March 22, 1979 EXTENS!ONS OF REMARKS 6083 not only from the entire staff of the Employ may be permitted to speak during that and may be made. And Senators I think · ment and Training Administration, but also period for not to exceed 3 minutes each. should be on notice that rollcall votes from each of tlhe line Assistant Secretaries. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without are expected. I expect that this cooperation will continue During the interim from 12: 30 p.m. to and, through it, Dr. Wyant will ibe afforded objection, it is so ordered. every opportunity for communicating his 3 : 30 p.m. Senators will attend the sign concerns either to me or the appropriate ing ceremony in respect to the Middle Assistant Secretary. Working together in this ORDER AUTHORIZING CERTAIN AC East Treaty at the White House. That · fashion I would hope that the Department TION DURING RECESS UNTIL signing ceremony, I believe, begins at can be most effective In dealing with vet MONDAY 2 p.m. and is not expected to last over erans' needs. 30 minutes, perhaps, but ample time I hope thMi this letter satisfactorily re Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, should be given and is being given to Sen sponds to tbe concerns of the Committee I ask unanimous consent that during the ators to return to the Senate by 3 : 30 p.m., expressed at Dr. Wyant's confirmation recess of the Senate over until 11 a.m. hearings. at which time the Senate will resume its on Monday the Vice President of the consideration of the debt limit measure. Sincerely, United States, the President pro tem RAY MARSHALL, That is the statement of the program. Secretary of Labor. pore of the Senate, and the Acting Pres Mr. President, I hope that committees ident pro tempore of the Senate be au will take advantage of tomorrow's recess The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without thorized to sign all duly enrolled bills objection, the nomination is considered to work. The idea of our being off on Fri and joint resolutions and that the Secre days is to accommodate committees in and confirmed. tary of the Senate be authorized to re Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, their work. ceive and appropriately refer messages There is a May 15 deadline that has to I move to reconsider the vote by which from the other body and/or from the the nominee was confirmed. be met. The first concurrent budget reso President of the United States and that lution has to be adopted, not just passed Mr. BAKER. Mr. President, I move to committees may have until 5 p.m. to lay that motion on the table. by the Senate, but has to be law by May morrow to file committee reports. 15. So I urge all committees to utilize The motion to lay on the table was The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without agreed to. this time on Fridays and at other times objection, it is so ordered. during the week, when possible, to get PROGRAM their work done. LEGISLATIVE SESSION Time is flying. Spring is here. The Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, snows of winter have gone. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, the Senate will convene at 11 a.m. on I The year's at the spring ask unanimous consent that the Presi Monday. After the two leaders or their And day's at the morn; dent be immediately notified of the con designees have been recognized under Morning's at seven; firmation of the nominee, and that the the standing order, there will be four The hillside's dew-pearled; Senate return to legislative session. orders for the recognition of Senators, The lark's on the wing; The PRE.SIDING OFFICER. Without in each case not to exceed 15 minutes, The snail's on the thorn: objection, it is so ordered. God's In his heaven at the conclusion of which there will be All's right with the world. a period for the transaction of routine morning business not to extend beyond SPECIAL ORDERS 12:30 p.m. with Senators to speak dur RECESS UNTIL 11 A.M. MONDAY, Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, ing that period for up to 3 minutes each. MARCH 26, 1979 the Senate will meet at 11 a.m. on Mon At the conclusion of morning business, day. I believe there are three orders for if it is prior to 12 :30 p.m. or no later Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Now, Mr. Pres the recognition of Senators, are there than 12: 30 p.m., the Senate will stand ident, all is right with the world. I move, not? in recess until the hour of 3: 30 p.m. at in accordance with the order previously The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen which time the Senate will reconvene entered, that the Senate stand in recess ator is correct. and the pending matter before the Sen until the hour of 11 o'clock Monday Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, ate at that time will be the debt limit morning. I ask unanimous consent that I may be measure with Mr. DoLE's perfecting The motion was agreed to; and at added to that list of special orders for a amendment pending. There is also pend 6:31 p.m., the Senate recessed until Mon 15-minute speech. ing, but it does not have precedence over day, March 26, 1979, at 11 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. DoLE's perfecting amendment, an objection, it is so ordered. amendment that was offered by Mr. CONFIRMATION LONG and other Senators to Mr. DOLE'S amendment to the debt limit measure. Executive nomination confirmed by the ORDER DESIGNATION PERIOD FOR As of now the pending question would be Senate March 22, 1979: TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE on the perfecting amendment by Mr. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR MORNING BUSINESS MONDAY DoLE to the debt limit measure. Dennis R. Wyant, of Maryland, to be Dep Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, Mr. President, rollcall votes will likely uty Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans• I Employment. ask unanimous consent that at the con occur on Monday in relation to the The above nomination was approved sub clusion of the aforementioned orders amendments or in relation to motions ject to the nominee's commitment to re there be a period for the transaction of that may be made. Tabling motions may spond to requests to appear and testify routine morning business not to extend be made. Motions to commit may be before any duty constituted committee of beyond 12: 30 p.m. and that Senators made. There are various motions that can the Senate. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ROBERT J. MILTON MERITORIOUS Lake County Auditor Robert J. Milton, mittee-the principal Republican politi SERVICE AWARD died last year after devoting virtually his cal organization in Lake County, m., and entire life to public and political affairs as Republican State central committee in Lake County and in the State of man of my congressional district. HON. ROBERT McCLORY Illinois. Mr. Speaker, in addition to his elected OF n.LINOIS Prior to his service as auditor for Lake political and public offices, Bob Milton IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES County, Bob Milton served as an alder served under Gov. William G. Stratton man in the city of Lake Forest, as a and other State officials. For a brief pe Thursday, March 22, 1979 member of the Lake County Board and riod Bob Milton served as an administra e Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, a long for many years as the chairman of the tive assistant on my staff for Lake Coun time friend and fellt>w public official, Lake County Republican Central Com- ty during my early years in this body.
•This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the fi.oor. 6084 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 22, 1979 Mr. Speaker, when I speak of the out peacetime honor that can be given to Over the past year we have all read in standing public and political services of a business. It is an honor well-deserved, the national press and seen on network the late Bob Milton, I cannot help but which will be presented on behalf of the television the tragedy that has befallen recall that this service was a way of life President by Mr. J. Bruce Llewellyn, innocent victims of these toxic wastes at in his household. Bob's late dad, Jack president of the Overseas Private In the Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Milton was a nationally recognized figure vestment Corp. This site is in my congressional district in the Speakers' Bureau of the Republi The Port of Long Beach has a proven and it was victims of this terrible tragedy can National Committee. He campaigned record of excellence in the field of export who came to Washington to tell how haz actively for Republican presidents and trade. In 1978 it handled 20.5 million ardous wastes leaching from an aban Republican officials just as Bob Milton tons of foreign cargo both inbound and doned landfill have left an indelible mark continued to do-as he followed in his outbound, and leads all other west coast on their lives. dad's footsteps. ports in this category. To achieve this Another site, also within my congres- ' Mr. Speaker, Bob Milton's mother, status, port omcials are continually in sional district, was the subject of hear Irene Milton, survives him and continues volved in promoting foreign trade by ings yesterday. This site is known as the to be seen frequently at political and working with shiplines and terminal op Hyde Park landfill in the town of public gatherings where her interest and erators to facilitate this exchange. Niagara. This site has approximately influence are always felt and where her To capitalize on a potentially great four times as much waste buried in it as presence serves as a reminder that the new market for American goods, the port the Love Canal and there are not only Milton household is a political entity is leading the way in opening up new homes which have been built near it but with broad interests in the political and communication channels with trade of there are also factories situated around public affairs of our area and our Na ficials from the People's Republic of the landfill and built on top of the tion. Likewise, Bob's sister Virginia China. Visitors from that country have stream, Bloody Run, which emanates Milton-an erstwhile supporter of her already inspected the port's facilities from the landfill. Health investigators brother, Bob, and who likewise received and, just recently, port officials have re