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agreement between the two countries and tion and related Protocol and give its advice will provide for information exchange under and consent to ratification. the treaty for taxes at all levels of govern- ment. William J. Clinton The current Agreement Between the United States of America and the United The White House, Mexican States for the Exchange of Informa- September 15, 1994. tion with Respect to Taxes, which now ap- plies only to Federal taxes, is also being amended by a protocol to provide for the ex- Executive Order 12927—Ordering change of information to administer and en- the Selected Reserve of the Armed force tax laws at all levels of government. Forces to Active Duty This protocol, which was also signed at Mex- ico City on September 8, 1994, will enter September 15, 1994 into force only after the Protocol to the Con- By the authority vested in me as President vention has been ratified. by the Constitution and the laws of the I recommend that the give early United States of America, including sections and favorable consideration to the Additional 121 and 673b of title 10 of the United States Protocol and give its advice and consent to Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary ratification. to augment the active armed forces of the United States for the effective conduct of William J. Clinton operational missions to restore the civilian government in Haiti. Further, under the stat- The White House, ed authority, I hereby authorize the Sec- September 15, 1994. retary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service Message to the Senate Transmitting in the Department of the Navy, to order to the -United States active duty any units, and any individual Convention and Protocol members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the Selected Reserve. September 15, 1994 This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive To the Senate of the United States: branch, and is not intended to create any I transmit herewith for Senate advice and right or benefit, substantive or procedural, consent to ratification the Convention Be- enforceable at law by a party against the tween the United States of America and the United States, its agencies, its officers, or any Portuguese Republic for the Avoidance of person. Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal This order is effective immediately and Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, shall be published in the Federal Register together with a related Protocol, signed at and transmitted to the Congress. Washington on September 6, 1994. Also transmitted for the information of the Senate William J. Clinton is the report of the Department of State with The White House, respect to the Convention. The Convention is the first income tax September 15, 1994. convention between the United States of America and the Portuguese Republic. The [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, Convention reflects current income tax treaty 3:11 p.m., September 15, 1994] policies of the two countries. I recommend that the Senate give early NOTE: This Executive order was published in the and favorable consideration to the Conven- Federal Register on September 19.

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Letter to Congressional Leaders on we make and the commitments others make Ordering the Selected Reserve of the to us. Armed Forces to Active Duty Earlier today, I ordered Secretary of De- fense Perry to call up the military reserve September 15, 1994 personnel necessary to support United States Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) troops in any action we might undertake in I have today, pursuant to section 673b of Haiti. I have also ordered two aircraft car- title 10, United States Code, authorized the riers, U.S.S. Eisenhower and the U.S.S. Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of America into the region. I issued these orders Transportation with respect to the Coast after giving full consideration to what is at Guard when it is not operating as a service stake. The message of the United States to within the Department of the Navy, to order the Haitian dictators is clear: Your time is to active duty any units, and any individual up. Leave now, or we will force you from members not assigned to a unit organized power. to serve as a unit, of the Selected Reserve. I want the American people to understand The deployment of United States forces to the background of the situation in Haiti, how conduct operational missions to restore the what has happened there affects our national civilian government in Haiti necessitates this security interests and why I believe we must action. act now. Nearly 200 years ago, the Haitian A copy of the Executive order implement- people rose up out of slavery and declared ing this action is attached. their independence. Unfortunately, the Sincerely, promise of liberty was quickly snuffed out, and ever since, Haiti has known more suffer- William J. Clinton ing and repression than freedom. In our time, as democracy has spread throughout NOTE: Identical letters were sent to Thomas S. Foley, Speaker of the House of Representatives, our hemisphere. Haiti has been left behind. and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate. Then, just 4 years ago, the Haitian people held the first free and fair elections since their independence. They elected a par- Address to the Nation on Haiti liament and a new President, Father Jean- September 15, 1994 Bertrand Aristide, a Catholic priest who re- ceived almost 70 percent of the vote. But My fellow Americans, tonight I want to 8 months later, Haitian dreams of democracy speak with you about why the United States became a nightmare of bloodshed. is leading the international effort to restore General Raoul Ce´dras led a military coup democratic government in Haiti. Haiti’s dic- that overthrew President Aristide, the man tators, led by General Raoul Ce´dras, control who had appointed Ce´dras to lead the army. the most violent regime in our hemisphere. Resistors were beaten and murdered. The For 3 years, they have rejected every peace- dictators launched a horrible intimidation ful solution that the international community campaign of rape, torture, and mutilation. has proposed. They have broken an agree- People starved; children died; thousands of ment that they made to give up power. They Haitians fled their country, heading to the have brutalized their people and destroyed United States across dangerous seas. At that their economy, and for 3 years we and other time, President Bush declared the situation nations have worked exhaustively to find a posed, and I quote, ‘‘an unusual and extraor- diplomatic solution, only to have the dictators dinary threat to the national security, foreign reject each one. policy, and economy of the United States.’’ Now the United States must protect our Ce´dras and his armed thugs have con- interests, to stop the brutal atrocities that ducted a reign of terror, executing children, threaten tens of thousands of Haitians, to se- raping women, killing priests. As the dic- cure our borders and to preserve stability and tators have grown more desperate, the atroc- promote democracy in our hemisphere and ities have grown ever more brutal. Recent to uphold the reliability of the commitments news reports have documented the slaying

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