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22026 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS STOPPING IRANIAN TERRORISM servicemen in Saudi Arabia or the TWA ex chummy with Iran's head of intelligence, Ali plosion, they are investigating several dis Fallahian, even t hough a German court turbing leads: charged Fallahian with organizing the 1992 HON. NEWf GINGRICH Iran has a network of 11 terrorist training assassination of four Iranian Kurds in Berlin. OF GEORGIA camps inside its borders, according to recent I have tried to fathom this myopia. I know IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES news reports citing U.S. intelligence sources. the Germans once were Iran's biggest trad The camps teach skills such as bomb making ing partner, and resent U.S. pressure to give Wednesday , September 4, 1996 to trainees from around the Islamic world, up lucrative contracts. I know the French oil Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, I want to take including Egyptians, Palestinians and company Total, S.A. has huge sums invested this opportunity to share the following editorial Saudis. Iran's clerical rulers oppose Mideast in Iranian oil development. from the August 7, 1996, Philadelphia Inquirer, governments that support the peace process And I understand European resentment at with Israel, and exhort Muslims to replace new U.S. sanctions against foreign firms, in by Trudy Rubin on "Stopping Iranian Terror- them with radical Islamist regimes. They cluding those from allied nations, that in ism." · also call for Islamists to drive U.S. troops vest big in Iranian energy. Imposing trade As this article points out, the current regime out of Saudi Arabia. sanctions on your friends is a funny way to in Iran is dangerous and actively working Secretary of Defense William Perry has punish your enemies. against the principles of freedom, democracy, said the bomb that killed 19 U.S. servicemen But what's the Clinton administration to and human rights. Iran's actions should worry in Dhahran was so sophisticated that the do if friends refuse to call a common enemy not only all Americans but our friends and al bombers must have had " an international by its rightful name? connection." (But Perry backed off an ear Iran is not an enemy because it has an Is lies around the world as well. The Iran Oil lamic government, or because it once held Sanctions Act of 1996 which we passed this lier statement that Iran was "possibly" re sponsible.) One line of speculation: Iran U.S. diplomats hostage. Tehran's sin lies not summer will help to increase the pressure on might have smuggled explosives into Saudi in its theology, but in its behavior today. A the dictatorship in Iran. Arabia earlier this year hidden in a shipment country that murders its enemies abroad re As Charles Krauthammer recently noted, in of computers headed to an international moves itself from the community of nations. President Clinton's attempts to mobilize the trade fair. I know the Europeans can find excuses for United States against terrorism, ''the rhetoric Only a few days before the explosion in Iranian behavior: We have to understand Ira far outran the real measures proposed." Mr. Dhahran, a secret terrorism summit was nian psychology ... the· Iranians feel threatened by an America perceived as Krauthammer goes on to recognize that what held in Tehran, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the most ac hostile . . . Washington has refused to ex is lacking is deterrence. "All this effort with tive Iranian exile group. The meeting gath tend a hand. I remember when the same ex wiretapping, bomb-sniffing, intelligence-sharing ered heads of Iranian intelligence agencies cuses were made for Saddam Hussein. is aimed at reducing the terrorists' ability to along with leaders of radical Mideast I feel sorry for all the Iranian technocrats carry out their attacks. What we are not doing Islamists to discuss attacks against U.S. tar who want to get on with building their coun is diminishing their will to carry out attacks." I gets. try. But an Iran with its own violent foreign strongly agree with him that we should be Iran has perfected a new kind of weapon agenda is a threat to everyone, not just a transportable