10/18/1989
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"I have directed that enhanced consideration be provided under the immigration laws for individuals from any country who express a fear of persecution upon return to their country."
"I'm ready for this meeting, ready and confident."
"This meeting represents a point of departure, the beginning of a process as full of promise as any that we've known."
"I shall ask the Congress to enact remedial legislation."