Mr. Chairman. the gentleman from Florida has rendered an important service in offering this amendment. It provides a mechanism whereby numerous civic and service organizations can funnel nonlethal assistance directly to hapless refugees from the brutal Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And it is crafted in such a manner. Mr. Chairman. as to streamline the entire assistance process. without degrading our services combat readiness due to their helping the Afghan people. In fact. the amendments emphasis on reserve participation will ultimately provide excellent peacetime training for their wartime airlift mission. Unlike the divisiveness and sincere differences in opinion existing in this House on measures to be taken in Central America. there can be no disagreement on the origin and causes of the terrible fate which has befallen the Afghan people.
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