a sources and the utter ruthlessness at the of every dollar goes to debt servicing. No phenomenon between societies that con growth means no jobs and no food for a command of the drug barons. sume and particular countries that produce. In my country, we talk about the Mr. Bigs hungry nation. For the jobless and hungry who And they are equally wrong. I know that in who are the ones who move the product. To are faced with their desperate situation, in my country, we have had to recognize that me they are not Mr. Big, they are Just volvement in the drug trade becomes an issue drugs is not a matter of some high school minor subcontr1:1.ctors of the international of survival. kid losing his way. It's not just a matter of operation. And so, Mr. Robinson, we have Prime Minister Manley points to legislation the search of people trapped in poverty for made a proposal, a very serious proposal, release. such as the Caribbean Regional Development What we really are dealing with is the and I would love you to think about it be Act of 1989, introduced by our colleague Mr. most brutal and complete international cause of your capacity to act. We believe CROCKETT and incorporated into the House criminal conspiracy that mankind has ever that we need to internationalize the re passed version of the International Coopera known. In my own small country, we feel a sponse to this problem. deep sense of responsibility to try to save I am reminded of how, when hijacking tion Act of 1989, which begins to address the was a tremendous problem, we eventually development issues in a way that will help ourselves and we are trying to increase our interdiction capabilities; we are trying to de had the intelligence as an international bring an end to this downward economic community to have a United Nations con spiral. In addition, he calls for the develop velop from our utterly rudimentary intelli gence capabilities. vention against hijacking because it was a ment of an international drug strike force and We are probably going to be one of the problem and it brought together interna a U.N. convention against drug trafficking. first small countries in the world to intro tional resources. Development, debt, and drugs are no longer duce a formal program of training in our I believe that we need a U.N. convention issues that can or should be solved by one educational system. We start in September against drug trafficking. I believe that we country. They are multilateral issues that in our primary school system to teach need nations to subscribe to that, to contrib demand a multilateral response. I urge my col young children about drug abuse and the ute to it and to pledge mutual support problem. We pray that the children will under it. I believe that we need to have a leagues to take a close look at Mr. Manley's centrally created means of training narcot speech and to help us move toward multina educate their parents. We hope that parents stimulated by their children will make ics agents, developing intelligence to a tional solutions to multinational problems. common cause with teachers. I know that higher level than at present. I believe that ADDRESS BY HON. MICHAEL NORMAN MANLEY, our church is mobilizing to help. We speak we need to have a body that can offer an PRIME MINISTER OF J .AMAICA already to all our great sporting athletes. internationally mobilized kind of assistance And so I salute TransAfrica for the work And Jamaica is one of the greatest athletic to countries who do not yet have the capa that it did along with the members of the nations in the world. And I'm happy to say bility to fight this problem. Congressional Black Caucus and many that every one of our sporting heroes, in I believe that we can even see cases in others in the United States in creating a cluding those that we export to the United countries like Colombia where they casually sense of the international significance of States like Patrick Ewing have all already and arrogantly talk of their ability to pay apartheid. And I would like, with your per promised to come and help the bureau off Colombia's national debt in return for mission, to speak of other threats that I be model to do the things that we have to do. free passage. And they kid you not when lieve exist, which I believe exist, which I be And so I think that we can say, in all con they say that they could. And where in that lieve are more international in character science, that we are doing what we can to country they have actually units of the Co than we care to recognize and which I feel save ourselves. lombian army. I would even like to know represent challenges that we must face. I do We are very happy that we get tremen that there was an international strike force so as a man of the Caribbean. I do so as a dous cooperation from the authorities in that could be called in at time of need representative of a very small island. I am the United States in this struggle and I do within the realm of sovereignty and the proud that with us tonight is a congressman not know what we would do without that co privilege of sovereignty to help with train who is showing grest sensitivity to the prob operation. But I'm very conscious of the ing, with strengthening your agent capacity, lems of the Caribbean and who has a bill fact that when we are finished with what with strengthening your intelligence capa before Congress now that has great implica we can do, when we are finished with the bility while countries train their own capa tions for the freedom and the capacity to help that we do get and can get from the bility. I believe that we need to do that and move to self-reliance of those islands. And I United States' authorities, that I sometimes I have sometimes spoken and been told I pay tribute to Congressman George Crock have the feeling that we are playing at the was out of tum. I have not often yet been ett. periphery of a problem because I do not fool shown to be wrong.
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 1994:4: EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 7, 1989 And I believe that ff the world does not And still we have people, in spite of the sponse to drugs and to debt. If you do not wake up to this problem, we may yet find best efforts of former Secretary of the move conscience, nobody will llsten. If you that we are overwhelmed by it. But I want Treasury Baker and now very interesting move conscience, maybe somebody will act. I to say the last thing, that the great market new proposals by Secretary of the Treasury pray for that result. countries of North America and in Europe, Brady, all of those concepts I predict are that ff we do not find the way to educate going to fail to deal with the problem. The new populations that are drug resistant, problem is a large part of mankind, unable HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA new populations that have turned their to buy your goods, unable to develop them back and not said no in rhetoric, but said no selves because of the cumulative insanity of from the depth of understanding, ff we do the debt problem. HON. GUS YATRON not do this, the demand pull of that market And one of the things that you might also OF PENNSYLVANIA can yet defeat us all. try to sensitize American public opinion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hope TransAfrica, that you will play about is that the debt problem hurts us, your part along with the Reverend Jackson hurts the banks and hurts you. The banks Thursday, September 7, 1989 and others in challenging this country to do know it and we know it, but forgive me, so Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, 3 months after something about that market that will yet far the American people find it difficult to provide the tragedy of the corruption that recognize that they too are trapped in the the Government's brutal crackdown on peace we all fight. I would like to end with an difficulty; that you too are suffering the ful, unarmed prodemocracy demonstrations, other international problem. I know that loss of all the exports and economic activity gross human rights violations continue in the your preoccupations are with Southern that could flow could we break out of the vi People's Republic of China. Africa, and so are mine. I know therefore I cious circle in which we are caught. The atrocities that are still taking place daily trespass on perhaps dangerous ground when And as long as we are caught in it, poverty in China have fallen from the front pages of I ask you into other views. in the world is going to be endemic. A few our newspapers and no longer make the But I believe you have extraordinary ca countries will break out, many will not. And evening news. But we should not be lulled pacity. We are very conscious of the fact what to me is a great tragedy is a failure of that when you look at the drug problem, collective common sense. You know, I re into thinking that the Chinese Government has that the most difficult area in dealing with member in 1944 into 1945, Breton Woods softened its stance on the prodemocracy it is in the realm of poverty. and the Marshall Plan was radical, it was movement and its participants. The Chinese Experience shows that when better off revolutionary at the time. Government has adopted a different tack now kids flirt with drugs, that a good education And because of the imagination of the that it finds itself susceptible to international program, appropriate rehabilitation reaches people that did it, breaking out of the opinion. Authorities have dropped the method them and dramatically reduces the problem thralldom of the past and the old shibbo of publishing arrests in the newspaper to because really their problem is a problem of leths of tired habits, in a great act of imagi make an example of those arrested and have temporary escape from difficulties that are nation, management and statesmanship, the minor. The real problem with drugs is to be United States, Canada and Europe un opted for a quieter method of dealing with dis found in that hard brutal territory of pover leashed for themselves an unprecedented sent. According to the New York Times, au ty. Poverty brings a pain that is not easy to cycle of progress and development. We need thorities circulated an internal memo last June answer. Drugs bring a temporary release to something like that now. We need the act of saying arrests and sentences would continue, that pain. statesmanship that recognizes that the debt but should no longer be publicized. When people are trapped in poverty, com problem is there like a huge, irrational ob Those even loosely associated with the munity outreach programs do not get to stacle in the path of progress. movement now find themselves under interro them easily. When countries are poor, their That millions of people are trapped in a gation, arrest, and banishment to the Chinese capacity to resist is low. The ability to cor poverty that they need not endure and from rupt them is great. And therefore I see a which they could be released where there gulag. The extent of the Chinese Govern very profound connection between some the act of statesmanship. It has to be tack ment's reach will never be accurately known, things that we must understand. We are be led internationally. You cannot solve the but we do have reports from the human rights ginning to understand the relationship be debt problem between Mexico and the organization, Asia Watch, that the number of tween poverty and development. United States. Trust me when I tell you confirmed arrests by official Chinese sources We are willing, we are beginning to under that you can't. number over 6,000, with unofficial estimates stand the relationship between poverty and It has to be the subject of international as high as 30,000. Amnesty International re drugs. More recently, we are all becoming discussion. We need an international institu ports strong evidence that a deliberate deci conscious of that problem known as debt, tion that is designed to deal with its prob debt that is crippling the chances of more lems. It is only internationally that we can sion was made by Chinese authorities after than half of the world. And therefore in a create the financial instruments like an the crackdown to carry out secret