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Monday, October 20, 1997
Volume 33--Number 42
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Contents
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Addresses and Remarks
See also Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Business leaders--1605
State dinner--1604
Univision town meeting--1594
Wreath-laying ceremony--1592
Brazil
Business leaders in Sao Paulo--1582
Mangueira School in Rio de Janeiro--1587
Reception in Brasilia--1566
Radio address--1555
Venezuela, Caracas
Arrival--1556
Citizens--1558
Venezuela-U.S. agreements, signing ceremony--1556
Bill Signings
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1998, statement--
1566
Bill Vetoes
Line item vetoes
Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
1998
Letter to congressional leaders--1582
Statement--1582
Energy and Water Development
Appropriations Act, 1998
Bill Vetoes--Continued
Letter to congressional leaders--1608
Statement--1607
Treasury and General Government
Appropriations Act, 1998
Letter to congressional leaders--1594
Statement--1593
Communications to Congress
See also Bill Vetoes
Narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia, letter reporting--1589
Executive Orders
Further Amendment to Executive Order 13010, as Amended, Critical
Infrastructure Protection--1567
Interviews With the News Media
Exchange with reporters aboard Air Force One--1561
News conference, October 14 (No. 151) with President Cardoso of
Brazil--1568
Joint Statements
Declaration of the Presidents of the United States of America and of
the Republic of Venezuela--1557
Declaration of the United States-Brazil Partnership for Education--
1580
(Continued on the inside of the back cover.)
Editor's Note: The President was in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina,
on October 17, 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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Contents--Continued
Meetings With Foreign Leaders
Argentina, President Menem--1592, 1604, 1605
Brazil, President Cardoso--1566, 1568, 1580
Venezuela, President Caldera--1556, 1557, 1558
Proclamations
International Rural Women's Day--1591
Statements by the President
See also Bill Signings; Bill Vetoes
Community Reinvestment Act, 20th anniversary--1556
Deaths
James A. Michener--1608
John Denver--1566
Supplementary Materials
Acts approved by the President--1610
Checklist of White House press releases--1609
Digest of other White House announcements--1608
Nominations submitted to the Senate--1609
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Week Ending Friday, October 17, 1997
The President's Radio Address
October 11, 1997
Good morning. We have worked hard to help parents pass on their
values to their children and to protect them from bad influences. Today
I want to talk about a powerful new tool in our arsenal to help parents
and to protect our children from the dangers of drugs.
Of all the investments we can make in our children's future, none is
more important than our fight against the greatest threat to their
safety: illegal drugs. Under the leadership of our national drug czar,
General Barry McCaffrey, we've fought to keep drugs away from our
borders, off our streets, and out of our schools with a tough and smart
antidrug strategy. Working together with State and local law
enforcement, we've made real progress. But unless we teach our children
about the dangers of drugs, our efforts will be in vain.
Make no mistake; without our guidance, children are more likely to
use drugs. Although overall drug use has declined dramatically, drug use
by our young people has doubled. Among eighth graders, typically 13 and
14 years old, drug use has nearly tripled. We do not understand all the
reasons for these unsettling statistics, but we do know this: While
illegal drug use by young people has risen, the number of antidrug
public service ads has fallen by more than a third.
In the meantime, movies, music videos, and magazines have filled the
gap--and our children's minds--too often with warped images of a dream
world where drugs are cool. We know that the media can powerfully affect
our children, for good or ill. That is why we acted to protect our
children from tobacco advertisements, and why we've urged the liquor
industry to refrain from running hard liquor ads on television. Now we
must take the next step and give our children the straight facts: Drugs
are wrong, drugs are illegal, and drugs can kill you.
Young people who have not used illegal drugs by the age of 21
probably never will use them. That's why we must reach our children with
the right message before it's too late. I just signed into law
legislation that includes $195 million to launch an unprecedented high-
profile, prime-time media campaign to reach every child in America
between the ages of 9 and 17 at least four times a week. For the very
first time, we'll be able to use the full power of the media--from
television to the Internet to sports marketing--to protect our children
from drugs. Teaching our children about the dangers of drugs today can
mean saving their lives and our shared future tomorrow.
I am pleased that the Partnership for a Drug-Free American and the
Ad Council will serve as advisers for this vitally important project.
I'd like to say a special word of thanks to the Partnership for a Drug-
Free America and its chairman, Jim Burke, for the outstanding example
they have already set in showing us what good ads can do. And I urge
business leaders all over our country to help us reach our goal by
matching the funds that the Congress has appropriated. Finally, I ask
all Americans to join in this crusade.
Above all, I ask the entertainment industry to do its part as well.
Never glorify drugs; but more important, tell our children the truth.
Show them that drug use is really a death sentence. Use the power of
your voice to teach our children and to help shape our Nation's future.
Thanks for listening.
Note: The address was recorded at 2:47 p.m. on October 10 in the Oval
Office at the White House for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on October 11.
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Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Community Reinvestment Act
October 12, 1997
On the 20th anniversary of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), we
should all be proud of what that law has meant for low and moderate
income Americans of all races. Although we still have a long way to go
in bringing all Americans into the economic mainstream, under CRA the
private sector has pumped billions of dollars of credit to build
housing, create, jobs, and restore hope in communities left behind.
Note: This statement was made available by the Office of the Press
Secretary on October 11 but was embargoed for release until 12:01 a.m.,
October 12.
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Remarks on Arrival in Caracas, Venezuela
October 12, 1997
President and Mrs. Caldera, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the
entire American delegation and all the American people, let me first
say, Saludos, amigos. It is good to be in Venezuela.
When the first explorers came to the Americas centuries ago, there
was no distinction in their minds between North and South America; it
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