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THE GLOBAL 2000 REPORT: A One important conclusion reached by CROPLAND RECONNAISSANCE OF THE those of us who worked on the Report is The pressures of population and growing FUTURE that the conflict between development and human needs and expectations will place in­ environmental protection is often misunder­ creasing strains on the Earth's natural sys­ stood and is, in significant part, a myth. tems and resources. The spread of desert­ HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING Many of the pressures on renewable natural like conditions from human activities now OF OHIO resources noted in the Report are the result claims an area about the size of Maine each IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the desperate struggle of poverty-stricken year. Croplands are lost to production as peoples to stay alive; thus the key to easing soils deteriorate because of erosion, compac­ Tuesday, December 9, 1980 these pressures is to improve the conditions tion, and waterlogging and salinization on e Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, as of the earth's poor through sustainable eco­ irrigated lands. Meanwhile, cropland in the president of the Peace Through Law nomic development, which requires, among United States and other industrialized coun­ Education Fund, I take great pleasure other things, sound resource management, tries is being converted rapidly to other environmental protection, and family plan­ uses-residential development, highways, in inserting into the REcoRD the re­ ning. Instead of being an obstacle to devel­ shopping centers, and reservoirs. In poorer marks of Mr. Gus Speth, Chairman of opment, protection of resources and envi­ countries as well, villages and cities are ex­ the Council of Environmental Quality. ronment is an essential aspect of develop­ panding at the expense of cropland. Mr. Speth was the speaker at the Oc­ ment. Many of the resource problems out­ ENERGY tober meeting of the food and popula­ lined in the Global 2000 Report stem from a The increases in world food production tion breakfast series sponsored by the lack of sound, sustainable development, and projected by the Report are based on con­ fund. will be effectively addressed only by eco­ tinued improvements in crop yields per acre, Mr. Speth has served as Chairman nomic progress. at the same rate of the record-breaking in­ of the Carter administration's Toxic I believe that the Global 2000 Report con­ creases of the post-World War II period. Substances Strategy Committee and fronts this nation and the other nations of These improvements depended heavily on as a member of the interagency groups the world with one of the most difficult energy-intensive technologies like fertilizer, challenges facing our planet during the next pesticides, fuel for tractors and power for ir­ which developed the administration's two decades-second only, perhaps, to the rigation. But the Report's projections show policies on solar energy, nuclear waste global arms race in importance. While the no relief from the world's tight energy situ­ management, and water conservation. United States can and must assume a strong ation. World oil production is expected to Before his appointment to CEQ, he leadership role in meeting this challenge, it level off by the 1990s. was a staff attorney for the Natural is clear that no one nation or group of na­ FORESTS Resources Defense Council, a public tions can cope with international problems The conversion of forested land to agricul­ interest group which he helped found of the magnitude described in this Report. tural use and the demand for fuelwood and in 1970. POPULATION forest products will continue to deplete the I commend his remarks to the atten­ The Report's projections point to contin­ world's forests. The Report estimates that tion of my colleagues: ued rapid population growth with world these forests are now disappearing at rates The Global 2000 Report is the first at­ population increasing from 4.5 billion today as high as 18-20 million hectares-an area tempt by the U.S. Government-or any gov­ to more than 6 billion by 2000. More people half the size of California-each year. As ernment-to make long-term quantitative will be added to the world's population each 'much as 40 percent of the remaining forests projections across the range of population, year in the year 2000 than today-about 100 in poor countries may be gone by 2000. Most resource and environmental concerns. Given million a year as compared with 75 million of the loss will be in tropical and subtropical the obvious limitations of such projections, today. Most of the additional people will areas. the Global 2000 Report can best be seen as live in the poorest countries, which will con­ GENETIC RESOURCES a reconnaissance of the future. tain about four-fifths of the human race by The loss of tropical forests, along with the The next 20 years will see an increasingly the end of the century. impact of pollution and other pressures on crowded world, containing more than 6 bil­ habitats, will cause massive destruction of lion human beings by 2000. It could be a INCOME the planet's genetic resource base. Between world in which growing numbers of people Unless other factors intervene, this plan­ 500,000 and 2 million plant and animal spe­ are suffering hunger and privation; where etary majority will see themselves growing cies-15 to 20 percent of all species on losses of croplands and forests are mounting worse off compared with those living in af­ Earth-could be extinguished by 2000. One­ while human numbers and needs for food, fluent nations. The income gap between half to two-thirds of the extinctions will fiber, and timber increase; where per capita rich and poor nations will widen, and the result from the clearing or degradation of supplies of fresh water, timber, and fish are per capita gross national product of the less­ tropical forests. This would constitute a diminished; where degradation of the developed countries will remain at generally massive loss of potentially valuable sources earth's air and water is accelerating; and low levels. In some areas-especially in parts of food, pharmaceutical chemicals, building where plant and animal species are vanish­ of Latin America and East Asia-income per materials, fuel sources and other irreplacea­ ing at rates without precedent. Even now, capita is expected to rise substantially. But ble resources. some 800 million people live in conditions of gross national product in the great populous WATER RESOURCES absolute poverty, their lives dominated by nations of South Asia-India, Bangladesh Deforestation will worsen severe regional hunger, ill health, and the absence of hope. and Pakistan-will be less than $200 per By 2000, if current policies remain un­ water shortages and the deterioration of capita

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33147 levels considered safe by the World Health does what is necessary to address these represent in Indiana feel strongly Organization. Increased burning of fossil urgent problems. I would like to add at this about the need to bring interest rates fuels, especially coal, may contribute to acid point that I consider this assignment from down and keep them down, while at rain damage to lakes, plants and building the President to be the most important as­ materials and to the increasing concentra­ signment anyone in my position could have the same time controlling inflation. tion of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmos­ at this time. Developing for the President a Lowering interest rates and curbing in­ phere, possibly leading to climatic changes set of strong, effective recommendations for flation can both be accomplished with that could have highly disruptive effects on action will be our highest priority effort in the proper fiscal policies and a bal­ world agriculture. Depletion of the strato­ the coming months.e anced budget. The time has come to spheric ozone layer, attributed partly to chlorofluorocarbon emissions from aerosol reduce interest rates and cut Govern­ cans and refrigeration equipment, could also ment spending.e have an adverse effect on food crops and human health. HIGH INTEREST RATES MUST POLICY IMPLICATIONS BE CURBED Disturbing as these findings are, it is im­ TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN AL portant to recognize the Global 2000 Re­ HON. FLOYD J. FITHIAN BALDUS port's conclusions for what they are: not OF INDIANA predictions of what will occur, but projec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions of what could occur if we do not re­ HON. TONY COELHO Tuesday, December 9, 1980 spond. OF CALIFORNIA The humanitarian reasons for action in e Mr. FITHIAN. Mr. Speaker, I would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES response to these probleins are strong like to take this opportunity to protest enough by theinselves, but we must be Friday, December 5, 1980 aware of the Report's implications for our again the recent increases in the dis­ security as well. The Global 2000 Report count rate by the Federal Reserve • Mr. COELHO. Mr. Speaker, when should alert us to the possible consequences Board. the 97th Congress convenes it will be of increasingly widespread hunger and pov­ These increases have again catapult­ absent a colleague who has been a erty, growing competition for scarce re­ ed interest rates to 19 percent-a sources and widening income disparities be­ return to the disastrously high inter­ credit to this institution; Congressman tween the richer and poorer nations of the est rates of this spring. In the next .ALVIN BALDUS. I have had the distinc­ world. The Brandt Commission put its tion of serving on the House Agricul­ finger on this central truth when it wrote: month, the rates may again approach 20 percent. At the very time when the ture Committee with .AL: he is the "War is often thought of in terins of mili­ chairman of the Dairy Subcommittee tary conflict, or even annihilation. But Nation seems to be climbing out of a there is a growing awareness that an equal yearlong recession, unreasonable in­ of which I am a member. danger might be chaos-as a result of mass terest rates threaten to plunge us into I recall .AL's election to these Halls hunger, economic disaster, environmental another round of unemployment in­ in 1974. At the time I was administra­ catastrophes, and terrorism. So we should creases and slowdowns in the auto, tive assistant to my predecessor, Con­ not think only of reducing the traditional steel, housing, and real estate indus­ gressman Bernie Sisk. But California threats to peace, but also of the need for change from choas to order." tries. In addition, high interest rates had an eye on the race in the Third Secretary Muskie also made the point well have not substantially reduced the in­ District of Wisconsin, for there the in his recent defense of the U.S. foreign aid flationary spiral that has gripped the voice of dairy producers around the program before the foreign Policy Associ­ Nation for the last year. In fact, the country would take a seat in Congress. ation: high rates have contributed to it. We No one could have done as fine a job " It is in our interest to do all we can now must end this roller coaster flow of in­ to counter the conditions that are likely to as AI. BALDUS. In a part of the country terest rates and stabilize our economy. where dairy issues are of paramount drive people to desperation later. • • • We Obviously, some individuals and orga­ would rather send technicians abroad to concern, .AL BALDUS knew the job for help grow crops than send soldiers to fight nizations make a handsome profit out of high interest rates-but not the which he was chosen. If the matter the wars that can result when people are before him involved the intricacies of hungry and susceptible to exploitation by working family. Some may even profit others." from the rapid changes upward and a milk marketing order, .AL BALDUS The urgency and scope of the challenges downward of the cost of money. But knew how to approach it. If restricting set forth in the Global 2000 Report call for not the overwhelming majority of imports on a product competing with a new era of global cooperation and commit­ people. his farmers was brought to his atten­ ment. Prompt changes in public policy must tion, AI. BALDUS was prepared to take be made around the world before these High interest rates have had a dra­ probleins worsen and options for effective matic impact on reduced housing on the trade officials responsible for action are reduced. starts across the country and on driv­ the action. The farm country of that In bringing about these changes, the ing many real estate firms out of busi­ western and southwestern portion of United States has both the ability and the ness. The construction trades are in Wisconsin was fortunate to have a obligation to continue its strong leadership desperate shape, and the prospects for fighter of AL BALDus' stature here in role. Even though many of the probleins Washington. identified in the Report may seem remote the future are not bright. The auto­ from us, they are not. We must turn our at­ mobile industry faces its greatest crisis To have known AI. BALDUS as I have, tention, ingenuity and generosity increas­ since the Great Depression, and auto and as have my colleagues on the Agri­ ingly to them. dealers are going bankrupt across the culture Committee-is to know a man To provide the basis for a strengthened, Nation. The steel industry is directly of tremendous dedication to his work sustained U.S. response to the problems affected by the present slump in the identified in the global 2000 Report, Presi­ on Capitol Hill. It has been a privilege auto industry. When Detroit sneezes, to have benefited from his contribu­ dent Carter has established a Presidential Gary and Pittsburgh catch cold. Small Task Force on Global Resources and Envi­ tions to not only this body, but to the ronment and has asked that it report back businesses are severely imp~cted by in­ agriculture community throughout to him with a plan of action early next year. terest rates for their inventories, and the United States. To say that his Members of the Task Force, in addition to many have had to close their doors sudden departure from the House is a CEQ, are the Department of State, the forever. Office of Management and Budget, the shock, is to understate the void left to I fully support Government fiscal be filled. White House Office of Domestic Affairs and policies which will allow interest rates Policy and the Office of Science and Tech­ to return to reasonable levels. During AL BALDUS-We Will miss you. We nology Policy. As Chairman of the Tr..sk the 96th Congress and before, I stead­ know, however, that you have left for Force, I am looking forward to working with ur a great deal to live up to. In the these agencies and the many others that fastly worked for a balanced Federal made such valuable contributions to the budget, and I will continue this work road ahead, you have our sincerest Global 2000 Report in developing specific in the next Congress. best wishes. proposals for ensuring that our Government The people I have the privilege to Thank you, Mr. Speaker.e 33148 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 EVERETT SKINNER into the wee hours of the morning, dominated Senate in 1981 and 1982 to work Mrs. Hardy was forever vigilant, insur­ fewer hours, pass less legislation and restore HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER ing that residents of public housing the upper chamber's reputation as a nation­ have decent, safe, and sanitary living al forum for debating great questions of the OF MASSACHUSETTS day. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES places. To so many District residents, So far, so good. Right or wrong, that is in Willie has been a friend and a comfort. concert with the national mood. Tuesday, December 9, 1980 Her career has been varied. She has There is a risk, nonetheless. e Mrs. HECKLER. Mr. Speaker, we in been a private entrepreneur, she has Baker hopes "we can get away from acting Congress share a common bond with worked in the Senate of the United like elected bureaucrats and passing thou­ all those in public service across the States and she has worked for agen­ sand-page bills." Nation, and those who build a record cies of the District of Columbia gov­ The catch there is that if the legislature, federal or state, does not declare its will in of excellence in public office deserve ernment. Throughout her 6 years on explicit and often very-detailed terms, it our special recognition. I am honored the District of Columbia Council, her surrenders options-and not infrequently to call to the attention of my col­ vast experience has been an invaluable policy calls-to the administrators in the ex­ leagues just such a gentleman. asset to the work of that body. Most ecutive branch, those "bureaucrats" with For 32 years Everett Skinner served important, she has been an active and whom we, and legislators, maintain a con­ the town of Plainville, Mass., with de­ vocal member. While some of her leg­ tinuing love-hate relationship. termination, competence, and self­ islative proposals have been controver­ Better, in our judgment, that legislators lessness. He has earned the admiration sial, she has always stated her position concern themselves with details. Too many government rules and regulations are made and appreciation of his fellow citizens, and stood by what she believed in-a by people not nearly as politically account­ and I am privileged to join them in rare quality among legislators. able as elected representatives. publicly recognizing his outstanding A loving mother, a wife, and then a There is in the proposition of passing few career and dedication to the highest widow, a shining beacon in a sea often but spaciously-worded laws the germ of the standards of public service.e filled with confusion, chaos, and hope­ notion legislators can duck their full respon­ lessness, Councilwoman Willie J. sibilities. Hardy, with the courage and strength Somebody has to write the rules, if not in A TRIBUTE TO COUNCILWOMAN of a Ghandi or a Martin Luther King, law then in regulation form. By allowing bu­ reaucrats to do too much of that, legislators WILLIE J. HARDY Jr., has made life more livable for so default on their jobs, even as they hypo­ many. critically beat administrators around the HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY The District of Columbia will miss ears with rhetoric sticks. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mrs. Hardy on the council, but if I know Willie her presence will continue IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to be felt and heard. The Congress [From the Lincoln Journal, Dec. 1, 19801 Tuesday, December 9, 1980 thanks you, Councilwoman Willie J. KEEPING BUSING AS ONE TOOL e Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, at Hardy, for all that you have done.e President Carter can veto the antibusing noon, on January 2, 1981, one of the amendment passed by Congress. The Lin­ coln Journal hopes he will do so. It could be District of Columbia's most loyal and EDITORIAL COMMENTS FROM an academic exercise, however. dedicated servants will officially step NEBRASKA In a matter of weeks, the man in the down from elective office. This Friday, White House will be Ronald Reagan, not December 12, 1980, many of Council­ Jimmy Carter. Reagan says he is in com­ woman Willie J. Hardy's friends and HON. DOUGLAS K. BEREUTER OF NEBRASKA plete harmony with the mood on Capitol supporters will gather at St. Luke's Hill. Church, 4924 East Capitol Street, SE., IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whether that mood is totally racist or in the District of Columbia, to pay tri­ Tuesday, December 9, 1980 just a teeny-weeny bit or inadvertently or bute to the deeds and contributions of e Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, re­ unconsciously racist may be arguable. this great woman. I urge the Members Racism is present, however. Deny it six cently I read two editorials in one of ways from Sunday, the fact remains. of this Congress to join in this tribute the largest daily newspapers in my which begins with dinner at 7 p.m., The object of Congress is to prevent the congressional district, that I would Justice Department, by means of control­ and is followed by dancing until 1 a.m. like to bring to the attention of my ling its money, from playing any part in Councilwoman Willie J. Hardy has colleagues. The Lincoln Journal offers school desegregation litigation. That would represented the District of Columbia's some insights that I think we can all not prevent private parties from going to seventh ward on the District of Co­ appreciate as we close the 96th Con­ court. It would, however, remove the prima­ lumbia Council since 1975, having gress. ry driving force in such cases, the one sup­ been first elected in 1974. She was one This Member is in complete agree­ posed to be charged with enforcing the law of the first elected to that body as re­ ment with the editorial titled "Don't of the land. constituted under the Home Rule Act. Bother Me With Details, Boy." It To be sure, court-ordered busing as a She was reelected in 1976 and has refers to the need of elected officials· remedy for deliberate racial segrega,tion in served continuously since that time. the public schools has not been a howling to exercise greater control over the educational or social success. Its detractors She has served as chairwoman pro Federal bureaucracy's regulatory func-' are all about. No one doubts that busing tempore of the Council and has tions. The conclusion deserves under­ problems have stimulated "white flight" chaired several of its standing commit­ scoring. and no one questions that intraschool disci­ tees. In all respects, her service has Somebody has to write the rules, if not in plinary problems have increased. been exemplary. law then in regulation form. By allowing bu­ These are tormenting new vexations But Willie J. Hardy has been more reaucrats to do too much of that, legislators which can be as bad as the evil sought to be than an elected official to the District. default on their jobs, even as they hypo­ diminished. A native Washingtonian whose roots critically beat administrators around the Still, there also are examples of positive run deep, she has been a committed ears with rhetoric sticks. racial integration achievements in the community activist since early adult­ The second editorial offers an inter­ United States, given sufficient time, commu­ hood. When a voice was needed to rise esting perspective on the current nity leadership and good will, and conscious above the calamity of oppression, seg­ busing controversy facing Congress. I efforts directed towards success on behalf of regation, and discrimination, Willie J. also commend it to the attention of the children. Hardy was heard. When clothing was my colleagues. Busing as one-but only one-of the possi­ I submit these editorials to be print­ ble remedies for legally proven deliberate needed for the near naked and food racial segregation should not be put on the for the hungry, Willie was there. ed in full as follows: shelf. When protection from the terrible, [From the Lincoln Journal, Dec. 4, 19801 The tool should remain available to au­ tragic violence of street crime was DoN'T BoTHER ME WITH DETAILS, BoY thorities where circumstances warrant, needed for our youth, Willie J. Hardy The soon-to-be majority leader, Tennes­ those situations where the violation has · led the way. Often, late at night and see's Howard Baker, wants the Republican- been clear and gross.e December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33149 NATIONAL CONSUMER Eligible for credit and technical assistance Mont.>; Colorado I Utah I Wyoming COOPERATIVE BANK are not-for-profit organizations-existing co­ . operatives and new cooperatives having abil­ Those responsible for adhering to the HON. JOE MOAKLEY ity to repay loans with interest. Ineligible safeguards in the provisions of the legisla­ for loans are credit unions, mutual savings tion are the Bank's Board of Directors: OF ~SSACHUSETTS banks, and mutual savings and loan associ­ Chair: Lawrence Connell-Chairman, Na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ations. Exception is made for credit unions serving predominantly low-income mem­ tional Credit Union Administration Tuesday, December 9, 1980 bers-these are allowed to receive technical Vice Chair: Rev. A. J. McKnight-Presi­ • Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, a con­ assistance. dent, Southern Cooperative Development stituent of mine, Mary T. Scarinci, re­ The Office of Self-Help Development and Fund, Lafayette, La. cently prepared a copyrighted article Technical Assistance, authorized to receive Roger C. Altman-Assistant Secretary of up to $75 million in Congressional appropri­ the Treasury for Capital Markets and Debt on the National Consumer Coopera­ Management is ations, subsidizes loans for cooperatives tive Bank. The bank one of the unable to repay, and provides educational Msgr. Geno Baroni-Assistant Secretary more interesting recent initiatives of programs for organization, financing, man­ of the Department of Housing and Urban Congress and Ms. Scarinci provides a agement, and other related functions. Fees Development for Neighborhoods, Voluntary thoughtful description of its operation for technical assistance are deterinined by Associations and Consumer Protection which I am sure would be of interest the Office and can be waived. The Office Sam Brown-Director, ACTION to my colleagues: will not provide ownership Michigan ployment, Congress acted to give the less Frances Levenson-Director of Urban fortunate an opportunity, based on their REGION 1: NEW ENGLAND Office: Somerville, Massachusetts. Housing and Vice President, New York own personal effort, to share in the fruits of Bank for Savings, New York, New York our free enterprise system. Primary objec­ Territories: Massachusetts ; Pennsylvania Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor repairs, fishing, handcrafts and for numer­ ; Virginia/North Carolina Technical Assistance. operatives that are unable to repay loans ; West Virginia/KentuckyI Tennessee ; Mississippi/ The Board elected Carol S. Greenwald, and that lack knowledge and experience in Ph.D., President of the Bank. Dr. Green­ cooperative management. Louisiana/ Arkansas ; Florida . wald, visiting professor at the Harvard Busi­ Governing the Bank is a 15-member Board ness School, and member of the White of Directors appointed by the President of REGION 4: LOWER MIDWEST House Price Advisory Commission, formerly the United States, and approved by the U.S. Office: Detroit, Michigan. was appointed Banking Commissioner of Senate. Eight board members are from Territories: lower Michigan ; Iowa/Missou­ Treasurer. Funds authorized for investment total ri/Kansas/Nebraska ; south Texas ; New Gradually all members of the Board will quired to purchase class B and class C, in­ Mexico/ Arizona ; east Washington with the flavor of charity, rather it is based exempt". I east Oregon I Montana I Idaho

CXXVI--2085-Part 25 33150 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 19 80 JOHN LENNON radio operators. This practice results I have introduced it at the request of in a signal sufficiently strong that the the Department officials, however, so signals of legitimate ham operators that their proposals in this field can HON. GERRY E. STUDDS are blotted out and they are effective­ be placed on public record. OF MASSACHUSETTS ly foreclosed from pursuing their Introduction of a bill by request is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hobby. Not only is that wrong, but intended primarily to make such pro­ absent effective monitoring, which posals available for study without Tuesday, December 9, 1980 takes considerable manpower, it is not commitment to any specific portions • Mr. STUDDS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in easy to stop. Therefore, this bill. of the legislation.• tribute to one of the most influential Were this legislation to be enacted, artists of our time, John Lennon, who the Federal Communications Commis­ was tragically gunned down last night sion would be able to recruit and train IMPORT RELIEF FOR SPECIALTY in New York City. licensed volunteer ham radio opera­ STEEL As a member of the Beatles, Lennon tors to monitor transmissions. These influenced the musical taste, the operators would not be paid, nor HON. JOHN P. MURTHA styles, and the politics of an entire would they be considered Federal em­ OF PENNSYLVANIA generation. From his early days in ployees, but they would be able to pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vide a needed service much as do mem­ Liverpool to his recent life as one of Tuesday, December 9, 1980 Manhattan's most celebrated resi­ bers of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. dents, he was always in the vanguard, Also, as just indicated, there is plenty e Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, the setting standards by which all musi­ of precedent for such a provision of recent decline in auto production has cians who followed him would be law; at least 10 other exceptions to impacted greatly on the domestic steel judged. title 31, section 665b have been put on industry. As an executive committee Like no one before or since, Lennon the books previously, notable exam­ member of the Congressional Steel understood the importance of rock ples being those for the National Park Caucus, I would like to express my and roll, not only as an art form, but Service, the Office of Drug Abuse concern about the increasing import an influential force-perhaps the most Policy, and the Teachers Corps. penetration of the specialty steel influential force-in the lives of mil­ I might also add that this legislation market and the need for relief. lions of young people. First as a would not only permit the FCC to In 1977, import quotas were estab­ Beatie, then as a solo performer, he monitor excessive wattage output but lished for specialty steel products. The used his status as an entertainer to also other forms of intentional inter­ 3 years of relief helped the industry speak out forcefully about the injus­ ference, the use of profanity over the stabilize, and allowed it time to up­ tices of our time. From his widely pub­ air waves, and other signal violations, grade facilities, increase capital spend­ licized "bed-ins" with his wife Yoko such as failure to use the proper call ing, hire workers, and plan for the Ono to his full-page newspaper adver­ sign. However, this bill would not future. However, this capital intensive tisements protesting the Vietnam war, permit the volunteers to inspect other industry could not fully recover before his particular concern was curbing the amateur stations. In short, this is a the quotas expired last February. violence in our society. How ironic, Mr. measure that would address a specific As we are trying to revitalize our Speaker, that he-like AI Lowenstein, need by taking advantage of willing basic steel and auto industries, we Michael Halberstam, and so many and able resources that can be utilized must also seek a healthy specialty others committed to this cause­ at little or no cost to the Government. steel industry. should die so senselessly the victim of In these inflationary times, that is At a time of overall business down­ a crime he abhorred so totally. precisely the type of approach we turn, specialty steel, as the auto indus­ need to employ more often. try, is especially hard hit by imports. John Lennon will live forever in the I realize, of course, that it is too late In the first 6 months of 1980, stainless words of his music and in the minds of to consider legislation such as this in wire rod imports increased 55.4 per­ everyone who grew up-in every sense the 96th Congress. However, monitor­ cent, tool steel imports 28 percent, and of the term-during the 1960's. There ing the air waves is a legitimate func­ stainless steel bar 92.6 percent over is no greater tribute we could pay him tion of the Federal Government and, the first half of 1979. The industry is than to redouble our efforts to eradi­ given the volunteer expertise availa­ currently experiencing a 30-percent cate once and for all the brutality and ble, there is no reason volunteers unemployment rate. The United violence that has become so common­ should not be utilized by the FCC to States has become a target of foreign place in our lives.e enforce its regulation. Therefore, I producers who divert massive amounts urge my colleagues to give the propos­ of specialty steel to penetrate the U.S. market. HAM RADIO OPERATORS AS al serious consideration in the near FEDERAL VOLUNTEERS future so that we can go ahead and The economic effect to my State of adopt it early in the next Congress.e Pennsylvania has been devastating. Of the 65,000 specialty steelworkers, over HON. WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER one-half are in Pennsylvania, most of OF CALIFORNIA them in the western part. Allegheny IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY Ludlum Steel Corp., has estimated Tuesday, December 9, 1980 ACT AMENDMENTS that the lifting of import restraints im­ e Mr. DANNEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, pacts my district's community of today, it is my privilege to introduce HON. THOMAS S. FOLEY Leechburg by $52 million in wages, legislation aimed at making it possible OF WASHINGTON benefits, and property taxes generated for ham radio operators to volunteer IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by the local plant. This is a modern their services to the Federal Commu­ and competitive industry, but it nications Commission in the face of rapidly HARLEY STAGGERS ing three years of study, public consultation escalating costs of vehicle rentals circulate my implementa­ involvement and expense in contrast to Fed­ ~ission in El Salvador have changed all of tion of the decisions I announced on Decem­ erally managed areas. This procedure has that. They have prematurely made me ber 1, 1980, allocating water from the Cen­ been used to approve a number of State re­ aware of the full weight of my new ministry tral Arizona Project; <2> effectively take, quests for designation of rivers including as your bishop. I can think of few other possibly without full compensation, certain the New River in North Carolina, the Little events that could bring us together so oil, gas and other mineral rights currently Miami and Little Beaver in Ohio, and the uniquely as the Church, as women and men held in trust by the United States for the lower St. Croix in Minnesota and Wisconsin. of faith, few events that would bind us to­ Osage Tribe; and <3 > provide that any of The present administrative processes for ap­ gether so completely in faith, hope and love. four specific members of Congress may ex­ proval of such applications are orderly, set If somehow unconsciously, I could have con­ ercise an extraordinary veto authority over high standards, and are open to public in­ sidered withholding some portion of my approval by me and future Interior Depart­ volvement. For Congress to empower four of heart from you, that is no longer possible. ment Secretaries of applications by States its members with an effective veto over ap­ You have me. And you have all of me. for inclusion of certain State-protected proval of such applications with no require­ What I now say is born of a long silence: rivers in the National Wild and Scenic ments for due process pushes the concept of the silent apprehension on first learning Rivers System. I oppose these three provi­ one house vetoes to the extreme of one that two of our Cleveland missionaries in El sions and urge that you advocate their member vetoes, and probably would result Salvador were missing and feared kid- December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33153 napped, the silent hope that they might Paul VI often stressed, by her vary nature, whom I love ... even for those who may as­ have somehow escaped to safety, the silent· the Church is other-centered and mission sassinate me. If that threat should come to shock and sorrow on learning of their cruel directed. pass, I offer to God from this very moment deaths, the silent appreciation of the vi­ It is always possible, of course, for the my blood for the redemption and resurrec­ brant lives of two remarkable young women Church to become stagnant and go with the tion of El Salvador." of faith, the silent inadequacy in the face of drift of things. The Church's dynamic mis­ He was not afraid to confront the Junta, the anguish, even the anger of relatives, sion can be obscured by a preoccupation the Right or the Left on behalf of the suf­ friends and fellow missionaries, who ask, with triviality, stability and security. Six­ fering Salvadorian people. why? why them? why now?, the silent shar­ teen years ago the Catholic Church in In a prophetic letter to President Carter ing of Archbishop Hickey's great grief, his Cleveland had already grown to such a vital on February 17, 1980, the Archbishop plead­ abiding love for us and unity with us at this sense of missionary generosity that when ed in vain that no more American military hour. Paul VI asked the United States to share its assistance be given to the Salvadorian gov­ And, yes, I speak from the silent wonder­ religious leaders, a new level of missionary ernment. He knew very well that the pos­ ment at those who can glibly say, "These zeal emerged in our diocese. We have bene­ ture and policies of our nation directly in­ tragedies would never happen if we would fitted a great deal from this life-sharing fluenced the daily lives of his needy people. keep our sisters at home where they ministry because we gained a deeper sense His letter was not heeded. After his death, belong."