Delinquent Doctors Owe $5 Million in Federal Loans
A Washington Post audit finds more than 6,000 physicians owe $5.2 million in federal health education loans while 401 remain delinquent yet receive Medicare and Medicaid payments totaling over $10 million in two years. The inspector general urges barring delinquent doctors from such funds until loans are repaid.
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Postal Service Uses Classified Ads to Warn Would-Be Scammers
The U S Postal Inspection Service will run ads in 35 to 40 newspapers in West Virginia Pennsylvania and much of New York warning readers about so called easy money and weight loss schemes.Recipients who respond will receive a warning letter stamps for postage and a fraud booklet. The effort aims to reach seniors and shut-ins overlooked by standard outreach.
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Poland deny lifting Solidarity ban without guarantees
Trybuna Ludu reports the Polish regime will not lift the Solidarity ban unless guarantees ensure the union remains out of politics. The paper labels Solidarity as extremists and notes it rarely functioned as a trade union, instead opposing the state.
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Boris the Gypsy Dead 200 Found Alive
Moscow singer Boris the Gypsy and companion of Galina Brezh Brezh witnessed alive after reports of his death. An army patrol later located 200 villagers alive on the slopes of El Villahermosa.
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Mexico
Demolition Ends WPA Building Legacy in Mobile
In Mobile 550 sticks of dynamite and a 2600 pound wrecking ball toppled a five story 1930s WPA era brick block. Contractor Jerall Parris called the operation five days, mildly pleased as the building finally fell after repeated attempts.
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N.H. Holmes
CIA Director Casey Cleared Over Foreign Agent Issue
The Justice Department found no evidence that CIA Director William Casey violated the foreign agents registration law in 1976 while representing Indonesia before the Treasury and IRS. Attorney General William French Smith said Casey’s role was clear to officials and did not seek to influence policy. Moynihan welcomed closure of the matter following the Senate inquiry.
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Washington
Justice Department
CIA
William Casey
Indonesia
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Special Prosecutor Division
U.S. Court of Appeals
William French Smith
Casey
Attorney General
Department
Treasury
William Simon
Charles Walker
Senate Intelligence Committee
New York congressman faces drug allegations
Rep. Frederick Richmond of New York is accused of asking aides to buy cocaine and marijuana for him. A former aide testified to a federal grand jury four times about delivering cocaine, while three other aides reportedly provided marijuana. The ethics panel and prosecutors investigate his finances and a past sex solicitation case from 1978.
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Frederick Richmond
D-N.y
Richmond
New York Times
Grand Jury
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