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4666 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JEAN WHAT PRESIDENT BUSH SHOULD and economic reforms in Russia-has been YAWKEY DO AT THIS CRITICAL MOMENT virtually ignored. As a result, the United States and the West risk snatching defeat in the cold war from the jaws of victory. HON. JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY HON. WM.S.BROOMAELD We have heard repeatedly that the cold OF MASSACHUSETTS OF MICHIGAN war has ended and that the West won it. This IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is only half true. The Communists have lost IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the cold war, but the West has not yet won Thursday, March 5, 1992 Thursday, March 5, 1992 it. Communism collapsed because its ideas Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, as Yogi failed. Today, the ideas of freedom are on Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to trial. If they fail to produce a better life in pay tribute to the late Jean Yawkey who died Berra used to say: "It ain't over 'til it's over." In a few words, that's the import of a thought Russia and the other former Soviet repub of a stroke on February 27. For the past 59 ful commentary on the cold war that former lics, a new and more dangerous despotism years, Mrs. Yawkey has been the matriarch of will take power, with the people trading free President Richard Nixon sent to· me recently. the Boston Red Sox. Her involvement with the dom for security and entrusting their future President Nixon has been a leading figure in Sox began in 1933 when her husband Tom to old hands with new faces. international politics from virtually the begin bought the team and began building what has We are at a watershed moment in history. ning of the post-World War II era until today. The historical significance of the democratic become one of the classiest franchises in He believes that while the Communists may revolution in the Soviet Union compares major league baseball. After her husband's have lost the cold war, the West has not yet only with events like the defeat of Napoleon death in 1976, Mrs. Yawkey assumed the po won it. at Waterloo in 1815, the Versailles Peace sition of part owner in the team's front office Should President Y eltsin's reforms not suc Conference in 1919, and the creation of NATO and carried on the Yawkey legacy of kindness and the Marshall Plan in 1948. A century of ceed, President Nixon believes the West could and generosity toward everyone associated stability in Europe, the drift toward World face a new, more dangerous despotism based with the Red Sox organization. The world of War II in the 1920s and 1930s, and a half cen on extremist Russian nationalism. baseball mourns her passing as too does the tury of successful containment of the Soviet This is a critical moment for world peace, he Union were all determined by how the city of Boston, for she did so much for so believes; and America should be doing more statesmen of the major powers responded to many. to ensure that Yeltsin's reforms succeed. Oth these critical moments. While opportunities Not only did she commit her resources to erwise we may be forced to engage in a new and dangers on that same order of magnitude bring great baseball to Boston but also to cold war, losing the ability to focus sufficient face us today, the West has failed so far to seize the moment to shape the history of the many charities in the Boston area. Her long time and energies on solving our· domestic time association with the Jimmy Fund and the next half century. problems. Russia is the key to success. It is there Dana Farber Cancer Institute is legendary. President Nixon suggests that we help Through her late husband's foundation and that the final battle of the cold war will be Yeltsin in six crucial ways; but that we share won or lost. The stakes could not be higher. her own, millions of dollars have been donated the burden of foreign aid with other industri If freedom succeeds in Russia-if President to the Jimmy Fund and other charitable orga alized nations that are better able to afford it. Yeltsin's economic reforms succeed in creat nizations. These donations were just another What America can provide is its world lead ing a successful free-market economy-the extension of the Yawkey tradition of benevo ership, which he says President Bush bril future will hold the promise of reduced spending on arms, cooperation in coping lence toward others. She was loved by all who liantly demonstrated in mobilizing the coalition knew her, both fans and players alike. An avid with crises around the world, and economic for the gulf war. growth through expanded international fan of the game, Mrs. Yawkey loved her Red These comments on President Bush's lead Sox. At Fenway Park, she was always a fix trade. More important, freedom's success ership put me in mind of a New York Times will reverberate in the world's last isolated ture in her box seats keeping score of the oired article by former Education Secretary strongholds of communism-North Korea, game during Red Sox home stands. William J. Bennett that appeared today. Ben Cuba, Vietnam, and China. Their leaders will From her vantage point in Fenway, she wit nett argues that President Bush should re face irresistible pressures to take the first nessed many great players come and go, Ted claim foreign policy as an issue in this year's steps toward political reform. Williams, Carl Yazstremski, and Johnny Pesky If Yeltsin fails, the prospects for the next Presidential contest. fifty years will turn grim. The Russian peo to name a few. The performances of these That's good advice. Coverage of the 1992 players on the field fill our minds with memo ple will not turn back to communism. But a campaign seems to be proceeding on the as new, more dangerous despotism based on ex ries of Red Sox triumphs and heartaches. sumption that the next President will spend all tremist Russian nationalism will take Jean Yawkey was there for all of them, the of his waking hours grappling with dom13stic power. We must remember that even before good times and the bad. She treated all of her policy issues. That assumption runs against communism, Russia had an expansionist tra players with the respect they deserved and in the experience of every President who has dition dating back seven centuries. The lead return received lifelong devotion and admira served in the last 50 years. ers of a new despotism, who have already tion. The great ones, Carl Yazstremski and Here are two thoughtful commentaries that I been organizing themselves to take over in the event that Yeltsin's reforms fail, will Ted Williams loved her like a mother. Current hope will be carefully read in the White House. team members speak of her fondly and pay stoke nationalist passions and exploit the The implication of both of these commentaries tendency of the Russian people to turn to the tribute to her kindness and devotion to the is that good Government can be good politics, strong hand-even to dictatorship-during team. and vice versa. And that a President who is times of troubles. You can be sure that as spring rolls around such a gifted world leader would do well to If a new despotism prevails, everything and the baseball season begins again, that play to his strong suit-for the sake of his gained in the great peaceful revolution of Jean Yawkey will be in the thoughts and Presidency and for the sake of world peace. 1991 will be lost. War could break out in the hearts of each player. Mr. Speaker, I insert the two articles in the former Soviet Union as the new despots use She never had the chance to see her be force to restore the " historical borders" of RECORD. Russia. The. new East European democracies loved team win a World Series, but the Red How To LOSE THE COLD wAR would be imperiled. China's totalitarians Sox's time will come, and when it does you While the candidates have addressed scores would breathe a sigh of relief. The new Rus can bet that Jean Yawkey will be looking of significant issues in the presidential cam sian regime-whose leaders would cozy up to down and keeping score, rooting for her Bos paign, the most important issue since the the Soviet Union's former clients in Iraq, ton Red Sox. end of World War II-the fate of the political Syria, Libya, and North Korea-would •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. March 5, 1992 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4667 threaten our interests in hot spots around President Yeltsin's government in six crucial code or launching new domestic initiatives the world. It would sell conventional weap ways: will have little economic significance if a ons, ballistic missiles, and nuclear tech We must provide humanitarian food and new hostile despotism in Russia forces the nology to any buyer. A new Russian des medical aid to get Russia through the criti West to rearm. On the positive side, if potism inspired by imperial nationalism cal months until Yeltsin's reforms have a Yeltsin succeeds, a free-market Russia will shorn of the baggage of the dying faith of chance to start working.