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23766 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ON A VISIT TO LOS ANGELES ing message, before the delegates and You have much to be proud of, and the COUNTY BY: HIS EXCELLENCY, guests of the J ACL. country your ancestors came from is proud of your accomplishments. YOSHIO OKAW ARA, AMBASSA ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY YOSHIO DOR OF JAPAN TO THE 0KAWARA AMBASSADOR OF JAPAN It is in this spirit that I want to report to UNITED STATES you this evening on the present state of My wife and I cherish this opportunity to Japanese-American relations. You are enti be with you. As you know, I travel frequent tled to my candid appraisal. HON. JULIAN C. DIXON ly and widely around this vast country, meeting with a great variety of Americans It would be dishonest to pretend that OF CALIFORNIA who, in one way or another, have an inter there are no problems or differences what IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES est in Japanese-American relations, and are soever between our two countries. or that part of the complex fabric of mutual under the problems that do exist are insignificant. Wednesday, September 15, 1982 standing and cooperation, on which our The problems are real, and they are impor partnership rests. These are very education tant. At the other extreme, it would be • Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to quite irresponsible to suggest that our cur report to the House concerning a very al and rewarding experiences for me. I was extremely impressed and delighted to find rent differences-whether in the economic unique event that took place in the so many of our friends and relatives as re field or over defense budgeting-are so seri County of Los Angeles on August 13, spected citizens of the United States and ous that they threaten the stability of the 1982 relative to this great Nation's re active members of local communities in vari Japanese-American partnership. This is lationship with the Government of ous comers of this country-in mid-West, simply not so, nor does any responsible Japan. Sun Belt, Eastern Heartland and so on. public official in either government believe it is so. On August 13, 1982 the Los Angeles There is no group of Americans, I am sure, with a deeper interest than yours in These days we hear much about the County Board of Supervisors hosted a "family disputes" in the U.S.-European rela luncheon and community reception the success of this partnership. Nor is there any group of Americans that has done more tions. In the Japanese-American alliance, a for His Excellency, Yoshio Okawara, than you to build this partnership on solid "divorce" or even a separation is unthink Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni foundations. able. potentiary of Japan to the United The Issei who came to these shores one, The trade problem-specifically, how to States. two or three generations ago-your parents deal with the chronic U.S. deficit in our bi The five members of the Los Angeles or grandparents-brought with them some lateral trade-is a serious question because, County Board of Supervisors: chair thing of Japan that they grafted onto the in the first place, it concerns the basic struc man, Peter Schabarum; Kenneth American experience. Their way was seldom ture and performance of our two giant and Hahn; Edmund Edelman; Dean Dana; easy, and their hardships were severe. Yet closely intertwined economies. In the second they persisted, confident that they had a place, how we resolve our current trade fric and Michael Antonovitch, each ex contribution to make in return for the re tions is bound to have wide repercussions pressed their personal greetings to His wards that life in America could offer them, throughout the world economy, because of Excellency in recognition of the im and their children. Nothing is more descrip the leading roles the United States and portance of leading Government offi tive and revealing about them than the sto Japan play in world trade, investment and cials to publicly recognize the value of ries in the now classical book "Nisei". writ technology development. good relations between the United ten by Mr. Bill Hosokawa. Moreover, the present sluggish state of States and Japan. Further, in greeting Professor Reischauer wrote in his fore the world economy, causing high unemploy His Excellency, the Los Angeles word to Mr. Hosokawa's book, "No immi ment, continuing inflationary pressures, and County Board of Supervisors empha grant group encountered higher walls of the high cost of capital makes it extremely prejudice and discrimination than did the difficult to grapple with these complex sized how a continuous and recipricol Japanese • • •. None retained greater faith issues. In each major trading nation, policy friendship between the United States in the basic ideals of America or showed makers are under powerful political pres and Japan through the County of Los stronger determination to establish their sure to cushion the domestic economy Angeles, can greatly enhance the rights to full equality and justice • • •. against external forces that are viewed as world economy through a process of None showed greater loyalty to the United threats to domestic jobs. cultural communication and under States • • •." The most dangerous temptation is to try standing. Indeed, many of those trans-Pacific pio to insulate domestic jobs from foreign trade Throughout the day, by a motion of neers made unique and lasting contributions competition. This is the protectionist route to America in the fields of agriculture, busi the world followed in the early 1930s, and it the board of supervisors, the colors of ness, professions and arts. Not the least of led straight to the disaster of the Great De Japan were proudly flown side-by-side their contributions was that they gave to pression, as shrinking world trade smoth with Old Glory, over the Hall of Ad America a second generation, native born, ered economic growth around the world. ministration, representing the second and advantaged by growing up in American The rebirth of protectionist pressures, espe time in the county's history that the communities and in the American education cially in Western Europe and also in the Japanese flag was flown, the first time system. But the Nisei also faced hardships United States, is the clearest warning that being during the visit of His Majesty, of grudging acceptance and, when our two we must find sensible, free-market solutions Emperor Hirohito of Japan in 1974. nations were at war, the most poignant to Japanese-American trade problems if we hardship of having their loyalty as Ameri are to restore dynamic growth to our own That evening, during the Sayonara can citizens questioned. economies, and to preserve an open and ex Banquet of the Japanese American It is a tribute to the fortitude of Issei, panding world economy. Citizens League's 27th Biennial Na Nisei, and Sansei alike-and to the basic As recently as 30 years ago, Japan's econo tional Convention, at which His Excel sense of justice and fair play of the Ameri my was less than 5 percent of the then giant lency was the keynote speaker, Los can nation-that those darkest days are now American economy. Today the American Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth far behind us, and that the scars are at last giant is more than five times larger than it Hahn presented Ambassador Okawara healing. You have earned positions of lead was in 1950, but the Japanese economy has with a resolution signed by each super ership in all areas of American life, provid grown even faster, making Japan's GNP visor acknowledging Ambassador ing a governor of a great state, five mem nearly half that of the United States. Japan bers of Congress, distinguished scholars, now generates 10 percent of world GNP and Okawara's contributions to strengthen musicians and artists, journalists, fine accounts for 10 percent of world trade. The United States-Japan relations. It was teachers and other public servants, and United States and Japan together provide at this time that His Excellency, above all, a model of good and loyal citizen nearly one-third of world product and world Yoshio Okawara, delivered the follow- ship. trade.

