May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9591 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE SOVIET MOOD: ONE OF WAR Medvedev added: "Nixon couldn't beat tiny ALASKA LANDS LEGISLATION­ Vietnam because the country was too divided GOVERNOR HAMMOND'S LETTER to win a war. We sent a few thousand troops down to Angola and we took over the place in HON. LARRY McDONALD just a few weeks." HON. JERRY HUCKABY OF Mr. Herr confesses that before he went to the USSR, he held views like those officially OF LOUISIANA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES expressed by the early Carter administration, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, May 2, 1979 especially by U.S. SALT negotiator Paul Wednesday, May 2, 1979 Warnke, specifically "th~t the e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, the So­ was ruled by responsible, conservative office­ • Mr. HUCKABY. Mr. Speaker, today viet mood since our political defeat in holders who would not risk their privileges I am inserting in the CONGRESSIONAL Vietnam has been one of rising optimism with an expansionist foreign policy. It seemed RECORD a letter recently transmitted to based upon the "correlation of forces" as absurd at that time to think in terms of the Members of the House by Alaska Gov. they put it. Her recent adventures have old bipolar world ... But Russians have taught me that such notions as East versus Jay Hammond. In the letter, Governor been successful in Angola, Ethiopia, and West, however much the West may wish them Hammond urges us to support the Alaska Afghanistan. Certainly the changed situ­ to disappear, are still thriving in the East." lands bills reported by the House In­ ation in Iran contains many pluses for For those of us who are not experts, it is terior and Merchant Marine and Fish­ the U.S.S.R. and great potential for hard to know who is right about Soviet in­ eries Committees and to oppose the further Soviet gains. Militarily, the tention.s. legislation sponsored by Congressmen U.S.S.R. has pulled well ahead of the Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in a bril· UDALL and ANDERSON. I believe that the liant, if loosely constructed speech at the in all except one or two Naval Academy on March 22, cited the White Governor has made a persuasive case, categories of weapons. Her outlook re­ Paper of the British Defense Ministry, which and commend his letter to the Members :flects these gains and she is :flexing her points out that "the Communist bloc has a of this body and to others interested in muscles. This new mood was discussed in 50 per cent edge over NATO in submarines, a a sound resolution of the Alaska lands a recent column by Michael Novak that 30 per cent edge in surface ships, three times issue: appeared in the Washington Star of as many tanks and heavy guns, and more STATE OF ALASKA, April 14, 1979, and should be read by than twice as many fixed-wing tactical air­ Washington, D.C., April 30, 1979. everyone who doubts we are entering a craft-well beyond what can be considered DEAR CONGRESSMAN: This letter is written necessary for purely defensive purposes." to urge your support for the Alaska lands most dangerous period in our history. Most of my friends, I find, are not aware of bills reported by the House Interior and (From the Washington Star, Apr. 14, 1979] the actual amounts the U.S. has been spend­ Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committees, THE SOVIET MOOD ; "ONE OF WAR" ing on arms. Moynihan points out that we and your opposition to legislation sponsored (By Michael Novak) have not built a new strategic missile by Congressmen Udall and Anderson. launcher since 1967. Hal! of our defense Unfortunately, the Alaska lands issue has A pseudonymous American living in Mos­ budget goes for salaries and personnel costs. become clouded in misinformation and cow has contributed a most important new Another 35 per cent goes for maintenance of innuendo. The issue is not one of environ­ insight into the decline of the West as seen fac111ties. Only about $9 blllion goes for stra­ ment versus development or concerned citi­ from Russia. tegic nuclear forces. For arms and ammuni­ zens juxtaposed against interests. Writing in the March 31 issue of The New tion, expeditures total barely $20 blllion. The Interior Committee (Huckaby) and Republic, "Robert Herr" reports on a multi­ By contrast, the Soviets spend !ar more Merchant Marine Committee (Breaux-Din­ tude o! conversations he has had with or­ than we do, a far larger proportion of their gell) b1lls are very strong environmental dinary Russians over the last several months. resources, and do not count most personnel measures. Each b111 would more than double All predict an imminent war with the United costs in their mllltary budget. the size of certain Federal Conservation sys­ States, in which "Soviet m111tary power will tems, would designate several parks and crush the new flabby American m111tary." Perhaps-let us all hope-there will not be war. Yet in our national psyche, the mass wildlife refuges larger than many states, and "The mood within the Soviet Union," Herr media thrive on images of disaster. Our would protect important scenic and wildlife writes, "is clearly one of war." The "Russians minds may say peace, but our imaginations resources throughout Alaska. perceive a weakness in America." A political are saying disaster. In fact, the Merchant Marine Blll con­ information officer told him "how certain he tains slightly more wilderness acreage and was that in the next decade hls country Leonid Brezhnev is very 111. By the early 1980s, when Soviet power in virtually every the Interior b111 slightly less than that rec­ would be at war with either China or Amer­ ommended by the Carter Administration, and ica. We should go to war sooner rather than sphere wlll exceed ours, even though there wlll stlll be a rough balance of ultimate ter­ t h e Merchant Marine legislation would des­ later, he said, for 1f we walt another 10 years ror, the Soviets will have a new government. ignate significantly more wildlUe refuge China may acquire the technology to beat acreage than would either the Udall-Ander­ Russia." What sort of government wlll it be? It son or Carter Administration proposals. This Soviet officer wore jeans; he loved probably will be younger. "Very possibly," Further. the Merchant Marine blll exceeds Moynihan points out, "it will be a govern­ by approximately 35 million acres the total Stevie Wonder and American rock. "It's a ment of uncertain or at least untested legiti­ shame to think that your country will be amount of land which would be designated macy, a government that might well desire a or redesignated by the Carter Administra­ destroyed," he said. "Without America, this test of strength." Its power in relation to ours country would really be a prison. Such a tion, and contains 9 milllon acres more than shame." will be at an all-time favorable point. the Udall bill. (While certainly not deter­ IRoy Medvedev, the famous physicist, told The next eight years promise to be the most minative, all of the pending bllls exceed by a Mr. Herr that "the Soviet Union is moving in dangerous the United States has ever gone very wide margin the 80 million acre ceiling one direction-toward the strengthening of through. In 1962, when the Soviets had only which the 91st Congress, in balancing the our military might .. . Our country is a m111- 60 to 70 truly strategic weapons, while we had various competing interests, authorized the tary machine. We are continuing now as we about 2,000 misslles and bombs, the Soviets Secretary of the Interior to study for perma­ did in World War II .. . We won because our did not hestitate to put misslles in Cuba. Now nent conservation designation. A Udall system allowed the spending of colossal re­ that they have parity, and even superiority amendment calling for a 100 mlllion acre sources for one purpose alone>-military in many respects, wm they be more timid? study-the Merchant Marine b111 would des­ strength . . . Americans are fools. They come They may well calculate that to delay is the ignate 127 mlllion acres of new units-was to Russia, stay in our hotels, eat in the res­ more dangerous course. cefeated on the House floor.) taurants and find out that everything here is After 15 years of anti-war feeling, it is dim­ At the same time, the Interior and Mer­ badly run . . . Then they return to the cult for the public to face new realities. Such chant Marine Committee bills address other United States with the conclusion that since a turn was required once before, at the begin­ important Federal interests -and State con­ Russia. can't run a hotel, it can't build a ning of World War II. This time, we wlll not cerns. Both b1lls help to satisfy Alaska's en­ rocket either. They don't realize that we put have the luxury of suffering a surprise attack titlement under the Statehood Act--an un­ everything into rocketry, that the govern­ and months of early defeats. fulfilled Federal promise made over twenty ment doesn't care whether or not anything It is more than irony that peace is obtained years ago-and to insure the future viab1llty is left over for the population ... Americans by preparation for war. It 1s a moral of the State's economy-another objective cannot keep up with this kind of a system." responsib111ty.e of the Statehood Act. While some effort was

• This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. 9592 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 made, the Udall-Anderson b111 demonstrably out jeopardizing the economic viabillty of These looming troubles are caused does not achieve these purposes. Alaska or the nation, or imposing a "permit" In addition, the Interior and Merchant lifestyle on our citizens. To accomplish these primarily by inflation, which is a delib­ Marine bills facllitate the environmentally­ objectives, certain overly-simplistic solutions erate policy of the FedeTal Government. sensitive assessment of Alaska's oil and gas and misconceptions must be abandoned. By increasing the money supply to fund and other mineral resources. In view of re­ Thus, the Alaska lands legislation should lavish spending, Washington devalues cent events in the mid-East and elsewhere, be viewed for what it is-an extremely com­ the worth of every dollar held by the such an asssessment and resulting develop­ plex series of issues which are not suscepti­ people. ment, when compatible with other Federal ble to black and white solutions. · objectives, seems only prudent. Moreover, The legacy that I would leave behind as The Social Security system is also carefully-planned assessments now could Governor is that, working cooperatively with harmed by the Administration's delib­ avoid panicky, unplanned efforts as mineral the Federal government, we have established erate slowdown of economic growth. This shortages become more acute. While the a. careful bala~ce between environmental mistaken attempt to cure inflation with­ Udall-Anderson bill does contain certain cos­ protection and national resource develop­ out cutting needless spending only suc­ metic language, it does not provide for the ment. A too-heavily weighted Federal thumb ceeds in raising unemployment. assessments which are so necessary. Further, on either side of the scale would jeopardize contrary to certain assertions which have future accomplishment of the other objec­ A 1978 Harris poll revealed that over been made, the existing data base is simply tive. In my opinion, the Interior and Mer­ 40 percent of Americans had "hardly any not adequate to support a conclusion that chant Marine bills best strike this balance. confidence at all" that they would re­ the vast preponderance of Alaska's energy 0~ the other hand, the Udall-Anderson b111 ceive Social Security benefits. resources would be available for development represents a giant step backward in sound under the Udall-Anderson bill. resource management and in Federal-State I believe Social Security will pay these The Interior and Merchant Marine bills relationships. benefits: but how much will the inflated are based on a compromise measure put to­ Thank you for your consideration of this dollars buy for retired Americans? gether last year by the Carter Administration correspondence. If you have any question,s, To ensure that retired Americans get and key Congressional representatives, with please call me or my Special Counsel, John Social Security pensions that are worth the exception of one member of the Alaska W. Katz (202) 624-5858. something, and that younger Americans Congressional delegation. Some persons have Sincerely yours, aren't taxed unfairly to pay for them, we claimed that the compromise never existed. JAYS. HAMMOND, Others, while admitting that a compromise Governor.e need some serious reforms. The most im­ was formulated last year, say circumstances portant are: 1) Stopping government have changed due to Presidential imposition inflation; 2) Cutting Federal spending of 56 million acres of national monuments. TAX OVERDOSE massively; and 3) Instituting tax and I firmly believe that a compromise did exist regulation policies that encourage eco­ and that while bureaucratic designations no~c growth. may have changed, the resources which re­ HON. quire protection have not. Therefore, as rec­ Will Congress find the courage to ognized by the two House Committees which . OF TEXAS adopt these reforms? That is the big have so carefully studied and deliberated on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES question of the 1980's.• the Alaska lands issue, passage of legislation Wednesday, May 2, 1979 based on tbe compromise--in fact, the Mer­ chant Marine bill is an even stronger • Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, under leave environmental measure-would facllltate to extend my remarks in the Record, I CARTER TRANSIT BUDGET FAILS TO achievement of a carefully balanced solution include the following: KEEP PACE WITH INFLATION to this extremely complex matter. While some Alaskans sup.port the Udall­ TAX OVERDOSE Anderson bill or urge that we pursue an A CPA in Brazoria County, Texas, exclusive judicial remedy, the vast majority mentioned to me how horrified he was HON. ROBERT W. EDGAR support the enactment of a reasonable and by the high taxes his middle-class clients OF PENNSYLVANIA balanced Alaska lands bill. This sentiment paid this year. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was voiced in a resolution enacted by the Direct payments to Washington are State Legislature earlier this year. The reso­ Wednesday, May 2, 1979 lution asks from the Congress only that only the beginning; total goverrunent ex­ penditures-Federal, State, and local­ e Mr. EDGAR. Mr. Spea:ker, in his pro­ which the responsible representatives of any posed budget for fiscal year 1980, Presi­ State would request. In brief, we ask that equal more than half of personal dis­ any Alaska lands legislation contain provi­ posable income (a more realistic meas­ dent Carter, proposed no increase what­ sions to: (1) fulfill Alaska's entitlement un­ ure than GNP) . And that's not even soever in spending for public transpor­ der the Statehood Act; (2) provide needed counting the tax of inflation. tation. As a result of inflation, this 1980 access across conservation system units; (3) The church only asks 10 percent of our budget request has $400 million less buy­ insure continuing State management of ing power than the present 1979 transit resident fish and wildlife; (4) remove high income. Even serfs in the Middle Ages only had to work for the local baron 25 budget has. In a time of energy short­ value commodity resources from the bound­ ages, our commitment to transit is ac­ aries of overly restrictive conservation units percent of the time. tually shrinking. within which even the most environmentally We don't realize the level of taxation, responsible development would be precluded; because we think only in terms of the This dilemma hits Philadelphia par­ (5) assure traditional Alaskan uses at exist­ amounts that we pay directly. But much ticularly hard. The Pennjerdel Corp., a ing levels; and (6) require administrative of the price of everything we buy is taxes. business group representing the three­ forebearance from the imposition of addi­ There are more than 100 taxes on a loaf State Philadelphia: metropolitan area, tional conservation withdrawals after the recently wrote to me to explain the prob­ enactment of comprehensive legislation. of bread, for example. Government takes far more than the farmer, the baker, or lem. I share this letter with my colleagues It is my judgement and that of the Alaska and in particular draw your attention to Congressional delegation that the Udall-An­ the supermarket. derson blll simply does not satisfy these The biggest tax increase in peacetime the accompanying chart, which shows basic objectives. Wh11e the Udall bill does U.S. history took place in 1977, when clearly the inadequacy of the national contain provisions which purport to deal Congress jacked up Social Security pay­ commitment to public transit over the with these matters, the treatment, by and roll taxes by $277 billion over 10 years. past 2 fiscal years: large, is totally inadequate. For the sake of · Employees saw the first results in the APRIL 24, 1979. brevity, I have refrained from in,cluding a Hon. ROBERT W. EDGAR, detailed analysis of the acreage, resource, higher FICA deductions last January. U.S. House of Representatives, and management considerations which have These deductions from paychecks will in­ House Office Building, led me to these conclusions. However, much crease, but thanks to government prof­ Washington, D .a. of the data and analysis upon which my ligacy, they may not be enough to en­ DEAR BoB: Under the Administration's conclusions are based are set forth in the sure the stability of Social Security. budget for FY 1980, SEPTA could have a majority reports filed by the In,terior and The trustees of the Social Security sys­ $13,232,183 shortfall in Federal operating as­ Merchant Marine Committees and in a short tem issued a report 2 weeks ago that, sistance for public transportation. The entire comparative analysis which you will receive in the words of the Wall Street Journal, Commonwealth coUld have an $18,079,096 today. had to "struggle rather hard to sound op­ shortfall. In addition, funds for capital Most Alaskans recognize that important transit programs could be significantly Federal conservation interests are involved timistic. The system remains sound, it reduced. in the Alaska. lands legislation. We believe said, but well, there could be a few prob­ Thls federal operating assistance, begun in that Alaska is large enough and diverse lems, like maybe some cash shortages 1974, along with support from State and enough to accommodate these interests with- about 1983." local governments and reasonable fare struc- May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9593 tures, has reversed the negative trend of million for FY 1980. These reductions could ing mob111ty to millions of our citizens who transit ridership that has existed since 1945. result in a 10-20 percent increase in fares have no alternatives-the young, the old, and In many cities, ridership is now over the peak and/or substantial cutbacks in transit the economically disadvantaged. experienced during the 1973 oil embargo. services. We urge your support for an increase in the After two years of analysis and compromise, Our support for increased federal funding FY 1980 Section 3 and Section 5 budget ap­ the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of to the level authorized may seem incongruous propriations to the levelB originally author­ 1978 authorized funding levels which were as we struggle to bring the federal budget ized by Congress in 1978. In addition, we barely adequate. The current FY 1979 appro­ under control, but the benefits of funds spent enlist your support for a FY 1979 supple­ priation and the Adminlst.Jiation's proposed for public transit are vital to the nation 'in mental appropriation to bring Section 3 and FY 1980 budget fall short of even these re­ many ways-in energy conservation, in Section 5 levels up to the authorized level. duced authorized levels for capital improve­ greater access to job opportunities, in a Sincerely, ments and operating subsidie~a total reduc­ cleaner environment, in revitalization of our THACHER LONGSTRETH, tion of $236 million for FY 1979 and $336 urban areas, and most important, in provid- President.

