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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release September 30, 1998

September 30, 1998

Presidential Determination

No. 98-40

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT:       Transfer of Funds to Support Court to Try
               Accused Perpetrators of Pan Am 103 Bombing

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the laws of the United States, including section 610(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the "Act"), I hereby determine that, to provide support for the establishment and functioning of the court proposed to be established in The Netherlands for the trial of suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing case, it is necessary for the purposes of the Act that $3 million of funds made available for section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act for fiscal year 1998 for the costs of direct loans, and $4,945,800 of funds made available for section 551 of the Act for fiscal year 1998, be transferred to, and consolidated with, funds made available for Chapter 4 of Part II of the Act, and such funds are hereby so transferred and consolidated.

You are hereby authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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