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 107 STAT. 958 PUBLIC LAW 103-87 —SEPT. 30, 1993 POW/MIA MILITARY DRAWDOWN SEC. 540. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President may direct the drawdown, without reimbursement by the recipient, of defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense, defense services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training, of an aggregate value not to exceed $15,000,000 in fiscal year 1994, as may be necessary to carry out subsection (b). (b) Such defense articles, services and training may be provided to Cambodia and Laos, under subsection (a) as the President determines are necessary to support efforts to locate and repatriate members of the United States Armed Forces and civilians employed directly or indirectly by the United States Government who remain imaccounted for from the Vietnam War, and to ensure the safety of United States Government personnel engaged in such cooperative efforts and to support United States Department of Defense-sponsored humanitarian projects associated with the POW/MIA efforts. Any aircraft shall be provided under this section only to Laos and only on a lease or loan basis, but may be provided at no cost notwithstanding section 61 of the Arms Export Control Act and may be maintained with defense articles, services and training provided under this section. President. (c) The President shall, within sixty days of the end of any Reports. fiscal year in which the authority of subsection (a) is exercised, submit a report to the Congress which identifies the articles, services, and training drawn down under this section. (d) There are authorized to be appropriated to the President such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the applicable appropriation, fund, or account for defense articles, defense services, and military education and training provided under this section. MEDITERRANEAN EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES SEC. 541. During fiscal year 1994, the provisions of section 573(e) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990, shall be applicable, for the period specified therein, to excess defense articles made available under sections 516 and 519 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. PRIORITY DELIVERY OF EQUIPMENT SEC. 542. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the delivery of excess defense articles that are to be transferred on a grant basis under section 516 of the Foreign Assistance Act to NATO allies and to major non-NATO allies on the southern and southeastern flank of NATO shall be given priority to the maximum extent feasible over the delivery of such excess defense articles to other countries. ISRAEL DRAWDOWN SEC. 543. Section 599B(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 (as amended by Public Law 102-145, as amended, and Public Law 104 Stat. 2064. 102-391), is further amended— (a) by striking out "fiscal year 1993" and inserting in lieu thereof "fiscal year 1994"; and

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