পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/১৪৫

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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড A check of the bill's loading of the cargo aboard the Sunderbans showed that this license covered an item described as "23 skids, parts," Weighing 11,895 pounds. No further description of these items was available. But another license issued by the State Department for the Sunderbans's cargo specified "parts and accessories for military vehicles." The Sunderbans carries a total of 21 items, according to the dockside delivery listings, identified Oil these documents only as cases and cartons of "auto parts and accessories," "skids and parts," "boxes" and parts." Planes and Parachutes Listed The dockside delivery listings for the Padma include two entries of "four aircraft" each, 113 parachutes and parts, and auto parts, accessories, skids and "wooden boxes." An item described as "crates bundles and parts" is listed as weighing 14.133 pounds. The program of military sales to Pakistan, begun in 1267, had been running at nearly $10 million a year, according to Robert J. Mecloskey, the State Department spokesman. The United Stages agreed in that year to sell "nonlethal" equipment to both Pakistan and India, lifting in part the embargo placed on military deliveries after the 1965 Indian. Pakistani war. In October, 1970, the Administration agreed, as an exception," to sell Pakistan an undisclosed number of F-104 fighter planes, B-57 bombers, and armored personnel carriers. However, the State Department rain today that none of this "exception" equipment had been delivered. But authoritative sources here, who cannot he identified, said that the flow of military equipment to Pakistan from Air Force sales alone had reached $47,944,781 between 1967 and April 30, 1970. A communication sent on May 28 to the defense procurement division, of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington by the headquarters of the Air Force accounting and finance center in Denver enclosed a "status report... listing all your open foreign military sales cases, showing case value, amounts collected, delivered and undelivered." The letter-signed by Elaine B. Loventhal, chief foreign military sales branch comptroller at the Denver headquarters - was headed "USAF statement of military sales transactions and detail delivery listings." The "status report" noted that previous charges on Pakistani military purchases were $25,679,654.10, that undelivered items totaled $21,730,740.07 and that "cash received to date" was $24,342,782.37. State Department officials were unable to say precisely what period this report covered. The Air Force report said however, that the Pakistani Government had to remit Hon or before 31 May, 1971" the sum of $3,376,253.51 for further "total cash requirements."