Proclamation 4798.

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94 STAT. 3801 Proclamation 4798 of October 3, 1980 National Port Week, 1980 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Our Nation’s seaports and river ports, operated by local and State authorities. are indispensable to our national prosperity and international commerce. Historically, waterborne commerce has been a key element in the development and growth of most of the Nation’s major population and commercial centers. Today public and privately owned marine terminals, valued at about $54 billion, are expected to handle almost two billion short tons of foreign and domestic oceanborne cargo in 1980.

In addition to the economic benefits provided by our ports, they play a leading role in logistical support of our military forces. Our port system has been and will continue to be vital in maintaining our national security. The Congress has by House joint Resolution 551 requested the President to*Ante*, p. 1361. designate the seven calendar days beginning October 5, 1980, as National Port Week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, in order to remind Americans of the importance of the port industry of the United States to our national life, do hereby designate the seven calendar days beginning October 5, 1980, as National Port Week.

I invite the Governors of the several States, the chief officials of local governments, and the people of the United States to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of October, in the year of our Led nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth. JIMMY CARTER 4799 October 10, 1980 National Lupus Week, 1980 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4799 of October 10, 1980 National Lupus Week, 1980 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Systemic lupus erythematosus (also known as lupus, or SLE) is a serious connective tissue disorder, affecting an estimated 500,000 Americans.

Almost 90 percent of its victims are young women. In the systemic form, lupus can affect almost any part of the body, often producing abormalities in the kidney, heart, skin, joints, and other internal organs. 94 STAT. 3802 The outlook for victims of lupus has vastly improved in recent years. In 1955, the survival rate for lupus victims was only 50 percent four years after diagnosis. Now. more than 80 percent of lupus patients are alive 10 years after their disease has been identified.

This increased survival is due to a greater awareness of the disease, better diagnostic methods, and development of more effective drug therapies. Nevertheless, an estimated 50,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, and much additional research is needed to pinpoint the underlying cause of this disease and to discover methods for preventing or halting its progression. In the last few years, progress has been made toward better understanding of lupus. Public and privately-supported medical research and education mean that each year thousands of patients can look forward to improved treatment, and the opportunity to live happier and more productive lives.

However, new research findings and new approaches for improved treatment and diagnosis are needed if we are ever to eliminate lupus as a cause of human suffering and to improve the quality of life in our society for its victims. The Congress has, by Senate Joint Resolution 201, authorized and requested the President to designate the week of October 19 through October 25, 1980, as National Lupus Week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER. President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of October 19 through October 25, 1980, as National Lupus Week. 1 invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and officials of other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to issue similar proclamations.

I urge the people of the United States and educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical, and health care organizations and professions to provide the necessary assistance and resources to discover the cause and cure of systemic lupus erythematosus and the other rheumatic diseases and to alleviate the suffering of all persons struck by these disorders. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth.

JIMMY CARTER 4800 October 13, 1980 Italian-American Heritage Week, 1980 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4800 of October 13, 1980 Italian-American Heritage Week, 1980 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Columbus Day is a symbol of the debt our Nation owes to Italian-Americans. During the past four hundred years, millions of Italians have become Italian-Americans. Many of them arrived in this country without money or property or friends.

They had only the hope of opportunity and the strength of their character. They took advantage of opportunities which America of-94 STAT. 3803fered and the result has been an extraordinary contribution to every facet of American life. In recognition of the many contributions*Ante*, p. 1888. of Italian-Americans to our country, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 560. has requested the President to designate the week of October 12 through October 19, 1980, as Italian-American Heritage Week.

NOW, THEREFORE. I, JIMMY CARTER. President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of October 12, through October 19, 1980. as Italian-American Heritage Week. I call upon the people of the United States, State and local agencies, and interested organizations to observe that week with appropriate ceremonies, activities and programs. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth.

JIMMY CARTER Editorial Note: The President s remarks of Oct. 13, 1960. on signing Proclamation 4600. are printed in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (vol. 16. p. 2196). 4801 October 29, 1980 Temporary Duty Increase on the Importation Into the United States of Certain Mushrooms Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4801 of October 29, 1980 Temporary Duty Increase on the Importation Into the United States of Certain Mushrooms By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1.

