An Act making appropriations for foreign assistance and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes.
PL 95-148 (H.R.7797), enacted 10/31/1977

91 STAT. 1230 
PUBLIC LAW 95-148—OCT. 31, 1977 
Oct. 31, 1977 
[H.R. 7797] 
Foreign 
Assistance and 
Related 
Programs 
Appropriations 
Act, 1978. 
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note. 
Public Law 95-148 
95th Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for Foreign Assistance and related programs for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1978, and for otlier purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for Foreign Assistance and related programs for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
TITLE I—FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT ACTIVITIES 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the pro-
visions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and for 
other purposes, to remain available until September 30, 1978, unless 
otherwise specified herein, as follows: 
ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 
Food and nutrition, Development Assistance: For necessary 
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expenses to carry out the provisions of section 103, $515,000,000. 
Population planning. Development Assistance: For necessary 
expenses to carry out the provisions of section 104(a), $155,000,000. 
Health, Development Assistance: For necessary expenses to carry 
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out the provisions of section 104(b), $95,000,000: Provided, That 
$2,000,000 shall be available for the World Health Organization 
Onchocerciasis Control Program. 
Education and human resources development. Development Assist-
ance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 
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105, $76,000,000. 
Technical assistance, energy, research, reconstruction, and selected 
development problems, Development Assistance; For necessary 
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expenses to carry out the provisions of section 106, $90,000,000. 
Loan allocation. Development Assistance: Of the new obligational 
authority appropriated under this Act to carry out the provisions of 
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sections 103-106, not less than $310,500,000 shall be available for loans 
2151a-2151d. 
for fiscal year 1978: Provided, That of this amount $75,000,000 shall 
be availalale for loans repayable within forty years following the 
date on which the funds were initially made available under such 
loans; $87,000,000 shall be available for loans repayable within thirty 
years following such date; and $148,500,000 of such amount shall be 
available for loans repayable within twenty years following such 
date. 
International organizations and programs: For necessary expenses 
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to carry out the provisions of section 301 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, as amended, and of section 2 of the United Nations Envi-
22 use 287 note, ronment Program Participation Act of 1973, $231,250,000, of which 
amount $500,000 shall be for the Organization of American States 
Special Cultural Account, $500,000 shall be for the Organization of 
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91 STAT. 1231 
American 
States 
Special 
Development 
Assistance Fund, 
and 
$1,500,000 shall be for the Organization of American States Special 
Multilateral Fund: Promded, That not more than $115,000,000 shall 
be available for the United Nations Development Program: Provided 
further^ That no part of anv such appropriation for "International 
organizations and programs may be available to make any contri-
bution of the United States to the United Nations University, not 
more than $25,000,000 shall be available for the United Nations Chil-
dren's Fund, not more than $1,000,000 shall be available for the United 
Nations Educational and Training Program for Southern Africa, 
not more than $500,000 shall be available for the United Nations 
Namibia Institute, not more than $3,000,000 shall be available for the 
United Nations Decade for Women, not more than $2,000,000 shall 
be available for the United Nations Capital Development Fund, and 
not more than $5,600,000 shall be available to strengthen the Interna-
tional Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards program out of the total 
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contribution made available to the Agency. 
American schools and hospitals abroad: For necessary expenses 
to carry out the provisions of section 214, $23,750,000. 
22 USC 2174. 
Contingency fund: For necessary expenses, $5,000,000, to be used 
for the purposes set forth in section 451. 
22 USC 2261. 
International disaster assistance: For necessary expenses to carry 
out the provisions of section 491, $18,500,000. 
22 USC 2292. 
Italy relief and rehabilitation assistance: For necessary expenses 
to carry out the provisions of section 495B, $25,000,000. 
22 USC 2292h. 
Sahel development program: For necessary expenses to carry out 
the provisions of section 121, $50,000,000, to remain available until 22 USC 21518. 
expended: Provided, That no part of such appropriation may be 
available to make any contribution of the United States to the Sahel 
development program in excess of 10 per centum of the total contri-
butions to such program. 
