Mr. Speaker. today it was announced that Dick Clark. President Carters Special Ambassador for Refugee Affairs. will resign that position on November 1 in order to join the Presidential campaign of Senator KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker. it is disturbing that this occurs at this very crucial time when the refugee question is so acute when it confronts us in a way which has not confronted this country or this world in many. many years. I would hope that Mr. Clark might reconsider this. or at the very least do everything in his power to insure that the transition is a good one. It is also very troublesome that this occurs at a time when the whole subject of refugee problems has the potentiality of becoming a highly politicized issue. which it ought not to be. We need the support of all Americans on this crucial issue. and I would hope we would all act to try and facilitate the efforts of the United States in relieving the tremendous problem that is now occurring in all of Southeast Asia. but most specifically in Cambodia.
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