The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today adopted an amendment eliminating from the foreign aid bill the Keating-Halpern amendment which would deny aid to countries like Egypt which use their own funds to buy Soviet arms.
The committee also eliminated a policy statement calling for freedom of navigation in international waterways, and the right of Americans of Jewish faith to travel and do business in Arab countries.
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