Skip to main content
Limit your search
Tag
Contributor
Date
Subject
Type
Collection
Series
Specific Item Type
Time Period
9 results
- ?ONSE D°'1 SUGGESTiliN GOI MI ~T T_~Y. ~~ND OUT
ttORDANIANS THRCUGH DAUD, ustr~J THE;r.R. NEW DSIS WHO SA~D - ~9__,
1'
:
BE Q.D ACQUAINTANCE D~UD' S,
ARG OJ .RE.PLIED..N 0 GR clJND.:0 -- ·--. -.. -;...
WORK DONE AND CHANCES OF SUC .:ESS EFFORT OBfAIN
-
with Romney and is bad news in this matter.
He says that he understands fully what our problem is but
hopes we handle it in a balanced way that keeps the local Jewish
community from defecting.
I said that in quieting Jordan down we were doing Israel's
work. We
- mu.s t .0 2 a :. n new
to make the necessary c..rra~ge~ ents to
replace all ~hei.r APC' s over tne next
.ten years.
Finally, .they face the q uestion of
-the new generation of pla~e s , tanks
and related items which t~ey will
need in · the early 1970's
- arma balance and
Israel'• security if there should be any significant new arms aid
to Jordano
In agreement of March 10» 1965, US had undertaken keep
Israel informed of
!!! arms
deals with .Jordan, and during last year
and half US and Israel had
- ) along the Israeli-Eg-.rp__Q.,a n border in Sinai. Secretary
General U Thant promptly COffiPiled with the Egyptian request.
In these new circumstances, President Johnson sent a letter to
Prime Minister EslL~ol of Israel on May 17 expressing sympathetic
- be heavy is supported
by SNIE 36-2-64 of 15 April 1964.
Moreover, Israeli acquisition of surface-to-surface missiles is a
matter of great concern to the U.S., because of the new arms spiral it
would help stimulate in the area and the additional step toward
- ()'.):
A qreater_ll.§...Dlli~ . E.~2.~5?:P~ in the Ped S.2a-lirabian Sea area,
p2rticur;-rr1y in su9;:iort of our existing asm..lrw"l~s to Saudi
~.rabia.
USG Hillingness to unc18rtuJ·e a full ran
-
Amman,
not just the USIA man,
authorized
local coverage· in Jordan. The lsrae~
knew all about it anywa,C-
:/-
~ j_ 'ff~
-- •
.§
What was not especially
wise was for USIA's
weekly News Review,
which circulates
all through
the Arab \vodd,
to play up
- in this
country, noting that a recent New York poll showed Jewish voters favoring
him by 81 to 7. "That proves you are still the smartest people in the
world, 11 he said.
The President said the United States is going to do its best to exercise
power in that part