Mr. Speaker. my colleagues in the House have for some time been aware of my interest in the war in Afghanistan. For the past year I have been participating in a program that has had benefits both for the Afghan refugees brought to the United States for medical care and for the sponsors who have had the opportunity to involve themselves in this humanitarian effort. For me. one of the outstanding pluses in the Afghan Medical Program has been working with Mrs. Sally Fulkerson of Victoria. TX. Sally. as "house mother" to our first group of young Afghan patients. has devoted time. energy. and love to the refugees she had in her care. She has become. in the State of Texas. an impassioned spokesperson for the Afghan cause. I recently received a copy of a letter that Sally has sent to Mikhail Gorbachev. asking that Soviet troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan and the country returned to its people.
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