The House last night passed an appropriations bill for Mutual Security Aid, after cutting it to about six and one-quarter billion dollars. Neither the House slash of $244,000,000 nor the previous House Appropriations Committee’s reduction of another $250,000,000 affected the Israel allocations of $73,000,000.
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