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--- a/icu4c/readme.html
+++ b/icu4c/readme.html
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@
 
       <li><a href="#News">What Is New In This Release?</a></li>
 
-      <li><a href="#RecentPreviousChanges">Changes in Previous Releases</a></li>
-
       <li><a href="#Download">How To Download the Source Code</a></li>
 
       <li><a href="#SourceCode">ICU Source Code Organization</a></li>
@@ -232,20 +230,22 @@
     <p><strong>Important:</strong> Please make sure you understand the <a href=
     "http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/trunk/icu4c/LICENSE">Copyright and License Information</a>.</p>
 
+
     <h2><a name="News" href="#News" id="News">What Is New In This Release?</a></h2>
 
     <p>See the <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/59">ICU 59 download page</a>
-    for important information about new features and changes in this release, known issues,
-    migration issues, and changes to supported platforms and build environments.</p>
+    for an overview of this release, important changes, new features, bug fixes, known issues,
+    changes to supported platforms and build environments,
+    and migration issues for existing applications migrating from previous ICU releases.</p>
 
     <p>See the <a href="APIChangeReport.html">API Change Report</a> for a complete list of
     APIs added, removed, or changed in this release.</p>
 
-    <h2><a name="RecentPreviousChanges" href="#RecentPreviousChanges" id="RecentPreviousChanges">Changes
-    in Previous Releases</a></h2>
+    <p><a name="RecentPreviousChanges" id="RecentPreviousChanges"></a>For
+    changes in previous releases, see the
+    main <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download">ICU download page</a>
+    with its version-specific subpages.</p>
 
-    <p>See the main <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/">ICU download page</a>
-    for information about changes in previous releases.</p>
 
     <h2><a name="Download" href="#Download" id="Download">How To Download the
     Source Code</a></h2>