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 PUBLIC LAW 101-509 —NOV. 5, 1990 104 STAT. 1483 "(ii) at a level which would result in an estimated cost less than the threshold amount, unless necessary because of either of the reasons set forth in subparagraph (A). "(d)(l) The President's agent (as referred to in section 5304(d)) shall develop and include in the appropriate report under section 5304(d)(l) the methodology for estimating any costs under this section, and any estimate under this section shall be in accordance with such methodology. "(2) In making any estimate under this section, costs attributable to any authority under section 5304(h) may not be taken into account."; and (2) the President's pay agent (referred to in section 5304(d) of such title, as so amended) may use appropriate estimates in lieu of BLS survey data if such data is not available for use in preparing the agent's report with respect to comparability pay- ments payable during calendar year 1994. SEC. 635. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) President Saddam Hussein of Iraq has attempted to evade the consequences of his illegal invasion of Kuwait by the taking of civilian hostages; (2) Saddam Hussein has violated standards of civilized conduct by willfully seeking to endanger the lives of foreign civilians in Kuwait and Iraq; (3) He has further violated international diplomatic practice by laying siege to Western embassies in Kuwait; (4) Iraq's conduct both at home and on the battlefield during the recent war with Iran has demonstrated a willingness to use the most barbaric methods of warfare, including the gassing of civilian women and children; (5) The Nuremberg principles, while denying national guilt for acts of war, do also stipulate that individual leaders may be held responsible for violations of the conventions of war and of civilized behavior; (6) The taking of hostages, the use of gas, the terrorizing of civilians and diplomats, and other such acts in both peace and war have long been considered crimes against humanity for which prosecution is justifiable. (b) It is the sense of the Senate that in the event of hostilities between the United States and the government of Iraq it shall be the policy of the United States to pursue Saddam Hussein, other Iraqi leaders, and other such perpetrators as may be determined responsible in order to bring them to justice as war criminals, and to seek their prosecution and punishment under the auspices of an international tribunal with relevant jurisdiction. Saddam Hussein. Iraq. Kuwait.

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