Appropriations amounting to $12.760.719.000 are required to achieve these aims. The bulk of this request. $12.345.719.000. is needed to support operations of our fighting forces. The remainder. $415 million is sought for the Agency for International Development. primarily for its operations in Vietnam. These include such items as commodity imports to combat inflation. refugee relief. nonmilitary construction such as port facilities and rural development. among other economic and political support for that hard beset nation. The Congress in the last 2 years has repeatedly. by its authorizations and appropriations. given continuing support for the national decision to halt further aggression in southeast Asia. Mr.