are only beginning to accumulate infor her political education directly from her turned from a trip to China. This mation about this site, but it may prove late dad, Jack Milton-has served in both marked the first time that representa to be every bit as much of a horror as political and public supporting roles and tives from an American port authority the Love Canal. is a proud member of this prominent po have toured Chinese port cities. The sign We in Congress all too often discuss litical family. of success will come sometime within problems such as hazardous waste dis Mr. Speaker, the Lake County Re the next few months when the first ves posal in a dispassionate manner-as if publican Federation has established an sel flying the Chinese ftag will dock at the problem existed only for "them" and annual award in honor of Bob Milton Long Beach. And at about this same not "us". I would like to take a moment and begins this year to a ward the Robert time, the first American vessel sailing to tell you now about these people who J. Milton plaque at its annual spring from Long Beach bound for China will came to Washington to tell their story meeting to a prominent Republican who leave the port. This boldness in initiating so that we could know it is like to be has rendered meritorious service to the export trade with China serves to illus one of "them" and do all we can to pre Republican Party and has contributed trate the imagination and dedication of vent another terrible tragedy from strik to the welfare of the Lake County com this port's export program. ing elsewhere in the country. munity. Mr. Speaker, the Port of Long Beach Dr. James Dunlap, a pediatrician in the Mr. Speaker, I plan to be present at has had a longstanding reputation of Erie-Niagara Counties area of New York, the annual meeting at the Brae Loch being a top rated international trade explained in his expert testimony the Country Club in Grayslake on Saturday, center. The economic activity it gen serious health ailments that have devel April 7 for the annual award ceremony erates has done much to improve the oped in children who live near the Hyde and to express words of eulogy to the livelihood of the residents in the entire Park dump. Dr. Dunlap has devoted south bay area. countless hours to doing extensive medi memory of Bob Milton. I will also pre cal studies on these children and has even sent copies of these remarks to his dear . r:row, the port is receiving just recog treated these children without collecting mother, Irene, and his sister, Virginia. rut1on for boosting this Nation's export fees from the parents because the parents Mr. Speaker, I take this occasion to trade program. I join in congratulating express publicly my respect and affection just cannot afford all the visits which the the port's commissioners, its general children need in order to be treated for for Bob Milton and to join with many of manager, and his staff for the fine work their chronic respiratory illnesses caused his longtime associates and friends in they are doing in this field. They are by the dump. this tribute.• demonstrating how a well run port can add to the health of the national econ Testifying with Dr. Dunlap were Mrs. omy while at the same time be of enor Eileen Jasper and her infant daughter, mous benefit to a local community. Susie. Mrs. Jasper told the subcommittee PORT OF LONG BEACH-RECIPIENT of her heartbreaking miscarriage last OP THE PRESIDENTIAL-STAR I congratulate the Port of Long Beach fall. Doctors have found no logical reason AWARD for a job "well done."• for the miscarriage and tend to attribute its causes to the proximity of Mrs. Jas per's home to the dumpsite. Eileen Jasper HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON is one of Dr. Dunlap's patients. She is just 01' CALIJ'ORNIA THE HUMAN SIDE OF HAZARDOUS WASTES an infant and yet she is plagued with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES upper respiratory diseases which do not Thursday, March 22, 1979 fit normal patterns and which Dr. Dunlap HON. JOHN J. LaFALCE believes are attributable to the toxic e Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. OF NEW YORK fumes from the Hyde Park dump. Speaker, I am proud to announce that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Fred Armagast also testified at the the Port of Long Beach, located in my hearing. He is a resident of the area who home district, will be receiving the Thursday, March 22, 1979 has had to have his drinking water tested E-Star Award on Monday, March 26, • Mr. LAFALCE. Mr. Speaker, both by the State because it is well water. Mr. 1979, for its outstanding perfonnance yesterday and today the Oversight and Armagast's children and grandchildren in exPort trade. The Port of Long Beach Investigations Subcommittee of the have suffered from the same problems as received the first E for Excellence Award Commerce Committee has been holding Susie Jasper as well as other ailments: in 1974, and this E-Star Award signifies hearings on the pernicious effects haz which doctors believe are the result of the second award for continued out ardous wastes have on our health and living so close to the toxic waste dump. standing performance. This Presidential environment when they are improperly The Hyde Park landfill is located in award is the highest governmental handled and buried. the midst of several factories as I men- March 22, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6085 tioned earlier. A representative of the ever, she always remained calm and Mr. Matthews whose only priority is to Steelworkers Local No. 12256, Dennis acted with the greatest objectivity and protect the people of the city of Niagara Virtuoso, Steelworkers Local No. 12230, forcefulness, which gained her the total Falls by insuring that they drink only Carl Sabey, and a representative of the respect and admiration of every offi clean water. Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Lo cial with whom she worked. The LCHOA As I hope this summary of my con cal No. 8-778, Clifton VanEpps, related is indeed fortunate to have someone of stituents' testimony shows, Mr. Speaker, to the subcommittee the complaints they Lois Gibbs' caliber as its president. She the tragedies of the Love Canal, Hyde have lodged over the years as a result of has represented them well and I am Park, the "S" site-and hundreds of working near the hazardous waste dump. sure will continue to act responsibly as similar situations throughout the Na They have reported incidents of skin she continues to work for assistance for tion-have brought out only the best lesions, itching, burning eyes, upper res the innocent 'Victims of the Love Canal. qualities in those who have suffered the piratory problems, burning throats, Another dumpsite in the city of Niag most. They have given of themselves in nausea, and muscular problems. These ara Falls is known as the "S" site. It ordinately. Many in government, at all workers, through the leadership of the is owned by Hooker Chemical and Plas levels, have sought to assist them, yet gentlemen who testified, made known tics Co. and is located only 200 yards far more remains to be done. I hope that their complaints to me this winter and from the water treatment plant which you and all our colleagues in Congress I hawe called in OSHA and NIOSH to serves the city of Niagara Falls. Accord will soon join me in seeking to provide investigate. However, it is to the credit ing to Hooker document.s over 74,000 tons not only more financial assistance for of these gentlemen that they came to of chlorinated hydrocarbons and other the innocent victims of situations of this Washington to testify before the sub chemical waste products were buried at kind, but also in passing laws to clean committee to bring to the attention of this site. Although the water currently up and monitor hazardous waste sites as the entire public the terrible effects haz being consumed by the residents of Ni well as provide a comprehensive system ardous waste dumpsites can have on any agara Falls, which comes from the city of compensation for victims of toxic one who must work near one. plant, is clean and safe according to all pollutants.• The second site which was discussed tests that have been performed by both at length yesterday was the Love Canal. the city and the State department of This site, perhaps more than any other, health, this dumpsite does pose a poten MIDDLE AMERICA RESPONDS ON has led Congress to investigate the tial problem to the city. WASTE-PART II tragic effects of improperly buried haz Elliot Lynch ran the water works ardous wastes on the health and wel plant from the early 1950's to 1978. He fare of our citizens as well as the deva is currently retired and living in the HON. ADAM BEN-JAMIN, JR. stating toll they have taken on our village of Youngstown. Mr. Lynch testi OJ' INDIANA fied to the need to clean the plant's environment. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The first witness called to discuss the f orebay shaft during 1968-69 due to Love Canal was Dr. Beverly Paigen. I chemical contamination and the fact Thursday, March 22, 1979 have worked with Beverly ever since she that again in the fall of 1978 the chem,;. • Mr. BENJAMIN. Mr. Speaker, I would began her work on behalf of the Love ical contamination was discovered in the like to share with my colleagues the sec Canal Homeowners Association last sum same part of the water plant. Mr. Lynch ond of two news articles from the Post mer. Dr. Paigen is a biologist who is cur believes that the contamination comes Tribune regarding a survey on attitudes rently employed by Roswell Park Me from the "S" site. toward the Federal Government in mid morial Institute in Buffalo. She has do Mr. Harold Allen testified as the owner dle America. I refer you to my remarks of nated many, many hours of her time to of the Allen Marine Salvage Co., the March 21, 1979, on the :first article in this collect data regarding the adverse health company which was contracted to clean series, which was printed on pages effects the leaching toxic chemicals from the forebay shafts at the water works. 