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 GEORGIA 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 Soviet Union 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 United States 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. RON PAUL 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 aid 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 Andrew Young, 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 WELFARE STATE HON. LEE H. HAMILTON are greater demand and higher price. (By Hans F. Sennholz, Ph. D.) The direction of all true progress is toward OF INDIANA Experts in medical economics point to many other inflationary features of the greater individual freedom. It enables us to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES health care system. The "excess capacity" of be what we ought to be and to do what we Wednesday, May 2, 1979 the system is just one, and it is most appar ought to do. Void of freedom, what would ent in hospitals. It has been estimated that virtue be? e Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would efficient hospitals in a given health planning And yet, in our lifetime society has steadily like to insert my Washington Report region should have about 80 percent of their moved in the direction of political power. for Wednesday, May 2, 1979, into the beds filled on the average, yet data on the Responsibilities have gravitated toward gov CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. typical community hospital show that it ernment, and individual freedom has re treated. Social progress is measured by the HEALTH CARE COSTS: A SURVEY OF PROBLEMS filled only 74 percent of its beds in 1977. More than 100,000 excess beds nation-wide number of laws and regulations that envelop The rising cost a! health ca.re has slowly cost hospitalized patients $2 billion per year. individual action. become one of the most serious domestic Unused medical equipment and idle health The advocates of this social order ignore problems facing the nation. Many Hoosiers care professionals are also part of the pic the fact that every benefit bestowed by gov talk to me about the problem practically ture. Excess capacity may be seen as a prob ernment brings misfortune to someone. With every time I am in the Ninth District. They lem in the distribution of health care out a single source of income and wealth of are worried that it may soon be beyond their resources. In many inner cities, small towns, its own, government can only distribute what means to pay for basic health care for them and rural areas, the highest quality health it seizes from some of its citizens. Every selves and their fam111es. care is hard to obtain at any price. However, penny spent by government is taken out of The statistics show that these Hoosiers an abundant supply of health care resources the pockets of someone who earned it. Every have reason to be concerned. The nation's in prosperous urban neighborhoods, suburbs, new program must reach into more pockets annual health care bill reached $163 b1llion and large towns does not lower prices there in order to finance the new transfer. The in 1977, up from $26 billion in 1960. The in spite of the lower demand. welfare state, which is so popular with its average American paid out $737 for health many millions of beneficiaries, is a redistribu care in 1977, as compared to $142 in 1960. No discussion of health care costs would be complete without mention of two fundamen tion state that deprives millions of victims of These rises-627 percent and 520 percent their earnings. respect;ively-were far in excess of the rise tal attitudes that have influenced the growth of 105 percent in overall consumer prices and character of the health care system. The Physicians are among the primary vic which took place during the same period. first is that any expenditure is justified for tims of social programs and transfer. The More troubling yet is the projecoion that the sake of good health. We can understand growing concern about medical care in health care could cost the nation $310 bil this attitude from a personal point of view recent decades has made the profession lion in 1983, an average of $1,357 for each but, from the point of view of society in gen highly productive, which propelled doctors' American. These figures mean that 9.3 per eral, health care must be seen as one priority incomes to levels above those of many other cent of the gross national product will be among many, with limits on the resources professionals. But this very concern about committed to health care in that year, as that can be committed to it. The second medical care has brought government to the opposed to only 5.2 percent in 1960. Health attitude is that health care is intended to fore with an army of inspectors and regu ca.re expenditures of that magnitude could cure illness, not prevent it. Just how deeply lators. Because medical care is of great pub distort national priorities as they fueled in rooted this attitude is can be seen in the lic interest government officials are assum flation and diverted scarce resources away emphasis of our national health care policy: ing control. Some even favor a nationalized from other purposes. Moreover, as health federal payments for treatment have been 25 health service that would make physicians ca.re expenditures rise, one must ask whether times greater than federal payments for pre direct employees of the state. Americans are getting their money's worth. vention. As far as the federal government PUBLIC OR PRIVATE? is concerned, the old saying "An ounce of Today, most experts believe that the quallty The noisy defenders of the public inter of health ca.re is not rising in proportion to prevention is worth a pound of cure" has been forgotten. We might make better prog est are not very consistent in their critique its cost. of private interest. If it were true that only The causes of sharply higher health care ress against rising health care costs if we remembered it.e government defends the public interest, costs are many, and they vary in importance government would need to assume control by geographical region, quality of care, and over all economic activity. Butchers, bakers, other factors. Some of the higher cost is PHYSICIANS-CHOICE VICTIMS OF and bartenders, all would be suspect of surely due to general price inflation. As the their private interests and would need to costs of medical equipment, labor, and con THE WELFARE STATE be managed by public officials. Every detail struction move up, doctors, hospitals, and of our economic lives would have to be con other providers of care must raise their prices trolled to afford complete protection from to offset the increases. Higher cost is also a HON. LARRY McDONALD consequence of technological advances in the evils of private interest. However, such medicine and improvement in the quality of OF GEORGIA conclusions d-eny reality. History teaches IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that man lives under wretched conditions care. Modern medical miracles have saved or in poverty, misery, and 111 health-wherever improved countless thousands of lives, and Wednesday, May 2, 1979 they have been welcomed by nearly every economic freedom is lost. one in spite of the price that is paid for o Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, one of Physicians are choice victims of the trans them. However, some of the rise in health the constantly recurring themes in the fer process because they are highly produc care costs is not due either to simple infla debate over the need for national health tive individuals with better-than-average tionary pressures in the economy or to tech incomes. As such they become the targets nological advances in medicine. Higher costs services, is that doctors somehow make of envy and covetousness. They are said are built into the very structure of the health too much money so they need to be con to have a greater abiUty to pay and bear care system. trolled by the state in order to keep the the burden of "needed social services." Ob One of the principal problems is the role of price of health care down. This, of viously these services constitute forced re- 9600 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 distribution from more productive citizens Most physicians are vaguely aware of the that the more productive have an obligation to those with more political clout. situation. But they are at a loss about the and therefore must be compelled to care for TAXATION AND INFLATION possible solutions. Some try to get ahead of those who won't work or can't work. the game by endorsing ever more programs The liberals who support national service, The favorite instruments of redistribution of public health care and getting in line for are taxation and inflation. It is estimated however, grant to the conservatives that life a fair share of the funds. They are endorsing should be controlled by the State and there that Americans with an average income of the principle of redistribution in the hope $12,000 a year now pay 42 % of their earnings fore that controlling personal conduct-as that they will be net beneficiaries in the end. so many conservatives prefer-is a preroga in taxes. If the average American pays 42 %, Many noble souls are persuaded to partici the steep tax progression aimed at higher tive of the State. Under these conditions, pate in the game for the sake of better health civil liberties become elusive, if not impossi incomes surely puts a physician in a much and greater happiness of their patients to higher bracket. His federal income tax ble t o maintain. whom, after all, they dedicated their lives. The Committee for the Study of National bracket may go to 50 %, to which he must They are beginning now to wonder whether add such minor t axes as Social Security Service notes that there is "a need to cure the redistribution actually can achieve the apathy and self-centeredness" t hrough such taxes, state income taxes, loca.l income taxes, stated goals. But many phys1cians openly real estate taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, activit y as National Service. resent the ingenious redistribution that Consistent liberals and dedicated conserva and finally the taxes that are embodied in makes them the favorite victims of the proc the price of every product he buys. We are tives should reject this notion on principle ess. They are embarking upon parttime busi and to be consistent they must also reject convinced that most physicians lose more ness ventures in order to blunt the impa<:t than one-half of their incomes to various tax the notion t hat the State has the right to of confiscatory taxation. And they are learn use a young person's life in any manner collectors. ing to escape the ravages of inflation through While taxation seizes <:urrent income, in whatsoever. If this is not done, one must investments in non-monetary form, such as concede that the State can establish all flation robs thlfty physicians of the .savings real estate, gold and silver, jewelry, art, etc. they have accumulated despite the heavy tax standards of personal conduct as well as burden. Inflation inflicts serious losses on We are convinced that redistribution transfer wealth from the productive to the Keogh plans, profit-sharing plans, and other through politics has more deleterious effects non-productive in an arbitrary manner. savings devices. Most physicians are deplor than desirable benefits. It creates social and The dedicated planner, the intervention political conflict as it divides society into ably ignorant in monetary matters, w~ich ist, the moral do-gooder sees National Serv makes them easy victims of inflation. Like so antagonistic classes: the beneficiaries and ice as useful. However in accepting this, he many other members of the middle class, t he victims. It rarely achieves what it set out must necessarily label himself a statist. they prefer to invest their savings in mone to accomplish, which generates frustration If one assumes that the young owe a tary instruments, which are so easy to ac and disappointment and thereby pla-nts the certain portion o-f their lives to the State, cumulate and hide in safety deposit boxes. seeds of social radicalism. But above all, it why can't we carry this argument to its They make regular payments to their retire undermines the moral and political founda fullest and make the program "a progressive ment plans, which promise dollar payment s tion of individual freedom, which is essential National Service" as we do with the pro in the distant future. They buy annuities to human dignity.e gressive income tax? Under these circum and other life insurances, which are de stances the older citizen, the wealthier cit nominated in dollars. In every case, they are izen, in a pre-retirement age, who has never basing their investment decisions on the served his country before ought to be asked utterly unrealistic assumption that the fu TESTIMONY CONCERNING to perform this service prior to drafting t ure returns of their present investments THE DRAFT the young. This must be done without the will be paid in present dollars. draftee receiving any outside income and During the last 10 years of inflation most must be done at modest sacrifice. The busi physicians have lost at least half of their nessman, the banker, the professional man savings. To the outside world this general HON. RON PAUL must be asked to give up his important po impoverishment is not always visible. After OF TEXAS sition in society and join the National all, their levels of consumption may have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Service Team by planting trees, raking leaves, remained the same-their homes and fur and carrying bed pans. If one argues that nishings, cars and boats-and their children Wednesday, May 2, 1979 National Service is a worthy venture, it is still attend college. But their wealth has • Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, recently I only consistent to argue that those who have diminished greatly as inflation eroded the testified before the Military Personnel received more, and for a longer time, owe purchasing power of their savings. more to their Nation and must be asked to Inflation is no mysterious disease plagu Subcommittee of the Committee on serve before the young are forced to forfeit ing an innocent society. It is a wlllful policy Armed Services concerning the draft. t heir efforts to a<:quire education and train of government finance that covers budgetary Since this issue is getting more and more ing for skills that will provide for their deficits with newly created money. It is the attention, I would like to insert my state future. For when the young are asked to inevitable outcome of ever greater demands ment into the RECORD: give up their education and training, they for government benefits that are no longer ORAL TESTIMONY OF SENATOR RON PAUL must do this at total sacrifice and loss of covered by taxes. As such it is a redistribu monetary gain, not unlike the loss that would tion device that finances government spend Mr. Chairman: Thank you very much for be bestowed on the middle-aged person who ing by silently draining off monetary sav this privilege of testifying before your sub committee. would have to leave his secure position in ings. When seen in this light, physicians society if we had progressive National Serv who by tradition and training hold their I was a member of the United States Air ice. Since this would be in the area of savings in monetary form, are choice victims Force and the Air National Guard between National Service rather than military activ of the transfer state. the years 1963 and 1968 and have always had ity, t he age argument could not be used Contemporary society demands ever more a keen interest in maintaining a strong mili against "drafting" the older citizens. and better medical services, but is reluctant tary defense. I am concerned today more with The absurdity of all this is quite clear. to pay for them. The hue and cry about understanding the rights involved with re The need to reject the notion of any type soaring medical care costs is directed pri gard to involuntary service than with the of compulsary National Service is obvious. marily at rising physicians' incomes, which specifics on the different pieces of legislation However, I maintain that citizens of a flow from the rising demand. The transrer presented concerning the draft and compul free country owe no legal debt whatsoever society is not wllling to tolerate much un sory national service. to the State. equal distribution, and therefore expects First I would like to address my comments As for the moral obligation that one has to government to correct it. Taxation and in t oward compulsory national service. The as his country, I submit that freedom grants flation are the tools of redistribution that sumption is that the young, age 17 to 24, the privilege of not sacrificing ourselves to pull physicians back to more tolerable leveis . owe a segment of their lives to their coun the nebulous "whole," i.e., to society, or the WHAT TO DO? try. This assumpt ion is based on the supposi Nation; for the definitions of debt and serv A highly productive physician thus finds t ion t hat rights come from the State and are ice and societal needs are of necessity arbi himself in a rather frustrating position. Soci not natural. It also assumes that life itself is t rary and it becomes impossible to construct ety eagerly seeks his services which seems to a privilege and not something that we are a system which is fair at all. afford him the opportunity to earn more. absolutely entitled to. In a free society there are two ways we But before he can rejoice about his good In order to be consistent, the conservatives can return ben efits to the whole. One is fortune, sooiety rudely denies it through who support involuntary service must grant through voluntary and charitable means. taxation and inflation. The net effect is an to the liberals the fundamental basis on This Nation has a fantastic record in this expanded medical care industry financed to which all t ra.nsfer payments are made: That regard. We have been willing to donate bil a large extent by the very profession that lions of dollars annually both in money and renders the service. It was accomplished t he productive efforts of some individuals are t ime. Also t he benefits that one bestows on with a great deal of philosophical casuistry to be the prey of others who are less produc societ y by being productive in a free society and, above all, financial ignorance on the tive. Once this is granted, the conservatives is somet hing impossible t o prevent as, for part of its victims. have no defense against the liberal notion example, an individual builds an industry May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9601 for his personal gain. The workers who re and transfer of wealth by force through tax THE SLOW MURDER OF THE AMERI ceive the jobs and consumers who receive ation and inflation. It is a rebirth of a spirit CAN INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY the products benefit manyfold. However these to first want to be free and second to want benefits are bestowed on society in a non to protect that freedom that is so eagerly compulsory way and in a manner compatible sought after by all of us. HON. LARRY McDONALD with the basic precepts of individual freedom. A drift towards and a persistence 1n the Dr. Milton Friedman's opinion of the draft use of compulsory service must of necessity OF GEORGIA is worthy of our consideration: lead to a totalitarian state. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "A m111tary draft is- undesirable and un Our Constitution prohibits involuntary Wednesday, May 2, 1979 necessary. We can and should man our armed servitude and the Declaration of Independ forces with volunteers as the U.S. has tradi ence has declared to aU mankind that we • Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, for tionally done except in major wars. are endowed by our Creator with the in some years now what is called the "in "My interest (in the draft) has been on alienable rights of life and liberty. With this telligence community" in Washington, two grounds. First, and most obvious, be heritage, the draft and compulsory national D.C., has been under attack. Some of the cause conscription is such a blatant and seri service are unacceptable. ous restriction on individual freedom. The It is not coincidental that we are threat attackers want to destroy the commu most extreme form of compulsory servitude ened more every day with personal and eco nity, some want to modify it, and still now practiced in the U.S. Second, because nomic control of our lives in this century others want to reform it. The selection public acceptance of a strong armed force and at the same time have generally accepted of Adm. Stansfield Turner for the top seems essential to maintain the freedom of the notion of compulsory service. intelligence job of directing CIA was the U.S. Conscription undermines that ac We live in an age where rifles, bayonets, thought by some to be a wise move by ceptance and has played a major role in and foot soldiers cannot compete and should President Carter. A no-nonsense naval bringing the military into the low public not be expected to compete with the masses officer could bring tough administrative estate to which it has fallen. of China. "In the course of my involvement in this It is time that we made our defenses qualities to the position and get the job issue I have come into contact with many capital-intensive and not labor-intensive. done, it was thought. However, this has other persons concerned with the draft--both All we need to do is compare the small not been the case. in favor of it and opposed to it. I have number of farmers who with proper capital Admiral Turner has gone ahead with observed many persons initially in favor of investments are able to outproduce the planned purges of professionals, slanted the draft change their opinions as they have masses who are involved in agriculture in intelligence, and interferred in the in looked into the argument and studied the China. With 3 % of our population we pro telligence process in order to please the evidence. I have never observed anyone who duce more than we need. 80% of the popu was initially in favor of a volunteer force lation in China produces food and they are President. Turner has also accented reverse his position on the basis of further not able to feed themselves. The same prin technical intelligence to the exclusion of study. This greatly enhances my confidence ciple can be applied to military needs. I human intelligence collection. He has in the validity of the position I have taken." long for the day when we recognize that cut back at the desk level where in the Registration must be equated with the what we need is a small, well-trained, final analysis all intelligence has to be draft. The two cannot be separated. The sophisticated m111tary. evaluated and contributed to the ever mere fact of registration means that draft It will not be a surprise to me to see the growing glut of technical intelligence, ing and the use of lives is just around the rejection of my ideas and hopes for a modern unevaluated and, therefore, unuseable corner. m111tary defense. However, the most com A strong defense need not include a draft. pell1ng reason that the draft and compul to the people who need it in both Wash The Founding Fathers defended a strong de sory service must be rejected is practical. It ington, and the field. The Armed Forces fense but none advocated standing armies. just won't work. We have not left behind us Journal of March 1979 described this They saw standing armies as a threat to free the age of bitterness that surrounded us with situation in stark detail. The "intelli dom domestically and as likely to get our Viet Nam. The drug culture that started in gence community" problems it mentions country involved in unnecessary wars. Re the drafted army of the 1960s is still with are not new. The lack of coordination cent history both in Korea and Viet Nam us. The bitterness that has resulted over the among intelligence agencies will remain. bear this fear out. The fact that the Revolu 55,000 who obeyed the law and were killed The withholding of vital intelligence tionary War was fought without a National and the hundreds of thousands who were draft is of utmost significance. wounded along with the fact that amnesty from those who really need to know will If a nation is free and morally and spirit was granted to the lawbreakers is something continue. The overemphasis on tech ually strong, the people will provide an ade that will not be soon forgotten. If we re nical intelligence and the diminished quate m1litary for national defense. institute the draft an we need to do is have emphasis on human intelligence collec A draft will not substitute for, nor create, e skirmish in Eouth Africa and all the con tion will continue. However, the new ele a morally and spiritually strong nation. Force servatives will leave for Canada; if we have a ment is how much worse the present cannot overcome apathy. The people must draft and a skirmish breaks out over the Director of the CIA has made all these think their society worth defending. If they defense of Taiwan, the liberals will defect. do not--no matter how much force and Another reason why the draft will not work problems. The article follows: compulsion used-it won't matter on the is because under today's emphasis of "equal THE SLOW MURDER OF THE AMERICAN long run for the survival of a free nation. rights" the girls will be required to serve INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY A draft may be beneficial 1n maintaining along with the boys-a fact that will add (By Benjamin F. Schemmer and the Journal a strong Army and contributing to m1litary only friction to the situation. In practical editorial staff) power, but it is incompatible with protecting terms the draft is no longer a reasonable Stansfield Turner is administering the coup the foundation of Uberty. option. de grace to the slow murder of the National Patriotism is a must in a free nation and a I have stated three main reasons for the Intelligence Community. The initial hope of free nation cannot survive without it; but rejection of the Draft and compulsory na many intelligence analysts in 1977 that he patriotism cannot be instilled in the young tional service. One was based on the moral would replace investigations with reform, and by drafting them to be used in no-win wars grounds; that our lives are our own and not political interference has with objectivity such as Viet Nam and Korea. our government's; another on the fact the and high quality analysis, faded in 1978 into Freedom cannot be preserved with involun Constitution prohibits involuntary servitude discouragement-and often into contempt. tary servitude. The two are incompatible. and lastly for the practical reasons that a Turner's willingness to politicize intelli It is out of frustration with the lack of draft no longer is a realistic alternative. gence, his priority for self-advancement, pref patriotism that we all seek desperately for What we need today is to build a new erence for technology over people, and his an answer. The problem is that both con nation morally. Until that time comes we single-minded focus on centralizing control servatives and liberals have lost the love and must be satisfied with a solution that is less of the intelligence budget and collection understanding of Uberty. than perfect. We must realize that we are activities has destroyed morale within the It does not surprise me that both liberals not capable, morally, physically or mone Central Intelligence Agency, led hundreds of and conservatives today support compulsion tarily of defending any other nation than key CIA personnel to resign, and has prompt in a feeble attempt to preserve liberty. No our own. We must seriously consider bring ed far more to "retire in place." White Tur legislation can instill the degire to serve our ing our troops home. We must be convinced ner !has done some useful work to continue nation. This can only be achieved by under that the security necessary to monitor the cutting back CIA's once bloated operations standing, education, and recognition of a enemy can be achieved through space tech staff and to reform the Intelligence Com natural will to be free, nurtured by leaders nology rather than literally sitting on the munity administratively, that progress has willing to fight for freedom in the legisla borders of ·Russia and China. We must be been more than offset by damage he has done tive process whlle rejecting the temptation willing to accept advanced technology and to its Human Intelligence (HUMINT) col to compel personal standards for others and above all be willing to pay the salaries lection capabilities, to CIA's integrity and in- not succumbing to the demands of special necessary to attract trained people into the dependence, and-most important-to the interest groups who seek special protection m111tary.e quality of its product. 