15008 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS INTRODUCTION OF THE AFRI Since 1980 the annual volume of world tive to our conservation efforts to ban this CAN ELEPHANT ANTI-POACH ivory was 800 tons. To meet this demand type of activity. ING ACT OF 1988 some 70,000 elephants must die each year. The second type of ivory, called legal com Yet, only 3 percent of this ivory is imported mercial ivory, is obtained from culling oper directly from Africa. The bulk of it arrives from ations, confiscated ivory, or found ivory from HON. JACK FIELDS such intermediary places as Hong Kong, natural mortality. While this type of production OF TEXAS China, and Japan. We in the United States is biologically neutral, it does provide some fi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES consume 30 percent of the world's ivory each nancial incentives for elephant conservation. year. This represents some 7.2 million pieces The third type is illegal commercial ivory, or Thursday, June 16, 1988 of jewelry with a value of $11.8 million. Since poached ivory. In almost every case, this ac Mr. FIELDS. Mr. Speaker, during the past many experts believe that nearly 80 percent tivity is biologically unsound in that it leads to several months, I have spent a considerable of all imported ivory is poached, purchases in the destruction of the elephant population. In amount of time trying to develop a legislative the United States, therefore, account tor the addition, it contributes nothing to the econo proposal which will protect the African ele deaths of some 27,000 African elephants mies of the producing nations, and therefore phant from further poaching in Africa. every year. provides little, if any, incentive to conserve I have met with ambassadors from several With the population of the African elephant elephants or elephant habitat. Our efforts African countries; officials of the United States declining by nearly 9 percent a year, it is clear must be directed at stopping this poaching, or Fish and Wildlife Service; and individuals rep that unless some legislative action is taken, at least eliminating the financial incentives resenting sport hunters, conservationists, and taken quickly, we will witness the annihila which lead poachers to kill elephants. We animal rights organizations, and environmen tion of the African elephant within the next must remember that poachers are motivated talists. decade. by ivory prices which are greater than a year's Why does a Congressman from Houston, While I have received divergent views, no wages for most African workers. TX, care about the African elephant? Well, let one has disagreed with me when I've said Mr. Speaker, after careful deliberation, I be me tell you why. As someone who has been a that unless some action is taken now, the Afri lieve that the best solution to this serious sportsman and a hunter all of his life, I can elephant will be decimated in the near poaching problem is a straightforward ban on learned early on to have a great appreciation all worked and raw ivory from any country future. and love for all of God's creatures. I want to I want my colleagues to realize that during see all species preserved, not because I want which does not have a native population of the past 10 years, the population of African to hunt a certain animal, but because I want African elephants living in the wild. elephants has declined by almost half. In others to be able to experience the joy of While I recognize that the United States 1979, the total elephant population in Africa seeing these animals in their natural habitat. cannot unilaterally stop the flow of poached was approximately 1.3 million animals. Today, There is nothing more exhilarating than ivory, we have a responsibility to take a lead fewer than 750,000 African elephants are watching an elephant periscope the wind with ership role in this matter. If we simply waited alive. its trunk or trumpet other members of its herd. for the rest of the world to act in time of crisis, And the destruction of this magnificent I believe that we have a responsibility to help it is unlikely we would ever have enacted the animal has not been confined to just a few Af save the African elephant for future genera Endangered Species Act or the Marine rican nations. For instance, the African Wildlife tions. Mammal Protection Act, which are two of our Foundation points out that: Because of my hunting experience, I con most prominent wildlife protection laws. In 1973, some 130,000 elephants lived in sider myself a conservationist. The terms I agree that the solution to this problem the Republic of Kenya. In 1987, it was esti hunter, sportsman, and conservationist are not cannot be confined simply to intermediary mated that fewer than 20,000 remained. This mutually exclusive. In fact, the hunting com countries, but a ban on ivory imported from is a population loss of 85 percent. munity has spent millions of dollars trying to nonproducing countries is the best place to In 1977, the Selous Game Reserve in the save not only the African elephant but also start. From here we can work with the Con United Republic of Tanzania had a population the black rhino, leopard, and many other spe vention on International Trade in Endangered of 109,000 elephants. Today, only half of cies. Species of Wild Fauna and Flora [CITES] so them, or 55,000, are alive. Before describing my legislative remedy to that it can be more effective on an internation In 1976, some 80,000 to 100,000 elephants this problem, it is important to note that there al scale. roamed the plains of the Central African Re are three types of ivory. In addition to eliminating tons of poached public. By 1985, fewer than 15,000 remained. First, there is sports-hunted ivory. It ac ivory which flood this country, this legislation During the turbulent period of ldi Amin in counts for a minuscule percentage of ivory ex will provide important new incentives for Afri the 1970's, 80 to 90 percent of Uganda's ele ports from producing countries. This activity is can elephant conservation programs. For in phants were slaughtered. A single herd in the biologically sound and produces by far the stance, within a few years, ivory carvers will Murchison Falls National Park was reduced greatest economic return per animal for the be forced to move their operations to Africa. from more than 9,000 elephants in 1973 to producing nation. By so doing, they will help build the local only 25 survivors in 1982. In order to legally hunt an elephant, an indi economies of these nations and provide a Before its Civil War, Chad had an estimated vidual must pay substantial permit and safari powerful incentive to managing the African 15,000 elephants. Today, fewer than 2,000 fees to the producing nation. Those fees far elephant population in a sound manner. elephants live in that nation. exceed the commercial value of the ivory Mr. Speaker, it is for these reasons that I In Southern Sudan, much of the elephant itself. Because of this vital infusion of capital, am pleased to introduce today the African population has been wiped out by marauding there is a tremendous incentive for elephant Elephant Anti-Poaching Act of 1988. It is my groups of poachers. protection efforts. Several African countries, hope that this bill will stimulate debate so we Finally, a recent aerial count in Somalia re most notably Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South can move forward this year to consider legis vealed more elephant carcasses than live ani Africa, have established outstanding elephant lation which will help protect the African ele mals. conservation programs. phant. It would be tragic if we looked back 10 Why have these elephants been killed in There is no relationship between the move years from now and noted that we could have such staggering numbers? The primary reason ment of sport-hunted ivory and illegally ob saved the African elephant if only we had the is the world's growing appetite for ivory. tained ivory. It would also be counterproduc- courage to act.
e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. June 16, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15009 While I have not yet asked for specific com [From the Christian Science Monitor, May and order" advocates unleash the very law ments on this proposal, several organizations 10, 1988] lessness and amoral behavior that further have already added their voices in support. RACE IS NOW A CLASS ISSUE polarize society between race and class. And For instance, the African Safari Club of Wash political leaders must cease using code words that thinly disguise appeals to racism. ington, DC, stated that: Most reports by presidential commissions It is essential that America's leadership lie forgotten, gathering dust in the Library We should "allow the import of properly sets a healing tone in domestic politics. As documented elephant products from pro of Congress. Yet, Americans who hope their the Kerner Commission noted, the plight of ducing nations, while prohibiting imports country will practice what its Constitution the disenfranchised casts a long shadow of from nonproducing nations such as Hong preaches still invoke the report presented to President Lyndon Johnson 20 years ago by uncertainty over every American's future. Kong, Japan, and Singapore. This would Anarchy in the streets caused by the root strengthen enforcement procedures by the Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the so-called Kerner Commission. less young who have no stake in society im greatly shortening the audit trail. Further, perils our neighborhoods. We must deal it would favor ivory carvers in producing na This 800-page document accused the United States of having become "two soci with their pain and anger and protect our tions over Oriental carvers. This would in selves from its consequences. crease the value of ivory exported from pro eties, one black, one white, separate and un equal." Following the "long hot summer" of A new presidential commission could iden ducing nations, adding to their incentives to tify such malicious political activity for conserve elephants. racial discord and urban riots in 1967, this accusation rang true. Our report was unani what it is, recommend more enlightened The president of the world-renowned Game mous. Whether liberal, conservative, or budget priorities, and help the press locate Conservation International, Mr. Harry Tenni moderate, every commission member ac flash points in neighborhoods and in halls son, who has traveled throughout Africa for knowledged incontrovertible evidence of a of government where racial tensions are at nearly 40 years, has indicated to me that: "In racially polarized body politic. work. The lives of all Americans are blight visits to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Two decades later that polarization has ed by these social conflicts; each of us must taken a new form. The US now confronts a contribute to their resolution. How well we Delhi, London, and Paris, I see thousands of new crisis in race relations which the face up to this challenge defines our charac pieces of ivory for sale that would outnumber Kerner Commission could hardly have an ter as a nation. the pieces, or pounds of ivory taken legally, by ticipated and which better leadership in The task is not an easy one. The longtime 100 to 1. A ban on all worked or raw ivory recent years might have prevented. neglect of the inner city will not be quickly from any country which does not have a America's nonwhite middle class has ex repaired. Several of this year's presidential native population of elephants would be the panded significantly; that is partly because candidates have displayed authentic com most effective way to stop the illegal transpor of the Kerner report and to citizens and po passion for the underprivileged; yet they litical leaders who took the findings serious come up short on specific solutions to their tation of ivory from one country to another." ly. Also, a growing number of blacks and Finally, the group Monitor, which represents troubles. More money is necessary, but Hispanics occupy leadership positions in money will not do the job alone. We need some 14 major animal rights organizations, city halls and statehouses across the coun skilled, knowledgeable, and committed men has endorsed a ban on all worked or raw ivory try, as well as in Congress. and women to build education, employment, from countries which are not members of the While such changes are hallmarks of housing, language, job training, antipro Convention on International Trade in Endan greater decency and maturity in our nation verty, and drug problems-and to deal effec gered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora al life, many of the poorest of minority citi tively with crime, the most menacing effect [CITES] and do not have a population of zens have been left far behind in a losing of neglect in these areas. The present cli struggle for survival. Backsliding at the fed mate has driven many such able people out native elephants living in the wild. eral level on commitments to equal opportu Mr. Speaker, these two elements are con of the fold. nity in employment, job training, low Our nation is trying increasingly hard to tained in my bill and I hope that we can pass income housing, and medical care have had become more productive industrially, to cor some meaningful legislation which will help devastating results. rect trade imbalances, and to establish ensure a brighter future for one of God's most Rising crime rates, more homelessness, as better commercial relations with nonwhite impressive creatures-the African elephant. cending teen-age birthrates, lower school nations around the world. At the same time, Mr. Speaker, this issue may not be a press dropout ages, and heavier traffic in illegal this country's minorities make up an in drugs describe the effect on behavior and ing one for many Members; nor is it likely to creasing percentage of the US's total popu the tragic circumstances of a growing por lation. We will not be able to move ahead help many of our constituents. Nevertheless, tion of the population that is disconnected as the greatest legislative body in the world, economically on the global stage unless we from society as we have known it. What address the concerns of those minorities the House must act so that this magnificent were once regarded as issues of race have here at home. species is not destroyed. As Theodore Roose become, increasingly, issues of "class," a It is time for another presidential commis velt noted: "The nation behaves well if it word never heard in our country before. sion to look anew at our divided society and treats its natural resources as assets which it In the 20 years since the Kerner report, point the way toward the style and sub legislative protections against racial discrim must turn over to the next generation, in stance of leadership that once again can ination have diminished, but not erased, the summon the generous, enlightened, and creased and not impaired in value." problems of poverty suffered by this "un The road to extinction is a one-way street. I honorable impulses that exist in the Ameri derclass." A new commission examining the can people. urge my colleagues to join with me in this difficulties that the Kerner panel investi effort during this, the year of the elephant, by gated would find two societies; divided these supporting the African Elephant Anti-Poaching days more along lines of economic and per A FRIEND OF THE CHESAPEAKE Act of 1988. sonal conduct than of race. Worse, racial po larization has become further exacerbated by the widening gulf between social classes. RACE IS NOW A CLASS ISSUE This problem, caused by a climate set at HON. ROY DYSON the highest levels of government, can only OF MARYLAND be solved by leadership that reflects the HON.DOUGWALGREN U.S. Constitution's highest principles. