98-3336. Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6794-6795]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3336]


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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations

    Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to 
the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 
985, 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978 (43 FR 
13359, March 29, 1978), and Delegation Order No. 85-5 of June 27, 1985 
(50 FR 27393, July 2, 1985), I hereby determine that the objects to be 
included in the exhibit ``Conversion by Candlelight: The Four Magdalens 
by Georges de la Tour'' (see list \1\), imported

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from abroad for the temporary exhibition without profit within the 
United States, are of cultural significance. These objects are imported 
pursuant to loan agreements with the foreign lenders. I also determine 
that the exhibition or display of the listed exhibit objects at The 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, from on or about 
February 9, 1998, to on or about March 15, 1998, is in the national 
interest. Public Notice of this determinations is ordered to be 
published in the Federal Register.

    Dated: February 3, 1998.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-3336 Filed 2-9-98; 8:45 am]
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