Foreign assistance and related programs appropriations for 1983: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, Part 2

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Page 231 - 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 Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year...
Page 383 - ... engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights...
Page 222 - PRELIMINARY COMMITMENTS Under the Bank's Preliminary Commitment procedure Eximbank will, upon request, outline in a preliminary commitment letter the terms and conditions of the financial assistance it would be prepared to consider on a sale of US goods and services to a foreign purchaser. The applicant must provide information sufficient to enable Eximbank to appraise the technical, economic, and financial aspects of the proposed project. This program has been of great assistance to many US exporters...
Page 229 - ... imposes more than a nominal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents required for emigration, for any purpose or cause whatsoever; or (3) imposes more than a nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice...
Page 228 - Bank, offer sufficient likelihood of repayment to justify the Bank's support in order to actively foster the foreign trade and long-term commercial interest of the United States".
Page 234 - Not to exceed [$8,655,000] $10,242,000 (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...
Page 112 - INSTITUTION is a private nonprofit organization devoted to research, education, and publication in economics, government, foreign policy, and the social sciences generally. Its principal purpose is to bring knowledge to bear on the current and emerging public policy problems facing the American people. In its research, Brookings functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public.
Page 228 - Act of 1945, as amended, prohibits Eximbank from guaranteeing, Insuring, or extending credit, or participating in any extension of credit, in connection with the purchase or lease of any product by a Communist country...
Page 457 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our Southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
Page 231 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation 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 Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such Corporation...