Horrors of East Pakistan Turning Hope Into Despair
M W Browne says horror in E Pakistan has become institutionalized, that most foreigners who come to help are on verge of despair, feeling that no amt of relief money can alleviate sufferings there; says they think chances of reversing tide of millions of destitute refugees are remote, particularly as Pakistan Govt has made no progress in ending repression that has made E Pakistan 'place of endless horror'; foreign observers also say Yahya Khan's amnesty was purely cosmetic, that Govt has not only failed to release any important prisoners but also has continued to arrest politicians, professors, attys and others by the hundreds; says number of persons under amnesty have been arrested and shot; Browne revs repts of alleged atrocities by occupation army, citing story that 563 women picked up by army in Mar and Apr and held in mil brothels are not being released because they are pregnant beyond point at which abortions are possible; says many Dacca residents tell of having seen young women taken away by mil police; 1 pessimistice foreign relief expert says outside world might just as well pull out now and let things take their own inevitable course; illus
