Coin Island Marshall
USIS Washington File: TEXT: 10/1 ROTH TESTIMONY ON FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES
The Freely Associated States were formerly part of the Trust Territory of Pacific Islands (TTPI), a group of islands administered by the United States after 1947 under a UN Strategic Mandate. In 1969, the United States entered into discussion with representatives of the various islands on their future political status, a process which had different outcomes for the four island groupings in the Trust Territory. ... The people of the Northern Mariana Islands opted for an association with the United States that made them U.S. citizens. In January 1978, the United States began administering the Northern Mariana Islands under provisions of the negotiated and Congressionally approved Commonwealth Covenant. On November 3, 1986, the Northern Mariana Islands became a Commonwealth in political union with the United States. ... [Read More]
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA With Explanatory Notes
(5) To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; ... (1) No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Larson on Global Development and National Security
-- Okinawa: island in southern Japan where the 2000 G-8 summit will be held in July. ... To be a national priority, development must be grounded not only in our deepest humanitarian impulses but also in our most central national interests. During the forty years immediately after the Marshall Plan, American development policy was integrally related to our Cold War strategy. We supported development abroad not only because we loved our neighbor but also because we feared he would join the Communist bloc. ... [Read More]
Civil-Military Affairs and U.S. Diplomacy: The Changing Roles of the Regional Commanders-In-Chief
Question: Mr. Perry, can there be a genuine partnership between the State Department, the Defense Department when the resource is available to each under the 050 budget for the military and the 150 budget for the diplomatic efforts are so different? And when you flip such a lopsided coin, isn’t it always going to be weighted towards the military policies instead of the diplomatic ones? ... I want to sum up, then, my positions about, this new world. Preventive defense should havea very high priority. Even though it involves resources that, clearly, have to be done hand in glove between Defense and the Secretary of State, preventive defense and preventive diplomacy are just two sides of the same coin. ... [Read More]
Index
Ankoko Island, 428, 430, 436 ... Virgin Islands, 201, 214 ... Merger with Caribbean islands, possible, 419, 423, 431 ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
US DEPARTMENT OF STATEBUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERSINTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRAGEGY REPORTAPRIL 1994FINANCIAL CRIMES AND MONEY LAUNDERING1994 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORTINTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERINGOVERVIEWIntelligence findings from North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, South and East Asia, Africa and the Middle East confirm that another significant shift has occurred in money laundering trends and methods, requiring changes in policy and strategy for 1994.The critical aspects are the volume of non-drug related money laundering; increased investment of illegal proceeds in legitimate business, including the financial industry; and the targeting of financial systems in countries/territories (some with little or no domestic involvement in drug trading or other serious proceeds-generating crimes) to launder drug and other proceeds generated by crimes committed in other jurisdictions.In 1988, when the United Nations Convention was ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORTMARCH 1995BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS FINANCIAL CRIMES AND MONEY LAUNDERING11995 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORTOVERVIEWThere were a number of significant accomplishments in the world of money laundering in 1994, and a number of new and/or intensified concerns. Accomplishments and concerns are summarized here and explained in detailed sections below.Accomplishments. Several financial center governments, such as Singapore and Panama, have adopted broad, new anti-money laundering policies and/or laws, and a number of governments were in the final stages of presenting/adopting new legislation.The Financial Action Task Force completed the evaluations of each of its 26 member governments, all conducted by outside experts and all culminating in recommendations for changes and improvements which will be monitored through continuing examinations be ... [Read More]
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