DRAFT PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO ABA ON TERRORISM

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2009
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• Publication Date: July 5, 1985
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News Bulletin : UPI Press Wire, Items 026,027 and 031
8 July 1985
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REAGAN
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BY NORMAN D. SANDLER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- PRESIDENT REAGAN MONDAY CHARGED THAT IRAN,
LIBYA, NORTH KOREA, CUBA AND NICARAGUA REPRESENT 'A NEW INTERNATIONAL
VERSION OF MURDER INC,,' UNITED IN THEIR FANATICAL HATRED OF THE
UNITED STATES.
IN A SPEECH PREPARED FOR THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION CONVENTION,
REAGAN ALSO SAID THE SOVIET UNION'S 'CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH ALMOST
ALL OF THE TERRORIST STATES' MUST BE RECOGNIZED.
THE 'REAL GOAL OF THE TERRORISTS IS TO EXPEL AMERICA FROM THE
WORLD,' REAGAN SAID.
HE DID NOT DWELL ON THE BEIRUT HOSTAGE CRISIS OR OFFER ANY
SOLUTIONS, NOR DID HE MENTION SYRIA AS ONE OF THE PROBLEM NATIONS.
REAGAN URGED THE NATION'S LAWYERS 'TO ACCEPT A CHALLENGE' OF
FINDING 'A BETTER DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR
DEALING WITH TERRORISM.'
THE PRESIDENT SAID THE STRATEGIC PURPOSE 'BEHIND THE TERRORISM
SPONSORED BY OUTLAW STATES IS CLEAR: TO DISORIENT THE UNITED STATES,
TO DISRUPT OR ALTER OUR FOREIGN POLICY, TO SOW DISCORD BETWEEN STAT
OURSELVES AND OUR ALLIES,.70 FRIGHTEN THIRD WORLD NATIONS WORKING
WITH US FOR PEACEFUL SETTLEMENTS OF REGIONAL CONFLICTS.'
'IN SHORT, TO CRUSE US TO RETREAT, RETRENCH, TO BECOME 'FORTRESS
AMERICR," HE SAID. 'YES, THEIR REAL GOAL IS TO EXPEL AMERICA FROM
THE WORLD.'
HE NAMED IRAN, LIBYA, NORTH KOREA, CUBA, NICARAGUA, SAYING THE
COUNTRIES WERE 'CONTINENTS AWAY, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MILES APART,'
BUT ALL SHARED 'THE SAME GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.'
'MOST OF THE TERRORISTS WHO ARE KIDNAPPING AND MURDERING AMERICAN
CITIZENS AND ATTACKING AMERICAN INSTALLATIONS ARE BEING TRAINED,
FINANCED AND DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY CONTROLLED BY A CORE GROUP OF
RADICAL AND TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENTS, R NEW, INTERNATIONAL VERSION 0
MURDER INC. -- ALL OF THESE STATES ARE UNITED BY ONE SIMPLE, CRIMINA
PHENOMENON -- THEIR FANATICAL HATRED OF THE UNITED STATES, OUR
PEOPLE, OUR WRY OF LIFE, OUR INTERNATIONAL STATURE,' HE SAID.
MURDER INC. WAS THE TERM AUTHORITIES ONCE GAVE TO THE OPERRTIONS_
OF 'HIT-MEN' WHO WORKED FOR ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES
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REAGAN-1ST ADD (UP026)
'AT THE CURRENT RRTEs' HE SRIDt 'RS MANY AS i:000 ACTS OF
TERRORISM WILL OCCUR IN 1985 -- THAT IS WHAT WE FACE UNLESS CIVILIZED
NATIONS ACT TOGETHER TO END THIS ASSAULT ON HUMANITY.'
'IN 1983 RLONEi THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY EITHER CONFIRMED
OR FOUND STRONG EVIDENCE OF IRANIAN INVOLVEMENT IN 57 TERRORIST,
ATTACKS:' HE SAID. MOST OF THESE ATTACKS OCCURRED IN LEBRNONi HE
ADDED: BUT SAID TERRORIST ACTIVITY BY THOSE 'SYMPATHETIC TO IRAN' HAS
INCREASED THROUGHOUT EUROPE.
