Intensive checks on the Gibraltar border appear to ease after Hague's appeal.
On that day, Russia's customs office ordered intensive checks on all Ukrainian goods entering Russia, effectively imposing a de facto ban.
At the evacuation area, there can be a time-intensive check-in and check-out procedure.
But several Republicans said that aides to Mr. Pataki had spent much of the last week reviewing his record and his past to assist with the kind of intensive background check that prospective vice presidential candidates typically undergo.
To buy a gun, they must go through intensive background checks by the State Police.
The travel industry and civil liberties groups are sharply objecting to government plans for a new airline passenger screening program, saying it could subject Americans to intensive background checks without adequate controls on how the information was used.
In the survey, 58percentt backed more intensive security checks for Arabs, including those who are United States citizens, compared with other travelers; 49percentt favored special identification cards for such people, and 32percentt backed "special surveillance" for them.
The card would be issued by the federal government to passengers willing to undergo intensive background checks and to allow a biometric marker -- like fingerprints or a retinal scan -- to be stored on the card.
The men, four of them American citizens and one a legal permanent resident, said they had undergone intensive security checks at the airports and boarded their flights, only to be told that others were uncomfortable with them on board.
[C8.] Objections to Airport Screening The travel industry and civil liberties groups are sharply objecting to government plans for a new airline passenger screening program, saying it would subject Americans to intensive background checks without adequate controls on how the information was used.
The country's network of nuclear plants - which used to provide up to 30 per cent of the national grid's power - has been closed for intensive safety checks since the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima plant triggered by a tsunami in 2011.
