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was trying to preserve the financial integrity of the State and the 
management integrity of the State in ways that would command the 
confidence of the taxpayers of Arkansas and make it possible for us to 
do as much for people in their lives as we possibly could.
    And when he left the administration and went on to run the 
Rockefeller Foundation, I think he was actually doing what he was really 
put on this Earth to do, which was to find new and different and 
innovative ways for ordinary people to live extraordinary lives. And I 
can tell you that I have now served with thousands and thousands of 
remarkable people all across this country. I have had the privilege of 
knowing more exceptional Americans than almost anyone of my time, solely 
because of my position. I have never met a finer American or a more 
gifted public servant than the person we honor today, our friend Mahlon 
Martin.
    This is a plaque presented to Mahlon Martin in grateful appreciation 
for his 2 years of outstanding service and dedication to the Local 
Initiative Support Corporation that provided these opportunities that we 
celebrate today. The most important thing on the plaque is a quote that 
could have been about Mahlon Martin from Margaret Meade: ``Never doubt 
that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the 
world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.''

Note: The President spoke at 10:25 a.m. at the Mahlon Martin Apartments. 
In his remarks, he referred to Paul Grogan, president, Local Initiative 
Support Corp. (LISC); Ron Brimberry, president, Downtown Little Rock 
Community Development Corp.; Gary Smith, executive vice president, 
Boatman's Bank; Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas; Mayor Jim Dailey of 
Little Rock, AR; Mayor Patrick Henry Hays of North Little Rock, AR; 
Floyd G. (Buddy) Villines, Pulaski County judge; and Edwin Lupberger, 
chairman and chief executive officer, Entergy.


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Monday, July 3, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 26
Pages 1113-1179
 
Week Ending Friday, June 30, 1995
 
Statement on the Death of Warren Burger

June 25, 1995

    Hillary and I are deeply saddened to learn of Justice Burger's 
passing. Today the Nation mourns the loss of a great public servant.
    Justice Burger was a strong, powerful, and visionary Chief Justice 
who opened the doors of opportunity. As Chief Justice, he was concerned 
with the administration of the Court, serving with enthusiasm and always 
making sure it was above reproach.
    He also presided over the most important anniversary of our Nation 
by serving as Chair of the Bicentennial Commission on the Constitution.
    His expansive view of the Constitution and his tireless service will 
leave a lasting imprint on the Court and our Nation. Our prayers are 
with his family and friends during this time.

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Monday, July 3, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 26
Pages 1113-1179
 
Week Ending Friday, June 30, 1995
 
Memorandum on Assistance to Haiti

June 23, 1995

Presidential Determination No. 95-28


Memorandum for the Secretary of State

The Secretary of the Treasury

The Secretary of Defense

The Attorney General


Subject: Drawdown of the Commodities and Services from the Inventory and 
Resources of the Departments of Defense, Justice, Treasury and State to 
Support Accelerated Training and Equipping of Haitian Police Forces


    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 552(c)(2) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2348a(c)(2) (the 
``Act''), I hereby determine that:
    (1) as a result of an unseen emergency, the provision of assistance 
under Chapter 6 of Part II of the Act in amounts in excess of funds 
otherwise available for such assistance is important to the national 
interests of the United States; and
    (2) such unforeseen emergency requires the immediate provision of 
assistance under Chapter 6 of Part II of the Act.
    I therefore direct the drawdown of commodities and services from the 
inventory and resources of the Departments of Defense, Justice, Treasury 
and State of an aggregate value not to exceed $7.0 million to support 
accelerated training, equipping and deployment of Haitian police forces.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this 
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on June 26.


