In recent times. American service men and women rushed assistance to earthquake victims in Armenia in 1988. assisted hundreds of thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq in 1991. helped provide emergency assistance to almost 2 million people affected by flooding in Bangladesh last year. and restored order in our own Virgin Islands after Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Today. military members are providing assistance to thousands of Haitian refugees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba whom they helped rescue from unseaworthy vessels. and are airlifting food and medical supplies to the needy citizens of the newly independent republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Mr. President. the cold war is over. but the Nation still relies on our men and women in uniform to keep the peace as our former adversaries struggle to overcome years of economic and political decay to Join the free world community.
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