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. September 15, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23767 Throughout these three decades, our two Second, we are making strenuous efforts and are at the core of both Japanese and countries have been each other's principal to promote expanded U.S. exports to Japan. American culture. overseas trading partners, in a two-way ex We are providing advice and marketing as The stimulating articles on Japanese cul change that is now valued at $60 billion a sistance to U.S. manufacturers interested in ture by the recent New York Times were year. To a great extent this trade has been selling to Japan. In a different context, Jap captioned "Culture of Japan blossoming in complementary. Japan, which must import anese industries are providing technical as America" and "Things Japanese Excite half the calories it consumes, has consist sistance to help modernize U.S. steel, auto Americans' Imagination," It reports "the ently been the American farmer's best over mobile, machine tool and other industries. reason given for why Japanese culture has seas customer buying $7 billion in 1981. Re Japanese investment in U.S. plants, now in captured the American imagination range source-poor Japan has also been a ranking excess of $10 billion, is creating American from Japanese economic might to the suc importer of American coal, minerals, forest jobs and adding to the U.S. GNP. A growing cess of James Clabell's "Shogun." ry products and other basic materials. number of Japanese plants in the United The tremendous success of Grand Kabuki Japan has also been a major market for States are also now exporting U.S.-made can be seen against this background. American exports of manufactured goods, goods to Japan and the world. And the which now constitute over 40 percent of The first generation of Japanese Ameri seven largest Japanese trading companies cans, your ancestors, would have been Japan's total imports from the United operating in the United States now account States. pleased and proud of those hours of deep for about 10 percent of U.S. exports to the sharing. In return, the United States has long been world. the largest market in the world for the All these measures together are strength Now that the relationship between· our goods Japan is capable of exporting, manu ening Japanese-American economic inter two nations has attained the level of maturi factured products. dependence by helping to strengthen the ty and can properly be viewed in the global As both our economies prospered, and our competitiveness of American products, at perspective, the bonds of friendship across two-way trade doubled in value each five home and in world trade. the Pacific will be further strengthened years, the areas where our manufactured There is another point I want to refer you with the intertwining of political, economi exports are in competition with each other to. Japan and our mutual trading partners cal and cultural threads. have also grown. Once it was textiles, and in Western Europe have been concerned May I conclude my address by once again now it is products of high technology indus with the excessively high U.S. interest rates. expressing my appreciation of your contri try. The competition between industrial These interest rates, which have artificially butions over the past decades to the ever economies has traditionally been a powerful overvalued the U.S. dollar, are one of the closer U.S.-Japan friendship and extending stimulant for invention, innovation, greater contributing factors to current U.S. trade my very best wishes for your continued suc manufacturing efficiency, lower prices to deficits with Japan. An overvalued dollar cess.e the consumer, and rising standards of living. means overpriced U.S. goods, and therefore This has unquestionably been true of the a loss of price competitiveness for American Japanese-American economic relationship, exports. MARITIME SAFETY ACT, H.R. which is both complementary and competi 7038 tive. High U.S. interest rates have also compli For the last decade and a half, however, cated the tasks of Japan and other Ameri our two-way trade has been imbalanced in can trading partners in efforts to restore vi HON. WALTER B. JONES Japan's favor. As our trade has grown, so tality and growth to our respective domestic has the U.S. deficit in this trade, and this economies. The capital we need to maintain OF NORTH CAROLINA situation has created periodic frictions be and expand our domestic plant has been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fleeing to U.S. money markets for specula tween us. In purely economic terms, the im Wednesday, September 15, 1982 balance should be no cause for alarm, as tive purposes that contribute little to world long as a deficit with one partner can be economic health. We hope that recent cuts • Mr. JONES of North Carolina. Mr. offset by a surplus with another. A realistic in the U.S. official discount rate are the be Speaker, shortly before the district measure of a nation's trade performance is ginning of a healthier trend, and that they work period, I introduced legislation, its overall trade balance with all its trading will continue. partners. I have given you perhaps a more technical H.R. 7038, to promote maritime safety An even more realistic measure would explanation of our current economic con on the high seas and navigable waters take account, not only of merchandise cerns than you bargained for. However, I be of the United States. This legislation trade, but also of trade in "invisibles"-the lieve it is very important to put these ques is the result of extensive hearings and international flow of capital which results tions into perspective. investigations conducted by the Com from investment, repatriated profits on for It is not just our economic relations that mittee on Merchant Marine and Fish eign investment, royalties and license fees, are involved in the Japanese-American part eries during the 97th Congress. tourist expenditures, and so on. By this nership. Our two nations are also political measure, the United States usually outper allies, sharing the same commitments to de Two major marine casualties, the forms Japan. Last year the U.S. had a mocracy and the peaceful preservation of an disappearance of the SS Poet in Octo healthy surplus in its invisible trade with open world society. As you are well aware, ber 1980 and the sinking of the semi Japan, and the combined U.S. current ac Japan has been the most faithful member submersible drilling vessel the Ocean count balance was in surplus with the world. of the U.S. allies in supporting the U.S. in Ranger in February 1982 have prompt However, in a time of worldwide recession, Iranian hostages, Afghanistan and Poland. ed the introduction of this measure. It underutilized manufacturing capacity, and The closest friendly relations with the U.S. is my hope that we can receive sub high unemployment, politics carries more being the pivotal importance for Japan, the weight than economic principles. The only Japanese Government is committed to play stantive input from the administration way to fend off political pressure for trade a role conducive to the status which Japan and the marine industry on the con protectionism is to find other ways of reduc has attained. Not only do we cooperate as cepts put forth, and refine them for ing the trade gap. We have, in fact, been partners, exchange goods, influence each enactment during the next Congress. working hard on different approaches. other artistically, and join each other in The first part of the bill is a result First, the Japanese Government has taken common adventures of science, scholarship of our hearing on the Ocean Ranger. extraordinary steps to cut tariffs and reduce and the frontiers of the human mind and When this vessel sank on February 14, other import barriers in order to make the spirit. We also share values which give Japanese market one of the most open and meaning to our lives. We need each other killing 85 men, it was operating with accessible markets in the entire industrial because we have so much to offer each out the legally required certificate of ized world. Japan's trade-weighted average other. inspection issued by the Coast Guard. tariffs are lower than those in the United Last month, when Japan's Grand Kabuki Although the company was aware the States, and much lower than