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 The Indians have apparently armed and trained the guerrillas. The guerrillas mukti bahini have severed the main rail line in East Pakistan. Every week they blow up roads and bridges Frogmen have damaged foreign ships in East Pakistan harbors and craft that ply the Province's waterways.

 This prevents relief supplies from reaching needy Pakistanis. The guerrillas have not attacked U. N personnel or facilities, but appear determined that relief activities should not appear to support the Pakistan government, according to U.N. officials on the scene. Sine food is often distributed through schools; this may soon make local food and education authorities prime targets.

 U. N. reports emphasize the cooperation of the Pakistan government in relief programs. Yet when the U. N. East Pakistan Relief Operation (UNEPRO) wanted to bring portable radios in to make it possible to communicate with field agents and keep track of relief supplies, both civil and refused permission. They expressed fear that the mukti bahini would capture the radios.

 U. N. officials have had to take over transport dispatching and supervision of vehicle maintenance themselves, but UNEPRO has been able to put only 14, of the 90 U. N. personnel in East Pakistan permanently in the field.

 Martin Woolacott of the Manchester Guardian reported from Dacca that only 30 of the 100 trucks UNEPRO had brought in to carry food had left the part of Chittagong because roads to most areas were not usable. He reported that only five out of 17 coastal vessels and seven out of nine “minibulders” had arrived but U.N. officials here claim all have reached IIast Pakistan.

 The Indian government insists it can manage its own relief efforts without foreign help-except for funds. IJ.N. officials report that in refugee camps they were allowed to visit food, and shelter materials were getting to, the people though sanitation was terrible.

 Officials are suspicious, however that things are worse in areas they were not allowed to visit. Some cite examples to show that the problems are the same in west Bengal as in East Pakistan. For instance, the Indians failed to provide the drivers and maintenance men promised to keep. 1,000 U.N. supplied trucks operating.

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