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American Friends Service Committee — Part 11
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a Unwiilag * to ‘adimnowlod:; 3 the government’ q authority to cule : some members of the “human family’ out ia of bounds “0 hum anitar! an.
rai! ‘ef, New Vork Frizads resoived to undertake a puhiic challenge of the GIFT parce! restriction and attempt to send fequivatent ©. ot
packages of relief to the Red Cresa groups wa Narth Viernum, Souta Vietnam and the Nationa! Liberatian’Front. Whea in the searse
of chair witness oa April jth, their rarceis to Hanoi were resected, Frieads aimpiy proceeded to affix new iabeis to the packages. =
eric dressing theni to Prisuds in Canada for transhipment.” Following the witness, Friends joined fa sending a lester to the Presi’
Jent,, Urging his m bdificatica of the restrictive’ regulations and expressing. their, Feet ak being obliged, to choose between" pidplatin
~ thetereligious traditions 5r violating and circumventing the law ofour land, 700) es 2 *
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The resuits of tals pislic ‘witness and mailing of relief parceis were most encouraging., Early this summer. repu ie ‘wera | .
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received from Red. Crosa auchcrities tn Hanol and the Liber tica Red Cross ackiowie? sing the receict of the parcels and thus verie. ge
fying the existence cf’chacael2 for the sucessful transmissicn of aumanitarian celie? supplies from North America to all parca of ‘ ane
cetMam, Regretably ae replies were forthcoming from Saigon or the Presidesr. However Friends did recegivea visit from a Spec: ai.
Anes nt af the Com mmexce Denar meat'a Qiftce af Export Control incie cating that the Agri witiess “ad provi ided govezpmestay 2 3 (ict tals ».
Ah an opportualty co reassesa th Fationace serund shelr Tescrictions oo Simanl frartis relief, 7
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* Today the ‘ecncern to sen forward ‘gubstant! al shigments af homer aitarlaa relief ta persons suf fering in aw parts ‘of { Vietnam m :
‘ett ox w ithout the germissica of the United States” goverameat,would appear ro be well established among Friends; “44 ia pe
i On Tuly _ New “ork ‘Variy Vestine gave its approval to a minute authorizing the purchase and mailing of medical el: ef”
piles to che Fed Cross Societies if Sours Vier ar. North Yietham and che Nacional L iberaticn Front via the Canadian ed Cros3 °°
or other Canadian agencies with the’ tecogaition th that “this will involve the Yearly Meeting ln test.ng certain Federal Cavs tight focct
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. “On Auguerc * o2 Year? Meemng minuted their concer co “Irn with cther American Friends ia Sencing alc” while. 2
ieseiig geome aes on tt the immoral tegsjations which tromb't sur humanitarian relief -f Paiteting ino ainy gide. .
Ca Auris a.5t. liacnets Yariv ‘Jeeting arproved “jouing Mew York Yearly Me ting ‘n indertacirg to send medical and otrer)
“Tisnitarad sucples te gauuerog sec nd 2 all 06 Viecam” ag an expression of tracitional Quaxer testimony ind “a constructive STF
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