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 PUBLIC LAW 99-500—OCT. 18, 1986

100 STAT. 1783-350

and maintenance, design funds, or military construction funds for other than major military construction projects at any military installation or facility. SEC. 144. (a) CIVILIAN PAY RAISE.—(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of fiscal year 1987, the overall percentage of the adjustment under section 5305 of title 5, United States Code, in the rates of pay under the General Schedule, and in the rates of pay under the other statutory pay systems, shall be an increase of 3 percent. (2) Each increase in a pay rate or schedule which takes effect pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be of the same percentage, and shall take effect as of the first day of the first applicable pay period commencing on or after January 1, 1987. (3)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, determinations relating to amounts to be appropriated in order to provide for the adjustment described in paragraph (1) shall be made based on the assumption that the various departments and agencies of the Government will, in the aggregate, absorb 50 percent of the increase in total pay for fiscal year 1987. (B) Subparagraph (A) does not apply with respect to the Department of Defense or pay for employees of the Department of Defense. (4) For purposes of this subsection— (A) the term "total pay" means, with respect to a fiscal year, the total amount of basic pay which will be payable to employees covered by the statutory pay systems for service performed during such fiscal year; (B) the term "increase in total pay" means, with respect to a fiscal year, that part of total pay for such year which is attributable to the adjustment taking effect under this section during such year; and (C) the term "statutory pay system" has the meaning given such term by section 5301(c) of title 5, United States Code. 03) MILITARY PAY RAISE.—(1) Any adjustment required by section 1009 of title 37, United States Code, in elements of the compensation of members of the uniformed services to become effective during fiscal year 1987 shall not be made. (2) The rates of basic pay, basic allowance for subsistence, and basic allowance for quarters of members of the uniformed services are increased by 3 percent effective on January 1, 1987. SEC. 145. (a)(1)(A) Since the Department of State has determined that "In the area of human rights, major discrepancies persist between Romania's Constitution, law, public pronouncements and international commitments on the one hand, and the civil liberties and human rights allowed by the regime on the other"; (B) Since it is apparent from numerous accounts by the State Department, congressional delegations, and human rights organizations that Romanian citizens are being arbitrarily harassed, interrogated, and arrested by government authorities for exercising their civil and religious liberties; (C) Since Romania's harassment of religious believers extends to the arrest of persons for distributing Bibles and the destruction of places of worship, including most recently the country's largest Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Sephardic synagogue in Bucharest; (D) Since the Romanian government has imposed severe limits on the freedom of Hungarians and other ethnic minorities to express

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