in Western was on its very successful tour of New York, certificate of inspection had expired, Europe. We have also eliminated a number Knoxville and Washington, I was deeply the Ocean Ranger continued to drill of sensitive tariffs and import quotas. And gratified by the enthusiastic response off the coast of Newfoundland for we have simplified import procedures, indeed, the standing ovations-that Ameri almost 2 months. The only penalty streamlined testing requirements and estab can audiences gave this unique Japanese art lished an Office of Trade Ombudsman to form. The stories were unfamiliar, the ges under present law for operating with deal promptly with any complaints of dis tures and their meanings were exotic, as was out a certificate of inspection is a $500 crimination against imports. We are deter the music, yet tens of thousands of Ameri fine-hardly a financial burden on a mined to internationalize the domestic cans were enraptured. They recognized the vessel leased for approximately market. universal values that unite the human race $100,000 per day. 23768 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1982 The second part of H.R. 7038 stems which will include adequate enforcea reform legislation. Together, we grappled from our hearings on the SS Poet. The ble civil penalty provisions. However, with the important details of regulatory SS Poet was a 522-foot cargo vessel, the notice and reporting requirements reform. After fourteen months of drafting, which was carrying 13,500 tons of corn revision, and compromise, we came up with are not complicated or time consuming a balanced package of procedural changes and a crew of 34 men when it departed and the penalty sections are flexible. which we, and as it turned out the rest of Philadelphia, Pa. on October 24, 1980. As chairman of the Committee on our Senate colleagues, concluded was a At some unknown time after depar Merchant Marine and Fisheries, I look common-sense approach to regulatory ture, on its way to Port Said, Egypt, forward to waorking with the adminis reform. the SS Poet disappeared without a tration, industry representatives, and We wrote provisions in the Regulatory trace. The owner of the SS Poet did other interested maritime groups on Reform Act that will require agencies to not notify the U.S. Coast Guard of his this bill, and I expect that progress publicly evaluate their regulatory proposals concern for the safety of his vessel will be made toward the betterment of in terms of what their likely good and bad and crew until he had not heard from marine safety throughout the world.e effects will be. This not only involves the the vessel for a full10 days. With such public in rule-making, but ensures that reg ulations will be publicly justified by what a delayed notice there was scarce op REGULATORY REFORM ACT they can realistically be expected to portunity for the Coast Guard to achieve. To make agencies more accounta assist the vessel if it had been in ble, we provided a limited presidential and danger. Earlier notice by the owner to HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI judicial oversight of the process, circum the Coast Guard may have alerted the OF ILLINOIS scribed by the need to avoid endless delays Coast Guard in time to locate and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and to preserve congressionally mandated policies. Finally, the full Senate added a assist the vessel. Wednesday, September 15, 1982 Subsequent to the hearings on these provision to allow Congress to review agency two tragic incidents, the Merchant e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, rules. Marine and Fisheries Committee staff with the controversies caused by issues After the Senate passed the measure, which lend themselves to partisan House Speaker O'Neill said he had every in studied present laws and procedures in tention of bringing the House regulatory order to determine whether changes rhetoric, we certainly must not over look the long-range significance of reg reform bill

are covered by this section. actment of this legislation, known as the gress. They recognize that, with the costs of However, any vessel owner who has Regulatory Reform Act, may be threatened regulation now estimated at over $100 bil reason to believe his vessel is imperiled by delay in House action on this bill as this lion a year-inflating already high con is required to notify the Coast Guard. session of Congress nears its end. Such a sumer prices-the American public cannot delay is not in the best interests of this afford further congressional delay. The third section of H.R. 7038 allows [Paul Laxalt, Republican Senator from the Coast Guard to investigate and act country, and everyone should urge his con gressional representative to help move this Nevada, is chairman of the Senate Subcom upon acts of incompetency committed bill now. mittee on Regulatory Reform.Je by any licensed officers on vessels of Under the sponsorship of Senators Pat the United States. rick Leahy, William Roth, Thomas Eagle Throughout the proposed bill, civil ton. myself, and 77 other senators, the A TRIBUTE TO MR. LAWRENCE penalties for violations of the certifi Senate in March unanimously (94-0) passed R.BENTLEY cate of inspection requirements are in the Regulatory Reform Act. This measure creased to match more appropriately enhances our efforts to secure cleaner air the penalty costs with the value of and water, safe workplaces, and the like, HON. JERRY LEWIS today's dollar. Communication re while reducing the economic excesses of fed OF CALIFORNIA eral regulation which fuel inflation. The act quirements between the vessel owner, achieves this by modifying the regulatory IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES master, and the U.S. Coast Guard are process to produce more effective regula Wednesday, September 15, 1982 also proposed on the basis of new tion-regulation that will be more certain to present day communications capabili accomplish important public goals without e Mr. LEWIS. Mr. Speaker, on Sep ties. H.R. 7038, therefore, updates unnecessary economic burdens. tember 30, 1982, the Chino Valley some of the marine safety laws to Since the American people strongly sup Chamber of Commerce and the Dairy meet today's marine environment. port regulatory reform, every sensible politi Committee of California are honoring The intent of H.R. 7038 is to im cian must support it. Yet legislation to Mr. Lawrence R. Bentley as "Special achieve such reform involves complicated Dairy Award Winner" of the year. We prove the marine safety environment and highly technical issues of law and statu without imposing onerous burdens tory drafting. would like to take this opportunity to upon the industry. The law is written Senators Leahy, Roth, Eagleton, and I join with the chamber and the dairy in a manner which will require proper hold the relevant leadership positions on committee in honoring Mr. Bentley oversight of a vessel's well-being and the committees responsible for regulatory and commend him to the House of September 15, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23769 Representatives for his devoted com Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to recog 1980 when the U.S.S.R. threatened Europe munity leadership and service. nize Mr. Lawrence R. Bentley today and Japan with the loss of Soviet fuel sup Larry Bentley began his 54-year and commend him to the House of plies if they supported United States sanc career in the dairy industry in 1928. Representatives for his countless con tions over Afghanistan and, finally, last year He worked for Adohr on a home deliv tributions to our society and the dairy when the Politburo threatened to cut off ery route with a horse and wagon in industry. He is a truly fine individual Poland's oil supply unless Solidarity were Beverly Hills, Calif., for an excellent who has in countless ways enhanced crushed. salary of $135 per month. Work began his community through his hours of Thirdly, the pipeline is a vast foreign aid at 2:45 a.m. when Mr. Bentley would selfless civic service.e project whereby a consortium of European load the milk onto his wagon. Since banks and companies will provide a well armed and hostile power with government the horse knew the milk route as well POLITICS AND THE PIPELINE as Mr. Bentley did, he could often