International narcotics control: For necessary expenses to carry 
out the provisions of section 481, $37,100,000: Provided, That not to 22 USC 2291. 
exceed $3,000,000 shall be for the United Nations Fund for Drug 
Abuse Control: Provided further, That $12,475,000 shall be available 
only for programs in Mexico. 
Payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund: 
For payment to the "Foreign Service Retirement and Disability 
Fund," as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, 22 USC 801 note. 
$21,450,000. 
Overseas training (foreign currency program) : For necessary 
expenses to carry out the provisions of section 612, $400,000 in for- 22 USC 2362. 
eign currencies which the Treasury Department declares to be excess 
to the normal requirements of the United States. 
Except for the Contingency Fund, unobligated balances as of Sep-
tember 30, 1977, of funds heretofore made available under the author-
ity of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, are hereby 22 U
S
C 2151 
continued available for the fiscal year 1978, for the same appropria- ^°^-
tion account and under the same terms, conditions, and limitations as 
originally provided in appropriations Acts and amounts certified pur-
suant to section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1955, as 31 USC 200. 
having been obligated against appropriations heretofore made under 
the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, are, 
if deobligated, hereby continued available for the same appropriation 
account and under the same terms, conditions, and limitations as 
91 STAT. 1232 
PUBLIC LAW 95-148—OCT. 31, 1977 
Notification to 
congressional 
committees. 
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originally provided in appropriations Acts: Provided^ That the 
Appropriations Committees of both Houses of the Congress are noti-
fied fifteen days in advance of the obligation of such funds for activi-
ties, programs, projects, type of materiel assistance, countries or other 
operations not justified or in excess of the amount justified for fiscal 
year 1978. 
The Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1956, is amended by 
striking out section 108 thereof, effective as of October 1, 1977. 
None of the funds made available under this Act for "Food and 
nutrition. Development Assistance," "Population planning, Develop-
ment Assistance," "Health, Development Assistance," "Education and 
human resources development, Development Assistance," "Technical 
assistance, energy, research, reconstruction, and selected development 
problems, Development Assistance," "International organizations and 
programs," "American schools and hospitals abroad," "Sahel develop-
ment program," "International narcotics control," "Middle East spe-
cial requirements fund," "Security supporting assistance," "Operating 
Expenses of the Agency for International Development," "Military 
assistance," "International military education and training," "Foreign 
military credit sales," "Inter-American Foundation," "Peace Corps," 
or "Migration and refugee assistance," shall be available for obliga-
tion for activities, programs, projects, type of materiel assistance, 
countries, or other operations not justified or in excess of the amount 
justified to the Appropriations Committees for obligation under any 
of the these specific headings for fiscal year 1978 unless the Appro-
priations Committees of both Houses of the Congress are previously 
notified fifteen days in advance. 
MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FUND 
Middle East special requirements fund: For necessary expenses to 
carry out the provisions of section 903 of the Foreign Assistance Act 
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of 1961, as amended, $8,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this heading may be used to provide a United 
States contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this 
heading may be used to carry out those provisions of section 903 of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which pertain to the Sinai support 
mission. 
SECURITY SUPPORTING 
ASSISTANCE 
Security supporting assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out 
the provisions of sections 497, 531, and 533 of the Foreign Assistance 
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Act of 1961, as amended, and those provisions of section 903 of the For-
2346, 2346b. 
gj^n Assistance Act of 1961 which pertain to the Sinai support mission, 
$2,202,200,000: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this 
paragraph, $785,000,000 shall be allocated to Israel, $750,000,000 shall 
be allocated to Egypt, $93,000,000 shall be allocated to Jordan, and 
$90,000,000 shall be allocated to Syria. 
