While these funds are used for activities in these other countries. the benefits in terms of reducing the flow of harmful drugs into our own country are obvious. There are other items in the bill which warrant your support. The Cuban refugee program. under which nearly 450.000 refugees from Castros Cuba have been resettled in this country. is funded in this bill. More than 80 percent of these refugees are now fully selfsupporting. taxpaying. contributing members of their adopted communities. and the program is now scheduled for an orderly termination over a 5year period. In response to a proposed budget amendment. we have included under title IV of the bill $2.2 billion in emergency security assistance for Israel. $150 million in emergency military assistance for Cambodia. and $100 million in disaster relief assistance for the Sahel region of Africa. and for Pakistan and for Nicaragua. The latest tragic war in the Middle East has been especially costly to Israel in terms of weapons and lives lost.
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