25654 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS H.R. 3231-WFBT-WFBT TRADE by them. There is no reason that elimina­ launched cruise missiles in Europe. tion of intra-Cocom licenses could not be During this forum a distinguished part of our harmonization efforts. They are group of European parliamentarians HON. ED 1.SCHAU probably as willing as we are to reduce the 01' CALD'ORKIA paperwork burden placed on government presented their views on the Euro­ IB THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES and industry. The section of the bill that re­ missle question. These are Europeans who are deeply concerned about the Thunda11, September 22, 1983 duces controls on West-West trade permits a system of notification to be worked out that planned U.S. deployment in Europe. •Mr. ZSCHAU. Mr. Speaker, one of would allow tracking of shipments for intel­ I commend to my colleagues the tes­ the most important sections of the ligence purposes. timony of one of the European leaders Export Administration Act reauthor­ Q. Doesn't the elimination of export li­ who attended the forum, Mr. Egon ization is the one that streamlines and censes for these shipments destroy the Bahr, who is chairman of the Arms focuses the control procedures for "paper trail" necessary for effective en­ forcement and tracking down those who Control and Disarmament Parliamen­ trade with our NATO allies and Japan. might try to divert technology to commu· tary group of the Social Democratic Although referred to as "West-West nist countries? Party of West Germany. Mr. Bahr has trade," it is restricted to our most A. No it doesn't. A clear paper trail will held a number of government posi­ trusted allies. still be available for exports to countries tions including Minister of Economic Section 106 of H.R. 3231 provides maintaining cooperative export controls Cooperation under Chancellor Helmut for the shipment of goods and technol­ with the U.S. Section 106 of H.R. 3231 Schmidt. ogy to our NATO allies plus Japan says that the Secretary may without license except in those cases require by regulation a notification by the STATEMENT OF EGoN BAHR ON TIU INF exporter of any exports made under the PuBLIC FoRUK IN TIU U.S. CONGRBSS, Sep­ of shipments to end users who repre­ new procedures. The form and detail re­ tember 15, 1983 sent a risk of diversion. It does not quired in this notification will be left up to The West German Social Democratic permit any of the allies to reexport the Secretary to determine by regulation. Party CSPD> decided to support NATO's sensitive goods or technology without I've met with Justice and Commerce De­ dual-track decision at a Party Conference in prior U.S. approval. And it specifically partment lawyers to discuss their needs to Berlin, in December 1979. The heart of the permits our Government to require ex­ establish adequate paper trail and am con­ dual-track decision is to reduce Soviet SS- porters to give full and complete vinced that the notification of shipment 20's and avoid the start of a new arms race notice of all such shipments so that that the Secretary may require will satisfy which threatens the security of Central will their needs. Europe. This was a few days before NATO our Government know where Q. I've heard that if this section becomes officially adopted the decision at its meeting within NATO sensitive goods and tech­ law, we will lose our right to control the re­ in Brussels. It re-affirmed this course of nology are being shipped. This "paper export of sensitive goods and technology policy and its expectatio~ ~bout negotia­ trail" will allow U.S. law enforcement and will have to depend upon our Cocom tions at the 1982 Party.:~ conference in authorities to prosecute anyone who partners to enforce re-export controls, some Munich and the 1983 Conference in Dort­ violates U.S. laws concerning such of whom are not as diligent in their enforce­ mund. This policy remains valid today. shipments. ment and licensing efforts as we are. Is this A large majority of the SPD shared Following is a series of the most true? Helmut Schmidt's view that the SALT proc­ A. First, we currently do not control re-ex­ ess, which limits intercontinental arma­ commonly asked questions about de­ ports. Our Cocom partners do. Second, any ments must be supplemented by agreements controlling West-West trade and their re-exports of the most sensitive goods from which keep eurostrategic weapons under answers: our Cocom partners to a Communist bloc control. This operating principle also still Q. With all the talk I've heard about tech­ country must come before Cocom for eval­ prevails today. nology transfer and the loss of sensitive uation and approval. Using this procedure, We accepted the dual track decision of technology to the U.S.S.R. why should we the United States would have the opportu­ 1979 as an instrument to carry out this req­ remove any export licensing requirements? nity to block any sale of which we did not uisite extension of arms limitation and arms A. That's a good question. To begin with, approve. control. this section of the bill only reduces licensing If the goods are not sensitive, yet are still Llk.e Helmut Schmidt, I was in favour of requirements for export to countries that controlled by Cocom and eligible to be ex­ the dual-track decision from the beginning cooperatively maintain controls over the ported at the individual members' discre­ because it provided an opportunity to bol­ same goods and technologies that we do. tion, the United States would know of any ster the acceptance of the SALT n Treaty; These are the NATO countries

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25655 be a radical reduction in the number of of strategic arms would have meanwhile maybe plant some fruitful seeds in Soviet SS-20's with the goal of rendering been resolved and that the problems of those who did not have the pleasure. the deployment of American missiles super­ eurostrategic armaments only represented fiuous. That was our zero option. It did not residual problems capable of resolution The son of an Italian immigrant car­ call for any zero on the part of the Soviets; within a relatively short period of time. penter who settled in Manhattan and but it did insist upon a removal of the addi­ Today, the situation reQuires a successful served 40 years in the Carpenters tional Soviet intermediate forces. The negotiation of the Euro-missile issue. The Union, Sal's early influences were to German Federal Government under Helmut increased relevance of this reQuires ample have a profound effect on his entire Schmidt also interpreted the dual-track de­ time for negotiation, particularly in the ab­ life. Like his father, Sal joined a trade cision in this way and Quite rightly designat­ sence of a START agreement. ed the American formulation of the zero The revision of a position held for four union at a young age and he spent option as an extreme starting position. tige: it must be a question of a rational secu­ New York City area. Clearly, agreement could only emerge in rity policy. The SPD has welcomed Presi­ In 1946, Sal joined the International Geneva if the Soviet and American sides dent Reagan's decision to revise the Ameri­ Association of Machinists and Aero­ abandoned their initial stances and moved can negotiating positions in the START ne­ towards a compromise. gotiations. What applies for START cannot, space Workers-IAM Local 556. Just With a view to enhancing both sides' will­ in principle, be ruled out for INF. 10 years later, he was elected to his ingness to compromise, and as part of the On the basis of the above, the SPD will first full-time union job, as representa­ dual-track decision, the SPD opposed from advocate the following standpoints: tive for IAM District 15 in New York the very beginliing automatic deployment. At our special party conference in No­ City. He quickly earned a reputation Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor also support­ vember, we shall decide about our attitude as a tough, yet fair, union leader and ed this position. We are keeping our deci­ in the Geneva negotiations, i.e. a "yes" or a sion open until the end of the negotiations "no" to the deployment of missiles. was appointed an IAM general vice in order to maintain pressure on both sides. Cb) We are convinced that it is technically president in the union's northeast ter­ In the meantime, the two sides have shown possible to conclude an agreement by then ritory on January 1, 1973. He was sub­ some movement and they have modified if both sides show sufficient flexibility. sequently reelected in 1977, and to an­ their position. The Soviet Union has offered We have no doubt at all that the Soviet Union would station new missiles other 4-year term in 1981, which he to reduce its number of medium-range mis­ was serving until the time of his siles to 162 if NATO, in turn, renounces the with a shorter range in the GDR deployment of missiles. The USA has de­ and Czechoslovakia if the death. clared its willingness to deploy only as many United States were to begin deploying their Sal's numerous other contributions missiles as the Soviet Union intends to missiles. The SS-22's flying time of two-and­ to the labor movement included serv­ maintain. a-half minutes raises the question as to ing as president of the New York State The central issue in Geneva lies in the ex­ their first use, and sharpens the threat to Central Europe even more. Hence this Council of Machinists; vice president istence of French and British nuclear weap­ of the New York State AFL-CIO; dele­ ons which can reach the Soviet Union and, would bring less security instead of more! indeed, which are targeted on that country. It would be illusory to believe that the gate to the New York City Central The SPD acknowledges that the United INF negotiations would become easier after Labor Council; vice president of the States cannot negotiate with the Soviet the deployment of U.S. missiles had com­ State Allied Printing Trades Council; Union about French and British weapon menced. On the contray, they would become member of the Board of Educational systems. By the same token, it realizes the more difficult and probably only resume in the wake of new deployments in areas of Vocational Training for the City of importance of these weapons for the bal­ New York; trustee of the Empire State ance between East and West. the Warsaw Pact states, i.e. on a fresh basis For this reason, the SPD has advocated and in the course of 1984. That is another College of New York; member of the that ways should be found in the Geneva reason why it would be worthwhile to con­ State Manpower Planning Council; negotiations of ensuring that the existence centrate on a successful conclusion to the board member of the Port Maritime of British and French nuclear weapons do present round of negotiations in Geneva-ne­ gotiations which must produce agreement Trades Council; and cochairman of the not become an obstacle to a Soviet and American Trade Union Council for American agreement. on stopping the introduction of shorter­ We believe that a solution of this set of range missiles in East and West. Histadrut. problems would prove easier if the INF ne­ If a successful outcome of the negotia­ IAM President William Winpisinger gotiations were connected with the START tions appears feasible or if the START and recently remarked: negotiations on this point. This also accords INF negotiations are merged together, the Sal Iaccio was a true leader of and for with the dual-track decision which at that requisite time for negotiations during which workers. He served workers inside the labor time stated that the limitation of American no deployments should take place must be granted.• movement at the local, district, state and and Soviet LRTNF's should be bilaterally international levels, and outside the labor negotiated, step by step, within the frame­ movement in all aspects of education, gov­ work of SALT III. TRIBUTE TO SAL IACCIO ernment and private endeavors. He was a The final round of the Geneva negotia­ tough, fair, rational leader who was respect­ tions for the current year has been in ed and admired because of his vision and his progress since September 6. The SPD sup­ HON. MARIO BIAGGI effectiveness in moving toward accomplish­ ports the argument that the U.S. missiles OF NEW YORK ment of that vision. should not be automatically deployed at the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES end of this round of negotiations if no These are cherished words for a man agreement is reached. Certainly the linking Thursday, September 22, 1983 who was greatly cherished, both inside of INF with START will require additional •Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I want to and outside of the labor movement. No time. A rigid adherence to the time-schedule take this opportunity to pay a heart­ man has a right to be any more proud decided four years ago would not be justifi­ felt tribute to Sal Iaccio, a champion able since all the available opportunities than Sal Iaccio-proud of how he have not been exhausted. They have not of labor, fellow New Yorker, and good lived, proud of what he accomplished, been exhausted because no sustained effort friend. Sal died on August 15 at the and proud of what he left behind; has been made to combine START and INF relatively young age of 61. Yet, while namely, his many friends, his lovely negotiations. Now is the time to make a full­ we are deeply saddened by that fact, wife, Mary, and a fine son, John, with scale effort. It would be imprudent to jeop­ those of us who knew Sal are also very whom I have developed close personal ardize a possible successful outcome by grateful for his loyal friendship, his adopting an excessively formal and rigid accomplishments, and for the inspira­ and professional ties over the past sev­ time approach. Two years have already been tion his memory will serve to provide. eral years.e lost for the negotiations. Therefore, it would be prudent to extend the period of Mere words are never enough when negotiations to explore further opportuni­ it comes time to honor a man of Sal ties for compromise. Iaccio's stature, but we can always When NATO took its decision in Decem­ hope they will help stir some fond ber 1979, it could assume that the problems memories for those who knew him, or 25656 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 SERVING MANKIND AND THE No matter what the Cause may be stituent. Her book, entitled "Home COUNTRY in politics or clan- Care-An Alternative to the Nursing Who goes to Chapel shows that he Home," is an informational guide for HON. JAMES M. JEFFORDS will serve his Fellow Man.e those who want to meet the health 01' VERKONT care needs of their loved ones at home. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRESIDENT REAGAN SHOULD The message of the book is that it is SEEK WATT'S OUSTER possible for families to provide excel­ Thursday, September 22, 1983 lent care for an aging or chronically ill •Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. Speaker, today loved one. ft is my pleasure to share with the HON. DON SUNDQUIST OF TENNESSEE Many books on the delivery of home Members of the House the words from health care services have been written two songs composed by Dr. Arwfn G. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by and for professionals. Mrs. Du­ Sexauer of East Montpelier, Vt. Thursday, September 22, 1983 Fresne's book is different. She The spirit of serving mankind and e Mr. SUNDQUIST. Mr. Speaker, I learned, with the help of profession­ our country that is contained in "Our am sure I was not alone in my dismay als, how to take care of her dying hus­ Congressmen Pray" is one that all of this morning as I read Interior Secre­ band's needs at home. In her book she u8 must frequently consider. "One tary James Watt's characterization of shares that information with the Last Coin for Brotherhood" is particu­ a handicapped member of the embat­ reader in a clear, straightforward larly poignant in light of the current tled coal-leasing program as a "crip­ manner. situation in Lebanon. ple." A portion of the book is devoted to Dr. Sexauer is a world-renowned Unfortunately, this comment can an intensely personal description by composer. She founded the Music Mis­ come as little shock to Americans who Mrs. DuFresne of her own care-giving sion in 1963 which, in her words, "has have watched with alarm as Watt has experience which she calls an adven­ been a 20-year pilot project testing ec­ made embarrassing blunders which ture in love. It reveals a quiet strength umenical hymnody and intergenera­ cast aspersions on his ability to be a and courage derived from her deep tional spirit as a continuing contribu­ leading advocate of America's environ­ faith in God and her love and devotion tion toward world peace and brother­ mental protection laws. As a conserva­ to her husband of 40 years that is hood through the universal art and tive who appreciates Secretary Watt's truly inspirational. language of poetry.•• views on a number of issues, it saddens To my knowledge, "Home Care" is Her songs have received commenda­ me to call upon President Reagan to the first book of its kind to be pub­ tions from countless world leaders and request Secretary Watt's resignation. lished for nationwide distribution. I are in archival deposits around the After hearing of Secretary Watt's think many of my colleagues in the world. She has received over 170 inter­ distasteful remarks yesterday before House would benefit from reading it national and American awards and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I and informing their constituents of its honors, including three George Wash­ have concluded that he is a liability to availability. My staff on the Aging ington Honor Medals for writing and the administration. Although I do not Committee's Subcommittee on Hous­ public speaking, the "Virgillo-Man­ question the Secretary's managerial ing and Consumer Interests will be tegna" medal for being 1of10 finalists abilities, I firmly believe that his in­ happy to let you know how copies of in the 1982 International Lyricists ability to exercise restraint in his the book may be obtained.• Competition. a Richard Rodgers musi­ public comments has been detrimen­ cal award, 14 ASCAP Annual Popular tal. The American public no longer Panel Awards, and many, many more. has faith in the Interior Department PERSONAL EXPLANATION Om: LAsT Com FOR BROTHERHOOD to be a trustworthy caretaker for One last coin for brotherhood, public lands. Whether the basis for HON. RICHARD H. LEHMAN Will need the dove's goodwill­ OF CALIFORNIA When Islam and the Protestant, this feeling is right or wrong, the dis­ The cup of love shall fill. trust is a reality. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES President Reagan has proven that One last coin for brotherhood, he can restore faith in environmental Thursday, September 22, 1983 Will take the meeting minds­ LEHMAN When struggling Jew and Moslem, policy, as evidenced by his appoint­ •Mr. of California. Mr. Can live in peace that binds. ment of William Ruckelshaus as Di­ Speaker, last Thursday, September 15, One last coin for brotherhood, rector of the Environmental Protec­ I was unable to cast my vote on the And the good time will come- tion Agency. The replacement of Anne amendment to H.R. 3391, as offered by Though each hears a different drummer; Burford should serve as a reminder Congressman FRENZEL, rollcall No. 340. Each yielding up the sum. that personalities do make a signifi­ Had I been present, I would have "Cast your bread upon the waters" cant difference in the public's percep­ voted "no" on this amendment. The future reaps today. tion of government. At the time that the vote was taken For God within planetal peace Mr. Watt has shot himself in the I was attending a briefing at the Fed­ With your last coin-pray. foot one too many times. If we are to eral Deposit Insurance Corporation restore faith in our ability to properly and was unable to return to the House OUR CONGRESSMEN PRAY Mr. floor in time to cast my vote.e Our Congressmen of manhood fine; care for our public lands, Watt each fills a needed post, must first be removed.