103 STAT. 3086 PROCLAMATION 6018—SEPT. 12, 1989 In addition to preventing personal injury and property damage on all U.S. waters, the Coast Guard has served as a leader in protecting those waters. It has helped to minimize damage to the marine environment from spills of oil and other hazardous substances, and it has safeguard- ed our Nation's ports, waterways, and marine facilities from vandalism and accidental harm. The U.S. Coast Guard also conducts polar and domestic ice operations to support our national interests and facilitates marine transportation in domestic waters by maintaining short- and long-range aids to navi- gation—including lighthouses, buoys, and loran stations. This important Government agency, which has ably served the Ameri- can people in war as well as peacetime, will observe its Bicentennial during the period of time beginning August 4, 1989, and ending August 4, 1990. The Congress of the United States, by Senate Joint Resolution 126, has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation recog- nizing the 2 centuries of service by the United States Coast Guard and calling upon the Nation to share in the pride and satisfaction enjoyed by its dedicated members during the commemoration of this Bicenten- nial. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period beginning August 4, 1989, and ending August 4, 1990, as a time to commemorate the Bicentennial of the United States Coast Guard. I invite the Governors of the States, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and America Samoa and the Mayor of the District of Colimibia to pro- vide for the observance of this commemoration. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty- nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fourteenth. GEORGE BUSH Proclamation 6018 of September 12, 1989 National Alcohol and Drug Treatment Month, 1989 ^ By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Each day, we Americans are confronted by grim reminders of the dev- astation wrought by excessive consumption of alcohol and other forms of substance abuse. Millions of Americans have suffered, either directly or indirectly, from the consequences of chemical dependency. Sub- stance abuse confributes to accidents resulting in serious injvuy and death, and it accounts for much of the violent crime on our city streets. Disrupting or destroying the lives of families across the United States, this grave problem has placed our Nation's futiu'e at risk. It has been estimated that as many as one-third of all families in this Nation are affected in some way by alcoholism. Perhaps as many as
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