[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 130 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10605]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CLINTON NAMES CASTRO APOLOGIST AS CHAIRMAN OF THE CORPORATION FOR 
                          PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  (Mr. DIAZ-BALART asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, the real President Clinton showed 
himself by his appointment of Alan Sagner to head the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting.
  Mr. Sagner is proud of having been a founder of the so-called ``Fair 
Play for Cuba Committee,'' the most active U.S. pro-Castro group in the 
history of the Castro regime. In fact, Sagner formed this group during 
the worst moments of Castro's mass murders and confiscations.
  It would have been expected that by this time Sagner would at least 
admit his mistake, recognize that he failed to see Castro at the 
beginning of his dictatorship for what he was, a murderer, which he 
still is. But no, to this day Sagner proudly defends the Fair Play for 
Cuba Committee. Here is a fellow who still refuses to acknowledge the 
gulags, the mass executions, the political prisons, the totalitarian 
oppression, as the essence of the Castro regime; and he is now the head 
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
  Shameful appointment, Mr. President. Find someone else.

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