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Monday, February 20, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 7
Pages 231-262
 
Contents

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Weekly Compilation of

Presidential

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Addresses and Remarks

    Burundi, radio address--233
    California
        American Council on Education in San Francisco--241
        San Bernardino Valley College in San Bernardino--249
    Economic Report of the President--234
    J. William Fulbright, memorial service--258
    Middle Eastern leaders--232
    Radio address--231

Appointments and Nominations

    White House Office, Assistant to the President and Director of 
        Political Affairs--258

Communications to Congress

    Chemical and biological weapons, message on proliferation--256
    ``Middle-Class Bill of Rights Tax Relief Act of 1995,'' message 
        transmitting--237
    United Nations peacekeeping, letter--240
    Weapons of mass destruction, message on proliferation--257
    ``Working Wage Increase Act of 1995,'' message transmitting--238

Interviews With the News Media

    Exchange with reporters in the Oval Office--234, 239
    Interview with Dick Enberg of NBC Sports--253

Joint Statements

    Bulgaria-U.S. relations--239

Meetings With Foreign Leaders

    Bulgaria, President Zhelev--239
    Middle Eastern leaders--232

Proclamations

    National Poison Prevention Week--254

Statements by the President

    See also Appointments and Nominations
    Argentina's accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty--231
    Disaster assistance for Georgia, Florida, and Alabama--260
    Petroleum imports and energy security--255

Supplementary Materials

    Acts approved by the President--262
    Checklist of White House press releases--261
    Digest of other White House announcements--260
    Nominations submitted to the Senate--261

  


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Monday, February 20, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 7
Pages 231-262
 
Week Ending Friday, February 17, 1995
 
Statement on Argentina's Accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation 
Treaty


February 10, 1995

    I warmly welcome Argentina's accession to the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty (NPT) this morning. In joining the NPT, Argentina 
has taken an historic step to reinforce its own security and to unite 
with 170 other NPT parties in the global effort to stem the spread of 
nuclear weapons. I salute President Menem and his government for their 
foresight and courage in making Argentina a champion for 
nonproliferation in Latin America and around the world. In the State of 
the Union Address, I pledged that the United States would lead the 
charge for indefinite extension of the NPT when the treaty's future is 
considered this April. Argentina's NPT adherence will help us reach that 
goal.

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Monday, February 20, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 7
Pages 231-262
 
Week Ending Friday, February 17, 1995
 
The President's Radio Address

February 11, 1995

    Good morning. Today I've asked Attorney General Reno and Drug 
Control Director Lee Brown to join me here at the White House. I want to 
discuss the crime and drugs that plague almost every community in our 
country.
    I ran for President because I believe it's the responsibility of our 
generation to work together to preserve the American dream for all 
Americans and to ensure that we move into the next century still the 
strongest country on Earth. The best way for us to do that is by 
building a new partnership in our country between Americans and their 
government, and especially between Americans and each other. I call that 
partnership the New Covenant.
    Essentially that means the Government's responsibility is to expand 
opportunity while shrinking bureaucracy, to empower people to make the 
most of their own lives, and to enhance our security not just abroad but 
here at home, too. At the same time, it means we must demand more 
responsibility from every citizen in return, responsibility for our 
country, for our communities, for our families and ourselves.
    Part of our job here in Washington is to help arm the American 
people to fight crime and violence. During the Presidential campaign I 
promised the American people that I would cut 100,000 Federal 
bureaucrats in Washington and use those savings to put 100,000 new 
police officers on America's streets. Last year, Democrats and 
Republicans joined together to pass the crime bill to keep that promise. 
We've been working ever since to put that crime bill into effect.
    It's been only 4 months since the crime bill became law, but already 
we've awarded over 16,000 new officers to half the police departments in 
America. We're under budget; we're ahead of schedule.
    Police departments all around the country are putting this effort to 
work, hiring, training, and deploying officers as fast as we can give a 
go-ahead. The last thing your local police department needs is 
Congressmen in Washington playing politics with their safety and yours. 
But the astonishing thing is, despite the urgent need for more police on 
our streets, despite our success in getting them there, some Republicans 
in Congress actually want to repeal this effort. They want to replace an 
initiative guaranteed to put 100,000 police on the street with a block 
grant program that has no guarantees at all.
    The block grant is basically a blank check that can far too easily 
be used for things besides police officers. That's why the law 
enforcement steering committee, representing over 450,000 police 
officers, is absolutely opposed to this block grant approach or to any

