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PROCLAMATION 4261-JAN. 25, 1974

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President, and in conformity with the provisions of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and the ^ "sc 624. Tariff Classification Act of 1962, do hereby proclaim that headnote 3(a) ^^^^^^^^ P"'''of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States i^ use 1202. is amended by adding a new subdivision as follows: (ix) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part the quantitative limitations for the articles provided for in item 950.60 shall be suspended during the period beginning January 26, 1974, and ending June 30, 1974. Quantities of such articles entered during the period of May 29, 1974, through June 30, 1974, shall not be deducted from the quantities which may be entered during the twelve month period beginning May 29, 1974, under the quantitative limitations provided for in item 950.60.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-eighth. RICHARD NIXON

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January 25, 1974

National MIA Awareness Day

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Over 1,200 Americans are still missing and unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. The bodies of more than 1,100 men who were killed in the same area have never been recovered. Although the Vietnam Agreement of January 27, 1973, obligates North Vietnam and its allies to account for the missing and to return the remains of those who died, communist authorities have failed to account for our missing, or to return the remains of our dead in the year that has elapsed since the Vietnam Agreement was signed. As a result, the families of our missing men continue to live with the anguish of uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America do hereby designate Sunday, January 27, 1974, as National MIA Awareness Day, a day dedicated to the many Ameri-

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