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Monday, January 12, 1998
Volume 34--Number 2
Pages 7-32
Contents
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Addresses and Remarks
Child care, proposed legislation--12
Federal budget--9
Medicare, proposed legislation--10
New York City
Democratic National Committee dinner--21
Democratic National Committee luncheon--15
Radio address--7
Texas, Mission High School in Mission--27
Communications to Congress
Cyprus, letter transmitting report--9
Libya, letter transmitting notice--8
Interviews With the News Media
Exchange with reporters in the Cabinet Room--9
Notices
Continuation of Libyan Emergency--8
Statements by the President
Deaths
Manuel Zurita--15
Representative Sonny Bono--12
National education standards--20
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--32
Checklist of White House press releases--31
Digest of other White House announcements--30
Nominations submitted to the Senate--31
Editor's Note: The President was in Houston, TX, on January 9, the
closing date of this issue. Releases and announcements issued by the
Office of the Press Secretary but not received in time for inclusion in
this issue will be printed next week.
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Monday, January 12, 1998
Volume 34--Number 2
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Week Ending Friday, January 9, 1998
The President's Radio Address
January 3, 1998
Good morning. The beginning of a new year is a time of promise, and
at the start of 1998, we have much to be thankful for. We've made much
progress on our mission of preparing America for the 21st century and
making our country work for all our people. Both unemployment and crime
are at their lowest level in 24 years. The welfare rolls have dropped by
a record 3.8 million. The deficit has been cut by 90 percent.
In 1997 in Washington, we passed the historic balanced budget;
embraced the idea of national academic standards for our schools for the
first time; extended health insurance coverage to 5 million children;
moved ahead with our environmental agenda to save the Everglades, the
ancient forests in California and Yellowstone Park. And we made a safer,
more prosperous world by ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention,
expanding NATO, keeping the peace in Bosnia, and opening new
opportunities for American high-tech products to be sold around the
world. We also continued the work of building one America with our race
initiative and the Presidents' Summit on Service.
As 1998 dawns, American families can look forward to tax cuts for
their children and to truly historic tax relief that will make community
college free for almost all Americans and help to pay for the cost of
all education after high school, the largest such effort since the GI
bill 50 years ago. I have done my best to give the American people a
Government for the 21st century, not one that tries to do everything,
nor one that does nothing, but a Government that gives Americans the
tools and conditions to make the most of their own lives in a new world
of information and technological revolution and globalization.
But I've also done my best to call forth a new spirit of citizen
service here at home, as necessary to meet our new challenges and to
fulfill our obligations both at home and around the world.
From the beginning, I have worked to give more Americans the chance
to serve, to join with their fellow citizens to take responsibilities
for their communities and our country. We created AmeriCorps, which has
already given more than 100,000 young Americans the opportunity to serve
our Nation and earn money for a college education. We strengthened that
commitment with the Presidents' Summit on Service in Philadelphia, which
already has moved thousands and thousands of Americans to give our
children a helping hand. And this year, the day we honor Dr. Martin
Luther King will be a day of service in communities all across America.
Today I want to talk about how we can strengthen one of the finest
examples of citizen service, the Peace Corps. When President Kennedy
founded the Peace Corps in 1961, he saw it as a bold experiment in
public service that would unite our Nation's highest ideals with a
pragmatic approach to bettering the lives of ordinary people around the
world. He also saw it as an investment in our own future in an
increasingly interdependent world. In the years since, it's paid off
many times over.
Three decades ago, Peace Corps volunteers worked as teachers in
villages in Africa and Asia, Latin America and the Pacific region. They
helped communities inoculate their children against disease, clean their
water, increase their harvests. In so doing, they helped communities and
countries become stronger and more stable, making them better partners
for us as we work together to meet common goals.
Today, the Peace Corps continues these efforts, but it's also
adapting to the new needs of our era. Since the fall of communism, Peace
Corps volunteers have gone to work in new democracies, from Eastern
Europe to Central Asia, helping to nurture and strengthen free markets
by teaching new
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entrepreneurs how to get their businesses running. Volunteers now work
to protect the environment and help prevent the spread of AIDS.
Under Director Mark Gearan, the Peace Corps is also preparing to
meet the challenges of the next century. To ensure that it does, I will
ask Congress next month to continue its longtime bipartisan support for
the Peace Corps and join me in putting 10,000 Peace Corps volunteers
overseas by the year 2000. That's an increase of more than 50 percent
from today's levels. I'll request that funding for the Peace Corps be
increased by $48 million, the largest increase since the 1960's.
In a world where we're more and more affected by what happens beyond
our borders, we have to work harder to overcome the divisions that
undermine the integrity and quality of life around the world, as well as
here at home. Strengthening the Peace Corps, giving more Americans
opportunities to serve in humanity's cause is both an opportunity and an
obligation we should seize in 1998.
Thanks for listening.
Note: The address was recorded at 1:37 p.m. on January 2 at a private
residence in Charlotte Amalie in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for
broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on January 3.
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Monday, January 12, 1998
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Week Ending Friday, January 9, 1998
Notice--Continuation of Libyan Emergency
January 2, 1998
On January 7, 1986, by Executive Order 12543, President Reagan
declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States
constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Libya. On
January 8, 1986, by Executive Order 12544, the President took additional
measures to block Libyan assets in the United States. The President has
transmitted a notice continuing this emergency to the Congress and the
Federal Register every year since 1986.
The crisis between the United States and Libya that led to the
declaration of a national emergency on January 7, 1986, has not been
resolved. The Government of Libya has continued its actions and policies
in support of terrorism, despite the calls by the United Nations
Security Council, in Resolutions 731 (1992), 748 (1992), and 883 (1993),
that it demonstrate by concrete actions its renunciation of terrorism.
Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies
Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing the national emergency with
respect to Libya. This notice shall be published in the Federal Register
and transmitted to the Congress.
William J. Clinton
The White House,
January 2, 1998.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:21 a.m., January 5,
1998]
Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
January 5, and it was published in the Federal Register on January 6.
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Monday, January 12, 1998
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Week Ending Friday, January 9, 1998
Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting the Notice on Libya
January 2, 1998
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d))
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless,
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice
stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the
anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the
enclosed notice, stating that the Libyan emergency is to continue in
effect beyond January 7, 1998, to the Federal Register for publication.
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