Speech #940035177

Sometimes commitments are invented by the administration where no commitments in fact exist. and then Congress is blamed for not keeping those "commitnents." I would hope also that the United Nations would do something. I think It is disgraceful that the United Nations has not remonstrated against the violations of the peace accords. I think the United Nations and other countries of the world ought to contribute to the humanitarian effort to help the refugees and orphan children. The United States bore almost the whole burden of the war in South Vietnam for many years in an effort to give the South Vietnamese an opportunity to defend themselves. and they have now abandoned threefourths of the country to the Communists almost without firing a shot. I would hope that the United States would not now have to bear the whole burden of the humanitarian effort that needs to go forward to bring some succor and relief to the defenseless and distraught civilian refugees. who have been run over by the elite military personnel in their wild scramble to get out of the way of the approaching North Vietnamese and to get on the planes. the helicopters. and the roads leading to South Vietnam. I would hope also that the White House and the Congress might cooperate and join together in dealing with the internal problems of this country that impinge on foreign policy. What I am talking about are the energy shortfall and the economic problems that confront our country.