THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS April 23, 1976 17 Fisher-Ford Meeting Focuses on Aid to Israel During Transitional Period 1 Gen. Brent Scowcrift, Sec- retary of State Henry Kis- singer's successor as assist- ant to the President on internal security affairs, attended the meeting. Fisher, chairman of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, afterwards said that the President "listened intently" when he suggested that something ought to be done about the Israeli- American flareup over the transitional quarter aid be - tween the current and new U.S. fiscal years. The Presi- dent, Fisher emphasized, gave no indication to him one way or the other on the Administration's future course on the issue. The Administration has thus far refused to go along with a Senate formula that would add about $800 mil- lion to the 1976 fiscal year budget to account for the three months prior to Octo- ber 1 when the new fiscal year 1977 begins. The cur- rent year ends June 30. Israel would receive about $550 million, Egypt $175 million and other countries, including Syria and Jordan, equally pro- portional funds from a 25 percent allocation of the 1976 appropriations for "the fifth quarter." With the President having ) threatened to veto such WASHINGTON (JTA) — Max Fisher, the Detroit in- dustrialist who is a leader in the American Jewish Com- munity and the Republican Party's high councils, dis- cussed Israeli-American re- lations and the Presidential election campaign in an hour-long conversation Tuesday with President Ford at the White House. "FIRST FOR A REASON" AL KLINE • DALGLEISH CADILLAC I 6160 CASS AVE. TR 5-0300 Ocen 9;teat eadd meat 6e tememeeteee 27TH NISAN - YIZKOR DAY DESIGNATED BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL Shaarit Haplaytah OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT legislation, Congress has postponed its decisions until its return next week from the Easter recess. Meanwhile, Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.-NY), currently touring the Middle East, arrived in Israel from Egypt where he had lengthy meet- ings with President Anwar Sadat over the weekend. In- terest in Israel, however, centers mainly on what the Senator will report to Is- raeli leaders about the pri- vate meeting he had with President Ford prior to leav- ing Washington at which the $550 million transitional quarter aid issue is under- stood to have been dis- cussed. Israeli circles in Washing- ton reported that the meet- ing may have been the first sign that Ford will relent in his opposition to foreign aid funding for the three months between fiscal 1976 and fiscal 1977 that would give Israel an additional $550 million. According to some sources, Ford inti- mated to Javits that he would be amenable to a comprise that would provide Israel with half of its aid request. It also was reported that Secretary of State Kissinger said that the Ford Adminis- tration's opposition to for- eign aid funding for the transitional quarter was not based "on foreign policy grounds" but "substantially on domestic grounds." With respect to the addi- tional U.S. aid that Israel would receive for the three months between fiscal 1976 and fiscal 1977, Kissinger said that studies by the Administration led it to con- clude that Israel's needs are "not so great as we had thought." He said the change of mind was "essentially" a difference of economic anal- ysis, primarily between the U.S. government's Office of Management of the Budget and the Israeli government. Kissinger added that the U.S. has no "legal obliga- tion" to provide transitional quarter funding but it is a question of "real need." Kissinger also predicted that "a year or so down the road a basic strategy will begin to emerge" on a solu- tion to the Arab-Israeli con- flict. He made his statement in the course of defending his step-by-step diplomacy in the Middle East over the past three years. He ap- peared to indicate that the would put forward the "basic strategy" aimed at a "comprehensive solution." Kissinger said that the differences between his views and those of his crit- ics were "very signifi- cantly" the question of timing. He said that "at some point the comprehen- sive approach was needed instead of the step-by-step approach. Kissinger said that at the time of the Yom Kippur War if "we -put forward a comprehensive scheme we thought the danger of fail- ing would sharpen the (Arab oil) embargo, increase Soviet domination" in Arab countries, including Egypt, and "enhance radicalism" in the area. The step-by-step ap- proach, he said, has "given us time to think and a more comprehensive solution. 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