[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
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               PRICELESS GIFT: A TRIBUTE TO A FREE PRESS

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I want all of my colleagues to know that in 
their respective cloakrooms today there is a priceless gift awaiting 
all of them. It is a newspaper from Sarajevo, a newspaper which has 
been published every single day during the 2-year siege of Sarajevo, a 
newspaper written by Serbs and Croats and Moslems, men and women of all 
religions, men and women who have tried to make of Bosnia a 
multiracial, multiethnic, multi- religious society.
  This magnificent newspaper is a tribute to a free press. It is more 
precious than the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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  It is being published in the nuclear bomb shelter of a building which 
was destroyed by terror and force. It is a newspaper which is a tribute 
to the indomitable spirit of the people of Bosnia, who are determined 
to create for themselves a free and open and democratic society.

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