long-range, time-delayed America. What if such a regime gets nuclear committed to a sustained and unrelenting ef weapons? fort to destroy those who are responsible for mortar-for use abroad in terrorist oper ations. The new mortar threat is one reason The only way to change Iran's behavior is supporting, promoting, and carrying out terror U.S. troops are being moved to remote base for Western allies to stand together, setting ist acts. in Saudi Arabia. Iranian dissidents say out clear guidelines for Tehran, or else. If Finally, President Clinton and his adminis Tehran has manufactured 20 of these mor Europeans pretend otherwise, they are naive. tration failed to lay the groundwork with our al tars; one was discovered last March hidden lies by building the case against Iran. At the in a cargo of pickled cucumbers on an Ira recent world summit on terrorism in Paris, the nian freighter docked in Antwerp. Possible JUST THE FACTS: THE CONTINU administration did not even raise the issue of European targets; Israeli diplomats or Ira ING SHAME OF THE AMERICAN Iran. I certainly hope that President Clinton will nian dissidents. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM A Lebanese terrorist trained by Iranian take note of Iran's actions and vigorously pur revolutionary guards fle\\ into Israel on sue the steps necessary to safeguard our Na April 4 with high-powered plastic explosives HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK tion against terrorists. hidden in a carry-on bag. Fortunately, he OF CALIFORNIA European leaders love to label Americans only blew off his own legs and an arm in a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES naive for viewing the world in terms of good Jerusalem hotel room while assembling a Wednesday, September 4, 1996 and evil. bomb. But if he could smuggle plastique onto · They sneered when Ronald Reagan termed Swissair in Zurich undetected, maybe some Mr. STARK. Mr. Speaker, there was a lot of the Soviet Union an "evil empire" (he was one did the same on TWA Flight 800. FBI crowing at the Republican National Conven right). They opposed U.S. moves to quar agents are investigating. tion about the def eat of the effort in the 103d antine Saddam Hussein before 1990 (he was Had enough? No? Well, on July 17, a Thai Congress to obtain health insurance for every evil). court sentenced an Iranian man to death for American. Republicans talked a lot about let And now the European Union is fiercely re conspiring to set off a bomb in Bangkok ting the free market take care of the health in sisting America's call to isolate Iran as a aimed at the Israeli Embassy. state sponsor of terrorism. In righteous And Iranian agents have been busily hunt surance problem and how it was good that a tones, the French and Germans urge Amer ing down Iranian dissidents in exile; they've Government solution had been rejected. ica to hold a "constructive dialogue" with killed 11 already in 1996. The latest victim, a Never mind the fact that the number of unin Tehran's mullahs. former government minister under the shah, sured Americans, especially children, is rising But how can you conduct a " constructive" was shot twice in the head at his home in about 1 million per year. Never mind the fact dialogue with a country that carries on a Paris. German police arrested a high-ranking that almost all the other major industrialized foreign policy that flouts all civilized rules? Iranian intelligence agent in connection nations of the world provide high quality health The Europeans may insist on painting with the killing. care to almost all their citizens yet have health Iran's behavior in gray tones-attributing it But none of this is convincing enough for inflation lower than ours. Following are the lat to ongoing political struggles between prag the Europeans, especially the French and the matists and radicals-but the facts present Germans. They still insist on coloring Ira est available figures from the Organization for themselves in black and white. nian leaders gray. Economic Cooperation and Development. While U.S. officials haven't found any di German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's chief in The facts speak for themselves-and they rect Iranian link to the bombing of U.S. telligence adviser has become downright should shame all of us.

