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During the reporting period the equivalent of $102,000
was expended in eight non-excess currency countries
making a cumulative total since the beginning of the
program in 1959 of $2.6 million in 13 non-excess currency
countries.
TABLE XX.-Translatlon, publication, and distribution of
books and periodicals, sec. 104(i)
Expenditures
Country I Cumulative
Calendar through
year 1965 1965
Thousand Thousand
dollar dollar
equivalent equivalent
Cousmia---------------------------to
Colombia---------------14 88
Finland ----------------------------------- 724
France ----------------------------------- 214
Greece---------------------- 8 158
Iran -------------------------------------- 141
Italy----------------------- 3 455
Korea ---------------------- 14 178
Peru------------------------ 17 54
Spain---------------------- 5 62
Thailand --------------------- 16 71
Turkey--------------------- 25 141
Vietnam ---------------------------------- 197
Total------------------ 102 2,558
I Excludes excess and former excess currency countries and Brazil.
Data for these countries have been incorporated under sec. 104(f).
Binational and Community Centers
Section 104(j): The U.S. Information Agency's binational
and community center assistance programns in the
excess and former excess currency countries and in Brazil
have been incorporated under section 104(f) in this
report. Some assistance was rendered to overseas binational
and community centers in the non-excess currency
countries during 1965. Funding for such projects was
authorized prior to July 1, 1962.
Funds expended during the reporting period under
104(j) totaled the equivalent of $305,000 in the nonexcess
currency countries. The cumulative total since
the beginning of the program in 1959 is $3.6 million.
Scientific, Medical, Cultural, and
Educational Activities
Section 104(k) provides for programs and projects of
scientific cooperation between the United States and
other countries, and for translation and dissemination of
scientific and technical publications. Funds for such
work must be specifically appropriated by the Congress.
Appropriations for fiscal year 1966 provided $10.4 million
for purchases of foreign currencies to be used for
section 104(k) activities. Of this amount, $8.0 million
was appropriated for overseas research programs administered
by the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare in the fields of medicine, welfare, education, and
vocational rehabilitation; $2.0 million for development
by the )epartment of Agriculture of research programs
in foreign scientific institutions; $0.1 million was appropriated
to the Department of Agriculture and transferred
the National Science Foundation for translation and
TABLE XXI.-Binational centers assistance programs under
sec. 104(j)
Expenditures
Country Cumulative
Calendar through
year 1965 December
1965
Thousand Thousand
dollar dollar
equivalent equivalent
Austria----------------------------------- 40
Colombia------------------- 2 445
Ecuador---------------------------------- 93
Greece ----------------------------------- 502
Iran------------------------ - 1 251
Italy ------------------------------------- 156
Mexico -----------------------------------
Peru-----------------------------------------115
Spain----------------------- ----------
400
300
Thailand----------------------------------- 278
Turkey ------------------- 302 805
Uruguay ---------------------------------- 44
Vietnam -------------------- --------------- 198
Total ----------------- 305 3,627
Excludes I Exluds excess eces and an former fomerexcess cu~rrency cojuntries and Brazil.
Data for these countries have been incorporated under sec. 114(f).
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