PUBLIC LAW 99-661-NOV. 14, 1986
100 STAT. 4003
"(g) A person may not be denied a right, privilege, or benefit under Federal law by reason of failure to present himself for and submit to registration under section 3 if— "(1) the requirement for the person to so register has terminated or become inapplicable to the person; and "(2) the person shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the failure of the person to register was not a knowing and willful failure to register.".
50 USC app. 2216.
SEC. 1367. CORRECTION OF EFFECTS OF CONTAMINATION AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL
(a) USE OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED FROM LITIGATION.—(1) Any amount received as the result of the litigation described in paragraph (2) (whether from a judgment rendered in such litigation or from a settlement of such litigation) shall be available, without fiscal year limitation, to the Secretary of the Army only for purposes of correcting the effects of contamination at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. (2) The litigation referred to in paragraph (1) is any litigation between the United States and any person concerning the liability of such person for correcting the effects of contamination at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal or for cost recovery relating to correcting the effects of such contamination. (b) ACCEPTANCE OF SERVICES.—In partial settlement of the litigation described in subsection (a), the United States may accept services that correct the effects of contamination at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. SEC. 1368. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL ARTHUR D. NICHOLSON, JUNIOR
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: (1) On March 24, 1985, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur D. Nicholson, Junior, of the United States Army (then holding the grade of major) was carrying out his official duties as a liaison officer of the United States Military Liaison Mission. (2) On that date. Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson was performing his duties in uniform and in an open and direct manner, according to orders, and was conducting himself in a way which was neither provocative nor beyond the limits of proper conduct for members of the United States Military Liaison Mission, and which was well understood and accepted by the Soviet Union. (3) On that date, a member or members of the armed forces of Union of Soviet the Soviet Union shot and fatally wounded Lieutenant Colonel Socialist Republics. Nicholson without warning and without provocation. (4) After having shot Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson, members of the armed forces of the Soviet Union forcibly restrained Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson's aide and prevented him from providing medical assistance to Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson, so that Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson died slowly and with great suffering, which death and suffering might have been prevented had Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson been permitted to receive assistance. (5) The death of Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson was an untimely, unnecessary, cold-blooded murder committed against a United States military officer in pursuit of his official duties by a member or members of the armed forces of the Soviet Union, in a painful and degrading manner.
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