[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CUBAN ATTACK AN OUTRAGE

  (Mr. ZIMMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ZIMMER. Cuba's downing of two planes whose only arms were 
pamphlets is an outrage, and it shows how desperate Fidel Castro is in 
his fight to deny the Cuban people liberty and freedom. Castro is an 
international outlaw, no more and no less.
  I am very disappointed in the President's response to this outrage. 
It is entirely inadequate. If President Clinton were serious about 
responding to this terrible offense against U.S. citizens, he would 
demand that the international community join with us in an 
international embargo to tighten the noose around Castro and to allow 
democracy to take root there. He would also reverse his Executive order 
of last October which liberalized cultural ties with that country, only 
rewarding a repressive regime for the enslavement of its own people.
  We must get serious, Mr. Speaker, and the way that we should start 
doing so is to enact the Burton-Helms legislation in its original form, 
not some watered down version that the President has endorsed.

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