President. I feel very strongly. we are not asking the Senate to do anything but assert itself through a senseofSenate resolution to send a signaland that is about all you can call this. a signal because it is a senseoftheSenate resolutionto our friends in the world that we are going to carry through with this commitment for a 3year period. and let me emphasize again why the 3 years. This is the period of time that prayerfullyand hopefully we can all agree on this pointthrough a new initiative. through new efforts we can resolve the MIA/POW problem and the other humanitarian issues unresolved with Vietnam. which would be the triggering mechanism to resolve the problem of Cambodia which has been the major source for many of the Indochinese refugees today. I am going to yield to the Senator from Minnesota. who wants to be heard on the issue relating to the Hmong situation which has been specified in this same letter that the Senator has quoted and has signed along with other colleagues. I know of no other ethnic group in the whole world where we have specified some kind of a special treatment. as the Judiciary letter stipulates. that intimates a threat to our country than how the letter singles out the Hmongs.
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The letter singles out the Hmongs as a threat to the country.