Word: aid
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Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was prepared to take that chance. He opposed the sale of modern American weaponry to the Saudis, but he was even more concerned that a package deal would set a pattern for equating U.S. aid to Israel with similar aid to Arab countries. "This would tend to weaken our special relationship," said one Israeli official, "and strengthen Arab relations with America, and that is not in Israel's interest." Dayan stopped short of saying publicly that Israel would rather give up the planes it stood to gain than see the whole package go through...
...defense, they believe, lies in acquiring modern weapons, like the F-15, that require limited manpower. The Saudis believe they need a military force capable of holding out against attack for at least two or three days−just long enough for a powerful friend to come to their aid. They want that friend to be the U.S., and thus they regard the proposed sale of 60 F-15s, which two U.S. Administrations have supported, as a barometer of that friendship...
Surrounded by such ideologically diverse powers as the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan and Iran, Afghanistan has traditionally pursued a neutral foreign policy, and the new regime endorsed that posture. Although Daoud had bargained for Soviet arms aid when he was Prime Minister, he had lately shown a distinct admiration for antiCommunists, including the Shah of Iran, with whom he dickered for a big aid program, and Saudi Arabia's King Khlid, whom he visited in February. Daoud's successors could want to replace his Western-tilted "neutrality" with a Soviet-leaning version...
There has been "an explosion of spending" in the past several years by the U.S. government to aid American cities, but this explosion is not likely to continue, Sen. William O. Proxmire (D-Wisc.) told an audience of about 400 at Gund Hall on Saturday...
...lecture, part of the Gund Lecture Series at the Graduate School of Design, Proxmire compared the aid that the federal government has given to cities since 1957 with the amount of money that cities themselves have provided for improvement...