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payments except to families. It was a better bill. They would receive financial benefits without regulatory authorities,” he said.
Sheila Sweet said, “I immigrated before I started smoking. I am concerned about the problem in Quebec. I would like to have English as the national language. Canada did not do this 200 years ago and will now break up.”
Rep. Slaughter said, “I agree English should be the official language.”
C. W. Allison congratulated Rep. Slaughter on boycotting Nelson Mandela’s speech to Congress. “I would like to see the federal government go back to the role it was originally set up for, to keep a standing Army and Navy and take care of veterans,” he said. Mr. Allison said he was going deaf, but the Veterans Administration “would not give me a hearing aid.” He said that more and more services to veterans are “shutting down,” and in the VA hospitals “the same ones we fought are treating us, as doctors.
You should cut out the junk like day care. If you’re going to have children, take care of them,” Mr. Allison added.
Laurie Marshall said she was concerned that the “nation is about to experience a massive dislocation and loss of jobs” because of new environmental laws and “demilitarization. There is no provision for the people who lose their jobs to get retraining. We must take into account these thousands of people who will lose their jobs. We must use their talents and not have destroyed lives.”
Mrs. Marshall said she is also concerned about the issue of “armed struggle.” She noted that Rep. Slaughter had supported the Contras against Nicaragua, but wouldn’t support Mandela because he wouldn’t renounce violence.
In Mozambique she said she understands Sen. Jesse Helms, R-NC, and the government of South Africa are supporting an armed struggle against the Marxist government in which “children are the main weapon. If you’re against armed struggle, you have to be against it consistently.”
Peter Kreyling urged Rep. Slaughter to support the Keating bill, which requires a six-day waiting period to buy a handgun.
He said he is also concerned about the amount of money congressmen were receiving from political action committees (PACs).
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