Mr. President. this is a crucial point to be emphasized again in our consideration of foreign assistance to Indochina. For I believe this emphasis by the Committee on Humanitarian Assistance is also the very clear consensus of most Americans and many in Congress--that our only obligation remaining in Indochina is to the people of the area. especially to those refugees. civilian war casualties. orphans. and others disadvantaged by the war which we funded for so long. If what the administration now calls its postwar relief and reconstruction program is to be worthy of its name. meeting these humanitarian needs must surely become the central focus of our assistance effort. Yet. without this congressional mandate written into the language of the foreign assistance legislation.
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