AID BILL APPROVED BY SENATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100020030-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: December 3, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE WASHINGTON POST
Turk Cutoff Deferred Two Months
toning it to allow nog'
tions. The earlier poste
ment is due to expire Dec
but if the Humphrey e~
Sion is approved wht'n
Aid Bill A roved by ~p Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (In
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By Spencer Rich
Washington Post staff writer
The Senate approved a $2.7
billion foreign aid bill by a
one-vote margin yesterday, 46
to 45, after voting to give
President Ford two more
months to solve the Cyprus
crisis or face a total congres-
sional cutoff of all U.S. weap-
ons aid to Turkey.
Backed by the White House,
some GOP loyalists and a coa-
lition of middle-of-the-road
senators long faithful to the
aid program, the bill was
steered to final passage by Il:u-
bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.)
It was Humphrey who won
adoption, 55 to 36, of the key
amendment giving r. Ford
and Secretary of State Henry,
A. Kissinger until Feb. 13
one month after the new Ccon
gross convenes in mid-January
-to negotiate removal of
Turkish troops from Cyprus
before a ban on aid to Turkey
goes into effect.
Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.)
said all Turkey aid should be
prohibiteft immediately be-
cause Turkey had violated aid
agreements by using U.S.,
weapons to invade and. occupy
portions of Cyprus. Eagleton
said a delay would only allow
the Turks to entrench them-
selves in Cyprus and refuse to
negotiate, thus letting them
reap the fruits of their aggres-
sion and force a partition of
the island.
Humphrey responded, how-
ever, that Turkey had only a
; caretaker government at pres-
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ent and therefore negotiations
needed more time.
It was the second time 'that
Eagleton was thwarted in ob-
taining an immediate cutoff.
In October, Eagleton and
House allies Ben Rosenthal
(D N Y) Paul Sarbanes (D-
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to,
on.
the
House takes up its veTSIC' of
the aid bill next week, the , ite
House will have another ';W'6
months.
Sarbanes told reporter he
will fight for an immecial, cu-
\ra,), however, won 65 to
ngreesnent to reduce contribu-
tions `to United Nations units
from $193.7 million to $165
millicn, and Daniel K. Inouye
(D-Hawaii) won voice vote ap-
proval to drop from the bill
authroity to use for hunger in
Bangladesh, Africa and Cy-
prus $110 million in loan re-
payments from recipient na-
tions. Humphrey agreed that
the money should be reappro-
priated by Congress rather
than automatically rechan-
neled into the aid program.
The only money added yes-
toff in the House. The sue terday was $55 million pro-
could endanger the vuhol' aid posed by Edward M. Kennedy
measure. (D-Mass.) for economic aid to
The one-vote margin fi- i Portugal' and its former Afri-,
nal. passage of the Senat 14 bill can colonies.
reflects deep congrPSSion.,i un-, The final bill carries $2501
ha mess with. the a!d pro million in economic aid for'i
Gram It has always had )n g Egy,ot, $100 million for a spe-',
critics, particularly z :ong vial Middle East fund expected,
,conservatives. But ut cent to be used for Syria, $339 mil
years, liberals like rank lion in economic aid -for Is-
Church (D.Idaho) and wart
rael, $100 million in weapons
Symington (D-Mo.) hale , lined, grants and $200 million weap-
against the program-tying ens loans for Israel. It bars
much of the money g ' a" sup` planned outlays of $16 million
'port corrupt client gnve vertnnents for UNESCO until UNESCO
or to develop f jab rte , t t it rob repeals a series of anti-Israel
U.S. workers of jobs- resolutions.
Church charged ew,rdavtI Other t _provisions bar weap-
that aid money ons aid to the military regime
"luxury hotels and part-', in Chile., forbid disruptive CIA.
ments" and for "suppivl' air- operation in other countries:
lines competing with l air Unless the appropriate congres-I
lines with subsidized craft sio nal committeesq are notified i
I beforehand ,, forbid training of 1
. It's not a reform pi
it's not designed to bf the P foreign police and prison c$fi-
poor. vials, and restrict U.S. person-
Humphrey and his h ckers, net in South Vietnam and:
however, argued that ; .e au- Cambodia.
thorizati