S5454 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 21, 1996 the Senior Girl Scout Challenge, as If lightning were strike here now, short forests, they believe that’s the way they well as design and implement a Girl flames would creep along the forest floor. should be. Some are partial to the kinds of Scout Gold Award service project. A The fire would consume grass, twigs and pine wildlife the thickets attract, too. plan for fulfilling these requirements is needle litter. The flames would singe tree But as the Lone fire proved, nature has a trunks, but wouldn’t get hot enough to kill vengeance when it’s disturbed. created by the Senior Girl Scout and is the towering pines. Then, when there was no ‘‘The natural area (becomes) so unnatural carried out through close cooperation grass left to burn, the flames would go out. in its density and fuel accumulation, it be- between the girl and an adult Girl That’s the way it was for hundreds of gins to present a hazard,’’ Fule said.∑ Scout volunteer. years. Fire was friendly to the forest, Fule f The named Girl Scouts provided the said. It cleared out scraggly brush and new following community services for their saplings every few years, allowing the older CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF DICK Gold Award projects: trees to thrive without competition for CLURMAN water and light. Miss Cady completed a beautification But this is the forest of the past. Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, yes- project involving landscaping and Today, national forests like Arizona’s terday morning, May 20, 1996, ‘‘a gath- painting at Carolyn Park Elementary Coconino, Kaibab and Apache-Sitgreaves are ering to celebrate the life of Dick School. much different places. They’re so dense with Clurman’’ took place at the Beth-El Miss Claverie produced an extensive spindly young pines, forestry experts call the Chapel of the Temple Emanu-El in New resource guide for recycled crafts and cluster of trees ‘‘dog-hair ticktets.’’ York City. William F. Buckley, Jr. led Fire in those tickets equals almost certain environmental awareness. destruction. The trees of different sizes form off with a wonderfully moving tribute, Miss Cancienne developed a resource stair steps for the fire to climb to the largest which ended, ‘‘It will require the bal- booklet on disability awareness includ- pines. ance of my own lifetime to requite ing an activities box. That’s why, forestry experts say, Arizona what he gave to me.’’ He was followed Miss James founded a chapter of Stu- is at risk of the worst wildfires this by Osborn Elliott, a lifelong friend and dents Against Drunk Driving (SADD) millenium. fellow journalist. There followed equal- at Benjamin Franklin High School. Never before has there been such accumu- ly singular tributes from Harry Evans, lation of fire fuel. Add to that some of the Miss O’Flynn designed an equestrian driest weather in recorded history and the H.D.S. Greenway, David Halberstam, competition for disabled children. danger is extreme. Phyllis Newman, who sang a Gershwin Miss Raborn educated her commu- Years of ecological disturbance have tune, Hugh Sidey, Mike Wallace, Bar- nity about exchange student programs brought the West’s forests to this point, Fule bara Walters, and then the Clurman and her family hosted two exchange said. family. Rabbi Richard S. Chapin and students. The trouble started in Arizona in 1883 when Cantor Howard Nevison provided lit- Misses Adams, Cummins, Reites and the transcontinental railroad was finished. The state was connected. People arrived. urgy and liturgical music. Schiffman were a team for a restora- They brought cows. It was indeed a life to celebrate and tion project of Storyland at City Park. The lush grass and wildflowers on the for- to remember. I ask that Mr. Buckley’s I believe these Girl Scouts should re- est floors were perfect for grazing. Cows ate and Mr. Elliott’s remarks be printed in ceive the public recognition due them to the bare ground. the RECORD, along with a fine obituary for their significant services to their With the grass gone, the fires stopped. by Lawrence Van Gelder which ap- communities and to their country.∑ When pines dropped their seeds, they took peared in the Times. root. The trees grew in thick, but not very f big. There wasn’t enough water for any one The material follows: UNNATURAL CONDITIONS SET tree to thrive. Now, when a spark hits the REMARKS BY WM. F. BUCKLEY, JR. AT THE STAGE FOR NATURAL DISASTER thickets, the world forest is doomed. