Personnel Summary UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY-Con. SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS-Continued 1. International fairs and exhibitions.-Exhibits are mounted at important international fairs and other strategic locations overseas. In 1962, 14 exhibits were mounted. This compares with an estimated 18 exhibits in 1963 and 19 in 1964. 2. Labor missions.-Labor missions are sent to selected international fairs and other exhibitions. There were 6 labor missions in 1962; 8 are provided in 1963; and 11 are requested for 1964. 3. Special purpose exhibitions. In 1962 three exhibits. were undertaken, each to be shown in three locations in the Soviet Union, under a U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchange agreement. As these showings are completed during 1963 and 1964 it is proposed to tour the exhibits in other countries of East Europe. Three more exhibits for showing in the Soviet Union are proposed for 1964 and 1965, as well as special American Fine Arts exhibits for use in the São Paulo Bienal and Venice Biennale. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 1,622 31 Equipment 15 61 41 Grants, subsidies, and contributions.. 21 2,432 ALLOCATION ACCOUNTS 11 Personnel compensation: SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS (SPECIAL FOREIGN For purchase of foreign currencies which the Treasury Department determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States, for necessary expenses of the United States Information Agency in connection with special international exhibitions under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (75 Stat. 527), [$375,000] $500,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed [$1,250] $2,500 may be expended for representation [: Provided further, That the unex27 pended balance of funds heretofore appropriated under the heading "Special International Program (Special Foreign Currency Program)" shall be merged with funds appropriated hereunder and accounted for as one fund]. (Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1963.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) 1,280 30 30 1962 1963 1964 actual estimate estimate 1963 1964 estimate estimate 7 4 10 15 55 166 6 75 12 200 6 1 21 Travel and transportation of persons.. 78 15 22 Transportation of things.... 101 23 Rent, communications, and utilities. 125 These funds which will remain available until expended, will provide for 1. Acquisition and construction of facilities.-The 1963 program completes the transmitting plant at Greenville, N.C. and the transportable relay station. It also covers substantial completion of the Liberia relay station, and provides financing for the Rhodes relay station, the expansion of a leased facility in the United Kingdom, modernization of existing domestic transmitting facilities, and Project Teak, a medium-wave megawatt relay station in Southeast Asia. The 1963 supplemental appropriation proposed below will provide partial funding of Project Bamboo, a Far East shortwave transmitting facility. Funds are requested in 1964 to: (a) complete Projects Teak and Bamboo; (b) continue the modernization of existing domestic facilities; (c) construct a new facility in the eastern Mediterranean area to improve radio coverage of the Balkans, the U.S.S.R., and south Asia; and (d) provide for new regional program centers at Monrovia, Liberia and on the Island of Rhodes. 2. Maintenance and improvement of existing facilities. 500 Recurring maintenance and improvement of existing facilities will require an increase over the level planned for 1963. 3. Research and development.-Provision is made for a program of continuing research in engineering development, equipment design, and radio propagation techniques with special emphasis on problems applying to the Voice of America. ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF RADIO FACILITIES For an additional amount for the purchase, rent, construction, and improvement of facilities for radio transmission and reception, purchase and installation of necessary equipment for radio transmission and reception, without regard to the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1932 (40 U.S.C. 278a), and acquisition of land and interests in land by purchase, lease, rental, or otherwise, [$8,750,000 $46,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for acquisition of land outside the continental United States without regard to section 355 of the Revised Statutes (40 U.S.C. 255), and title to any land so acquired shall be approved by the Director of the United States Information Agency. [For an additional amount for "Acquisition and construction of radio facilities", $1,600,000, to remain available until expended.] (Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1963; Foreign Aid and Řelated Agencies Appropriation Act, 1963.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) 31 Equipment... 32 Land and structures. This program enables important foreign countries, which have a shortage of U.S. dollar exchange, to import books, periodicals, films, and other U.S. informational media through regular commercial channels (22 U.S.C. 1442). Under the program, foreign importers make payments to American exporters in foreign currency. The exporters then exchange their foreign currency for U.S. dollars through application to the U.S. Information Agency, in accordance with the terms of each exporter's informational media guarantee contract. Program. In 1964 the program will be extended to new countries in the Near East, Latin America, and the Far East where U.S. informational materials are extremely scarce. Program levels in most currently active countries will also be increased. Financing. The 1964 appropriation request provides $4.4 million for repayment of Treasury notes and $572 thousand for the payment of interest to the Treasury. This will make possible the issuance of $6.7 million in guarantee contracts, an increase of $2.2 million over the 1963 level, and will reduce impairment to the fund by $4.3 million, leaving an estimated total unrestored impairment of $13.9 million on June 30, 1964. Of the total borrowing authority of $28 million, $19.3 million in unpaid notes will be outstanding on June 30, 1964; this represents a net reduction of $2.6 million from the estimated amount outstanding on June 30, 1963. Program by activities: Operating costs, funded: 1. Purchase of foreign currency_ 5,310 4,190 3,491 2. Interest on Treasury notes: Payment of current interest.. 619 660 572 Total operating costs, funded.. 5,929 4,850 Change in selected resources 1. -1,361 -391 4,063 2,687 Adjustment in selected resources (guarantees outstanding). 926 652 497 |