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. September 4, 1996 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22027 SHARE OF POPULATION COVERED BY PUBLIC (GOVERN TOTAL HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE SHARE OF GDP INFANT MORTALITY RATE/100 LIVE BIRTHS-Continued MEND HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME (COMPARABLE Continued FIGURES FOR PRIVATE INSURANCE SCHEMES NOT 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 AVAILABLE) France ...... 0.73 0.73 0.68 0.64 0.58 Belgium ...... 7. 6 8.0 8.1 8.3 8.2 Germany ...... 0.71 0.67 0.60 0.58 0.56 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Canada ...... 9.2 9.9 10.3 10.2 9.8 Greece ...... 0.97 0.90 0.84 0.85 0.79 Czech Republ ic ...... 5.3 5.4 5.4 7.7 7.6 Hungary ...... I.SO 1.60 1.40 1.30 1.20 Austra lia ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Denmark ...... 6.5 6.5 6.7 6.8 6.6 Iceland ...... 0.59 0.55 0.48 0.48 0.34 Austria ...... 99 .0 99.0 99.0 99.0 99.0 Finland ...... 8.0 9.1 9.3 8.8 8.3 Ireland ...... 0.82 0.82 0.66 0.59 0.59 Belgium ...... 99.0 99.0 99.0 99.0 99.0 France ...... 8.9 9.1 9.4 9.8 9.7 Italy ...... 0.82 0.81 0.79 0.73 0.66 Canada ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Germany ...... 8.3 9.0 9.3 9.3 9.5 Japan ...... 0.46 0.44 0.45 0.43 0.42 Czech Republ ic ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Greece ...... 4.3 4.3 4.5 4.6 5.2 Luxembourg ...... 0.74 0.92 0.85 0.60 0.53 Denmark ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Hungary ...... 6.6 6.6 6.8 6.9 7.0 Mexico ...... 2.40 2.1 O 1.90 1.75 1.70 Finland ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Iceland ...... 7.9 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.1 Netherlands ...... 0.71 0.65 0.63 0.63 0.56 France ...... 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 . 99.5 Ireland ...... 6.7 7.0 7.3 7.4 7.9 New Zealand ...... 0.84 0.83 0.73 0.73 nla Germany ...... 99.2 99.2 99.2 99.2 99.2 Italy ...... 8.1 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.3 Norway ...... 0.70 0.64 0.59 0.51 0.52 Greece ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Japan ...... 6.0 6.1 6.4 6.6 6.9 Portugal ...... 1.10 1.08 0.93 0.87 0.81 Hungary ...... n/a n/a n/a nla nla Luxembourg ...... 6.2 6.2 6.3 6.2 5.8 Spain ...... 0.76 0.72 0.71 0.68 0.60 Iceland ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Mexico ...... n/a nla 4.9 5.0 5.3 Sweden ...... 0.60 0.61 0.53 0.48 0.44 Ireland ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Netherlands ...... 8.4 8.6 8.8 9.0 8.8 Switzerland ...... 0.68 0.62 0.64 0.56 0.51 Italy ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 New Zealand ...... 7.4 7.8 7.8 7.3 7.5 Turkey ...... 5.93 5.65 5.40 5.26 4.68 Japan ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Norway ...... 6.9 7.2 7.4 7.3 7.3 United Kingdom ...... 0.79 0.74 0.66 0.63 0.62 Luxembourg ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Portugal ...... 6.6 7.1 7.2 7.4 7.6 United States ...... 0.92 0.89 0.85 0.84 0.79 Mexico ...... 55.8 64.0 64.4 67.0 68.0 Spain ...... 6.9 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.3 Netherlands ...... 70.7 70.5 70.6 70.9 71.4 Sweden ...... 8.6 8.4 7.6 7.6 7.7 New Zealand ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Switzerland ...... 8.4 9.0 9.4 9.5 9.6 Norway ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Turkey ...... 2.9 3.4 2.9 2.6 4.2 Portugal ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 United Kingdom ...... 6.0 6.5 7.0 6.9 6.9 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NA Spain ...... 99.0 99.0 99.5 99.5 99.5 United States ...... 12.7 13.5 14.0 14.3 14.3 TION'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYS Sweden ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Switzerland ...... 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 TEM AND TO THE EDUCATION Turkey ...... 55.l n/a nla nla nla MALE LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH FOUNDATION OF THE ARCH United Kingdom ...... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 United States ...... 44.0 44.0 44.0 44.0 45.0 DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Australia ...... 