WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—The United States has agreed to furnish the United Nations with two helicopters, 200 trucks and an additional 210,000 tons of grain and food blends for victims of last autumn's cyclone and the more recent civil strife in East Pakistan.

The fresh aid, details of which were disclosed here by officials of the Agency for International Development, brings the total of American aid to East Pakistan to $137‐million. By comparison, United States aid to an estimated 8,500,000 Pakistani refugees who have fled into India is said to total $82‐million.

Officials denied that the preponderance of aid for East Pakistan reflected a pro‐Pakistan leaning by the Nixon Administration. They confirmed, though, that the Administration believed that its most effective policy lay in helping restore the war‐shattered economy of East Pakistan — thereby persuading refugees to return.

Aid Worth $2‐Million

The latest United. States aid to be distributed to East Pakistan through the United Nations—which has about 40 officials supervising relief distribution in the area—is worth $2‐million, officials said.

Details of the agreement were worked out at the State Department Friday between Maurice Williams, deputy aid administrator and chairman of the United States inter-agency group for relief efforts in East Pakistan, and Paul Marc Henry, United Nations Assistant Secretary General. Mr. Henry returned yesterday to Dacca, the East Pakistani capital.
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The United Nations, they said, is arranging for 400 more trucks and for additional helicopters from other nations.

The United States has also chartered 26 shallow‐draught river boats with capacities of 600 to 3,000 tons, Six are on hand and fourteen are expected Ito arrive in East Pakistan this (,month to deliver food and supplies.

Conflict Continues

Since March 25, when President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan ordered the Pakistani Army to quell an East Pakistani movement for political autonomy, East Pakistan has been the scene of continuing conflict. Officials conceded that Bengali resistance to the Pakistan Army appeared to be increasing.

Meanwhile, the administrative board of the United States Catholic Conference—made up of 25 Roman Catholic bishops—called for a United States pledge of at least $300‐million toward a United Nations‐sponsored international relief program of $1‐billion to help Pakistani refugees in India.

The House of Representatives voted last month to bar further United States development aid—but not humanitarian assistance—to Pakistan until normal conditions are restored. At President Nixon's direction, relief is being described in Government circles as “humanitarian"—and not as “development” assistance.