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PENNSYLVANIA During the last eight years, federal social Thursday, June 16, 1988 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES programs have been indiscriminately slashed. Meanwhile, defense spending has Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, the State of Thursday, June 16, 1988 soared extravagantly, and vast tax cuts have Maryland and the United States have lost a Mr. WALGREN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to taken effect. Pointing to the record budget great friend and dedicated scientist following call attention to the following preceptive arti deficits that its own senior officials created. the tragic and untimely death at the age of 49 cle on the problem of poverty from the May Washington now cries poor when the poor on June 11, of Dr. lan Morris. 10 Christian Science Monitor by John Lindsay, cry for help. Then, exploiting backlash fears Dr. Morris became one of the Nation's pre generated by those cries, some political lead former mayor of New York, vice-chairman of ers discredit expenditures designed to ease mier biochemists and researchers and is most the Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder the problems as "throwing tax dollars down prominently known for his position as the di the Kerner Commission of 1968-and a t he drain." rector of the University of Maryland's Center former Member of the House of Representa The result has been a national disaster. for Environmental and Estuarine Studies tives. Demagogic appeals by self-anointed "law [GEES]. 15010 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 Dr. Morris started out as a biochemist. want sanctions to provide us with a viable, fusal recently to accept an honorary degree Quickly completing his undergraduate degree, nonviolent strategy to force the dismantling at Tulane University because the trustees of he immediately began doctoral studies, which of apartheid." He has repeated his chal the university had not divested of stocks in lenge several times since then. companies operating in South Africa. culminated in a teaching position at the Uni While I disagree with the underlying Surely foreign firms should, instead, be versity of London. In 1981, he was appointed premise of this remark-i.e., that sanctions encouraged to continue with their very ex to head the GEES. In this he oversaw an do provide such a strategy-he is certainly tensive programs to help lay the foundation annual budget of $7 million, and supervised justified in asking what the alternative is. for a stable postapartheid society. In the some 240 staff personnel-50 of which held And the question is particularly relevant past eight years U.S. corporations in South Ph.D rank. Dr. Morris ran the Horn Point Envi when it comes from a man who does not Africa, for example, spent more than $210 ronmental Laboratory, the Chesapeake Labo have a vote, despite the fact, as he has often million on education, training and housing ratory at Solomons Island and the Appalach pointed out, that he is a South African by of their black employees and their families, birth, the head of the Anglican Church in on health facilities and on legal aid. With ian Environmental Laboratory located on the southern Africa and a Nobel laureate. drawal of these firms has inevitably meant campus of Frostburg State College in western Short of getting rid of this government reduction or even curtailment of these pro Maryland. and replacing it with a nonracial democra grams, to the detriment of future black Mr. Speaker, Dr. Morris left his mark on the cy-which is highly unlikely in the foresee leadership and its participation in the post Chesapeake Bay region and my district. I able future, sanctions notwithstanding-the apartheid era. And once gone, the influence often benefited from his advice in my position sad truth is that there is no instant solution such firms exercised on the local scene is on the House Committee on Merchant Marine that will transform the South African gone too. and Fisheries. His counsel will be sorely scene. There are, in fact, only the long-term Power takes many forms, and in South effects of economic expansion within the Africa today, blacks are slowly but surely missed. It is with deep sadness that I bid him country itself-that is, the same factors re accumulating economic power as they are farewell. sponsible for those noncosmetic changes drawn into the national economy, not only that have already taken place. in ever-increasing numbers but at rising The repeal of job reservation-the law levels of skills. Economic muscle can be A WRECKED ECONOMY WON'T that reserved skilled work for whites-was a used, as has been shown in all industrialized END APARTHEID result of the increased demand for skilled countries, to redress imbalances in wealth, labor to meet the growing requirements of privilege and power. HON. DON RITTER the economy. I do not believe that South Africa will be OF PENNSYLVANIA The recognition of black trade unions the exception, though the solution offered came about as a result of "wildcat" strikes, is long term, and there is no doubt that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES no one with whom to negotiate and the blacks are impatient, as one can well under Thursday, June 16, 1988 need therefore to bring the emerging black stand, for change-fundamental change labor movement within the purview of the now. Mr. AlTIER. Mr. Speaker, in our own coun industrial conciliation machinery. The ac The archbishop has stated that if certain try almost 2 million black workers are jobless ceptance, at long last, of the permanence of demands are met, he will call for the with which amounts to over 12 percent of the blacks in the urban areas came about be drawal of sanctions and presumably of disin black work force. This, along with other statis cause of economic forces motivated by the vestment. However, once sanctions have tics concerning the economic problems of our "push factor" of poverty in the black rural been imposed, and once established enter black population, has stimulated America's areas and the "pull factor" of job opportuni prises have withdrawn, it will take more concern. ties in the "white urban areas." This irre than the green light from the archbishop to As a result, many legislative proposals and sistible force led finally to the impossibility restore normal trade and industrial activity, of implementing effectively the hated Pass as the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean example private programs are now under consideration Laws and Influx Control, which restricted demonstrated: few firms returned after lib to make long-term investments for blacks and the mobility of blacks, and to their repeal eration. other minorities involving education, training, two years ago. Moreover, if the United Nations imposes and job creation. None of these changes, however, has her mandatory sanctions against South Africa, So why is it this Congress supports sanc alded the removal of such fundamental cor one veto at the Security Council will pre tions against South Africa which inevitably nerstones of apartheid as the Race Classifi vent those sanctions from being lifted. result in a decrease in the demand for labor cation Act or the Group Areas Act and the An expanded economy is the mechanism and produces widespread unemployment Land Acts, which designate ownership and that creates jobs and wealth in which all occupation of land and property on a racial must share. Contact and a diplomatic pres among South African blacks? basis. Nor has the crux issue of political ence within South Africa exercise signifi Moreover, aside from the problems sanc rights for blacks been addressed. But given cant influence. Isolation and a wrecked tions pose for our national security and United the obduracy and military strength of the economy may give moral satisfaction to States industry, I do not believe we can force present government, it must be conceded some of those who oppose apartheid, but the end of all apartheid and racism in South that any prospect of a transfer of power by this course of action should surely be Africa by withdrawing our presence. I would the National Party government is just not weighed against the unintended conse advocate increasing the American presence in on the agenda. Survival is now the issue, quences that are likely to result. South Africa. A look at the results of the past and a siege economy is preferable, according to National Party thinking. sanctions bill will show that sanctions don't In the unfounded hope, therefore, of the A CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO work-but really hurt the people we were rapid demise of the apartheid regime, it is JOSEPH F. PREVRATIL trying to help and help the people we were surely senseless to blunt the only weapon trying to hurt. It's backwards policy. It's point with which blacks can improve their posi edly counterproductive. tion at the work place, and beyond the work HON.GLENNM.ANDERSON As Helen Suzman-a member of the South place, through their economic muscle, mobi OF CALIFORNIA lized in trade union structures, and through African Parliament belonging to the Progres IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sive Federal Party-points out in her op-ed in their consumer power in the market. Restriction of the economy through sanc Thursday, June 16, 1988 the June 15 issue of the Washington Post, the tions must inevitably result in a decrease in Rhodesian-Zimbabwean experience demon the demand for labor and widespread unem Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today strated that few firms returned after liberation. ployment. Why then are sanctions and dis to pay tribute to an outstanding businessman Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to call investment advocated by people who are and leader in southern California, Mr. Joseph Helen Suzman's comments to the attention of working for black advancement, thereby un F. Prevratil. Joe will be honored on June 22, my colleagues and include the article at this dermining the major power base that blacks 1988, as the outgoing president of the Long point. can obtain? Some, like the archbishop, sin Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. I am cerely believe that this strategy will expe A WRECKED ECONOMY WON'T END APARTHEID dite the dismantling of apartheid. Others happy to have this opportunity to say a few of the Department of Health 1 year ago tomorrow, the Subcommittee on astounding 115-only 15 points below the and Human Services approved the Ciba Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Edu genius level. Over 70 percent of Canfield Geigy company's new drug application for cation held a hearing on my bill, the National graduates attend college, and have grade Ritalin, Ciba-Geigy's brand name for meth Schoolbus Safety Act of 1987. To mark this point averages in college higher than gradu ylphenidate. Ciba-Geigy has manufactured anniversary, I would like to take this opportuni ates of other Ohio high schools. the product under that name since that time. A California based company, MD ty to inform my colleagues of the scope and The athletic program of the Canfield Cardi Pharmaceutical, Inc., has manufactured and purpose of this bill and clarify some controver nals is extremely successful in both mens' distributed generic methylphenidate since sial points. and womens' sports. A beautiful new locker 1977. Methylphenidate is a central nervous The National Schoolbus Safety Act of 1987 room was created at Cardinal Stadium last system stimulant which is approved by the would mandate the installation of seatbelts on year to provide spacious dressing and meet FDA for the treatment of Attention Deficit new schoolbuses. In addition, it would require ing rooms for the Cardinal football and track Disorder suggests that most of the drug is used in the treatment of ADD in children. schoolchildren. Enactment of this bill would go lence of Canfield schools is superintendent, Methylphenidate is classified under the a long way toward reducing the thousands of James Watkins, high school principal, William Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule II injuries associated with schoolbus accidents Kay, and middle school principal, Dante Zam stimulant. That category also includes am annually. brini. Mr. Zambrini has just completed an ex phetamine, methamphetamine and phenme The merits of mandatory installation of seat tremely successful first year as middle school trazine review cal, scientific, research and industrial needs safety and efficacy. any research studies which OSERS, or of the United States, for lawful export re Many of the comments about the safety other offices within the Department, have quirements, and for the establishment and and effectiveness of methylphenidate came funded on the use of Ritalin in treating chil maintenance of reserve stocks. Quotas are after a Federal Register publication of July dren with Attention Deficit Disorder. The also needed to establish a closed system for 29, 1987. In this publication DEA proposed Office of Special Education and Rehabilita the legitimate distribution chain, to limit di the 1988 aggregate production quotas for all tive Services administers the Edu version of drugs from the legitimate chan Schedule II drugs including methylpheni cation of the Handicapped Act which man nels of trade and to avoid overproduction date. This notice resulted in more than 35 dates that all children with disabilities re and the consequent increased potential for letters of comment on the figure proposed ceive a free and appropriate public educa diversion. The aggregate production quota for methylphenidate. These letters were tion. In addition, the Act authorizes a places a limit on the amount of a given sub from individuals and organizations and for number of discretionary grant programs stance which can be produced in a calendar the most part expressed opposition to the which support various research and demon year. Bulk manufacturers are granted man use of methylphenidate in the treatment of stration projects, the training of special ufacturing quotas which are the amounts of ADD in children. Since this condition re education personnel, and programs for se Schedule II controlled substances individual lates to one of the uses of the substance ap verely handicapped students. companies can produce in a given calendar proved by the FDA and is considered to be a As drug treatment research does not gen year. The aggregate production quotas for matter within the purview of that agency, erally fall within the purview of the Depart methylphenidate and the manufacturing the letters were forwarded to FDA for their ment of Education's primary mission, we quotas for the two manufacturers for this consideration. have funded only a limited number of stud substance have been increasing since 1982. In Georgia and elsewhere, the controversy ies related to the topic of drug management Until market shares ·started to shift in about the use of methylphenidate in chil of hyperactive children, and none in the 1982, most of the methylphenidate distrib dren has resulted in ten law suits. Informa past five years: uted was produced by Ciba-Geigy. In that tion available at this time indicates that the "Behavioral Alternatives To Stimulant year, 1,132 kilograms of the drug were sold, Georgia suits claim that parents are given Medication in Treating Childhood Hyperac most of which was produced by Ciba-Geigy. ultimatums to put children on the drug tivity." Grantee: Stanford University, Cali By 1987, sales of the substance had in when they are identified as hyperactive. fornia Center for Educational Research; creased to 1,949 kilograms with more than The suits also claim that the studies to iden 1980 [Final Report]. two-thirds of the market held by Ciba tify ADD in children are not scientific