Pursuant to Section 201(d)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974 (the Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2251(d)(1)), the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). on August 18, 1980, reported to the President (USITC Report 201–43) the results of its investigation under section 201(b) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2251(b)). The USITC determined that mushrooms, prepared or preserved, provided for in item 144.20 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States

(TSUS)(19 U.S.C. 1202), are being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause of serious injury, or the threat thereof, to the domestic industry producing an article like or directly competitive with the imported article. The USITC recommended the imposition of quantitative restrictions on imports of the above specified mushrooms. 2. On October 17, 1980. pursuant to section 202(b)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2252(b)(1)), and after taking into account the considerations specified in section 202(c) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2252(c)), I determined to remedy the injury, or threat thereof, found to exist by the USITC by proclaiming a temporary duty increase. On October 17, 1980, in accordance with section 203(b)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(b)(1)), 1 transmitted a report to the Congress setting forth my determination and intention to proclaim a temporary duty increase and stating the reason why my decision differed from the action recommended by the USITC. 94 STAT. 3804 3. Section 203(e)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(e)(1)) requires that import relief be proclaimed and take effect within 15 days after the import relief determination date. 4. Pursuant to sections 203(a)(1) and 203(e)(1) of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253(a)(1) and 2253(e)(1)), I am providing import relief through the temporary increase of the import duty on the subject mushrooms. NOW, THEREFORE, 1. JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including sections 604 and 203 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483 and 2253). and in accordance with Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

(GATT)(61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 UST (pt. 2) 1786), do proclaim that—

(1)[61 Stat. A1157](/us/stat/61/A1157). Part I of Schedule XX to the GATT is modified to conform to the actions taken in the Annex to this Proclamation.

(2)[19 USC 1202](/us/usc/t19/s1202). Subpart A, part 2 of the Appendix to the TSUS is modified as set forth in the Annex to this Proclamation.

(3)This Proclamation shall be effective as to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after November 1, 1980, and before the close of October 31, 1983, unless the period of its effectiveness is earlier expressly suspended, modified or terminated. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth. JIMMY CARTER ANNEX Subpart A, part 2 of the Appendix to the TSUS (19 U.S.C. 1202) is modified by inserting in numerical sequence the following new provision: Rates of duty Item Articles 1 2 Effective on or after November 1,— 1960 1981 1902 “922.55 Mushrooms, prepared or preserved, provided for in item 144.20. The rate provided for in item 144.20+20 pct ad val. The rate provided for in item 144. 20+15 pct ad val. The rate provided for in item 144.20 + 10 pct ad val. No change. ” 4802 November 12, 1980 Wright Brothers Day, 1980 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4802 of November 12, 1980 Wright Brothers Day, 1980 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Seventy-seven years ago on December 17, at Kitty Hawk. North Carolina, the Wright Brothers launched man into the age of powered flight. Though 94 STAT. 3805 their historic first flight lasted but 12 seconds, inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright accomplished what mankind had dreamed of for centuries. The development of the airplane is one of the most remarkable achievements of the Twentieth Century. Because of it, barriers of time and distance have lost much of their social and political significance to the world family of nations. In the three generations since that historic flight in 1903. aviation has grown to become one of America’s greatest enterprises; one of its largest employers; a fundamental ingredient in the national economy; a mighty deterrent against aggression and a prime defender of peace. Our air transportation system is the greatest in the world and the primary public carrier in the United States. Moreover, some eighty-five percent of the aircraft in use throughout the world are of United States manufacture, and the free world’s seven largest airlines are United States flag carriers. To commemorate the historic achievement of the Wright Brothers, the Congress. by joint resolution of December 17, 1963 (77 Stat. 402; 36 U.S.C. 169). designated the seventeenth day of December of each year as Wright Brothers Day and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of this Nation, and their local and national government officials, to observe Wright Brothers Day on December 17, 1980, both to perpetuate the memory of the Wright Brothers’ single achievement and to stimulate American pride in the furtherance of this Nation’s aeronautical progress. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth. JIMMY CARTER 4803 November 13, 1980 Thanksgiving Day, 1980 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4803 of November 13, 1980 Thanksgiving Day, 1980 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The greatest bounty of our Nation is the bounty of our heritage—our diversity as immigrants and descendants of immigrants, our common identity as Americans. We have set aside one day a year to give thanks for all that we have. Yet Thanksgiving is more than just a day of celebration. It is also a commemoration—of the day America’s earliest inhabitants sat down to table with European colonists. That occasion was historic not only because it established a national holiday. but because it marked the start of a national tradition of cooperation, unity and tolerance. 94 STAT. 3806 Even in times of trial and frustration we have much to be thankful for, in our personal lives and in our Nation. As we pause on Thanksgiving to offer thanks to Cod, we should not forget that we also owe thanks to this country’s forefathers who had the vision to join together in Thanksgiving, and who gave us so much of the vision of brotherhood that is ours today. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER. President of the United States of America, do proclaim Thursday, the 27th of November, 1960 as Thanksgiving Day. I call upon all the people of our Nation to give thanks on that day for the blessings Almighty God has bestowed upon us. and to join the fervent prayer of George Washington who as President asked God to “, . . impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves to the whole family of mankind.” IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth. JIMMY CARTER 4804 November 14, 1980 Bill of Rights Day Human Rights Day and Week, 1980 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4804 of November 14, 1980 Bill of Rights Day Human Rights Day and Week, 1980 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights became part of the Constitution of the United States. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Marking these anniversaries together gives us an opportunity to renew our dedication both to our own liberties and to the promotion of human rights everywhere. The Bill of Rights carries with it an implied responsibility for the governed as well as for the governing. No American citizen can rest satisfied until the Bill of Rights is a living reality for every person in the United States, irrespective of race, religion, sex, national or ethnic origin. We cannot simply rely on the decency of government or the alertness of an active free press. Each individual must shoulder his or her share of the responsibility for seeing that our freedoms will survive. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the cornerstone of a developing international consensus on human rights. Through it, the members of the United Nations undertake to promote, respect and observe human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without discrimination. We must continuously monitor the progress of this effort and the records of governments around the world. The promise of the Declaration is remote to all those who suffer summary executions and torture, acts of genocide, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, banishment, internal exile, forced labor, and confinement for political cause. It is remote to the countless refugees who flee their lands in response to the elimination of their human rights. It is remote to those sub-94 STAT. 3807 jected to armed invasions or to military coups that destroy democratic processes. The Declaration will ring hollow to that segment of a population discriminated against by laws of *apartheid* or by restrictions on religious freedom. It will ring hollow to those threatened by violations of freedom of assembly, association, expression and movement, and by the suppression of trade unions. The Declaration must also ring hollow to the members of the U.S. Embassy staff who have been held captive for more than a year by the Government of Iran. The cause of human rights is embattled throughout the world. Recent events make it imperative that we, as Americans, stand firm in our insistence that the values embodied in the Bill of Rights, and contained in the Universal Declaration, be enjoyed by all. I urge all Americans to support ratification of the Genocide Convention, the Convention of the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the American Convention on Human Rights. I renew my request to the Senate to give its advice and consent to these important treaties. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim December 10, 1980, as Human Rights Day and December 15, 1980, as Bill of Rights Day, and call on all Americans to observe Human Rights Week beginning December 10, 1980. It should be a time set apart for the study of our own rights, so basic to the working of our society, and for a renewal of our efforts on behalf of the human rights of all peoples everywhere. IN WITNESSES WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth. JIMMY CARTER 4805 November 24, 1980 Special Limited Global Import Quota for Upland Cotton Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4805 of November 24, 1980 Special Limited Global Import Quota for Upland Cotton By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. Section 103(f)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 1949. as added by Section 602 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (the Act) (91 Stat. 913, 934; 7 U.S.C. 1444(f)(1)), provides that whenever the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the average price of Strict Low Middling one and one-sixteenth inch cotton (micronaire 3.5 through 4.9), hereinafter referred to as “Strict Low Middling Cotton,” in the designated United States spot markets for a month exceeded 130 per centum of the average price of such quality of cotton in such markets for the preceding thirty-six months, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the President shall immediately establish and proclaim a special limited global import quota for upland cotton. A quota, effective from April 3 through July 2, 1980, was placed in effect by Proclamation No. 4742.*Ante*, p. 3734. 94 STAT. 3808 2. When a special quota has been established during the preceding twelve months, the amount of the next quota is to be the smaller of twenty-one days of domestic mill consumption of upland cotton at the seasonally adjusted average rate of the most recent three months for which data are available or the amount required to increase the supply to 130 percent of the demand. The quota is to remain in effect for a ninety-day period. 3. The Secretary of Agriculture has informed me that he has determined that the average price of Strict Low Middling Cotton in the designated spot markets for the month of September 1980 has exceeded 130 per centum of the average price of such cotton in such markets for the preceding thirty-six months. The Secretary’s determination was based upon the following data:

(a)The average price of Strict Low Middling Cotton in the designated spot markets for the month of September 1980 was 87.1 cents per pound.

(b)The average price of Strict Low Middling Cotton in the designated spot markets for the thirty-six months preceding the month of September 1980 (September 1977 through August 1980) was 62.85 cents per pound. 4. Twenty-one days of domestic mill consumption of upland cotton, which is any variety of the Gossypium hirsutum species of cotton, at the seasonally adjusted rate of the most recent three months for which data are available (June 1980 through August 1980) is 238,633,920 pounds. 5. On the basis of computations made in accordance with Section 103(f)(1) of the Act, a quantity of 261,757,920 pounds of upland cotton is required to increase the supply of such cotton to 130 percent of the demand therefor. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the United States of America, including Section 103(f)(1) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as added by Section 602 of the Food and Agriculture Act of [7 USC 1444](/us/usc/t7/s1444).1977, and in order to establish a special ninety-day limited global import quota for 238,633,920 pounds of upland cotton, do proclaim that the temporary provision set forth in item 955.07 of Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff [19 USC 1202](/us/usc/t19/s1202).Schedules of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: “Item Article Quota quantity (in pounds) 955.07 Notwithstanding any other quantitative limitations on the importation of cotton, upland cotton, if accompanied by an original certificate of an official of a government agency of the country in which the cotton was produced attesting to the fact that cotton is a variety of the Gossypium hirsutum species of cotton, may be entered during the 90-day period November 28, 1980 through February 25, 1981 238.638.920 pounds” IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth. JIMMY CARTER 4806 November 26, 1980 National Family Week, 1980 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

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