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Peter Kosewski, a spokesman for Articulture, said the festival came about as a result of the near-unanimous responses to a questionnaire sent to 150 New England dance companies. "One hundred per cent said there is a need for a collaborative program which would remove needless duplication of effort, 100 per cent said there is a need for a concerted effort to develop a dance audience, and 100 per cent said a major problem was the cost of procuring space in which to perform--in a regulation high school auditorium, two leaps puts you in the audience," Kosewski commented...
Menges estimated that 75 per cent of classes were held, many of them outside. People around the university said that classes were generally well-attended...
Vast amounts of money were and are dispensed to buy, bribe or bully the loyalty of many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student...
...within the agency estimate about 5,000 American academics now work for the CIA and many participate in the screening committees to choose 200-300 foreign students each year. These students are then persuaded or compelled--often by highly irregular means--to serve the CIA. Corson suggests 60 per cent of the academics are fully aware of their employer; the remaining 40 per cent believe they are selecting students for careers with a multinational firm--a perfect case of the CIA exploiting unwitting faculty members...
...agreement would require a 31 per cent reduction of tariffs among the signatories, who control 90 per cent of world trade...