STATUS OF TRANSIT ASSISTANCE (Millions of dollars)

Fiscal year 1979 Fiscal year 1980 proposed Cumulative Authorization Appropriation Shortfall Authorization Budget Shortfall shortfall

Sec. 3: CapitaL------_ 1, 299.4 1, 225.0 74.4 I, 332.4 1, 225.0 107.4 181.8 Planning______75.6 153.5 22.1 77.6 53.8 ------23.8 45.9 TotaL______1, 375.0 1, 278.5 96.5 1, 410.0 1, 278.8 131.2 227.7 ======~======~======~ Sec. 5: Basic------850.0 850.0 ------900.0 850.0 50.0 50.0 2dBus tier·-- capitaL--- ______------______------250.0300. 0 15!l.O300. 0 _------100.0 _ 250.0300. 0 300.150.0 0 ______100.0 200.0 _ RaiL------.------115.0 75.0 40.0 130.0 75.0 55.0 95.0 1, 515. 0 1, 375. 0 140. 0 1, 580.0 1, 375.0 205.0 345.0 Total shortfalL ______------______------236. 5 ------336.2 572.7

1 Of this amount, 28.5 was actually in the sec. 3 appropriation and 25 was in the sec. 5 Estimates of the American Public Transit Association. appropriation. •

U.S. AGREEMENTS AND COMMIT­ the United States enter into as part of these 9. You discussed unUateral gestures on the MENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST recent treaty negotiations? West Bank and in Gaza which the Israelis Are there any secret, written or unwritten, have agreed to undertake. understandings associated with the agree­ What moves have they agreed to? HON. LEE H. HAMILTON ments reached other than the security as­ What have we suggested? surance to Israel? Did we suggest any policy on settlements OF INDIANA 2. What is the precise nature of the secu­ as a significant gesture? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rity assistance currently being discussed with If not, why not? Wednesday, May 2, 1979 the Israelis? 10. I understand that the 1975 agreement What obligations will the U.S. undertake? on oil with Israel will be renewed. The ques­ • Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, the ex­ Will this assurance resemble a defense tion is: What is our precise obligation? tent of the United States' deep involve­ pact? Are we to make up any Israeli shortfall as ment in the Middle East and in peace ef­ Will the United States have any base or Israel determines it? forts to try to achieve a comprehensive military fac111ties access in Israel? Are we only to make up for lost Sinai wells? Will commitments or access to specific Under what circumstances would oil pro­ settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict sophisticated arms be included in these duced domestically here have to be exported is a matter of interest to all Members. assurances? to Israel? At the time of the conclusion of the Do you foresee roughly $1 billion in FMS I would appreciate an early reply to these recent Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, I credit for Israel for the foreseeable future? questions. asked the Department of State some 3. Is any security commitment or assur­ With best regards. questions regarding the treaty and our ance with Egypt involved? Sincerely yours, involvement in the Middle East. Several What other assurances or understandings LEE H . HAMILTON, of the questions I posed in my letter of are under discussion or have been agreed Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe to? and. the Middle East. March 9, 1979, have been answered in 4. With the final negotiations and imple­ hearings before the Subcommittee on mentation of a treaty, what will be the force WASHINGTON, D.C., Europe and the Middle East of the Com­ and effect of those agreements concluded in April 26, 1979. mittee on Foreign Affairs. 1975 as part of the Sinai II negotiations? Hon. LEE H. HAMILTON, The State Department did, in a letter Is there any future requirement associated Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe end the of April 26, 1979, offer a useful and con­ with these recent negotiations for the United Middle East. cise summary of U.S. agreements and States to coordinate, consult or seek to con­ DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: A number of the cert its policies in the region with Israel? questions contained in your letter of commitments undertaken in connection 5. Do you feel the United States now re­ March 20 have now been answered through with the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. I tains full flexibility to determine its policies testimony and communications received by would like to bring this correspondence on the Palestinian issue as United States the Committee, and further answers will, of to the attention of my colleagues. interests deem necessary? course, be provided in today's session. I The letters follow: 6. What is the precise nature of the aid thought it might be useful, however, to de­ WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19,1979. commitments the United States made? wribe briefly the agreements and commit~ Hon. CYRUS R. VANCE, What do you estimate to be the costs of ments undertaken by the United States in Secretary of State, the new Negev air bases? connection with the Tre3.ty of Peace between Department of State, Based on these figures, do you foresee an­ Egypt and Israel. Documents expressing all Washington, D.C. nual aid levels for Israel and Egypt in the such agreements and commitments have now DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Last week, Ambassa­ neighborhood of $4 billion· for the coming been received by the Committee. dor Atherton briefed Members of the Com­ few years? The principal undertakings may be sum­ mittee on Foreign Affairs concerning the re­ 7. Mr. Secretary, the oil agreement reached marized as follows: centy concluded Egyptian-Israeli peace with Israel is a 10-year commitment. First, in direct connection with the Peace treaty. Is that also the time frame for other un­ Treaty package, the United States has made Several crucial questions were not an­ derstanding and agreements reached? the following commitments to both Egypt swered during that meeting and I believe 8. Will Saudi Arabia continue to aid Egypt? and Israel: that they need to be addressed. If not, do we have any commitment to We have assured them of our readiness to 1. What understandings, assurances or make up to Egypt the other aid revenue it participate fully in all stages of the West other agreements, written or unwritten, did has lost? Bank and Ga.za negotiations; 9594 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 In the event of an actual or threatened conclusions of the Treaty of Peace, with ments of the situation while avoiding treaty violation, we wlll, on request of one enumerated e~ceptions. excessive commitments by the United States. or both parties, consult with the parties and In the Memorandum of Agreement with We have also endeavored to assure that the take such other action as we may deem ap­ Israel concerning oil, the United States and undertakings of the United States were made propriate and helpful to achieve compliance Israel agree to conclude an agreement pro­ subject to Congressional action and over­ with the Treaty. viding, in essence, that the United States will sight. The United States will perform aerial assure that Israel obtains oil to meet its Sincerely, monitoring of the Sinal arrangements dur­ needs, should Israel be unable to secure its DOUGLAS J. BENNET, JR., ing the withdrawal period as requested by oil needs through normal procedures, for a Assistant Secretary for Congressional the parties; and period of 15 years, including the existing Relations. We wlll try to arrange through the UN for five year oil supply arrangement. All costs the permanent stationing of the interna­ incurred by the Umted States will be reim­ tional personnel called for under the Treaty, bursed by Israel. but, should this fall, the President wlll be EGYPT NEMIR REUNION-TYPICALLY prepared to take those steps necessary to Our bilateral assurances to Egypt are re­ AMERICAN ensure an acceptable alternative multina­ flected in Secretary Brown's letter to De­ tional force. fense Minister Ali relating to Inilitary The assurance concerning United States assistance, which provides that: participation in the West Bank and Gaza HON. J. J. PICKLE We are prepared to expand our sales to OF TEXAS negotiations is reflected in the joint letter Egypt of mllitary equipment and services and from President Sadat and Prime Minister to finance at least a portion of those sales; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Begin to President Carter. The other com­ The President is prepared to recommend Wednesday, May 2, 1979 mitments mentioned above are set out in sale of $1.5 b1llion in such equipment and President Carter's March 26 letter to both services during the next three years, with e Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, I am leaders. FMS financing at specified terms; and pleased to call your attention to an un­ Second, in addition to the foregoing as­ We are prepared in general to sell m111tary usual family reunion that will be held surances made to both parties, we have en­ items listed in the classified attachment to in Washington, D.C. on May 3, 4, 5, and tered into certain bilateral undertakings the Brown letter. with each of them, subject of course to sub­ 6 with over 150 persons in attendance In addition, while we have made no spe­ who are descendants and relatives of the stantive and procedural requirements of the clfic commitment to Egypt on economic aid United States laws. levels, we did make clear our intent to 6 N emir brothers and 1 sister who ISRAEL seek $300 million in economic support fund came to the United States during the The bilateral undertakings with Israel are assistance for Egypt to supplement our exist­ period 1895 to 1910, seeking a new life set out in Secretary Brown's letter to Min­ ing ald. in a country where freedom from per­ ister of Defense Welzman, the Memorandum All of the undertakings and assurances secution is the cornerstone of the Ameri­ of Agreement concerning assurances, and the described above have been concluded in the can way of life. Memorandum of Agreement concerning oil. form of Memoranda of Agreement and 1£-t­ The first Nemir reunion was held in The principal undertakings set out in Sec­ ters. They are not mutual security or mutual my district in Austin, Tex. Each of the retary Brown's letter are the following: defense treaties or security guarantees. They We wlll provide managerial, technical and do not commit the United States to take any six Nemir brothers settled in Texas, and financial assistance in the construction of particular action in response to treaty viola­ their sister settled in Nebraska. Austin two alrbases in the Negev for Israel, includ­ tions or other events. and nearby cities were very attractive ing a grant of $800 mllllon. This undertak­ The undertakings in the President's let­ to the brothers because of their desire ing is elaborated through two implementing ters to President Sadat and Prime M1n1~ter to have their children educated in a agreements relating to the construction Begin are made expressly subject to United university city. In fact, I am told that project and its financing; States constitutional processes. The und€r• there has been at least one member of We wlll provide $2.2 bllllon in loans to tak1ngs in the Memorandum of Agreement the Nemir family in attendance at the meet other military relocation costs or concerning assurances are, in essence, to con­ equipment purchases over a three year sult, to consider a variety of responses to University of Texas practically each year period; and a demonstrated violation of the Peace Treaty, over the past 50 years. We are prepared to approve the sale of and to take such remedial measures as the The first family reunion began as a substantial quantities of equipment for the United States alone deems appropriate. memorial to these courageous brothers modernization of Israeli armed forces and While the language of the Memorandum is who, with one exception, came to the to accelerate the F-16 aircraft delivery far short of security guarantee language, the Memorandum nonetheless also contains an United States at ages not yet out of schedule. their teens. And the reunions have con­ The first Memorandum of Agreement with express qualifier subjecting it to United Israel is to a substantial extent an elabora­ States constitutional processes and laws. tinued with emphasis on the family unit, tion of the United States' assurance to the Paragraph 5 of the Memorandum deals gathering together to visit and to know parties, described above, undertaking in the with our diplomatic posture in the Unltt-d each other as families. event of an actual or threatened violation Nations and reserves to the United States the Mr. Speaker, across America today the of the Treaty of Peace to consult with the judgment whether a proposed action or effort to establish family ties and roots parties and to take such other actions as we resolution might adversely affect the Treaty is more pronounced than ever before. deem appropriate. Our principal undertak­ of Peace. Paragraph 6 relating to economic ings under that memorandum can be sum­ and m111tary assistance is a general state­ Years ago some members of a family marized as follows: mi:mt of intent expressly subject to Congres­ would get together for a small and quiet We will take appropriate measures to pro­ sional authorization and appropriation reunion, limited primarily to the imme­ mote full observance of the Treaty of Peace; processes. Paragraph 7 reflects existing re­ di9.te area of their residence. Today peo­ We will consult with the parties and take quirements under the Arms Export Control ple want to know where their roots have such remedial measures as we deem appro­ Act, re:qulrements we would wish to meet spread, where their cousins and uncles priate in the event of actual or threatened even were they not legislatively mandated. and aunts might live across this wonder­ Treaty violation; The substance and form of the commit­ ments in Memorandum of Agreement con­ ful land. It is a compliment to the Nemir We wlll provide support we deem appro­ family that they have been forerunners priate for Israeli responses to Peace Treaty cerning assurances thus are of the nature violations and will, in cases threatening traditionally concluded in executive under­ of this phenomena. For years they have Israel's security, be prepared urgently to con­ standings and agreements. held their reunions, and they know ex­ sider special measures; The United States assurance to Israel on actly from whence they have come. Be­ We will support the Peace Treaty regime oil is expressly subject to an undertaking to' cause of this pride of ancestry they have for navigation and overflight of the Strait seek such additional statutory authorlzaticn made better citizens, and in turn have of Tiran and Gulf of Aqaba; as may be necessary. It reflects an under­ standing that those implementing actions made a distinct contribution to our coun­ We will oppose UN actions we judge to involving U.S. crude, rather than U.S. good try. I know what this contribution has affect the Peace Treaty adversely; offices or efforts to arrange Israeli acce:;-s to meant to my own lOth district, and I We will try to be responsive to Israel's foreign crude, are dependent upon U.S. can multiply that same advantage for mmtary and economic assistance require­ statutes. the United States, and even inter­ ments; and These United States commitments and nationally, as I view the expansion of We will take steps to prevent transfer of undertakings have played an important role this family. U.S. supplied weapons to third parties for in assisting both Egypt and Israel to accept use in armed attack against Israel. the risks of the momentous step they have Four generations of the Nemir family The Memorandum of Agreement also con­ taken. We have tried to draw these docu­ will be in attendance for a 4-day pro­ firms that existing U.S. agreements with and ments carefully to meet the important prac­ gram here in Washington, D.C. this week. assurances to Israel are not affected by the tical, political and psychological require- At the conclusion of each reunion, the May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9595 assembled group votes to accept one of Dedham: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Abraham. Libertarian Society have made their the invitations offered by the families Manchester: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brauneis. voices heard in opposition. A National Dover: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Leon. Council Against Compulsory Service has present to act as general chairman for Westwood: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leon. the next reunion. At their family re­ Canton: Mr. and Mrs. Vicent Banks. been formed, whose support, interest­ union meeting in Guatemala City in 1977, Holliston: Mr. and Mrs. John Greeley. ingly, comes from both the Left and the invitation offered by Albert and Mary Franklin: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Conway. Right of the conventional political spec­ Lou Nemir of Arlington, Va., to have the FROM MISSOURI trum. I ask leave to include at this point reunion in Washington was accepted. A Maryland Hts.: Mr. and Mrs. E. Tripp. the council's first public announcement As special luncheon will be held this Friday FROM U.LINOIS of September 4, 1978. one who strongly on Capitol Hill as a highlight of this opposes any plan to impose forced labor Carbondale: Mrs. Lily Ba.dr & Family. Mr. year's reunion, and I am honored to have Albert Badr. upon America's young people, I hope the been asked to participate in it with all council grows rapidly in strength and the members of this great family. Rela­ FROM CONNECTICUT influence. Sto: Mrs. Nina Baxter. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION LAUNCHED TO COM­ tives will be attending from all sections So. Windsor: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edle- BAT INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE PROPOSALS of the United States, as well as Guate­ man. mala, Brazil, Lebanon, and Canada. The FROM MICHIGAN WASHINGTON.-The much-despised m1Utary wide spectrum of representation through­ Lansing: Mary Courey, Mr. and Mrs. Emile draft may be coming back, dressed in a. new out the United States is illustrated by Alhaddad, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Gamel. package--but a. new national organization has been launched to mob111ze public opin­ the long list of those who will be in Kalamazoo: Robert A. Soloman & Family. Ann Arbor: Nadlm Nimeh. ion against it. attendance: The policy of the new National council NEMm REUNION-TYPICALLY AMERICAN FROM GUATEMALA Against Compulsory Service is simple: "to FROM TEXAS Guatemala City: Mr. and Mrs. Elie Ghar­ oppose compulsory national service, whether Austin: 'Mrs. Stuart Nemir, Sr., Dr. and zouzi, Mr. and Mrs. Khalil Musa. universal or selective, military or non-m111- Mrs. Stuart Nemir & Fa.m1ly, Mr. and Mrs. FROM CANADA tary, in the United States." The Council sees signs of increased pressure toward a new Oharles Nemir & Family, Mrs. Pam Nemlr, Verdum-Quebec: Mrs. Nawal Namey. