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VULTURES TOO FULL TO FLY
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 12, 1971
Mr. GALLAGHER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to comment briefly on the situation in East Pakistan or Bangladesh as the Bengalis and their supporters prefer it to be called. On May 11, my Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a hearing on this matter. We were scheduled to meet May 13 to hear the witnesses from the Department of State and the Agency for International Development in executive session and Professor Robert Dorfman of Harvard University in open session. Unfortunately, that day of hearing must now be postponed and it will be rescheduled as soon as possible.
Whatever the politics involved in this region. I firmly believe that one of the great human tragedies of modern times may be in the process of being created. As additional background material for the continuing debate over the American role and the role of the world community in mounting a humanitarian assistance program. I would like to call my colleagues attention to the testimony of Senator EDWARD M. KENNEDY before my sub- committee yesterday, a position paper of the Ripon Society dated April 3, and a news dispatch from the Washington Star of May 12.
The phrase in the news dispatch about “vultures too full to fly" may be regarded as vulgar by many people unfamiliar with the history and the potential for tragedy in his region. However, it does graphically reflect the position of many who are intimately familiar with past events and with informed future predictions.
[From the Washington Evening Star. May 12, 1971]
VULTURES TOO FULL TO FLY-EAST PAKISTANI
CALAMITY DEFIES BELIEF,
(By Moit Rosenblum)
DACCA, EAST PAKISTAN-Vultures too full fly perch along the Ganges River in grim contentment. They have fed on perhaps more than a half million bodies since March.
Civil war flamed through Pakistan's eastern wing on March 25, pushing the bankrupt nation to the edge of ruin. The killing and devastation defy belief.
From a well at Natore, fetid geses bubble up around bones and rotting flesh.