and "Parent, Teacher and Physician in the Geigy. During that period, sales for Ciba that the drug is harmful to the children. Life of The Hyperactive Child: The Coher Geigy increased somewhat while sales for DEA has investigated the use of methyl ence of The Social Environment." Grantee: the generic manufacturer increased many phenidate in Georgia and found no evidence Western Michigan University; 1980 [Final fold. These increases in sales by the two of illegal sales or diversion of the drug in Report]. manufacturers required concomitant in volved in this case. We have therefore con "A Meta-Analysis of Previous Research on creases in the quotas. cluded that the issue in that state is wheth the Treatment of Hyperactivity." Grantee: Despite constant increases in the methyl er or not the drug is being improperly or ex Utah State University; 1982 [Final Report]. phenidate aggregate production quotas be cessively prescribed. In summary, the use of methylphenidate "Children on Medication: A Primer for ginning in 1982, both manufacturers asked has undergone a substantial increase in the School Personnel." Grantee: The Council DEA for large increases in the aggregate last several years. While both manufactur for Exceptional Children; 1979. production quota and individual manufac ers have increased their sales, the market None of these studies has focused specifi turing quotas for methylphenidate in 1986. share held by the generic manufacturer in cally on the issue of Ritalin. Only one The total requests appeared to greatly creased several fold. Data available at this ronmental moderation seconds the motion. and needs of the aging by collecting and dis Mar. 27, 19881 seminating information; conducting or com OuT OF GAs? missioning studies and publishing their re America's political memory has run out of UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT sults; and issuing reports; and gas. Long lines at the service station and un CHICAGO AND THE 1991 CON Providing public forums for discussing and leaded at $1.35 a gallon seem as ancient as FERENCE ON THE AGING publicizing the problems and needs of the the surrey with the fringe on top. Drivers aging, and obtaining information relating to no longer must refinance their houses to those needs by holding public hearings and fill'er up, but slowly and surely America is HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL by conducting or sponsoring conferences, heading toward another energy crisis. OF ILLINOIS workshops, and other meetings; The Department of Energy warns that de IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Preparing and providing for the President pendence on foreign oil could threaten U.S. Thursday, June 16, 1988 an Annual Report on the Council's activities security. After declining for eight years, and recommendations for the ensuring year. U.S. oil imports began climbing last year. By Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the University of 1990, the U.S. could import more than 50 Illinois at Chicago has successfully bid on a per cent of its oil; by 1995 imports could hit contract by the Federal Council on the Aging OHIO SAVINGS AND LOAN 60 per cent of consumption, thereby return and I believe that this success deserves some LEAGUE, "A CENTURY OF ing OPEC to the glory days when oil minis recognition. The contract concerns develop SERVICE" ters brandished rifles, cut off oil supplies, ment of a concept paper that will provide a and shouted. "This is our revenge for Poi tiers!" The only way to prevent replays of scenario for the 1991 White House Confer HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR the mid- and late-Seventies is to start plan ence on the Aging. I want to take this oppor ning-now. tunity to congratulate the university, its presi OF OHIO Although low oil prices have boosted the dent, Stanley 0. Ikenberry, and the staff on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economy, once OPEC eliminates its excess this contribution to the conference. Thursday, June 16, 1988 production it will regain the ability to ma The State university will have to raise be nipulate prices and use oil as a political tween $400,000 and $500,000 from founda Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, one of the coun weapon. Because it costs far more to extract tions and businesses in order to complete the try's oldest and most respected State thrift oil from, say, Oklahoma than from Saudi leagues, the Ohio Savings & Loan League, Arabia, artifically low prices discourage do project. But I know this drive will be success mestic exploration and production. At cur ful because of the importance of the work in celebrated its centennial anniversary this year. rent prices, companies cannot make profits volved. So often we go into conferences and On March 29, the Ohio Savings & Loan looking for U.S. oil. As domestic production discussions with no idea-or very little-of League held its 1OOth annual meeting in Co drops, dependence on foreign supplies in what the guidelines will be. The study carried lumbus. Mr. Speaker, the Ohio League can creases. When the U.S. import oil, precious out by the University of Illinois will give partici take pride in how its founders and officers dollars flow overseas. pants in the conference a very good idea of helped build the Nation's $1.2 trillion savings What can be done? Alaska offers one solu what the conference can accomplish and how and loan business, now a major force in the tion. Oil from the Alaskan pipeline played a economy. In Ohio alone, savings associations crucial role during the 8 years the United it can be of importance to older Americans States lessened OPEC's grip. Despite the and to the Nation. While the Secretary of held nearly $54 billion in assets at year-end quantities already coming from the North Health and Human Services is not compelled 1987. Their savings deposits totaled an amaz Slope, Alaska boasts reservoirs that have to follow the plan, there will be at least a ing $44 billion, while mortgage loan origina not been tapped. The "1002 Area" of the guideline incorporating the views of experts. tions reached $39 billion. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge I thought it would be beneficial if I inserted Although building and loan associations. as boasts an awesome potential: Estimates of into the RECORD at this point, information from they were first called, has been active in the recoverable oil reserves range from 600 mil a fact sheet of the Federal Council on the United States for 36 years before Ohio char lion to 9.2 billion barrels; so-called in-place tered its first one, my great State of Ohio reserves range from 4.8 billion to 29.4 billion Aging: barrels. That's a lot of black gold. FACT SHEET became a major building and loan State with The 1002 Area accounts for only about 8 The Federal Council on the Aging influence far beyond its borders. Within a percent of the refuge's territory. Energy ex was created in 1973 and is authorized under short period of time, the Ohio League's lead ploration and development would not the Older Americans Act . as amend ers were instrumental in founding and devel threaten the environment. Alaska's produc ed. The Council is composed of 15 members oping what is now the industry's major nation ing fields prove the oil industry and Alaska's selected by the President and the Congress. al trade association, the U.S. League of Sav wildlife can live in peaceful coexistence. The Council members, who are appointed serve ings Institutions. The Ohio League continues caribou roam as they did before oil began three-year terms, or continue to serve until to set standards of leadership necessary to coursing through the pipeline. In fact, the they are reappointed or a successor is ap herd grew from 3,000 head in 1970 to 13,000 pointed. Members represent a broad cross the ever-changing financial marketplace. in 1985. They like the pipe's warmth. section of rural and urban older Americans, Mr. Speaker, since the very beginning of its Eventually the United States will drill for national organizations with an interst in existence, the Ohio League has stressed to its Alaska's oil. It may take years, but someday aging, business, labor, and the general membership the importance of education and the lower 48 will want-and need-to get at public. At least nine of the members must seminars. Delegates were encouraged to pre the oil in 1002 and other regions. From an themselves be older individuals. pare papers on building association oper environmental standpoint, well-planned ex The President selects the Chairperson of ations for the league's annual meetings, and ploitation makes far more sense than rip the Council from among the appointed papers were constantly updated and pub ping into Alaska as a result of an interna members. The Council meets, at the call of tional emergency. the Chairperson, at least quarterly. lished for convention meetings. Since its in What would happen if OPEC recornered Functions of the Council include: ception, the Ohio League maintains a commit the oil market, ratcheted the price beyond Reviewing and evaluating, on a continuing ment to keep its members abreast of all confiscatory levels thereby doubling infla basis, those Federal policies, programs and changes within the financial marketplace and tion? And what would happen if OPEC said, activities, affecting the aging, which are to probe new avenues for future profitable en- 15014 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 deavors. Strategies are commonplace within tient as an individual and takes the time to After serving with the Army in Panama, the Ohio League to enhance the members' listen. For more than 10 years, he was the he returned here in 1948. The town's only potential as a financial institution and provide only doctor in the area, and has served as an doctor, who'd delivered him, was near 80, a service to the community in the most effi example to a number of young doctors as with no replacement in sight. "I said, 'OK, that's where I'm going to cient means attainable. signed to the area. In 1986, he won the Prac go," "he recalls." "This is where I belong. Within the context of regulation, the Ohio titioner of the Year Award from the National It's my home, and these are my people.' " League has an invaluable reputation for its Rural Health Association. But a greater tribute That sense of connection, physical and tradition of leadership in legislative proceed was paid to him in 1984 when Robert Mac emotional, remains strong in him. He digs ings. For example, Mr. Speaker, in 197 4 the Bride Day was declared. out a poem he wrote, his therapy: "Am I my league worked with the general assembly to At the age of 71 and after a heart attack he brother's keeper? 1 Yes, indeed, I feel I am/ amend Ohio's Uniform Depository Act by still works mornings at the Regional Medical For I know I'm not an island/ Clear and opening up competition and permitting savings Center. I am proud to be able to call Dr. Mac free from other men.'' and loans to accept deposits of the State and Bride a friend and would like to share a recent For more than 10 years, MacBride was the only doctor in Lubec. Then, in the 1970s, a its political subdivisions. Prior to this amend article on the doctor which appeared in the stream of young, federally funded doctors ment, only commercial banks were allowed to Maine Sunday Telegram. began to come and-weary of the isolation accept these deposits. [From the Maine Sunday Telegram, June and long winters and low wages-mostly go. Throughout its history, the Ohio League has 12, 1988] MacBride stayed, tending to his neigh acted as the spokesman for its members at IN LUBEC, AN OLD-FASHIONED DOCTOR WITH A bors. He now lives in the house where he both the State and Federal regulatory levels. I STILL-CARING HEART was born, working mornings alongside two am proud of the fact that in 1986, it became Israel propaganda. Stated or im an American company, you lose your visa."' plied vengeance against Jews is a frequent There are plenty of Japanese who would Mr. SMITH of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I would part of the graffiti. We have seen a number love to live in America, he points out. like to express my concern about the recent of such incidents in South Florida in recent increase in the number of anti-Semitic acts in weeks. Does Tatsuno believe that the entrepre The above categories are not precise nor neurial high-tech start-up companies are south Florida and the United States. Late last month, for instance, four juveniles were all-inclusive. They are a starting point for the United States' ace in the hole in this understanding the nature of these attacks internationally competitive environment? charged with stenciling swastikas and scrawl on the Jewish community. Worth noting, Yes, and no, he responds. "These guys are ing an anti-Semitic slogan on Temple Bet consistent in all of these episodes, is coarse coming into a pretty crowded marketplace." Shira in Miami. According to figures compiled anti-Semitism and the threat of violence. When Intel was founded in 1968, for in by the Anti-Defamation League, 64 acts such There are some who would dismiss these stance, it had five years to take control of as this occurred in Florida in 1987 and 50 inci crimes as merely teen-age "pranks," without its market and there was no Japanese com dents already have been counted in Florida substantial meaning. They are wrong. petition. "Now, these small companies are this year. In south Florida alone, 12 syna Adopting that position requires accepting protected for only a very, very short time," gogues have been desecrated. the notion that anti-Semitism can properly Tatsuno says. An alarming pattern has emerged from be thought of as harmless in some circum stances. It cannot. History proves the point these anti-Semitic acts. Hostility toward the many times over. Indeed, public expression State of Israel is presently occurring as a new of the hatred of Jews is often a precursor A CONGRESSIONAL SALUTE TO component of violent anti-Semitic incidents in at times a companion-to the public expres FRANK DROZAK the United States. For example, Florida sion of hatred of other groups, racial and along with California and Illinois-has among ethnic. Anti-Semitism-never a prank. the highest number of acts linked to Palestini The phrase "the virus of anti-Semitism" is HON.GLENNM.ANDERSON an unrest. Nationwide, these incidents have still useful. For anti-Semitism often behaves as a virus. At times a dormant malignancy, OF CALIFORNIA consisted of bomb threats, vandalism, phone or mail threats, and other forms of harass lurking just beneath the surface of con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sciousness. And then, with shocking swift ment; and the number of outbreaks continues ness, it can boil with contagious virulence. Thursday, June 16, 1988 to rise. There is no reason, however, for panic. Mr. ANDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay I commend and support the southern area Vigilance and decisive action are required, director of the Anti-Defamation League of honor to a man known to many, if not all, of within the context of law and common B'nai B'rith, Mr. Arthur Teitelbaum, for his ef sense. the Congress, the late Frank Drozak, presi forts in exposing and combating this irrational We know that a substantial percentage of dent of the Seafarers International Union of and prejudicial behavior. I request that an arti those involved in these crimes are juveniles. North America, AFL-CIO. Frank's untimely cle on this topic, written by Mr. Teitelbaum, be That should serve as a warning and great passing has brought sorrow to us all, for he included at the conclusion of my remarks. challenge to the rest of us, to society as a whole. For their behavior instructs, con was a man in his prime, dedicated, sincere, Mr. Speaker, as representatives of the and