73.9 74.4 74.5 . 75.0 75.0 HON.GEORGEP.RADANOVICH HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES: PRICE INDEX Austria ...... •...... 72.4 72.4 72.7 73.0 73.3 Belgium ...... 72.4 72.8 73.l 73.0 n/a OF CALIFORNIA 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Canada ...... 73.8 74.6 74.9 n/a nla IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Czech Republic ...... 67.5 68.2 68.5 69.3 69.5 Austra li a ...... 100.0 102.9 104.2 105.l n/a Denmark ...... 72.0 72.2 72.4 72.3 n/a Wednesday, September 4, 1996 Austria ...... 100.0 105.7 114.2 121.1 n/a Finland ...... 70.9 71.4 71.7 72.l 72.8 Belgium ...... 100.0 106.8 112.2 115.0 n/a France ...... 72.7 72.9 73.2 73.3 73.7 Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise Canada ...... 100.0 105.7 109.2 112.0 112.7 Germany ...... 72.7 72.5 73.8 73.8 n/a Czech Republic ...... n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Greece ...... 74.6 74.7 74.6 74.9 n/a today to offer my congratulations to our Na Denmark ...... 100.0 102.7 104.9 107.5 n/a Hungary ...... •...... 65.l 65.0 64.6 64.5 64.8 tion's Catholic school system and to the Edu Finland ...... 100.0 107.9 111.9 114.0 n/a Iceland ...... 75.7 75.l 75.7 76.9 77.l France ...... 100.0 102.1 104.3 106.4 108.3 Ireland ...... 72.0 72.2 72.6 72.7 n/a cation Foundation of the Archdiocese of Los Germany ...... 100.0 104.2 108.l 112.l 117.3 Italy ...... 73.5 73.6 73.8 74 .5 74.7 Greece ...... 100.0 129.l 149.0 167.4 n/a Japan ...... 75.9 76.l 76.l 76.3 76.6 Angeles for the hard work and diligence that Hungary...... n/a n/a n/a nla n/a Luxembourg ...... 72.3 72.0 71.9 72.2 n/a has been shown over the years. The Catholic Iceland ...... 100.0 106.5 113.8 123.0 126.0 Mexico ...... 67.7 68.4 68.9 69.2 69.4 Ireland ...... 100.0 107.l 114.2 120.5 n/a Netherlands ...... 73.8 74.l 74.3 74.0 74.6 school system has an excellent track record. Italy ...... 100.0 109.9 114.4 119.l n/a New Zealand ...... 72.4 72.9 73.l nla nla Walk by any of these schools and you will Japan ...... 100.0 93.3 103.5 106.8 n/a Norway ...... 73.4 74.0 74.l 74.2 74.8 Luxembourg ...... 100.0 101.9 107.7 114.3 n/a Portugal ...... 70.9 69.8 70.8 70.8 71.2 see well-behaved and well-dressed students in Mexico ...... n/a n/a n/a n/a nla Spain ...... 73.4 73.4 73.4 73.3 73.3 the school yard. Step inside a classroom and Netherlands ...... 100.0 105.2 108.9 110.8 n/a Sweden ...... 74.8 74.9 75.4 75.5 76.1 New Zealand ...... 100.0 101.6 105.8 106.5 n/a Switzerland ...... 74.0 74.l 74.3 74.7 75.l you will see these same children giving their Norway ...... 100.0 103.6 107.6 108.5 n/a Turkey ...... 64.1 n/a n/a 63.3 65.4 full attention to their teacher's lecture with the Portugal ...... 100.0 111.6 123.8 133.0 n/a United Kingdom ...... 72.9 73.2 73.6 73.6 74.2 Spain ...... 100.0 106.l 113.8 114.3 124.l United States ...... 71.8 72.0 72.3 72.2 72.3 ability to correctly answer the questions, a Sweden ...... 100.0 103.5 109.0 112.0 n/a sign that these children are doing their home Switzerland ...... 100.0 106.2 112.3 116.2 118.5 work, not hanging out at the mall or watching Turkey ...... 100.0 n/a nla nla nla FEMALE LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH United Kingdom ...... 100.0 108.2 117.4 124.3 127.4 television. Of course, many of these children United States ...... 100.0 106.2 112.2 117.5 122.4 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 do not have the means to get to the mall or cannot afford a television. You see, these chil Austral ia ...... 80.l 80.4 80.4 80.9 80.9 GDP PRICE INDEX Austria ...... 78.9 79.l 79 .2 79.4 79.7 dren come from the poorest families of the Belgium ...... 79.l 79.5 79.8 79.8 n/a inner city. Statistics show that children from 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Canada ...... 80.4 80.9 81.2 n/a n/a Czech Repub li c ...... 76.0 75.7 76.1 76.4 76.6 these tough neighborhoods will end up in pris Australia ...... 100.0 102.3 103.62 104.9 106.4 Denmark ...... 77.7 77.7 77.8 77.6 nla on, or dead from violence. Why do these chil Austria ...... 100.0 104.0 108.32 112.0 115.8 Finland ...... 78.9 79.3 79.4 79.5 80.2 Belgium ...... 100.0 102.7 106.3 110.6 113.6 France ...... 80.9 81.1 81.4 81.4 81.8 dren succeed in school? These schools take Canada ...... 