executions, very interesting and indirect way, but a very internationally backed debt bond which adding that some death sentences would be telling way, there is a connection between could be the means of resolving a common publicized to deter political opposition. But, drugs and debt. crisis. again, the total number executed and impris I come from a country that has never ex If we could do that, if we could look at the oned was not to be published. Amnesty also perimented with wasting money on buying whole of the system of debt and substitute has reported on cases of torture of former de jet planes. We have not tried to finance any for what is in those debt portfolios now, tainees, and we can assume that this practice dictatorships. We have never had political that nobody ever really collects and substi leaders who build up strings of poor oppo tute for it a secure bond of long maturity continues today. nents. We have been a hard-working people. with moderate interest rates that could be The Chinese Government has waged a full We have disagreed sometimes amongst our administered in place of what is on the scale campaign to snuff out the voice of its selves. Happily we have a peaceful and more books but in the end is not actually being people. Officials, members of the media, and politics today, God bless that. collected, you would find that our banking intellectuals continue to be harassed and I think we've all learned a lot, become system would be able to substitute security dragged off by the police, without charge, more pragmatic, more realistic in Jamaica. for a high return that is in fact not happen never to be heard from again. The highest And yet in spite of all of that, there we are ing. ranking official to be ousted since the military with ambitious people, a political process That the debtor countries would get the that wants to be the agent of change and breathing space with which to build their crackdown is Culture Minister, Wang Meng. development on both sides, differences in economies and that the creditor countries Mr. Wang's appointment 3 years ago was methodology but I hope with a common ob like yours might actually get detritefully seen by many as signal of a new openness jective. And yet we are trapped in huge back to work. And nobody's asking for give and softening of the Government toward indi problems. aways because an international body of that vidual speech and artistic expression. This is And one of the problems we are trapped kind could say to anybody destined to enjoy clearly no longer the signal in post June 1989 in is that of every dollar we struggle to earn the relief, show us a sound realistic econom China. with our exports and the things we send ic program before you get help. And that Mr. Speaker, the United States Congress abroad, 51 cents goes right back out to serv way everybody could be joined in a collec ice debt. So we're trying to run a country on tive sanity which is to me preferable to the must continue to focus international attention a 49 cent dollar and I really suggest that present madness. on the unabating human rights violations in some of you try that some time. And the So, we stand with you in the struggle of China. If we don't, I fear these violations may debt problem has become, in my view, a sort Southern Africa. I invite you to stand with go unnoticed as other world events overtake of cumulative insanity of mankind. us in the struggle to internationalize the re- the Nation's attention. I hope my colleagues September 7, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19945 will not shift their focus from China, but career as a senior executive of HHS's Office unrest was settled and he was able to estab remain vigilant in condemning the atrocities for Civil Rights. In all these 52 years of dedi lish a productive working relationship with exercised by the Chinese Government. cated service to his country and to his Gov Capitol Hill. ernment, Walter Patterson was conscious of The present Postmaster General, Anthony the hard work and dedication needed to get Frank, stated "Bill Bolger leaves an indelible RECOGNITION AND TRIBUTE TO the job done, leaving a legacy which many of imprint on the U.S. Postal Service and the WALTER A. PATTERSON his friends identify today as uniquely his: American public he faithfully served for 43 His determination to undertake hard work years. He was a leader of great statute and HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY and set excellence as standard for himself boundless energy who brought a spirit of inno OF CALIFORNIA and others; vation and vision to this organization during IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES His enthusiastic presence and determination the critical times of change and challenge." I Thursday, September 7, 1989 to open the doors equally to all individuals, re wholeheartedly agree with my friend Tony gardless of race, color, denomination, age, or Frank's characterization of Bill Bolger's Mr. DYMALL Y. Mr. Speaker, I wish to bring sex, and his steadfast commitment to equita career, and I should like to add that I hope to the attention of this Congress, an extraordi ble treatment for all; Tony Frank will remain on as Postmaster Gen nary American who has served his Nation with His legacy to young people in striving for eral for as long as Bill Bolger served in that honor and dedication for over 52 years. education and the pursuit of learning, and his post. Simply stated, this gentleman in his lifetime is willingness to work with all people to achieve Bill Bolger began his career with the old an example of an African-American rising out this goal; and finally, Post Office Department as a finance clerk in of the depth of a segregated society into a His dedication to his family, his church, his 1941. After serving as an Air Force bombard world of struggle for equality and achieve community, and to his country to which he ier during World War II, he resumed his career ment, in the Federal service which very few has given his best years of devotion. with the Post Office Department. During the Americans can claim. Walter Arnold Patterson Mr. Speaker, while Walter Patterson has 1950's he held a number of positions in the has achieved a remarkable feat in continuous struggled throughout his life for others and New England Region, where he became Re Federal service from 1937 to 1989 with his re has achieved far more than most Americans gional Director for Boston. From 1972 to 1975 tirement from the Department of Health and achieve in a lifetime, Walter is now fighting a he served in New York as Regional Postmas Human Service. final battle with cancer. His family and col ter General for the Eastern Region. In 1975 Born in here in Washington, DC on June 27, leagues are fighting with him to overcome this he returned to Washington to serve as Deputy 1918, Walter was educated at the old Miner's final obstacle to what has been a remarkable Postmaster General. In 1978 he was appoint Teachers College, where he joined an impor life and career in raising a fine family, of gov ed by the Postal Service Board of Governors tant organization which was to leave an indel ernment service and unselfish dedication to all to be Postmaster General, the first career ible imprint as a lifelong member of Kappa of us in the community and in the Govern postal employee to reach the top of the Alpha Psi Fraternity. This fraternity was to ment. ladder in the Postal Service. He served as become a vital and singularly important frater Mr. Speaker, we are here to recognize and PMG until his retirement in late 1984. nity organization in Walter's life as well as in pay tribute to the life of an extraordinary man Bill Bolger is widely regarded as one of the the lives of many African-Americans yearning from Washington, DC, who has lived a per most effective leaders of the Postal Service, for higher education in America which was sonally exemplary life, and through his good and I pay tribute to a man who served his largely segregated. Several decades later, works has made a better world for his children country with distinction and honor for over 40 Walter's son was to join this public service fra and a better community for all of us. Few of years. Bill was an influential leader of the larg ternity while attending Harvard, carrying on his us have this opportunity to touch so many est civilian work force in America. He father's deeply held conviction about serving people as has Walter Patterson. We wish him preached to those employees the foundation one's community and government. Kappa well and ask God's blessing for a triumph over of the modern Postal Service, to take pride in Alpha Psi has given generations of young the personal adversity faced by this extraordi the institution, and provide better and more black men the opportunity of learning from nary man. courteous service. other black professionals, and has provided My heartfelt sympathies go out to his wife, the necessary discipline and motivation to Marjorie Tilton Bolger, and his daughters, succeed in facing a difficult, competitive world TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM F. Catherine and Margaret. which was neither colorblind nor without bias. BOLGER Walter Patterson started from the very bottom with part-time Christmas jobs with the HON. FRANK HORTON THE RISE AND FALL OF THE U.S. Post Office. Then he took a brief appoint OF NEW YORK SOVIET EMPIRE ment at Commerce's Census Bureau before IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES working 7 years covering the World War II years, first at the Navy Yard in Washington. Thursday, September 7, 1989 HON. JACK BUECHNER During part of these years he was drafted in Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, it is with great OF MISSOURI the U.S. Army and served in Okinawa directly sadness that we mourn the loss of a man who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES contributing to the national war effort. After served the U.S. Postal Service for over 40 Thursday, September 7, 1989 the war, he earned a M.A. at New York Uni years, former Postmaster General William F. versity under the GI Bill. He spent the follow Bolger. Bill died on August 21, 1989, after suf Mr. BUECHNER. Mr. Speaker, with the anx ing 7 years at the District of Columbia Public fering a heart attack. He was a loyal, dedicat ious eyes of the western Nations on them, Schools from 1948 to 1955, where he was ed, and tireless worker, who was the first more than a million Estonians recently joined able to apply his considerable knowledge and career postal employee to attain the rank of hands in demonstrating their commitment to skills as a teacher, counselor, and educator to Postmaster General. the independence of the Baltic States. Com thousands of students from the Washington Bill was the 65th Postmaster General since menting on this event, Pravda, the official metropolitan area. Benjamin Franklin became the Nation's first newspaper of the Communist Party of the This experience prepared him for the chal PMG. He headed the Postal Service during a Soveit Union used language that should send lenging years as a teacher and administrator crucial period in that agency's history. Bill a chill up the spine of a post-Tiananmen for the U.S. Army in Europe where he taught became Postmaster General in March 1978 Square world: soldiers and their dependents from 1955 to and was immediately faced with a crisis. The The fate of the Baltic people is in serious 1967. Walter Patterson was fully prepared to Postal Service was in the midst of contract danger. People should know into what abyss complete his stint of Federal service from negotiations with the Postal Employees they are being pushed by their nationalistic leaders. We appeal to the common sense of 1967 to July 31, 1989, by his appointment to Unions, strikes were threatened. Some critics the peoples of the multi-national Soviet the U.S. Office of Education in the old Depart argued that the Postal Service had been given Baltic region. It is time, in our common in ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, and too much autonomy in the Postal Reorganiza terest, to put an end to the fateful course of later to his retirement after a distinguished tion Act of 1970. Under Bill's leadership, the