• With strength of heart and thoughts divine PREVENTING DRUG THEFTS erase tbe idle boast. HOME CARE-AN ALTERNATIVE FROM PHARMACIES Their lips are closed in silent prayer, TO THE NURSING HOME hands clasped beneath the rod; Two signs which note that Faith is there HON. THOMAS A. LUKEN when they give thanks to God. HON. DON BONKER 01' OHIO They daily serve their Country's need, OP' WASHINGTON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Flag within the Hall, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, September 22, 1983 And scorn the narrow-minded Creed Thursday, September 22, 1983 with Peace of Love on all. e Mr. LUKEN. Mr. Speaker, I am in­ Their Unity not pride's display, • Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, I would troducing a bill to amend the Con­ can make for Hope that's True like to bring to the attention of my trolled Substances Act in order to And bind the Brethren of this day colleagues a book written by Florine close a serious loophole in Federal by what they say or do. DuFresne, a longtime friend and con- drug statutes. Under current law, it is September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25657 a Federal criminal offense to manufac­ THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF gion, or belief. Theoretically, at least, ture, distribute, dispense, or obtain THE GRAPEVINE freedom of religious belief and free­ narcotics or other controlled sub­ dom to practice religion are guaran­ stances except through properly regis­ HON. WIWAM 0. LIPINSKI teed by the Czechoslovak Constitu­ tered channels, or to obtain such sub­ OF ILLINOIS tion. In sharp contrast to these assur­ stances by misrepresentation, fraud, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ances is the reality of the condition of the Catholic Church in Czechoslova­ forgery. deception, or subterfuge. Thursday, September 22, 1983 Under the current Federal law, how­ kia. ever, it is not a criminal offense to e Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, when Mr. Speaker, on June 24, 1983, on obtain narcotics or controlled sub­ Chicago city officials hear the name the occasion of the dedication of the stances by robbing or burglarizing a Ray Hanania, they think of insightful, Czech National Chapel in the Shrine pharmacy. Since 1973, more than accurate and, often, no-holds-barred of the Immaculate Conception, a con­ 10,000 pharmacies have been robbed to political reporting. Ray started with ference of Czech hierarchy, clergy, the Daily Southtown Economist news­ and laity published a declaration of obtain controlled substances, and paper in 1978 as a community report­ the infringement of religious rights in more than 2,300 people have been er, but his extensive involvement with Czechoslovakia which details that gov­ killed or injured in such robberies. In Chicago city government began in ernment's systematic violation of basic addition. the rate of these robberies is 1979 when he was sent to city hall to human rights involving religion. Mr. increasing dramatically-up 113 per­ cover Chicago politics for the Econo­ Speaker, given the importance we as a cent between 1976 and 1981. Burglary mist. nation assign to such basic values and and theft of controlled substances In the fall of 1979, during Jane the requirements that other nations from pharmacies also increased signifi­ Byrne's term as mayor, Ray started adhere to fundamental principles of cantly. the Grapevine a twice-weekly column human rights as well, I would like to The bill I am introducing is a simple that covers the politics of Chicago and share this important document in its one, to close the loophole in the Fed­ suburbs. On September 20, Ray is cele­ entirety with our colleagues, as fol­ eral Controlled Substances Act and brating 4 years of writing the Grape­ lows: make robbery and burglary of con­ vine. The Grapevine sometimes deals Declaration of the infringement of reli­ trolled substances from retail pharma­ with several topics, or treats one issue gious rights in Czechoslovakia at the confer­ cies a violation of the act. in depth. But the column always deals ence of the Czech Catholic merarchy. The bill has been drafted to take with people, examining the complex Clergy and Laity abroad on the occasion of personalities that make up Chicago the dedication of the Czech National Chapel into account suggestions made by the of our Lady of Hostyn in honor of St. John Department of Justice about similar politics. Neumann in the National Shrine, Washing­ propasals. The Department has indi­ Ray attracted attention from local ton, D.C. held on June 24, 1983, at the cated that it will support a bill that in­ politicians as soon as the Grapevine Washington mlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. corporates these suggestions about made its appearence. Jane Byrne was As on the occasion of the Forty-first sentencing, coordination with State particularly outspoken in her dislike International Eucharistic Congress in Phila­ of the column. In fact, the Grapevine delphia in 1976 . and distribution of religious literature. rightful leaders, who have been effectively Publication of Christian philosophy, theolo­ That, after all, was the real reason for their beaten and eliminated from consideration. gy, or literary works remains completely imprisonment, not the crime of conducting The Church is now under the Jurisdiction of outside the realm of possibility. business without a license, as is libelously the so-called "church secretaries", who are Public expression of faith in any form is stated in the court records. nothing but functionaries of the govern­ cause for all manner of difficulties in ob­ Priests who, in spite of everything, were ment. It is also controlled by the pseudo­ taining work or in the pursuit of an educa­ brave enough to celebrate Mass in youth church organization of Catholic Clergymen tion. Very often young persons, because of camps were sent to prison. Fr. Jan Barta, called Pacem in Terris. This group is sup­ their faith, are completely excluded from who with such sacrifice and greatness was posedly "working for peace", while in reali­ opportunities for advanced education. They trying to renew religious life, was hounded ty it is slavishly conforming to the regime are not allowed to become teachers and are to his death. Just weeks ago, some of his and helping in its efforts to destroy the not even considered for the higher positions fellow Franciscans became the victims in a Church. in society. Such persons are condemned to new wave of state arrests. During these same years, all Catholic se­ become and to remain "second-class" citi­ What can one say about Cardinal Trochta minaries were closed, with two exceptions: zens. and Bishop mouch? These, too, were one for Bohemia and Moravia, and one for Religious symbolism of any kind is sys­ hounded to their deaths by the so-called Slovakia. But even these are, in every sense tematically eliminated from public life. The "church secretaries." There is neither time of the word, institutions of the State, for thoroughness used in this attempt to rid the nor space enough to list the names of all the real Shepherds of the Church, the bish­ people's life of religious symbols borders on those persecuted or fallen into Jeopardy be­ ops, have nothing to say about how they are the ridiculous: even the cross worn around cause of the faith they profess. One last rec­ run. They have no authority to determine the neck of the TV anchor-women must be ognition must be recorded: that of Cardinal who and how many seminarians should be taken away. As a consequence, the regime Beran. His bodily remains, buried in the Ba­ accepted . nor what attempts to replace the religious ceremonies silica of St. Peter in Rome, are even now in should be taught, nor who should teach it. with state ceremonies, so that religious exile and cannot be laid to rest where they All of this-content of curriculum, selection signs of commitment would be eliminated, truly belong-in the Cathedral of Prague. of faculty, and limitation on the number of and eventually Christianity itself would dis­ Exiled from his homeland even after death! students to be accepted-is determined by appear. The Christian sacraments are being Eloquent symbol of an unnatural situation! the Communist regime. The seminarians replaced by civil ceremonies. Christianity The Church does not ask for privileges. themselves are under extreme pressure must become invisible. She wants only Justice and liberty for all. from State police who attempt to plant This obsessive animosity toward religion She does not want freedom for vice and their clandestine agents everywhere. in general and the Catholic Church in par­ crime, but for virtue, compassion, love and The situation of the priests in the parish­ ticular goes to such lengths that they do not all true values. Experienced in the under­ es is no better, for they are without protec­ even stop short of rewriting national history standing of humanity , the Church knows that "no tree can times hangs the Sword of Damocles; state tional consciousness and conscience which is grow into the heavens," and that "every­ permission is required for them to be able to the national literature. How many great thing has its time; only God has eternity,'' function in a pastoral capacity, and this can representatives of our national life have as is expressed in the folk wiSdom of the be taken from them at any moment. We been erased from the textbooks, thrown out Czech people. must not forget that, in the Communist of the libraries, and prevented from enter­ The Church knows too that the triumph State, the priest is first of all an employee ing the consciousness of young people! How of evil is complete only when one evil is op­ of the State. Sufficient reason for his many histocial events have been buried in posed by another. That is why she preaches permit to be withdrawn would exist if he ap­ silence, distorted, and even falsified by the what she herself is trying to do: Do not live peared more energetic than most, or was ideologists of the regime! a lie. Be rooted in the Truth. Serve your more effective in infuencing the faithful, or, And how could we forget the immense suf­ neighbor. Defend the basic rights of every worst of all, was able to succeed with young fering which came in the wake of the so­ human being. Support the national culture people. One such success would be enough called socio-political revolution: the expro­ . Proclaim and not even multiple transfers would dull his ticularly that of the farmers; the hard labor strengthen the values necessary for a "civili­ enthusiasm and effectiveness, State permis­ camps, and "military" units for hard labor; zation based on love," envisioned by Popes sion would simply be withdrawn from him the concentration camps, prisons and tor­ Paul VI and John Paul II. and he would be sent away to take his tum ture chambers; the staged public trials, with The Church is not disturbed by the hurri­ at "building the industrial might" some­ so many people beaten to death or unjustly cane forces that rage about her because she where in the factories or collective farms. executed! Foreign observers and reporters knows that God permits the storm only to The religious education of children has concur in the opinion that in the Soviet purify and make her stronger in love. At the become almost completely impossible be­ dominated areas, the persecution of reli­ same time she knows that these raging cause of the administrative red tape and the gion, above all the Catholic Church, is cur­ powers are caused by our sinfulness and will tremendous pressure exerted upon their rently most cruel in Czechoslovakia. There not pass away without our effective penance parents. Children who manage to attend re­ the Church is considered the most danger­ and action for good. That is why the ligious education classes despite the pres­ ous opponent of the atheistic concepts and Church is calling for reconciliation every­ sures find that they are not able to continue plans of the regime. This attack on the where. their education; they are denied acceptance Catholic Church is directed by Soviet advi­ If we Czech Catholics are turning to for higher education. Moreover, their par­ sors. people in the free world, we are doing so be­ ents lose their Jobs or cannot get better Present days are not rosy by comparison. cause by this Declaration we want to give ones. Any "secret" religious education is ex­ The courageous defenders of human voice to those who themselves cannot speak. tremely risky, as a result of the State's rights-those gathered in Charter '77 or We want to inform the citizens of the free "watch on religious activities." Any unau- outside of it-are subjected to all kinds of world about a situation which cannot but September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25659 shake the conscience of all who are genuine­ Menachem Begin's belief that a Finally realizing that their rigid and ly concerned with the fate of the human Jewish State was the only way for sur­ inflexible economic system was stran­ race as this second mlllenlum comes to a vival of the Jewish people never wa­ gling productivity, more pragmatic close. We are convinced that our nation, bearing vered. For 29 years Begin remained in leaders in China have begun to experi­ the burden of this ordeal through which it the background of Israeli politics hold­ ment with incentives to reward indi­ ts now passing, ls maturing toward a new ing fast to his beliefs and commitment vidual effort and initiative. These re­ freedom-one which ls the gift of God's to the State of Israel and the sover­ forms fall far short of introducing a Spirit. We are asking, therefore, of all eignty of the Jewish people. free market economy, but the changes people of good will: Do not forget your In 1977 Menachem Begin rose to are nonethele~ significant. brothers and sisters who are struggling to power in the first non-labor govern­ As one member of a bipartisan dele­ gain their most basic human rights. Do not ment since 1948 when the State of betray them by yourselves succumbing to gation to five countries in the Far materialism, isolationism, and selfishness; Israel was formed. Begin then pro­ East, I was privileged to spend a rather support them in their quest for true ceeded to make his indelible mark on number of days last month in China. humanity. Help them by your own affirma­ Israeli and world history. During the trip, the House majority tion of human and spiritual values. Aid It is difficult to fully expre~ the leader JIM WRIGHT, wrote down his ob­ them to grow toward that truth which liber­ value of Menachem Begin for the 6 servations in a series of articles which ates, toward the truth of the Lord about years he headed the Israeli Govern­ which the Czech national motto proclaims: appeared in Texas newspapers. I am ment; which is longer than any Prime inserting into the RECORD two of Mr. "Truth ls victorious." Minister in Israeli history. uable le~ons we can learn from Asia. unprecedented and will undeniably be I commend Mr. WRIGHT'S comments e ments to peace and stability in world The articles follow: history. This devotion to a peaceful [From the Dallas Morning News, Aug. 27, TRIBUTE TO MENACHEM BEGIN life for the people of Israel, and the 19831 Middle East, won Begin the Noble CHINA, TAIWAN: A CONTRAST Laureate for Peace in 1978. HON. MARIO BIAGGI In a time when the faces of those OP NEW YORK friendly to the United States changed TAIPEI, TAIWAN.-To walk through the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES streets of Shanghai on the China mainland quite often, Menachem Begin's Israel and then through the streets of Taipei on Thursday, September 22, 1983 stood fast as a dependable and trusted Taiwan ls to see the vivid contrast of two e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, the ally. In a region where internal vio­ economic systems. August 28 announcement by Israeli lence and political unrest are common­ All the dull statistics like gross national Prime Minister Menachem Begin of place, Israel, under Begin, maintained product and average family income take on his resignation signaled the end of a the cornerstones of democracy: free­ human form and parade before you. In In Shanghai at any time of day the broad long and distinguished career. At that dom, equality, justice, and stability. streets teem from curb to curb with bicycles time the Israeli people lost a coura­ an era when emotion and demagogu­ and foot traffic. There are few cars. To geous and dedicated leader and the ery oftentimes replace traditional either side run narrow alleyways which dis­ United States lost a loyal and valuable values, Begin maintained his integrity appear among low buildings that house friend. and belief in God. small shops and crowded tenements. Just last year I had the memorable At age 70 Menachem Begin is ready Driven outdoors for breathing space, pleasure, along with my son, Mario, to p~ the torch of Israel on to a suc­ people sit shirtless on sidewalks in front of Jr., of meeting with Prime Minister ce~or. However, the flame that Mena­ their six-to-a-room habitations and seek sur­ chem Begin nurtured for most of his cease from the sultry summer. Begin in Israel. It was one of several Shanghai is China's most prosperous times I had the honor of meeting the adult years will continue to bum city-also its most westernized There in the Prime Minister. The visit took place bright. In its illumination the people last century the French and British estab­ during my trip to the Middle East to of Israel will see their dream of free­ lished their "Paris of the East," bastion of witne~ the PLO withdrawal from Leb­ dom and peace and the United States Western capitalism. anon, a particularly significant event will see a loyal friend in a new light. After the communists took over in 1949, during Prime Minister Begin's career. I invite my colleagues to join with Maoist puritanism slowly rid the city of its The visit was captured in a treasured me in a tribute to a courageous free­ crime, prostitution, drug addiction and photograph I have next to my desk. dom fighter and a champion of democ­ other festering vices. racy, Menachem Begin.e "Degrading dregs of Western colonialism," The visit convinced me more than ever Chinese purists called them. Everyone was of the wisdom and strength of Mena­ assigned a place to live, crammed with other chem Begin. MAJORITY LEADER CONTRASTS ·families into already overcrowded quarters. The saga of Menachem Begin began CHINA AND TAIWAN AND DE­ The government took over all commerce when, as a young Polish Jew, he wit­ SCRIBES VALUABLE LESSONS and industry. It was forbidden to own an ne~ed and experienced the horrors of FROM ASIA TRIP automobile, and for a time, a radio. Every­ Nazi persecution. Begin's family, and one dressed alike. The regime tried to make everyone think alike. Outlsde contact was most of his friends were murdered for HON. SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT forbidden. It was though a new wall of no other reason than that they were OP NEW YORK China had been erected. It Jewish. was from this nightmare IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Now, with the new opening to the West that Menachem Begin's dream of a proclaimed by Deng Ziao-ping, there ls a sovereign Jewish State was born. Thursday, September 22, 1983 gradual liberization of domestic policy as The young Menachem Begin led the e Mr. BOEHLERT. Mr. Speaker, well. Members of Congress who visited courageous and daring struggle for a there are many observations one could Shanghai three years ago see some encour­ free and independent Jewish State. aging differences. make about an economic system based Instead of the form1ess blue unlforms ev­ When his dream was realized by the on Communist ideology, but perhaps eryone wore during the Mao tse-Tung years, creation of modem Israel in 1948, one of the most pertinent is the fact there ls now some individuality in dress. Begin continued his devotion for 35 that it simply does not work very well. Most men wear short-sleeved sport shirts years as a member of the freely elect­ At least that has seemed to be the today and dresses among women are as ed Democratic Government of Israel. case in the People's Republic of China. common as pants. 25660 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 Little shops have opened, and sidewalk dents from Taiwan who share their ancient But for most of Americans, Asia remains a vendors spread their wares where two years culture. mystery. In popular lore it ls Shangri La ago they would have been prohibited. While From them they learn the truth. A free and Madame Butterfly and rickshas. It ls the state still owns most retail outlets, lease enterprise society can work, as well for Ori­ the Road to Mandalay where a Burmese girl arrangements now permit the operator to entals as for Americans. sits waiting. It ls kimono-clad Gieshas, or keep a part of the profit after an assigned Freeman thinks it ls a great opportunity the King of Siam. It ls steaming rice paddies quota has been paid to the state. for U.S. interests. "We are training the and water buffaloes. The new incentive approach ls working in entire future elite of this enormous country, These are stereotypes which stunt our no­ agriculture, communes had failed to get an opportunity that doesn't come often with tions of Asia. They are the phantom figures, from the land Its full potential. That meant a nation as important to the world as no doubt, which Malaysian Foreign Minister continuing hunger in that sprawling coun­ China." Ghazali Shafie had in mind when he faced try which must feed a billion mouths, four The whole Chinese politburo has kids U.S. congressmen in Kuala Lumpur. times the U.S. population, on only one-third studying in the United States, according to "Your are the first congressional delega­ the tillable land available to us. Freeman. Obviously, he reasons, Chinese tion to come here in four years," he said. Many communes have been broken into leaders intend their new relations with our "There IS so much I've been saving up to tell little plots doled out by family size. A six­ country to last. you, and I hardly know where to start." member family may have one acre to Itself. It ls also evidence they are admitting to Maybe we must begin with three things. The result ls intense cultivation-gardening, themselves, however guardedly, that com­ Until we comprehend these basic facts, our not farming. munism Just simply hasn't worked. attempts to deal with complex Asian reali­ En route by train to Suzbou, 77 miles, I ties which are products of a convoluted his­ saw scarcely an inch of Idle land. Soll, hand­ CFrom the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Aug. tory may be as awkward as a Sumo wrestler cultivated and Irrigated up to the rail tracks 28, 19831 attempting a minuet. themsleves, has yielded an impressive in­ AsIA OFFERS MYSTERIES 01' VALUE TO The first thing for us to appreciate ls the crease in China's food production. AMERICA growing importance of Asia. Twenty-one na­ Charles Freeman, chief counselor for our tions proud of both their distinctive identi­ embassy, says, "Even the most dedicated ties and their intertwining cultures prob­ communist ideologues are having to admit buys well over half our exports of cotton, play their seductive merchandise. There are at least 10,000 Japanese busi­ beef, citrus fruits, logs and lumber. On this Island of 14,000 square miles, poor ness representatives in the U.S. All speak We depend on East Asia for astronomical in resources, 20 million people enjoying an English. American businesses have no more quantities of raw materials, including tin, elected parliament and boasting an educat­ than 900 agents in Japan. Fewer than 100 timber, plywood, bauxite-and 90 percent of ed work force have achieved for two decades speak Japanese. our natural rubber. "I hope you thought of a steady economic growth rate of almost 10 These figures explain in part why we that when your plane landed smoothly on percent each year. suffer a $21 billion trade deficit with Japan. our runway," Ghazali said Jokingly. In Taipei, most homes have telephones More profoundly, they reflect the low prior­ Five countries with parliamentary govern­ and one in two has access to an automobile. ity we've assigned to our relations with the ments and a combined population close to Young men ride motor scooters, nowhere people of Asia. our own-Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, seen in communist