I shortly arrived in Macedonia, where now I had a whole new embassy
team to put to work; and they did. They pulled together phone numbers
and made connections for me, too. I spoke--I believe it was from
Macedonia--to the Tanzanian Embassy--the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania. I want to thank Anthony Pagliai. Anthony Pagliai is the officer who
issued the visas, and he was Johnny-on-the-spot. He couldn't have moved
any more quickly or with any more conviction once I convinced him that
this was for real. And it was interesting how that happened, Mr. Speaker, that the--you
know, when a congressman calls a staff person in an embassy in
Tanzania, he doesn't have any way of knowing that it actually is a
Member of Congress, for one thing, and what is the level of urgency and
credibility of that call.