We can help the long-term unemployed by providing needed financial assistance and offering new incentives to employers to hire and train them.

Reducing unemployment without reigniting the fires of inflation is the most significant domestic challenge we face.

With our support, we expect that the steady progress toward more equitable distribution of wealth and power in El Salvador will continue.

The United States will exercise and assert its navigation and overflight rights and freedoms on a worldwide basis in a manner that is consistent with the balance of interests reflected in the convention.

The United States will not sign the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention that was opened for signature on December 10.

The proclamation also reinforces this government's policy of promoting the United States fishing industry.

The result has been a new lease on life for one of our most basic government programs, social security.

I hope and believe it reflects a bipartisan spirit of putting people before party that will guide us all in meeting other national challenges in the days ahead.

Democracy is what we want, and what we want is to enable Salvadorans to stop the killing and sabotage so that economic and political reforms can take root.

The United States does not stand alone in those concerns.

The nations of Central America are among our nearest neighbors.

I am proclaiming today an Exclusive Economic Zone in which the United States will exercise sovereign rights in living and nonliving resources within 200 nautical miles of its coast.