President. after many weeks of delay. and even longer years of neglect. it appears today that our Government is at last on the verge of establishing an active policy of concern and help for the hundreds of thousands of children and orphans in need throughout Indochina. In South Vietnam alone. a decade of war has leftby official countover 880.000 orphans or halforphans. including some 25.000 children fathered by Americans. about 1.000 of whom have now been abandoned to orphanages. This crisis of children in Vietnam will be the focus tomorrow and Thursday of a special conference with American voluntary agencies convened by the Agency for International Development. This meeting follows the recommendations of a study mission recently dispatched to Indochina by the Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees. which I serve as chairman. Together with a member of that study mission. Dr.
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