9602 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 Administration sources admit that more ness to hear the facts in crisis after crisis. DIA with CIA-thus, eliminating the risk of than 250 CIA professionals put in their papers By guilt through association, they took the a second opinion-if it had not been for last during the first pay period of January, and blame for the excesses of other CIA branches minute FY80 budget cuts. rumors have gone a.s high a.s 600. Further, in special operations and terrorism. His ploy would bring increased economies these resignations include such personnel as They stuck it out because of pride, the by sharing computers, printing etc. Few were Sayre Stevens, Deputy Director of the Na unique intellectual excitement of intelli fooled by this attempt that would delay a tional Foreign Assessments Center (NFAC); gence gathering and analysis, and their hope much-needed CIA consolidation by two years. Dick Cristenson, Chief Office of Regional & that the Intelligence Community would The proposal also fiew in the face of environ Political Analysis; Vince Heyman, Chief of eventually get the reforms needed to make mental problems. CIA's Operations Center; John Blake, the their work effective. But successive blows George Bush was regarded as charming but Deputy Director for Administration; and have eroded their commitment. Few can somewhat "cautious" or "weak" Director of Ernie Olne, the Agency's chief Iranian ana maintain that commitment much longer. Central Intelligence, who could do nothing lyst. And at press time, AFJ learned Anthony Those who resigned this January to protect intelligence from Henry Kissinger Lapham, CIA's General Counsel, had also re rather than "stack arms," mentally and or obtain the results of Kissinger's interna signed and will be leaving in April for "per spiritually-were turned off when Turner, tional discussions; but at least he won re sonal reasons." in December, put money before integrity and spect for trying to protect the CIA from Some of CIA's massive resignations are the Joined the "double-dippers" he had previ politicization. Turner has come across as a le"'itimate result of deadlines imposed by re ously denounced. Those who stayed now willing agent who has tailored analysis to ti;ement incentives (because senior officials face pay increases too small to keep up with support the NSC and other Administration reached the "high three" level, having inflation, but more work because Turner hierarchies when it seemed likely to enhance served three years in the highest pay grade ignored analytic personnel needs to buy more his own power and career. counted for retirement), and because new technical collection assets-in spite of the It is hard to overestimate the twin impact government-wide conflict of interest regu fact the Community lacks the analytic man of Turner's failure to seek real improvements lations (resulting from the EtJhics Law of power to process its existing "take." They in the quality of the product, and his con 1978) soon would have made it impossible have worked for two years under a director stant interference in key estimates. No pre for many to find an outside job. But far too who systematically hamstrung or ignored vious DCI has spent more time intervening many resignations symbolize the fact that HUMINT, and whose priority are reflected in in major National Intelligence Estimates and the Intelligence Community has given up the fact that the entire US Intelligence com reports. For example, Turner massively inter hope that Turner and the Carter Administra munity now has only 20 to 40 analysts cover vened in NIE 11-14 on the Warsaw Pact. In tion wUl ever provide effective leadership and ing all of Africa, and roughly half that num spite of his NATO background, his interven reform. Several of the department officials ber for all of South America. tion was inept, and he has shown little intui told Turner candidly that they were leaving UNDER THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION, THE NA tive understanding of the users' problems and because of his pervasive interference in in TIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S SENIOR needs in using threat data to plan NATO telligence reporting-in areas where he had MANAGEMENT ANSWER TO, "WHY NOT THE forces. His intervention in the Intelligence neither intellectual depth or expertise, and BEST?" IS "HERE ARE THE WORST." Community's analysis of Iran led to that in whicfu he overrode expert opinion with his Ironically, such CIA professionals originally NIE being overtaken by events. He has done own judgement. shared the hope Stansfield Turner and the nothing to "stimulate" the "A team," "B This broad dissatisfaction with Turner Carter Administration would end manage team," debate over Soviet strategic forces occurs among personnel the nation needs that became public during the Ford Admini most to keep, the Intellectual cadre that is ment structures that had become a political filter between intelligence and the user. They stration. His willingness to hold up a study the brain of the American Intell1gence Com of Soviet arms sales (embarrassing to archi munity. The professionals Turner has dis were joined in these hopes by many pro fessionals in the National Security Council tects of Carter's arms transfer policy) still enchanted are not "cold warriors," special rankles; he did nothing to contribute to or or "black" operations executives, or counter (NSC) staff, State Department, National Se curity Agency (NSA), and Defense Intelli improve the superb Army-DIA analysis of the Intelligence officers. The firing of Operations North Korean buildup; and his impact on Director William Wells, and the firing, re gence Agency (DIA). Stansfield Turner became DCI with unique the recent analysis of the balance in the tirement, or reshuffling of 820 operations per Middle East has drawn anything but praise. sonnel in Turner's 1977 "Halloween Purge" and wide-ranging, bi-partisan support from had already removed most of that cadre from the Senate and House Committees on intel A BROAD COLLAPSE OF LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE the Community, a reform that former CIA ligence. There wa.s a general belief that the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY Director Wllllam Colby had proposed earlier reforms begun under President Ford would The problem goes much deeper than the in a form that made even more drastic cuts receive far more impetus and effectivenes3 DC I. th"~n Turners. under President Carter. Working analysts and Brzezinski has proved no better at using The men who are now re1e~tlng Turner career professionals had been surprised and the Intelligence Community than Kissinger; and the present senior management structure impressed with the fact that George Bush he is equally unwilling to listen to warning that the Carter Administration has brought had not politicized CIA, as many had ex or to intelli~ence which disagrees with his to Intelligence, are men who quietly fought pected. They welcomed the Ford Administra "pre-conceived notions" or policies. He is per pressure from a parade of CIA Directors to tion's emphasis on imp~oving the "fusion" of haps even less sensitive to the problems of give the Rostows, Kissiugers, and Brzezinskis all sources of intelligence; its effort to im the third world. and has shown little interest intelligence analysis which was tailored to prove the circulation c,1 their work by end in imoroving the depth and quality of the their policies of the moment on Vietnam, ing the over-classification and elitism of a analvsic; provided to the President. He has Cambodia, SALT II, Angola, and Iran. code word system that excluded many users; totally failed to encourage "fusion" between These analysts and managers are also men its emphasis on improved quality and anal intelligence, State Department, and defense who stayed on when the Community's best ysis rather than machines; and its effort to attache reporting. positions were given to "operators" who had improve the dialogue between intelligence When Ambassador William Sullivan sent little understanding of modern collection users and producers. They expected even e. critical EXDIS messa~e reporting on a and analytic methods. Jn fact, for all the more from the election of President Carter, meeting with the Shah of Iran-in which the sound and fury of Turner's actions, this con from his campaign emphasis on excellence Shah indicated his departure was imminent filet between the operations and analysis and reform, and from what they hoped would neither Brzezinski nor Turner got it to the aspects of CIA's work is still one of the be a new sensitivity to the third world and Agency's Iranian analysts or appropriate de agency's most pressing problems. Despite an end to Kissinger's de facto censorship. fense intelligence personnel. Defense Secre Turner's purge, the operations managers still In only two years. Turner and the Admin tary Harold Brown had to order one of his believe they are best oualified to interpret istration have crushed these hopes. Turner staff to ohtain a copy of Sullivan's message, events-especially politico-military events, has emerged as an egotist-his main concern and that had to be done by "covert" means. and they still control the access to sensitive is the advance of his own authority, a search Turner's personal staff and key appointees source reporting which allows them to play for cabinet level rank, direct influence over have managed to shake things up without one-upmanship with the analysts they are the President, and the maximum possible shaking them down. His nominee to manage supposed to support. control over the Community's people, budg CIA's analytic effort, Robert Bowie, was re THE PROFESSIONALS CAN STICK IT OUT NO ets, and collection technologies. He has taken garded as a "burnt out case" at Harvard. He LONGER advantage of Harold Brown's re-organization has done nothing to change his reputation There are limits to any man's dedic'ltion. of defense intelligence (See Box) to grab au- for ineffectiveness since coming to the CTA's intelligence professionals are men who thority ov·er military-related systems and Agency. Yet, Turner has resisted advice from stuck it out through investigation after in DoD's analytic capabilities (which President both inside and outside the Community to vestigation and director after director, who Ford had firmly denied the CIA). Turner's fire him. warped and twisted their reporting to pro idea of "reform" has been to clamp an even Turner's now largely departed "gang of vide "intelligence to please," who stayed tighter political hand over intelligence than eleven" naval staff officers did a great deal to through the collective public destruction of gripped it under Nixon, to reWTite National enhance Turner's powers in the in-Intelli their private reputation. They kept silent as Intelligence Estimates and reports to suit gence Community Staff, and to develop an "post mortem" after "post mortem" blamed his own views-or needs. organization that strengthened his personal "intelligence" for policymakers' unwilling- Turner would have succeeded in colocating authority. Their main heritage, however, was May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9603 to give the impression Turner had built up tent wisdom and intellectual courage, PFIAB tie together intelligence and the broad range his own personal "Savak." They did almost was at least an outside body of distinguished of non-intelligence reporting in the govern nothing to enhance the quality of intelli citizens beholden to no one-including the ment. gence reporting and analysis-except disrupt DCI and the President. It never achieved its The power is there, but not the purpose. the effort already under way, and replace it potential, but at least it was capable of ob MACHINES AND THINGS BEFORE PEOPLE AND with a largely ineffective systems analysis jectivity in the intelligence review process. THOUGHT staff called PAID (Product/ Performance As It has been replaced by an echo which is even There is no improvement over past em sessment Improvement Division) under econ weaker. This is a "Review Panel" which lacks phasis on advanced collection technology, omist Alton Quanbeck. It has yet to corre the strength of a suitable bipartisan mix compared with analyzing what is collected. late intelligence collection priorities with of leading academics and figures from the private sector. It appears focus on the To the extent that Stansfield Turner has ac costs or resources. to complished something as DCI, it lies in his Although State's INR (Intelligence & Re NIEs, and not the overall intelligence effort. It is also composed of W1lliam Leonhard, long overdue (but hardly original) pruning search) has kept its high reputation-per of CIA's operations staff. Even here, however, haps because its close ties to state's policy Bruce Palmer, and Klauss E. Knorr-all with little experience in intelligence. These are he has done considerable harm to the staff give it some immunity from Turner and Agency's HUMINT capabilities, while doing the NSC-there has been no improvement in competent challenge Turner; probe into the balance of analytic activity, collection, and far too little to end the rigidities in its focus relations between senior policy levels at State CIA's objective is still the old cold war prior and the Intelligence Community. EXDIS, budgeting; or ask the right questions unless coached by their employers. ity, "recruit against the Soviets." Hence, no LIMDIS, and codeword st111 make "fusion" matter what country it operates in, the between the policymaker, intelligence, and There is a "new" Intelligence Oversight Board in the White House to keep the Com Agency still tends to concentrate on the embassy a mockery, and "country teams" a USSR to the detriment of reporting on that practical joke. Many career professionals still munity honest. Although its mission is still unclear, and one wonders whether such a country and its increasing defense power, manage to communicate-but they do so in our allies;- and the Third World. Turner has spite of the system and not because of it. board will have much impact on any abuses committed by a strong Administration policy continued, or increased, funding priorities DoD's intelligence reorganization has ac for better SIGINT, and PHOTINT systems complished little-except the loss of DoD's official. The last set of abuses was, after all, more the result of Henry Kissinger than any nets. The result is that the Community de budget battle with Turner. The only houeful votes far too little of its budget and man sign in defense intelllgence is that the Serv member of the CIA. power to analysis. ices are quietly boosting their own intelli Most of the other committees are famlliar gence activities to improve support to ta,ctical variations on a theme. For example, there There are too few analysts in CIA and DIA is a NSC Policy Review Committee (Intelli to give intelligence the quality and depth commanders to compensate for DIA's weak it needs. ness. If Turner finally does manage to move gence), but its end effect may be to give DIA to the CIA compound, there may be few officials like Brzezinski more ability to put a Out of the rou~hly $5 billion the US spent DIA professionals left to fret over the dis policy cast on the allocation of intelligence on direct intelligence activities in FY79, too ruption. resources, without providing the advantages much went to hardware. According to vari In fa,ct, the only two senior intelligence of old Board of National Estimates advantage ous reports, NSA got about $2.5 billion for officials who have earned a reputation for of focusing on the product. The National s .IGINT collection ($3.5 billion; if a one competence during the Carter Administra Foreign Intelligence Board replaces the U.S. tlme spurt for new hardware is included); tion are National Security Agency Director Intelligence Board as the senior management the Air Force got billions more for the Na Vice Admiral B. R. Inman, and Turner's group in the community but again the role tional Reconnaissance Office and PHOTINT: Deputy, Frank Carlucci. Admiral Inman's of DCI is strengthened. Turner has done all of DIA including its key analytic func little to have this advisory group of the com tions, got $350 million; State's INR got $20 very competence, however, may have the in million; CIA's entire analytic and HUMINT direct impact of making signal intelligence munity's best experts assist him in the solu (SIGINT) collection and analysis even tion of knotty problems. effort enjoyed less than half of the Agency's stronger at the expense of integrated SIGINT, Collection management committees and $1 billion budget; and the entire CIA effort staffs are restructured under a National In to analyze foreign science and technology is PHOTINT, and HUMINT analysis. He also has only $120 million. Although such unclassi been sharply inhibited from doing any analy telligence Collection Tasking Staff. This staff fied data are in error, they give a feel for the sis by the ground rules of NCID 1/ 6, and by seeins to have been intended to give the DCI over-emphasis on technology. Turner also Turner's desire to control all analysis re more control over DoD, but its Collection ignores the billions more being spent on leased outside the Community. Tasking Center has had difficulty getting or technology for "intelligence related" activi Similarly, Carlucci has been cast in the ganized. Congress gave Turner only half the ties and the integration of tactical efforts role of a typical Vice President. Hurner has personnel he wanted (and he was lucky to with national means. called the shots, and Carlucci has had little get that). power. He has however, impressed the Com It also suffers from the general pressure Nothing effect has been done to cope with munity. Most analysis who have had any to retain many of the Community's vast pro the problems of the National Reconnaissance contact with Carlucci are very favorably dis liferation of old committees. As a result Office and National Security Agency. They posed; many wish privately he were Director. many of the old committees-particularly collect far more material than can be proc essed effectively, than to try to collect even IF YOU CANNOT BAFFLE THEM WITH --- those dealing with collection-were retained. The much touted National Intelligence more; that no amount of pictures and inter CONFUSE THEM WITH COMMITTEES cepts can speak for themselves; or that it is The new organization of the National In Collection Tasking Center, under retired Army Lt. Gen. FTank Camm, again gave ultimately human intelligence which pro telligence Community has been no more vides key insights into motives and inten reassuring to intelligence professionals than Turner enhanced power and has so far been tions. anything but effective. In fact, several senior the Community's leadership. The original HAROLD BROWN'S PRTVATE DISASTER AREA thrust behind Turner's intelllgence plan re intelligence officials regard its attempt to organization seems to have been geared to get started as a disaster. As a result, the Major problems remain in the intelligence win him Cabinet status as DCI, to make him management of collection to meet national activities still largely under DoD's control. the sole channel of authorized intelligence needs is still without management and direc While the Defense Department has placed a · reporting to the President and NSC, to ob tion-an ineffectual blend of technology and useful new emphasis on tactical intelligence, tain control over most of DoD's intelligence machines; too budget-oriented, and too the inter-relationships between US efforts assets, to get full power over intelligence tightly compartmentalized. Turner's ruth collection, indications and warning, com tasking and collection, and to wield far strong less emphasis on centralization under his mand control, and crisis management have and more centralized budget authority. own authority seems to have worsened the show little substantive improvement. Fortunately, the re-organization finally log jam in translating collection into analy Too little progress has taken place to en approved by President Carter showed more sis, rather than ease it. sure a militarily effective SALT II verifica restraint and balance, but it was scarcely one What is missing from the Intelligence tions capability to many major weaknesses of the Administration's triumphs. Any list Community's new organization and mix of in the US strategic warning and trans-attack of its features st111 has a rather monotonous new and old committees is substance. The confiict management system, or to see that emphasis on Turner-and little on quality. new organization does not give the analyst hardware is translated into an effective crisis The centralization -decentralization argu or professional better assurance that he will management capability. The best that can ment is, after all, as old as civilization: The have the resources to do his work well, or be said is that DIA is attempting to create question is, what a given approach w111 ac that be can be independent or objective. a plan for an integrated DoD indications and complish? In this case, the answer seems to There is no decoupling of policy and intel warning system. have been more power to the DCI, and more ligence. There is only "lip service" emphasis The new Deputy Under Secertary of De committees. on improving the product. Above all, the f~nse for Command, Control, Communica In fact, the list of "new" committees is as Community remains over-compartmented tiOns, and Intelligence has a wonderful mis long as it is hauntingly familiar. The old and isolated from both the user and data sion on paper, but its emphasis has been al "40 Committee" is now the Operations Ad gathered by the pollcymaker, State, the de most solely on technology. In spite of the visory Group. The President's Foreign Intel fense attaches and military advisory teams, words behind the acronym, the "I" in the ligence Advisory Board, (PFIAB), has been various embassies, and other branches of ODUSD (C31) is little more than a microdot. disbanded. While scarcely a source of consis- government. There are no new initiatives to The lack of an effective organization 1n 9604 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 DoD-for which Defense Secretary Brown The DCI must be decoupled from line tainted quality of the product, preserving must take personal responsib111ty-has left authority over CIA. The Agency should be its objectivity, and on providing the human coordination between the CIA, NRO, DIA, an independent source of analysis, not an resources the Intelligence Community needs. NSA, and Service intelligence branches is as extended staff and "hobby" for the DCI. All three are lacking under Stansfield Turner, bad as ever. Its management is the worst in CIA needs to be decoupled from direct and American intelligence is slowly dying the community. and indirect interference by the NSC and because of it.e THE CONTINUED WEAKNESS OF MILITARY policy level. Its independence needs careful AND TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE review, possibly guarded by an outside body under the President. If anything, today's milltary commander DIA must either be reformed or given a EUROPE'S EDUCATION MINISTRIES: may have even less de facto access to the mercy killing. Ideally, it needs a strong and national intelllgence Community's heavily adequate leader, re-vitalization of its middle AN EXAMPLE TO AVOID, NOT centralized assets than he did before Tur echelon management, and independence fvom IMITATE ner and Brown. To quote a former DIA offi the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Service inter cial who has observed the operation of the ference. This may even mean civ111anizing its current system, "M111tary operators keep mg.nagement under the Secretary of Defense. HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK screaming they want data for time-sensitive The effort to de-compartmentalize intelli OF OHIO rr.111tary requirements-the old use of na gence must be given strong, new impetus. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional assets for tactical needs-yet there is "Codeword" classification needs to virtually a vast wealth of data coming in, but nobody be eliminated, as do the barriers between Wednesday, May 2, 1979 knows how to assimilate and fuse it to make intelllgence analysts, policy analysts, and e Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, when e..1y sense out of it." State Department and Defense personnel. "The philosophy (theology) is that we The government's information manage Vice President MONDALE announced this operate these assets in peacetime to be ment system needs major restructuring to year's version of the administration's ready for war, but the survivability of many ensure "fusion" of the data held by intelli proposal for a Cabinet-level Department of these assets in a wartime environment is gence, policy makers, the State Department, of Education 2 months ago, the empha highly questionable. Some skeptics point up Defense, and other agencies. The US does sized that America is "the only major that there will be more vans and antennae not simply need good political intelllgence; on the European battlefield than tanks .. . industrial democracy" which does not it needs good political information. have a national ministry of education. "There is still a lot of duplication and no "Fusion" is also desperately needed at one is willing to get at it. M111tary com the country level. Intelligence, State Depart Unfortunately, Mr. MoNDALE did not mands still exercise strong prerogatives. DoD ment personnel, AID officials, US military talk about the historical background of appears incapable of managing its assets. In commands, and m111tary advisory teams must this American uniqueness. He did not ac fairness, Turner can only go so far. feed Washington, and be fed by it, through knowledge that our educational system " .. . The real issue is that when the com a common system. Today's farce of "country has provided more intellectual variety mander doesn't get effective national support, teams" must be made into a truly effective and stronger safeguards for cultural and he goes to h is own limited assets and he system which is not sabotaged by abuse of wants everything, usually gets something, religious pluralism than Europe's pre special reporting chains like "LIMDIS" and cisely because we have not had a single and doesn't have enough personnel to work "EXDIS"-or hamstrung because an ambas the problem-hence a mediocre effort having sador may insist on unity of view. Dis national agency setting policy for schools little substantive contribution. While his as senting politico-military opinions need to in every city and town. He did not men sets have been pruned, there is still a ten get to Washington. tion that the original roots of the Euro dency to want to do a lot of things badly, "HUMINT" must be revitallzed and given pean education ministries often involved rather than a few things well." new importance. Far too little of the modern political ideologies like extreme national At the theater level, there have been some world can be understood from PHOTINT or ism, not just academic excellence. real improvements in the overall C3I sup SIGINT. A major reprogramming of intelll If Mr. MoNDALE and other advocates port of NATO. However, the National Com gence resources may be necessary to provide mand Authority (NCA), the National M111- adequate coverage of our Allies and the of an American ministry of education tary Intelllgence Center (NMlC), and the Third World. were to study the history of German edu World-Wide Military Command and Control Some say the operations side of intelli cation in the 1930's, I think they would System (WWMCCS) are far off schedule and gence needs to be decoupled from MUMINT. lose a lot of their enthusiasm. They are performing not with the effectiveness It may even need an operations executive would learn that Germany never had a they should. who is physically and bureaucratically de national education ministry until the It is little wonder they are not tied to coupled from the CIA. This would (a) free Nazis created one in their drive for to gether well. Deputy Defense Secretary Dun the Agency of the "stigma" of operations, (b) talitarian uniformity. can, who heads the World Wide Military Com half the destructive tendency to orient mand and Control System Council, has yet HUMINT solely towards the USS and Bloc, I would urge Mr. MoNDALE and his al to attend one of its meetings! and (c) provide a basis for blending the CIA lies to take a look at George Kneller's CIA NEEDS A MANAGER, NOT A PROPHET HUMINT effort, the Attache system, and 1941 study of "The Educational Philoso CIA has had so many directors since Water Embassy staffs into a true country infor phy of National Socialism." Here are gate that it might suffer more from a new mation team. It would also provide a basis some key passages, which make me more boss than a bad one. But Stansfield Turner for greatly improved analytic professionalism certain than ever that the Carter-Mon has become so serious a liabilit y that he must by allowing regular rotation of CIA and DIA dale national education ministry should go. The analysts and managers won't take analysts to HUMINT collection into the coun be defeated: much more of Turner, and t he lack of in tries upon which they are supposed to be expert. It is important to note first of all that telligence on Korea and Iran just gave the unt111934 Germany had never had a national nation a brutal lesson than it needs better But what is needed most is management and direction of Intelligence Community ministry of education, control being left to intelligence t h an he can produce. the various state ministries of church affairs Most of Turner's personal coterie should priorities. Agencies should satisfy require ments levied upon them, or get their assets and education, or departments of education go with him. The President must clear this in the state ministries of the interior. Until particular deck to win the broad community reduced if they can't do the job. In this respect, above all, the Intelligence Commu 1934 Bernhard Rust was minister only for support he needs to develop effective intelli Prussian education; it was not until that gence. nity's Human Resources Committee has been a force. year that he acquired his present title of The problem is not that complex or embar Reichsminister of Education, an office rep rassing: the community would certainly ac Defense intelllgence needs a zero-based resenting the fusion of several departments cept Frank Carlucci, and Turner could be review by an outside body, focused on im to form the Reich and Prussian Ministry for "promoted"-perhaps to head the Selective proving its management and capabilities Science, Education and Folk-Training. Service System. rather than maximizing expenditures on new Since 1934 the control of education has But the problem goes much further than machines and technology. been more and more centralized in the min simply replacing the DCI. Other intelllgence The dying effort to tie intelligence to istry at Berlin, so that virtually every school, posts need strong leadership as well, and measuring the balance through net assess formal or informal, is now subject to cen the community needs reforms T urner seems ment should be revitalized and made part tralized jurisdiction. incapable of implementing effectively. of t he NSC staff. Serious consideration Even in the realm of parent-teacher orga The new DCI must stop trying to be the should be given to revitalizing the old Board nizations ( Schulgemeinde) the Ministry of Community's best analyst on every issue and of Estimates concept, but giving it a net Education finds itself an active sponsor as its "filter" to the President. He must, in assessment focus with stronger representa a result of the law of October 24, 1934. The stead, become the manager who helps it com tion from outside the Intelligence Commu purpose of the Schulgemeinde is, as would be municate to and with the user. The Com nity. expected, to unify in an advisory way the munity needs a quality oriented manager, Above all, the Administration must make educational activities of the school, the not a senior prophet. a new beginning by emphasizing the un- home, and state youth. That the Schul- May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9605 gemeinde carries with it a great deal in the League, pre~ident of Classroom Teach M. Ferren, Larry Polansky, Gregory way of being an adult education project may ers of the State of Connecticut, and Mize, Francis Smith, Wade Henderson be readily acknowledged, as well as the con president of the Association of Child Julian Wilhelm, Doreen Thompson: siderable power it is able to exert, under of hood Education. Ms. Maglietto has been John Turner, and Dawn V. White. tl.clal leadership, for National Socialist wel fare. There is no evidence that parental par a pioneer in the field of teaching Eng I encourage all Members of Congress lish to non-English-speaking students. to join me at the law fair.e ticip~tion in schoolwork necessarily lowers the prestige of the teacher. Teacher author She is the founder and president of ity over pupils is guaranteed both in and out Teachers of English to Speak Other Lan of school, where the parent is not in imme guages and is the supervisor of the diate control. Teachers are youth leaders as Teachers to English Speakers of Other HANDGUN VIOLENCE CLAIMS 685 well as classroom managers. The dignity and Languages. IN MARCH authority of their office demand strict I would like my colleagues to join obedience and respect from pupils, with no toleration of undue parental criticism. Actu with me in congratulating Lois Maglietto HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN for her well-deserved commemoration a.s ally, school discipline is a part of youth OF MASSACHUSETTS training, the teacher expecting to find im an established leader in the field of edu mediate and ready support from all school cation.• IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES authorities in the administration of dis Wednesday, May 2, 1979 ciplinary cases. The German school thus becomes a part of DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMU • Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, deaths the system of national popular education, its NITY LAW FAIR, MAY 5, 1979 caused by the misuse of handguns rose task being to fashion youth to National So to an all-time high for the year during cialism along with the other educational in the month of March. This unnecessary stitutions previously mentioned. Its guiding HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY and tragic loss of life cannot be allowed principles are standardization, coordination, to continue unchecked. Handgun violence and authoritarianism. Unity of purpose, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES demands strong action by the Congress. aims, and administration bas resulted in a More and more people are beginning to program of intellectual training which is Wednesday, May 2, 1979 practically the same for the youth of the realize that some sort of legislation is smallest hamlet to the youth of the metrop e Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, on absolutely essential if we are to confront olis, while the teacher finds himself just o.s Saturday, May 5, 1979, a Community Law a problem that continues to grow worse well otr, economically at least, wherever be Fair is being sponsored at Judiciary as each month passes. teaches. Virtually all ideas and functions are Square, 4th and 5th Streets between E Mr. Speaker, two national polls were official and emanate from the Department of and F Streets NW., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The released in 1978 which reflected the grow Education in Berlin. There is almost com ing awareness among the American plete federalization of all phases of the ad objective of the law fair is to create an ministration of schools, including type of in exciting, educational and entertaining people about the problem. Both the Har struction, type of school, curricula, salaries, opportunity for the entire District of ris survey and the Cambridge report con examinations, and building programs. "Local Columbia community to obtain a greater firmed that popular support for intelli option" is permitted only in matters of very understanding of all vital aspects of the gent handgun control was at an all-time minor importance. This unified control of governmental process. high. The Cambridge poll noted: 85 per education is a great boon to the commenta The theme of the Community Law Fair cent favor a crackdown on illegal hand tor, for a reasonably accurate view of this is "Our Changing Rights." Law Day each gun sales and 84 percent favor requiring functional philosophy may be had from al the registration of all handguns at the most a single authoritative source. The offi year by joint resolution of Congress and cial publications of the Department of Edu Presidential proclamation is an occasion time of purchase or transfer of a gun. cation are very complete in their exposition f.or "rededication to the ideals of equal Numerous bills have been introduced of the philosophy and administration of the ity and justice under the law." It is not in the 96th Congress to resolve handgun schools. It goes without saying that they are a day set aside only for lawyers, but a misuse. Now is the time to educate our the final word. day established by Congress to encour selves. Now is the time to take the neces sary steps to pass effective legislation. Mr. Speaker, parents and taxpayers age each person to think about the cen back home are concerned about centrali tral role of the law in our everchanging In a recent bulletin published by Hand zation of educational authority. Federal society. The Council of the District of gun Control, Inc., it has been revealed intervention has brought forced busing, Columbia in recognition of this occa that 685 media-reported deaths occurred dictation of local school hiring practices sion is declaring the week of April 29 during the month of March as a result and mandated quotas. We need less of through May 5, 1979 as "Community Law of handgun violence. I urge my colleagues that rather than more.• Week." to join with me in this effort to stop the Among the many activities of the law spread of the misuse of handguns. The fair will be five mock trials, an unofficial Handgun Control, Inc., report follows: legislative session of the District of Co ALABAMA ( 1 7) A TRIBUTE TO MS. LOIS E. lumbia Council, presentation by the Steven Chandler, Arab; Freddy Chaney, MAGLIETTO mayor of the District, a quiz on the Dis Birmingham; Jetr Davis, Birmingham; Walter trict of Columbia amendment, final Davis, Birmingham; Thomas Ferguson, Flo rounds of a $1,500 college scholarship rence; Logan Garner, Huntsville; Neil Grant HON. WILLIAM R. COTTER speech competition for high school stu ham, Elba; George Harris, Birmingham; OF CONNECTICUT Alfred Jackson, Mobile; Edward Miller, dents, final judging of a junior high and Huntsvllle; Sammy Morris, Elba; James IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grade school poster contest, a lawyer's Parker, Prattville; K. N. Sexton, Gadsden; Wednesday, May 2, 1979 arcade, and much more. John Turner, Mobile;· Lonnie Weaver, Mcin The skillful planning and development tosh; T. L. William, Boaz; Margaret Worley, e Mr. COTTER. Mr. Speaker, I would of the Community Law Fair has been Andalusia. like to take this opportunity to acknowl done by a dedicated group of volunteers. ARIZONA (5) edge the dedicated contributions Ms. The chairperson of this group is Ms. Caryle Carnahan, Tucson; Franklin Hut Lois E. Maglietto has made to the field Karen Sherman, whose untiring efforts son, PhoeniX; Kelly Nix, Tucson; Charles of education in the city of Hartford and have steered the group to unimagined Shultz, Phoenix; Emilio Yberra, Eloy. in the State of Connecticut. heights. Ms. Sherman is an energetic and ARKANASA (:;:,()) As a member of the Hartford public commited servant of the public. She de Richard Corbell, Little Rock; Adrian school system for 32 years, Ms. Magli serves ·our praise. Other members of the Esparza, Hot Springs; Charles Everett, Little etto is being commemorated by those group who also deserve our praise in Rock; Tilton Foster, Camden; Kenneth who have recognized her immeasurable clude: Sari Marmur, Landen McCall, Garner, Emmet; Grealing Gilmore, Little Rock; Larry Gilmore, Little Rock; Frank contributions as an educator. For the Deborah Green, Mary Eva Candon, Clau Hannah, Hot Springs; Debrah Harp, Little past 34 years, she has demonstrated her dia Booker, Tony Taylor, Herbert Reid, Rock; Danyella Harp, Little Rock; Terry leadership qualities as an active partici Johnny Barnes, Matthew S. Watson, Hatchett, Little Rock; Herman Jones Jr., pant in the field of education. She has Wayne Moore, J. Daniel Johnson, Ken Little Rock; George McElroy, Hot Springs; been president of the Hartford Teachers Colburn, Pat McGuire, ·Honorable John Clay Moore, Piggott; Leo Schumacher Jr., 9606 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979
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, Baltimore; 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, Atlanta; 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 IDAHO (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, KENTUCKY (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 TENNESSEE ( 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) NORTH CAROLINA ( 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 United States Senate to propose an leagues attention: 5. Employing shielding for advantage, amendment to Senate Bill 413 granting a TESTIMONY OF RAYMOND P . FARLIN, ACTING using natural terrain buildings, et cetera; permanent waiver from Part 36 noise regu DmECTOR OF AVIATION, SAN JosE MUNICIPAL and lations to two-and-three engined aircraft AmPORT, CALIFORNIA 6. Development of a compatible land use used in air carrier service. Such an issue is of Mr. Chairman and Members of the Sub within the noise impact boundary. the utmost importance to San Jose because committee: As Acting Director of Aviation An informal curfew mentioned earlier has 95 percent of the air carrier operations at San for the City of San Jose, California, I am re been implemented in conjunction with the Jose are by such aircraft. We have taken the sponsible for the maintenance, operation, airlines serving San Jose that encourages use time to analyze the impact of such a waiver and development of San Jose Municipal Air by newer, quieter aircraft classes. on San Jose. port, which provides !acUities to accommo San Jose has implemented procedures in During 1977 San Jose accommodated 51,- date the air service needs of the more than volving aircraft operating procedures and 020 operations by two- and three-engine air one million people residing in the South San traffic management, thereby reducing noise carrier aircraft (95 percent of total air car Francisco Bay Area. Today San Jose's Munici impact to the extent possible. Runway util rier operations) . If those aircraft had met pal Airport accommodates approximately 40 ization methods of abating noise have been Stage 2 noise-emission criteria established by percent of the more than eight million an implemented to the extent possible consist FAR Part 36, the 65 CNEL contour would nual air passengers generated by its primary ent with air safety. Noise shielding methods have been reduced significantly. A map dis air trade area. The remaining 60 percent must have not been employed due to the airport's playing that reduction is attached to the use the more distant San Francisco Inter configuration, lack of available land area and testimony submitted to you today. The re national Airport. San Jose's ability to pro negligible benefits possible. duction involves 1,350 acres including 1,471 vide facilities to serve its community has The land-acquisition program implemented residential use land parcels. At an estimated been constrained by the effects of aircraft in 1967 has resulted in expenditure of over 1978 cost of $75,000 per parcel to purchase noise. $11 million for purchase of residential prop and relocate residents, San Jose's noise abate Prior to 1969 Airport Staff was directed and erty and resident relocation associated with ment program would be reduced by more encouraged to develop the air service capa 230 parcels through June of last year. Cur than $110 million. But more importantly, bilities of the Airport and to secure certifl- rent forecasts to convert remaining residen more than 1500 families would be able to . cated scheduled air service. Our efforts were tial-use land within the 75 CNEL contour continue residence in their neighborhood successful and air passenger growth was total $51 million in 1978 dollars. Cost of ac under aircraft noise levels that are toler phenomenal. Between 1965 and 1970 the num quiring noncompatible land between the 70 able. ber of airlines serving San Jose grew from and 75 CNEL contours is estimated to be over I am very pleased that no such waiver has one to six, and annual air passenger volume $16 million and involves 242 dwelllng units. been promoted in the House of Representa increased by almost 1400 percent from ap An additional $225 million would be required tives. approximately $109,000 to $1.6 million. to acquire all 4 ,189 nonconforming parcels I have t ried to convey to you the impact But with the air service growth came the out to the forecast 65 CNEL contour. Once and result of aircraft noise on communities noise and the outcry of citizens living in the again these amounts are in 1978 dollars. and Airport Management charged with re Airport vicinity. Since 1969 every attempt to San Jose has actively partlcipattd in air sponsibility to bring about an equitable solu provide airport facilities to serve the com port industry and congressional efforts to re tion at the local level. I! San Jose is to con munity has met solid opposition. Opposition duce aircraft noise at its source. In our opin tinue to provide an airport to serve air now ingrained in decisions by the City Coun ion any relief realized from legislation and/ transportat ion needs in today's environment, cil. The last addition to Airport terminal or regulations that reduce aircraft noise will it must convert a substantial amount of land facllities was completed in 1972. Since then reduce the cost of providing this nation with surrounding the Airport to nonresidential four additional trunk-level carriers have in an integrated airport system. Not only the uses. Wit hout assurances and support from augurated service at San Jose, and annual costs to airport operators and users but to Congress our only alternative is to restrict passenger volume has increased by over 113 the citizens forced to tolerate aircraft noise air service to the community. percent to 3.4 million. The airlines operate or relocate. In San Jose's case this involves Jn closing I would like to support Con from inadequate facilities and within a cur over 5,000 dwelling units and over 176,000 gres ~ man Mlneta's proposed bill H.R . 3547, few that limits operations to the eighteen citizens. because it provides assistance to airport op hours between 6 a.m. and midnight. Airport San Jose is presently involved in an in erations in achieving their noise compatibility Staff has worked diligently with the airlines, depth study of community needs for airport programs and supports efforts to grant relief general aviation, the FAA, and the commu facilities and services versus environmental to these citizens impacted by existing levels nity to develop and implement aircraft concerns. The one-half million dollar study of aircraft noise. operating and traffic management procedures is partially funded under a federal airport I hope, Mr. Chairman, that my comments to minimize the residential areas impacted planning grant and has included full public and those of other repre ~ en t atives of the air by aircraft noise. A program was started in involvement and participation since its be port industry will aid you and your commit 1967 to purchase residential-use land in the ginning. This approach was selected after our tee in fashioning a program t hat abates the most severely impacted areas. Enactment of last experience with an airport development negative effects of our sulendid air transpor California law establishing Airport noise program resulting in a moratorium on fur t ation system. In addition, I want to thank standards in 1972 involved installation and ther facility expansion. In 1972 the airport you for the opportunity to relate San Jose's operation of a noise-monitoring system at a through use of qualified consultants pre experience. cost of over $136,000. An additional $39,000 sented a five-year capital improvement pro has been expended during the last year to gram to satisfy demonstrated airport facility expand and upgrade its capabllities. Annual needs. The reuort considered social, environ operating costs associated with the system mental, and economic impacts that would re MOROZ DESCRIDES JAIL are $32,000. sult from the program. Public opposition was The referenced California noise law estab so concentrated that the City Council not Hshed a timetable under which California only rejected the program but declared a HON. DON RITTER airports must eliminate perceived noise moratorium on any air carrier growth at San within a boundary designated as the 65 CNEL Jose until environmental impacts were meas OF PENNSYLVANIA (Community Noise Equivalent Level) by ured and compliance with governmental IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 1, 1986. This noise boundary or con standards achieved. Wednesday, May 2, 1979 tour is determined by weighting average The in-process study forecasts the noise noise by factors reflecting the time of day contours generated by air carrier aircraft • Mr. RITTER. Mr. Speaker, all Ameri or night involved with greater weights ap operations necessary to accommodate an an cans rejoiced at the unexpected free plied to operations between 7 p .m. and 7 a .m . nual passenger volume of 4.2 million en dom for five men who were released this The State standards include suggested alter planed passengers in 1997. The passenger weekend from the horror of Soviet pris natives for use in abating noise. They demand forecast is, in my opinion, conserva include: tive when compared with the fact that the ons. While so many others who have 1. Encouraging use of the airport by air airport's trade area presently generates in dared to stand up for liberty and jus craft classes with lower noise level charac excess of 4.2 million enplanements. The air tice are still far beyond the reach of teristics and discouraging use by higher carrier operation forecast assumes compli freedom, we can nevertheless feel glad noise level aircraft classes; ance with FAR Part 36 by all air carrier air ness that, at least for a handful, the 2. Encouraging approach and departure craft by 1986. If this is not realized, develop long nightmare of Soviet oppression is flight paths and procedures to minimize the ment beyond needs to serve 1987 demands over. noise in residential areas; will not be undertaken. If federal regula One of the five who were freed is a 3. Planning runway utilization schedules tions or statutes permit delays in compli man whose name has become synony to take into account adjacent residential ance, efforts will no doubt be started to in areas, noise characteristics of aircraft and crease curfew restrictions at San Jose. San mous with the undying independent noise-sensitive time periods. Jose, California, and the· nation needs federal spirit of the Ukrainian people, Valentyn 4. Reduction of flight frequency, particu- assurances that aircraft noise will be reduced. Moro!tl. 9620 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 His story will become a modern day Mr. Moroz said he was beaten frequently Alaskans-including Eskimos, Indians, legend that will give hope and pride to by guards and was once set upon and stabbed Aleuts, and others-who depend upon the imprisoned people of the Ukraine for severely by a nonpolitical prisoner. the land for subsistence purposes. The many years to come. The story of Valen In 1974, he related, he was in K.G.B. Camp No. 1 in the Mordovian Autonomous Republic report on H.R. 39 issued last year by tyn Moroz is not only important to the southeast of Moscow, and when the author the Committee on Interior and Insular Ukrainian people-it is a story every ities refused to transfer him to a better fa Affairs stressed that hunting and fishing American should learn well and never cility in the Ukraine he went on a hunger are still the cornerstone of the culture forget. By understanding the sacrifices strike for almost five months. Three years of many rural Alaskans and that the made by this remarkable patriot, we later, while at the same prison, his notebooks option to continue and preserve their will all gain a new appreciation of how were confiscated and he was denied visits by way of life should rest firmly with these precious a thing freedom really is. his family. Because of these measures, he people. Under the Alaska Native Claims said, he went on a second hunger strike, this Following is the article from the New time for 68 days. During both strikes he was Settlement Act of 1971, from which the York Times of May 1 that tells the story force-fed by intravenous injections, he added. Udall-Anderson substitute has grown, of Valentyn Moroz: BASIS FOR INSANITY RULING the land rights of the Native villages have first priority in Alaska. MOROZ DESCRIBES JAIL After the second hunger strike, Mr. Moroz (By Selwyn Raab) said, an effort was made to have him declared Furthermore, on other public lands JERSEY CITY, April 30,-With his right insane; he credited protests in the United designated as ''national interest" con leg twitching nervously, Valentyn Moroz de States and Canada by Ukrainian groups with servation units, the needs of those who scribed today how he survived 14 years in having saved him from being transferred to a practice a subsistence lifestyle will be Soviet prisons for advocating Ukrainian in prison for the insane. "Psychiatrists in the protected. Great pains were taken to dependence. It was a tale, he said, of forced Soviet Union tell you plainly that having work out a subsistence provision for the feedings, beatings, solitary confinement for different political views is reason enough to bill which balances the needs of people months in freezing cells and, finally, an at be considered insane," he said.e dependent on subsistence living with the tempt by the authorities to have him de clared insane. need to protect wildlife resources as well Mr. Moroz, one of five political prisoners as the interests of the Federal and State released by the Soviet Union last Friday UNSPOILED LANDS FOR ALL governments. Through this provision, in exchange for two Soviet employees of the AMERICANS the Udall-Anderson substitute rightfully United Nations who were found guilty of es recognizes the importance of maintain pionage in the United States, said he owed ing our Nation's cultural diversity. his survival to his belief in Ukrainian in HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL The Udall-Anderson substitute is cru dependence and in God. "To be able to en cial because it offers us our last oppor dure prison life in the Soviet Union you OF NEW YORK must be a strong personality and know what IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES tunity to save America's remaining wil derness. For years pristine lands have you want-! want an independent Ukraine," Wednesday, May 2, 1979 the 43-year-old history teacher explained. been sacrificed in order to accommodate He said the exchange of prisoners would • Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, at the expanding national production. Because be a boon to thousands of dissidents im 1977 annual convention of the National resource exploitation required mining, prisoned in the Soviet Union and would en Association for the Advancement of clearcutting, and development of these courage others to speak out "because it de Colored People, a resolution was passed lands, America's wilderness resource has creases their chances of being throw.n be hind bars." declaring that "an enduring resource of dwindled until, today, we are faced with The human-rights campaigns in the wilderness is needed by Americans of all a startling scarcity of unspoiled land. We United States and in other Western coun races and economic backgrounds." I must seize this opportunity to protect our tries are "obviously having tremendous suc have cosponsored this year's H.R. 39, the last frontier and in doing so fulfill a cess in pressuring Moscow," to release politi Alaska National Interest Lands Conser moral obligation to future generations, cal prisoners, Mr. Moroz said at a news con vation Act, because it is a good example since the weight of our decision will fall ference here sponsored by the Ukrainian of a wilderness bill that will benefit most heavily upon them. National Association. Americans in many ways. Built upon The Udall-Anderson substitute is so Two weeks before his release, and at a time when he was unaware of imminent that legislation, the Udall-Anderson sub important to all Americans because it freedom, Mr. Moroz said he was told by an st:tute is a carefully refined and modi strikes a proper balance between con official of the K .G.B., the Soviet secret police, fied version of H.R. 39 and I lend my servation and development. These goals, that many more dissidents were to be re full support to its passage. which traditionally have been pitted leased soon. The· K.G.B. official said, accord The NAACP resolution recognizes that against each other, complement each ing to Mr. Moroz, that the releases would be many young people in our Nation other in the Udall-Anderson substitute. effected "in light of the Olympic Games" that Recognizing America's need for energy will be held next year in Moscow. especially children from innercity dis Speaking in Ukrainian through an in tricts such as my own-grow into adult development, this bill provides for re terpreter, Mr. Moroz said that Western na hood without experiencing the beauty of sponsible leasing of suitable Federal tions underestimated the strength of move the great outdoors. Wilderness should lands in Alaska for oil and gas explora ments in the Ukraine and in the Baltic be a part of the heritage which belongs tion. It does not attempt to "lock up" all states-Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-for to all Americans, and we can only of these lands; rather, it balances con separation. Although he acknowledged that achieve this goal through the full pro sideration of the Nation's need for min reliable statistics were impossible to obtain, tection of Alaska's Federal lands. Re erals, oil, gas, and timber with the equally he estimated that 50 percent of Soviet po important need to protect our irreplace litical prisoners were Ukrainian. flecting this belief, the NAACP resolution Describing himself as "a Ukrainian na advocates preservation of a "resource able wilderness resource. tionalist and a traditionalist conservative," pool"-unspoiled wilderness lands need Mr. Speaker, I give my support to the he said that as a youth he was a member of ed by all Americans, regardless of their Udall-Anderson substitute and would the Young Communist League in the Ukraine racial or economic backgrounds. It is like to include in the RECORD the text of and then graduated from Lvov University. extremely appropriate to protect signifi the resolution on wilderness resources as Arrested in 1965 at the age of 29, he was sen cant areas where wildlife can find refuge, passed by the 68th annual convention of tenced to four years for anti-Soviet agita the NAACP, meeting in St. Louis, Mo., tion. Nine months after his release he was where natural processes which scientists arrested again on the same charge and sen are just beginning to understand can from June 27 to July 1, 1977: tenced to 14 years in what he termed con continue unhindered, and where we can NAACP 68TH ANNUAL CONVENTION RESOLU centration camps. save untrampled land for future genera TIONS XVII MISCELLANEOUS Asked for a description of his almost 14 tions. The lands proposed for preserva Whereas, "wilderness" can be defined as years in prison, he replied: "Imagine a small tion in the Udall-Anderson substitute land which retains its primeval character room with the temperature 33 degrees below are public lands belonging to all Ameri without permanent human improvements, zero Centigrade outside. There's always frost cans, rather than to special interests. untrampled by man, and is affected primarily on the walls inside and you have nothing They must, therefore, be protected if we by the forces of nature; but a thin prison uniform. You can't sleep are to afford all Americans the heritage Whereas, the qualities and benefits of an because of the cold. After days of no sleep enduring resource of wilderness is well known hallucinations set in. The K.G.B. doesn't which rightly belongs to them. for its opportunities in providing for primi have to resort to physical torture to make a. The group of Americans who perhaps tive recreation, preservation of a "resource person do what he wants." will benefit most directly are rural pool" unaffected by man; May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9621 Whereas, America's wllderness resource Is controls have made our energy problems intracity bus systems. People will use dwlndllng at an astonishing rate through worse. By keeping oil and gasoline prices mass transit if it is fast, safe, convenient, resource exploitation such as mining, clear artifically low, they have encouraged and clean. America's system often meets cutting, and development; Whereas, an enduring resource of wllder waste, and have discouraged conversion none of these requirements. That needs ness Is needed by Americans of all races and to alternative sources of energy, such as correcting now. economic backgrounds, especially minorities coal and solar power. SOLAR ENERGY and the poor living in the inner cities; Americans today are driving at a rec Mr. Speaker, I also support an ex Whereas, many young people born 1n the ord rate. We are using 5 percent more panded program of solar energy research inner city grow into adulthood without ex gasoline today than last spring, at a time and development. This year the Federal periencing the enjoyment of the great Amer when we should be using 5 percent less. Government will spend about $650 mil ican outdoors; Voluntary conservation etiorts have been lion on solar energy. In addition, the Therefore be it resolved that the National a failure. Rationing would cost the tax Association for the Advancement of olored marketplace is just now beginning to feel People support endeavors to set aside more payers at least $2 billion a year for more the stimulation of the solar energy tax land areas to be designated as wilderness Federal bureaucrats, and would create credit which I supported in the last Con areas; and urge Congress to expand wilder hardships throughout our economy. gress. These tax credits will provide a ness areas.e Week-end closings of gasoline stations direct subsidy of up to $2,200 for persons would not save any significant amounts who utilize solar technology and I am of energy, would make the problem worse hopeful that this initiative will be the by encouraging hoarding, and would catalyst for the development of new and PRESIDENT CARTER'S ENERGY place a disproportionate burden on States cost-etiective solar systems. Unfortu PROPOSALS like Delaware which depend heavily for nately, however, solar energy is not yet jobs on the tourist industry. ready to replace on a significant scale In short, it appears that the only short other forms of energy. But it is impor HON. THOMAS B. EVANS, JR. term solution to our energy problem is OF DELAWARE tant that the Government give it all the decontrol. assistance we can. We must transform IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES European countries which have lived our reliance from depletable energy Wednesday, May 2, 1979 with gasoline prices over $1.50 a gallon sources to renewable forms, such as for years have proven that high prices solar, wind, and geothermal energy. • Mr. EVANS of Delaware. Mr. Speaker. will encourage conservation. Further, as I first want to commend President Carter Solar is safe, clean, and secure from for West Germany has shown, high energy eign intervention and I hope the Presi for focusing his attention on a problem costs can be compatible with strong eco which threatens the very security of this dent will give solar energy the kind of nomic growth. One of the prime reasons leadership it definitely needs. Nation-our dependence on foreign oil. why the U.S. dollar's value has declined This country now imports nearly half so dramatically is the fact that other in COAL PRODUCTION our petroleum needs every day, compared dustrialized nations of the world do not I was, however, disappointed that the to 36 percent before the 1973-74 oil em believe that we are serious about reducing President did not mention any new pro bargo. Almost all of this imported oil our energy demands. Perhaps decontrol posals with respect to coal. comes from areas of the world which are will be that signal, and lead to a restora Coal is this Nation's most plentiful unstable and could erupt at any moment, tion of confidence in the American fossil fuel resource. Yet at the present with disastrous consequences for our economy. time, 10 percent of this Nation's coal economy. Most of the Persian Gulf oil Finally, decontrol will encourage workers are laid oti. In Appalachia, travels through the Straits of Hormuz, greater exploration for new oil in this 10,000 miners have been idled since last where the shipping channel is only 8 to country. Companies will have the incen summer. Despite all the rhetoric from 10 miles wide. One terrorist action could tive to drill deeper, to extract reservoirs the Carter administration about switch easily close this strait, and with it our previously considered unprofitable, and ing to coal, its percentage of usage has fragile pipeline of Mideast oil. to take greater economic risks in otishore increased less than 1 percent since 1973. It is therefore important that our Na areas. A recent Government action points up tion make a crash etiort to reduce our WINDFALL PROFITS exactly why we have failed to utilize foreign dependence. This will be accom However, we cannot allow the oil com more coal. In Greenwich, Conn., the En plished in two equally important ways: panies to reap exorbitant profits from de vironmental Protection Agency success by conserving existing supplies and by control. No person or company should fully moved to force ConRail to switch developing new sources of energy within profit unnecessarily from the energy mis from using coal in the electric generators the United States. Today, I wish to make fortune of this country. to using imported oil-at the very time a few observations regarding the Presi I am sure that the Ways and Means the President of the United States was dent's recent proposals, keeping in mind Committee will have much to say about calling for a reduction in our imports. these twin requirements. the mechanics of any windfall profits tax. Congress must reexamine the environ DECONTROL For me, there are several questions re mental controls it has placed on coal The President has just submitted the garding the windfall profits tax which usage under the Clean Air Act. In view legislative language on decontrol, and remain unanswered. For instance, will ing this Nation's overriding energy prob the Congress must insure that his pro some of the revenues which are plowed lems, a new balance must be achieved. grams will be workable and accomplish back into the development of new energy NUCLEAR POWER what he says they will. Therefore, I must sources be exempt from this additional The President did not mention any reserve judgment on the specific legisla tax? One of the purposes of the windfall thing about nuclear power. With the tion until these questions are satisfac profits tax should be to encourage greater incident at