Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1978

(House insisted on its disagreement to certain Senate amendment)

Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1978 - Makes appropriations for foreign assistance for fiscal year 1978.

=Title I: Foreign Assistance Act Activities= - Makes appropriations, under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, for: (1) food and nutrition assistance ($515,000,000); (2) population planning ($155,000,000); (3) health assistance ($95,000,000), of which $2,000,000 shall be available for the World Health Organization Onchocerciasis Control Program; (4) education and human resources development ($76,000,000); (5) technical assistance, energy, research, reconstruction, and selected development programs ($90,000,000); (6) international organizations and programs ($231,250,000); (7) U.N. development loans ($115,000,000); (8) American schools and hospitals abroad ($23,750,000); (9) the foreign assistance contingency fund ($5,000,000); (10) international disaster assistance ($18,500,000); (11) Italy relief and rehabilitation assistance ($25,000,000: (12) the Sahel development program ($50,000,000); (13) international narcotics control ($37,100,000); (14) Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund ($21,450,000); (15) overseas training (foreign currency program) ($400,000).

Appropriates $8,000,000 for the Middle East Special Requirements Fund. Prohibits such sum from being used for a contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

Appropriates $2,202,200,000 for security supporting assistance. Specifies sums for such assistance for (1) Israel, (2) Egypt, (3) Jordan, and (4) Syria.

Appropriates $213,000,000 for the operation of the Agency for International Development.

Authorizes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Inter-American Foundation to make expenditures necessary to carry out its budget for the current fiscal year.

Appropriates $220,000,000 for military assistance, under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Appropriates $30,000,000 for international military education and training, with the provision that none of such funds be used to provide military education and training to the Government of Argentina.

Prohibits funds appropriated under this title from being used (1) to construct water resource projects which do not meet certain criteria (except for funds for international organizations and programs); (2) to pay pensions or similar compensation for the armed forces of any recipient country; (3) to make payments on procurement contracts for the United States which do not permit termination of such contract at the convenience of the United States; (4) to pay the assessments or dues of any member of the United Nations; (5) to carry out certain multilateral and regional programs or Alliance for Progress loans; (6) for direct assistance to Uganda, Cambodia, Laos, or Vietnam; (7) to finance the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology; (8) to furnish security assistance to any country violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (9) to finance directly or indirectly any assistance to Mozambique or Angola; (10) under an appropriation account to which they were not appropriated, without Congressional approval.

Prohibits more than 20 percent of any appropriation item under this title from being obligated during the last month of availability; except for appropriations for the contingency fund, international disaster assistance, and the United States Emergency refugee and migration assistance fund.

Specifies the sums which shall be available for (1) the official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances of the Agency for International Development, and (2) the entertainment expenses relating to the Military Assistance Program, International Military Education and Training, and Foreign Military Credit Sales.

=Title II: Foreign Military Credit Sales= - Appropriates $675,850,000 for foreign military credit sales and guarantees, under the Arms Export Control Act. Specifies that $1,000,000,000 shall be allocated to Israel.

=Title III: Foreign Assistance (Other)= - Appropriates $82,900,000 to carry out the Peace Corps Act. Appropriates $53,054,000 for (1) a contribution to the International Committee of the Red Cross, (2) assistance to refugees, (3) salaries and expenses of personnel and dependents authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, (4) overseas differentials and allowances, (5) the hire of passenger motor vehicles, and (6) consultants. Prohibits the use of such funds to assist the migration of any person to the Western Hemisphere who does not have a security clearance.

Appropriates $10,000,000 for expenses to carry out the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962. Appropriates $217,500,000 for payment to the Asian Development Bank; $523,000,000 for payment to the Inter-American Development Bank; $400,000,000 for payment to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; $38,000,000 for payment to the International Finance Corporation; $800,000,000 for payment to the International Development Association; and $10,000,000 for payment to the African Development Fund.

Declares the sense of the Senate that the United States' share of contributions to future replenishments of International Financial Institutions should not exceed the percentages enumerated in this Act.

=Title IV: Export-Import Bank of the United States= - Authorizes the Export-Import Bank to make the expenditures necessary to carry out its budget for the current fiscal year. Prohibits the use of such funds for the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology to any country which detonates a nuclear explosive after the date of enactment of this Act. Appropriates $5,458,207,000 for the Export-Import Bank, and $12,719,000 for administrative and entertainment expenses.

=Title V: General Provisions= - Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act to be used for (1) publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States; (2) expenses of the Inspector General, Foreign Assistance under certain conditions; (3) assistance to any country which is in default for more than one year on loans made under this Act; (4) military assistance, education, training, or credit sales to Ethiopia or Uruguay; (5) foreign military credit sales to Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, or Guatemala; (6) international financial institutions which do not release the names of borrowers and the amounts of loans to United States' representatives; (7) any form of aid or trade directly to Cuba. Limits the use of funds for military assistance, education, training, and credit sales to the Philippines.

Bars the obligation of funds for any government which aids or abets international terrorism.

States the opposition of Congress to financial technical assistance for any country that persists in gross violations of fundamental human rights.

States the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should report to Congress on the adequacy of insurance provided by diplomatic missions to the U.S. to cover loss or injury arising from wrongful acts of employees of such missions in the U.S.

=Title VI: Romanian Relief and Rehabilitation= - Appropriates $13,000,000 for Romanian relief and rehabilitation.