Joint resolution to support United States participation in relieving vietims of hunger in India and to enhance India's capacity to meet the nutritional needs of its people
PL 89-406 (H.J.Res.997), enacted 04/19/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-407-APRIL 25, 1966 
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Public Law 89-406 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
April 19, i966 
To support United States participation in relieving vietims of hunger in India 
[H. j . Res. 997] 
and to enhance India's capacity to meet the nutritional needs of its people. 
"Whereas the Congress has declared it to be the policy of the United 
States to make maximum efficient use of this Nation's agricultural 
abundance in furtherance of the foreign policy of the United States ; 
Whereas the Congress is considering legislation togOAern the response 
of the United States to the mounting world food problem; 
Whereas critical food shortages in India threatening the health if 
not the lives of tens of millions of people require an urgent prior 
response: Therefore be it 
llesoh-ed hy ths Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America In Congress assembled^ That the Congress endorses 
and supports the President's initiative in organizing substantial 
American participation in an urgent international effort designed to: 
(a) Help meet India's pressing food shortages by making avail-
able to India under Public Law 480 agricultural commodities to meet 
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India's normal import needs plus added quantities of agricultural 
commodities as the United States share in the international response 
to the Indian emergency. 
(b) Help combat malnutrition, especially in mothers and children, 
via a special program; 
(c) Encourage and assist those measures which the Government 
of India is planning to expand India's own agricultural production; 
That the Congress urges the President to jom India in pressing on 
other nations the urgency of sharing appropriately in a truly inter-
national response to India's critical need. 
The Congress urges that to the extent necessary the food made 
available by this program be distributed in such manner that hungry 
people witliout money will be able to obtain food. 
Approved April 19, 1966, 6 p.m. 
Public Law 89-407 
AN ACT 
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April 25, 1966 
To define the term "child" for lump-sum payment purposes under the Civil 
[H. R. 1746] 
Service Retirement Act. 
India. 
Food aid. 
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Civil Service 
Retirement Act, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Vnlted States of America In Congress assembled. That section l(j) ^
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of the Civil Service Ketirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2251 (j)) is amended amendment. 
by striking out the w^ord "four" in the third sentence and inserting the 
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Avord "five", and by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: 
"The term 'child', for j)urposes of section 11, shall include an adopted 
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child and a natural child, but shall not include a stepchild". 
SEC. 2. The provisions under the heading "Civil Service Eetirement 
and Disability Fund" in title I of the Independent Offices Appro-
priation Act, 1959 (72 Stat. 1064; Public Law 85-844), shall not 
apply with respect to benefits resulting from the enactment of this 
Act. 
Approved April 25, 1966. 
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