Loan Allocation, Security Supporting Assistance: Of the new obli-
gational authority appropriated under this Act for Security Support-
ing Assistance, not to exceed $856,800,000 shall be available for grants: 
Provided, That of the amounts available for loans, not to exceed 
$865,400,000 shall be available for loans with maturities in excess of 
thirty years, but not to exceed forty years, following the date on which 
funds were originally made available under such loans. 
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91 STAT. 1233 
UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN CYPRUS 
United Nations Forces in Cyprus: For payments, not otherwise 
provided for, by the United States to meet the expenses of the United 
Nations Forces in Cyprus, $9,100,000. 
OPERATING EXPENSES Or THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 
Operating expenses of the Agency for International Development: 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 667 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, $213,000,000: Provided, 
22 USC 2427,, , 
That not more than $94,100,000 of this amount shall be for AID-
Washington Operating Expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$700,000 of funds provided to the Agency for International Develop-
ment by this Act shall be available for hiring experts and consultants 
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 and of this amount not to exceed $100,000 
shall be available for hiring experts and consultants who are retired 
employees of the Agency lor International Development: Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for leasing, purchasing, renovating, or furnishing of housing 
or office space in Cairo, Egypt, except through the Foreign Building 
Operations of the Department of State: Provided further. That not to 
exceed $125,000 of the funds made available by this Act shall be avail-
able for the Administrator's Development Seminar of the Agency for 
International Development. 
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION 
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is authorized to make 
such expenditures within the limits of funds available to it and in 
accordance with law (including not to exceed $10,000 for entertain-
ment allowances), and to make such contracts and commitments with-
out regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the 
Government Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 849), 
as may be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget 
for the current fiscal year. 
INTER-AMERICAN 
FOUNDATION 
The Inter-American Foundation is authorized to make such expend-
itures within the limits of funds available to it and in accordance with 
the law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard 
to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 849), as may be 
necessary in carrying out its authorized programs during the current 
fiscal year: Provided, That not to exceed $7,062,000 of previously 
appropriated moneys shall be available to carry out the authorized 
prog?:ams during the current fiscal year. 
MILITARY ASSISTANCE 
Military assistance: For necessary expenses to carry out the provi-
sions of section 503 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 USC 2311. 
including administrative expenses and purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only for use outside of the United States, 
$220,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds contained in this para-
graph shall be available for the purchase of new automotive vehicles 
outside of the United States. 
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Water or land 
related resource 
project, 
prohibitions. 
Pensions, 
annuities and 
certain 
compensation 
payment 
prohibition. 
Procurement 
contracts, 
payment 
prohibition. 
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note. 
United Nations 
members, 
assessments, 
payment 
prohibition. 
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Uganda, 
Cambodia, Laos, 
and the Socialist 
Republic of 
Vietnam, 
assistance 
prohibition. 
INTERNATIONAI, MILITARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING 
International military education and training: For 
necessary 
expenses to carry out the provisions of section 541 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, $30,000,000: Provided, That none 
of the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be used to pro-
vide international military education and training to the Government 
of Argentina. 
G E N E R A L P R O V I S I O N S 
SEC. 101. None of the funds herein appropriated (other than funds 
appropriated for "International organizations and programs") shall 
be used to finance the construction of any new flood control, reclama-
tion, or other Avater or related land resource project or program which 
has not met the standards and criteria used in determining the feasi-
bility of flood control, reclamation, and other water and related land 
resource programs and projects proposed for construction within the 
United States of America under the Principles and Standards for 
Planning Water and Related Land Resources dated October 25, 1973. 
SEC. 102. Except for the appropriations entitled "Contingency fund", 
"International disaster assistance", and "United States emergency 
refugee and migration assistance fund", not more than 20 per centum 
of any appropriation item made available by this Act for fiscal year 
1978 shall be obligated or reserved during the last month of 
availability. 
