HOUSE COMMITTEE POSITION ON SENATE AMENDMENT 812 TO SECTION 502 (A) (1) OF H.R. 17123 (MILITARY PROCUREMENT AUTHORIZATION ACT)

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House Committee Position on Senate Amendment 812
to Section 502(a)(1) of H. R. 17123 (Military Procurement
Authorization Act)
1. As stated in the Senate report, the authorization in section
502 for continuation of funding authority for the support of free-world
forces including local forces in South Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, was
designed to support the President's policy of Vietnamization Ole4e
protection of U. S. troops but not to provide military support and assistance
to the Cambodian government.
2. Senator Fulbright contended that amendment 812 was in line
with the thinking expressed in the Committee report but his ndment
differed from t e orriMittee report in that it ended to military support
and assistance tai Laos GP*
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Operations in Southeast Asia I I/
;Fs BILL
Sec. 401. Subsection (a) of section 401 of Public raw 89-367
as amended, is hereby amended
,?;proved i,.arch 15, 1966 (8o star, 37),
'o read as follows ;
"Funds authorized for appropriation for the use of the Armed
Forced of the United States under this or any other Act are authorized
.to be made available for their stated purposes to support:, (1) Vietnamese
and other Free World Forces in Vietnam, (2) local forces in I.-os and
Thailand; and for related costs, during the fiscal year 1971 on such
terms and conditions-as the Secretary of Defense may determine."
SENATE ]SILL
Sec. 502. Subsection (a) of section 401 of Public law 89-367, approved
;arch 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 37), as amended, is. hereby amended to read. as
appropriation for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States under
"(a)(1) Not to exceed X2,500,000,000 of the funds authorized for
this or any other Act are authorized to be made available for their
stated purposes to support: (A) Vietriameze 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
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construed as authorizn[4the: use of any such funds to support Vietnamese
othina in clause-. (A) of the first sentence of the Para raph shall be
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.
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
seryibg with the free world forces in South Vietnam if the amount of
allowance, or any other addition to the regular base pay of any person .
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
and assistance to the Government of Cambodia or os~
(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 b e furnished shall have agreed
that I
"(A) it will not, without the consent of the president --
"(i) permit any use of such article by anyone not an
officer, employew, or agent of that government,
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