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...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...
...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...