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 89 STAT. 1270

PROCLAMATION 4373—MAY 7, 1975 I was pleased to sign earlier this year. As this legislation makes plain, the total cost of arthritis must be counted not only in terms of dollars, but of human suffering and disability. Uncontrolled arthritis significantly decreases the quality of American life and has a negative economic, social, and psychological impact on the families of those afflicted.

We have learned a great deal through governmentally and privately supported research. Yet this disorder is not fully understood and it is not adequately controllable. We must meet the critical need for new research ideas and studies upon which advances in the area of arthritis treatment and prevention can be based. Our goal continues to be the eventual elimination of arthritis as a cause of human suffering and dire expense to our Nation. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of May, 1975, as National Arthritis Month. 1 urge the people of the United States and educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical and health care organizations and professionals to advance the programs of our national effort to discover the cause and cures of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases and to alleviate the suffering of victims of these disorders. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventyfive, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred ninety-ninth. GERALD R. FORD

Proclamation 4373

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May 7, 1975

Fixing Terminal Date Respecting Service in the Armed Forces Entitling Persons to Certain Veterans Benefits

By the President of the Vnited States of America A Proclamation The Congress has provided that entitlement to certain veterans benefits be limited to persons serving in the Armed Forces during the period, beginning August 5, 1964, referred to as the Vietnam era. The President is authorized to determine the last day on which a person must have

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