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The Middle East Peace Talks

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Date: January 24, 2002
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
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The Middle East Peace Talks

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Date: September 24, 2002
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
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Radio Free Asia

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Date: October 24, 1997
Creator: Epstein, Susan B.
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U.N Funding, Payment of Arrears and Linkage to Reform: Legislation in the 105th Congress

Description: The conference report on H.R. 1757, the Foreign Relations Authorization bill for FY1998-FY1999, will be debated in the Senate beginning April 24 with a vote expected April 28, 1998. On March 26, the House adopted the conference report (H.Rept. 105-432) on H.R. 1757; the bill authorizes a total of $926 million for payment of arrears to international organizations in exchange for U.N. and U.N. agency reforms. The House version of the bill did not address payment of the U.S. arrears or U.N. reform… more
Date: April 24, 1998
Creator: Bite, Vita; Browne, Marjorie Ann & McHugh, Lois B.
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North Korea: Economic Sanctions

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Date: January 24, 2003
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
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World Heritage Convention and U.S. National Parks

Description: On March 6, 2001, Congressman Don Young introduced H.R. 883, the American Land Sovereignty Act. H.R. 883 requires congressional approval to add any lands owned by the United States to the World Heritage List, a UNESCO-administered list established by the 1972 World Heritage Convention. In related legislation, P.L. 106-429, in which H.R. 5526, the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs appropriations act for 2001 was referenced, contained language prohibiting funding from thi… more
Date: April 24, 2001
Creator: McHugh, Lois B.
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Trade and the Americas

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Date: May 24, 2002
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
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Export Tax Benefits and the WTO: Foreign Sales Corporations and the Extraterritorial Replacement Provisions

Description: The U.S. tax code’s Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) provisions provided a tax benefit for U.S. exporters. However, the European Union (EU) in 1997 charged that the provision was an export subsidy and thus contravened the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements. A WTO ruling upheld the EU complaint, and to avoid WTO sanctioned retaliatory tariffs, U.S. legislation in November 2000 replaced FSC with the “extraterritorial income” (ETI) provisions, consisting of a redesigned export tax benefit of… more
Date: January 24, 2002
Creator: Brumbaugh, David L.
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Singapore-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

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Date: January 24, 2003
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
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Chemical Weapons Convention: Issues for Congress

Description: The Convention provides the most extensive and intrusive verification regime of any arms control treaty, extending its coverage to not only governmental but also civilian facilities. The Convention also requires export controls and reporting requirements on chemicals that can be used as warfare agents and their precursors. The CWC establishes the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to oversee the Convention's implementation. Chemical Weapons Convention implementing legis… more
Date: June 24, 2002
Creator: Bowman, Steven R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Terrorism at Home and Abroad: Applicable Federal and State Criminal Laws

Description: Terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the Murrah building in Oklahoma City, and the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania have stimulated demands that the terrorists responsible and those like them be brought to justice. American criminal law already proscribes many of these acts of terrorism and there have been proposals to expand that coverage. This is a brief overview of the state and federal laws that now prohibit terrorism in this country and abroad.
Date: September 24, 2001
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FY2006 Appropriations for Border and Transportation Security

Description: This report covers appropriations for maintaining and improving the security of the United States against terrorist threats. Major issues addressed include the number of available detention beds and investigators at ICE; the number of Border Patrol agents in CBP; the appropriate level of funding for the Deepwater program within the Coast Guard; and non-aviation security spending within TSA.
Date: August 24, 2005
Creator: Lake, Jennifer E. & Nuñez-Neto, Blas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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