SEC. 103. None of the funds herein appropriated nor any of the 
counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance hereunder or any 
prior Act shall be used to pay pensions, annuities, retirement pay, or 
adjusted service compensation for any persons heretofore or hereafter 
serving in the armed forces of any recipient country. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursu-
ant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
as amended, may be used for making payments on any contract for 
procurement to which the United States is a party entered into after 
the date of enactment of this Act which does not contain a provision 
authorizing the termination of such contract for the convenience of 
the United States. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds appropriated or made available pursu-
ant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
as amended, may be used to pay in whole or in part any assessments, 
arrearages, or dues of any member of the United Nations. 
SEC. 106. None of the funds contained in title I of this Act may be 
used to carry out the provisions of sections 209(d) and 251(h) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance 
directly any assistance or reparations to Uganda, Cambodia, Laos, or 
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 
SEC. 108. Of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to 
this Act, not to exceed $118,000 shall be for official residence expenses 
of the Agency for International Development dui-ing fiscal year 1978: 
Provided, That appropriate steps shall be taken to assure that, to the 
maximum extent possible. United States-owned foreign currencies 
are utilized in lieu of dollars. 
SEC. 109. Of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant 
to this Act, not to exceed $15,000 shall be for entertainment expenses 
of the Agency for International Development during fiscal year 1978. 
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91 STAT. 1235 
SEC. 110. Of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to 
this Act, not to exceed $96,000 shall be for representation allowances 
of the Agency for International Development during fiscal year 1978: 
Provided^ That appropriate steps shall be taken to assure that, to the 
maximum extent possible. United States-owned foreign currencies 
are utilized in lieu of dollars. 
SEC. 111. Of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to 
this Act, not to exceed $73,900 shall be for entertainment expenses 
relating to the Military Assistance Program, International Military 
Education and Training, and Foreign Military Credit Sales during 
fiscal year 1978: Promaed^ That appropriate steps shall be taken to 
assure that, to the maximum extent possible. United States-owned 
foreign currencies are utilized in lieu of dollars. 
SEC. 112. None of the funds appropriated or made available (other 
than funds for "International organizations and programs") pursu-
ant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
as amended, may be used to finance the export of nuclear equipment, 
fuel, or technology or to provide assistance for the training of foreign 
nationals in nuclear fields. 
SEC. 113. Funds appropriated by this Act may not be obligated or 
expended to provide security assistance to any country for the purpose 
of aiding directly the efforts of the government of such country to 
repress the legitimate rights of the population of such country con-
trary to the Universal Declaration of Human Eights. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds appropriated or made available pur-
suant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly 
any assistance to Mozambique or Angola. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds made available by this Act may be obli-
gated under an appropriation account to which they were not appro-
priated without the written prior approval of the Appropriations 
Committees of both Houses of the Congress. 
Nuclear material, 
assistance, 
prohibitions. 
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note. 
Human rights. 
Mozambique or 
Angola, 
assistance 
prohibition. 
TITLE II—FOREIGN MILITARY CREDIT SALES 
FOREIGN MILITARY CREDIT SALES 
For expenses not otherwise provided for, necessary to enable the 
President to carry out the provisions of sections 23 and 24 of the Arms 
Export Control Act, $675,850,000: Provided, That of the amount pro-
vided for the total aggregate credit sale ceiling during the current 
fiscal year, not less than $1,000,000,000 shall be allocated to Israel. 
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2764. 
TITLE III—FOREIGN ASSISTANCE (OTHER) 
INDEPENDENT AGENCY 
ACTION—INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 
PEACE CORPS 
For expenses necessary for Action to carry out the provisions of the 
Peace Corps Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $82,900,000. 
91 STAT. 1236 
PUBLIC LAW 95-148—OCT. 31, 1977 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
;: 
MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to enable the 
Secretary of State to provide, as authorized by law, a contribution to 
the International Committee of the Red Cross and assistance to ref-
ugees, including contributions to the Intergovernmental Committee 
for European Migration and the United Nations High Commissioner 
for Refugees; salaries and expenses of personnel and dependents as 
authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 
801-1158); allowances as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5921-5925; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; 
$53,054,000: Provided^ 
That no funds herein appropriated shall be 
used to assist directly in the migration to any nation in the Western 
Hemisphere of any person not having a security clearance based on 
reasonable standards to insure against Communist infiltration in the 
Western Hemisphere. 