China. In Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Kwan Singapore and the Philippines-have In all the China mainland, Freeman tells Yew ls mystified that American diplomatic me that for 1 billion Chinese there are prob­ intelligence-in spite of warnings given by formed an Association of South East Asian ably no more than two million telephones, himself and others-could not foresee the Nations to defend their own free­ hardly more than in the Dallas-Fort Worth explosion brewing in Iran among the native dom and form a bulwark against communist metropolitan area. Moslem population in time to salvage expansion. Nowhere are the failures of communism things. China alone, if it ever attains a normal more apparent than here in the Orient. Just Of 60 American Embassy personnel in standard of living for its billion people, will as in Korea, where people in the Western­ Tehran in 1978, only six had a minimal com­ be the world's most lucrative market for oriented south enjoy annual incomes rough­ mand of Farsi, the language of most Irani­ consumer goods of every type. Now Deng ly four times those endured in the spartan ans. Xiaoping and pragmatic Chinese leaders are communist north, the people on Taiwan live "You're good with the chopsticks," the po­ struggling to introduce elements of incen­ better by a factor of five or six than their litical chieftain of the Chinese city of tive and free enterprise into China's smoth­ kinsmen in communist China. Suzhou exaggerates politely as I struggle in­ ered economy. Communist regimes, embarrassed by these eptly to grapple with a baked sparrow. In Shanghai, China's richest city, a typi­ startling comparisons, have tried in such "Most Americans won't even try," he adds cal state-owned "apartment" consists of one places as North Korea and East Germ.any to with a wistful smile. room and houses six people. Most have no seal off their borders from traffic to avoid Acting Prime Minister Musa Hitam ls plumbing. The average apartment has 660 the comparisons. Internally, it makes mat­ proud of Malaysia's impressive educational watts of electric energy, hardly enough to ters worse. Progress languishes in air-tight advances. "Most Malaysian children can operate a radio, a TV set or a hair dryer. Per compartments. name the states and principal cities of capita income in China's wealthiest city Chinese leaders, after three decades of America," he says. "They know about your comes to $900 a year. self-imposed Isolation, are trying to break form of government and even the principal But trade between our two countries ls out of that intellectual cocoon. The thaw in products you produce." As he talked I won­ growing. There ls a determined drive to relations with the West can be a good thing dered how many American students could double the nation's energy supplies. Off. for China, and for the rest of us as well. name the capital of Malaysia or even locate shore drilling activities could reach $20 bll· In Malaysia, Foreign Minister Ghazali the country on a map. lion in the next decade. Texas industry Shafie, a fierce anti-communist, told us we Since 1950, we have spent 112,000 Ameri­ could benefit immensely. American engi­ are doing the right thing in opening more can lives in two Asian wars. But we've in­ neering and construction firms could par­ avenues of understanding with mainland vested too little time and effort to under­ ticipate in China's drive to extend its tele­ China. stand the region's potential, its peril and its phone system and expand its road network. "A desperate and poor China ls dangerous promise. Asia ls, in short, what Marco Polo insisted to the future of Asia," he said. "A China Asia ls many things. Depending on how it was to his incredulous 14-century listen­ concentrating upon its economic develop­ you define it, it ls home to more than half ers-a treasure house of unrealized opportu­ ment and better relations instead of mili­ the world's people. Every fourth infant born nity. tary conquests ls much safer for all of us." on earth ls Chinese. The second thing we need to learn from There are 12,000 Chinese from the main­ Asia rapidly ls becoming this country's Asia ls the use and importance of patience. land studying in U.S. schools this year. most important market. Already we buy and Not resignation, not complacent acceptance These come in contact with the 20,000 stu- sell more than we do in Europe. of the inevitable. We need to learn persever- September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25661 ence, persistence, how to set a long-term vinced, to the survival of a civil society. SEPTEMBER 5, 1983. goal and pursue it. Such practices have been publicly criticized, We speak for all the Korean Community "Americans always want everything in a to the chagrin of our Asian allies, by, offi­ in Philadelphia, in protesting the brutal and hurry,'' mused Madame Sun-Yun-Hsuan, cial American human rights experts. barbaric action of the Soviet Union. wife of Taiwan's premier. "You have instant "You need to remember," one Asian Jurist In shooting down the civilian airliner KAL coffee and instant news analysis. Your told me, "that even Abraham Lincoln abol­ Flgt. 007 the Soviet Union shows us yet an­ microwave ovens cook instantly. It ls only ished habeas corpus when the life of your other example of their inhumanity. natural that you'd want instant solutions. to country was threatened." Through this savage and atrocious act the world problems." Too often Americans abroad engage in Soviet Union again demonstrates their in­ The unspoken sequel is that there is no social incest, dealing with only the upper such thing. Paticularly in Asia. A Chinese crust of local society. We avoid the people sincerity to the Free World. proverb, "Patience is _power," probably who have no shoes. We must be at greater Nothing the Soviet Union does now can speaks for the Oriental mind. pains to know them, for people change gov­ save the lives of the 269 innocent civilian Leaders throughout Asia, I discovered, are ernments more often than governments passengers on board flight 007. Nothing the eager for our friendship, but reluctant to change people. Soviet Union does now could make amends depend on our staying power in a protracted We need training programs for all Ameri­ for the atrocity perpetrated against those common effort. cans, military and civilian, who go to live 269 men, women, and children. Nothing the "Don't try to change the world overnight, and work in foreign countries. They should Soviet Union does now can adequately com­ nor think you can re-make others in your be given insight into the land's religious be­ pensate the family members of the 269 exact image,'' advised Singapore's Lee Kwan liefs, its governmental system, its dominat­ people lost forever. We can only pray that a Yew. "Remember you governed the Philip­ ing folk habits and cultural taboos. tragedy like this never occurs in the future. pines for 50 years. Yet your influence there In Islamic nations, with strong traditions We, the Korean Community of Phlla., is an thin as a coat of varnish." against liquor, Americans drinking in public demand that the Soviet Union take full re­ While proud that our democracy has breed hostility. An American woman shop­ sponsibility for their action. lasted 200 years, we need to reflect that in ping in a tennis dress innocently flaunts her We demand full compensation for the China one dynasty alone survived four disregard for the traditions of some Asian families of those lost. times that long. In the shadow of a towering countries. Fifteen years ago, in Iran, I was with a We demand guarantees from the Soviet pagoda in Suzhou, you can look across the Union that this will never happen again.• Grand Canal, realize that it's the world's group of Americans on a guided tour of the longest inland waterway and was built 1,000 majestic blue Mosque of Isfahan. This was a years before Columbus set sail. Suzhou place of worship. Here and there Iranians itself was founded 500 years before Christ. knelt silently on their prayer rugs, Obliv­ AN INSOLENT ATTEMPT TO SEN­ Patience. iously, our guide strode through the sanctu­ SATIONALLY PROMOTE THE The ASEAN approach to freeing Cambo­ ary, pointing to historic art objects, describ­ ACCEPTANCE OF A LASCIVIOUS dia from Vietnamese occupation relies on ing the place to the group as though it were PUBLICATION IS REJECTED patience. It is one of slow, steady pressures a tourist attraction. on the invading force to make the military One Moslem. his face and arms out­ occupation more costly than the Vietnam­ stretched before him in the prone position HON. JOSEPH D. EARLY ese economy can afford of prayer, suddenly rose to a sitting posi­ The emergence of Singapore itself from a tion. His devotions interrupted, he turned OF MASSACHUSET.rS cobweb of poisonous ethnic hostilities to a his head and looked. Just for a second, I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES united people with a common language is a could see in his eyes the disgust he felt in lesson in patience. our insensitivity. Thursday, September 22, 1983 With the coming of independence in 1965, What, then, is good Asian policy? Recog­ e Mr. EARLY. Mr. Speaker, I am large segments of the ethnically diverse nize that region's importance. Accept with greatly troubled and deeply distressed population spoke Chinese, Malay and Tamil. patience the limits of our infallibility. Re­ Each group wanted its language as the offi­ spect the values and sensitivities of those that my name, along with the names cial tongue. unlike ourselves. Perhaps, after all, it is no of all Members of Congress and other Achieving by indirection what he could more nor less than the Golden Rule.e prominent public officials, has been not have done by decree, Prime Minister inexplicably added to the mailing list Lee created one system of schools to teach KOREAN AIR LINES FLIGHT 007 of a magazine that may, at its very Chinese and English, another to teach best, be described as grossly offensive. Malay and English, and yet a third to teach Tamil and English. Today Lee's dream is a HON. THOMAS M. FOGLIEIT A This, of course, has been done without reality: English is the de facto official lan­ OF PENNSYLVANIA my knowledge or permission and I guage. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have requested that the publisher of Our country must accept that some things this contemptible and disgraceful mag- - can't be done overnight. We must learn to Thursday, September 22, 1983 azine permanently remove my name set long-term goals and pursue them, in e Mr. FOGLIETTA. Mr. Speaker, spite of changing administrations and spo­ from its mailing list. radic campaign rhetoric. there was no more outrage and disgust Mr. Speaker, I am greatly offended The third and final lesson is one of which over the Soviet Union's shooting down as an individual and am left with a Americans should not have to be reminded, of Korean Air Lines flight 007 than in profound sense of sorrow, regret, and for it is as indispensable to our society as Philadelphia's Korean Community. remorse that the U.S. Congress as a water to a river. It is respect for diversity. I have received a letter signed by Mr. whole should be subjected to such piti­ Americans too easily assume that every­ Mahn Suh Park, publisher of the one wants to be like us. Asian leaders whom ful attempts to garner publicity. This Korea Guardian and chairman of the monumental example of the depths of we met in five very different countries this board of directors of the Korean­ month echoed the plea that we be less eager American Friendship Society, Mr. Oh immorality to which certain individ­ to remake them into carbon copies of our­ uals would have this Nation reach is selves. While wanting very much to be our Young Lee, president of the Korean­ American Friendship Society, Mr. distasteful, despicable, and deplorable. friends, they'd like us to respect their I join with my colleagues in Congress values. Chang Chae Im, president of the Leaders in three countries expressed Korean Association of Greater Phila­ to express our condemnation of this dismay at our efforts to impose upon them delphia, and Mr. Kyu Chong Cho, act and fervently hope that it will not our highly refined formulas of civil rights president of the Korean Business­ be repeated in the future.e and Judicial restraint. In Signapore it is a men's Association of Philadelphia, viv­ prison offense to try to tum one ethnic idly outlining the Philadelphia group against another. In Malaysia and else­ where, being caught with commercial quan­ Korean Community's reaction of the tities of illegal drugs invokes a mandatory flight 007 tragedy. death sentence. Mr. Speaker, I think it is most ap­ Harsh? Yes. But strictly legal. And abso­ propriate to insert this letter into the lutely necessary, these countries are con- CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. 25662 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF have made numerous contributions to families. The travel from the hospital ACHIEVEMENT the oral health of Maryland and of to the skilled nursing facility is often this country. This centennial meeting traumatic for the patient, particularly HON. STENY H. HOYER emphasizes the important historical the elderly. Furthermore, the families OFKARYLAND contributions made by Maryland den­ must either find accommodations in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tists. But it also provides a forum for the area or travel long distances in Thursday, September 22, 1983 current achievements and the projec­ order to be close by. tions for future success. A number of The lack of skilled nursing beds con­ •Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, more nationally recognized leaders in the tributes to higher medical bills be­ than 4,500 people will gather in Balti­ dental profession will report on the cause often the patient is reluctant to more today for a 4-day meeting mark­ technological advances and research make the shift to a skilled nursing bed ing the lOOth anniversary of the being done within the State. far away, and therefore may choose to founding of the Maryland State The Maryland State Dental Associa­ pay the higher cost of hospital care Dental Association. This is an impor­ tion is certainly to be commended for out of their own pocket. Or, more com­ tant event in Maryland and national providing the framework for these monly, the patient may not be able to history, for its marks the first at­ achievements. It was organized and find a skilled bed to move to and tempts by the leaders of the dental chartered in 1883 by Ferdinand J. S. therefore is forced to stay in the hos­ profession in 1883 to weed out the Gorgas, and through its leadership pital until a bed can be found. charlatans, the barbers who offered has insured the safety and health of The families of patients confronted "tooth extraction," as a sideline to a generations of Marylanders. Mr. shave and a haircut, and the quacks, with this problem face a difficult Speaker, I commend the Maryland choice. They must decide whether to while lacking training and experience, State Dental Association and offer my viewed the dental profession as a lu­ move the patient home and risk the best wishes on their centennial cele­ possibility that they will not receive crative calling and so practiced on in­ bration.e nocent patients. the level of care they need, or see Maryland has long been in the fore­ loved ones moved far away. The last front of American dentistry. BETTER HEALTH CARE ACCESS possibility is to pay for the patient to The first native-born educated FOR THE RURAL ELDERLY stay in the hospital, thereby creating a American dentist of record was a major financial hardship on the pa­ Marylander, Benjamin Fendall, born tient and family. HON. TOM HARKIN This problem was first brought to in Charles County in 1753. OF IOWA The first license to practice dentist­ my attention by the families of four ry was issued to Horace H. Hayden of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES patients in Cass County in my district. Baltimore, architect of the American Thursday, September 22, 1983 These patients were being required to system of dental education. He was li­ • Mr. HARKIN. Mr. Speaker, individ­ transfer to skilled care beds. At the censed by the Medical and Chirurgical uals living in rural areas, particularly time the Cass County Hospital was Faculty of the State of Maryland in the elderly, face many challenges as only half full and was willing to care 1810. they attempt to cope with rising for the patients. But Federal regula­ The first lectures in dentistry, on health care costs and decreasing avail­ tions prohibited them from using the the physiology and pathology of teeth, ability of health care services in their same hospital bed for skilled nursing were delivered to students of medicine local communities. I am introducing care. One of the patients, a man termi­ by Dr. Horace H. Hayden, in Davidge legislation today which will help ad­ nally ill with brain cancer, had to Hall, University of Maryland at Balti­ dress these problems by changing Fed­ travel over 50 miles to find a skilled more, in 1819. eral regulations to allow small rural nursing bed. Another patient facing The first dental college in the world hospitals to provide long term skilled this move was instead transferred to a was established in Maryland. It was nursing care-care which is currently nearby nursing home where she died called the Baltimore College of Dental difficult to obtain in rural areas. the next day. The other two patients Surgery. Hayden was its first presi­ In an effort to keep health care returned to their homes instead of dent, Chapin H. Harris its first dean. costs down we have seen an increasing traveling such a long distance, but It was chartered in 1840. emphasis on reviewing the records of their conditions worsened and within 2 The first national association of den­ patients to insure that they are receiv­ weeks they were readmitted to the tists, the American Society of Dental ing the level of care that they need. hospital. Surgeons, was organized by Hayden in This practice is known as utilization When Congress passed the Omnibus Baltimore. Hayden served as its first review. It helps keep health care costs Reconciliation Act of 1980, it included president from 1840 to 1844 . . down by making sure that a patient a provision for rural hospitals which The first dental graduate was a Bal­ who has recuperated sufficiently does allowed them to use the same beds for timorean. Robert Arthur received the not remain in the hospital. If contin­ either acute or skilled care, depending D.D.S. degree from the Baltimore Col­ ued recuperative care is needed, the upon need. This was referred to as the lege of Dental Surgery in 1841. He patient must go to a facility that will "swing bed" provision. The swing bed later went on to become the dean of provide the skilled nursing care neces­ concept is excellent, with one major the Pennsylvania College of Dental sary for long term recovery. This exception. Current regulations allow Surgery in 1856. review process helps save money since only small rural hospitals with less The first dental journal, called the hospital care is far more expensive than 50 beds to participate. Because of American Journal of Dental Science than skilled nursing care. this 50 bed limit only a few hospitals was founded in 1839. The journal was Because of the increased emphasis can participate. This ceiling was select­ edited and published in Baltimore by on utilization review. the demand for ed somewhat arbitrarily at the time, Chapin Harris until his death in 1860. skilled nursing beds has greatly in­ and it has become clear that it is just And finally, the Maryland Bridge, creased. However, many patients are too low. The result of this low ceiling which was a vastly improved tech­ having trouble finding placement in is that few hospitals can participate in nique for the restoration of lost or skilled nursing facilities-particularly the program, and therefore, this is the damaged teeth, was developed and re­ in rural areas where few exist. There­ major reason why there are few skilled fined at the University of Maryland's fore, many patients are having to nursing beds in rural areas. Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. travel long distances to find the appro­ The only other way a hospital with As you can see, Maryland dentists, priate level of care. This is taking its more than 50 beds can provide skilled from the earliest times to the present, toll on both the patients and their nursing care is to designate some of September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25663 their beds speclflcally for this purpose, coping with the deficit-as long as joke that is not funny. Once again, and use them for nothing else. Be­ that burden is applied fairly and Mr. Watt has demonstrated that his cause of this lack of flexibility and the across the board. insensitivity and disrespect is not lim­ current medicare reimbursement rate, Several of my freshman colleagues ited to the Nation's natural resources, most hospitals cannot afford to desig­ and I are seriously concerned that but extends to his critics and his own nate some of their beds as solely with the diversions of Lebanon and colleagues alike. For Mr. Watt, intoler­ skilled nursing beds. However, if they Central America, no meaningful action ance and profound bigotry has no could participate in the swing bed pro­ on the deficits will occur in this ses­ bounds. gram, they could provide skilled nurs­ sion of the Congress. These interna­ Yesterday the Secretary insulted the ing care. tional crises demand our attention, of respected members of his recently ap­ The legislation which I am introduc­ course, but our domestic economic pointed Coal Commission by stating ing today would raise the celling for crisis is just as urgent. that its members included "a woman, rural hospitals from 50 to 125. This Two positive approaches are avail­ a black, two Jews, and a cripple." With would allow more hospitals to partici­ able. I believe they will work well to­ such a reckless statement, Mr. Watt pate in the swing bed program, there­ gether. has insulted and embarrassed all by, helping to provide more skilled First, I believe we should consider an Americans. nursing beds at the local level where across-the-board cut in allocations for This is the same Secretary that held they are needed the most. discretionary programs, both defense a private Christmas party in the Rural hospitals provide a tremen­ and nondefense-the so-called 2-per­ middle of Arlington National Ceme­ dous service to their communities. cent solution-coupled with the enact­ tery. It is he who has questioned the Their proximity to health care needs ment of the revenue proposals cur­ patriotism of fishermen who want makes their continued service a priori­ rently being considered by the Ways their fishing grounds to remain unpol­ ty. We all know of the problems that and Means Committee. I am con­ luted. Mr. Watt has described Ameri­ rural hospitals face. Many have an venced that my constituents will can Indians as "failed Socialists." And excess capacity of beds, and because of accept such a program if applied he has divided people into two groups the current 50 bed ceiling for the across the board. Such a cut would which he labeled "liberals and Ameri­ swing bed program, these hospitals yield significant deficit reductions and cans." cannot provide this badly needed serv­ would result in a deficit smaller than With Secretary Watt in the Cabinet, ice by utilizing their empty beds for under the President's budget. it is no wonder that President Reagan skilled nursing care. Clearly, it is Those deficits reductions will pro­ has a minority gap, a gender gap, an urgent that Federal regulations be vide a sound point form which to environmental gap, and a credibility changed. begin a pay-as-you-go system such as gap. Surely the time has come to After discussing this problem with the one proposed by our colleague create the Watt gap by arranging a the health care community in my from California, GEORGE MILLER. temporary vacancy in the Office of home State of Iowa we are convinced Pay-as-you-go is based upon the fun­ the Secretary of the Interior to be that this small change will have many damental principle that when the filled by someone who is responsible benefits, and it has their wholehearted Congress creates new programs or ex­ and effective. support. Rural Iowans, particularly pands existing ones, the final test is While the attention today is focused the elderly, rely on rural hospitals to whether we have the courage to go to on Secretary Watt's most recent ill­ provide needed health care services. the American people and to ask them considered remarks, I want to bring to By raising the ceiling for eligibility for to pay the cost of these programs up the attention of my colleagues an­ the swing bed program for small rural front. Pay-as-you-go tells a President other statement Mr. Watt recently hospitals from 50 to 125 beds, we can or a Member of Congress that when made which contained similar exam­ help insure that patients are better he proposes a new program, whether it ples of intolerance and insensitivity. served closer to home. At the same is to fight the war on poverty or an ex­ On August 13, 1983, while the Con­ time, costs will be reduced by provid­ pansion in defense spending, he must gress was in recess, Secretary Watt ing cost efficient skilled nursing care. be willing to pay for the policy up made a speech to the General Council Finally, rural hospitals will be aided in front. of the Assemblies of God in Anaheim, their continuing effort to provide This is a new approach. In the past Calif. Although some of the speech access to the type of quality health we have never had to set priorities be­ was reported in various media stories, care that local residents have come to cause we were able to fund all of our many Members were out of Washing­ expect, and indeed deserve.e priorities by spending the money, and ton in their districts and may have passing the bill along to our children. missed reading about this interesting What we are presently experiencing is oratory. Therefore, I am taking this PUBLIC DEMANDS WE PUT OUR a legacy of a failed economic policy opportunity to reprint the Secretary's ECONOMIC HOUSE IN ORDER written by both liberal and conserva­ speech in its entirety. tive spending. HON. BUDDY MacKAY The speech follows: I support this program as the frame­ " ••• IN A TOWN NEARBY" OF FLORIDA work for controlling spending and con­ Thank you for the prayer support you IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES trolling the deficit. Pay-as-you-go is a have given to my wife and me. We feel that Thursday, September 22, 1983 budget process that all Americans can support and are grateful for it. The Presi­ understand. Combined with the 2-per­ dent frequently requests the people of • Mr. MAcKAY. Mr. Speaker, during cent solution, it will go a long way America to pray for the Nation's leaders be­ the August district work period I held toward restoring our economy·• cause he, too, bears witness to the sustain­ town hall meetings in 20 cities and ing power that comes when the people of towns across my district in north cen­ God pray. Thank you. tral Florida. In virtually every one of IN A TOWN NEARBY As Secretary of the Interior, I am respon­ those meetings, the message was the sible for the stewardship over one-third of America's land mass-750 million acres. The same-the need to get our economic HON.EDWARDJ.MARKEY decisions we make are important for us now house in order was the top priority­ OF MASSACHUSETI'S and for the generations yet to come. As we and that means reducing the stagger­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES prepare for the 21st ·century and beyond, ing $200 billion deficits. we are deeply concerned about the environ­ My constituents, and I have a very Thursday, September 22, 1983 ment and the management of our natural high percentage of retirees, indicated e Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, once resources. We have made major changes in a willingness to share the burden of again Secretary James Watt has told a the way our natural resources are managed 25664 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 As a result, I am able to report that all the Elie Wiesel, Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust to be closed to the realities of torture, Federal lands are in better condition and Memorial Council, and also a. survivor. To murder, and abuse of the 1940's. The sur­ better managed than they were when we in­ explain the impact, my wife and I shared prise of the Hitler era was not that one man herited responsibillty for them almost three with him this story told by a visitor to an could be so evil, but that so many failed to years ago. underground church behind the Iron Cur­ do good. The natonal parks are now being re­ tain. How could the German people live with stored-the national wildlife refuges are A Pastor was returning to his church after all the evidence that would point to the being improved and the coastal barriers, years of torture and deprivation in a Com­ massacre of 6 million Jews? You wonder­ wetlands, forests, deserts and mountains are munist prison. When he entered the back of how could it happen? How could people live now under good stewardship. the room, the singing stopped. None would in the town nearby smelling the stench and As important as these responsibillties are, have questioned the silence, for his physical not do something about it? How could they there is yet a more basic battle, a more im­ appearance was appalling-pitiful. With see the thousands of peoples hauled by portant responsibillty in which I am in­ barely the strength to maneuver to the trains or marching through their towns volved. The real struggle, the real fight, is front, the Pastor turned to face the crowd; never to return and not do something about over the form of government under which the silence deepened. No one moved. In suf­ it? How coud they live next door to people we will live and the form of government we fering sentences, he greeted his flock and who worked in those installations of death will pass on to those of the 21st Century. shared how Christ had strengthened him, without doing something about it? Will it be a government that recognizes the had enabled -him to endure. He thanked And yet today, here in America, we see dignity of the individual? Or will it be a gov­ them for their prayers. millions of Americans doing nothing about ernment that elevates the institutions of a Exhausted, the Pastor concluded and forces mounting in this land to deny us our centralized authority above the rights of in­ painfully shuffled his way to the exit. The life, our hopes, and our purpose. What is dividual persons? continued silence was embarrassing to the mankind without political liberty and spirit­ As we look through the pages of history, visitor. There had been no welcome. No ual freedom? we will see that men and women have been sound. No applause. Yet all their faces were While it's easy to get indignant about the engaged in a struggle that comes from their soaked with tears. At the appropriate time, inhumane, the diabolical action of mtler, hearts. That struggle is a yearning for the the visitor asked why the congregation had we in America today are denying life to one right to live and associate and work as we not responded or even acknowledged the and a half million aborted babies each year. want-to be free to govern ourselves and to presence of the Pastor. With tears continu­ Oh, there are a few people who protest-a protect our neighbors. It is a yearning that ing to flow, the hushed answer came, " ... few people who try to change the law, a few flows from the heart like a stream of life-a what does one say in the presence of some­ people who march and write letters-but stream of life crying out for political liberty. one who has suffered so much?" where is the voice of the Christian church? Out of the same pages of history, we see Dr. Wiesel nodded his understanding. Where is the Jewish community? What are that it is excessive government that seeks to After the ceremony and the luncheon, Dr. the silent people doing while this destruc­ limit and destroy our political liberty­ Wiesel escorted us to the elevator. He was tion of human life is carried out? It is whether it is government by a dictator, a expressing his gratitude for the role the De­ murder-let's call it murder. monarch, a warloard, a czar or the Gestapo. partment of the Interior was playing in pro­ Where is the social conscience of America? Those same history books also tell us of viding a living memorial to the Holocaust. It Where are the people who cherish and hold another cry that comes from the heart-a seemed so little to do. In parting, I hesitated life so dear? In a historical perspective, we cry that calls for the freedom to worship a moment longer as we shook hands and I are the ones now living in the towns nearby God. the freedom to assemble with those of admitted to Dr. Wiesel that I felt the just as those Germans were in the late like precious faith-the freedom to commit impact of his survival deeply. Entering the 1930's and the early 1940's. We are blaming our lives to a doctrine and a belief in the elevator, I heard my wife say to him, "In legislators, the Supreme Court, the hospi­ one true God. This call for spiritual freedom the presence of one who has suffered so tals. But it is we who have allowed the self­ also flows from the heart, like a stream of much, what can anyone say?" I turned to ishness of America to demand the destruc­ life. see the tears in my wife's voice meet those tion of life for the convenience of the Again. it is excessive government that in his eyes. moment. seeks to oppress spiritual freedom, just as it I was but a child when the atrocities of There are other issues in America where oppresses political liberty. mtler raged through Europe. The meeting we see millions of silent people living in the These two streams of life-one calling for with Dr. Wiesel and the purpose of the U.S. towns nearby-not getting involved, not political liberty and one calling for spiritual Holocaust Memorial Council captured my being committed, not standing for what is freedom-have flowed through the ages. interest. I started reading and thinking and right. And, yet, as those issues continue The history books are replete with the sto­ reflecting on what was going on today in their march, there is the erosion of our po­ ries of successes and failures, but there is America and, in fact, the free world. litical liberty and spiritual freedom. one glorious moment where these two The story of the Holocaust is frightening. We should talk about schools and educa­ streams have come together in the destiny While is was historically and socially tion. We all believe in education. It is criti­ that God provided. They have come togeth­ unique, the forces that created the Holo­ cal to America. And, yet, the monopolistic er to form a mighty river called America. caust still exist. Other minority groups public school systems have deteriorated And, yet, here in America the same enemies could be the subject of an attack on their year after year. Too many of our children of political liberty and spiritual freedom spiritual freedom and political liberty. are almost illiterate-boys and girls are continue to use government in an effort to The story does not start with the criminal graduating from high schools when they snuff out the flow of life from the hearts of torture, abuse, and destruction of a people. can't read sufficiently well to fill out an ap­ men and women. But, first with an attack on the moral and plicaton for a job. To many children have That is our battle today. It is a battle to spiritual values of life. For religious rights low moral values-school boards do not enhance political liberty and spiritual free­ are the basis for human rights. allow the teaching of right from wrong. We dom. It is a battle that will continue. It is a The German people were conditioned to have allowed our classrooms to be taken battle that will require us to be vigilant at hate and be intolerant of the Jewish people over in some instances by secular humanists all times. Freedom is not free. before the methodic killing and destruction who believe that man and not God is at the One of the responsibillties I have as Secre­ of human life began. Spiritual freedom and center of all things and who do not share tary of the Interior is the privilege of caring political liberty were not honored or pro­ the fundamental commitments of America for the Nation's memorials and monuments. tected. There was apathy toward evil and to assure political liberty and spiritual free­ In that capacity, I have become involved in evil prevailed. dom. the development of a United States Holo­ "Good people" lived in the towns nearby, What do most Americans do? Most Ameri­ caust Living Memorial in Washington, D.C. but they did not get involved to stop Ausch­ cans live in the town nearby and are too In December 1982, I was asked to swear in witz. They did not concern themselves with busy to be concerned with those political new members to the U.S. Holocaust Memo­ Dachau or any of the other places of human matters. We don't serve on the schoolboard, rial Council. destruction. nor do we vote in the schoolboard elections. In preparing for the ceremony, I read the The apathy and noninvolvement of the In too many instances, we simply surrender briefing books which alerted me to the fact "good people"-the church people-in the the right to run the schools to those activ­ that many of those to be present at the Nazi government activities of the 1930's ists who would seek to implement philoso­ luncheon were survivors of the Nazi death made it easy not to smell the burning phies and programs that bring about the de­ camps. But nothing prepared me to meet stench of human flesh in the 1940's. terioration of our public school systems. one who has survived the atrocity of man Ignoring the educational process of dis­ Thus, our public schools become govern­ against man. I struggled with my emotions. crimination in the 1930's allowed the minds ment schools weakening Political liberty and Words failed me, as I shook hands with Dr. of the "good people"-the church people- spiritual freedom. September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25665 In the early days of the Republic, public It is time for renewal. It is time for recom­ to protect a pluralistic society. It was never schools were to be encouraged in America mitment. When I was a young boy, the meant to exclude those who follow God. because we believed that all people were en­ common teaching was that, to be socially ac­ That constitutional principle has been pros­ titled to an education. The states carried ceptable, you didn't speak about religion or tituted severely by the enemies of spiritual out the responsibillties of seeing that all politics. That is wrong on both counts. Un­ freedom in an effort to curtail the expres­ Americans had an opportunity for an educa­ fortunately, that is still the way many in sion of religious freedom. We must fight tion. And in that framework, we taught the America are taught. As a consequence, we and resist in every possible way those forces values of America-we taught patriotism, we have a hurting Nation. which seek to limit our spiritual freedom. encouraged religious commitment. We start­ Let us come out of our silence. Let us be My mind shifts back to January of this ed the day in many of our schools with the bold to stand. Let us dare to speak. We need year, when my wife and I stood hand in pledge of allegiance to the fiag and a prayer to speak about the Judeo-Christian commit­ hand in the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust to God. ment of this country. We need to talk about Memorial Center in Los Angeles. We studied And yet today, through actions of state our spiritual freedom and our political liber­ the pictures on the walls of that memorial­ legislatures, the United States Supreme ty. We need to get involved. pictures that portrayed the unfolding of the Court, and the Congress of the United It is wrong for the Jews and the Chris­ history of the hatred and discrimtnation States, the right of the children to have or­ tians of America to stay out of political that swept across Europe in the 1930's lead­ ganized voluntary prayer is denied. The fun­ issues. We must get involved if we are to ing to the death and destruction of eleven damental values of religious teachings are fight for the fundamental freedoms, the million human beings-six million of them denied. The teaching of patriotism that is fundamental principles and the fnndamen­ Jews. On one of the walls of the memorial is critical to the survival of a national spirit tal commitments to faith. We must not a picture of a survivor of a German death and the continuation of a strong country is abandon those principles which are based camp pointing with shame at pictures of the d1min1shing. And what do the parents of the upon absolutes. There are absolutes in this world political and religious leaders fo the children do? We live in a town nearby. We world. And, to deny it is to deny God. With­ 1930's and 1940's. don't recognize the stench or the marching out God, this Nation cannot and will not Below the picture of the survivor are the of the enemy. survive, nor does it deserve to. words which have been seared in my mind Today, America is confronted with yet an­ We must see to it that our people are forever: other controversy that threatens our very active in community affairs. We can encour­ "Here is to the world that did not care. existence-the nuclear freeze movement. age their involvement by example, from the Those that had eyes but would not see; The free people of the world do have an pulpit, with special committees, through those that had ears but would not hear; enemy-Communism. Many argue that the education, with action groups or by other those that had mouths but would not Communists don't seek to dominate and means. But we must be successful in involv­ control the world-they argue that the speak." ing moral people in politics and government As I read those words, I renewed my life's Communist leaders want peace and can be activities. To live in America means every commitment to the battle for spiritual free­ reasoned with. adult should be responsible for the course of dom and political liberty. The facts are to the contrary. The atheis­ our Nation. Let it never be said of us that we would tic forces of Communism proclaim that they We must see that the faithful are involved not see, or would not hear or would not will dominate and rule the world. Their re­ in the school system. We must see that the lentless march of oppression hammers out speak. We must courageously defend those faithful are involved in private welfare and principles that are America. No price is too their determination. charity programs of this Nation. We must The spokesmen of the present nuclear great. see to it that the faithful must be active in Thankyou.e freeze movement have failed to review his­ political activities-not as a church or syna­ tory. In 1939, there was only one Commu­ nist country-Russia-accounting for about gogue, but as individuals who are aware of 7 percent of the earth's population. After their spiritual freedom and their political NO SELECTIVE EMBARGOES the great victory in World War II, the Iron liberty. Curtain fell. Millions of people lost their If the Christians and Jews are not also freedom and liberty to a government of op­ active in politics, they will lose that which is HON. BILL EMERSON pression. The hammering march took Alba­ critically important to America. My chal­ nia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, lenge to the Cristians and Jews is to get in­ OF MISSOURI Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Hungary, volved-to be involved in politics-to make IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES East Germany and Mainland China. All lost the decisions that count-and to do what­ to the Communist forces in the late 1940's. ever is necessary to see to it that there is a Thursday, September 22, 1983 Then came the loss of Tibet in 1951, North balanced perspective as we seek to champi­ e Mr. EMERSON. Mr. Speaker, I am Vietnam in 1954, CUba in 1960, Cambodia, on and defend those forces that would guar­ .antee us our liberty and our freedom. pleased today to offer a concurrent Laos, and South Vietnem in 1975, and Af­ resolution stating it is the sense of the ghanistan and Nicaragua in 1979. Add Mo­ I am not indicating that there will, or zambique, Angola, South Yemen, and Ethio­ should, be a monolithic voice. The strength Congress that agricultural products pia to the list. As a result, the Communist of America is the pluralistic society that should not be singled out to be embar­ governments now control more than a third allows the several divisions in the Protes­ goed by the United States. I have of the world's population. tant Church, the Catholic Church and the found this necessary due to the recent In spite of these historical facts, respected Jewish community. We must even tolerate appearance of legislation that would, spokesmen call for a nuclear freeze that those who stand against all of the fnnda­ once again, place the entire economic would give Communist forces throughout mental principles. The same is true in the political world. burden of U.S. foreign policy decisions the world a clear advantage. on our farmers. It is important that those of us who are Not every Christian will be committed to evangelical and fundamental in our faith the same political resolution. But every Past selective embargoes have take a position on this moral issue and not Christian should be committed to a political proven to be ineffective in the sense surrender the political debate to the liberal resolution. In our democracy, the pluralistic that they cause as many, probably spokesmen of the religious communities. society must be championed and protected. more, hardships to ourselves as they I do not intend to argue the merits. The The worst option available to America is do to the country being embargoed. In proper conclusion, as seen from my perspec­ non-involvement by the spiritually inclined. addition, the 1980 embargo did not tive, is very clear. We must champion For all legislation is based on moral values make the Soviet Union any less bellig­ peace-and peace only comes with strength. and moral values should be weighed by the We must never allow this great stronghold fundamental teachings of the religious per­ erent anywhere in the world, especial­ of spiritual freedom to agree to a freeze of spective. ly Poland and Afghanistan. its milltary capabillties at a level of inferior­ To pretend that you may not mix reli­ By selling agricultural products to ity. gious and political activities is an hypocrisy the Soviets we are, indeed, enhancing In the last 50 years, the role of the gov­ that can no longer be afforded in this coun­ our own defense capabilities, because ernment in our private lives has escalated in try. they are receiving perishable commod­ unprecedented dimensions. As the Govern­ The constitutional provisions were set up ities and we are receiving hard curren­ ment itself grows stronger, the citizen's par­ so that the state could not dictate the exist­ ticipation in that Government grows ence of a national church. Its purpose was cy from the Soviet economy that weaker. With less involvement and a more to protect spiritual freedom and not put the could, and probably would, otherwise dominating government, the threats to lib­ force of government behind any one expres­ be used to further strengthen their erty and freedom are much greater. sion of religious activity. The objective was war-making capabilities. 