devoted to the causes of his organization firming that bigotry is not passed on geneti American people, we must be aware of these cally, but is often learned from elders, and its membership. We will miss his wise anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli occurrences, and we through lessons both coarse and subtle. counsel, and I will miss him as a friend. must act to ensure their cessation. Now is the We must not fail to pay attention to the Frank Drozak served in the maritime indus time to heed the warnings of the ADL, open way young people develop their attitudes try for almost his entire life beginning at the our eyes, and speak out against these hostile and to the content of those attitudes. age of 16 as a shipyard worker in Mobile, AL. actions. Still focusing on the young, what can be The article follows: done to combat anti-Semitic crimes? There From that point on he rose through the ranks is no singular answer. No panacea. But of his union to eventually become president of [From the Miami Herald, May 29, 19881 there are useful responses, each with its the Seafarers International Union and the COMBATING THE " VIRUS OF ANTI-SEMITISM" own role and the possibility of effectiveness. chief spokesman from his own organization as OF NEW YORK field of aquaculture. Just a few years ago our is an important and necessary public serv IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State significantly increased its investment in ice. The deep cuts to the Postal Service budget required by the Budget Reconcilia Thursday, June 16, 1988 aquaculture with the construction and staffing tion Act of 1987 has led to some major of the Waddell Mariculture Center. The mis damage to both operations and capital ex Mr. OWENS of New York. Mr. Speaker, sion of this center is to serve as an "aquacul penditures. In the next 20 months, the rise to remember the 25th anniversary of the ture experiment station" for the State and to USPS must absorb $430 million in cutbacks. death of Medgar W. Evers, the slain black civil develop aquaculture as a viable commercial This is a huge sum to absorb in limited rights activist who was gunned down in front industry here. amount of time, forcing the postage service of his home on June 13, 1963. Through research and extension activities of to cut some of the most needy areas. Fur Medgar Evers was born and raised in the the Waddell Center and other institutions, sev thermore, the cuts are based on repayment State of Mississippi. He attended Decataur for benefits paid by the federal government eral types of aquaculture appear to have to postal retirees before the postal reorgani Consolidated School and Newton High good, near-term potential in South Carolina. zation in 1970; this is ludicrous. The USPS School, and in 1943 entered the Army, seeing One of these is marine shrimp. The Waddell is essentially self-sufficient and should be action in the Normandy invasion. Following Center began research on intensive pond cul treated as such. the war, Evers attended Alcorn Agricultural ture of shrimp just 3 years ago, and already Those areas likely to lose the most in and Mechanical College in Lorman, MS, and their results are being successfully implement terms of budget cuts are productive, grow received a bachelor's degree in business ad ed in the private sector. ing areas. In San Diego alone, 19 post office ministration. During his college years, he met Several small shrimp farms are in operation, building projects have been put on hold for and married Myrlie Beasley. They had three the next 20 months. Due to tremendous three or four more will begin operations this growth in San Diego and outlying areas, children. year, and others are seeking financing and these budgetary constraints are already Evers' life commitment to the struggle for land. Production has more than doubled, with having serious effects on the postal service's racial equality was born out of the bigotry and about 360,000 pounds of shrimp produced ability to move mail efficiently. Because the injustice that Mississippi society then routinely from private farms in South Carolina last year. post offices are overcrowded with custom directed at blacks. As a teenager he wit Of major importance to the Waddell Cen ers, the cutback in office hours one day a nessed the lynching of a family friend, who ter's shrimp aquaculture program has been week is also likely to cause additional delays had been accused of insulting a white woman. the financial support and scientific exchange in mail service. Service to the community The horror of this incident never left him, and will definitely be affected. provided by the GCRL. This program com One of my primary objectives is to see throughout his life he tried to overcome the bines major scientific and facility resources of that San Diego and other growing commu system of racial injustice in his native State. Mississippi, Hawaii, Massachusetts, South nities are considered a top priority to re From the inception of the civil rights move Carolina, and Texas in carefully directed and ceive funds for building expansion. San ment, Evers was an active player. At the age coordinated attack on the major impediments Diego's growth is one of the highest in the of 21, he and his brother Charles tried to reg- 15024 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 ister to vote and were turned away by a mob ence. Last evening I had one of those "once olution and the death of her daughter at of angry whites. in-a-lifetime" opportunities to meet and talk to the hands of Red Guards. In 1952, he became a member of the Na a great woman of boundless courage, integri Cheng was living out her days quietly, just ty, bravery, and beauty of inner spirit, so self another old lady squirreled away in a hon tional Association for the Advancement of eycomb of apartments in a chic Washing Colored People [NAACP]. Two years later, his evident and over powering as to be seldom ton, DC., neighborhood. Then she decided steadfast and diligent commitment to the seen in any individual, at any time. to write a book, to share her experiences black struggle led to his appointment as the Nien Cheng was held in solitary confine with her friends and to tell of the atrocities national field secretary of the NAACP for the ment in a Shanghai jail for 6% years. During that were committed in the name of State of Mississippi. this time she was tortured, starved, beaten, progress for China. Over the years, Evers worked tirelessly to and deprived of news of her family, all the Tapping out one tearful sentence, one register blacks to vote, receive better educa while living in a bare cell under the most ex painful paragraph at a time on her manual typewriter, Cheng often stopped and laid on tion, and to obtain full constitutional rights as hausting conditions imaginable. Throughout the sofa to better recall the moment, or to first-class citizens. He earned a reputation as her long ordeal, she was repeatedly and recover from the recalling. "It was very, a gentle, reasonable, and effective organizer harshly interrogated and pushed to denounce very hard," she says. who firmly believed that blacks should shed her friends and confess "anti-revolutionary Life and Death in Shanghai marched onto their feelings of inferiority and achieve equality crimes," neither of which could she or did she the best-seller lists-more than three through voting and economic boycotts. De do, as in truth, no crimes had been commit months on the New York Times-and was spite his beliefs of nonviolent confrontation, ted. featured on the cover of Time magazine and Evers was marked for death by many white How can such a person survive? Some say on 60 Minutes. Since last June, 100,000 copies have been sold. The book has been racist groups and placed on a death list. His it was because of her education, intellect, and translated into nine languages-although family became accustomed to threatening strong understanding of Chinese life and cul Chinese isn't one of them. phone calls and death threats. ture. "Not true," replies Nien Cheng, "it was "I didn't even know if anyone would pub During the early morning hours of June 13, only because I prayed constantly for God to lish it," says Cheng, who's "more than 1963, the death threats against Medgar Evers give me the strength to face the next day thrilled" -and still rather surprised-by her were fulfilled. As he returned home from a without betraying myself, my friends, and the book's ability to touch and fascinate. meeting to further expand desegregation in truth. I did not pray that God would unlock the And perhaps even more remarkable than the South, he was shot on his doorstep. door . . . only that I could withstand the tor the success of her book is that, in this age of glitzy movie stars and fallen politicians, the Sweaters inscribed with the words, "Jim Crow ture and adversity in the name of the truth." 73-year-old has been embraced as a nation Must Go!" fell from his hands. He died before She maintained that intellect and knowledge wide celebrity and heroine. he reached the hospital. were simple not enough to guarantee survival, In response to only a portion of the daily It is believed that the shock of the murder only a belief in God gave her the inner deluge of requests, Cheng has crisscrossed of Medgar Evers gave critical new momentum strength to face one more day . . . times the country dozens of times, accepting a to efforts by President John F. Kennedy to win 2,000! shower of honors and awards, doing inter support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The When her tormentors finally relented and views and making speeches. She now com assassination of Evers also ignited a Southern sought to release her, this indomitable spirit mands up to $3,000 an appearance, although half her speeches are given for free. black voter education drive and helped set in sat down in her cell and refused to leave until And she's just packing up her weathered motion the passage of the Voting Rights Act she had received a written apology for the garment bag to head off on a 12-city tour to in 1965. wrongs committed upon her. This woman, promote the paperback release of her book. As we reflect on the 25 years since his who was forcefully put into jail had to be From April 28 to May 23, she'll blitz death, there remains an international struggle forcefully removed by her same embarrassed through Washington, Baltimore, Philadel for equality and justice for blacks. In America, keepers. Never did she waiver, never did she phia, Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Minne black Americans are sinking under the heavy betray the truth, and never did she give in to apolis, Seattle, Portland, San Franciso, and weight of lingering economic and social op her plight. From whence does such strength San Diego. The frequent travel is exhausting, but the pression. The escalating reports of racial vio come? appointments-and what they represent lence such as, Howard Beach, suggest that She paid an enormous price for her convic are important to Cheng. many Americans cling to beliefs of racial in tions and through her example has shown us "I love meeting new people," she says in equality. At this moment, the black South Afri all that life is our most precious gift and it the very proper English honed while a stu can majority remains captive in a system of in must not only be lived to its fullest, but must dent at the London School of Economics. stitutionalized racial, economic, educational, be lived with dignity, truth, and compassion. I "If I never published the book, all I would and physical segregation, while the white mi commend to you and all the Members a know are old ladies. Now I've seen a cross nority South African Government stalwartly re recent article from the April 1988 issue of section of America. I've developed a feeling of belongingness." fuses to make any move to resolve these in RICE magazine, entitled "Bittersweet"-Life Her health deteriorating, Cheng found equities. After Shanghai, by Mei-Mei Chan, which I am refuge where she could: a spider's patient The time since the death of Medgar Evers entering into the RECORD. This article will only weaving, recalling Tang dynasty poetry, has seen many civil rights leaders and work whet your appetite to learn more about this memorizing Mao's little red book Kuomintang that they have to the earliest townships in St. Louis County in and voting rights are denied to a vast number have an opposition party. 1888, Canosia Township built its town hall, of people because of their race, religion, sex, "But China has too many poor people. which still stands as the center of township creed or color. They're worried about getting out of their mud huts and into brick homes, or getting activity. In recognition of Sowet6 Remembrance more meat to eat, milk for their children." In 1918 a fire ravaged the town, destroying Day, I encourage Members of the House, their Although Cheng feels very deeply for most of the buildings and scorching the land. staffs, and constituents to take part in this na China and still considers it her homeland, In fact, to this day long-time Canosia Town tional observance by taking a "Lunch Break she has no desire to return. "What for? It's ship residents refer to past events as happen- for Freedom." At 12 noon today, on the east 15026 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 steps of the Capitol, our colleagues, ecumeni CAR RENTAL COLLISION agreement in an amount equal to the total cal leaders, community activists, and other DAMAGE WAIVERS TAKING VA amount paid by the lessee under such agree persons of conscience will gather to com CATIONERS FOR A RIDE ment. (2) Any aggrieved person may enforce the memorate the Soweto demonstrations and the liability established under such section in a ensuing massacre. Additionally, within my HON. CHARLES E. SCHUMER civil action. home district of Baltimore City, the ecumenical OF NEW YORK (3) In any such action the court shall community has organized a lunch-time vigil to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES award to the prevailing party the reasona commemorate the Soweto Demonstrations. Thursday, June 16, 1988 ble costs of such action, including attorneys' The vigil will be held at Baltimore's city hall at fees. Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, Sun block is 12 noon, and promises to be well attended by (b) CIVIL PENALTIES.-0) Subject to para not all you need to avoid getting burned on graph (2), whoever violates this Act shall be elected officials, human rights activists and your next vacation or business trip. If you plan liable to the United States for a civil penal other concerned citizens. to rent a car, pack a magnifying glass, calcu ty in an amount not to exceed $10,000. Soweto Remembrance Day will also help to lator, and extra money. That's because hidden (2) A civil penalty for a violation of this keep our attention focused on the continued add-on costs-namely, collision damage waiv Act shall be assessed by the Secretary of Commerce by an order made on the record atrocities carried out by the Pretoria govern ers-increase the cost of renting a car by about $10 a day. after opportunity for a hearing in accord ment against the nonwhite majority in South ance with section 554 of title 5, United Africa. Soweto Remembrance Day also helps The waivers absolve renters of financial re States Code. Before issuing such an order, keep our attention focused upon the fact that sponsibility if the car is damaged in an acci the Secretary shall give written notice to since the 1986 state of emergency, and well dent. But, for an estimated 60 percent of auto the person to be assessed a civil penalty insurance policy holders, the collision damage before that time, the South African Govern under such order of the Administrator's waiver is unnecessary. Most car renters are ment has been detaining, killing, and torturing proposal to issue such order and provide automatically covered for occasional, nonbusi such person an opportunity to request, the children of South Africa. The children of ness use of another car under their own auto within 15 days of the date the notice is re South Africa have been placed within deten mobile insurance policies. ceived by such person, such a hearing on tion camps without trial and alongside hard Rental agents frequently pressure unknow the order. ened and repeated criminals. ing vacationers into accepting the unneces (3) In determining the amount of a civil Mr. Speaker, one would be very hard sary expense. To make matters worse, the penalty, the Secretary shall take into ac count the nature, circumstances, extent, pressed to find a nation that has been so bla cost of the collision damage waiver is often and gravity of the violation or violations tantly cruel toward the children of a legitimate obscured by advertised superlow daily rental and, with respect to the violator, ability to liberation struggle than the South African Gov rates. pay, effect on ability to continue to do busi ernment. Yet, to the dismay of many Ameri To deal with these problems, today I am in ness, any history of prior such violations, cans of all walks of life, our present adminis troducing H.R. -- the Rental Car Consumer the degree of culpability, and such other tration has failed to send a coherent message Protection Act of 1988. The bill would require matters as justice may require. (2) The Secretary may compromise, to the South African regime that America will that rental car companies disclose the cost of the collision damage waiver in advertisements modify, or remit, with or without condi not tolerate their subhumanizing treatment of tions, any civil penalty which may be im nonwhites any longer. Instead, the Reagan and provide verbal and written notification at the point of rental that the waiver may be un posed under this subsection. The amount of administration's bankrupt policy of construc such penalty, when finally determined, or necessary. tive engagement has brought our Nation the amount agreed upon in compromise, The text of H.R. --,which has the original closer to President Botha's hard line than at may be deducted from any sums owing by cosponsorship of Mr. HAYES of Lousiana, Mr. any other time in recent history. the United States to the person charged. BATES, Mrs. LLOYD, Mr. TORRES, Mrs. BOXER, (5) Any person who requested, in accord How much longer will black South Africans Mr. LEHMAN of Florida, Mr. DOWNEY, Mr. ance with subsection (b)(2), a hearing re have to suffer under this brutal totalitarian FAZIO, Mr. OWENS of New York, Mr. CLEMENT, specting the assessment of a civil penalty system? How much more pain and suffering Mr. FOGLIETTA, and Mr. ACKERMAN, is printed and who is aggrieved by an order assessing a will the mothers of the young detainees have below. civil penalty may file a petition for judicial H.R. 4855 review of such order with the United States to endure while they wait months and years Court of Appeals for the District of Colum on end for the return of their sons and daugh Be it enacted by the Senate and House of bia or for any other circuit in which such ters? In the early 1960's former British Prime Representatives of the United States of person resides or transacts business. Such a Minister Harold McMillan delivered his now America in Congress assembled, petition may only be filed within the 30-day SECTION 1. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION CON· period beginning on the date the order famous "Winds of Change" speech, before CERNING COLLISION DAMAGE WAIV· the world community forecasting the end to ERS. making such assessment was issued. (6) If any person fails to pay an assess the settler colonialist systems in Rhodesia and IN GENERAL.-Any commercial lessor of automobiles shall, verbally and in promi ment of a civil penalty- South Africa. Almost 30 years later, we now after the order making the assessment see the violent, arrogant, and desperate nent writing on the face of the rental agree ment, inform any lessee or prospective has become a final order and if such person means that South Africa deems necessary to lessee of any such automobile concerning- does not file a petition for judicial review of (5), hold on to the tip of the continent. ( 1) the optional nature of any collision the order in accordance with paragraph or In closing, Mr. Speaker, I wish to share a damage waiver offered under the terms and provisions of the agreement; and after a court in an action brought less well known speech that Dr. Martin Luther (2) the fact that coverage under such pro under paragraph (5) has entered a final King, Jr. gave on December 10, 1965, at vision may duplicate coverage otherwise judgment in favor of the Secretary, Hunter College, New York City, on Human provided under the terms of the lessee's or the Attorney General shall recover the Rights Day. Within the text of this speech, Dr. prospective lessee's automobile insurance amount assessed (plus interest at currently King illuminated why we should all stand up to policy. prevailing rages from the date of the expira (b) ADVERTISEMENTS.-If SUCh lessor adver tion of the 30-day period referred to in para apartheid: tises any such rental, the advertisement graph (5) or the date of such final judg The whole human race will benefit when shall include- ment, as the case may be) in an action it ends the abomination that has diminished ( 1) the information described in subsec brought in any appropriate district court of the stature of man for too long. This is the tion ; and the United States. In such an action, the va task to which we are called by the suffering C2) if the advertisement specifies the cost lidity, amount, and appropriateness of such in South Africa, and our response should be of the automobile rental, specific reference penalty shall not be subject to review. swift and unstinting. Out of this struggle to the cost of any collision damage waiver. (C) INJUCTIVE ACTIONS BY THE SECRETARY. will come the glorious reality of the family SEC. 2. ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS The Secretary may bring an action to re strain violations of this Act. The district of man. (a) PRIVATE CIVIL ACTIONS.-0) Any person who violates section 1 shall be liable courts of the United States shall have juris to any aggrieved lessee under the rental diction, for good cause shown, to issue such June 16, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15027 temporary relief or restraining orders as it have floods and earthquakes, we are always me feel good and bad. It made me feel safe deems just and proper. there ready to help out. because in our country that rarely happens. (d) INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITY.-TO ensure Even after we have been in wars with It made me feel bad because an innocent compliance with this Act, or any order or countries, we help them build up their own girl was killed for no reason at all. regulation issued pursuant to this Act, the countries. We send machines, tools and even I feel lucky to be an American citizen be Secretary. shall make investigations and in money and manpower. cause if it was not for my great-grandpar spections and require the keeping of records In America we have the right to vote for ents who immigrated from Poland and Eng necessary or appropriate for the administra our president and representatives who will land, I would not be here. I am also proud to tion of this Act. run our country. It's up to the citizens who have a grandfather that served in World (e) SUBPOENA AUTHORITY.-For the pur will be running everything. Many countries War II. pose of any hearing or investigation under don't do that. The government picks every America has had to work hard for its free this Act, the Secretary shall have the au one who will rule and even if they are not good people. The citizens can do nothing dom over the years, because first we had to thority contained in sections 9 and 10 of the gain independence from England in the Federal Trade Commission Act <15 U.S.C. 49 about it. We have the choice to work where we Revolutionary War, then again in World and 50). War II, also in the Korean War, then finally (f) REGULATIONS.-The Secretary shall want. Russia and Niger tell you where to issue such rules and regulations as may be work and where to live. Here you buy a in the Vietnam War. necessary or appropriate to carry out this house anywhere you want, if you can afford America truly is the land of opportunity. Act. it. In some countries like the Soviet Union SEC. 2. EFFECI'IVE DATE We have good doctors in America and in have medical, dental, and eyecare insurance other places and countries. We have scien is all free of charge. The Soviet people are This Act shall take effect 60 days after tists who treat sick people. We have scien covered by insurances, but they don't get the date of its enactment. tists who look very hard for cures. They the chance to, let's say, move up the corpo work very hard. rate ladder. They get almost like assigned to WHY I AM PROUD TO BE AN In America there are good schools to do a job, but in America you get the chance AMERICAN attend free of charge! We have a choice to to make it to the top. go to college if we want to. If you don't have When I grow up I want to be a Naval avia the money to go, many schools will help you tor like my two relatives; Jim who is a pilot, HON. WILLIAM D. FORD find a way to finance that cost. and Patrick who is also a pilot. Jim who flys OF MICHIGAN In America, we can be any religion we F-14 Tomcats and Patrick who also flys F- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES want to be. You can go to any church and 14 Tomcats are both about Lieutenants by no one will try to stop you. There are coun Thursday, June 16, 1988 now. If we were in another country I tries where people must sneak to attend wouldn't be what I planned. Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise church. My grandfather and grandmother . I am very proud to be an American. today to share with my colleagues the follow brought my mom to America when she was ing four award winning essays by Billy Ellison, six years old. My grandfather was in a pris WHY I AM PROUD To BE AN AMERICAN Billy Roberts, Jeff Wilkinson, and Christal oner-of-war camp during World War II in France. That's where my mom was born. It took a long six years to come to America, has a choice of where they will be born. WHY I AM PROUD To BE AN AMERICAN but when they got here, they were happy I am proud to be an American. It is an Iran? can afford it. In a communist country, you assumes the nationality of the country. A Would Jackie Robinson have been able to are not allowed to own anything. Chinese, Japanese or African becomes complete his dream of playing professional I am proud of myself and my family for American when naturalized. baseball? We have the privilege to vote for accomplishments we have made. We are These are some of the reasons why I'm our president. Some countries have a king free to love and help each other. proud to be what I am! as their ruler or leader and they have no I am proud to be an American because I say. I think it is great to ride by buildings can be me! WHY I AM PROUD To BE AN AMERICAN and see the American flag hanging on a flag which would prohib "unfortunately • • • numerous conflicting and sacrificed 55,000 American lives to pre it any economic assistance to Communist signals emanating from the Congress at a serve the kind of social and economic system Vietnam. To extend any type of economic time when serious efforts are being made. It assistance to Vietnam at this time, including is our hope that Vietnam will increasingly in Vietman that would have dealt with the Vi emergency agricultural or drought assist recognize their own interests are best served etnamese people fairly and provided for their ance, would be a complete mistake. Mr. by moving quickly and fully to resolve this daily needs. Chairman, the MIA issue must be dealt with issue thereby pre-positioning themselves for Unfortunately, the Soviet-backed Govern first and settled before agreements are the future and consideration of improved ment of North Vietnam repudiated our efforts drawn from broader political discussions. relations once the political obstacles are re to assist the Vietnamese people, and imposed Some of my colleagues talk about "com moved." on that nation a police state which cares little passion", "cooperation" and "prompt re Mr. Chairman, in conclusion I would like about the welfare of its people. What more sponse" to the situation in Vietnam. I ask to remind the committee that we have you: Have they shown us any? Have they co helped the Vietnamese for years. We have can we do? I suggest precious little until Viet operated with, shown compassion for or to assisted them economically and politically nam's form of Government is changed, until it the grief of the wives, children and friends fighting alongside them in the effort to renounces the doctrines of Marxism/Lenin of those servicemen still listed as missing? maintain democracy and an economic insm, and grants freedom to the Vietnamese My colleagues also speak about the over system which would have precluded the people. tures and assurances made by the Commu crisis they now experience. We have made Testimony presented at today's hearing by nists during congressional visits to Hanoi. many such efforts around the world and my colleague, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, eloquent They have consistently implied they would there should be no doubt we are a generous ly explained why our Government should insist assist our efforts to gain the fullest ac and compassionate people. counting of American MIA's if food assist Today, we continue to assist the Vietnam that a full accounting of the fate of our MIA's ance was to be forwarded to Vietnam. ese by giving refuge to thousands who are should be provided before any consideration Mr. Chairman, I do not believe they have fleeing com nunism. My resolution only asks is made to upgrading our relations with Viet given the United States any reason for that we resolve the MIA issue which has nam. I would like to reprint here in the trust. Did they keep their word during the grieved us for years before we consider any RECORD a copy of Mr. SENSENBRENNER's tes Paris Peace Talks to Henry Kissinger and further aid to another oppressive and un timony, which I urge my colleagues to exam the world not to invade South Vietnam? successful Marxist government. ine as they consider this most important issue. President Nixon had suggested in a letter to the Congress in 1971, a 5-year $7.5 billion as NATIONAL LEAGUE OF FAMILIES OF TESTIMONY TO THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE sistance program to Indochina, with $2.5 bil AMERICAN PRISONERS AND MISS ON HUNGER HEARING ON "THREE ASIAN lion specifically earmarked for post-war re ING IN SouTHEAST AsiA, COUNTRIES IN CRISIS," JUNE 16, 1988 construction in North Vietnam. North Viet Washington, DC, June 3, 1988. Margaret Thatcher The World Health Organization and UNICEF derer was the first man to represent the and the Reagan administration are well have been working on a child survival plan to Torresdale area in Congress, when Congress known. That close relationship has, in effect, make basic health care available to all by the men were first elected to district seats in given the impression of a United States sanc turn of the century. Specific steps toward that 1902. tion of British policy in Northern Ireland. The goal are universal child immunization by 1990 When the Foerderers purchased Glengarry, United States Government has done nothing and increased use of oral rehydration therapy. they combined their name with the history of over the past 7 years to pressure the British Thanks to the efforts of UNICEF