The committee also voted to allow humanitarian assistance with no criminal prosecution.

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Fadel, who works for the International Rescue Committee, managed a UNICEF-funded program that provides humanitarian assistance to vulnerable children and youths in southern Iraq.

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At the same time, members of Congress led by Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are hoping to legislate a ban on the United States providing even humanitarian assistance to the non-communist resistance, so long as it is in any way associated with the Khmer Rouge.

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