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Following is a complete list of actions announced today by the Foundation:

INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH

**American Council of Learned Societies** -- $330,000 grant, for continued assistance to a program of advanced graduate fellowships in linguistics, conducted by the A.C.L.S. Committee on the Language Program; and for further support to the Linguistic Institute, an inter-university summer training program in linguistics and language teaching.

**University of California, Los Angeles** -- $310,000 grant, for the university's program in the teaching of English as a second language. The grant includes funds for faculty additions, research, graduate fellowships, and language-laboratory needs.

**Council on World Affairs, Cleveland** -- $10,000 grant, for supplemental aid for a study of foreign-student experience in the Cleveland area.

**Indiana University** -- $1.5 million grant, for continued support to the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants exchange program between American, Soviet, and East European institutions of higher education.

**International Law Association** -- $75,000 grant, for completion of research on the succession of new states to the treaties and other obligations of their predecessor countries.

**Latin American studies programs** -- $550,000 grant to Cornell University, to strengthen the university's Latin American studies program. The funds will be used for faculty additions, field research abroad, student fellowships, and library development.

-- $1,450,000 appropriation, for grants to a few additional universities in the United States to develop their potential as national centers of research and training on Latin America.

**Michigan State University** -- $250,000 grant, for assistance in planning and developing undergraduate international studies.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

**University of Basel** -- $50,000 grant, to help finance analysis of the papers of Per Jacobsson, leading expert in international monetary and financial problems, who died in 1963.

**East-West cultural exchanges** -- Under a program launched by the Foundation in 1957 to enable East European scholars to study in the United States and Western Europe, the following new actions were announced:

-- $325,000 grant, to the Institute of International Education to continue an exchange effort with Yugoslavia, initiated in 1959.

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-- $350,000 appropriation, to initiate an
exchange of scholars and experts from Hungary.

-- $100,000 grant, to the American Council of
Learned Societies, to continue a scholarly exchange with the Soviet
Academy of Sciences.

**German Academic Exchange Service** -- $250,000 grant, to enable both younger and mature artists, scholars, and other cultural leaders from abroad to live and work in Berlin for extended periods. The grant is part of a Foundation program, announced January, 1963, to cooperate with Berlin intellectual and cultural institutions.

**Mediterranean Social Sciences Research Council** -- $75,000 grant, to strengthen cooperative research on economic and social problems among institutions in the Mediterranean region.

**National Foundation of Political Science** -- $160,000 grant, for assistance to research and training at its Study Center for International Relations, Paris, in the following two areas: problems of Atlantic cooperation, including U.S.-French relations; and the role of Europe and France in assisting the development of Latin America.

**Projects** -- In addition to the actions listed above, the International Affairs program provided a total of $175,000 for the following Foundation-administered projects: a conference on European training and research on Latin America, to be held in Italy, October, 1964; a conference on new developments in European education, held in England this June; and administration of the Foundation's cultural program in Berlin.

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT

**Institute of International Education** -- $52,000 grant, for participation by foreign scholars in summer workshops on test procedures and construction conducted by Educational Testing Service, Princeton.

AFRICA

**Catholic International Education Office (Regional Secretariat for Africa and Madagascar)** -- $50,000 grant, for a conference on the role of Catholic mission schools in African education, to be held in Leopoldville, January, 1965.

**Educational Services Incorporated** -- $218,000 grant, for continued assistance for the development of elementary-school science-teaching materials for use in English-speaking Tropical Africa.

**Institute of International Education** -- $150,000 grant, for further support for a program to provide American and other law teachers to African law schools. The program is known as SAILER (Staffing of African Institutions of Legal Education and Research).

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**Institute of International Education** -- $27,000 grant, for visits to the United States by East African officials to identify and recruit East African students for the public service.

**International Association of Universities** -- $113,500 grant, for comparative studies with UNESCO to promote greater cooperation and coordination among universities in Africa.

### Cameroun

**Federal Republic of the Cameroun (Ministry of National Economy)** -- $100,000 grant, for the establishment of a statistical unit to analyze critical research data on cocoa production accumulated over the past decade.

