বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৭৪। জাতিসংঘের সাহায্য দল নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ১ আগষ্ট, ১৯৭১ THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDA Y, A UGUST I, I 97] U. N. TO SEND TEAM TO EAST PAKHSTAN U. S. Wins Acceptance by Thant and Yahya on Plan for 153-Man Relief Unit. By Benjamin Welles Special to The New York Times Washington. July 31- The United States, working behind the scenes, has won the agreement of both Pakistan and the United Nations to station an international group of 156 civilian relief and rehabilitation experts under United Nations sponsorship in East Pakistan, officials said today. Moreover, they said. United States has notified U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations, that it will contribute $ 1 -million at once as an initial payment to help the group organize and fly necessary equipment to Dacca. Among the United Nations staff will he 73 monitors, who will be stationed at four area offices in Dacca, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna and at 69 other locations. Each monitor will be linked by radio with a United Nations headquarters in Dacca, qualified informants said. "The presence of" 73 U. N. monitors, each reporting on conditions in his area, may cool off passions and damp down military reprisals," one informant said. "It's not the U. N. function to do this-but it will be an important side effect." On March 25. President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan ordered the Pakistani Army- predominantly composed of troops from West Pakistan -to entervene in predominantly Bengali East Pakistan and suppress widespread demands for political autonomy. Since then, the army's actions have led to widespread loss of life, property damage and economic dislocation and the flight of some seven million refugees into adjoining India. One official today described the agreement of Mr. Thant and of President Yahya to the proposals for a United Nations group, in East Pakistan as "the only ray of sunshine in an otherwise gloomy situation." Pakistan's agreement to the United Nations force is said to have been inspired largely by unremitting but unpublicized United States pressure. In recent years the United States has contributed about $200-million out of the $450-million a year in economic aid to Pakistan by an international consortium headed by the World Bank. Request from Pakistan On May 24, President Yahya asked the United Nations for recommendations. His formal approval to the plan is expected momentarily,
