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	MV Tampa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The MV Tampa is a Norwegian cargo ship that was at the center of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway, and Indonesia off the coast of Christmas Island.
		The refugees from the Tampa were loaded onto a Royal Australian Navy vessel, HMAS Manoora.
		The crew of the Tampa received the Nansen Refugee Award for 2002 from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for their efforts to follow international principles of saving people in distress at sea, despite repeated threats of imprisonment and confiscation of the ship from the Australian government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MS_Tampa (2096 words)

	South Tampa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tampa is a city located in Hillsborough County on the west coast of central Florida in the United States.
		Tampa, Kansas The Tampa Bay Area is sometimes referred to as Tampa or Tampa Bay.
		The MV ''Tampa'' is a Norwegian cargo ship that was at the center of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway and Indonesia off the coast of Christmas Island in August, 2001.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/83/south-tampa.html (1323 words)

	MS Tampa - Wikipedia
		The MS Tampa is a Norwegian cargo ship that was at the center of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway and Indonesia off the coast of Christmas Island.
		The MS Tampa responded to the distress call, and rescued the asylum seekers.
		The immigrants from the Tampa were loaded onto an Australian Navy vessel.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/MS_Tampa (1143 words)

	Labor caught out by Tampa, S11 - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ms Gillard was answering questions from secondary school students in an interview with the ABC's Radio JJJ at the National Museum.
		The Norwegian freighter MS Tampa sparked an international incident last year when it rescued a boatload of asylum seekers from their sinking vessel but was refused permission to land its human cargo on Australian shores.
		Ms Gillard, who said she empathised with migrants having emigrated from Wales as a child with her parents, said Labor's new immigration policy was much better thought-out and was coming to completion.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/30/1027926879417.html (407 words)

	Afghanistan timeline August 2001 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The captain of the MS Tampa, carrying 438 asylum seekers (420 from Afghanistan), declared a state of emergency and proceeded to enter Australian territorial waters, despite Australian government orders not to.
		The MS Tampa captain was instructed to move the ship back into international waters.
		The captain planned to take the asylum seekers to Indonesia, but the asylum seekers apparently threatened the captain and allegedly said they would jump overboard unless they were taken to Australia, prompting the captain set sail for Christmas Island instead.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_August_2001 (395 words)

	For many low-income workers, high gasoline prices take a toll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The crunch is particularly visible in Tampa, an urban agglomeration on the west coast of Florida that's more often associated with golf resorts and retirement communities than low-income commuters.
		According to federal figures, in 2001 and 2002, the most recent years for which statistics are available, 23.2 percent of total spending by the average household in the Tampa region went to transportation, a higher percentage than in any of the other 27 metropolitan areas surveyed by the government.
		First, the pretax income of the average family in the Tampa region, at $53,091, is lower than the average of the 28 metro areas surveyed by the federal government, at $56,653.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/12/financial0816EDT0013.DTL&type=printable (2462 words)

	ZNet Commentary
		Three days beforehand, on Sunday August 26, the Norwegian freighter MS Tampas responded to an Australian Coastal Surveillance alert that a boat was sinking 140 kilometres north of the country's west coast - the precise location situated inside of Indonesia's sea rescue zone, but closer in distance to the Australian territory of Christmas Island.
		Prior to the MS Tampa rescue, Howard's spin doctors had successfully hoodwinked the public into believing that asylum seekers are largely a bunch of uncivilized invaders - criminals, queue jumpers, disease-ridden, and a burden on the taxpayer.
		Likened to the 1939 Voyage of the Damned which saw 937 Jews on the German liner St Louis prevented from disembarking in Cuba, the MS Tampa affair is another chapter in a heartless war against refugees.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2001-09/01dumble.htm (1336 words)

	Odinarkiv - MS Tampa: Bakgrunn, status og veien videre
		Ved å nekte MS Tampa adgang til australsk territorialfarvann når kapteinen mente dette var nødvendig for å sikre liv og helse, begikk australske myndigheter et nytt og alvorlig folkerettsbrudd.
		MS Tampa ble bordet av omlag 50 militære spesialstyrker ganske snart etter at båten la seg til utenfor havnen.
		Enhver skisse til løsning må imidlertid legge til grunn at folkeretten overholdes, og at Australia i tråd med grunnleggende folkerettsprinsipper påtar seg ansvaret for personene som ble plukket opp av MS Tampa.
	www.dep.no /odinarkiv/norsk/dep/ud/p10002480/taler/032001-090133/dok-bu.html (1218 words)

	The Cinema Collection \| MS Tampa: Refugees at Sea
		The Tampa drama was one of the major news stories in 2001.
		The Norwegian ship MS tampa saved 438 Afghan refugees from a sinking vessel off the coast of Australia.
		MS Tampa: Refugees at Sea is the story not only of the refugees and their hero, Captain Rinnan, but of the broader story of international politics and chaotic laws which strips legal rights from refugees at sea.
	www.wellspring.com /worldwide/detail.php?qckey=756 (147 words)