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Monday, July 3, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 26
Pages 1113-1179
 
Week Ending Friday, June 30, 1995
 
Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Charter in San 
Francisco, California

June 26, 1995

    Thank you very much. Secretary Christopher, Mr. Secretary-General, 
Ambassador Albright, Bishop Tutu. My good friend Maya Angelou, thank you 
for your magnificent poem. Delegates to the Charter Conference, 
distinguished members of the diplomatic corps, the President of Poland, 
Members of Congress, honored guests, Mayor Jordan, Mr. Shorenstein, 
people of San Francisco, and friends of the United Nations: The 800 
delegates from 50 nations who came here 50 years ago to lift the world 
from the ashes of war and bring life to the dreams of peacemakers 
included both giants of diplomacy and untested leaders of infant 
nations. They were separated by tradition, race, and language, sharing 
only a vision of a better, safer future. On this day 50 years ago, the 
dream President Roosevelt did not live to see of a democratic 
organization of the world was launched.
    The charter the delegates signed reflected the harsh lessons of 
their experience, the experience of the thirties in which the world 
watched and reacted too slowly to fascist aggression, bringing millions 
sacrificed on the battlefields and millions more murdered in the death 
chambers. Those who had gone through this and the Second World War knew 
that celebrating victory was not enough, that merely punishing the enemy 
was self-defeating, that instead the world needed an effective and 
permanent system to promote peace and freedom for everyone.
    Some of those who worked at that historic conference are still here 
today, including our own Senator Claiborne Pell, who to this very day, 
every day, carries a copy of the U.N. Charter in his pocket. I would 
last like to ask all of the delegates to the original conference who are 
here today to rise and be recognized. Would you please stand? [Applause]
    San Francisco gave the world renewed confidence and hope for the 
future. On that day President Truman said, ``This is proof that nations, 
like men, can state their differences, can face them, and then can find 
common ground on which to stand.'' Five decades later, we see how very 
much the world has changed. The cold war has given way to freedom and 
cooperation. On this very day, a Russian spacecraft and an American 
spacecraft are preparing to link in orbit some 240 miles above the 
Earth. From Jericho to

