    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 17 (Monday, May 3, 1999)]
    [Pages 754-755]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Congress on Ordering the Selected and Individual Ready
    Reserves to Active Duty

    April 27, 1999

    To the Congress of the United States:

        I have today, pursuant to section 12304 of title 10, United States
    Code, authorized the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of
    Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, when it is not operating
    as a service within the Department of the Navy, under their respective
    jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual
    members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the
    Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve
    mobilizations category and designated essential under regulations
    prescribed by the Secretary concerned. These reserves will augment the
    active components in support of operations in and around the former
    Yugoslavia related to the conflict in Kosovo.
        A copy of the Executive order implementing this action is attached.
                                                William J. Clinton
    The White House,
    April 27, 1999.

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