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USA Patriot Act: A Sketch (CRS)

USA Patriot Act: Provisions that Expire on December 31, 2005 (CRS/FAS)

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1993+

Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press conferences, names of nominees
Alternate resource for documents approximately one week old
Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized (e.g. "affirmative action" AND "college admissions")
Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized (e.g. "china" AND "most favored nation")

White House Counsel Torture Memo

Memo by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez dated Jan. 25, 2002
Requests President to reconsider exclusion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners of war from Geneva Convention rules
Writes on behalf of the State Department

White House Electronic Publications

Press releases, speeches and documents and updated daily
Keyword searching only
Redone at each new administration: President Clinton's website is available through the National Archives and president Bush's website is available here

World Court Digest (Max Planck Institute)

World News Connection (UMich Library Only)

Full text of foreign news broadcasts and press releases translated into English beginning November 1994
Use Advanced Search by a combination of keyword, region, subject, country and modified by date
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (UMich Only)

Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature since 1975
Political science and complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy
Indexes foreign language journals and translates the title into English
Use the Thesaurus to identify subject descriptors and related terms, particularly under Rational Choice and Political Science Theories