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- Aug. 05, 1991: You've Reached Your Credit Limit
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- Sorry, You've Reached Your Credit Limit
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Georgia Harbison
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- <p> The Bush Administration's reluctance to grant Israel's
- request for $10 billion in housing-loan guarantees may not be
- just a ploy to press the Shamir government to talk peace with
- its Arab neighbors. Some of Bush's advisers make an economic
- argument: they see little difference between Israel's economy
- and the state-run mess in the Soviet Union. "We've had some
- suggestions--including some from Israelis--that the worst
- thing we can do is send a $10 billion loan guarantee to the
- socialist system in place in Israel," says a senior official.
- Bush is considering a plan that would channel any new U.S.
- housing aid through private lenders, so that the money would be
- more likely to build shelter for Soviet immigrants and less
- likely to disappear in the sprawling Israeli bureaucracy.
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