An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the Department of State, the International Communications Agency, and the Board for International Broadcasting, and for other purposes.

(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 97-693) Title I: Department of State - Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982 and 1983 for the Department of State to be used for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; and (4) migration and refugee assistance. Prohibits using any of the funds available for the administration of foreign affairs to open new consulates until specified consulates are reopened. Earmarks a specified amount for operating and maintaining such consulates. Limits the amount of any U.S. payment to the United Nations budget or to the budget of any specialized U.N. agency to an amount assessed as the U.S. contribution less 25 percent of the amount budgeted for projects whose primary purpose is to provide political benefits to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Directs the President to report annually to Congress on any such project. Requires funds authorized for international organizations and conferences to be used to pay the U.S. contribution for calendar years 1982 and 1983 to the Organization of American States, the Pan American Health Organization, and to the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. Earmarks specified amounts for FY 1982 and 1983 for: (1) the International Committee of the Red Cross; and (2) assistance for refugees settling in Israel. Expresses the opposition of Congress to efforts: (1) by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to regulate news content and the operation of the world press; and (2) by some countries to control access to and dissemination of news. Requires the President to report, within a specified time, on U.S. contribution to and participation in UNESCO. Prohibits using appropriated funds to pay the U.S. contribution to UNESCO if UNESCO implements a policy to: (1) license journalists or their publications; (2) restrict the free flow of information; or (3) impose mandatory journalistic codes. Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress on whether UNESCO has taken any such action. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982 and 1983 for payment of the U.S. share of expenses of the science and technology agreements between the United States and Yugoslavia and the United States and Poland. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982 and 1983 for the Asia Foundation. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize appropriations to maintain the level of State Department program activities despite foreign currency fluctuations or overseas wage and price changes. Authorizes establishing the Buying Power Maintenance account. Directs the Secretary to transfer funds between such account and other appropriations accounts to maintain the buying power of State Department programs by offsetting such fluctuations or changes. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 and the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations to offset foreign currency fluctuations or overseas wage and price changes in order to maintain the authorized level of expenditures for the International Communication Agency (ICA) and the Board for International Broadcasting. Deletes the limitations under current laws on the authorized appropriations for payment of the U.S. share of the expenses of the: (1) Pan American Institute of Geography and History; (2) Hague Conference on Private International Law and of the International (Rome) Institute for the Unification of Private Law; and (3) Pan American Railway Congress. Amends the passport provisions to authorize the Secretary of State to set the fees for issuing passports and for executing passport applications. Extends the duration of a passport's validity from five to ten years. Authorizes the Secretary to limit a passport's validity to a shorter period. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to make certain passports and reports issued to document citizens born abroad as effective in proving U.S. citizenship as certificates of naturalization. Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to direct the President to appoint a U.S. representative to the Vienna office of the United Nations. Provides for living quarters for certain U.S. representatives to the United Nations rather than only for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Credits any payments made by U.S. personnel for such living quarters to the fund used by the Secretary to rent the premises. Provides that the Federal criminal provisions relating to compensation, activities, disqualification, and acts affecting personal financial interests of Federal employees shall not apply to certain private sector representatives on U.S. delegations to international telecommunications conferences. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to allow for State Department and Foreign Service procurement contracts of up to five years, if: (1) appropriations are available and adequate for the first fiscal year and for potential cancellation costs; and (2) the Secretary makes specified determinations. Requires cancellation of a contract if funds are not available for its continuation. Makes the provisions of the Defense Base Act relating to the compensation for disability or death for persons employed at military bases outside the United States inapplicable with respect to contracts with persons employed by the State Department or the Foreign Service on an intermittent basis. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require that a principal duty of each chief of mission to a foreign country shall be the promotion of exports of U.S. goods and services. Directs the President to prescribe the salary rates for each salary class of the Senior Foreign Service. Directs the Secretary of State to determine which of the basic salary rates shall be paid to each member of a salary class. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the basic salary rate of a member of the Senior Foreign Service once a year. (Current law requires Presidential reappointment and Senate reconfirmation for a senior foreign service member moved from one pay level to another, even within a class.) Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within 90 days of enactment on the individual exchange activities conducted pursuant to certain scientific exchange agreements between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lists information to be included in the report. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress an annual list of the names of Soviet students participating in such programs. Requires such report to include a determination that these programs will not jeapordize U.S. national security interests. Title II: Foreign Missions - Foreign Missions Act - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to declare that the treatment given to a foreign mission in the United States shall be determined by the Secretary after considering the treatment given U.S. missions in the country or territory represented by that foreign mission. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Foreign Missions within the Department of State. Authorizes the Secretary to permit the Director of such Office to: (1) assist Federal, State, and municipal agencies to ascertain the benefits due a foreign mission; (2) provide benefits for or on behalf of a foreign mission; and (3) perform such other functions as the Secretary determines necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to require a foreign mission (in order to obtain benefits from the Director or as a condition to the performance of certain contracts, the acquisition of real property, or the application for or acceptance of any benefit) to comply with certain terms, including paying the Director a fee and waiving any recourse against any governmental authority or employee. Authorizes such requirements if the Secretary determines they are necessary to: (1) facilitate relations between the U.S. and a sending state (a state represented by such mission); (2) protect U.S. interests; (3) adjust for costs and procedures of obtaining benefits for U.S. missions abroad; or (4) assist in resolving a dispute affecting U.S. interests. Authorizes the Secretary to designate an agent of a foreign mission to make a required waiver of recourse for the foreign mission. States that this Act does not preclude or limit the authority of the U.S. Secret Service to provide protection for foreign missions. Authorizes the Secretary to require a foreign mission to: (1) notify the Director before acquiring or disposing of real property; and (2) divest itself of or forgo the use of real property if such property was acquired without notice to the Director or exceeds the limits placed on real property available to U.S. missions in the sending state. Authorizes the Secretary to protect and dispose of any property of a foreign mission which has ceased conducting governmental activities and has not designated a protecting power. Makes the location, replacement, or expansion of chanceries in the District of Columbia subject to this Act. Permits a chancery to locate as a matter of right in any area which is zoned commercial, industrial, waterfront, or mixed use. Authorizes chanceries to be located in other areas subject to the disapproval of the District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment. Sets forth the procedure and criteria for locating chanceries in such areas. Declares that no act of any Federal agency shall preempt provisions of this title with respect to benefits conferred or denied to foreign missions. Provides that a denial by the Secretary involving a benefit for a foreign mission within a State or local jurisdiction shall be controlling. Provides for the administration and management of this Act. Makes the provisions of this Act applicable to public international organizations and their official missions. Prohibits compliance with this Act from being deemed a waiver of immunity. Prohibits conferring or denying benefits to foreign missions contrary to this Act. Makes funds in the State Department working capital fund available to pay expenses to carry out provisions relating to foreign missions. Amends the Diplomatic Relations Act to extend the privileges and immunities of the Vienna Convention to missions of nonparties to the Convention. Authorizes the President to extend to such missions treatment that is more favorable or less favorable than that provided under the Vienna Convention. Title III: United States Information Agency - United States Information Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Changes the name of the International Communication Agency to the United States Information Agency (USIA). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1982 and 1983 to carry out certain international communication, educational, cultural, and exchange programs. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to permit any Federal employee who has special scientific, technical, or professional qualifications to be assigned to a foreign government (presently only U.S. citizens can be so assigned). Authorizes the making of USIA procurement contracts of up to five years, if: (1) appropriations are available and adequate for the first fiscal year and for potential cancellation costs; and (2) the Director of the USIA makes specified determinations. Requires the cancellation of such a contract if funds are not available for its continuation. Authorizes the Director of the USIA to purchase security vehicles without regard to any maximum price limitation. Authorizes the purchase of: (1) liability insurance to cover errors; and (2) insurance for the protection of interests in intellectual property. Provides for the principal assistant of an USIA Associate Director to perform the duties of the Associate Director who dies, resigns, is sick, or is absent. Excludes employees of certain exhibits of U.S. economic or cultural accomplishments from the provisions of the Defense Base Act for compensation for disability or death. Provides that the fees received by the USIA in connection with its English-teaching programs may be credited to the USIA's applicable appropriation. Makes the limitation on obligations or expenditures of appropriations to carry out the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 inapplicable with respect to any appropriations for liquidating notes which were assumed in the operation of the informational media guaranty program and were outstanding on a specified date. