Nevertheless even this limited contribution would cost more than what the present FMS levels have appropriated or planned for Somalia. We must also increase our ESF and development assistance. Without finding some employment for the refugees. we will perpetuate an unproductive camp life for them and create another Palestinian problem. While the administration and Congress were more generous with refugee aid and development assistance-$30 million ESF was appropriated in fiscal year 1982the effort must be expanded in fiscal year 1983 and fiscal year 1984 if we want the survival of a stable. proWestern Somalia. In the past. there were two guiding examples for largescale refugee problems. One example was the German case where approximately 12 million refugees and expellees were dumped into West Germany between 194547. By 1952. they were absorbed into the national economy and provided with the manpower and many of the skills and comparable to the German "economic wonder." This would have been. of course. impossible. without the Marshall plan which provided the impetus to accelerated economic development and political stabilization. The other example Is that of the Palestinian refugees on the West Bank. the Gaza Strip. and southern Lebanon. Generations were brought up in the camps since 1948. with little productive experience and low selfesteem. providing the manpower for the terrorist activities of the PLO in order to arouse international public opinion about their plight and lack of selfdetermination. It is up to us which direction the Somali refugees will have to take. For the sake of justice and peace as well as our national interest. I hope that the administration will choose adequate assistance so that the Somali economy may develop substantially and that political stability may be preserved in Somalia.
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