EXPLANATORY NOTE

All public laws included in this volume are codified and in force
through the end of the first session of the 105th Congress. The
texts of the public laws in this volume are printed as they appear
in the United States Statutes at Large rather than the United
States Code. Amendments are incorporated into the text and dis-
tinguished by a footnote.

All Executive orders and State Department delegations of au-
thority are codified and in force as of January 31, 1998.

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FOREWORD

This volume of legislation and related material is part of a five volume set of laws and related material frequently referred to by the Committees on International Relations of the House of Representatives and Foreign Relations of the Senate, amended to date and annotated to show pertinent history or cross references.

Volumes I (A and B), II, III and IV contain legislation and related material and are republished with amendments and additions at the end of each annual session of Congress. Volume V, which contains treaties and related material, will not be revised every year, but only as necessary.

We wish to express our appreciation to Dianne E. Rennack and C. Winston Woodland of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress who prepared volume I-B of this year's compilation.

JESSE HELMS,

Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations.
BENJAMIN A. GILMAN,

Chairman, Committee on International Relations.

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