[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 50 (Monday, December 15, 1997)]
[Page 1998]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the Palestine Liberation Organization

December 5, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 98-8

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Presidential Determination on Waiver and Certification of 
Statutory Provisions Regarding the Palestine Liberation Organization

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me under section 539(d) of the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1998, Public Law 105-118, I hereby determine and 
certify that it is important to the national security interests of the 
United States to waive the provisions of section 1003 of the Anti-
Terrorism Act of 1987, Public Law 100-204, through June 4, 1998.
    You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination to 
the Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on December 8.