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 PROCLAMATION 6005—AUG. 1, 1989 103 STAT. 3071 imported goods, Customs contributes more than $16 billion per year to the national Treasury. Beyond its contributions of revenue, the United States Customs Service has performed other important functions as well. During the past 200 years, it constructed more than 300 lighthouses, provided for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, patrolled America's shores with armed revenue cutters, and helped protect the interests of American manufac- turing. The list of prominent persons who have held key Customs posts re- flects the proud history of this invaluable Federal agency: President Ulysses S. Grant; Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick; Pat Garrett, the sheriff who apprehended Billy the Kid; Matthew Henson, who ac- companied Admiral Peary on his Arctic expedition in 1909; the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson; and the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Each of these outstanding Americans was once an officer of the Cus- toms Service. Today, Customs continues to render vital service to our Nation by col- lecting revenue, protecting American companies and citizens from pred- atory trade practices and violation of intellectual property rights, and by detecting and preventing the entry into the United States of illegal drugs. In recognition of the contributions of the Customs Service to our Nation, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 363, has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation designating 1989 as "United States Customs Service 200th Anniversary Year." NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the year 1989 as United States Cus- toms Service 200th Anniversary Year. I call upon Government officials and the people of the United States to observe this year with appropri- ate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hvm- dred and fourteenth. GEORGE BUSH Proclamation 6005 of August 1, 1989 Helsinki Human Rights Day, 1989 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Fourteen years ago, the United States and Canada joined 33 European countries in signing the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Seciui- ty and Cooperation in Europe. That action not only marked the ciilmi- nation of the remarkable, 2-year meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), but also signaled a milestone in Eu- ropean post-war history.

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