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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1987

101 STAT. 2136

PROCLAMATION 5659—MAY 19, 1987

Proclamation 5659 of May 19, 1987

Death of American Servicemen on Board United States Ship STARK By the President of the United States of America .. A Proclamation As a mark of respect for the American servicemen who died as the result of the attack on United States Ship STARK, which was struck by a missile on May 17, 1987, while on patrol in the Persian Gulf to keep vital sea-lanes open, 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 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 through Monday, Memorial Day, May 25, 1987. 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 nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh. RONALD REAGAN

Proclamation 5660 of May 19, 1987

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Amending the Generalized System of Preferences

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By the President of the United States of America "• ' A Proclamation •' ' - '• ^ 1. Pursuant to Title V of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the Trade Act) [19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.], in Proclamation 5365 of August 30, 1985 (50 FR 36220], I designated specified articles provided for in the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS] (19 U.S.C. 1202) as eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) when imported from designated beneficiary developing countries. I also designated certain such countries as least-developed beneficiary developing countries, pursuant to section 504(c)(6) of the Trade Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2464(c)(6)), in order to afford such preferential tariff treatment without regard to the limitations imposed in section 504(c), as amended. 2. Pursuant to section 504(c) of the Trade Act, as amended, those beneficiary countries not designated as least-developed beneficiary developing countries are subject to limitations on the preferential treatment afforded under the GSP. Pursuant to section 504(c)(5) of the Trade Act, as amended, a country that has not been treated as a beneficiary developing country