25666 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 Mr. Speaker, in a truly bipartisan One member from a diving company; did not-and by Garth/Penn Schoen- nature, over 30 of my colleagues have One member from a company offer­ 74 percent to 20 percent. Editorials by joined with me to offer this resolution. ing petroleum-related helicopter serv­ both Business Week and Automotive We would certainly welcome any other ices; News have supported the concept of Members who would like to join with One member from organized labor; local-content legislation for the U.S. us as cosponsors of this resolution.• One member from an environmental auto industry. Ichiro Shioji, president organization; and of the Japanese Auto Workers, has ad­ INTRODUCTION OF H.R. 3970, A Two members from the general vocated for several years that Japa­ BILL TO ESTABLISH A NATION­ public. nese auto companies make significant AL OFFSHORE OPERATORS This bill requires the Coast Guard to investments in countries where they SAFETY ADVISORY COMMIT­ meet with the Committee at least once have large markets, notably the TEE a year and to consult with the Com­ United States. mittee before taking any significant Media attention focused upon in­ HON. WALTER B. JONES actions affecting the safety of oper­ creased auto sales and profits has led ations associated with offshore oil de­ many to assume that employment in or NORTH CAROLINA velopment. the industry is increasing significantly. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The only Federal expenditures re­ But this is not correct. Increased im­ Thursday, September 22, 1983 quired by this legislation will be that ports threaten to continue to aggra­ • Mr. JONES of North Carolina. Mr. needed for travel of Committee mem­ vate already high unemployment Speaker, I am today introducing, along bers and for clerical expenses. rates. Late last year the industry had with Mr. FoRSYTHE, Mr. BREAUX, Mr. The Coast Guard has worked well only 506,000 production workers, as YOUNG of Alaska, and Mr. STUDDS, a with advisory committees in other domestic vehicle sales plunged below 8 bill to establish a National Offshore areas subject to its regulatory author­ million. Between 1978 and 1982, auto Operators Safety Advisory Committee ity. The establishment of the advisory sales dropped 39 percent and direct to advise the Coast Guard on issues body recommended in this bill will auto production jobs skidded 276,000, concerning safety in offshore oil and cost the Coast Guard very little and for a decline of 35 percent. gas exploration and production activi­ will give that agency an opportunity This year's sales recovery has re­ ties. This bill is identical to a measure to acquire on a regular basis the infor­ stored only a quarter of the 1978-82 introduced in the 97th Congress by mation it needs to carry out its legal Job loss. Sales in the first 8 months of Mr. BREAUX . First, the Coast Guard, in con­ primarily to a weak economy-in earli­ junction with the Department of the RICHARD A. GEPHARDT er years, domestics' sales were also Interior, is given a broad mandate to HON. hurt by the failure of the U.S. compa­ examine the safety regulations and OF MISSOURI nies to anticipate the rapid change in technology available in the field of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the auto market toward vehicles with offshore energy development. Second, Thursday, September 22, 1983 the Coast Guard must require the use higher gas milage. Domestic auto sales of the safest practicable technology in· e Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I be­ would now be running 1 million units the development of these energy re­ lieve this legislation is needed now to higher, however, if imported vehicles sources. Third, it must regulate haz­ help preserve America's industrial had not increased their share of the ardous working conditions on the base and to promote balance in inter­ market from 15 percent in 1978 to 24 OCS. Finally, it is required, in consul­ national trade. percent this year. This increase has tation with the Department of Com­ Some people wrongly admit that the caused serious injury to the domestic merce and the National Institute of conditions justifying this legislation auto industry. Occupational Safety and Health, to no longer exist. They think that the Productivity increases will largely examine the safety of underwater recent rebound in auto sales and possi­ wipe out the potential for increased diving techniques and equipment. ble Japanese export restraint will take job opportunities with increased sales. The Coast Guard's ability to fulfill care of the problems that have In fact, over the last 2 years auto pro­ these requirements depends on its prompted the bill. This bill is needed ductivity has improved an average 4.3 ability to understand and work effec­ as much today as when comparable percent. The imperative to improve tively with the offshore oil industry. legislat1on was first introduced in De­ competitiveness will insure that auto's This legislation creates a forum cember 1981. traditionally high rates of productivity through which the Coast Guard can Before the Congress convenes in growth will continue. With sales meet with individuals who have exper­ 1985, the auto companies that domi­ growth and productivity increases tise in offshore oil and gas develop­ nate the U.S. market will make critical each offsetting each other, auto-relat­ ment activities, to discuss safety decisions about where they will locate ed employment will decrease with any issues. The Advisory Committee will parts production and assembly of new further increases in import penetra­ be appointed by the Secretary of small cars. The consensus of industry tion. Transportation and will be composed experts indicates a rapidly increasing Industry experts predict that im­ of 13 members, selected according to volume of imported small cars or their ports of vehicles and parts will climb the following criteria: components. Thus, auto-related em­ sharply in coming years. By 1990, the Two members will be from compa­ ployment will continue to erode unless import share is predicted to be 35 to 40 nies engaged in oil production; we take decisive action. percent by Commerce Department's Two members from offshore drilling All auto companies with large auto analysts, 40 percent by Merrill companies; volume sales here should be investing Lynch Economics, 35.8 percent by Two members from offshore supply and creating jobs in the United States. Chase Econometrics, and as much as boat companies; Most Americans support local content 65 percent under one scenario consid­ One member from an offshore rig according to recent polls by Lou ered by a National Academy of Engi­ construction company; Harris-57 percent favored, 39 percent neering panel. A General Motors

• September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25667 spokesman predicted last fall that the assembly of subcompacts in Mexico always fully employed and infinitely import share could reach 40 percent as with major parts from Toyo Kogyo in flexible; and <2> that if one job is de­ soon as 1985-the year after GM ex­ Japan and selling them here. stroyed, another pops up to take its pects to begin receiving small import­ The number and significance of sup­ place. Under those conditions, any­ ed cars from Isuzu and Suzuki. plier jobs must be emphasized. The thing the Government does will only In the case of parts, the evidence auto industry is among the major pur­ make things worse. In the real world, points to a similar escalation. When chasers of steel <21 percent of U.S. however, 10.7 mlllion people are look­ the accounting firm Arthur Andersen production> malleable iron (50 per­ ing for work-2.8 mlllion more than in surveyed management at auto compa­ cent>. synthetic rubber (60 percent>, July 1981. Moreover, the auto import nies this year, it found a consensus zinc <34 percent>, copper <13 percent>, share is expected to soar while plans that the percentage of imported parts primary aluminum <12 percent>. and by the U.S. auto companies call for in­ would rise to the range of 20 to 25 per­ high tech industrial robots <30 per­ creased foreign outsourcing and re­ cent by 1990. cent>. Continued decline in the U.S. duced U.S. jobs. If the auto industrial The provisions of H.R. 1234 are de­ auto production base wUl cripple those signed to assure a healthy and com­ industries as well. base is allowed to continue spiraling petitive domestic auto industry. The U.S. automotive production current­ downward, the job loss there cannot blll recogniy.es the critical power of a ly amounts to about three-quarters of possibly be offset by additional ex­ few giant manufacturers to decide the value of new cars and trucks sold ports in other industries. where production wUl take place to here. Imported vehicles and parts in Enactment of H.R. 1234 would have supply the U.S. market. Under H.R. excess of U.S. automotive exports ac­ minimal adverse effect on prices and 1234, all companies with annual sales count for the remaining quarter of our quality, and potentially a positive here of over 100,000 vehicles would be market. By requiring U.S. production effect on quality of the vehicles avail­ required to locate some production and purchases by all companies with able to the American consumer. Stud­ here, hire workers here, and buy auto large sales here, this blll would stabi­ ies which project significant price in­ parts here. After a 1-year grace period, lize the future ratio of U.S. production creases have assumed a major reduc­ the requirements would be phased in to sales at roughly three-quarters. By tion of market share by foreign com­ over the next 3 years. The content re­ the end of the decade, in the absence panies. But evidence from other coun­ quirement would be based on a vehicle of the local-content law, U.S. automo­ tries indicates that the auto companies manufacturer's trade balance in auto­ tive production as a share of the use every effort to maintain market motive products. For example, a 90- market can be expected to fall to share. Thus, rather than walk away percent content requirement would about one-half of U.S. auto sales. A from this market, all the major auto permit a company to have net automo­ fall in U.S. production from three­ companies would invest and purchase tive imports-imports minus exports­ quarters to one-half of the auto here in an attempt to maintain and in­ worth up to 10 percent of its wholesale market would eliminate the jobs of crease their market shares. With such auto sales here. A company's content more than 193,000 auto workers-and competition, prices will be kept in line. requirement would be based on a at least 5.5 times that many outside The price of new cars has risen less smooth scale that starts at 100,000 ve­ the auto industry. than the overall consumer price index hicles, then rises until 900,000 where it To stabilize U.S. auto production rel­ in each of the last 5 years. The auto levels off. From model year 1987 ative to the market, the bill addresses industry can sustain lower than aver­ onward, the content percentage-up to imports of both vehicles and parts. In­ age price increases because of its re­ a maximum of 90 percent-would be stead of rising to their predicted 40- markable productivity growth. Over derived by dividing sales by 10,000. percent share of the market, many ve­ the last 25 years, the industry has Thus, sales of 355,000 entail a 35.5-per­ hicles which would otherwise have averaged productivity increases of 3.2 cent content requirement. A "safety been imported wUl instead be built or percent annually-well above the aver­ net" provision prevents a company assembled here. The overall domestic age for all of manufacturing. Indeed from reducing its content ratio by value added of foreign companies the industry's productivity has more than 10 percent below the 1983 would rise to roughly 50 percent of the climbed an average 4.3 percent over model year. Thus, AMC/Renault value of their sales here, instead of re­ the last 2 years. which is currently about 80-percent maining at about 15 percent. In addi­ Product quality is justifiably of domestic content could not fall below tion, net foreign sourcing by the larg­ utmost concern to consumers. The 70 percent. est U.S. companies would be capped at U.S. companies have been making By 1990, H.R. 1234 would create or 10 percent of their sales here, and pre­ great strides in improving what is preserve more than 1 mlllion jobs, in­ vented from rising to an otherwise known as the fits and finishes aspect cluding 193,000 auto jobs, and 456,000 probable 20 percent by 1990. of quality, and we sense a serious com­ supplier jobs. At stake is whether the Stemming the tide of imported vehi­ mitment by corporate management to United States wUl continue substantial cles and parts will not cost this econo­ parts production and assembly of my jobs as some have alleged. Some continue progress in this area. If any­ smaller vehicles. Our current policy of analysts have focused on particular thing, that commitment would be accepting 1-year-at-a-time commit­ jobs in trucking, at dealerships, and on strengthened after more foreign com­ ments from Japan to limit exports to the docks. Since the bill means that panies increased their investment the United States cannot give us much companies would be making more cars here. At the same time, American­ assurance about the longer term. The here and importing fewer, the total made vehicles have been and would auto companies are making decisions number of jobs in trucking parts and continue to be the leaders in other as­ now that wUl determine the location vehicles should increase. Employment pects of quality such as durability and of production several years from now. at dealerships should not be affected safety. Plans being made by GM during the by where the vehicles are built. The A domestic content law would also last 2 years of restraint do not bode 7,000 auto-related jobs on the docks retain competition among the world's well for our production in this growing should be little · changed since in­ auto companies to provide the Ameri­ segment of the market. According to creased exports and imports of parts can consumer with a wide variety of GM's announced plans, its U.S. dealer­ should largely offset the effect of innovative products built with the ships wUl soon sell annual imports of lower vehicle imports. most efficient technologies available. 90,000 Suzukis and 200,000 Isuzus, plus Still other critics who have used eco­ The U.S. producers would continue to 200,000 U.S.-assembled cars with 50- nomic models to estimate a net job be pressured by the discipline of the percent imported value from Toyota. loss have tended to assume: Cl> that design and engineering innovations of Ford is reported to be considering the workers and capital equipment are foreign-based manufacturers. 25668 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 GM, Ford. and Chrysler have domes­ over, it phases in over a reasonable The United States must decide tic content levels that now exceed the period. Perhaps most importantly, in whether to leave the fate of its indus­ maximum 90-percent content level. In this case the United States would not trial structure to the policy decisions recent years, the big three have been be flrlng the first shot but would be of foreign governments or to adopt its making long-term commitments that the last to raise a shield. Finally, it own policy. Trade with Japan poses will increase their foreign outsourcing does not isolate the American econo­ the most serious challenge because of in coming years. If they are free to my from involvement with other na­ its size, aggressive exports, and ambi­ continue to make such commitments, tions, but integrates foreign companies tions in key industries. they will fall substantially below the into the U.S. economy. Contrary to many reports in the 90 percent fioor in the next several Other than American companies, American media, we do not have trade years. the few companies substantially af­ problems because the Japanese worker AB noted above, AMC/Renault has a fected by this bill are based in Japan. is somehow inherently superior to the . domestic content level above that What is the likely response of those American worker. With the proper which would be required by the bill. companies and the Japanese Govern­ equipment and working environment, VW and Honda operate auto assem­ ment? In the first place, Japan has the American worker can produce as bly plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio, never brought a GATT complaint, well as or better than the competition. respectively. Both can attain the req­ much less retaliated, against the The remarkable success of Japanese uisite domestic content by assembling dozens of countries which restrict Jap­ exports instead depends heavily on the a sufficient number of vehicles with anese auto exports much more strin­ dualism of the Japanese economy. On enough U.S.