-And at those who so romanticize of our Catholicity by having a sister church Archbishop Quinn analysis provided the enon of "expansion by contraction." Sister Dorothy Kazel and Miss Jean Dono­ phony magic of the manpower managers. There is a very fundamental organization­ van be praised, blessed and remembered The result was that service people were al reason for restoring the assistant secre­ now and forever. May they be numbered computerized and the personnel-manage­ tary for people. When there is a serious with Ruth and Esther, with Elizabeth, ment cult took over and a thing called lead­ problem, let alone a crisis, in a vital area of Martha and Mary Magdalene, with Agatha, ership was pushed into limbo. an organization's activities, it's a good pro­ Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia and Anastasia, with The moment Melvin Laird took over he cedure to put one man in charge of the Catherine of Sienna and Theresa of Avila, moved to restore military morale. People problem, and that problem becomes his sole with Joan of Arc and Elizabeth Ann Seton, were his primary concern. He knew that the concern. and with Dorothy Day. best weaponry is a weak reed without the Manpower is a vital matter, and it's now May the Angels lead them into paradise, kind of military people who could and in a crisis. Military people need and deserve in the company of Mary, the Mother of would make the weapons hit the target. One of the first people-type actions taken to have their own assistant secretary given Christ the Mother of us all. back to them. The nation needs this to be Amen.e by Laird was to order the reinstatement of space-available air transportation for active done in order to start working its way out of and retired service people. Space-available the crisis. This is an organizational funda­ had been taken away by the McNamara mental. If fundamentals aren't tended to, TWO STEPS REAGAN SHOULD then all the other remedies become a patch­ TAKE whiz kids. It was a short-sighted false econo­ my move. Service people, active and retired, work of Band-Aids. angrily resented it. Along with such a pro-people fundamental HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST When Laird took this remedial step, he, in organizational correction, there is also a OF VIRGINIA effect, sent out a signal that people and need for a swift remedy of a widespread IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their interests were of top importance in the wrong that has been inflicted on service per­ Pentagon's top office. He followed up with sonnel. I'm referring to the order forcing Tuesday, December 9, 1980 continuing pro-people actions that reflected the service-man and woman to pay for park­ e Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, the kind of leadership so desperately needed ing at their duty stations. the December 15, 1980, issue of Navy to come to grips with the present manpower If there ever was an ill-conceived, harsh, Times carried a column written by crisis. unfeeling, and burdensome directive, the Brig. Gen. J.D. Hittle, USMC, retired. The Reagan administration has the op­ military parking charge is it. At a time when portunity to restore sagging military morale the service families are squeezing pennies to General Hittle has served as Assistant and start cleaning up the manpower crisis. try to weather out an inflationary storm, Secretary of the Navy for Manpower So much needs to be done that it's doubtful the parking charge edict picks the fighting and Reserve Affairs, and he is clearly if the military personnel predicament can man's pockets. What it really means is a pay in a position to speak knowledgeably be fully straightened out in two or even four cut for everyone in uniform caught by the about the issues on which he has com­ years. Yet there is no doubt that a real start parking charge. mented. can be made, and quickly, when the new ad­ With thousands of service families paid at Because I believe that he has raised ministration takes over. substandard levels and having to go on food a number of valid points, and the sug­ Here, for whatever worth they might stamps, the parking charge is actually a gestions he offers have a great deal of have, are my recommendations for some penalty for being in uniform. The charge merit, I am pleased to take this oppor­ things that should be done as soon as Presi­ means that many a serviceman can't buy dent Reagan moves into the Oval Office. shoes for his youngsters when needed. At tunity to share his views with my col­ He should immediately restore the posi­ the same time, commercial employment leagues. I hope that General Hittle's tions of Assistant Secretaries for Manpower want-ads continue to offer "free company recommendations will be given the full and Reserve. At the very time post-Vietnam parking." and favorable consideration which military personnel problems were looming No one will ever know how many service they deserve. increasingly serious, the Carter administra­ people have taken the parking charge as the Thank you, Mr. Speaker. tion eliminated ? 03 to 18 tinction of his service as he moves his "He told her I was having a bad dream and years old)? Brother and sister exploring active life into another forum.e that he had come into my room to console each other's bodies ? A four-year-old crawling in bed and tended to believe him, and left the room. cuddling with Mom after Dad leaves? A When Sarah confronted her mother with four-year-old crawling in bed with her nude BOB GIAIMO the truth, she was told to lock her door at parents in the morning? An eight-year-old? night and warned not to tell her father A twelve-year-old? A sixteen-year-old? The about it when she saw him during the list of twenty-two situations generated HON. JACK BRINKLEY summer. plenty of discussion- and some disagree­ OF GEORGIA Sarah's father was aware that all was not ment. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES well in his ex-wife's home, though his What professionals do agree on is that daughter had never revealed the horrifying identification of sexual abuse victims must Wednesday, December 3, 1980 facts to him. In 1975, he visited his children, become a priority in our schools, communi­ e Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, for accompanied by Sarah's grandparents. "In ties, and society. Incest is amendable to the middle of the night, he woke us up and treatment. But you have to know who to more than two decades, BoB GIAIMO told us we were leaving. We had my half­ treat. has served in Congress with distinc­ brother with us and he said we couldn't take In general, children who are sexually tion, combining a deep sense of com­ him." Sarah and her brother returned to abused at home will not seek help. They mitment to those he has represented Springfield with their father, while her wait to be discovered. They wait for some­ with an unflagging confidence in the half-brother was taken to a child service one to ask them the right questions, just as greatness of our country and its center, then returned to the mother. A child Sarah waited. "There were teachers and future. His splendid leadership, as custody trial took place shortly thereafter neighbors who knew something was wrong," chairman of the House Budget Com­ and Sarah and her brother were returned to she said, "but they didn't want to inter­ mittee, stands as a remarkable demon­ the custody of their father. fere." Sarah's doctor was concerned that That was five years ago. Five years during she was chronically underweight. Sarah's stration of ceaseless dedication and which Sarah told almost no one of her expe­ minister was concerned that she seemed masterful budgetary skill. riences. him. Will success spoil KCRW? TRIBUTE TO BOB BAUMAN I want to wish GuNN and his wife The manager of Santa Monica's ugly and family much success and happi­ duckling public radio station laughs at the ness in the days to come.e question, and gestures toward the busy HON. DON H. CLAUSEN playground outside her window. OF CALIFORNIA "We're still in a classroom at John Adams IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Junior High School! It's a little hard to lose TRIBUTE TO TIM LEE CARTER your head under that kind of situation." Friday, December 5, 1980 Ruth Hirschman knows her station is e Mr. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker- "hot." HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT Never mind that the peanut-whistle trans­ ! stand in the well, mitter and flagpole-height antenna barely As I've often stood before; OF MARYLAND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES get KCRW's FM signal as far as the Bona­ The tribute that I'm here to tell, venture Hotel. Forget about those seventy­ Honors the Watchdog of the Floor. Wednesday, December 3, 1980 odd competing voices shoehorned into the I heard it said just last night • Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, this op­ Los Angeles radio dial. Pay no attention to Keeping secrets from some men, the anemic budget and tiny staff crammed Is like trying to sneak daylight portunity to pay tribute to our col­ into a space not much larger than a studio Past a rooster or a hen. league TIM LEE CARTER is both overdue apartment. Bob Bauman fits that select group of men and too soon. Overdue, because his "My overwhelming terror is how we'll get Who nothing can slip by, service to his district, to Kentucky, off the phone long enough to run the sta­ His undying dedication and intelligence and to America has deserved tribute tion. We only have five lines and six people Has been out guide. for many years. Too soon in coming, to answer them-and they already ring all There are seventy-three House Members because it means he will be retiring the time." Who'll not miss Bob next year. from the Congress, and we will miss Ruth Hirschman has taken a dinky public They are seventy-three unfortunates him very much. radio outlet incongruously parked in the Who have never seen him here. middle of a junior high campus from a Dr. CARTER's accomplishments here sleepy little jazz station to what many West To see his brilliant mind are well known and respected by Mem­ And adherence to rules at work, Siders consider the "most aesthetically Or know of his untiring efforts bers from both sides of the aisle. For pleasing and intellectually sensible" broad­ To rid injustice where it lurks. those who have not had the chance to caster in town. Unfortunately, KCRW's low get to know him personally, they are antenna placement-barely as high as the A superb parliamentarian, missing the key ingredients to his suc­ school's gymnasium-has kept the station a A spokesman in legislating, secret to most people in Los Angeles. That Bob is both a statesman cess. TIM LEE is a man who cares about will change in January, when the transmit­ And a scholar worth emulating. people. His service to the constituents ter and antenna are scheduled to move onto Too numerous to mention- in Kentucky's Fifth District has come a mountain top. That will allow KCRW's The good he's brought the Hill; from his heart, not just the desire to signal to be heard by up to eight million Aside from guarding the fioor, be the best Representative he could people throughout Southern California. Carefully scrutinizing bill after bill. 33160 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 "There's no way to know how many openness to left-wing opinions, "KCRW is cial or savings and loan ad. Rather, the in­ people listen to us now," Hirschman ex­ 'safe' Pacifica." frequent breaks are devoted to relevant plains, "because the major ratings services Hirschman sees it another way. comments about the artists themselves, or look at Los Angeles as a whole, including "There are certain things we don't have to to satisfy legal requirements for station many neighborhoods we cannot reach. Since do because other stations are already doing identification. we have 1,500 subscribers, however, I ex­ them. KPFK is always on the cutting edge Several "Strictly Jazz" hosts are, like Ron trapolate that we have at least 15,000 regu­ of change. It has a responsibility to the Pelletier, professional musicians with deep lar listeners and probably many more." avantgarde-to present extreme points of roots in the jazz community here. Others, The latest available Arbitron statistics view of all kinds. It's wonderful that there's like screenwriter Will Thornbury, a histori­ suggest KCRW's manager is being too a station doing that, and there's no point in an of the local jazz scene, are strictly in­ modest. That survey gives KCRW about duplicating it. Just as we don't try to dupli­ dulging in a hobby. A few even have pro­ 21,000 listeners per week. A far cry from the cate KUSC's fine classical music service." grams on other stations with tighter for­ two million enjoyed by top-rated KMET, or What KCRW does do that's different, ac­ mats. even the 200,000 pulled by noncommercial cording to Hirschman, is "try to help people Mitchell Harding, for example, speaks far KUSC, but respectable considering Los An­ discover new music, ideas, and cultures that beyond the KCRW signal area in a weekly geles is the most competitive radio market they may never have expected to encounter science-fiction program he co-hosts with in the country, and probably the world. or enjoy. The station is a forum for diverse novelist Mike Hodel over KPFK. A melliflu­ By all accounts, Hirschman deserves the points of view that exist in the community­ ous voice associated with public radio for as lion's share of the credit for turning KCRW from extreme conservatism to extreme radi­ long as the term has existed, Harding repre­ around. · calism. If our listeners tune in for one pro­ sents one-sixth of KCRW's full-time . KPFK later made head­ the new antenna is in place, Hirschman be­ from whoever answers the phone can be an lines when Lewis went to jail rather than lieves any compromise of the homegrown eerie experience. If the person you're speak­ give the police tapes the station received "feel" of KCRW would be disastrous. ing to can't help, a shout goes out around from an underground political group, and "People desperately want a radio service the room and an answer shoots back. A re­ when station employees rebelled against that is local and personal. They would much porter asking a series of technical questions Lewis's and Hirschman's leadership. The rather pay for that than for programs that got an over-the-shoulder response from the pair left the station under staff pressure in are designed to appeal to a national audi­ engineer. The development director piped 1976. After Hirschman took over as KCRW ence and are available elsewhere. We have up with financial data, and the music direc­ manager in 1977, Lewis later joined the sta­ an economic and a political commitment to tor added programming information. The tion as a fund-raising consultant. maintain such a presence." man answering the phone didn't have to "I don't like the word competitive," says On-the-air fund-raising appeals are consid­ move a muscle. Hirschman. "We take into account what the ered a necessary evil by noncommercial "Every person takes up a chair and a others are doing because we feel we have a broadcasters. For weeks at a time regular desk," Hirschman laments. "We just don't responsibility to offer something different programming is pre-empted by pleas for have room for new volunteers." from what you can get three stations away. subscriber donations. KCRW is no excep­ Eventually, KCRW will leave its convert­ "When we constructed our programming, tion. Proposition 13 cutbacks and inflation ed classroom and move into a remodeled we did it with a clear sense of what other have forced the station to rely more and basement on the Santa Monica College stations were doing. When KUSC puts on more on direct contributions from listeners. campus. But for now it actively discourages its news and public affairs, for example, Although the bulk of funding comes from unexperienced volunteer programmers, that's when we offer classical music." the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and production di­ ample, you will stumble on us." . For the past fifteen years, KCRW has image and population its programs. (You Some long-time Los Angeles listeners rec­ been the jazz station for thousands of all­ may have seen the newspaper ads asking ognize the Pacifica influence in Hirschman's nighters on the West Side, Seven nights a you to identify "who plays first bass for approach, with its emphasis on eclectic week, usually starting at 10:30, one of a KUSC?") KCRW ran a series of network­ music and progressive public affairs report­ dozen or so hosts sets a musical mood that produced promos calculated to underscore ing. In the words of one admirer of KPFK's is never interrupted by a Datsun commer- NPR's versatility: December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33161 "What's a radio station doing at a drug They should be kept on the air because reputation for himself as a leader in bust?" the announcer inquires, as the they're important, and fulfill our legal re­ the fight to make the world a better sounds of just that event are heard in the sponsibility as a public, tax-subsidized sta­ place for us all to live in. background. tion. "What's a radio station doing at the birth "We can't go off in our own little comer And a fighter he is. ANDY MAGUIRE of a baby?" and crying and fumbling are and ignore the community, though. It's a wants ourselves and our families to be heard. balancing act. To paraphrase Norman able to drink clean water and to "What's a. radio station doing in Leonard Mailer: 'You either change, or pay more for breathe clean air without having to Bernstein's dressing room? ... chasing a. remaining the same.' "e worry about cancer-producing pollut­ great white whale?" and so on. The point ants. becomes obvious. His work in the area of environmen­ The noncommercial network offers more tal concern is unequaled in Congress. than headlines and the top ten. TRIBUTE TO HON. LUCIEN N. The staff of KCRW is well aware that, We will all certainly miss his input along with its strictly local programs, the NEDZI into the many new pieces of legislation audience responds well to these NPR offer­ concerning the environment that will ings. They know it because of calls logged HON. EDWARD P. BOLAND be introduced during the next few whenever a. station announcer offers free OF MASSACHUSETTS years. program guides . stockholders alike of the Japanese attitudinal issue in any worker's mind-there is nothing International trade must be fair trade, priorities should be given: first to security, wrong with this. Why shouldn't manage­ equitable and working in both directions. In growth, and permanence of the company, ment guarantee all union members now em­ case of dumping or illegal procedures, con­ then to profitability. The accusation that ployed in the steel industry a basic income structive government intervention is needed Japanese corporations do not have to make for life in return for the member's commit­ for prevention. The Solomon Report is a a profit is foolish. All business men know ment and willingness to pitch in when well-meaning effort to attain this goal. How­ very well that a corporation without profit needed and accept job transfer, if necessary, ever, it is too arbitrary to be considered con­ is doomed. While the Japanese executive is from facility to facility in order to increase structive in terms of national interest. judged by the measure of stability, perma­ productivity? It seems safe to state that neither TPM nence, and growth of his company, his The Japanese system with its traditional nor other suggested recommendations will American counterpart is judged by the num­ value of loyalty and its inherent depend­ afford the steel industry a sound footing or bers on the bottom line: "Profit is the name ency syndrome guaranteeing job security produce a long-term solution. Such meas­ of the game." The goal to be pursued by has been, and still is, major propulsive force ures, while intended to be corrective, are in anyone in steel should be a healthy indus­ in the Japanese steel industry. The flexibil­ fact propagative. Authoritative protective try, not immediate profitability and return ity of devoted workers to be shifted from moves constitute the easiest way out, pro­ on investment. Profit will automatically job to job and, if necessary, from plant to duce minimum rocking of the boat, result in follow as the industry gains strength. Aus­ plant accounts for a sizable portion of the increased prices, and encourage continu­ terity in finances, unison in planning, and difference in labor utilization rates between ation of the existing lethargy in all ranks of dedication to performance might be a good the U.S. and the