As I said. the program will reach about 60 million children. While the centers which have been set upthere are some 53 of themby our standards certainly would not be very much. in certain countries there are no health centers at all. and those established under this program come as a great boon and blessing to humble people. One item in this bill deals with those who are referred to as Palestine refugees. It is a bit of a misnomer because in the main these refugees are Arab refugees. It is estimated there are approximately 850.000 of them475.000 in the little country of Transjordan alonea much impoverished country which. obviously. could not carry the entire impact without some aid from the outside. The testimony showed that approximately 200.000 of these refugees are in Egypt. and approximately 100.000 in the little country of Lebanon. on the Mediterranean. and approximately 80.000 in Syria. God willing. the Jordan River development will be underway within the next few years because water is like life to the land in the Jordan Valley. and for miles and miles. not only in Palestine but also in Transjordan and elsewhere. there will be. as a result of the Jordan River development. a place where these people can subsist because the land is fruitful. indeed. if water can be brought to it. So this provision of the bill is really in relation to Arab refugees who today are dispersed in that section of the world. One item is for $3.169.000 for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. That includes roughly onehalf of their expenditures. and the other half is our contribution to a new NATO headquarters building in Paris.
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