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"In North America alone there are now thirty Russian crime syndicates operating in at least seventeen U.S. cities, most notably New York, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver. The Russians have already pulled off the largest jewelry heist and insurance Medicare frauds in American history, with a net haul exceeding $1 billion. They have invaded North America's financial markets, orchestrating complex stock scams, allegedly laundering billions of dollars through the Bank of New York, and coolly infiltrating the business and real estate worlds.

"The Russians didn't come here to enjoy the American dream," New York state tax agent Roger Berger says glumly. "They came here to steal it." -From the Introduction From an award-winning investigative journalist comes an astonishing exposi of Russian organized crime, its growing power in the United States, and its terrifying implications for the rest of the world.

In the past decade, from Brighton Beach to Moscow, Toronto to Hong Kong, the Russian mob has become the world's fastest-growing criminal superpower. Trafficking in prostitutes, heroin, and missiles, the mafiya poses an enormous threat to global stability and safety. The black-market corruption of the Brezhnev era proved the perfect breeding ground for organized crime. Beginning in the 1970s, Soviet ?migr?s--including a large number of felons and murderers the USSR was happy to get rid of--began arriving in the United States and quickly established themselves as a major criminal force in New York, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. But it was the breakup of the Soviet Union that made the

Russian mob what it is today. In a weakened, impoverished Russia, it quickly became the dominant power. And it has now spread to every corner of the United States, infiltrating its banks and brokerage firms--and American law enforcement is just waking up to this enormous problem. No journalist in the world knows more about the Russian mob in America than Robert Friedman. At great risk to himself, he has made connections with a number of top criminals who have gone on record about their activities for the first time. The result of his discoveries is a revelation: the Red Mafiya is everywhere. The implications--for law enforcement, the economy, foreign policy, for the American people themselves--are staggering.".
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The struggle against deadly microbes is endless Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like SARS make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.
In this riveting account, medical historian Howard Markel takes an eye-opening look at the fragility of the American public health system. He tells the distinctive stories of six epidemics–tuberculosis, bubonic plague, trachoma, typhus, cholera, and AIDS–to show how how our chief defense against diseases from other countries has been to attempt to deny entry to carriers. He explains why this approach never worked, and makes clear that it is useless in today’s world of bustling international travel and porous borders. Illuminating our foolhardy attempts at isolation and showing that globalization renders us all potential inhabitants of the so-called Hot Zone, Markel makes a compelling case for a globally funded public health program that could stop the spread of epidemics and safeguard the health of everyone on the planet..
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This book covers the history of the Canal Zone, the Panama Canal and Panama and the relations between the United States and its protectorate Panama from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s This is a particularly turbulent era for Panama and the Panama Canal spanning the coup against Arnulfo Arias, the period of dictators Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega, the drug trade, the Panama Canal treaties, and the American invasion ordered by President George Bush, Sr., in December 1989. It involves major foreign policy triumphs and disasters of presidents Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush, Sr. What sets apart this volume from the commercial books that appeared right after the invasion is not only its massive level of information (a thousand pages and thousands of references), but the use it makes of archival and journalistic sources about Panama and the invasion which became available in the five years following the invasion. These! sources (military debriefings, trial proceedings in Miami and Panama on the Noriega case and those of many dictatorship collaborators, details of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International debacle, the absurd levels of foreign debt, the involvement of the World Bank, autobiographies of major players like George Shultz's, journalistic works by Bob Woodward, Seymour Hersh and Public Broadcasting Service) were simply not available to the authors of most books on Panama published before the mid-1990s. Author Luis E. Murillo, a well known writer in Panama and university professor and researcher in the United States, has made full use of recently uncovered and public information, presenting it in a well organized and coherent narrative which is at the same time erudite and easy to follow. This book draws on interviews with important witnesses, fact-finding trips, Freedom-of-Information-Act classified documents, academic treatises, World Bank debt tables, Inter-American Development Bank reports, over 150 books, congressional hearings, and 3,000 media reports. It pays attention not only to American, but to Panamanian, Colombian, and European press accounts as well. The book includes verbatim, as an appendix, the Miami indictment against General Manuel Noriega (a major historical document) and 46 chapters, 8 appendices, 72 photographs, and 3 maps. Among the periodicals cited are The Miami Herald, La Prensa, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Congressional Record, Quiubo, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, La Nacion, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, El Pais, El Tiempo, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Harper's, Life, The Journal of Commerce, The American Lawyer, Business Week, Time, The Economist. The maps and photographs cover Panama, Panama Canal Zone, Panama City, Contadora Island, General Manuel Noriega, General Omar Torrijos, Arnulfo Arias, Ruben Miro, Hector Gallego, Marcos McGrath, Panama Canal Treaties signing ceremony with Jimmy Carter, Ruben Dario Paredes, General John Galvin, Aristides Royo, Ricardo de la Espriella, Ricardo Arias Calderon, Nicolas Ardito Barletta, Guillermo Endara, George Bush, Hugo Spadafora, Carmelo Spadafora, Roberto Eisenmann, Guillermo Sanchez Borbon, Miguel Antonio Bernal, Omaira Mayin Correa, Roberto Diaz Herrera, Jesse Helms, Deborah DeMoss, Eric Arturo Delvalle, Jose Isabel Blandon, Alfonse D'Amato, Manuel Solis Palma, Guillermo Ford, Dick Cheney, Jose Sebastian Laboa, Eduardo Herrera, Nivaldo Madrinan, Luis Papo Cordoba..
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The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Scourges that have plagued human beings since the ancients still threaten to unleash themselves; new maladies are brewing that have yet to make their appearance in the headlines; lethal germs employed as weapons of warfare and terrorism have reemerged as a worldwide menace. Regardless of their mode of attack, microbes exist to multiply, thrive, and find new hosts; they cross national boundaries and social classes, attacking without prejudice.

