Today. we are asked to appropriate $799 million. bringing our total assistance package to more than $24 billion in the past 21 years. My chief purpose today is to urge important changes in our Middle East aid program which has failed to achieve its stated purposes. Specifically. three areas deserve special attention: first. the failure of our aid program to halt Soviet penetration In the Middle East. second. the escalation of the arms race in the Middle East due in great part to inconsistent U.S. policy. and third. the fraudulent abuse of U.S. funds in the refugee programs chiefly executed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.