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Arrests spark concern about largely unguarded U.S.-Canadian border

...States by car. The Washington and Vermont cases have not been linked. Still, in response, the Border Patrol and Customs Service have put extra agents to work along both the Canadian and Mexican borders. ''It's a reality check for everyone...

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Filings flurry

...product and his ability to perform. Other work experience includes work with the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Customs Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Since 1997, he has been in private practice in the areas of intellecutal...

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Politics
Government reveals 'Operation Smartcard' satellite TV sting

...officials at the Justice Department and U.S. Customs Service said. They said another four have pleaded guilty...business created by Customs agents. By the time the Customs Service terminated the undercover portion of the operation...

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Crusading congressman

...while a ban on rebel diamond exports is enforced. Meanwhile, Hall continues pushing a bill that would require the Customs Service to allow into the country only diamonds that can be traced to legitimate sources -- something that will not be possible...

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Commission calls for anti-terrorist defense

...their eyebrows and say we can't do that." The panel recommended folding the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Customs Service, Border Patrol and Coast Guard into the new Homeland Security Agency. It said that the National Guard should be...

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Collateral damage

...contract to the CIA and also carried a Peruvian air force liaison officer. Along with the Defense Department, the Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies, the CIA regularly flies drug-tracking missions. It was...

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Opinion
State briefs

...crashed into Crane Lake in northeastern Minnesota, authorities said Monday. The single-engine plane had just cleared Customs Service after returning from Canada on a fishing trip about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the St. Louis County Sheriff's...

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Nation remains unprepared to thwart terror attacks

...It recommended formation of a new agency that would combine the missions of the National Guard, Border Patrol, Customs Service, Coast Guard and others now working in a huge and uncoordinated effort to defend the nation's people and infrastructure...

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House leaders sweeten the ante for legislation giving president extended trade powers

...assistance for workers who lose jobs because of changing trade relations. The other increases money for the U.S. Customs Service, partly to counter the illegal imports of textiles through third countries. Democrats, who with organized labor...

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The Homeland Security fight

...cover costs already incurred or to pay for protective steps on which there is wide agreement -- strengthening the Customs Service and other agencies that police the borders, improving the capability of federal and state agencies to respond to...

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