5838-5839 of that day's RECORD. the Love Canal hawe had on the area Mr. Allen has a great deal of experience I reiterate my belief that this analysis residents. Dr. Paigen has questioned the with pollution problems and should be accurately summarizes the irony and findings of the New York State Depart commended for the advice that he has contradictions inherent in the expressed ment of Health-who is also her em given the water works plant operators. attitudes toward the Federal Govern ployer-and has presented the State with Mr. Robert Matthews, director of util ment which may be typical of most of our theories based on her data which have ities for the city of Niagara Falls, testi constituencies. Besides the political reali led the State to investigate additional fied in his caipacity as director of current ties and possible consequences of a hypotheses. Dr. Paigen has consistently water. plant operations. Mr. Matthews blanket "against the Government'' at maintained a professional demeanor has a tough job and he has stated that titude, we must be responsive to the while simultaneously acting as an advo he has tested continually to insure that the water the residents of Niagara Falls growing "lack of leadership" concept es cate for the Love Canal Homeowners As poused by the citizens in this survey. In sociation. I laud her efforts and praise drink is pure and completely safe. He my previous remarks, I exhorted my col her dedication. The homeowners are has acted responsibly and has worked leagues to critically examine each and most fortunate to have someone of Dr. with the New York State Department of Health to insure that the water is not every agency and program under his or Paigen's ability step forward to assist her respective subcommittee's jurisdic them. contaminated. In order to trace the mi gration of chemicals into the raw water tion. Let us show the citizens of this Another witness from Niagara Falls to country that we are responsive and com testify about the Love Canal was Lois which enters the plant, Mr. Matthews has worked closely with Dr. David Axel bine our efforts to give them the most for Gibbs. Lois has served as president of their money. Where cutbacks are in the Love Canal Home Owners Associa rod, commissioner of health for the State of New York, to sink deep wells so order, let us cut back-and if a program tion-LCHOA. The LCHOA is a citizens that the migration of contaminants into no longer serves an effective purpose, let group consisting of over 1,000 families the plant can be traced, so that what us abolish it-while assuring our citizens representing more than 90 percent of ever remedial action as may be neces of efficient and effective Government the residents in the area. The associa sary can be taken when all the data is services. tion was formed to deal with the prob collected. I commend Mr. Matthews for These actions will go far to diminish lems of living near a chemical dumpsite his willingness to acknowledge a poten the frustrations and contradictions ex and to voice the opinions of members of tial problem and to work long hours to pressed in the following article: the association to local, State, and Fed learn as much as possible about it so MIDDLETOWN: POLITICIANS, Too, A TuRNOFI' eral officials who would be making deci that the city can solve the problem in a (By Saul Friedman and Frank Greve) sions affecting the lives of the residents. comprehensive manner, not as a piece MuNcIE.-Marjorle White, who loves to talk Lois has led this group during times of meal effort. I also believe that the city politics, was saying just before church that terrible stress and emotionalism. How- is fortunate to have someone such as "Robert CUnnlngham 1s a nice, honest man 6086 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 22, 1979 who doesn't belong in the mayor's otnce be among voters. The biggest reason seems to The Central High Beareats, it ls important cause, well, he can't even get the snow re be that Kennedy represents the sort of ex to know, have won more state basketball moved." perienced, charismatic and strong leadership cha.mpionships (six) than any other school Moments later, Mrs. White, a plump ma Muncie's residents admire and don't see in and once the school was censured for passing tron and a proud Democrat, was making a Jimmy Carter. poor students who could shoot baskets well. simila.rly harsh judgment about another Paul Cox, a police lieutenant and a police The wa.lls of the school are plastered with elected official for whom she had voted. union official who once supported Cunning signs screaming, "Go, Bearcats, Go." And "Jimmy Carter is a nice honest and reli ham ·but now opposes him said, "We need ex their games are always sold out. gious man and we could all use a little reli perienced leadership in Muncie and people Typical Muncie likes to be turned on by gion," she said. "But he has no business being here and in the rest of the country want a the hard-chairging, fast-break, slam-dunk president because he can't seem to get things president who doesn't look like just another style. done." guy in the room. I think that's what people "If Ted Kennedy walked into this room In this winter of trouble for politicians mean by leadership. They want someone wJ1n with the President," said Kent Irwin, a po high and low, such complaints have been turns them on, you know, and can inspire litical scientist and former city official who them." 1s running for mayor, "a.11 eyes would shift to common. John Hannaford, a city commissioner and Kennedy.'' But when they come to Muncie, famous as acting dean of Ball State's businesc; school, John Rouse, a Ball State political research America's "Middletown," the nation's com says Cunningham and Carter have the !"ame er, noted that Darter's emphasis on fighting mon denominator, the complaints and the problem, in running their respective govern inflation rather than unemployment, his op parallel drawn by Ma.rjorie White could be ments and in providing leadershio for the position to more spending progn.ms, his hos ominous-for Jimmy Ca.rter as well as Rob citizens of Muncie and the nation. tmty towa.rds the federal bureaucracy and ert Cunningham. 0 After Nixon, the voters said that his kind his promise t.o ha.lance the budget more near Theodore Ca.plow, the University of Vir of high-powered role-playing is something ly coincides with the views of Muncie's voters ginia sociologist who ls directing a new Mid we should be suspicious of," said Hannaford. than Kennedy's more liberal positions. dletown study says Muncie is so typical it's "They looked for somebody who was believ But, he said, Kennedy "has charisma, the "eerie." able, a normal human being, rather than quality of leadership people seem to want Robert Cunningham, a nominal Democrat, someone capable of being an imperial presi now. People just don't see carter as a leader for instance, was a grocer from the south dent. or as a person who can get things done. They side-the wrong side-of the tracks and an "Now the Watergate reaction has worked do see Kennedy as a man who can build coa outsider in city politics when he ran against itself out, and by a combination of events, litions and be politically effective." the party machines and won the mayorality we need to solve problems and give leader Corbett, Rouse's Ball State colleague, ac in 1975. ship. We just don't have the leadership we knowledged that Kennedy is the favorite Folks in town say that the mood that need here to work on the development of among Democrats and most independent vot worked for Cunningham helped Carter will Muncie. ers. But he cautioned that Carter could the. presidency a year later. "And people here and elSewhere are look quickly change his im11.ge of ineffectiveness ing for U.S. leadership to solve such prob But now, said Ball State University histo with a presidential spectacular, such as help lems as energy and inflation and the lack of ing achieve peace in the Middle East. rian Warren Vanderhill, the mayor is seen respect they see coming from abroad. They as someone who "hopes that the sun would And an old-line Democrat, Everett FerrlU, want some vision from the president, but Mr. Ball State history professor and former chair get rid of the snow. And on a national level Carter just doesn't play that role effectively. we get the picture here of Jimmy Carter man of Muncie's city council, said a cam sm111ng through the apocalypse." When he speaks, the heart just isn't lifted." paign, which would publicize Kennedy's lib Vanderhill, at work on a television series Reporters for Knight-Ridder Newspapers eralism as well as Chappaquiddick, could win about life in "Middletown," said, "We really first went to Muncie in 1977 after 100 days for Carter. thought that if we could take someone with of the Carter presidency to interview the But Irwin, who fits the pattern of the prag limited experience from the outside-some city's opinion leaders and ordinary citizens. matic new breed of politicians (he publicizes one like ourselves-that he would be able The preva111ng view then, within both his campaign by jogging), insists that Ken to handle himself on the job. That is the parties, was that Ca.rter should be given time nedy would win (and so wm he) beoause Cunningham-Carter model, a short rebirth and a chance, because he was an inexperi "people are still worried about unemploy of the Jacksonian idea. It worked in the 1830s, enced outsider. ment and the loss of jobs in Muncie. Al but it doesn't work very well today." Now midway in Carter's term, the dissatis though Democrats take a more conservative Thus, if Muncie is any indl.cation-and faction and the impatience with his admin approach, they still want the money and the socia.l scientiists certify that it is-voters are istration appear preva.lent. And the centra.l programs of the federal government." becoming increasingly disillusioned with the reason given ls the president's seeming lack Irwin is given a fair chance to win. But he notion t't'at an outsider with a fresh face and of competence and political know-how. and Cunningha.m may be the victim of an good intentions can produce the changes In the Workman's Donut Shop ("Where other one of those "eerie" parallels between they had expected. Ma Saves Pa's Dough"), a middle-aged me "Middletown" and the national scene. As a consequence, Cunningham expects se chanic, a United Auto Workers member, said: Most observers agree that neither Cunning rious problems if he runs for re-election this "Carter tries his best, but he just can't cut ham nor Irwin could win if the most popu year. And that may point to big trouble for it. He just doesn't command respect from the lar politician in town-an Irishman named Carter in 1980. people he has to deal with. A president James Patrick Oe.rey (who is known as "Big A