Now medical historian and pediatrician Howard Markel, author of Quarantine! (“Engrossing . . . Meticulously documented” —Sherwin Nuland, The New Republic), tells the story of six epidemics that broke out during the two great waves of immigration to the United States—from 1880 through 1924, and from 1965 to the present—and shows how federal legislation closed the gates to newcomers for almost forty-one years out of fear that these new people would alter the social, political, economic, and even genetic face of the nation.

Markel writes about tuberculosis today, the most serious public health threat facing the contemporary world. He writes about bubonic plague and how it came to this country in the early twentieth century; about trachoma in the years before World War I; about Ellis Island and how an East European rabbi was diagnosed and treated for the dreaded eye infection; about typhus fever and an epidemic on the Texas-Mexico border in the aftermath of Pancho Villa’s revolution; and about AIDS, the Haitian exodus, and the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

Markel explains how immigration in the twenty-first century is characterized by porous borders, rapid travel, and scattered destinations. While more than 75 percent of all immigrants during the first great wave of immigration came through New York Harbor, transportation today allows travel to all parts of the United States from the farthest reaches of the globe, giving public health physicians little opportunity to definitively diagnose infectious diseases that can incubate silently in a traveler, making the spread of epidemics far more than a theoretical concern.

Markel looks at our nation’s response to the pathogens present in our midst and examines our foolhardy attempts at isolation and our vacillation between demanding a public health system so punitive that it worsens matters rather than protects and settling for one that is too lax; how we are fascinated with all things infectious and then hardly give microbes a second thought; how the United States, a country that since its inception has prided itself on being a nation of immigrants, continues its tradition of blaming newcomers for its physical and social ills; and how globalization, social upheaval, and international travel render us all potential inhabitants of the so-called Hot Zone. Finally, Markel puts forth a plan for a globally funded public health program that could stop the spread of epidemics, help eradicate certain diseases, and protect us all..
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on July 1, 1995. The length of the article is 665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Harry S. Truman justified dropping atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki bysaying that he was saving one million American lives which would be lost in an invasion of Japan. However, historical records show that the actual estimates ofcasualties ranged from 250,000 to 500,000. In any case, the preoccupation of the press over potential casualty figures was unnecessary, since historical evidence shows that an invasion of Japan was not the only viable alternative to the atomic bombs.

Citation Details
Title: How many casualties? (estimated American casualties if Japan had been invaded to end World War II instead of using the atomic bomb)
Author: Tony Capaccio
Publication:American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1995
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: v17 Issue: n6 Page: p25(1)

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