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 910 Terms and conditions. Expiration.

Funds, availability for Vietnamese forces, e t c. 83 Stat. 2 06.

77 Stat. 216; 79 Stat. 547. Cambodia and Laos.

PUBLIC LAW 91-441-OCT. 7, 1970

[84 STAT.

military assistance provided to other countries of the Middle East. Any such sale, credit sale, or guaranty shall be made on terms and conditions not less favorable than those extended to other countries vehich receive the same or similar types of aircraft and equipment. The authority contained in the second sentence of this section shall expire September 30, 1972. SEC. 502. Subsection (a) of section 401 of Public Law 89-367, approved March 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 37), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: " (a)(1) Not to exceed $2,800,000,000 of the funds authorized for appropriation for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States under this or any other Act are authorized to be made available for their stated purposes to support: (A) Vietnamese and other free world forces in support of Vietnamese forces, (B) local forces in Laos and Thailand; and for related costs, during the fiscal year 1971 on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Defense may determine. None of the funds appropriated to or for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States may be used for the purpose of paying any overseas allowance, per diem allowance, or any other addition to the regular base pay of any person serving with the free world forces in South Vietnam if the amount of such payment would be greater than the amount of special pay authorized to be paid, for an equivalent period of service, to members of the Armed Forces of the United States (under section 310 of title 37, United States Code) serving in Vietnam or in any other hostile fire area, except for continuation of payments of such additions to regular base pay provided in agreements executed prior to July 1, 1970. Nothing in clause (A) of the first sentence of this paragraph shall be construed as authorizing the use of any such funds to support Vietnamese or other free world forces in actions designed to provide military support and assistance to the Government of Cambodia or Laos. "(2) No defense article may be furnished to the South Vietnamese forces, other free world forces in Vietnam, or to local forces in Laos or Thailand with funds authorized for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States under this or any other Act unless the government of the forces to which the defense article is to be furnished shall have agreed that— " (A) it will not, without the consent of the President— " (i) permit any use of such article by anyone not an officer, employee, or agent of that government, "(ii) transfer, or permit any officer, employee, or agent of that government to transfer such article by girt, sale, or otherwise, or "(iii) use or permit the use of such article for purposes other than those for which furnished; " (B) it will maintain the security of such article, and will provide substantially the same degree of security protection afforded to such article by the United States Government; " (C) it will, as the President may require, permit continuous observation and review by, and furnish necessary information to, representatives of the United States Government with regard to the use of such article; and " (D) unless the President consents to other disposition, it will return to the United States Government for such use or disposition as the President considers in the best interests of the United States, any such article which is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was furnished.

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