new poll by Michael Corbett, a Ball State shouldn't be just another guy, you know. Jim"}--decided to run. But Oarey, the for political scientist, confirms that Carter is in He's gotta look like a president and act like mer sherUJ, is being coy.e the same trouble here as elsewhere. Only 42 it." percent in Muncie say that Carter ls doing A commercial photographer dunked a cin well as president, including less than 5 per namon twist into his coffee and mumbled: cent who say he is doing a "very good" job. "Yeah, the job needs someone who knows THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION The irony ls that Muncie's voters, even something about politics and making deals ACT OF 1979 Democrats, generally agree with Carter's move to get things done." towards the right, away from traditional Mrs. White touched on the same theme when she was questioned just before the Democratic po~itlons favoring spending and HON. SAM GIBBONS new federal programs. start of a Sunday church service: OF FLORIDA Muncie's conservative, anti-Washington "Carter just doesn't project and because of newspapers (owned by the right-wing Pul that he doesn't get the respect he needs in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES liam family} have helped push the town's Washington or a president should get from Thursday, March 22, 1979 voters toward the right. And labor leaders foreigners. and other traditional Democrats he.ve "Look at how they greeted him in Mexico. • Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, yester learned, Vanderhill said, that unemployment He should have turned around and gotten day I submitted a bill entitled the Export is no longer the "tried and true" issue it back on that plane, especially because of Administration Act of 1979 on behalf of once was. The ghost of the Depre!"sion has what happened that same day-the kllling of myself and Mr. CONABLE. faded for the moment, he added, and infla the ambassador in Afghanistan and the at tion ls the greater fear. tack on the embassy in Iran." Last year the United States ex Nevertheless, as the president's competence The church service, incidentally, was held perienced a trade deficit of some $34 has come under question and his popularity in Muncie's new Central High School build billion, the largest deficit in our history. had declined, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of ing, where the High Street Methodist Church To a significant extent, this deficit Massa.chusetts, a traditional liberal Demo has been meeting since a gas explosion last reflects the fact that our Government crat, has become the overwhelming favorite year wrecked the church. currently gives too little emphasis to ex- March 22, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6087 creased expenditure is necessary to pro emergency had a two-fold aim: on the one ports, and in fact places substantial hand, to provide to the refugees such essen disincentives in the path of American vide for such needs of the displaced tial relief as was absolutely necessary for exporters. Given our current trade situa PoPUlation as housing, education and their survival, and on the other to draw up tion, this is clearly unacceptable. health. In an attempt to achieve this emergency economy plans designed to re Excessive delays and complications in goal, the Government of Cyprus has con activa.te and revitalize the economy within fined its 1980 request for humanitarian the shortest possible time, thus gradually obtaining an export license is one of the aid from the United Nations High Com providing employment and incomes to dis more commonly cited disincentives to placed and affected persons. American exporters by the private sec missioner for Refugees $55,000 SALES PRICE-HOA GRADUATED PAYMENT MORTGAGE PLAN WITH 10 YR OF PAYMENTS INCREASING 6 PERCENT PER YEAR; CONTRACT RATE 9.5 PERCENT (30-yr term; 2 yr of level payments; mortgage amount $52,750; downpayment $2,250; income to qualify, $18,000) Annual Amount of Loan Esti- Annual Amount of Loan Esti- .mortgage principal balance mated Loan to Owner's mortgage principal balance mated Loan to Owner's Monthly insurance paid in at end value value net Monthly insurance paid in at end value value net Year payment premium year of year of home 1 ratio equity Year payment premium year of year of home 1 ratio equity l______9 ______2______$316. 57 $266. 60 -$1, 266. 59 $54, 016. 59 $57, 200 94.4 t3, 183. 41 476. 01 303.60 -56. 33 60, 750. 87 78, 282 77.6 17, 531. 13 316. 57 273. 22 -l, 392. 30 55, 408. 89 59, 488 93.1 4, 079.11 10 ______504. 57 303. 09 296.13 60, 454. 74 81, 413 74. 3 20, 958. 26 3______ll______4 ______335. 57 279. 96 -l, 292. 37 56, 701. 26 61, 868 91. 6 5, 166. 74 534. 84 300.69 705. 05 59, 749. 69 84, 670 70.6 24, 920. 31 355. 70 286.14 -1, 168. 22 57, 869. 48 64, 342 89.9 6, 472. 52 12______566. 93 296.10 1, 177. 33 58, 572. 36 88, 056 66. 5 29, 483.64 5 ______377. 04 291.64 13 ______6 ______-1,017.00 58, 886. 09 66, 916 88.0 8, 029. 91 14 ______566. 93 289. 95 1, 294.15 57, 278. 21 91, 579 62. 5 34, 300. 79 7 ______399. 66 296. 30 -833. 90 59, 719. 99 69, 593 85. 8 9, 873. 01 566. 93 283. 19 1, 422. 62 55, 855. 59 95, 242 58.6 39, 396. 41 423. 64 299. 99 -616. 03 60, 336. 02 72, 376 83. 4 12, 039. 98 15 ______566. 93 275. 76 1, 563. 81 54, 291. 78 99, 051 54.8 44, 759. 22 s______449.06 302. 49 -358. 52 60, 694. 54 75, 271 80.6 14, 526. 46 1 Based on a 4-percent appreciation value per year. Source: NAHB Economics Division. $55,000 SALES PRICE-HOA GRADUATED PAYMENT MORTGAGE PLAN WITH 10 YR OF PAYMENTS INCREASING 6 PERCENT PER YEAR; CONTRACT RATE 9.5 PERCENT (30-yr term; 5 yr of level payments; mortgage amount $52,750; downpayment $2,250; income to qualify, $19,300) Annual Amount of Loan Esti- Annual Amount of Loan Esti- .mortgage princ~al balance mated Loan to Owner's .mortgage prin~1.a1 balance mated Loan to Owner's Monthly insurance pal in at end value value net Monthly insurance pa1 in at end value value net Year payment premium year of year of home 1 ratio equity Year payment premium year of year of home 1 ratio equity 1 ______9 ______$343. 88 $265. 83 -$924.23 $53, 674. 23 $57, 200 93.8 $3, 525. 77 434.14 309. 35 -667. 91 62, 236. 65 78, 282 79. 5 16, 045. 35 2 ______343.88 270.66 -1, 015. 95 54, 690.18 59, 488 91.9 4, 797. 82 10 ______460.19 312.10 -407. 62 62, 644. 27 81, 413 76.9 18, 768. 73 3______343. 88 275. 97 -1, 116. 97 55, 806. 97 61,868 90. 2 6, 061. 03 ll______487. 80 313.45 -101. 93 62, 746. 20 84, 670 74.1 21, 923. 80 4______343. 88 281.80 -1,227.63 12______62, 491. 34 88, 056 71.0 25, 564. 66 5 ______57, 034. 60 64, 342 88.6 7, 307. 40 13 ______517. 07 313. 16 254. 86 343. 88 288. 21 -1, 349. 45 58, 384. 05 66,916 87. 2 8, 531. 95 14 ______548. 09 310. 95 669.10 61, 822. 24 91, 579 67.5 29, 756. 76 6 ______364. 51 294.68 -1, 224. 73 59, 608. 78 69, 593 85. 7 9, 984.22 580. 98 306.53 1, 147. 80 60, 674. 44 95, 242 63. 7 34, 567.67 7 ______386. 39 300. 46 -1,072.09 60, 680. 87 72, 376 83.8 11, 695.13 15 ______615. 84 299. 55 l, 698. 69 58, 975. 75 99, 051 59. 5 40, 075.25 8 ______409. 57 305.40 -887. 87 61, 568. 74 75, 271 81.8 13, 702.16 1 Based on 4-percent appreciation value per year. Source: NAHB Economics Division. $55,000 SALES PRICE-HOA GRADUATED PAYMENT MORTGAGE PLAN WITH 10 YR OF PAYMENTS INCREASING AT 4 PERCENT PER YEAR; CONTRACT RATE 9.5 PERCENT (30-yr term; 2 yr level payments; mortgage amount $52,750; downpayment $2,250; income to qualify, $19,800) Annual Amount of Loan Esti- Annual Amount of Loan Esti- .mortgage balance mated Loan to Owner's .mortgage balance mated Loan to Owner's Monthly insurance pr~~1tf~ at end value value net Monthly insurance pr~~1tf~ at end value value net Year payment premium year of year of home 1 ratio equity Year payment premium year of year of hornet ratio equity } ______$355. 51 $265. 50 -$778.47 $53, 528.47 $57, 200 93.5 $3, 671. 53 9 ______467. 82 284.08 216.39 56, 696. 93 78, 282 72.4 21, 585. 07 2 _____ -- 10 ______3 ______355. 51 269. 57 -855. 73 54, 384. 20 59, 488 91.4 5, 103. 80 486. 54 282. 42 472.44 56, 224.49 81, 413 69. 1 25, 188. 51 369. 73 372.64 -762.39 55, 146. 59 61, 868 IL _____ 279. 40 763. 33 55, 461. 16 84, 670 65. 5 29, 208. 84 4 ______89.1 6, 721. 41 12______505. 99 5 ______384. 52 277.20 -652.66 55, 799. 25 64, 342 86. 7 8, 542. 75 526. 24 274.84 1, 092. 81 54, 368. 35 88, 056 61.7 33, 687. 65 399. 90 280.18 -524.63 56, 323. 88 66, 916 84.1 10, 592.12 13 ______526. 24 269.14 1, 201. 27 53, 167. 08 91, 579 58.1 38, 411. 92 6 ______14 ______95, 242 54. 4 43, 395.43 415. 89 822.47 -376.14 56, 700. 02 69, 593 85.8 12, 892. 98 15 ______526. 24 262.86 1, 320. 51 51, 846. 57 78 ------______432. 53 283. 96 -204. 93 56, 904. 95 72, 376 78.6 15, 471. 05 526.24 255. 96 l, 451. 55 50, 395.02 99, 051 50.9 48, 655. 98 449. 83 284. 54 -8.37 56, 913. 32 75, 271 75.6 18, 357. 68 1 Based on a 4-percent appreciation value per year. Source: NAHB Economics Division. March 22, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6093 $55,000 SALES PRICE-HOA GRADUATED PAYMENT MORTGAGE PLAN W!TH 10 YR OF PAYMENTS INCREASING AT 4 PERCENT PER YEAR; CONTRACT RATE 9.5 PERCENT (30-yr term; 5 yr of level payments; mortgage amount $52,750; downpayment $2,250; income to qualify; $20,800) Annual Amount of Loan Esti- Annual Amount of Loan Esti- .mortgage prin~~~I Dalance mated Loan to Owner's .mortgage principal balance mated Loan to Owner's Monthly insurance pa1 in at end value value net Monthly insurance paid in at end value value net Year payment premium i year of year of home 1 ratio equity Year payment premium year of year of home 1 ratio equity 9 ______2L______...... $376.19 $264. 92 -$519. 24 $53, 269. 24 $57, 200 93. l $3, 935. 76 10 ______440.08 287. 57 -182. 88 57, 614. 85 78, 282 73. 6 20, 667.15 3______376.19 267.63 -570. 77 53, 840. 01 59, 488 90.5 5, 647. 76 457. 69 288.03 19.66 57, 595.19 81, 413 70. 7 23, 817. 81 376. 19 270. 61 -627.43 54, 467. 44 61, 868 88.0 7, 400.56 IL ____ 475. 99 287. 41 251.14 57, 344. 05 84, 670 67. 7 27, 325. 95 4 ______376.19 273. 89 -689. 71 55, 157. 15 64, 342 85. 7 9, 184. 85 12. _____ 495. 03 285. 56 514. 78 56, 829. 27 88, 056 64. 5 31, 226. 73 5______376.19 277.49 -758.15 55, 915. 30 66, 916 83.6 11, 000. 70 13______514.84 282. 31 814. 10 56, 015. 17 91, 579 61.2 35, 563. 83 6 ______391.23 281. 03 -644. 73 56, 560. 03 69, 593 81.3 13, 032. 97 14 ______535. 43 277. 48 1, 153. 06 54, 862.11 95, 242 57.6 40, 379. 89 7______15 ______8 ______406. 88 283. 95 -512.57 57, 072. 