Word: cutoffs
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This led to a congressionally mandated cutoff of aid to Turkey effective last February, though other factors played a major role: 1) the Turkish use of American military weapons on Cyprus clearly violated U.S. laws banning their offensive employment and a specific agreement between Washington and Ankara against shipment of such weapons to Cyprus without Washington's consent; 2) Congress was growing increasingly restive over what many legislators considered Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's highhanded management of U.S. foreign policy...
...Both Greece and Turkey are geopolitically situated in such a way that their ultimate best interests will lie with continued association with the West. We can only hope that American politics will facilitate that understanding. In that sense, I've been propounding the shortsightedness of the Turkish aid cutoff...
...devaluation of the Israeli pound. But in Brussels last week Israel achieved a significant breakout from its loneliness. The nine-nation European Economic Community signed an agreement that greatly reduces tariff barriers on sales of Israeli goods to the Common Market and assures Israel there will be no arbitrary cutoff of supplies of such essential items as chemicals and metals in time of crisis...
...TURKEY. Ford angrily deplored the congressional cutoff of aid to Turkey after that nation had invaded the Greek-held portion of Cyprus. He said that he understood how Congress had laudably hoped to pressure Turkey into helping to settle that dispute, but he called the termination of aid "an unprecedented act against a friend" and noted that it had not been helpful in getting negotiations under way. Ford ignored, however, the fact that the Turkish invasion may have violated U.S. laws requiring an end to aid for any nation, even a NATO ally like Turkey, that is adjudged a military...
...press Congress to approve Ford's request for an immediate $300 million in additional military aid for South Viet Nam. He also revived an offer to end military aid in three years if Congress comes through until then. But onrushing events may well make that proposed cutoff date academic. At any rate, most Congressmen were not swayed by Kissinger's argument. They recessed without taking up the subject of aid to either South Viet Nam or Cambodia, which was also collapsing fast...