In November, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced an overhaul of the immigration agency that would split into separate bureaus the agency's law enforcement operations and its services for immigrants.
Fuller assured Tribune Company editors that consolidation would not mean eliminating separate bureaus, as Knight Ridder had done.
Affairs in each province were handled by three agencies, each reporting to separate bureaus in the central government.
The House Judiciary Committee is prepared to approve an unusual bipartisan bill on Wednesday that would abolish the immigration service and split its functions into two separate bureaus, one for enforcement and one for services.
In a separate report, the bureau said the average weekly wage over the last 12 months had fallen 0.2percentt when adjusted for inflation.
A separate test by Bureau Veritas, a testing lab in Buffalo, found little lead in the clear plastic pocket of the bib, but said that the lead in the colorful part of the bib was at levels high enough that minute amounts could transfer to a baby's fingers.
The F.C.C.'s six-year delay in levying the fine was apparently due, at least in part, to a separate investigation by the agency's enforcement bureau, which was recently dropped.
A separate worrying aspect of the bureau's report did not make the headlines.
It's a separate business from the credit bureau, and data from the two aren't commingled, said Dann Adams, the unit's president, in a telephone interview.
The F.B.I. on Thursday proposed the creation of a separate intelligence division in the bureau, an announcement that administration officials acknowledged was an effort to head off critics' proposals to form a new stand-alone domestic intelligence agency to deal with terrorist threats.