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR RICHARD M. CLURMAN ‘‘If a fire came through this year, this tree Three years ago, one evening in July, he ∑ Mr. KYL. Mr. President, I ask that would almost certainly die,’’ Fule said of a asked whether I’d cross the ocean again in the following newspaper article be ponderosa that has stood for at least 300 1995, what would have been the fifth such printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. years. ‘‘Not only this one, but all its neigh- venture, done at five-year intervals begin- The article follows: bors.’’ ning in 1975. ‘‘I’m prepared to go,’’ he told What took hundreds of years for nature to me. I suppose I smiled; it was dark on the ve- UNNATURAL CONDITIONS SET STAGE FOR build could be destroyed in minutes, he said. NATURAL DISASTER randa when he spoke. I told him I doubted For most of this century, the U.S. Forest my crew could be mobilized for one more [From the Tribune, May 17, 1996] Service’s policy was to put out fires. Fule such trip, and just the right crew was indis- (By Sherry Boss) said. That policy interrupted nature’s long- pensable. He had done with me two Atlantic FLAGSTAFF—Peter Fule walks through the term plans, he said. crossings, one Pacific crossing. He was an in- past and finds comfort there. ‘‘People have always wanted to control na- stant celebrity for his ineptitudes at sea, He is safe in a stand of 400-year-old ture and remake it for human needs and done in high spirit with a wonderful, per- ponderosas. Wildfire is unlikely to touch this human goals,’’ he said. sistent incomprehension of what was the job Years of fire suppression policy led to the 8 acres of forest north of Flagstaff. Fule and at hand. He was the object of hilarious ridi- devastating Lone fire at four Peaks 35 miles his colleagues have restored it to the way it cule in my son’s published journal—and he east of Phoenix, said Julie Stromberg, asso- was in 1876 in hopes of learning a lesson. loved it all, even as Christopher loved him; ciate research professor at Arizona State The wind is gusty here and rain a strang- even when, while discoursing concentratedly University’s Center for Environmental Stud- er—perfect conditions for a sweeping blaze on matters of state, he would drop his ciga- ies. Fires have been put out as soon as they like the one that ravaged 61,000 acres at Four rette ash into Christopher’s wine glass, or start, allowing the vegetation to accumu- Peaks this month. very nearly set fire in the galley when trying late. But unlike most of Arizona’s forests this to light the stove. He thrived on the cheerful ‘‘If you don’t do frequent burns or con- one is not a tinderbox at the mercy of a ciga- raillery of his companions, but on one occa- trolled burns, you’re going to have a cata- rette butt or car engine spark, said Fule, a sion thought to say to me, in a voice strophic fire,’’ Stromberg said. senior research specialist at Northern Ari- The problem isn’t easily solved now. It’s unaccustomedly low, ‘‘I’m good at other zona University’s School of Forestry. too late to let nature take its course, Fule things.’’ The grass under Fule’s feet and the ample said. There’s no choice but to put out forest He hardly needed to remind me. Yes, and distance between trees in peace of mind. fires, he said. from everything he was good at he drew les- One day in 1994, students and employees ‘‘If all the fire crews walked away, by to- sons, little maxims of professional and extra- for NAU, the U.S. Forest Service and the log- morrow, the whole state would be in professional life of great cumulative impact, ging industry sawed down more than 7,000 flames,’’ he said. instantly imparted to all his friends, at the new trees in the Fort Valley Experimental Fule hopes the solution lies in a combina- least suggestion from them, or from their Forest, short eight miles north of Flagstaff. tion of cutting and burning. situation, that they needed help, or instruc- All that remains now are the 480 pines that Official will start a fire every three years tion. It is awesome to extrapolate from one’s were standing in pre-settlement days. Work- in the cleared-out experimental forest to own experience of his goodness the sum of ers brought the density down from more imitate the natural fire cycle that occurred what he did for others. than 1,000 trees per acre to 62—closer to the between 1630 and 1876. When Oz Elliott, on Shirley’s behalf, asked way it was before cattle disturbed the for- A similar cut-and-burn project is under me to say something today I went right to est’s ecosystem. way on a larger scale at Mount Turmbull on my desk but I found it impossible to imagine ‘‘It was a neat feeling to see this being 3,700 acres north of the Grand Canyon. his absence from the scene. Was it true that done and see the new forest emerging,’’ Fule But thinning out the forest is controver- there would be no message from him tomor- said. sial. Some people are so accustomed to thick row on our E-mail circuit? That we would