### Congo

**National School of Law and Administration** -- $285,000 grant, for faculty salaries and other assistance for the school's training program for Congolese public administrators and business managers. Begun in 1960 with Foundation support, the school enrolls 500 students in its four-year course and another 120 in accelerated courses.

### Ethiopia

**Haile Selassie I University** -- $292,300 grant, for continued support for the development of the university's law faculty.

### Liberia

**Associated Colleges of the Midwest** -- $106,000 grant, for the purchase and shipment of a liberal-arts library collection to Cuttington College, Liberia.

### Nigeria

**African-American Institute** -- $5,000 grant, for supplementary support for books and equipment for the Parliamentary Library of Northern Nigeria.

**Government of Eastern Nigeria (Establishment Division)** -- $470,000 grant, for development of the region's Institute of Administration, which includes a school of management development and productivity, and a school of civil service training.

**Franklin Book Programs** -- $365,000 grant, for a technical-service and training program in Nigeria to increase the production of educational books and strengthen Nigerian publishing companies.

**University of Nigeria** -- $32,600 grant, for a writing workshop to prepare elementary-school science-teaching materials.

**Nigerian Institute of Management** -- $124,000 grant, for assistance to its program to advance management knowledge and performance in Nigerian enterprise.

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## Northern Rhodesia

**Government of Northern Rhodesia (Ministry of Justice)** -- $68,000 grant, for a training program for magistrates and local-court staff.

## Senegal

**Institute of Applied Economics** -- $100,000 grant, for a research program at the Dakar office of the institute, which is located in Paris, on industrial investment policy and related measures of public finance. The work will concern other French-speaking countries of West Africa as well as Senegal.

## Tanganyika

**University of East Africa** -- $320,000 grant, for construction of a new law-school building and law-faculty housing at the University College, Dar es Salaam. The school also serves students from Makerere College, Uganda, and the Royal College, Kenya, two other constituent units of the university.

**International School of Tanganyika** -- $25,500 grant, for assistance with elementary-school building and equipment costs. The school is located in Dar es Salaam.

## MIDDLE EAST

### Lebanon

**American University of Beirut** -- $25,000 grant, for a summer course in development economics and governmental budgeting.

### Syria

**University of Aleppo** -- $600,000 grant, for continued assistance to the university's Faculty of Agriculture. The funds will be used for research, equipment, facilities, and architectural services, including the planning of a new Faculty of Science.

### Tunisia

**International Cultural Center** -- $42,700 grant, for assistance to the center's artistic and cultural activities at Hammamet.

### Turkey

**Economic and Social Studies Conference Board** -- $222,220 grant, for matching support for its program of seminars and conferences among Turkish business, governmental, and other leaders on problems affecting the country's economic and social development.

-- $49,000 grant, for a simultaneous translation service for use in meetings sponsored by the Conference Board and other organizations in Turkey.

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**Middle East Technical University** -- $123,000 grant, to help strengthen its English-language teaching program through the adoption of materials and techniques developed, with Foundation assistance, at Robert College, Istanbul.

**United Arab Republic**

**Government of the United Arab Republic (Ministry of Planning)** -- $600,000 grant, for research to develop a regional planning program for the Aswan area. The grant will aid the establishment of research and pilot-project centers in Aswan on agriculture, geology, industrial development, and manpower.

**SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA**

**Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (Philippines)** -- $8,500 grant, for planning a conference among Asian leaders on foreign technical assistance.

**India**

**American Public Health Association** -- $171,000 grant, for the establishment of a professional-services unit to assist India's family-planning program with the recruitment of consultants and other needs.

**University of Delhi** -- $21,000 grant, to assist its planning unit with research on the university's development.

**Electronic data-processing centers** -- grants totaling $983,000, to equip three institutions with electronic computers for processing research data in economics, agriculture, and demography. The recipients, which will also serve other institutions, were:

University of Bombay................... $226,000
University of Delhi.................... 371,000
Indian Agricultural Research Institute. 386,000

**Gandhigram** -- $465,000 grant, for training, research, and evaluation concerning India's family-planning program.

**Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology** -- $182,000 grant, for clinical testing and research on contraception and reproduction.

