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Congressional Record – Senate – The Torment of the Baha’is

          
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          ‘., The I,ni , east at 10 a.m.. on the
          s rst&on of the raceis . and was
          Jt,d to order by the President pro
          tempers (M TmNoou.
          rOAm
          Tb. pJ.hi .
          aid C. Balvsruoui. DD., offered the id-
          —
          latapeny.
          Lord Ood of erestion . who hut en-
          dD sd a with his1l nible righti, we
          then Thee for a go,er1n1 11t of
          p• 01 g.. by the people, and Ice the
          di sd to secure those
          ri a ti. W, *.1 i k Thee toe the demo.
          s bili peocees which such a gov.
          aiR ,nt west. We thank Thee for
          men and woman of strong conv 'cn.
          willing to Mruggle through controver-
          sy and compromise , making the wel.
          fats of the people . Give them patience
          with the prueses and with each Other.
          As t Inoresie and emotioni
          ri.., Infus, them with respect and love
          for each other. Protect them against
          selfish and seductive forces which
          would corrupt and exploit the process
          and abort lound legislation. Heavenly
          Pather, make Thy presence f.lt Zn this
          Chamber and In the office of every
          8eieator sod every co,n in lu.e today.
          May Thy will be dons In thisplace as
          It lain heaven. We pray In the name of
          Him who was Incarnate Truth. .Tua-
          tic .. and Rlghteouanma. Amen.
          RE000NITION 07 THH
          . MAJORITY IJAD t
          The PRL8WNI T pro tetnpoie. The
          majority leader Ii recogniect
          Mr. BA 1 thank the Chair.
          : S 1ATZ SC UL
          Mr. RkK . Mr. President. there
          ‘ are a special ordera todey. There Is a
          thee for the transaction of routine
          morning bi In — that will begin after
          the expiration of the time allocated to
          : the two leaden under the standing
          As Members will iwc$lJ, last evening
          It was deelded that r .he Senate would
          cons*drs J of the budget
          romlutlon at 1010 s.rn. today, at
          which time the Hatch amendment
          would be the pending question. An
          hour of fuither debate has been pro-
          vided for en the Hairk amendment, to
          be quafly dividet
          The seq e for certain amend-
          mania thereafter was provided In the
          order of lad evening.
          CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE
          SENATE -Wdise.Jq M. 41983
          (Laptatetlve dsy qfxondsn May2, 1113)
          I will confer with the managers of singer and others, to ph e out the
          the resolution and the mIn 'tty lss i.' V'd multiwariuead mhefres and ye.
          as to the aeqce of “.“ts for place them with scattered SIng' warS
          today. head mi
          Zvetyone should be on notice that This .ieuted a welcome break.
          the leadenhip on this side expects the through In redusing the likelihood of
          Senile t. day In . — ‘on for a good a hair Iiler, first strike nuclear war.
          long while today. I expect It may be Why? Because the muitluarhead m l .-
          well aiter the 4h%, v hour before we sties pose a aw IcssI first strike
          threat—a devastating threat. But a
          Mr. President I have no further threat that is silo highly vulnerable to
          need foe the r hiler of my time say first tke that could knock out
          under the lt.n iI ig order and am pro- peIIaps 10 w.yh .a with a single m i s-
          oared to yield It to the sshlOTIty sUe. On the other ba ird three separate
          , single warhead mimlies would be only
          Mr. BYRD. I II*nh t] e majority one4hrird as vulnerable IIeznfore
          leader. . much more likely to survive a first
          I have no need for my Urns and I but much ma threatening be-
          ____ yield It beck, canes they would In a e te crry
          Mr. BAUR. I yield back my time. - ‘ - dey . tat pg threat
          of the highly V'd single inI fl
          ROUTIWi MORNWG BUSU4IZS So the far more dangerous nuclear
          world ushered In by the advent of
          The PR1 1DDiO OPPIC R (Mr. multivarhead ‘ t ee just may be be.
          Danvoam). Under the previous ginning Its way out. Mr. President. I
          there will now be a period for the to add that Mr. *ndropov has
          transection of routine morning busi- meieiy ataieti $ w mpre to negoti-
          ___ ama, not to extend beyond 1010 a.m., - within a limited area. But this
          with atatementa therein limIted to 2 pe 1 p in ircing
          minutes csch. the nuclear threat that we should take
          Mr. DA1 . Mr. President, I aug. of the nstant Soviet re-
          test the aheence of a quorum. ___
          The PR ID1NO O?'PIC . ir S UP0015 to extend this prlndple else.
          clerk will call the roil. where. Here we have a clear example
          ______ of how arms control can serve both as
          The bill clerk proceeded to call the a means of Increasing our military se-
          HATCH. Mr. PresIdent, 1 ick catty, and as a means of moving a
          ulwiinreus consent that the order for way—toward a more peaceful
          the quorum call be reminded world environment, still haunted by
          The PhIP IDINO OPPICER. With. the continued deployment of n clasr
          out objection, wapons , but kI ed by the fact that
          _____ these weapons will be less threatening
          as well a. less dangerous than the nu-
          8IONIPICANCE OP ANDROPOV'p clear weapon. they replace.
