But. with the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. there is no further Justification for giving these NATO nations hundreds of millions of dollars every year to keep purchasing sophisticated weapons to deter a new nonexistent military threat from the Soviet Union. Our NATO friends can continue to buy American equipment. but they will have to pay back any loans they contract. I am extremely pleased that we have been able to increase disaster assistance programs by nearly $150 million in this conference report. We target refugee and disaster aid to the terrible catastrophes occurring in southern Africa. particularly Somalia. and in Bosnia. Slovenia. Croatia. and Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia.