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

I am pleased to announce today several steps being taken to ensure that the United States continues to work closely with the Canadian Government in determining and addressing the environmental effects of acid rain.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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