guaranteed low-interest loans. This makes no sense at all. This is also worth bearing in doze from the Adohr Creamery until mind when you next hear one of the Euro his horse stopped in front of the first HON. LARRY McDONALD OF GEORGIA pean heads of government criticise the customer's house. The animal was very Reagan Administration for policies that well behaved and did not really need IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES keep interest rates high. Nothing is better to be driven. When the horse felt Mr. Wednesday, September 15, 1982 designed to push up interest rates than bor Bentley leave the wagon with a milk • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, our rowing $15 billion at 15 per cent, from the carrier full of milk, it would stop until President is correct in his stand capital markets in order to lend it at a mere If 8 per cent, to the Soviets. Yet that is what he returned. Larry served three or against the Soviet gas pipeline to the French and West German Governments four houses in a row on foot, the horse Europe, and our European friends are are doing. would follow by Mr. Bentley's voice wrong in their opposition. Helping the Finally, the project's advocates overlook commands. Soviets with this pipeline does not various alternatives which lack the political In 1932, Mr. Bentley was transferred make any sense economically or from drawbacks of the Siberian pipeline, such as: to Westwood where part of the Uni a security point of view. The Soviets Norway's natural gas reserves, American versity of California had just been can, and will, shut off this gas supply coal reserves ." Among gram and for the dairy milk flavor When the pipeline is completed, the share them were a psychiatrist, a Ukrainian clinic. of Europe's total energy needs (gas, coal and writer, two Civil Rights activists and two oil) supplied by the Soviet bloc will amount Baptist ministers. From retail milk sales, Mr. Bentley to something like one-third. I also stated Hard labour camps have been set up along went on to be a foreman, then promot last month that the Soviet Union had cut the route of the pipeline, prisoners are ed to supervisor, and finally went into off key energy supplies for political reasons housed in wagons which offer little protec production and quality control. On on three occasions since 1945. A correspond tion from the elements in areas where January 2, 1973, Mr. Bentley went to ent corrects me. He points out that, if winter temperatures reach lows of -30 to work for Alta-Dena Dairy on their threats to cut off supplies are also taken -40 degrees centigrade, they are transport quality control and has been there into account, the accurate figure is eight ed daily to and from the construction sites times. under the watch of guard dogs. ever since. Those occasions were: in 1948 against How do we know that such reports are In the 54 years that Mr. Bentley has Yugoslavia, in 1961 against Albania, in 1956 true? It is, of course, impossible to be abso been in the dairy industry, he has against Israel and Hungary, in 1962 against lutely certain when dealing with a totalitar never missed a payday. China, in 1968 against Czechoslovakia, in ian society which attempts to enforce com- 23770 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 15, 1982 plete control of news and information. But ning with just a hose cart that had to trade union movement (in a town which was there are certain common sense guidelines. be pulled by hand for several years, known as ferociously anti-labor), ethnic mi To begin with, the use of slave labour in the company established a tradition of norities-Blacks, Jews, and Latinos-who were the victims of an openly prejudiced major construction projects is quite stand outstanding community service that ard in the Soviet Union. In the construction power elite. My aunt, Ruth Waxman Faier of the White Sea Canal in the 1930s, over a has been maintained throughout its man, worked on the paper for an incredible quarter of a million slave workers perished. 75-year history. 48 years. At one time or another, she per And as late as the 1970s, concentration Today, the volunteer company sonally handled every task required to pub camp labour was employed to build the houses eight engines, including an lish the paper. Baikal Amur railway along the Chinese aerial ladder truck, two power wagons, After my uncle's untimely passing, many border. and several pumpers. were skeptical about the future of the Re Even so, the Soviet Union is still short of Most important, however, are the in porter Publications. Their doubts were un labour for such projects. Last year, Mr. dividuals who volunteer their time, justified. As long as was humanly possible, Brezhnev delivered a speech in which he their skills, and their courage to pro Ruth Waxman Faierman saw to it that the stated that the U.S.S.R. needed 400,000 ad paper came out every week. She maintained ditional workers to develop new oil and gas tect the security and safety of their the high standards she and my uncle had fields in Western Siberia. fellow residents. held to all through the years. The news col This perhaps explains the import of Viet The members of the South Plain umns were open to every charity, every po namese labour into the Soviet Union. The field Volunteer Fire Department-past litical group, and every candidate with a le Soviets naturally argue that importing Viet and present-symbolize the best in gitimate message for the community. Elect namese labour is a foreign aid programme community service and commitment. ed officials like myself were given free space of technical training, that the workers are We owe a huge debt of gratitude to each week to report to our constituents. well-paid, and that they live in pleasant cli these individuals and the members of Over the years many voters came to count mates where "melons and watermelons the volunteer fire companies across on the Reporter Publications for election grow" (lsVESTIA). advice. Everyone knew that candidates en Reports by refugees and some letters from the Nation who do so much to en dorsed by my uncle or aunt, or ballot propo concentration camps, where former South hance our quality of life. sitions approved by them, reflected their Vietnamese army officers are "re-educated," On the occasion of their 75th anni values of integrity, compassion and commit tell a different story. These suggest that versary, and on behalf of our congres ment to human rights. such prisoners are being, in effect, trans sional district, I would like to offer the The demise of the Reporter Publications ported to Siberia for hard labour. members of the South Plainfield Vol creates a vacuum which will probably never Again, are such stories from such sources unteer Fire Department our humble be filled. Without the Reporter it will be believable? An argument on what point is almost impossible for local officeholders, now raging within the American State De and profound thanks for a job well done.e churches, temples, and neighborhood mer partment. But it is worth remembering that chants to communicate with people in a lim similar reports by Cambodian refugees ited geographical area. The metropolitan about the genocide in their country in 1975, REPORTER CLOSING A BLOW TO dailies will not print the schedule of bingo widely disregarded at the time, turned out OUR COMMUNITY games for the City of Hope, nor will they to be the plain truth. announce the opening of a new store on Of course, there are civilian Vietnamese Fairfax Avenue. Certainly, they will pay no going to the U.S.S.R. as well. Is their depar HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN attention to such neighborhood problems as ture voluntary? Some Western diplomats OF CALIFORNIA an unsafe intersection or homeowners who believe so, arguing that Siberia is actually IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES feel a business establishment is violating quite attractive compared to the spartan their rights to peace and privacy. Wednesday, September 15, 1982 conditions of Vietnam now that the Ameri I salute Ruth Faierman for all she has can oppressors have been driven out. Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, On But what are the conditions to which they e done for our community over a half centu are going? They are separated from their August 25, 1982, the Los Angeles Re ry. I wish her and her husband, Neach families for two periods of three years, and porter, a weekly newspaper in my dis Faierman, good health. I very much hope they receive only 40 per cent, of an already trict for nearly a half century, pub that my aunt will continue to be actively in volved in community affairs. We all stand to low wage, the remainder going to the Soviet lished its last issue. The death of a benefit enormously from her sincerity, in Government in payment of the Vietnamese community institution such as theRe tegrity, intelligence and talent.e war-debt of $1.6 billion. porter is an event of major importance I am certainly prepared to believe in the to the people whose lives it touches. hideousness of Communist Vietnam. But if its citizens prefer Siberia, separation from The following statement, which re NFL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION their families and very low wages to remain flects my personal feelings, was print STRIKE ing at home, conditions there must be, quite ed on the front page of the final Re literally, unbelievably bad. You may prefer, porter. as I do, to believe that the Vietnamese who Though I have never had any financial in HON. PHILUP BURTON go to the U.S.S.R. do not do so of their own terest or managerial role in the Waxman OF CALIFORNIA free will.e Reporter Publications, these papers have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES played a role in my life since earliest child hood. Wednesday, September 15, 1982 THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF As a youngster, I took tremendous pride SOUTH PLAINFIELD VOLUN in what my late Uncle, AI S. Waxman, and e Mr. PHILLIP BURTON. Mr. Speak TEER FIRE DEPARTMENT my Aunt Ruth had accomplished for our er, as we are all aware there is a very community. Many of my own feelings about real possibility that the football the Democratic Party and progressive gov season might be interrupted by a HON.BERNARDJ.D~ ernment came directly either from the strike this year. I think we can all OF NEW JERSEY paper or from my aunt and uncle. agree that this would be most unfortu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Reporter Publications began in Boyle nate. It is my great hope that the NFL Heights as the "Eastside Journal." In those Wednesday, September 15, 1982 days the Los Angeles Times was not the and the NFL Players Association will e Mr. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, I recent first-rate, balanced, nationally recognized be successful in arriving at a satisfac ly had the honor of participating in paper it is today. Years ago, the Times was a tory collective bargaining agreement. Labor Day festivities in the borough narrow, partisan, reactionary publication Bills currently pending before Con of South Plainfield, N.J., commemo whose news columns were often as blatantly gress dealing with an antitrust exemp slanted as its editorials. Most of the other tion for the NFL has already involved rating the 75th anniversary of the papers were no better. My uncle stood up founding of the South Plainfield Vol against the Times and every other right us in some of the issues facing profes unteer Fire Department. wing force-no matter how big. sional football today. I am confident The borough is most proud of this The Waxman Publications were resolute that we will not act hastily in this area dedicated force and rightly so. Begin- in support of the Democratic Party, the especially when the league and the September 15, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23771 union are involved in intense negotia straints in sports), there ought to be a enough if a team wants to keep its quality tions. middle ground. players. I am including in the RECORD today a On a shelf in Garvey's office, there is a All this may not increase the salaries of recent article concerning the problems foot-square block of stone. undistinguished right guat·ds as much as Etched into the stone is a percentage sign. Garvey's 55 percent plan would. But with faced by the players and the league. Chances are, although Garvey is too stub free agency, right of first refusal and bind The article written by Dave Kindred born to admit it, he would be happy to hear ing arbitration, football players soon appeared in the Washington Post on a. proposal from the owners that would enough would be paid what they're worth.e August 20, 1982: enable him to turn that stone around and PLANTATION MENTALITY NOT HELPING NFL carve a dollar sign in the other side. And OWNERS chances are the owners, who have acknowl HONORING MR. FRED TROOST, edged that the players are underpaid, would DAIRYMAN OF THE YEAR If the pro football players go on strike, it go a long way with any proposal that raised is the owners' fault. The owners have salaries without tying the raises to a fixed botched this. Call them arrogant, call them percentage of gross. HON. JERRY LEWIS imperious, call them fools. So why doesn't someone suggest some OF CALIFORNIA The 28 owners have a money machine thing? cranking out millions of dollars, even bil At the moment, the National Football IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lions. Yet these totalitarians who would League doesn't suggest anything because it Wednesday, September 15, 1982 take urine samples of players, who would has a leadership crisis. Every time it goes fine players for shaking hands, who would into court, it comes out a loser. It lost every • Mr. LEWIS. Mr. Speaker, I would deny players the right to work where they round in federal court to AI Davis and then, like to take this opportunity to recog want to-these owners would throw sand in a demonstration of unmitigated gall, nize one of the truly fine men in my into the gears of their money machine went to the Congress of the United States congressional district who is a shining before they would do the right thing for the asking for legislation to reverse that court's example of the American success players who make the machine turn so decision. story, Mr. Fred Troost. smoothly. Earlier, the foundering lords of football The right thing is to treat the players as missed their opportunity to divide the play A native of Iowa, Mr. Troost moved valued employes with legitimate complaints. ers' union by not giving dissident players an to Artesia, Calif., where he began his As baseball owners learned in a senseless alternative proposal before the union's dairy business with 120 milking cows. half-summer of a strike, there is nothing to March convention. Lately, the league com Through hard work and perseverance, be gained any more by treating professional missioner, Pete Rozelle, has come to Con his business grew to 800 cows on 130 athletes as indentured servants who ought gress with an antitrust exemption bill that, acres in Mira Lorna, Calif., where it to be grateful for any scraps from the mas if passed would be followed, he said, by ex has become a family enterprise. sah's table. The courts have ruled for play pansion of the league. ers, and against leagues, in virtually every Rozelle has admitted that such expansion A community leader, Mr. Troost has freedom-issue case over the last decade. The teams were "dangling'' before the eyes of in been a member of various local civic tide is running against the plantation fluential senators. This is the sort of dan organizations. He served as president owners, and they'll be in over their heads gling that politicians interpret as a payoff. of the board of education of Bellflow soon if they don't do the right thing. You give me my new law, we give you a foot er Christian Schools for 2 years and The right thing at this moment is to get ball team. Rozelle smoothly denied any such served an additional 6 years as a back to the negotiating table with the play connection. member of the board. Mr. Troost ers union representatives. Out of obstruc The commissioner was not so smooth served 9 years on the board of educa tionism, the owners' negotiators refuse to Monday on Capitol Hill. Under fire from meet the union people at a training camp Strom Thurmond, the crustly old South tion of Ontario Christian School, 3 as site. If they have to meet at midfield during Carolina Republican whose state neither president. He devoted many hours in a Redskins scrimmage in Carlisle, the has nor lusts for pro football, Rozelle said