[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 10 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                            ANATOLY KORNUKOV

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                        HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 11, 1998

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, something very outrageous has just happened 
in Russia that should be an affront to all Americans.
  As we all remember, on September 1, 1983, the Soviet Union shot down 
a civilian jetliner, Korean Airlines flight 007.
  Well Mr. Speaker, the very general who gave the order to murder those 
civilians, including our friend and colleague Congressman Larry 
McDonald, has just been appointed by President Yeltsin as the new Chief 
of Staff of the Russian Air Force.
  And do you know what? This general, Anatoly Kornukov, still doesn't 
regret that he gave the order. He still maintains the Soviet fiction 
that KAL 007 was on a spy mission.
  That's right, 6\1/2\ years after Boris Yeltsin stood on that tank, 
and led the dissolution of the Soviet empire, old Communist thinking 
not only persists in Russia, it is in fact prevalent and is being 
rewarded by Boris Yeltsin.
  And 6 years after we put Russia on the foreign aid dole, to the tune 
of over $50 billion from American and Western taxpayers, this is the 
thanks we get.
  It is time for this administration to put their foot down and demand 
the removal of this killer, otherwise there will be no more foreign aid 
to Russia.

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