          ACuzj-rA1qc OP SINGLE WAR- _______
          HEAD UCLEAR M1 fl
          Mr. PRO IRE. Ut. President, we ‘ ‘HE TORMENT OP THE 8*11*18
          Americana should not ails, the signif I- Mr. 1RO 1RE, Mr. President, his-
          canoe of Premier Andropova an tory Ii filled with counties. Instances
          nouncement yesterday that he would of man's inhumanity to man, of great
          be willing to have the SovIet Union atrocities ,dtted for the moat dos-
          adopt the suggestion made by our ploable of reason.. In the da . before
          President and our negotiators to cIvfl tion thi. cruelty was perhaps
          reduce nuclear, ‘ 1 1 e understandable. Today, however, It Is
          In Europe to the present NATO levels Inexplicable and unjustifiabl, that
          In number of warheads as well as traosgr ei s of the most bsilc
          number of mimIcs, human rights ceaselessly occur.
          The Andtopov response ham solid .1g. Currently In Iran, one much uncon-
          nificance In the present netotlatlons scionable transgression continue, to
          over nuclear deployment in Europe. It unfold. The Ayatollah KhomeIni's
          ha. much greater sIgnIfIcance, howey- government Is once again persecuting
          er as a principle. Here Is why One of the followers of the Bahal faith.
          the most prudent arms control sugge . - The Eahals have been the seape.
          time In recent months ha. been the goats of Persian society lee genera.
          proposal by Ccngromnan Ar.wy tIme, 20 thousand having been killed
          i3 aj—no s rppoet . ed by Henry Kis- In the last 100 years, and under the
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          Ayatol$b. their si ha. work
          :. d. lisny ha'1 eplrttual ‘4 '
          bass b zscuted since bic rise to
          power 4 years ago. Jnd this past
          n*r . n tribunal ap. .tami .p
          * — ia. i for epying and
          rsput.d U to lecasi, links that exist
          largely b e . as with many western
          lesasi is the Rab&I hely
          land. The faith maintains It. world
          haadqiarters and two shrines there.
          Tb an outside ob 'er . the r .
          cut. of the faith are unlikely targets.
          They believe in the divine origin .1.11
          rIigl' ' . including T. .i . . ‘fliey aiso
          uhim q and siMile ffloin partS-
          an peiltics. At great risk, they were
          the omly group that refused 10 JoIn the
          ahs political party.
          Novaithalses. the BsMli have been
          pii atsd as part of a deliberate cam-
          pa begun 3 years ago to break the
          suet. On August 31, INS. all nine
          of the I Pith's ruling Nalloual
          drltusl “bly were u,rnd.d. To
          dete. nothing ha. been heard of their
          fate. In a IUon, thomandu of aces-
          hers of local spiritual aacI hi es have
          been de net
          Bsha'is have been denied ezk visas
          arid recognition under the con-
          stitution, which In theory, protect. all
          the Nations religious mlpo'itlea. BusS-
          r have been confiscated and trade
          naea revoked. RoWed government
          employees have lost their pension..
          Houses and mops have been destroyed.
          8hrinsu and cemeteries have been de.
          molished. Twenty-five to thirty thou.
          med school aged children have been
          bsr Irma attending their c1ai.es
          Most Pignlflesatly. the house of the
          Bab, the Balial equivalent of the
          Jewish W”nI Well or Moslem
          $ .ba ham been buildosed and con-
          verted Into a parking lot.
          The effects of the program have
          been staggering. The Bahal office at
          the United Nations labeled them:
          ... us aclaeriust. us InInme , so —--‘—d
          andes t.r-r”w test (they) ge tin
          er- ' 4 r' of the M1 es.muaIIyas a
          ni .lasrtty is Iii ..
          Ct n by the United Nations the
          United atatee, and the European Corn-
          munity has slowed the cxterinlnat loo
          of the flaha'Im. but eejre than wouch
          alone win be nce4 d to save theni.
          One step that we In the Beirate can
          take to strengthen the position of the
          United I tes Is to ratify the United
          Nations' Omiocide Convention. This
          treaty declares the extermination of a
          rm Iiinal . ethnic racial, or religious
          group an international crime. A]rea4y
          approved by ii nations. It has not.
          however, been ratified by the United
          AtateL
          Ratification of the Convention
          would underscore our global co'I 'nlt-
          mm d to the preservation of human
          rights and reemphaslae to the Iranian
          Oovernment our strong desire to have
          them cease their persecution of the
          Dairais. it would also eliminate an ar-
          CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE
          geminI often used by ns! 1 that
          sbus bm w rights when we dte
          them Ice their abuses Their specious.
          but nonetheless .flsctivs. rebuttaL
          which holdu the Ualt.d Rtat”u f m1ot
          qu 4 ' them about rights when we
          ourselves have not aimed even the
          Genocide Ccov hep04 our
          .btlity to cud , 4 0 Iiti of baste free-
          dems In countries mdi am Iran.
