Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 91.djvu/893

 PUBLIC LAW 95-105—AUG. 17, 1977

91 STAT. 859

PANAMA CANAL

SEC. 506. Any new Panama Canal treaty or agreement negotiated with funds appropriated under this Act must protect the vital interests of the United States in the Canal Zone and in the operation, maintenance, property, and defense of the Panama Canal. UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND TECJINOLOGT FOR DEVELOPMENT

S E C 507. (a) The President shall take appropriate steps to ensure that, at all stages of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, representatives of the United States place important emphasis, in both official statements and informal discussions, on the development and use of light capital technologies in agriculture, in industry, and in the production and conservation of energy. (b) As used in this section, the term "light capital technologies" means those means of production which economize on capital wherever capital is scarce and expensive and labor abundant and cheap, the purposes being to insure that the increasingly scarce capital in the world can be stretched to help all, rather than a small minority, of the world's poor; that workers will not be displaced by sophisticated laborsaving devices where there is already much unemployment; and further, that poor nations can be encouraged eventually to produce their own capital from surplus labor time, thus enhancing their chances of developing independently of outside help.

"Light capital technologies."

INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

S E C 508. Section 401(s) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 (22 U.S.C. 290f (s)) is amended— (1) by inserting " (1) " immediately after " (s) "; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: " (2) There is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1979 and 1980 to carry out the purposes of this section. Amounts appropriated under this paragraph are authorized to remain available until expended.".

Appropriation authorization.

FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT

S E C 509. (a) Subject to the condition described in subsection (b), the Congressional consent. consent of Congress is granted to— 37 USC 801 note. (1) any retired member of the uniformed services, (2) any member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces, and (3) any member of the commissioned Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, to accept any civil employment (and compensation therefor) with respect to which the consent of Congress is required by the last paragraph of section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United States, USC prec. title 1 relating to acceptance of emoluments, offices, or titles from a foreign government.

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