[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 32 (Monday, August 10, 1998)]
[Pages 1587-1588]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7115--Victims of the Bombing Incidents in Africa

August 7, 1998

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for those killed in the bombing incidents 
outside the United

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States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 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, August 9, 
1998. 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 seventh day of 
August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
twenty-third.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:48 a.m., August 10, 
1998]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
August 11.