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Department of State Washington File: Text: U.S. Customs Will Screen Cargo Containers Leaving Port of Tokyo
Japan is the second CSI partner country to station customs personnel in U.S. ports as part of the CSI program. Japanese customs personnel are stationed at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach. Canadian Customs personnel are stationed at Newark and Seattle. ... CBP officers are already working in the Japanese port of Yokohama under a reciprocal bilateral agreement. In addition, Japanese customs personnel are operating in the U.S. port of Los Angeles/Long Beach. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Bush Announces Seven Administration Nominations
Scott Whitaker has been nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Legislation. Presently he is a policy advisor in the office of Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles. A native of West Palm Beach, Florida, he is a graduate of Palm Beach Atlantic College and received his masters degree from Johns Hopkins University. ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: COAST GUARD DECLARES U.S. PORTS READY FOR YEAR 2000
One of the USCG tests conducted at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles included the use of a score card to determine the Y2K compliance and contingency planning of all the vessels in the ports. ... Rear Admiral George Naccara, the Coast Guard's director of information and technology, made the announcement June 30 following two days of testing earlier that month at the nation's busiest harbors -- Long Beach and Los Angeles, California. ... According to George Wright, captain of the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports, "The drills were not just a success because they occurred, but because we learned things that we would not have known had we not actually exercised the equipment." ... [Read More]
American Community Organizations in Australia
22 Kalinda Drive, City Beach WA 6015 ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: U.S. Arrests Leader of Alleged Plot Against Cambodian Government
Chhun and Pech operated CCC Professional Accounting Services in Long Beach, California. The couple allegedly recruited members of the Cambodian community who were on welfare or other forms of government assistance to file fraudulent tax returns to obtain a tax refund. As part of the scheme alleged in the indictment, Chhun and Pech told clients that the United States government was distributing money to the poor from its budget surplus and that by filing tax returns they would receive a tax refund. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Defense Department Report, December 27, 2000
-- Charles Clendening from TRW, Redondo Beach, Calif. ... -- Michael Wickham from TRW, Redondo Beach, Calif. ... -- Robert E. Waldo from TRW, Redondo Beach, Calif. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: White House Daily Briefing, October 14
MR. McCLELLAN: Sunrise, yes. On Monday, the 18th, the President will sign the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for 2005, in the Oval Office at the White House. Then he'll make remarks to the 2004 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams. That will be at the White House on the South Lawn. And then we will go to New Jersey -- here's an answer to your question, Arash -- where the President will make remarks at a Burlington County, New Jersey event, in Marlton, New Jersey. Then the President will attend a Victory 2004 dinner in Boca Raton, Florida. We'll overnight in St. Pete Beach, Florida. And on Tuesday, the 19th, the President will make remarks at a St. Petersburg, Florida Victory 2004 rally. He'll make remarks at a Newport Beach -- New Port Richey, I'm sorry, Florida Victory 2004 rally. Then remarks at The Villages, Florida Victory 2004 rally. And we're back at the White House that night, before hitting the campaign trail again. ... [Read More]
Australia Judicial Assistance
Sunshine Beach 4567 ... Trinity Beach, Qld. 4879 ... Broadbeach, Qld. 4218 ... [Read More]
American Schools in Australia
22 Kalinda DriveCity Beach, WA 6015 ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Japanese Customs Personnel Helping to Secure U.S. Containers
CSI is an initiative that was developed by CBP to protect containerized shipping from exploitation by terrorists. Japanese Customs personnel at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport will be targeting sea containers destined for Japan. CBP and the Japanese Customs and Tariff Bureau sealed a CSI declaration of principles on September 26, 2002. ... Japanese Customs and Tariff Bureau deploys officers to Los Angeles/Long Beach ... Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Robert C. Bonner announced today that Japanese Customs and Tariff Bureau personnel will be deployed at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport as part of the Container Security Initiative (CSI) implementation. Japanese Customs personnel will be targeting sea containers destined for Japan. ... [Read More]
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