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Nixon OKs Half of $2.2 Billion
as an Outright Grant to Israel
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
Chief, JTA
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Nixon has made
"an initial determination"
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on the division of the $2,200,-
000,000 emergency aid fund
for Israel and granted $1,-
000,000,000 of it to Israel as
a gift, the White House an-
nounced Wednesday.
The remaining amount in
the fund will be used as
credits to Israel at "conces-
sional rates of interest" un-
less the President decides
otherwise.
White House Deputy Press
Secretary Gerald Warren
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determination" means Presi-
dent Nixon can review the
circumstances of Israel's re-
quirements between now and
June 30 and could grant more
of the money to Israel rather
than offer it as credits to the
Israeli government.
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lated, however, that the
President could provide up
to $1,500,000,000 to Israel as
gifts.
Congress also directed that
slightly less than $18,000,000
of the fund will be used to
meet the U.S. share of the
cost of the United Nations
Emergency Force in the
Middle East for one year.
The "concessional rate" of
interest on any credits from
the fund, Warren said, is 3
per cent. The credits would
have a long grace period for
repayment, but he said he
did not know the number of
years.
Last week, the U.S. Secur-
ity Council had recommended
to the President that he allow
between $900,000,000 and $1,-
000,000,000 to Israel as a gift.
The U.S. Wednesday moved
unilaterally toward defusing
Palestinian hostility by ask-
ing Congress for special
funds for aid to refugee re-
settlement and development
projects.
At the same time the White
House asked financial assist-
ance to Jordan for the corn-
ing fiscal year, requesting
$250,000,000 for economic aid
for Egypt and the usual
$350,000,000 for Israel, of
which $300,000,000 is in
credits.
The money for the refugees
was requested as part of a
"special requirement fund"
of $100,000,000 for the foreign
aid program of $5,180,000,000
beginning July 1. This fund,
President Nixon informed
Congress, is to help meet
new needs that may arise in
the Middle East.
If Congress approves the
President's requests, Jordan
is to get $297,500,000, which
is made up of a grant of
$100,000,000 in military assist-
ance, $77,500,000 in economic
security support and $30,000,_
000 in military credits sales.
During the current fiscal
year that ends June 30. Jor-
dan is •getting $39,700,000 in
military aid and $77,200,000
in economic assistance.
Israel's $350,000,000 are in
the form of a credit of $300,-
000,000 in military sales and
$50,000,000 in a grant for
economic supporting assist-
ance. These are the same
totals earmarked for Israel
in the past three annual aid
budgets.
The Egyptian allocation
and the special requirements
fund for the Middle East
were tightly held secrets.
State Department officials
who normally would be fully
acquainted with such fiscal
matters were surprised to
hear about the credit fund
and their only information
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Red Tape
It doesn't take long to bring
a Jew to "justice" in a Sov-
iet court, news reports have
shown all too graphically.
But it can take forever to
file an appeal on his behalf.
Cincinnati student Sheldon
Benjamin was told a bizarre
story in a phone call from
friends of Kiev activist Alek-
sandr Feldman.
Feldman w a s sentenced
last Nov. 23 in a secret trial
to 3 1/2 years for "malicious
hooliganism," after he made
clear his desire to live in
Israel. Subject to back-
breaking work in the labor
camp, he protested—and was
put in solitary for 55 days.
Meanwhile, in Kiev, his
lawyer, I. Yezhov, sought to
obtain the documents of his
case to draw up an appeal.
He was told the documents
were in the Ukrainian Su-
preme Court, so he went
there, and was informed the
documents were in Moscow.
The authorities suddenly
forced Yezhov into retire-
ment, in a procedure taking
six hours.
Feldman's brother Leonid
then went to Moscow for the
documents and was told they
were back in Kiev. With
great difficulty, the family
obtained another 1 a w y e r,
who went to Kiev. "The doc-
uments are back in Moscow,"
she was told. Journeying to
the capital, the lawyer was
informed the -documents had
been sent back to Kiev.
Rushing there, she was again
told, "no documents."
Concerned for Feldman's
deteriorating health, the
lawyer traveled to the labor
camp. The commandant
promised her a meeting with
the prisoner's relatives on
March 29. On the appointed
day, the relatives arrived.
"I don't have the authority
to grant you the meeting,"
the commandant told them.
Feldman's fiancee Tanya
Chernoshova W a s arrested
for "stealing" when she at-
tempted to board a train to
the labor camp, then was
told later it was a "mistake."
According to t h e SSSJ,
Feldman's friends are ex-
tremely concerned lest his
experiences become the norm
of treatment of other Jewish
prisoners.
Letters of encouragement
to him were urged, at the
following address: USSR;
Ukrainian S S R. ; Chmelnits-
kaya Oblast; Stepetovsky
Rayon; •Celo Klementovichi;
Uchr. MX 324/98; barrack
32; Feldman, Aleksandr.
about the Egyptian aid was
what they were reading in
the newspapers Wednesday.
"This was held close to
the vest at the White House,"
one official told the JTA.
Some speculated that the
secrecy was to enable the
President or the secretary
of state to spread the glad
tidings to the Arab govern-
ments before it became pub-
lic knowledge. The funds also
will give Dr. Henry A. Kiss-
inger more political leverage,
it was suggested, when he
meets Arab leaders starting
Sunday.
"The land which I gave to
Abraham and Isaac I will
give to you and to your de-
scendants after you I will
give it."—Gen. 35:12.