UNITED STATES EMERGENCY REFUGEE AND MIGRATION ASSISTANCE FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 2(c) 
of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, as amended 
(22 U.S.C. 2601), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE 
PRESIDENT 
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 
CONTRIBITTION TO THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT 
BANK 
For payment to the Asian Development Bank by the Secretary of 
the Treasury of the first installment of (1) the United States share 
of the increase in subscriptions to the (a) paid-in capital stock, and 
(b) callable capital stock, and (2) the United States contribution to 
the increase in resources of the Asian Development Fund, $217,500,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That no such payment 
may be made while the United States Director to the Bank is com-
pensated by the Bank at a rate which, together with whatever com-
pensation such Director receives from the United States, is in excess 
of the rate provided for an individual occupying a position at level 
IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United 
States Code, or Avhile any alternate United States Director to the 
Bank is compensated by the Bank in excess of the rate provided for an 
individual occupying a position at level V of the Executive Schedule 
under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK 
For payment to the Inter-American Development Bank by the Sec-
retary of the Treasury for the United States share of (1) the increase 
in subscriptions to (a) paid-in capital stock, and (b) callable capital 
stock, and (2) the fifth replenishment of the resources of the Fund 
for Special Operations as authorized by the Act of May 31, 1976 
22USC283W. 
(Public 
Law^ 94-302), $523,000,000, to remain 
available 
until 
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91 STAT. 1237 
expended: Provided, That no such payment may be made while the 
United States Executive Director to the Bank is compensated by the 
Bank at a rate in excess of the rate provided for an individual occupy-
ing a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 
5315 of title 5, United States Code, or while the alternate United 
States Executive Director to the Bank is compensated by the Bank 
at a rate in excess of the rate provided for an individual occupying a 
position at level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 
title 5, United States Code. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION 
AND DEVELOPMENT 
For payment to the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development by the Secretary of the Treasury for the first installment 
of the United States share of the increase in subscriptions to the (1) 
paid-in capital stock, and (2) callable capital stock, $400,000,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That no such payment 
may be made while the United States Executive Director to the Bank 
is compensated by the Bank at a rate in excess of the rate provided 
for an individual occupying a position at level IV of the Executive 
Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, or while 
the alternate United States Executive Director to the Bank is com-
pensated by the Bank at a rate in excess of the rate provided for an 
individual occupying a position at level V of the Executive Schedule 
under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION 
For payment to the International Finance Corporation by the Sec-
retary of the Treasury for the first installment of the United States 
share of the increase in subscriptions to capital stock, $38,000,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 
For payment to the International Development Association by the 
Secretary of the Treasury for the first installment of the United States 
contribution to the fifth replenishment; $800,000,000 to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That no such payment may be made 
while the United States Executive Director to the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development is compensated by the Bank at a 
rate in excess of the rate provided for an individual occupying a posi-
tion at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 
5, United States Code, or while the alternate United States Executive 
Director to the Bank is compensated by the Bank at a rate in excess of 
the rate provided for an individual occupying a position at level V 
of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States 
Code. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For payment by the Secretary of the Treasury for the final install-
ment of the initial United States contribution to the African Develop-
ment Fund as authorized by the Act of May 31, 1976 (Public Law 
94-302), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
22 USC 290g 
note. 
91 STAT. 1238 
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FUTURE UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL 
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 
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It is the sense of the Senate that the United States share of contri-
note. 
butions to future replenishments of the International 
Financial 
Institutions should not exceed the percentages enumerated below for 
each of the respective accounts within these institutions: 
Asian Development Bank: 
Paid-in capital, 16.3 percent; 
Callable capital, 16.3 percent; 
Asian Development Fund, 22.2 percent; 
African Development Bank: 
Special Fund, 10.6 percent; 
Inter-American Development Bank: 
Paid-in ordinary capital, 34.5 percent; 
Callable ordinary capital, 34.5 percent; 
Paid-in interregional capital, 34.5 percent; 
Callable interregional capital, 34.5 percent; 
Fund for Special Operations, 40 percent; 
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: 
Paid-in capital, 18.7 percent; 
Callable capital, 18.7 percent; 
International Development Association, 25 percent; 
International Finance Corporation, 23 percent. 