events, to come to your senses, go over from 19946 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 7, 1989 confrontation to dialogue, and a search for progress out. East German citizens remain the fallacious, and long since discredited, jus difficult but necessary solutions and com committed to escaping the bonds of totalitar tification by which legitimate nations are held promises. ian oppression and have shown themselves under Soviet domination. Fifty years ago the world at large was innovative and opportunistic in their many dif The time of empires is over. The Soviet drawn into a war the ramifications of which ferent approaches. Ethnic Turks pour out of Union should show that it has the courage to are felt to this day. The German blitzkreig Bulgaria, only too happy to be given a chance recognize this-rather than the power to con rolled across Eastern Europe snuffing out to flee an oppressive assimilation policy. Even tinu~ perpetuating by force that which it freedom, aided in the knowledge that there within the citadel of communism, the U.S.S.R., cannot hold by the strength of its ideas. would be no opposition from the Soviet Union. elections were held signifying that self-deter However, it was not only German perfidy at mination must be a part of governmental legit work. The Soviet Union, aided by the circum imacy. Yet, it is in the Baltic Republics where EIGHTEEN ATHLETES INDUCTED spect legality of a secret nonaggression pact truth of Soviet reforms will be brought to the INTO THE LUZERNE COUNTY with Nazi Germany, moved forcibly to annex ultimate test. HALL OF FAME the tiny Baltic Republics of Estonia, Latvia, Even as a drowning miser will refuse to re and Lithuania. lease the gold carrying him to a watery grave, HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI The authors of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact so, too, is it with the foundering Soviet ship of OF PENNSYLVANIA dividing Eastern Europe between Nazi Germa state. Increasingly unable to provide for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ny and the U.S.S.R., worked for the most pro sustenance of its own people, the Soviet Thursday, September 7, 1989 lific mass murderers the world has known, Union will try to cling to the last shining gems Hitler and Stalin. But even as the end of of a bankrupt empire. Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today World War II destroyed the pretensions of the The people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to pay tribute to the men and women of Lu Third Reich, it also served to consolidate the have shown extraordinary courage in pro zerne County, PA, who have been selected Soviet colonial empire. It is, however, a crum claiming their independence as they struggle for induction into the Luzerne County Hall of bling empire which the Baltic Republics are to shed the ties which forcibly bind them to a Fame. now challenging. system of which they reject. But, as one of Each year, for the past 5 years, the hall of On August 22, 1989, the Lithuanian Su the few regions under Soviet control which fame has chosen among a distinguished list of preme Soviet commission found "illegal and remain economically viable, the Baltic Repub men and women who are residents of Luzerne invalid" the Soviet annexation of Lithuania. lics are probably the most in danger of draw County and who have contributed to the Yet one would be foolish to think that such a ing an armed response. Further, in light of the sports history of our area. This year the finding would be accepted by the Soviet Soviet Union's historical aspirations toward screening committee has chosen 18 former Union. In fact, Pravda continues to promote being accepted as a European Nation, there is athletes, each of whom has upheld the sports the dubious underpinnings of the Soviet line considerable animosity toward releasing one tradition of the Wyoming Valley by committing feebly attempting to dismiss the Lithuanian fo the most tangible links to the European their unique talents to the fullest extent. With court's decision as little more than national continent. this year's selections, the hall of fame now chauvinism. It's billed as a separatist line, For the last 50 years, the United States has has 11 O members. The induction ceremonies "that has been foisted on the Baltic public by maintained that the Baltic Republics were honoring these exceptional athletes will be a persistent but small group." Continuing their forcibly annexed and are in fact autonomous held at a dinner on Sunday, September 10, institutional angst Pravda further notes: nations. Although we have done little more 1989. Perestroika paved the way for the raid than pay lip service to this claim, it is clear Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this oppor growth of national awareness of peoples, that the time for stronger action is fast ap tunity to introduce to my colleagues of the made them confident that they can inde proaching. As the deepening clouds of a House of Representatives this year's induct pendently solve the problems of their politi cal, social, and economic and cultural life. Soviet response seem to be gathering on the ees into the Luzerne County Hall of Fame: But at a certain stage nationalist extremist horizon the people of the Baltic States must Joe Amato, Old Forge, is the 1988 National groups began to introduce an unhealthy be made aware that they are not alone. Hot Rod Association Top Fuel World Champi aspect into the development of events. Time and again, our post World War II on. Amato also won this title in 1984 and is Included in the crimes of which the Baltic nation has pleaded helplessness or political one of four who have won the Top Fuel title Republics now stand accused are: Mockery of reluctance to influence the domestic events of more than once. He is ranked third on the all state insignia as well as desecration of sacred a sovereign nation. In this case, our continued time win list with 15 victories. In addition, Mr. things viewed as inviolable by any decent indi support of Baltic autonomy forces us to forfeit Amato is involved with the Valvoline "Say No vidual-among them the monuments to those this defense. By having failed to press the To Drugs" campaign. who died in the great patriotic war-World legal validity of the Baltic nations claim to sov Corny Salvaterra, of Wilkes-Barre, helped War II. Presumably the people of the Salties ereignty we can be accused of negligence or lead the GAR High School football team to should hold sacred the symbols of their op sloth. But if we allow the Soviet Union to forc win the 1952 Wyoming Valley Conference pressors and the monuments to those who ibly subjugate these countries, in direct con football title. Salvaterra played quarterback died defending a Soviet status quo. In light of tradiction to the democratic reforms they with the University of Pittsburgh playing in two the estimated almost two-thirds of the popula themselves have been encouraging in their bowl games. In addition, he was also known tion of Estonia, that took part in the recent own country, we will stand accused of cow for his outstanding ability in track, winning the "hands across Estonia" demonstration a good ardice. javelin throw in the State meet. case can be made that it is not "certain The United States and the other democratic Jane Dimond, Forty Fort, was considered forces" leading this activity. More accurately, nations of the world should be sending strong one of the best women golfers ever in the what is occurring is a popular outcry by a signals to the leaders of the Soviet Union that Wyoming Valley. From 1933 to 1962, she won country tired of having its affairs dictated by suppression of these countries by means of 20 women's club championships. Ms. Dimond an outsider. military force will meet with severe repercus played two exhibitions against golf greats Sam Throughout Eastern Europe, communism, sions. We should make it clear i:i no uncertain Snead and Patty Berg. She consistently and its reliance on totalitarian mechanisms is terms that further improvement in economic scored in the 70's using the men's tees under seige. In Poland the Communist Party ties and technology transfers are predicated women's tees did not exist at that time. If has essentially thrown up its hands. Although on Soviet actions in the Salties, and that the Dimond had been born 30 years later, she the Communists will remain an important force heavy-handed tactics such as those employed could have possibly played on the LPGA tour. by their control of the military and secret in the past will not be tolerated. In light of the Ed Halicki, Askam, was captain of three police, they have abrogated any pretense of extreme need of the Soviet Union to modern sports-football, baseball, and basketball-for constituting a viable force in dealing with Po ize its failing economy, this is a weapon which 3 years at Hanover High School. He played land's intractable economic problems. In Hun if brandished effectively exercises real clout. fullback at Bucknell for 4 years and was cap gary the barbed wire and barricades are Further, we should continue to actively push tain for 1 year. He went on to play profession coming down, an admission that a prison does for a Soviet repudiation of the illegal Nazi al football and baseball. He played for Frank more than keep people in-it also keeps Soviet agreements and their renunciation of ford Yellow Jackets, forerunner to the Phlla- September 7, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19947 delphia Eagles and played baseball with the Tom Morgan, Wilkes-Barre, played baseball, The following article, which appeared in the St. Louis Gardinals. football, and basketball for Coughlin High university's homecoming newspaper, details Francis A. Lovecchio, M.D., Wilkes-Barre, School. He continued his career at Villanova the activities and accomplishments of Dr. was an outstanding athlete in football, basket University where he excelled in baseball, foot Adams. ball, and track at GAR High School. He at ball and basketball, earning three letters in DR. ADAMS ACHIEVED HIS OWN GoAL tended Princeton University and was named each sport. A leg injury at Villanova prevented Wallace Malone, Jr., President Pro Tem varsity quarterback and captain, winning let Morgan from pursuing a pro career. He was pore, Troy State University Board of Trust ters in 1951, 1952, and 1953. offered baseball contracts from the Philadel ees. Lou "Sheriff" Zara, Old Forge, was a star phia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Car In business, it is an axiom that good man basketball player at Old Forge High School dinals and Philadelphia Phillies. After college agement is a prerequisite for success in any Morgan turned to coaching and retired in 1960 enterprise, and business often measures making the varsity team as an eighth-grader. that success in terms of growth, quality, and He played basketball at Rider College becom with a career record of 270-52. profit. These principles also apply to institu ing the first eastern college basketball player Ken Smith, Scranton, was a football, base tions of higher learning and give one an in to score more than 200 points in a season. ball, basketball star at Scranton Tech. He was sight into the success of Troy State Univer Zara later served as general manager and a member of the football and baseball teams sity, for Dr. Ralph Wyatt Adams is an out public relations director of the Syracuse Na at Penn State. Smith played pro basketball for standing administrator. tionals' basketball team. the Scranton team in the old Penn State Certainly, the growth of the University League and played pro baseball for the Pat has been one of the hallmarks of Dr. W.J. Romanowski, Avoca, excelled in foot Adams' tenure as president and chancellor ball at Avoca High School in addition to par terson Buswicks. He became the first baseball coach for GAR High School and held the po of the university srtem. In the 24 years he ticipating in baseball and track. In college he has served the institution, the student body played for Villanova and later played semi-pro sition for 28 years. has not merely doubled or tripled but has football for the Magnolia Club. Mr. Roman Stan Ritinsky, Luzerne, was an