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Billion Dollar Business
CBS News reports on the illegal trafficking of women from Eastern Europe to Italian brothels. Christiane Amanpour from CNN, on a special assignment for 60 Minutes, tells the stories of young girls who have been recruited from bankrupt ex-socialist countries. They have been lured with promises for decent job or marriage abroad, and then sold and resold in the prostitution "cattle market." The police in the girls' home countries - Moldova, Romania, Ukraine - is aware of the illegal recruiting but is too corrupt to take any measures. Few of the victims manage to escape due to the help of Italian priests. Some find help in a shelter funded by the U.S. and Swiss governments and run by Ken Patterson from Missouri. Still, most victims remain ensnared "in an underworld controlled by ruthless gangs."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Mafia; gangs; violence; organized crime; Albania; Vlora; poverty; post-communism; human rights
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Marshall Center Missing the Mission
The series uncovered gross mismanagement at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, an experimental new school in which the U.S. military teaches its former Soviet-bloc foes how to run civilian-led militaries in their emerging democracies. The newspaper found little, if any, student accountability; significant communication problems and language barriers; and a continuing controversy over the center's director, Alvin H. Bernstein.
Tags: Sammon Reavis Marshall center; military; contest entry; Education; post-communism; democracy; Eastern Europe