Word: turkeys
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...TURKEY. The Administration's drive to resume U.S. military sales to Turkey, backed in the Senate by a one-vote margin last May, picked up momentum in the House. This came after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pleaded his case to 125 members over cocktails and President Ford discussed the matter with 140 Representatives at breakfast. Ford endorsed a compromise bill offered by Pennsylvania Democrat Thomas E. Morgan. Rather than full resumption of aid, as Kissinger urged, the bill would allow Turkey to receive $51 million worth of military equipment for which it has already paid, and buy another...
Ford called the compromise "a fair and equitable solution," but anti-aid, pro-Greece Congressmen remained bitterly opposed. Indiana Democrat John Brademas charged that approval by the House would amount to "capitulating to a form of blackmail of the U.S. Government." Turkey has threatened to close U.S. military bases if aid is not resumed this week. The Administration insisted that lifting the embargo is the only way to create a negotiating climate in which the U.S. can help achieve a Cyprus settlement. Turkey has indicated that it will not enter serious negotiations so long as it is under pressure from...
Kissinger has responded to the Greek-American criticism by meeting four times with the AHEPA leadership's Justice for Cyprus Committee and several times with anti-Turkish-aid Congressmen. He has refused to budge in advocating aid to Turkey and has criticized the opposition as misguided and not in the best interests of the U.S. Kissinger also has found one Greek American, Rochester lawyer Dennis Livadas, who has agreed to try to organize a minority lobby within the U.S. Greek community to support the Administration...
...invading Cyprus would be a breach of aid agreements, as Lyndon Johnson did so effectively in 1965, Kissinger has argued that would have been interpreted as support of the Athens junta-a U.S. stance for which he was already under fire. While some of his aides have conceded that Turkey violated U.S. military aid laws, Kissinger insists they are bad laws. With merit, the pro-Greece lobbyists counter that laws, good or bad, must be obeyed. Indeed, when India and Pakistan went to war, using U.S. arms, in 1965, the Johnson Administration itself suspended aid to both combatants...
Still, another barrage of anti-Turkey mail is hitting Capitol Hill, and it is now up to the House of Representatives to make its difficult decision. There is no comparable Turkish lobby active in Washington. The case for Turkey is, instead, being made vociferously and with potent political arm-twisting by the Administration. As in the Senate, the final House vote is expected to be close...