[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H14235-H14236]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            UPDATE ON BOSNIA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Seastrand). Under a previous order of 
the House, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Mr. DORNAN. Madam Speaker, I have got to collapse a 60-minute special 
order into 5 minutes, but that is all right. I am signed up for some 
next week.
  Let me give you an update on what is happening with our leadership 
getting a vote before the 1st Armored Division officers and men arrive 
in the dead of winter in a very, the most dangerous area of Bosnia 
where most of the fighting has been going on, unit-to-unit, man-to-man 
combat. And a few women.
  We see the terrible destruction of Sarajevo because of some cleverly 
hidden cameras and some of the people with the guts to come in from the 
Sarajevo airport to film that rocket fire at night, with huge shells 
slamming into modern Holiday Inn buildings. I mean actual Holiday Inn 
franchise buildings set up for the Olympics.
  We saw the horrible killing and the marketplace explosions in 
Sarajevo, but the last nightmarish killing of innocent men, women, and 
children during what they thought was a breather, and God knows who 
fired the mortars, but the suspicion is that it came from the Bosnian 
Serb side. That was in Tuzla.

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  We are going into Tuzla. That is where most of the mines are around 
in the hills along with the hills surrounding Sarajevo. And I want to 
do everything I can to get another vote here.
  Here is what I have been promised. I want to thank our conference 
chairman, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner], and the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Cox], the policy leader on this side. I have been told 
I will get at 9:30 Wednesday morning, there is not going to be any 
votes until late Tuesday night, I want a full-court 235 healthy men and 
women in my conference, if that is possible on Wednesday morning, the 
so-called peace accords are going to be signed on December 14, the next 
day, I want on Wednesday, today is Pearl Harbor day, the 13th, 
Wednesday the 13th, 9:30, I am going to ask for a vote not to table my 
words and we can perfect my words, if this does not satisfy, not to put 
this off to the policy committee.
  My words, which I have not read since two nights ago are, 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal fund shall be 
appropriated or otherwise available for the deployment on the ground of 
United States Armed Forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as 
part of any peacekeeping operation or as part of any implementation 
force.
  Now, the 30 or so, more conservative Senators in the other great body 
said that if they even tried to bring this up, it would never be 
allowed on the floor. Their words are simpler, and this a rough draft, 
that the Congress, House and Senate, opposes the deployment of United 
States ground forces into the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to 
implement the general framework agreement for peace in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina and its associated annexes.
  I and other Members have pleaded with them not to have a section 2. 
Section 2 is insulting. They even indicate we might not support our 
forces, including all the aforementioned support forces, by the 
thousands and millions of dollars that are already functioning there to 
try and keep these people educated, intelligent, cultured people, from 
slaughtering and raping one another. But several of the Senators want 
this, that the Congress strongly supports the United States Armed 
Forces who may be ordered by the President to implement the general 
framework agreement for peace in Bosnia and 

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Herzegovina and its associated annexes.
  Madam Speaker, I think I told you this yesterday, Colonel General 
Leonty, L-E-O-N-T-Y, Shevtsov, S-H-E-V-T-S-O-V, is the chief of staff 
of the Russian forces in Chechnya. He was there from December 1994, 
when the killing was at its height, ruining our Christmas last year 
with savage pictures of man's inhumanity to man, and he commanded 
through April of last year.

  By the way, there have been 1,500 instances of the Moslem Chechnyan 
guerrillas attacking young Russian boys who should not have to die this 
month of Christmas 1995. This Russian commander who was there when 
atrocities were committed has been put in as the commander of the 
Russian forces.
  As we approach this Christmas, Madam Speaker, there is not a single 
Russian soldier, it has been a long, hard 6 years Poland, Latvia, 
Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, the now-separated Czechoslovakia and 
Slovak Republics, Czech Republic, there are no Russian troops there, 
but they are on their way into the Balkans. They will be subject to 
Serbia because they made the Serbian case.
  I close on this, Clinton leading Maj. Gen. William Nash, who fought 
so hard in Vietnam, and Gen. George Joulwan, who fought in Vietnam, 
leading them down the driveway, not to follow him to Bosnia like 
Alexander the Great or Caesar but to do his dirty work. Madam Speaker, 
God forbid it. Let us stop it.
  Madam Speaker, I include for the Record the following information:

   Resume of Service Career of William Lafayette Nash, Major General 
                Commanding Officer, 1st Armored Division

