U.S. AID REVIVED AS 2 BILLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000400170009-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 5, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

2000/09/11 : CI'b-A 9 f %7&09-11
17 $1.2 Billion eludes $350 million for mill-
tary aid grants, $435 million
By Spencer Rich for war-related economic sup-
waaliinctonpest scats WNW porting assistance (of which
$85` million Is earmarked for
The Senate Foreign Re. Israel) and $400 million for
lations Committee voted foreign military credit sales
unanimously yesterday tc (with $300 million in arms
credit authority earmarked for
revive foreign aid, but only Israel). The biggest cuts were
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after splitting it ' into t
separate economic and mil-' An unusual feature of com-
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The two bills, tetalling floor during t h a t period.
if $2,329 billion in ' atithoriza? Munde 'proxy was decisive in
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