[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 157 (Wednesday, October 11, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1912]
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                    PROPOSED CHANGES IN CUBA POLICY

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                            HON. DICK ZIMMER

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, October 11, 1995

  Mr. ZIMMER. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton's proposed changes in our 
Cuba policy are wrong. Allowing U.S. news agencies to establish 
bureaus, allowing academic exchanges, and easing currency restrictions 
will only reward the Castro regime for maintaining an oppressive 
dictatorial regime over the Cuban people and will undermine 
congressional efforts to tighten the noose by strengthening economic 
sanctions. Castro will be succored by President Clinton's proposals.
  There can be no reconciliation with the murderous regime that has 
enslaved the Cuban people for more than 36 years and continues to 
sustain itself by inflicting pain on the island nation. I must disagree 
with the comments attributed to Richard Nuccio, President Clinton's 
special advisor on Cuba, as reported in the Sunday edition of the New 
York Times when he characterized the administration's proposals as 
steps to help the Cuban people produce change.
  I deeply regret the suffering of the Cuban people, but the greatest 
pain one could inflict on them is to allow Fidel Castro to continue in 
power.
  I urge the Clinton administration to support congressional efforts to 
isolate the Castro regime and to create an international coalition that 
will force the end of Castro's rule.
  I also urge my congressional colleagues to oppose the 
administration's policies of appeasement and to repudiate them 
unequivocally.

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