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PUBLIC LAW 89-357-MAR. 1, 1966

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marks the "coming of age'', the twenty-first anniversary of the World Health Organization; and Whereas the assembly and related functions will provide outstanding opportunities for the Ministers and Directors of Health of the World Health Organization's one hundred and twenty-five member countries to view American health and medical methods in practice, and to make and renew friendships among American health and medical leaders; and Whereas the assembly will focus public attention in the United States on the important work of the World Health Organization as an integral part of the economic and social program of the United Nations and as a constructive work contributing to better international appreciation and world peace; and Whereas American health and medical groups and certain urban organizations have suggested arrangements to make the World .. Health Assembly in the United States a particularly useful professional occasion through related seminars, field trips, and social activities; and AVhereas the cost of holding an assembly in Boston, Massachusetts, w'ould exceed the amount provided in the budget of the World Health Organization for holding an assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, the headquarters of the Organization: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled. That there is authorized to A ^°/i,t,"^^^'^ 1

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be appropriated to the Secretary or State, out oi any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of not to exceed $500,000 for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to organizing and holding the Twenty-second World Health Assembly in Boston, Massachusetts. Funds appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be available for advance contribution to the World Health Organization for additional costs incurred by the Organization in holding the Twenty-second World Health Assembly outside the Organization's headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland; and shall be available for expenses incurred by the Secretary of State, on behalf of the United States as host government, including personal services without regard to civil service and classification laws; employment of aliens; travel expenses without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Kegulations and to the lates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under rJie Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended; ^^ ^t^t i^e. rent of (juarters by roiitracf or otherwise; and hire of passenger suscsssnote. motor veil ides. Approved March 1, 1966.

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