WAKE UP AMERICA

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• Publication Date: November 9, 1983
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Wovember .9, 1983 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? Extensions of Remarks
WAKE UP AMERICA!
HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG
OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
J
Tuesday, November 8, 1983
? Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speak-
er, in the wake of Monday's bombing
of our Nation's Capitol, Americans
must wake up and realize that the
United States is in no way immune to
the terrorist attacks that are so fre-
quent throughout the world.
The hatred of the United States and
our citizens by international terrorism
groups continues to grow as is evi-
denced by the long list of terrorist at-
tacks against Americans around the
world. Large scale attacks against
Americans, such as the bombing of our
Marine compound in Beirut, are
widely publicized, but many smaller
terrorist incidents go virtually unno-
ticed.
Terrorist,organizations have been al-
lowed to roam freely throughout the
world and in the United States, and I
have been warning for years that it is
only a matter of time before incidents
such as Monday's bombing of the Cap-
itol become more prevalent in the
United States. Terrorist organizations
have been allowed to gain a foothold
in the world because of the severe re-
strictions that have been imposed on
our intelligence and security organiza-
tions.
These restrictions were the topic of
a series of hearings in 1979 held by the
Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence. During those hearings, wit-
nesses from the FBI Terrorism Sec-
tion acknowledged in response to my
questioning that Federal guidelines
prohibited them from penetrating or
even collecting information, such as
newspaper articles or flyers, about sus-
pected terrorist organizations in the
United States until such an organiza-
tion committed a crime. As I said
during those hearings, the FBI has
not been allowed to be involved in fire
prevention. It has had to wait until
the fire starts.
The restrictions on the FBI, and I
might add local law enforcement agen-
cies, to collect information about po-
tentially violent organizations, were
imposed by the 1976 Domestic Secu-
rity Guidelines issued by the Attorney
General. At my recommendation,
President Reagan ordered that these
guidelines be reviewed and changes
made to allow our Nation's intelli-
gence agencies to effectively carry out
their responsibilities and combat do-
mestic terrorism. The President's
action was necessary because the re-
strictions imposed on our intelligence
agencies had become so severe that
morale among our agents was declin-
ing as was the amount of valuable in-
formation they were able to gather.
During our. 1979 hearings, one FBI
witness best summed up the overall
frustration felt by those in the FBI
when he quoted a recently retired
agent as saying:
Gentleman, where else is the Federal Gov-
ernment paying me not to investigate? If I
do investigate, I can't keep a record. I could
keep a record, I can't disseminate it. And if I
disseminate it, I have got to exercise it and
purge it. So it is in a way for a veteran of
almost 30 years in the FBI, I feel as though
I am not earning my money.
As a result of President Reagan's di-
rective to review these restrictions, At-
torney General William French Smith
announced on March 7 new guidelines
that would again allow the FBI to get
back into the intelligence gathering
business and allow agents to investi-
gate suspected domestic terrorist orga-
nizations. These guidelines allow our
agents in the field to once again keep
files on these organizations and to use,
when necessary, informers or infiltra-
tors into terrorist groups or support
organizations. The penetration of ter-
rorist groups is essential to our ability
to prevent acts of violence -against our
own citizens because it provides our in-
telligence agencies with a direct line to
the group commiting or planning to
commit the terrorist act.
Israel's intelligence organizations
are among the best at penetrating ter-
rorist organizations and preventing
planned attacks. In a paper presented
to a .1980 seminar on counterintelli-
gence, Gen. Schlomo Gazit, the retired
head of Israeli military intelligence,
emphasized the value of infiltrating
terrorist organizations. He said:
Very few organizations can operate in
complete or full compartmentalization and
do not depend on networks of local support-
ers. Such supporters help the terrorist orga-
nizations, either because of ideological moti-
vation or through fear and blackmail, with-
out being directly involved in terrorist oper-
ations. The importance of penetrating the
sympathizers' or supporters' system lies in
the fact that it is easier to penetrate them
than the more highly closed terrorist orga-
nization. By penetrating this supportive
system, it may be possible to penetrate the
organization itself or obtain indirect inf or-
motion about it.
Unfortunately, even though restric-
tions on our agents have been eased, it
will take some time before our intelli-
gence gathering capability reaches its
full potential. Seven years of intelli-
gence data that was lost due to the
1976 restrictions must be recouped.
Valuable informers and contacts in
the field must again be sought out and
cultivated by our agents for help and
information. Many of our agents must
be retrained to use skills and methods
that were taken away from them in
1976. And many local law enforcement
agencies must get back into the intelli-
gence gathering business. For most
local agencies, their intelligence gath-
ering units will have to start from
scratch because they were phased out
during 7 years of restricted activity.