Japanese steel industries. the U.S. steel industry. Such actions solely starting point. The willingness to do so after In view of the United States' rugged individ­ mitigate the effect without curing the the plant is closed or after the plant is in ualism, it would be foolish to suggest that cause, glaringly exemplifying people react­ trouble is too late. we try to imitate Japan's dependency syn­ ing to business conditions rather than shap­ A central, industry-wide, development or­ drome. The Japanese willingness, however, ing them. This is no way to attain efficiency ganization should be established in addition to ask "What can I do for my company?" in­ or to increase productivity; nor does it con­ to-but not as a substitute for-private de­ stead of asking "What can my company do stitute the material with which new fac­ velopment efforts by each steel company. for me?" is something to think about. Natu­ tories are built. The initial efforts of this central develop­ rally, no one in his right mind is going to One does not engage in a skirmish when ment organization might focus on innova­ ask what he can do for his company unless survival is at stake and larger movements tions relative to manpower reduction, yield he has pride in his work and is motivated to are called for. Does the use of a Band-Aid or enhancement, prudent utilization of raw make operations a success. Neglect of the application of cosmetics eliminate the materials, and frugality in energy consump­ human resources is the greatest capital loss necessity for a surgical operation? Instead tion. Prototype "fully automated" mills imaginable. of using steel imports as a whipping boy­ could serve as testing grounds and examples The point is that, given the right motiva­ and in the process, misdirecting public opin­ for the entire industry. Designating the tion, a tremendous source of human energy ion-it might be more appropriate for the steel output of such ultramodern, jointly and competence can be tapped for applica­ American steel industry to do some deep owned showplaces of industrial technology tion in responsible and voluntary coopera­ soul-searching about long-standing chronic exclusively for export would accomplish the tion toward a goal for the benefit of all. problems and about the subject of produc­ multiple goal of establishing an industry­ GOVERNMENT'S HELPING HAND tivity. Uncommon people are needed for wide export offensive while constantly ren­ Only a dynamic, bold, and imaginative ap­ this uncommon task; others have too often ovating the industry in cooperative and co­ proach can solve the steel industry's exist­ equaled or surpassed the performance of ordinating fashion, sharing costs and bene­ ing problems. Moreover, the job must and the American steel industry. fits. All that is needed is a purposeful and can be done by industry itself. Beware of THE CAPITAL SHORTAGE ROADBLOCK selective change of antitrust laws to permit "the nose· of the camel in the tent." Govern­ Steel management mentions many other cooperative research, development, and ment intervention in the marketplace, while reasons for the downward trend in the steel export has had on our litical leadership-in place of the sugar­ the future. We have waited long populace, and on our leaders as well. coated militaristic demagoguery that is ac­ enough. Our Government's recently adopted policy celerating the growth of the disease, and Regardless of the cause of these toward Cuban refugees is symptomatic of poisoning our health as a nation.e fires, the fact remains that the sense- 33168 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Decembe1· 9, 1980 less and wasteful destruction of been neglectful of our responsibil­ is respected by his colleagues was best human lives could have been kept to a ities.• reflected in 1977 when the Speaker minimum if my bill were now the law designated Lun to head an ad hoc of the land. In particular, I wish you Committee on Energy. This panel was to note the results of the investigation given the unenviable task of trying to conducted in Las Vegas. According to TRIBUTE TO LUD ASHLEY-ONE consolidate more than 100 different the deputy fire chief the fire was fed OF THE HOUSE'S BEST AND energy bills into one coherent pack­ by the plastic and glittery trappings of BRIGHTEST age. Lun, displaying exemplary skills, the casino. Fancy flocked wallpaper, managed to coalesce the various inter­ furniture, fabrics, and other interior HON. MARIO BIAGGI ests and emerge with a bill. This was a decorating material contributed to the OF NEW YORK catalyst for the eventual approval by fatal character of the fire. Most of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress of legislation which marked dead were killed not by flames but by Thursday, December 4, 1980 the origins of our first national energy poisonous gases, created by a critical e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, one of policy. heat stemming from the synthetic ma­ the genuine pleasures and privileges Lun's record is so replete with ac­ terials. Aside from the dead over 500 which I have enjoyed in my .12 years complishments, to list them all would people were injured. in Congress has been knowing THOMAS take far longer than this statement The fireball-like blaze that swept Lun AsHLEY. Unfortunately, I am here allows in terms of space and time. Suf­ through the Stouffer's Inn Conference today to pay tribute to Lun on the oc­ fice it to say that this record will be Center in Harrison is still under inves­ casion of his unexpected departure hard to duplicate. Personally, I found tigation, but there is no doubt that the from the House. Rarely has a Member Lun to be a warm and considerate gen­ intense heat and asphyxiating fumes served with the degree of effectiveness tleman-concerned about his fellow were the primary culprits, along with that Lun AsHLEY has for the past 26 man-committed to service. He con­ the lack of sprinkler systems. H.R. years. centrated his enormous intellectual 2264 would allow those caught a sig­ Lun AsHLEY is a legislator's legisla­ powers into the legislative process so nificant opportunity to escape by con­ tor. His productivity has been impres­ that people of all ages could live taining a blaze and keeping the pro­ sive-his accomplishments truly sig­ better. duction of poisonous gases to a mini­ nificant. He has impacted in many I feel confident that Lun's best years mum. arenas in this House, but most espe­ are by no means behind him. His po­ In Las Vegas and in Harrison, and no cially in those areas where his commit­ tential to excel in whatever endeavor doubt in many other areas of the tee work permitted him the opportuni­ he chooses is limitless. I am only sorry country as well, State and local gov­ ty to acquire greater expertise. that we in the House will be deprived ernment officials are calling for inves­ As chairman of the all-important of his leadership. I extend to Lun my tigations and are promoting means of Subcommittee on Housing and Com­ personal thanks and gratitude for tightening fire codes and eliminating munity Development of the House being the grant man and friend that grandfather clauses which exempt Banking and Urban Affairs Commit­ he is, and to he and his lovely wife older buildirigs from any new codes tee, Lun AsHLEY produced some of the Kathleen, I wish good health and adopted. They may or may not be suc­ most important legislation of this cen­ happiness.e cessful. We in the Congress can pro­ tury. Let us consider as an example, vide an effective reform, quickly and the multibillion-dollar Housing and efficiently, by enacting my amend­ Community Development Act. This ment to the Flammable Fabrics Act. I program has provided funds which in TRIBUTE TO JOE FISHER will be reintroducing this bill during some cases have been responsible for the 97th Congress, and hope you will revitalizing entire cities. In addition, HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR join me before other lives are lost. under the leadership of Lun AsHLEY, OF MINNESOTA I also hope you will give your atten­ the section 202 program providing spe­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion to the plight of senior citizens cial housing for our elderly and handi­ Thursday, December 4, 1980 and others in nursing facilities and in­ capped citizens became law. termediate care facilities who are cur­ Lun AsHLEY played a key role in one e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, JoE rently exposed to great danger be­ legislative initiative in which I was FISHER is one of the most thoughtful, cause sprinkler systems may not be re­ deeply involved-the New York City scholarly Members of this House. Like quired in such institutions. In another loan guarantee program. His advocacy so many of our colleagues, I have the piece of legislation I intend to reintro­ of the city helped persuade a number greatest respect for JoE's intelligence, duce, automatic sprinkler systems will of our colleagues to vote for the city principles, and creativity in dealing be required in such facilities certified and keep it from fiscal collapse. Simi­ with the critical problems of energy for participation in the medicare or larly, Lun AsHLEY's influential voice and the economy. medicaid program. This is an expen­ was heard championing the cause of JoE FISHER's views on taxes and sive but needed reform, and to assist Chrysler Corp., when similar legisla­ energy have carried great weight in in its enforcement I have also pro­ tion was necessary to keep them from this body. In 1978, along with JIM posed to provide for direct low-interest fiscal collapse. CoRMAN, JoE led a strong and com­ Federal loans for the construction, It has been my personal pleasure to mendable effort to redistribute that purchase, and installation of the man­ serve with Lun on the House Mer­ year's tax cut to provide middle­ dated systems. Eighty-three able­ chant Marine and Fisheries Commit­ income Americans with the greatest bodied persons were trapped in the tee. Lun was designated as acting share. Unfortunately, the Carman­ MGM blaze. I do not even want to chairman earlier this year and his sup­ Fisher amendment was narrowly de­ think about the lives that could have port was instrumental in getting im­ feated. been lost if this fire had taken place in portant bills passed which originated It amazed me that JoE FISHER was a facility where occupants would need· in my Coast Guard and Navigation the target of moral majority groups. the assistance of others merely to Subcommittee. These included, among He has been a Congressman whose move from their beds. It is unconscion­ others, House and Senate passage of morality and integrity are above criti­ able that we have allowed such situa­ H.R. 4310, the Recreational Boating cism. tions to exist, and as I have said, to Safety Act, House passage of H.R. 85, During the 97th Congress we will delay any longer in enacting appropri­ the Comprehensive Oil Spill Liability miss JoE FISHER's contributions as a ate safeguards in the face of past and and Compensation Act. Lun was a fair member of the Ways and Means Com­ recent evidence that proves that trage­ and highly effective chairman who mittee, cochairman of the Environ­ dy is only around the corner and that will be missed. mental Study Conference, advocate ·none of us are as safe as we think we The breadth of Lun's legislative for human rights, and spokesman for are, is to clearly show that we have knowledge and the degree to which he commonsense.• December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33169 TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN Congress and it is unlikely that some­ As an original member of the Aging RICHARD !CHORD one of lesser talent than Lun could Committee, I have conducted and par­ have succeeded in shepherding it ticipated in numerous hearings over through the many obstacles in its the past several years and one HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT path. common complaint registered by sen­ OF FLORIDA I am sure all my colleagues join in iors is their lack of knowledge about IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wishing Lun the best in his future en­ Federal programs which exist for their Friday, December 5, 1980 deavors.e benefit. In addition, for some who are e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, one of able to identify a given program-they the most able Members of Congress find the federal system impossible to that I have been associated with is the IN HONOR OF JIM CORMAN AND understand, thus they fail to partici­ gentleman from Missouri, RICHARD LIONEL VAN DEERLIN pate in programs. !cHoRD. He has, in his two decades of My legislation is aimed at helping service in the Congress, been a vigor­ HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER the average older American negotiate ous worker for strong national defense the sometimes bewildering maze of OF NEW YORK Federal programs by providing and a proponent of many excellent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES measures which leave for him a great straightforward and easily accessible memorial to his dedication to America. Wednesday, December 3, 1980 information. This type of service We are all certainly going to miss him e Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I would help maximize the impact of tremendously here in Congress.e would like to join my colleagues today Federal programs by guiding needy in paying tribute to two of my distin­ citizens toward the appropriate re­ guished colleagues and friends from source. California, JIM CORMAN and LIONEL My bill proposes to have this hotline administered by the Administration on TRIBUTE TO SAM DEVINE VAN DEERLIN. Throughout his 20 years in Con­ Aging in the Department of Health gress, JIM CoRMAN consistently fought and Human Services. Specifically, it HON. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. to see that our Government worked would be my hope to have the pro­ OF NEW YORK for those most in need of help. His gram operate out of the national IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES service here also extended to his Clearinghouse on Aging within AOA, Monday, December 1, 1980 party. He served as chairman of the which is sorely in need of a definite mission. Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, SAM Democratic Congressional Campaign e Committee, and I know I share with Today, according to our committee DEVINE is one of nature's noblemen. A estimates there are over 100 Federal man of varied background in sports my Democratic colleagues a heartfelt sense of gratitude to JIM of the work programs providing some form of and law enforcement, he is also one of benefits for our senior citizens. They those rare people who becomes the he has performed for each of us. I want to particularly note how I range from the all important income center of any group in which he maintenance programs such as social serves. Few are more widely liked in Will miss LIONEL VAN DEERLIN with whom I have served on the Commerce security and supplemental security the House than SAM, whose genial income, to low-income energy assist­ nature, sturdy character, and laconic Committee during all of my 12 years in Congress. It has been a privilege to ance, to employment. Eligibility ages wit have combined to enrich his public range from 55 upward. service. His popularity was attested by work with VAN. I have worked with few as dedicated as he. We will miss My legislation is designed to be com­ his election to the chairmanship of plimentary to State-operated toll free the Republican Conference, but he his wit as well as his wisdom. As chairman of the Subcommittee senior citizen hotlines. One such hot­ served in countless capacities before line is operated with great success in that-as ranking member of his com­ on Communications, VAN led the fight to reform and revise our outdated my home State of New York. Informa­ mittee, as chairman of the "Good tion dissemination by all levels of gov­ Guys" supper club, and as an initiator communications laws. He has encour­ aged the development of new technol­ ernment is critical for older Ameri­ of conservative causes in the House of cans. I believe my proposal for a senior Representatives. ogies and new ideas across the entire spectrum of communications. VAN's citizen's national toll free hotline His departure from among us will be hard work and insight have estab­ would encourage more seniors to regretted by his many friends, but we lished the groundwork for future revi­ become educated about Federal pro­ are confident that SAM will continue sions of the outdated Communications grams and their ability to provide as­ to set a fine example of active politics Act of 1934. sistance. I hope for ·its favorable ap­ and citizenship in a retirement blessed It is thus with appreciation and a proval by the Congress.e by continuing socialleadership.e deep personal sense of loss that I pay tribute to JIM CORMAN and LIONEL VAN DEERLIN.e TRIBUTE TO HON. JAMES C. TRIBUTE TO LUD ASHLEY CORMAN OF CALIFORNIA HON. PHILLIP BURTON BlAGG! SPONSORS BILL FOR NA­ HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD OF CALIFORNIA TIONAL TOLL FREE HOTLINE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, December 4, 1980 HON. MARIO BIAGGI Wednesday, December 3, 1980 e Mr. PHILLIP BURTON. Mr. Speak­ OF NEW YORK e Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. er, I join my colleagues in honoring IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, it is with regret that this one of the finest Members of the House loses a person such as JIM House, Lun AsHLEY. Certainly one of Tuesday, December 9, 1980 CoRMAN, yet it is with pleasure that I the major losses of the 1980 elections • Mr. BlAGG!. Mr. Speaker, on De­ have the opportunity to pay tribute to was the defeat of LUD ASHLEY. cember 5, I introduced H.R. 8416, a bill his long and distinguished career. JIM Lun's accomplishments are numer­ establishing a national toll free tele­ came to Congress 1 year after I did ous including the monumental phone information line for senior citi­ and since that time we have become achievement of crafting the omnibus zens. I was joined by Chairman good friends and partners. I have energy legislation in the 95th Con­ CLAUDE PEPPER of the House Select great respect for this man because he gress. This complex bill was perhaps Committee on Aging as an original co­ has been such an outspoken leader in the most contentious ever to pass any sponsor. the very best sense. 33170 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980

