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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release April 21, 1997

EXECUTIVE ORDER


AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12752, IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1954, AS AMENDED, AND THE FOOD FOR PROGRESS ACT OF 1985, AS AMENDED

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), (d), and (e), respectively.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 18, 1997.

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