'WE HAVE EVIDENCE THAT LINKS LIBYAN AGENTS OR SURROGATES TO AT
LEAST 25 INCIDENTS LRST YERRi' REAGAN SAID. 'COLONEL (MORMMRR)
KHRDAFY'S OUTRAGES AGAINST CIVILIZED CONDUCT ARE: OF COURSES AS
INFAMOUS AS THOSE OF THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI.'
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RERGRN-2ND ADD
IN A DEPARTURE FROM PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION STATEMENTS, REAGAN DID
NOT INCLUDE SYRIA AMONG THE STATES HE SAID SUPPORTED TERRORISM.
SYRIAN PRESIDENT HRFEZ RSSRD HELPED WIN THE RELEASE OF 39 AMERICANS
WHO WERE HELD HOSTAGE FOR 17 DRYS IN THE HIJACKING OF TWA FLIGHT 847.
RSSADs WELL RESPECTED IN THE MIDDLE EAST, PLAYED A KEY NEGOTIATING
ROLE BETWEEN THE ANAL MILITIA HOLDING THE AMERICANS CAPTIVE AND THE
UNITED STATES.
REAGAN NOW HOPES TO ENLIST RSSAD'S ASSISTANCE AGAIN TO HELP FREE
SEVEN OTHER AMERICANS STILL BEING HELD IN BEIRUT, LEBANON. THE SEVEN,
KIDNAPPED IN THE CITY IN THE LAST YEAR, ARE BELIEVED HELD BY THE
EXTREMIST HEZBOLLAH MOSLEM SECT.
THE PRESIDENT DID NOT SPECIFICALLY MENTION THOSE SEVEN IN HIS
SPEECH TO THE LAWYERS AT CONSTITUTION HALL.
BUT HE DID SAY THE COUNTRIES HE NAMED ARE 'NOT NECESSARILY THE
ONLY ONES THAT SUPPORT TERRORISM AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND ITS
ALLIES.'
'NO FOREIGN POWER SHOULD MISTAKE DISAGREEMENT FOR DISUNITY''IN THE
UNITED STRTESi REAGAN SAID, ADDING THAT HISTORY IS 'LITTERED WITH THE
WRECKRGE.OF REGIMES WHO MADE THE MISTAKE OF UNDERESTIMATING THE VIGOR
AND WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.'
'SO: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT -- I REPEAT, NOT -- GOING TO
TOLERATE INTIMIDATION: TERROR, AND OUTRIGHT ACTS OF WAR AGAINST THIS
NATION AND ITS PEOPLE.
'AND WE ARE ESPECIALLY NOT GOING TO TOLERATE THESE ATTACKS FROM
OUTLAW STATES RUN BY THE STRANGEST COLLECTION OF MISFITS, LOONEY
TUNES: AND SQUALID CRIMINALS SINCE THE ADVENT OF THE THIRD REICH:' HE
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HE ALSO BERATED THE SOVIET UNION'S COMMENTS ON THE RECENT HOSTAGE
CRISIS -- ACCUSING THE UNITED STATES OF LOOKING FOR R 'PRETEXT' FOR
ON INVASION.
HE ACCUSED 'THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN NICARAGUA' OF BECOMING 'THE
LRTEST PARTNER OF IRRNi LIBYRs NORTH KOREA AND CUBA IN R CAMPAIGN OF
INTERNATIONAL TERROR.'
THE SRNDINISTR GOVERNMENT SPONSORS TERROR IN EL SRLVRDORi COSTA
RICA AND HONDURAS AND 'HAS BECOME A FOCAL POINT FOR THE TERRORIST
NETWORK' RERGRN CHARGED.
'THESE TERRORIST STATES ORE NOW ENGAGED IN ACTS OF WAR AGAINST THE
GOVERNMENT RND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES:' HE SAID. 'AND UNDER
INTERNATIONAL LAW: RNY STATE WHICH IS THE VICTIM OF ACTS OF WAR HAS
THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF.'
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