I thank the gentleman very. very much. particularly for your kind personal words. I want to thank you also in my capacity as a Vietnam veteran. thank yourself and the gentleman from New York for keeping a very uncomfortable issue in the national spotlight and before our people. The last 2 years I have spent very. very quietly interviewing particularly refugees who were boat people. who had spent time in reeducation camps. socalled reeducation camps. I have also had come into my possession letters from individuals who have been sent to the Soviet Union to work in order to try to compensate for the debt that Vietnam owes to the Soviet Union. an evergrowing debt. During this process I have become aware of and tried to work with those groups establishing a liaison with resistance groups fighting within Vietnam and within Laos and those that are associated with the new coalition that has been formed there under the leadership of Prince Sihanouk and Mr.
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