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 PUBLIC LAW 100-204—DEC. 22, 1987

101 STAT. 1373

is the last 15 days in which such funds are available unless notice of such reprogramming is made before such period.". SEC. 203. RECEIPTS FROM ENGLISH-TEACHING AND LIBRARY PROGRAMS.

Section 810 of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1475e) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 810. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8302(b) of title 31, United States Code, or any other law or limitation of authority, all payments received by or for the use of the United States Information Agency from or in connection with Englishteaching and library services conducted by or on behalf of the Agency under the authority of this Act or the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 may be credited to the Agency's applicable appropriation to such extent as may be provided in advance in an appropriation Act.". SEC. 204. USIA POSTS AND PERSONNEL OVERSEAS.

(a) PROHIBITION.—No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act may be used to pay any expense associated with the closing of any United States Information Agency post abroad. No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act shall be used to pay for any expense associated with the Bureau of Management or with the television and film service of the United States Information Agency if a United States Information Agency post abroad is closed after April 1, 1987, and not reopened within 180 days of the date of enactment of this Act. (b) LIMITATION ON REDUCTION OF POSITIONS.—Reductions shall not be made in the number of positions filled by American employees of the United States Information Agency stationed abroad until the number of such employees is the same percentage of the total number of American employees of the Agency as the number of American employees of the Agency stationed abroad in 1981 was to the total number of American employees of the Agency at the same time in 1981. (c) WAIVER.—Subsections (a) and (h) shall not apply to any United States Information Agency post closed— (1) after January 1, 1987, and before the date of enactment of this Act if the host government will not allow that post to be reopened; (2) because of a break or downgrading of diplomatic relations between the United States and the country in which the post is located; (3) where there is a real and present threat to American diplomats in the city where the post is located and where a travel advisory warning against American travel to the city has been issued by the Department of State; or (4) when the post is closed so as to provide funds to open a new post, staffed by at least one full-time foreign service officer, and where the Director of the United States Information Agency reports to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives that— (A) the new post is a higher priority than the post proposed to be closed; and (B) the total number of United States Information Agency posts abroad staffed by full-time Foreign Service

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