all-scholastic grown eightfold. In 1964, Troy State stu owski had a long officiating career as a PIAA end on the football team and an outstanding dents were primarily at one campus and in football official in addition to officiating basket basketball player. He played football at Ford one discipline, education; in 1988, students ball and track meets. His officiating career ex ham University where he started on the 1941 are at more than 40 locations throughout the world and pursuing programs of study panded beyond high school to college foot Cotton Bowl and the 1942 Sugar Bowl team. He was drafted by the New York Giants but in more than 70 academic areas on under ball, including the annual Army-Navy game. graduate, and special degree levels. Because Adam Sieminski, Hazleton, played football, ended his football career because of a World of Dr. Adams' foresight, the University was basketball, and baseball teams at Swoyersville War II injury. He also assistant coached at the one of the first to anticipate important High School. He attended Michigan State and University of Scranton before moving to Upper trends in adult, military, and non-tradition played offensive and defensive tackel for 4 Moreland High School. al education. Thus, Troy State University years, lettering for 3 of those years. Sieminski William "Bill" Leppert, Pittston, almost had the programs in place as the needs arose. was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, and single-handedly founded the Pittston Little League, turning the site of a former dump and Growth in the student population necessi later went on to coach high school football. tated as increase in the number of employ Joe Andrejco, Hazleton, won letters for 3 mining area into a field for boys. He served as the league's president for 35 years, and the ees, their numbers growing from 270 to years at Hazleton High School in both basket more than 500 members of the faculty, ball and football. He continued playing football field has been named in his honor. staff, and administration on the main at Fordham University and twice helped lead Carl "Red" Meinhold, Hazleton, was the top campus, with more than 800 full-time and his team to the Sugar Bowl. Mr. Andrejco con rebounder on the 1942-43, Hazleton High 300 adjunct faculty in the system. Increases tinued to play football while serving in the U.S. School basketball team. He went on to Long in plant, grounds, and facilities kept pace Island University and was later signed by the with the expanded role of the University be Marine Corps during World War II. cause Dr. Adams saw the University as an Daniel Donovan, Old Forge, was captain of Baltimore Bullets of the Basketball Associa tion of America which later became the NBA. organic whole and insisted that each part be the Avoca High School football, basketball, The athletes described above have dis maintained and nurtured. and baseball teams. He later became a star in However, growth costs money. Fortunate played a great sense of spirit as well as com basketball, football, and track at East Strouds ly, year after year, Dr. Adams' thorough petitiveness through their accomplishments. burg State College. He became a coach for planning and persuasive arguments have re They know what it is to be faced with a chal several sports at Darby High School and later sulted in the University's budget being in lenge and to take on that challenge looking it creased from $2 million in 1964-65 to $44.5 Cathedral High School. In addition, Mr. Dono straight in the eye. These competitors have million in 1988-89. Significant also is that van has been the founder and president of proven that in facing obstacles in the world of for the fiscal years 1984-85 and 1985-86, the the Lackawanna Scholastic Girls' Basketball sports, one can become a more active and legislative appropriations for institutions of League. perhaps a more productive citizen. I would like higher learning in the State of Alabama in Eddie Mullin, Ashley, is a former profession creased by 53 percent-the highest in the to join my colleagues in the House of Repre nation-and leading the State was Troy al boxer and is a member of the Wyoming sentatives in commending these individuals on Valley Boxing Hall of Fame. Known as "Blue State University, with an increase of 69 per their induction into the Luzerne County Hall of cent. Therefore, according to The Chronicle Eyes" Mullin, he lost just 2 of 86 fights. He Fame. of Higher Education, Troy State University represented the Navy in the 1948 Olympic had the greatest increase in budgetary ap Trials. His most memorable pro fight was a propriations for those two years, thanks to victory over Vince Martinez. DR. RALPH W. ADAMS the relationship of Dr. Adams to the Ala Michael {Mickey) Noonan, Plymouth, was an bama Legislature. all-scholastic at Plymouth High School and Not only have these increases made it pos went on to play professional baskeball in the HON. JOHN LEWIS sible for the University to achieve its goaIS, but the increased funding has enriched the Midwest and South for several years. He con OF GEORGIA economy of the Wiregrass area. In April, ducted a state-accredited school for football IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1985, the most recent econoinic impact officials for more than 25 years. study was conducted, determining that the "Machine Gun" Lou Butera, Pittston, started Thursday, September 7, 1989 combined direct and indirect impact of Troy his career at the age of seven in his father's Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I would State University on the area was more than pool hall. Among his many accomplishments like to take this time to bring to the attention $35 million, making it the largest industry are the World Championship in 1973, the All of my colleagues the tremendous accomplish between Montgomery and Fort Rucker. Japan Championship, and the World Trick ments and contributions of the outgoing presi Considering the current budget of the Uni· Shot Championship. In addition, he holds the dent and chancellor of Troy State University versity, the impact is probably in excess of $50 million. world's record in tournament play by pocket System, Dr. Ralph W. Adams. During his 24 Like every effective administrator. Dr. ing 150 balls in 21 minutes. He is only the years at Troy State, Dr. Adams devoted his Adams realized that an increase in size must 23rd member inducted into the Billiard's Con time and talents to the development and ad be accompanied by an increase in quality. gress of America's Hall of Fame. vancement of the university. Beginning with the students, who have 19948 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 7, 1989 always been his main concern, Dr. Adams TAIWAN'S 78TH NATIONAL DAY MRS. ADELAIDE BAILEY mandated that a variety of scholarships be ANNIVERSARY made available to highly qualified high school graduates. Today, Troy State Univer HON. FRANK HORTON sity offers the George C. Wallace Scholar HON. GUS YATRON OF NEW YORK ship, the Ralph W. Adams Pre-Medical OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Scholarship, Air Force ROTC Scholarship, Thursday, September 7, 1989 and other scholarships in nursing, athletics, Thursday, September 7, 1989 music, performing arts, and debate. Upon Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, over the recess his arrival, Dr. Adams found that there was Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to period I had the opportunity to meet with one national honor society on campus; express my congratulations to my friends in many of my constituents in upstate New York. today there are seventeen, along with ten the Republic of China on Taiwan on the occa One of them was Adelaide Bailey who recent leadership and service organizations. Honors sion of their forthcoming 78th National Day ly celebrated her 82d birthday. Day, when these outstanding students are Anniversary on October 10, 1989. Taiwan, Mrs. Bailey, who resides in my hometown of given the public acclaim they deserve, has under the leadership of President Lee Teng Penfield, NY, has been a very active citizen in always been for the Chancellor second in Hui, is a nation worthy of our admiration and that town for many years. She has also con import8.JlCe only to graduation. respect. In four decades, Taiwan has made an ducted a considerable amount of research on Recognizing the importance of a compe incredible transformation in its economy, the history of Penfield, the State of New York, tent faculty, Dr. Adams insisted on being di moving from an agricultural economy to one and the United States. During our visit at her rectly involved in the upgrading of the fac of the "Four Asian Tigers", or economic suc home on August 25, we discussed various as ulty. Not only did he substantially increase cesses in Asia. pects of her research. I was impressed by the the number of faculty who hold terminal Much has been said and written about Tai broad scope of her research. degrees, but he sought out and brought to wan's economic miracle, but what hasn't been She also pointed out that she had written campus distinguished visiting professors of noted is Taiwan's diplomatic initiatives in several poems and prayers. One of these the stature of Edward Teller, William D. recent years. There is no question that Taiwan prayers appears in the ritual book for the Revilli, and Russell Kirk. To encourage fac is diplomatically isolated because of mainland ulty to teach more effectively and to reward Daughters of the American Revolution. The China's threat to break diplomatic ties with prayer is for the Dedication of the Flag cere those who teach exceptionally well, Dr. any country that seeks to recognize both Adams negotiated with the Ingalls Founda mony. It is ironic that I had just presented Mrs. tion to establish the Ingalls Award for Ex Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Bailey with an American flag flown over the cellence in Classroom Teaching. Even under such grave threats, The Bahamas Capitol on July 4, 1989, as well as with greet and Grenada recently established full diplo ings from President and Mrs. Bush. In light of I could go on citing example after exam matic ties with Taiwan. Foreign Minister Lien her contributions to historical research and ple of improvements that Dr. Adams has Chan and his two assistants, Vice Minister her tremendous love for the American flag, I made. As a member of the Board of Trust John Chang and Vice Minister C.J. Chen, de thought it would be appropriate to include her ees and President pro tempore, I have wit serve much credit for Taiwan's diplomatic prayer as it appears in the DAR ritual book in nessed many of them, have worked with breakthroughs. the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: him to achieve some of them, and have ad Mr. Speaker, as Taiwan celebrates its 78th Lord, our Heavenly Father, we thank mired the workmanlike manner in which anniversary this October, it is my hope and Dr. Adams has pursued excellence and made Thee for the beauty of symbolism which wish that Taiwan will continue to have diplo has inspired our race from generation to the term the catchword of the University. matic successes and will be allowed to partici generation. Others outside the University family have pate in international economic and trade We thank Thee for the response that also recognized his skills and wisdom. He groups, such as the General Agreement on warms our hearts when we come face to achieved the signal honor of being named Tariffs and Trade, and other key international face with something tangible which speaks one of the country's 100 most effective col organizations. to us of intangible things. lege presidents by the Exxon Corporation And so we thank Thee for our Flag be Education Foundation, and is known cause we are grateful for the things it says throughout the state as the dean of college HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO to our spirits and because we remember in TAIWAN solemn joy the things which it has said to presidents. He has been sought by those in other generations of Americans. all levels of government and has served on a Bless to us its reminders of heroic sacrific variety of state and federal boards, includ HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY es and its call to devotion and service on our ing the Education Appeals Board of the U.S. OF CALIFORNIA part. Department of Education and the Presiden IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Grant that we may be true to the ideals it tial Clemency Board. This latter appoint teaches and that in us the highest type of ment was made personally by President Thursday, September 7, 1989 patriotism may be developed. Ford. Business, too, has recognized his abili Mr. DYMALL Y. Mr. Speaker, there is no In reverencing our Flag, may we build up ties, and he currently serves on the boards doubt in my mind that Taiwan is a true miracle within ourselves honor and Justice and in of directors of several financial institutions. tegrity of life. of the 20th century. It has found prosperity In Thee, 0 Lord, do we put our trust. The pursuit of excellence and the achieve amidst the ruins of World War II. For the last Bless our America, we pray. And make her ment of success are principles that under 40 years, Taiwan's far-sighted leaders have Thine own messenger of righteousness and Dr. Adams' leadership have shaped the given their energies to the economic, political, peace. Troy State University System we know and educational development of this island Amen. today. That the University is in large meas nation, and their efforts have borne rich re ure the handiwork of Dr. Adams is obvious. sults. Taiwan is the second richest country in That he deserves the praise and gratitude of Asia, second only to Japan. It is on the road COMMEMORATING THE lOOTH many is equally obvious, for his manage to a full constitutional democracy; and the lit ANNIVERSARY OF THE MIS ment, dedication, perseverance have profit eracy rate stands at 92 percent while 34 per SOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN ed every student and employee of the Uni cent of all its high school graduates go on to versity, as well as the community. However, tertiary education. knowing the man as I do, I think he will be HON. JACK BUECHNER the first to say that Troy State University Taiwan, Mr. Speaker, is a shining example OF MISSOURI has given a breadth and meaning to his life of self-reliance and hard work, .and I wish to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES take this occasion to congratulate its leaders, that few other experiences would; that he Thursday, September 7, 1989 as the shaper of the University has also President Lee Teng-hui, Premier Lee Huan, been shaped by it. And I can say what Dr. Foreign Minister Lien Chan and former Minis Mr. BUECHNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Adams would never say, that in his pursuit ter Ding Mou-shih, on the 78th anniversary of to commemorate the 1OOth anniversary of the of excellence for the University, he has won the founding of their nation-October 10, Missouri Botanical Garden of St Louis, MO. the prize himself. 1989. Voyager II hurdles into the darkest reaches of September 7, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19949 our universe and sends back images of nature NEWLY COMMISSIONED U.S.S. sioned on August 29, 1946, after sustaining beyond what man can even imagine. We here "PENNSYLVANIA" JOINS DIS extensive damage from a Japanese torpedo on Earth sit in amazement and long to know TINGUISHED LIST OF PENN- bombing while anchored in Buckner Bay. The more-to extend that metaphysical chord "A SYLVANIA VESSELS-HON. Pennsylvania received eight batUe stars for man and his universe." PAUL E. KANJORSKI ON her World War II service. BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE PENN Another vessel christened the Pennsylvania Yet in St. Louis there has been for 100 SYLVANIA DELEGATION IN R.R. No. 9 served as a minesweeper and tug years a special place for man to seek out his THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA in New York habor. She remained active until own planet and to discover the fauna that in TIVES January 2, 1919. tum has given him food, cures for his dis We take great pride in the fact that such eases, the paper that his history is kept upon, HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI fine ships have shared the name of our great and most importantly the air that keeps him OF PENNSYLVANIA State of Pennsylvania. We join our colleagues alive. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the House of Representatives in saluting not only the newly commissioned U.S.S. The Missouri Botanical Garden, also known Thursday, September 7, 1989 as "Shaw's Garden," is the oldest botanical Pennsylvania but in remembering the history Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of garden in the United States in continuous op of this great line of ships and the man and the entire bipartisan Pennsylvania delegation, I women who have served on their decks. eration. Internationally recognized for the qual take great pride in announcing to our col ity of its horticultural presentations, it stands leagues in the House of Representatives the out particularly for its educational programs christening of a Trident submarine-the U.S.S. THE U.S.S. "LIBERTY" 1967-89 and most importantly its scientific research. Its Pennsylvania. This weekend, on behalf of the staff and administrators have gone around the delegation, I will participate in a very special world assisting or helping to start similar insti ceremony, the christening of the U.S.S. Penn- HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. tutions dedicated to man and nature. sylvania. This newly commissioned submarine OF INDIANA Most recently, this garden, under the lead is a member of a distinguished line of naval IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ership of Dr. Peter Raven, has achieved fur vessels to be named after the second of our Thursday, September 7, 1989 ther acclaim as it works to preserve and pro original 13 States. Ship-of-the-line Pennsylvania was author- Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, our former col- tect the tropical forests of the planet Earth ized by Congress on April 29, 1816. She was league, Pete Mccloskey of California has and in doing so helping determine the fate of launched on July 18, 1837, after budgetary asked me to place this essay of his in the mankind. problems that delayed her construction. She RECORD. As concern for the environment has moved was the largest sailing warship ever built for As can be seen by the essay itself, a to the forefront of public awareness, the the U.S. Navy. Pennsylvania eventually strange controversy occurred in connection garden has played a prominent part in helping became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy with the 20th anniversary of the Israeli attack to define the importance of maintaining a bio Yard and remained there until April 20, 1861, on the U.S.S. Liberty. logically diverse and balanced ecosystem. Es when she was burned to the waterline to pre- I believe that Mr. McCloskey's views and tablished in 1864 and directed for 25-years by vent here from being destroyed or captured by report are entitled to be examined by the a private St. Louis merchant, Henry Shaw, it the Confederacy. membership--and I place the essay in the was bequeathed to the public in perpetuity A U.S. Navy steamer, originally named RECORD without the slightest animosity toward upon his death in 1889. Surveying his legacy Keywaden, was assigned the name Pennsyl- Israel. Apparently somebody somewhere in with the hindsight of a century, I am certain vania on May 15, 1809. She was one of the Israel did a very bad thing in the case of the least active of the vessels named Pennsylva- U.S.S. Liberty. People in our country have that Mr. Shaw would be proud of what the nia and was never actually launched. She lay done bad things too. That does not mean that tireless work and dedication of the caretakers on the ways from 1803 until 1884 when she either country is essentially bad. of his garden have wrought. It is certain his was broken up. · But young American military men did die 20 spirit still tenderly touches the plants, the The second battleship commissioned Penn- years ago. And I think it is regrettable that our trees and blossoms, and the waters of "his sylavsnia was launched on August 22, 1903 own Government has declined to participate garden." and operated on the East Coast and in the in the memorial the little town in Wisconsin To those of us who know and love this Caribbean. It was renamed the Pittsburgh in decided to make for these innocent victims. place, it is more than just a garden or a center August 1912 to free the name Pennsylvania Tm: u.s.s. "LIBERTY," 1967-89 of learning. It is a refuge from the turmoil of for a new battleship. The keel for the newly A heartwarming event took place a few an often ugly world, a gentle reminder of what christened Pennsylvania was laid down on Oc- days ago in the village of Grafton, Wiscon Eden must have been, and a continuing cele tober 27, 1913. She was launched March 16, sin, population ten thousand, 20 miles north bration of the glorious beauty of nature. 1915, and commissioned on June 12, 1916, of Milwaukee and surrounded by the rolling with Capt. H.B. Wilson in command. The corn fields of southeastern Wisconsin. , It was an especially beautiful June day, As we strive to remember our true role in Pennsy1vania1 was attached to the Atlantic bright and sunny, with a cooling breeze off the grand scheme of things, to recover that Fleet and in January 1917 steamed for fleet Lake Michigan. which we seem to have lost, it is well to look maneuvers in the Caribbean only to return to In a brief ceremony, the Town's leading to the example that Missouri Botanical Garden her base on April 6, 1917, the day of declara- citizens unveiled a simple memorial to 34 has set. For there is no finer example of what tion of war against Germany. U.S. Navy officers and men killed by Israeli good and true stewardship means than that The Pennsylvania performed fleet maneu- torpedo, rocket and machine gun fire 22 which has been set by the Missouri Botanical vers in the Caribbean and Yorktown areas. In years earlier, on June 8, 1967. The Israelis, Garden. 1922, the Pennsylvania joined the Pacific on the verge of attacking Syria's Golan Fleet with her principal areas of operation Heights, had unleashed a furious fighter- I ask each of my colleagues to join me in bomber and torpedo boat attack on the in along the coast of California, Washington, and telligence-gathering ship, the Liberty, celebrating this 1OOth anniversary of the Mis u.s.s. Oregon. off the shores of Egypt's Sinai Desert. souri Botanical Garden and in saluting those The battleship was in drydock in the Pearl The U.S. flag had been flying in an 8 knot who continue to work to ensure that our con Harbor Navy Yard at the time of the Japanese breeze during several earlier Israeli recon tinuing journey through the cosmos is not attack in 1941. She was one of the first ships naissance flights and every man on the Lib devoid of beauty. Let us each and every one in the harbor to open fire as enemy dive erty believed that the attack was no acci- dent. A U.S. Secretary of State. Chairman pledge ourselves to the same level of commit b om b ers an d t orped 0 PanesI Iaunc he d a sur- of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director ment, strive to attain the same attention to prise attack in the early hours of December 7. of the National Security Agency have detail, and show the same love and devotion The Pennsylvania remained on the west agreed with them. to our Earth that has been shown by the care coast patrolling the California shoreline for the Strangely enough, the dedication of the takers of the Missouri Botanical Garden. remainder of the war. She was decommis- memorial with the names of the 34 dead 19950 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 7, 1989 U.S. servicemen was the first public recogni ty," written by deck officer Jim Ennes. What a nation had declined to do, a small tion of their sacrifice in the 22 years since Ennes' book had made it clear that the town had done, with patriotism, warmth the attack. There had also been 171 wound attack was deliberate, not accidental, and and class. ed from the crew of 294. No U.S. naval that the Israeli attacks on the