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S. exchange-of-persons activities should be strengthened; (2) such activities would be a cost-effective means of enhancing U.S. national security; and (3) such activities should be accorded a dependable source of long-term funding. Requires the amount obligated by the USIA for grants for exchange-of-persons activities to be increased annually so that by FY 1986 such amount is twice the amount obligated for FY 1982. Earmarks specified amounts out of the USIA appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) the Fulbright Academic Exchange Programs and the International Visitor Program; (2) the Humphrey Fellowship Program; and (3) grants to private, not-for-profit organizations engaging in exchange-of-persons programs. Authorizes the Director of the USIA to authorize up to five percent of such earmarked amounts to be used for a purpose other than exchange-of-persons activities. Requires the Director to submit to the Congress a justification for taking such action 15 days before taking it. Requires the USIA films "Reflections: Samuel Eliott Morison," "And Now Miguel," and "In Their Own Words" to be made available within the United States. Title IV: Board for International Broadcasting - Board for International Broadcasting Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the Board for International Broadcasting for FY 1982 and 1983. Prohibits the making of any grant to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., (RFE/RL) under such Act unless: (1) the Board of Directors of RFE/RL consists only of members of the Board for International Broadcasting; and (2) such Board makes all major policy determinations governing the operation of RFE/RL, Inc. Designates as "Radio Marti" any U.S. program involving radio broadcasts directed principally at Cuba. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for FY 1982 and 1983. Changes the method of reimbursing the Foundation's members for travel expenses. Provides that recipients of Foundation grants need not deposit in the Treasury any money generated by investments of grant funds if such money is used for the purposes for which the grant was made. Directs the President to report to the Congress on the cost of Federal, State, and local assistance for refugees and Cuban and Haitian entrants, within the United States or abroad, for each of FY 1981 and 1982. Amends the Japan-United States Friendship Act to authorize the expenditure, without limitation, of the contributions deposited in the United States-Japanese Friendship Trust Fund from nonappropriated sources. Expresses congressional support for U.S. promotion of sound infant feeding practices. Urges the President to review the U.S. position on the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes before the 25th World Health Assembly meeting. Repeals certain obsolete provisions of specified Acts.

(Measure passed House, amended (Inserted text of H.R. 4814), roll call #317-58)) Title I: Department of State - Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the Department of State to be used for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; and (4) migration and refugee assistance. Limits the amount of any U.S. payment to the United Nations budget to the amount assessed as the U.S. contribution less: (1) 25 percent of the budget for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People; and (2) 25 percent of the budget for the Special Unit on Palestinian rights. Prohibits using appropriated funds to pay the U.S. contribution to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) if UNESCO implements a policy to: (1) license journalists or their publications; (2) restrict the free flow of information; or (3) impose mandatory journalistic codes. Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress on whether UNESCO has taken any such action. Makes a specified amount available for an ex gratia payment to Yugoslavia as an expression of U.S. concern for the injuries suffered by a Yugoslavian national who was attacked in New York City. Requires a specified portion of the authorized appropriations for migration and refugee assistance to be available for resettling Soviet and Eastern European refuges in Israel. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for payment of the U.S. share of expenses of the science and technology agreements between the United States and Yugoslavia and the United States and Poland. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize appropriations to maintain the level of State Department program activities despite foreign currency fluctuations or overseas wage and price changes. Authorizes establishing the Buying Power Maintenance account. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds between such account and other appropriations accounts to maintain the buying power of State Department programs by offsetting such fluctuations or changes. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 and the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations to offset foreign currency fluctuations or overseas wage and price changes in order to maintain the authorized level of expenditures for the International Communication Agency (ICA) and the Board for International Broadcasting. Amends the passport provisions to authorize the Secretary of State to set the fees for issuing passports and for executing passport applications. Extends the duration of a passport's validity from five to ten years. Authorizes the Secretary to limit a passport's validity to a shorter period. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to make certain passports and reports issued to document citizens born abroad as effective in proving U.S. citizenship as certificates of naturalization. Deletes the limitations under current Federal laws on the authorized appropriations for payment of the U.S. share of the expenses of the: (1) Pan American Institute of Geography and History; (2) Hague Conference on Private International Law and of the International (Rome) Institute for the Unification of Private Law; and (3) Pan American Railway Congress. Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to direct the President to appoint a U.S. representative to the Vienna office of the United Nations. Provides for living quarters for certain U.S. representatives to the United Nations rather than only for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Credits any payments made by U.S. personnel for such living quarters to the fund used by the Secretary to rent the premises. Exempts certain private sector representatives on U.S. delegations to international telecommunications conferences from specified criminal sanctions applicable to Federal employees. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to allow for State Department and the Foreign Service procurement contracts of up to five years, if: (1) appropriations are available and adequate for the first fiscal year and for potential cancellation costs; and (2) the Secretary makes specified determinations. Requires contracts to be cancelled if funds are not available for its continuation. Makes the provisions of the Defense Base Act relating to the compensation for disability or death for persons employed at military bases outside the United States inapplicable with respect to contracts with persons employed by the State Department or the Foreign Service on an intermittent basis. Directs the Secretary to establish an independent Office of Foreign Missions within the Department of State. Authorizes the Director of such Office to: (1) assist Federal, State, and municipal agencies to ascertain the benefits due a foreign mission; (2) provide benefits for or on behalf of a foreign mission; and (3) perform such other functions as the Secretary determines necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to require a foreign mission to obtain benefits from the Director on terms approved by the Secretary or to comply with certain terms, including paying the Director a fee and waiving any recourse against any governmental authority or employee, as a condition to the performance of certain contracts, the acquisition of real property, or the application for or acceptance of any benefit. Authorizes such requirements if the Secretary determines they are necessary to: (1) facilitate relations between the U.S. and a sending state (a state represented by such mission); (2) protect U.S. interests; (3) adjust for costs and procedures of obtaining benefits for U.S. missions abroad; or (4) assist in resolving a dispute affecting U.S. interests. Authorizes the Secretary to designate an agent of a foreign mission to make a required waiver of recourse for the foreign mission. Prohibits the State Department from certifying more than two persons from each foreign mission for diplomatic license plates. Authorizes the Secretary to require a foreign mission to: (1) notify the Director before acquiring or disposing of real property; and (2) divest itself of or forgo the use of real property if such property was acquired without notice to the Director or exceeds the limits placed on real property available to U.S. missions in the sending state. Authorizes the Secretary to protect and dispose of any property of a foreign mission which has ceased conducting governmental activities and has not designated a protecting power. Makes the location, replacement, or expansion of a foreign mission's real property in the District of Columbia subject to the approval of the District of Columbia Foreign Missions Commission. Creates the Commission to establish: (1) areas within which chanceries may be located as a matter of right; and (2) additional areas within which chanceries may be located. Sets forth the criteria for the Commission's determinations about such real property. Provides for the administration and management of the Office of Foreign Missions. Makes the provisions of such Act applicable to public international organizations and their official missions. Prohibits compliance with such provisions by a foreign mission from being deemed a waiver of immunity. Prohibits conferring or denying benefits to foreign missions contrary to such Act. Makes funds in the State Department working capital fund available to pay expenses to carry out provisions relating to foreign missions. Amends the Diplomatic Relations Act to extend the privileges and immunities of the Vienna Convention to missions of nonparties to the Convention. Authorizes the President to extend to such missions treatment that is more favorable or less favorable than that provided under the Vienna Convention. Prohibits using State Department funds to open new U.S. consulates until specified consulates are reopened. Expresses the opposition of Congress to efforts: (1) by UNESCO to regulate news content and the operation of the world press; and (2) by some countries to control access to and dissemination of news. Directs the President to report to Congress on U.S. participation in UNESCO. Title II: International Communication Agency - International Communication Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for the ICA for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to carry out certain international communication, educational, cultural, and exchange programs. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to permit any Federal employee who has special scientific, technical, or professional qualifications to be assigned to a foreign government (presently only U.S. citizens can be so assigned). Authorizes the making of ICA procurement contracts of up to five years, if: (1) appropriations are available and adequate for the first fiscal year and for potential cancellation costs; and (2) the Director of the ISIA makes specified determinations. Requires such contracts to be cancelled if funds are not available for its continuation. Authorizes the Director of the ICA to purchase security vehicles without regard to any maximum price limitation. Provides for the principal assistant of an ICA Associate Director to perform the duties of the Associate Director who dies, resigns, is sick, or is absent. Excludes employees of certain exhibits of U.S. economic or cultural accomplishments from the provisions of the Defense Base Act for compensation for disability or death. Makes the limitation on obligations or expenditures of appropriations to carry out the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 inapplicable with respect to any appropriations for liquidating notes which were assumed in the operation of the informational media guaranty program and were outstanding on a specified date. Requires the ICA films "Reflections: Samuel Eliott Morison" and "And Now Miguel" to be made available within the United States. Changes the name of the ICA to the United States Information Agency. Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Board for International Broadcasting Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the Board for International Broadcasting for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Changes the method of reimbursing the Foundation's Board members for travel expenses. Directs the Secretary of State to report to Congress on: (1) the activities conducted pursuant to certain scientific exchange agreements with the Soviet Union; and (2) the risk of transferring to the Soviet Union militarily significant technology through such activities. Prohibits obligating or expending any State Department or ICA appropriations after a specified date to finance long-term scientific or technological exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union. Directs the President to report on the cost of assistance for refugees and Cuban and Haitian entrants within the United States or abroad for each of fiscal years 1981 and 1982. Expresses the dismay of Congress over the U.S. vote against the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. Urges the administration to notify the World Health Organization that the United States will cooperate in implementing the Code. Urges the U.S. infant formula industry to abide by the Code's guidelines. Reaffirms U.S. support for efforts to improve world health.

(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #158 (88-4)) Title I: Department of State - Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the Department of State to be used for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; and (4) migration and refugee assistance, of which not more than a specified amount will be available for resettling Soviet and Eastern European refugees in Israel. Requires specified amounts of such authorized appropriations to be available for: (1) maintaining specified consular posts; (2) payments to the Organization of American States; and (3) the International Committee of the Red Cross assistance program for political detainees. Limits the amount of any U.S. payment to the United Nations budget to the amount assessed as the U.S. contribution less: (1) 25 percent of the budget for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People; and (2) 25 percent of the budget for the Special Unit on Palestinian rights. Limits such payment to the amount assessed as the U.S. contribution less 25 percent of the amount budgeted by the United Nations for projects whose primary purpose is to provide political benefits to the Palestine Liberation Organization or entities associated with it. Directs the President to review the U.N. budget annually to determine which programs have such purpose and to report to Congress the programs and amounts for which the U.S. assessment is withheld. Makes a specified amount available for an ex gratia payment to Yugoslavia as an expression of U.S. concern for the injuries suffered by a Yugoslavian national who was attacked in New York City. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for payment of the U.S. share of expenses of the science and technology agreements between the United States and Yugoslavia and the United States and Poland. Amends the passport provisions to authorize the Secretary of State to set the amount of the fees for issuance of a passport and for executing passport applications. Extends the duration of a passport's validity from five to ten years. Authorizes the Secretary to limit a passport's validity to a shorter period in an individual case or on a general basis pursuant to regulation. Deletes the limitations under current Federal laws on the authorized appropriations for payment of the U.S. share of the expenses of the: (1) Pan American Institute of Geography and History; (2) Hague Conference on Private International Law and of the International (Rome) Institute for the Unification of Private Law; and (3) Pan American Railway Congress. Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to direct the President to appoint a U.S. representative to the Vienna office of the United Nations. Provides for living quarters for certain U.S. representatives to the United Nations rather than only for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Credits any payments made by U.S. personnel for such living quarters to the fund used by the Secretary to rent the premises. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, and the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the State Department, the International Communication Agency (ICA), and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., (RFE/RL,Inc.) to offset fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates occurring after November 30 of the calendar year preceding the enactment of the authorization legislation for such fiscal year (current laws offset fluctuations occurring after November 30 of the preceding fiscal year). Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to transfer from accounts under the heading of administration of foreign affairs to the account set up to offset such fluctuations any amount which exceeds the needs of the approved level of operations because of such fluctuations. Authorizes appropriations for the Asia Foundation for fiscal year 1982. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for fiscal year 1982. Changes the method for reimbursing travel expenses of the Foundation's Board members. Amends the provisions for cost-of-living allowances for Federal employees in foreign areas to authorize grants for the travel expenses for each dependent of an employee, other than an employee of the Department of State or the ICA, to obtain an American (rather than an American secondary or undergraduate college) education. Entitles a State Department or ICA employee in a foreign area to travel expenses for the employee's dependent to obtain an undergraduate college education. Requires a principal duty of each chief of a U.S. diplomatic mission in a foreign country to be the promotion of U.S. exports. Reaffirms U.S. dedication to and support for efforts to improve world health. Endorses the work being done by certain international agencies on the problems associated with infant and young child nutrition. Encourages international health organizations and their member states to continue combating infant illness. Urges the Federal Government and the breastmilk substitute industry to support the basic aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and to cooperate with other governments to develop health standards to implement the Code's objectives. Title II: International Communication Agency - International Communication Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for the ICA for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to carry out certain international communication, educational, cultural, and exchange programs. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to permit any Federal employee who has special scientific, technical, or professional qualifications to be assigned to a foreign government (presently only U.S. citizens can be so assigned). Authorizes the making of procurement contracts for periods which do not exceed five years if: (1) appropriations are adequate for the first fiscal year; (2) government need is reasonably firm and continuing; (3) such contract will encourage effective competition or promote economics in performance and operation; and (4) such method will not inhibit small business participation. Requires such contracts to be cancelled if funds are not available for continuation into subsequent fiscal years. Authorizes the Director of the ICA to purchase security vehicles without regard to any maximum price limitation. Provides for the principal assistant of an ICA Associate Director to perform the duties of the Associate Director who dies, resigns, is sick, or is absent. Authorizes the Director of the ICA to purchase motion picture, radio, and television producers' liability insurance to protect interests in intellectual property. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to hold foreign currencies derived from conversions made pursuant to the obligation of informational media guaranties which are unavailable for or exceed U.S. requirements. Authorizes the sale of such currencies to Federal agencies for dollars as the currencies become available for purposes of mutual interest upon which the country from which the currencies derive and the United States agree. Excludes employees of certain exhibits of U.S. economic or cultural accomplishments from the provisions of the Defense Base Act concerning compensation for disability or death. Makes the limitation on obligations or expenditures of appropriations to carry out the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 inapplicable with respect to any appropriations for liquidating notes which were assumed in the operation of the informational media guaranty program for International Broadcasting. and were outstanding on a specified date. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S. exchange-of-persons activities should be strengthened; (2) such activities would be a cost-effective means of enhancing U.S. national security; and (3) such activities should be accorded a dependable source of long-term funding. Requires expansion of exchange-of-persons programs administered by the ICA between 1982 and 1986 to three times that in effect on the enactment of this Act. Requires the ICA film "In Their Own Words" to be made available within the United States. Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Board for International Broadcasting Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for the Board for International Broadcasting for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Requires a limited amount of the gain realized during fiscal year 1982 through fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates to be made available to compensate for losses incurred from the bombing at the Munich headquarters of RFE/RL, Inc. and for additional RFE/RL, Inc., operating expenses. Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to prohibit the making of any grant under such Act unless the Board of Directors of RFE/RL, Inc.,consists of only the members of the Board for International Broadcasting and such Board makes all major policy determinations governing the operation of RFE/RL, Inc. Increases the number of Board members from seven to ten. Makes nine such members voting members. Limits to five the number of Board members who can be of the same political party. Makes only the chief operating executive of RFE/RL, Inc., an ex officio Board member. Sets the terms of office of the Board members so that the terms of one-third of the Board's voting members expire each year. Designates as "Radio Free Cuba" any U.S. radio broadcasts to Cuba for which funds are authorized by this or any other Act. Title IV: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to carry out such Act. Authorizes the Director of such agency to accept the security and loyalty investigations of the Defense Investigative Service or the State Department for persons detailed to the Agency from other Government agencies. Authorizes the Director to participate in monitoring all aspects of anti-satellite activities. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979, which: (1) prohibits the use of funds authorized for reparations or aid to Vietnam; (2) prohibits the use of funds authorized to implement the Panama Canal Treaty or the Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal; and (3) authorizes appropriations for an independent commission on global hunger and malnutrition. Expresses the opposition of the Congress to efforts by: (1) the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to regulate news content and the operation of the world press; and (2) some countries to control access to and dissemination of news. Limits the amount of any U.S. payment to the UNESCO budget to the amount assessed as the U.S. contribution less 25 percent of the amount made available by UNESCO for projects which license journalists or their publishers, which censor or restrict the free flow of information, or which impose mandatory codes of journalistic practice or ethics. Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress on the implementation of these budget restrictions. Amends the Japanese-United States Friendship Act to authorize the expenditure, without limitation, of the contributions deposited in the United States-Japanese Friendship Trust Fund from nonappropriated sources. Directs the President to report on the total cost of efforts to assist refugees and Cuban and Haitian entrants within the United States and abroad for each of fiscal years 1981 and 1982. Title VI: Peace Corps Autonomy - Peace Corps Autonomy Act - Requires the Peace Corps to be an independent agency within the Executive branch. Transfers to the Director of the Peace Corps all functions relating to the Peace Corps which were vested in the Director of the Action agency. Provides for the transfer of personnel, contracts, property records, and funds used primarily by the Peace Corps to the Peace Corps. Prohibits the transfer of personnel from causing a loss of employee benefits for such personnel for a specified period of time. Requires transferred personnel to be assigned to functions and units related to their assignments before enactment. Requires collective bargaining agreements covering Peace Corps personnel or transferred personnel to continue to be recognized by the Peace Corps. Requires each person employed primarily in connection with any function relating to the Peace Corps who does not hold a Foreign Service appointment to be appointed a member of the Foreign Service, except that: (1) for three years no person currently holding a career or career-conditional appointment shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service without such person's consent; and (2) each transferred person who held an appointment below a specified grade level shall be appointed a member of the Foreign Service for the duration of operations under the Peace Corps Act (thus, not subject to such Act's five year appointment limitation). Authorizes the President to delegate the authority to carry out such Act only to the Director of the Peace Corps. Amends the Peace Corps Act to delete certain provisions relating to readjustment allowance payments to Peace Corps volunteers. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Comptroller General to submit reports to the appropriate Congressional committees on the implementation of this Act.

Title I: Department of State - Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for the Department of State to be used for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; and (4) migration and refugee assistance of which not more than a specified amount will be available for resettling Soviet and Eastern European refugees in Israel. Requires specified amounts of such authorized appropriations to be available for: (1) maintaining specified consular posts; (2) payments to the Organization of American States; and (3) the International Committee of the Red Cross assistance program for political detainees. Limits the amount of any U.S. payment to the United Nations budget to the amount assessed as the U.S. contribution less: (1) 25 percent of the budget for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People; and (2) 25 percent of the budget for the Special Unit on Palestinian rights. Makes a specified amount available for an ex gratia payment to Yugoslavia as an expression of U.S. concern for the injuries suffered by a Yugoslavian national who was attacked in New York City. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for payment of the U.S. share of expenses of the science and technology agreements between the United States and Yugoslavia and the United States and Poland. Amends the passport provisions to authorize the Secretary of State to set the amount of the fees for issuance of a passport and for executing passport applications. Extends the duration of a passport's validity from five to ten years. Authorizes the Secretary to limit a passport's validity to a shorter period in an individual case or on a general basis pursuant to regulation. Deletes the limitations under current Federal laws on the authorized appropriations for payment of the U.S. share of the expenses of the: (1) Pan American Institute of Geography and History; (2) Hague Conference on Private International Law and of the International (Rome) Institute for the Unification of Private Law; and (3) Pan American Railway Congress. Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to direct the President to appoint a U.S. representative to the Vienna office of the United Nations. Provides for living quarters for certain U.S. representatives to the United Nations rather than only for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Credits any payments made by U.S. personnel for such living quarters to the fund used by the Secretary to rent the premises. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the waiver of the requirement of possession of a valid nonimmigrant visa or border crossing identification card by a nonimmigrant alien if such alien; (1) is a nonimmigrant visitor for less than 90 days; (2) is a national of a country which extends or is prepared to extend reciprocal privileges to U.S. citizens and nationals; and (3) has been determined not to represent a threat to the United States. Sets forth the manner of determining whether such alien's country extends the necessary reciprocal privileges. Prohibits admission of an alien who otherwise meets the above conditions if such alien fails to comply with the conditions of a previous admission. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, and the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the State Department, the International Communication Agency, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., (RFE/RL Inc.) to offset fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates occurring after November 30 of the calendar year preceding the enactment of the authorization legislation for such fiscal year (current laws offset fluctuations occurring after November 30 of the preceding fiscal year). Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to transfer from accounts under the heading of administration of foreign affairs to the account set up to offset such fluctuations any amount which exceeds the needs of the approved level of operations because of such fluctuations. Authorizes appropriations for the Asia Foundation for fiscal year 1982. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for fiscal year 1982. Changes the method for reimbursing travel expenses of the Foundation's Board members. Amends the Federal provisions for cost-of-living allowances for Federal employees in foreign areas to authorize grants for the travel expenses for each dependent of an employee other than an employee of the Department of State or the International Communication Agency (ICA) to obtain an American (rather than an American Secondary or undergraduate college) education. Entitles a State Department or ICA employee in a foreign area to travel expenses for the employees' dependent to obtain an undergraduate college education. Title II: International Communication Agency - International Communication Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for the ICA for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to carry out certain international communication, educational, cultural, and exchange programs. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to permit any Federal employee who has special scientific, technical, or professional qualifications to be assigned to a foreign government (presently only U.S. citizens can be so assigned). Authorizes the making of procurement contracts for periods which do not exceed five years if: (1) appropriations are adequate for the first fiscal year; (2) government need is reasonably firm and continuing; (3) such contract will encourage effective competition or promote economics in performance and operation; and (4) such method will not inhibit small business participation. Requires such contracts to be cancelled if funds are not available for continuation into subsequent fiscal years. Authorizes the Director of the ICA to purchase security vehicles without regard to any maximum price limitation. Provides for the principal assistant of an ICA Associate Director to perform the duties of the Associate Director who dies, resigns, is sick, or is absent. Authorizes the Director of the ICA to purchase motion picture, radio, and television producers' liability insurance to protect interests in intellectual property. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to hold foreign currencies derived from conversions made pursuant to the obligation of informational media guaranties which are unavailable for or exceed U.S. requirements. Authorizes the sale of such currencies to Federal agencies for dollars as the currencies become available for purposes of mutual interest upon which the country from which the currencies derive and the United States agree. Excludes employees of certain exhibits of U.S. economic or cultural accomplishments from the provisions of the Defense Base Act concerning compensation for disability or death. Makes the limitation on obligations or expenditures of appropriations to carry out the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 inapplicable with respect to any appropriations for liquidating notes which were assumed in the operation of the informational media guaranty program and were outstanding on a specified date. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S. exchange-of-persons activities should be strengthened; (2) such activities would be a cost-effective means of enhancing U.S. national security; and (3) such activities should be accorded a dependable source of long-term funding. Requires expansion of exchange-of-persons programs administered by the ICA between 1982 and 1986 to three times that in effect on the enactment of this Act. Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Board for International Broadcasting Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Authorizes appropriations for the Board for International Broadcasting for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Requires a limited amount of the gain realized during fiscal year 1982 through fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates to be made available to compensate for losses incurred from the bombing at the Munich headquarters of RFE/RL, Inc. and for additional RFE/RL, Inc., operating expenses. Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to prohibit the making of any grant under such Act unless the Board of Directors of RFE/RL, Inc., consists of only the members of the Board for International Broadcasting and such Board makes all major policy determinations governing the operation of RFE/RL, Inc. Title IV: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Act, Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983 - Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to carry out such Act. Authorizes the Director of such agency to accept the security and loyalty investigations of the Defense Investigative Service or the State Department for persons detailed to the Agency from other Government agencies. Authorizes the Director to participate in monitoring all aspects of anti-satellite activities. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979, which: (1) required reports to Congress the deadlines for which have already passed; (2) prohibited the use of funds authorized by such Act for reparations or aid to Vietnam; (3) prohibits the use of funds authorized by such Act to implement the Panama Canal Treaty or the Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal; and (4) authorizes appropriations for an independent commission on global hunger and malnutrition. Repeals provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1978, which: (1) required reports to Congress the deadlines for which have already passed; and (2) prohibited the use of funds authorized by such Act for reparations or aid to Vietnam. Repeals provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Acts, Fiscal Years 1975, 1976, and 1977 which required certain reports to Congress the deadlines for which have already passed.