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Belfast, ancient enemies are searching together for peace. On every 
continent, nations are struggling to embrace democracy, freedom, and 
prosperity. New technologies move people and ideas around the world, 
creating vast new reservoirs of opportunity.
    Yet we know that these new forces of integration also carry within 
them the seeds of disintegration and destruction. New technologies and 
greater openness make all our borders more vulnerable to terrorists, to 
dangerous weapons, to drug traffickers. Newly independent nations offer 
ripe targets for international criminals and nuclear smugglers. Fluid 
capital markets make it easier for nations to build up their economies 
but also make it much easier for one nation's troubles first to be 
exaggerated, then to spread to other nations.
    Today, to be sure, we face no Hitler, no Stalin, but we do have 
enemies, enemies who share their contempt for human life and human 
dignity and the rule of law, enemies who put lethal technology to lethal 
use, who seek personal gains in age-old conflicts and new divisions.
    Our generation's enemies are the terrorists and their outlaw nation 
sponsors, people who kill children or turn them into orphans, people who 
target innocent people in order to prevent peace, people who attack 
peacemakers, as our friend President Mubarak was attacked just a few 
hours ago, people who in the name of nationalism slaughter those of 
different faiths or tribes and drive their survivors from their own 
homelands. Their reach is increased by technology. Their communication 
is abetted by global media. Their actions reveal the age-old lack of 
conscience, scruples, and morality which have characterized the forces 
of destruction throughout history.
    Today, the threat to our security is not in an enemy silo but in the 
briefcase or the car bomb of a terrorist. Our enemies are also 
international criminals and drug traffickers who threaten the stability 
of new democracies and the future of our children. Our enemies are the 
forces of natural destruction, encroaching deserts that threaten the 
Earth's balance, famines that test the human spirit, deadly new diseases 
that endanger whole societies.
    So, my friends, in this increasingly interdependent world, we have 
more common opportunities and more common enemies than ever before. It 
is, therefore, in our interest to face them together as partners, 
sharing the burdens and costs and increasing our chances of success.
    Just months before his death, President Roosevelt said, ``We have 
learned that we cannot live alone at peace, that our own well-being is 
dependent on the well-being of other nations far away.'' Today, more 
than ever, those words ring true. Yet some here in our own country, 
where the United Nations was founded, dismissed Roosevelt's wisdom. Some 
of them acknowledge that the United States must play a strong role 
overseas but refuse to supply the nonmilitary resources our Nation needs 
to carry on its responsibilities. Others believe that outside our border 
America should only act alone.
    Well, of course the United States must be prepared to act alone when 
necessary, but we dare not ignore the benefits that coalitions bring to 
this Nation. We dare not reject decades of bipartisan wisdom. We dare 
not reject decades of bipartisan support for international cooperation. 
Those who would do so, these new isolationists, dismiss 50 years of hard 
evidence.
    In those years we've seen the United Nations compile a remarkable 
record of progress that advances our Nation's interest and, indeed, the 
interest of people everywhere. From President Truman in Korea to 
President Bush in the Persian Gulf, America has built United Nations 
military coalitions to contain aggressors. U.N. forces also often pick 
up where United States troops have taken the lead.
    As the Secretary of State said, we saw it just yesterday, when Haiti 
held parliamentary and local elections with the help of U.N. personnel. 
We saw the U.N. work in partnership with the United States and the 
people of Haiti, as they labor to create a democracy. And they have now 
been given a second chance to renew that promise.
    On every continent, the United Nations has played a vital role in 
making people more free and more secure. For decades, the U.N. fought to 
isolate South Africa, as that regime perpetuated apartheid. Last year, 
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watchful eyes of U.N. observers, millions of South Africans who had been 
disenfranchised for life cast their first votes for freedom.
    In Namibia, Mozambique, and soon we hope in Angola, the United 
Nations is helping people to bury decades of civil strife and turn their 
energies into building new democratic nations. In Cambodia, where a 
brutal regime left more than one million dead in the killing fields, the 
U.N. helped hundreds of thousands of refugees return to their native 
land and stood watch over democratic elections that brought 90 percent 
of the people to the polls. In El Salvador, the U.N. brokered an end to 
12 years of bloody civil war and stayed on to help reform the army, 
bring justice to the citizens, and open the doors of democracy.
    From the Persian Gulf to the Caribbean, U.N. economic and political 
sanctions have proved to be a valuable means short of military action to 
isolate regimes and to make aggressors and terrorists pay at least a 
price for their actions: in Iraq, to help stop that nation from 
developing weapons of mass destruction or threatening its neighbors 
again; in the Balkans, to isolate aggressors; in North Africa, to 
pressure Libya to turn over for trial those indicted in the bombing of 
Pan Am flight 103.
    The record of the United Nations includes a proud battle for child 
survival and against human suffering and disease of all kinds. Every 
year, UNICEF oral vaccines save the lives of 3 million children. Last 
year alone the World Food Program, using the contributions of many 
governments including our own, fed 57 million hungry people. The World 
Health Organization has eliminated smallpox from the face of the Earth 
and is making great strides in its campaign to eliminate polio by the 
year 2000. It has helped to contain fatal diseases like the Ebola virus 
that could have threatened an entire continent.
    To millions around the world, the United Nations is not what we see 
on our news programs at night. Instead it's the meal that keeps a child 
from going to bed hungry, the knowledge that helps a farmer coax strong 
crops from hard land, the shelter that keeps a family together when 
they're displaced by war or natural disasters.
    In the last 50 years, these remarkable stories have been too 
obscured and the capacity of the United Nations to act too limited by 
the cold war. As colonial rule broke down, differences between 
developing and industrialized nations and regional rivalries added new 
tensions to the United Nations so that too often there was too much 
invective and too little debate in the General Assembly.
    But now the end of the cold war, the strong trend toward democratic 
ideals among all nations, the emergence of so many problems that can 
best be met by collective action, all these things enable the United 
Nations at this 50-year point finally to fulfill the promise of its 
founders.
    But if we want the U.N. to do so, we must face the fact that for all 
its successes and all its possibilities, it does not work as well as it 
should. The United Nations must be reformed. In this age of relentless 
change, successful governments and corporations are constantly reducing 
their bureaucracies, setting clearer priorities, focusing on targeted 
results. In the United States we have eliminated hundreds of programs, 

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