A spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department announced today that the United States had not yet delivered the jet bombers America last year promised to sell to Israel. He could not state when delivery could be anticipated.
Through the fiscal year 1966, the spokesman told the press. Israel received $27.6 million worth of U.S. arms. Israel has orders on the books at present for a “modest amount” of purchases including Hawk missiles, jet aircraft, recoilless guns, small arms, other weapons, ammunition, vehicles, communications and other equipment. The United States has supplied arms worth $345.9 million, much of it free, to Moslem countries backing Egypt, the spokesman said.
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