          Mr. President. In site of the tzestYs
          very pslg benefits. the 8e has
          put off Its ratification for 34 years
          now. I would ask todey. then, that this
          body end It. delay and take a step for
          the BaM'Is and other unjustly abused
          groups by ratiflylni the O clde
          Convention.
          THE BUDGET RIBOLUTION
          Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, we are
          on the second leg of the arduous Jour.
          ney on which we seek further solu-
          tion. to the budget problems that con-
          tinue to plague this Nation The Fed-
          eral Budget faces deficits as far as the
          eye can see. This sorry ultii tio
          alm t guarantees that we will not
          find final solution. thIs year. But I am
          _____ am I think we are all com-
          mitted, to alleviate the problem, to
          make progrin in putting our fiscal af-
          fairs In order.
          In this connection. I believe that the
          budget that we have before us—si ru-
          petted by the Senate Budget Commit-
          tee—lu a respectable start hi putting
          the fiscal policy on a proper course. I L
          restrains the growth of Federal spend-
          ing. It restores cur depleted revenue
          base, and thus provides ever “ ‘ -
          leg defldts over the nest 5 years.
          These deficits ire lower than any
          others proposed thus fir. However,
          the budget still falls short of the Ideal
          En several , eipects , and I hope that we
          can make Improvement.. on the floor
          as we go along.
          There can be no question but what
          our national economic policies In the
          past 2 years have neark wrecked our
          economy. Not that there Is not plenty
          of blame to go around. Both tax and
          spending policies In the seventies, fos-
          tered by both political parties, were
          unwise. We legislated too many spend-
          ing programs and we opened too many
          loopholes In the Tax Code through
          which wasted money poured. But the
          answer to the excesses of the seventies
          was not the I w5t provided by this
          adinlnlstration- lncrease spending
          even more and cut revenues even
          more, thus widening deficits to ailtime
          highs.
          The result has been receu.lOU and
          unemployment on a scale unknown
          since the Great Depression.
          In 1961 the President announced his
          program for economic recovery under
          which he said, HOur economys pro-
          ductive capacity Is expected to grow
          significantly faster than could be
          achieved with a continuation of past
          Mayl, 1W
          p 9 HM ” He predicted that ON?
          would grow, baguiinh g In 1612, at a
          rate between 4 to 5 percent a year. Yet
          last year It ds lI ed 1.7 pereent and In
          the TIM quarter of thIs year it disap-
          pointed many analysts by growing at
          only LI percent In the long awaited
          recovery . The President's recovery
          program also pre&t d that unem-
          ploym t. which In 1961 was 7.1 per-
          cent. would decline sW flY to 5.6 Per-
          cent In 1961. We now have, of course,
          unaunpioymant at 10.3 percent In
          March. By 1966 the Budget Com 1 t -
          tee now predicts that. It will be 8,6 per-
          cent.—O.$ of a point higher than It was
          In 1981 and 3 full percentage points
          hihar than the Presidents program
          was to produce. ASter 5 years we will
          have nearly 1 millIon more unem-
          ployed than when the economic recov-
          ery program started—and over 3 mil-
          lion more than that program antici-
          —
          Mr. President. there axe many more
          statistics like this, but there Is no
          point to dwelling on the past. I do so
          briefly, only to show that we must not
          make the mistake—which many would
          still have us make—of doing more of
          the same. There can be no question
          but what the programs of the past 2
          years have put us In this difficulty. We
          must try something else to get out of
          It.
          The program we have been following
          for the peat. 2 years—over my repeated
          objections—has been to spend more
          and tax lom. That Is not how the pro-
          gram Is usually described—but that Is
          what It Ii.
          In 1951. total Federal spending was
          $657.2 billion. In fiscal year 1914 the
          President proposed spending of $848.5
          billion—an Increase of $191.3 billion or
          29 percent. That Is Increased spending
          on a staggering scale—an average of
          over $60 billion per year. ,
          In 1961, total Federal spending was
          22.9 percent of the grow national
          product. Under the President's budget
          far fIscal year 1954 It would be 24.3
          percent.
          That is clearly Increased Govern-
          ment spending In anyone's book. Nor
          have we failed because we did not
          follow II . President'. recommenda-
          tions. He has received the spending
          cuts he asked Ice' and he has received
          the spending Increases he asked for.
          One baa to y that the results must
          be pretty much what he wanted.
          On the revenue side, the President
          endorsed and Congress approved a tax
          bill In 1981 that will cut revenues by
          $1136 trillion over 1 years. He also en-
          dorsed and Congress approved In 1913
          a tax bill that will Increase revenues
          by $265 billion over? years.
          The results of these. and companion
          policies are clearly set out In IIe
          Senate Budget Committees report on
          this budget resolution In the following
          tabie:
        

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