Mr. President. yesterday the Subcommittee on Refugees. which I serve as chairman. held a hearing to review the refugee crisis and humanitarian problems in South Vietnam and Cambodia. It was 10 years ago when the subcommittee held its first hearing into the humanitarian problems being created by the second Indochina war. 1965 marked the first major crisis of people. In that year. escalating battle in South Vietnam produced over 1.000.000 refugees. tens of thousands of civilian casualties. and uncounted orphans and war victims of all kinds. But todayafter a decade of spreading war and unspeakable human suffering throughout the areathe people of South Vietnam. and Cambodia are taking the most ferocious beating of the conflict. Tragedy is piled on tragedy. More families are torn apart. More innocent children become orphans. More thousands of frightened and hungry people become refugeesand thousands more are injured or maimed or killed. Millions of people in South Vietnam and Cambodia are crying out for peace and relief. We share in their crisis.
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