60 72,376 78. 9 15, 303. 40 556. 85 270. 85 1, 535. 98 53, 326.13 99, 051 53. 8 45, 724. 87 423.16 286. 17 -359. 37 57, 431. 97 75, 271 76.3 17, 839. 03 1 Based on a 4-percent appreciation value per year. Source: NAHB Economics Division. $55,000 SALES PRICE-HUD GRADUATED PAYMENT MORTGAGE PLAN Ill WITH 5 YR OF PAYMENTS INCREASING AT 7.5 PERCENT PER YEAR; CONTRACT RATE 9.5 PERCENT (30-yr term mortgage agmount $50,800; downpayment $4,200; income to qualify, $18,400) Annual Amount of Loan Est I- Annual Amount of Loan Esti- mortgage principal balance mated Loan to Owner's mortgage prin~t-al balance mated Loan to Owner's Monthly insurance paid in at end value value net Monthly insurance pat tn at end value value net Year payment premium year of year of home 1 ratio equity Year payment premium year of year of homa 1 ratio equity ~ 9______2L ____. . ...___. $323. 70 $256. 22 -$983. 71 $51, 783. 71 $57, 200 90. 5 $5, 416. 29 464. 71 255. 25 726. 74 50, 651. 02 78, 282 64. 7 27, 630. 98 347. 97 260. 67 -777. 07 52, 560. 78 59, 488 88.4 6, 927. 22 10 ______464. 71 251.46 798. 87 49, 852.15 81, 413 61. 2 31, 560. 85 3 ______374. 07 263. 99 -526. 99 53, 087. 77 61, 868 85. 8 8, 780. 23 lL ____ 464. 71 247. 29 878. 13 48, 974. 02 84, 670 57.8 35, 695. 98 4 ______402.13 265. 95 -227.52 53, 315. 29 64, 342 82.9 11, 027. 71 IL ____ 464. 71 242. 70 965. 31 48, 008. 71 88, 056 54. 5 40, 047. 29 5______432. 28 266. 29 127.86 53, 187. 43 66, 916 79.5 13, 728. 57 13.. ___ _ 464. 71 237. 65 1, 034.10 46, 947. 61 91, 579 51.3 44, 631. 39 6 ______464. 71 264. 70 547.13 52, 640. 30 69, 593 75.6 16, 952. 70 14 ______464. 71 232. 11 1, 193. 41 45, 781. 20 95, 242 48.1 49, 460. 80 7______464. 71 261.85 601.42 52, 038. 88 72, 376 71.9 20, 337.12 15______464. 71 226.02 1, 282.19 44, 499. 01 99, 051 44. 9 54, 551. 99 3______464. 71 258. 71 661.12 51, 377. 76 75, 271 68.3 23, 893.24 1 Based on a 4-percent appreciation value per year. Source: NAHB Economic Division.• HOUSING OPPORTUNITY ACT OF gage. The bill amends the existing FHA ness. Had I been present, I would have 1979 program for graduated payment mort voted as follows: gages by reducing the downpayment and Roll No. 49, for approval of House Res extending the graduation period for the olution 38, reestablish Select Committee HON. LES AuCOIN mortgage payment. on Population, "no."• OF OREGON These simple steps will bring home IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ownership within the financial reach of Thursday, March 22, 1979 an additional 8.5 million families. These changes in the graduated pay SCRAP IRON PRICES • Mr. AuCOIN. Mr. Speaker, I am join ment program are possible because the SKYROCKETING ing with my colleague from New York, bill allows FHA to consider appreciation Mr. LAFALCE, in introducing important in the home's value in determining the HON. J. WILLIAM STANTON new legislation to help make home appropriate monthly payment level. In ownership a reality for thousands of the early. years of the new program, the OF OHIO Americans. This bill, the Housing Oppor required monthly payments would not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tunity Act of 1979, will soon be intro cover all of the interest on the outstand Thursday, March 22, 1979 duced on the Senate side by Senator ing balance, creating a negative amorti WILLIAMS and Senator PROXMIRE to • Mr. STANTON. Mr. Speaker, the severe zation. The program will be effective so shortages and inflationary price in gether with four cosponsors. long as there is a minimal increase-at Mr. Speaker, for the past year, I have creases in ferrous scrap due to record least 4 percent annually-in the value exports requires immediate action. This been chairing a special task force on of the home. homeownership appointed by the dis critical situation was brought to my at tinguished chairman of the Housing Mr. Speaker, this bill is not a cure-all. tention by the A. C. Williams Co. of Ra Subcommittee, Mr. ASHLEY. During the It will not put an end to the skyrocket venna, Ohio, and the Copperweld Steel past year, the task force held a series of ing costs of housing. Nor will it be the Co. of Warren, Ohio, which employs hun field hearings and roundtable discus right choice for every aspiring home dreds of people in my congressional dis sions to examine the causes of rising owner. What this bill will do is add one trict. homeownership costs. And the task force more tool to help thousands of families Scrap prices in N ortheastem Ohio devoted a good deal of time to examining realize the beneflt.3 of homeownersh1p- have skyrocketed 61 percent since wage solutions to keep homeownership a real at a time when thousands are being price guidelines were established last Oc possibility for all American families. priced out of the market.• tober and this is intolerable. One of the conclusions I have drawn I'm told that if prices continue to in as a result of that study is this: That one crease at their present rate and shortages way to increase homeownership oppor PERSONAL EXPLANATION widen, the inability to compete will re tunities is to better flt income flows to sult in shutdowns by steel mills and financing costs through alternative foundries. Given the projected economic mortgage instruments. These alternative HON. ROBERT A. YOUNG recession facing us, it is foolish to allow mortgage instruments do nothing to halt OF MISSOURI the iron and steel industries, which are inflation in housing prices, but they do IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES basic components of our economy, to be provide an important means for home crippled by present policy. owners to cope with inflation. Thursday, March 22, 1979 It is therefore incumbent upon the The bill I am introducing today makes •Mr. YOUNG of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, Commerce Department to protect the do use of one of those alternative instru I was unavoidably absent from the floor mestic ferrous scrap supply by placing ments-the graduated payment mort- on March 21, 1979, due to omcial busi- export controls on scrap under the au- 6094 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 22, 1979 coming generations of zealously childfree thority of the Export Administration World War I Pension Act of 1979 would 1 Act. It is imperative that the United codgers and crones. certainly do a great deal to improve this , In any case, the significant peril comes not unfortunate situation. States recognize the critical strategic na from the ZEG fanatics, but from suave ad ture of ferrous scrap for the economy and vocates of growth whose policies are now While legislation passed by the 95th also for our national defense. bringing productivity gains in America to a Congress provided for some very im- 1 A national policy halting the drain of halt. The real ZEG party 1s in Wa8hlngt0n portant improvements in the VA pension this vital strategic material is essential. I and consists of men who think you can structure, the World War I veteran was urge immediate action to protect both have progress against poverty without a still overlooked to a large extent. Of the jobs and industry.• growing gap between rich and poor; who 650,000 World War I veterans who are imagine that you can reap the benefits of still alive, of which 85,000 reside in the capitalism without permitting large concen trations of personal wealth; who think gov State of New York, more than 50 per- ' ernment can "create" work through jobs cent still receive no VA pension benefits. THE NEED FOR ECONOMIC that produce far less than they cost; wlio I firmly believe that all World War I GROWTH prattle about human rights while resisting veterans who meet reasonable service immigration from MeXico and Southeast requirements should be entitled to fair Asia, as 1! it were a threat rather than a and equal treatment, and strongly sup HON. JACK F. KEMP precious resource of liberated human energy port the World War I Pension Act of 1979 OF NEW YORK and spirit; who want growth but whose as a means to attain this goal. IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES planning smothers it. All government planning must be based As a member of the House Select Com Thursday, March 22, 1979 on what is already known. It tries to create a mittee on Aging, I have seen the devas safe and secure society by "rearranging our tating effects inflation has had on our • Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, the case for known reserves," redistributing our existing Nation's elderly, who are forced to live enacting policies to promote economic wealth, reusing our measurable waste, re on fixed incomes. This is especially true growth is compelling of itself. But when organizing our current population. This ef of the many World War I veterans whose someone as articulate as George Gilder fort cuts off the spontaneous energies, total income has been allowed to increase treats the subject, the case is overwhelm unplannable innovations, and disrupting immigrations-the supplanting of the above the maximum allowable limit due ing. Mr. Gilder wrote an article which to annual increases in social security, re appeared recently in the National Re known by the new, of established industries by unpredictable challengers, of risen poor sulting in the loss of most, if not all, of view, the theme of which was that "there by poverty imported from afar-on which their VA pension benefits. Since there is no reasonable case against economic growth always depends. does not appear to be any short-range growth.'' Economic expansion is indis The deeper problem 1s religious. No society solution to the inflation problem, some pensable to fight pollution with advanced can long grow if it fears the unknown. 