The banana cropthe major source of foreign exchangeis all but destroyed. Clean water is scarceand so is food. Disaster refugees number in the hundreds of thousands. Thousands of people have lost their livesand the lives of thousands more are threatened by exposure. malnutrition. and disease. The Immediate and longer term effects of the hurricane are not fully known. But all sources confirm that a neighbor country has suffered great tragedy. and that emergency relief needs. let alone rehabilitation and reconstruction. are urgent and massive. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Refugees. I rise today to express my deep personal sympathy and concern to the Government and people of Hondurasand to urge that the United Nations Disaster Relief OfficeUNDROwith the support of our own Government and others. spare no effort in helping to meet the humanitarian needs of the Honduran people. AID officials have indicated that a number of initiatives are already underway by our Government.
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