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harris & Family, Mrs. Paul Federal conscription program which, unlike . A. Speer. FROM BRAZIL the military draft which expired in 1973, Navasota.: Mrs. Paul Nemir, Sr., Mr. Robert Sao Paulo: Mr. and Mrs. Kamel El Jamal would compel every 18-year old, male and fe­ Nemir & Son. & Family, Samira & Keid El Jamal, Oneila male, into either m1Utary or civ1Uan service Sweetwater: Mr. Gordon Nemir & Fa.mlly, Bertz and Farid Wakin. for a. period of one or two years. The idea Mr. Robert Nemir & Family. Manaus: Mr. and Mrs. Youssef El Jamal. has been advanced, at one time or another, by prominent Democrats like , Gorman: Mr. Bllly Don Nemir & Fa.mlly. FROM LEBANON Corpus Christl: Mrs. Cecil Agnes Redford. Governor Hugh Carey of New York, Con­ Houston: Mrs. Margaret Lanier & Beirut: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Malik, Mr. gressman Morris Udall, and particularly Daughter. Kamel Ba.ssila, Mrs. Ellen Ba.dre. Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), who chairs the FROM CALXFORNIA Mr. Speaker, it is my honor and pleas­ Senate subcommittee on armed services man­ San Francisco: Mr. David Nemir, Mr. Don­ power and personnel. Prominent Republi· ure to bring this outstanding family to cans Nelson A. Rockefeller and John B. Con­ ald Nemir. the Congress attention. I know our en­ Orange: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jracobs, Mr. nally have also advanced the idea. Sam Elias and Judge Betty Elias, Mr. and tire body would want to join me in salut­ President Carter has suggested that he Mrs. Frank JMObs. ing them and wishing them well. May would prefer a comprehensive national serv­ Carmel: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Travis. the Nemir family thrive and prosper to ice program over a reinstatement of the mili­ La Habra: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Abood. enjoy many, many more family reunions tary draft. His reference to "the moral equiv­ Bellefl.ower: Mr. and Mrs. Lester Murty. like the one they celebrate in our Capital alent of war" in his April 1977 energy mes­ Cypress: Mrs. Jean Nama. · City in 1979.• sage indicates that the President is familiar No. Highland: Mrs. Beverly Jacobs and with William James' celebrated 1910 pamph­ Family. let advocating national conscription for all FROM NEBRASKA American youths "to knock the childishness out of them" and bring about "socialist equi­ Wood River: Mr. and Mrs. Jake Jacobs, NATIONAL COUNCIL AGAINST COM­ librium". Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gehle. PULSORY SERVICE Four forces are combining to promote a FROM NEVADA new program of involuntary servitude, says Las Vegas: Mr. and Mrs. James Curry. the Council: FROM ARKANSAS HON. RON PAUL Concern about the costs and problems of OF TEXAS the All-Volunteer Force, including the racist Little Rock: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nemir, concern that the volunteer army is becoming Mr. Blll Nemir. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "too black". FROM NEW YORK Wednesday, May 2, 1979 The persistence of youth unemployment, Brooklyn: Dr. Rosa Lee Nemlr Audi, Mrs. which could be alleviated if four million 18 Elaine Macken & Family. • Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, the cam­ year olds were removed from the labor market Fayettevllle: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Audi & paign to reimpose involuntary servitude by forced conscription. Family. upon America's young people has come The desire of some politicians to mob111ze Syracuse: Joe and Nick Basslla. out into the open. millions of young people at government ex­ pense to deal with any number of real and FROM VmGINIA A number of Members of both House imagined social ills. Arlington: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nemir, Mr. and Senate are sponsoring or supporting The belief of some people that everyone's Fred Nemir. legislation to reimpose compulsory reg­ life really belongs to the government, which Alexandria: Mr. Lewell Nemir, Mrs. Diane istration on all 18-year-olds. It is no se­ should order its citizens around in the name Nemir. cret that compulsory registration is the of efficient planning and progressive social FROM MARYLAND indispensable first step to the reimposi­ engineering. Cheverly: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker & tion of conscription. The Council argues against any program Family. of compulsory national service on a number Hagerstown: Dr. and Mrs. Michael Nemir. Some sponsors are looking forward to of grounds: military conscription only. Others envi­ FROM PENNSYLVANIA sion a universal system of compulsory 1. It is prima facie unconstitutional. Media: Dr. and Mrs. Paul Nemir & Family. While it has been settled (in 1917) that the Erie: Mr. and Mrs. David Nemir. service, where every young person would Federal government has the power to con­ Havertown: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Atlee. be required to spend 1 or more years of script men into the armed forces in time of his or her life doing what the Federal war or national emergency, the proposed com­ FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. Government thinks is in the national pulsory service programs clearly violate the Mr. Ralph Wood Nemir. interest. 13th Amendment's prohibition of involuntary servitude. FROM MASSACHUSETTS Fortunately, opposition to such Roslindale: Mr. Frank Burns and Daughter 2. The cost of supporting approximately Susan. schemes has begun to mount. The Ameri­ four million 18 year olds in national service Hanover: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Abraham. can Civil Liberties Union, the National would run anywhere from $19 bUlion (Action West Roxbury: Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Interreligious Service Board for Consci­ estimate, 1976) to $38 billion (Richard Coo­ Stamas. entious Objectors, and Students for a per, 1977, RAND, high estimate) to $60 blllion 9596 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 (Defense Department AVF Transition Paper, ity. I would like to bring this testimony non-care where we can dispose of all those 1976) per year. to the attention of my colleagues, and sick old people that we can't, or won't, 3. Within the framework of compulsory insert this very excellent statement at help. That's why the General Assembly service, an additional compulsory technique hasn't done anything and that's why the must be employed to ensure that enough men this point in the RECORD: Congress has passed such ridiculous and and women, with the proper qualifications, TESTIMONY OF REPRESENTATIVE vicious answers to this problem as the Keys choose the armed forces. JOSEPH RHODES, JR. amendment. 4. Dealing with the problem of refusal to My name is Joseph Rhodes. I represent Every state needs a comprehensive board­ · serve-by possibly hundreds of thousands of the 24th Legislative District in the Pennsyl­ ing home licensing and regulation act. But youth who think they have better things to vania House of Representatives. The issue of only the truly courageous ones will pass such do than submit to a totalitarian youth pro­ Boarding Homes is not new to me. The bodies acts in the congressional vacuum that you gram-will inevitably lead to a GULAG-style and the fires change, but the problem re­ allow to exist. If the states are to act, If chain of "reeducation camps". Inains the same. we are to have the laws our citizens have The Council's first activity wlll be to poll For five years I have asked the question a right to have, then Congress must enact all candidates for the 96th Congress to ascer­ over and over again: How many must die? laws which create incentives for us to do tain their views on the All Volunteer Force How much abuse, malnourishment and down­ so. and proposals for compulsory national serv­ right crass exploitation must there be before The Keys amendment approach of pe­ ice. The Council will also work to gain public we deal with the problem of boarding homes nalizing the residents of these boarding understanding of the implications of com­ in Pennsylvania and in this nation? How homes is totally in the wrong direction. We pulsory national service !or a free society, much is enough? .need changes in the Medicare and Medicaid especially among young people. The Connelsvllle fire wasn't the first fire regulations to allow residents of state li­ Council Chairman is John McClaughry of we've had in Pennsylvania since I began try­ censed boarding homes to be eligible. We Concord, Vermont. His opposition to com­ ing to pass legislation in our state that would need your help in paying for a competent pulsory service dates back to 1964 when he license and regulate boarding homes for the inspectio.n system. And most important, the prepared testimony against the draft for the elderly and handicapped. Two years ago residents of licensed personal care boarding Republican National Convention, and drafted twelve people died in a Philadelphia board­ homes will need more than $221 a month to remarks against the draft for Presidential ing home fire. Connelsvllle wasn't unique; live on. candidate Barry Goldwater. In 1967 he was a more than anything it exemplifies the prob­ There are those who will give lip service special aide to Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) lem. to the senior citizen but who will whisper with responsiblllty for the senator's legisla­ On March 31st of this year ten boarders that we can't afford to lift the boarding tion to phase out the draft. From 1973 to 1975 were kllled in a fire at Mrs. Marietta's home home rug from ·atop our discarded old he served as a member of the National Volun­ in Connelsville, Pennsylvania, a few miles people. I say, tell that to the dead of Con­ tary Service Advisory Council, appointed by south of Pittsburgh. The home was your nelsville.e President Nixon, and he is currently a mem­ typical boarding home. Thirteen people were ber of the National Commission on Neighbor­ living in a two story, single family, frame hoods, appointed by President Carter. Mr. dwelllng. Every room except the kitchen had McClaughry is a Major in the U.S. Marine been turned into a bedroom. Five people H.R. 1776 Corps Reserve. slept on cots in the basement. At least one Present Board members of the Council are person slept in a crawl space in the attic. Alan W. Bock, Warren Hoover, John C. Top­ Of the ten who died, nine were over the ping Jr., Jarrett Wollstein, David Boaz, and HON. NICHOLAS MAVROULES age of 65, ranging from 68--85. Most of the OF MASSACHUSETTS Mark Bloomfield. residents were referred there by the county, The Council is in the process of forming a either through the state hospital or the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES National Advisory Council of distinguished county nursing home. Americans who oppose compulsory service. Wednesday, May 2, 1979 Among those who have accepted invitations e Mr. MAVROULES. Mr. Speaker, be­ are: And matters are even worse that I have cause of the growing dissatisfaction in Bruce K. Chapman, Secretary of State of reported them here today. Because we have our country with Federal regulatory Washington, author of "The Wrong Man in no comprehensive licensing law in effect, Uniform". the grim hell holes that are the worst practices, H.R. 1776, the Administrative Ron Paul, M.D., Lake Jackson, Texas; boarding homes flourish; and for precisely Rule Making Reform Act of 1979, prom­ Member of Congress 1975-76; Secretary of the same reason the good homes, the homes ises to be one of the most significant bills Labor Ln. the Conservative Caucus-sponsored run by people who want to do right by we will consider this session. "Citizens Oa.binet", 1977. their residents, and know what is right, are Rules and regulations bear directly Dr. Murray Rothbard, economist and his­ steadily being driven out of business. we upon all of us, governing our activities, torian, Polytechnic Institute of New York, .have a boarding home nightmare in Penn­ affecting our pocketbooks-ruling our Brooklyn. sylvania: the good homes are being closed Karl Hess, Kearneysvllle, West Virginia, and the hell holes prosper. lives. Today they are receiving an un­ writer and welder. Why haven't my colleagues acted to end common amount of notoriety, as the Na­ Kirkpatrick Sale, New York City, author this bad dream? For a lot of reaso.ns. One tion struggles with inflation, our most and historian of Students for a Democratic reason is that we have a band aid program serious problem. Without question, in­ Society (SDS). in Pennsylvania under our Dep:utment of flation requires sacrifices from everyone, Headquarters for the Council are at 800 Labor and r.ndustry. Almost as a halfhearted including big Government, and if certain 18th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20006, guilt gesture, L & I moved into the boarding of its rules are more harmful than bene­ phone 202-347-7141.• home regulation vacuum and began spot ficial, more of a financial burden than an enforcement of what they call "Special Oc­ cupancy Boarding Home Rules and Regula­ aid, they should be eliminated. tions". But this band aid enforcement is Those of us who cosponsored H.R. 1776 did not do so to cripple or destroy regula­ Effi STANDARDS FOR BOARDING done only on complaint, is limited in its regulatory area to the physical structure tory agencies and the rules they generate. HOMES and only involves a tiny percentage of the Across the Nation, those we represent total boarding home stock in Pennsylvania. want us to put the Federal Government HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD Around 400 inspections are conducted an­ on an even keel, making it more manage­ nually and there are over 10,000 boarding OF PENNSYLVANIA able, more responsive to the people it was homes in the state. intended to serve. While they are justi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES But the band aid L. & I. program is not fied in demanding this, we would be do­ Wednesday, May 2, 1979 the main reason that the Pennsylvania Gen­ ing them a great disservice if we struck eral Assembly has dod~d this issue fire • Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. after fire, death after death, abuse after out blindly at all regulatory agencies, and Speaker, the urgent need for establish­ abuse. The real reason we have sat on our all rules and regulations. ing standards in the operation of board­ tails is the same reason you in the Federal Our own history is full of examples of ing homes for the elderly has again been congress have. Boarding homes are a con­ uncontrolled big business, serving no demonstrated by the death of 10 elderly venient place to dump discarded old people master but itself. Certainly, few Ameri­ persons in a fire in Connelsville, Pa. In that have to be somewhere and to license cans desire a return to the days when a and regulate these homes would mean added drug company, for example, could sell testimony before the House Select Com­ costs. It would cost us to deliver the health mittee on Aging, one of our most dis­ care and social service that these citizens any product, no matter how harmful, tinguished Pennsylvania State legisla­ need. It's not fashionable any more for gov­ make any claims it wished for that prod­ tors, Representative Joseph Rhodes, Jr., ernment to deliver services. The system we uct, no matter how false, all without fear has stated the situation with great clar- have created .needs that one last level of of punishment or prosecution. The abo- May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 959-7 lition of all Federal regulations would tion following an affirmative decision on Commission, and action by the President clearly cause far more problems than it import relief by the Commission under to set aside remedial orders of the Com­ would solve. section 201. Under the Trade Expansion mission under section 337 of the Tariff Of course, no one has seriously sug­ Act of 1962, the President was authorized Act of 1930. Present law requires a con­ gested such a drastic step. But in our to give import relief when an affirmative current resolution of both Houses of Con­ zeal to help the consumer, the taxpayer, decision was rendered by the Commission. gress to disapprove action by the Presi­ the businessman, large and small, we As a result of only being authorized to dent under sections 202 and 203, and must remind ourselves that many agen­ act, the President often linked the use of provides no opportunity for congressional cies and regulations do serve a useful the escape clause provisions with other review of action by the President to set purpose and social end. Although some foreign policy considerations. Part of the aside Commission orders under section are outdated, useless, or simply foolish, congressional intent behind the enact­ 337. many are, in a word, necessary-buffer ment of the Trade Act of 1974, however, Mr. Speaker, I plan to reintroduce this zones between the constituent and big was to take our international trade policy legislation shortly and will be soliciting Government or big business, safeguards out of the foreign policy context, a con­ cosponsors on this bill. I urge my col­ against the infringement of the rights of nection that often fostered lax enforce­ leagues to join me in pressing for reform all Americans. ment of our international trade law. Con­ of our trade laws, and in urging passage The regulatory agencies, in their pres­ sistent with this, Congress passed the of the Import Relief Improvements Act ent state, are far from perfect. Our con­ 1974 act requiring that the President of 1979.e stituents sense this, they know that Gov­ provide import relief following an af­ ernment is too big, the bureaucracy too firmative decision by the Commission. much of a maze, and many Federal regu­ This intent was emphasized in the Sen­ UNIFORM FEES FOR DOCTORS lations too heavy a cross to bear. There ate report on the bill as finally reported. is, however, a very real need for many of Speaking of section 202 it states: HON. RON PAUL these agencies, and we must not cripple This section would require the President them in the name of reform. to implement import relief or, if the com­ OF TEXAS But here is the rub. Neither can we mission finds that adjustment assistance of­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stand back, and allow the present trend fers a viable alternative to import relief, to Wednesday, May 2, 1979 . to continue. If we do nothing, Federal direct that expeditious consideration be given regulations will continue to mushroom, petiticns for adjustment assistance. That • Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, Dr. Hans relief ought not to be denied for reasons Sennholz, chairman of the economics de­ until nearly every aspect of our lives is that have nothing whatever to do with the governed by a rampaging monster, made partment at Grove City College, is not merits of the case as determined under U.S. only one of our best economists, he is of Federal paperwork. law. In particular, the Committee feels that Shortly, we will be engaged in a dis­ no U.S. industry which has suffered serious also one of our most eloquent. cussion of the merits of H.R. 1776. We injury should be cut off from relief for for­ Recently he wrote about the problems have a responsibility to our Government eign policy consideration. (S. Rep. 93-1298, generated by government controls on and our constituents to strike a balance 93d Congress, 2d session, 124.) medical care in Private Practice maga­ between the harmful extremes I have zine, and I would like to bring his erudite Similarly, section 337 of the Tariff Act remarks to my colleagues' attention: noted. Overregulation is a plague on our of 1930, which declares unlawful injur­ economy, and our Government, but we ious or anticompetitive unfair practices UNIFORM FEES FOR DOCTORS must treat this illness without killing any in the importation of articles into the (By Hans F. Sennholz. Ph. D.) of the patients.