DELAY ASKED ON AID BILL VOTE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: September 20, 1974
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One soured said senators
has} the impression the" see-
-rotary was 'opposed to the
r1l_,in its present form.
)ssinger's? strategy i ras
seciajly significant he
aug" e `a riew'foreign aid au-
Elaprization bill reported out
1}f ,}1 e Senate ` Foreign Rela-
tions Comittee includes
m
aet~eral key administration
-pro` o`s'a1s. 1'he bill is still in
eornmfttee in the House-
0
nc f these key propos "
rls is $100 minion for a spe-
fee AYlb,`A2, Col. i -
cial requirements fund for
the middle East. Thee is
money in the bill that could
go to Egypt and Syria. he
provision has been a cei i.ral
element in U.S. peacemi.F ing
efforts. The new M ,.dle
East money would not be
available, however, .-if on-
gress merely continuer the
old legislation.
The bill. before the S,s;3ate
lso includes $200 million in
a
additional funds for heI ,ing
countries improve their rgri-
cultural facilitites and food
output. President Fore said
at the United Nation on
Wednesday that this -as a
key American policy r its
effort to solve the ,,,orld
food problem.
The government is cur-
rently operating on a short
extension of the pr,-vious
foreign aid legislation The
extension expires Sept. 30.
A State Depai t.ment
spokesman said tha, Kis-
singer could not be rf - icbed
for comment on any of his
remarks before the cau- i
However, a senior aide de-
sctihed the Kissinger tactic
`somewhat naive."
i.
l_ONntown' [the White
,t to olicY press rit ons,"
the aide said. "Bul a rontin-
uing resolution i& T%e ap-
propriating mone}. `.ny at-
tempt like this would -,e fili-
bustered. They can't iypass
the situation."
An aide to Se'nbLa Ma-
joirty Leader Mikt Mans-
field (D-Mont.) kdpted
that the bill would be
:.oon.
moved toward a vote
Kissinger reportelly told.
the Democratic Cat its that
approval of the rr_cee
would make it di-ffi alt to
achieve U.S. goals it South
Vietnam that were -t fol-
lowing the conclusioi, of the
U.S.. miiitarywithdrra teal.
The committee, a majority
of which has long been op-
posed to U.S. policy in Indo-
china, also imposed military,
economic, and food spend-
ing ceilings there. It put a
ceiling of $65 million on mil-
itary aid to Chile.
It also adopted an amend-
ment- proposed by Sen.
Frank Church (D-Idaho)
calling for ceilings on mili-
tary aid to South Korea
over a three-year period and
a total phase-out of the pro-
gram by the end of that
time.
The committee report
cited "serious concern about
the increasingly repressive
measures by the South Ko-
rean government."
Before the vote, Eagleton
questioned Kissinger on the
State Department's position
on the continued aid to the
Turkish government. Ac-
cording to one account, Kis-
singer conceded that the
"dominant opi.nion of State
Department lawyers was the
same as Eagleton.
However, this account
said, Kissinger declared that
an aid cutoff would have
"adverse" foreign policy
consequences. Eagleton then
asked Kissinger if the ad-
ministration had any op-
tions "other than to obey
the law." Kissinger replied
that he was studying the op-
tions.
Administration officials
have said that while they
are satisfied with many as-
pects of the bill, the restric-
tions are "not acceptable."
Administration strategists
said this week they were
hopeful of working out com-
promises in both the House
and the Senate, but added
that time would be needed
to do this.
However, there is strong
support for a speedy vote
among liberal Democrats op-
posed to high-level aid to In-
dochixia and advocates of
fiscal restraint.
The Senate restrictions on
U.S. aid to Turkey came in
the form of. an amendment
authored by Sen. Thomas F.
gleton (D-Mo.) to a bill ex-
tending the life of the U.S.
Export-Import Bank for an-
other four years.
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greign Relations
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committee imposed num
-ous new restrictions on the
administration's military
,
d economic aid pragl tns
a
p-n-ticularly in Indochina.
Tee overall authormatiotr
was cut from the `$3Z5 1 il-
lion sought by the adminis-
tration to $2.5 billion. The
{ bill . before the Senate
halved the $2.4 billion in all
kinds of aid sought for Viet-
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