**Indonesia**

**Research Foundation of State University of New York** -- $1,275,000 grant, for continued support for secondary-school teacher-training institutions at Bandung, Malang, and Medan, enabling them to prepare faculty for the country's teacher-education system.

**Pakistan**

**Government of East Pakistan** -- $410,000 grant, for further support for a pilot program of cooperative agricultural development at Comilla, which includes credit, purchasing, marketing, and machine services.

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## LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

**Brookings Institution** -- $120,000 grant, for a cooperative research program with Latin American institutions on problems of economic integration.

### Argentina

**Franklin Book Programs** -- $250,000 grant, for an independent technical-service and training agency to increase the production and quality of Argentine textbooks, and to improve and strengthen university library services.

**National University of the South** -- $500,000 grant, for comprehensive development of the university's agricultural training, research, and extension programs. The funds include support for overseas fellowships, visiting specialists, equipment, and books.

### Brazil

**Getulio Vargas Foundation** -- $168,000 grant, for preparation of teaching materials and research by the Brazilian School of Public Administration.

**National Council for Advanced Training of University-Level Personnel** -- $1,130,000 grant, for a four-year program of training fellowships for graduate students and young faculty to strengthen teaching and research in the sciences in Brazilian higher education. Under the program, more than 700 fellows will study at sixteen Brazilian universities and research institutes, and at a few universities abroad. The program will be guided by an advisory group of Brazilian scientists.

### Chile

**Community-development program** -- A total of $777,250 was provided to assist planning, training, and research to improve housing, services, and other living conditions of low-income families in rural and urban areas. The funds include a Foundation-administered project of $416,000 for consultants in planning and architecture, who will train Chileans in planning techniques and aid the development of central facilities and services in ten pilot communities. Also, three grants were made for research assistance in Chile and overseas training as follows:

Harvard University . . . . . . . . . . $114,250
Institute of International Education . 67,000
Rice University . . . . . . . . . . . . 180,000

**William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute** -- $248,000 grant, to assist the development of technical education at the Frederico Santa Maria Technical University.

### Colombia

**Institute of International Education** -- $195,900 grant, for graduate fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities to prepare Colombian teachers of business management.

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**University of the Valley** -- $346,000 grant, for staff support and other aid to the university's Office of Planning and Development.

**Dominican Republic**

**Autonomous University of Santo Domingo** -- $146,000 grant, to assist the university's academic and administrative improvement program.

**Catholic University "Mother and Teacher"** -- $69,400 grant, to strengthen teaching and research in agricultural marketing and distribution at its School of Business Administration.

**Mexico**

**Autonomous University of Guadalajara** -- $363,500 grant, to help implement its long-term plan for academic and administrative modernization.

**Institute of International Education** -- $179,000 grant, for supplementary support for fellowships and study tours abroad to train Mexicans in agricultural extension and related fields.

**Peru**

**National Engineering University** -- $570,000 grant, for visiting professors, overseas fellowships, and other assistance to strengthen its over-all program.

## CONSULTANTS AND PROJECTS

In addition to the actions listed above, the Overseas Development program provided $780,000 for consultants and Foundation-administered projects as follows:

**Africa**

Training workshops in East and West Africa in public administration, business management, and other fields.

**Middle East**

Advisers and consultants in public administration to the Civil Service Board of Lebanon.

**Latin America**

Consultants and specialists to assist in the development, review, and evaluation of Foundation program activities in the region; and Latin American regional conferences on economics, sociology, science, education, and other fields important to development.

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Secretary to Mr. Klaasen
Joan Blanchard

Sincerely yours,

number is (617) 868-7600, Ext. 5125.
me to arrange a time? The telephone
to see Mr. Slater then. Could you call
here early in August and would be happy
He asked me to tell you he will be
to Europe.

Mr. Klaasen just as he was doing off
Your letter of June 8th reached

Dear Miss Carter:

New York, New York 10033
477 Madison Avenue
The Ford Foundation
Secretary to J.E. Slater
Miss Ruth D. Carter

June 13, 1966