helping the elderly through his service owners' men should do it. By the petty the league needed legislation because it on the Board of Inland Home for the fining of last week, by the refusal even to would be impossible to draw up guidelines Aged where he was chairman for 2 negotiate, the football owners are repeating on when a. team could leave a. city. years. He was a member of the city the baseball mistake of welding the players' You couldn't pin it on how they have done council of Dairy Valley, now known as union into a clenched fist. financially, Rozelle began. Cerritos, for 6 years, and served 1 year Once upon a time, the football players "They would . . . That can be juggled. A may have been divided about a strike. Two team can arrange its figures in a. way to as mayor. One of the highlights of his months ago, they may not have been sold show losses for several straight years." public service career was working as on Ed Garvey's percentage-of-gross concept. Had Garvey stuck bamboo shoots under mayor of Artesia for 1 year. In addi But the owners offered the players no alter Rozelle's shining nails, he could not have tion, Mr. Troost was on the city coun native plan. And now the sense-at this elicited a. more helpful quotation. It long cil of Artesia for 6 years. typewriter, anyway-is that the players are has been Garvey's contention that owners His leadership in dairy-related orga willing to strike in support of Garvey's plan aren't telling the whole truth about money, nizations has greatly benefited the if for no other reason than it is the only one and now comes Rozelle saying figures "can dairy industry. Mr. Troost was a anybody has proposed. be juggled.'' The players properly perceive manage With leadership so bewildered it gives this member of the board and past chair ment's refusal to offer a realistic plan as evi kind of comfort to its adversary, the NFL is man of the Milk Producers Council in dence the owners believe the union will headed for a strike that doesn't have to Artesia and Ontario for the past 15 crumble on its own. Such perception has happen. It is time for the owners to make a years. On the State level, he served as made the union stronger. By doing nothing, conciliatory gesture to the players, to offer a member of the board of the League the owners did a lot-for the union. a plan that is more than a. sarcastic reply to of California Milk Producers for 8 It is a fact, of course, that the owners an insult from Garvey. years, 2 years as vice chairman. Under have submitted a counterproposal to Gar They offer free agency to all players after the Gonsalves Milk Pooling Act, Mr. vey's idea. that the players should get 55 three seasons. Garvey says free agency percent of all money taken in. But because won't work because teams will not bid on Troost administered the law as chair the owners consider Garvey's plan an insult, players, there being young player to blame his failures on an In 1976, after waiting the required 5 EVANSVILLE, IND.- During a Little League umpire, regardless of the quality of the years from his resignation date at the game in Evansville recently, fans and um umpire, is doing the worst kind of injustice factory job, Lerner and his wife ap pires got into a shouting match over some to that youngster. Rather than learning re plied for a permit to go to Israel. They questionable calls during a game between sponsibility, such an attitude is fostering an were denied the permit. two teams of 9- to 12-year-olds. improper outlook toward the ideals of the "It was pretty ugly," one witness said. game itself. This irresponsibility is bound to Eleven years have passed since "The kids heard some pretty filthy lan carry over to future years. Lerner and his wife began attempts to guage." "As I sit here writing this letter, I am no emigrate to Israel. Lerner's numerous What happened to Donald Jensen 10 longer as upset as I was this afternoon. This appeals to various Soviet authorities years ago this baseball season still serves as afternoon, I wanted to quit umpiring. But, have been in vain, and he and his wife a reminder of what can happen when win fortunately, my wife reminded me of an have since been dismissed from their ning becomes more important than any other situation that occurred last week. jobs. thing else. "I was umpiring behind the plate for a Jensen was struck in the head by a pitcher who pantomimed his displeasure at The situation for Soviet Jewry is thrown bat while umpiring a boy's Little any call on a borderline pitch that was not desperate. Along with 46 of my col League game in Terre Haute. in his team's favor. One could sense he leagues, I have joined the 97th Con He continued to work the game, but after wanted the crowd to realize he was a fine, gressional Class for Soviet Jewry, ward a doctor order him into the hospital talented player who was doing his best to which aims to recognize the plight of for observation. While there, Jensen wrote get along, but that I was a. black-hearted vil Prisoners of Conscience who are seek the following letter. lain who was working against him. ing to emigrate from the Soviet Union. "Dear parent of a Little Leaguer: "This kid continued for two innings, while "I am an umpire. I don't do it for a living, at the same time yelling at his own players Despite the fact that the Soviets are a but only on Saturdays and Sundays for fun. who dared to make a. mistake. For two in signatory to the Helsinki accords, they " ... I've played the game, coached it and nings, the manager watched this. When the have been flagrant in their violation of watched it. But, somehow, nothing takes kid returned to the dugout to bat in the top human rights. I believe it is important the place of umpiring. Maybe it's because I of the third, the manager called him aside. to bring this tragic case to the atten feel deep down that I'm providing a fair "In a. loud enough voice that I was able to tion of my colleagues.e chance for all the kids to play the game overhear, the lecture went like this: 'Listen, without disagreements and arguments. son, it is time you make a. decision. You can "With all the fun I've had, there still is be an umpire, an actor, or a. pitcher. But NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MATH something that bothers me about my job. you can only be one a.t a. time when you are EMATICS TEACHERS DEVELOP Some of you folks don't understand why I'm playing for me. Right now, it is your job to MENT ACT there. Some of you feel I'm there to exert pitch. And you are basically doing a. lousy authority over your son. For that reason, job. you often yell at me when I make a mistake, "Leave the acting to the actors, the um HON. ANTHONY TOBY MOFFETT or encourage your son to say things that piring to the umpires, or you won't do any OF CONNECTICUT hurt my feelings. pitching here. Now, what is it going to be?" "How many of you really understand that "The kid chose the pitching route and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I try to be perfect? I try not to make mis went on to win the game. When the game Wednesday, September 15, 1982 takes. I don't want your son to feel he got a was over, the kid followed me to my car. bad deal from an umpire. Fighting his hardest to keep back the tears, • Mr. MOFFETT. Mr. Speaker, my "Yet, no matter how hard I try, I can't be he apologized for his actions and thanked friend and colleague MERv DYMALLY is perfect. me for umpiring his game. He said he had today introducing legislation essential "I've counted the number of calls I made learned a lesson that he would never forget. to the future development of Ameri in a six-inning game today. The total "I can't help but wonder how many more can technology. I am honored to be number of decisions, whether on bases and fine young men are missing their chance to joining Representative DYMALL Y, and balls or safes and outs, was 146. develop into outstanding ballplayers be my Connecticut colleague in the "I tried my best to get them all right, but cause their parents encourage them to I'm sure I missed some. When I figured my spend time umpiring, rather than working Senate, CHRIS DoDD, in this effort to percentage on paper, I could have missed harder to play the game as it should be increase science and mathematics lit eight calls and still got about 95 percent of played." eracy in our Nation. the calls right. In most occupations, that The following morning, Donald Jensen The National Science and Mathe percentage would be considered excellent. If died of a brain concussion.