the collective movement will make people's lips and mao's open up more. >> >> we are receiving e-mail from iran. why isn't the war the same as they did in south africa? why in our -- why aren't they closing the embassy? thank you very much. >> i think that -- is what they are responding to. statements by many governments that have become stronger, not because they realize we have to take a position, but because they have been encouraged by iran itself. >> you have no choice to --. my concern is the present situation in iran. i am hoping and praying that we are not going into the hands of a -- and degradation. it can be viewed by foreign elements suspiciously for the benefit of one country against iran. that has been the case many times years ago in iran come in 1953, also with the situation in iraq. >> i hear you. >> so it will not interfere again, unless good intentioned people of iran -- >> the world is reacting to millions of people on the streets of iran demanding their rights. this is not a concocted under the radar conspiracy deal of some government to try to provoke unrest in t

gather in tiananmen square in the shadow of the forbidden city and the monument in front of chairman mao's mausoleum. that 1 million people that congregated, that was just in bay which i think. protests spread -- in beijing. protests spread across city after city, community after community. on the night of june 3, 1989, 15,000 soldiers with armored tanks storm tiananmen square. on june 4 the chinese red army fired upon the protesters and those in the surrounding areas. on june 5, as the crackdown continued, more than 300,000 -- 300,000 -- chinese troops amassed in and around tiananmen square. there the world witnessed one of the pivotal moments of the 20th century, 20 years ago this week when an unknown protester stood in front of a column of chinese army tanks. he stood alone. surely he wanted the tanks to stop. just as surely he wanted to stop the violent crackdowns. he has become an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy in this country and around the world. but not in china where the image and accounts of the heroic act are banned. attempts to just erase it from history. the identi

and how everything he believed collapsed as eight reality hit him in the face with the strength of mao's zombies and he tried to get warnings and long arguments, serious long arguments using the situation in china's and algae as to why the how ghana would not be able to win and he tried to warn them. i understand what you're saying and your passion but please, go back there and tell ben-gurion we can't proclaim the jewish state and they voted against it because you are open to lose, and i found reality was and what i expected in china and you're going to find the same thing when your flight starts. he really believed that. he spoke as a military man, giving him a military assessment. he said i can understand your passion. and he listened seriously and pointed back to ben-gurion. he gave arguments we have to consider and think over. they were not ideological arguments of kennan and henderson, it was military assessment and he believed that. >> this gentleman here and then pass it on. >> how significant was the participation of bernard bernstein and the defense that you described? >> brard

mao, i'now, i've heard comments about what a fine system we have.d it may be just fine if you happen to be in this hall and you have health insurance or you're working in a job and you're fortunate to have health care. but even then, even then, folks with health care are concerned that they're just a pink slip away, a reduction in force away, from losing that health care. so it remains a stress. and if they have health care, they're still worried about the overruns, the co-pays, running out of coverage, and they understand instinctually that a major health care disaster might well wipe them out even with health insurance. in fact, half of our bankruptcies related to health care are from folks who have insurance. and our bosworking families witt health care, they're worried about finding a job to get health care. they're worried about somehow getting access to health care before they get sick or if they're already sick they're worried about how they're going to afford to get well. there was a story in the paper just the other day, and i think it char

it has worked with the chinese even though mao at one point talk of killing people. it worked with the chinese. it has worked between the pakistanis and indians. the threat of war between pakistan and india was higher before the two became a nuclear power than it is today. largely because they both instantly realized that if there is a serious military engagement that excavates escalates it poses a risk of an exchange. this is one of the reasons why in the recent years the pakistani clashes across the line of control didn't escalate. both sides became increasingly prevent. and there is in fact object lesson in experience with nuclear weapons. they do create a kind of on comfortable and unpleasant self restraint and that is perhaps not necessarily the worst about comes in a region that is very dynamic and unpredictable and prone to violence. this is not an overwhelmingly optimistic prognosis but does suggest there are options for the united states and the first option is to explore what is feasible regarding an outcome with which we can comfortably live and that is an

armies and how everything he believed collapsed as a reality hit him in the face in the strength of the mao's army and he tried to warn him and he seriously gave him long armies saying, serious long, long argument using that situation in china as an analogy. as to why the hagana would not be able to win and he tried to warn him. i understand what you're saying. i understand your passion. but please go back there and tell them we can't proclaim a jewish state in may. vote against it because you're going to lose and i found reality was not what i expected in china and you're going to find the same thing when your fight starts. he really believed that. he spoke to him as a military man giving him a military assessment. he said i can understand your passion. and he listened very seriously and reported back to him. he gave me very serious arguments we really have to consider and think over. they were not ideological arguments. they were not the arguments of kennan and henderson. when he spoke to him it was all a military assessment. and he believed that. >> the gentleman here and then -- >> how si

union was truly aggressive, it has worked with the chinese, even though -- now say turning talked -- mao talked about nuclear killing 3 million or so people and it is quite tolerable and worked with the chinese and has in a way worked between the pakistanis and the indians and the threats of war between pakistan and india was higher before the two became nuclear powers than today, largely because they both instantly realized that if there is a serious military engage i, it escalates inherently, it poses a risk, of a devastating nuclear exchange, and this is one of the reasons why, in recent years, indian-pakistani clashes across this line of control did not escalate. both sides became increasingly prudent. and that is -- thus, there is in fact an object lesson in the experience with nuclear weapons. they do create a kind of uncomfortable, unpleasant self-restraint and that is perhaps not necessarily the worst of outcomes. in a region that is very dynamic, very unpredictable, and very prone to violence. this is not an overwhelmingly optimistic prognosis. but, it does suggest that there ar

the democrats ran them now the the 1970's and 1980's, so to blame mao that somehow little minnows and pumping water to allow people to work are now ending all the -- destroying all the fish and killer whales in the ocean is absurd. we have starving people in the valley. when is this congress going to act? this has been going on for two years. how much long her 40,000 people enough people out of work? do we need 80,000 people out of work? how many more people must starve because of the inaction by this body? that's what i want to know. thank you, mr. speaker. the chair: the gentleman from west virginia does have 15 seconds remaining. the other side can get 15 seconds by unanimous consent. mr. mollohan: i yield my 15 seconds to the gentleman, mr. new necessary if he wants it. the chair: the gentleman can get 15 seconds by unanimous consent. >> i think it's time for common sense to prevail. i've lost 30,000 jobs in my district as a result of this drought and we may lose generations of farmers. we need a california solution that's aside from the partisan differences and bring back water f

-china friendship volunteers, because mao tse-tung had slandered a piece of our name is being a puppet agency in the cia in the '60s and '70s the were not officially. >> corso ended up going to china in 1995 without speaking a word of chinese. i ended up in sichuan province in the far southwest of the country. the school had no idea what to do with me. they said come into play basketball? for two years i was the starting center for college basketball team in got to travel in the province. i also train teachers and what not but as many of you know it to study chinese once you start learning the language it is hard to let go of it in hard to leave so when i moved to beijing in 1997 i was living way up here with this white arrow is. i was living in the northwest suburbs and i was teaching. i would come into the city center here. can someone showed me how to get a red light on this thing? i would come into the city center. this is the forbidden city right here. this is the leadership compound. this is tiananmen square down here, this is the temple of heaven.