JIM has been an important member Secretary of Defense and his analysts are the early 1960s. ABM system April 1960, in the course of a press confer­ alongside the MX system for protection. ence. In spite of the poor launch conditions, JIM, you have certainly left a mark Even without the ABM system included, the inherent stability of the rocket resulted of accomplishment in the House of cost estimates for MX range from $33 bil­ in a smooth, near-vertical launch, and ex­ Representatives. Your many services lion to in excess of $100 billion, depending tensive press coverage. will always be remembered. You have on who is doing the estimating. Less than six months after the project served your district and this Nation At all events, there are strategists who started, a full-sized HYDRA ICBM test with good judgment and sound leader­ will argue that any system anchored in 2.4 model was constructed. The missile was 44 ship. The best of luck to you in your million tons of concrete has very little mo­ feet long and weighed ten tons. Powered by bility, and even less flexibility from a mili­ a solid-propellant motor, HYDRA II could retirement.e tary perspective. They point out too that be launched almost casually, without fuss or good strategy dictates that battles be fought expense. Several times the launching crew elsewhere than on the land one seeks to pre­ floated it out of the flooded well deck of the MOVE THE MX MISSILE OUT TO serve and defend. With MX emplaced in the SEA dock landing ship U.S.S. Alamo. On other planned locations, an enemy nuclear attack occassions, no ship at all was used the mis­ would surely obliterate both Utah and sile being placed in the water using a boat HON. RON PAUL Nevada. Moreover, warheads detonating at cradle or seaplane beaching equipment. OF TEXAS ground level would suck up great amounts Once, it was even dragged bodily off a sandy of radioactive soil and distribute it down­ beach by a Marine Corps amphibious tank. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wind over most of the eastern half of the Despite a very long string of successful Tuesday, December 9, 1980 country, exposing the population to intense, launches, the Navy canceled the HYDRA possibly fatal, doses of radioactivity. program in 1965. At the time of cancella­ e Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, with the In 1960, at Point Mugu, California, a U.S. tion, Polaris A-1 was being modified for a coming of a new administration, we Navy research team directly attacked the floating-launch demonstration. Earlier stud­ can reassess the many wasteful and ri­ deficiencies of land-based launch support ies had been carried out on modifying the diculous Government spending pro­ facilities. They proposed using a highly Air Force's Minuteman missile and NASA's grams. One prime example is the mul­ mobile and flexible launch-pad which could Scout satellite booster to make them suit­ tiple protective structures DAN GLICKMAN difference in the quality of legislation entire congressional career. OF KANSAS passed by this body. We saw his mas­ We will miss your irrepressible spirit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tery of the legislative process just ear­ and your dedication, MENDEL, and we lier this year when he successfully bid you farewell with much reluctance Thursday, December 4, 1980 managed the Housing and Community and with genuine affection.• e Mr. GLICKMAN. Mr. Speaker; Development Act of 1980. during the time that we have served in In 1977, Lun made a monumental the Congress together, I have always known LuD AsHLEY to be a man who is contribution to the development of a TRIBUTE TO RICHARD !CHORD national energy policy in his role of willing to take on the tough issues. chairman of the ad hoc Committee on During the 95th Congress, he took on Energy. He managed one of the most HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II the complex and largely thankless complex pieces of legislation to come OF WEST VIRGINIA task of chairing the ad hoc Committee before the body in the past decade. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTAriVES on Energy. Over what appeared to be Our national energy policy would be Friday, December 5, 1980 insurmountable odds, this man cajoled far more effective today if the final e Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, in the the House into passing and worked version of the Energy Act of 1978 had last 15 years, the Eighth District of through conference legislation that been the Ashley bill. has begun to turn our energy situation Missouri has been redistricted five around. I have served with Lun AsHLEY on times. All the physical changes, how­ the Merchant Marine and Fisheries And energy has not been the only ever, never changed the identity of the problem on which the House has Committee, of which he has been Congressman, as RicHARD !CHORD has acting chairman during the past 6 turned to LuD AsHLEY for guidance. In served in this body for 20 years. his capacity as chairman of Subcom­ months. The port city of Toledo and A teacher, an attorney, a veteran, the entire Great Lakes were well rep­ mittee on Housing and Community the speaker of the Missouri House of Development, our friend from Ohio resented by Congressman LuD AsHLEY. Representatives, and a Member of LuD leaves a record of accomplish­ has been in the forefront of the search Congress, DicK !cHoRD has had a di­ for creative, effective solutions to the ment of which he can be most proud. I verse and distinguished career. shall miss the leadership and friend­ problems facing our housing industry. As a member of the House Armed With interest rates at record levels, ship of a hard-working, competent col­ Services Committee and as chairman league.• the housing industry is in serious con­ of the Subcommittee on Research and dition right now, and his leadership Development, DICK !cHORD played an will be sorely missed. important role in the future of our Na­ JOHN BUCHANAN Most importantly, LUD ASHLEY has tion's military. In a time when this been a man willing to lead and willing issue will no doubt become a focal to look at issues with an open mind. HON. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. point, DicK !CHORD's absence will be Fortunately for those of us who have OF NEW YORK hard felt by this body as it grapples worked with him and for the people of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with concerns of military prepared­ this country, Lun AsHLEY has been ness. Wednesday, December 3, 1980 ready to try the unexpected. He has As a member of the Small Business not been bound by any doctrinaire • Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, there Committee, DICK !CHORD was a strong perspectives. At a time when we need is no finer, kinder, and more decent voice for the men and women who new answers to so many problems, it man, not only in the House of Repre­ comprise a major portion of America's will be a real loss to the Congress sentatives but in my entire acquaint­ free enterprise system, and he worked when LuD leaves us.e ance, than JoHN BucHANAN. I wish he to assist and to solidify their positions was not leaving us.e in our Nation's economic picture. Twenty years is a long time for a person to serve in one job, but in the TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN MIKE McCORMACK MENDEL DAVIS case of DicK !cHORD, I know we all hope he could continue to serve in this body for another 20 years. We wish HON. JOHN W. WYDLER HON. JACK BRINKLEY him well, but not without thanking OF NEW YORK OF GEORGIA him for his dedication and his friend­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ship.e Friday, December 5, 1980 Wednesday, December 3, 1980 • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, over e Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, when the past few years of my life in the the 97th Congress convenes, we will CONGRESSMAN LUCIEN NEDZI Congress I have become convinced miss the fine service of one of the that nuclear power is the most promis­ brightest stars South Carolina has yet HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT ing source of electricity for the world produced: MENDEL DAVIS. OF FLORIDA in the next 25 years. My travels Serving with MENDEL on the House IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES throughout the world have convinced Armed Services Military Construction me that every country on the face of Subcommittee has given me the op­ Thursday, December 4, 1980 the Earth recognizes this fact except portunity to know, firsthand, the e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Con­ our own country. depth of his commitment to our coun­ gressman LuciEN NEDZI will be greatly Those who are crying in the wilder­ try's military strength and his unshak­ missed here in Congress. He has ness and laboring in the vineyards able independence of thought. MENDEL worked vigorously for a strong nation­ bringing these facts home to the has taken many a courageous stand, al defense and fought for and succeed­ American public are doing a service acting according to the dictates of his ed in the passage of much constructive for our Nation and particularly for own conscience and eschewing doctri­ legislation while he has been here in those younger citizens who will inherit naire guidelines. Congress. We will all certainly miss the American economy in the next few Those of us who had the privilege of him greatly and wish him and his decades. teaming up with MENDEL for the family every happiness in the years· Of all the people I have met in this annual congressional baseball games ahead.e field, MIKE McCORMACK is the most 33174 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 well informed across the board. He not will continue to take the time to com­ TRIBUTE TO HON. LUCIEN only understands the social and politi­ ment upon the work of Congress and NEDZI cal questions that are involved, but share, as he did with me, the great fully understands the technical issues knowledge he has of this institution.• HON. MORRIS K. UDALL as well. His leadership in both the fis­ sion and fusion fields has been enor­ OF ARIZONIA mous for our Nation. The tribute that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I pay him today will be fully justified · TRIBUTE TO HON. CHARLES H. Thursday, December 4, 1980 by the history of nuclear development WILSON OF CALIFORNIA • Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, LuciEN in our Nation, as the next generation NEDzi is the kind of conscientious, of Americans loses its fear based on ig­ honest, competent Member of Con­ norance and seizes the opportunity HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD gress who does great credit to this that nuclear power holds for economic OF PENNSYLVANIA House. Politically generous, a gentle expansion and the betterment of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES man in the best sense of those words, world's economy for mankind. MIKE LuciEN was always a voice of modera­ McCoRMACK will be missed.e Wednesday, December 3, 1980 tion and commonsense. He is a hard e Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. worker who always did his homework, TRIBUTE TO ROBERT GIAIMO Mr. Speaker, it is with regret that the a man I am proud to have served with. House of Representatives loses such a The people of his district may be HON. LEON E. PANETTA fine Member as CHARLIE WILSON. The proud of his service. He has left a posi­ 31st District of the great State of Cali­ tive mark on this House and on our OF CALIFORNIA country.e IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fornia has been fortunate to have had the kind of positive representation Wednesday, December 3, 1980 that CHARLIE has so ably provided. • Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, I am As a key member of the Armed Serv­ TRIBUTE TO CHARLES V ANIK pleased to join in the tribute for our ices Committee and chairman of the distinguished colleague from the State Procurement and Military Nuclear HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR of Connecticut. For the past 2 years I Systems Subcommittee, CHARLIE has OF MINNESOTA have had the special privilege of serv­ been a leading expert on military avi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing under Boa's chairmanship on the ation and intelligence operations. As House Budget Committee. I treasure an outspoken critic of SALT II and Tuesday, December 2, 1980 his friendship and the experience of chairman of the SALT II special e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, the working with him during this 96th ses­ panel, CHARLIE has demonstrated his decision of our colleague from Ohio, sion of Congress. profound concern for the stability of Mr. VANIK, to retire at the end of this One of Boa's great contributions to our Armed Forces and our national se­ Congress is characteristic of the prin­ Congress during the past 22 years has curity. CHARLIE will always be remem­ cipled representation he has provided been his work as chairman of the bered for the many reforms he over the past 20 years. Advised by his House Budget Committee. The 1974 brought to the Postal Service while campaign staff that it would be neces­ Budget Act was designed to force the chairman of the Subcommittee on sary for him to undertake a major Congress to face up to the conse­ Postal Operations and Services. He is fundraising effort, our colleague chose quences of its spending decisions and, largely responsible for improving this not to seek reelection. CHARLIE VANIK ideally, to gain some control over Fed­ country's mail service. stated that the whole process by eral spending. But the Budget Act CHARLIE, your career in the House is which congressional campaigns are fi­ simply gave Congress the tools to plan an accomplished one. History will nanced imposed restrictions and obli­ future Federal budgets, it did not pro­ record your many successful roles in gations upon officeholders that he vide what is most needed to make the Congress. I wish you the best in the could not accept. process work-a Budget Committee future and may you enjoy the years of With CHARLIE VANIK's principled chairman who could, by his intelli­ retirement.e views on fundraising as an inspiration, gence, strength, and wisdom, guide the I hope this House will enact campaign budget process through the stresses financing reform in the next Congress. and strains that plague any new con­ Congressman V ANIK has come to rep­ gressional institution. BoB has filled resent the highest ideals of service in that vital role over the last 4 years and TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN the House: integrity, competence, con­ the people of this country, not to men­ ROBERT GIAIMO siderateness, and vision. His service on tion the Congress, are better off be­ the Ways and Means Committee and cause of his commitment to the HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT his chairmanship of the Trade Sub­ budget process. committee demonstrated his great BoB has worked hard to explain how OF FLORIDA skill as a legislator. the budget process works to both old IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The House will miss the presence of and new Members of the House. Also Wednesday, December 3, 1980 this Member so fiercely dedicated to he has constantly reminded us of the principle, and so fearless in his consist­ consequences of each congressional e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Con­ ent efforts to expose the special inter­ spending decision. It has not been an gressman Boa GIAIMO leaves behind ests.e easy task to impose some fiscal disci­ him a solid record of achievement as pline over the Congress. Boa has often he retires from Congress. He has been found himself on the unpopular side a strong right hand in securing greater of many an issue, but his commitment fiscal responsibility on the part of the HON. AL ULLMAN to controlling spending has remained Federal Government. His outstanding strong. Without his commitment the achievement has been in his work as HON. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. budget process might not have sur­ chairman of the Committee on the OF NEW YORK vived the 1970's. Boa will long be re­ Budget, but he has also been the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES membered for his courage in forcing author of many pieces of constructive the Congress to face up to the realities legislation which will long be a memo­ Wednesday, December 3, 1980 of uncontrolled spending. rial to him. We all wish for him and e Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, for 14 We will all miss Boa's presence in his family every happiness in his re­ years I have served withAL ULLMAN on Congress. We can only hope that he tirement.e the Ways and Means Committee. For December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33175 the last 4, I was ranking minority 1962, ·when he was elected to the Utah advice that was sound, as well as sin­ member to his role as chairman. As House of Representatives. In 1967, he cere. His role as a counselor was popu­ such, I have been closely associated served his State in another capacity, lar among Members, both new and with him as a friend, an adversary, a as an assistant to then-Gov. Calvin L. senior. cosponsor and coinitiator, a follower, Rampton. In 1970, he came to Con­ As the senior Republican member on an adviser, and, last by not least, an gress. the Interstate and Fo:reign Commerce admirer. AL ULLMAN is an honest and As a member of the House Interior Committee, SAM was a leader on that decent man. His nature is methodical, and Insular Affairs Committee, I have panel since 1972. He also had a special but his insights are deep. On occasion had the opportunity to work with interest in the internal workings of he is far ahead of his time and willing GuNN McKAY, on a number of impor­ to take the risks of being a leader and this body as witnessed by the great tant issues, since he serves on the Inte­ deal of time he spent on his House Ad­ a prophet. Here in the House he has rior Subcommittee of Appropriations. carried more than the usual burden in ministration Committee activities. The I have been with GUNN in his district mechanics of running this operation the significant service he has rendered and have seen firsthand the results of through the Ways and Means Com­ his untiring efforts on behalf of his called Congress are often overlooked mittee, but he had done it with grace constituents. We all have also been im­ and we should be thankful for the and understanding. Associating with pressed by his work as chairman of kind of people like SAM, who have him has been a privilege, enriching my the Subcommittee on Military Con­ been instrumental in keeping things in service here and that of countless col­ struction. order for everyone. leagues, as well. We wish him the very We all wish GUNN and his wife, I am confident that my good friend best in years to come, knowing that he Donna, the very best in the coming SAM DEVINE will continue his dedica­ will continue to draw on his vast expe­ years, and also know that they both tion to public service in an appropriate rience as a writer, speaker, and advo­ look forward to spending a great deal fashion. We are losing a diligent legis­ cate of significance.