The meeting in Washington last week between Ambassador Abba Eban and James P. Richards, President Eisenhower’s special envoy to the Middle East, was part of a wide Israeli effort to obtain United States governmental and private financing to resolve the acute housing shortage in Israel brought on by the great new wave of immigrants, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said this week-end. He denied reports of a deadlock in negotiations for allocations by the United States under the program envisaged in the Eisenhower Doctrine.
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