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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 24, 1982
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Congress votes increase
in aid to Israel and Egypt
by Joseph Polakoff
TSI * Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON—After more
than five hours of discussion by
Senate-House conferees that
ended in a predicted House
victory, the lame duck Congress
adopted a foreign aid bill that held
Israel’s allocations to the Reagan
administration’s ceiling but gave
Egypt an unheralded increase. The
aid is for the current Fiscal year
ending next Sept. 30.
Israel was allocated $1,700
million in military aid, of which
$750 million is not to be repaid,
and $785 million in economic
assistance, all of it a grant. These
were the levels in the totals that the
administration had proposed but it
wanted to provide $500 million to
grant aid in the military allocation
and two-thirds of the economic
portion without repayment.
The Senate went into the
conference with $850 million, or
half the $1,700 million, in the
military proposal as a grant and an
increase in the economic portion to
$910 million, all of that a grant.
The interest on Israel’s debt to
the U.S. will run to about $900
million in 1983.
The net effect of the conference
result was that the overall totals
show Israel will receive $2,485
million, of which $1,535 million
will be in grants and $950 million
in loans, as against the
administration’s proposal of
$1,460 million in loans and $1,025
million in grants. The Senate
sought $850 million in loans and
$1,760 in grants.
Egypt’s total was $2,075 million,
of which $ 1,175 million is in grants
and $900 million in loans.
Unexpected was an additional gift
of $25 million in military aid,
raising the grant to $425 million in
a total of $1,325 million. The
economic aid of $750 million is a
total grant.
Rep. Charles Wilson (D-Texas)
insisted on the additional $25
million above the administration’s
proposal for Egypt. Insiders of the
House Appropriation Subcommittee
said Wilson declared he would
take the bill to the House floor if
the committee rejected his
amendment. To avoid a wrangle in
the House in the prolonged
session, the subcommittee went
along with Wilson.
Rep. Clarence Long (D-Md.),
chairman of the Appropriations
Subcommittee that drafted the
original House bill without Egypt's
extra $25 million, told The
Southern Israelite that he intended
to keep the total aid budget below
the presidential request to avoid
giving President Reagan an excuse
for a veto and the “practical
problems involved” if opponents
of an increase for Israel were to
take it to the House floor for
debate. Committee sources said
that “so-called liberals are being
sticky” on an increase for Israel at
this time. They pointed out that the
chairman of the full Appropriations
Committee, Rep. Jamie Whitten
(D-Miss.), regarded as not
sympathetic to foreign aid,
opposed any change in the
subcommittee draft. In a Senate-
House conference, held in a rare
Sunday session, Sens. Bob Kasten
(R-Wis.) and Daniel Inouye (D-
Hawaii) sought for more than five
hours to have the House
conferees—Reps. Long, Jack
Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Jerry Lewis
(R-Calif.)—accept the Senate
allocations for Israel, but Long
was “adamant" against any shift in
the House version. Whitten’s
position was set forth as “very
strong” against an increase,
committee sources said. Whitten,
it was said, exerted pressure on
Long not to accept any change in
the House bill.
Sen. Kasten told The Southern
Israelite that had the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee, of
which he is chairman, not gone
forward three weeks ago with a
markup giving Israel the higher
allocations he and Inouye had
proposed, the question would have
been in conference what
compromise would be achieved
between the House and the
administration’s position. “The
Senate's proposal made the needed
levels in aid for Israel,” Kasten
said. Under this circumstance, the
House levels and not the
administration's became the low
side of the basis of the conference
compromise.
Accordingly, when the bill was
reported out of conference, there
was no discussion on the floor of
Either the Senate or the House
about the aid for Israel or Egypt in
the final passage of the legislation.
Sharon gets call to reappear
before Commission of Inquiry
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
commission of inquiry into the
Beirut refugee camps massacre has
summoned Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon to re-appear before it at the
request of another witness, Chief of
Army Intelligence Gen. Yehoshua
Saguy, a commission spokesman
announced Monday.
Sharon and Saguy were among
the nine top Israeli officials
notified by the commission last
month that they may be harmed if
the panel reaches certain
conclusions on the basis of their
original testimony. The law
provides that any person so
notified may re-appear to give
additional testimony, examine the
evidence and cross-examine other
witnesses.
Sharon informed the commission
by letter last week that he does not
intend to re-appear. But Saguy
one of six witnesses who will avail
himself of the opportunity,
included Sharon among several
persons he or his attorney will
interrogate.
The commission will begin its
second round of hearings Sunday
when former Chief of Staff Gen.
Mordechai Gur will testify behind
closed doors. Gur, now a Labor
Alignment member of the Knesset,
volunteered to give testimony. He
was chief of staff during the Israeli
army’s “Litani Operation”—the
invasion and occupation of
southern Lebanon in 1978.
The commission disclosed
Monday that it had asked Thomas
Friedman, the New York Times
correspondent in Beirut when the
massacre occurred last Sept. 16-18,
to present evidence. On the
instructions of his newspaper,
Friedman declined.
The only witnesses who will not
re-appear before the panel are
Prime Minister Menachem Begin,
who sent the commission a letter
repeating his original testimony.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
and Gen. Amos Yaron, who was in
command of Israeli forces in
Beirut during the massacre.
Shamir and Yaron indicated that
they would submit written
material.
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