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 PUBLIC LAW 100-463—OCT. 1, 1988

102 STAT. 2270-41

(2) by expanding potential United States s t r a t ^ c options the SDI research program can enhance United States leverage in the United States-Soviet arms reduction negotiations and serve as a sa£egaard for ensuring that negotiated agreements are kept; (3) future research plans and budgets for SDI must be established using realistic projections of available resources in the overall defense budget and must not undercut other important Department of Defense p n ^ r a m s; and (4) in matching research priorities against available resources, the primary emphasis of SDI should be to explore promising new technolc^es, such as directed energy technol(^es, which might have long-term potential to defend against a responsive Soviet offensive nuclear threat. SEC. 8124. (a) If a reduction in variable housing allowance (VHA) rates was required subsequent to January 1, 1988, to comply with section 8047 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1988, a member of the uniformed services who received reduced rates and who, on the effective date of this Act, is still a member of the uniformed services, shall be paid the difference between the VHA rate as reduced subsequent to January 1, 1988, and the VHA rate to which the member would have been entitled under the rates established on January 1, 1988: Providedy That such payments shall be made from appropriations provided by this Act. (b) None of the funds appropriated to the Department of Defense by this or any other Act for fiscal year 1989 shall be available to pay the variable housing allowance authorized members of the uniformed services under section 403a of title 37, United States Code, and the payments authorized by subsection (a) of this section in a total amount in excess of $1,220,000,000: Provided, That any reduction in the rates of the variable housing allowance necessitated by the forgoing limitation shall be made as provided in section 403a of title 37, United States Code. SEC. 8125. (a)(1) Not later than March 1, 1989, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the assignment of military missions among the member countries of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and on the prospects for the more effective assignment of such missions among such countries. (2) The report shall include a discussion of the following: (A) The current assignment of military missions among the member countries of NATO. (B) Military missions for which there is duplication of capability or for which there is inadequate capability within the current assignment of military missions within NATO. (C) Alternatives to the current sissignment of military missions that would maximize the military contributions of the member countries of NATO. (D) Any efforts that are underway within NATO or between individual member countries of NATO at the time the report is submitted that are intended to result in a more effective assign ment of military missions within NATO. (b) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall (1) conduct a review of the long-term strategic interests of the United States overseas and the future requirements for the assigment of members of the Armed Forces of the United States to permanent duty ashore outside the United States, and (2) determine specific actions that, if taken, would result in a more balanced sharing of

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Reports. 10 USC 113 note.

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