U.N. Decade of Disabled Persons

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APRIL 5, 13, AND JUNE 9, 1983

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON 1983

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Wisconsin, Chairman

DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida
LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana
GUS YATRON, Pennsylvania
STEPHEN J. SOLARZ, New York
DON BONKER, Washington
GERRY E. STUDDS, Massachusetts
ANDY IRELAND, Florida
DAN MICA, Florida

MICHAEL D. BARNES, Maryland
HOWARD WOLPE, Michigan

GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan
SAM GEJDENSON, Connecticut
MERVYN M. DYMALLY, California
TOM LANTOS, California

PETER H. KOSTMAYER, Pennsylvania
ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey
LAWRENCE J. SMITH, Florida
HOWARD L. BERMAN, California
HARRY M. REID, Nevada

MEL LEVINE, California

WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD, Michigan LARRY WINN, JR., Kansas

BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California JOEL PRITCHARD, Washington

JIM LEACH, Iowa

TOBY ROTH, Wisconsin

OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine

HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois

GERALD B. H. SOLOMON, New York

DOUGLAS K. BEREUTER, Nebraska MARK D. SILJANDER, Michigan

ED ZSCHAU, California

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CONTENTS

WITNESSES

April 5, 1983:

Page

Hon. Larry Winn, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of

Kansas

Hon. John McDonald, Cochairman of the Federal Interagency Committee

for the International Year of Disabled Persons; Bureau of International

Organization Affairs, Department of State.

Jean Elder, Commissioner of Administration on Developmental Disabil-

ities, Department of Health and Human Services..

George Conn, Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Reha-

bilitative Services, Department of Education

Richard DeVos, chairman, National Organization on Disability..

Dr. William Spenser, president, Institute for Rehabilitation and Research.

Alan A. Reich, president, National Organization on Disability..

Hon. Peter Aldridge, mayor, Wethersfield, Conn

Frank Bowe, former executive director, American Coalition of Citizens

With Disabilities.

Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, president, Institute of Medicine, National Acad-

emy of Sciences.....

Robert Broshar, president, American Institute of Architects

Bernard Posner, executive director, President's Committee on Employ-

ment of the Handicapped....

Louise McNew, director, National Spinal Cord Injury Association

April 13, 1983: Subcommittee markup of House Concurrent Resolution 39 (no

witnesses)...

103

June 9, 1983: Full committee markup of House Concurrent Resolution 39 (no

witnesses)..

105

MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Text of speech given by Alan A. Reich at the U.N. General Assembly urging
the adoption of the resolution on the U.N. Decade of Disabled Persons,
which appeared in the Congressional Record, December 7, 1982 .....

APPENDIXES

1. Text of editorial entitled "Special Peace Corps Volunteers" printed in the

Washington Post, March 16, 1983...

2. Text of U.N. Resolution 37/52 on the "World Programme of Action Con-

cerning Disabled Persons," adopted by the General Assembly on Decem-

ber 3, 1982, submitted by Hon. John McDonald.....

3. Text of U.N. Resolution 37/53 on the "Implementation of the World

Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons," adopted by the Gen-

eral Assembly on December 3, 1982, submitted by Hon. John McDonald....

4. Text of agenda item 5 of the Commission for Social Development of the

United Nations adopted on February 16, 1983, regarding the Decade of

Disabled Persons.....