Joint resolution to give effect to the Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character, approved at Beirut in 1948
PL 89-634 (H.J.Res.688), enacted 10/08/1966

80 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-634-OCT. 8, 1966 
879 
Public Law 89-633 
AN ACT 
To amend the Consolidated Farmei-s Home Administration Act of 1961 to au-
thorize the Secretary of Agriculture to hold prepayments made to the Secre-
tary by insured loan borrowers and transmit them to the holder of the note in 
installments as they become due. 
Be it eTiacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemifled^ That paragraph (2) 
of subsection 309(f) of the Consolidated Farmers Home Administra-
tion Act of 1961 is amended by striking out the words "the due date 
of the annual installment" and inserting in lieu thereof the word 
"due". 
Approved October 8, 1966. 
October 8, 1966 
[H.R. 15510] 
Farmers Home 
Administration 
insured loans. 
Prepayment. 
75 Stat. 310. 
7 u s e 1929. 
Public Law 89-634 
' JOINT RESOLUTION 
To give effect to the Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation 
of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural 
Character, approved at Beirut in 1948. 
Whereas the Congress and the President have repeatedly declared 
it to be a national policy to promote a better understanding of the 
United States in other countries, and to increase mutual under-
standing between the people of the United States and the people 
of other countries; and 
Whereas the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, 
Scientific, and Cultural Organization of its third session at Beirut, 
Lebanon, in 1948, approved and recommended to member states 
for signature an Agreement for Facilitating the International Cir-
culation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, 
Scientific, and Cultural Character, which Agreement has been 
signed by twenty-one nations, including the United States; and 
Whereas the Senate has given its advice and consent to the ratifica-
tion of the Agreement; and 
Whereas the Congress does hereby determine that mutual understand-
ing between peoples will be augmented by the measures provided 
for in said Agreement: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the 
United States is authorized to designate a Federal agency or agencies 
which shall be responsible for carrying out the provisions of the 
Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual 
and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural 
Character and a related protocol of signature, opened for signature 
at Lake Success on July 15,1949 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as 
the "Agreement"). 
It shall be the duty of the Federal agency or 
agencies so designated to take appropriate measures for the carrying 
out of the provisions of the Agreement including the issuance of reg-
ulations. 
SEC. 2. Agencies of the Federal Government are authorized to fur-
nish facilities and personnel for the purpose of assisting the agency 
or agencies designated by the President in carrying out the provisions 
of the Agreement. 
SEC. 3. (a) (1) Part 6 of schedule 8 of the Tariff Schedules of the 
United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended by inserting after the 
October 8,1966 
[H. J. Res. 688] 
Beirut Agree-
ment, implemen-
tation. 
77A Stat. 427. 
880 
PUBLIC LAW 89-6S5-OCT. 10, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
heading to such part 6 the following: "Part 6 headnote: 
"1. No article shall be exempted from duty under item 870.30 
unless a Federal agency or agencies designated by the President deter-
mines that such article is visual or auditory material of an educational, 
scientific, or cultural character within the meaning of the Agreement 
for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory 
Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character. 
Whenever the President determines that there is or may be profit-
making exhibition or use of articles described in item 870.30 which 
interferes significantly (or threatens to interfere significantly) with 
domestic production of similar articles, he may prescribe regula-
tions imposing restrictions on the entry of such foreign articles to 
insure that they will be exhibited or used only for nonprofitmaking 
purposes." 
(2) Such part 6 is amended by adding at the end thereof tlie fol-
lowing new item: 
870.30 
Developed photographic fllm, including motion-picture film 
on which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded; 
photographic slides; transparencies; sound recordings; re-
corded video-tape; models; charts; maps; globes; and post-
ers; all of the foregoing which are determined to be visual 
or auditory materials in accordance with headnote 1 of this 
part 
Free 
Free 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to articles, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con-
sumption, on or after the date proclaimed by the President pursuant 
to this subsection, which date shall be within the period of six months 
which begins with the day after the day on which the United States 
instrument of acceptance of the Agreement is deposited with the 
Secretary General of the United Nations. 
Approved October 8, 1966. 
October 10, 1966 
[S,1356] 
Public Law 89-635 
AN ACT 
To amend the Judicial Code to permit Indian tribes to maintain civil actions 
in Federal district courts without regard to the $10,000 limitation, and for 
other purposes. 
U.S. Courts. 
Indians, civil 
jurisdiction. 
62 Stat. 930. 
Be it enacted 5y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That title 28, United 
States Code, is herebj?^ amended by inserting in chapter 85 thereof 
immediately after section 1361, a new section to be designated section 
1362, as follows: 
"§1362. Indian tribes 
"The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil 
actions, brought by any Indian tribe or band with a governing body 
duly recognized by the Secretary of the Interior, wherein th^ matter 
in controversy arises under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the 
United States." 
SEC. 2. The chapter analysis of chapter 85 of title 28 of the United 
States Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the following 
new item: 
"1362. Indian tribes." 
Approved October 10, 1966.