100.0 102.8 104.1 105.2 105.79 Germany ...... 79.l 79.0 79.3 79.3 n/a the most at-risk children and put them in a Czech Repub lic ...... n/a nla n/a n/a n/a Greece ...... 79.4 79.7 79.6 79.9 n/a Denmark ...... 100.0 102.2 104.3 105.4 107.8 Hungary ...... 73.7 73.8 73.7 73.8 74.2 well-disciplined learning environment. But, as Finland ...... 100.0 102.5 103.2 105.7 106.9 Iceland ...... 80.3 80.8 80.9 80.8 81.0 time goes on, this environment is crumbling France ...... 100.0 103.3 105.4 108.l 109.6 Ireland ...... 77.5 77.7 78.2 78.2 n/a Germany ...... 100.0 104.7 105.5 109.4 112.0 Italy ...... 80.0 80.2 80.4 80.9 81.2 due to aged facilities. This is why the Catholic Greece ...... 100.0 118.0 135.3 154.3 171.2 Japan ...... 81.9 82.l 82.2 82.5 83.0 school system needs our help. Hungary ...... n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Luxembourg ...... 78.5 79.l 78.5 79 .4 nla Iceland ...... 100.0 107.6 111.6 114.0 117.0 Mexico ...... 74 .0 74.7 75.2 75.4 75.8 Federal funding for these schools is one an Ireland ...... 100.0 101.7 103.8 108.0 109.3 Netherlands ...... 80.1 80.2 80.3 80.0 80.3 swer. Tax credits for parochial-school tuition Italy ...... 100.0 107.7 112.5 117.3 121.5 New Zealand ...... 78.3 78.7 78.9 n/a nla Japan ...... 100.0 102.6 104.l 104.7 n/a Norway ...... 79.8 80.1 80 .3 80.2 80.6 are another. I am proud of the job our Catholic Luxembourg ...... 100.0 104.5 109.7 120.7 125.0 Portugal ...... 77.9 77.3 78.1 78.0 78.2 schools are doing in America. Mexico ...... 100.0 121.6 139.4 153.3 164.5 Spa in ...... 80.4 80.6 80.7 80.9 81.0 Netherlands ...... 100.0 102.7 105.0 107.2 109.7 Sweden ...... 80.4 80.5 80.8 80.8 81.4 [From the Wall Street Journal, July 17, 1996) New Zealand ...... 100.0 101.4 101.4 102.4 104.2 Switzerland ...... 80.9 80.9 81.2 81.4 81.6 Norway ...... 100.0 102.6 102.2 104.8 105.l Turkey ...... 68.4 n/a n/a 66.0 70.0 WHY THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL MODEL IS TABOO Portugal ...... 100.0 114.2 129.6 139.3 146.5 United Kingdom ...... 78.6 78.7 79.0 78.9 79.5 (By Sol Stern) Spain ...... 100.0 107.J 114.4 119.4 124.0 United States ...... 78.8 78.9 79.1 78.8 79.0 Sweden ...... 100.0 107.6 108.8 111.7 115.0 New York City's Cardinal John J. O'Con Switzerland ...... 100.0 105.5 108.2 110.4 111.9 nor has repeatedly made the city an extraor Turkey ...... 100.0 158.8 260.l 436.3 900.8 INFANT MORTALITY RATE/100 LIVE BIRTHS dinary offer. Send me the lowest-performing United Kingdom 100.0 106.5 111.1 114.7 117.2 United States ...... 100.0 103.5 106.0 108.01 110.3 5% of children presently in the public 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 schools, and I will put them in Catholic Australia ...... 0.82 0.71 0.70 0.61 0.59 schools-where they will succeed. The city's TOTAL HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE SHARE OF GDP Austria ...... 0.78 0.75 0.75 0.65 0.63 response: silence. Belgium ...... 0.80 0.84 0.82 0.80 0.76 In a more rational world, city officials 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Canada ...... 0.68 0.64 0.63 0.68 n/a Czech Republ ic ...... 1.08 1.04 0.99 0.85 0.79 would have jumped at the cardinal's invita Au stralia ...... 8.3 8.6 8.7 8.6 8.5 Denmark ...... 0.75 0.73 0.66 0.54 0.56 tion. It would have been a huge financial Austria ...... 8.4 8.5 8.9 9.4 9.7 Finland ...... 0.56 0.58 0.52 0.44 0.46 plus for the city. The annual pre-pupil cost 22028 EXTENSIONS_OF REMARKS September 4, 1996 of Catholic elementary schools is S2,500 per school, where I made over $40,000." she says. from outside. Thus, the case for government year, about a third of what taxpayers now "This t ime I wanted to do something good aid to Catholic schools is now more compel spend for the city's public schools. for society, and I am lucky enough to be able ling t han ever. If only to provide t he com NO IDLE BOAST to afford t o do it. I am trying to inst ill in my petitive pressure to force state schools t o More important, thousands more disadvan students that whatever their life situation is change. And t he conventional wisdom that taged children would finish school and be now, they can succeed if they work hard and government is constitutionally prohibited come productive citizens. For Cardinal study." from aiding Catholic sch