    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 4 (Monday, January 27, 1997)]
    [Page 72]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Notice--Continuation of Emergency Regarding Terrorists Who Threaten To
    Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process

    January 21, 1997

        On January 23, 1995, by Executive Order 12947, I declared a national
    emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the
    national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States
    constituted by grave acts of violence committed by foreign terrorists
    that disrupt the Middle East peace process. By Executive Order 12947 of
    January 23, 1995, I blocked the assets in the United States, or in the
    control of United States persons, of foreign terrorists who threaten to
    disrupt the Middle East peace process. I also prohibited transactions or
    dealings by United States persons in such property. Because terrorists
    activities continue to threaten the Middle East peace process and vital
    interests of the United States in the Middle East, the national
    emergency declared on January 23, 1995, and the measures that took
    effect on January 24, 1995, to deal with that emergency must continue in
    effect beyond January 23, 1997. Therefore, in accordance with section
    202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am
    continuing the national emergency with respect to foreign terrorists who
    threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process.
        This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
    transmitted to the Congress.
                                                William J. Clinton
    The White House,
    January 21, 1997.

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:45 p.m., January 21,
    1997]

    Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on January 22.