97 STAT. 1058 PUBLIC LAW 98-164—NOV. 22, 1983 PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN ASSISTANCE TO THE KHMER ROUGE IN KAMPUCHEA 22 USC 2151 SEC. 1005. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of ^°^- the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act may be obligated or expended for the purpose or with the effect of promoting, sustaining, or augmenting, directly or indirectly, the capacity of the Khmer Rouge or any of its members to conduct military or paramilitary operations in Kampuchea or elsewhere in Indochina. (b) All funds appropriated before the date of enactment of this section which were obligated but not expended for activities having the purpose or effect described in subsection (a) shall be deobligated and shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. (c) This section shall not be construed as limiting the provision of food, medicine, or other humanitarian assistance to the Kampu- chean people. RAOUL WALLENBERG AND JAN KAPLAN SEC. 1006. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the Soviet Union arrested one of the great heroes of modern times in 1945 when they arrested Raoul Wallenberg; (2) Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who, at great personal risk, had acted to save hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi Holocaust; (3) Raoul Wallenberg took these actions as a humanitarian and with the knowledge, consent, and financial assistance of the United States Government; (4) Raoul Wallenberg has recently been made an honorary citizen of the United States; (5) the Soviet Union has changed their story a number of times about the whereabouts of Raoul Wallenberg; (6) the most recent position of the Soviet Union is that he died in 1947; (7) there are many eyewitnesses who have testified that they saw Raoul Wallenberg in Russian prisons and hospitals in the decades since the 1940 s; (8) one of the most recent eyewitnesses was Jan Kaplan, a Russian refusnik who shortly after his release from a Soviet jail in 1977, phoned his daughter. Doctor Anna Bilder, in Israel and reported that he had met a Swede in prison who had survivied thirty years in the Gulag; (9) during the next two years, Anna Bilder received no further word from or about her father; (10) in July 1977, Jan Kaplan's wife smuggled a letter to Doctor Bilder informing her that Jan Kaplan had been rearrested because of a letter he had tried to smuggle to her about Raoul Wallenberg; (11) in 1980, the Swedish Government sent an official request to interview Jan Kaplan; (12) the Soviets made no response to this request; (13) the whereabouts of Jan Kaplan are not known; and (14) Jan Kaplan could provide valuable information about Raoul Wallenberg. (b) It is the sense of the Congress that the President, acting directly or through the Secretary of State, should take all possible
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