• of more time with their large family.e lator, a respected individual, and a real gentleman. My wish for him is that his future be fruitful and that we BOB WILSON might see him again in public life CONGRESSMAN RICHARDSON before too long.e HON. JACK BRINKLEY PREYER OF GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT NORTHERN VIRGINIA COL- Monday, December 1, 1980 OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LEAGUES WILL BE MISSED BY e Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, after THE HOUSE almost three decades of devoted serv­ Monday, December 1, 1980 ice to his district and the Nation, Con­ e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Con­ gressman BoB WILSON will be sorely gressman RICHARDSON PREYER is a man HON. DAN GLICKMAN missed by all of us who have had the who has set the highest possible OF KANSAS privilege of working with him. standards for achievement in Con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BoB is truly all American in the very gress. He is a Congressman's Congress­ finest sense. His broadminded, toler­ man because he is relied upon for sage Thursday, December 4, 1980 ant, practical views have helped to advice and for leadership and has suc­ e Mr. GLICKMAN. Mr. Speaker, I guide this body through some of its ceeded in leaving behind him a solid rise to pay tribute to our colleagues most difficult deliverations. record of achievement in legislation Over the years, in working with BoB from northern Virginia, HERB HARRis which few can equal. We will all great­ and JoE FISHER, who will be leaving on the House Armed Services Commit­ ly miss him in the years ahead and we tee, I have come to know and respect hope that he and his family will be the House at the end of this term. his expertise on wide-ranging military back here many times so that we can These are two men who have given issues. BoB's mastery of defense mat­ rely upon him in the future in the their best to the Congress and to the ters was readily apparent to each helpful spirit that is his.e Nation; they will be missed. member of our Armed Services Com­ I have had the good fortune to serve mittee's 1971 study trip to examine with HERB HARRis on the House Judi­ the Vietnamization program. ciary Committee over the last year. BoB WILSON has cast a giant shadow A TRIBUTE TO SAM DEVINE That has given me an opportunity to in this body, and we will miss his ex­ know and learn from HERB. He is a ample of solid leadership for years to HON. MARIO BIAGGI thoughtful legislator and one who is come.e OF NEW YORK not afraid to express himself. His IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES candor was refreshing during debates Monday, December 1, 1980 in the Judiciary Committee, and cou­ THE HONORABLE GUNN McKAY pled with his good nature helped keep e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I deeply things in their proper perspective. HON. NICK JOE RAHALL II regret that our friend and colleague, SAM DEVINE, will be absent from this And JoE FISHER has been a level­ OF WEST VIRGINIA body when the 97th Congress con­ headed, hard-working legislator. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES venes in January and wish to pay trib­ has applied his intellect to tackling Friday, December 5, 1980 ute to him for his 22 years of service tough and complex problems, and he has stood up for the principles he be­ • Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, for 10 to the people of the 12th District of years, the First District of Utah has Ohio. lieves in. Both his service on the Ways been represented in this body by a While SAM was a dedicated leader of and Means Committee and at the man of high distinction, tireless dedi­ his own Republican Party, it certainly helm of the Environmental Study cation, and great warmth. That man, did nothing to diminish the respect he Conference have added greatly to the GUNN McKAY, is an individual whom I received from Members on my side of respect which those organizations am proud to call a colleague and the aisle as well. As we all know, command. pleased to call a friend. advice comes easily in this Chamber. I wish HERB and JOE the very best. I As a small businessman and teacher, You could always be sure that SAM look forward to continuing friend­ GuNN McKAY's public career began in DEVINE could be counted on to provide ship.e 33176 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN JIM dent of Montgomery, Ala., was arrest­ yesterday, are perpetrated by LLOYD ed for refusing to sit in the "colored deranged individuals or are crimes of section" of a city bus. This courageous passion that no level of deterrence or HON. JOHN W. WYDLER act triggered an avalanche of construc­ enforcement will control. It is here tive protests by blacks and their allies where efforts are needed to prevent OF NEW YORK throughout the South. easy access to easily concealable, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Although today we hear some voices highly deadly weapons like handguns. Wednesday, December 3, 1980 proclaiming the end of the civil rights I believe Federal legislation to con­ • Mr. WYDLER. Mr. Speaker, as a Re­ movement, I am certain that the ac­ trol indiscriminate access to handguns publican, I rise to praise JIM LLOYD, complishments of the past 25 years is necessary to prevent these gratu­ both as a Member of the Congress and will not be reversed if people remem­ itous killings. Yes; some assaults with as a citizen of our Nation. Those who ber the bravery and conviction of citi­ other weapons and even killings by know him personally recognize him to zens such as Rosa Parks. The struggle handguns will continue no matter how be a fine man in every sense of the for freedom continues and each citizen we limit access to handguns by law. word. His thoughtfulness and intelli­ must be ready to stand fast for their But, incidents of well-known people gence have made him an effective leg­ rights as Rosa Parks did 25 years gunned down in the streets, as John islator as well. I wish him every suc­ ago.e Lennon was yesterday evening, flash a cess in the years ahead and I hope our clear warning of the senseless instabil­ paths will cross often.e ity of a gun-toting society where hand­ CONGRESSMAN THOMAS gun traffic remains totally un­ ASHLEY checked.e TRIBUTE TO LUCIEN NEDZI HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT OF FLORIDA TRIBUTE TO HON. HERB HARRIS HON. LEON E. PANETTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Thursday, December 4, 1980 HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Repre­ OF MINNESOTA Thursday, December 4, 1980 sentative THoMAs AsHLEY, or as we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES know him, Lun, has made a solid con­ e Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, I join Thursday, December 4, 1980 my colleagues in paying tribute to tribution to the legislative achieve­ ments of Congress in the many years e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, it is LuciEN NEDZI. As a 23-year veteran of he has been in Congress. We will all difficult to believe that a Member can the House, LuciEN has some tremen­ work as hard and as effectively for his dous accomplishments upon which he greatly miss him and we wish for him can look back, and, as he retires, I and his family every happiness in the constituents as HERB HARRIS has and years ahead. He has been a real leader not be returned by the voters. know we all wish him the best. among us and we know that wherever HERB HARRIS' narrow election defeat I have been familiar with LuciEN's he goes, he will carry on many years is a loss to this country. He has been a work in two particular areas. First, I of achievement. Many times, but for leader in the fight to reduce wasteful served with him on the Committee on his active leadership, we would not Government spending and to curb House Administration and found him have passed much needed legislation; hidden and unnecessary consulting a strong and conscientious committee and the country is deeply his debtor.e costs. member. In addition, of course, he has He has made an important contribu­ served as acting chairman for several tion to the development of a national months during a very difficult time. JOHN LENNON-ANOTHER energy policy. He has done so with distinction. SENSELESS HANDGUN MURDER HERB's energies and ability insure In addition, I have been very im­ him a most exciting and interesting pressed with LuciEN's work as chair­ HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER future. I hope the House will again man of the Armed Services Subcom­ OF ILLINOIS benefit from HERB HARRis' presence in mittee on Military Installations and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the not too distant future.e Facilities. My own area has several such facilities, and there has been a Tuesday, December 9, 1980 serious need for improvements in • Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, sense­ many areas. LuciEN has listened and less deaths caused by an excess of easy TRIBUTE TO CHARLES V ANIK given approval to my requests for up­ access to handguns threaten us all on grading of those facilities. My con­ the streets and in our homes and HON. BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. stituents and I will always be grateful places of business. John Lennon's OF NEW YORK for his recognition of their needs. death yesterday at the hands of a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deranged assailant is but the latest LuciEN has been one of the most re­ Tuesday, December 2, 1980 spected Members of this body, and I in a wave of brutal handgun killings. know we will all miss him. I would like This past weekend in Washington, e Mr. CONABLE. Mr. Speaker, the to wish him and his family the best of D.C., it was Michael Halberstam, a spirit of the House of Representatives luck in the years to come.e noted surgeon and author, who died. is diminished by the retirement of Thousands of others each year are CHARLES VANIK. A sometimes mischie­ equally victims of crazed or crime-bent VOUS, sometimes unpredictable, some­ assailants, who ought to be obstructed times iconoclastic, but always impres­ ROSA PARKS TRIBUTE by law from easy access to handguns. sive debater and parliamentarian, It is often said by those who oppose CHARLIE could do by instinct more HON. PHILLIP BURTON all handgun control that guns do not than many people would be able to ac­ OF CALIFORNIA kill people, people kill people. This ob­ complish after great research and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES viously is true in a sense and of course study. Socially a man of great charm we need strong laws and strong law en­ and outreach, his role in the House Monday, December 1, 1980 forcement by both the police and our has been lightening and thunder, at­ e Mr. PHILLIP BURTON. Mr. Speak­ courts, with mandatory additional sen­ tention-compelling and frequently a er, today marks the 25th anniversary tences for crimes committed with a lone stand against the multitude. The of one of the pivotal events in the Na­ handgun, for example. House will be a poorer place without tion's civil rights struggle. On Decem­ But many of the killings that take the ferment of ideas and electricity ber 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black resi- place with a handgun, like the one that he has added to the environment. December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33177 I want to wish him and Betty as lively Democrats in Asheville. On that colleagues we have tried to make clear lives in their retirement as they have happy occasion, I related a maxim my to the South Korean regime the con­ had during their years in Washing­ grandfather had shared with me long sequences that would follow should ton.• ago: "I am not what I am because I do Kim Dae Jung be executed. what I do. I do what I do because I am Since the President-elect has also ex­ what I am." pressed his concern, I want to urge JOSEPH FISHER Martindale-Hubbell is the lawyer's him to send his own personal emissary bible, and the top of the class has an to Korea. This struggle to save a HON. PHILLIP BURTON "a.v." rating. It is a testimony to char­ human life is not a partisan matter. OF CALIFORNIA acter and legal ability. LAMAR GUDGER The time is short; not a minute should IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has this high ranking and it is because be wasted.e he does what he does. His life is a com­ Thursday, December 4, 1980 mitment to excellence and we bid him e Mr. PHILLIP BURTON. Mr. Speak­ farewell with reluctance, wishing for TRIBUTE TO MIKE McCORMACK er, I rise to pay tribute to one of the him the best and brightest in the most respected Members of the House, years ahead.e JOSEPH FISHER of Virginia. This out­ HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR standing member of the well-known OF MINNESOTA class of 1974 will be sorely missed by AL BALDUS: THE DAIRYMAN'S IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this body. FRIEND Friday, December 5, 1980 JoE's integrity and vast knowledge of e Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, one economics won him admiration HON. DAN GLICKMAN of the unfortunate deficiencies of this throughout Congress. As a member of OF KANSAS Congress is the inadequate scientific the Ways and Means Committee he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES background of most Members. played a vital role in the development Friday, December 5, 1980 Congressman MIKE McCORMACK of the major energy and tax legisla­ compensated to a great extent for the tion enacted in the past few years. e Mr. GLICKMAN. Mr. Speaker, generally low level of scientific under­ during my 4 years in the House, I have I will miss my good friend JoE standing of this body. He has been an had the good fortune to serve with our informed, patient teacher, and leader FISHER when the 97th Congress con­ colleague from Wisconsin, AL BALDus, venes.e in the area of enacting legislation to on the Committee on Agriculture. And encourage scientific research and de­ on that committee I have been able to velopment in this country. benefit from the terrific amount of It is difficult to believe that MIKE's CONGRESSMAN RAY ROBERTS understanding AL has for the dairy in­ constituency would choose not to dustry. Dairymen could have no better return him to this body where his HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT friend. To them and to those of us dedication, knowledge, and effective­ who have worked with him, AL ness have earned him great respect. OF FLORIDA BALDUS, absence from the House, will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We shall miss MIKE in the 97th Con­ be a real loss. gress. I wish him much happiness and Wednesday, December 3, 1980 And, on every issue that came before success in the coming years.e e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, I this body, it is evident that AL care­ know that all of us in Congress are fully weighed the pros and cons and cast votes for what he thought was going to miss the leadership of RAY CONGRESSMAN LAMAR GUDGER RoBERTS more than words can express. right. He did so not from the perspec­ He has been an outstanding leader tive of a Member of the Congress, but here and has left behind him a solid as a well-informed and thoughtful HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT body of achievement in legislation American. That kind of commonsense OF FLORIDA which will benefit his district and assessment of issues is a trait for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES America for many years to come.e which the people he served should be Monday, December 1, 1980 thankful. It will be missed.e e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Con­ gressman LAMAR GUDGER has left with LAMAR GUDGER KIM DAE JUNO-SOUTH KOREA us a solid record of achievement and we are all deeply indebted to him for HON. JACK BRINKLEY HON. DON BONKER it, as is his district and country. He is a OF GEORGIA OF WASHINGTON man of warmth, intelligence, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES achievement and I know that all of us Monday, December 1, 1980 join in wishing him and his family Tuesday, December 9, 1980 every happiness in the years ahead.e e Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, when e Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, I am the 97th Congress convenes we will deeply pleased and want to commend miss the presence of a man whose life the President for sending Secretary of PROPOSED LEGISLATION and service might truly be compared Defense Harold Brown to South with Shelley's definition of poetry: Korea to publicly express our concern HON. JAMES WEAVER "the record of the best and happiest about the fate of opposition leader moments of the happiest and best OF OREGON Kim Dae Jung. He has been con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES minds." demned to death for advocating free LAMAR is a lawyer's lawyer. His elections, a government with broad Tuesday, December 9, 1980 splendid record on both the House Ju­ popular support, an end to martial • Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I would diciary and Interior Committees has law, and the return of the military to like to declare that I will introduce proved him to be both a master of leg­ the barracks. two bills at the beginning of the 97th islative skills and a true patriot, with As chairman of the only subcommit­ Congress: the first would require the an abiding commitment to represent­ tee in the Congress that oversees simultaneous closure of all general ing his district and serving his country human rights-the International Or­ election polls in the continental with distinction. ganizations Subcommittee-we have United States to avoid the problems On May 17 of this year, I was privi­ been working hard for a number of we faced in the last election as resi­ leged to share the podium with LAMAR months to save Mr. Kim's life. Along dents of Western States. I will also at a speech to the North Carolina with a number of my distinguished submit a resolution to provide for a 33178 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 constitutional amendment to establish Increasingly, reelection politics have WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON a single 6-year term of office for Presi­ come to play a considerable role in the LIBRARY AND INFORMATION dent, and a 4-year term for Members daily actions of the President, both do­ SERVICES of the House, limiting tenure to three mestically and abroad. Indeed, a Presi­ terms. dent begins his quest for a second HON. JOHN BRADEMAS My first bill would alleviate a serious term the moment he takes office. To­ OF INDIANA problem that has become painfully ap­ gether with the strain of running in 37 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES parent in this last election. Of course, primaries to gain nomination, followed I am referring to the early media pre­ by a long general election, these activi­ Tuesday, December 9, 1980 dictions of election results, the earliest ties can only exert a large drain on the e Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, the of which came more than 2 hours President's commitment to his vital White House Conference on Library before the closure of polls on the west national and international responsibil­ and Information Services, held late coast. Many concerned voters have ities. last year, was convened to stimulate a written me to express their frustration As I have introduced, the single 6- national debate about the value of li­ and anger at having the election year term would permit the long term, braries and information resources in appear to be over before they had cast steady planning and implementation our society and help, as well, to define their ballots. A constituent of mine, of policy that a successful President the appropriate roles of local, State, Velma Evers from Elmira, Oreg., must develop, yet does not presently and Federal governments in the sup­ wrote: "Here, nearly 3 hours before have time to in 4 years. In addition, a port of these precious national re­ our polls close, they told us it was all single term would aid the President in sources. over. I don't blame people in Oregon if making decisions in the interest of the As the sponsor, Mr. Speaker, of the they don't vote." Nation free from the temptation of po­ legislation calling for a White House In addition, many people were dis­ litical expediency. Clearly, such a Conference on Library and Informa­ tressed by the possible influence of change would, to a greater extent, free tion Services, I am pleased that the the media on local races and issues. the President to devote a much larger report of that Conference has now Another constituent, Patty Ellis of amount of his time to the enormous been sent to the Congress by the Gold Beach asked: "After hearing this