DELAY ASKED ON AID BILL VOTE

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July 14, 2005
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September 20, 1974
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Art ~T SL PAGE THE WASAJ*JgVTe9Vo Ri&se 2005/07/20: CIR_FV _ - 0027-7 ~:~ ~F.~ ~ ones 'Sh fi ll V Asked ~n A i Biote\ a ctraei~v `"aif reflect r 4~{ strietrons on it:: `*g Secre- #gxelri r'a u~ esterdaY told sena- Mthat lie prferted delay, '`" 4 a ger outlined eLS 'Nissir;b with Lis f tie s)ir~t m a ttteeting , ... F 'lit-. ate caicu`s69 ` the Senate r$ 96-& `4o 7stopping t gg r1cish ssist nce on btt~stliai ~itrlley'i11r- l used American weak ~~t7Pi xts invasion of C everw,'l 56urceg repo red ei tai tie T7emo I~~ssa etie caucus That Lie would lter lirave oriress coli- t~ tie o1c~ foreign ai.d"leg- $lar or a -east Tew -ins tea r, a''1~i 1 which "tie a mr.l r piing restricfidflt oil 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. Approved For Release 2005/07/20 : CIA-RDP79-00957A000100040027-7 greign Relations - 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- Approved For Release 2005/07/20 : CIA-RDP79-00957A000100040027-7 BEST COPY Available Approved For Release 2005/07/20 : CIA-RDP79-00957A000100040027-7