The United States today agreed to give Jordan $6 million for goods or development projects. The Jordanian Government had complained that America was obliged to provide this aid.
Jordan is understood to have protested that the $6 million was a sum that remained unpaid after the U.S. cancelled a $30 million annual support program at the end of 1967. The U.S. terminated the special support because it was learned that the oil-rich Arab states were subsidizing the Jordanian economy to an extent deemed adequate.
The new grant will help Jordan pay for F-104 supersonic Jet fighters, tanks and other arms being purchased from the U.S. It would provide diversion of other resources to meet the arms bill.
(In another Middle East development, President Nasser of Egypt said today there would be no peace in the Middle East until Israel withdraws from all Arab territory occupied in the Six-Day War. In a speech to the ruling Arab Socialist Union Party, Nasser said Egypt would not budge from its original position — no negotiations, no peace, and no recognition of Israel.)
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