task of serving all the people of this President. declaration, how many people decided Nation as Chief Executive. The recommendations contained in there was no point in going to vote, the report are significant to the devel­ In the House of Representatives, the opment of library and information sci­ thereby causing local ballot measures problem is even more acute. A Repre­ to be ignored?" ence policy in the years ahead. The The legislation that I will propose sentative in a marginal district may resolutions and proposals developed by spend nearly half his term merely run­ the White House Conference should would close all polls at 10 p.m. EST ning for reelection, while other power­ throughout the continental United be discussed by the American public ful Members run year after year un­ and debated by our legislators. States, thereby giving all voters an contested. My proposal for a 4-year equal chance to participate in the elec­ Mr. Speaker, so that my colleagues term, with a three term limit would and others concerned with the future tion of their President and Vice Presi­ diffuse the balance of power away dent. It is clear that early reporting of of information services and our Na­ from the existing senior Members and tion's libraries may be better aware of election results from the east coast special interests. With fewer elections, had a significant impact in close elec­ the recommendations of the White Congress could afford to spend more House Conference on Library and In­ tions in the Northwest and California. time and energy on the pressing legis­ There is simply no reason to allow formation Services, I am pleased to these predictions that are made based lative needs of the country. insert at this point in the RECORD the on early returns to determine the out­ Both of these measures are nonpar­ President's message accompanying the come of the election as a whole. Obvi­ tisan in nature and address problems report of the Conference. ously, we cannot keep the media from of national significance. I strongly THE WHITE HOUSE doing their job, or prevent untimely urge your support for this legislation To the Congress of the United States: concessions by candidates, but we can as it will appear when I formally intro­ I am pleased to transmit to you the put all voters on equal footing with si­ duced it in the beginning of the 97th Report of the White House Conference on Congress.e Library and Information Services and my multaneous poll closures. own recommendations on public access to In additiOii to this bill, I will also in­ information, as required by Sec. l(d) of troduce a resolution to provide for a Public Law 93-568 of December 31, 1974. constitutional amendment, to be rati­ TRIBUTE TO ED BEARD Information is the essence of education fied by the States, to create a single 6- and the lifeblood of democracy. People need year term for the President, and a 4- accurate information to make the personal HON. PHILLIP BURTON and political decisions that will shape the year term for the House of Repre­ country's future. The production and distri­ sentatives, limiting tenure to three OF CALIFORNIA bution of information is a significant factor terms. Given our complex modern gov­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in our economy. A technological explosion is ernment, I feel it is time to examine reshaping the way information is stored and the questions concerning terms of Tuesday, December 9, 1980 communicated, while rising costs and limit­ office with renewed interest. e Mr. PHILLIP BURTON. Mr. Speak­ ed resources strain the public institutions Historically, the proper length of er, I rise to pay tribute to my friend that make information accessible. En BEARD. He will be sorely missed in The White House Conference considered the term of office for the President all these issues. It examined our informa­ and Members of Congress has been de­ the 97th Congress. tion needs and problems and the key role of bated since the original Constitutional EDDIE is one of the staunchest sup­ libraries in meeting them. The delegates in­ Convention in 1787. In the Federalist porters of this Nation's working men cluded librarians, information specialists Papers, Madison clearly stated that and women. He served as chair of the and community leaders. They were selected the proper length of terms for Federal Labor Standards Subcommittee which at conferences in every state and territory, officers "does not appear to be suscep­ brought attention to problems of wage through a process that involved 100,000 tible to any precise calculation." Our discrimination against blind persons, people. I wish to commend the National Commission on Libraries and Information present 4-year Presidential term and 2- fair benefits for Federal blue-collar Science for its key role in making the Con­ year House term, then, were set up workers, and lack of compensation for ference a success. The Conference theme only as estimates given democratic sufferers of byssinosis. EDDIE is a was "Bringing Information to People." Its precepts. Our recent experience with strong spokesman for the less fortu­ recommendations will help us frame an in­ the present terms of office has shown, nate members of this society. formation policy for the 1980s. I think, many advantages to the con­ His presence will be missed by his THE IMPORTANCE OF LIBRARIES stitutional changes that I have pro­ colleagues and by those people he Since the beginning of our Nation, librar­ posed. strove mightily to help.e ies have played an important role in provid- December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33179 ing citizens with the information they need where citizens can obtain free access to gov­ are denied access to information because of to guide our destiny. Our First Amendment ernment publications. where they live, such as an Indian reserva­ rights have been strengthened by the inde­ The policy will also stress the special role tion, a Pacific Island, or an isolated area. To pendent status of libraries free from govern­ libraries can play in helping Federal agen­ address these problems and those of other ment control. By preserving the records of cies disseminate information that people persons isolated from information due to our history and culture, libraries serve as a need. We should not create new delivery their location, I am directing the Depart­ door into our past. As a source of the infor­ systems when libraries, with strong commu­ ment of the Interior to analyze these issues mation we need to direct our lives, they also nity bases, can do the job. The Denver and provide recommendations to me. serve as a door into our future. As we plan Public Library is one example of a library I will soon send to the Senate a protocol for the information requirements of the that is working closely with several agencies to the Florence Agreement of 1952 further 1980s and beyond, we should acknowledge to make consumer and environmental infor­ liberalizing the exchange of books and in­ the contributions that libraries have made mation available. I encourage and support formation and reducing barriers to interna­ and ensure they remain vital. cooperation like this. To foster such part­ tional understanding. The National Com­ Most libraries are local institutions, under nership, I have directed the Administrator mission on Libraries and Information Sci­ local control. State and local governments of the General Services Administration to ence has already begun working with the bear the responsibility for supporting and work with the library community and the International Federation of Library Associ­ operating public and school libraries. I Department of Education to select three to ations. agree with the White House Conference five Federal Information Centers and locate THE NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS that this principle must be maintained. them together with libraries. If this cooper­ TECHNOLOGIES At the same time, the Federal Govern­ ative effort is as successful as I expect, I will New technologies are revolutionizing the ment has assumed a special role of helping expand the program. ways in which we create, store and dissemi­ libraries provide access to information for My Administration has also taken a nate information. For example, the text of all. The Government also provides leader­ number of other initiatives to improve and 3,200 books can now be stored on a 12-inch ship in developing new technologies and enhance public access to government infor­ videodisc which costs $20. In the library, services, and encouraging resource sharing mation. For example: computers are replacing the card catalog. among all types of libraries. This Federal We revamped the security classification The sum of changes like these will have a role complements the basic responsibilities system to eliminate needless initial classifi­ major impact on our lives. of state and local governments. My Adminis­ cation and reduce the time that documents My Administration is actively encouraging tration has worked with Congress to fulfill remain classified while strengthening pro­ the creative application of these technol­ that role. tection for necessary secrets. About 250 mil­ ogies for the benefit of all individuals. As To ensure that library programs get the lion pages of documents will be released be­ the largest user of computer technology in attention they deserve, we created an Office cause of this change. of Libraries and Learning Technologies in The Freedom of Information Act is being the world, the Federal government plays a administered fairly. The Department of Jus­ major role in deciding how this technology the new Department of Education, headed is applied everywhere. We are using tech­ by a Deputy Assistant Secretary. tice has instructed agencies to release infor­ Overall Federal support for libraries has mation that could legally be withheld if the nology to provide government services, in­ increased by almost 30% since the beginning release could not be clearly harmful. cluding information, in new and better of my Administration. We proposed im­ Our policy on industrial innovation calls ways. A number of agencies are actively in­ provements in the Higher Education Act to for an improvement in the dissemination of volved in conducting or supporting research strengthen support for library research and patent information, which will make over 4 and development into new technologies and demonstration and training programs and million patents accessible. their application. We shall aggressively for college and research libraries. We sup­ The National Technical Information Serv­ pursue such research. We also have a pro­ ported literacy and school library and media ice has expanded the indexing and dissemi­ gram to develop standards which will en­ programs through our 1978 amendments to nation systems available to scientists and hance our ability to transfer technology. the Elementary and Secondary Education engineers. We have worked to remove regulations Act. Increases were requested for the National that prevent competition and constrain ap­ My 1982 budget request to Congress will Commission on Libraries and Information plication of the new technologies. The Fed­ reflect our response to the Conference rec­ Science, an agency which has a vital leader­ eral Communications Commission is com­ ommendations for increased budgetary sup­ ship and coordination role in library and in­ pleting a dramatic overhaul of its regula­ port for resource sharing among libraries; formation science at the national level. tions, opening up competition and promot­ research and development in information ing diversity. Recent actions are creating THE NEEDS OF THE DISADVANTAGED 1000 new radio stations and a whole new technologies; and research libraries. The Conference report serves as a remind­ class of community TV stations. We devel­ The Conference recommended a new Na­ er that too many of our citizens are cut off oped a program which has doubled minority tional Library and Information Services Act from the information available to most of to redefine the Federal role. I will submit ownership of broadcast stations. We are new legislation to replace the Library Serv­ us. One of the greatest barriers is functional working with Congress to pass legislation to illiteracy. To overcome this problem, I have reduce regulation and promote competition ices and Construction Act which will expire directed the Department of Education to in 1982. This legislation will include such in telecommunications. The explosion of take the lead in coordinating Federal efforts outlets in the electronic media provides spe­ issues as: barriers to information access for to eliminate functional illiteracy. Their task the handicapped and disadvantaged; library cial opportunities for libraries. For example, will be to identify methods and programs of libraries can work with cable TV systems to networking and resource sharing; the role of demonstrated value and to work with local large urban libraries and research libraries program public service channels. Competi­ education agencies, libraries, and voluntary tion will stimulate innovation, increase pro­ as centers for library resource networks; and organizations to implement these programs. new information technologies. ductivity, and make the communications in­ I urge the Congress, the library communi­ Twenty percent of our Americans are func­ dustries more responsive to consumer de­ ty, and the public to join in the discussion tionally illiterate, and we must expand our mands. during the next year on the priorities commitment to helping these people obtain Actions we have taken to realize the among these important concerns. the basic skills they need. public dividend from the new technologies Under my Administration, a new Basic include: GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Skills Improvement Program was author­ My space policy, which is helping public The Federal Government has a special re­ ized in 1979. Its overall objective is to bring service producers use satellites to cut their sponsibility to ensure that its information is about national improvement in student communication costs. The Commerce De­ made available to the people. Open govern­ achievement in the fundamentals of educa­ partment is responsible for this program, ment is vital to democracy. We must also tion-reading, writing, speaking and math­ and I am directing them to work with the li­ recognize the constraints of national secu­ ematics. brary community to make satellite and rity, privacy, efficient decision making, and We are working to assist disabled Ameri­ other emerging communication technologies costs. cans. At my request, the broadcasting net­ available where it is cost-effective for We are working to address these concerns works helped establish a pilot closed-cap­ networking and other purposes. in a way that increases access to informa­ tioning television system to permit the hear­ The Department of Education will sup­ tion. A new office has been established in ing impaired to share the educational and port a conference of independent experts to the Office of Management and Budget to entertainment shows available to everyone. develop an agenda for library research in develop Federal information policy. This In addition, the Library of Congress and the the 1980s. , office is working closely with the agencies, Department of Education are working to The library and information science com­ libraries, and private sector to develop a provide special materials, equipment and munities will be encouraged to propose tech­ policy on the management and dissemina­ services for those with physical handicaps nology assessment studies for consideration tion of information by Federal agencies. and learning disabilities. by Federal agencies. This policy will affirm the key role of the Another frequently overlooked barrier to As our society expands use of the new in­ Federal depository libraries as centers information is geography. Many Americans formation technologies, we must protect our 33180 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 personal privacy. Last year I proposed the gun control. Not banning handguns, but li­ four legs good, two legs bad. Western colo­ Nation's first comprehensive privacy policy. censing and registering them, keeping them nial powers were all two-legged, and none Five privacy bills are now before Congress, out of the hands of criminals and psycho­ seemed quite so bad as Portugal, keeper of a covering medical, bank, insurance and other paths. huge, impoverished empire. But things are types of records. Their passage is an essen­ "Each year in this country, 20,000 Ameri­ not so simple anymore. At the United Na­ tial ingredient to an information policy of cans are killed by handguns. Half of them tions the other day. Portugal was praised the 1980s. [arel suicides, but the rest, accidents and for championing the cause of self-determi­ The biggest challenges rest with the li­ murders. nation in East Timor. a former colony. Now brary and information community. These "I don't wanna be the guy shot when I Indonesia, which annexed the colony. is institutions are run by talented and dedi­ honk at the guy next to me and he reaches plainly the bully. A more shaming judgment cated people with strong bases in their com­ in his glove compartment and starts blast­ munities. They have contributed much, and on Indonesia, once the cynosure of the third ing away. I don't want my son shot when world, is hard to imagine. they can do even more to meet people's some punk holds 'UP the filling station needs in coping with the problems we face where he works, panics, and starts shooting. Under four centuries of Portuguese rule. in the 1980s. I believe we have viewed librar­ "Handgun control has nothing to do with East Timor summed up much of what was ies too narrowly. The needs of the public banning handguns, but altogether, it has to bad about European imperialism. A small. who must cope with our increasingly com­ do with keeping them under control and poor territory at the eastern end of the plex society can only be met by libraries ac­ registered. That has nothing to do with Indonesian Archipelago, East Timor gained tively providing access to the great variety hunting. We're gonna keep hunting in this a veneer of Catholicism and little else from of information they have. Libraries can pro­ country. It has everything to do with the Lisbon. When the Portuguese empire crum­ vide information to individuals about jobs national epidemic of sudden, violent, foolish bled in 1974-75, East Timor was left to fend and education opportunities; information to deaths. for itself. Its people had almost no prepara­ families about social services and energy; " It may be true that guns don't kill and tion for independence, and a violent strug­ and consumer information to small business people do, but handguns make it a lot on marketing and technological innovation. gle for power attended the Portuguese de­ easier, Too easy. parture. Americans must be able to obtain this infor­ "I'm Dr. Michael Halberstam."e mation in convenient, accessible, community Using the strife as a pretext, Indonesia in­ institutions like the library. To survive as vaded East Timor in 1976 and annexed the community institutions, libraries must be territory the following year-all in the name strengthened and the public made more of self-determination. Under Indonesian oc­ aware of their potential. THE SHAMING OF INDONESIA cupation, a tenth to a third of 600,000 East We expect that the libraries will help