Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote for a compromise package of $82.5 million spread over 90 days and tied to monthly reports by Ford on progress in seeking a negotiated settlement. All military aid would end June 30. Du Pont, 40, argued that this would be more useful in achieving peace than an abrupt cutoff of help...
...full House Foreign Relations Committee then rejected the advice of its subcommittee and killed the compromise $82.5 million aid plan by a vote of 18 to 15. It did so after hearing Assistant Secretary of State Robert S. Ingersoll contend that an aid cutoff would render the U.S. incapable of applying effective pressure to get the contending parties to negotiate. A majority of the committee seemed to feel that the Administration should have been pushing harder for negotiation long...
...about the pace of discussions to undertake a side trip to Ankara, where he discussed the Cyprus situation with Turkish leaders. They displayed a greater willingness to discuss the future of the divided island with the government of Greece, even though the Turks remain angry about a congressionally imposed cutoff of U.S. military...
...awkward position of having alienated both of its crucial allies on NATO'S eastern flank, the crisis could hardly have come at a worse moment. Only the week before, Turkey had threatened to close American bases and reassess its participation in NATO in response to Congress's cutoff of U.S. military aid (TIME, Feb. 17). Moreover, the confrontation came just as U.S. relations with Athens were on the mend. Said George Mavros, chief opposition leader in the Greek Parliament: "It's unprecedented. I blame [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger, and I blame [Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko...
...country's foreign policy toward a more neutral stance. As Parliamentary Deputy Haluk Ulman put it, "If the U.S. decides that it can live without Turkey, then Turkey must learn to live without the Western world." Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, moreover, warned that the aid cutoff might provoke the proclamation of an independent Turkish-Cypriot state...