THE WHITE HOUSE
  
                    Office of the Press Secretary
  
  _______________________________________________________________
  
  For Immediate Release                         December 12, 1996
  
  
                           EXECUTIVE ORDER
  
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           ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED
                  FUNCTIONS AND ARMS EXPORT CONTROLS
  
  
       By the authority vested in me as President by the 
  Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, 
  including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in 
  order to delegate certain authority to the Secretary of State, 
  it is hereby ordered as follows:
  
       Section 1.  Section 1-201(a)(13) of Executive Order 12163, 
  as amended, is further amended by
  
       (a)  inserting ", and sections 620G(b) and 620H(b) as added 
  by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 
  (Public Law 104-132)" before "of"; and
  
       (b)  inserting ", as well as section 573 of the Foreign 
  Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
  Appropriations Act, 1994 (Public Law 103-87), section 563 of the 
  Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
  Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-306), section 552 of 
  the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
  Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-107), and similar 
  provisions of law" after "Act".
  
       Sec. 2.  Section 1 of Executive Order 11958, as amended, 
  is further amended by
  
       (a)  redesignating subsections (n) through (r) as 
  subsections (o) through (s), respectively; and
  
       (b)  inserting the following after subsection (m): 
  "(n) Those under Section 40A of the Act, as added by the 
  Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 
  (Public Law 104-132), to the Secretary of State.".
  
       Sec. 3.  Section 1(a)(2) of Executive Order 12884 is 
  amended by
  
       (a)  deleting "and" before "(3)"; and
  
       (b)  inserting ", and (5)" after "(3)".
  
  
       	    	      	   	WILLIAM J. CLINTON
  
  
  THE WHITE HOUSE,
      December 12, 1996.
  
  
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