[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 74 (Wednesday, June 10, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4336-H4337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY IN CHINA COULD TURN TO DESPAIR IF THE PRESIDENT 
               STANDS WITH COMMUNISTS IN TIANANMEN SQUARE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the President said if China wants a 
ceremony in Tiananmen Square, so be it; it is not my place to make 
demands on Communist China.
  Unbelievable. When the leader of the free world stands with 
Communists on

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the very same site where young Chinese students gave their lives 
struggling for democracy, something is wrong, very wrong, and the hope 
and inspiration for democracy that once existed in China may turn into 
disgust and despair.
  Let us tell it like it is. If the President can stonewall Kenneth 
Starr, the President can stonewall the butchers of Tiananmen Square.
  And one last word:
  The Berlin Wall would still be standing if Ronald Reagan made no 
demands on Communists.

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