	Tampa's Downtown - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TAMPA, FL (November 11, 2004) - Downtowns are most successful when a broad residential base exists, reflecting the larger community.
		Storts manages the Bank of America CDC Tampa office which forms joint ventures and partnerships with cities and neighborhood-based development entities to take on real estate projects which serve as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization and economic development.
		Tampa Downtown Partnership members will pay a $20.00 admission while potential members are charged a $25.00 admission.
	www.tampasdowntown.com /pressrelease51.htm (654 words)

	Allegany Franciscan Foundation Tampa Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tampa Heights Community Development Corporation opens savings accounts and pays an hourly rate of, $6 for local teenage boys, ages eight – 19, who cut lawns and pick-up trash within the community after school and on weekends.
		Tampa Bay Academy of Hope is a youth development organization for at-risk youth ages four through 18 that live in economically depressed areas.
		Tampa Crossroads is a community-based provider of services for non-violent offenders with a mission to provide an educational and rehabilitative environment for individuals who have broken the law.
	www.franciscanfdn.org /aff_tb/news/tbgr02.htm (9194 words)

	Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System: Library Board
		Cameron amended her motion to include directing staff to meet with Architectural Services and to report to the Board with a plan for the North Tampa Library.
		Swisshelm made the motion that the trip to the Fishhawk site be scheduled for May 26th at 2:00 p.m.
		Vickers asked for the vote: "All those who wish to accept the changes as stated in Dr. Scheuerle's motion please signify by a show of hands." The motion passed unanimously.
	www.hcplc.org /thpl/board/motions/2005.html (744 words)

	Odinarkiv - Norwegian vessel M/S Tampa
		On 26 August 2001 the Norwegian vessel MS Tampa was requested by the Australian Search and Rescue Authority to proceed to and assist a vessel in distress.
		According to these agreed international rules Tampa is not allowed to continue a voyage with the shipwrecked persons on board.
		There is no such emergency now as it was when Tampa came from the rescue operation to the nearest port, and there is no justification for the vessel to move somewhere else with passengers beyond what is allowed.
	www.odin.dep.no /ud/norsk/aktuelt/pressem/032091-070082/index-dok000- (546 words)

	Allegany Franciscan Foundation Tampa Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Tampa Teen Advisor Program is a peer mentoring program that offers a support group for teens who wish to abstain from premarital sex, illicit drugs, tobacco products, and under-age alcohol consumption offering friendship, encouragement and advice.
		The Corporation to Develop Communities (CDC) of Tampa was created to raise the economic and social levels of residents of economically depressed areas of Hillsborough County through job training, building community pride, promoting entrepreneurship, developing youth leadership and revitalizing commercial areas.
		East Tampa Learning Academy is a project of the CDC that works with youth to improve academics and behavioral issues through computer skills, mathematics, science, language arts, and cultural and social skills.
	www.franciscanfdn.org /aff_tb/news/tbchgr01.htm (6698 words)

	CSO Personnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She received a J.D. from the J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1995 and a BA in Mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1989.
		She has mediated in small claims courts and the Mediation Center in Provo, and serves as a Faculty Arbitrator in the BYU Center for Conflict Resolution.
		Ms Anstead recently married Chaplain Clay Anstead and inherited six more children in addition to her 2 for a total of 8 in her blended family.
	www.law2.byu.edu /Career_Services/Content/Personnel.html (650 words)

	Tampa Trails & Greenways Project Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jim Hartnett inquired as to the purpose of the Council briefing and Ms.
		Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners: At a recent meeting/vote, Hillsborough County BOCC sided with a subdivision to withdraw the TECO easement from consideration for the Upper Tampa Bay Trail.
		This trail will serve the Tampa Heights area to the north and, in the long run, provide a link to downtown and the Riverwalk to the south.
	www.tampagov.net /dept_parks/trails/min/min-06-03.html (1348 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Talk:MS Tampa - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is clear that it was RCC Australia that picked up the distress call and asked ships in the region to respond.
		The MS Tampa and a japanese ship responded.
		What happened on the bridge when the captain was threatened to go to Australia is a bit more unclear.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ta/Talk:MS_Tampa (103 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From there, the boat people, who were plucked by the Tampa from a sinking Indonesian ferry on August 26, will be put on planes for New Zealand and the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, where their refugee claims would be processed.
		The Tampa, secured by Australian troops five days ago, was in Australian waters close to Christmas Island, which is 340 km (217 miles) south of Indonesia and 1,500 km west of the Australian mainland.
		The boatpeople have been on the Tampa since August 26 when they were rescued from the ferry which was heading from Java to Christmas Island.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,55411-1-9,00.html (863 words)

	Tampabay: As always, faith compels them to help
		She now serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Tampa Bay Chapter as well as Congregations United for Community Action.
		She advises them to value the rights that come from living in the United States, such as equality of the genders and freedom to worship.
		Her clients include one of the men from Bangladesh recently questioned by Tampa Port Authority officers and detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service after they were seen videotaping the grounds of the Port Authority.
	www.sptimes.com /News/101301/TampaBay/As_always__faith_comp.shtml (1111 words)

