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Search results for "Operation Rescue" ...
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CSAR-X: Rescue Chopper Requirements Sacrificed for Schedule and Rivalries
The U.S. Air Force violated its own procedures and guidelines to pick a new helicopter for its combat, search and rescue (CSAR-X) fleet. The Air Force chose an aircraft that did not meet the rescuer's requirements because it was settling old rivalries and arbitrary deadlines.
Tags: special operations command; army; armed forces; government accountability office; Pentagon Inspector General;
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Dateline NBC: Children for Sale
The documentary followed up on a previous investigation into the child sex trade in Cambodia. Five years later, journalists examined the impact their investigation had had on the trade as a whole and in the lives of four girls who had been rescued in an undercover operation highlighted in the original report.
Tags: sex trade; slavery; Cambodia; human rights; child abuse; brothel; undercover
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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
This fourteen-part investigative series revealed how a prostitution and human trafficking ring could flourish in rural Iowa towns. The series also details the story of one 13-year-old runaway Minnesota girl was entrapped in the ring and was forced into prostitution. A ring operator, who was being beaten by her live-in boyfriend, helped rescue the girl from prostitution and helped her make her way to safety. Law enforcement officials first missed opportunities to help this girl and break the ring. But they finally solved who was behind the ring and assisted in a dozen human trafficking convictions.
Tags: human trafficking; sex abuse; prostitution; kidnapping; court hearings; Iowa; sex workers
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Human for sale 'dons' exposed
"This cross border investigative story unmasked a complex web of human trafficking syndicate operating in the West African sub region where young girls and in some cases children are sold into prostitution in Europe and America. The eight month long investigative scoop finally led to the smashing of the syndicate in a sting operation led by this journalist. 17 girls who were about to be sold were eventually rescued in the operation, with two suspects busted.
Tags: human trafficking; undercover reporter; sex slaves; Ghana; sting operation; Anti-Human Trafficking Unit; concubine
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Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America
Reporter Eyall Press grew up with this story-- his father, Shalom Press, was a colleague of Dr. Barnett Slepian, the abortion provider who was murdered in Buffalo NY in 1988. Press used "newspaper articles, books, municipal reports, medical journals...videotapes, newslertters, journals, and court records" to document the abortion wars centered in western New York. His main sources were several hundred interviews with the participants in the conflict, including those with pro-life activists, some of whom had "spent years protesting outside my father's medical office in Buffalo, and, at times, outside the home where I grew up." (292 pages)
Tags: James C. Kopp; Army of God; Spring of Life; New York Christian Coalition; Operation Rescue; Paul Schenck; Project Rescue; Pro-life Alliance for Non-Violence; Pro-choice; Roe v. Wade
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The Last Season
Author Eric Blehm tells the story of Randy Morgenson, a park ranger in California's High Sierras mountain range. He lived in the area alone for 28 years, becoming "a celebrated ranger in the National Park Service's most adventurous unit." In 1996, Morgenson disappeared into the mountains, sparking a search that finally found his body years later. Blehm examines the possibility that an increasingly detached Morgenson simply may have not wished to be found, and retraces Morgenson's biography in the telling of this tale.
Tags: Randy Morgenson; High Sierras; National Park Rangers; missing hikers; search and rescue operations; Sierra Nevada Mountains
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Children for Sale
Dateline investigated the child sex trade in Cambodia. The story led to the prosecution of a Canadian man for purchasing sex with children there. The investigative team worked with a human rights group whose sting operation led to the arrest of pimps and the rescue of three dozen girls.
Tags: sex trade; Cambodia; sex slavery; sex abuse; pedophilia; prostitution; forced prostitution
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Rescue Roulette
"Tucson Fire Department ambulances failed more than half the time to reach emergencies within the eight-minute goal recommended by a national industry group". Other ambulance operators missed the target too. The Arizona Daily Star requested and obtained CAD (Computer-aided Dispatch) database of emergency medical runs from the city of Tucson, which allowed them to map the average response times by each quarter-mile section of the city.
Tags: ambulances; emergency; fire department; paramedics; dispatchs
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Abortion Inc.
George Magazine looks at a "dirty little secret about the battle over the abortion rights in the U.S.: ... It's become big, big business." The analysis' "estimates show at least $500 million in annual funding, or gross revenues, for the anti-abortion organizations, and $660 million for the pro-choicers." The story finds that "it's easy to see why neither party is pushing the issue," since "the abortion issue has proved to be a source of unlimited fund-raising potential, a catalyst for mobilizing moribund voting blocks, and an irresistible platform to personal and political power."
Tags: presidential campaign; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; anti-abortion; Operation Save America; Operation Rescue; pregnancy; National Right to Life Committee; women; feminist; politics
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Radical Behavior; In the Line of Fire
Teen People reports about a group of teenage anti-abortion activists who are attending a camp where they learn guerrilla tactics for their radical anti-abortion activism. The teens practiced how to dodge security, submit to arrest and even deal with the media. The sidebar reports about teens and the consequences they live with as a result of their activism.