[Executive Orders]
Executive Order 13074--Amendment to Executive Order 12656
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, and in order to reflect the appropriate
allocation of funding responsibilities for Noncombatant Evacuation Operations,
it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12656 is amended by adding a
new section 501(16) to read as follows: ``Subject to the direction of the
President, and pursuant to procedures to be developed jointly by the Secretary
of Defense and the Secretary of State, be responsible for the deployment
and use of military forces for the protection of United States citizens
and nationals and, in connection therewith, designated other persons or
categories of persons, in support of their evacuation from threatened areas
overseas.''
William J. Clinton
The White House,
February 9, 1998