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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species: Its Past and Future

Description: This report discusses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). It is divided into six sections: Introduction, Background, CITES and the Endangered Species Act, Implementation, Upcoming Events, and Appendices.
Date: August 24, 1994
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne
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Japanese Participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

Description: Japan is positioned to deploy its troops overseas for the first time since World War II. Under a controversial peacekeeping operations (PKO) bill passed by the Japanese Diet (parliament) on June 15, 1992, Japan is allowed to dispatch Self-Defense Forces (SDF) soldiers abroad for noncombat service with United Nations peacekeeping forces (PKF). [1] The politically sensitive PKO legislation comes two years after Japan was stung by international criticism for its failure to send troops to th… more
Date: August 24, 1992
Creator: Shinn, Rinn-Sup
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Southeast Asian Security: Issues for the U.S.

Description: Policymakers on both sides of the Pacific turned their attention to Southeast Asian security issues in late July 1995. The occasion was the Annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)[1] ministers' meeting; followed by the annual post-ministerial "dialogue" among the ASEAN and other Asian- Pacific ministers (including the U.S. Secretary of State); followed in turn by the second annual ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), a nascent security framework for the area including participation by the… more
Date: August 24, 1995
Creator: Sutter, Robert G.
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Energy Tax Policy

Description: President Bush has issued a comprehensive energy policy initiative, which includes limited energy tax measures; the Administration has criticized such measures as being inconsistent with its free market philosophy. Several of the issues that drove energy policy and energy tax policy during the 106th Congress are extant: 1) tax incentives to increase the supply of oil and gas; 2) energy tax issues relating to energy conservation and energy efficiency; 3) energy tax issues relating to alternative… more
Date: August 24, 2001
Creator: Lazzari, Salvatore
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Aviation Security-Related Findings and Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission

Description: The 9/11 Commission issued several recommendations designed to strengthen aviation security by: enhancing passenger pre-screening; improving measures to detect explosives on passengers; addressing human factors issues at screening checkpoints; expediting deployment of in-line baggage screening systems; intensifying efforts to identify, track, and screen potentially dangerous cargo; and deploying hardened cargo containers on passenger aircraft. In addition to these specific recommendations, an o… more
Date: August 24, 2004
Creator: Elias, Bartholomew
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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
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Grazing Regulations: Changes by the Bureau of Land Management

Description: This report discusses the two-pronged approach to grazing reform the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is taking by proposing changes to grazing regulations and considering other changes to grazing policies. BLM asserts that regulatory changes are needed to increase flexibility for grazing managers and permittees, to improve rangeland management and grazing permit administration, to promote conservation, and to comply with court decisions.
Date: August 24, 2005
Creator: Hardy Vincent, Carol
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Newsmap. Monday, August 24, 1942 : week of August 14 to August 21

Description: Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Northern France, Air assault, Allied conference, Southwest Pacific, Mediterranean, Russia, North Africa, Aleutians, China, Brazil. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show The European theatre, Main area of operations in the Solomons, USSR. Includes photographs: Landing party; Commando glider; Last stop in North Africa; War in the heart of Africa. Back: China's Cadets. 10 photographs a… more
Date: August 24, 1942
Creator: [United States]. Army Orientation Course.
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Western Water Resource Issues

Description: For more than a century, the federal government has constructed water resource projects for a variety of purposes, including flood control, navigation, power generation, and irrigation. While most municipal and industrial water supplies have been built by non-federal entities, most of the large, federal water supply projects in the West, including Hoover and Grand Coulee dams, were constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) to provide water for irrigation.
Date: August 24, 2005
Creator: Cody, Betsy A. & Sheikh, Pervaze A.
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Climate Change: The Evidence Mounts Up

Description: This article was published in Nature and summarized the presentations of a six-day symposium held 3-8 July 1995 on Climate Variability and Forcing over the past mellennium. Our present climate is unusually warm, and the pattern of warming over the past century strongly suggests an anthropogenic influence from greenhouse gas and sulphate aerosols. That was the message emerging from a week-long symposium examining climate variability over the past 1,000 years, which brought together results from … more
Date: August 24, 1995
Creator: MacCracken, Michael C.
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[Edgar Vera's funeral]

Description: This article deals with the funeral of Edgar Vera in the city of Allen, Texas. Both the original Spanish article and the English translation are included.
Date: August 24, 2005
Creator: Castillo, José L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/22/05 to Chairman Principi from Major General Douglas Burnett, Adjutant General of the Florida National Guard

Description: Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/22/05 to Chairman Principi from Major General Douglas Burnett, Adjutant General of the Florida National Guard, in support of relocating the Navy’s East Coast Master Jet Base to NAS Cecil Field and contesting certain testimony alleging that air space in the area was significantly restricted by commercial air traffic.
Date: August 24, 2005
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/22/05 to Chairman Principi from Senator John Warner, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee

Description: Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/22/05 to Chairman Principi from Senator John Warner, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in support of retaining NAS Oceana, stating that the only advantage held by NAS Cecil Field over NAS Oceana was in the realm of encroachment on the ground and the restrictions imposed on take offs and landing. The Senator also enumerates the multiple advantages of NAS Oceana.
Date: August 24, 2005
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Executive Correspondence – Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/18/05 to Commissioner Gehman from Representative Spencer Bachus (6th, AL)

Description: Executive Correspondence – Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/18/05 to Commissioner Gehman from Representative Spencer Bachus (6th, AL) forwarding a copy his letter of the same date to Chairman Principi discussing the 08/10/05 legal memorandum offered to the Commission from the Department of Justice
Date: August 24, 2005
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Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/18/05 to Commissioner Hansen from Representative Spencer Bachus (6th, AL)

Description: Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/18/05 to Commissioner Hansen from Representative Spencer Bachus (6th, AL) discussing his concern with the methodology used by DoD to strip the 117th Air Refueling Wing in Birmingham AL of its aircraft and quoting Commissioner Gehman on that subject.
Date: August 24, 2005
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Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/01/05 to Chairman Principi from Michael Griffin, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),

Description: Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/01/05 to Chairman Principi from Michael Griffin, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), expressing concern with DoD’s recommendation to close the Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant and how the repair, maintenance, and operations of the former installation by NASA would be an undue burden (NASA has no budget identified for this).
Date: August 24, 2005
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Executive Correspondence – Letter 08/23/05 to Chairman Principi from Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty

Description: Executive Correspondence – Letter 08/23/05 to Chairman Principi from Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty in support of the position of the Adjutants General Association of the United States (AGAUS) regarding DoD BRAC recommendations pertaining to the ANG. The Governor also states that he remains opposed to using the BRAC process for what amounts to programmatic actions.
Date: August 24, 2005
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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