• United States, was strengthened by the It is difficult to fathom the motives of the Trade Act of 1974 to require that the U.S. health care planners who would put the fed­ eral government in charge of our health care International Trade Commission, not the services. But we may ponder the effects their President, determine whether the section revolutionary proposals, if realized, would IMPORT RELIEF IMPROVEMENT ACT is being violated, subject to judicial re­ OF 1978 have on this vital profession. view. Further, the Commission was given As part of a sweeping national health in­ the authority to issue remedial orders surance plan the Carter administration is HON. MATTHEW J. RINALDO directed at such illegal practices, subject considering an HEW proposal that would re­ quire doctors throughout the country to ac­ OF NEW JERSEY to possible disapproval by the President for policy reasons. These amendments cept uniform fees and salaries. The plan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were designed to promote objectivity in would begin in 1983 and be put into effect in Wednesday, May 2, 1979 several stages over a period of years. In other the administration of the international words, the Carter administration is propos­ • Mr. RINALDO. Mr. Speaker, last year, trade policies of the United States as ing to impose comprehensive controls on the I introduced the Import Relief Improve­ established by Congress. prices of medical services rendered by Ameri­ ments Act of 1978. This bill was in direct In spite of the intent of Congress, the can physicians. It does not matter by what response to the lack of import relief cur­ President has repeatedly denied import name it may call such controls-"negotiated rently available to U.S. industries. relief to deserving U.S. industries on the rates," "bargained rates," "social rates," or basis of foreign policy considerations and even "free rates"-they will be coercive rates One of the main intentions of the that are enforced by an army of new regula­ Trade Act of 1974

Fayettevllle; Wanda Stouts, Little Rock; CONNECTICUT ( 3) LOUISIANA (26 ) Alonzo Williams, Camden; Willie Williams, Donald K . Doty, Newtown; Phyllis Gemza, Clifford Alexander, Franklin; Patsy An­ Lewisvllle; Wanda Wilson, Tempe. Monroe; Steven Phillips, New Haven. thony, Loranger; Michael Azemaux, Gray; CALIFORNIA ( 1 Hl ) DELAWARE (1) Wilmer Billow, Lake Charles; Bernard Burd, Donald Aldrete, Col ton; Earl Anderson, David Loockerman, Bridgeville. Napoleonville; Verna Coleman, Baton Rouge; Hemet; Linda Anderson, Hemet; Alfredo Michael Duria, New Orleans; Tyrone Gaines, Armijo, Long Beach; Marcia Ballinger, Stock­ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ( 7) New Orleans; Cynthia Goudeau, Grant Par­ ton; William Ballinger, Stockton; Benavidez, Angela Jones; Richard Magruder; Carl ish; Clayton Grim, Layfayette; Larry Ham­ Gabriel, Hayward; Irving Boening, Los An­ Met heny; Calvin Oliver; Joe Ollie; Blain way, Shreveport; Valetter Harris, New Or­ geles; William Bosak, San Francisco; Maceo Pitts; Edward Wanzer. leans; William Hawkins, New Orleans. Brit ton, Los Angeles; Jinx Brockway, San FLORIDA (25) Rickey Horton, Shreveport; Fred Hudson, Luis Obispo; Ronald Buck, Oxnard; Peter Christopher Bater, Melbourne; Johnny Winnsboro; Kayla Kite, Leesville; Mary Camacho, Riverside; Steven Castleman, So­ Brown, Pompano Beach; Michael Eishen, Mitchell, Lake Charles; Viola Savant, Lake nora; Ronald Chelius, Sacramento; Freda Sebring; Charles Franklin, S. Palm Beach; Charles; James Shannon, New Orleens; Claxton, Hesperia; Merle Claxton, Hesperia; Stephen Fraser, Panama City; Jose Guiterrez, Joshue. Shaw, New Orleans; Janice Stanley, Shirley Cornelius, Los Angeles; Jorge Correa, Miami; J. M. Haddon, Tallahassee; Dale Baton Rouge; Douglas Taylor, Livingston; Fullerton; Donna Coselman, Coachella; Ron­ Hicks, South Gate; Waldemar Istchenko, St. Earl Theriot, New Orleans; Willie Veal, New ald Diaz, Riverside; Harold Dockins, Ingle­ Petersburg; Anthony Mangiameli, Miami; Orleans, Walter Williams, Baton Rouge. wood; Donald Dominy, Santa Monica. Robert Meadows, Fort Lauderdale. MARYLAND (17) Arnulfo Escobedo, Fresno; Roman Euriel, Theophilus McCloud, Gifford; Bob Murphy, Lawrence Cunningham, Oxon Hill; Mark Long Beach; Louise Flanagan, Coachella; Miami; Joseph Perchitti, Miami; Henry Tay­ Dorsey, ; Robert Ernst, Rockville; Theodore Gallardo, Riverside; Daniel Garcia, lor, St. Augustine; Theodore Tetrovsky, Will~am Evans, Baltimore; Jimmie Garris, Los Angeles; Sandra Gibson, Los Angeles; Miami; Henry Tribit, Miami; Elvin Vann, Baltimore; Jody Keels, Baltimore; Gizella James Gilliand, San Jose; Arthur Olow, Wewa.chitcha; Edward Wharton, Fort Pierce; Kelly, Anne Arundel; Willard Kelly, Anne Los Angeles; Beatrice Glow, Los Angeles; unidentified male, 3/ 7/ 79, Miami; unidenti­ Arundel; Gary Lambert, Baltimore; Roy Alan Grote, Watsonville; Gary Hall, Menlo fied male, 3/ 26/ 79, Miami; unidentified male, McGee, Easton; Ernest Pauling, Baltimore; Park; George T . Hambaugh, Santa Ana; Dale 3/ 1/79, Orlando; unidentified male, 3/ 25/ 79, Jerry Robinson, Baltimore; John Spencer, Hicks, Downey; Richard Hidalgo, Salinas; Daytona Beach; unidentified male, 3/ 12/79, Baltimore; Theresa Tillman, Baltimore; Greg­ Hazel Holland, Porterville; Jimmie Ingram, Fort Lauderdale. ory Wilkes, Baltimore; unidentified male, 3/ Oakland; Guillermo Izaguirre, Los Angeles; 26/ 79, Muscoy; unidentified male, 3/ 28/ 79, Bill Jacinto, Mentone. GEORGIA (20) Baltimore. Rose Barker, Savannah; Richa,rd Boyd, Cruz Jasso, Indio; Elaine Johnson, Los MASSACHUSETTS ( 1) Marietta; Charlie Cochran, ; Charlene Angeles; Kris Johnson, San Francisco; Paul James White, Charlestown. Knutson, Santa Monica; Bobby Lamonte, Daffron, Lawrenceville; James Graham, Mari­ Los Angeles; Michael Leonard, Los Angeles; etta; Linda Jernigan, Vidalia; Charles John­ MICHIGAN (18) Ye-Chen Lin, Los Angeles; Leslie Lizarraga, son, Pembroke; Camllla Jones, Atlanta; Eve­ Raynard Alexander, Detroit; Richard Arm­ Los Angeles; Vina Maglio, Imperial; Eseban lyn Kinlaw, Savannah; Leroy McDaniel, At­ strong, Benton Harbor; Carrist Brasswell, De­ Manzo, Los Angeles; Ahmad Mashni, Los lanta; Dennis Moore, Lawrenceville; Johnny troit; Mary Clark, Flint; Richard Daisy, St. Angeles; William Mathers, Pleasant Hill; Rease, Gray; Alma Rupert, Atlanta; James Joseph; Bernard Fell, Detroit; James Fitz­ Claude McCrimmon, Compton; Edward Mc­ Simmons, Macon; George Upson, Milledge­ simmons, Detroit; George Griffore, Saginaw; Gee, Oakland; Carlos Mendez, San Francisco; ville; James Williams, Sylvester; Lewis Wil­ Edward Journey, Detroit; Alvin Kyle, De­ Cary Miller, San Diego; Salador Montes, Los liams, Cairo; Manfred Wuttie, Atlanta; Bob troit; Allen Manross, Detroit; Rolland Thibo­ Angeles; Peter Morillo, Sr., Hemet. Zachry, Atlanta; unidentified male, 3/30/ 79, deau, Detroit; Theresa Travics, Detroit; Eber Osborn, Gerber; Jackie Palomares, Atlanta. Wayne Travics, Detroit; Charles Turner, De­ Los Angeles; Raymond Pinotti, San Fran­ (2) troit; Joseph Wegener. Saginaw: unidenti­ cisco; Donald Poland, Clearlake; Louie Ponce, Joseph Brink, Moscow; Larry Park, Rex­ fied male, Muskegon Heights. Santa Ana; Gary Porter, Pomona; Mike burg. MINNESOTA (7) Prokes, Modesto; Majorie Rice, San Leandro; ILLINOIS (9) William Blackwell, St. Paul; Rethia Hen­ Ervin Richardson, Los Angeles; Danny Rod­ Donald Ewing, Chicago; Mike Grayson, Chi­ derson, Minneapolis; Russell Poor, Minneap­ riguez, Fresno; Victor Rodriquez, South cago; Kathy Harvat, Chicago; Bobby John­ olis; Jennifer Spillman, Moorhead; Marsha Gate; James Roy, Marysville; Yu Sall, Los son, Chicago Heights; Ignace Kholl, Chicago; Spillman, Moorhead; Gerald Witt, Dodge Cen­ Angeles; Beverly Sheets, Los Banos; Georgia Vernon Ladendorf, Des Plaines; Rodney Nor­ ter; unidentified woman, Minneapolis. Sherouse, Richmond; Otis Sims, Richmond; David Smith, Los Angeles; Shannon Spear, ris, Chicago; Domingo Perez, Chicago; un­ MISSISSIPPI ( 9) Santa Barbara. identified male, 3/ 4/79, Chicago. Helen Cruise, Jackson; James Cruise, Jack­ Robert Stone, Valleno; James Sturgeon, INDIANA (11) son; Jerry Cruise, Jackson; Charles Gray, Mentone; Michael Sturgeon, Mentone; Richard Armstrong, Three Oaks; George Greenville; Donald David Kingery, Hatties­ Corinna Teniente, Brawley; Juan Jose Torres, Maler, Zionsville; Joyce Miller, Richmond; burg; Opal Mitchell, Iuka; Harry Phillips, Montebello; Marie Trudeau, Los Angeles; Robin Mussleman, Logansport; Scotty Mus­ Hattiesburg; Bobby Smith, Raleigh; Sam Susan Van Meerbeke, San Rafael; Roger Van sleman, Logansport; Booker T. Seats, In­ Williamson, Gulfport. Schalk, San Francisco; Jimmy Vargas, Jr., dianapolis; Nancy Shanks, Logansport; Tom MISSOURI ( 1 7 ) Porterville; Tommy Vaugher, Los Angeles; Shanks, Logansport; Wardell Smith, South Darrell Bailey, Kansas Cit y; Kenneth Boyd, Carl Vitch, Hayward; L. C. Walker, Los Bend; Guy Squibb, Indianapolis; John Wall, St. Louis; Mack Brindley, St. Louis; Anthony Angeles; James Wasem, Sr., San Diego; Sr., Logansport. Butler, Marshall Thomas Carney, St. Louis; Charles Wideman, Camarillo; Charles Wil­ IOWA (7) William Cochrane, Everton; Michael Emery, liams, Fresno; Charles Wimberly, Redlands; Carl Golhofer, Kingsley; Orlen Gregg, Nevada; Gardon Galemore, Charleston; Tom Winkel, Fremont. Shenandoah; Wilma Gregg, Shenandoah; J3.ckie Gideon, Galena; James Hoskins, St. Irene Wright, Marysville; Tsai-Shen Yang, Teresa Jones, Des Moines; Harold Kirkpatric, Louis; Ruby Lewis, St. Louis; Noland Neal, Los Angeles; Yen-Yi Yang, Los Angeles; Des Moines; Kathleen Metter, Emmetsburg; Houston; Jacqueline Shipley, Venice; Virgil Larry Zeretzke, San Diego; Alma Zuniga, El William Saloky, Jr., Iowa City. Thompson, St. Louis: Roger Wise, St. Louis; Rio; Unidentified male, 3/ 12/ 79, San Fran­ KANSAS (5) Robert Whitworth, Pleasant Hill; Unidenti­ cisco; Unidentified male, 3/13/ 79, Fresno; fied woman, 3/26/ 79, St. Louis. Hubert Crane, Coffeyville; James Duffy, Unidentified male, 3/9/79, Stockton; Un­ MONTANA (2) identified female, 3/1/ 79, San Rafael; Un­ Sharon Springs; Hal McHenry, Olathe; Mary identified male, 3/11/ 79, Redlands; Uniden­ Sims, Wichita; Unidentified male, 3/ 27/ 79, Clark Myrick, Wolf Point; Helen Davies, tified male, 3/19/ 79, Barstow; Unidentified Parsons. Butte. male, 3/ 13/ 79, Carson; Unidentified male, (18 ) NEBRASKA ( 5) 3/ 28/ 79, Los Angeles; Unidentified male, Wllliam Asher, Louisvllle; Scott Ballard, Randy Grandorff, Crofton; Rose Hollertz, 3/ 5/ 79, Felton. Louisville; Eloise Bouland, Paducah; William Elm Creek; Arlene Lemmer, Elm Creek; Ivan COLORADO (15) Bouland, Paducah; Hollis Frye, Franklin; Lemmer, Elm Creek, Jimmy Phillip, Omaha. Dale Albertson, Denver; Carl Cremer, Den­ Odus Griffith, Harlan; Michael Grubb, Wurt­ NEVADA (11) ver; Phyllis Elliot, Boulder; David Freeman, land; Ronald Kennedy, Stanford; Jay Mc­ Ron Chelius, Carson City; Evelyn Colon, Boulder; Paul King, Walsenburg; Charles Carter, Knoxville. Las Vegas; Robert Connerton, Las Vegas; Ma.cy, Denver; Kirt Oliver, Denver; Phlllip James Neal, Somerset; Leonard Owen, James Harbin II, Las Vegas; Curly McGowen, Oliver, Canon City; Carol Pierson, Denver; Somerset; Gary Parks, Richmond; Robert Las Vegas; Bill Tyner, Las Vegas, Gary Wom­ William Proctor, Lakewood; Hugh Pyle, Den­ Settles, Louisville; Joseph Sprauer, Louisville; macot t , Las Vegas; Unidentified male, 3/ 8179, ver; Patricia Quintana, Denver; William Harold Tarpley, Nashville; Leroy Todd, Lex­ Las Vegas; Unidentified male, 3/21/ 79, Las Smith, Greeley; Gary Wagner, Denver; Ken­ ington; Kendall Young, Louisville; Leon Vegas; Unidentified male, 3/ 23/ 79, Las Vegas; neth Woods, Craig. Williams, Louisville. Unidentified male, 3/27/ 79, Las Vegas. May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9607

NEW HAMPSHIRE ( 1) lil, Pittsburgh; William Lear, Pittsburgh; VERMONT (1) Dorothy Cameron, Pelham. Cheryl Lees, Butler. Unidentlfted male, 3/ 30/79, Morristown. Anthony Menginie, Philadelphia; Peter NEW JERSEY (4) Morales, Philadelphia; Dennis Nabried, Phil­ VIRGINIA ( 3 2) Elbert Hayes, Newark; Curtis Hill, Newark; adelphia; Joseph Nedley, Philadelphia; Den­ Linda Butler, Manassas; Nathaniel Dixon, Michael Russo, Chambersburg; Richard San­ nis O'Draln, Philadelphia; Sheila Radick, Norfolk; Tommy Fuller, Haysi; Newell Grant tos, Clifton. Pittsburgh; Gregory Richardson, Philadel­ Jr., McKinley; Ceaser Hackney, Charlottes­ NEW MEXICO (10) phia; Charlotte Russell, Pittsburgh; Al Shel­ ville; John Hamlin III, Herndon; Edward Juan Bustamante, Las Cruces; Jesus Gar­ by, Philadelphia; Charles Stottlemeyer, Har­ Holbrook, St. Paul; Joseph January, Rich­ cia, Grants; Arthur Holguin, Albuquerque; risburg; Robert Stout, Huntington; Cynthia mond; Jeffrey Koontz, Wythev1lle; B1lly Pandora Johnson, Albuquerque; Donald Wells, Mount Airy. Lamb, Alexandria; Raymond Leneave, Rich­ Ro3.ch, Hobbs; Patrick Sullivan, Grants; RHODE ISLAND ( 1) mond; Donald Mayhew, Richmond; Ernest Owens, Richmond; Daniel Parker, Norfolk; Molses Valdivia, Santa Fe; Jimmy Vigil, Suzanne Girouard, Providence. Taos; Jeff White, Albuquerque; Unidenti­ Stephen Patterson, Fairlawn; Lee Paul, Alex­ SOUTH CAROLINA (14) fied male, Milan. andria; Herbert Poston, St. Paul; Sandre Hilton Blackmon, Fort Stockton; William Procter, Fairfax. NEW YORK (15 l Catoe Jr., Columbia; Filip Diaz, Big Spring; John Rush, Charlottesville; John Short, Daniel Baker, Olean; Richard Brownstein, William Farr, Columbia; Glenn Fulmer, Co­ South Hill; Harvey Sinith, Petersburg; Bev­ Buffalo; Laura Dee, New York City; Edward lumbia; Mary Hillis, Spartanburg; Billy erly Speaker, Alexandria; Winston Speaker, Grudzinski, Long Island; Karen Grudzinski, Jones, Greenvllle; Linda Jones, Greenville; Alexandria; Daren Sulllvan, Dumfries; Iasal Long Island; Walter Grudzinski, Long Island; Kenneth Kearse, Norway; Elizabeth Living­ Thompson, Saltville; Jamie Walters, Blacks­ Robert Helghtman, Westchester; Becky ston, Clinton; Vonnie Mattison, Greenville; burg; Alexander Wilson, Suffolk; Genevieve Kilmer, Olean; John Maler, Long Island; Tracy Owens, Columbus; Charles Snider, Wray, Roanoke; Leonard Wright, Stuart; un­ Leonard Palmisano, Queens; Irving Pcrler, Charlestown; Bryan Wilson, Columbia. identified male, 3/ 4/ 79, Martinsvllle; un­ New York City; John Rivera, Queens; Theres­ ( 3 7) identified male, 3/ 21/ 79, Henrico County; sa Smith, New York City; Clarence Teabout, unidentified male, 3/ 27/ 79, Triangle. Schenectady; Unidentified male, Buffalo. Gregory Battle, Nashville; Joseph Batts, Tullahoma; Pauline Bledsoe, Sweetwater; WASHINGTON (10) ( 16) George Callaway, Knoxville; Forest Camp­ Ivy Brown, Seattle; Harry Church, Jr., John Alston, Louisburg; Delvln Bryant, bell, Memphis; Charles Cannon, Memphis; Seattle; Tracy Clark, Seattle; Elmer Feist, Washington; Kenneth Cook, Greensboro; Charles Clayborrks, Franklin; W. C. Collier Seattle; Carl Harford, Olympia; Aaron Sheppared Darden, Mount Olive; Pete Davis, Jr., Nashville; Kenneth Crawford, Kingsport; Kronbeck, Seattle; John Orren, Pasco; Pho­ North River; George Travis, High Point; Elix Davis, Memphis; Richard Ecart, Nash­ ella Pleasant, Seattle; Glennwood Quinn, Victor Dozier, Currituck County; Donnie vllle; Joy Eslick, Lynchburg; Delia Etheridge, Seattle; John Waldron, Seattle. Durham, Mebane; Samuel Grant, Wilming­ Louisvllle; George Gerdom, Manchester; WEST VIRGINIA ( 1 ) ton; Frederick Holiday, Durham; Randy Lonnie Green, Cookeville; Russell Hammer, Troy Canterbury, Holden. Johnson, High Point; Alvin Sisk, Morganton; Greenville; Joseph Harris, Memphis; Tommy Gary Sharpe, Asheboro; David Thornburg, Hinson, Memphis. WISCONSIN ( 7) Southern River; George Willlaxns, Franklin­ Otto Jackson, Chattanooga; Paul T. Jones, Mark Goyke, Hudson; Gifford Orr, La ton; James Woody, Gastonia. Knoxvllle; Phillip Kelley, Memphis; Janice Cross; La Vonne Orr, La Crosse; Maurice OHIO (39) Leaher, Bradley; Michael Matthews, Mem­ Thomas, Milwaukee; Michael Meyer, Glen­ phis; Randall Osteen, Trenton; Lyman Pew, dale; Gilbert Wllliams, Racine; unidenti­ John Adaxns, Toledo; Dennis Bennington, fied female, 3/ 12/ 79, Fond Du Lac. Walnut Hllls; Francine Burt, Cincinnati; Memphis; Gary Pippins, Chattanooga; Rob­ Bonita Byrd, Columbus; John Byrd, Colum­ ert Schultz, Nashvllle; Eugene Shropshire, LATE ADDITIONS bus; Harold Carter, Cleveland; Renee Cot­ Newport; William Stickland, Memphis; James Ricks, Dumas, Arkansas; Irma Ar­ tingham, Cleveland; William Dawe, Toledo; Howard Tanner, Memphis; Harold Tarpley, rendondo, Fresno, Calif.; Warren Burgess, Goodwin Duncan, Cleveland; Raymond Durr, Nashvllle; Robert Vadniais, Nashv1lle; Donna Fresno, Calif.; Julian Young, San Jose, Calif.; Columbus; Luke Easter, Cleveland; Ronald Sue Webb, Kingston; Andrew Wheeler, Mor­ Page Isom, Columbus, Ohio; Eunice Jones, Estelle, Toledo; Alexandra Fine, Cincinnati; ristown; Henry Wllliams, Memphis. Columbus, Ohio; Ervin Pierce, Chattanooga, Wayne Hand, Columbus; Tony Hazzard, TEXAS (64) Tenn.; Paul Wann, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Cleveland; Derrick Hood, Cleveland; Marie Jackie Breedlove, San Antonio; Roy James Smith, Ennis, Texas. Jackson, Cleveland. Brewer, Fort