Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2003: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 |
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Page 344 - Taiwan, any performance, communication, assurance, undertaking, or other action, such action shall, in the manner and to the extent directed by the President, be...
Page 13 - Continue to meet our obligations to international organizations — also important as we pursue the war on terrorism to its end. The budget request includes $891.4 million to fund US assessments to 43 international organizations, active membership of which furthers US economic, political, security, social, and cultural interests. • Continue to try to meet our obligations to international peacekeeping activities. The budget request includes $726 million to pay our projected United Nations peacekeeping...
Page 13 - Internet access to our unclassified system for over 30,000 State users worldwide. We are deploying our classified connectivity program over the next two years. Our goal is to put the Internet in the service of diplomacy and we are well on the way to accomplishing it. In right-sizing our facilities and in shaping up and bringing smarter management practices to our overseas buildings program, we are moving forward briskly as well — as many of you are aware because General Chuck Williams has been...
Page 264 - As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror; this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world.
Page 398 - For necessary expenses for carrying out the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926, as amended (22 USC 292-300), preserving, maintaining, repairing, and planning for, buildings that are owned or directly leased by the Department of State, renovating, in addition to...
Page 400 - MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to enable the Secretary of State to provide...
Page 100 - In Pakistan, March 8, 1995; Two unidentified gunmen killed two US diplomats and wounded a third in Karachi, Pakistan. Tokyo Subway Station Attack, March 20, 1995: Twelve persons were killed, and 5,700 were injured in a Sarin nerve gas attack on a crowded subway station In...
Page 103 - Egyptian Letter Bombs, January 2-13, 1997: A series of letter bombs with Alexandria, Egypt, postmarks were discovered at Al-Hayat newspaper bureaus in Washington, New York City, London, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Three similar devices, also postmarked in Egypt, were found at a prison facility in Leavenworth, Kansas. Bomb disposal experts defused all the devices, but one detonated at the Al-Hayat office in London, injuring two security guards and causing minor damage.
Page 107 - Two hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Soon thereafter, the Pentagon was struck by a third hijacked plane. A fourth hijacked plane, suspected to be bound for a high-profile target in Washington, crashed into a field in southern Pennsylvania.
Page 12 - FY 2004, if we are able to hire the final 399 personnel, we will have completed our three-year effort with respect to overseas staffing — to include establishing the training pool I described to you last year that is so important if we are to allow our people to complete the training we feel is needed for them to do their jobs.