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                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release                                      April 3, 1998

April 3, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-20

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT:   Use of Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and
           Related Programs Account Funds for the U.S. Contribution
           to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
           (KEDO)


     Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 614(a)(1) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2364(a)(1), I 
hereby determine that it is important to the security interests of the 
United States to furnish up to $30 million in funds made available 
under the heading "Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and 
Related Programs" in title II of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation Act, 1998 (Public Law 
105-118) for the United States contribution to the Korean Peninsula 
Energy Development Organization without regard to any provision of law 
within the scope of section 614(a)(1).  I hereby authorize the 
furnishing of such assistance.

     You are hereby authorized and directed to transmit this 
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.


                              WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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