[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 36 (Friday, March 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 25, 1994]
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                                SOMALIA

  Mr. DURENBERGER. Mr. President, I thank the Chair, and I particularly 
appreciate the comments made by my colleague from Kansas about Somalia 
and the many sacrifices that Americans have made there.
  I would also suggest to my colleagues there are Americans in Somalia 
today and in neighboring Kenya and other parts of that world who are 
prepared to make even greater sacrifices in the future.
  A number of Members have been involved over the last few months in 
helping to develop a resource for Somalis called the Somalia 
Reconciliation and Development Corps. A young man from my State by the 
name of Jim Killsmier, his wife and family of several children, have 
moved to Narobi, Kenya, and regularly visit a town called Buburti which 
is just north of Mogadishu. What we have in mind is a project which 
will help Somalis reconcile and redevelop their country.
  A number of Somali Americans are involved in this effort as well, and 
it is the hope of those of us who are involved in this particular 
project that with a little bit of help and a little bit of sacrifice 
from those of us who do not have to experience firsthand the ravages of 
hunger and starvation and banditry and the illogic of a nonpolitical 
system that the Somali people and the new leadership of that country 
will take responsibility for reconciling that country.

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