Mr. Speaker, if we are to prevent
future acts of terrorism within the
United States, we must provide our in-
telligence agencies with the resources
to seek out and infiltrate those groups
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who would perpetrate cowardly acts
such as bombing our Nation's Capitol.
If we fail to provide the necessary
support to our security agencies, there
will be no warning of the next terror-
ist attack either. Instead, we will again
respond after the fact by cleaning up
the rubble and wondering who com-
mitted the act and how. As Members
of Congress, we are charged with the
constitutional responsibility of provid-
ing for the safety of our Nation's citi-
zens, their families, their homes and
their businesses. Unless we provide onr
intelligence organizations with the re-
sources and authority to seek out and
stop those people who threaten the
safety of our fellow Americans, we are
guilty of failing to fulfill?that respon-
sibility..
OILMAN URGES U.S. MEDICAL
SCHOOLS TO ACCEPT STU-
DENTS DISPLACED BY RECENT
EVENTS IN GRENADA
HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, November 8,1983
? Mr. OILMAN. Mr. Speaker, today I
am introducing a resolution which ex-
presses the sense of Congress that
American medical schools make the
effort to accept those medical students
who were recently displaced by recent
U.S. actions in Grenada. The students
of St. George's Medical School desire
nothing more than to continue their
studies, but in January they will have
nowhere to go. I invite my colleagues
to join me in this worthy effort, and
solicit their cosponsorship at this time.
Recent events in Grenada brought
these students home. Their safety was
threatened, and all were evacuated,
leaving behind personal possessions
and textbooks. The administrators of
St. George's Medical School have
made arrangements for the 'students
to complete their first semester of
study at one of several institutions, in-
cluding Long Island University in New
York, and St. Barnabas Medical
Center in New Jersey. However, these
provisions are only stopgap in nature,
and do not solve the greater problem
of where these young men and women
will study when the January semester
begins.
Some students are scheduled to con-
tinue their studies at Kingstown Medi-
cal Center in St. Vincent. These St.
George's students are now completing
their second semester studies, and al-
though Kingstown does not have the
facilities to accommodate any more
students for the rest of this semester,
it has graciously consented to accept
their incoming January students in
November. Although affiliated with
St. George's, there is no possibility
that additional students can transfer
there.
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? Extensions of Remarks November 9, 1983
There are over 100 medical schoola
in the United States. There are several
hundred medical students who cannot
return to the St. George's campus. My
resolution urges our American medical
colleges and universities to depart
from previous policy of not accepting
midyear transfer students. These
schools should and could make the
effort to find room for a few students
each. I have spoken with many of the
52 students, some of whom reside in
my district, and I have found that the
vast majority simply want to return to
their studies as soon as possible. The
longer they are without organized in-
struction, the further behind they will
find themselves. These young men and
women are willing to take an exam to
determine their level of ability for
study at an American medical school,
and others have stated that they
would be willing to repeat a semester
of study if required.
The extraordinary circumstances of
the - situation in Grenada call for an
exception to traditional medical school
policy. Accordingly, I am calling on
the .more than 100 medical' schools in
our country to assist these displaced
students who will not have a medical
school to go to in January. Accommo-
dating three or five students each
would not be a hardship on our Ameri-
can medical schools. I urge my col-
leagues' support of this resolution and
I ask that the full text of this measure
be printed at this point in the RECORD,
so that Members may review it.
H. CON. RES. 211
Concurrent resolution expressing the sense
of Congress that United States medical
schools should accommodate the Ameri-
can medical students evacuated from Gre-
nada
Whereas United States' actions in Grena-
da on October 25, 1983, resulted in the evac-
uation of many American students attend-
ing the St. George's University School of
Medicine:
Whereas the evacuation disrupted the
normal course of study of these medical stu-
dents through no fault of their own;
Whereas there is no branch campus of the
St. George's University School of Medicine
in the United States, and even though the
students have been invited to complete their
fall semester at several universities and
medical centers, they will have no place to
continue their studies without interruption
after the fall semester ends; and
Whereas although the traditional policy
of United States medical schools is not to
accept students in the middle of an 'aca-
demic year, the extraordinary circumstances
of the Grenada situation call for an excep-
tion to this policy, subject to any reasonable
conditions the medical schools deem appro-
priate, such as requiring the displaced stu-
dents to repeat a semester or to take an
exam to determine their level of ability:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives
(the Senate concuriing), That it is the sense
of Congress that the medical schools of the
United States should make an exception to
their traditional policy of not accepting stu-
dents in the middle of the academic year in
order to assist the American medical stu-
dents evacuated from Grenada in continu-
ing their medical studies without interrup-
tion.?
