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PROCLAMATION 4176-DEC. 26, 1972

[87 STAT.

or of No. 2 fuel oil during the preceding allocation period. No such interim allocation shall exceed the like allocation held in such preceding allocation period by such person. However, the Secretary may adjust the allocation to any person limited by the previous sentence if such person would have been eligible for a larger allocation in 1973 under the regulations applicable during the allocation period commencing January 1, 1972. Any license issued under such interim allocation may be utilized for imports hereafter entering the United States prior to December 31, 1972, if authorized by the Secretary. Any allocation subsequently made to any person who receives an interim allocation pursuant to this section, shall be reduced by an amount equal to the interim allocation made pursuant to this section." IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-seventh.

PROCLAMATION

4176

Announcing the Death of Harry S Truman December 26, 1972

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation TO THE PEOPLE O F THE UNITED STATES: It is my sad duty to announce officially the death of Harry S Truman, thirty-third President of the United States, on December 26, 1972. Throughout his long career in public service, Harry S Truman wzis known as a man of forthrightness and integrity. He served with distinction in the United States Senate; and when the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met

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