VerDate Aug 31 2005 06:13 Jun 21, 2008 Jkt 041999 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 J:\ODA16\1996_F~1\S21MY6.REC S21MY6 mmaher on MIKETEMP with SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS May 21, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5455 not be dining together during the week, or My best friend. ceremony that he would withdraw all main- sharing a tenth Christmas together? In the tenance and services from parks that were strangest sense, the answer is No, it isn’t im- [From the New York Times, May 17, 1996] repeatedly vandalized and where the commu- possible that we will continue as compan- RICHARD M. CLURMAN, A LEADING EDITOR AT nity made no effort to halt the destruction. ions, because his companionship left indel- TIME, DIES AT 72 He took pride in coming in the inner work- ings of the city as an outsider unwise to the ible traces: how to work, how to read, how to (By Lawrence Van Gelder) love. way to political patronage. It came to me last Thursday when just Richard M. Clurman, whose passion for ‘‘In the world I came from, I had only dis- after midnight my son reached me at the journalism brought him to prominence at pensed jobs on merit,’’ he wrote in 1974 in the hotel, that I have always subconsciously Time magazine and Newsday and whose pas- New York Times. ‘‘So I set about hiring, fir- looked out for the total Christian, and when sion for made him a leading ing and moving people on the basis of what I found him, he turned out to be a non-prac- figure in its cultural affairs, died on Wednes- I thought the parks administration needed. ticing Jew. It will require the balance of my day at his summer home in Quogue, L.I. Mr. Mr. Lindsay was so bemused by my political own lifetime to requite what he gave to me. Clurman, who lived on the Upper East Side innocence that neither he nor his staff ever of , was 72. suggested I do it any other way. The club DICK The cause was a heart attack, according to house politicians, whose names I eventually his wife, Shirley. learned but from whom I never heard a word, Good morning, Shirley, and Michael, and In a career at Time that spanned 23 years, either considered me so ignorant or so tem- Susan Emma, and Carol, and all you other Mr. Clurman held such posts as press editor, porary as to be unworthy of their presumed family members and hundreds of friends who chief of correspondents and head of the power.’’ are here to rejoice in the life of that wonder- Time-Life News Service, overseeing a net- In another article, he recalled his introduc- ful man, Dick Clurman. work of 105 staff correspondents deployed tion to George Balanchine and Lincoln I’m Oz Elliott, and Dick was my best throughout the United States and in 34 cities Kirstein of the New York City Ballet in his friend. abroad. capacity as chairman of the board of the bal- We were close for nearly half a century. From 1955 to 1958, he interrupted his tenure let company and its parent organization, the At first, we had no choice: as young writers at Time, which began in 1949 and ended in New York City Center of Music and Drama. for Time, we were thrown together, crammed 1972, to become the editorial director and ex- ‘‘I informed them that although I appre- with our Royal typewriters into a tiny cub- ecutive assistant to Alicia Patterson, the ciated the other arts and was certainly in- byhole at 9 Rockefeller Plaza. publisher of Newsday. formed about world affairs, I had been to the Within a year or so, we graduated to of- In 1973, he became administrator of Parks, ballet only once in my life,’’ he wrote. fices of our own—but by then there was no Recreation and Cultural Affairs for Mayor ‘‘Balanchine half rose from his chair and way we could really be separated. The reason John V. Lindsay. Mr. Clurman was also asked incredulously, ‘Do you hate the bal- was that while Dick made himself an expert chairman of the New York City Center and a let?’ in many things, his true specialty was member of the board of Lincoln Center for ‘‘ ‘Not that I’m aware of,’ I replied, ‘but if friendship—and that came so naturally to the Performing Arts. I were you, I’d make something of how sel- him. His commitment to journalism and his fas- dom I’ve gone.’ ’’ Once you were his friend, you could do no cination with its practices and lore led him Balanchine asked, ‘‘Would you open your wrong. Once you were his friend, he could to write several books, including ‘‘Beyond mind to learning about the ballet?’’ and, Mr. never do enough for you. Malice: The Media’s Years of Reckoning,’’ a Clurman wrote, ‘‘promptly made an offer If you were stranded in the suburbs by a 1988 analysis of the clash between the public that only a dolt could refuse: ‘I would like to hurricane, and unable to visit your sick baby and the press, and ‘‘To the End of Time: The teach you about it.’ ’’ in a New York hospital, not to worry: Dick Mr. Clurman suggested that he prescribe a Seduction and Conquest of the World’s Larg- would visit that baby and report to you bibliography and a list of people to talk to, est Media Empires,’’ a 1992 account of the daily. his usual mode of inquiry and learning as a merger between Time Inc. and Warner Com- If you were in a panic because your child journalist. ‘‘No, just watch and listen,’’ munications. was late coming home on a dark winter Balanchine said. He produced a program and Toward the end of the book, Mr. Clurman evening, Dick would be there in a flash to listed seven or eight ballets. For six weeks, wondered if Time’s objective of adding ‘‘to search the neighborhood. Mr. Clurman said, he tried to figure out what the quality of knowledge people had about If you were fired from your job in mid-ca- was going on. reer, Dick would find you a new one. the world’’ would survive what he called the ‘‘Then one night in the middle of If you suffered from writer’s block, Dick cultural gap between the corporations. Balanchine’s pioneering ‘Agon,’ I had the ‘‘No one should ask that benevolence be would help you write a lead. epiphany that my teacher had so artfully ar- the priority of Time Warner or any other Dick did all these things, most of them for ranged. Nothing was going on. It was just public company,’’ he wrote. ‘‘What can be me. bodies moving gloriously to music. From asked is that this new company, with its In later years, we were fierce competi- that moment, the ballet became my favorite human and material assets, have a spine tors—he stayed at Time, while I moved to spectator experience.’’ . Yet even in that head-to-head that is more than stocks, bonds, rights, deals In 1975, after he left Time and municipal combat, whenever I faced a tough ethical de- and tightly rolled greenbacks.’’ administration, Mr. Clurman formed his own cision, I would always call Dick for advice. At the time is his death, Mr. Clurman was public policy consulting company, Richard He was a superb journalist—ever the skep- at work on a book about The Wall Street M. Clurman Associates. From 1980 to 1984, he tic, never the cynic, always a stickler for Journal. also served as adviser to the office of the precision. As sophisticated and accomplished as he chairman of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. In One summer dawn we were out fishing to- was in journalism, Mr. Clurman adopted a 1981, he returned to journalism, serving for a gether—and to our utter amazement we spot- self-deprecating attitude toward his activi- decade as the chairman of Columbia Univer- ted a baby seal in Westhampton waters. Dick ties in other realms. When named board sity’s seminars on media and society. got on the ship-to-shore right away: chairman of the New York City Center of Engaged with ideas, Mr. Clurman was ‘‘Coast Guard, Coast Guard, this is Music and Drama in 1968, Mr. Clurman said; noted for dinner parties at which he would Sundance. Over.’’ ‘‘The suggestion came out of the blue. For 44 tap a spoon against a glass, commanding the ‘‘Coast Guard, Coast Guard, this is years I’ve done nothing outside of jour- attention of his guests—people like Robert Sundance. Over.’’ nalism. I haven’t even belonged to the P.T.A. F. Kennedy, William Buckley, Edward Albee, After repeated calls, some sleepy Coast or the Red Cross. Barbra Streisand and Norman Podhoretz— Guardsman answered: ‘‘At first I thought they were seeking my and announce a topic they were expected to ‘‘Sundance this is Coast Guard. Over.’’ advice about someone else and then I discuss. ‘‘Coast Guard, we have located a seal— thought they’d confused me with Harold,’’ he ‘‘I refused to be bored,’’ he said. that’s a Sugar-Easy-Able-Love,’’ said Dick. said, referring to his uncle, the critic and di- Mr. Clurman was a member of the Council ‘‘Is that of any interest to you?’’ rector Harold Clurman. ‘‘I am neither an im- on Foreign Relations and of the board of the ‘‘A what? presario nor a tycoon, and impresarios and Citizens Committee for New York City. ‘‘That’s a seal,’’ Dick said, ‘‘a Sugar— tycoons are often the moving spirit behind He was born in New York City in 1924. He Easy—Able—Love.’’ cultural organizations of this sort.’’ received a Bachelor’s of Philosophy degree in ‘‘You mean the animal?’’ asked the bewil- But within a few years, he was being cred- political science from the University of Chi- dered Coast Guardsman. ited with expanding the activities of the City cago in 1946 after serving during World War ‘‘That’s the mammal,’’ Dick responded. Center. II in the Information and Education Division He was precise, and caring, and incredibly Mayor Lindsay, who was president of the of the Army. He began his career in jour- well organized. The other day, as some of us center and leader of its selection committee, nalism in 1946 as an assistant editor on the were helping Shirley—manning the phones, clearly valued the fresh eye Mr. Clurman magazine Commentary. After joining Time calling friends, informing the press, planning brought to the center and to his post as in 1949, he served for six years as its press this morning’s service, Michael said it all: Parks Commissioner. editor. ‘‘Where is Dick Clurman when we need him There, Mr. Clurman touched off an imme- In addition to his wife, the former Shirley most?’’ diate furor by declaring at his swearing-in Potash, Mr. Clurman is survived by his son,

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Mr. President, I wanted addition, he ended the practice of serv- (CPI may be overstated by 0.4% to take a few moments today to speak ing eviction notices at Christmas. to 1.5%) ...... 33 This charity was certainly smart pol- Eliminate COLAs for one year ..... 55 about the passing of a distinguished CPI minus 2 for five years ...... 109∑ citizen of Connecticut and a great itics for an elected official. It was no American—Henry Healey, Jr. accident that if you had hopes of a ca- f At the time of his death, Henry reer in politics in Connecticut, it was a THE VOID IN MORAL Healey was the high sheriff of New good idea to stay on the right side of LEADERSHIP—PART IX Haven County. But his legacy was far Henry. Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, last But, it also reflected Henry’s integ- greater. He was a WWII veteran, a suc- Sunday marked the third anniversary rity as a public servant and as a man. cessful businessman, a dedicated mem- of the firings of the Travelgate Seven ber of the Democratic Party, and a He was a throwback to an earlier, sim- from the White House travel office. close and dear friend. pler age in American politics and he That is 3 years of the Federal Govern- I first got to know Henry Healey be- will be dearly missed by the residents ment harassing these innocent public cause of his relationship with my fa- of New Haven County and the State of servants, and their families, and the ther, Senator Thomas Dodd. And later, Connecticut. harassment continues as I speak. This when I decided to leave the House of My thoughts and prayers are with his is a story of an abuse of power by the Representatives and make my own run wife Jean and his children Patrick, new occupants of the White House, for the U.S. Senate it was from Henry Henry Bryan, Michael, Constance, back on May 19, 1993. Healey that I sought counsel. Christina, and Irene.∑ The Clinton White House used the His advice then, as it was every time f full powers of the Federal Government I spoke to him, helped to guide me in ADJUSTING THE CONSUMER PRICE to fire these seven loyal workers, de- my decision-making process. Because, INDEX stroy their reputations, deplete their Henry was a man of great wisdom and bank accounts, steal their dignity, and ∑ shrewd understanding of political his- Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, a cause great suffering for their families. tory. number of careful statements have I wonder how many Americans have Like few men I’ve known, Henry was been made on the floor yesterday and been the target of an abusive Wash- endowed with a vision that allowed today concerning the use of the Con- ington bureaucracy—like the IRS. him to presciently see beyond the po- sumer Price Index [CPI] as a proxy for Or how about when four Federal litical machinations of the day to the measuring