Executive the estate, to rename it Glen Foerd. The Foer Government to end its policies of military oc Director James Grant and WHO Director-Gen derers gave their new home much more than cupation and discrimination in Northern Ire eral Halfdan Mahler, the two world leaders re a name, however. It was under Robert Foer land. dedicated themselves to the Child Survival derer and his wife, Caroline, that the distinc The action was taken this week by Mr. Program. tive beauties of Glen Foerd took shape. They Meese for political purposes at the expense of The directors of the two agencies noted, expanded the mansion, acquiring rare an Joseph Doherty. In his own words, the Attor "We particularly recall the leadership partner tiques, and many valuable paintings and ney General intervened because allowing Mr. ship of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. in advanc works in glass and iron. They installed a 15- Doherty to go to Ireland "might well prejudice ing the historic worldwide eradication of small foot Tiffany style skylight above the base of broader aspects of our bilateral relationship" pox in the 1970's, as well as the leading con the grand stairway, and a vintage Steinway with Mrs. Thatcher's government. tribution of American and Soviet scientistis in piano. The Attorney General is suggesting that the giving the world the vaccines which now put Equally inspiring are the natural highlights of principles and values of the United States judi the worldwide eradication of poliomyelitis the estate, including the oldest weeping hem cial system should be set aside in order to within our reach." lock in the country, as well as 300-year-old avoid ruffling the feathers of Margaret Thatch Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the white and black oaks lining the riveroank. As er. World Health Organization and UNICEF for fo . you walk along the pathways at Glen Foerd, a The United States has stood for over 200 cusing attention on this important issue. With formal boxwood and rose garden, a gazebo, a years as a land of justice for all. Notwithstand strong bipartisan and international support, we carriage house, boat house, gate house, and ing the views of Mr. Meese, there is no reason come closer to realizing the goals of "Health antique stone water tower; all greet your gaze. to bring that proud tradition to a grinding halt for All" by the year 2000. But most inspiring of all, Mr. Speaker, is in order to maintain the conservative axis of that through the generosity of Florence the Thatcher-Reagan era. Tonner, the daughter of Robert and Caroline Let us hope that the day never comes when TRIBUTE TO THE GLEN FOERD Foerderer, Glen Foerd now belongs to its we ignore moral issues of right and wrong ESTATE, AND THE COMMUNITY community, the people of Torresdale. She be simply to please our allies. Whether it is in OF TORRESDALE queathed the last of Philadelphia's great river Northern Ireland, or in South Africa, or in Cen estates to the community it had crowned for tral America, the day must never come when HON. ROBERT A. BORSKI over 100 years. the United States set aside its values of due OF MARYLAND The dedication ceremony in her honor and process under the law and justice for all IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES memory will be held on June 25, when the simply for political convenience. A person may Thursday, June 16, 1988 Glen Foerd Estate celebrates its new incarna choose the country he wishes to be deported tion as the responsibility and the jewel of the to. Mr. Meese has taken the law into his own Mr. BORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Torresdale community. I join with the historical hands, and overruled the Federal Board of Im pay tribute to the Glen Foerd Estate, a nation community, the city of Philadelphia, and the migration Appeals to order Joseph Doherty ally registered historic landmark in my con people of Torresdale to pay tribute to Glen deported to Great Britain. I strongly oppose gressional district, and to the families and Foerd Estate, and to the Macalesters, the the action of Attorney General Meese. He has community who have preserved it for over a Foerderers, and today's friends of Glen Foerd, single-handedly overturned years of judicial century. This year the estate will celebrate the who have given us all this great gift. proceedings. It is a dangerous precedent, one first anniversary of its dedication to the com that undermines the meaning of the United munity of Torresdale. States of America, and one that we should all Glen Foerd, overlooking the Delaware COMMENDING ANTHONY work to overturn. River, provides visitors with a glimpse of Phila "TOMMY" THOMAS FOR HIS The United States Government should pres delphia's past, when the Delaware River's OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO sure Mrs. Thatcher, not pacify her. The British beauty was crowned by river estates. Even THE PEOPLE OF GOSHEN, MA policies in Northern Ireland are wrong, and more inspiring, Mr. Speaker, is the knowledge they should be changed. Mr. Meese is also that two families nurtured, and now an entire HON~ SILVIO 0. CONTE wrong, and the integrity of the judicial process community has preserved this beautiful estate, must be defended. Joseph Patrick Thomas OF MASSACHUSETTS as a labor of love. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Doherty should not be sent back to the Brit Charles Macalester, a famous Philadelphian ish. and an adviser to eight Presidents, first came Thursday, June 16, 1988 to the northeast tip of Philadelphia where Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to HEALTH FOR ALL BY THE YEAR Glen Foerd now stands in the 1840's, as a commend and honor one of the most distin 2000 weekend guest of William Biddle. Macalester guished citizens in western Massachusetts. fell in love with the area so much that he not Twenty-five years ago Anthony Thomas began HON. GUS YATRON only purchased a large holding on the Dela his career in public service. Shortly thereafter Mr. Thomas ran for selectman in the town of OF PENNSYLVANIA ware, but he also renamed the area T orris Dale, after an estate his family held. He Goshen, and has continued to serve as a se IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES named the estate Glengarry. lectman for 15 of the last 17 years. Thursday, June 16, 1988 The position of the Macalester's, and the Goshen is not a large town. But this is not Mr. YATRON. Mr. Speaker, during the high regard in which the estate was held can to say that Anthony "Tom my" Thomas had an recent Moscow summit meeting, President be judged by the fact that Macalester's easy job as the town's selectman. As a retir Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev daughter was married in the "back parlour" of ing selectman, Mr. Thomas considers his issued a joint statement calling for expedited Glen Foerd, by one of Philadelphia's most greatest accomplishment to be that he has efforts to decrease the vast number of easily famous sons, Archbishop Ryan. made his town's meetings more accessible to preventable childhood deaths. In 1899, after the death of Macalester's his constituents. For this I feel that we owe Mr. Speaker, each day 38,000 children die daughter, the estate was purchased by Robert him a great debt for his hard work as a select from preventable diseases and dehydration H. Foerderer, a successful Frankford busi- man, and as an outstanding citizen. 15032 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 Mr. Speaker, when we pause to look back CHRONIC HAZARD LABELING OF tively, the Atlantic and Pacific shores will con in time and remember what the common in ART AND CRAFT MATERIALS tinue to be revisited by coastal pollution. gredient was that made our Nation the great Until the Environmental Protection Agency Nation it is, you find that ingredient to be the HON.BERNARDJ.DWYER lives up to its mandate and begins protecting hard work and determination of men and the environment with its array of enforceable OF NEW JERSEY women like Mr. Thomas. It was in small town laws already on the books, then the memory meetings like those in Goshen that the demo IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the pristine shore will remain in the books. cratic spirit was born in this land, and it is in Thursday, June 16, 1988 More importantly, seaside residents will con tinue to be threatened by coastal waste. people like Mr. Thomas that it can be found. Mr. DWYER of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, Coastal pollution has been caused by a Recently he expressed these erudite words today I am introducing compromise legislation conspiracy of factors, including improper dis that we should all remember. He said, "gov for H.R. 2866, a bill I introduced last year to posal, the disappearance of landfill space, and ernment starts at the bottom, and if we can't require manufacturers of art and craft materi the mere volume of wastes that are thrown keep the bottom good we certainly can't keep als to place comprehensive labels on their overboard into the ocean. the top good." I'm sure that the town of products to warn consumers of chronic haz To counteract coastal pollution, a coalition Goshen will miss his devotion to his job, and ards. This compromise bill further refines my of New Jersey businesses has taken on the the care with which he executed it. original legislation and is fully supported by task of helping shoreline communities in their Mr. Speaker, Tommy Thomas should take the arts materials industry, artists and con cleanup efforts. great pride in his career as a dedicated public sumer organizations. Joining hands to help rid the shoreline of servant. His leadership and friendly nature will The Federal Hazardous Substances Act re pollution are two companies, Shering-Piough be sorely missed in the town of Goshen. I quires the labeling of consumer products and Caesar's of Atlantic City. To meet the wish him the best of luck in his life away from which pose acute hazards. Acute hazards goal of cleaning up the beaches, the New that of public service. cause immediate adverse effects such as Jersey Shore Foundation, as this coalition is burns, eye damage or poisoning. Under called, has enlisted the help of community OSHA, chronic hazards in the workplace are leaders and businesses. Through fundraising THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE regulated. But because consumers use art and through stepped-up emphasis on the SOWETO UPRISING products primarily in their homes or in class need for environmental protection, the coali rooms, they are not protected by Federal tion seeks to restore the ecological balance chronic hazard regulations. HON.CHARLESB.RANGEL and to clean up the shoreline. My compromise legislation would require Fortunately, there is hope for the New OF NEW YORK the Consumer Product Safety Commission to Jersey Shore Foundation. Simply by coming IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES promulgate a regulation consisting of a volun together, these companies and community tary labeling program currently observed by a Thursday, June 16, 1988 leaders have dedicated their strengths to the majority of the art supply manufacturing indus battle against coastal pollution. They have Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I would like to try. Under this voluntary standard, labels must demonstrated a commitment to restoring the bring to my colleagues attention that June 16, contain the signal word "Warning;" a list of beaches and preserving them for tourism and 1988, marked the 12th anniversary of the chronically hazardous components; a state for the residents. massacre of schoolchildren in Soweto. This ment of potential hazards; a statement regard Ocean pollution is more than just a commu senseless incident took place during a demon ing safe use of the product; and a statement nity issue. However, the resolution of the stration where South African police opened identifying a source for additional health infor problem can begin only with the involvement fire on 700 protestors, most of whom were mation. In addition, the Consumer Products of the community. children as young as 9 years old. In a tribute Safety Commission will be required to develop I commend the Shore Foundation and its to those brutally slain, I respectfully call on my informational and educational materials about executive director, John M. Schmidt, on this colleagues to join me in remembering this day art materials and their labeling for distribution meeting of minds and on the pooling of efforts by supporting H.R. 1580, authorizing sanctions to schools and other interested groups. to tackle this problem head on. This is more against South Africa. As you well know, this This legislation will ensure that millions of than a question of economic survival; it is a bill mandates disinvestment of all United American consumers can enjoy arts and crafts matter of ecological survival. States corporations from South Africa and activities while having the necessary informa Until now, the trend has been toward prov Nambia within 6 months. This legislation is tion to protect themselves from harm. I urge ing the maxim, "Garbage in, garbage out." long overdue as it has become obvious that my colleagues to support this long overdue Hopefully, the formation of the Shore Founda the previous policy of constructive engage legislation. tion is a good, first step in effectively dealing ment is and has been a bankrupt policy. with the problem. Ruthless acts of violence that occur every day against blacks in South Africa have made SHORING UP THE COAST it urgently apparent that sanctions are impera HERSHEYPARKINTRODUCES tive to the liberation of their oppressed human HON. JAMES J. FLORIO NEW FITNESS PROGRAM rights. If this is not accomplished in the near OF NEW JERSEY future, a bloody civil war between the races is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. GEORGE W. GEKAS inevitable. OF PENNSYLVANIA If after these revelations we as Members of Thursday, June 16, 1988 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Congress do indeed choose to ignore the out Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, with the arrival of rage of Soweto children wrongfully slaugh this summer, the attention of New Jersey's Thursday, June 16, 1988 tered, then we are just as guilty as are the op coastal residents turns to the problem of sea Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to pressors in South Africa who persist in deny shore pollution. Last year at this time, those announce a new health program introduced ing their own people their full rights based on beaches were closed down because the sand today by Hersheypark and the Harrisburg Hos the color of their skin. on the strand was covered with garbage, in pital titled "Your Healthy Heart." This new What little this administration has done to cluding an unhealthful amount of hospital program serves to encourage park guests to mandate sanctions against South Africa was wastes. eat right and choose exercise options while done with prodding and arm twisting by the Polluting the shoreline, the garbage dam having fun. United States Congress. aged more than just an economy. It threat Your Healthy Heart works by having Her It is our personal responsibility to continue ened the health of countless of visitors and sheypark visitors pick up a brochure created our persistence for further, more constructive residents and killed thousands of marine ani specifically for this innovative program. Con sanctions. This is the only possible measure mals. tained in the brochure is a map of the 1.8-mile we can take to ensure that this sort of mass Unfortunately, until our Nation's waste dis walkway in the park and an additional half violence ceases to exist. posal problems can be dealt with more effec- mile through the Zooamerica North American June 16, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15033 Wildlife Park. After a full day of fun, visitors to The 1980's marked the advent of stagnant young men on the basketball court. Their vic Hersheypark will have walked in excess of 2 family incomes, soaring housing costs, and an tory became our victory. miles and burned an average of 240 calories even more mobile society that dilutes the This was a team effort not only in terms of per hour. Also listed on the map are areas family support system. Families, especially the players on the court, but the school and where healthy food could be bought, as op children, are under tremendous pressure. community as well. I want to particularly com posed to the usual hot dogs and french fries Fathers are not immune to these pressures, mend the Eastern High School cheerleaders found in most amusement parks. and too many have abdicated our most impor who kept our spirits up. Let me take this op It is considered to be the first exercise pro tant responsibility. As the Congress continues portunity also to congratulate the great job of gram of any theme park in the Nation. I am to examine the issue of day care and other the Boosters Club and the enthusiasm of a proud of Hersheypark and the Harrisburg Hos children's issues, we may not forget the fa community for its team. pital for sponsoring Your Healthy Heart. Their thers who have forgotten their children. concern for the health of the community and Too often, some fathers have chosen to its visitors served as the impetus for this ignore the most basic family obligations. Too "SPIRIT OF AMERICA" worthwhile program. Not only does this pro many leave the job of child rearing to a PROGRAM gram encourage exercise during the immedi spouse, to a grandparent, to the schools, or ate visit to Hersheypark, but also through the far worse, to the juvenile justice system. