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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, June 17, 1996 Volume 32ÐNumber 24 Pages 1015±1062 1 VerDate 28-OCT-97 08:39 Jan 06, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P24JN4.000 p24jn4 Contents Addresses and Remarks Interviews With the News Media California Exchanges with reporters Community in San DiegoÐ1026 Oval OfficeÐ1048 Glendale Community College in News conferences GlendaleÐ1031 June 12 (No. 123) with European Union Presidio in San FranciscoÐ1024 leadersÐ1041 Saxophone Club in Culver CityÐ1029 June 13 (No. 124) with President Robinson Ireland, President Robinson's visit of IrelandÐ1050 DinnerÐ1058, 1059 Welcoming ceremonyÐ1047 Meetings With Foreign Leaders Nevada European Union leadersÐ1041 Community in Las VegasÐ1021 Ireland, President RobinsonÐ1047, 1048, Roundtable discussion on juvenile crime in 1050, 1058, 1059 Las VegasÐ1016 New Mexico, Grover Cleveland Middle Proclamations School in AlbuquerqueÐ1036 Father's DayÐ1059 Radio addressÐ1015 South Carolina, dedication of Mount Zion Statements by the President A.M.E. Church in GreeleyvilleÐ1038 Court decision on the Communications Teen pregnancy reportÐ1054 Decency ActÐ1047 Communications to Congress Supplementary Materials National Endowment for the Arts, message transmitting reportÐ1047 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ1062 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ Executive Orders 1062 Amendment to Executive Order No. 12963 Digest of other White House Entitled Presidential Advisory Council on announcementsÐ1060 HIV/AIDSÐ1060 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ1061 WEEKLY COMPILATION OF regulations prescribed by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, approved by the President (37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part 10). PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS Distribution is made only by the Superintendent of Docu- ments, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. 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Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 28-OCT-97 08:39 Jan 06, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P24JN4.000 p24jn4 Week Ending Friday, June 14, 1996 of these church burnings as quickly as pos- sible. And no matter how long it takes, no matter where the leads take us, we will de- The President's Radio Address vote whatever resources are necessary to June 8, 1996 solve these crimes. Today, more than 200 Good morning. This morning I want to talk Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, with you about a recent and disturbing rash Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI are work- of crimes that hearkens back to a dark era ing with State and local authorities to solve in our Nation's history. Just 2 days ago, when these cases. Fire investigators, national re- the Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian sponse teams, polygraph examiners, and fo- Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, was rensic chemists are combing through fire burned to the ground, it became at least the sites, interviewing witnesses, and following 30th African-American church destroyed or leads. A task force chaired by our Assistant damaged by suspicious fire in the South in Attorney General for Civil Rights, Deval Pat- the past 18 months. And over the past few rick, and our Assistant Secretary of the Treas- months, Vice President Gore has talked with ury for Enforcement, James Johnson, is co- me about the pain and anguish these fires ordinating these efforts. FBI Director Louis in his home State of Tennessee have caused. Freeh and ATF Director John Magaw are Tennessee, sadly, has experienced more of also serving on the task force. To date there them than any other State in the country. have been a number of arrests. Two of those We do not now have evidence of a national in custody are known members of the Ku conspiracy, but it is clear that racial hostility Klux Klan. So we are making progress, but is the driving force behind a number of these we must do more. incidents. This must stop. That is why today I am announcing four It's hard to think of a more depraved act steps we are taking to fight back. First, I have of violence than the destruction of a place asked the task force to report back on their of worship. In our country, during the fifties progress and to let me know if there are other and sixties, black churches were burned to actions the Federal Government can take be- intimidate civil rights workers. I have vivid yond those underway to stop these crimes. and painful memories of black churches Second, I have instructed the ATF to inform being burned in my own State when I was churches of any steps they can take to protect a child. In 1963 all Americans were outraged themselves from arsonists. Churches by the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Bap- throughout the South will be visited by ATF tist Church in Birmingham that took the lives special agents to answer any questions of four precious young children. We must church leaders and parishioners may have. never allow that to happen again. We are also making this information available Every family has a right to expect that to national church organizations for distribu- when they walk into a church or synagogue tion to their members. Third, I am announc- or mosque each week they will find a house ing my support for the bipartisan legislation of worship, not the charred remnants of a introduced by Congressmen John Conyers hateful act done by cowards in the night. We and Henry Hyde to make it easier to bring must rise up as a national community to safe- Federal prosecutions against those who at- guard the right of every citizen to worship tack houses of worship. I look forward to in safety. That is what America stands for. working with Congress to make it even As President, I am determined to do ev- stronger. And finally, I'm announcing that we erything in my power to get to the bottom are establishing a new toll-free number that 1015 VerDate 28-OCT-97 09:16 Jan 06, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P24JN4.010 p24jn4 1016 June 8 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 is now available 24 hours a day, 7 days a Thanks for listening. week. If you have information about who is responsible for these churches fires, please NOTE: The President spoke at 10:06 a.m. from call it. It's 1±888±ATF±FIRE. That's 1±888± the Oval Office at the White House. ATF±F-I-R-E. In the end, we must all face up to the re- Remarks in a Roundtable sponsibility to end this violence. We must say Discussion on Juvenile Crime to those who would feed their neighbors in Las Vegas, Nevada what Martin Luther King called ``the stale bread of hatred and spoiled meat of racism:'' June 9, 1996 That is not America; that is not our way. We The President. Thank you very much. must come together, black and white alike, to smother the fires of hatred that fuel this [At this point, moderator Kirby Burgess, di- violence. rector, Youth and Family Services Center, I am pleased that the National Council of welcomed the President and introduced Churches of Christ, one of the largest inter- roundtable participants. Gov. Bob Miller faith groups in the country, has spoken out then reviewed steps taken in Nevada to deal against these crimes and is mobilizing to as- with juvenile crime. Next, Clark County sist in the rebuilding of damaged churches. Undersheriff Richard Wingett described the I encourage communities everywhere where juvenile violent crime problem in Las Vegas. churches have been burned to roll up their Mr. Burgess introduced Shane Quick, An- sleeves and help the folks there to rebuild thony Covarrubias, and Stanley Johnson, their churches. teenagers who are enrolled in alternative sen- Religious freedom is one of the founding tencing programs. Mr. Quick told how he principles of our democracy, and the black was helped by a residential drug treatment church has historically been the center of program, concluding by saying he was nerv- worship, self-help, and community life for ous.] millions of families in our country. That's why The President. You're doing great. You're it was so hard for Reverend Terrence Mackey doing great. to break the news to his daughter last June Mr. Burgess. He's an honest young man, when they woke to find an ash-scarred field Mr. President. in the spot where only the day before stood their church home, Mount Zion AME [Next, Mr. Covarrubias described his success Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina. Rev- in being rehabilitated through the Freedom erend Mackey reassured his daughter with Program, an intensive supervision program.] these words: He told her, ``They didn't burn The President. How does it work, this down the church. They burned down the Freedom Program? building in which we hold church.