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Public Law 89-406 JOINT RESOLUTION To support United States participation in relieving vietims of hunger in India and to enhance India's capacity to meet the nutritional needs of its people.

"Whereas the Congress has declared it to be the policy of the United States to make maximum efficient use of this Nation's agricultural abundance in furtherance of the foreign policy of the United States; Whereas the Congress is considering legislation togOAern the response of the United States to the mounting world food problem; Whereas critical food shortages in India threatening the health if not the lives of tens of millions of people require an urgent prior response: Therefore be it llesoh-ed by ths Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America In Congress assembled, That the Congress endorses and supports the President's initiative in organizing substantial American participation in an urgent international effort designed to: (a) Help meet India's pressing food shortages by making available to India under Public Law 480 agricultural commodities to meet India's normal import needs plus added quantities of agricultural commodities as the United States share in the international response to the Indian emergency. (b) Help combat malnutrition, especially in mothers and children, via a special program; (c) Encourage and assist those measures which the Government of India is planning to expand India's own agricultural production; That the Congress urges the President to jom India in pressing on other nations the urgency of sharing appropriately in a truly international response to India's critical need. The Congress urges that to the extent necessary the food made available by this program be distributed in such manner that hungry people without money will be able to obtain food. Approved April 19, 1966, 6 p.m.

April 19, 1966 [H. j. Res. 997]

India. Food aid.

68 Stat. 454. note.

Public Law 89-407 AN ACT To define the term "child" for lump-sum payment purposes under the Civil Service Retirement Act.

^..,,, _ April 25, 1966 [H. R. 1746]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Civil Service Vnlted States of America In Congress assembled. That section l (j) Retirement Act, ^^^^^^^ ^ ^ of the Civil Service Ketirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2251 (j)) is amended amendment. by striking out the word "four" in the third sentence and inserting the ^°«'' P- ^OO. word "five", and by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: "The term 'child', for purposes of section 11, shall include an adopted \^^^^c\ll\'. child and a natural child, but shall not include a stepchild". SEC. 2. The provisions under the heading "Civil Service Eetirement and Disability F u n d " in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959 (72 Stat. 1064; Public Law 85-844), shall not n o5e u s e 2267 t. apply with respect to benefits resulting from the enactment of this Act. Approved April 25, 1966.

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