CONGRESS CANNOT STOP THE
CLOCK?
HON. EDWARD R. MADIGAN
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, November 8, 1983 '
? Mr. MADIGAN. Mr. Speaker, later
this week the House will consider leg-
islation which, if enacted, would stop
the clock of progress in telecommuni-
cations. H.R. 4102, the Universal Tele-
phone Service Preservation Act, by re-
versing a recent decisiOn of the Feder-
al Communications Commission,
would turn the regulatory clock back-
ward and perpetuate an outmoded
system of telephone rate subsidies.
The end result would be higher tele-
phone rates for all consumers and the
deterioration of our telephone system
as we know it today.
For more than 25 years, the telecom-
munications industry has been moving
from a monopoly environment toward
competition in the offering of prod-
ucts and services. This Nation has
benefited greatly from the increasing
diversity of products and services
available, many of which were not en-
visioned even a few years ago. Ameri-
can companies have become -world
leaders in telecommunications tech-
nology. Congress should do everything
possible to insure that this trend con-
tinues and should not erect stumbling
blocks to progress in the name of con-
sumer protection.
As all Members of this House are
aware, in less than 2 months, AT&T,
the world's largest corporation, will be
divided into eight parts?one company
providing long distance telephone
service, and seven regional companies
providing local telephone service. Con-
gress cannot change this fact of life.
The inevitable result of the divesti-
ture of AT&T is that the telephone
system in the United States will be dif-
ferent in the future from what it has
been in the past. The way that tele-
phone equipment and services are pro-
vided will change, and the way that
prices are established for such equip-
ment and services will change. Some
of these changes have already begun
to take place, as competition has
begun to develop in the telecommuni-
cations industry. For example, con-
sumers may nova/ choose to buy tele-
phone instruments from a variety of
sources, including local hardware
stores and mail-order catalogs, rather
than lease them from the telephone
company. They may choose alterna-
tive long distance services, such as
MCI and Sprint. Such changes benefit
consumers by providing greater
choices in products and services at a
greater variety of costs.
The proponents of H.R. 4102 are
afraid to face the new telephone
system of the future. Their bill would
perpetuate a system of subsidies of
local telephone rates by long distance
rates which was workable under a
united AT&T but which is not feasible
under a divided AT&T. It is essential
to the continued excellence of our
telephone system that we move to a
system of basing the price of each
type of telephone service on the cost
of providing that service. Long dis-
tance service should no longer subsi-
dize local service. The price of local
service must reflect the cost of provid-
ing it. '
Of course, it is important to provide
some type of subsidy Tor local tele-
phone rates for low-income individuals
and those in areas of the country,
such as rural areas, where the cost of
providing telephone service greatly ex-
ceeds the national average. But such
targeted subsidies should be based 'on
need. The system should not provide a
general subsidy of all local rates, in-
cluding those for Fortune 500 compa-
nies and wealthy persons.
Just as today's telephone system
provides increased consumer choice of
equipment and long distance service,
the telephone system of the future
will also include greater choices in
types of local telephone service. In-
creased use of measured rates for local
service will enable consumers to
choose the type of service which best
suits their needs at prices reflecting
the cost of providing that service. For
example, consumers in some areas now
have a choice of local service with a
limited number of calls and an addi-
tional charge for each call above the
limit. This service is priced far lower
than flat rate service with unlimited
calls. It is obviously a better choice for
the person who makes few telephone
calls per month. At present, telephone
companies in 29 States and the Dis-
trict of Columbia offer some type of
measured local service, and telephone
companies in remaining States have
filed applications for such service.
The telephone system of the future
promises to benefit all telephone cus-
tomers by providing them with greater
'choices. The move toward cost-based
pricing of telephone products and
services will insure the continued qual-
ity of the telephone network which all
Americans take for granted. -
Congress should not be afraid to
face a future in which our telephone
system is different from what it has
been in the past. We should not turn
back the clock by passing H.R. 4102.0
TRIBUTE TO CAROLE WARD- ?
ALLEN
HON, FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, November 8, 1983
? Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, Carole
Ward-Allen, chairperson of the Cali-
fornia Commission on the Status of
Women is a woman of many accom-
plishments. Her most recent milestone
is being the first black woman to serve
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