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China's Prospects After Tiananmen Square: Current Conditions, Future Scenarios, and a Survey of Expert Opinion (open access)

China's Prospects After Tiananmen Square: Current Conditions, Future Scenarios, and a Survey of Expert Opinion

Since the violent military crackdown around Tiananmen Square, most Western observers have struggled to understand and explain three major questions concerning the Chinese situation: first, why a forward-looking and reform-minded Chinese leadership chose such violent force over a more accommodating approach toward the peaceful public protests of June 1989; second, how to assess current political and economic conditions in China in light of Tiananmen Square; and third, what the events of the last two years mean for China's future prospects.
Date: January 15, 1991
Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry; Kan, Shirley A. & Sutter, Robert G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): Issues, Proposed Expansion, and Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs) (open access)

Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): Issues, Proposed Expansion, and Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs)

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Date: September 15, 2000
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: How Much of a Role Could Personal Retirement Accounts Play? (open access)

Social Security Reform: How Much of a Role Could Personal Retirement Accounts Play?

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Date: May 15, 2002
Creator: Kollmann, Geoffrey
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Natural Resources and Environment Function in the FY2003 Federal Budget: An Overview of Programs and Funding (open access)

The Natural Resources and Environment Function in the FY2003 Federal Budget: An Overview of Programs and Funding

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Date: August 15, 2002
Creator: Bearden, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biological Diversity: Issues Related to the Convention on Biodiversity (open access)

Biological Diversity: Issues Related to the Convention on Biodiversity

This report discusses treaty on biodiversity, issues, history and current status.
Date: May 15, 1995
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HIV/AIDS International Programs: Appropriations, FY2002-FY2005 (open access)

HIV/AIDS International Programs: Appropriations, FY2002-FY2005

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Date: July 15, 2004
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS in Africa (open access)

AIDS in Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has been far more severely affected by AIDS than any other part of the world. The United Nations reports that 25.3 million adults and children are infected with the HIV virus in the region, which has about 10% of the world's population but more than 70% of the worldwide total of infected people. This report discusses this issue in detail, including the cause of the African AIDS epidemic, the social and economic consequences, response and treatment, and U.S. policy.
Date: January 15, 2002
Creator: Copson, Raymond W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 106th Congress (open access)

Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 106th Congress

Fish and marine mammals are important resources in the open ocean and nearshore coastal areas. A diverse body of laws and regulations guides the management of these resources by a multitude of federal agencies.
Date: March 15, 2001
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administrative Subpoenas and National Security Letters in Criminal and Intelligence Investigations: A Sketch (open access)

Administrative Subpoenas and National Security Letters in Criminal and Intelligence Investigations: A Sketch

Administrative subpoena authority, including closely related national security letter authority, is the power vested in various administrative agencies to compel testimony or the production of documents or both in aid of the agencies’ performance of their duties. Both the President and Members of Congress have called for statutory adjustments relating to the use of administrative subpoenas and national security letters in criminal and foreign intelligence investigations. One lower federal court has found the sweeping gag orders and lack of judicial review that mark one of the national security letter practices constitutionally defective. Proponents of expanded use emphasize the effectiveness of administrative subpoenas as an investigative tool and question the logic of its availability in drug and health care fraud cases but not in terrorism cases. Critics suggest that it is little more than a constitutionally suspect “trophy” power, easily abused and of little legitimate use. This is an abridged version — without footnotes, appendices, quotation marks and most citations to authority — of Administrative Subpoenas and National Security Letters in Criminal and Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Background and Proposed Adjustments, CRS Report RL32880.
Date: April 15, 2005
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administrative Subpoenas and National Security Letters in Criminal and Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Background and Proposed Adjustments (open access)

Administrative Subpoenas and National Security Letters in Criminal and Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Background and Proposed Adjustments

