Mr. Speaker. this week the administration gave its final answer to Israels request for loan guarantees to meet the humanitarian needs of hundreds of thousands of Soviet and Ethiopian refugees. The administrations decision appears to end all prospects for providing what amounts to nocost assistance for this urgent need. And this decision rejects a compromise which would have left the President with discretion over 90 percent of the guarantees. The administration has pursued a onesided. biased Middle East policy that has lelt the Arab States free to continue their longstanding policy of intransigence and has sought to pressure Israel to make unilateral concessions before serious negotiations.
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