The Senate Foreign Relations Committee submitted a policy statement to the Senate yesterday indicating that in calling for the sale of “supersonic” military jets to Israel it had in mind a cash sale for dollars but the precise terms, as well as the number and type of aircraft, are left to the discretion of the President.”
The Committee report was referring to a Senate amendment to the Foreign Aid Bill which called upon the President to sell “supersonic” aircraft and deleted specific reference to sale of 50 Phantom fighter-bomber Jets as called for by a House-approved amendment to the bill. Following Senate adoption of the basic legislation, a Senate-House conference will reconcile differences in the Senate and House wording.
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