Administrative subpoena authority, including closely related national security letter authority, is the power vested in various administrative agencies to compel testimony or the production of documents or both in aid of the agencies’ performance of their duties. During the 108th Congress, the President urged Congress to expand and re-enforce statutory authority to use administrative subpoenas and national security letters in criminal and foreign intelligence investigations; and legislation was introduced for that purpose. Related proposals have been offered during the 109th Congress, some of which deal with national security letter authority. Proponents of expanded use emphasize the effectiveness of administrative subpoenas as an investigative tool and question the logic of its availability in drug and health care fraud cases but not in terrorism cases. Critics suggest that it is little more than a constitutionally suspect “trophy” power, easily abused and of little legitimate use.
Date: April 15, 2005
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Ship Deployments: New Approaches - Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Ship Deployments: New Approaches - Background and Issues for Congress

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Date: November 15, 2004
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Job Training Reform: Legislation in the 105th Congress (open access)

Job Training Reform: Legislation in the 105th Congress

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Date: May 15, 1998
Creator: Lordeman, Ann
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Missile Proliferation Sanctions: Selected Current Law (open access)

Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Missile Proliferation Sanctions: Selected Current Law

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Date: July 15, 2002
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Sanctions: Legislation in the 106th Congress (open access)

Economic Sanctions: Legislation in the 106th Congress

This report tracks legislation relating to the use of economic sanctions in pursuit of foreign policy or national security objectives. Separate sections are given to the areas of greatest activity: sanctions imposed against India and Pakistan; exemptions of food and medicine exports; and sanctions reform. A separate table is included listing sanctions measures that were introduced but received no consideration, including measures pertaining to export controls, nonproliferation, drug certifications, and the sanctions regimes leveled, or proposed to be leveled, against Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Serbia and Montenegro, and other countries.
Date: December 15, 2000
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues (open access)

U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues

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Date: August 15, 2002
Creator: Bite, Vita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues (open access)

U.N. System Funding: Congressional Issues

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Date: November 15, 2001
Creator: Bite, Vita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Issues for Congress (open access)

Intelligence Issues for Congress

This report discusses intelligence issues for Congress including terrorism, conflicts between Israel and Palestine, in Iraq, and among the former Yugoslav states, and North Korean missile capabilities. Updated May 15, 2003.
Date: May 15, 2003
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual Property Protection for Noncreative Databases (open access)

Intellectual Property Protection for Noncreative Databases

Copyright law protects works of authorship that exhibit original, creative expression, including creativity in the selection, arrangement, or coordination both of traditional printed and electronic databases. Noncreative databases are not subject to copyright protection, although some protection is available through a combination of contract law, trade secrecy law, and misappropriation doctrines of state law.
Date: September 15, 1999
Creator: Schrader, Dorothy & Jeweler, Robin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration Legislation and Status Adjustment Legislation (open access)

Immigration Legislation and Status Adjustment Legislation

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Date: April 15, 2002
Creator: Wasem, Ruth Ellen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refugee Assistance in the Foreign Aid Bill: Problems and Prospects (open access)

Refugee Assistance in the Foreign Aid Bill: Problems and Prospects

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Date: August 15, 2002
Creator: Bite, Vita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration Fundamentals (open access)

Immigration Fundamentals

Report explaining the fundamentals of immigration in the United States including key terms, statistics, limits, and more.
Date: September 15, 1999
Creator: Vialet, Joyce
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act: Hardship Relief and Long-Term Illegal Aliens (open access)

The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act: Hardship Relief and Long-Term Illegal Aliens

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Date: July 15, 1998
Creator: Eig, Larry M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration: The New Affidavit of Support - Questions, Answers, and Issues (open access)

Immigration: The New Affidavit of Support - Questions, Answers, and Issues

Report on the new immigration form issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, mostly consisting of a question and answer format.
Date: December 15, 1997
Creator: Vialet, Joyce
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holocaust-Era Assets: A Guide for Filing Claims and a List of Compensation Programs (open access)

Holocaust-Era Assets: A Guide for Filing Claims and a List of Compensation Programs

This report provides the addresses, fax, and telephone numbers(including e-mail and Internet sites when available) of the major private and governmental organizations that are currently assisting with claims, compensation, and restitution of Holocaust-era assets (artworks, bank accounts, insurance claims, property, etc.)
Date: August 15, 2000
Creator: Salazar, Barbara A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library