This was at the time when. according to all reports. tens of thousands. if not hundreds of thousands. of people were being killed in Cambodia by their own Government. We wrote as follows: An initiative of this kind would still be useful as a demonstration of our view that Cambodia has become a uniquely horrible situation warranting a uniquely vigorous response from the world community. On June 19 of this year the Senate passed by a vote of 98 to 0 an amendment of mine stating that it was the sense of the Senate that the President should call on the Secretary General of the United Nations to convene an emergency session of the General Assembly to deal with the refugee crisis. A large bipartisan group of Senators was prepared to join with Senator DOLE and me. the sponsors of that amendment. in calling up our resolution that would have directed our ambassador to the United Nations to place the question of Cambodian food and medical relief before the General Assembly. and to devise an emergency program to deal with the crisis. Mr.