The White House
  

                   Office of the Press Secretary
 

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  For Immediate Release                        September 16, 1996
 

  

                          Executive Order

 

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                 Amending Executive Order No. 12975



       By the authority vested in me as President by the 
  Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and 
  in order to add 3 members to the National Bioethics Advisory 
  Commission, it is hereby ordered that the number "15" in the 
  second sentence of section 3(a) of Executive Order No. 12975 is 
  deleted and the number "18" is inserted in lieu thereof.
  

       	    	      	   	     William J. Clinton

  The White House,
  September 16, 1996.

  

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