-made parts. VW already gently than would H.R. 1234. Indeed, the one hand, the export sector has does that by operating two parts to achieve or maintain their market plants in Texas and West Virglnia and presence, Japanese auto companies technological parity with its competi­ purchasing many other parts here. have invested in many of those coun­ tors in other advanced countries. On Nissan-maker of Datsun-has tries. the other hand, most other sectors of begun assembling trucks at a site in As a practical matter, Japan has a the Japanese economy have very low Tennessee which has room for expan­ very limited capacity to take action productivity which brings down the sion. Japanese press reports indicate against the United States even if it pay scale of the entire country. In a that Nissan management is now seri­ were to go to the GATT and prevail. wide open market, the Japanese indus­ ously considering an additional car as­ The GATT procedures require that try w1ll displace the counterpart U.S. sembly plant next to the truck plant. Japan first meet with the United industry by merely keeping pace with Nissan and affiliated Fuji-maker of States to try to iron out difficulties our technology. In other words, de­ Subarus-wfil have to go beyond that before a formal complaint is filed If spite the best efforts of the U.S. indus­ to achieve the content percentage nec­ Japan were to file a formal complaint, try, Japanese export industries have a essary to maintain its current sales the United States could file counter­ critical edge due to the low productivi­ level. charges against the auto policies of ty and concomitant lower pay of the AB the company that has made the Japan. Japanese economy as a whole. least effort to build vehicles here, For many products, the United The Japanese Government has used Toyota would be the most pressed by States is Japan's predominant suppli­ credit allocation, import restrictions, enactment of this bill. As early as 1978 er; and of those imports for which subsidies, corporate restructuring, et in private meetings in Japan and Japan does have alternative sources, cetera, to assist civilian industries in public USTR statements in 1979, U.S. those source countries have auto poli­ achieving technological parity and trade officials have made clear that cies far more restrictive to Japanese large scale production. To one degree Japanese auto companies should be in­ auto imports than H.R. 1234. Austra­ or another, the successful Japanese vesting here; 3 years ago, Toyota com­ lia, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia for export industries-including auto­ missioned three investigations of the foodstuffs and raw materials; Europe­ have benefitted from such targeting feasibility of investing in the United an countries for manufactured goods. measures. States and held meetings to discuss a Japan could retaliate against modest The Japanese export sector has also joint venture with Ford. Toyota's U.S. auto content legislation only by benefited from the key resources and recent agreement to assemble cars in a buying less from us and more from skilled manpower that are more avail­ joint venture with GM inaugurates countries with auto policies which able to it in part because Japan de­ only the first of the requisite steps for limit their exports even more severely votes a much lower percentage of its Toyota to achieve the appropriate than would H.R. 1234. economy to defense than does the level of U.S. content in its cars. We strongly believe that heightened United States. Flnally, Mitsubishi-selling through international economic tensions war­ The case of Japan flatly contradicts Chrysler's dealers and independently­ rant our concern. The experience of the thesis that potentially overwhelm­ and Toyo Kogyo-maker of Mazdas­ the 1930's has important parallels and ing import competition is the sine qua also currently make more than 100,000 lessons. At that time the United States non for keeping an industry on its toes vehicles sold in the U.S. market each had extremely high real interest rates in technology and investment. Japan year. At their current sales volume, and the world economy was experienc­ has maintained domestic competition each could meet the content percent­ ing volatile exchange rates and gener­ while holding imports at bay. age by embarking on substantial parts al economic decline. These conditions The exchange rate of the Japanese procurement or production here. were pr1marlly responsible for shrink­ yen is now undervalued for trade pur­ The auto industry has been a center­ ing trade then and are again today. poses due to capital flows out of piece of the industrial strategy of most Our international economic distress Japan. Japan's protected low-interest industrial countries. World trade in calls for an international commitment capital market coupled with high U.S. automotive products today bears no to reflation, repudiation of tight mon­ interest rates accounts for this yen-de­ resemblance to the textbook world of etary policies, a more orderly ex­ pressing outflow. According to experts free trade. In fact, H.R. 1234 seems change rate regime, and expanded both here and in Japan, measures can quite moderate when compared to the credit to countries in balance-of-pay­ and should be taken to raise the value measures imposed by the governments ments problems. These, not doctri­ of the yen by 20 percent or more. An of all other major auto-producing na­ naire free trade, were both the policy appropriately valued yen would raise tions, including Japan, Germany, prescriptions of Keynes after the de­ the landed cost of a $5,000 Japanese Sweden, Britain, France, and Italy. bacle of the 1930's and the hallmarks vehicle to $6,000 wiping out two-thirds H.R. 1234 applies to a single indus­ of the post war boom in the interna­ of the often-claimed $1,500 Japanese try in serious import jeopardy. More- tional economy. advantage. SeptemlJer 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25669 Enactment of H.R. 1234 would put tion 253), and section 1 of Public Law pendents whose hospitalization bene­ Japanese economic policymakers on 88-71 (42 U.S.C. section 253a), require fits were Inadvertently terminated by notice that they can no longer expect the Public Health Service to provide closure of PHS facilities and by Inter­ U.S. passivity when Japanese Industry medical and dental care to active duty pretations of 42 United States Code adds substantial capacity with the po­ and retired commissioned officers, 243a that hospitalization at "facilities tential to displace hundreds of thou­ ships' officers, and members of the of the Public Health Service" does not sallds of U.S. Jobs. crews of vessels of NOAA as well as to Include private facilities providing We recognize that responsibility their dependents. Under the provi­ services to the PHS by contract. falls on labor and management In the sions of chapter 55 of title 10, United Retired ships' officers and crew­ Industry to take resolute action. States Code, the Secretary of Health members, and eligible dependents of Progress ls being made. Despite an and Human Services ls responsible for active duty and retired personnel have enormous drop In revenues, the auto providing medical and dental care to been entitled to medical and dental companies have been plowing $9 to $10 active duty and retired members of treatment and hospitalization at PHS bllllon a year Into new products and the corps of NOAA-as successor to facilities since 1939. On July 19, 1963, equipment. The companies are also the Environmental Science Services Public Law 88-71 <42 U.S.C. 253a> lim­ Improving product quality. Admlnlstration-as well as their de­ ited eligibility for these services to em­ Unfortunately, these actions will not pendents and survivors. This care has ployees retired on or prior to that date suffice to assure the stability and vi­ been provided In part through PHS or In continuous active service from tality of this Industry. If the U.S. Gov­ hospital and clinics, and In part July 19, 1963, until retirement-and ernment does not take action to stabi­ through PHS contract services. their dependents. Retirement health lize the long-term employment In our In the past, the PHS budgeted for care for persons employed after July auto Industry that ls threatened with the cost of providing to NOAA person­ continued disastrous erosion for the nel this health care. Subsequent to 19, 1963, is provided through the Fed­ remainder of the decade. passage of Public Law 97-35, the Om­ eral employees health benefits pro­ The time has come for the U.S. Gov­ nibus Budget Reconciliation Act of gram. ernment to decide that It will maintain 1981, phasing out PHS hospitals and The impact of loss of hospitalization a competitive auto Industry. That deci­ other facilities, the admlnlstration de­ therefore falls on a small group of sion would bring the United States termined that fiscal accountability older Federal employees who have Into conformity with the pattern of would be Improved if NOAA and other been either retired or In continuous auto policies around the world. That affected agencies such as the Coast active service for at least 20 years. Be­ policy ls supported by a wide majority Guard each made provision In their cause they relied upon the entitle­ of the American people. budgets for health care services for ments of 42 United States Code 253a, We believe this legislation ls needed that agency's personnel. these personnel have foregone other now to help preserve America's Indus­ For fiscal year 1983, NOAA received health care options and they are now trial base and to promote balance In an appropriation for these health care without feasible health care alterna­ International trade.e services as part of the joint resolution tives. As a group, they are not mem­ for further continuing appropriations bers of a "uniformed service" for the for fiscal year 1983 . Pursuant to the Federal Econo­ my Act and a memorandum of under­ States Code; as Federal employees standing between NOAA and the PHS, they are not eligible for social security HON. WALTER 8. JONF.s the PHS ls now providing health serv­ medicare. Nor are they eligible to par­ 01' BORTH CAROLIBA ices to eligible NOAA personnel on a ticipate In the Federal employees IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reimbursable basis. health benefits program because of re­ Thursday, September 22, 1983 Section 1 of my bill would provide strictions regarding participation prior • Mr. JONES of North Carolina. Mr. permanent authority for the Secretary to retirement (5 U.S.C. 8905); and pri­ Speaker, today I am Introducing H.R. of Commerce to budget for dental and vate health care coverage is not finan­ 3968, a bill to insure continued health medical care to which NOAA person­ cially feasible for persons of this age. care for eligible employees of the Na­ nel are entitled under titles 10 and 42, I do not believe that Congress in­ tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad­ United States Code. The Secretary of tended to eliminate the entitlements mlnlstration. The bill is cosponsored Commerce could provide this care by of 42 United States Code 253a by pas­ by the gentleman from New Hamp­ contracting directly with private facili­ sage of Public Law 97-35. By contrast, shire hospitals tract with private facilities. Section 1 97-35, section 986. Under the circum­ and of the bill changes no basic entitle­ stances, the Federal Government has related fiscal adjustments, the Nation­ ments and is virtually identical to au­ an obligation to provide hospitaliza­ al Oceanic and Atmospheric Admlnls­ thority given to the Coast Guard by tion and other specified services to tration must obtain new ad­ the Coast Guard Authorization Act of these employees and their dependents. mlnlstrative authority to insure that 1982 (Public Law 97-322, title I, sec­ To achieve this objective, the bill NOAA employees who are commis­ tion 115; 14 U.S.C. 93> to meet the eliminated from 42 United States Code sioned officers or work on NOAA same need. 243a references to "facilities" of the ships, entitled to health care from the Section 2 of the bill contains techni­ PHS, thereby enabling the PHS to PHS, are able to continue to have this cal amendments to clarify that NOAA provide hospitalization and other enti­ care provided on a contract basis. This personnel eligible for the dental, medi­ tlements, by contract with private fa­ bill will assure that eligible NOAA em­ cal, and hospitalization care specified cilities. NOAA would reimburse the ployees continue to receive necessary In 42 United States Code 253a are enti­ PHS for services provided, pursuant to health care services by: One, authoriz­ tled to this care without regard to the existing memorandum of under­ ing NOAA to provide and budget for whether care is provided In PHS facili­ standing between the agencies regard­ their care; and two authorizing this ties or by contract with private hospi­ ing health care services for NOAA per­ care to be provided In contract facili­ tals and facilities. sonnel. Because of the small number ties. Section 2 provides relief to approxi­ of personnel Involved, NOAA does not Section 326 of the Public Health mately 165 career NOAA employees­ anticipate a need for appropriations In Service Act, as amended <42 U .S.C. sec- or retired NOAA employees-and de- addition to those requested In the 25670 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 NOAA fiscal year 1984 budget submis­ record high budget deficits, particular­ risen from 10112 percent to 11 percent, sion ln order to provide these health ly the impact of the deficit on Interest retail sales dropped in July, and the care services. rates. housing boomlet has come to a halt. The legislation affects approximate­ Treasury Secretary Don Regan, who real interest rates-the rate of Interest ly 385 members of the commissioned often jokes that he understands Harry after adjustments for expected Infla­ corps on active duty and 130 retired Truman's wish for one-handed econo­ tion-remain unacceptably high with officers-plus their dependents and mists who would not be tempted to re­ little hope of a reduction without survivors. In addition. approximately spond to questioning with "on the one action on the deficit, says Mr. Feld­ 600 to 650 wage marine employees-20 hand" and "on the other hand" kind stein, and it ls real Interest rates that to 30 percent of whom are temporary of advice, was caught ln a classic case determine activity ln the credit employees-are entitled to health care of "the right not knowing what the makets. while employed on active duty by left ls doing" when he announced last Secretary Regan, who obviously dis­ NOAA.e week that high deficits are not neces­ agrees with this assessment, said that sarily linked to high interest rates-an "Economists who continue to claim MARY PEREZ IS HONORED FOR announcement that came on the same that deficits make for high interest day that Marty Feldstein, Chairman rates should climb down from their ce­ 41 YEARS OF SERVICE TO SA­ of the Council of Economic Advisers, VANNA SCHOOL DISTRICT lestial observatories and acquaint argued persuasively that "the reason themselves with terrestial fact." Even for the very high level of long-term if one can admire the Star Wars im­ HON. JERRY M. PATIERSON real Interest rate ls undoubtedly the agery, it seems to me that terrestial 01' CALD'OR.NIA unprecedented level of the budget fact should take into account the 11' THE ROUSE 01' REPRESENTATIVES deficits that are now predicted for the danger that both high deficits and Thursday, September 22, 1983 years ahead." For Mr. Regan, who has high interest rates can pose to our been contradicted by most profession­ e Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker. I economy. The Treasury Secretary's al economists and a barrage of would­ pooh-poohing of this potential harm ls Invite my colleagues to join me ln com­ be analysts, the dispute with Mr. Feld­ mending a constitutent of mine who unhealthy in its simplicity, and it ls stein may be an embarrassment. For unhealthy in its impact upon delibera­ has been a positive Influence ln the the country, it may be much worse be­ lives of many students ln the Savanna tions within the administration. If the cause the disagreement reflects the Secretary of the Treasury buries his School District. kind of divisiveness in the administra­ Mary Perez ls being honored on Sep­ head in the sand, chances are that the tion that ls resulting in a dangerous President will do likewise. tember 28, 1983. for her 41 years of paralysis on the deficit issue. contlnous service as a school custodi­ President Reagan ls in danger of ab­ Wthout going through the entire ex­ rogating his leadership on this impor­ an. The Mary Perez School was dedi­ cerclse of projecting budget deficits in cated on November 29, 1967. This was tant issue because he is not willing to the coming years, the scope of the discuss the possibilities. Digging his the first school ln California to be problem ls indicated by the fact that named for a classified employee. heels in on the defense spending issue, current projections for fiscal year 1984 opposing revenue increases except for Miss Perez has exemplified the spirit show that we will be carrying a deficit of the Savanna School District to both the politically unpopular standby tax of close to $200 billion and a public proposal and avoiding further discus­ fellow workers and students. Mary debt of $1.6 trillion, or nearly $6,000 Perez has always been a loyal. effi­ sion of uncontrolled entitlement for every man, woman and child in the spending, the President has built for cient, and conscientious employee. Her country. Over the next 5 years, 53 per­ dedicated efforts have earned her the himself a celestial observatory that cent of America's savings will be ab­ makes inaction almost a certainty. highest respect from all of those who sorbed by the Government in financ­ have had the pleasure of working with In my view it is not the number of her. ing the deficit. It does not take a pro­ hands one finds on an economist, or fessional economist to understand, as the height of the tower they inhabit On behalf of both the students and Mr. Feldstein has pointed out, that fellow employees of Savanna School that counts. What does matter ls that getting the public to finance the defi­ the President and his appointed offi­ District, Mary Perez ls to be highly cit by purchasing Government securi­ commended. Mr. Speaker. it is with cials do all that they can to assess dan­ pride that I ask my colleagues to join ties "requires a rise in interest rates gers and opportunities in the land of and it is this rise that is reflected in reality.e me and my community in honoring the current high real interest rates." Mary Perez for her 41 years of loyal Because we are to be plagued with servlce.e high deficits in years to come, we are RECENT BOOK "CENTRAL also risking the economic recovery AMERICA IN CRISIS" DEFICITS, ONE-HANDED ECONO- now under way. Recovery traditionally MISTS, AND CELESTIAL results in increased credit demand TOWERS from the private sector-businesses HON. MANUEL LUJAN, JR. need money for expansion and capital Of' NEW MEXICO HON. JOHN J. LaF ALCE equipment, and consumers borrow to 11' THE ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES finance those delayed purchases. If Of' NEW YORK Thursday, September 22, 1983 11' THE ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this recovery proceeds in a traditional manner, we can expect that at the • Mr. LUJAN. Mr. Speaker, as each of Thursday, September 22, 1983 minimum private financing require­ us attempt to better understand the •Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, recent ments next year will clash with the complex social, economic, and political Washington press has focused on an­ needs of the Government in financing issues which frame our relations with other one of those all-too-common dis­ its debt, thus pushing interest rates up our neighbors in Central America, let putes between the Nation's chief ad­ as the demand for credit goes up. We me call to your attention a recent ministration policymakers. This time may see a worst-case scenario where book, "Central America in Crisis," we learn that the President's top eco­ Government demand for credit crowds published by the Washington Institute nomic advisers-both men with admi­ out private borrowers who-unable to for Values in Public Policy. It very rable credentials for figuring out what afford credit-reduce purchases, ex­ usefully addresses this controversial our financial markets are up to-are pansion, and capital investment. A subject and region, and serves as an quite publicly contradicting one an­ hint of those problems has already excellent background reference to the other about the economic impact of been seen. The prime interest rate has current situation.• September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25671 WIN COTI'RELL'S REMARKABLE TOM CARVER "MAN OF THE The difference u striking: from wrenching ABILITY TO INSPIRE OTHERS YEAR" BY SALVATION ARMY destitution to ,getting by. The intriguing IRONBOUND BOYS AND GIRLS point is that this difference in quality of life mirrors a difference in economic systems. HON. BARBARA BOXER CLUBS Benin is a Marxist state, sometimes called the "CUba of West Africa." Togo is a re­ O• CALD'OUIA HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. markably competitive, capitalist state. llf Tm BOtJSB OP RKPRDBKTATIVBS or 1'l:W n:asn It might be tempting to chalk up a point for capitalism and assume that Togo pros­ Thunda21, Se1>tember 22, 1983 llf THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pered because it paid homage to Adam • Mrs. BOXER. Mr. Speaker, on Sep­ Thu.nda'I/, September 22, 1983 Smith rather than Karl Marx. There is San some truth to that, but the picture is more tember 10, 1983, the Francisco e Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, it is a complex and also reveals some warts on Gray Panthers held a luncheon in San great privilege for me to recognize Mr. Togo's system-principally political repres­ Francisco, Calif., to honor one of the Tom D. Carver, who has been selected sion. city's most committed social activists: as 1983's "Man of the Year" by the If a political scientist or economist were Win Cottrell. Salvation Army Ironbound Boys' and looking for two countries with which to ex­ During the past several years, Win Girls' Clubs in Newark. periment, he could hardly do better than Togo and Benin. Both countries are narrow Cottrell's name has been closely con­ Mr. Carver, an executive with the Port Authority of New York and New slivers running north from palm-lined nected with a wide spectrum of organi­ beaches on the Atlantic Ocean, situated be· zations and movements committed to Jersey, is being honored for his distin­ tween Ghana and Nigeria. Both are former achieving social and economic Justice. guished service to the Ironbound com­ French colonies that received their inde­ Win has served on the board of direc­ munity. He has been active in a pendence in 1960 and then went through a tors of such groups as the San Francis­ number of civic activities for many succession of governments. years, and I am very pleased to see But Togo since 1967 and Benin liance on a free-market system and its thriv­ old unite in a struggle to preserve COTONOU, BDI1'.