[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E223]
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 DR. RICHARD HOVANNISSIAN, ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE-MAN OF THE YEAR

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                       HON. GEORGE P. RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 27, 1996

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, on March 10, 1996, the central 
California chapter of the Armenian National Committee of America will 
be honoring Dr. Richard Hovanissian as Man of the Year.
  Dr. Hovanissian is a professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History, 
and Associate Director of the G.E. von Gruenebaum Center for Near 
Eastern Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles [UCLA]. 
As a member of the UCLA faculty since 1962, Dr. Hovanissian has played 
a major role in international forums relating to the study of genocide 
and Armenian history. As a Guggenheim Fellow, he has published more 
than 40 scholarly articles. Dr. Hovanissian has given more than 1,500 
speeches and lectures to university, community, television, and radio 
audiences on a variety of topics. He has been a guest lecturer in more 
than 25 countries. In 1990, Dr. Hovanissian was elected to the Armenian 
Academy of Social Sciences, becoming the first social scientist living 
abroad to be so honored.
  Recently, at the invitation of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, he 
took part in a lecture series on ``Genocide and Mass Murder in the 
Twentieth Century.'' His presentation, ``The Armenian Genocide: An 
Eighty-year Perspective,'' reflected on the meaning of the Armenian 
experience today and its similarities and differences with other mass 
killings of this century.
  I wish to add my personal congratulations to Dr. Hovanissian on being 
selected as the Armenian National Committee's, Man of the Year. Dr. 
Hovanissian's accomplishments and work for the Armenian community 
deserve special commendation. I wish him my best for continued success.

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