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CRISIS IN EAST PAKISTAN
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1971
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS.
The subcommittee met at 3:20 p.m., in room 2200, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon, Cornelius E. Gallagher (Chairman of the sub-committee) presiding.
STATEMENT OF REPORT OF ROBBERT DORFMAN, PROFESSOR
OF ECONOMICS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Mr. DORFMAN. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to come here. My remarks will concern a somewhat different matter from what I gather you have been hearing in the previous testimony, but there is a close and tragic connection.
Senator Kennedy and the others have already called your attention to the terrible problems of feeding and earring for the millions of refugees, both in Pakistan and in West Bengal. I have nothing to add to that, except my personal sympathy and concern. But the distress of those millions of persons is just one aspect of the civil war that's now going on, and I want to devote my few minutes to America s role and attitude in that war.
Let me qualify myself. My name is Robert Dorfman. I am professor of economics at Harvard, a member of the Council of the American Economic Association, former President of the Institute of Management Sciences, and so forth. I have published a number of books, and I have all the usual academic credentials. I have been concerned professionally with the economics of the less developed countries, including Pakistan, for the last dozen years. My interest began in 1960 when I had the honor of serving as a member of a panel appointed by President Kennedy to advice the Government of Pakistan about the serious problems in the Indus Basin. I flatter myself that this Presidential panel made a substantial contribution to reversing the down-ward course of agriculture in that region. We proposed a sensible plan for increasing the yields of irrigated agriculture, while arresting the ominos progress of environmental decay, building on much excellent work that the Pakistanis had already done. That plan, together with the introduction of high-yield Mexican wheat a few years later and with some essential economic reforms, laid the foundation for the so-called green revolution, which brought to communities where there had been only despair.
