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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1987

101 STAT. 2178

PROCLAMATION 5691—AUG. 10, 1987

phabetical order in the list of non-independent countries and territories "Greenland". (2) In order to afford benefits of the GSP to certain products of Mexico during the period from July 1, 1985, through June 30, 1986— (a) TSUS item 470.85 is modified by deleting "A*" and by inserting in lieu thereof "A"; and (b) General headnote 3(c)(iii) to the TSUS (later redesignated as general headnote 3(e)[v)(D)), listing those articles that are eligible for benefits of the GSP when imported from all designated beneficiary countries except those listed opposite those articles, is modified by deleting "470.85... Mexico". (3)(a) Annex III to Executive Order 12519 of June 13, 1985, listing articles that are eligible for benefits of the GSP when imported from all designated beneficiary countries except those specified in general headnote 3(c)(iii) to the TSUS, is amended by striking TSUS item "470.85". (4) Annex IV to Proclamation 5365 of September 5, 1985, is superseded to the extent inconsistent with this Proclamation. (5)(a) The amendments made by paragraph (1) of this Proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date of the signing of this Proclamation. (b) The remaining amendments made by this Proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii] entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after July 1, 1985, and before the close of June 30, 1986. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 7 day of Aug., 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 twelfth. RONALD REAGAN

Proclamation 5691 of August 10, 1987

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National Civil Rights Day, 1987 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation As he journeyed to Washington, D.C., to assume the Presidency in 1861, Abraham Lincoln captured the essence of the American dream in a speech at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, the site where our Founders gathered 200 years ago to frame the Constitution whose bicentennial we now celebrate. Exercising his unique genius for profound thought in plain language, Lincoln said that "The great principle or idea" assuring our permanence as a nation is its promise "that all should have an equal chance." The struggle to see that promise fulfilled has continued in our own era and, through the civil rights movement, has inspired new Federal laws that seek to guarantee that "equal chance" by prohibiting discrimination against any