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President Clinton established the Special
Oversight Board by Executive
Order to provide recommendations based on its review of Department
of Defense Investigations into possible detections of, and exposures
to, chemical or biological weapons agents, and environmental and
other factors that may have contributed to 1990-1991 Gulf War illnesses. It
will report to the President through the Secretary of Defense.