American Professors Urge Nixon To Reverse Pakistan Aid Program

Hundreds of faculty members--including six Nobel prize winners--from over 20 universities urged President Nixon yesterday to change his Pakistan policy, in a statement prepared by Professors Myron Weiner and Harold Isaacs of MIT.

The statement, also sent to Secretary of State William P. Rogers and presented to visiting Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, says that the Administration policy "places the United States on the side of a government which is deliberately flouting the results of a national election, denying East Bengal the most elementary rights of self-determination, and committing wanton massacres against an unarmed people."

Isaacs said yesterday the response to their appeal for signatures, which began October 29, has been "astonishing" and "indicates that people wanted to be heard on this subject." The statement he drafted with Weiner makes five proposals to the government.

* to withdraw aid to the Pakistan government until "there is a political settlement with the elected Awami League leadership of East Bengal."

* to transfer aid that would have gone to Pakistan to East Bengal refugees in India and at the same time to increase aid to India for the costs of refugee relief.

* to give aid to the people of East Bengal through the U. N.

* to inform Pakistan that "in the event of a war with India. Pakistan should not assume that the United States would necessarily suspend assistance to India."

* to indicated to concerned "Muslim-majority states" that "we would welcome any effort on their part to encourage the Pakistan government to negotiate a political settlement."

John D. Montgomery, professor of Public Administration and a signer of the statement, said. "If I had drafted it. I