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other change that weakens our commitment to put 100,000 police on the 
streets.
    Undermining this commitment to law enforcement is not acceptable. I 
didn't fight to cut 100,000 Federal bureaucrats so we could trade them 
in for an old-fashioned pork barrel program. I fought to trade 100,000 
bureaucrats for 100,000 police officers. Last year, Republicans and 
Democrats passed the 100,000 cops bill, and I signed it. I made a 
commitment, a promise to put 100,000 more police on our streets, because 
there is simply no better crime fighting tool to be found. And I intend 
to keep that promise. Anyone on Capitol Hill who wants to play partisan 
politics with police officers for America should listen carefully: I 
will veto any effort to repeal or undermine the 100,000 police 
commitment, period.
    Of course, as crucial as these 100,000 police officers are, they 
can't do the job alone. Every citizen in America has to help in this 
fight, because no amount of police officers can replace people taking 
responsibility for their own lives and for their communities.
    This week, I announced our administration's 1995 drug control 
strategy. It involves cutting off drugs at the source, stiffer 
punishment for drug dealers, more education and prevention, and more 
treatment. But perhaps the most important part of this strategy will be 
to boost efforts to educate our young people about the dangers and 
penalties of drug use. Our children need a constant drumbeat reminding 
them that drugs are not safe, drugs are illegal, drugs can put you in 
jail, and drugs may cost you your life.
    Community-based education programs work. I saw them work in school 
when my daughter was younger. This morning I've been joined by some 
police officers who participate in community education programs and 
especially in the national drug abuse education and resistance program 
that you probably know as DARE. Every American should follow their 
example and accept the responsibility to join the fight against drugs 
and crime and violence.
    Parents must teach their children right from wrong. They must teach 
that drugs are bad and dangerous. And make no mistake about it, parents 
must set a good example for their children. Young people must have the 
courage to do what's right and stand up for what's right. That means not 
using drugs, staying out of gangs, studying hard, avoiding violence. It 
also means telling friends that drugs and gangs and guns aren't cool, 
and children that are involved in those things aren't going to be your 
real friends.
    That's what the New Covenant is all about--more opportunity, more 
responsibility. We've got to do our part here. But each and every one of 
you must take responsibility to join us. We can only win this fight 
together.
    Thanks for listening.

Note: The President spoke at 10:06 a.m. from the Oval Office at the 
White House.


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Monday, February 20, 1995
 
Volume 31--Number 7
Pages 231-262
 
Week Ending Friday, February 17, 1995
 
Middle Eastern Leaders

February 12, 1995

    Thank you, Mr. Secretary. And thank you, all of you, for coming to 
this very important meeting. It is no secret to anyone in the world that 
we are at a critical moment in the peace process. We cannot allow the 
rise of terror again to threaten this peace, or as Chairman Arafat said 
the other day, we cannot allow it to kill the Palestinian dream.
    We are prepared in this country to redouble our efforts to get the 
peace process back in full gear. We are doing what we can on our own and 
with others to deal with the problem of terror.
    I want to begin by saying a special word of appreciation to 
President Mubarak for the Cairo summit. He has been involved in this 
process all along, and I think that the Cairo summit produced a clear 
statement by the leaders of all of you here represented that we are not 
going to let terror hold sway, that we are not going to let the peace 
process collapse. Today it is for us to begin to take the specific steps 
necessary to have the message of peace and renewed commitment carried 
out.

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