• matics Teachers Development Act is September 15, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23773 designed to promote such literacy ry. Over 80 percent of our citizens receive The Secretary's Award for Excel through providing continuing educa their last exposure, if any, to mathematics lence is reserved for those employees tion opportunities for secondary and science during their high schools years. In a society, such as ours, of growing tech whose performance not only exceeds school science and math teachers who nological sophistication where the questions normal requirements, but is outstand need to improve current skills and of consequence increasingly have scientific ing and deserves special commenda qualifications in those areas. I have and technological aspects, if our public tion. Certainly, I can think of no heard from scores of school adminis cannot at least appreciate the nature of person better fitting this, description trators in Connecticut on the desper these issues, quite apart from contributing than Mrs. Hickman and I want her to ate need for qualified science and to their resolution, they inevitably will tend know how proud we are that she is a math teachers in our State's second to become alienated from the society. Missourian.e ary schools. It is reported that some 50 It is clear to me that the pressing percent of the Nation's newly hired need in the Nation for skilled workers secondary school science and math requires a solution at the high school A TRIBUTE TO MR. WAYNE teachers are not qualified to teach in level; we must staff our schools with LYNCH these areas. Without such qualified teachers qualified in the science and teachers, how can science and math mathematics areas. By providing HON. JERRY LEWIS literacy be conveyed to our children teachers with full-time summer work OF CALIFORNIA our hope for a future of increased na shops and part-time weekend yearly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional productivity and economic secu programs to improve educational skills rity? in science and math, as today's legisla Wednesday, September 15, 1982 The time to prepare for the future is tion does, we will help insure a contin • Mr. LEWIS. Mr. Speaker, on Sep now. Reports of the growing science uum of technological advancement in tember 30, 1982 the Grayback District gap in the United States are legion the U.S. of the California Inland Empire Coun and we must begin to reverse this omi The health of our economy demands cil, Boy Scouts of America is honoring nous downward trend now. The link this response. The Dymally-Dodd leg Mr. S. Wayne Lynch as their distin between an educated populace and a islation represent a wise investment in guished citizen of the year. Congress healthy economy is clear. Ironically, our future, one which will aid not only men GEORGE BROWN of California and the administration is cutting back on industrial productivity but our nation I would like to take this opportunity support for public education and re al security. The cost of this legislation to join with the Grayback District Boy search, exacerbating our future ability is modest-an authorization level of Scouts in honoring Mr. Lynch and to cm pete in the world technological $30 million in fiscal year 1984. Consid commend him to the House of Repre market. ering its potential, however, this in sentatives for his devoted community When I testified before the Postsec vestment could reap vast cost-savings leadership. ondary Education Subcommittee this in future years. The Defense Science A native Californian, Wayne Lynch spring on the administration's pro Board Task Force has concluded that was born in Garden Grove, Calif. He posed education cuts, I noted the a continuing shortage of skilled labor attended Monmouth College, Ill., warnings sounded by two eminent is a major factor in the spiraling costs Western Union College, Iowa, and the members of the science and education and increased leadtime required to University of Iowa, completing his communities. I think it is worth re complete defense contracts. education in the School of Business at peating their remarks today, for they So let us move now to secure techno the University of California at Los An have a very significant bearing on the logical literacy among our citizenry in geles. He also did graduate work at the need to promote technological literacy the years to come. The National Sci University of Southern California. in our secondary schools and institu ence and Mathematics Teachers De During World War II, Mr. Lynch tions of higher education. Columbia velopment Act is essential to this served 3% years as a naval aviator. University President Michael I. Sovern goal.e Following the war, he began his career stated, in the New York Times Maga with the Southern California Gas Co. zine . founded in New RECORD. tics have shown us that kids can't handle al York under similarly tragic circumstances, THE WAR AGAINST DRUNK DRIVERS cohol," says New Jersey state Sen. C. Louis went national last year and now boasts 55 The horror of those seconds will forever Bassano, sponsor of a bill to raise the drink chapters in 29 states. The anger that is the haunt Cindy Ferguson. She was driving her ing age to 21. "It's an experiment that has movement's glue has made these organiza three sons-the identical twins Tommy and failed." tions aggressively self-righteous and mili Tony and her baby, Lee-to a party, when Liquor is so integrated into the nation's tant. "You can't be too strident," explains suddenly her Vega was smashed from social and economic fabric that until recent RID national coordinator Doris Aiken. "I behind. A tremendous explosion hurled her, ly, drinking and driving was an almost un don't know how you can tell someone nicely Tony and Lee onto the street. Cindy raced touchable political issue. But the drunk that they are incompetent to drive." Aiken back to the car and pulled Tommy's burning driver who kills isn't usually the social warns those who view this campaign as a body from the wreck, throwing herself on drinker who has had one beer too many fad that will soon fade: "The pendulum will him to smother the flames. A friend, Steve and judgments of the lec July, just two years after the accident. "I The other driver suffered a broken nose. ture-and-slap-on-the-wrist variety (Idaho ar was under the impression anyone arrested Despite at least seven drunk-driving arrests rested 1,800 persons for drunk driving last for this kind of thing would have the book in four years, he had never spent a day in year, convicted one-third of them and jailed thrown at him," says Paul's mother, Carol September 15, 1982 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23775 Lasler, who now heads the Greater Boston gotten me off the road before I had the ac But putting drunks behind bars does take chapter of MADD. "I didn't know vehicular cident which drastically changed my life." them off the road in a way revoking their li homicide was a misdemeanor." Other states are backing their legislation censes never did. Many of those convicted in Mark and Bonnie Schuett turned the with a variety of programs. South Dakota the past simply drove without a license. death of their four-year-old daughter, places highway signs reading, "X marks the Others easily obtained licenses in other Kelly, who was killed as she walked near spot ... think!" at the almost 600 locations states: a Federal Highway Administration her home in quiet Ixonia, Wis., into a state where drivers have lost their lives since study reported that Ohio in 1977 had issued wide cause celebre. The driver, a 29-year-old 1979. Some states have considered efforts to 1.3 million more licenses than there were man with a prior drunk-driving arrest, stigmatize the drunk driver publicly. One driving-age Ohioans. Clarence Busch, who pleaded no contest to driving while intoxi Pennsylvania legislator proposed a special inadvertently launched MADD when he cated and was given a suspended five·day red license plate for all drivers convicted of killed Cari Lightner, moved to Wisconsin jail sentence and fined $284. His license was driving while intoxicated-a modern-day last fall and obtained a license within a few revoked for a year-but was actually re scarlet letter. Local police in both Maryland days. The National Driver Register, a com stored after 90 days because he took treat and Massachusetts have gone so far as to puterized roster of drivers whose licenses ment at an alcohol-abuse center. "This man use roadblocks, called "sobriety check have been suspended, revoked or denied, got away with hitting and killing my child," points," to deter and detect drunk drivers, was established in 1960 to remedy such says Mrs. Schuett. "Her life means more though the Massachusetts effort has been problems. But states can communicate with than a $284 fine." As a result of the ruled unconstitutional by a state court. it only by mail, and with 84,000 inquiries Schuett's lobbying effort, a new Wisconsin Many states, however, complain that the coming in daily, the system is cumbersome law went into effect last May that permits new laws overtax their increasingly limited and slow. the state to suspend the license of anyone resources. Maine was the only state to in NO QUESTIONS ASKED arrested for an alcohol-related driving of clude in its crackdown legislative package a fense-even before a trial. "Maybe we've new tax on liquor, which is expected to Still, there are signs of reform that just a saved somebody else's life," says Mrs. produce $2 million to $3 million annually few years ago would have been unimagina Schuett. "But I'm still angry." that will be earmarked for treatment and ble. One is Students Against Drunk Drivers prevention of alcohol problems. , which began as a high-school GUILT project in suburban Wayland, Mass., and If anger fuels the movement, guilt is its COURT WATCH has been replicated already by students in motor oil. Thomas and Dorothy Sexton The anti-drunk-driving campaigners are 150 other schools. In Wayland, 900 students recall going to court to witness the trial of pressuring the courts as well as the legisla signed SADD contracts with their parents, the man whose blood alcohol content was tors. One such group keeps constant watch promising to call home at any hour when a .26 when he killed the Sextons' 15-year-old in North Carolina's Forsyth County District sober ride home is not available. In return, son, Tom. They saw a car thief sentenced to Traffic Court. "People walk up to us and parents pledge "to come and get you at any two years in jail, while their son's killer tell us things have changed," says Sandra hour, any place, no questions asked and no who pleaded guilty to homicide by a motor Nicastro, one of the group's court fixtures. argument at that time ..." Montgomery vehicle-was sentenced to two years' proba "Lawyers have told their clients, 'I don't County, Md., had a surprise for students tion and fined $200. "We painfully relate think I can get you off this time because heading to senior year-end festivities. The our experience and say, 'If you don't want that lady's sitting there listening'." Some boys found a note tucked in their rented that to happen to you, let's do something'," judges need little encouragement to get tuxedos counseling, "Friends don't let says Sexton, a U.S. Department of Agricul tough. Maine judges have meted out an av friends drive drunk," and providing a bot ture scientist who is now active in Mary erage jail sentence of eight days to drunk line number that provided free rides home. land's MADD chapter. "I'm convinced if I drivers under the state's new laws-four And in rural Truman, Minn., the high had been involved in something like this time the permitted minimum. And a Meck school spent $79 for a breath-testing device five years ago, Tom would be alive today." lenburg County, N.C., judge may have set a for its prom after rowdy drunks disrupted The movement's approach to the drunk new standard when he sentenced a drunk last year's festivities. The machine is now driving problem is essentially punitive. driver, who had eight prior arrests but had kept in the school vault for use during While legislation varies from state to state, caused no injuries, to three years in jail. school hours. it usually makes driving with .10 blood alco Many safety experts insist crusaders Anti-drunk-driving crusaders hope that hol content a crime. In addition, a sociology professor at State University of and stirrer, and a number of bars and res many of the new laws makes prison manda New York at Buffalo, who has studied taurants have installed them. Anthony tory, if not for the first offense, certainly crackdowns on drunk driving, says deter Ravosa, a defense attorney who has defend for the second. They often increase penal rence only works for the short term when ed many clients against drunk-driving ties for drivers who refuse the blood alcohol the problem is treated as a moral one rather charges, offers a breath test to customers in test and require that all convictions-re than a safety question. In a new book, he his South Hadley, Mass., Riverboat Restau gardless of the court disposition-be listed writes: "A vehicle and highway that are safe rant and provides courtesy rides home to on a driver's record. for an alcohol-influenced driver are also those who flunk it. Many states are delighted by the prelimi safe for a driver who has a heart attack, Ravosa's gesture may ultimately prove to nary results of the new laws. In Maryland, who dozes off, who drops a lighted cigarette be more than simply humanitarian. The drunk-driving arrests by state police have on his lap, who fails to see a stop sign.... " Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court says gone up 45 percent and highway fatalities Others are convinced that the lock-'em-up an establishment can be liable for serving down almost 20 percent since its law went approach is meaningless unless it's com too much booze to a customer, and earlier into effect. Maine, which last year began bined with therapy. "I don't think the this year it upheld a $50,000 verdict against mandatory jail sentences for first-time of tougher laws will stop the hard-core alco a Milford tavern that served "six or more" fenders, has experienced a 47 percent reduc holics," says Col. Tom Anderson, director of white russians to a customer who was "obvi tion in alcohol-related fatalities. Oregon has the state police in Alaska, which has had a ously intoxicated." That customer later had the most experience-its crackdown mandatory prison law since 1978. "It's a drove off the road killing nine-year-old John began in 1971-and the most success. During mess," agrees Arthur Snowden II, director Cimino. the '70s, highway fatalities dropped 6 per of the state's court system. "We're just put cent and Oregon's fatality rate declined 35 ting people in high-priced jails . . . just How DRUNKS GET OFF percent despite the presence of 46 percent taking them off the street is not going to Defense attorney Randy Taylor parades more drivers and 62 percent more vehicles solve the problem." But Maryland district around the courtroom, his arms pinned on the road. court Judge David Bates thinks he knows behind him by handcuffs. After several min Success may be due to more than tough the solution. Bates gives drunk drivers the utes of histrionic discomfort he compels the laws. Oregon has coupled its legal effort maximum permissible sentence, then waives cop on the witness stand to remove the with a media campaign· that urges Oregoni it if they are willing to enter an appropriate cuffs and place them on the defendant, a ans to report drunk drivers to a special tele education or treatment program. While it is man charged with driving while intoxicated phone hot line. One hot-line spokesman is hard to measure the success of Bates' ap . Then Taylor seizes his client and Donny Durrant, a former logger who had proach because probationary sentences bullies him about. Wasn't that how the lost his license four times for drunk driving weren't included on drivers' records until police acted when they arrested him? he before he drove off the road at 85 mph and last year, Bates says only 149 of the 5,697 asks the witness. Finally, the Dallas lawyer broke his neck. Durrant, now a quadriplegic, drivers referred to the program dropped out shoves his client into a chair and barrels up says in a TV message: "I wish someone had or had their probation revoked. to the cop: "Isn't It true you said, 'Shut up,