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Labor Department and Forest Service officials insist they are cracking down on unscrupulous employers and contractors. But critics like Congressman Joe Baca, a California Democrat, say they have not done enough. "If we're going to expand any kind of guest-worker program," Baca says, "we've got to make sure there's not this abuse...
...When a Congressman makes the extraordinary claim that U.S. troops killed innocent civilians "in cold blood," Washington takes notice. And when he's a former Marine and decorated Vietnam vet, the assertion carries special weight. Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha, who backed going to war in 2002 but has become a vocal critic of the Bush Administration's handling of Iraq, last week said U.S. Marines were guilty of murdering civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha last November--an event that was uncovered by TIME in March...
...state unless they are allowed to retain some control over an empire that includes drug trafficking, armed robbery and kidnapping, said Renato Simoes, a human rights expert who has followed the rise of the group. "I think it's a power struggle," said Simoes, a Sao Paulo state congressman who serves on the state's Human Rights Commission. Whatever happens, Paulistas are afraid, and with good reason. Marcola, Macaroni and Starfruit are the ones calling the shots, and few people trust authorities to keep them safe...
DIED. Gillespie (Sonny) Montgomery, 85, homespun 15-term Congressman from Mississippi who championed higher education for veterans; in Meridian, Miss. Elected in 1966 after serving in World War II and the Korean War, the conservative Democrat created the Montgomery G.I. Bill in 1984, modernizing the 1940s G.I. Bill and expanding it for the peacetime, volunteer military...
...simultaneous raids in Virginia Friday, at Foggo's executive suite and his house, are part of the continuing investigation surrounding former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who admitted to accepting bribes from defense contractors in November. Both the CIA inspector general and the Justice Department have been digging into the relationship between Foggo and defense contractor Brent Wilkes, who is known to be the person identified as "co-conspirator No. 1" in Cunningham's guilty plea...