Three Mile Island a recent torily answered. However, I do support domestic exploration, and I believe it is memory, it is not surprising that public the concept of decontrol. essential that any proposed tax take into officials want to make like an ostrich and Decontrol of oil prices is a politically consideration the revenues which are bury their heads in the sand when nu difficult question. But it must be faced. used solely for the production or develop clear power is mentioned. No energy decision from now on will be ment of new energy-related activities. The Three Mile Island mishap has al easy. Prices are going to go up for oil and MASS TRANSIT ready begun to force Government tore gasoline, whatever we do. Decontrol may I am extremely pleased that the Presi view the safety process connected with allow us to use the revenue derived from dent included mass transit in his energy nuclear power programs. We must make these higher prices to help develop more package. For too long, we have allowed absolutely sure that everything humanly sources of energy, instead of having these our mass transit systems in this country possible is being done to make present dollars lost forever to the American econ to deteriorate to the point that it is no and future nuclear plants safe. omy as is now the case. wonder no one rides them. I urge that, However, we must not overreact to Federal price controls, while politically instead of building new, high-cost sys Three Mile Island. If nuclear power was attractive, have failed to solve the basic tems like subways, we direct our resources discarded as a source of energy, how underlying need for greater conservation to refurbishing projects such as the would the lost power be replaced? How and more production. In fact, Federal Northeast corridor rail network, and our much would it cost? If we used coal, what 9622 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 would be the environmental and health nology goods is very unfavorable. Our favor It is predicted they will have almost zero damage? A coal-fired plant the size of able balance in high-technology industries, growth in total GNP in the early 1980's. In Three Mile Island would emit 35,750 tons including high-technology agriculture, has addition to a creaking economy, they are long helped to offset our deficits, but even plagued by chronic agricultural shortages, re of sul!ur per year. Is that acceptable? here we see some adverse trends. quiring expensive imports. They are a net If we replace nuclear plants with oil, U.S. patents are down. Investments in in exporter of oil today, but there are some who then utility costs which are now too high novation, invention, research-the slow predict they will become a net importer of for most people would increase by $3 bil yeast of future prosperity-have been de oil in the 1980's. Even if these predictions are lion, with more increases as the price of ferred, delayed and reduced in many areas. wrong, it's clear that they will have to invest oil went up. Is that acceptable? • Risk capital investments are declining. We a lot of capital and gain access to advanced are spending 25 % less of our gross national technology to 11ft the oil from the tundra and product on research and development in from very deep wells in the Caucasus. America than we did 15 years ago. They have many social problems. The mild All of these problexns-resources, produc short age in their work force today is pre AMERICA'S SECURITY CHALLENGE tivity, technological slow-down-need our dicted to become quite severe in the 1980's. priority attent ion. If we do not come to They also have a shift coming in their ethnic grips with these and other critical issues, and nationality mix, which is likely to bring HON. TOM STEED the strength of our nation wlll continue to on increased social tensions. OF OKLAHOMA erode. Abroad, things aren't all roses for the So IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These problexns would be difficult to solve viet Union, either. They feel very acutely the even if we lived in a benign world. But as all pressure of a billion Chinese at their back Wednesday, May 2, 1979 of you know, we do not have a benign world. door. They have seen the need to deploy large • Mr. STEED. Mr. Speaker, the Chair It's a world of lnstabillty, rising nationalism, and very expensive forces along the Chinese man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. and increasing internal turmoil. Iran is only border-including about one-fourth of the David C. Jones, delivered a measured the most recent case; there is potential for total divisions of the Soviet Unicn. similar turmoil in xnany places on the map. Even in Eastern Europe, their dominance is and concise analysis of our defense People in the world are demanding greater not assured--at least without the threat of policy last Friday night. General Jones equity in the division of natural resources. repressive measures. I'm sure they have long spoke in the district I represent, appear There are growing appetities and diminish memories of Hungary, Poland, East Germany ing a.t the 70th annual dinner of the ing resources on this small planet of ours. and Czechoslovakia and they must know the Altus, Okla., Chamber of Commerce. Some nations are not economically viable. seeds of dissension are there. Around the What he said regarding weaponry and There will continue to be political vacuuxns world, they have few true friends. Oppor defense posture has vital significance for and turmoil. tunists, hangers-on, yes, but mainly fair Last month, for example, I was part of a we ::J. ther friends. all of us, and I am, therefore, entering senior delegation which discussed a number In assessing our relative power positions, it the text of his remarks in order to share of security issues with leaders in several is clear that the Soviet Union is not an eco with my colleagues what I think is the Arab countries. I returned from that trip nomic superpower. The United States is far best summary treatment of the Nation's more concerned than ever about prospects st ronger economically than the USSR and, if most vital problem that I have heard. for instability in that part of the world, you expand the comparison to East versus His remarks, enthusiastically received where U.S. vital interests are so deeply en West-including Japan among the Western by his audience in Oklahoma, follows: gaged. all1e~-the differences are even greater. On the plus side, regional leaders were Similarly, the Soviet Union is neither a ANALYSIS OF OUR DEFENSE POLICY reassured by our ab111ty to move large political nor a technological superpower. The (By Gen. David c. Jones) amounts of materiel to the area so quickly Soviet brand of Marxism does not have the Ladles and Gentlemen, it's a pleasure to when South Yemen invaded North Yemen. appeal it had immediately after World War II be with you this evening. We have long con They were deeply impressed by the quality and despite some remarkable technical sidered Altus to be an Air Force town and of our equipment, the professionalism of our achievements, the Soviets are still heavily deeply appreciate your support of the Air people, and our ab111ty to project tailored dependent on the West for modern tech Base and a strong national defense. forces to distant trouble spots where mutual nology. I welcome the opportunity to share with interests were being threatened by aggres There is only one aspect of national power you my perspective on the security chal sion. that gives them superpower status: their lenges we face and what needs to be done Nevertheless, it was clear to me that the military potential. The bulk of Soviet influ about them. Middle East-Persian Gulf area has poten ence is derived from their ability to project Last summer, when President Carter swore tially incendiary problexns and military force power and I believe it is for this reason they me in as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of alone won't be a panacea. Religious, tribal, have given such high priority to their m111- Staff, I stated that the challenges that lie and ideological differences, uneven distribu tary. It is also the reason the Soviets have ahead for the American people could well tion of wealth, inherent tensions between very little incentive to moderate their mili tary buildup, for this buildup has brought be among the most ser~ous this country has strong traditions and ambitious moderniza ever faced. As time passes, I am more con tion-these and many other currents of tur the rewards of greater influence in the world. cerned than ever with the severity of these moil could explode into violence in any num Despite their manpower problems, they challenges. And I am more than a little maintain more than 4,000,000 men under ber of places and in ways difficult to forecast arms; despite serious-economic problems, it apprehensive about the pace, direction and or control. is estimated they are devoting 11 to 13 per strength of our responses. President Carter deserves gre :~. t credit for cent of their gross national product to the For a variety of reasons, we have tended his personal diplomacy in bringing together t he two sides and clearing the way for an military . . . and there are serious and re over t•he years to disbelieve the evidence of spected analysts who say that is substantially slowly gathering clouds on the horizon. Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. This historic underestimated. Somehow we seem to become distracted by achievement is a major breakthrough toward st ability and peace in the Middle East over Since the early 60's, they have been in complacency and by the more immediate creasing the resources devoted to the mm concerns of the moment. the long term. E ven so, all of us recognize that the treat y does not eliminat e existing ten tary by about 4 to 5 percent annually in real Not even the oil embargo of 1973 could terms. In contrast, we are devoting less to awaken us other than momentarily, and we sions among nations in the region, and we will continue to face many difficult diplo defense today than we did in the ea.rly 60's. continue to consume-and waste-natural The Soviet efforts have resulted in a sub resources as if they were limitless. A few m atic hurdles in the days ahead. In a world such as this, there would be stantial shift in the balance between the Ea.St months ago, I stated that Americans have and West. A few years ago, the West had a not faced up to the fact thab the days ahead more than enough problems to occupy our attention even if there were no global com lead in military capabllitles. Today we have will carry us inexorably from plenty to pinch an uneasy balance; each side has its advan to crunch. In a very short time we have petition from the Soviet Union. However, this Soviet competit ion is a fact of international tages and its vulnerabilities. But the trends moved from plenty to pinch, and the long are very adverse for the West. In my judg term prognosis is grim. But still we do not life and, for more than a decade, it has been assuming an increasingly ominous charac ment, there is insufficient genuine concern recognize the economic difficulties and the about the future. I believe we will see a more potential for conflict this problem will bring. ter. Its most worrisome feature from my viewpoint is the steady, relentless, single assertive and self-confident Soviet Union in Another concern: For many years, Ameri minded concentration on building offensive the days ahead, willing to take increased can industry has been the model for the military power. risks. world-efficient, modern, innovative. It could The direction and momentum of this This time of year, budget time, we in the pay relatively good salaries because of our growt h , far out of proportion to any rat ional military are frequently accused of rattling high productivity. But now we have an aging cal ~ulation of their defense needs, gives me our swords in order to get more money out of plant and our producti vity increase has been cause for d eep conce r n . They hav e h a d t o im Congress. The implication is that we over outst ripped by Western Europe and Japan. pose considerable sacrifices on their people to estimate the threat to further our self Because of this decline in relative pro achieve this capabilit y and this undoubtedly interests. ductivitY. our balance of trade in low-tech- has contributed to many of their problems. Unfortunately, the Soviets have generally May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9623 done more than we expected. Since the early The only rational reason to put more Warsaw Pact numerical superiority in con 1960's, the estimates of growth in Soviet m111- money into defense or to bu1ld a new weapon ventional forces. tary capab111ty have been underestimated far system is to "buy off the hawks" to gain this Regarding general purposes forces, there more than overestimated. The greatest under support for SALT. isn't time to cover the !ull spectrum o! estimations have been those concerning I believe such an approach is quite flawed Soviet modernization, but the key point strategic nuclear forces, the most destructive because, in my view, our strategic forces is this: while extending the lead in num and dangerous area of military capabll1ty. serve a much broader purpose than prevent bers, mass and firepower which they have For many years, the Soviets have been out ing an out-of-blue attack on Washington or always e.njoyed, they have also been sys spending us on strategic nuclear forces by a Chicago. If we were an island unto ourselves, tematically overtaking many of the offset !actor of between two a.nd three to one. They maybe such an approach would be !easlbTe ting quaUtative advantages we have relied on have built the most destructive force in the and practical, although I doubt it. But we to maintain a balance. They have been mod history of the world. are not an island. We live in a very inter ernizing across the board-armor, artillery, Their greatest incre~e in capa.b111ty has related and inter-dependent world. And thr. an ocean-going surface and subsurface Navy, occurred since the signing of SALT I and we Free World looks to the United States to and a new Air Force with extensive range and don't see any evidence of slackening effort on balance the Soviet Union, particularly in in offensive capab111ty. their part. tercontinental strategic weapon systems. Clearly the m111tary trends !avor the So They are deploying three new interconti I would be very concerned about any real viet Union and if allowed to continue could nental ballistic misslles, including the very or perceived imbalance in strategic forces. result in an increasingly unstable and dan large SS-18 which can carry up to 10 high Any such imbalance would have a profound gerous world. To counter this buildup, I am yield warheads and deliver them with great effect on the decisions and options available .:1ot suggesting that we should embark on a accuracy. They are deploying new sub to leaders in Washington and Moscow and crash program. What I am suggesting--and launched ball1stic m1s.c;Ues and new sub on the perceptions and alignments of other have suggested to my civ111an superiors-is launched ball1stic missile submarines. They nations of the world. that the United States has the material and are continuing with the deployment of the I! you look back to the Cuban missile moral resources to arrest and reverse the Backfire bomber which has capab111ty !or crisis, we had nuclear superiority as well dangerous military trends discussed earlier, intercontinental missions, although it is as a local conventional advantage. Nonethe and that we will need to increase our defense being deployed for theater and naval mis less, the Soviets had enough intercontinental spending in the years ahead, particularly sions. In addition, they have a number of capab111ty to put weapons down on our in the area of strategic forces. I believe new or modified ICBMs under development, major cities and to kill milllons of Ameri that, by demonstrating strong resolve, we as well as research and development in many cans, yet they backed down. can force the strategic competition with the other areas of strategic offensive capability. We face the danger of foreseeable situa Soviet Union away from the military sphere Much of their military writing expresses a tions in which the positions could be re and toward areas where the risks of violence doctrine which treats nuclear war as think versed. The Soviets have, in areas of proximi are less and the incentives for negotiated able and they are not only bulldlng their ty to the Soviet Union, substantial conven force reductions are greater. offensive forces, but are giving great atten tional advantages. I! they were to couple I emphasiz that we have the resources to tion to command and control, civil defense, those advantages with an overall strategic reverse these trends. But in order to marshal air defense, and all the other elements advantage, a more assertive and self-con them properly, I believe the nation must needed to fight a nuclear war. fident leadership in the Soviet Union, and avoid the twin dangers of divisiveness and On the other hand, our efforts have been an encroachment on U.S. interests, I believe complacency which can paralyze resolute moderate. We have considered nuclear war the risk could be very great. action. We must recapture the cohesiveness as unthinkable and have generally directed Arms control negotiations can help in of will and purpose which guided us to great our efforts toward deterrence, with the un maintaining the balance, but only partially. ness and must overcome the deadly pre derlying presumption that a !allure of de Agreements can establish a framework, but sumption that, somehow, we'll be able to terrence would lead to a spasm war. Our negotiations are not an end in themselves. muddle through without any sacrifices or force improvements have been limited-some We in the Joint Chiefs of Staff have long tough choices. improvements to the MINUTEMAN, develop supported arms control negotiations and we The future calls !or clear vision, united ment of cruise miss1les which will be de have advocated reductions even greater than purpose and steadfast determination on the ployed on our aging bomber force in th" those likely to be achieved in SALT II. we part of all Americans. I know I can count 1980's, and a modernization program for hope that, in the future, there wlll be fur on the people of Altus and Oklahoma to con our submarine-launched ballistic missile ther reductions-reductions that wm be tinue to do their part. Thank you for your force. made on an equitable basis. attention a.nd good night.e There is no question that the Soviet i.mlld It would not be appropriate !or me to up and modernization of their strategic comment on the specifics of SALT II. we forces have out-paced ours by a considerable have stated that we reserve our judgment margin and continue to do so. until there is an agreement at hand, and THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE What is emerging is a Soviet force with as of today, there are still some issues to be two-thirds of its capab111ty in fixed inter resolved. PANAMA CANAL IMPLEMENTING continental ball1stic missiles, with many Frankly, whatever the technical pros and LEGISLATION-THE REMOVAL OF thousands of high-yield warheads of great cons of the agreement itself, my broader EXECUTIVE OFFICERS accuracy. Consequently, we !ace an increas concern is how SALT will be viewed by the ing vulnerab111ty of our intercontinental bal American people. No arms control agreement listic miss1le force, to the extent that the will solve all our strategic problems and, in HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN Soviets may well believe that they can any event, we have to recognize that the OF CALIFORNIA achieve a strategic advantage in the 1980's. trends I've described today will determine IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES What would this mean for us? Although the balance at least until the mid-1980's. If the Soviets are improving their war-fighting SALT were to become what one former high Wednesday, May 2, 1979 capab111ty, I do not believe they intend to government official characterized as a tran • Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, have a nuclear war with the United States. quilizer, these trends could well become I believe they will seek to avoid a nuclear irreversible. I once ~. gain brought to the attention exchange which would cause widespread dev Regardless of what happens on SALT, I of this House the testimony of Dr. astation in both countries. see no alternative to increasing our invest Charles Breecher, an expert on consti There are some who would say, "I! that's ments in strategic weapon systems. With tutional law, concerning treaty limita true, then an imbalance is unimportant." an equitable SALT agreement, it should be tions on the President's power of ap pr to put it another way, "Once each side less than without agreement. But in any pointment. I believe that a fairminded has an assured capability to destroy much event, we will have to spend more on stra analysis of that testimony will reveal the of the economic base of the other side, you tegic forces. Of particular importance is a unconstitutionality of the treaty limita have equality regardless of numbers, and commitment to a program for a survivable numbers become unimportant. Anything be intercontinental ball1stic missile. tion. I have never heard of any constitu yond a certain level is overkill. And this Although the Soviet strategic nuclear tional lawyer or theorist of our politics means a strategic balance is very stable." buildup has been most dramatic, they have who would agree that the Constitution I! you incline toward that view, then by no means bee:1 neglecting the other ele could be amended by treaty. But that, you are likely to be so enamored with the ments of their m111tary power. For example, apparently, is what the Congress will do process of SALT that the substance of SALT the former clear-cut US lead in theater nu if it implements article III, paragraph gets overlooked. According to this view: clear capability has been overtaken by the 3 of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. Talking to the Soviets and then coming Soviets, particularly in view of their deploy to an agreement is much more important ments of long-range systems such as the For the benefit of my colleagues, I than what is in the agreement. mobile, MIRV'd SS-20 missile. This is a par would like to bring to their attention a Relative capab111ties beyond a certain ticularly worrisome problem in Europe given second major constitutional issue: the point are not important and it is folly to do the current state of essential equivalence treaty's limitation on the removal power much more. in US-USSR strategic forces and substantial of the President. I would ask my col- 9624 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 leagues to give this matter their closest There is no way to square this circle. Un possessed nuclear weapons or would be able less the Treaty is amended while there is still to arm themselves with such devices in a attention: time, either 11ne U.S. Constitution or the matter of days or weeks. THE TESTIMONY OF DR. CHARLES BREECHEB Treaty must be breached by the implement Perhaps even more threatening, the world BEFORE THE PANAMA CANAL SUBCOMMITTEE, ing legisla.tion.e wide shipment of plutonium inherent in the MARCH 7, 1978 general use of the breeder reactor could pro Re Issue 2: What limits can be placed on vide terrorist groups an opportunity to arm the President's power to remove civil themselves with atomic bombs. officers? MCPL NUCLEAR ALERT SERIES: II Though a. few American officials and mem Except for the limitations on the Presi bers of Congress had been raising the pros dent's right o! removal contained in the pect of nuclear proliferation for more than Constitution itself (Art. III, Sec. 1 re: ju HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER a decade, it was not until the end of the Ford Administration that proliferation be dicial appointments), the President's right OF COLORADO o! removal seems to be closely linked to his came a central concern to the Government. power of appointment. It may seem super IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES But reversing the direction of such a long fluous to consider here at length what iimi Wednesday, May 2, 1979 standing policy, especially one that promised ta.tions on the Presidential removal power so many benefits to so many nations, is ex the Congress might impose by law, because e Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, last tremely difficult. the Treaty provisions require that the Presi week my colleague JOHN SEIBERLING, Of "We're obviously very far from a. total suc dent should not have any removal powe-rs Ohio, initiated the MCPL nuclear alert cess," said Representative Jonathan Bing at all with regard to the Panamanian mem series by inserting in the RECORD a New ham, for many years a. critic of the Govern bers o! the Canal Commission. The President, ment's drive to encourage the rapid growth according to the Treaty and the implement York Times editorial on aid to Pakistan of nuclear power and the related develop ing legislation, cannot remove Panamanians and on the chances of nuclear prolifera ment of the breeder reactor. except with the consent o! the Republic o! tion on the subcontinent. "But the President and Congress," Mr. Panama, and must ren1ove them at Pana This past weekend, the New York Bingham continued, "have recently achieved manian request. Accordingly, the power of Times had two excellent news analyses some progress in persuading the other na the President to remove would be usurped in its Week in Review section, which I tions of the world about the acute prob by the Panamanian Government. The Treaty wish to insert as the next step in the lems which would result if plutonium be Summary prepared by the Department of comes a general article of commerce in world State underlies that removal at the initia MCPL series. trade." tive of the United States can take place only These pieces tell all too well the diffi "It is not a totally black picture," said "after obtaining the concurrence of the culties encountered in the fight for non Charles N. Van Doren, the Deputy Assistant Panamanian Government.'' proliferation. The first, by David Burn Director for Non-Proliferation in the United While the removal power is not specifically ham, explains the development of the States Arms Control and Disarmament mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, it has arguments of arms control advocates Agency. "Though we certainly don't have all been adjudicated by the Supreme Court in over recent years and expresses specific the answers to controlling proliferation, at Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), reasons for continuing optimism. The the same time we don't have any alternative Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 225 but to try." U.S. 602 (1935), Wiener v. United States, 357 second article, by David Binder, brings Concerned officials have mounted two sep U.S. 349 (1958), and Morgan v. TVA, 312 U.S. us back to the cold, unpleasant reality: arate but related efforts to prevent the pro 701 (1941). Pakistan has successfully managed to liferation of nuclear weapons beyond the six It results from these Supreme Court deci elude international controls and has de nations that have exploded nuclear devices sions that under the U.S. Constitution, the veloped its own uranium enrichment the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet power of the President to remove executive plant. Union, France, China and India-and a officers is absolute and cannot be restricted in We in Congress must lead an inter seventh nation believed to possess atomic any manner. Congress may restrict Presiden national debate on nuclear nonprolifera bombs, Israel. tial removal power only for quasi-judicial or The first approach is the nonproliferation quasi-legislative officers. The implementing tion. The Nonproliferation Treaty, the treaty under which the signing nations agree legislation gives the President the right of present safeguards of the International not to acquire or manufacture nuclear weap removal, at his discretion for the U.S. mem Atomic Energy Agency, and voluntary ons, to place all their nuclear fac111ties under bers of the Panama Canal Commission, so it limitations on the export of plutonium an international inspection system and not regards the members of that Commission as are not sufficient restrictions by which to export nuclear materials to any other na executive officers. the international community can moni tions who has not agreed to international None of the decisions cited lends any sup tor-let alone halt--nuclear prolifera safeguards. port to the thesis contained in the Panama tion. Unless the world community recog While 110 nations have signed the treaty, Canal Treaty of 1977 and in the implementing nizes this, and acts accordingly, we risk a number of important countries, including legislation that the President's removal power India, France, China and Israel, have not. may be restricted to the point where he can self-destruction. The treaty has other shortcomings. The or not remove for any reason, except with the Following are two articles from the ganization responsible for making the re consent of a foreign Government. Nor can New York Times of April 29, 1979: quired inspections is the International any basis be found in the U.S. Constitution HOLDING THE LINE ON THE BOMB Atomic Energy Agency. By its own admis to lodge the removal power de facto in anyone sion, these inspections are so infrequent that (By David Burnham) a nation bent on violating the treaty in other than the President. U.S. legislation WASHINGTON.