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JAMES WYNN, AN ENGINEER IN WICHITA, Kansas, had been all set to retire to the Philippines with his Filipino-born wife. For the past four years he had set aside 20% of his salary to save $40,000 in his company's 401(k) retirement plan. Or so he thought. Wynn, 63, was unable to cash out and retire this year because all his money had vanished. And his was not the only missing nest egg. Also unaccounted for were the savings of more than 180 of his colleagues at International Technical Services, a firm in Melville, New York, that...
...Americans, the Bataan death march was the most infamous example of Japanese cruelty. American and Filipino prisoners from the fall of Corregidor in 1942 were refused food and water on a six-day, 97-km forced march to their place of confinement at Camp O'Donnell. Fingers were chopped off to get at West Point rings; decapitated bodies lined the road; by one estimate, there was a body every 10 or 15 paces. The death toll: more than...
Hyun said Asian-American are hard to classify because they tend to be "bimodally distributed" along ethnic lines. For instance, the average per capita income of Laotian-Americans is $4,254, compared with $22,079 for Filipino-Americans...
...ascribe to government a kind of Herculean can-do-ness? Here's one theory: if you're squeaking by on the minimum wage, it's probably more satisfying to focus your resentments on a coven of fbi Trilateralists than it is to curse abstractions like economic restructuring or low Filipino wages (no one's much interested in divining corporate conspiracies...
Carns says that he and Runas had a falling out in 1992 after he refused to seek an extension on the Filipino's visa. In interviews with FBI agents this month, White House officials say, Runas claimed that the general welched on an agreement to employ him and leveled what were described as personal accusations against members of Carns' family. Those "venomous and abusive accusations," says Carns, are "all without merit." But he did "accept responsibility" for filling out false information on immigration forms and admitted he had "failed to properly compensate" Runas as part of their agreement. When National...