'l'fie thing must be done to assist these per technology, to develop alternative secular sens1b111ty ls terrified by the void, sons. I suPPort the World War I Veterans sources of fuel, to relieve world hunger quakes pathetically before the mystery, reck Pension Act of 1979 as an effective meas and poverty. lessly refuses to face the indeterminacy of ure in this regard. As Mr. Gilder points out so eloquently, human life. Therefore it tries to plan and control and suppress and domesticate the in The need for prompt consideration of growth is necessary also to finance pen evitable darkness before it. All progress, this legislation is ~rucial. The veterans sions in the private and public sector. though, depends on faith, a willlngness to who would be eligible for this pension are All in all, George Gilder brings new in plunge into the darkness and find the re dying at an increasing rate of almost 11 sight and vision to the need for a dy deeming light. Growth depends on worshlp percent per year. For a 1 year period namic and creative American economy of what we do not know, on penetrating the beginning September 1977, 81,000 of these which can also serve as a model for the opacity of how to reach the luminous reality World War I veterans, or 22 per day, rest of the world looking for a way out beyond·, on the willingness to accept the risk of failure and death in order to uncover the died, many of them in poverty. of the pessimistic and dismal predictions unknown gifts of Providence. Many World War I veterans are justi of the Malthusians who advocate zero The proponents of ZEG--like the primitive fiably embittered by the seeming aban economic growth and income redistribu ungrowlng societies they so revere-worship donment of their well-being by the very tion. little that they cannot see and feel. Our same Nation for which they so courage My colleagues will benefit from reading bodies, ourselves, the sun. Even children ously jeopardized their lives. Mr. Speak George Gilder's article particularly in often seem dangerously unpredictable to er, this legislation would certainly serve light of the administration's effort to them. Everything beyond their ken is as sumed to be conspiratorial or carcinogenic. to reconcile this neglect, and I urge that slow down the economy as its answer to If this attitude were confined to the radical it be given prompt and favorable con inflation. Left we could merely deride it. But it ex sideration.• THE NEED FOR GROWTH presses the deepest potentialities of the Let's go to the ZEG party! That's Zero secular-humanist world. It ls the timorous Economic Growth to you, a first cousin to and paralytic vision that lurks behind the ZPG (Zero Population Growth), and another great stone face of Washington bureaucracy. THE 61ST ANNIVERSARY OF BYELO adopted child or the dubious union among -GEORGE GILDER •• RUSSIAN INDEPENDENCE PROC the Ford Foundation, Stewart Mott, and LAMATION other moneyed seraphim o! the established Left. Not much run, you say? Why not? What's more !un than a tax-exempt barrel WORLD WAR I VETERANS PENSION HON. JAMES J. FLORIO o! bearded social democrats fearfully talking OF NEW JERSEY of power plants as 1! they were bombs? Vegetarians in leather jackets drive their HON. MARIO BIAGGI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES imported cars to Seabrook listening to the OF NEW YORK Thursday, March 22, 1979 Grateful Dead on their Japanese tape decks amid a marijuana haze. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES • Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, March 25, There ls no reasonable case against eco Thursday, March 22, 1979 1979 marks the 61st anniversary of the nomic growth. All the attempted arguments independence proclamation of the Byelo tum back on themselves. Economic expan e Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, today I am russian Democratic Republic, where the sion is indispensable, for example, to fight introducing a bill that would :provide freedom-loving people of Byelorussia pollution or to develop alternative sources o! $150 a month for all World War I vet cast off the yoke of the oppressive czarist fuel or to create a new "soft energy system." erans, their surviving spouses, and chil rule. I would like to join my distinguished The mandate of "beautllul smallness" is best dren. The benefits provided to World colleagues in saluting Byelorussians the fulfilled in the semi-conductors and micro War I veterans under my bill will never world over, and Americans of Byelorus processors that are our leading industry o! growth. To relieve the world's hunger and be reduced as a result of cost-of-living sian decent for their endless pursuits of promote development tn the Third World, increases in social security payments. I the ideals of freedom and human rights. we wm need unending economic boom and firmly believe that World War I veterans Sixty-one years ago, the Byelorussian technological creativity in the West. It wm have long been shortchanged, especially people drew up a constitution that called take vast economic gains even to pay !or the When compared to the benefits received for a sovereign, self-governing state with indexed pensions and medical needs of the by veterans of subsequent wars. The free elections and guarantees of basic March 22, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6095 human rights. They kindled the flame of funded in two ways: ( 1) we should stop UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA knowledge in a free society which led subsidizing the defenses of such wealthy NATIONAL BASKETBALL CHAM to great strides in culture, education, and allies as Japan and West Germany; and PIONS social welfare. This beacon still shines (2) we should dismantle our expensive today as Byelorussians continue to strive and outmoded overseas bases and after for independence and personal freedoms beefing up American bases, use the sur HON. RONNIE ·c. FLIPPO in their oppressed land within the Soviet plus for weapons and salaries. OF ALABAMA Union. I was 'honored to serve as a flight sur IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The people of Byelorussia fought and geon in the United States Air Force and Thursday, March 22, 1979 died for their independence during World the Air National Guard, and I am proud War I, and they are still fighting today of our military men. • Mr. FLIPPO. Mr. Speaker, I am proud for the beliefs and privileges which we Using an authoritarian method such to have the honor of recognizing the ac live by and enjoy today. They yearn to as the draft to defend our free society complishments of a group of young men hear broadcasts of Voice of America and demeans our Armed Forces and our Con who have made a name for themselves. to read of news from the free world. I stitution. And it makes neither military The University of North Alabama Lions commend their undying efforts to make nor economic sense. basketball team has earned a national a better world for their children, and we The even worse idea of national serv basketball championship in the National should recognize and honor their work ice-with our sons and daughters serving Collegiate Athletic Association Division for human rights. HEW-would be a disaster. I will op II Tournament. I join all the Byelorussian people of pose both, and work for a militarily These young men have made all Ala the world in celebrating their 61st inde stronger United States.• bamians proud because they have pendence day in the hope that all men brought the first national basketball title can share the blessings of freedom and a to the State of Alabama. In a State life dedicated to preserviQg basic human known for athletic excellence, the Uni rights and ideals.• INDIANA UNIVERSITY HOOSIERS versity of North Alabama in Florence has N.I.T. CHAMPIONS gained special recognition as a result of the extra efforts of these young men and their coach Bill Jones. SHOULD WE BRING BACK THE HON. JOHN T. MYERS The unheralded UNA Lions did not DRAFT? OF INDIANA know when to quit. Their fortunes in the IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES early part of this year's basketball season Thursday, March 22, 1979 looked bleak. But they showed the per HON. RON PAUL severance to turn it all around. They had OF TEXAS • Mr. MYERS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, to win to stay in and they put together a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES it is with great pleasure that I take the string of nine victories in a row against well again to praise the accomplishments Thursday, March 22, 1979 the top teams in NCAA Division II to of two collegiate basketball teams from capture the national championship. The • Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, a lot of po the State of Indiana and especially one impossible dream became a reality for litical leaders, in Texas as well as Wash from the Seventh District of Indiana. these UNA players. ington, are urging that we reinstitute the Last evening, the Indiana University draft or set up a system of universal na Hoosiers defeated intrastate and intra As a University of North Alabama tional service. Under the latter, young conference rival Purdue University to alumnus I am especially proud of the ac people who chose not to be in the mili complishments of players and coaches win the championship of the 42d annual who represented our school in the na tary would work for civilian bureaucrats National Invitation Tournament at New for 2 or 3 years. tional arena. More important though is York's Madison Square Garden. what they have shown us about character I believe either would be a major After beginning the season ranked even when the task ahead looks difficult mistake. among the top 20 teams in the Nation, and the going gets tough. Collegiate First of all, our Constitution clearly the Hoosiers suffered several early season sports are often pointed out as character forbids involuntary servitude. But there defeats which made many skeptics write building, and these champions are proof are also compellingg moral, economic, them off. But Coach Bobby Knight led of that maxim. and military reasons for keeping a vol the Hoosiers to a respectable 18-12 rec The UNA team proved you can some untary military. ord and a 10-8 finish in the tough Big times accomplish your goal through de Do the lives of our young people be Ten. termination and courage. Even if these long to Uncle Sam? The essence of what Many doubters were surprised when players had not won a national cham makes America worth def ending is free Indiana University was given a spot in pionship, they have the personal satis choice. If our national security were th~ National Invitation Tournament, but faction of knowing that they have ac truly imperiled, I have faith that Ameri Coach Knight and the Hoosiers soon complished more and gone further than cans would line up to do the job. But made believers of everyone. They earned anyone had exi)ected. Each of us can given our foolish policy and no-win wars, a trip to New York City by defeating learn a lesson from these courageous is it any wonder young people wouldn't Texas Tech and previously undefeated young men of how to meet adversity head want to be drafted to fight at the di Alcorn State