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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-
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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:
