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100 STAT. 4467 Proclamation 5500 of June 10, 1986 Youth Suicide Prevention Month, 1986 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Our youth are this Nation’s hope for the future. Young people have so much to offer society and so much to hope for that their early death is always a keenly felt tragedy. That tragedy becomes even more poignant when a young person takes his or her own life. During the last three decades, youth suicide rates have tripled. Last year alone, approximately five thousand young people took their own lives, and many thousands more attempted suicide.
Their actions left family and friends bereft, heartbroken, and often baffled. The phenomenon of youth suicide is a national problem. To cope with it we must enlist the combined diagnostic and educational efforts of individuals, families, communities, churches, synagogues, private groups, and government agencies. We must learn to detect the early symptoms of suicidal tendencies and develop ways of helping those whose depression and despondency could lead to this terrible act. We must continue to combat those tendencies and influences such as the “drug culture” that preach despair and violence and generously offer help and counsel to young people beset with problems of adolescence.
We should not neglect to pray for young people tempted to end their own lives as the “easy way out.” The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 266, has designated the month of June 1986 as “Youth Suicide Prevention Month” and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of June 1986 as Youth Suicide Prevention Month. I call upon the Governors of the several States, the chief officials of local governments, and the people of the United States to observe such month with appropriate programs and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth. RONALD REAGAN 5501 June 12, 1986 Baltic Freedom Day, 1986 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5501 of June 12, 1986 Baltic Freedom Day, 1986 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The United States was born in a War of Independence against an oppressive rule.
We stood up for inalienable rights given by God and declared that governments that systematically violate those rights lose their claim to legitimacy. It is a tragedy of our time that many peoples continue to live under the brutal totalitarian rule of the Soviet empire. We will expose the inhumanity of the oppressors and speak out on behalf of the oppressed. We will denounce tyranny and champion the cause of its victims. 100 STAT. 4468 Baltic Freedom Day provides these opportunities.
On this day, we observe the anniversary of the callous and treacherous subjugation of three independent and freedom-loving states. Forty-six years ago, invading Soviet armies, in collusion with the Nazi regime, overran and occupied the Republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Through police-state tactics, the occupation and subjugation continue. Soviet outrages against these peoples have included massive deportations from their native soil to concentration camps in Siberia and elsewhere.
At the same time masses of Russians have been uprooted from their homes and relocated in the Baltic nations in an effort to eradicate the cultural and ethnic heritage of the Baltic peoples. Against all recognized principles of international law, justice, and humanity, the Soviets have continued their domination over Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The United States has never recognized their forced incorporation into the U.S.S.R. It is illegal, indefensible, and iniquitous. We are engaged in a very real struggle to focus the world’s attention on one of the gravest wrongs of our age—the stubborn and contemptuous Soviet disregard for the sovereignty of independent nations and the rights of oppressed peoples.
As evidence, we hold up its first victims—the heroic Baltic nations we honor today. To do less is to acquiesce in injustice and to betray our heritage as champions of human freedom. As a Nation, we are the standard-bearers of freedom and a beacon of hope to the oppressed. Ours is the mission of the prophet Isaiah, “to bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.” The Congress of the United States, by Senate Joint Resolution 271, has designated June 14, 1986, as “Baltic Freedom Day” and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 14, 1986, as Baltic Freedom Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate remembrances and ceremonies and to reaffirm their commitment to the principles of liberty and self-determination for all peoples. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth.
RONALD REAGAN 5502 June 19, 1986 National Agricultural Export Week, 1986 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5502 of June 19, 1986 National Agricultural Export Week, 1986 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The American farmer is the most productive in the world. Citizens from virtually every nation rely on our farmers for food and fiber for nourishment and for clothing. This Administration is firmly dedicated to developing, maintaining, and expanding international markets for United States’ agricultural exports.
Agriculture is the single largest export industry in the United States. Earnings from agricultural exports have contributed $333 billion to the United 100 STAT. 4469States balance of payments in the past decade, and these earnings have stimulated additional employment and investment estimated at $1 trillion. The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 310, has designated the week of June 15, 1986, through June 21, 1986, as “National Agricultural Export Week,” and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of June 15, 1986, through June 21, 1986, as National Agricultural Export Week, and I call upon the people of the United States to commemorate this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 19th. day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth.
RONALD REAGAN 5503 June 19, 1986 National Interstate Highway Day, 1986 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 5503 of June 19, 1986 National Interstate Highway Day, 1986 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation In June 1956, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 and the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 were enacted to provide for the construction and financing of the National Interstate and Defense Highway System.
Nineteen hundred and eighty-six marks the 30th anniversary of the passage of this legislation. During the last 30 years, the construction of the Interstate System has brought about tremendous change and progress in our society. As the world’s largest and most successful transportation and public works project, it has enhanced travel and has helped join the Nation together to supply raw material, finished goods, food, and other essential products and services, and contributed to the national defense.
The Interstate System accounts for just over one percent of the total road mileage in the United States, yet it carries approximately 20 percent of the Nation’s total traffic volume. Employing the most advanced highway safety designs ever devised, the Interstate System is one of the Nation’s safest modes of transportation. The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 636, has designated June 26, 1986, as “National Interstate Highway Day” and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 26, 1986, as National Interstate Highway Day, and I call upon the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth. RONALD REAGAN 5504 June 19, 1986 National Safety in the Workplace Week, 1986 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation