The fact is that we have an obligation to these people that is paramount in our consideration. both from the standpoint of the history of our relationship with them and the fact that they stand for freedom and democracy and from a selfinterest standpoint. For after 1969 when the Sandinistas took over. I want you to know that more refugees. more Nicaraguans fled Nicaragua in the 4 years after that. immediately after that than in the 45 years of Somoza rule. more than 60.000 of them. I have spoken with a lot of them in the U.N. operated refugee camps. and I can tell you they left because the Sandinista oppression. That is what they say. that is why they left. and I believe them. The fact is that if we do not provide this assistance. many more are going to leave.
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