The House Appropriations Committee has completed action on an $8.7 billion foreign assistance program for fiscal year 1979 which includes $1.825 billion for military and economic support assistance for Israel and a joint U.S.-Israel project. The sum represents the Administration’s full request for Israel.
As submitted by Rep. Clarence D. Long (D. Md), chairman of the subcommittee on foreign operations, it earmarks $1 billion in military sales credits for Israel for which payments of one half is forgiven and $785 million in economic support assistance. The bill also appropriates $40 million for a new Israel-U.S. bilateral agricultural research and development fund.
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