POW/MIA Military Drawdown for Vietnam

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Title 3--
The President

Presidential Determination No. 96-42 of August 24, 1996

POW/MIA Military Drawdown for Vietnam

Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the
Secretary of Defense

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 535
of the 1996 Foreign Operations Assistance Act (Public
Law 104-107) (the ``Act''), I hereby determine that it
is necessary to draw down defense articles from the
stocks of the Department of Defense for Vietnam for the
purposes set forth in the Act of supporting 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
unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.

Therefore, I hereby authorize and direct the drawdown
of up to $3 million of such defense articles from the
stocks of the Department of Defense for Vietnam, for
the purposes and under the authorities of section 535
of the Act.

The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to
report this determination to the Congress and to
publish it in the Federal Register.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, August 24, 1996.