U.S. policy has thereby contributed to a weakening of NATO In the Eastern Mediterranean. Second. we have seen the helpless people of the Island of Cyprus suffer in many ways. There are now. in a nation of less than 700.000 people. some 200.000 refugees. If that percentage of the American population were to be left homeless with winter coming. Mr. Speaker. there would be 70 million refugees in the United States. This comparison tells you something of the magnitude of the wrong which the illegal use of American weapons by Turkish military forces. a use acquiesced in by our own Department of State. has brought to the people of this basically peasant country. Cyprus.
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