This nation's ability to export its high technology products and services is central to our ability to compete.

This Order is effective immediately.

While we cannot ensure espionage can be completely curtailed, I am pleased that the Administration and Congress together are making significant progress to deal with this problem.

Let us remember them and live up to the great expectations they had for us and for this beloved country of ours.

This mission represents just one more example of cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union in search and rescue missions.

Today it's an honor for me to recognize that the American Irish Foundation and the Ireland Fund are now officially merged into one operation.

America's been blessed by her Irish children.

Disbursements from the International Fund will address the needs of both communities in Northern Ireland.

I hereby certify that the Board of the International Fund is broadly representative of the interests of the communities in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

In your courage, your tenacity, your know-how, you summed up all that is best in the American spirit; in a word, all that is heroic.

Out of this tragic situation, the Governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland took a courageous and farsighted step in November of 1985 when they signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

As your Commander in Chief, it's my high honor to commend you on a job well done.

Disbursements from the International Fund will be distributed in accordance with the principle of equality of opportunity and nondiscrimination in employment.

I hope and pray that, no matter how stormy international affairs, the leaders of the world can look at what happened between these fliers and sailors and be duly inspired.

Social harmony and economic progress in Ireland will not come easy, but better, more peaceful times will come.

To those of Irish ancestry go my particular greetings on this glorious day.

And in Irish, Dia libh go leir—God be with you all.

I do hereby proclaim March 16, 1987, as Freedom of Information Day.