We are told that AID personnel are leaving at the rate of 15 to 20 percent of their total personnel each year. They have also reduced their medical aid program from a total of $10 million spent in 1967 to $2.7 million in 1971. There are at least 60 nonprofit. private relief agencies at work in Vietnam. but I am told by those returning from there who have worked in these agenciesDon Luce. who was with the International Volunteer Services. and who now heads the Indochina mobile education project and Louis Kubicka. who was with the American Friends Service Committee as a volunteer worker at their Quang Ngai Refugee Center for 4 yearsthat the private agencies cannot begin to meet the need of the suffering children who have been abandoned or made orphans by the war. Most of those with whom I have talked have given tentative approval to S. 2497. because they see within the bill the beginning of a moral commitment of our Government to begin to rebuild what we have torn apart. It is most unfortunate that the administration has chosen not to endorse this work. for the job now being done in Vietnam to aid the children just Is not being done.