       Date and Place of Birth: 10 August 1943, Tucson, Arizona.
       Years of Active Commissioned Service: Over 26.
       Present Assignment: Commanding General, 1st Armored 
     Division, United States Army, Europe Seventh Army, APO AE 
     09252, since June 1995.
       Military Schools Attended: The Armor School, Officer Basic 
     Course; The Infantry School, Officer Advanced Course; United 
     States Army Command and General Staff College; United States 
     Army War College.
       Educational Degrees: United States Military Academy--BS 
     Degree--No major; Shippensburg University--MS Degree--Public 
     Administration.
       Foreign Language(s): Russian.
       Major Duty Assignments:
       Aug. 1968-Oct. 1968: Student, Ranger Course, United States 
     Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.
       Oct. 1968-Nov. 1968: Student, Armor Officer Basic Course, 
     United States Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
       Dec. 1968-Apr. 1969: Platoon Leader, Troop L, 3d Squadron, 
     3d Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Washington.
       Apr. 1969-Feb. 1970: Platoon Leader, Troop A, 1st Squadron, 
     11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, United States Army, Vietnam.
       Feb. 1970-Jun. 1970: Executive Officer, Troop B, 1st 
     Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, United States Army, 
     Vietnam.
       Jun. 1970-Jul. 1971: Assistant G-3 (Operations) Training 
     Officer, later Assistant G-3 (Operations) Chief of Force 
     Development, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North 
     Carolina.
       Jul. 1971-Nov. 1971: S-3 (Operations), 1st Squadron, 17th 
     Cavalry Regiment, later Procurement Officer, Board for 
     Dynamic Training, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North 
     Carolina.
       Nov. 1971-Feb. 1973: Commander, Troop A, 1st Squadron, 17th 
     Cavalry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North 
     Carolina.
       Mar. 1973-Jul. 1973: Student, Officer Rotary Wing Aviator 
     Course, United States Army Helicopter Center/School, Fort 
     Wolters, Texas.
       Jul. 1973-Dec. 1973: Student, Officer Rotary Wing Aviator 
     Course, United States Army Aviation School, Fort Rucker, 
     Alabama.
       Jan. 1974-Sep. 1974: Student, Infantry Officer Advanced 
     Course, United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, 
     Georgia.
       Sep. 1974-Jun. 1977: Platoon Leader and Assistant 
     Operations Officer, later Platoon Commander, and later 
     Regimental Plans Officer, Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored 
     Cavalry Regiment, United States Army Europe, Germany.
       Aug. 1977-Jun. 1978: Student, United States Army Command 
     and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
       Jun. 1978-Apr. 1979: Staff Officer, Regional Operations 
     Division, Office, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and 
     Plans, United States Army, Washington, DC.
       Apr. 1979-Jun. 1982: Aide and Assistant Executive Officer, 
     later Executive Officer to the Vice Chief of Staff, Army, 
     Office of the Chief of Staff, Army, Washington, DC.
       Jun. 1982-Jun. 1983: Deputy Executive Assistant to the 
     Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC.
       Jun. 1983-Jun. 1985: Commander, 3d Squadron, 8th Cavalry 
     Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, United States Army Europe, 
     Germany.
       Aug. 1985-Jun. 1988: Student, United States Army War 
     College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
       Jun. 1986-May 1988: Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 
     (Operations), 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
       May 1988-May 1989: Executive Officer to the Commander-in-
     Chief, United States Army Europe, Germany.
       Jun. 1989-Dec. 1990: Commander, 1st Brigade, 3d Armored 
     Division, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, 
     Germany.
       Dec. 1990-Apr. 1991: Commander, 1st Brigade, 3d Armored 
     Division, DESERT STORM, Saudi Arabia.
       Apr. 1991-Jul. 1991: Commander, 1st Brigade, 3d Armored 
     Division, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, 
     Germany.
       Jul. 1991-Jun. 1992: Assistant Division Commander, 3d 
     Infantry Division (Mechandized), United States Army Europe 
     and Seventh Army, Germany.
       Jun. 1992-Jul. 1993: Deputy Commanding General for 
     Training, United States Army Combined Arms Command, Fort 
     Leavenworth, Kansas.
       Jul. 1993-Jun. 1995: Program Manager, United States Army 
     Office of the Program Manager, Saudi Arabian National Guard 
     Modernization Program.
       Promotions and Date of Appointment:
       2LT--Temporary: 5 Jun 68; Permanent: 5 Jun 68.
       1LT--Temporary: 5 Jun 69; Permanent: 5 Jun 71.
       CPT--Temporary: 5 Jun 70; Permanent: 5 Jun 75.
       MAJ--Permanent: 10 Jun 77.
       LTC--Permanent: 1 Nov 82.
       COL--Permanent: 1 May 89.
       BG--Permanent: 1 Mar 92.
       MG--Frocked.
       U.S. Decorations and Badges: Silver Star, Legion of Merit, 
     Bronze Star Medal with ``V'' Device (with 2 Oak Leaf 
     Clusters), Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal (with Oak 
     Leaf Cluster).

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