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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to
provide for carrying out the provisions of the Agricultural Trade
Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended by Public Law
101-624 (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.), it is hereby ordered that:

  1) The first sentence of section 1(a) of Executive Order 12752
be amended by deleting the words "developing countries" and
inserting the words "developing countries and private entities"
in lieu thereof;

  2) Sections 4(a) and (c) be deleted; and

  3) Sections 4(b), (d), (e), (f), and (g) be renumbered as
sections 4(a), (b), (c), and (e), respectively.

                         William J. Clinton
                                /s/

THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 18, 1997.