It was the image. etched in his memory. of a little girl he tried to help and couldnt. Five years ago. Rep. Leland was in an Ethiopian refugee camp during one of the periodic famines that have plagued that unhappy land. Among the dusty refugees who caught his eye was a starving 14yearold girl. "A skeleton of a person." he recalled later. "with a thin layer of brown skin draped on her. (she] had Just a faint breath of life left in her." Shaken to the core. Rep. Leland turned to a relief official to see what could be done for her. "While I was talking to him." the congressman said. "she died.
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