...the Foreign Aid Appropriations Act of 1961, the United States is prohibited from providing assistance to "the Government of any country which engages in...cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment [or] prolonged detention without charges. * * *" Under this law, the Department of State is charged...

...Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, provides that no economic assistance may be provided to any country which engages in a "consistent pattern...or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, or...

...balance of payments with the rest of the world." To require that "no assistance may be provided ... to the government of any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights" (the Harkin Amendment) means that one condition of US aid...

...Foreign Aid-HbVS/ Appropri»VioB» Act of 1961, the United States Is prohibited from providing assistance to "the Government of any country Which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of •WterWJlly recognized human rights. Including torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment...

...expected commercial sales for cash dollars (sections 103(c) and (n)). No agreements may be made with the government of any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty,...

...the Section. This language defines "gross violations of internationally recognized human rights" as including torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading...or punishment, prolonged detention without charges and trial, arbitrary arrest, incommunicado detention, and other flagrant denial of right to life, liberty,...

...of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, such as torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, or other flagrant denial to life, liberty, and the security of person..." It is our understanding that there are 11 projects...

...no assistance may be provided to any nation that engages, and I quote, "in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human...or punishment, prolonged detention without charges and trial, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction or clandestine detention of those...

...any country having diplomatic relations with the United States." - No agreement will be signed with "the government of any country which engages in a...internationally recognized human rights, including torture, . . . prolonged detention without charges causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and...

...armed forces and law enforcement agencies of that country do not engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human...torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or -4punishment, prolonged detention without charges and trial, causing the disappearance of persons by...