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7 Postal Addraas ~ AMERICAN FRILWDS SERVICE COMMITTEE INC A. 460 North Fiftesnth & ne iN os hose . . bie Philadelphia, Pennsy.. watiace T. COLLETT : . . v Phone 215-563-9372 Chairman HENRY J. CADBURY t Honorary Chairmen BRONSON P, CLARK Executive Secretary Temporary Oftice Address 112 South Sixteenth § ” Statement from Bronson P. Clark, Executive Secretary os Two representatives of the American Friends Service Committee have just .returned from Hanoi where they delivered a humanitarian shipment of heart surgery equipment. They are Dr. George Perera, former associate dean of the Columbia University College of Physicians.and Surgeons and a re- “ cognized expert on hypertension, and John A. Sullivan, Associate Executive - - Secretary of AFSC. __ - Our representatives brought home personal and photographic evidence of what | some of the American bombs are now doing: wrecked hospitals, schools, homes and cultural buildings. They stood on and photographed Pp primary and a second- ary dike at Nam Dinh which had been bombed with no visible military target nearby. Whether the bombing of civilian institutions ; the maiming and killing -- of civilians and the damage and weakening of dikes is intentional or accidental is academic. The critical question is whether these things are happening, and the direct, first-hand evidence of AFSC observers is that they.are. U.S. bombardment and naval shelling of North Vietnam must be terminated, For a technologically superior country like ours to be rainingsophisticated destruction on a rclatively defenseless, essentially peasant people who are completely with- ~ out the means of the slightest attack on our country brings dishonor to American ideals. Our representatives found in all their conversations and observations that the North Vietnamese people, far from being driven to defeat, are uniting more strongly under the pressure and putting their ability to adapt and survive to worl: to outlast and endure the bombing. : ~ ~o in the name of all that is holy, in the namé of spiritual values, in thé very name of America, this loathsome bombing and shelling must stop. 4 August 1972 -2-