Deportation flights report [US DOJ] News
Deportation flights report [US DOJ]

The United States Marshall's Services Management of the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, US Department of Justice, October 18, 2006 [concluding that the air transportation system used by the federal government to deport illegal immigrants and transfer federal prisoners could be more secure and cost-effective]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Nuclear test-ban treaty signed

On October 7, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the first nuclear test ban treaty between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.

East Germany created

On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was created, formally dividing the country for the next 41 years.