[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 15 (Monday, April 18, 1994)]
[Page 814]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6671--Death of Those Aboard American Helicopters In Iraq

April 14, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for those who died as a result of the tragic 
incident in northern Iraq, which occurred on April 14, 1994, I hereby 
order, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States 
of America by section 175 of title 36 of the United States Code, that 
the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff upon all 
public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, 
and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of 
Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and 
possessions until sunset, Monday, April 18, 1994. I also direct that the 
flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all 
United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other 
facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels 
and stations.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day 
of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:47 a.m., April 15, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 
18.