- LAST CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
- ACA's 1998 Thomas Jefferson Award, honoring outstanding
service to Americans abroad by a State Department
employee will soon be decided. The March 15th
deadline is rapidly approaching. With your
nomination and your own address, send as much support
material and
information concerning the candidate as possible to
ACA Thomas Jefferson Committee
(OLD ADDRESS, DO NOT USE ANYMORE)
Case postale 321
CH-1211 Geneva 12
Switzerland
email: acage@aca.ch
- "DEATH, (DIVORCE) BIRTH & TAXES"
- This is the theme of a half-day
seminar for Americans in Sweden that will be held 25 April 1998
from 9:00-12:00, sponsored by ACA/Sweden. For more details
contact ACA/Sweden's International Liaison, Kathryn Boyer
(boyer@swipnet.se) or the editor of
the ACA/Sweden newsletter Christin Walth
(cwalth@microsoft.com).
- COME HAVE FUN IN APRIL
- ACA's Annual Geneva FUNdraiser is set for
19:00 on 24 April 1998 at the prestigious
Hôtel du Rhône.
Free entry, free food, free entertainment, and the famous auction of a
never-to-be-duplicated combination of goods and services: A week on a
Greek island, subscription to the International Herald Tribune,
Western wear, buffalo meat prepared in the French style, antique jewelry, a
hand-woven Vietnamese shawl, Swiss specialty chocolates, homemade goodies,
and an ever-growing list of contributions from an ever-growing list of
contributors. If you can't come, you can donate something to be auctioned.
All proceeds go to underwrite costs of ACA's year-round all-volunteer
services to Americans around the world.
- JUST OFF THE PRESS & IN THE MAIL
- The latest issue of ACA's first News Report for 1998
includes updates on citizenship issues, an
overview of the latest changes in tax
legislation, an article on job hunting
in cyberspace, and reviews on books on relocating and on
"reverse culture shock" upon returning to the USA.
Featured in the edition is an article written by David Froehlich, an
ACA member, on "Changes in View for the
Windfall Elimination Provision of Social Security (WEP),"
which reports on how many older Americans residing
overseas have discovered that a foreign pension, no matter how small,
can have a significant negative effect on their US Social Security
income. For more details on WEP impact, see the ACA News Report
or contact
Mr. David Froehlich
P. O. Box 1258
Rehovot 76112
Israel
email: froehlic@netvision.net.il
If you are not on our mailing list for the News Report,
please continue on down this ACA home page
www.aca.ch for details on how to have your name included.
- LANDLUBBERS: WANT TO SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS,
AS WELL AS KNOW HOW TO DO IT?
- Contact the Seven Seas Cruising Association, which
has a membership of 5,000 individuals who literally sail the seven seas.
It's dream fare for landlubbers, and extremely useful and practical advice
for skippers. Their publication deals largely with first-hand experiences
and advice-trading. Membership fees are nominal, ranging from US$ 29
for bulk mail posting of the Bulletin within the USA to US$ 53
if the Bulletin is to be sent via overseas airmail.
For more details contact:
Seven Seas Cruising Association
1525 South Andrews Avenue, Suite 217
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316
phone: (954) 463-2431
fax: (954) 463-7183
e-mail: Sscaassn@aol.com
website: www.rngend.com/sca/home.html
- TIRED OF VIRUS THREATS?
CHECK OUT IBM'S ANTI-VIRUS WEB SITE
- Many Internet virus threats turn out to be hoaxes and the best
way to keep informed on them is to check out IBM's anti-virus web site
for hype alerts. A recent alert, dated 28 Feb. 1998, is
entitled "Win A Holiday" that, according to
IBM, is a hoax. This hoax claims "If you receive an e-mail titled
"win a holiday" do not open it, it will erase everything on your
hard drive. Forward this letter out to as many people as you can."
Says IBM: "There is no chance to win a vacation; there is no such virus;
and there is no reason to pass this message on to as many people as you can.
As with all hoaxes, the best thing you can do is to delete it and forget
about it." For more details on virus threats visit
www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/.
This issue of American Citizens Abroad's biweekly News
Update network offers news and views relevant to Americans living
abroad was prepared by David Ferrell from information provided
by a network of Americans abroad.
ACA is staffed entirely through the efforts of
volunteers, with its primary income source being modest
membership fees and donations from individuals. The
News Update can be maintained in the long-term only if it
justifies itself in terms of membership and donation revenue for
the organization. While ACA makes every effort to be
accurate in the information it transmits, such information is
not to be considered a substitute for specific and qualified
professional advice.
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