I shall not burden the RECORD with more lengthy comment at this time. But the urgency of immediate humanitarian needs in Bangladesh. and the policy of unconscionable silence which still governs the administrations attitude toward this new nation and all of South Asia. prompt me today to speak out in behalf of the Bengali people and the vast humanitarian needs which are so readily apparent in Dacca and the countryside of Bangladesh. I am distressed that our national leadership persists in rationalizing the past policy of support for a shabby and shameful enterprise by a military regimeand all but ignores the appeals of Sheikh Mujib for international assistance in helping to feed and rehabilitate the refugees in Bangladesh. I am even more distressed that on February 2. representatives from the administration could appear before the Subcommittee on Refugees and put a cloak of normality on conditions in Bangladesh. and bluntly tell the Subcommittee thatNothingincluding Americas failure to recognize Bangladeshis standing in the way of the movement of relief supplies. Well. they should go to Bangladesh. For I can say.
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