[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 26 (Monday, July 1, 1996)]
[Pages 1139-1140]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6906--Victims of the Bombing in Saudi Arabia

June 26, 1996

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for those killed in the June 25, 1996, bombing 
of the Military Housing Complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 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 at the White 
House and 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, Sunday, June 30, 1996. 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 twenty-sixth 
day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-six, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twentieth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:32 a.m., June 27, 
1996]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on June 
28.'

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