after drawing a bye into on. rection of Carter, Brzesinski, and Andy the semifinals, the Hoosiers defeated an Their story is worth while for all of us Young? After Vietnam, the law breakers other Big Ten rival, Ohio State, 64-55. to read and I would like to take this op got amnesty; 55,000 young men who Last night, they won the championship portunity to place in the RECORD the press obeyed the law got killed. by defeating Purdue 53-52 to finish 22 ..... accounts of this remarkable champion But in today's world, to defend our 12 overall. The Seventh District of In ship team. Telling the UNA story are country, we don't need a horde of green diana now is half way toward winning Mike Goems of the Florence Times/Tri kids toting rifles. Spending billions to college basketball's double crown. Un Cities Daily, and Bill Lumpkin of the Bir train young people who only serve one defeated Indiana State is our representa mingham Post-Herald. hitch isn't economic. tive in this weekend NCAA tournament [From the Birmingham Post-Herald, We need more nuclear submarines finals. Mar.14, 1979] armed with MIRVed missiles, cruise mis I congratulate Coach Bobby Knight NORTH .ALABAMA CHASES A CHAMPIONSHIP siles, laser antimissile weapons, defen and his Hoosiers on their great accom (By Bill Lumpkin) sive satellites, and more accurate ICBMs. plishment. The Hoosiers are: Steve The next time the guy on an adjoining To get the highly trained military Reish, Randay Wittman, Ted Kitchel, stool at your favorite pub wants to argue techniciais we need to man such weap Scott Eells, Landon Turner, Eric Kirch about college basketball, try this on him. ons, we should pay much higher salaries. ner, Steve Risley, Glen Grunwald. Butch Has any Alabama university ever made the The weapons development money we Carter, Mike Woodson, Phil Isenbarger, NCAA's final four? need, and the higher salaries, should be and Ray Tolbert.• It he's fairly knowledgeable, he'll say no. 6096 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 22, 1979 If not, he'll probably guess the University of Since his arrival at North Alabame., the The Lions represented the University of Alabama, or tell you where to go. Lions have won 92 basketball games, lost North Alabama and the entire Shoals area Before reaching into the wallet, check the 43. Jones' teams ha.ve one third place finish in the same manner on and off the court. location. You're dead in the TriCities. They in the Division n national championships They have shown people throughout the na know the answer. and a GuU South title, plus third and tion what charisma. really ls. ~ Univ\ersity of North Alabama. has second place finishes. The UNA players have shown they richly made the NCAA's Division II final four once, Jones may be the only small college deserve to wear the title, "National Cham and will be playing in the championship coach in the state with a. weekly TV show pions 1979". round a second time in three years at Spring- and North Alabama. ma.y be the only small In Review ... field, Mo., Friday night. - college that has home games carried on The Lions proved, in the championship If someone had told coach Bill Jones that delayed TV 30 minutes after each ga.me. game, it's not how big you are but how big a couple of months ago, he might have All playoff games were televised ba.ck home, your heart is. Green Bay, which featured a laughed or ignored such ignorance. too. pair of 6'10" players and another 6'11" were "We were 8-7 after the first half of the Five Lions will be ma.king a ireturn to not able to beat UNA inside. Ron Darby and season," Jones was saying over the telephone the nationals. One is Otis Boddie, an Gerald Lavender equalized the opponents yesterday. "We Just had a great second half. honorable mention All-American, and an strength. "I don•t know what turned us around. It other ls Gerald Lavender, the tallest starter There were many other factors which led wasn't coaching. I was coaching the same at 6-7. to UNA's drive to the championship. over way. Our man-to-man didn't do too well and "I think having been to the nationals 500 UNA supporters made the trip to urge we began playing a little more zone. The wlll be an asset. We have been in the battle their team on. "It's great to see so many kids also began to get confidence. at the highest level. We have played well people drive this far to see us play," senior "We lost five games by a total of seven on the road. We have played loose a.nd we forward Bobby Montgomery se.ld. "It means points. We were playing pretty good people." have players who have been there before. a great deal to us to have them with us. You "I expect us to play well up there." have no idea how much we appreciate it."e The move North Alabama was to put on North Alabama's opening rival is Bridge the rest of the Gulf South Conference would port, Conn., a team ranked fifth in the na have made an excellent plot for a Bronc tion. Others in the magic circle are Wiscon Burnett novel. All the Lions did was wln sln-~en Bay and Cheyney Sta.te, fourth AUTHORITY OF HSA'S NEEDS seven in a row and 12 of the last 14. ranked. CLARIFICATION "The thing about this season ls that every North Alabama Will be a little out of game was do-or-die for us," said Jones. place. The Lions don't have any lofty na "When a team in the conference wins all of tional ranking to impress their opponents. HON. ROBERT McCLORY its road games, it's a pretty good team. "We're not ranked. We haven't been OF ILLINOIS "Nicholls did that and won the conference ranked a.11 year. With the way the yea.r early. We were fighting Jacksonville and Troy began, I can see why we aren't." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for a second and hoping the NCAA would But, as Jones says, the season isn't over. Thursday, March 22, 1979 invite a second team from our conference to play in the region." • Mr. MCCLORY. Mr. Speaker, today I To finish second, North Alabama had to (From the Florence Times/Tri-Cities Dally, am introducing legislation which will dispose of both Troy and Jacksonville, which Mar. 18, 1979) limit the function of health system it did, before standing-room-only home (By Mike Goens) agencies to planning for and promotion crowds of 3,500 each night. · of health care facilities and personnel. "This happened to be the year on the SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-A full year of mem NCAA rotation when the South region win ories ... When legislation authorizing health ner played the South Central region cham The University of North Alabama basket systems agencies was enacted during the pion. Nicholls went to the South Central and ball team made a name for itself here Satur 93d Congress, I did not feel that it was we were invited to play in the South at day night at Hammons Center. UNA grabbed the intention of the Congress to give the Lakeland, Fla." the national spotlight with a crushing 64-50 health service agencies the broad power Victories over Florida Southern, a team triumph over Wisconsin-Green Bay for the they now appear to exercise. that had broken even in 10 meetings against championship of the NCAA Division II bas As a result of this wide-ranging au Divd.slon I foes, and Valdosta State put ketball. It signified the fulfillment of a 11!e thority, my own congressional district North Alabama against Nicholls for a berth long dream for the Lions. in the fine.I four. When you look back and see what the Lions recently experienced a confrontation be "We had beaten Nicholls at their place had to go through to get the coveted prize, tween residents of the three-county serv for their only conference loss. We were you can appreciate the feat much, much ice area of the health service agency ·playing there again. more. They had to overcome hurdle after Kane, Lake, and McHenry Counties-and • "We got on top and went into a delay hurdle, even when it appeared hopeless. When board members of the health systems with about five minute left. It was the long you are 8-7 and fighting for your Ille just to agency over a document concerning ma est five minutes I ever remember. Nicholls stay over .500, you have a tendency to give lt ternal and newborn services. started fouling and we hit on 25 of 27 free up and look a.head to another year. The original support document, as pro throws. We finally won 103-97." But a driving force inside each player re posed, included provisions which could In the five years Jones has been coach fused to allow the inevitable to happen. They ing at his alma mater, which was Florence rebounded in style as filley quickly mounted be interpreted to allow schools and other State Teachers College when he was a bas an incredible comeback charge. Those close organizations outside of the family ketball player, the Lions have become a games which had been going into the loss structure to provide family planning ma local favorite. They carry their own cheer column suddenly turned into victory. The terials and information to teenagers and ing section. Lions won 14 of their last 16 games, includ preteens in this area without parental "It really helped at Nicholls. We had ing the final nine in succession against the knowledge or consent. about 400 fans there. There was enough to top outfits in the nation. be hea.rd.. That's what class and pride are all about. Mr. Speaker, without commenting on "We're going to have a good crowd going It couldn't have happened to a more de the advisability of providing information with us to Springfield. A fan came in today serving group of young men, either. They of this nature to our young citizens, this a.nd bought 39 tickets. He said a lot of peo have shot down the theory, "Nice guys finish responsibility clearly does not lie within p.le in his neighborhood are going. last." Indeed, you can display class and still the jurisdiction of these agencies of the "Since it ls AEA week, some of our fans become a winner. Federal Government. are turning it into a vacation. We may have Head Coach Blll Jones noted the quality Mr. Speaker, the health systems between 800 and 1,000 up there. we have even before the team entered the national agency in Kane, Lake, and McHenry led the Gulf South Conference in attend playoffs. Counties has proven itself to be benefi ance the last four· years." "This ls a class group of young men," he cial to our area in many ways. However, It's ·always rewarding to an old school said before the playoff opener against Flor when one of its own returns and coaches the ida-Southern. "They have done an outstand it is my view that we need to limit such sport in which he excelled to prominence. ing job all year. They have taught us all a agencies to making recommendations re Jones has done that. It took him awhile tremendous lesson. They've show what can garding health care facilities and person to find his way back to the Tri-Cities area happen to you if you keep plugging and don't nel and to assure that they do not be of Florence, Tuscumbia and Muscle Shoals. quit. come involved in areas which have tra iA!ter high school coaching tenures at This group has done everything we've ditionally and rightfully been reserved Yuma, Colo., Opelika and Lauderdale Coun asked of them. If you can't _trust them, you for the family. ty, he broke into college ranks, first at can't trust anyone. It's just a great pleasure I urge my colleagues tto join me in co Marion and then at Montevallo. to be associated with them." sponsoring this legislation.