President. last week Senator DANFORTH. the distinguished and able Senator from Missouri. Senator BAUCUS. my able friend from Montana. and I were dispatched to Southeast Asia by the leadership of the Senate. We were sent to that area initially on a factfinding mission to determine the true status of refugees in Thailand and also in an effort to understand and report back to the Senate what is happening in Cambodia. It was stressed to us. Mr. President. that ours was a humanitarian mission. We attempted to keep political considerations totally and completely out of our efforts. We arrived in Thailand and went immediately to visit three refugee concentration areas along the ThailandCambodian border. I use the term "refugee concentration areas" advisedly because I do not think we could dignify these gatherings of miserable people with the term "refugee camps." What we found there was beyond my worst imagination. We found people who were suffering from the final stages of malnutrition. We found disease in these refugee concentration areas to be rampant. Eighty percent of the people were suffering from malaria. Tuberculosis was affecting many of the people in these camps.
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