Worth; Gary Brooks, McKinney; Note: the above have been incorporated George Jefferson, Columbus; Theodore Clarence Brown, Corrigan; Reginald Brown, into the figures for individual states where Jenkins, Cleveland; Timothy Ketcham, Houston; John Carter, Austin; Dwayne appropriate ·• Toledo; James Mack, Toledo; Taylor Maynard, Chaopell, Fairfield; Arthur Cooper, Houston; Columbus; Robert .'Moore, Cleveland; Mary Quida Sue Daniel, Abilene; Mary Davis, Pelton, Toledo; Clayborn Pinkins, Cleveland; Houston; Walter Dewalt, Houston: Jerry A TRIBUTE TO MRS. ELVIRA James Prichett, Cleveland; Joan Rist, Cleve­ Ga111more, Cameron; Daniel Grlschenke, LIESE GANG land; Peter Sadlon, Cleveland; Rodney Houston; James Gross, San Benito; Paul Schafer, Landcaster; Robert Seiffert, Walnut Herrin, Arlington; Benny Howard, Fort Hllls; Phillip Smith, Columbus, Paul Smoth­ Worth. HON. HAROLD C. HOLLENBECK ers, Toledo; Robert Story, Cleveland; Margaret James Hunt, Longview; Judith Hyatt. Bel­ OF NEW JERSEY ton; Sheila Johnson, Belton; Brad Jones, Thomas, Cleveland; Maicion Williams, Cleve­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES land; Douglas Wolters, Cleveland; Unidenti­ Austin; Burl Jones, Lubbock; Clifford Ken­ fied female, Cleveland. nan, Houston; Susan Kilgore, Fort Worth; Wednesday, May 2, 1979 OKLAHOMA (17) Jesse Kindle, Houston; Jimmy Lamar Sr., Rose City; Tom Lester Jr., Houston; R. D. e Mr. HOLLENBECK. Mr. Speaker, this J. D. Brown, Enid; Ceci Corbet, Elk City; Llllard, Waco; James Lloyd, Houston; George weekend I will join my friends and neigh­ Roger Doscher, Oklahoma City; Chris Jon­ McClung, Dallas; Dean Mlller, Galveston; bors in Rutherford, N.J., in paying trib­ dahl, Guthrie; James McNaughton, Tulsa; Mike Mllls, Commerce; Donald Osborn, Hous­ ute to one of our most distinguished citi­ Glenn Moore, Duncan; Orvllle Parks, Tulsa; ton; Wesley Price, Strawn. Steve Reece, Yale; Wilma Rousseau, Okmul­ zens, Mrs. Elvira Liesegang. Mrs. Liese­ Charles Pullen, Houston; Larry Robertson, gee; Gary Seaborn, Oklahoma City; Steven gang, who will soon celebrate her 90th Fort Worth; Charles Rogers, Fort Worth; Snyder, Elk City; Kenneth Stutzriem, Nor­ birthday, is recognized for her contribu­ Joyce Rogers, Odessa; Donna Rousseau, Aus­ man; Charles Thomuson, Tulsa; Pamela tin; Serenity Rousseau, Austin; Shemeria tions and years of service to the com­ Tollett, Tulsa: Newell Waldren, Oklahoma Rousseau, Austin; Fred Rucker II, Denison; munity. City; Unidentified male, 3/ 28/79, Oklahoma A resident of Rutherford since 1923, City. Henry Salonen, Houston; Celestina Sanchez, Rotan; Herbert Sanders, Greenvllle; Carlos Mr. Liesegang has earned the respect and OREGON (5) Sandoval, San Antonio; Guy Sansom, Dallas; admiration of citizens of Rutherford for Charles Boynton, Portland; Steven Clore, Oksoon Sansom, Dallas; Barry Schroeder, her untiring work for the betterment of Portland; Boyd Grogan, Portland; Jrene Gro­ Houston; Wade Smith, Texarkana. the community. Her "trips of the month" gan, Portland; Clifford Murphy, White City. Henry Solonen, San Antonio; William to historical, cultural and recreational PENNSYLVANIA (24) Stanley, San Antonio; Henry Sustaita, Hous­ sites in the area are popular regularly Alan Cosey, Waynesboro; Frank Darrell, ton; Brian Swartz, Austin; Roy Taylor, scheduled events for many Rutherford Uniontown; Wllliam Davis, Philadelphia; Dallas; Ronald Valentine, Houston; John Vincent, Amarillo; Jack Waldon, Mineola; residents. Rebecca Forgue, Duvall; Wayne Forgue, Du­ Larry White, Houston; Lonnie Williams, Mrs. Liesegang's interest in govern­ vall; Harry Harper Jr., Pittsburgh; Marilyn Dallas; Larry Wilson, Galveston; Jackie ment is evidenced by her many years of Hlll, Wllliamsport; Dennis Hogue, Shenango; Young, Dallas; unidentified male, 3/6/ 79, service as a Bergen County Committee­ Eugene Hopkins, Pittsburgh; Margaret Kha- Dallas; unidentified male, 3/14/79, Ranger. woman. She is currently vice-chairman 9608 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 of her party's municipal committee and Booth Memorial Scholarship Fund-Educa­ purpose of SALT. Since SALT will be one honorary vice president of its' local club. tional. Cancer Care-Direct patient assistance. of the most, if not the most important Mrs. Liesegang is one of those very rare Community Baptist Church-Youth ed- issues that the Congress will deal with individuals whose busy schedule can al­ ucation. this decade, I ask my colleagues to read ways be expanded, somehow, to accom­ Daytop Vlllage-Arts & crafts workshop. this article; and I urge the Senators who modate yet another community service Flushing Boys Club-Athletic equipment. will be voting on this treaty to weigh project. I am proud to offer her my con­ Flushing High School-student guidance carefully all these seldom-mentioned in­ gratulations on this much-deserved book. adequacies in the treaty. The article recognition.• Flushing Hospital-Prosthesis program. reads as follows: Flushing Rotary Charitable Trust--Fund­ ing. THE FATEFUL ILLUSIONS OF SALT ll Francis Lt!wis High School-College guid­ (By Ralph Kinney Bennett) ance materials. Stretching the length of the Soviet Union, AWARDS BY THE ROTARY CLUB Grand Street Boys Association-Youth ac­ from the Carpathians in the west to the Sta­ tivities. novoi Range in the east, is a deadly constel­ Holy Cross High School-Cassette duplica­ lation of concrete-1500 intercontinental­ HON. LESTER L. WOLFF tion machine. balllstic-missile silos. About once a month, OF NEW YORK Lighthouse for the Blind-Senior summer an SS-17 or SS-18 is test-fired from one of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES program. them. Then from a huge underground "hold Macedonia Day Care Center-Summer pro­ building," another missile is drawn to refill Wednesday, May 2, 1979 gram. the silo. • Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I recently March of Dimes-Medical research. How many ICBMs are in these underground Multiple Sclerosis Society-Audio-visual buildings? We don't know. How many ad­ had the opportunity to attend a very cassette. special event in my district which I ditional missiles are hidden in the vast Soviet · ORT-Technical training. landmass? Again, we don't know. would like to call to the attention of the P .A.L. 109th Precinct-Athletic equipment. For more than six years now, the Strategic Congress. I refer to the Flushing Rotary P.A.L. 111th Precinct-Athletic equipment. Arms Limitation Talks designed to fashion Charitable Trust Humanitarian Awards Queens Borough Hill Athletic Assn.- Youth the SALT II treaty between the United States to cotn.munity agencies program spon­ athletic development. and the Soviet Union have produced a thick sored by the Rotary Club of Flushing. Queens Child Guidance Center, Flushing­ smog of political rhetoric and mystifying The Flushing Rotary Charitable Trust Parent-child workshop. mathematics. When you penetrate this mist, was created to assist nonprofit commu­ Queens Mental Health Center-Publication you encounter two grave facts: of Queens Directory. 1. SALT II would not limit the number ot nity agencies that are dedicated to a Red Cross Queens Chapter-Resuscitation missiles and nuclear warheads in the Soviet finer quality of life for the -citizen and training. arsenal. Contrary to the impression fostered community. The awards at the recent Rotary Gift of Life Project-Childrens car­ by our government it would merely limit event were made possible through the diac surgery. launchers, the devices from which missiles generosity and the commitment of two St. Agnes High School-Career guidance are fired. Accordingly, nuclear-weapons limi­ outstanding citizens, Kurt and Trude program. tation, the primary objective of the United St. Andrew Avelllno R. C. Church-Youth States when it entered the talks, is not in Weishaupt. These two remarkable citi­ Ministry Program. zens have risen above the hate and de­ the agreement. St. Francis Prep.-Band uniforms. 2. Despite our satellites, radars and other struction that overwhelmed their youth Temple Beth Sholom-Rellgious scholar­ electronic sensing devices, we have been un­ in Nazi Germany and have led a life ship. able to determine the true size of the Soviet filled with love and concern for their St. Mary's Hospital for Children-Play­ strategic missile force. Thus, accurate, un­ fellow men and women. In the late ground equipment. impeachable data, the very basis for a ra­ President Kennedy's inaugural address, The Salvation Army, Astoria Corps-Schol­ tional agreement of any kind, are misslng he called upon our Nation's citizens to: arship fund. from SALT II. Shield Institute of Flushing-Recreational In the light of these facts, the American Ask not what your country can do for you, equipment. ask what you can do for your country. people, through their Congress, must seri­ Soc. Prevention of Cruelty to Children­ ously question whether an arms agreement Clearly, the unceasing efforts and in­ School trainin~ film. should, or even can, be made with the path­ Temple Beth Jacob-Community Center. ologically secretive Soviets. exhaustible energy of Kurt and Trude Temple Beth Sholom-Rellgious scholar- Weishaupt on behalf of their community shins. HIDDEN STORY and neighbors epitomizes this coura­ United Jewish Appeal/ Federation Common sense dictates that the most im­ geous call to honor. Y.M.C.A. , Flushing-Athletic equipment. portant factors in assessing Soviet strategic This trust and program demonstrate Y.M .H.A., Flushing-Retarded adolescent strength are the number and characteristics the principles and the year-round dedi­ training.e (range, accuracy, destructive power) of cation of the Flushing Rotary. The their missiles and warheads. From the out­ set of SALT negotiations, however, it became stated objectives of the Rotary reflect clear the Soviets would not share any such the highest ideals of our great country. information. And, since it has been impos­ Those objectives are: To encourage the THE FATEFUL ILLUSIONS OF SALT II sible by satellites and other technical means ideal of service; to promote community to gain complete, accurate knowledge, we betterment and high standards in busi­ HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS have been forced to rely on imperfect and ness and professions; to develop fellow­ sometimes erroneous intelligence estimates. ship; to advance international under­ OF IDAHO A satellite camera cannot see through the standing and peace. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES roof of a missile pla.nt. Furthermore, the Soviets often move missiles out of their fac­ I congratulate the officers, trustees, Wednesday, May 2, 1979 tories at night, and in random batchs, to and members of the Rotary Foundation • Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, I wish to frustrat e estimates of their rate of pro­ for such a worthwhile program and en­ submit to the RECORD an article from the duction. And the four principal Soviet mis­ close, for the attention of the Congress, May 1977 issue of Reader's Digest written sile works-at Moscow, Gorki, Dnepro­ a list of the recipients of awards for by Ralph Kinney Bennett entitled, "The petrovsk and Bisk-are frequently hidden this year: by thick cloud cover. Fateful Illusions of SALT II.'' This So, our common sense gave way to a curi­ RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS article covers some very important points ous kind of co.nvenience. Since ICBM silos ANffiiC-Polaroid & 4 cassette recorders. about the SALT process whi :h are sel­ are extensive const ructions not easily con­ Arthritis Foundation-Patient assistance dom mentioned and some severe prob­ cealed, U.S. intelligence began counting program. lems with the treaty presently under con­ launchers instead of missiles. "The primary A.S.P.C.A.-Expansion of facllitles. sideration. Ralph Bennett brings out that currency of the (SALT] negotiations became Aurora Concept--Building program. limits on the number of launchers, not lim­ fact that this arms control agreement is its on missiles or their characteristic," says Bayside High School-career guidance meaningless because it only counts former SALT negotiator Paul Nitze. "This material. launchers, and not missiles or warheads. has proved to be the wrong currency." Benjamin N. Cardozo High School-Tele­ As Mr. Bennett and Paul Nitze have said Just how wro.ng can be judged by ex­ binocular. at different times, this focusing on limit­ amining t he evolution of Soviet mis­ Booth Memorial Medical Center-Ambu­ ing launchers will not stop the arms race. sile forces. In recent years, 1200 Soviet ICBM's lance. And slowing the arms race was the whole have been removed from their silos and re- May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9609 placed by more sophisticated models. West­ highly placed intelllgence source in Wash­ have been pinpointed all over the Soviet ern intelligence sources puzzle over what ington says, "Altogether there could well be Union. But what goes on inside them? happened to those 1200 "old" missiles. Sat­ twice as many warheads in the Soviet arsenal The limitations of our surveillance sys­ ellite photographs reveal no trace of where as. our SALT negotiators believe will be de­ tems make many experienced intell1gence the ICBMs were taken. (Between 200 and ployed." analysts incredulous at the smooth assur­ 300 have been fired in mass training exer­ An added worry is the S8-16 ICBM. The ances of the State Department and the Arms cises.) Some may still be nearby, in the Soviets have used two stages of this large Control and Disarmament Agency that we huge factory-like buildings at each of the missile to create a smaller, mobile one-the will be able to "verify" SALT II. 26 ICBM complexes. Others may be in ex­ SS-20. Although a protocol to SALT II would RAGING CONTROVERSY tensive underground installations the So­ prohibit deployment of a mobile ICBM sys­ tem before 1981, at least 100 S8-20s have al­ The Administration says SALT II is the viets are known to have been building "centerpiece" of American foreign pollcy, an since World War II. ready been deployed. The Soviets claim this is an "intermediate­ important step in stopping the "arms race" The 1200 replaced missiles are only part while preserving strategic "equivalence." But of the hidden story. An ICBM must oe range" ballistic missile, poised mainly against NATO forces in Europe, but one group of SALT II critics point to the steady decline of periodically removed from its silo for main­ U.S. strategic strength and the dramatic tenance, such as replacement of worn guid­ these missiles has been spotted in the center of the Soviet Union at an apparent ICBM growth of Soviet power that have accom­ ance gyroscopes (constantly spinning inside panied the protracted negotiations. They see the missile) . For this reason, Russian ICBM installation. And analysts are wary of Soviet claims that the S8-20 is not of interconti­ the lack of true constraints in the treaty and complexes keep a "maintenance float" of the concomitant American trend of unilat­ extra missiles. In addition, there is a "pipe­ nental range. Our monitoring indicates that when the Soviets tested it they loaded on eral arms limitation (cancellation of the B-1 line fioat"-missiles to replace damaged or bomber, delay of the MX missile) as ensuring malfunctioning ICBMs. These extras could 1000 pounds of ballast. If this unnecessary weight was eliminated, the missile could the Soviets, within the next half decade, the constitute another 2000 operational ICBMs capacity to destroy our ICBM force while us­ beyond the 1200 replaced missiles. easily be of ICBM range. And the S8-16 itself is a subject of con­ ing less than half of their missile force. BEWARE A "BREAKOUT" cern. Many S8-16 first stages were built, then Yet the real problem with SALT lies out­ The possib111ty of such hidden missiles disappeared. These first stages could be side the treaty-in the great unknown con­ raises the question of what the Soviets quickly mated to the two stages that make cerning true Soviet ballistic-missile and war­ plan to do with them. A close examination up the SS-20, thus throwing another large head production. It seems almost inconceiv­ of Soviet capab111ty and strategic doctrine ICBM into the strategic balance at rome able that the United States has allowed so provides a sobering clue. crucial moment. Moreover, an S8-16-in many years of negotiations (and U.S. conces­ When American ICBMs are launched, fact, all Soviet ICBMs-need not be fired sions) to go by without obtaining the most equipment in their silos is heavily dam­ from a sUo. They could be launched from rudimentary information from the Soviets aged by takeoff blast. Skilled construction virtually any pre-surveyed (for guidance) about their missile production. A rational crews would need six weeks to repair a site, even from inside a building with a false revelation of their strategic inventory-and roof. the certain means of confirming the figures­ Minuteman silo to fire another misslle. should have been the premier and absolutely This is accepted because of our belief that How many SS-16s and S8-20s are there? We don't know. non-negotiable demands of the United a nuclear war would be one great, fiery States. Unless that great unknown is pierced, "spasm" with no second round. CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME SALT II limitations on "launchers" are The Soviets have a decidedly different The Soviets can precisely gauge our missile meaningless, and neither an elaborate treaty view: A nuclear war is to be fought and force simply by attending appropriations nor the interest of Moscow in true "peaceful survived-no matter how destructive. The hearings on Capital Hill, reading the aero­ coexistence" can be counted upon.e U.S.S.R. therefore emphasizes the re-use of space press or looking at easily obtained missile launchers. The latest Soviet misslles maps. showing the nine Air Force bases where are encased in a canister with a com­ our ICBMs are located. By contrast, trying pressed-gas generator. The gas pops the to learn about a new Soviet missile involves missile out of the silo be tore the engines imprecise, long-range detective work. FIRST STEPS TOWARD PROTECT­ ignite to send the missile on its way, leaving For the most part, we rely on radar track­ ING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE the silo undamaged. With this "cold­ ing of test firings and the reading of inter­ launch" technique-an American idea once cepted telemetry-the flow of electronic in­ turned down by our Defense Department, formation sent back to the ground by the HON. RICHARD A. GEPHARDT then picked up by the Soviets-U.S. missile misslle itself. Experts further attempt to get OF MISSOURI experts estimate that the Soviets could a "thumbprin.t" of a new missile by analyz­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES launch a second ICBM from the same silo ing the type of silo, cranes and service vans in as little as two hours after the first. at a launch site. But the uncooperative So­ Wednesday, May 2, 1979 When our negotiators brought up the re­ viets play cat-and-mouse with us by dis­ e Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, re­ lo'l.d-refire matter in the SALT II talks, the guising equipment, encoding the telemetry coming from a missile and even hiding its cently, our colleague, IKE SKELTON, of el viets agreed not to develop, test or deploy Missouri, delivered an address to a a ·•rapid" reload system-but only after in­ true flight characteristics by adding or sub­ sisting that their launchers did not fall into tracting weight. Kansas City emergency preparedness this category. Nevertheless, satellite and Our detective work has recently become luncheon. Mr. SKELTON spoke at length other intelligence indicates that about half even more difficult. The sale of the opera­ about our need for a strong civil defense of Soviet silos have ocen or will be fitted tional manual of our KH-11 satell1te to the for our Nation. I recommend the read­ with cold-launched missiles (S8-17s, S8-18s Soviets by a CIA employe has enabled them ing of this address by our colleague from and newer ICBMs now being developed) . to take steps to elude the satellite's photo­ graphic and electronic sensing equipment. Missouri to the Members of this body: Many defense analysts are deeply con­ And the U.S. pullout from Iran, where we op­ FmST STEPS TOWARD PROTECTING THE cerned that the potential hidden store­ erated an extensive array of radar and sens­ AMERICAN PEOPLE houses of Soviet ICBMs, backed by up this ing devices, has severely hampered' eaves­ President Carter has announced that this refire capacity, may enable the U.S.S.R to dropping on prime Soviet test ranges. Administration has r~cognized that civil de­ achieve a "breakout"-a sudden deploy­ Intelligence analysts are proud of our sur­ fense is an element of the strategic balance, ment of weapons that, as the Congressional and that it can serve to enhance deterrence special subcommittee on SALT put it, veillance technology, but they feel we may have been oversold on it by those eager to and stability-in conjunction, of course, with ·•could quickly tip the strategic advantage" our strategic offensive forces. Mr. Jody in their favor. promote arms control. Some spy-satellite cameras can pick out objects the size of a Powell said at a press conference last No­ ADDED WORRIES pie plate. But the cameras can't penetrate vember that while the Administration does Even by the conservative estimates used in darkness or douds. And in covering the not see civil defense as a crash program, it SALT II, the Soviets will have at least 7000 huge Soviet landmass, satellite analysts would "involve a moderate increase in funds thermonuclear warheads by 1985. Breakout must look where they think they will find over the next several years to give us a ... could suddenly add many more. The United something. In the mid-1970s the Russians greater capability to protect larger numbers States stopped production of enriched ura­ constructed four gigantic radar installa­ of our population, in the event that deter­ nium for nuclear weapons in 1964, hoping tions, possibly the largest in the world, near rence fails." the Russians would follow suit. Instead, the the Arctic Circle. It was two years before our That was the good news. There is other, Soviets increased production and continue satellites detected all of them, and then only more recent news, however, which seems to it today. after a tip from a defector. me to be less good. That is the message And, though our atmospheric sensors give Vast numbers of such Soviet m111tary contained in the President's Budget. us a. general idea. of Soviet nuclear-weauons­ installations have been spotted by satel­ The request for civil defense is for $108.6 material production, without their co6pera­ lites, but remain shrouded in mystery. More million. Now that is a real increase over the tion we have no exact knowledge of how than 150 heavily guarded, Pentagon-size current, FY 1979 level of $96.8 million. It is many warheads they a.re stockpiling. One structures, obviously of high military value, indeed a "real growth" increase of 6 to 7 9610 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 percent over inflation. And that, I suppose, the vulnerability o! American society, the might be the only ones, if escalation control could also be considered good news, in a year less the credib111ty of the U.S." worked and the conflict was confined to of the utmost fiscal stringency. But let us These views by Professor Huntington, in counter-military strikes. be very clear that the current FY 1979 budget my judgment, do no more than state the It therefore seemed to me that since the level--of around 45 cents per capita-is the obvious. Who could dissent !rom these prop­ people living near our deterrent military smallest amount the United States has in­ ositions, embodying, in my view, only simple forces stand at special risk, we should inves­ vested in civil defense since the program prudence? tigate what kinds of special protection might began in 1951. So a 6 or 7 percent increase Some can and do dissent. At the same be provided for these people-what would over that token level still amounts to January 1979 hearings, Mr. Paul Warnke, be the costs and the payoffs of alternative tokenism. until lately Director of U.S. Arms Control approaches. The study is now available. It Whatever became of the $145 million pro­ and Disarmament Agency, stressed that in says if civil defense is to be effective in the gram we heard of in the press last December? his opinion, civil defense could make no high risk areas it must be improved. The Is the Administration indeed committed to meaningful contribution to the survival of work you are doing here today is one small, an orderly, deliberate improvement in our a nation subjected to nuclear attack. but important step in that direction. Let us civil defense posture, to "enhance deter­ Obviously, the Soviet leaders feel a con­ look at the types of protection people in rence and stability," or hg.s that commitment cern for their people and industry. Should H .:: GH R:-SK areas need. been aborted? we not spend a fraction of their investment The DCPA study outlines four ways to pro­ In this context, it seems to me that the to modestly improve the protection of our vide protection for the population of high­ responsib111ties of the Congress are quite own people in the event the unthinkable risk areas. These methods are: clear. I believe the Congress should proceed as occurs? 1. Current civil defense. follows: What, then, are the views of the American 2. Crisis relocation, a method by which We should carefully consider the argu­ people? I submit that they are sound and residents of high ~isk areas re-locate to areas ments for and against civil defense. sensible, and that both the Congress and the of low risk, or host areas. We should consider the hazards we may Executive Branch would do well to be guided 3. Expedient shelters, shelters made by face in the next decade, and the role of civil by these views. residents during a crisis. defense in our Nation's strategic posture. A survey of my constituents in the Fourth 4. Blast shelters. We should consider the views of the Ameri­ Congressional District of Missouri, and a Blast shelters are defined by the study as can people. recent national survey conducted for DCPA, highly effective for the high risk areas given If we conclude that the President's decision are to the same effect: the American people any amount of warning time, but are also was sound-that our people need and deserve want civil defense and indeed-and I think the most expensive form of protection. Blast more than a token level of civil defense-we this is a tragic irony-they believe their gov­ shelters, built during peacetime, would cost should make it crystal clear to the President ernment is making provision for their pro­ about $300 per person. Current civil defense and the Executive Branch that we can no tection far beyond what is the fact of today. outlay per person per year is 45 cents. longer make do with token civil defense, and About 80 percent of the people oppose the So, in a nutshell here is the dilemma. Blast that the $108.6 million request for FY 1980 idea that we should do away with civil de­ shelters would be the the most effective in makes sense only if it is the first small incre­ fense. The irony is in this: the average esti­ High Risk areas . . . such as the one in ment of an austere but sensible program. mate 1s that we are spending $1 billion an­ which we live ... but, they cost too much. We should examine carefully the new ini­ nually for civil defense, or ten times the ac­ People and Congress aren't ready to invest tiatives contemplated in the proposed civil tual level. And when asked what we should such a large sum of money into civil defense. defense budget for FY 1980, and recommend spend, the average response was that we The next best tool is evacuation or crisis and support those additional initiatives we should spend even more-$1.6 bUlion per relocation. However, it is much less effective believe to be necessary. year. because of the problems associated with it. We should approve H.R. 2704. This is the It is thus very clear that the American But for what we can afford ... evacuation Skelton bUl that gives civil defense a pur­ people continue strongly to favor civil de­ is the best we can get. pose and direction with the necessary fund­ fense, and believe we should do even more Another area is one I believe to be of the ing. than they (mistakenly) believe we are now greatest importance. It has to do with train­ I would like to discuss my reviews on the doing. It seems to me that we should all ing and educating our people on the facts of issues I have just outlined. take heed of these views of our people, and life and of survival in the nuclear age. First, as to the need of 'civil defense, it give them the most careful consideration. DCPA's training program and apparatus was seems to me clear beyond the slightest doubt Let me now turn to what can be accom­ reduced to next to nothing several years ago that the United States cannot continue in plished with the $108.6 million contained in because of declining budgets, and the best the 1980's as we have done hitherto--leaving the President's Budget for FY 1980. I do not they have been able to do lately is to offer our population virtually naked and unpro­ have available the details of the civil defense e. minimal level of training for State and tected should the unthinkable occur and de­ program proposed for FY 1980, but it is clear local civil defense staffs, a few conferences terrence fail-by accident, miscalculation, or that 6 or 7 percent real growth will not allow for public officials, and a modicum of train­ unintended escalation. a great deal more to be done than is being ing for a mere skeleton of a cadre of radio­ It is certainly true that no nuclear weapon done today, and that is very little. It is my logical defense personnel. Essentially noth­ has been detonated in anger since 1945, and understanding that, in general, FY 1980 ing is being done in the area of public we all trust and pray that none ever will be so would be devoted to getting ready to accel­ education, although this was a program of detonated. But we all know too that the stra­ erate crisis evacuation planning and related significant size in the 1960's. This was before tegic environment today and in the future is programs in FY 1981-assuming, of course, the decline of civil defense as a result of not what it was in the 1950's, the 1960's, or that the Administration is indeed serious theories of mutual assured destruction, or until recently. about effecting orderly improvements in civil of mutual vulnerab1lity-theories which So­ defense over the next several years, and does viet leaders do not espouse. America is no longer the world's paramount not propose quietly to "walk away from" nuclear power. We have arrived at an age of civil defense in FY 1981. The lesson of the Berlin and Cuban crises strateg-ic parity. or rough eouivalence. Last summer I introduced an amendment of the early 1960's is clear: When our people Professor Samuel Huntington, Director to the Department of Defense Appropriation perceive an increased possibility of nuclear of the Harvard Center for International Authorization Act for 1979, which directed war, they quite understandably and sensibly Affairs, and until last summer a member of that DCPA make a study of the feasibility want to know what they could do to protect the National Security Council staff, put the of providing improved protection for people themselves and their families should the case for civil defense in simple and direct living near the prime targets for nuclear worst occur. terms in recent testimony to Senator Prox­ attack represented by our strategic nuclear The blunt and unpleasant fact is that mire's Committee on Banking, Housing, and retaliatory forces. My own District in Mis­ should tensions escalate, we are almost total­ Urban Affairs: souri contains nearly all of the Whiteman Air ly unprepared to provide the survival infor­ "In Soviet m111tary thinking, the threat to Force Base complex of Minuteman silos, and mation and education our people would de­ commit suicide does not constitute mean­ nationwide there are something like 8 or 10 mand. Therefore, I believe the FY 1980 civil ingful deterrence. Effective deterrence has million people who live in the vicinity of in­ defense program should be expanded to pro­ to involve not only the ability to inflict dam­ tercontinental missile complexes, SAC vide for a start in FY 1980 on rebullding a age on the enemy, but also 'the ability to bomber bases, or ballistic missile submarine training structure that could meet the de­ limit damage to oneself. ports. mands of the American people for survival These strategic offensive forces are of education should tensions begin to rise. "By their words and actions, the Soviets course the basis of our nuclear deterrence What you are doin~ here today is one exam­ have shown that they believe civil defense posture, and thus of the most critical im­ ple of what should be happening nationwide. to be a critical element in deterrence. Given portance to our nation and indeed the West­ One su~gestion is that if we rebuild a their belief, whether warranted or not, in ern world. But at the same time, if deter­ structure that educates high school or junior • • • civil defense, they can only perceive rence should ever fail, it is obvious that the high school students on civil defense subjects the United States as being weaker for the people living near these installations would on a year-by-year, peacetime basis, the same absence of such a program. be the first to suffer the horrifying destruc­ cadre of trained school teachers could pro­ "In an age of strategic parity, the greater tion of thermonuclear weapons. Indeed, they vide training for adults, as the demand in- May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9611 creased in a developing crisis. There may be in the manner in which the Department . Department ordered the local contractor to other options as well-perhaps to establish of Labor has administered it over the pay the Nashville union scale, so a laborer a cadre of instructors through the American years. who usually makes $4.25 an hour got $8.75. Red Cross, or police and fire departments. Where has the administration been on On a median strip of highway I-66 outside Another possibility is to place in telephone Washington, D.C., the Labor Department books in the high risk areas several pages of this issue? Out to lunch. It has proposed ruled unskilled laborers must get $9.68 an information about such things as where to not one legislative change to rectify the hour, over twice the usual rate. Why? Wash­ evacuate ... how to build expedient fallout problems with Davis-Bacon. It has not ington's Metrorail may someday run down and blast shelters ... how to survive after supported efforts to obtain even over- the median, so the rate must match other an attack ... and similar types of informa­ sight hearings. Worst of all, it has done subway projects, the Department says, al­ tion that would be at your fingertips. Sweden nothing administratively to eliminate or though this is nearly double the rate paid for is already doing this. Whatever the best ap­ alter the taxpayer-gouging regulations. similar highway work. The builder, the State proach or combination of approaches, I feel of Virginia, is appealing. strongly that we should get on with it in FY Why has the administration done conservative Congressmen are still trying 1980. nothing? The answer is simple. It has to change the Davis-Bacon Act. "What gets Finally, I would like to see H.R. 270 become been cowered once again by the labor me so damned mad," says Representative law. This bill, which I introduced, gives civil leader. In an informative article in the Thomas M. Hagedorn (R-Minn.), "is that the defense a purpose and direction. It also May 15 issue of Forbes Magazine, Fern Carter Administration all say off the record makes it part of this nation's strategic de­ Schumer notes how the AFL--CIO and how terrible this act is, it's a nightmare. But fense planning. In addition, my bill will pro­ the Department of Labor have joined because they're trying to get organized labor's vide a 7 year funding plan for civil defense forces to resist any changes in this law. support, they let the act continue." so that it can meet these goals. The author most charitably concludes Hagedorn and other congressmen have al- In conclusion, may I leave these thoughts t the Carter administration "is talk- ready introduced legislation this year to re­ with you: tha peal Davis-Bacon. Senator John Tower (R- Civil defense is a critical national require­ ing anti-inflation but behaving ambigu- Tex.) has introduced legislation to shield spe­ ment for the 1980s. One may view it as help­ ously." A more apt description of Mr. cific federally assisted prograins from its ing to enhance deterrence-as the President Carter is that he "dances like a bee and provisions. has--or as prudent insurance for national stings like a butterfly." Thera's also a possibility of administrative survival should the unthinkable occur, or I commend the Forbes article for your changes in the methods used to calculate the both. Regardless of the rationale, this coun­ review and ask that it be