Baltimore Sun

WASHINGTON, June 2.-The United States is prepared to help India fly Pakistani refugees out of overcrowded areas, an official source said today.

Through the United Nations high commissioner for refugees India asked for airlift assistance to shift refugees now in Tripura-which is east of East Pakistan- to other less crowded areas of eastern India. India said there were now 500,000 refugees in Tripura, which has a population of 1.5 million.

The United States has agreed in principle to the request, the official said, and is now checking on its feasibility, looking into such matters as the suitability of airfields for large cargo aircraft, such as C-130's.

The Indian request came to light when Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass.) accused the government of railing to respond "to India's appeals for relief supplies, such as tents and for logistical support, such as C-130's and helicopters."

"How much longer," he asked in a statement inserted in tomorrow's Congressional Record, "will our government point with satisfaction to the meager efforts it is making and to an international relief program that so far remains on paper?"

Senator Kennedy, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on refugees, urged the government to "respond immediately to the need of feeding 4 million refugees-the Indian figure-without waiting for the U.N. relief operation to begin.

Mr. Kennedy said that the State Department had advised him it would cost $30 million to feed 4 million refugees for three months and that the U.S. was prepared to carry {Incomplete Article}