The Nation - News from Dec. 11, 1985

The publicity surrounding the espionage case of Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard already has cost Israel $500 million in additional U.S. aid in the current fiscal year, according to sources. Until last week, Sens. Bob Kasten (R-Wis.) and Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) had been pressing for the aid to allow Israel to reduce its debt on previous U.S. loans. But sources said the two senators were persuaded to withdraw their proposal, which had been expected to be enacted into law as part of a stopgap spending bill, because many members of Congress were reluctant to vote for it in the wake of Pollard’s arrest on charges of spying for Israel.