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE health and fitness tips in the brochure, it en In recent years, we have opened our eyes OF ILLINOIS courages the Hersheypark visitors to continue to acknowledge both the failure of some fa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a walking program and make their hearts thers to support their children and our failure Thursday, June 16, 1988 healthier. to hold them accountable. More than ever, economic and social realities make raising a Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, last night, June 15, was the "Spirit of America" Program as FATHER'S DAY 1988 family more than women's work. In raising our sons and in formulating public presented by our U.S. Army. HON. STENY H. HOYER policy, we have an obligation to teach and In the past, I have had the pleasure of at foster personal responsibility. tending this presentation. Unfortunately, I was OF MARYLAND But for the great majority of parents, includ unable to witness last night's patriotic display. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing fathers, who search vainly for affordable However, after listening to my office praise Thursday, June 16, 1988 quality child care, the Act for Better Child last night's performance, I was certain that Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, Sunday, June 19, Care is a good beginning. this year's program was as fascinating as is Father's Day. Like our commemoration of Providing for our children, for our future, is ever. motherhood a month ago, it is a celebration of the most important task we face as a society. I would like to take this opportunity to share the family unit, and the special role of a Passage of progressive and timely legislation with everyone the importance of such an parent. Dad, daddy, and pop are at different like the ABC bill will take us another step event. During an occasion such as this, we turns, the soft touch, the disciplinarian, the along that path. must reflect upon America's history and our coach and the cook. In closing, I want to urge my colleagues to constant battle for peace through strength. There is no greater gift than the love of a be responsive to America's families, to be re The U.S. Army, as have all of America's child freely given. But in 1988, fatherhood car sponsive to America's fathers, and to support Armed Forces, has played a critical role in ries more responsibility than ever before. the Act for Better Child Care. America's protection of peace and freedom. Regardless of where the discussion takes Last night's program, through the use of place, in the living room or in a congressional music and drama, chronologically presented A TRIBUTE TO THE EASTERN committee hearing, there is a serious debate the important contributions of the U.S. Army on family values and family policy that con HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL to the growth of our Nation. The show encom cerns us all. More often than not, that debate TEAM passed everything from a reproduction of our centers on the children, the most vulnerable revolutionary battle fields to landing on the and dependent people in our society. HON. BOB McEWEN Moon, in a way that rekindled the nationalism It is appropriate that on this Father's Day, OF OHIO of all in attendance. children and fathers be the special focus of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The discipline the soldiers displayed throughout the performance, as highlighted by our attention in the Congress. Ossie and Har Thursday, June 16, 1988 riet Nelson are a fading sterotype of the the silent drill team, can and should serve as American family, and the meaning of father Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, this spring, the an inspiration to all Americans. The event re hood is evolving. Eastern High School basketball team complet minded me of the importance of patriotism, For example, a recent survey on American ed the finest season in the history of the which has made this country great and will voter attitudes on child care services re school. Their accomplishments, including a 23 continue to make this country great through vealed: to 1 record and league and sectional champi out the future. More than 70 percent of men believed that onships, were a triumph for all of us in Beaver affordable good quality child care is difficult to and southern Ohio. find; nearly 60 percent of men believed that Head Coach Greg Slone, his assistant Neil GLOBAL SURVEY BY INSTITUTE there are not enough child care services avail Leist, and manager Jamie Bond, deserve our OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS able; 67 percent of men believed that most congratulations for a job well done. And the parents work in order to make ends meet, and players-Darren King, Darrell Howard, Eddie HON. GEORGE C. WORTLEY that Government should help make it possible Nance, Bryan Hale, Dustten Alley, Rex Leist, OF NEW YORK to afford quality care for children. Blaise Reader, Eric Meredith, Ben Howard, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Families are striving to provide a decent en Jeremy Linkous, Peter Keller and Justin vironment for their children. The Act for Better McBee-demonstrated that a true team effort Thursday, June 16, 1988 Child Care [ABC], H.R. 3660, sponsored by combines hard work and commitment as well Mr. WORTLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Representative DALE KILDEE of Michigan, as skill. They are an example to the Nation of share a very fine document that was forward would help families confront one of the obsta what can be achieved when individuals bind ed to me by Larry Uhlick, the executive direc cles that make that goal difficult to achieve. I together in dedication to a singular purpose. tor and counsel of the Institute of International am a cosponsor of the ABC bill, and I give it They epitomize what athletic competition is all Bankers. The study is entitled "Global Survey my strongest endorsement. about-striving with the support of family and of Permissible Activities for Banking Organiza ABC is a comprehensive measure that will community to be the best they possibly can tions in Major Financial Centers Outside the help make quality accessible child care avail be. They have made us all very proud. U.S." This study, prepared by the institute with able to those in need. ABC helps disadvan The players' parents, the teachers and ad the assistance of bankers associations of the taged families pay for good quality services ministrators, and all of us had our emotions nine countries that were surveyed and the Eu that are in critically short supply, as well. rise and fall with the efforts of these fine ropean Economic Community, shows the
19-059 0-89-9 (Pt. 11) 15034 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 extent to which banks in nine other major fi Mr. L'Amour, who meticulously researched most important, seniors know there is some nancial centers may engage in securities, in his books, was also considered a first-rate his where to turn for help. surance, and real estate activities, as well as torian. But most of the material for his stories Bob Keon and I attended elementary school make industrial investments. was drawn from his own adventurous life. He together and have been friends for many The study clearly demonstrates the flexibility left his hometown of Jamestown, ND, when years. I can say without exaggeration that he of the banking laws of other important coun he was 15, to embark on a string of colorful is one of the most distinguished and respect tries that have very sound banking systems, jobs that included prizefighter, longshoreman, ed members of our community, and I am including our most significant Western trading lumberjack, gold prospector, coal miner, and proud to know him. On behalf of my constitu partners. The study provides comparative data circus roustabout. He was the living embodi ents in the Fourth Congressional District, I on how other leading financial centers are re ment of the rugged frontier. congratulate Bob for this noteworthy achieve sponding to the realities of increased globali Mr. L' Amour received the National Gold ment and offer my sincere appreciation for his zation and securitization. It is significant that, Medal in 1983, and the Presidential Medal of loyal and effective service to the Long Island in most of the countries, banks are permitted Freedom in 1984. In 1972, the State of North community. to engage in full securities activities without Dakota conferred on him its highest honor the requirement of separate subsidiaries. By the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, 1992, the European Community will have a and his portrait hangs in the State capitol in H.R. 4775, THE TREASURY, standard banking license that will permit a Bismarck. POSTAL SERVICE APPROPRIA bank to conduct full securities activities in the We prize his work today because it tran TIONS BILL 12 member countries. Thus, there is a clear scends mere adventure writing, and explores trend to allow banks to engage in a full range the founding ethos ·of our great country. He HON. PATRICIA F. SAIKI of financial activities. described America as it was, but he also de OF HAWAII I am happy to say that the study also shows scribed America as we want it to be-a land IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that American banks operating in these coun of individualism, moral courage, and fortitude Thursday, June 16, 1988 tries are permitted to, and do in fact, engage in the face of adversity. I offer my condo in full securities activities to the same extent lences to his wife, Kathy, and his two children, Mrs. SAIKI. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ex as locally chartered banks. Moreover, Japan, Beau and Angelique. North Dakota is proud to press my support for the passage of H.R. the only country surveyed where banks do not claim him as a native son. 4775, the Treasury, Postal Service appropria have full securities powers, permits American tions bill for fiscal year 1989. banks and other foreign banks to own 50 per I believe this is a fiscally responsible piece cent interests in full service securities affiliates A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT KEON of legislation which is consistent with the even though Japanese banks cannot make guidelines established during the budget such investments. HON. NORMAN F. LENT summit agreement of last December. Several The "Global Survey" clearly demonstrates OF NEW YORK vital programs will be funded through this leg the fundamental need for, as well as the effi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES islation, including the U.S. Customs Service. cacy of, modernizing United States laws to Included in this legislation is $1.1 billion for Thursday, June 16, 1988 permit banks to engage in a broader range of Customs activities, including drug interdiction activities, including full securities powers. This Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to take this and enforcement of smuggling laws. I support action is necessary in order to maintain our opportunity to pay deserved tribute to Mr. the committee's action in approving funds for status as the premier financial center in the Robert Keon, winner of the 1988 Golden LINK hiring part-time and temporary Customs in world. The Senate has acted to bring our laws award. The American public cites alcohol and spectors for the Honolulu International Airport, up to date. It is now time for the House of drug abuse as one of the most serious prob in order to address the large volume of pas Representatives to address these vital issues lems facing today's society. As the recipient sengers arriving at that facility. and to join the Senate in taking decisive of this prestigious award, Bob Keon is recog I am also pleased that the legislation, as action. nized for his tireless work and singular contri passed, includes $15 million for construction Mr. Speaker, I commend the Institute of butions to combating substance abuse. of the University of Hawaii's Earth and Ocean International Bankers, an association of banks LINK is an alcohol and drug treatment Science Technology Center, which will con operating in the United States with headquar agency on Long Island which has succeeded duct research in strategic and critical materi ters in 55 countries, for making this valuable in helping hundreds of addicts fight their per als. contribution that clearly spells out the devel sonal battle against substance abuse. As a With the passage of the Crane amendment, opments in the world around us. member of the agency's executive board of this legislation now will provide a 4-percent directors, Bob has selflessly donated hun pay increase for Federal workers, while ex TRIBUTE TO LOUIS L'AMOUR dreds of hours of his time to this worthy empting Members of Congress from that pay cause, and, in fact, helped establish a sub raise. I strongly supported the Crane amend HON. BYRON L. DORGAN stance abuse program especially for the elder ment and, with the pay raise for Congress ly. OF NORTH DAKOTA now removed from the bill, I can support final Through his work as administrator of the passage of H.R. 4775. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES East Rockaway Nursing Home, Bob Keon rec Thursday, June 16, 1988 ognized first hand the growing problem of Mr. DORGAN of North Dakota. Mr. Speaker, drug dependency among the elderly. Certainly, TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO Louis L' Amour died this week at the age of much medication on the market today is bene THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1986 80, from lung cancer. ficial to patients. However, when taken over a Mr. L' Amour, a prolific novelist and a North long period of time or when mixed with certain HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI Dakotan, was also a quintessential American. prescribed medication, pain killers, tranquiliz OF ILLINOIS He wrote more than 100 books, almost all of ers, sleeping pills and other over-the-counter IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES them Westerns, and some with titles that have drugs can become addictive and pose a threat Thursday, June 16, 1988 become familiar names in our culture: "How to the patient's health. the West Was Won," "Hondo," and "The Committed to helping seniors overcome Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, today, I Quick and the Dead," to name just a few. their drug habits, Bob piloted a new treatment am introducing H.R. 4845, a bill to make tech Almost 200 million of his books are in print, and prevention program through LINK espe nical corrections to certain pension and em and among his devoted readers were Presi cially for this purpose. Drug abuse among the ployee benefit provisions included in the Tax dents Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, and elderly is a problem that is often overlooked in Reform Act of 1986, as well as certain other Ronald Reagan. More than 45 of his books the war on drugs. But through Bob's dedicat enacted legislation. were made into classic motion pictures, star ed and concerned efforts, the local community These other statutes include the continuing ring such American icons as John Wayne and has been educated to the dangers of sub health care provisions of the Consolidated Alan Ladd. stance addiction among the elderly. Perhaps Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, June 16, 1988 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15035 the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of Tibor Rubin now resides in Garden Grove, ing of this award than me. So with this 1986, and the Pension Protection Act included CA, and is totally disabled from injuries inflict letter let me say that I am honored to rec in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of ed upon him while serving in the Korean war. I ommend him for this award. Would you and the Congress please con 1987. Each of the provisions included in this am pleased to reprint in the letter a few of the sider Rubin for this award that we, now as bill makes a corresponding technical correc letters from his fellow POW's citing his acts of X-POW's, trusted with our survival and tion to title I or title IV of the Employee Retire bravery and recommending him for this honor. highly recommend. ment Income Security Act of 197 4, which in To THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF Thanking you, I am volve jurisdiction of the Committee on Educa AMERICA Sincerely, tion and Labor. My name is James E. Bourgeois, one of JAMES E. BOURGEOIS. I am introducing these provisions as a sepa many X-POW's, with a story to tell. A story rate bill from H.R. 4333, the Technical Correc that has been overlooked for much too long. DEAR CONGRESSMAN during the late part of I was a member of "M" Company, 8th Cal 1985, I received a letter from M/Sgt Randall tions Act of 1988, which is now pending vary, Regiment of the 1st Calvary Division J. J. Briere from San Antonio, Texas, who before the Ways and Means Committee, in during the Korean War, from August 1950 was with me in the North Korean Prisoner order that they may be considered jointly by until September 1953. of War Camp for 36 months. He found out the Committee on Ways and Means and the On October 30 I was wounded in both that I live in California, and he was very Committee on Education and Labor. Many of shoulders by an enemy shell. I had no use of happy to inform me that Tibor Rubin is the provisions included in this new legislation either arm. I was captured on either the alive. When I heard that, I could not believe will be removed from H.R. 4333 when the second or third of November, I don't remem it. We all believed that Tibor Rubin was Ways and Means Committee marks up that ber which day it was due to the fact that I killed by the Chinese, but thank God we was unconscious with pain most of that were wrong. When I heard the good news, legislation in the very near future, so that a time. We were loaded on trucks and taken my heart started beating fast. I felt like I sequential referral of H.R. 4333 can be avoid to a camp, Camp # 5. will faint. I started to cry from happiness, ed. The first man that I remember seeing was and made a thank you prayer to our Lord to Mr. Speaker, I look forward to working with Tibor Rubin, a young man who could hardly let the man stay alive. The man who saved my distinguished colleagues on the Committee speak English, trying to clean my wounds. my life and the lives of so many other GI's. on Education and Labor in a cooperative We did not even know each other. But this M/Sgt Briere told me that Tibor Rubin is effort so that the provisions of this technical was the Rubin that I was to learn to know recommended for the "Medal of Honor" by corrections bill can be enacted this year as a and to respect for the rest of my life. His some of the Ex-Pow's who found out that cleaning of my wounds was to be just the he is alive, and who's lives he also saved. I freestanding bill, separate from H.R. 4333. beginning of many things that he did to figured that I have to do something myself help save my life. too, but how? TIBOR RUBIN SHOULD BE Each day that he could get out of the hut I have to tell you that ever since I came to get a steel helmet of snow he would bring home, I can't talk about my life as far as the AWARDED THE CONGRESSION it in and melt and boil it to clean my War concerned, but especially my Prisoner AL MEDAL OF HONOR wounds and bandages for reuse. At one time of War days. I can't talk to my family or when my wounds got so infected he put friends. I still have nightmares about the HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN maggots in them to prevent gangrene from Prisoner of War Camp. I have severe panic OF FLORIDA setting in. This I am sure not only saved my spells. Periods of nervousness and the feel left arm, which I have full use of today but ing that I must get out of a room or place. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES also my life. Shortness of breath, and I can't be with Thursday, June 16, 1988 Each day that we got something to eat, people. I get so nervous many times that I there was Rubin feeding me, making sure fear that I will go crazy. I have severe head Mr. LEHMAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, an ex that I got my share and that I ate whatever aches, chest pains and I became like a traordinary story of heroism came to my atten it was. But when there was nothing given to hermit. I had a stroke in 1978, then in Janu tion in an article that appeared in the Jewish us to eat he would leave and come back with ary 1987 I had a 5 by pass operation and be Veteran, the publication of the Jewish War something he called "cake" for us who cause I got sick, I checked in the Long Veterans of the U.S.A. The story is about Cpl. couldn't get out. We found out later that it Beach Veterans Hospital the end of March Tibor Rubin, a Holocaust survivor who arrived was horse food that was compressed with 1987. I am now under group therapy as an in this country in 1949. Just months after his sorghum. Every time he would go out to get outpatient and because I am sick physically us food he would put his life on the line to and mentally, and my time is running out I release from Nazi concentration camps and be caught stealing and risked being shot on asked the Lord to help me open up some his arrival in the United States, Tibor Rubin the spot. But Rubin still didn't stop at that. how to talk about the man who saved my enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1950, In the huts, which were only about 12' X life and the lives of many other GI's. during the Korean conflict. In November of 12', they kept about 18 to 22 of us. This It took me 2V2 weeks to write this letter. It that year, Tibor and his company were taken meant that if we were to sleep we had to was one of the hardest and most painful prisoner by the Chinese in Unsan, North sleep on our sides. But here I was, unable to things I had to do in the last 35 years, but I Korea. be put on either side, with Rubin insuring had to do it. I had to open up even though For the 2% years that Rubin was a prison that I had a place to lay down. it hurts so much. I do relive the horrors in Sir, these are just a very few things that the 36 months I spent in the Prisoner of er-of-war, his selfless, courageous actions Rubin did for me. Here was a young man in War Camp in North Korea. saved many lives. He saved 35 to 40 of his the U.S. Army who was taking care of his My name is Carl McClendon, and I was fellow POW's by tending their wounds, steal fellow soldiers without knowing what the born in Flora, Louisiana on January 7, 1931. ing food, and giving them hope to continue. outcome would be. A young man who had I joined the US Army on May 28, 1948. My Despite his lack of English fluency, and suffer just come to the United States, but not yet serial number is RA 18276659 and I stayed ing from his own wounds from which he is a citizen, but yet he risked his life again and in the Army until February 12, 1956. Almost now totally disabled, Tibor Rubin's love for his again for men he might never see again. 8 years. I got out as a Sgt First Class. I went new country motivated him to commit extraor After the war was over I made the Army to Japan and was stationed in Camp Otsu my career and lost all contact with Rubin, and I was in the 25th Infantry Division. dinary acts of bravery in order to help his but I never forgot this outstanding man and Then I went to Korea July 12, 1950 and I fellow prisoners. friend to whom I owe my life. was in the B Company 1st Batallion 35th Thirty years later, several of his comrades It was just by accident that last year I met Regiment, 25th Division. The war was very whose lives he had saved learned that he was a former POW who know where Rubin was, bad, but I did not know that the worse was still alive. Since 1983, these fomrer POW's he had his address, and that was all I yet to come. have come forth to recommend Tibor Rubin needed. I called him, it was the phone call I was taken a Prisoner of War on Nov. 27, for the Congressional Medal of Honor. They of all calls to say the least. 1950 around Ipsop, North Korea. My life have organized a campaign to waive the time I later received a letter from Mr. Leo Cor and many other GI's lives all of a sudden mier telling me that friends and fellow became a nightmare. We were not trained or limitation for receiving the award. I am proud POW's are recommending Rubin for our prepared for such a life. We were captured to be introducing a private bill today to waive country's highest award, The Congressional in our summer uniforms and the weather the statute of limitations so that this deserving Medal of Honor. I asked him to please let was real cold. Later it became so cold that American will be able to receive the Congres me write this letter because I feel there is we started getting sick in no time. Our sional Medal of Honor. no one who would think Rubin more deserv- wounded did not have medical care. We 15036 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 16, 1988 hardly had any food, only a little corn twice anything he could get a hold of. He crawled time. Later on we were separated from a day. We started getting disentery, pneu back and distributed the food what he had Rubin and I was transfered to Camp 4 in monia, later Beri-Beri and our nerves start stolen and risked his life. Between the Aug 1951. ed getting bad and the real starvation start wounded, the very sick and the dying, he Rubin's Sgt, Sgt Randall J. J. Briere from ed. We started to die. When we got to Camp washed us. Took care of our wounds, force I. Company 1st Cavalry a real anti-Commu # 5, we were weak and disoriented. We fed us. Talked to us about not giving up. We nist was transfered to the reactionary never faced death like that before. Our lives will go home he used to tell us. Our troops Camp, where we met later on. I believe M/ became hopeless. In no time, everybody was will liberate us. Your family is waiting for Sgt Briere and Rubin are the only ones who for himself. Nobody cared, and many of our you. Please, don't give up. In day time, he are alive today from the I Company, who fellows started praying to ask our good Lord carried the very sick to the toilet. Cleaned spent 30 months or more as a Prisoner of to let us die. Our GI's started dying at a rate their rear from the disentery. Washed up War. of 30 fellows per day. the dying ones. Now I told my story. While I was writing I am 6"1 and I weighted before capture The Chinese asked him a few times to go it I was in tears and nearly a breakdown. 195 to 200 lbs. My weight started getting back to Hungary. They promised him good There is no way I can tell you what it meant down. I went down to 95 to 100 lbs in a few jobs. They told him: You are a Hungarian to be a Prisoner of War in North Korea for months. Every where was death. Smell filth, citizen. Why do you fight the rich man's 36 months. We lost 51% of our Comrades. It lice and all kinds of sicknesses. I had disen war? Rubin asked us what would some of us was a plain nightmare, which none of us will tery, worms, Beri-Beri, night blindness, do. We told him: Rubin go back, get out of ever forget. chills, fever. My nerves started to crumble. here, we all will end up in Siberia and die As far as Mr. Tibor Rubin, well M/Sgt Our most important thing was FOOD. We like animals. They wanted to let him go Randall J. J. Briere wrote in his letter to thought, dreamed and that's all we talked back to Hungary, when 30 to 35 guys died Congressman Les Aspin on Jan. 7, 1986, that about FOOD AND FOOD. every day and no one knew who will be in the front lines Rubin was cited for an One night, a few weeks later in Camp # 5, next. Rubin told us: No way will he ever go award. M/Sgt Briere later updated a letter someone was crawling toward me and told back, and leave his comrades. They needed on Feb 2, 1987 that Rubin was written up me in very bad English to keep quiet. Then him here. And no way would he bring for a decoration for Valor above and beyond he came closer and reached in his fatigue shame to his family back in the good old the call of duty. So Rubin was already then pants and his pockets, and started giving me USA. an outstanding soldier. some food and a few others as well. It was Rubin had guts. The Chinese planted a I know most of Rubin's family was killed Rubin like we called him later, that young nice victory garden in springtime 1951. Cu by the Germans in WW 2 and he also was a man, who I did not really understand his cumbers, radishes, onions, soy beans and to prisoner of the Nazis. Maybe that is where English. He first started coming every matoes. Nobody was allowed to go close to he learned to be so cunning and brave. He evening a few hours when it got dark. He the garden. Our mouths were watering as had more courage, guts and fellowship that used to bring corn, millet, barley, turnips we saw it grow. One tomato was worth a I ever know any one had. I went thru the and vegetables. He used to take care of the million bucks if we could have it. Well, one war and Prisoner of War Camp and I have wounded people. He was like Santa Clause day Rubin told us: Carl if the good Lord to say, that I never met any one to be a to us. When he came over, it was like Christ helps us, tomorrow there will be harvest better soldier than Tibor Rubin. He is the mas to us. I asked him quite a few times, day. I really did not know what he was talk most outstanding man I every met with a how will I ever repay you Rubin? He told us: ing about. But the next day around mid heart of gold. Tibor Rubin committed every "You can repay me, please don't tell my night we found out. Rubin had tomatoes, day Bravery that bugled my mind. How he name to anyone." Later on we found out onion, radishes, cucumbers and turnips. We ever came home alive is a mystery to me. I that his name was Tibor Rubin