-During most of the past 25 could not for instance provide that the Presi many instances would have time to build years, the United States has campaigned nuclear weapons before the diversion of nu dent must remove if so requested by the Sen to persuade the other nations of the world ate. How then could a law provide that the clear materials would be spotted by the to buy American nuclear reactors to generate inspectors. President must remove a. civil officer of the their electricity. United States if so requested by the Republic "The treaty is not sufficient, but it is in of Panama? The American sales pitch promised a first dispensable," commented Mr. Van Doren. generation of reactors, using slightly en The second line of defense is an American H.R. 111 corrects this particular constitu riched uranium for fuel, that would pro campaign designed to persuade the rest of tional defect by providing unrestricted re duce electricity at far less cost than coal the world to halt the move to plutonium, at moval power for the President !or all mem or oil. The construction and operation of the least until much better methods are devised bers of the Panama Canal Commission. H.R. reactors. especially by the less developed na to make sure that none of it is diverted to 111 also provides for Senate advice and con tions, would also provide glittering certltl atomic bombs. sent to appointments, the next constitutional cates of technological competence. Partly because about 460 reactors are now issue raised against H.R. 1716. However, H.R. But the final American promise was even operating or under construction in at least 111 does not correct the three other constitu more heady. With the construction of fa 48 different countries, nonproliferation con tional defects mentioned. c111ties to extract plutonium from the ura cerns have stirred waves of anguish among Even more important, by correcting certain nium used in the first generation of reactors engineers, utility executives and government constitutional defects as is mandatory under and the gradual development of what the officials throughout the world. The pain has the U.S. Constitution for U.S. legislation, H.R. engineers call the liquid metal fast breeder been especially acute in countries such as 111 of necessity violates the Panama Canal reactor, each nation could guarantee itself Japan and France who have long looked to Treaty of 1977. This has the serious conse energy self-sufficiency because the breeder nuclear energy, especially the breeder reactor, quence that it vitiates all the rights granted would create more plutonium than it burned. to reduce their dependence on imported oil. to the U.S. by Panama under the Treaty, be But in the last few years, an increasing To roaise the credibility of its appeal, the cause these rights can be exercised by the number of critics have said the American United States has halted development of an United States only through the Panama Ca sales campaign included an unstated threat: experimental breeder reactor on the Clinch nal Commission constituted as ordained in The adoption of plutonium would substan River in Tennessee and indefinitely deferrea the Treaty. tially increase the number of nations that plans to extract plutonium from fuel rods May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9625 used in the 72 conventional reactors in the speed motor drives, from Emerson Electric Intelligence agencies, includir.g West Ger United States. early in 1977 through a. West German con many's B.N.D., Britain's S.I.S., the C.I.A. and The United States also bas encouraged the tractor and was seeking to purchase 100 the Dutch Binnenlands Veiligheidsdienst organization of the nuclear supplier nations more through a Welsh intermediary called (B.V.D.) , cooperated in developing still more to limit the export of equipment used to Weargate. The ostensible destination, Emer leads, among the-n the discovery tba t a extract plutonium from fuel rods or enrich son had been informed, was a textile mill in leading Pakistani nuclear s·cientist, educated uranium to weapons grade. Pakistan. London authorities interven-ed in the Netherlands at Leuwen and Delft, Though no authorities in Congress or the when they determined that the inverters bad been allowed to familiarize himself with State Department believes the driving forces were not of a type used in textiles, but the secret gas centrifuge process for enrich of proliferation are now contained, they point rather of the kind employed by the British ing uranium at the Dutch-British-West to several particular developments as reasons Atomic Energy Commission. German plant in Almelo on the Dutch for hope. Nuclear specialists concluded the inverters German ,frontier. Efforts to establish a nuclear-free zone in were destined for centrifuges which must Finally, a well-placed Arab informant in Latin America appear close to success. The spin at twice the speed of sound to separate dicated that Pakistan had secured financing treaty establishing this zone obligates the the fissionable isotop-e uranium 235 from for an enriched uranium plant, costing up signing nations to refrain from manufac ordinary uranium. Thousands of such units ward of $30 million, from Libya's Col. Mu turing or acquiring nuclear weapons, and are linked to form "cascades" producing ammar el-Qaddafi, who bas long sought a prohibits the stationing, installation, storage weapons-grade uranium. "Moslem bomb." As recently as last Octo or testing of such weaRons on any of the Last September the British Ministry of ber, one of Colonel Qaddafi's principal aides, territories it covers. Energy ask.ed Emerson to halt production of Maj. Abdul Salam Ahmed Jalloud, was in A technological approach to slowing pro the second inverter order and stop the sale. Pakistan renewing pledges of aid for nu liferation bas been found for most of the Tho company immediately complied. clear projects. hundreds of research reactors which for many Nucleonics WeeK, an international publi cation, declared in its Oct. 12 issue: "Pak Pakistan's uranium enrichment plant Js years have been fueled with highly enriched reportedly at the town of Kahuta, south uranium that could be used to make bombs. istan may be about to complete gas centri fuge systems for the enrichment of uranium west of Rawalpindi and not far from Paki Several nations have learned how to fuel stan's small research reactor center. the research reactors with uranium that for m111tary purposes." By this time a new would be almost impossible to use for the kind of espionage operation was under way, American officials engaged in monitoring production of weapons. staffed in part by professional agents from nuclear proliferation sadly acknowledged Under pressure from President carter, 40 the traditional intelligence agencies, but also that Pakistan has eluded not only the elab nations and four international groups have by the science-trained government officials orate controls set up by t!:e International joined in a two-year study of the ha.zards of whose task it is to monitor untoward devel Atomic Energy Commission, but also the proliferation. The International Nuclear Fuel opments worldwide in the rapidly burgeon newer export restrictions of the Nuclear Evaluation, as this study is called, is attempt ing international nuclear trade. Eventually Suppliers Conference, which was founded by ing to find ways of minimizing the risks the search spread to half a dozen countries, seven atomic exporting countries after the associated with growing accessibility of plu including the United States, where Pakistani Indian explosion on May 18, 1974, and now tonium and high-enriched uranium. agents bad been shopping for the pieces es bas 15 members. According to a recent study by Michael sential to their bomb kit--often using front While regretting that the Pakistanis found Brenner, an associate professor at the School or dummy organizations. Ultimately the and exploited gaping noles in nuclear ex of Public and International Affairs of the focus was narrowed to four European coun port control laws, one American official said University of Pittsburgh, President Carter's tries in which suspicious Pakistani purchases he took consolation in the heightened con move "to stop the spread of nuclear materials bad been made. These were West Germany, sciousness of the perils of proliferation raised having weapons potential is perhaps his ad Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. by the suppliers' conference. He couldn't ministration's most venturesome foreign pol A crucial clue developed last winter when prove it, he said. But this new awareness icy initiative." But whether this or any ad a Dutch engineer, attending the 22d annual may have made it possible to find out about ministration can overcome the diplomatic, general conference of the International the Pakistani caper sooner-before a nu economic and security imperatives to carry Atomic Energy Commission at its headquar clear test, which experts think is still at the development of nuclear power to its next ters in Vienna, flashed to some amazed In least five years away-rather than after stage remains an open question. dian scientists a photocopy of an enormous ward .• Pakistani order for "martenistic aging HOW PAKISTAN RAN THE NUKE ROUND THE steel," an alloy so bard and strong and ex END pensive that it is fit mainly for jet plane EULOGY, ROGERS C. B. MORTON (By David Binder) engines and gas centrifuges. Pakistan doesn't make much in the way of jet engines. At WAsHINGTON.-Early last autumn Frank that same Vienna meeting, Munir Ahmad Allaun of the Britisth Labor Party rose in Khan, chairman of Pakistan's Atomic En HON. DON H. CLAUSEN Parliament to raise a question about the ergy Commission, declared his Government OF CALIFORNIA export to Pakistan of some equipment called was going ahead with its "entire nuclear IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "inverters" by a company called Emerson program," including a power plant at El-ectric. He suggested in a reserved way that Chashma that would depend on enriched Thursday, April 26, 1979 the equipment would help Pakistan to manu uranium. facture a nuclear weapon. Listeners recalled that in 1976, under the e Mr. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, it was By so doing, Mr. Allaun lifted a corner of late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, with a feeling of great personal loss that the blanket of secrecy that is usually lowered Pakistan had already made one stab at ac I learned of the passage of Rogers Mor whenever the spread of atomic weapons quiring nuclear weapons technology by con ton, my dear friend and colleague. While making capability is concerned. That blan tracting to buy a plant for reprocessing spent attending his funeral in Easton, Md., I ket is held down not only by the aspirants atomic fuel from France. Reprocessing is reminisced certain aspects of his public to the nuclear warfare club, but also by the one main route toward obtaining weapons life. handful of countries who already possess grade atomic material-uranium enrichment atomic weapons. is the other. Rog and I were sworn in together as Mr. Allaun's question raised alarms in It took the United States until last August Members of the 88th Congress in 1963 Washington, New Delhi, Paris, P-eking, Mos to persuade France to postpone delivering and I was fortunate enough to appre cow and all the other capitals where the the reprocessing facility to Pakistan indefi ciate at firsthand some of the most spread of nuclear weaponry is regarded with nitely. While the international sleuths were memorable qualities that he was known doomsday concern. It also launched an inter duly attentive to Mr. Khan's somber fore for during his career in the Congress. national sleuthing operation, one result of cast, it was the Dutch engineer's disclosure In particular, Rog preceded me as a which was the announcement by the United that made their ears ring. The steel alloy, States early this month that Pakistan was together with the inverters for heightening member of the Interior Committee which preparing to make an atomic bomb and electric frequencies and speeding centrifuge he was elected to his first year. He served therefore should not receiv-e further eco processes, meant only one thing: a Pakistani as a ranking minority member of the nomic or military aid. A-bomb. Subcommittee on Territories and was a For, by implication, Mr. Allaun raised the Further probes disclosed that a Pakist ani well-known advocate of environmental prospect that any government with the will, commereial mission b:>.sed first in Brnssels concerns. In addition, through his mem the knowhow and the money could assemble and now in Bonn had gulled a number of bership on the Merchant Marine and a. nuclear weapons factory despite all the suppliers with the tale that the materials Fisheries Committee, he was instrumen solemnly agreed international treaty pro they sought were for a textile mill. Among hibitions, simply by shopping around for the those who fell for t his line was the West tal in insuring that the beauty of the parts of a do-it-yourself kit. German concern, Team Industries, located Chesapeake Bay, which he was especially Behind the disclosure in Parliament lay in Leonberg-Eltingen near Stuttgart, which fond of, be protected. the finding by British authorities that Paki processed the first inverter contract for Rogers was also a highly valued party stan had purchased 30 inverters, or high- Emerson Electric. leader. In 1969 he served as chairman of 9626 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 the Republican National Committee, and committee will be to suggest a more vote to investigate It within 15 days after later served as President Ford's cam rational alinement of our committee receipt of the complaint. paign manager and Cabinet adviser dur jurisdictions, it is also charged under Sec. 4. Subcommittee Limitation-Each standing committee, other than Appropria ing his Presidency. House Resolution 118 with studying and tions, shall establish no more than 6 sub His Interior Committee experience making recommendations on "committee committees. prompted President Nixon to appoint rules and procedures." As I have men Sec. 5. Public Access to Committee Rec him as the Secretary of the Interior in tioned previously, I was extremely dis ords-Each committee shall keep a verbatim 1971. During his 4 years there he made appointed that the select committee has transcript of all legislative and investigative several significant decisions, including been prohibited by House Resolution 118 action which shall be made available for approving the permit for the Alaska from making any direct recommendation public inspection unless it involves matters pipeline and the sale of offshore leases in to the House on such things as the num which would endanger the national security ber of subcommittees. One of my amend or violate any law or rule of the House. A the Atlantic, both of which are increas separate summary would also be kept of all ingly important due to our domestic ments goes directly to that issue by pro committee action which would also be avail situation. hibiting all committees except appropri able for public inspection. Mr. Speaker, needless to say, the Con ations from having more t'han six sub Sec. 6. Proxy Voting Ban-No vote could gress and our Nation have suffered a committees. The select committee may be cast by proxy in committee. great loss in the death of Rogers C. B. offer a recommendation on this to the Sec. 7. Open Committee Meetings-AU Morton. His motivation, leadership, and respective party caucuses, for what that committee meetings would be open to the evenhanded regard for business and the is worth. I would hope when the select public unless a committee majority votes to environment are qualities that we in the committee's product reaches the Rules close a meeting for national security, per sonal privacy, or international budgetary or Congress should emulate. But it is Rog's Committee we could deal with this grow personnel reasons. enthusiasm, integrity, and most of all, ing problem through an amendment to Sec. 8. Quorum Requirement-A majority his very special friendship, that I will the House rules, as it should be. Despite of a committee would constitute a quorum miss most of all. the Democratic Caucus attempt at the for the transaction of any business, includ Rog Morton was a giant of a man but beginning of this Congress to reduce sub ing the markup of legislation. he really stood tall in the forest of great committees by limiting Democratic Sec. 9. Committee Voting-A rollcall vote men this Nation has produced. Intelli Members to no more than five subcom could be demanded on any question by any gence, integrity, dedication, and deter mittee assignments, our 22 standing member of the committee, and would be mination to achieve excellence were all committees have 148 subcommittees in mandatory on reporting any measure or mat ter and the results of such a vote would be qualities that those of us who knew him this 95th Congress, down only three from published in the committee report. as a close and intimate friend will always the last Congress. In addition, our two Sec. 10. Conference Committee Tran remember. permanent select committees, Aging and scripts-A verbatim transcript would be kept Rogers Morton has left this country Intelligence, have four subcommittees of all conference committee meetings with much richer for the time he devoted to each, the same as last year. This Con the consent of the Senate conferees. The his legislative and administrative efforts. gress has thus far been more restrained transcripts of all open meetings would be Above all, during his service as Secretary than the last Congress in creating other available for public inspection, and all tran of the Interior he left a legacy of con select committees-only two have been scripts would be available for inspection by House Members. servation monuments that will cause us approved, while one 'has been defeated by to remember our good friend forever.• the House and another by the Rules Committee. Nevertheless, 12 of our COSPONSORS OF OPEN HOUSE AMENDMENTS OF 1979 permanent standing committees, other Cosponsors of all 10 amendments: than Appropriations, have more than six Mr. Burgener, Mr. Butler, Mr. Carter, Mr. OPEN HOUSE AMENDMENTS subcommittees, something which I think Coelho, Mr. Collins, Mr. Conable, Mr. Cor can and should be improved on if we are coran, Mr. Coughlin, Mr. Emery, Mrs. Fen to make our work more manageable in wick, Mr. Frenzel, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Green, HON. JOHN B. ANDERSON this House. Mr. Horton, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Lott, OF ILLINOIS Mr. Speaker, at this point in the Mr. Lagomarsino, Mr. Marlenee, Mr. Solomon, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECORD I include a summary of my open Mr. Stangeland, Mr. Walker, Mr. Winn, and Mr. Whittaker. Wednesday, May 2, 1979 House amendments together wit'h a list of the cosponsors: Cosponsors of some of the amendments: e Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. Mr. Mr. Carr, No. 4 . SUMMARY OF OPEN HOUSE AMENDMENTS OF Mr. Findley, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. Speaker, today I am reintroducing the 1979 Open House Amendments of 1979, a 7 , No. 8. No. 9, No. 10. Sec. 1. Oversight Subcommittees-Each Mr. Gephardt, No. 1, No. 2 , No. 3, No. 6, package of 10 House rules reforms, with committee other than Appropriations and No.7. a bipartisan group of 32 cosponsors. I Budget having more than 20 members would Mr. Glickman, No. 3, No. 5, No . 7, No. 10. originally introduced this package of re be required to establish an oversight sub Mr. Jeffords, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7, No. 8, No. forms on April 4, 1979, as House Resolu committee. 9, No. 10. tion 204. The amendments are designed Sec. 2. Oversight Agendas-Each committee Mr. Simon, No. 6. to strengthen our oversight and ethics would be required to formally develop and Mr. Symms, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7, No. procedures, put a cap on subcommittee adopt an oversight agenda and timetable at 8, No. 9 , No. 10. the beginning of each Congress and submit it Mr. Van Deerlin, No. 4, No. 7.e proliferation, and make our committee to the Government Operations Committee system more open and accountable within 60 days of the convening of the Con through more open committee meetings gress. The Government Operations Commit and records, banning proxy voting and tee would be required to hold hearings on requiring a majority quorum for the these oversight agendas and, after consulta FARM LAND PROTECTION ACT transaction of business, making it easier tion with the majority and minority leader to obtain rollcall votes in committees and ship, publish the agendas together with its HON. ALLAN BYRON SWIFT recommendations for coordination within 90 require the publication of final votes on OF WASHINGTON reporting a measure in the committee days after the convening of the Congress. The Government Operations Committee would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES report, and requiring verbatim tran also be required to assess the oversight activi Wednesday, May 2, 1979 scripts to be kept of conference commit ties reported by each committee at the end tee meetings. of each Congress and publish its evaluation. • Mr. SWIFT. Mr. Speaker, I think there Mr. Speaker, while this package has Sec. 3 . Ethics Investigations-The Commit are few among us who would argue that been referred to the Committee on Rules, tee on Standards of Official Conduct would one of the richest and most important 9 of the 10 amendments would amend be required to issue a report on any inves tigation it has undertaken. The House may heritages we have in this country is our House rules X and XI and thus fall with direct an investigation by a resolution re agricultural land. Yet, each year between in the jurisdiction of the new Select ported from the Rules Committee or by a 2 and 3 million acres of that land are Committee on Committees as well. While resolution called up by any Member who has being converted from agricultural to non the major responsibility of that select filed a complaint if the Committee does not agricultural uses, which threatens our May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9627 future ability both to provide food for ALASKA MINERAL PRODUCTION UN This number is apparently derived from ourselves and to meet increasing world AFFECTED BY STRONG CONSER an analysis made by a single Alaskan demand. VATION BILL geologist--an official of the Alaska Min Recognizing the seriousness of this ers Association and an active lobbyist problem, a number of my colleagues and against a strong Alaska lands bill-at I have recently introduced a bill, H.R. HON. JERRY M. PATTERSON the request of the Federal-State Land 2551, to indicate the Federal interest in OF CALIFORNIA Use Planning Commission. helping to preserve agricultural land. we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES According to a subsequent comprehen believe strongly that it is in the national Wednesday, May 2, 1979 sive U.S. Geological Survey report, how interest to try to avoid conversion of this ever, over 60 percent of Alaska's land prime, irreplaceable resource to their e Mr. PATTERSON. Mr. Speaker, the with metallic mineral potential is outside uses. Alaska National Interest Lands Con of the conservation units. Here is how My colleagues and I are aware of the servation Act, soon to be voted on by the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for strong emotions surrounding the issue of House, is an issue of tremendous sig Energy and Minerals, Joan M. Daven Federal presence in land use decisions. nificance for all the people of our Nation. port described the USGS study: On the one hand there are those who My office in recent days has received The reports represent the collective consider any Federal moves in this regard numerous letters and phone calls from knowledge of a. team of 25 Geological Sur as tantamount to the beginning of com constituents who have taken this land vey scientists. The assessment is the best yet munization leading to a socialist state. mark issue to their hearts. They clearly available of Alaska's mineral resources a.nd On the other hand are those interested perceive that our great northern wild no comparable analysis summarizing mineral parties who are so concerned about the lands in Alaska, from the island-studded potential has been published before or since. loss of our agricultural land resources southeastern straits to the velvet tundra The national mineral perspective is that they may be misled into a false sense of the North Slope, belong to each and even more revealing. The USGS has esti of security in thinking that this bill is every one of us. mated that the Udall-Anderson substi a panacea bringing immediate solutions They clearly perceive that it is our tute would affect only 7 percent of the to their problems. duty as stewards of this great land to known U.S. domestic hardrock mineral The Federal Government does not, and protect and preserve it for future gener deposits. When the spectacularly high absolutely should not, have any direct in ations to come. They clearly perceive cost of developing these deposits in terest or role in the decisions involved in that to do this we need a strong and po Alaska is factored in, even this statistic the land use planning process. That tent Alaska lands bill. overstates the real impact of the legisla rightfully belongs with State and local The Udall-Anderson substitute to H.R. tion on mineral production. governments, and, in fact, H.R. 2551 39, now cosponsored by some 80 Mem The cost of exploring, developing, and specifies that nothing contained in it bers of the House, is such a bill. The producing these Alaskan minerals, in should be construed to authorize the Fed other versions before us do not share the fact, is the real clamp on Alaska's min· eral Govemment to in any way diminish vision of an evermore valuable wilder eral industry. According to the Bureau existing authority of the various and ness heritage in Alaska. These versions of Mines, the cost of mining in Alaska is local governments respecting land use, do not provide solid protection for these 1.5 to 2.76 times the cost in other States. zoning, et cetera. But, what the Federal lands. They do not balance our Nation's The mining industry itself reports: need for both economic resource de Government does have an interest in is The State is riddled with mineral deposits providing information to the Govern velopment and natural resource preser which, if found elsewhere in the country ment units that are responsible for man vation, as does the Udall-Anderson sub would be developed without question. Here, agement and planning. One purpose of stitute. the ore has to be rich enough to pay the this bill, then, is to establish a committee I hope my colleagues will join me in enormous costs of getting it out. (Alaska. that will gather and analyze the kind of supporting the Udall-Anderson substi Indust ry, June 1978.) government to make informed, rational tute as an act of farsighted stewardship What then would the impact of the choices about the future of agricultural unsurpassed in our Nation's history. Udall-Anderson substitute be? The Fed land. Alaska lands legislation has become eral-State Land Use Planning Commis A further point to consider is that the an emotional is,sue, but as Members of sion concludes that-- Federal Government has itself often been the House, we are responsible for edging Prospective restrictions (on mining on the culprit in encouraging changes from through emotional arguments and for national interest lands) will not have a major agricultural to nonagricultural uses of evaluating only the rational arguments impact on Alaskan development or national land. Another purpose of the bill is to based on facts. mineral supplies. insure that the Federal role will be care fully examined in any instances where One particularly emotional contention Furthermore, the Commission agrees conversions are licensed by or require that is widely circulating is that the with an industry commissioned study approval by a Federal agency. Udall-Anderson substitute freezes the that-- Mr. Speaker, I have several rural development of Alaskan hardrock min It is generally agreed upon that Alaska. erals. This argument has no factual minerals are not necessary to meet stra counties in my district for which this bill tegic demands of the United States. promises no immediate relief. The study foundation and I hope my colleagues will program incorporated in this bill requires not allow it to sway their judgment. Because of the high environmental and at least 50 percent local matching money. The impact of the Udall-Anderson bill social costs of mining in Alaska-a proc Only large counties with strong tax bases on both the State and national hard ess that invariably includes new roads, will be able to participate in a demon rock mineral supply will be negligible. milling facilities, t-rucking depots, and stration program. Wherever possible, the conservation unit townsites-we must be careful to restrict But I believe these problems are im boundaries in the Udall-Anderson bill these activities to those areas with the portant enough and serious enough that have been drawn purposely to exclude most valuable mineral deposits. Fortu this legislation is necessary to point us in key deposits. As a result, most of Alaska's nately, the Udall-Anderson substitute the right direction. Only when we have potential mineral deposits are outside of has drawn the conservation system unit appropriate information and demon the conservation units. The Udall-Ander boundaries to exclude major mineral strated methods of protecting the in son substitute, in fact, requires a contin uing geological assessment on all public deposits. It is only logical, in the interests credible wealth we have in agricultural of the magnificent parklands, wildlife land will we be able to do so effectively lands in Alaska, including conservation and at a reasonable cost. My congres system units. We will thus know, in years refuges, and wilderness areas we are sional district has an interest in the long to come, where all of Alaska's mineral seeking to preserve, that we focus explo term effects of this legislation. The action deposits lie. ration and development on favorable we have taken in introducing H.R. 2551 Let us look at the claim that the leg lands outside these areas. I urge my is only the beginning of a long process. islation withdraws some 70 percent of colleagues to join me in voting for the Mr. Speaker, I submit that it is already lands rated highly favorable for mineral balanced approach to the Alaska lands past the time for this kind of approach.• occurrence by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. issue--the Udall-Anderson substitute.• 9628 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 COL. MICHAEL KOVATS DE FABRICY MAKING COLLEGE COSTS EASIER way for students to consolidate multiple TO BEAR: A COMMONSENSE AP obligations, PROACH TO GUARANTEED STU Government costs due to GSL subsidies HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR DENTLOANS and defaults, and OF OHIO The complexity of getting, making, and IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES servicing GSL's. HON. ANDREW MAGUIRE What is new is the way people are Wednesday, May 2, 1979 OF NEW JERSEY talking-seriously talking-about sweep • Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, on May 11, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing away a tested system whose major 1979, Hungarians around the world will kinks have been eliminated over the last be observing the 200th anniversary of Wednesday, May 2, 1979 15 years. What is new are the proposals the death of Col. Michael Kovats de • Mr. MAGUIRE. Mr. Speaker, last week for another massive Federal bureaucracy Fabricy, a Hungarian officer who led I introduced H.R. 3769, the Fair Access to that would directly control all loans American colonists in battle against the Higher Education Act of 1979, a bill de from Washington. First came the Tuition British at Charleston, S.C., on May 11, signed to strengthen the guaranteed stu Advance Fund Act fficer were gratefully recog dents, and a program whose promise has nized by his men as they buried him near not been completely fulfilled. In many to local needs. And none of them effec where he fell, noted by his commander States where effective guarantee agen tively addresses the impact on college George Washington in a letter to the es cies have built strong links with lenders, tuition or grants of universal entitlement teemed Marquis de Lafayette, memorialized almost any student who needs a GSL can to loans. Commonsense and economics in Charleston by a marble tablet at the bat get one. In the 11 States without guar tell us that where every college student tleground and in a monument in the City antee agencies, or other places where can get a $2 ,000 loan every year, hard Hall garden as part of city Bicentennial pressed colleges will raise their price to festivities. lenders must rely on the cumbersome Washington-based federally insured capture some of that money. That is Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved that the especially true in these times of declin Board of Commissioners of Cuyahoga the New York Times, Nov. 13, 1977) - for college students from mid- and lower elements of the GSL program, leaving NEW HEAT ON LoAN DEFAULTERS in'Come families-without creating more students free to get and repay needed (By Robert Reinhold) min headaches than it cures. It wlll therefore loans more easily, lenders free to WASHINGTON.-After seven years in and help deliver on the promise of last year's imize loan costs and risks, and State out of Columbia. University, Linda A. Setlecll Middle Income Student Assist9.nce Act agencies free to respond better to local was gradua.ted last M&y. Sh& left with & . AB we know, MISAA estab- concerns. It wlll provide flexibility and brand-new B.A. in English literature-and lished universal eligibility for Govern- efficiency for a program which has been student-loan debts totallng nearly $10,000. ment-backed GSL's, but did nothing to strangling in redtape. By August, confused over how much she increase either available loan funds or Mr. Speaker, this act 1s the result of a owed, to whom she owed· it and when· she .:_ any student's chance of getting a loan. concern with college costs that began wa.s supposed to start -paying, and ftriding that her degree qualified her for nothtns The act will also: with my introduction of H.R. 10870 in better. than a low-paying job as a cierk 1975. It Raise the annual and lifetime OSL is also the result of months of stenographer in Peoria, Ill., she was decl~red .: limits, ~>n a graduate~ basis; statf work with student groups, educa- in default by Bankers Trust Company. The Provide an eft'ect1ve way for college tion associations, financial aid officers, bank demanded that the State of New York aid officers to coordinate loans with other State agencies, and outside experts. It is make good its guarantee of the loa.n. _ assistance; . a greatly improved version of last year's As it happens, Miss Setlech-who says sh~ .