-The only thing that ing private sector. The country has no sig­ their homes and community, you can flourishes here is poverty, 1Uld that nificant export or import restrictions, and abounds. Little children wander naked or foreign investment is encouratied. A free be sure of one thing: Win Cottrell will half-clothed in the dirt streets, their stom­ port, industrial zones and tax incentives be there.e achs bloated from malnutrition, and hag­ lure foreign business, and tourists have been gard old women sleep on the ground, their sought for the magnificent beaches. The bare breasts withered from the incessant only drawback of the beaches is that they suckling of their many children. serve conspicuously as public toilets. Less than 100 miles away, in Lome, Togo, Ironically, Togo's boom has permitted the children-adequately fed, clothed and massive expenditures for human develop. scrubbed-file along the sidewalk and disap­ ment, so that even by the Marxist standards pear inside their schools. People are still of Benin, Togo has done better. The number poor, but vigorous economic development of inhabitants per physician has dropped has dulled the keenest edge of poverty. from 35,000 to 17 ,000 since independence; in 25672 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 Benin. the number increased from 23,000 to hours to help build the first expan­ with this crisis. If we ignore it any 28,000. Adult literacy in Togo has approxi­ sion. longer, our place as the leader of the mately doubled in the last 20 years; in Benin, the percentage of literate adults de­ Since World War II there has been a free world, will surely be jeopardized. cllned slightly. steady influx of new members from I believe few things are more impor­ Much of the government revenue-more the nearby cities of Ann Arbor, Ypsi­ tant than a good education. Because of than a quarter of the total national lanti, Plymouth, and Canton. Today education, this country has made bud&et-has been reinvested in education in the church has over 377 members and great strides over the course of our 200 Togo. Togo has one of the highest primary can boast that at least 7 of its mem­ years. As a nation we are inarguably school enrollment rates in Africa, while bers have either entered or are cur­ better than we were 100 years, 50 Benin's enrollment rate ls below the average rently pursuing studies toward ordina­ even for sub-Saharan Africa. At independ­ years ago, or even 10 years ago. How­ ence, in both Benin and Togo, 2 percent of tion. ever, as one education analyst so vivid­ the potential students attended high school; The church will celebrate its anni­ ly stated: now the figure ls 12 percent in Benin and 25 versary with a variety of ceremonies, For the first time in the history of our percent in Togo. including the recreation of a play de­ country, the educational skills of one gen­ In short, Togo has been able to afford im­ picting the first meeting of the eration will not surpass, will not equal, will provements in the standard of living, while church's board of trustees in 1857. not even approach those of their parents. Benin has been unable to provide such serv­ In closing, I would like to congratu­ ices even though it ostensibly ls the govern­ The average graduate of our schools ment of the people. late the Dixboro United Methodist and colleges today is not as well edu­ But if Togo's economic system has Church and its members on this his­ cated as the average graduate 25 or 35 achieved wonders, the progress has not toric occassion, and wish them another years ago. What makes this fact more seeped into the political system. Both Benin 125 years of continued success.e and Togo are essentially police states run by important is that 25 or 35 years ago, a mllltary dictators. much smaller proportion of students "Both countries are very much in the A NEW COURSE FOR AMERICAN completed high school and college. trappings of mtler youth groups,'' said one EDUCATION Considering America's reputation diplomat with experience in both Lome and for excellence in so many areas, these Cotonou, "but the personality cult ls greater HON. NICHOLAS MAVROULES facts on education may seem hard to in Togo." believe. The Commission's report, Togo's president, Maj. Oen. Etienne Gnas­ 01' MASSACHUSETTS stngbe Eyadama, ls perhaps the only head IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES however, points out many important of state to have been resurrected. It hap­ things. Of the 250 million people pened in 1974 when his plane crashed, kill­ Thursday, September 22, 1983 living in America today, 23 million ing four passengers but leaving him un­ •Mr. MAVROULF.s. Mr. Speaker, as adults, or one-tenth of the population, scathed. Eyadama re-emerged seven days more and more attention is focused on are functionally illiterate in reading, later in Lome, dressed in white. The date of education and the Nation's public writing, and comprehension. This is his reappearance ls a national holiday, and schools, I am becoming increasingly a shrine has been built around the wrecked supplemented by the fact that over plane, which now has been pulverized to convinced that we as a nation are the last 20 years the average combined make it appear that no one could possibly facing a serious crisis. SAT score had dropped 90 points. Al­ have survived the crash. Teachers, parents, administrators, though there was a slight increase in If Eyadama and his style of government and students alike have expressed the scores last year, that increase will are a blemish on Togo, the economy ls a their disappointment with the growing have to be repeated for more than a beauty mark. And while there are some dif­ decline in the quality of education decade before we achieve the levels of ferences between it and Benin-Togo's presently offered in a majority of our the mid-sixties again. greater phosphate resources, for example-­ country's public schools. We are em­ if ever it were fair to compare two countries, If we examine the statistics further, it ls fair here. barking on an era that will undoubted­ we are hit by an alarming fact. The av­ Togo has moved ahead by every measure, ly confront us with a great many new erage achievement of high school stu­ and, like Africa's other success stories­ and profound challenges. New techno­ dents on most standardized tests is Malawi and Ivory Coast, among others-it ls logical and scientific developments are lower today than 26 years ago when ruthlessly capitalist. Maybe the best indica­ unfolding rapidly in an attempt to Sputnik. was launched. If we as a tions of its success are the signs that remedy some of our already existing nation were concerned in 1957 with Benin's government wants to make a right social and economic problems. I feel, turn and move closer to Togo's model.• falling behind the Russians, we should however, that in the near future, be nothing less than alarmed with Americans will not have the capabili­ these figures today. DIXBORO UNITED METHODIST ties to deal with this new technologi­ If we try to determine the source of CHURCH CELEBRATF.S 125TH cal age. More importantly, it is inevita­ the decline in our schools, we can find ANNIVERSAY ble that we will not have the ability to many reasons for the deterioration. make further strides in essential areas, Our children, in comparison to stu­ HON. CARL D. PURSELL because of the lack of education we dents in other countries, spend less or KICHIGAN are providing to the "America of To­ morrow." time in school. Furthermore, Ameri­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Last April, the President's Commis­ can children spend less time learning Thursday, September 22, 1983 sion on Excellence in Education pre­ than do their peers in foreign coun­ • Mr. PURSELL. Mr. Speaker, on sented their report to the President tries. In England and other industrial­ September 24 and 25, the Dixboro and the American public. What they ized nations, it is not unusual for aca­ United Methodist Church in Dixboro, found, and what many Americans are demic high school students to spend 8 Mich., will celebrate its 125th anniver­ feeling today are mirror images of hours a day at school, 220 days per sary. each other. There is no doubt in my year. In the United States by contrast, The picturesque, New England-style mind, that we must address the cur­ the typical school day lasts for 6 hours church, completed in 1858 is listed in rent educational problems facing us. and the school year is only 180 days. the National Registry of National We need to act promptly to improve While in school, fewer than 1 in 10 Buildings and Places. Construction on the quality of education that our chil­ American students now study physics. the original church took 1 year and dren receive. While we were focusing Only 16 percent take 1 year of high cost $2,241. Two more additions have on questions dealing with nuclear school chemistry, while fewer than been made to the church, representing arms and a poor economy, the subject one-half of the Nation's public schools the members' devotion. In 1951, mem­ of education has slipped away from require more than a year of science bers and friends donated over 6,000 our grasp. It is now the time to deal and mathematics for graduation. September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25673 Japan. on the other hand. with a We need to give our undivided atten­ The potential value of exports resulting population only about half the size of tion to finding a solution. The Con­ from U.S. consulting assignments abroad ours, graduates from its unlversltles gress has debated nuclear arms, Cen­ rose by $1.6 million per consultant between more engineers than we do. In Japan, 1982 and 1983 according to the ASAC tral America, and crime, but we have survey. Each U.S. consultant was involved in specialized study of mathematics, biol­ yet to devote time to the subject of development projects having an average ogy, and physics start in the sixth education. It seems to me that if we annual potential of $10.2 million dollars in grade. In the U.S.S.R. Soviet students want to continue being the great U.S. exports. This includes the actual busi­ leam the basic concepts of algebra and Nation that we are, now ls the time to ness services provided, and the value of the geometry in elementary school; they address this issue, and dispense with construction, maintenance and supply get 4 additional years of mathematics the mediocrity that plagues our Na­ equipment, as well as the breeding stock in high school. tion's classrooms.e feed grains and other agricultural products The next problem that we face ls the needed to successfully operate modem food quality of teachers that are in the Na­ and fiber systems, which could be provided tion's classrooms. H we do not have OVERSEAS AG CONSULTING by other U.S. firms. The multiplier effect of GROWS DF.sPITE WEAK agricultural consulting is often many times top.notch teachers to educate our chil­ WORLD ECONOMY the value of the basic services provided, as dren, how can we expect them to foreign buyers generally tum to the country learn? There are too many teachers which conducted the feasibillty studies for who have been drawn from the bottom HON. CHARLES W. STENHOLM assistance with the construction, and main­ quarter of graduating high school and OF TEXAS tenance of the project. college c).as.,es. In addition, many DI THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The 1983 ASAC survey also indicates the teachers who instruct in specialized growing private sector role of foreign and Th:ursday, September 22, 1983 U.S. agribusiness in world food development areas, are not qualified to teach that e Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, in a as government budgets are strained and na­ subject; and of those who are, many period when the importance of agri­ tionally-financed projects are delayed or have been certified on an emergency cultural exports continue to assume cancelled. In the past year, 60 percent of basis. tremendous importance to the Ameri­ the consulting assignments reported were The underlying reason for such me­ can agricultural producer and virtually sponsored by private firms-39 percent by diocre teaching in the classroom ls di­ foreign businesses, and 21 percent by Ameri­ rectly related to the salary we pay our all segments of the American econo­ can firms. Reported U.S. government spon­ my, the role of private agricultural sorship of foreign assignments using private teachers. The average wage after 12 consultants in expanding foreign com­ years of experience ls ony $17 ,000 and U.S. agricultural consultants rose to 12 per­ modity sales ls often overlooked. cent of the total while foreign government many teachers are required to supple­ In recognition of the contributions sponsorship was 28 percent according to the ment their income with part-time and made by members of the American So­ survey. summer employment. I honestly ciety of Agricultural Consultants, I Africa continues to be the leading market wonder how many of us, here in Con­ submit for my colleagues' perusal the for U.S. agricultural consultants according gress, would run for office if our salary following article from that group's to the survey, followed by Asia and the Far were only $17,000 to $20,000. May 1983 newsletter: East, Europe, other North American coun­ It ls also imperative that schools tries, the Middle East, Latin America, the start expecting students to perform at OVERSEAS AG CONSULTING GROWS DESPITE Caribbean and the South Pacific. WEAK WORLD EcoNOllY In addition to subsidized foreign competi­ higher levels of excellence. Too many The leadership role of U.S. agricultural tion, agricultural consultants often cited people feel that education means consultants in developing food production weak world economic conditions-as a major doing the mlnlmum work necessary and distribution systems throughout the ·factor in ·keeping business from growing for the inoment, and then coasting world has come into sharp focus in a survey faster. Many noted that currency devalu- through llfe on knowledge acquired recently conducted by the American Society ations around the world had affected their during the first 20 years. We must of .Agricultural Consultants . Society business, while others indicated that de­ expect schools to have genuinely high members reported consulting assignments in creasing foreign government development standards rather than mlnlmum ones; forty-five countries around -the world. cover­ budgets and· lack of financing proved to be along with parental support to encour­ ing 115 different development projects. U.S. obstacles. However, many consultants told exports could increase by as much as $420 ASAC that the demand for agricultural de­ age their children to make the most of million in goods and services necessary to velopment services remains strong. Declin­ their talents and abilities. support the projects underway with U.S. ing oil prices and continuing need for for­ Mr. Speaker, I maintain that we are private agricultural consulting assistance. eign nations to learn how to tum U.S. agri­ facing a national dilemma. America The abillty of U.S. agricultural consult­ cultural technology into bottom line per­ must address their crisis. The Federal ants to successfully translate management formance were often cited .as signs of future Government has a distinct responsibil­ and technology into efficient food supply increases '111 U.S. agricultural consulting ity to all students to insure that they systems was an important factor in the overseas.• strong demand for their services, despite the receive a quality education, so that continuing weakness of the world economy they may successfully take on the re­ and intense competition from other nations' NATURAL GAS PRICF.S: UP OR sponsibility as the future leaders of service industries. Six times as many re­ DOWN? this great Nation. The President feels spondents to the ASAC survey reported in­ that this can be achieved by "welcom­ creases in overseas business in the past ing God back into our schools and set­ twelve months as reported decreases. HON. JOHN J. LaF ALCE ting an example for children by striv­ Although substantial gains were regis­ OF NEW YORK tered in foreign consulting assignments by ing to abide by His Ten Command­ IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES ments and the Golden Rule." Howev­ the U.S. industry, ASAC members reported several obstacles to further increases in Thursday, September 22, 1983 er, as the wise gentleman from Texas overseas "Projects. A number of potential on May 12. The Brown-Schnei­ ing. lution comes to the floor. These Mem­ der amendment was intended to bar further At this point, I submit an article ap­ bers, some of whom have supported spending for the Clinch River Project until pearing in the Buffalo News detailing the Clinch River project in the past, the authorizing committees had the oppor­ Mr. Hughes' address be printed in the recognize the importance of letting tunity to review an alternate financing pro­ RECORD. the House work its will on this com­ posal from the Department of Energy and The article follows: plex and controversial issue. until the House had the opportunity to debate and vote on the measure. CFrom the Buffalo News, Sept. 16, 19831 This overwhelming show of support was found in a deep concern that pro­ We are now nine days away from the end ENDGY PABELIST PREDICTS HIKE or 40 of this flscal year and legislation has not yet PBRCDT IN PB.ICE or NATURAL GAS ponents of the project plan to attach a been introduced on the financing plan, new financing scheme to the supple­ much less reported by the appropriate legis­ mental or continuing appropriations lative committees. The proposal submitted A member of the Federal Energy Regula­ bill in the Senate in an effort to avoid to Congress on August 1 by Secretary of tory Commission said Thursday that sky­ Energy Donald P. Hodel raises serious con­ rocketing natural-~ prices will take a toll a vote in the House. This is totally un­ acceptable and circumvents the ex­ cerns and does not meet the requirement on consumers for the second consecutive reached by conferees on FY 1983 continuing winter unless Congress provides assistance. pressed will of the House to follow resolution that the project's impact on the "It could be catastrophic," said David proper legislative procedures. Federal budget be reduced In fact, a recent Hughes, who was in Buffalo to address a Last December, as part of the fiscal Congressional Budget Office analysis of the workshop at Buffalo State College spon­ year 1983 continuing resolution, Con­ financing scheme states that the plan will sored by the Niagara Frontier Consumers Association and 20 other groups. "It could gress directed the administration to cost the Treasury more over the life of the develop a plan that "would reduce project than if the project were directly be disastrous." funded by the government. Last winter, monthly ~ bills leaped 30 to Federal budget requirements" for the 40 percent throughout Western New York Clinch River breeder reactor project. -Our request ls made to you because of our and the Northeast as a result of the contro­ The requirement for a cost-sharing concern that the financing scheme will be versial decontrol of natural-gas prices, and plan was part of a compromise which attached to the continuing or supplemental this winter .should be no different, Mr. appropriations bill in the Senate. We call permitted Clinch River funding de­ your attention to the article on legislative Hughes said spite a vote in the House to terminate Predicting a marked rise in gas prices, Mr. strategy for the financing plan that ap­ Hughes said, "The best evidence that I have the project. In May of this year, the peared in a recent copy of "Nuclear seen ls 35 to 40 percent,'' although they may House voted 388 to 1 to prohibit fur­ Report", a publication of the American Nu­ be only 25 percent. ther funding until an acceptable cost­ clear Society. In addition, in his letter to The Federal Energy Regulatory Commis­ sharing plan had been enacted. Speaker O'Neill proposing the plan, Secre­ sion oversees a number of energy-related The administration produced a plan, tary Hodel spoke of working to develop "ap­ issues including the decontrol of natural propriations language" to fund the project. but it was hardly what Congess asked We are concerned that the House will not gas. for. Recent analyses performed by the Mr. Hughes said consumers should urge have another opportunity to work its will if lawmakers to assist in alleviating the strain Congressional Budget Office, the Gen­ this strategy ls followed. that gas decontrol ls causing. He also sug­ eral Accounting Office and the Con­ We believe our amendment ls consistent gested the implementation of "social poli­ gressional Research Service reveal with the intent of the continuing resolution cies" that would aid consumers unable to that it is nothing more than a gold­ adopted last year and with the Brown­ meet the rising costs. plated, Government guaranteed, no­ Schneider amendment adopted by the During an hourlong address before a House this year. risk tax shelter. Thank you for your consideration of our group of 75 persons-including utility com­ Congress cannot allow this plan to pany representatives, consumer advocates request. and representatives from federal, state and be pushed through by some parlia­ Sincerely. local government agencies-Mr. Hughes dis­ mentary sleight-of-hand. We must be Tom Harkin, Richard Ottinger, Rick cussed the role of federal regulatory policy allowed to vote so that we are not Boucher, Larry Coughlin, Howard making and its impact at the local level. foreclosed in a late-night deal on the Wolpe, Stan Lundine, George Brown, He said consumers are able to make an eve of the new fiscal year. Claudine Schneider. impact in policy-making matters and Mr. Speaker, I have attached a copy Tom Harkin, Howard Wolpe, Richard Ot­ stressed the importance of consumers keep­ of the letter sent to the Rules Com­ tinger, Stan Lundine, Rick Boucher, George ing informed and banding together. mittee, with a list of the Members who Brown, Larry Coughlin, Claudine Schnei­ "It ls so important that you build coali­ der, Thomas M. Foglietta. Elliott H. Levitas, tions,'' he said. signed the amendment, and an outline Donald J. Pease, Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Jim The address was followed by three work­ of the legislative strategy that ap­ Bates, Norman D. Dicks, Dennis E. Eckart, shops on rate setting and intervention, the peared in a publication of the Ameri­ Ronald V. Dellums, Jim Moody, Barney divestiture of American Telephone & Tele- can Nuclear Society. Frank, Robert E. Wise, Jr., Jim Slattery, September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25675 Gus Hawkins, Richard A. Gephardt, Katie completion> will be offered in the continu­ that only 7 percent of families in this Hall, Wllltam R. Ratchford, Robert T. ing resolution. The CRBR item, most prob­ category were able to take advantage Matsui, John Bryant, Morris K. Udall. ably, will first be voted up or down in the of any of the child care tax credits in Paul Simon, Ted Weiss, Wllltam Hughes, Senate, where a scant majority in favor of Don Edwards, Gerry Studds, Henry A. project completion ts believed to exist. Such the law. Waxman, Al Swift, James Shannon, Mike a maneuver could seek to avoid a vote in the Working parents need more child Lowry, Parren J. Mitchell, Bob Edgar, John House, where "closed" rules