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...only fellow undergraduates who harass and intimidate. Many students charge universities with "institutional racism" for failing to recruit more minority faculty members, broaden the curriculum and show more sensitivity on race issues. At Trinity College last May, a campus guard entered the university's computer room. Of the 40 students in the room, just one was black. For no apparent reason, the guard singled out the black student and asked for his ID card. "For blacks, it's an alien environment," says Eric Dixon, a broadcasting student at the University of Texas. "The school incubates segregation. It can't control...
...would otherwise be hard to place. Already, prospective parents have made serious inquiries about more than half the children who participated. But some critics say that Penney's method is offensively reminiscent of an auction. To which Ermon replies, "I would love it if we didn't need to recruit for foster and adoptive families. But the reality is we have more children than we have families...
Most of the trainees are in their late 20s and look toward the FBI as a second career. Few have previous law-enforcement experience. Although the agency once tried to recruit lawyers, Pledger says the emphasis now is on hiring accountants. Their main mission: to track the drug trade. "We use financial investigative techniques to audit books and seize assets," says Pledger. "It's the best way to put the dopers behind bars...
There is already evidence that the KGB is increasing, not cutting back, its espionage activity. Says Webster: "We see signs that the Soviets are more aggressive, more robust; there are more pitches being made." He adds that there is a greater Soviet effort to recruit agents both in the U.S. and in Europe. One recent Soviet defector has disclosed that the KGB's Department T, which specializes in industrial espionage, illicitly gathered 25,000 technical documents and 4,000 pieces of machinery from 1984 to 1988. Several African intelligence services are cooperating with the KGB in their countries in attempts...
...Soviets engaged in spying for the West in the past four years. This year alone, 100,000 Soviets are expected to visit the U.S., giving the CIA unprecedented access to ordinary citizens. Intelligence experts suggest that the U.S. would be foolish not to take advantage of opportunities to recruit agents in the Soviet Union as well, if only to establish a network that could be deployed in case glasnost evaporates...