to Timorese have died; no one can be sure of teach people the value of energy conserva­ HON. DON EDWARDS the real figure because access is restricted. tion and the ways to accomplish it; help the Like Cambodia, East Timor has become syn­ American people protect themselves from OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES onymous with starvation and refugees. inflation by informed purchasing; help Americans have given some emergency aid them to see that we live in an interrelated Tuesday, December 9, 1980 but Washington's role has not been glori­ world which requires both America's strength and also American patience and e Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. ous. Successive administrations have "un­ American understanding; and, help them Speaker, I would like to bring to my derstood" without endorsing the Indonesian most of all to learn that we have to look at colleagues attention the following edi­ grab. the world as it is and not as we remembered torial which appeared in the New Belatedly but creditably, Portugal has re­ it 25 years ago. I have every confidence that York Times of December 8, 1980. considered its responsibilities. In Septem­ you will meet these challenges as you have ber, Lisbon's Council of Ministers called for others in the past. Libraries will continue to The editorial does an excellent job top-level consultations with all concerned, be a critical ingredient in building a strong­ of portraying the complicity of the while stipulating that negotiations with er, a more vibrant, a more informed Amer­ Portuguese, Indonesian, and American Indonesia would imply no approval of what ica that we all hope for. Governments in the tragedy of East Jakarta has done. There are a lot of hitch­ Jimmy Carter.e Timor. es-not least the uncertainty arising from Portuguese remissness as the origi­ the Portuguese Prime Minister's death on HALBERSTAM ON GUN CONTROL nal colonial power left the island in Thursday in an airplane accident. But the desperate condition after the demise gesture could lead to Lisbon's return, as a HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM of the Portuguese empire. As the edi­ decolonizing power. There is one recent OF NEW YORK torial states, "East Timor summed up precedent, in Zimbabwe, of a former colo­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES much of what was bad about Europe­ nial overlord returning temporarily to Tuesday, December 9, 1980 an imperialism." power to arrange legitimate self-determina­ tion. e Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, on In the brutal annexation of 1976, In welcoming the Portuguese initiative, Friday, December, 5, 1980, an eminent the Indonesians entered the vacuum the General Assembly offers Indonesia re­ Washington cardiologist was shot left by the Portuguese and have now demption. If it is scorned, Indonesia would during the robbery of his home. The exerted a colonialism of their own be confirming that its brand of colonialism Washington community will sorely design. is as ruthless as any once fashioned in miss Dr. Michael Halberstam. It is Successive American Governments Europe.e painfully ironic that Dr. Halberstam, have all acquiesced in the brutal Indo­ shortly before his death, argued force­ nesian dominance in an effort to main­ fully for stronger gun control laws. tain friendly relations with a nation CONGRESSMAN SAMUEL DEVINE The December 7, 1980, Washington thought to be of strategic importance. Post reprinted one of his editorials, As the editorial points out, recent and I include it at this point in my re­ Portuguese initiatives provide an op­ HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT marks. portunity to finally bring an end to OF FLORIDA DOCTOR'S PROPHETIC WARNING the colonization of East Timor. It will Michael Halberstam, the 48-year-old phy­ not be easy; nor will it be without prec­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sician shot to death Friday when he sur­ edence. The recent resolution of the prised a burglar at his Northwest Washing­ Monday, December 1, 1980 ton home, was a regular commentator for conflict in Zimbabwe exemplifies what can be achieved when a responsible e Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Con­ the Cable News Network. In a commentary gressman SAMUEL DEVINE has had an broadcast Nov. 21 , he said: and sincere effort is made by the origi­ "I'm not one of those doctors who's nal colonizing power. Our Government outstanding career in Congress and all always warning his patients not to take should do everything possible to sup­ of us wm · greatly miss him. We wish chances. I think one reason for that is I port the Portuguese efforts toward for him every happiness in his retire­ rather like to take chances myself. I'd peace in the area. ment. I know he cannot be but a rather ski downhill than cross-country. I happy man in the contemplation of like football rather than Frisbee. I still THE SHAMING OF INDONESIA prefer baseball to softball. In the eyes of the third world a genera­ the things he has done for his district "But I want to take my chances, not some­ tion ago, nations were divided very much in and for our country, for which we are one else's. That's why I'm in favor of hand- the spirit of George Orwell's Animal Farm- all indebted.e December 9, 1980 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33181 THE MESSAGE WAS ONE OF ALL-MALE DRAFT: PROTECTION feel stuck at times, carrying the familiar SURVIVAL RACKET weight of wage earners and asked to add un­ familiar weights at home. Many are hostile to the demand for equality without the HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI HON. JOHN J. CAVANAUGH proof of equality. OF NEBRASKA Stuck here in the muddle, many of us OF KENTUCKY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have looked to our children for more IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, December 9, 1980 change. One man tells us half-jokingly that he is a traditionalist with his wife and a Tuesday, December 9, 1980 e Mr. CAVANAUGH. Mr. Speaker, feminist for his daughter. I know women e Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, last the Supreme Court has agreed to who, afraid of disrupting their own lives, decide whether or not an all-male mili­ tell me about their own homes and ambi­ evening, I heard a gasp and a cry from tions for their daughters. my daughter's bedroom. I rushed into tary draft violates the protections of the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme But we are aware that the next generation her room and found her in tears at the Court is presented with the issue of is also in transition. Our daughters particu­ news that Beatie John Lennon had whether men and women in a free so­ larly are amalgams of skills. They learn car­ been shot to death. ciety in which a constitutional stand­ pentry in school ... and passivity. They are Millions of Americans were similarly expected to be ambitious for themselves ... ard extending "the equal protection of and sensitive to others. They are expected affected by the passing of John the laws" to each "person" may enjoy to be stars ... and cheerleaders. They are Lennon. separate benefits and sustain separate expected to be independent . . . and obedi­ It is as if a chapter of American his­ obligations, because of their sex, be­ ent. tory has come to a close. cause the Congress determined that it The young men and women of draft age A generation of young Americans was the will of the American people to have changed more than we did, but less establish such a sexual distinction of than we hoped they would. They are coming grew up with the Beatles. Their songs into a world in which women do not have mirrored the times-dissonant, icono­ responsibility. On December 6, 1980, Ellen Goodman, writing for the Wash­ equal power. clastic, disquieting-and they helped So we can't help wondering whether it is these young Americans relate and ington Post, addressed the issue of the fair to saddle young women with more obli­ cope. all-male draft from the perspective of gations. We wonder whether they will be its impact on the future social, politi­ They sang of isolation and loneliness stronger or just more victimized. cal, and economic advancement of The issue comes to a head when we think and faceless, anonymous people. Yet, women in our society. Ms. Goodman about our daughters and the draft: fighting, their underlying theme was of camara­ concluded that a segregation of re­ war. This is the life-and-death duty they've derie and love. sponsibility for the protection of the been protected from. This is the last, and The Beatles expressed the difficul­ society leads inevitably to a segrega­ most dangerous, responsibility. ties faced by Americans-indeed citi­ tion of the enjoyment of the benefits If women are mired in this traditional zens of the world-in times of tremen­ mud, should we refuse to follow a law until of the society and so she concluded: we have the power to make it? Which is dous societal transition and pressure. A decision in favor of an all-male draft better for women in this current state of Yet, theirs was a message of peace and would be used to "protect" women back into stasis: protection or risk? survival. their old restrictions. So I opt for risk if it Frankly, I don't have much faith in pro­ Though it is with tremendous sad­ will fuel change and yet I know how diffi­ tection. In the long run, it turns into a pro­ cult it is to offer up our daughters as hos­ tection racket. We always pay for it, with ness that we receive the news of the tages to the fate of our ideas of the long senseless murder of John Lennon, we obedience or silence or fear. A decision in run. favor of an all-male draft would be used to must all celebrate his contributions to I commend this excellent article to "protect" women back into their old restric­ music and to helping a generation of my colleagues: tions. young Americans cope with changes of ALL-MALE DRAFT: PROTECTION RACKET Protection rackets in wartime have always a magnitude never before faced by any BosTON.-We are going back to the Consti­ been costly. The bargain was this: give us generation.• tution again, back to this legal document we your sons and husbands, and we'll let you use like a gym mat. Again, nine men, keep your daughters. Let us make war, and dressed in ceremonial black robes, will wres­ then we'll protect you. TRIBUTE TO FRANK THOMPSON tle over one of the toughest social issues. So I opt for risk if it will fuel change. And This time it's the draft. yet I know how difficult it is to offer up our The Supreme Court agreed Monday to daughters as hostages to the fate of our HON. PHILLIP BURTON deCide whether or not an all-male draft is ideas, of the long run. "unconstitutional." If it is, we'll have two The Supreme Court will not hear these ar­ OF CALIFORNIA choices; to eliminate the draft altogether or guments. The lawyers phrase their words in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES extend it to women. If it isn't, we'll see the cooler tones, in briefs. But this is the debate ruling applied to other segregated "jobs" that goes on inside our minds when, as Tuesday, December 9, 1980 and ideas. courtroom spectators, we watch the draft The lawyers will, I'm sure, phrase their ar­ issue finally wrestled down to the constitu­ e Mr. PHILLIP BURTON. Mr. Speak­ guments precisely, each proving that he or tional mat.e er, I rise to honor my friend and col­ she reads the true meaning of the Constitu­ league FRANK THOMPSON. This body tion. But the issue of women and the draft will miss his political knowledge, his . evokes feelings as well as precedents. It in­ TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN sagacity, and his well-known, much en­ volves personal goals an well as legal ones. JAMES CORMAN Since last winter when the notion of joyed wit and humor. drafting women emerged as a real possibil­ THOMPY and I worked together for ity, it has held a central place in our minds. HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT many years on the Education and It strikes to the core of our concerns over Labor Committee doing battle for the how the lives of men and women are and OF FLORIDA interests of the working men and aren't changing. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES women of this country. His achieve­ It doesn't take a great legal scholar to see Wednesday, December 3, 1980 how many of us are stuck in the mud of ments in this field and in the arts and social transition. • Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, Repre­ humanities have marked him as one of The movement of women has been sentative JAMES CoRMAN has had a the finest progressive, liberal Members uneven, and we know that. Women have truly outstanding career in Congress of this institution. gained more responsibilities than power. and we will all deeply miss him. He I am certain I join many of my col­ We're in the work force in great numbers, has handled some of the most difficult leagues who feel a deep sadness at this but at low wages. we belong to more institu­ tions, but lead few of them. We follow more measures before Congress, and done so loss and in extending our heartfelt rules than we make. We carry new jobs at in an excellent manner. We wish for wish that he is successful in his future work and old jobs at home. him and his wonderful family every endeavors.e The men we live with and work with also happiness in the years ahead.e CXXVI--•2087-Part 25 33182 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 A TRIBUTE TO MS. ROSEMARY PROBLEMS OF CHILD ABUSE sors of programs that strengthen families should publicize their model programs along MELONEY-EXECUTIVE SECRE­ with cost analyses. TARY EXTRAORDINAIRE HON. TED WEISS None of our suggestions require radical in­ OF NEW YORK novations. Models for many of the ap­ HON. FRANK J. GUARINI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES proaches we propose are readily accessible. Tuesday, December 9, 1980 They exist in Head Start's Parent and Child OF NEW .JERSEY Centers. in programs mounted for other e Mr. WEISS. Mr. Speaker, I would purposes by the National Institute of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES like to call to the Members' attention Mental Health, the Office of Education, and Tuesday, December 9, 1980 a brief excerpt from a new and impor­ even by ACTION. Many localities have al­ tant book entitled "Child Abuse an ready made a start. But popular reconcep­ e Mr. GUARINI. Mr. Speaker, I rise tualization of the definition and scope of Agenda for Action." The book repre­ child abuse, and an integration of existing today to announce that on Friday, De­ sents the collaborative efforts of com­ cember 12, my executive secretary, programs and ideas is overdue. The com­ munications expert, George Gerbner, parative perspective offered in Chapter 7 Rosemary Meloney, will be retiring and two scholars from Yale, Catherine summed it up well: The real need is not for after an illustrious 16 years of service Ross, assistant professor of history, increased funding for child abuse services, to the House of Representatives. and Edward Ziegler, professor of psy­ but for an integrated system of services for A tireless and diligent worker, Rose­ chology. As noted authorities in the children and families . We refuse to be a pawn in and inalienable right of self-determination, the game of Soviet geopolitics. hopes to have a 40-foot pole up in his back yard with propeller-like blades spinning elected its own legislative assembly and es­ We say, wake up, America! It's time for tablished a cabinet of ministers to adminis­ with a low whoosh to power his suburban U.S. taxpayers to ask that Congress prohibit Pittsburg home. ter its government, SWAPO has become a use of U.S. tax dollars by the United Na­ senseless anachronism. SWAPO, armed by tions to finance SWAPO's acquisition of The city planning commission approved Russia, is trying to seize Namibia , and such re­ SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the legal or improper act or process of a care­ lated multidisciplinary programs and serv­ "Prevention, Identification, and Treatment taker, using the resources of an elder for ices as may be necesssary or appropriate to of Elder Abuse Act of 1980". monetary or personal benefit, profit, or assure that the State will deal effectively gain; with elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation NATIONAL CENTER ON ADULT ABUSE (5) the term "neglect" means the failure cases in the State; SEc. 2. The Secretary of Health and to provide for oneself the goods or services provide for methods to preserve the Human Services (hereinafter referred to in which are necessary to avoid physical harm, confidentiality of records in order to protect this Act as "Secretary") shall establish an mental anguish or mental illness or the fail­ the rights of the elder; office to be known as the National Center ure of a caretaker to provide such goods or provide for the cooperation of law en­ on Elder Abuse have in effect a State elder abuse, ne­ SEc. 5. There are hereby authorized to be tion to determine whether such programs glect, and exploitation law which shall in­ appropriated such funds as may be neces­ comply with such criteria. The Secretary clude provisions for immunity for persons sary to carry out the purposes of this Act.e shall, within 30 days after any determina­ reporting instances of elder abuse, neglect, tion by the Secretary that a program fails and exploitation, from prosecution arising to comply with such criteria, terminate out of such reporting, under any State or U.S. MERGER WITH THE SOVIET funding for such program. local law; UNION (d) The Secretary shall make available to provide for the mandatory reporting the Center such staff and resources as are of known and suspected instances of elder necessary for the Center to carry out effec­ abuse, neglect, and exploitation; HON. LARRY McDONALD tively its functions under this Act. (C) provide that upon receipt of a report OF GEORGIA DEFINITIONS of known or suspected instances of elder IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEc. 3. For purposes of this Act- abuse, neglect, or exploitation an investiga­ Tuesday, December 9, 1980 (1) the term "abuse" means the willful in­ tion shall be initiated promptly to substanti­ fliction of injury, unreasonable confine­ ate the accuracy of the report, and, upon a e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker- ment, intimidation, or cruel punishment finding of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, Between 1933 and 1953 a change took with resulting physical harm or pain or steps shall be taken to protect the health place in the United States which was so mental anguish; or the willful deprivation and welfare of the abused, neglected, or ex­ drastic it could be accurately described as a by a caretaker of goods or services which ploited elder; "revolution." It was during these critical are necessary to avoid physical harm, demonstrate that there are in effect years that the nation's worst depression oc­ mental anguish, or mental illness; throughout the State, in connection with curred and the American people became in­ (2) the term "elder" means any person the enforcement of elder abuse, neglect, and volved in a catastrophic world war. Shortly who has attained the age of 60 years; exploitation laws and with the reporting of afterwards they found themselves in a no- 33188 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 9, 1980 win "undeclared war" in Korea. As cns1s or attempts to influence legislation."