often preclude care options. I think this bill goes a Seiberling, Robert Kastenmeier, Barbara votes on individual items in continuing reso­ long way toward expanding these op­ Boxer, Edward R. Roybal, William H. Gray, lutions.e tions.e Thomas J. Downey, Robert J. Mrazek, James Jeffords, Mickey Leland, Mel Levine, Vin Weber, George Miller, Barbara B. Ken­ SCHOOL FACILITIES CHILD SALUTE TO DENISE GEORGES nelly, Gus Savage, James L. Oberstar, Vic CARE ACT AND LITO VALLS Fazio. George W. Crockett, Jr., Leon E. Panetta, Barbara A. Mikulski, Mike Synar, Bob Trax­ HON. PA TRICIA SCHROEDER HON. RON de LUGO ler, Dale E. Klldee, Tom Lantos, John Con­ OF COLORADO OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS yers, Ron Wyden, James McClure Clarke, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wllltam Lehman, Berkley Bedell, Doug Wal­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gren, Dan Glickman, Geraldine A. Ferraro, Thursday, September 22, 1983 Thursday, September 22, 1983 Charles E. Schumer, Patricia Schroeder, Mr. e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Speaker, I • Mr. DE LUGO. Mr. Speaker, the Lawrence J. Smith, Howard L. Berman, am proud to introduce the School Fa­ Robert Garcia, Edward J. Markey, Timothy most recent edition of the National E. Wirth, Gerry Sikorski, John M. Spratt, cilities Child Care Act today in the Parks magazine features the U.S. Jr., Norman Ststsky, Ron Paul, Stewart B. House because it is an important Virgin Islands, where we are proud to McKinney. women's issue, children's issue, and have some of the most beautiful parks Newt Gingrich, Bill Green, Carl D. Pur­ family issue. in the world. The magazine also fea­ sell, Judd Gregg, Benjamin Gilman, Hank Women work out of economic neces­ tures an article on two St. Johnians Brown, Thomas J. Ridge, Thomas J. Tauke, sity. If women are married, their Stephen J. Solarz, Marcy Kaptur, Esteban who are tremendous assets to the NPS income substantially contributes to and veritable experts on the history of Edward Torres, Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Henry the economic well-being of the family. Gonzales, Sander M. Levin, Harold L. Volk­ the islands and the flora and fauna of mer, Walter Fauntroy, Nicholas Mavroules, If they are a single parent, their pay­ the NPS land. A tour under their di­ Major R. Owens, Bob Walker, Bruce F. check is the economic well-being of rection is an unforgetable experience Vento, Mary Rose Oakar, John D. Dingell, the family. Adequate day care is a cru­ that brings the park to life with their Donald Joseph Albosta, Jim Leach, Brian J. cial support service for working descripti'>ns of the history, customs, Donnelly, Solomon Ortiz, Jerry M. Patter­ women. Often overlooked are services and hentage of our islands. The NPS son. for the 6 million children between the is rightly proud of their services, and I Nick Rahall, Mario Biaggi, James McNul­ ages of 6 and 13 who take care of ty, Les Aucoin, Glenn English, Dave am pleased that Denise Georges and McCurdy, W. Henson Moore, Edolphus themselves when they return home my very good friend Lito Valls have Towns, Lynn Martin, Pat Williams, Thomas from school-the "latchkey" children. been singled out for this well-deserved A. Daschle, James Weaver, John J. Lafalce, The bill I am introducing in the recognition in the National Parks mag­ Steny H. Hoyer, Pete Stark, Joel Pritchard, House and that was introduced in the azine. Olympia A. Snowe, F. James Sensenbren­ Senate in June is a cost-effective, com­ I would like to share this article with ner, Jr., Philip M. Crane. monsense approach to this growing my colleagues in the House. problem. Basically, the bill directs AKENDMENT TO H.J. RES. - (CONTINUING AP­ CULTURAL AMBASSADORS IN VIRGIN lsLANDS HHS to make grants to public agencies NATIONAL PARK PROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION) OFFERED BY and private nonprofits for child care MR. COUGHLIN in public school facilities. The commu­ (By Susan Vreeland) At the end of the bill, add the following It's not just the tropical flavor of the nat­ new section: nity decides on the program based on ural environment that makes Virgin Islands SEC. 111. No part of any appropriation their needs. National Park so special. Its Caribbean cul­ contained in this Act may be obligated or There are many of these programs ture reflects a vastly different history from expended for the continuation of the Clinch already existing. There are approxi­ that of the fifty states. The job of park River Breeder Reactor Project or, except to mately 125 programs in 33 States. In ranger becomes more expansive here. the extent specifically authorized in legisla­ Denver, we have had tremendous suc­ Beyond sharing natural history and teach­ tion hereafter enacted, for the implementa­ cess with an afterschool program in ing respect for the environment, national tion of an alternative financing arrange­ Gilpin School, a public school. It is a park interpreters give visitors an insight ment with respect to such Project. self-supporting program with a high into a history marked by slave revolts and plantation economy, a culture enriched by NUCLEAR REPORT, VOL. VI, No. 7, AUGUST 4, degree of parental involvement. Here island Creole and carnival that seems exotic 1983 in the Washington, D.C., area, Fairfax to most Americans. Hodel sent the CRBR alternative finan­ and Arlington counties have had an It takes special people to transmit this cial proposal to Capitol Hill on August l, in active aftercare program. cultural and linguistic heritage lightly, com­ time for it to be available to all Members of The money in this legislation, $15 fortably, and meaningfully. Virgin Islands Congress, giving them an opportunity to dis­ million each year for 3 years, would go National Park has two especially gifted cuss it with their constituents during the to those communities who wanted to people who do just that. Visitors come away summer congressional recess, which begins start similar programs. It promotes having learned and grown, but without feel­ this week and ends after Labor Day. to appropriate FY-1984 fee scale. This is extremely important manchineel tree, Jack spaniard wasps, and money for ongoing programs not covered by for families who earn less than $10,000 the stinging nettle; and Georges the island previously enacted appropriations bills. A per year. These are families who native, proudly sharing, Caribbean lore and full appropriation of about $1.4 billion to hardly have any child care options the islanders' simple yet elegant solutions to cover seven years of construction

25676 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1983 She explains that at this remote end of Much information comes from periods ence to children born in the New World, the U.S. supply line, West Indians have had long before the United States purchased the with the connotation that they were not to be creative in usinl what they had avail­ islands in 1917. "Danish records were excel­ quite authentic or pure. Later, Creole came able to them. For example, dried anthurium lent and thorough," Valls says. "On a plan­ to mean mixed blood. leaves make excellent scouring pads, and tation, if a child even fell down and broke "While English is the language of our stinlinl nettles make a hair rinse. Strangler his leg, it was recorded in the plantation heads, Creole is the language of our hearts," fls leaves used to be used as stationery for log." A philosopher at heart, Valls' histori­ Valls explains. The dialect makes this park love letters, and its blossoms provide glue cal tales reflect on human follies and piquantly different from any other in the for caulkina boats. Natural perfumes of bay achievements that transcend cultural bar­ National Park System. Park staff use it. rum, wild cinnamon, and hog plum abound riers. Menus use it. "Kribishee with jumbee para­ in the park. On the park's popular historical tour, sols" is shrimp with mushrooms. Island Drawing from her childhood, Georges Ranger Valls takes visitors in an open-air fauna and flora reflect it. The "monkey-no­ tells how West Indian children tease each safari bus to the seldom-visited eastern end climb" is a tree with sharp thorns on it.s other with friction-heated scorcher beans of the island. En route, island history un­ trunk; the "woman tongue" is a tree with from the prickly pod on the nicker tree and rolls like a brightly colored cloth on which dry pods that rattle incessantly. how they make flutes from papaya stems cultural patterns mingle. "The first sugar "One one" or one by one and little by and maracas from gourds of the calabash plantation slaves were white-exiles from little, stateside visitors undergo a "mine tree. To a West Indian child, mango seeds Danish prisons-and the most wealthy tu'n"-a mind turn, or a change of mind­ are really doll's eyes. · planter was a man of color," he explains. and drop their "alien talk" to pick up Creole Slipping into Creole, Georges tells of the Valls points out the spot where the first phrases, but not without curious questions. Island's herbal medicines: "When yoh have slave insurrection started at Coral Bay in At a campfire talk, when asked what lan­ a little baby and say he belly gripin', den 1733. "The insurrection occurred," he ex­ guage is spoken on St. John, Georges al­ yoh use da soursop tea wit da natural vanil­ plains, "not because of the drought in that lowed a pregnant pause and then quietly la essence for to sweeten it and den he sleep year and the subsequent lack of food, not said, "English"-cementing the link between so quiet." Spontaneous and engaging in her because of hurricanes, and not even because islanders and continentals. relations with visitors, her use of Creole de­ slavery was reprehensible, but because the Both Georges and Valls are cultural am­ lights and her warmth eases the racial gap. slaves had been nobility in Africa and were She teases white visitors about the "tourist bassadors who serve with love for their visi­ used to having slaves themselves." tors, their island's natural gifts, and their nose tree," which, she says, has bark that At the Moravian chu:i'ch he stops to share turns red and peels, "just like a tourist's people's traditions. Together they make the his personal appreciation of the humanitari­ Virgin Islands National Park experience in­ nose.'' After a campfire talk, Georges is apt an impulses of significant island figures. to say, "Before we gone, I want all a yob to structive, respectful, and as warm as the The Moravians-the first Protestants to tropic breeze that plays over the islands.• meet me mudda." She puts her arms around consider that blacks had souls to save-sent a middle-aged white woman, a dear friend two missionaries to St. John in 1732. One of and neighbor. Some visitors, both captivated the converts, Brother Cornelius, a slave, and perplexed, sense the joke from the taught himself engineering, architecture, FORMER NIH DIRECTOR laughter of others. and masonry in order to build the Moravian OPPOSES H.R. 2350 Georges' duties take her on seashore church still being used today. His own lan­ walks where she leads visitors wading far guage being Dutch Creole, Brother Corne­ out into a shallow bay to discover marine lius learned English, Danish, Dutch, and HON. EDWARD R. MADIGAN life. She also instructs snorkelers and often German so he could preach in whatever lan­ OF ILLINOIS dives deep to bring a sea biscWt or sea guage was necessary. urchin up f.o the surface. She takes visitors IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to places where they might see a moray eel Slaves on the islands had free time on Sat­ fighting with its mortal enemy, the octopus. urday nights, Sunday afternoons, and Thursday, September 22, 1983 At campfire talks Georges sometimes moonlit nights. Brother Cornelius worked during these times to buy the freedom of e Mr. MADIGAN. Mr. Speaker, on brings her nine-foot stilts, for she is a much September 14, 1983, my colleague admired moko jumbee dancer on the island. his mother, his wife, and his eight children Like most Caribbean Islands, St. John has a before he bought his own. He was instru­ RICHARD SHELBY of Alabama placed in carnival, this one celebrating the emancipa­ mental in bringing about the translation of the RECORD a substitute amendment tion of slaves on July 3, 1848. Capitalizing the New Testament into Dutch Creole as which he will offer with JIM BROYHILL on U.S. Independence Day, at 4:30 a.m. on well as establishing, in 1782, a free public and myself when H.R. 2350 is consid­ July 4, all St. Johnians come outside dressed education system, the first in the New ered by the House. The Shelby substi­ in pajamas and diapers and other crazy World. It was open first for blacks and only the following year for whites, who had tute reauthorizes for 3 fiscal years the attire for j'ouvert . Everyone other educational advantages. "They don't dances around town until sunrise, when the make them like Cornelius anymore!" Valls Institutes of Health CHIH>. creates a parade begins and moko jumbee dancers get remarks. new National Institute of Arthritis a chance to show off their skill. Valls tells a story about another historical and Musculoskeletal Disease and 25 The tradition of stilt dancing, Georges figure, one who started life as an "outside centers for research in disease preven­ says, comes from West Africa at the time of child"-the gentle Creole term for illegit­ tion and health promotion. Funding harvest, as a celebration to the gods. Danc­ imate child. This child's mother had been levels in the substitute are exactly the ers representing medicine men or steered into marrying an older planter on St. Croix, who was later granted a divorce same as those in H.R. 2350 and repre­ spirits of natural elements and ghosts sent increases over the 1983 appropria­ Cjumbee> dressed in gala costumes, skip, from her. However, she was not considered hop, and do acrobatics-all high in the air. divorced and therefore could never remarry. tions of 15 percent except for the The stilts support only the arch of the foot, But she did bear a child out of wedlock. At cancer authority which would receive and toes and heels are unsupported. Only in fourteen, her son was successfully managing a 35-percent increase. 1978 did a few women start performing as two businesses; and when his financial apti­ Unlike the Waxman bill, the Shelby moko jumbees. Now Georges is learning to tude was discovered, he was sent to New substitute is free of the highly de­ "play the pans" ; she is the York for education. His name? Alexander tailed and restrictive mandates, line first to combine that with stilt dancing. Hamilton, our first Secretary of the Treas­ Although Georges' effortless blending of ury. item authorizations for research in languages and culture may exemplify the is­ One of Valls' major contributions is his specific disease areas, and significant land's modem times, Ranger Lito Valls gives island Creole dictionary, What a Pistur­ changes to NIH's organizational struc­ it historical perspective. No one is better kle!-a title that, like many island phrases, ture and administrative framework. In suited to do this, for Valls is known to St. needs the dictionary for explanatioa "Pis­ offering this substitute we believe we Johnians as the island historian. He main­ tarkle" means rampant confusion, and, to are giving Nm the vote of confidence tains a 3,000-volume library on natural and the first-time vistor, that might accurately it justly deserves. The substitute pro­ cultural Virgin Islands history at the na­ describe the island dialect. But in ruravellng vides a funding increase which insures tional park's visitor center in Cruz Bay. Re­ the origins of the language, we discover searching local and national archives, inter­ island attitudes and character. the continued growth of our Nation's viewing Islanders, and eXPloring old ruins, Creole, Valls explains, comes from the biomedical research endeavors while he has added immensely to the store of Spanish criar, meaning "to bring up or to maintaining the flexibility dictated by Virgin Islands history. rear." The term was used especially in refer- the scientific environment. September 23, 1983 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25677 Recently, I received a letter of oppo­ Against this background, I regret that I quarters and when the dJscreteness of time­ sition of H.R. 2350 from one scientist must say that the revisions of the Public honored categories such as cancer and ar­ who knows directly the detrimental Health Service Act proposed in H.R. 2350, thritis is becoming blunted, the most impor­ impact of this legislation. Dr. James would be highly distressing to me if I were tant role for the Congress, in my opinion, is still the Director, NIH. Moreover, their jus­ to review-frequently, carefully, and mi­ Shannon, the Director of NIH from tification on the basis of the present size nutely-the processes used by the NIH in 1955 through 1968, expressed his con­ and complexity of the operation is not per­ setting its priorities, making its program de­ cerns on this legislation most elo­ suasive. cisions, and selecting its projects. If these quently. I want to share this letter The last appropriation request in whose processes are designed and operated so that with my colleagues. development I participated before my retire­ the highest degree of competence, objectivi­ The letter follows: ment in the summer of 1968 was that for ty, and fairness is brought to bear upon the FY 1969; it resulted in an appropriation of identification of targets and the allocation PORTLAND, OREG., about $1.1 billion. In terms of its purchasing September 9, 1983. of funds, I am convinced that the rate of power, the current year's appropriation of progress against disease will be maximized Hon. EDWARD R. MADIGAN, $4.004 billion is only about 30% larger than Subcomm,ttee on Heal.th and the Environ­ and that the scientific community of the that for FY 1969. Compared to the 1150% country will be reasonably well satisfied. By ment, Committee on EneTVJI and Com­ increase in appropriations, corrected for in­ merce, U.S. Home of Representatives, contrast, when any categorical or subcate­ flation, that occurred between FYs 1956 to gorical group gains special advantage as the Washington, D.C. 1969, the additional growth of 30% over the DBAR MR. MADIGAN: When in Washington following 15 years strikes me as relatively result of a political process rather than solid this week at the invitation of the National unimpressive, hardly warranting very major scientific justification, scientists will become Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine revisions in the statutory authorities that disillusioned and escalate unreasonable and to dJscuss that organization's ongoing study served so effectively during the period of self-serving demands. on the structure of the NIH, former col­ rapid growth. I continue to believe that the statutory leagues brought me up-to-date on the status Despite the relative fiscal stability of the authorities under which the NIH operated of legislation related to the NIH. Specifical­ last fifteen years, it should be noted that from 1944 until passage of the National ly, I was able to review proposals now before biomedical science has advanced briskly Cancer Act of 1971 are the most appropriate the Congress and to read the debate that oc­ along a very broad front. Understanding of for a federally funded national research curred in the House on July 25, 1983, as it biological phenomena has deepended signifi­ effort in biomedicine. As a corollary, I am appeared in the Congressional Record. cantly, opportunities-the leads and clues­ convinced that changes subsequent to 1971 When secretarial assistance-a luxury not for progress have increased many fold, and have not served the program well. More­ regularly available to me these days-was the complex nature of human disease has over, these have made the Congress much offered, I decided to communicate my views become increasingly apparent. This being more vUJ.nerable to special pleadings that it on this matter to you. the case, the effective use of federal funds must find difficult both to evaluate and to Let me first of all assure you of my enor­ would clearly seem to require that the most ignore. In the long run, however, the accu­ mous respect for the Congress of the United sophisticated, objective, and dJscerning sci­ mulation of ad hoc responses to such plead­ States. During my thirteen years as Direc­ entific expertise be brought to bear upon ings, no matter how humanely motivated, tor, NIH, under Presidents Eisenhower, funding allocation decisions and that feder­ will turn the nation's biomedical research Kennedy, and Johnson, I invariably found al managers be allowed to exercise broad enterprise into a shambles and thereby deny the legislature warmly receptive and sup­ Judgment in the administration of pro­ the American people the outcomes they so portive. There was never a doubt in my grams. strongly want and deserve. mind that members of both sides of the In my opinion, the effect of H.R. 2350 The views expressed in this letter are, I aisle in both the House and Senate were would be quite contrary to the needs of the believe, entirely consistent with those I ex­ deeply committed to the programs to which times. For expert technical decisions by the pressed in 1971 in a letter to Dr. Holly they had given such major impetus and agency with the assistance of its advisory Smith that was later published in the which they had entrusted to the steward­ apparatus, the bill proposes highly specific Senate Hearing Record on the Conquest of ship of the NIH. Members were thoroughly Congressional mandates with respect to sci­ Cancer Act, 1971. I would be happy to sympathetic and responsive to the problems entific priorities; and it limits, rather than expand on them either in person or by that the NIH, from time to time, brought to encourages, administrative and managerial letter, if such would be helpful. their attention. The Congress as a whole de­ dJscretion. I have sent the same letter to Representa­ serves enormous credit for the very signifi­ In these times of rapid scientific advance, tive Waxman. cant achievements of the NIH over the last when significant developments are as likely Sincerely, 35 years. as not to arise from completely unexpected JAKES A. SHANNON.e