Executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, determinations, and other instruments — filter by administration, type, and theme.
5 shown · Nov '98
President Clinton waived provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 that restricted U.S. dealings with the Palestine Liberation Organization, certifying the waiver as important to national security interests through May 24, 1999. The Secretary of State was directed to transmit this determination to Congress and publish it in the Federal Register.
President Clinton authorized a drawdown of up to $45 million in Defense Department articles and services to provide emergency disaster relief assistance to Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala following Hurricane Mitch. The determination directs the Secretaries of State and Defense to execute the transfer under the Foreign Assistance Act and requires immediate congressional notification.
President Clinton continued the national emergency first declared in 1994 regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, extending it beyond its November 14, 1998 expiration date under the National Emergencies Act. This routine annual extension maintains sanctions and authorities tied to Executive Order 12938.
President Clinton authorized a drawdown of up to $30 million in Defense Department articles and services to provide emergency disaster relief assistance to Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala following Hurricane Mitch. The determination requires the Secretary of State to report to Congress immediately and arrange for Federal Register publication.
This executive order establishes a six-month open enrollment window from November 1, 1998 to April 30, 1999, allowing participants in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System to elect to transfer to newer pension systems—the Foreign Service Pension System and Federal Employees' Retirement System, respectively. The order aligns these specialized federal retirement systems with a similar open enrollment opportunity previously provided to civil service employees under the 1997 Federal Employees' Retirement System Open Enrollment Act.