Liberty's life vessel since World War II had suffered a rafts were clearly intended to leave no survi greater percentage (69%) in battle casual vors. It is not easy to find Ennes• book in A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT ties. bookstores today, despite the fact that it The honor to the 34 dead Americans, how sold out five printings. The publisher no BRADLEY PIPER ever, did not come from their Commander longer finds it politic to publish and sell this in Chief, the U.S. Navy, nor their Senators particular piece of American historical writ and Congressmen. ing. HON. CARROLL HUBBARD, JR. Twenty-two years after the fact, all but The ceremony, on the lawn of the new OF KENTUCKY one of the political and military leaders of Grafton Library, at least had marvelous the nation, successors to those from whom music. The Lakeshore Philharmonic Or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the 34 U.S. sailors had died that hot after chestra, 20 volunteers strong, ages 16 to 60, Thursday, September 7, 1989 noon of June 8, 1967, were too afraid to opened with "America, the Beautiful," then · attend or even send a congratulatory mes accompanied a talented local soprano in Mr. HUBBARD. Mr. Speaker, I want to take sage. "The Star-Spangled Banner," and finally, this opportunity to pay tribute to a man who That the ceremony was held at all was a while the names of the 34 dead young was a dear friend and an outstanding constitu tribute to two sturdy Grafton civic leaders Americans were slowly read, gave a soft ren ent of mine in Russellville, KY. The contribu and their wives, former Navy veteran Jim dition of "My Country 'Tis of Thee.'' There Grant and his wife, Carol, and John and were few dry eyes among the surviving Lib tions he made to his community will never be Mary Dickmann. Grant was President of erty crew members and several hundred forgotten. the Town's Board of Trustees, Dickmann Grafton citizens standing on the lawn or in Robert Bradley Piper died March 27, 1989, the head of his own small manufacturing the adjacent street. at the age of 84, after a long and dedicated company in Grafton. Together they had or An honor guard of aging American Le career in education and many years of volun ganized the memorial event against bitter gionnaires, mostly veterans of World War editorial opposition from Wisconsin's larg II, fired three volleys from M-1 rifles which teer service to his community, State, and est newspaper and from the Milwaukee some of them could barely lift to the firing Nation. Jewish community. position; the orchestra rendered a final taps. Bob Piper, whose mother was a school The stone memorial bearing the names of There was a brief tour of the new library, teacher and whose father was a school board the 34 dead, including one Jewish boy, was still without books, for the townspeople and member, was a native of Logan County, KY. unveiled by one of the two U.S. Navy regu 40-odd Liberty, survivors, and their families, He attended Bethel College in Russellville lars who attended, a Lt. Commander, who following which lemonade and brownies had been a Seaman 1st Class aboard the were served to all hands in the basement. before earning his bachelor's degree at West Liberty during the 1967 Israeli attack. Almost last to leave were a quiet couple ern State Teachers College in Bowling Green A former Navy combat pilot, President and their two adult children, the family of and his master's at the University of Kentucky. Bush, had been invited to attend. He didn't, Seaman Richard Goss, all from Fort Wayne, He began his teaching career in the Gor nor did his office send the customary con Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Goss had lingered donsville community school, where he later gratulatory message. awhile to quietly gaze at the simple memori The Secretaries of Defense and of the al gravestone with their son's name on it. served as principal. He also taught at Olm NavY had been invited. Neither responded. The Milwaukee Journal, on~e a great cru stead School before becoming superintendent The Commander of the nearby Great sading newspaper, for over a year had writ of Logan County Schools, in 1942, a position Lakes Naval Training Station has been in ten scathing editorials and news articles he held proudly for 33 years. vited. Neither he nor even a Navy band was condemning the Grafton citizens' commit He remained steadfast in his commitment to allowed to attend. No Blue Angels flew over tee and town leaders who had agreed to head. The clear word from on high was that name the library after the U.S.S. Liberty. and love for education in his retirement years. no Navy personnel should dignify this par The Journal thought the name was "contro He served as president of the Kentucky Re ticular memorial ceremony. versial and might evoke anti-Semitic feel tired Teachers Association at the time of his One solitary Chief Petty Officer, a re ings.'' death, and he was a member and former cruiting officer from a nearby town, showed The Journal's article the next day was member of the American Association of Re up. He tersely commented that he would somewhat muted, devoting only half its have come even if the whole damn Navy Of words to "the controversy" the newspaper tired Persons. ficer Corps had ordered him not to. itself had created by terming the name of a Also a very civic-minded individual, "Mr. The remarks from the small podium in U.S. Navy ship as a rallying point for anti Bob" was a 46-year member of the Russell the afternoon sunshine were brief. The Lib semitic organizations. The Journal's article ville Rotary Club and logged 22 years of per erty's chaplain gave a moving invocation. stressed the police SWAT team protection fect attendance. The ship's captain, Commander McGonagle, provided the ceremony, mentioned the Bob Piper's service to his community, wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor attack as "a strange historical footnote to awarded him for having saved his ship de the Six Day War," Israel's claim that the though done unpretentiously, did not go unno spite severe wounds, thanked the President attack was an accident and that Ben Grob ticed. In 1987 he was awarded the "Senior of the Town's Board of Trustees for the had once given campaign contributions to a Achiever Hall of Fame Award" at the "Life honor done his crew; the Chairman of the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan and After Fifty" fair sponsored by Western Ken Grafton Library Committee, Mrs. Carol "other right wing causes.'' The article cited tucky University. He served as a member of Schneider, raiser of over $1 million to build "some Jewish groups" who had said those the new town library, gave a few words of who wished to memorialize the ship by the Barren River Area Development District's thanks; the local state assemblyman and naming the library were-at the very least Council on Aging. state senator made a few remarks as did the "insensitive." He was a member of Russellville's First American Legion commander, the head of To the crew of the Liberty, the real heroes Baptist Church where he served as deacon the Chamber of Commerce and a former present were the Grants and the Dickmanns for about 30 years and as Sunday school su congressman. Two Liberty crew members, who had weathered the personal attacks one officer and one enlisted man, gave from the Journal and the greater Milwau perintendent for several terms. U .S.S. Liberty crew Jackets to the two elder kee Jewish community for the previous two Like his father, Bob Piper married a school ly Grafton industrialists, Ben and Ted years. teacher. He and the former Eleanor Bryant Grob, brothers who had preserved their ma As Oliver Wendell Holmes, veteran of the married in 1930. He is survived by his lovely chine tool company through the Depression 20th Massachusetts Regiment, wounded at wife Eleanor; their daughter, Dr. Ann Pember; years and who had contributed to countless Balls Bluff, Antietam and Spotsylvania, Grafton charitable causes, large and small, once paraphrased: "The perils of civil strife and son-in law, Benny J. Pember, of Greens before donating $500,000 for the new li can be greater than the battlefield." boro, NC; one brother, Henry Piper of Russell brary. When the Grob brothers were invited As the two buses with the U.S.S Liberty ville; and two grandchildren, Robert Benjamin by the Library Committee to name the li survivors and their families left the new li Pember and Piper Ann Pember, both of brary after themselves, the Grobs had asked brary's parking lot, one man leaned out the Greensboro. instead to name it for the U .S.S. Liberty. window for a final salute to the American The Grobs had read about the 1967 Liber Flag flying over the new monument and My wife Carol and I extend our sympathy to ty incident in a book, "Assault on the Liber- said "Thank you Grafton!" the members of Bob Piper's family. September 7, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19951 RULE ON H.R. 3, THE EARLY treatment and education, Department of De also become our fifth largest trading partner CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND fense interdiction efforts, housing, and eco and a shining example of economic growth DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1989 nomic development. and political liberalization. I am especially disturbed about the proposal I want to salute and congratulate President HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI to reduce, by $320 million, Federal funds for Lee Teng-hui and the people of Taiwan for 01' ILLINOIS the State Legalization Impact Assistance their dedication and commitment to free enter IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Grants created by the Immigration Reform prise and democratic ideals. For 78 years, and Control Act of 1986 [IRCA]. Taiwan has demonstrated clearly that freedom Thursday, September 7, 1989 The SLIAG Program-which I had proposed and economic opportunity go hand in hand. Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, pursu to reimburse 100 percent of costs imposed on Taiwan continues to be a valued friend of ant to the rules of the Democratic caucus, I State and local governments by the new immi the United States and an inspiration for other wish to serve notice to my colleagues that I gration law-was created, over the objections Asian countries attempting to modernize. I have been instructed by the Committee on of the Reagan administration, to reimburse the congratulate Taiwan on its 78th birthday and Ways and Means to seek less than an open States for some of the costs of public health, offer my best wishes for the future. rule for the consideration by the House of public assistance, and education of newly le Representatives of H.R. 3, the Early Child galized aliens. hood Education and Development Act of The funds allocated for the SLIAG Program EAGLE SCOUT HONORED 1989. were guaranteed to the States for use through 1994. President Reagan in his final budget HON. WIWAM 0. LIPINSKI and President Bush in his first budget, recom HOW TO PAY FOR AN OF ILLINOIS EFFECTIVE DRUG WAR mended reducing 1989 SLIAG funds by $300 million. Now President Bush seeks an even IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deeper cut that will do more serious economic Thursday, September 7, 1989 HON. JOHN BRYANT damage to State and local governments. OF TEXAS States such as my home-Texas-with sig Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nificant portions of the legalized alien popula pleasure to bring to the attention of my col Thursday, September 7, 1989 tion cannot afford to assume the greater leagues, an outstanding young individual from spending burden for these services which the Fifth Congressional District of Illinois, who Mr. BRYANT. Mr. Speaker, drug abuse and has completed a major goal in his Scouting the illicit industry and crime it has spawned have been mandated by the Federal Govern ment. career. Mr. Thomas Joseph Boor, of Troop are perhaps the most serious challenges con 415 in Chicago, IL, will be honored on Sep fronting our society today. Drugs flow daily For several years the Democrats have tember 21, 1989 at an "Eagle Scout Court of across our borders-onto our streets and into struggled to finance the war on