We must all assume that the major thrust of the address will discuss the deteriorating situation in Cambodia and South Vietnam. My purpose in rising at this moment is not to engage in a discussion of those issues because I have discussed them on many occasions. and succinctly stated I believe we must end all military and economic assistance to South Vietnam and Cambodia and provide only humanitarian assistance. That humanitarian assistance would consist of food. medicine. and provision for refugees who must leave South Vietnam and Cambodia because they participated in the South Vietnamese regime or worked with the United States and their lives are endangered. I believe that the neighboring countries as well as the United States itself should agree to accept a fair proportion of such refugees. While I support those efforts which are now ongoing. to assist Vietnamese orphans. I believe that there is an even greater humanitarian effort to be made which is to assist those who are in physical danger because of their active opposition to the North Vietnamese Communist Government and the Provisional Revolutionary Government.
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