~ Increase students' certamty of getting Capital Availability for Higher Educa is wtlltng to try to make payments totaling GSL's, and relieve them of the need to tion Act, which i coauthored with the about $140 a month even though she can trot _from bank to bank until a loan is late Bill Steiger. CAliE essentially dealt scarcely afford winter clothing-is trying to. work out a pla.n to avert default and its" obtamed; ·· r with flexible repayment and use of the conseq~ences. Her •take-hom& pay is only . Remove the cause-perceived risk---of Federal tax system to operate an inex about $300 a month. '" lender discrimination against certain pensive risk-free repayment service. The Her situation suggeets in part why so mant categories· of students; and Fair Access Act responds to comments on former colleg& students acroes th& cotintry Provide a systematic rather than the earlier bill, further limits the role of ar& failing· to repay the. loans they · eagel:'lY knee-jerk way to i'educe loan defaults, the IRS, and goes on to afford lenders accepwd·years earller~to ' get thrOugh' college: before as well as- after default occurs. and students: The problem h~ react?-ed such. Pt:aportions. nat~onally that .Government agenhles, col :~ More importantly, the act will avoid Better access to secondary markets, to leges a:nd banks, which 1?-ad been fairly any gr~nt· displacement or upward tui- further increase loan funds; lenient until now, ar& resorting'to unusually tion' push by stopping short of entitle- Wa.n refinancing, at the student's harsh tactics to recover their money. ment and. by limiting loans to a reason- election; Every month, for example, New York State able po'rtion of -need·b~ assistance or Lender referral and loan processing sends a computer tape of its defaulters over attend~~ce costS . .~t ·wjll leave "reason- services; to TRW Credit, a national credit bureau. able" ~o be defined l;)y the committees re- Limited direct loans for needy cases, This might mean that a former student who spQnsible for poorqinating aid reauthor- if referral does not produce a private ran out on a loan in New York would ha.ve trouble buying a car on credit in Callfornla, izatiQn as a whole. And it will address loan; and . or getting any other kind of credit. th,fee major causes of GSL defp.ult-in- Fairer treatment where students re- The Federal omce of Education, which has ability to find mobile students., h~avy_..,._ turn to school halftime. suffered default on on& of every six loans early repayments, and overlapping loan I think it fair to say-and the words it guaranteed, recently threw in the towel burdens-by allowing: _ are' other peoples', not mine-that this and turned. over $430 mlllion in bad debts Lenders to use Federal or stat~ repay- act -i.s. the most carefully thought out to private collection agencies. The Depart ment services, operated by Internal Rev.. [email protected] z:n,.easure years. It does ment ot Health, Education and Welfare sub iri. sequently learned, to its embarrassment, that enue or State guarantee agencies, which not address such broader issues as the 316 of tts employees, including one high remove the risk of nonpayment and re- quality of the postsecondary education level civil servant earning more than $33,000 duce their costs; that almost 2 million students will bar- a year, were on the default list. Students to elect flexible repayment, row· tO pay for next year.' Nor does it Last sum.Iner ·the default rate here reached bas~ on their. adJusted gross income, address school tuition refund policies--a the point that local banks refused to gtve throlfgh these sel'Vices';' prime cause of defaults by midyear any more loans, leaving many a hopetu1 C.X.XV--606-Part 6 9630 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 student stranded. One defaulter was a. ment has disbursed $17.8 billion in student (From the Chronicle of Higher Education, dentist with two omces in the Washington assistance, $7.2 bUlion of which is outstand Aprll 9, 1979] area. ing. Current disbursements are estimated at RISING COSTS Do PINCH MID-INCOME FAMILIES, At the same time, many students have $1.6 b1llion under the Guaranteed Student ACE STUDY FINDS Loan Program and $600 million under the raised countercomplaints. They say they are (By Jack Magarrell) confronted with such a bewlldering array of National Direct Student Loan Program. loans and grant programs, with different These figures do not include such pri WASHINGTON.-Middle-income famlUes have llmits, interest rates and repayment sched vate arrangements a.s the "parent loans" good reason to complain about the increasing ules that the system almost invites default, that many colleges offer to the parents of burden of college costs, a report by the Amer especially at a time when college-taught middle-income students. ican Council on Education indicates. Several earlier studies, particularly one by skills are not very marketable. The default rate in Federal student loans An unusually high default rate was almost the Congressional Budget Office, cited eco has become a major political issue in the nomic data to show that although the cost of certainly to be expected. Loans are often last year or so, and the United States Office made to 18-yea..r-olds and 19-year-olds with higher education had been rising, family in of Education has initiated a strenuous effort comes had been rising even faster. no prior credit record to serve as a guide. to find de.faulters and force them to repay. Moreover, many debtors say later they did The implication was that parents today At a recent conference spon-:ored by the are selfish and unwilling to make the finan not even reallze that the papers they had Student Loan Marketing Association, Leo agreed to as freshmen were legally binding cial sacrifices that families once made to send Korr1 feld, who is in charge of the effort, said a child to college. promissory notes that would saddle them collections had increased to $15 m1llion this with substantial monthly payments for The Budget Office report was quoted last year from less than $1 million in previous year by opponents of increased federal finan many years after graduation. years. Even those who understand the obllgatlon cial aid to college students and their fam111es. do not always realize how heavy it wm be. Educators cite numerous reasons for stu The report's findings ran counter to the There is apparently no legal requirement dent debt levels, beginning with inflation. message that members of Congress were re that students be informed in advance of There seems to be general agreement that ceiving through political channels: that what the monthly payments will be. For scholarship funds, family contributions a:cd middle-income fam1lies were more hard example, the notes Miss Setlech signed with the ab111ty of students to earn income by pressed than they had been five or ten years Bankers Trust in New York gave no clue working do not always increase as rapidly as ago to pay the bills for their children's higher that she would ultimately have to pay the tuitions and other costs, and this leaves education. bank about $70 a month for 10 years. borrowing as the only way to cover expenses. The message was sufficiently strong that "LESS GRANT MONEY" NOW Congress last fall increased federal financial [From the New York Times, July 6, 1978) At the graduate level, a major factor 1s aid for students from higher-income families, STUDENTS DEBT RISE STIRS FEAR the decrease in Federal research grants a:nd, raising the income limit for Basic Educational Grants from $15,000 to $25,000 and com (By Edward B. Fiske) therefore, of student fellowships. "There's less grant money out there than there was pletely el1m1nating the income ce1Ung for Half of this fall's freshmen at four-year seven or eight years ago," said Alexander G. subsidized student loans. private colleges will owe an average of $5,000 Sidar Jr., of the College Scholarship Serv The relative burden of college tuition on when they graduate in 1981, and by 1986 ice. "The burden is shifting to loans." middle-income groups is being debated again "that figure may triple," the Student Loan this year as Congress considers renewal of Marketing Association estimates. Social changes, including an increased federal financial-aid legislation. Proponents With tuition costs rising faster than most sense of independence among young peo of tax credits for tuition payments also are scholarship funds, undergraduates are tak ple, are also regarded as factors. "An in trying to revive their proposal after a narrow ing out more and larger loans to finance tergenerational shift of responsibility from the parent to the student generation has defeat last year. their educations. "SOMETHING WRONG WITH DATA" Medical school students frequently begin taken place to a greater degree than is com practicing with debts as high as $40,000. monly recognized," said Robert H. Strotz, "Experience teaches," said Carol F . Van While most have an earning level that makes president of Northwestern. Alstyne, chief economist of the American this debt easily manageable over a period of The Rev. Timothy Healy, president of Council on Education, "that if the data do years, educators and others fear that stu Georgetown University, suggested that stu not correspond with public perceptions of dents were becoming increasingly sophisti economic phenomena there is usually some dents wm not be able to go into such fields thing wrong with the data." as publlc health. cated about the effects of inflation, and recognized that "in an inflationary economy, In the case of the Budget omce study, "Such debts will be manageable by those Ms. Van Alstyne argued, data were selected physicians who enter the more lucrative a debt is an investment." kinds of practice, but they wm surely dis Educational finance experts doubt that and interpreted in a way that would "mini courage many from seeking some of the less much can be done to stem the tide of grow mize the possib1lity of finding a middle financially rewarding practices which so ing student indebtedness, but they are be income crunch." badly need filllng today," said Jerry Lewis, ginning to push for a number of changes The Budget omce study reported that that would minimize its negative effects. between 1967 and 1976, college costs had risen president of the National Medical Fellow about 75 per cent while median family in shipn Inc. GRADUATED REPAYMENT URGED come had gone up about 79 per cent. EFFECT STILL UNMEASURED One 1s to lengthen the 10-year pay-back Ms. Van Alstyne, in her analysis, was Economists have begun to ask whether schedule of Federal loans. Another is to al critical of both figures: such student indebtedness is also having an low for graduated repayment schedules that The reported increase in college costs was effect on consumption patterns, while others would take into account the fact that stu misleading, she said, because it lumped to wonder about the possible effect of large dents right out of college are usually not gether tuition at all kinds of institutions and "negative dowries" on marriage among earning as much as they will be a few years included costs of room a,.nd board as well as young people. later. tuition. Underlining these concerns is the broad "Why should a student who will be pay The reported increase in family income social question of whether Federal tuition ing back $7,000 over a decade have to come was misleading because it did not reflect the and policies of the last two decades, designed up with $60 or $70 month the first year rapid increase in taxes that has limited the to promote access to higher education for after school?" asked Edward A. Fox, presi growth of aftertax income. millions of low-income students, have come dent of the Student Loan Marketing Associa If room and beard are included in calcula to work against their purpose. tion. tions of college expenses, the trends in tui Considering the magnitude of student Mr. Strotz has proposed consolidating the tion costs tend to be masked, the A.C.E. debt, surprisingly llttle data are avallable on Federal loan programs into a single pro economist said. lending and borrowing patterns and their gram with varying ceillngs and repayment People have expenses for room and board consequences. "We're getting a very late schedules that would be "sensitive to bor whether they are college students or not, start on something that is very important," rowers income." she noted. While costs of living on a campus said Kurt Kendis, a policy analyst at the Father Healy predicts that, if the repay may vary slightly from institution to institu Higher Education Research Institute of the ment schedules are not improved, the issue tion, a majority of college students do not University of Pennsylvania. will be raised in the courts. "If some kid live there anyway, she added. Students can obtain federally backed loans from a minority background comes out of Tuition charges alone for all types of in on highly favorable terms. Interest rates on law school and is offered a Supreme Court stitutions rose more than 94 percent, Ms. Van some are as low as 3 percent a year, and clerkship at $12,000 or $14,000 a year and Alstyne said. payments on principal and interest do not can't accept it, he could very well file suit begin until nine months after graduation. Although the Budget Office report did give on the ground that he was deprived of pro separate figures for private and public in $17.8 BILLION DISPERSED fessional advancement and prospective earn stitutions, tuition increases varied markedly Since 1959, when the first Federal loan ings because of an unrealistic repayment within each sector, according to the type of program began with $9 million, the Govern- schedule," he said. institution, the A.C.E. analysis said. May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9631 For all public institutions the average Representative RoBERTS' amendment to the distinctive character of this team for tuition increase from 1967 to 1976 was 94.3 the budget. Mr. RoBERTs' amendment, it depicts the quality traits of south percent, but for universities it was 89.1 per which increases the budget authority and cent; for four-year colleges, 112.7; and for west teams and an excellent model for community colleges, 165.3. outlays in the veterans• function of the high school students and players. Prior During the period of comparison, taxes rose budget by $265 million, is of vital im to this past season, 27 players went to at a much faster rate than before-tax in portance if the veterans in this country college, some to genuine stardom. Over comes, the A.C.E. analysis said. WhUe the are to continue to receive the benefits the years the players actively partici before-tax increase in median income for and the quality health care that is due to pated in civic and community activities. families with dependents 18 to 24 years old them. This year's team has an academic aver was 78.8 percent, the af·ter-tax increase was Without Representative RoBERTS' age of 2.4 on a 4-point system. Coach estimated at 66.8 percent. amendment, the Veterans' Administra Richar~son not only emphasizes excel FAMILIES UNWILLING TO PAY tion hospitals in this country will have lence in play on the basketball court but The Congressional Budget Omce report to cut back their personnel by more than he emphasizes excellence and the sig showed the median income in 1976 was 8,000 positions, which would lead to a nificance of academic achievement, $12,199 for all families, $14,164 for families with dependents 18 to 24 years old, and $18,- substantial reduction in the quality of character, and the development of in 384 for fam111es with 18-to-24-year-old de care received in those hospitals. This is dividuals to their fullest potential to pendents in college. of particular concern to me since there be contributing citizens to our country. Fam111es with children in college showed a are four VA health facilities in the Balti Mr. Speaker, apart from the superb greater increase in median income than those more area. This amendment will also en basketball played by the Southwest Pa with children of the same age but not in able Congress to pass a bill, soon to be triots, I would like to take this opportu college, according to the Congressional re reported by the Veterans' Affairs Com nity to cite that under the direction of port. mittee, which would grant an 8.3 percent Superintendent Paul Hagerty, Complex A survey last year by the College Entrance Examination Board found that 54 percent of cost-of-living adjustment to service-con Principal W. C. Whitley, and Building all families surveyed were unwilling to make nected disabled veterans and their Principal Harold Perdue, the Southwest any contribution toward their children's col dependents. High School goes beyond this achieve lege expenses. Even among families with in The majority of veterans in our coun ment. I also salute the contribution this comes above $30,000, one-eighth indicated try are World War II veterans and most school makes to academic attainment. they were unwilling to make any contribu· of them are in their late fifties. It is esti Mr. Speaker, I salute the Southwest tion, according to the study. mated that by 1985 half of the 621,000 High School basketball record and ac veterans in the State of Maryland will complishments. This feat of being RECENT GROWTH IN COSTS, TAXES, FAMILY !NCOME be over 60 years of age. The VA is going elected as national champions for this to have to make changes in their health year is a tribute to Coach Donald "Duck" Following are percentage increases in fam ily income, taxes, and college costs reported care systems to best accommodate this Richardson-a signal achievement.• for the period 1967-76: generation of veterans who will be re Median irunlly income before t.axes quiring increased and different health related services. With these facts in mind, [In percent] we in Congress cannot allow budget cuts NATIONAL BLOOD PRESSURE All !ami11es______+79. 1 MONTH With dependents: in veterans programs. aged 18 to 24------+78. 8 I urge my colleagues not to forget our With dependents: veterans who have given so much to our HON. CARLOS J. MOORHEAD in 18 to 24, college______+87. 3 country. We must not let them down OF CALIFORNIA Taxes paid by average family of four: when they need us-we must support Federe.l income tax ______+ 103. 9 Representative RoBERTs' amendment to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Social security tax ______+185. 9 Wednesday, May 2, 1979 State and local taxes ______+ 152. 5 restore funding to veterans programs in Total taxes ______+ 135. 4 the budget.• • Mr. MOORHEAD of California. Mr. Median 1lamUy income a.f'ter taxes Speaker, May is National High Blood WIth dependents : Pressure Month. It is estimated that 60 aged 18 to 24______+66. 8 million Americans have hypertension of Tuition and required. fees: A SALUTE TO THE SOUTHWEST Public universities ______+ 89.1 one degree or another. It is related to HIGH SCHOOL PATRIOTS IN MA heart attacks, heart failure, strokes, Private universities ______+ 104. 6 CON. GA. !Public four-year colleges ______+ 112. 7 cardiovascular disease and kidney fail Private four-year colleges ______+ 92. 5 ure. !Public two-year colleges ______+ 165. 3 HON. BILLY LEE EVANS These ailments cost America many Private two-ye.ar colleges ______+ 81. 6 OF GEORGIA lives, many lost hours, many dollars and All public lnstitUJtions ______+ 94. 3 much despair. The idea behind National !All private institutions ______+ 97. 7 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES High Blood Pressure Month is to alert Tuition, required fees, room, and Wednesday, May 2, 1979 board: our citizens to the dangers of hyperten Public universities ______+ 72. 9 • Mr. EVANS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, sion, thereby allowing them the oppor Private universities ______+ 90. 5 I would like to call the attention of tunity to avoid the traumas and tragedy Public four-year colleges______+ 86. 0 my colleagues to the outstanding of the disease. Private four-year colleges ______+ 79. 4 While I have always been aware of Public two-year colleges ______+ 103. 2 achievements of the Southwest High Patriots basketball team in Macon, Ga. the good done by this type of recognition iprivart;e two-year colleges ______+ 70. 5 program, I have a particular interest !All public instirtutions ______+ 76. 1 For the past 9 years the Southwest All private institutions ______+ 84. 0 in National High Blood Pressure Month High School basketball teams have com this year because of a very special pro SoURcE: American Council on Educatlon.e piled astronomical records which dis gram being carried on in the city of tinguish the Southwest Patriots. Under Burbank. CONGRESS MUST CONTINUE TO the coaching of Donald Richardson the For the first time ever in the United SUPPORT OUR VETERANS teams have won 224 games and lost only States, Burbank will attempt during May 28, won four State championships in to provide blood pressure screening for the last 5 years, and went undefeated its entire population of 86,000. Supported HON. BARBARA A. MIKULSKI this basketball season with 28 victories. by local business, the testing is free to OF :MARYLAND This year the Patriots accomplished residents. The city council has urged IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their only unaccomplished goal, the pin everyone to take advantage of the oppor nacle of high school basketball, the tunity to use the computerized testing Wednesday, May 2, 1979 prominence of being elected the No. 1 equipment, judged by Stanford Univer • Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. Speaker, I would high school team in our great Nation. sity and Johns Hopkins Medical School like to join my colleagues in supporting Mr. Speaker, I would like to intimate to be extremely reliable. 9632 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 With health care costs being a vital tion would be the only Alaskan habitat of On House rollcall No. 102, on H.R. concern to all of us, a program which the last surviving herd of porcupine caribou, 3354, naval petroleum and oil shale re numbering more than 120,000. serves authorization, fiscal year 1980, I stresses prevention is welcome. It will The committee vote was on a.n amendment save dollars but far more importantly, it by Rep. JetrTy Huckaby (D-La..), who made would have voted "yea." will preserve health and save lives. the outrageous argument that the country On House rollcall No. 103, on House I salute the city of Burbank, the sup "is on the brink of World War III," and must Resolution 234, funding for the Select porting businessmen, the testing firm have full access to Alaska's natural resources Committee on Committees, I would have and the participating residents, and to insure its survival. voted "yea." • But the more telling pressure on the com recommend that we all take heed, as they mittee was brought by oil lobbyists, whose have, of the sage truism that prevention clients want to explore the potential of an of illness is vastly preferable to the cure area in northern Alaska that includes the of illness.• ca.ribou refuge. It amounts to only a tiny ALASKA BILL LEAVES ENOUGH fraction of the acreage that Huckaby wants LAND FOR STATE NEEDS ------to throw open, but, once the door was ajar, LOS ANGELES TIMES URGES IM all 20 Inlllion acres were up for grabs. PROVED ALASKA LANDS BILL Huckaby's amendment amounts to a sub HON. THOMAS A. DASCHLE stitute for a Carter Administration measure that was being carried by Rep. Morris K. OF SOUTH DAKOTA HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS Udall (D-Ariz.), who also chairs the Interior IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Committee. Wednesday, May 2, 1979 The 20 Inlllion acres in question a.Te not in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES inunediate danger, because they are among e Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. Speaker, as the Wednesday, May 2, 1979 the lands withdrawn from development by House prepares to debate the fate of actions of President Carter and Interior Sec • Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, since the federally owned wildlands in Alaska, it retary Cecil D. Andrus late last year. But is instructive to look at how Alaska resi House will be considering the question future administrations oould lift many of of proper classification and management the restrictions. dents will fare under the Alaska national of lands in Alaska in the next few days, Udall is considering a counterattack. The interest lands legislation. After careful I thought it would be of interest to my next hearing is before the House Merchant study and analysis, it is clear that the colleagues to read a recent editorial Marine and Fisheries Comlnlttee, which is Udall-Anderson substitute to H.R. 39 will printed by the Los Angeles Times, en even more prodevelopment than is the In not retard Alaska's chances for a viable titled "The Magnificence Belongs to All." terior Comlnl ttee. and self-sufficient economy. In the 95th Congress, the House over But there is strong support for the Ad Under the Alaska Statehood Act, the whelmingly voted for a sound, balanced ministra.tion's proposals on the floor, where Congress gave the new State of Alaska they won overwhelming approval at the last an unprecedented grant of 104.6 million bill that set aside for future generations session, only to die in the Senate. the greatest treasures of land, while al acres of land, an area the size of Cali Udall could move to substitute his own fornia, plus approximately 45 million lowing for appropriate growth and de measure for Huckaby's on the floor, and velopment in the State of Alaska. Un there would be little risk in such a tactic acres of tide and submerged lands. This fortunately, the Senate did not act on because there is little chance that Carter was by far the largest and richest state the issue, and the administration acted would sign Huckaby's totally unacceptable hood land grant in our Nation's history, to impose protective classifications on version if it did prevail. Or, Udall could use representing a staggering one-third of all the areas which would have been covered his considerable influence to klll the blll that land ever granted to all States combined. by the House version of the bill. In par got out of his own committee over his To date, the State of Alaska has se ticular, President Carter's designation of opposition. lected 100.2 million acres of its statehood 17 key areas as national monuments put Either way, the Alaska. wilderness will be grant. These selections encompass much safe for a while longer. Sooner or later, Con of the most habitable and economically into permanent form the national park gress will have to enact-and Alaskan poli system units which would have been ticians a.nd developers will have to accept valuable lands in the State. With 75 mil designated by enactment of the House a reasonable concept for the protection of lion acres of its entitlement selected, the passed bill. OJJ.e of the world's most magnificent scenic State of Alaska's Department of Natural This year, the Committee on Interior resources. Resources in 1977 reported: and Insular Affairs and the Committee If it is not to be this year, it can wait. The existing state selected lands provide on Merchant Marine and Fisheries com But, sooner or later, prodevelopment forces a. wide ranging balance of resource lands pleted their consideration on a refined must come to realize that the land is not which can be used to support the Alaskan version of last year's House-passed bill their exclusive domain to exploit as they economy. In many cases, state selections with troubling results. The Huckaby and will. H belongs to all Americans, not just to have high-graded lands for particular re those in the northernmost state.e source potentials. This is exemplified by our Breaux-Dingell substitutes pose several selection at Prudhoe Bay for oil and gas re problems, and as a result I believe the sources and our selection of much of the better way to deal with the issues of best agricultural land in the state in the proper protection of the land, with ade Matanuska., Susitna, and Tanana River quate opportunity for development, is HOW I WOULD HAVE VOTED valleys. by support of the Udall-Anderson sub Those 75 million acres contain a giant stitute, which will be offered during fioor HON. JULIAN C. DIXON share of Alaska's economically valuable debate. OF CALIFORNIA resources. For example, they include over I urge all of my colleagues to read the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 70 percent of the prime agricultural a~tached editorial from the Los Angeles Wednesday, May 2, 1979 lands in the State and such opulent oil Times, and to consider its contents when deposits as Prudhoe Bay. Alaska has we consider the Alaska National Interest • Mr. DIXON. Mr. Speaker, as the since selected an additional 25 million Lands Conservation Act of 1979. leadership and the balance of the House acres of valuable land and has assured Text of editorial follows: were informed, I was absent on official itself an economic future based on are [From the Los Angeles Times, Mar. 4, 1979) business Wednesdav, April 25, Thursday, source-rich land base. Clearly, congres THE MAGNIFICENCE BELONGS TO ALL April 2, and Monday, April 30. So that sional intent in the Alaska Statehood The Carter Administration and other sup mv colleagues, my constituents and the Act that the new State be provided a porters of legislation to preserve 110 million general public may be awa-re of my po sound economic base has been realized. acres of virgin Alaskan lands as na tiona! sition on recorded votes in the House, I Nonetheless, the State is now attempt parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness lost a significant battle in Washington late last would like to indicate how I would have ing to gain part of its remaining entitle week. voted on the three House rollcalls taken ment from the national interest lands The House Interior Committee, by a margin during this period. the new national parks, wildlife refuges, of one vote, cut 20 m1llion acres from the On House rollcall No. 101, on agreeing national forests, wild rivers. and wilder total. leaving the vast tracts open for on to the conference report to H.R. 2285, ness being proposed by the Udall-Ander dr1111ng, mining and timber harvesting. One Council on Wage and Price Stability re son substitute for H .R. 39, on which we of the areas that would lose federal protec- authorization, I would have voted "yea." will soon be voting. With a gleam in their May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9633 eyes-not unlike that in the eyes of most APRIL 20, 1979. guage in the Alaska lands blll giving priority every frontier settler-the development Hon. VmGINIA SMITH, to subsistence uses on the public lands. Longworth House Office Bui Lding, FTankly, I do not envision an impact on interests in Alaska are coveting roughly Washington, D.C. waterfowl hunters in the lower 48, since 10 million acres of Federal land slated DEAR CONGRESSWOMAN SMITH; In refer language in the bill tracks current State la.w for preservation as national interest ence to the meatless Wednesday, I do have and policy. The bulk of subsistence uses oc lands. a comment. My wife and I run a hundred curs now on Native (private) and State Giving these lands to the State, as head caw herd, carried their calves and lands. Applying the same policy to public the Huckaby and Breaux versions of bought an additional eighty or ninety head. lands will assure that State law enforcement H.R. 39 propose, would create thorny in Run them until they were two years old. and fish and wildlife management programs We also farm 400 acres of irrigated corn, will be coordinated throughout the State. holdings within the proposed conserva take care of 1200 acres of pasture fence and Further, the situation in Alaska is unique in tion system units. These State inholdings rented addit1onal corn stalks for winter that many rural people still depend on a would threaten the integrity of the units, feed. subsistence lifestyle for survival just as rural create severe management problems, and Now the point of this lett er is to tell people in the West a hundred years ago de ultimately require reacquisition by the a story to the city people. This year we pended on t hese resources. Fish, particularly Federal Government. The cost to tax had a debt of $300,000 at 10 percent interest, salmon, total some 85 percent of the current payers, needless to say, will be enormous. which had accumulated over 40 yea.rs of subsistence uses in Alaska. The intent of the What is most disturbing is that none raising calves at below cost. We were offered language is to assure that, in the event a a chance to cut down this debt this spring shortage should ever occur, those rural peo of this need happen. The State-without and ease off the labor, which has been tak ple who require fish and wildlife to meet conflicting with any of the Udall-Ander ing its toll all too early. We carefully weighed survival dietary needs wlll receive priority. son substitute land proposals-has a pool this, the meatless Wednesdays, the meat Not all subsistence users will meet this strict of over 50 million acres of unreserved boycott of not too long ago, tcok the easy criterion. Federal lands from which to choose. As way out and sold the whole works. I cannot foresee the future, of course, but the Honorable MORRIS K. UDALL, coau We ask no sympathy nor expect any g1fts, change is occurring very rapidly in rural thor of the Udall-Anderson substitute, but when a profit comes once every eight Alaska and it seems to me that as rural which I support, so accurately stated last to ten years, we don't expect to be clobbered Alaskan people become more dependent on a year: by the public from making a profit. One cash economy, fewer and fewer will be de year in ten does not an incentive make. pendent on subsistence resources and even We can set aside the last remaining vast Thank you for listening to this. fewer would qualify under our priority sys areas of wilderness and wildlife habitat to Sincerely yours, tem. To conclude that taking of fish and meet our obligations to present and future LYNN PoLHEMus.e wildlife by rural people will cause the sport generations, and yet be responsible and flexi hunt er in the lower 48 to face restrictions ln ble enough to assure that there are other t he fut ure seems to me to be stretching the lands to explore and develop, with care and point a bit. sensitivity, to meet our material needs, too. SPORTSMEN, HUNTERS, AND THE I am sure that sport hunters will agree The tide of modern technological develop that the key to maintenance of viable wild ment is about to sweep over Alaska. The dis ALASKA LANDS BILL life populations is protection and manage covery of oil at Prudhoe Bay a decade ago is ment of wildlife habitats. Thus, I believe only the most obvious of a whole rash of de that an issue of extreme importance to your velopments now underway or being readied HON. VIC FAZIO constituents is the preservation of prime for implementation. All this is causing rapid OF CALIFORNIA wildlife habitats as national wildlife refuges change in the Alaskan lifestyle. Not in our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Alaska. The Udall-Anderson substitute generation, nor ever again, will we have a which we will be offering when the Alaska. land and wildlife conservation opportunity Wednesday, May 2, 1979 lands matter comes to the House floor in approaching the scope of importance of this • Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, in the in the near future is the only bill which wlll one. This time, given one great last chance, terests of clarifying one of the issues assure the proper protection (not only in let us strive to do it right.e which may affeGt Member's decisions on size of unit s but in management direction) for those critical wildlife habitats on which the Alaska lands bill shortly to come be myriad wildlife species depend and which fore us I would like to bring the follow are included in the National Wildlife Refuge ing letters between myself and Congress System in our substitute. This is especially CATTLE PRODUCER HAS STORY TO man UDALL to the attention of my col true of the great "waterfowl factories" of TELL CITY CONSUMER leagues: the Yukon Delta, Yukon Flats and in in WASHINGTON, D.C., terior Alaska along the Yukon River which April 23, 1979. furnish waterfowl to all four flyways in the HON. VIRGINIA SMITH Hon. MORRIS UDALL, lower 48 states and, indeed, other continents. OF NEBRASKA Chairman, House Interior Committee, While the other bills list most of these same IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Longworth House Office Building, areas they do not provide necessary wildlife Washington, D .C. habitat protection which is required to in Wednesday, May 2, 1979 DEAR MR. CHAmMAN: A number of sports sure continued wildlife utilization and pro • Mrs. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Speak man hunters in my district have contact ed ductivity since they permit a number of er, there continues to be too much mis me expr. sslng concern over language in the incompatible developments and uses which Alaskan Wilderness Bill giv1ng priority to are a t cross purposes with wildlife habitat understanding between the farm pro subsistence uses on public lands over the prot ection and, thus, future wildlife survival. ducer and the city consumer. The con consumptive uses in the taking of fish and For example, it is essential that the calving sumer gets a break on food prices when wildlife. I would very much appreciate it grounds of our last large free-roaming cari the farmer or rancher does not receive if you would have a member of your staff bou herd, located on the coastal plain of the cost of production for his commod inform me as to what is the estimated im the Arctic National Wildlife Range, be pro ities. There should be some disposition pact of such a policy on sportsman hunters tected in a natural condition. Caribou and on the part of the consumer, therefore, other wilderness wildlife, such as polar bear in the lower 48 states. I am enclosing a copy require an unimpacted environment in order to be more understanding when the of a Habitate Owners Alliance newsletter to survive. The coastal plain also is heavily pendulum swings the other way as it does which has accompanied some of the letters utilized by migratory waterfowl, particularly on rare occasions for farm producers. for your information. snow geese which nest in the Soviet Union Meatless Wednesdays and beef boycotts Thank you for your consideration of this and winter along the East Coast and Cali strike back unfairly at the wrong people. request. fornia. The Udall-Anderson substitute pro The producers have a right to a profit Best regards. poses this area as wilderness, but the Huck too. , Sincerely, aby and Breaux alternatives propose to open VIC FAZIO, the coastal plain for oil and gas exploration. A recent letter from a farm constit Member of Congress. For your information, the National Wild uent of mine, Mr. Lynn Polhemus of life Federation, the country's largest sports Holdrege, Nebr., explains why year after COMMITrEE ON INTERIOR AND mens organization strongly supports the year of below-cost-of-production prices INSULAR AFFAms, Udall-Anderson substitute. can take their toll and force a livestock Washington, D .C., ApriL 26, 1979. If I can help to explain further the com producer to take a step he and his family Hon. VIc FAZIO, plex Alaska lands situation, around which a do not want to take. House of Representatives, Longworth House large amount of misinformation has been Office Building, Washington, D .C. circulating, please ask. I think my colleagues will be in DEAR Vrc: Many thanks for your recent Sincerely, terested in Mr. Polhemus' letter. I sub letter pertaining to sport hunters in your MORRIS K. UDALL, .m.it it for the RECORD at this point: district expressing concern regarding Ian- Chairman.e 9634 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 STATEMENTS AND REMARKS ON in an election under UN supervision rather but will urge the United Nations to send RHODESIA than an eleotion conducted by Mr. Ian Smith, observers to mon itor the April elections. a regime which is stlll considered lllegal by EXTRACT FROM AN INTERVIEW WrrH the British Government. AMBASSADOR YOUNG HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO COMMENT. The Rhodesian government does (Appearing in the February Issue of the Inter OF CALIFORNIA not doubt its ab111ty to afford protection not Depe .. dent, journal of the United Nations only to election observers but to voters and Association) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES voting places. The safety o! foreign observ Ambassador YouNG. Only neo-fascists in Wednesday, May 2, 1979 ers wm be given priority, and special escort arrangements will be made. There is a pat this country would be wllling to support the e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, tern of terrorist violence. It 1s directed almos"t neo-fas::ism of the Smith regime. the following statements are a partial re exclusively against soft and unprotected COMMENT. There is a New York based or targets. ganization called Freedom House which every production of remarks made by Ambas year conducts a survey of comparative free sador Young in a town meeting in Wash Given the determination of the Soviet and doms around the world under tbe headings ington, D.C., and comments on those Cuban patrons of the Patriotic Front to put of political rights and civil liberties. statements by the Rhodesian Informa their clients into power in Zimbabwe In its last (1978) survey Freedom House Rhodesia it is accepted that the elections tion omce. I think the summary raises evaluated t h e state of freedom in 157 coun will not end the war. There is a very firm serious questions about how well in tries. Rhodesia rates at least as high as 95 expectation, however, th8Jt eleotions will sub countries on political rights and 99 countries formed Ambassador Young is of the Rho stantially reduce the war by consummating desian developments since the Govern on civil liberties. It rates higher than most the majority rule process set in train by the African countries on both counts, and of the ment there consented to the elections. agreement of March 3, 1978. Many of the so-called "frontline states" (Angola, Bot The summary follows: men with the guns have already come over s wana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia) SOME STATEMENTS MADE BY to the argument side as aux111ary forces. it rates higher than all except Botswana.e AMBASSADOR YOUNG More can be expected to follow after the elec tions. That expectation would, of course, be Ambassador YouNG. We have not opposed greatly enhanced if there were indications of the sending by Congress of those observers, western support !or the electoral process. ENERGY ESSAY WINNER we have just sa.td that the Administration Many captured terror151ts have said that they chooses not to send observers. Part of the only continued fighting because the Salisbury HON. JOHN T. MYERS reason is that to us, I think, it 1s very clear government was receiving no support from that this cannot be a democratic election the west. The March agreement deserves to OF INDIANA because there has been no exercise of the be given a chance. No other initiatives have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES freedom of speech, not only for those mem succeeded. bers of the liberation movements, but white Wednesday, May 2, 1979 members within the country of Rhodesia At a meeting at the State Depa.rtment last had not had an opportunity to use the news October Rhodesia's Executive Counoll ap • Mr. MYERS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, media. to give their point of view about the pealed to the British and American govern it is with great pleasure that I announce election. ments to call for a cease-fire in advance of to my colleagues the winner of the 1979 The two major groups in the society that the all-party conference they had agreed to high school essay contest in my con fostered the liberation movements almost a attend without pre-conditions. The Anglo gressional district, Miss Catherine Dana decade without violence and for the last few American representatives replied that they Armer. Cathy is a senior student at years with violence-it is prohibited to even would convene a conference as a matter o! urgency. No conference has been convened Bloomington High School South in mention their names anywhere in the coun Bloomington, Ind. Her essay "U.S. En try in print. They are not able to take part because the leaders of the Patriotic Front re in this election. fuse to attend except on their own terms. ergy Policy-Which Way To Go?" ex CoMMENT. It is quite untrue to say that Ambassador YouNG. Now, I would like to emplifies the ability of America's youth there has been no exercise of free speech in just mention here that it is not true that to understand our current energy di the period leading up to the April elections. the Patriotic Front has refused to agree to lemma and to offer worthwhile solutions. There is freedom of assembly and expression elections under UN supervision. They have I congratulate Cathy on her good work for all parties that are peacefully contesting agreed to elections u nder UN supervision. and submit for the RECORD her winning the elections. Polltical meetings and rall1es They have disagreed to elections under essay: are held continuously, and all parties have Smith's supervision. But for two years now U.S. ENERGY POLICY-WHICH WAY To Go? access to t he media. they have said to us that i! there are UN One of the first actions of the Executive supervised elections, they wlll respect the (By Catherine Dana Armer) Council after it took office was to lift the ban cease-fire and participate in tho3e elections. The present chaos in Iran ending oll ship on all political organisations, including the It has been Ian Smith, the Reverend Sithole ments to the U.S., the rocky American internal wings of the Patriotic Front. At the a nd Bishop Muzorewa that have refused to Mexican negotiations over Mexican oil, spi same time, the leaders of the Patriotic Front accept UN supervision o! elections in Rho rall1ng costs of gas and oll in the U.S., the were invited to return in peace, take their desia. power and unpredictablllty of OPEC, and the places in the Executive Council and partici Comment. The !acts are quite otherwise. appalllng !act that many Americans stUl do pate in the first elections and in the peaceful A statement by ZAPU (Nkomo) in Lusaka in not believe t he U.S. has an energy problem transfer of power to the black majority. They the last few days is an eloquent comment on give substance to President Carter's declara spurned this invitation and vowed to increase the ambassador's suggestion that the Patri tion that there is a "horrible conglomeration their terrorist attacks and to disrupt the elec otic Front are will1ng to contest U.N. super o! confusion in the energy field." The U.S. tions by making every poll1ng booth their vised elections. Re:;ponding to Secretary does have a shortage o! energy which grows target. Vance's statement o! March 17 calllng for daily. Although there 1s a. patchwork energy Because the internal wings of the Patriotic U.N. supervised elections, a ZAPU spokesman plan in existence, the country needs a coordi Front were aotively assisting the terrorists said the Anglo-American efforts are "patently nated, comprehensive and effective energy operating in the country, the Executive absurd" and that ZAPU "dismisses them with program soon. Council, in carrying out its prime duty of the contempt they de!erve". We must act quickly. By the year 2005, protecting the population against terrorism, In a statement issued on March 21 the there will be six milllon people on the earth, had no alternative but to reimpose the ban. Rhodesian government pointed out that the an::l. Americans wm need 2 to 5 times as much In doing so the Executive Council made it question of international observers to moni energy. A failure-proof program needs to be clear that if the Patriotic Front wished to tor the elections was discussed fully at the developed and put ln effect immediately. participate peacefully in the electoral process Was'h ington meeting on October 20, 1978. The As President Carter said in his 1977 address to the nation, "By acting now we can control the ban would immediately be lifted. This verbatim record shows that Acting Secretary em our future instead of the future controlUng invitation has been re,peated a number o! Newsom said there was ge ·eral agreement occasions, but has been rejected by the us." that there should be international observers Patriotic Front leaders. Nevertheless, the of So far, there are three widely accepted fer still stands. to testify to the impartiality of elections, plans: conservation, reliance on the law o! Ambasa.dor YouNG. There is a war going and that United Nations observers would supply and demand, and development of on where about 80 % o! the country is under have the greatest international credib111ty. In alternative energy sources. Each has lts own martial law. I would seriously question our reply, tbe Executive Council confirmed that special problems. Conservation, cutting down ab111ty to protect observers involved in tra.vel U.N. observers, or any other international on consumption, is proposed but not very llng around that countrv or ~uar a n t ee t heir observers, would be welcome at the first gen promising. As Paul Stern, a psychologist, safety. I don't think that, whatever happens eral election to be held on the basis o! uni- notes, "Organisms normally do not forego a in the election, it wm stop the war. And the versal suffrage. That remains the position o! large individual reward 1n order to avoid a President's policy has attempted first o! all the Executive Councll today, a nd the Council small share o! delayed punishment." Many to bring about a cease-fire, to create condi hopes that the American and British govern people feel the government has no right to tions where all the parties might be involved ments w111 not only send their own observers, tell them what to do. In addition, conserva- May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 963·5 tion programs in the past have failed, such ling departments and agencies on the federal public as a. whole. This three-part plan will as World War II gas rationing which was and state levels of government. These groups take some concentrated time and effort but costly and promoted ble..ck market activities. interfere and hinder each other and ob realistically, this is the best way-through A coupon plan for gasoline conservation viously are not getting the job done. On the compromise and cooperation-to solve the would be terribly expensive to administer federal level we have the Department of U.S. energy problem.e and enforce. Energy, the Department of Interior, the En A second possible solution is to subscribe vironmental Protection Agency, the Coal Mine to the capitalistic principle of supply and Health and Safety Administration, the Orga demand and let the problem take care of nization for Economic Cooperation and THE PRICE OF DOMESTIC itself. In short, 1f prices are allowed to in Development, the Energy Research and Devel PETROLEUM crease naturally through diminishLng sup opment Administration, and other agencies ply and growing demand, people will con along with the numerous state otnces that serve and generate greater interest in de may delay or ban certain types of energy, HON. JAMES H. SCHEUER veloping new forms of energy. "The fact is control local zoining and citing, and so forth. OF NEW YORK that higher prices do result in more em In other words, the present situation is a cient use," writes John c. Sawhill, former counter-productive tug-of-war. The Depart IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES head of the Federal Energy Administration. ment of Energy on one side wants to develop Wednesday, May 2, 1979 According to Jeff McAfee, chairman of new energy resources and the Environmental Gulf Oil Corporation, the U.S. must "return Protection Agency on the other side blocks • Mr. SCHEUER. Mr. Speaker, earlier to a near marketplace energy economy in progress in order to protect the environment. today I voted at the meeting of the Com which, for the most part, economics deter The Coal Mine Health and Safety Administra mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com mines fuel choice, supply development, and tion promotes safety standards whiCih makes merce for a motion to extend the period the emergence of .new and improved tech coal hard to mine while simultaneously the nologies." National Energy Plan is encouraging con before the President would be required However, there are others who disagree. version to coal. In fact, there are so many to remove Federal controls on the price For-example, the authors of The Energy Pol regulatory groups, energy producers are con of domestic petroleum. icy in the U.S. argue that: fused and complain they don't know when Mr. Speaker, I support a tax on the "In an economic system where concen decisions are made or who has the authority excess profits which will be reaped 'by the trated oil companies own large shares of to make them. This confusion places the U.S. oil companies when they are permitted alternative oil sources, and where the petro in jeopardy of delaying needed energy policies to charge the OPEC prices for American leum supply lives or dies at the whim of and resource development until it is too late. petroleum. Extending the period during foreign governments, it is ditncult to believe If we could get all these groups working in that textbook laws of supply and demand one direction, then something might be ac which the President could retain the con will operate in rational ways." complished. This is a critical first step in trols would give him, and the Congress, In particular. the en tire structure may be solving our energy problem. better leverage to pass an effective ex rendered helpless by upheavals such as that As a three-part suggestion for achieving cess profits tax. If the current timetable experienced during the Arab oil embargo. this coordination goal, we need to convene a remains unchanged, oil companies could A third solution is to develop alternative national task-force of representatives of the mount opposition to an excess profits tax sources. Coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear federal agencies involved with energy, and with no concern that their opposition power are the four most importa.nt fuel prominent others doing research on energy (such as university scientists, oil and gas would prejudice the deregulation they sources in the United States. However, do covet. mestic oil and gas supply almost three company experts, public utllities represent fourths of America's total energy consump atives). These people would be charged with We are not dealing with deregulation tion. This is far too much. Domestic oil pro the task of working together in one direc of the price of crude oil nor have we done duction in the U.S. has been falling six per tion to produce a. unified, comprehensive, so in recent years. The question we dis cent a year, and imports have been doubled practical energy plan for the country. This cussed this morning was the U.S. regula in the last five years. We must decrease our is not only the most sensible approach to tion of a fraction of the oil this country dependence on oil, especially foreign sup solving today's energy problems, but it also would be voluntary and cost free. uses. More than one-half of the petro plies, by finding alternative sources of en leum we use is controlled-both as to ergy. The second part of this plan would be to stress voluntary conservation while the ta.sk prices and supply by OPEC. We do entire Coal could be this alternative. The U.S. force is working. Conservation would be a ly too little to try to deregulate-or effec has enough recoverable coal to last about way of buying time, "-time needed for a tively to weaken-that system of controls. 400 years at today's consumption rate. The thorough searching and balanced investiga Six months ago, as we were adopting present National Energy Plan encourages tion of all possible energy supply alterna.tives, use of coal, although conversion for indus the comprehensive energy package, I including the complete costs of their en urged that the Department of Energy try a.nd homes is not yet practical on a vironmental a.nd safety impacts." Conserva wide scale and environmental objections tion would be voluntary because enforce take some aggressive steps designed to must be resolved. Another possibility is nu ment efforts would probably cost more than weaken OPEC's power over us. I then clear power. According to Franklyn M. Bran the money saved by conservation itself. stated: ley, nuclear energy "could fill all the re A third part of the plan is that the federal The newly discovered oil now being de quirements of the entire world, and it could government should simultaneously con veloped, and lifted in the North Sea and do this for a billio.n years." Nuclear energy tinue supporting the investigation and de China. also enormously augments the sup would allow us to conserve other fuels for velopment o! new energy sources within the plies available to us and to our allies during purposes to which they are uniquely suited, U.S. to reduce our dependence on oil and periods of emergency. And without going to significantly reduce air pollution, and to other supplies from abroad. This activity into details today, there is a. large potential end our heavy reliance on foreign energy would contribute to the task-force delibera for additional oil production at competitive sources. However, safety aspects of nuclear tions and would ultima-tely be guided by the costs in many parts of the world, South power and the extreme expense of nuclear ta.sk-force energy plan. America. (Venezuela, Argentina). North power plants block immediate develoDment. In view of toda.y's energy problems Mld America. (Canada) • and parts of Africa.. Other potential energy alternatives include the !allure o! past efforts to solve these prob There is enough oil-and enough coun solar energy, geothermal power, oil shale ex lems, it is apparent that there must be a. tries who have oil and who need money to traction, burning solid wastes, wind power new pla.n. Logically, this plan should unite fund urgently needed economic and social and magnetohydrodynamics, each having ad all the objectives o.nd activities of present development programs-to make far stronger vantages and disadvantages. Of these unper agencies and groups concerned with energy attempts to develop a competitive interna fected technologies, solar energy is perhaps matters. Instead of working a.ga.lnst each tional market in oil durable and practicable. the best known and most amenable to devel other, they should work together to accom This might well reduce the monopoly price opment in the future. There also has been plish a. goal which will influence the life of of oil by $4 to $6 per barrel, resul tlng in successful energy experimentation with gas every future American. While this plan is total world savings on the order o! $50 to ohol, seed corn and hydroelectric power, but being developed, implementaltion of volun $60 billion per year. so far none of these offer satisfactory replace tary conservation measures to buy time a-nd This would have an enormous beneficial ments for our heavy dependence on gas and development of new sources would continue, impact on the economies of many non-oil oil. ma.king problems more solvable and the producing industrialized and developing The three plans-conservation, supply and transition to new practices easier. The U.S. countries, including many very poor ones, demand, and new alternatives-are all based does indeed need a. new comprehensive and and bring about significant decreases in the on idealistic assumptions, but we must be practical energy policy, and this is the most rates of inflation and unemployment. practical. The core problem in the U.S. energy sensible way to achieve it. Not only would A creative and aggressive U.S. interna program is lack of concentrated and co this approach contribute to a. realistic and tional oil policy would afford us and the ordinated efforts. Presently, we have an abun sound plan concerning energy, it also would other oil-consuming nations greater fiexibil dance of contradictory and confusing regu insure that such a. pla.n is acceptable to ity and credib111ty in negotiating with the lations. There are too many energy-control- special interest groups and the American Middle Eastern oil producers. 9636 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 Currently, their petroleum resources are cerned about the future of the United No person in the United States shall, on indeed essential to us and must be kept out States. the basis of sex, be excluded from participa of the control of radical revolutionary ex As tion in, be denied the benefits of, or be pansionists who are threatening the Persian we in Congress address the various subjected to discrimination under any edu Gul! !rom Syria, Iraq, Ethiopia, and Yemen. issues which concern our country, I think cational program or activity receiving Federal Inhibiting this Soviet-supported expan that we should always try to remember financial assistance. • • • sion is in the interests of the Middle East oil that we are molding a world which people producers as well as those of the United of Terrence's generation will inherit. I In the past 7 years, title IX has worked, States. But the point remains that the Mid hope we do not let them down. not perfectly, but well, increasing oppor dle East is not a region on which our na 1117 No. ORCHID STREET, tunities for girls and women to partici tional security should depend so firmly as Lompoc, Calif., March 9, 1979. pate in all kinds of educational programs it now does. Hon. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, including sports and athletic activities Americans should pay for energy at its U.S. House of Representatives, at schools and universities throughout replacement price. This would serve to Washington, D.C. the country. DEAR MR. LAGOMARSINO: I have read the encourage making more effective use of newspapers lately and am gravely concerned The question of funding for the en what we burn. In countries where gaso with the economy of our country and wthat forcement of title IX and of possible line prices are based on replacement inflation is doing to us. I have my future in amendments allowing exemptions to raise costs, one does not see the profligate front of me and am alarmed at the costs of important issues. For my colleagues' in American pattern of transportation and products in the markets. Wlll I be able to formation I wish to share this material support myself tomorrow, much less a fam from the Association of Intercollegiate energy waste-oversized, overpowered Athletics for Women: automobiles, driven with only one occu ily! ! ! There seems to ·be no end to prices going pant at excessive speeds to marginal higher and higher. TITLE IX INFORMATION SHEET A couple of weeks ago, I worked a high CHRONOLOGICAL BACKGROUND destinations. In countries where the re school economic problem involving the quan tail price of energy is based on replace 1. 1972-Congress enacted Title •x of the tity of money to support a man and wife in Education Amendments prohibiting sex dis ment costs, we do not see office buildings an apartment with minimum allowance for crimination in any program or activity spon with summer air-conditioned tempera clothes and entertainment. The total came sored by the recipient of federal financial tures so low that office workers must wear to approximately $800 per month. This was a reasonable estimate with virtually no sur assistance, which means virtually every post sweaters while at work while in winter secondary institution in the country. shoppers carry their coats in overheated plus. Help was given to me by my neighbors and parents. They are not heavy spenders 2. 1974-Congress adopted the Javits retail stores. but plan for the "rainy days." And then I Amendment which directed HEW to issue I support conservation and I support realize that a::lding for U.S. and state income Title lX regulations including intercollegiate realistic retail prices for petroleum which tax, plus Social Eecurity, I must have an in atheltic programs with "reasonable provi would not only encourage conservation come of $13,000-$14,000 a year. This is dif sions considering the nature of particular but also provide incentives for the de ficult to visualize if you should get married sports." velopment of alternative nonfossil fuel upon high school graduation. 