Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, March 15, 1999 Volume 35ÐNumber 10 Pages 377±418 1 VerDate 03-MAR-99 08:08 Mar 17, 1999 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P10MR4.000 txed02 PsN: txed02 Contents Addresses and Remarks Communications to CongressÐContinued See also Meetings With Foreign Leaders Iran, national emergency, message Airline passenger protection, radio remarks on transmitting notice on continuationÐ400 proposed legislationÐ398 National Endowment for the Arts, message Arkansas transmitting reportÐ390 Arrival in HopeÐ413 Trade policy agenda and trade agreements program report, message transmittingÐ390 Clinton Birthplace, dedication ceremony in HopeÐ413 Communications to Federal Agencies El Salvador, Legislative Assembly in San Korean Peninsula Energy Development SalvadorÐ391 Organization, memorandumÐ377 Guatemala Interviews With the News Media Arrival in Guatemala CityÐ395 Central America Summit in AntiguaÐ400, Exchange with reporters in Antigua, 401 GuatemalaÐ401 Peace efforts, roundtable discussion in Joint Statements Guatemala CityÐ395 Declaration of AntiguaÐ406 Honduras Community at the Soto Cano Air BaseÐ Letters and Messages 384 Saint Patrick's Day, messageÐ416 Hurricane Mitch reconstruction efforts, Meetings With Foreign Leaders roundtable discussion in TegucigalpaÐ 385 Belize, Prime Minister MusaÐ400, 401, 406 KosovoÐ401 Costa Rica, President RodriguezÐ400, 401, Nicaragua 406 Community in PosoltegaÐ378 Dominican Republic, President FernandezÐ Las Casitas Volcano mudslide survivors, 400, 401, 406 El Salvador, President Calderon SolÐ391, roundtable discussion in PosoltegaÐ380 400, 401, 406 Radio addressÐ377 Guatemala, President ArzuÐ395, 400, 401, Communications to Congress 406 Honduras, President FloresÐ384, 385, 400, Conventional Armed Forces in Europe 401, 406 Treaty, letter transmitting report on Nicaragua, President AlemanÐ378, 380, 400, complianceÐ383 401, 406 (Continued on the inside of the back cover.) 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Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 03-MAR-99 08:08 Mar 17, 1999 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P10MR4.000 txed02 PsN: txed02 ContentsÐContinued Notices Statements by the PresidentÐContinued Continuation of Iran EmergencyÐ399 Kosovo, House action to support use of U.S. Proclamations Armed ForcesÐ412 National Institutes of Health, selection of National Older Workers Employment WeekÐ Vaccine Research Center DirectorÐ411 412 Statements by the President Supplementary Materials Deaths Amir Essa bin Salman Al-Khalifa of BahrainÐ378 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ418 Joe DiMaggioÐ383 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ417 Kennedy-Murray amendment to proposed Digest of other White House amendmentsÐ education flexibility partnership 416 legislationÐ383, 390, 399, 412 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ417 3 VerDate 03-MAR-99 08:08 Mar 17, 1999 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P10MR4.000 txed02 PsN: txed02 Week Ending Friday, March 12, 1999 Memorandum on the Korean (4) the United States is fully engaged in Peninsula Energy Development efforts to impede North Korea's devel- Organization opment and export of ballistic missiles. You are authorized and directed to report March 4, 1999 this certification to the Congress and to Presidential Determination No. 99±16 arrange for its publication in the Federal Register. Memorandum for the Secretary of State William J. Clinton Subject: U.S. Contribution to KEDO: NOTE: This memorandum was released by the Of- Certification Under Section 582(b) of the fice of the Press Secretary on March 5. This item Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and was not received in time for publication in the Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, appropriate issue. as contained in Public Law 105±277 Pursuant to section 582(b) of the Foreign The President's Radio Address Operations, Export Financing, and Related March 6, 1999 Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as con- tained in Public Law 105±277, I hereby cer- Good morning. This week we learned the tify that: good news that our efforts to raise academic (1)(A) the parties to the Agreed Frame- standards for our children are beginning to work have taken and continue to take pay off. The National Assessment of Edu- demonstrable steps to assure that cation Progress, or NAEP, released State test progress is made on the implementation scores on Thursday that show that our chil- of the January 1, 1992, Joint Declaration dren's reading scores have risen, with some on the Denuclearization of the Korean of the greatest gains in States that once Peninsula in which the Government of scored below the national average. North Korea, has committed not to test, Today I want to talk to you about what manufacture, produce, receive, possess, I think we must do to build on our progress, store, deploy, or use nuclear weapons; by putting more teachers in the classroom (B) the parties to the Agreed Framework and reducing class size in schools around our have taken and continue to take demon- country. strable steps to assure that progress is We all agree that to build a stronger nation made on the implementation of the we must build up our Nation's public schools. North-South dialogue; and I have proposed a comprehensive education (C) North Korea is complying with all pro- agenda to strengthen and improve our visions of the Agreed Framework and schools with more accountability, higher with the Confidential Minute between standards, more volunteer reading tutors for North Korea and the United States. young children, and mentors for teenagers, (2) North Korea is cooperating fully in the with Internet connections in every classroom, canning and safe storage of all spent fuel and with more well-trained teachers in small- from its graphite-moderated nuclear re- er classes. actors; As any parent, teacher, or school principal (3) North Korea has not significantly di- can tell you, smaller classes make a huge dif- verted assistance provided by the ference in our children's lives. Studies show United States for purposes for which it that teachers in smaller classes spend less was not intended; and time on discipline and more time teaching. 377 VerDate 03-MAR-99 08:48 Mar 17, 1999 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P10MR4.008 txed02 PsN: txed02 378 Mar. 6 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1999 Students spend less time competing for at- whether the Congress is serious about giving tention and more time learning. Students in our children the education they need and de- smaller classes out-perform their peers. serve. For children in struggling communities, The choice is simple: Are we going to give from remote rural areas to inner-city neigh- Americans smaller classes or more partisan- borhoods, small class size is even more crit- ship? Are we going to put politics ahead of ical. And with school enrollments at record progress or put 100,000 teachers in our Na- highs and expected to keep rising, we must tion's classrooms? I call on the Senate to act now to reduce class size in all our Nation's allow an up-or-down vote on the Murray- public schools. Kennedy class size amendment, and I urge Across the country, more and more com- every Senator to vote for it. When it comes munities are recognizing the importance of to our children's future, politics must stop smaller class size and trying to do something at the schoolhouse door. about it. To help them meet this challenge Thanks for listening. I called on Congress early last year to pass my initiative to reduce class size by helping NOTE: The address was recorded at 4:08 p.m. on school districts hire 100,000 highly trained March 5 in the Oval Office at the White House teachers. I'm pleased that Republican Mem- for broadcast at 10:06 a.m. on March 6. The tran- bers of Congress joined with Democrats and script was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary on March 5 but was embargoed did the right thing in making a big downpay- for release until the broadcast. ment toward meeting our goal. Today the Department of Education is re- leasing guidelines that will let every school Statement on the Death of Amir Essa district in our Nation know how much money bin Salman Al-Khalifa of Bahrain they will receive and how best to use the March 6, 1999 funds to reduce class size in time for school this fall. But communities deciding now I would like to express my deep sadness whether to hire and train new teachers for at the news that Shaikh Essa bin Salman next year need to know whether they can Al-Khalifa of Bahrain has passed away.