The Port Authority has been working with the Federal Aviation Administration to rectify the failures, detailed in a new agreement between the Port Authority and the FAA to create an independent aircraft rescue and firefighting force without additional duties as police officers.

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Truman says it might behoove Bush to educate his counterparts about the realities of U.S. politics--Congress also has a say in foreign investment, as evidenced by the outrage produced on Capitol Hill after the administration approved the Dubai Port Authority's takeover of operations at some U.S. ports two years ago, a deal subsequently scuttled by Congress.

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Administration officials charged that the Port Authority Police Department was incompetent.

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The customs duties leviable on goods destined for the interior shall be collected at the port of entry and handed over to the administration of the area of destination.

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Mr. Giuliani's administration was often at odds with the Port Authority over security at airports and sought to have the New York City Police Department take over the job.

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In the afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that Haiti had suspended flights into the Port-au-Prince airport because ramp space -- where aircraft are parked, unloaded, loaded, refueled or boarded -- was overcrowded.

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Army units, meanwhile, took control of the main Suez Canal administration building, provincial government buildings, banks and courts in Port Said, Gen.

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