	The Border Mail
		Ms Brewer Fischer and Dr Egan-Vine were founding members of Albury-Wodonga branch of Rural Australians for Refugees, a group that now claims 10,000 members and friends nation-wide.
		Ms Brewer Fischer said some people had been surprised that, as the wife of former deputy prime minister Mr Tim Fischer, she campaigned for refugees.
		She had copped nasty letters since the Tampa, but had been heartened by the support for her group.
	www.bordermail.com.au /newsflow/pageitem?page_id=778160 (385 words)

	MV Tampa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		http://www.hi.com.au/resource/rfactsa.asp?kla=13&subtopicid=3274 In the federal election narrowly following the arrival of the Tampa, the Liberal Party campaigned vigorously on the issue, with John Howard's statement "we decide who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they come" acting as the party's de facto election slogan.
		The refugees from the Tampa were loaded onto an Australian Navy vessel called Manoora.
		Most were transported to the small island country of Nauru and the rest, approximately 150 people, to New Zealand, where they were subsequently granted asylum and progress to citizenship.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/MV-Tampa.htm (2047 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: News -- Adrift and Unwanted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But as the graying Norwegian skipper steered his red freighter, the MS Tampa, across the Indian Ocean en route to Singapore last week, he sailed into a storm to shake any captain's confidence.
		When the Tampa reached the doomed vessel at dusk on Aug. 26, the scene stunned the captain and his crew: waiting to clamber aboard the Tampa were 460 asylum seekers—men, women and children—believed to be from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
		As the Tampa powered for four hours through rough seas, Rinnan, 61, had no inkling that in Australia—that vast and prosperous island continent that hosted the 2000 Olympics with such charm—illegal immigrants, 4,000 of whom have arrived by boat this year, have become a white-hot political issue.
	www.time.com /time/asia/news/printout/0,9788,173438,00.html (777 words)

	Pasco: Writer recalled in small towns she covered
		The 30-year-old Tampa Tribune reporter, put on life support after a Lake County car crash last weekend, died Tuesday (March 2, 2004) as a result of her injuries.
		She came to the area in 2001 from the Asbury Park Press in Neptune, N.J., to write for the Tribune's Pasco County edition, reporting on government in Dade City, San Antonio and St. Leo.
		Greer is survived by her parents, Marty and Connie Greer, and brother David Greer, all of Tampa.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/03/08/Pasco/Writer_recalled_in_sm.shtml (626 words)

	Tampa Trails & Greenways Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Construction of part of the South Tampa Greenway has been delayed by MacDill AFB’s request for an Environmental Assessment, which is expected to be finished this fall.
		Bike Action Tampa: Saturday August 25, 2001 is slated for the Bike Action Tampa.
		Boynton had stated that he was encouraged to attend a previous meeting by a line in the notice regarding the review of conceptual drawings and that productive meetings with goals were attractive to flagging members.
	www.tampagov.net /dept_parks/trails/min/min-08-01.html (1595 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And being that Judy has her schedule where 4 the first weekend that would be available is the 5 19th of October, 19th and 20th or come in on the 6 18th in the afternoon or something.
		ROUSE: I would also say that the 11 Council for Exceptional Students, which is the 12 statewide organization, many teachers, 13 administrators and so forth society will be in 14 Saint Petersburg the 17th, 18th and conclude on 15 the 19th around noon or so.
		And if there are 10 changes in the legislation from what we 11 currently have in the blue marked book, that 12 would have to be addressed in a rule-making 13 process.
	www.myfloridaeducation.com /blueribbon/transcrip_vol_2_09-13-02.txt (4939 words)

	Tampa Bay Children's Chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Averill Summer, Averill Summer, Music Director: Dr. Summer is the Founder of the Tampa Bay Children's Chorus and is the Music and Artistic Director.
		She holds the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University and is currently an Associate Professor of Piano at the University of South Florida.
		Her previous employment includes the position of staff nurse and medical records manager for United Cerebral Palsy of Tampa Bay and she has also worked as a pediatric nurse at several area hospitals.
	www.clearcity.com /tbcchorus/staff.htm (774 words)

	PM - Ship owners refuse to allow Tampa to move
		Wallenius Wilhelmsen's Sydney office says whether or not any other country agrees to take the asylum seekers, the MS Tampa cannot be moved because it is not certified to carry a large number of passengers.
		However, he did make it clear that even if the Federal Government convinces another country to take the asylum seekers, the MS Tampa won't be used to transport them.
		In that context we consider that the Tampa is not in a position to transport these people.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s355291.htm (695 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Given the MS Tampa's rescue of asylum seekers, it appears the Federal Government has chosen to use human beings as a means to an end.
		The physically and mentally distressed 'boat people' taken aboard the Tampa are being refused entry into Australia by Mr Howard in the hope- as the Melbourne Herald Sun puts it- "that this will send a message to people smugglers that Australia is not a soft touch".
		The Tampa's captain has been placed in a difficult situation; having acted on a call from Australia to effect a rescue, he's now caught in the midst of an international row.
	www.blessedsacrament.com.au /tampa.html (409 words)

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