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Indentured Doctors
Throughout the United States foreign doctors are being cheated out of wages, coerced into unfair contracts and being kept away from medically needy patients because their bosses are the ones sponsoring their visas. They work for medical residency and are allowed to live in cities and rural areas with shortage of physicians so long as they work full-time. The program was started by the government, but since its creation there has been little oversight to the abuse of the doctors.
Tags: work visa; immigration; J-1 doctors; Pahrump; pediatrician; health care;
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Pittsburgh Terror Plot
In October 2001, it was made known that Pittsburgh was on a list of seven US cities cited as possible targets for terrorism. The WTAE-TV investigation confirmed with sources inside the US Justice Department that in the days following the attacks of 9/11, American intelligence agents in Hamburg, Germany, discovered plans for a possible Al Qaida assault in Pittsburgh. The target was the US Post Office and Courthouse in Pittsburgh.
Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States Marshal; United States Coast Guard; Al Qaida; United States Post Office and Courthouse in Pittsburgh
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Joe Dogs Jimmy the Weasel Sammy the Bull John Dean
The Washington Post Magazine reports that "protected witnesses sometimes to strange things with their new identities. The U.S. Marshalls Service tells no tales, but others do... There are lots of great stories in the witness protection program - tragic stories, comic stories, tragicomic stories. But the United States Marshalls Service, which runs the program, prefers that they remain untold stories. WITSEC is a secret program. Very secret. Sometimes ludicrously secret."
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Newsweek investigates the proliferation of counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs in the Third World and the growing problem in the United States and Europe; many drug companies are quiet on the subject, Nov. 5, 1990.
Tags: NY Masland Marshall WHQ