12/10/1989
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"I hereby authorize the release in fiscal year 1991 of up to 300,000 metric tons of wheat from the reserve established under the Act."
"The wheat will be used to provide urgent humanitarian relief to the peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia who are suffering widespread hunger and malnutrition."
"I have great respect for Jim Baker's views, and I don't know what that means, that predicate that it didn't go far enough."
"Encouraging State and local governments to manage the non-federal river segment is a much better alternative."