changes in the cost of liv- agencies fight over the right to tell a long-term political currents of the fu- ing. As we all surely know, the Bureau farmer how to use land that his family ture. of Labor Statistics [BLS] is insistent has been farming for three generations. It’s one of the main reasons why that the CPI is not a cost of living And how many small businesses have Henry was probably one of the three or index: never has been; cannot be. It been harassed by OSHA or EPA? four most influential people in the past would be more than a third of a cen- Untold numbers of citizens across 30 years of Connecticut political his- tury ago that I became Assistant Sec- this land have been harassed and abused by the Federal Government. tory. retary of Labor in the Kennedy admin- But of course there was more to istration. In that role, I had nominal Hard-working families try to play by Henry then just his political acumen. supervision of the Bureau, and I attest the rules. Next thing they know, they are unfair targets of zealous Wash- He was a man of great loyalty and un- that this was fully understood at that ington bureaucrats who are out of con- derstanding, who knew how to accom- time, well before the CPI began to be used as it is today as an index for var- trol. plish things without being flamboyant Mr. President, no hard-working, hon- or self-serving. ious entitlement programs and tax schedules. est citizen should have to go through He wasn’t a great ideologue or a fire- such an ordeal. It is unjust and unfair. brand. He was more interested in peo- The question has been properly raised as to whether economists are in Government is supposed to promote ple’s human skills and their ability to justice and fairness, but Washington general agreement that the CPI over- work with others. turns these principles upside down. I think his chief deputy sheriff, states inflation. My distinguished There are many examples of bureauc- Frank Kinney, Jr., said it best: ‘‘People friend from North Dakota, Senator racies harassing citizens; but there are with problems in their lives could al- CONRAD, described the near unanimous few examples of Washington putting ways open up to him and he never testimony of a panel of economists the full force of its powers against de- failed to respond, to do what he could that testified before the Senate Com- cent, hard-working families. The case for them. That’s what I learned from mittee on Finance to this effect. I of the Travelgate Seven is one such ex- him, and that’s what I admired most would draw the attention of the Senate ample. For them, the harassment was about him.’’ to the fact that well before the Finance many times greater than what most And in his official role as New Haven Committee established the Boskin citizens have endured. These seven pro- County sheriff, Henry Healey turned commission to enquire into this mat- vided a service for the President and what had been a largely administrative ter, the subject was under consider- the press corps in the interest of open position into a bully pulpit for drug ation in the Office of Management and government. Their bosses were seven education, crime prevention, and char- Budget. Specifically, a memorandum of previous Presidents and the American ity. October 3, 1994, sets forth the matter in taxpayers. But cronies of President And he was recognized across the specific terms. Clinton, infatuated with newly derived country for his innovations in law en- I ask that portions of that memo- power, coveted the business for them- forcement. He was one of the first offi- randum be printed in the RECORD. selves. cials in America to advocate neighbor- The material follows: The only barriers to themselves and hood block watch programs. He was a OCTOBER 3, 1994. a lucrative business were these seven strong voice in the fight against sub- From: Alice M. Rivlin. loyal workers, so the cronies went on stance abuse in New Haven County Subject: Big Choices. When we met in August, we noted that it the attack. First, they spread false al- schools. And he was recognized by his was time for a serious discussion of the budg- legations against the seven workers, peers, when he was appointed president et and economic agenda for 1995 and 1996. De- accusing them of mismanagement and of the National Sheriffs Association, in cisions must be made soon about the policies embezzlement. This led to their firings the late 1980s. to be articulated in the FY 1996 budget, the by the President.

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