T I T L E I V — E X P O R T - I M P O R T BANK O F T H E U N I T E D 
S T A T E S 
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is hereby authorized 
to make such expenditures within the limits of funds and borrowing 
authority available to such corporation, and in accord with law, and 
to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corpora-
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tion Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the 
program set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such 
Nuclear exports, 
corporation, except as hereinafter provided: Provided^ That none of 
assistance 
the funds available during the current fiscal year may be used to make 
prohibition. 
expenditures, contracts, or commitments for the export of nuclear 
equipment, fuel, or technology to any country other than a nuclear-
weapon State as defined in Article I X of the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons eligible to receive economic or 
military assistance under this Act that has detonated a nuclear 
explosive after the date of enactment of this Act. 
LIMITATION 
ON PROGRAM 
ACTIVITY 
Not to exceed $5,458,207,000 (of which not to exceed $3,600,000,000 
shall be for direct loans) shall be authorized during the current fiscal 
year for other than administrative expenses. 
LIMITATION 
ON ADMINISTRATIVE 
EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $12,6J)5,000 (to be computed on an accrual basis) 
shall be available during the current fiscal year for administrative 
expenses, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $24,000 for entertain-
ment allowances for members of the Board of Directors: Provided^ 
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91 STAT. 1239 
That (1) fees or dues to international organizations of credit institu-
tions engaged in financing foreign trade, (2) necessary expenses 
(including special services performed on a contract or a fee basis, but 
not including other personal services) in connection with the acqui-
sition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any 
real or personal property belonging to the Bank or in which it has an 
interest, including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, or the 
investigation or appraisal of any property in respect to which an 
application for a loan has been made, and (3) expenses (other than 
internal expenses of the Bank) incurred in connection with the issu-
ance and servicing of guarantees, insurance, and reinsurance, shall 
be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof. 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United 
States not heretofore authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 503. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to furnish assistance to any country which is in default dur-
ing a period in excess of one calendar year in payment to the United 
States of principal or interest on any loan made to such country by the 
United States pursuant to a program for which funds are appropri-
ated under this Act unless (1) such debt has been disputed by such 
country prior to the enactment of this Act or (2) such country has 
either arranged to make payment of the amount in arrears or other-
wise taken appropriate steps, which may include renegotiation, to 
cure the existing default. 
SEC. 503A. None of the funds appropriated or made available pur-
suant to this Act shall be used to provide military assistance, inter-
national military education and training, or foreign military credit 
sales to the Governments of Ethiopia and Uruguay. 
SEC. 503B. None of the funds appropriated or made available pur-
suant to this Act shall be used to provide foreign military credit 
sales to the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, and 
Guatemala. 
SEC. 503C. Of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to 
this Act, not more than $18,100,000 shall be used for military assist-
ance, not more than $1,850,000 shall be used for foreign military credit 
sales, and not more than $700,000 shall be used for international mili-
tary education and training to the Government of the Philippines. 
SEC. 504. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be avail-
able for the Office of the Inspector General of Foreign Assistance. 
SEC. 505. None of the funds appropriated or made available pur-
suant to this Act shall be available to any international financial insti-
tution whose United States' representative cannot upon request obtain 
the amounts and the names of borrowers for all loans of the inter-
national financial institution, including loans to employees of the 
institution, or the compensation and related benefits of employees of 
the institution. 
Publicity or 
propaganda. 
Fiscal year 
limitation. 
Countries in 
default. 
Ethiopia and 
Uraguay, 
assistance 
prohibition. 