• March 22, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 6097 EUROPE'S VIEW OF U.S. GASOLINE Some of these figures are exaggerated by the Netherlands tries to enforce a speed limit PRICES using dollar terms to express prices 1n Euro close to tha.t o! the United States, a.bout pean· currencies. The decline of the dollar's 63 m.p.h. value against that of the West German mark, The European attitude toward autos also HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, J'R. the Swiss franc and other strong currencies has meant that public transportation sys has made the prices of most goods and serv t.ems are far more complete on the continent OF CALIFORNIA ices here appear large when converted to than in the United States. Thus, many con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dollars. tinental middle-class citizens drive their cars Thursday, March 22, 1979 Even allowing !or this effect, however, only on weekends, taking buses or trains to the typical European must work far long work. e Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. er to earn the price of a gallon of gasoline Europe has bullt a. major network of super Speaker, as Americans adjust to the in tha.n does the typ1cail gas station custom.er highways, but almost invariable the roads evitable rise in gasoline prices, it is worth in the United States. halt at the edges of cities, and tramc to the observing how Western Europe, whose In some European countries, such as city centers 1s on local streets.. France and Italy, gasoline prices are fixed At ·the same time, governments have in standard of living is similar to our own, by the government. Countries like Belgium, has dealt with this problem. There is no vested heavily 1n underground parking faclll Ireland and Denmark set maximum prices ties and subway systems. question that rising prices of gasoline and allow lower prices, particularly for sel! Medium-size cities such as Frankfurt and will cause hardships, generate windfall serv1ce stations. Brussels now have well-functioning-If profits, and ohange the competitive posi To run a &mall car (1500-cc engine) like small-underground transit systems while of the Honda Civic 10,000 miles In a year, gas tion many subcomPonents of the U.S. taxes alone range from a minimum of $304 the old networks in London and Paris have economy. The Congress should try to ad in Britain to $864 in Denmark. been expanded and improved. dress the inequities which will surely The clear d11ference in economic outlook Sales of automobiles have been consistently result. involving the auto ls at the heart of the strong for several years despite the high Even more serious, in my mind, is the disagreement between Europeans and taxes and gasoline prices. Americans on a key issue of energy policy. But the kinds of cars sold in Europe durer already dangerous problem of fuel considerably from those made and sold in switching, which is the use of leaded "The subject comes up all the time," a spokesman for the International Energy the U.S. The best-sellers in Europe are what gasoline in cars which should only use Assn. in P&ris observed. Americans would call sub-compacts and unleaded gasoline. This added complica Continental political leaders question the often think of as second cars. tion comes about because U.S. automak commitment cxf U .s. omctals to reduce oil For the young secretary buying her first ers decided to go the route of add-on Pol consumption and the volume of imported car in Europe, there are the "minis," which lution control devices to meet air Pollu oll when nearly all the policy options dis get superb mileage and perform remarkably tion control needs. In some parts of the cussed 1n Washington avoid the topic of well. The scale then moves up to limousines United States, the price differential be ra.lslng t&Jtes on motor fuel as & deterrent at the top of each major manufacturer's list. tween leaded and unleaded· gasoline is to its use. The price of regular gas within the Com In President Oarter•s original energy pro mon Market ranges from 8 percent less than over 10 cents per gallon, and rising. This gram of two years ago, a rise in gasoline high-test In France .to only 2 percent less in differential, which is totally unjustified taxes was proposed. It never got past the Britain, Ireland and Denmark. Regular gas and easily controllable, is the main cause first hurdle in Oongress and hardly has been is taxed at a higher rate than high-test. for fuel switching. In order to protect the mentioned since. For many Europeains, the big savings comes multibillion-dollar investment in air pol Carter did promise his negotiating part in purchasing diesel fuel. In It.&y, for in lution control equipment, and in order to ners at the economic summit in Bonn la.st stance, diesel costs only one-third as much protect the health of those this equip summer tha.t the United States would allow as regular; 1n the Netherlands it ls 42 percent ment is intended to protect, we must deal its prices on domestically produced on to cheaper. rise to world levels by the end of 1980. There 1s little d.11ference 1n price between with this price differential. Even with the world price higher now diesel and regular fuels in Germany a.nd Brit Mr. Speaker, I commend the article than any of the political leaders expected ain, but diesel-engine ca.rs stlll a.re much about Europe's view of U.S. gasoline last summer, fulfillment of the president's more popular in Europe th.a.n in the United. prices. pledge still would leave Americans paying Startles. A large proportion of ta.xloabs 1n The article follows: considerably less than Europeans do to use Europe a.re diesel-powered because of the [From the Los Angeles Times, Mar. 22 1979) their automobiles. good mileage they achieve. The difference in attitude toward au There ls no leaded-unleaded gas classlfica Low PRICE OF U.S. GASOLINE F'UELS DEBATE tomobiles ls inherent. In Europe owning tlon. since European air pollution stanc:la.rds (By Murray Seeger) a car is stlll less common than in the a.re much less strict and less well-defined BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.-The anguished cries United States, despite the rapid rise in than .those in America. from the United States about the imminent European incomes since World Weir II. European cars have one thing in com possib111ty of paying a dollar for a gallon of ·Unlike the United States, Europe had mon-they generally a.re more emcient than gasoline are giving Europeans some good virtually no domestic oll sources untll the America.n-mad.e ca.rs, using less gas and oil laughs. discovery of petroleum under the North Sea regardless of speed. For decades, West European motorists have between Great Britain and Norway. Largely for this reason, Europe has not Land always has been more precious in been paying more for their fuel than Ameri faced the invasion. of Japanese cars that has cans, and during the last five years of inter Europe than in the United States. Big park deluged the U.S. market a.nd made its deepest national energy crisis the price spread be ing lots, suburban shopping centers, dr1ve- penetration on the American West Coast.e tween the United States and the continent 1n restaurants, roadside strip commercial has grown. developments--- SENATE-Monday, March 26, 1979 (Legislative day of Thursday, February 22, 1979) The Senate met at 11 a.m., on the ex Save us from expecting too much or appoint the Honorable DENNIS DECONCINI, a piration of the recess, and was called accepting too little. Help us to live by our Senator from the State of Arizona., to perform to order by Hon. DENNIS DECONCINI, a faith and not by our doubt. the duties of the Chair. Senator from the State of Arizona. Guide the leaders of the world by Thy WARREN G. MAGNUSON, higher wisdom to the time when "nation President pro tempore. Mr. DECONCINI thereupon assumed PRAYER shall .not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" the chair as Acting President pro tem The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward when peacemakers will be blessed and pore. L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following called "the children of God." Amen. prayer: God is our refuge and strength . . . RECOGNITION OF LEADERSHIP He maketh wars to cease unto the end of The AC~G PRESIDENT pro tem the earth; APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the DENT PRO TEMPORE pore. The Senator from West Virginia. spear in sunder The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk He burneth the chariot in the fire. will please read a communication to the Be still and know that I am God. Senate from the President pro tempore THE JOURNAL -Psalms 46: 1, 9-lOa. (Mr. MAGNUSON). Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, Our Father-God, we thank Thee for The assistant legislative clerk read the following letter: I ask unanimous consent that the Journal this day bright with the promise of peace u.s. SENATE, of the proceedings be approved to date. between two nations and with hope for PREsmENT PRo TEMPoRE, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- that peaceable kingdom without geo 26 1979 graphical boundaries, the law of which To the s!~~~ngton, D.C., March • · pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. is love, the citizenship of which is the Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, hwnan race. of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby I reserve the remainder of my time. • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor.