This issue came to my attention as chairwoman -of the Subcommittee on Goverhmeht Informatiori and Individual Rights of--the Governnent :0pratiohs Committee.: As "a matter- of fact. -it was btought -to. -my-- attention by - another. Member -of tiis "House.- the gentleman from: Wiscongih - (Mr.: KASTEN). who p6ifited Soift thit. "a itactide existedwhdreby bountries towhom wehave fur-. nished- aid caused Agencies of the Government including AID - to discriminate against.their ownemployees. albeit there were laws on the books. Executive orders.: and. indeed.- internal regulations prohibiting discrimination against employees by r6ason of sex. religion. race. nati6nalorigif.age. or color. - This- was accomplished by -nations to whom -e- provided assistance. for example. *by simply refusing togive visas to certain employees if they did not meet. the requirements of that -country.- A country that discriminated against black. pepple .in this wayprevented American. employees who were black from enteringthat country under.an AID program or a country that did not -allow Jews to. come� --into their country. prevented American employees who- were -Jewishfrom entering that country. - - . -The interesting thing about- bur hearlnigs was that although AID had regulations which prohibited discrimination on these grounds. they also lived by certain criteria for assignment which said that they did not recommend employees in A piograms if such assignment did not insure the possibility of effective performance in the local enviionment. This appears to be tacit acceptance of discrimination by the agency itself. The details of these practices can be found in testimony given during the hearings of the Government Operations Subcommittee on April 7 and April 8. In my proposed amendment. I was not suggesting that we dictate to other nations what their standards or what their codes should be. but rather that we should not allow other nations particularly those to whom we provide aid. to use their laws. their customs. and their. practices to influence or force us in this way to discriminate against our own employees. in violation. indeed. of our own laws and regulations. I havenotredeived any evidence to date that thosepractices -have changed.I wonder wiiether the gentleman from Pennsylvania- - . chairman of this very committee. shares my concern and is- prepared. to go into this question to make :certain that* indeed AID and the State Department. will insist that they cannot permit any country to refuse visas or use any other methods which have the effect of discriminating against our employees. and that we alone assign employees in our foreign assistance and other programs without discrimination.