[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 40 (Monday, October 5, 1998)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Funding for the Court To Try Accused Perpetrators of the 
Pan Am 103 Bombing

September 30, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-40

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Transfer of Funds to Support Court to Try Accused Perpetrators 
of Pan Am 103 Bombing

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the laws of the United 
States, including section 610(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
as amended (the ``Act''), I hereby determine that, to provide support 
for the establishment and functioning of the court proposed to be 
established in The Netherlands for the trial of suspects in the Pan Am 
103 bombing case, it is necessary for the purposes of the Act that $3 
million of funds made available for section 23 of the Arms Export 
Control Act for fiscal year 1998 for the costs of direct loans, and 
$4,945,800 of funds made available for section 551 of the Act for fiscal 
year 1998, be transferred to, and consolidated with, funds made 
available for Chapter 4 of Part II of the Act, and such funds are hereby 
so transferred and consolidated.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to report this determination 
to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal 
Register.
                                            William J. Clinton