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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...
...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...
...economic aid to Turkey had reached a total of more than $6.5 billion. Last week the U.S. military-aid pipeline was abruptly cut off in accordance with a congressional order that all arms assistance be suspended until substantial progress is made in reaching a settlement on Cyprus. The cutoff was enacted last fall by an enraged Congress, following an invasion of the island by Turkish forces using American arms. Its purpose was to pressure Ankara into withdrawing its troops from Cyprus and allowing the resettlement of the 200,000 refugees (mostly Greek Cypriots) who were left homeless...
Sadly enough, Congress's cutoff of aid to Turkey not only failed to break the deadlock in negotiations over Cyprus but may have exacerbated it. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called the cutoff "a tragedy" and warned that it could have potentially far-reaching effects if Turkey makes good on its implied threat to reduce its participation in NATO, thus jeopardizing the eastern flank of the Atlantic alliance...
...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...