Argentina, Brazil, 
El Salvador, and 
Guatemala, 
assistance 
prohibition. 
Office of 
Inspector General 
of Foreign 
Assistance, 
prohibition. 
Certain 
international 
financial 
institutions, 
prohibition. 
91 STAT. 1240 
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Cuba, assistance 
prohibition. 
Human rights. 
22 use 262d-l. 
Terrorism, 
prohibitions. 
Diplomatic 
missions to U.S., 
insurance. 
Reports to 
Speaker of the 
House and 
President of the 
Senate. 
22 u s e 252 note. 
Dr. Halla Brown, 
accident 
compensation. 
SEC. 506. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
for any form of aid or trade, either by monetary payment or by the 
sale or transfer of any goods of any nature, directly to Cuba. 
SEC. 507. It is the sense of the Congress that, where other means have 
proven ineffective in promoting international human rights, and 
except where the President determines that the cause of international 
human rights is served more effectively by actions other than voting 
against such assistance or where the assistance is directed to programs 
that serve the basic needs of the impoverished majority of the countrv 
in question, United States representatives to the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development 
Association, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development 
Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank should oppose loans 
and other financial or technical assistance to any country that persists 
in a systematic pattern of gross violations of fundamental human 
rights. 
SEC. 508. Notwithstanding 
the budget authority 
levels of 
$523,000,000 for 
the Inter-American 
Development 
Bank 
and 
$400,000,000 for the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development provided elsewhere in this Act, not more than 
$480,000,000 shall be made available by this Act for obligation or 
expenditure for a United States contribution to the Inter-American 
Development Bank and not more than $380,000,000 shall be made 
available by this Act for obligation or expenditure for a United States 
contribution to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Devel-
opment : Provided, That this section shall apply only to the establish-
ment of budget authority levels for the aforementioned Banks and 
shall not alter limitations, restrictions or other language provisions 
elsewhere in this Act. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able by this Act to the Export-Import Bank and funds appropriated 
by this Act for direct foreign assistance may be obligated for any gov-
ernment which aids or abets, by granting sanctuary from prosecution 
to, any individual or group which has committed an act of interna-
tional terrorism, unless the President of the United States finds that 
the national security requires otherwise. 
SEC. 510. It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State 
should prepare and submit to the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives and to the President of the Senate— 
(1) not later than six months after the date of enactment of 
this section, a report on the adequacy of insurance provided by the 
accredited diplomatic missions to the United States to cover loss 
or injury arising from the wrongful acts or omissions of the 
employees of such missions in the United States; 
(2) not later than one year after the date of enactment of this 
section, a report on what efforts the President and the Secretary 
of State have made to encourage the provision of such coverage; 
and 
(3) not later than six months after the date of enactment of this 
section, a report on what the Secretary of State has done to 
encourage the Government of Panama to make satisfactory com-
pensation to Dr. Halla Brown for loss or injury arising out of the 
accident of April 20,1974. 
PUBLIC LAW 95-148—OCT. 31, 1977 
91 STAT. 1241 
TITLE VI—KOMANIAN RELIEF AND REHABILITATION 
SEC. 601. For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of sec-
tion 495D of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 USC 2292j. 
$13,000,000 for the fiscal year 1977 for Romanian relief and 
rehabilitation assistance, to remain available until expended. 
This Act may be cited as the "Foreign Assistance and Related Pro- Short title, 
grams Appropriations Act, 1978". 
Approved October 31, 1977. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 95-417 (Comm. on Appropriations), No. 95-633 (Coram, of 
Conference) and No. 95-701 (Comm. of Conference). 
SENATE REPORT No. 95-352 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 123 (1977): 
June 22, 23, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 5, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 18, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain 
Senate amendments; receded and concurred in certain other amendments, with 
amendments; disagreed to Senate amendment No. 47. 
Oct. 19, Senate agreed to conference report; concurred in certain House 
amendments and receded from disagreement to amendment No. 47.