3. July of 1975-the HEW Title IX regula Mr. Ccngressman, you hold the future of tions, including provisions on athletics, be energy sources. So long as gasoline and our country, along with the other Represent came effective after congressional review. other petroleum products have an arti atives and Senators. We need your support Congress rejected the NCAA's contention that ficially low price, we discourage greater in controlling the expenses of our Govern the Title IX regulations should be rejected development and use of solar, tidal, wind, ment. Many federal programs cost more b3cause they made no distinction between geothermal, biomass and other renewable rr.oney than we, as a nation can afford, with revenue and non-revenue producing pro fuels and more effective uses of coal and our current taxes. For example, ma :~ y people grams. shale oil. wtho are young adults could work if they 4. 1975-77-Congress refused on five sep wanted to; however, they find reasons to re Americans are more than willing to arate occasions to exempt revenue producing ceive unemployment or welfare not to men sports from Title IX coverage. The Tower absorb fair measures of discomfort as the tion accepting food stamps. We keep spend bill (S. 2106) was the subject of Senate price of implementing a realistic energy ing more than we take in. The help we need hearings in 1975. policy over a reasonable period of time. is reducing our Government expenses. Can you do that? 5. December 1978-HEW released a. proposed To date, I am distressed, however, that policy interpretation, which explicated, but no such agenda has been developed or At age 16, I am not old enough to per did not change the 1975 regulations. The pol presented to us for our consideration. sonally know your background in Govern icy interpretation perxnltted an institution ment. I have oeen told by many that you are I voted for an extension of the period to get the benefit of a presumption of com one of the best Representatives in our U.S. pliance if: for mandating U.S. regulation on u.s. Congress and that is not 11Inited to Cali (1) with respect to present participants, produced petroleum because it will pro fornia. We need your support, Mr. Congress vide us with time to move ahead for man. Help us keep America for what it is so it demonstrated development of that agenda. The days we can have good, honest goals to reach for, (a) that average per capita. expenditures of unlimited energy at diminishing when we become adults. for male and female athletes were substan I have often heard that a pencil is the tially equal in "financially measurable" areas prices-like the free lunch-are a myth (e.g., scholarships, recruitment, equipment of the past. We need a policy and pro strongest tool we citizens have. I am putting it to use by writing you. A bit of encourage and supplies, travel, per diem. and publicity) gram which is not based on that trans- ment for the "pencil" use, is a letter to you to and if not, that the disparities were the re parent myth.e · fulfill a requirement for the Citizenship in sult of non-discriminatory factors (e.g., dif the Nation Badge for the Boy Scouts of ferential in cost of equipment, insurance, America. Help me, to the best of your ability, scope and level of competition), and to have faith in this pencil. (b) that in "nonfinancially measurable" A CONCERN FOR THE FUTURE OF Very truly yours, areas (e.g., facilities. competitive and prac THE UNITED STATES TERRENCE W. SCHRIVER .• tice opportunities; coach :student ratio, med ical and training services and facilities) male and female athletes are provided com HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO parable benefits and opportunities. OF CALIFORNIA TITLE IX INFORMATION SHEET (2) with respect to future developing in CHRONOLOGICAL BACKGROUND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES terests and abilities that an institution dem onstrates established procedures and stand Wednesday, May 2, 1979 ards for: HON. JAMES M. SHANNON (a) increasing women's sports programs e Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, OF MASSACHUSETTS the following is a letter from a 16-year and number of participants old constituent, Mr. Terrence Schriver, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (b) elevating scope of competition for who lives in Lompoc, Calif. I am sub Wednesday, May 2, 1979 women (c) publicizing sport opportunities for mitting it to the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD e Mr. SHANNON. Mr. Speaker, title IX, women. because it vividly demonstrates that the Educational Amendment Act of 1972. An institution may choose not to take ad there are youngsters who are vitally con- provides that-- vantage of the presumption of compliance May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9637 and instead demonstrate that it is provid ing pioneering work and research and •Labor and Human Resources ing equal athletic opportunity as required by development. To hold oversight hearings on the appli the Title IX regulations. Scarce natural resources have also cability and enforcement of sandstone and gravel mining operations under EFFECTS OF TITLE IX ON INTERCOLLEGIATE spurred Israel to tak~ a leading role in ATHLETIC PROGRAMS-19 73-7 8 the Federal Mine Safety and Health the development of solar and alterna Program 1. Participation of women has doubled tive energy sources. Israel is the largest women account for 30 percent of all collegiate 4232 Dirksen Building per cap.~.ta user of solar power-one in student-athletes. 9:30 a.m. 2. Women's intercollegiate athletic pro five homes is fitted with solar heating or Commerce, Science, and Transportation grams receive 16 percent of the total inter refrigeration systems. Science, Technology, an.d Space Subcom collegiate athletic budget and 21 percent of Research and technical development mittee the athletic scholarship budget. of methane production, tidal and ocean To hold oversight hearings on the test 3. Title IX has not injured the men's inter wave power usage and other innovative ing provisions of the Toxic Substances collegiate athletic program. The number of energy sources has :flourished in Israel's Control Act of 1976. sports for men has not diminished; the num educational and scientific centers. In 235 Russell Building ·ber of male athletes ha.s risen slightly; the only 31 years, this small country has Governmental Affairs number of coach/support personnel has risen Intergovernmental Relations Subcommit acquired a worldwide reputation for its tee significantly; and the average men's inter Technion, the Weizmann Institute, and collegiate budget increased almost 65 percent To resume hearings on S. 2'52, proposed between 1970-77. its other distinguished learning institu Anti-Arson Act. 4. The Title IX regulations and policy in tions. It is estimated that one person in 6202 Dirksen Building terpretation will not damage men's big-time three is a student in Israel. 10:00 a.m. football programs particularly since HEW The dedication and commitment of Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has allowed ample latitude for costs associ Israel's settlers is almost legendary. Rural Housing Subcommittee ated with event management and other legit Many came to the Middle East as refu To hold hearing on proposed legislation imate disparities in expenditures between gees from persecution and as survivors authori~ing funds for fiscal year 1980 men's and women's programs. of the Holocaust. Indeed, they continue for all existing rural housing programs. 5. Compliance with the Title IX policies 5302 Dirksen Building would mean about 20 percent of the intercol to arrive from all over the world. Israel's settlers picked up the pieces, and braved ·Energy and Natural Resources legiate athletic budget would go to women's Business meeting on pending calendar sports. staggering political, military, and geo business. LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS WHICH COULD THREATEN graphic odds to establish a remarkable, 3110 Dirksen Building TITLE IX dynamic democracy. Governmental Affairs 1. S. 519 (Helms) to be considered as The tasks that still lie ahead for Israel To continue hearings on S. 262 and 755, amendment to the bill creating Department are enormous. But her record of endur bills to require that an Federal agen of Education--senate debate scheduled ance and dedication give us unlimited cies conduct a regulatory analysis be April 23, 1979. hopes for her future.e fore issuing regulations, and to re 2. Riders to 1979 HEW Appropriations bill quire the use of less time-consuming to prevent HEW from using money to enforce procedures to decide cases. Title IX in the area of athletics (not yet 3302 Dirksen Building offered). Joint Economic 3. Amendments to exempt athletics, foot SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS To receive testimony on the employment ball or revenue producing sports from Title unemployment and price data situa IX coverage (not yet offered). Title IV of the Senate Resolution 4, tion for April. 4. Unnecessary congressional review of agreed to by the Senate on February 4, 318 Russell Building HEW final Title IX policy interpretation-not 1977, calls for establishment of a system required because HEW policy interprets reg for a computerized schedule of all meet MAY 7 ulations, not the statute, as General Educa ings and hearings of Senate committees, 9:00a.m. tion Provisions Act (GEPA) requires.e subcommittees, joint committees, and Armed Services committees of conference. This title re Research and Development Subcommittee quires all such committees to notify the To mark up, in closed session, S. 428, authorizing funds for research, devel Office of the Senate Daily Digest-desig opment, test and evaluation programs COMMEMORATION OF ISRAEL'S nated by the Rules Committee-of the for the Department of Defense. 31ST ANNIVERSARY time, place, and PUrPOSe of all meetings 224 Russell Building when scheduled, and any cancellations 9:30a.m. or changes in the meetings as they occur. •Finance HON. ANTHONY TOBY MOFFETT As an interim procedure until the Energy and Foundations Subcommittee OF CONNECTICUT computerization of this information be To hold ove;:sight hearings on the imple IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES comes operational the Office of the Sen mentation of the energy taxation pol icy for tax proposals relating to energy Wednesday, May 2, 1979 ate Daily Digest will prepare this infor mation for printing in the Extensions of production. e Mr. MOFFETT. Mr. Speaker, today Remarks section Of the CONGRESSIONAL 2221 Dirksen Building marks the 31st anniversary of the inde RECORD on Monday and Wednesday of Judiciary pendence of the State of Israel. It is the each week. Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub first time in her history that Israel can committee Any changes in committee scheduling To hold hearings on S, 677 and 678, bills enjoy the celebration while at peace will be indicated by placement of an as to provide for improvements in the with her neighbor, Egypt. terisk to the left of the name of the structure and administration of the While the newly signed peace treaty unit conducting such meetings. Federal Court system, will not mean the end to all Israel's con Meeting schedule for Thursday, May 3, 2228 Dirksen Building flicts with surrounding states, it does 1979, may be found in the Daily Digest Select on Ethics give us a moment to stop and refiect on of today's RECORD. To resume hearings on the investigation tho enormous achievements of this small of Senator Talmadge's alleged abuse or country. MEETINGS SCHEDULED certain financial reporting rules of the In 31 yea,rs, Israel has made the desert MAY 4 Senate. bloom. Although only 25 percent of 9:00a.m. 1202 Dirksen Building Israel's land is arable, every etfort is be •Judiciary 10:00 a.m. Antitrust, Monopoly and Business Rights Appropriations ing made to use each acre and each drop Transportation Subcommittee of water. At present, farmers in the Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 600, proposed To resume hearings on proposed budget Negev Desert are growing export crops Small and Indepen,dent Business Pro estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the with salty water. In this and many other tection Act. Department of Transportation. fields of desert agriculture, Israel is do- 457 Russell Bullding 1224 Dirksen Building 9638 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Judiciary MAY 9 Business meeting to mark up proposed Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub 8:00 a.m. authorizations for fiscal year 1980 for committee To hold joint hearings with the Sub Appropriations international affairs programs under District of Columbia Subcommittee the Department of Treasury and pro committee on Constitution on S. 678, proposed Federal Courts Improvement To hold hearings on proposed budget posed authorizations through fiscal estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the year 1984 for pro rams under the Ex Act, S. 295, proposed Judicial Tenure 0 Act, and S. 522, proposed Judicial Temporary Commission on Financial port Administration Act. Oversight of the Government of the 5302 Dirksen Building Council Amendments and Discipllne Act. District of Columbia. Energy and Natural Resources 1114 Dirksen Building Business meeting on pending calendar 318 Russell Bullding 9:00 a.m. business. Select on Ethics 3110 Dirksen BUUding To continue hearings on the investiga Governmental Affairs tion, of Senator Talmadge's alleged Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Fed Governmental Affairs abuse of certain financial reporting eral Services Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 333, to rules of the Senate. To continue hearings on the Federal strengthen Federal programs and poli 1202 Dirksen Building Government's responsiblllty for radia cies for combating international and 10:00 a.m. tion protection. domestic terrorism. 357 Russell Building 3302 Dirksen Building tAp propriations Interior S'ubcommittee 9:30 a.m. Specia.I on Aging To resume hea.rlngs on proposed budget Environment and Public Works To hold oversight hearings on the imple estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the To continue markup of pending calendar mentation of home-care services for Department of Energy. business. older Americans. 1223 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building 1318 Dirksen Building • Appropriations Judiciary Joint Economic Transportation Subcommittee Improvements in Judicial Machinery Sub To resume hearings to examine the rate To resume hearings on proposed budget committee of price and wage inflation when com estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the To resume hearings on S. 677 and 678, to bined with stagnant consumer Depa.rtment of Transportation. provide for improvements in the struc demand and high unemployment. 1224 Dirksen Building ture and administration of the Fed 6226 Dirksen Bullding Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs eral Court system. 2:00pm. Business meeting to mark up S. 593, pro 2228 Dirksen Building Appropriations posed Elderly and Handicapped Act, Select on Small Business Transportation Subcommittee S. 740, proposed Homeowner-ship Op To resume markup of proposed legisla portunity Act, and S. 745, Housing tion authorizing funds for fiscal year To continue hearings on proposed budg and Community Development Amend et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 1980 for the Small Business Adminis ments. tration. Department of Transportation. 5302 Dirksen Bullding 1224 Dirksen Bullding 424 Russell Bullding Commerce, Science, and Transportation Select on Small Business *Select on Ethics Business meeting on pending calendar To continue hearings on the investiga To hold oversight hearings on the imple business. tion of Senator Talmadge's alleged mentation of the small business tim 235 Russell Building abuse of certain financial reporting ber set-aside program. Energy and Natural Resources 424 Russell Building rules of the Senate. Business meeting on pending calendar 6226 Dirksen Bullding MAY 8 business. 3110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. 8:00a.m. Finance Appropriations Appropriations To resume ma.rkup of S. 570, to establish tlnterior Subcommittee District of Columbia Subcommittee a system of stand-by percentage lim To continue hearings on proposed budget To hold hearings on proposed budget itations on allowable rates of increases estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the estimates for fiscal year 1980 for eco in hospital revenues (Hospital Cost Department of Energy. nomic development and regulation Containment) . 1223 Dirksen Building services for the Government of the 2221 Dirksen Building • Appropriations District of Columbia. Governmental Affairs Transportation Subcommlttee 1114 Dirksen Building To hold oversight hearings on the im To continue hearings on proposed budget 8:30a.m. plementation of the Reorganization estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the Select on Small Business Plan No. 2 of 1978, the Civll Service Department of Transportation. 1224 Dirksen Building To continue oversight hearings on the Reform Act, and to discmss the work implementation of the small business of the Merit Systems Protection Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs timber set-aside program. Board with emphasis on the activities To continue markup of S. 593, proposed 424 Russell Building of the Offi<:e of the Special Coun Elderly and Handicapped Act, S. 740, sel. proposed Homeownership Opportunity 9:30a.m. 4230 Dirksen Building Environment and Publlc Works Act, and S. 745, Housing and Com 10:30 a.m. munity Development Amendments. To resume markup of pending calendar • Judiciary 5302 Dirksen Building business. 4200 Dirksen Bullding To resume markup of S. 300, proposed Commerce, Science, and Transportation Antitrust Enforcement Act. •Governmental Affairs To hold hearings on the nomination of 2228 Dirksen Building Patricia A. Goldman, of the District Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Federal 2:00p.m. of Columbia, to be a Member of the Services Subcommittee • Appropriations National Transportation Safety Board. To resume hearings on the Federal Gov S-146, Capitol ernment's responsib111ty for radiation TraillSpcrtation Su b<:ommi ttee protection. To continue hearings on proposed budg *Commerce, Science, and Transportation 3302 Dirksen Building et estimates for fiscal year 1980 for Communications Subcommittee Judiciary the Department of Transportation. To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed Constitution Subcommittee 1224 Dirksen Building Communications Act Amendments, and S. 622, proposed Telecommuni To hold joint hearings with the Sub •commerce. Science, and Transportation Communications Suooommittee cations Competition and Deregulation committee on Improvements in Ju Act. dicial Machinery on S. 678, proposed To resume hearings on S. 611, proposed 235 Russell Building Federal Courts Improvement Act. S. Communications Act Amendments, 295, proposed Judicial Tenure Act, and and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica Energy and Natural Resources S. 522, proposed Judicial Councll tions Competition and Deregulation Business meeting on pending calendar Amendments and Discipline Act. Act. business. 318 Russell Building 235 Russell Building 3110 Dirksen Building May 2, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 9639 Finance Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs MAY 14 To continue markup of S. 570, to estab Business meeting, to mark up proposed 9:30 a.m. lish a system of stand-by percentage authorizations for fiscal year 1980 for Energy and Natural Resources limitations on allowable rates of in rural housing programs, flood insur To hold hearings on S. 968, to expedite creases in hospital revenues (Hospital processing of applications from Mid Cost Containment). ance programs, and crime and riot In surance programs. western residential, agricultural, and 2221 Dirksen Building industrial consumers for crude oil 5302 Dirksen Building Labor and Human Resources transportation systems. Health and Scientific Research Subcom Finance 3110 Dirksen Building mittee To continue markup of S. 570, to estab Select on Small Business To hold oversight hearings on the lish a system of stand-by percentage To resume hearings on the effect of Gov National Academy of Science report on limitations on allowable rates of In ernment regulations on the production saccharin and food policy programs. creases In hospital revenues (Hospital and utllization of coal. 4232 Dirksen Building Cost Containment). 6226 Dirksen Building Joint Economic 2221 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. To resume hearings to examine the rate Governmental Affairs Labor and Human Resources of price and wage infiation when com bined with stagnant consumer de Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Health and Scientific Research Subcom mands with high unemployment. Services Subcommittee mittee 5110 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on the Federal To hold hearings on the roles of women 11:00 a.m. Government's responslb111ty for radia in health and science. • Appropriations tion protection. 4232 Dirksen Building 3302 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee MAY 15 To continue hearings on proposed Judiciary 9:30a.m. budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 To hold hearings on proposed legislation Select on Small Business for the Department of Transportation. relative to regulatory reform. To continue hearings on the effect of 1224 Dirksen Building 2228 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. Government regulations on the pro 10:30 a.m. duction and utilization of coal. • Appropriations Judiciary 4232 Dirksen Building Transportation Subcommittee To resume hearings on S. 961, proposed 10:00 a.m. To continue hearings on proposed Speedy Trial Act Amendments Act. Appropriations budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 1318 Dirksen Building Interior Subcommittee for the Department of Transportation. 1224 Dirksen Building 2:00p.m. To continue hearings on proposed Commerce, Science, and Transportation •commerce, Science, and Transportation budget estimates for fiscal year 1980 Communications Subcommittee for the Smithsonian Institution. Communications Subcommittee 1223 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Communications Act Amendments, Communications Act Amendments, and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica To hold joint hearings with the Com mittee on Governmental Affairs on tions Competition and Deregulation tions Competition and Deregulation S. 332, proposed Consolidated Banking Act. Act. Regulation Act. 235 Russell Building 235 Russel Building 3302 Dirksen Building MAY 10 2:30p.m. Governmental Affairs 9:30a.m. Governmental Affairs To hold joint hearings with the Com • Energy and Natural Resources Governmental Efficiency and the District mittee on Banking, Housing, and Ur of Columbia Subcommittee ban Affairs on S. 332, proposed Con To hold hearings on S. 685, proposed solidated Banking Regulation Act. Nuclear Waste Policy Act. To hold hearings on proposed reform of the pension systems for the District of 3302 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building 2:30p.m. Environmental and Public Works Columbia's pollee officers, firefighters, teachers, and judges. Select on Intelllgence To continue markup of pending calendar business. S-146, Capitol To receive testimony on alleged Soviet 4200 Dirksen Building MAY 11 electronic surve1llance In the United 10:00 a.m. States. Judiciary Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 5110 Dirksen Building Improvements In Judicial Machinery Sub committee Business meeting, to mark up pending MAY 16 To continue hearings on S. 677 and 678, calendar business. 10:00 a.m. to provide for improvements In the 5302 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation structure and administration of the •commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold oversight hearings on the status Federal Court system. CommuqJ.cations Subcommittee of conserving the salmon and steel 5110 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed head fish stocks in the State of Wash Select on Ethics ington. Communications Act Amendments, 235 Russell Building To continue hearings on the Investiga and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica Energy and Natural Resources tion of Senator Talmadge's alleged tions Competition and Deregulation abuse of certain financial reporting Act. Business meeting on pending calendar rules of the Senate. business. 235 Russell Building 1202 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. Energy and Natural Resources Governmental Affairs Approprlatlons Business meeting on pending calendar To resume hearings on S. 262 and 755, Interior Subcommittee business. bllls to require that all Federal agen 3110 Dirksen Building To continue hearings on proposed budget cies conduct a regulatory analysis be 2:00p.m. fore issuing regulations, and to require estimates !or fiscal year 1980 for the the use of less time consuming pro Department of Energy. Commerce, Science, and Transportation cedures to decide cases. 1223 Dirksen Building Communications Subcommittee 3302 Dirksen Building Appropriations To continue hearings on S. 611, proposed Labor and Human Resources Transportation Subcommittee Communications Act Amendments, Health and Scientific Research Subcom To resume hearings on proposed budget and S. 622, proposed Telecommunica mittee estimates !or fiscal year 1980 for the tions Competition and Deregulation To resume hearings on the roles of Department of Transportation. Act. women in health and science. 1224 Dirksen Building 235 Russell Building 4232 Dirksen BuUding 9640 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 2, 1979 11:00 a.m. Select on Small Business Joint Economic Selection Small Business To hold hearings on the availab111ty of To resume hearings on the Consumer To hold hearings on the nomination of investment capital to small businesses. Price Index figures, and on infiation Paul R. Boucher, to be Inspector Gen 424 Russell Building ary trends. eral, Small Business Administration. 345 Cannon Building 424 Russell Building MAY 23 2:00p.m. 8:00a.m. JUNE 6 Select on Ethics •veterans' Affairs 9:30a.m. To resume hearings on the investigation To hold oversight hearings on employ Veterans' Affairs of Senator Talmadge's alleged abuse me!lt programs a:iministered by the To hold hearings on S. 870, proposed of certain financial reporting rules of Department of Labor. G1 Bill Amendments Act, S. 830, to the Senate. 6226 Dirksen Building eliminate the State's required pay 6226 Dirksen Building 9 :30 a .m. ment in the educational assistance allowance program provided for vet MAY 17 Energy and Natural Resources erans, and S. 881, to provide for the 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 885, proposed Pa protection of certain officers and em Ap.propriations cific Northwest Electric Power Plan ployees of the VA assigned to perfol'm Transportation Subcommittee ning and Conservation Act. To resume hearings on proposed budget investigative or law enforcement func 3110 Dirksen Building tions. estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 10:00 a.m. Department of Transportation. 6226 Dirksen Building 1224 Dirksen Building Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10:00 a .m . To hold oversight hearings on the activi Energy and Natural Resources Commerce, Science, and Transportation ties of the banking system. Surface Transportation Subcommittee Business meeting on pending calendar 5302 Dirksen Building business. To resume hearings on S. 796, proposed 3110 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Railroad Deregulation Act. 235 Russell Building Labor and Human Resources Surface Transportation Subcommittee Health and Scientific Research Subcom To continue hearings on S. 796, pro JUNE 7 mittee posed Railroad Deregulation Act. 10:00 a .m. To hold hearings on proposed legislation 235 Russell Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation to investigate drug reform programs. Environment and Public Works Surface Transportation Subcommittee 4232 Dirksen Building Environmental Pollution Subcommittee To continue hearings on S. 796, proposed 2:00p.m. To hold oversight hearings to explore the Railroad Deregulation Act. Appropriations 235 Russell Building Transportation Subcommittee status of efforts by the Environmental To resume hearings on proposed budget Protection Agency and Department of Justice to enforce Federal environ JUNE 12 estimates for fiscal year 1980 for the 9 :00a.m. Department of Transportation. mental requirements. 4200 Dirksen Building •veterans' Affairs 1224 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on S. 689, proposed Labor and Human Resources MAY 18 Veterans' Disability Compensation and Health and Scientific Research Subcom Survivor Benefits Act. 9:00a.m. mittee Finance 6226 Dirksen Building Taxation and Debt Management Generally To hold oversight hearings on the imple mentation of mental health policy JUNE 19 Subcommittee 10:00 a .m. To hold hearings on S . 100, to provide programs. 4232 Dirksen Building Energy and Natural Resources a deduction for expenses incurred by To hold oversight hearings on the activi the replanting of trees by the timber MAY 24 ties of programs administered by the industry and environmental groups, 9:30a.m. Surface Mining Control and Reclama and S. 394, to provide that certain au Energy and Natural Resources tion Act of 1977. thors and artists be considered em 3110 Dirksen Building ployees of certain corporations under To continue hearings on S. 885, proposed specified contracts. Pacific Northwest Electric Power Plan JUNE 20 2221 Dirksen Building ning and Conservation Act. 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a .m. 3110 Dirksen Building •vet;;rans' Affairs Labor and Human Resources Judiciary To hold hearings on S. 759, to provide Health and Scientific Research Subcom Constitution Subcommittee for right of the United States to re mittee cover the costs of hospital nursing To continue hearings on proposed legis To resume hearings on S. 506, proposed home or outpatien.t medical care furn lation to investigate drug reform pro Fair Housing Amendments Act. ished by the Veterans' Administration grams. 2228 Dirksen Building to veterans for non-service-connected 4232 Dirksen Building 10:00 a.m. disab111ties to the extent that they Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs have health insurance or similar con MAY 21 tracts. 10:00 a.m. To hold hearings on S. 35, to amend the 6226 Dirksen Building Commerce, Science, and Transportation Credit Control Act. Surface Transportation Subcommittee 5302 Dirksen Building JUNE 21 To hold oversight hearings on the im Environment and Public Works 10:00 a .m. plementation of the Milwaukee rail Environmental Pollution Subcommittee Energy and Natural Resources road system. To resume oversight hearings on the ac 235 Russell Building To continue oversight hearings to explore tivities of programs administered by 2:30p.m. the status of efforts by the Environ the Surface .Mining Control and Rec Finance mental Protection Agency and Depart lamation Act of 1977. Health Subcommittee ment of Justice to enforce Federal 3110 Dirksen Building To hold hearings on the provisions of environmental requirements. home health benefits under the Medi 4200 Dirksen Building JULY 12 care and Medicaid programs. Labor and Human Resources 9:30 a .m. 2221 Dirksen Building Health and Scientific Research Subcom •veterans' Affairs mittee To hold oversight hearings on the efforts MAY 22 made by the Veterans• Administration 9:30 a.m. To continue oversight hearings on the to provide information on benefits due •Energy and Natural Resources implementation of mental health incarcerated veterans. To resume hearings on S. 685, proposed policy programs. 6226 Dirksen Building Nuclear Waste Policy Act. 4232 Dirksen Building 3110 Dirksen Building MAY 25 CANCELLATIONS 10:00 a.m. 10 :00 a.m. Commerce, Science, and Transportation MAY 4 Surface Transportation Subcommittee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 9:30a.m. To resume hearings on S. 796, proposed To continue hearings on S. 35, to amend Environment and Public Works Railroad Deregulation Act. the Credit Control Act. To mark up pending calendar business. 235 Russell Building 5302 Dirksen Building 4200 Dirksen Building