drugs. The Honor." our neighborhoods and schools. Bush proposal in fact barely matches the It is important to note that less than 1 per Drugs cause crime, devastate productivity funding levels authorized by Congress last cent of all boys in America attain the rank of and kill-as we ever more frequently witness, year-it barely restores 40 percent of Reagan Eagle Scout. This high honor can only be not just in this capital city, but in most of our Bush cuts in anti-drug efforts over the previ earned by those Scouts demonstrating strong, cities and increasingly in rural communities. ous 8 years. The Bush administration's origi During the Reagan-Bush administration, drug nal fiscal year 1990 budget proposal fell extraordinary leadership abilities. Thomas use and drug-related crimes increased dra almost $1.5 billion short of the authorizations Boor has clearly demonstrated such abilities through his dedicated community service and matically. in the 1988 bill. While I applaud President Bush's recogni I am pleased that the President has discov hard work. tion of the fact that we must put more money ered many of the programs approved by Con Having joined Cub Scouts, Pack 3415, at into the effort to end the scourge of drugs in gress in 1987 and 1988 and recognized that Maurice Parish in September 1983, Thomas this Nation, I am dismayed that he has given any progress in the war on drugs will be made earned all 15 activity badges as a Webelos little indication of where this money should only if we provide funding for them. An effec Scout. He then went on to earn the Arrow of come from. The proposed financing for the tive strategy in the war on drugs will require Light Award prior to becoming a Boy Scout in plan consists of accounting gimmicks and mis that we also fight the root causes of drug use November 1984. • guided cuts in important programs. and crime. After becoming a Boy Scout in 1984, It is a clever accounting gimmick to count We must recognize that Americans con Thomas rapidly advanced to the rank of Ten $686 million of programs already included in sume 60 percent of the world's supply of ille derfoot on November 11 , 1985; a Second the fiscal year 1990 budget as part of his pro gal drugs. Americans have doubled their pur Class Scout on June 12, 1986; a First Class posed increase. It is misguided to finance chases of illegal drugs to more than $140 bil Scout on December 19, 1986; a Star Scout on $751 million of the increase with dramatic cuts lion a year since 1980. Approximately 43 per January 17, 1987; a Life Scout on June 19, in important and often related domestic pro cent of all Federal inmates are incarcerated 1988 and, finally, Boy Scouting's highest grams. And the President has not given us an for drug-related offenses and 40 percent of honor-the Eagle Scout on June 29, 1989. inkling as to how the remaining $763 million new admissions were rated as having moder In his quest to become an Eagle Scout, increase-part of an anti-crime proposal never ate to severe drug use histories. Thomas earned all 12 skill awards and 38 included in the budget-can be financed with We have not yet begun to fight. merit badges. In March 1986, Thomas was neither additional spending cuts or revenue in elected by his fellow Scouts into the Order of creases. You might say this is a case of deja the Arrows [OA], an organization within the voodoo economics. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE Boy Scouts that promotes camping and as I am pleased that the President has joined REPUBLIC OF CHINA sistance to others. the Congress in deciding that we need to rein A career in Scouting would not be complete force our troops in the war on drugs. We also HON. BILL GRANT without service in the various other capacities need to assure the American public that we OF FLORIDA that help make up such a fine organization. To have a responsible way to pay for it. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fulfill this philosophy, Thomas served as the One responsible source for funds for the corresponding scribe for Tschitani, Mawat anti-drug war would be to require our allies to Thursday, September 7. 1989 chapter, Owasippe Lodge of the Order of the begin paying their fair share for their own de Mr. GRANT. Mr. Speaker, today I wish to Arrow from January 1987 until June 1989. In fense. I authored the "Allies Fair Share De draw the attention of my colleagues to a very June 1989, he was elected chief of this chap fense Act" as a source for additional funds to important upcoming anniversary. ter. Further, in April 1989, Thomas and numer help us balance the budget and free up On October 10, 1989, the nation of Taiwan ous members of his Order of the Arrow chap needed funds for the drug war. will celebrate its 78th birthday. As we all ter organized and ran the spring camporee for I have serious concerns about the Bush ad know, Taiwan is a vital island country and one the Marquette Trail District The theme of the ministration plan to reduce funding for drug of our strongest allies in the Pacific. It has camporee was " Fun for Boys, By Boys." This 19952 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Septem'ber 7, 1989 camporee was one of the most successful JUNIOR LEAGUE WORLD SERIES PERSONAL EXPLANATION events the district had ever seen. RUNNERUP TEAM HAILS FROM Thomas was chairman of an interdistrict TOCCOA, GA HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE training session on April 1, 1989 for boy lead OF KASSACHUSE'n'S ers at Camp Sullivan. He also served on the HON. ED JENKINS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES staff at Owasippe Scout Reservation from OF GEORGIA Thursday, September 7, 1989 June to August 1988. While on staff, he was able to assist many Scouts seeking their merit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, an unavoidable badges. Thursday, September 7, 1989 commitment in my district forced me to miss most of the September 6 session. That ses On an heroic note, Thomas, while serving Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, I ask for the op sion included the votes on H.R. 1668, which on staff at Owasippe, was involved in trans portunity today to bring some recognition to a authorized appropriations for the National porting a boy suffering from an asthma attack group of very deserving young people and the Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's to the nearest medical facility. Accordingly, he adults who have supported them. Coastal Programs, and H.R. 2427, which au was commended for his courageous actions in The town of Toccoa, GA, welcomed home thorized appropriations for the NOM's Atmos assisting a needy individual who might other its Junior Little League All-Star team from phere and Satellite Programs. wise have suffered from more serious compli World Series play a couple of weeks ago with These programs make a contribution to our cations. a parade and a community-wide pep rally hon knowledge of important weather, atmospheric and oceanic conditions and changes. I sup On a personal note, Thomas is presently oring the players, their parents, coaches, and other supporters. After winning the South port them and I would have voted in favor of enrolled at Thomas Kelly High School as a these bills had I been able to attend. junior. After attending college at the University region division tournament in Orlando, FL, the of Illinois, Chicago circle campus, Thomas as Junior Little Leaguers then had traveled to the pires to one day be an officer on the Chicago Junior League World Series in Taylor, Ml. REFLECTIONS OF A CONGRESS Police Department. They came home the World Series runner-up MAN'S JOURNEY TO ISRAEL in the world and first in the United States. Two In addition to Scouting, Thomas's many in of the three games the team lost this season terests include music, football, basketball, were to Puerto Rico in the World Series. HON. BILL PAXON wood working, fishing, hiking and of course, As one who played a little ball in his young OF NEW YORK camping. er years, I realize some credit must be given IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In light of the commendable leadership and to the natural ability of the players, but a team Thursday, September 7, 1989 courageous activities performed by such a does not go all the way to the World Series Mr. PAXON. Mr. Speaker, this August, I had fine young individual, I ask you, my fellow col without a great deal of hard work. The players the opportunity to visit the State of Israel for leagues, to join me in honoring Thomas have to put in extra time perfecting the skills the first time. On the flight back, I wrote down Joseph Boor for attaining the highest honor in of the game. Parents and community leaders some of my reflections, which I subsequently Scouting-the Eagle Scout. With God's bless must plan ahead, contributing time and money developed into a column for a local paper in ings, let us wish him the very best in all of his to the organization and for the facilities to my district. I would like to share this article endeavors. create the environment conducive to produc with my colleagues. ing an outstanding team such as this one. REFLECTIONS ON A CONGRESSMAN'S JOURNEY During the welcoming home ceremonies, TO ISRAEL Leonard Griffin, President of the Toccoa Little (By Congressman Bill Paxon> League, said: ABOARD EL AL FLIGHT 1-As the blue and white El Al 747, with the Magen David on If you had told me last winter when I its gleaming tail fin, banks slowly toward agreed to be president that I would travel the green Mediterranean Sea, it is a time for TRIBUTE TO DAVID A. 8,000 miles in 4 weeks with this team, I reflection. STRONGIN would have said I didn't have the time. I I take my final glimpse of the land of didn't have the time, but I have enjoyed Israel and realize that my sojourn has been every minute of this experience and both an exploration through the ages and HON. BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. an expedition through a modern twentieth century democracy, peopled by some of the OF NEVADA What he, Coaches Mike and Donnie Ivester, most determined and courageous individuals IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the parents, and the community in Toccoa, I have ever met. GA, have learned is that we must invest time The trip has been a deeply moving and Thursday, September 7, 1989 in our young people. What these young personal experience. Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise people have learned is that people do care It has demonstrated concretely my convic about them and whether or not they excel and tion that our aid to our only real ally in the today to recognize the patriotic enterprise of volatile Middle East region can stand the one of my constituents, Mr. David A. Strongin, succeed. These Toccoa Junior League All test of both moral and fiscal scrutiny. whose corporation, Ties of Honor, uses a per Stars, Shannon Dean, Josh Holcomb, Richard The House Chamber on Capitol Hill now centage of its profits of regimental tie sales to Aderholdt, Matthew Griffin, Brent Brown, seems distant. More than ever, I can clearly aid the survivors of military service personnel Rodney Oglesby, Jimmy Roush, Jason Ivester, see and understand the imperatives that who have died in peacetime. Certainly, as the Brandon Peace, Jonathan Griffin, Clay Rick have forged the friendship and alliance we man, Charles Colbert, Serrante Hester, Ne enjoy with the State of Israel. daughter of a brigadier general, I appreciate The money is indeed important-and I the importance of this endeavor. kinno Turner, know what it means to have a feel privileged to have been a leader in the community behind them. At the very least, I would like to commend fight on the floor of Congress to secure pas sage of a $3 billion aid package for Israel. Mr. Strongin and his company for making us These people should serve as examples to all of us to put forth extra effort, to cooperate Yet, after my brief week's trip, Israel is all more aware of the needs of the families of closer to me and more real than ever. I those military personnel who have given their and work together to seek higher goals. know I shall never forget the faces of Israel. lives, in the pursuit of preserving the peace, I tip my baseball cap to these young men Faces of men and women determined to live which we all enjoy. Mr. Strongin's contribution who played their hearts out, to the Toccoa out an age old dream of a free and peaceful of service to military families and military pride Little League organization for its support, to Jewish homeland. Of course, the words and ideas of Israeli shows that old soldiers do not have to end the parents for their encouragement and extra officials held great importance. their service to their country after their Active efforts. They are all winners with outstanding I am greateful for the time I spent with or Reserve duty. records. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Jerusa- September 7, 1989 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 19953 lem Mayor Teddy Kollek and members of million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. I elude additional comments that I made at the Knesset from both the Labor and Likud participated in a prayer service and wreath my recent installation as head of the parties. They devoted many hours detailing laying ceremony. It was a special honor and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. Patri the current situation and provided me with an emotion packed moment-particularly as otism is the foremost objective of that a better understanding of the serious nature my thoughts turned to the 1.5 million chil degree. of the Palestinian uprising in the West dren of the Holocaust. It is strange that defacing a dollar bill fs a Bank and Gaza, and its affect on the nation. Now, as we soar high above the clouds, I crime, but burning, trampling and spitting Nonetheless, it was the Israeli people who think of the strength of the people of our flag is "freedom of expression." The best put their land and their dreams in per Israel, their faith, their courage and deter First Amendment guarantees freedom of spective. Perhaps, the feeling I gained is mination. speech, and I do want to protect that. summed up best by the four I had the good I am reminded of a true and solid friend Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most bril fortune to meet: a former refusenik, a tank ship between our nation and a nation that liant man to ever occupy the White House, commander and a young Kibbutznik couple. can be counted on day-in and day-out in a once told a political opponent that he dis Yuri Kashorovsky, spent 18 years of tears region filled with violence, treachery and agreed with him completely, but that he and suffering- longer than any other deceit. would fight to the death for his opponent's person-as a Jewish Refusenik in the Soviet I shall always deeply appreciate the right to speak. Union. Greater Buffalo Jewish Federation for host Desecrating the flag, however, is an Now in Israel just seven months, there are ing this trip and particularly to Harry Ko action, not speech. It is a terrible action no tears now, just a broad smile and bright zansky, executive director and Gorgon that is an insult to everyone who loves this eyes that reflect an infectious sense of ad Gross, for their time and energy in planning nation. Hundreds of thousands of men have venture, excitement and faith. He says hap and carrying out our comprehensive sched died fighting for that flag and what it pily that he is "fulfilling thousands of years ule. Together with our travelling compan stands for in may wars. of history by coming here." ion, County Executive Dennis Gorski, I say The most celebrated picture to come out In some ways, Yuri Kasharovsky is a per to them "Mazel Tov." of my war, World War II, was of my fellow sonification of this tenacious little nation. And to my friends in Israel, "Shalom!" marines raising the flag on Mt. Surabachi There is nothing in this man that suggests on Iwo Jima. I wish I had been there. I was the tough times past-only a belief in the on Saipan hundreds of miles away. future, and a faith in the God that has led PERSONAL EXPLANATION In the VFW we drape the casket of our de him and his family into this Promised Land. ceased comrades with the American flag. Then there was Army Commander Yossi. HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES We follow that casket to the tomb in the ce At age 36, he commands a 1000-member metary, and we reverently fold that flag and tank brigade on the Golan Heights over OF CALIFORNIA present it to the next of kin, wife, daughter, looking Syria. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES or son. We express our gratitude for the Commander Yossi was a lieutenant at Thursday, September 7, 1989 service rendered to our nation under that Golan in 1973. He was one of the few to sur flag. vive the initial onslaught of Syrian armor Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoid There are those who tell me that the flag on Yom Kippur. ably absent on official business during rollcall is only a piece of cloth, and my mind seems Sixteen years later, he recounts the stress vote 203 on August 2, 1989. Had I been to say that, but my heart tells me different of being poised for battle "every hour, every present on the House floor I would have voted ly. Blaise Pascal, French scientist and phi minute, every second" here on the front "aye" on final passage of the Labor, HHS, losopher expressed it best when he said, line. Education appropriations bill, H.R. 2990. "the heart knows reasons that the mind The young men and women under his knows not." command are among the brightest I have This nation has really only lost one war in ever met. Their tough fighting skill has ARE YOU PATRIOTIC ENOUGH? its entire history, the Viet Nam War. We been honed through an inner strength and lost that one because many American the clear determination that their families, people did not support the war effort. I find never very far away in this tiny land, will HON. CLYDE C. HOLLOWAY it hard to forgive people like Jane Fonda never again be put at risk by an unexpected OF LOUISIANA who gave aid and comfort to the enemy. invasion from Syria or any military foe. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This generation of Americans is not as pa A visitor to the small, yet comfortable, triotic as former generations. Do you love apartment of Susy and Josef Abas in Kib Thursday, September 7, 1989 this nation enough to serve it and die for it butz Misgav-Am, can see firsthand the chal Mr. HOLLOWAY. Mr. Speaker, the esteem in a cause that is just? lenges and accomplishments of a unique in which millions of Americans hold the U.S. lifestyle found only in Israel. flag has been the subject of thousands of As I looked down from their kitchen TRIBUTE TO JOE MOQUIN window, through the barbed wire marking news reports, columns, and analyses during the border toward a small, Lebanese village, the last several months. One particularly im Susy from Argentina and Josef from Hol pressive commentary was published in the HON. RONNIE G. FLIPPO August 24 edition of the Lutcher News-Exam land readily acknowledged this life is not for OF ALABAMA everyone. iner, a newspaper published in St. James "It can be difficult," Susy said "With the Parish, LA. The author of this stirring and in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES changing work assignments, long days and spirational column, Mr. Stanley Smith, my con Thursday, September 7, 1989 daily threat from the PLO of a terrorist stitutent, has both my respect and admiration Mr. FLIPPO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in order to attack, life is not easy.'' and deserves the same from all Americans But Susy and Josef Abas are proud of the pay tribute to Joseph C. Moquin, chairman community they have helped to build. It is who hold the American flag dear. and chief executive officer of Teledyne-Brown here they plan to raise their family. They Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues in this Engineering in Huntsville, AL, who is retiring will not be driven away. great body to read and consider this thought after more than 30 years of outstanding serv As we prepared to leave the Kibbutz, provoking column. The author's pride in the ice to his company, his community and State, Josef called after us with a certain smile American flag and the cherished values it rep and said, "Come back and visit us again. We and to this Nation. resents reflects the feeling of men and A native of Middleboro, MA, Joe moved to will be here." women across our land. Mr. Speaker, it is with Although our week in Israel was far too Huntsville in 1956 to work for the Army Ballis short, our time was well planned and pre great pride and enthusiasm that I ask that Mr. tic Missile Agency. His reputation as a skilled sented a comprehensive picture of a vital Smith's column, entitled "Convictions," be manager led Milton Cummings, then president people. People who, in spite of all odds, have published, as follows, in this CONGRESSIONAL of Brown Engineering, to recruit Joe to the built a dynamic land with a future as rich as RECORD. young company as executive vice-president. its historic past. [From the News-Examiner, Aug. 24, 1989] Brown engineering was acquired by Tele We saw the future in the lush farms, CONVICTIONS wrested from the deserts, and in the high dyne and was renamed Teledyne-Brown Engi tech work being done at the Israel plant of 29-059 0-90-40 (Pt. 14) 19958 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 7, 1989 ment, housing, and other services for home cease to be an officer or employee of a SEC. 7. POWERS OF COMMISSION. less mentally ill individuals. government but were appointed to the Com HEARINGS.-The Commission may, for (3) CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS or HOME mission because of that status; or the purposes of this Act, hold heartnaa, sit LESS INDIVIDUALS.-ldentify information become an officer or employee of a and act at the times and places, take testi that is known, and new information that is government but were not an officer or em mony, and receive evidence, the Commission needed, relating to the characteristics and ployee of a government at the time of ap considers appropriate. The Commission may needs of homeless individuals with severe pointment. administer oaths or affirmations to wit mental disorders. <3> ExCEPTION.-Service as a member of nesses appearing before it. (4) OTHER KATTERs.-Study other matters the Commission shall not be discontinued (b) DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY.-Any relating to homeless mentally ill individuals because of paragraph <1 > if an individual member or agent of the Commission may, if as the Commission considers appropriate. has served as a member of the Commission authorized by the Commission, take any for not less than 3 months. action the Commission is authorized to take SEC. 6. MEMBERSHIP. (e) TERM OF APPOINTMENT.-Members shall by this section. IN GENERAL.-The Commission shall be be appointed for the life of the Commission. (C) INFORMATION.-The Commission may composed of 15 members appointed by the (f) QuoRUM.-8 members of the Commis secure directly from any department or President. sion shall constitute a quorum. agency of the United States information (b) REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN MEM (g) CHAIRPERSON AND VICE-CHAIRPERSON. necessary to enable it to carry out this Act. BERS.-Of the individuals appointed under The Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of Upon request of the Chairperson or Vice subsection (a)- the Commission shall be designated by the Chairperson of the Commission, the head of <1 > 2 or 3 shall be individuals who are President at the time of appointment. a department or agency shall furnish the in clinically experienced psychologists or psy (h) COMPENSATION.- formation to the Commission to the extent chiatrists and who are specially qualified to (1) MEM:BERs.-Except as provided in para permitted by law. serve on the Commission by virtue of their graph (2), members of the Commission shall (d) GIFTS AND DONATIONS.-The Commis education, training, or expertise; each be paid at a rate equal to the rate of sion may accept, use, and dispose of gifts or <2> one shall be an individual employed by pay for level III of the Executive Schedule donations of services or property. the Department of Housing and Urban De for each day