inserted in the so-called prevailing wages. try can afford no longer to gamble with the But any change, legislative or administra- survival of scores of millions of our peop!e. RECORD at this point: tive, will be difficult to slip past the unions. No program at a level of $100 million can The article follows: President Robert A. Georgine says the Build- provide either insurance or enhanced de­ FIGHTING WORDS IN WASHINGTON ing and Construction Trades Department of terrence. The minimum modest program, re­ (By Fern Schumer) the AFL-CIO "has no intention of permitting lying primarily on crisis evacuation to save Big labor is in the habit of coming before this law to be emasculated. Those who would millions, will cost an average of something the Democratic Congress asking for, as A.F. of repeal these laws would adamantly oppose re­ over $200 million annually. L. founder Sam Gompers would put it, stricting the profits e>f contractors, yet they I would like to commend each of you here "more." But the unions haven't been very propose to restrict the wages of workers. If today for your interest in this very important successful recently, even losing the big one cutting personal income is such an effective topic. Civil defense is important to this na­ last year for labor law "reform"; this year weapon in fighting inflation, let them start tion. It is important to you. It is important they have even been put on the defensive. with Henry Ford's $900,000 a year. Start with to the industry of our country. My purpose At issue is the Davis-Bacon Act, a Depres- those who have a lot, before they nickel-and­ today has been to discuss the weaknesses, the sion-era law sacred to the unions because it dime workers to death." strengths and the hoped for direction of civil pushes up wages on federally funded projects. Ignoring the Carter Adininistratlon's pro­ defense. At times my talk was bleak ... but That law insists contractors pay the "prevail- fessed concern for the federal deficit, the De­ I simply want to tell the truth. The bright ing" rates as deterinined by the Department partment of Labor has thrown itself squarely side is this ... there is hope. We can have a of Labor, which often enough are the union behind the unions. strong civil defense. We can protect millions rates, even if they aren't prevailing. The Labor Department has already issued a of people and much of our industry if we Earlier this year the Carter Administra- lengthy rebuttal to the GAO draft report simply understand what to do. I want to tion in a peacemaking effort with the AFL- denying that Davis-Bacon is inflationary and thank the state civil defense office for the c ... o formally gave up its effort to change defending it as the protector of construction fine work they are doing with today's project Davis-Bacon. But like indigestion, the effort workers' living standards, claiming that re­ and in other areas.e to change Davis-Bacon keeps gurgling up. peal could mean "wage exploitation" for The unions are running scared: The fight is women and minorities in the building trade "heating up," says the AFL-CIO Building and unions. Tampering with the Davis-Bacon Act Construction 'l·rades Department, as it starts can be dangerous, as Lester Fettig discovered. NO LEADERSHIP IN WHITE HOUSE a "protect our paychecks" drive. Fettig, who headed the Office of Federal Pro- TO FIGHT INFLATION The 1931 law was aimed at protecting con- curement Policy (OFPP) under the Office of struction workers by discouraging federal job Management & Budget, was critical of Labor contractors from cutting wages to win con- Secretary Ray Marshall's administration of HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK tracts, or, as the unions put It, blocking "fly- prevailing wage laws like Davis-Bacon. Mr. OF OHIO by-night, cutthroat competitors who swoop Fettig is no longer with the government. down to undercut community standards." However, the GAO isn't giving up. It plans IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES However, today even nonunion construction to refute the Labor Department's partisan re­ Wednesday, May 2, 1979 labor usually earns wages that are high by port. Meanwhile, Davis-Bacon isn't the only the standards of any community. problem for labor in Washington. The Ad- e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, for What particularly bothers builders is the ministration is going to try to nibble at com­ over 2 years we have heard the Carter way the Labor Department figures the pre- pensation levels of federal workers by adding administration's pugilistic shrill against vailing wage, its "30-percent rule." If the fringe benefits--which are far higher for inflation, against excessive Government department finds 30 percent of the government jobs than private industry-to spending, against an exorbitant national workers in an area getting one wage, that's the comparisons between federal and private debt. But more often than not, we find what it figures as the prevailing wage-and pay levels. Those comparisons are used to fig­ only a lightweight President shadowbox­ usually that's the high union rate. ure government pay levels; who gets more, In a critical draft report, the General Ac- public or private workers, is still being ar­ ing. A significant case in point is the counting Office (GAO) pegs the burden of gued, but there's little doubt what the tax­ Davis-Bacon Act. For years mounting Davis-Bacon on taxpayers at $715 million a payers think. Whether the Administration evidence has demonstrated the inflation­ year: about $200 million for contractors' cost will have the courage to fight to the end is ary impact of this depression-era meas­ in paperwork, $15 million for the Labor De- uncertain. ure. Congress own General Accounting partment's administrative costs, and $500 The winds in Washington are blowing two Office has recently corroborated this fact. million for inflated wages. The GAO ~ays the ways these days. For the first time in years, Last Friday, April 27, it released Report Labor Department overpriced about 40 per- there is a genuine concern with the size of cent of the projects, adding one-half of 1 the federal budget and with the inflationary No. HRD 79-18, entitled "The Davis­ percent to the government's cost of con- impact of high federal wage standards and Bacon Act Should Be Repealed." In this struction. one-sided labor laws. But there are equally lengthy study, the GAO canvasses the Take, for example, the little town of Dick- strong interest groups--consumer, business, history, the administration, and impact son, Tenn., over 50 miles west of Nashville. labor-that push the other way. As for the of this act. Interestingly enough, the The federal government helped pay for a Carter Administration, it is talking anti­ problems with Davis-Bacon arise largely water treatment plant expansion. The Labor inflation but behaving ambiguously.e 9612 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979

MINIMUM COST INVOLVED IN deed, how to overthrow the Sadat govern­ rulings. The public has no recourse if EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI TREATY ment. Thus, in concluding a peace agreement Treasury-IRS wishes to make a "devil's with Israel, Egypt has isolated itself from its pact" with the multi-international oil HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI Arab allies. Caught between such enmity companies and the OPEC nations by re­ and the Soviet menace, President Sadat must fusing to reconsider and revoke such OF ILLINOIS seek shelter under the U.S. umbrella along­ rulings. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES side Israel, which has long been ostradzed In House Report No. 95-1240, entitled Wednesday, May 2, 1979 by European and African nations intimi­ "Foreign Oil Tax Credits Claimed by U.S. dated by their dependence on Arab oil. e Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the Some of the U.S. grants and loans are re­ Petroleum Companies," the House Gov­ Southtown Economist is a daily publica­ quired to implement the treaty, such as re­ ernment Operations Committee exam­ tion serving the southern portion of the placing Israeli mill tary bases in the Sinai. ined this matter in depth, and concluded city of Chicago and the southwest sub­ Some offer aid needed especially by Egypt's the following in section IX, private urban area. In an editorial in that pub­ developing economy. Ironically, much of the actions: president's peace package is designated for There is inherent imbalance in IRS' han­ lication's April 20 edition, emphasis is mi11tary assistance-to strengthen Israel and placed on the minimum cost involved in dling of tax rulings and administration in­ Egypt, which together constitute the only volving major issues. When the Government the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, which real bulwark against Soviet expansion in the rules erroneously against a taxpayer, that was largely a result of the U .S. diplomatic Middle East. taxpayer quite naturally can plead his case initiative. The case for investing $5 billion for peace to either the Tax Court or the U.S. district In my judgment, the editorial is a between Egypt and Israel is so persuasive courts. However, when Treasury and IRS err thoughtful and objective summary of that we have no doubt that the basic wis­ in favor of a taxpayer or fail to effectively dom of the American people will support administer any provision of the tax code, this situation, and I insert it at this congressional approval. If we could, with point for the Members' attention: the general public has no recourse to cor­ such tell1ng effect, convert our devastated rect the damage. Moreover, errors in favor PRICE OF PEACE CHEAP COMPARED TO COST enemies, Japan and Germany, into strong of one segment of an industry or the econ­ OF WAR ames by aid programs, how much greater omy may place a competing sector at a com­ In a time of aroused public concern about reason have we now to help our staunchest petitive disadvantage, but that sector will government spending, a large, imprecisely friends in the troubled Middle East.e have no remedy to correct the damage. known number of Americans have been For example, allowing tax credits for for­ stunned to learn the U.S. tab for the Egyp­ eign royalty payments labeled as an income tian-Israeli peace treaty wlll be about $5 tax provides added incentive to explore and blllion. FOREIGN TAX CREDITS produce abroad at the expense of domestic "Carter didn't negotiate that agreement. product ion. Multinational petroleum compa­ He bought it," said one acid commentator. nies have naturally invested their limited Many congressmen report that their constit­ HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL capital in those areas where they achieve uents are voicing their worries, not to say OF NEW YORK the highest rate of after-tax return. To the their opposition, about how much the treaty IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES extent that foreign tax credits in lieu of will cost the U.S. And Senate Republican royalty deductions benefit these companies, leader Howard Baker of Tennessee says he has Wednesday, May 2, 1979 the Government is providing an incentive to not decided whether he wlll support or op­ • Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, since invest in OPEC countries which is not pro­ pose the administration's peace package. vided for domestic operations. In fact, ac­ Such discontent is understandable. It October 1977, the Commerce, Consumer, cording to State and Treasury memoranda, would be pleasant indeed if the U.S. invest­ and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee of the 1976 Indonesian ruling denying credita­ ment in the Middle East could be confined the Government Operations Committee, ble treatment to that country's levy on oil to the president's time and effort in nego­ which I chair, has urged the President production caused a significant deferral of tiating peace treaties between Arabs and Is­ to revoke the foreign tax credits claimed exploration capital from Indonesia to other raelis. But harsh international realities and by U.S. petroleum companies. countries. Thus, it is evident that without U.S. self-interest permit no such easy course. these credits, companies will make their pro­ The real issue, which President Carter has These credits have been created by "bending the law" through private Treas­ duction and exploration decisions on the resolved and asks the Congress and the coun­ basis of which areas have the greatest eco­ try to endorse, is how much better to spend ury-IRS rulings. This is accomplished by nomic and productive possib111ties-infiu­ $5 billion in waging peace t han to pay the ruling that a royalty levied abroad is a enced less by the economic distortions of much higher cost of another war between "creditable" foreign income tax and not tax advantages. Israel and Egypt. A cornerstone of American a royalty payment. Sophistry and politi­ Furthermore, these credits place solely foreign policy, about which there is little cal motives, not tax law, have determined domestic producers who are not interna­ debate in this country, is the U.S. commit­ these rulings. tionally integrated at a competitive disad­ ment to the survival of Israel. When that vantage vis-a-vis multinationals. The latter survival was threatened during the so-called In 1976, for example, the Secretary of State requested the Secretary of Treas­ are granted credits for what are really nor­ Yom Kippur War in 1973, the Nixon admin­ mal business expenses which are not avail­ istration had to strip the U.S. arsenal in ury to consider in the determination of able to domestic producers. NATO to sustain Israel against overwhelming such rulings the State Department's ob­ In June 1974 Tax Analysts and Advocates Arab armies supplied with the most sophis­ jective of furthering petroleum produc­ and the owner of a small independent petro­ ticated Soviet weapons. tion in OPEC countries. After these pri­ leum production company brought an action Precise figures for this military rescue op­ vate tax rulings were made public and seeking a declaratory judgment that the eration carried out by air are dimcult to upon reconsideration, Treasury-IRS 1955 and 1969 IRS foreign tax credit rulings come by, but they were enormous. Moreover, have had to revoke several as they were were unlawful and asking for an injunction the Arab oil embargo that was occasioned requiring the Service to withdraw them. Tax by the 1973 war and the resulting four-fold based on improper interpretations of U.S. tax laws. Analysts and Advocates has over 175 mem­ increase in oil prices have cost the U.S. un­ bers, most of whom are tax professors and told billions of dollars. Another Middle East­ The magnitude and impact of foreign pra:::tit ioners. One of its stated goals is to ern war would surely exacerbate this tax credit rulings have cost this Nation ensure that the IRS does not grant special already-binding energy sit uation for us-­ dearly. They have increased American int erest groups unduly favorable tax treat­ the cost of which we can be certain wculd dependence on OPEC oil production, ment beyond t hat which the Service may far exceed $5 billion. caused a direct loss to Treasury in excess lawfully provide. The District Court for the To be sure, the Egyptian-Israeli peace District of Columbia concluded that both treaty is no guarantee against another war of $10 billion and siphoned off billions in domestic oil production and domestic em­ petitioners lacked standing as Federal tax­ in the Middle East. The new Arab alliauce payers because they had suffered no judi­ of Iraq, Syria, and Jordan could try again ployment. cially cognizable injury. It went on to state to destroy Israel, but the absence of Egypt's IRS Commissioner Kurtz stated in the t hat although one petitioner who owned a massive manpower from this lineup great ly subcommittee hearings that, despite the small domestic oil producing facllitv suffered enhances the improbability of an all-out seriousness of the issue, tax credit rul­ injury in fact as a competitor dealing in oil conflict. ings involve technical legal questions of ext raction and production. he had no stand­ A realist ic recognition of t his ! act by t he statutory interpretation rather than ing to sue because he could not be eligible mlUtant Arabs is the reason they are so questions of legislative tax policy. for foreign tax credit benefits himself. The furious with President Anwar Sadat---why Supreme Court refuEed to review the opinion. Arab foreign r..nd economic ministers meet­ Therefore, administrative action by Thus, the court's posit ion is that a party, ing in Baghdad, Iraq, are considering what Treasury-IRS, not new legislation, is regardless of damages suffered, who would sanctions to impose against Egypt and in- needed to revoke improper tax credit not be eligible to benefit from rulings under May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REM.A.RKS 9613 a particular section of the Tax Code, has no hoped it to be. They had dreamed, prayed, Now, therefore, be it resolved by the rep­ standing to object to the erroneous admin­ and worked for a liberated, free, and in­ resentat ion of the National Federation of istration of the tax laws despite the added dependent Poland. We all know that since the Blind assembled in Washington, D.C., financial burdens and deficits caused there­ April 29, 1979, that we demand a public apol­ by. Consequently, IRS decisions which may the treacherous events at the end of the ogy by Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie, accom­ add to Treasury revenues can be reviewed by last war, these Poles have not known true plished by a public commitment to off-set the courts, but a decision which loses rev­ freedom. the negative impact of his remarks by estab­ enues cannot be reviewed. Despite all of the outrages suffered by lishing the goal of making the Nuclear Regu­ Accordingly, the committee concluded in the heroic Polish people at the hands of latory Commission a. model employer of Finding No.7: their Communist oppressors, these blind persons at all levels.e A taxpayer has standing to contest any dauntless souls cling to their noble ideals IRS decision which results in a larger tax obligation for him. However, citizens have as outlined by the Constitution of 1791. no legal standing to challenge a possibly I am proud to join with Americans of erroneous IRS decision which decreases an­ Polish heritage in expressing support for BOB KLITZKIE: CARRYING THE other taxpayer's tax obliga,.tiOIIl despite the the strong and unwavering desire of the TORCH FOR GUAM fact that the erroneous decision may place Polish people that Poland once again be the citizen's business in a competitive or free to decide its own national destiny.e other disadvantage, or may cost the Treasury HON. ANTONIO BORJA WON PAT revenue. OF GUAM The committee recommended that the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES law- FALSE STEREOTYPES ABOUT THE Wednesday, May 2, 1979 BLIND • • • be amended to allow private citizens • Mr. WON PAT. Mr. Speaker, we all standing to obtain judicial review before U.S. know that the recent Boston Marathon District Courts of Treasury and IRS rules HON. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY was an exciting event which featured and regulat!ons pertaining to other taxpayers if they place that citizen or taxpayer's busi­ OF IOWA 8,000 contestants. But one of the most ness in a competitive or other disadvantage, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES amazing stories about the race has yet to or cost the Treasury revenues. be told nationally. It deals with a most Wednesday, May 2, 1979 dedicated marathon runner who I am Today, along with Representative e Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. Speaker, with fortunate to call a friend and constitu­ JOHN CONYERS, I am introducing a bill all of the problems arising out of the ent, Robert Klitzkie of Guam. that implements the recommendation in accident at the Three Mile Island nu­ Shortly after the prestigious race, House Report No. 95-1240, entitled "For­ clear power facility, it is extremely em­ Bob Klitzkie came to my Washington eign Tax Credits Claimed by U.S. Petro­ barrassing that the Chairman of the Nu­ office to fill us in on his exciting par­ leum Companies." This legislation clea-r Regulatory Commission chose to ticipation in that event. In k~eping with redresses the existing discrimination in describe the actions of officials as, "like his usual low-keyed style and humility, ms foreign tax credit rulings, provides a couple of blind men staggering around Bob said little about himself, but left us relief to domestic industries that have making decisions." These unfortunate with a sense of pride in this impressive been placed at a competitive disadvan­ comments are typical of the false stereo­ man who came 9,000 miles just to run tage as .a result of foreign oil tax credits, types which have kept blind men and 26.2 miles in the streets of Boston. and will work to eliminate these egre­ women from fully enjoying American Needless to say, it takes a lot of stam­ gious tax credits that have systematical­ social and economic life. The National ina to run 26.2 miles, especially in his ly undermined the creation of a self­ Federation of the Blind has done a great speedy time of 3:25: 06 minutes. But, sufficient, equitable, and pro-consumer deal to reduce public misunderstanding those of us who have come to know and American energy policy. I urge my col­ about blindness and the capability of the respect Bob Klitzkie are not surprised. leagues to support this effort to eliminate blind to become productive members of From the first, he has made his mark in this unwarranted tax advantage and in­ our society. I am pleased to insert in the Guam as a dedicated man who places a centive to OPEC countries.• RECORD a resolution from the National high premium on being the best that he Federation of the Blind denouncing the can be. insensitivity of Chairman Hendrie's re­ Bob came to Guam as a teacher and in POLISH CONSTITUTION DAY-1979 marks and calling upon the Nuclear Reg­ this capacity, he was, true to his history, ulatory Commission to become a model one of the best around. But he wanted employer of the blind. more out of life than teaching could give HON'. HAROLD C. HOLLENBECK The resolution follows: him and he went on to law school. When OF NEW JERSEY DEMAND APOLOGY FROM NUCLEAR REGULATORY he returned to Guam, he gave the prac­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMISSION tice of law his full attention and today Whereas, the official transcript of the Nu­ stands out as one of the territory's pre­ Wednesday, May 2, 1979 clear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held mier attorneys. e Mr. HOLLENBECK. Mr. Speaker, on on March 30, 1979, quotes NRC Chairman, In recent years, Bob became interested this day 188 years ago Poland adopted Jo~eph M. Hendrie, as saying: "It's like a in marathon running, mostly he says, couple of blind men staggering around mak­ to keep his weight down and to give him its first democratic constitution. I firmly ing decisions," in describing the actions of believe that this was an inspiring and officials in dealing with problems a.t the 3- exercise. Now, marathon running in momentous event not only for the people Mile Island Nuclear Power Generating Fa­ Guam's tropical climate may never be of Poland, but for the entire world. It cility; and a major island pastime. But Bob Klitzkie must be remembered that Poland adopt­ Whereas, Chairman Hendrie's statement has shown all of us what can be done ed this constitution only a few years af­ demonstrates his personal ignorance a.nd by a man who is determined to be the ter our own democratic Nation was represents the traditional false stereotypes best in whatever he attempts. founded. At that time, such freedoms as about the helpless and incompetent blind; To my knowledge, no one from Guam and detailed in the Polish Constitution were Whereas, the principal problem faced by has ever carried the torch in Boston of almost unknown in most parts of the blind men a.nd women not actively partlcl­ local marathon runners. With his re­ world. The Polish Constitution of 1791, pruting in the mainstream of American life markable time in the Boston Marathon, the French Constitution of 1792, and the is the lack of understanding about blind­ Bob Klitzkie has set a record of per­ American Constitution are among the ness which exists resulting in widespread sonal achievement that we all can be great landmarks in the growth and devel­ discrimination against the blind; and proud to have for our island. He has done opment of constitutional law the world Whereas, Chairman Hendrie's statement a great job and he deserves recognition over. can only serve to erode further the public for attempting a challenge that only the Mr. Speaker, on this anniversary ob­ attitude a.bout blindness with the result that it will reduce the chances of full par­ most dedicated of runners ever attempt. servance of Polish Constitution Day it is ticipation in the social and economic life of I wish him the best of good fortune in impossible to omit a reference to today's this country; and the years ahead. I doubt that anyone who Poland, which is a far cry from what all Whereas, Chairman Hendrie's gross insen­ saw Bob run in the Boston race wearing patriotic and liberty loving Poles had sitivity is amplified by his high public office: his gold mesh shirt with the Guam seal CXXV-605-Part 8 9614 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 proudly emblazoned on his shirt front loveliest communities in my Long Island worked with the Cypress police by mak­ will ever forget this wonderful athlete congressional district. ing his store available for an undercover who came from, perhaps, farther away Guido L. Valentine, who is now prin­ operation which resulted in the arrest to be the world's best long distance run­ cipal of the Mill Lane Junior High of two cat burglars, who had been re­ ners. I think we shall hear more of Bob School, formally will end three decades sponsible for over 100 burglaries in late Klitzkie in marathon races of the future of work in behalf of future generations 1978. As a result of this arrest, several and Guam can be justly proud that he of Americans. A teacher of industrial thousand dollars worth of stolen prop­ carries our name across the finish line arts, history, and mathematics, a guid­ erty was recovered. in the best of style and sportsmanship. ance counselor and guidance director, SANDRA LEE LOWREY, EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR Mr. Speaker, for the RECORD, I would formerly an assistant principal, Guido like to include at this point a copy of a has earned the love and the respect of Sandra Lee Lowrey has been employed recent article about Bob's amazing thousands of students and parents for by the city of Cypress since 1975. Her achievement which appeared in a re­ his tireless efforts to impart that most dedication to the job and involvement cent edition of the Pacific Daily News. precious of gifts--education. beyond the call of duty has brought her In addition to his academic achieve­ this recognition by her coworkers and The article follows: friends. BOB KLITZKIE: CARRYING THE TORCH ments, which include several advanced FOR GUAM degrees from a number of universities, These three individuals are an asset he helped organize the Farmingdale to all of us for they have contributed (By Victor Nygard) much to our community. The honors Guam's Robert Klltzkie was one of almost Youth Council and later served as its as­ 8,000 runners who followed Bill Rodgers to sistant director. Guido Valentine also bestowed on each of them were hard the finish line in the Boston Marathon yes­ served as director of adult education and earned and well deserved. I ask my col­ terday. on the high honors award program for leagues to join me in recognizing their While defending champion Rodgers set a Newsday, our excellent Long Island daily contributions to the community of new American record in the famed event, newspaper. Cypress.• Klltzkie shaved almost two minutes off his A decorated war hero and flier, he was own previous best marathon time, while fin­ shot down over North Africa, captured ishing somewhere around the middle of the and imprisoned in the infamous Stalag snaking throng. A TRIBUTE TO DR. BURTT HOLMES, Klitzkie, a 40-year-old Agana. lawyer, fin­ 17, where he had the great distinction of ished the prestigious race in three hours, serving as coleader of the "Nuisance A NATIONAL GOOD VISION AND twenty-five minutes, and six seconds-al­ Committee for the Great Escape." For GENERAL HEALTH CARE LEADER most two minutes better than his December his heroism, Guido was awarded the Air time of 3:26.53 in Honolulu when he quali- Medal with four oak leaf clusters. He fied !or the Boston Marathon. · HON. JOSEPH D. EARLY was twice cited by his Nation for para­ OF MASSACHUSETTS The Boston race is his fifth marathon chute landings under hostile fire. event. He has competed in two Guam mara­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thons, and was chairman of this year's, Mr. Speaker, on the occasion of his though he did not run in it. retirement, I ask each of my colleagues Wednesday, May 2, 1979 "I think I ran very well," said Klitzkie to salute this outstanding American, • Mr. EARLY. Mr. Speaker, it is a great during a telephone interview following the patriot, war hero, civic leader, father pleasure for me to pay tribute to an out­ race. "I finished somewhere around the mid­ and husband, educator. His life stands standing citizen of my district, Dr. G. dle of the pack, though the race results won't as a testimonial to exemplary service to be publlshed for some time, there were so Burtt Holmes, of Worcester, Mass. Dr. many runners." our great Republic and its people.• Holmes was elected president of the He described the course as fast with rolllng American Optometric Association at the hllls. "I had to be careful not to charge the organization's 81st annual congress in h1lls and lose my pace." New Orleans, La., in July 1978 after 6 Klltzkie, who ran in his gold mesh shirt CYPRESS CITIZENS OF THE YEAR years of service on the AOA board of with the Guam seal on the chest, said that trustees and now leaves office after mak­ the crowd that lined the Boston, Mass. streets included several blaring bands, nutnerous HON. JERRY M. PATTERSON ing significant contributions to his pro­ people offering liquids and fruits, with many OF CALIFORNIA fession and the visual welfare of the onlookers leering from rooftops. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nation. The only warm people were the runners as During his year as president, the AOA temperatures stayed around 40 degrees and Wednesday, May 2, 1979 launched an extensive and unprece­ steady rain drenched those not already wet e Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker, the dented national consumer communica­ from their own sweat. effective operation of our law enforce­ tions program to inform the public of "My finishing time does not tell the whole ment agencies is dependent on citizen the need for good vision care. story," saJ.d Klltzkie, because he did not even Dr. Holmes' administration also devel­ reach the starting line for 10 minutes after cooperation, participation behind the the race began, then picked up the lost time scenes and the commitment of the offi­ oped a significant practice administra­ and bettered his time for the 26.2 mile cers on the force. These combined ef­ tion course for doctors of optometry to distance. forts enable our local police to carry out increase the efficiency of their practices "It took me two minutes to find out that their difficult job of protecting our com­ for the public. the race had even started, I was so far back munities. The city of Cypress and the Under his leadership the AOA success­ in the pack." Cypress Public Safetv Employees Asso­ fully fought for Federal legislation of Klitzkie is the first local runner from ciation have selected the following benefit to partially sighted persons, Guam to compete in the annual Boston three people for recognition of service health care research, potential health Marathon. during 1978 and I am pleac;ed to present care professionals from economically Rodgers finished the 83rd running of the disadvantaged backgrounds, and cost­ race in 2: 10.13.e their names and contributions to my colleagues: effective delivery of health care-all is­ EUGENE J. KOMROSKY, OFFICER OF THE YEAR sues of great concern to the Congress. In addition, during his year, Dr. Officer Komrosky has been selected by SALUTE TO GUIDO L. VALENTINE Holmes' organization was able to reduce his fellow officers as the 1978 Officer of the malpractice insurance premium for the Year for his service in the field. optometrists by 18 percent, countering HON. JEROME A. AMBRO Officer Komrosky has been employed by the trend in malpractice insurance pre­ the city of Cypress since 1973 and is miums for other health care profes- OF NEW YORK presently serving in the field operations IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sionals particularly with a continually division as a patrol officer for all new increasing number of States permitting Wednesday, May 2, 1979 recruits. optometrists to utilize drugs. • Mr. AMBRO. Mr. Speaker, next month JAMES O ' DONOGUE, CITIZEN OF THE YEAR A graduate of the Massachusetts Col­ a most dedicated and selfless educator James O'Donogue was selected as Citi­ lege of Optometry, Dr. Holmes has served will retire after 30 years of service to the zen of the Year for his assistance in a as secretary of the college's board of children of Farmingdale, N.Y., one of the surveillance operation. Mr. O'Donogue trustees. He was also director of the Com- May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9615 prehensive Health Planning Council of We as Members of Congress have the native to continuing the illegal shooting Central Massachusetts. He has also opportunity to keep this vital link of a of birds of prey in some parts of the served as a member of the American Op­ complete, fuel efficient transportation United States. tometric Foundation's board of directors. system operating. I urge my fellow Mem­ Fourth. To provide a useful educa­ Dr. Holmes is a past president of the bers to contact the Subcommittee on tion-conservation tool for schools that Massachusetts Society of Optometrists Transportation and Commerce so that we include birds of prey as teaching units and the New England Council of Optom­ all can determine the future of rail pas­ on their lists of science offerings. etrists. He is a Fellow of the American senger service for the American public.• Fifth. To gain widespread support for Academy of Optometry. the need to preserve and protect unique In recognition of his contribution to hawk migration lookouts as major wild­ health care, Dr. Holmes was recently life monitoring stations where vital wild­ elected to the board of trustees of the Na­ NATIONAL HAWK WATCHING life data is collected for use by scientists, tional Health Council, an esteemed orga­ WEEK wildlife conservationists, and other in­ nization of health care leaders. terested persons. I congratulate Dr. Holmes on a year of HON. DON RITTER Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present success as president of the American Op­ OF PENNSYLVANIA this resolution before the House for its tometric association and wish him well consideration and hope that my col­ as he continues as a leader within IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leagues will see fit to enact this legisla­ America's health professions.• Wednesday, May 2, 1979 tion expressing our support for those who e Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, today I find pleasure observing the beauty of submitted to the House of Representa­ nature through hawk watching.e tives legislation to designate the first AMTRAK SERVICE full week in October of each year as "Na­ tional Hawk Watching Week." HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II Birds of prey, sometimes known col­ THIS IS THE TIME FOR PRAYER AMENDMENT OF WEST VffiGINIA lectively as hawks or diurnal raptors, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES number 35 species in North America. All belong to the order Falconiformes which Wednesday, May 2, 1979 HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK includes vultures, condors, ospreys, kites, OF OHIO • Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I am again hawks, eagles, harriers, caracaras, and thankful for this opportunity to express falcons. While birds of prey are now IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES my views and the feelings of my con­ protected by Federal law, they were shot, Wednesday, May 2, 1979 stituency regarding the proposed 46-per­ trapped, or poisoned by hunters, ranch­ e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, I am cent reduction in Amtrak service. ers, farmers, game managers, and other certain that every Member of this body Since the introduction of the Secre­ persons until earlier this century, in the is aware of the events that transpired tary of Transportation's proposed plan, belief that such "control" of predatory when the dfsinguished Senator from I have been deluged by telephone calls birds would benefit hunting, farming, or North Carolina