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...tell whether his four-year, $1.5 billion Zero Hunger program will be enough to make good on his promise to the poor. It is his presidency's one indulged, untouchable priority. He has made it a special umbrella ministry, coordinating 60 programs, that is not unlike the new U.S. Homeland Security Department. "This is like war mobilization for us," says special Food Security Minister José Graziano da Silva, an economist and longtime Lula adviser. In addition to food relief, the ministry is charged with attacking the causes of Brazil's malnutrition, such as laughable rural infrastructure and the nation...
...Early last week, FBI officials tried to persuade Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and Attorney General John Ashcroft to move back to yellow, but until Thursday, both men favored the CIA perspective. "While some (reported threats) haven't panned out," said an official familiar with their reasoning, "other things (of a threatening nature) have come in and have to be run down...
Part of the answer rests in the new Homeland Security Department itself, the impetus behind the biggest reorganization of the Federal Government in a half-century. The new department, first proposed by the President last July, aims to bring 22 agencies and 175,000 employees, from border agents to biologists, under a single bureaucratic roof--and to do it before al-Qaeda tries to mount another attack. But the department is only beginning to pick up momentum. Since it opened its doors Jan. 24, only three out of a possible 23 appointees to the new department have received confirmation; most...
...York City, police commissioner Ray Kelly says the city is still waiting for $900 million it has requested from the feds, some of which would go toward training police officers. "We are continuing to ask Washington for that money," he says. In Detroit, a critical node of homeland security, given its heavily trafficked border and large Arab-American population, city officials say they have spent $10 million on helicopters, protective suits and beefed-up border patrols. But other needs, including a communications system that would allow the city's emergency teams to talk with one another and their Canadian counterparts...
Vest, who formerly served as chair of the Association of American Universities and is presently on the U.S. President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, emphasized the value of homeland security...