International Security Assistance Act of 1976: Hearings of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, on H.R. 11963 ....

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Page 843 - To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Foreign Military Sales Act, and for other purposes.
Page 819 - State shall be responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of economic assistance, military assistance, and military education and training programs, including but not limited to determining whether there shall be a military assistance (including civic action) or a military education and training program for a country and the value thereof, to the end that such programs are effectively integrated both at home and abroad and the foreign policy of the United States is best served...
Page 821 - Defense to any friendly country or international organization if such country or international organization agrees to pay not less than the value thereof in United States dollars. Payment shall be made in advance or, as determined by the President...
Page 230 - Defense, the performance of any other functions with respect to the furnishing of military assistance. (b) The establishment of priorities in the procurement, delivery, and allocation of military equipment shall be determined by the Secretary of Defense.
Page 514 - ... torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, causing the disappearance of persons, by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country.
Page 859 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved, by the National Executive Committee of The American Legion in regular meeting assembled in Indianapolis. Indiana, on October /S-7.9.
Page 500 - Congress that except in extraordinary circumstances, the President shall substantially reduce or terminate security assistance to any government which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights...
Page 413 - Special Central American Assistance Act of 1979". SEC. 2. Chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section : "SEC.
Page 514 - US development assistance: ... to the government of any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights...
Page 279 - Agency for operations in foreign countries, other than activities intended solely for obtaining necessary intelligence, unless and until the President finds that each such operation is important to the national security of the United States and reports, in a timely fashion, a description and scope of such operation to the appropriate committees of the Congress...

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