Mr. Speaker. let me first congratulate the female Members of Congress today having taken several of these 1 minute speeches for the purpose of calling attention to the need for some type of an international intervention to protect the refugees created by the Lebanon crisis. We want to be sure that the women. the children. the innocents who have been slaughtered indiscriminately. both in the original bombing of Beirut and now. in more recent times. in the terrible tragedy in the refugee camps. are protected and that such events not happen again. I congratulate the gentlewomen who have brought this matter to the countrys attention. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration. Refugees. and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary. I offer to them my total support. My signature is on that letter which will be sent to the President asking for an international force to protect the Lebanon refugees. My subcommittee will be anxious to help here. but I think one thing ought to be brought to the attention of this body: We do not. by this activity. want to perpetuate refugee camps. Refugee camps stand as a symbol of the fact that the people who need a homeland have not been able to find a homeland to return to. We do not seek to say refugee living is the best. We simply want to protect human life. and I Join with my colleagues in that noble endeavor.
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