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unanimously to reject the
sale.
The Administration
Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-
withdrew its letter outlin- NJ), a member of the Senate
ing the deal Monday only committee, who announced
hours before the Senate the administration's move
Foreign Relations Com- called it "wise" because, he
mittee was to vote on said, both the House and
whether it objected to the Senate committees had
proposed sale. Earlier, the "developed evidence that
House International Rela- such a sale was excessive."
tions Committee voted Case had led the congres-
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sional negotiations with the
State Department in an ef-
fort to reduce the number of
"Hawk" ground-to-air mis-
sile batteries from 14 to six.
But the administration re-
fused a compromise after
King Hussein of Jordan de-
clared that if he did not re-
ceive the full amount of
weapons he would seek
arms elsewhere.
Anderson said that "what
we did Monday is to afford
further time following the
recess to try to work out
this problem with the Jor-
danian government and
with top congressional offi-
cials." He added that "it was
agreed by both sides that we
need more time to work out
problems that exist with the
government of Jordan."
Anderson admitted that
the State Department was
"surprised" by the strong
objections in Congress to
the sale. Congressional op-
ponents of the sale charged
that it would upset the mili-
tary balance in the Mideast.
But the State Department
spokesman tried to dash
reports that Gen. George S.
Brown, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, in his
closed-door testimony last
week to the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, said the
Joint Chiefs agreed that
Jordan needed only six
"Hawk" batteries, not 14 for
defensive purposes.
Anderson said he has
not seen Brown's testi-
mony "but I understand
that the reporting that has
come out on Gen. Brown's
testimony may not be en-
tirely accurate. I under-
stand that there has been
no difference of opinion be-
tween the Department of
Defense and the State De-
partment with regard to
the letter of offer."
The proposed $350 million
sale also included eight Vul-
can rapid-fire anti-aircraft
gun batteries and 300
"Redeye" shoulder-fired an-
ti-aircraft missiles.
The Detroit Jewish Com-
munity Council, alarmed by
the sale proposal, this week
urged metropolitan area
congressmen to support
measures in the House of
Representatives that would
prohibit the arms sale.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson
(D-Wash.) said "the pro-
posed sale of some 500
Hawk missiles to Jordan
along with radar-controlled
anti-aircraft guns is danger-
ous and unwise."
The . Senator said the sale
would almost automatically
mean that Jordan would
be involved in any future
Mideast war.
Rep. William Broomfield
(R-Mich.), ranking Republi-
can member of the House
Freign Affairs Committee,
voted for disapproval of the
proposal for large scale mili-
tary arming of Jordan.
* * *
The following editorial
questioning the proposed
U.S. arms sale to Jordan,
appeared in last Wednes-
day's New York Times:
As United States policy
aims at reduction of ten-
sions in the Sinai, another
Ford Administration deci-
sion could actually intensify
the military pressures on Is-
rael from her northern and
western frontiers. This is
the plan, now under strong
challenge in Congress, to
sell $350 million worth of
sophisticated antiaircraft
technology to Jordan.
Technically such weapons
could be regarded as de-
fensive, but this new capa-
bility would clearly alter the
military equation which has
kept the Jordan River truce
line calm all these years. Se-
cure under an air defense
cover of Hawk missiles,
King Hussein could be
tempted to commit his
ground forces into combat
against Israel, alongside
those of Syria, in any future
clashes.
It was precisely the abs-
ence of such an air defense
protection that inhibited the
Jordanian monarch from
joining the other Arab coun-
tries in their attacks during
the October 1973 war.
King Hussein is already
moving to re-establish
friendly working arrange-
ments with Syria, after
years of mutual suspicion,
and is even attempting to
paper over longstanding
bitterness between his re-
gime and the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
At the same time, military
cooperation is growing
between Syria and Iraq,
longtime bitter rivals
within the militant Baath
movement.
Even incidental American
encouragement to an inci-
pient common military
front against Israel could
rebound tragically against
the emerging diplomatic
options which the United
States is trying to promote.
For too long American pol-
icy in the region has ap-
peared to encourage peace
talks with one hand, while
the other hand only supplies
the armaments to give the
parties more capacity for
the military option.
Under legislation passed
last year, Congress has, the
opportunity to veto foreign
military sales in excess of
$25 million. Resolutions
have been introduced in
both Houses to do just that,
and a skeptical Senate For-
eign Relations Committee
decided to seek further jus-
tifications from the State
Department for this pro-
posed Jordanian missile
sale.
At the very least, the tran-
saction should be scaled
well down in size until the
full strategic implications of
the ominous Arab moves
toward military cooperation
can be given more careful
study than they have re-
ceived up to now, in the
Administration's haste to
soak up the Arab's petro-
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