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...have to recruit them," Briefer said. "Once they get here, and they have a good time, we don't need...
...Stanford engineering graduate student who had developed an impressive prototype for a workstation. McNealy recalls that Khosla persuaded him over a dinner of McDonald's Big Macs to quit his job as director of operations at Onyx Systems, a computer company, and help found a new firm. The next recruit was Joy, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering at Berkeley and a leading computer- software designer...
Fate had permitted Sampson to be present to perform miracles. The Rockets' star recruit of three years ago has been overshadowed by Houston's other "twin tower," Akeem Olajuwon, for most of the playoffs and much of the season. Down the stretch, Houston Coach Bill Fitch usually went to Olajuwon for the crucial baskets...
Back in the early 1970s, Navy Communications Watch Officer John Walker took a hard look at his best friend Jerry Whitworth and, as he later testified, sized him up as "a possible recruit in the spying business." After more than a decade in the Navy, Walker wanted to retire from the service and was searching for someone who could feed him the kind of inside information that he had been selling to his Soviet contacts at monthly fees ranging from less than $2,000 to $4,000. For three years, said Walker, he spent a great deal of time trying...
...evidence against Syria is tangled but persuasive. Hindawi was arrested in London shortly after the El Al plot was foiled. U.S. intelligence officers believe he was a Syrian intelligence recruit who tried to send his unsuspecting Irish girlfriend onto the El Al flight carrying a bag lined with explosives. His brother Hazi, in custody in West Berlin, has confessed to the attack on the friendship society. Inside the Syrian embassy in East Berlin, Hazi claims, he was given advice and "tactical guidance" on bomb preparation and timing devices. Hazi has denied any involvement in the La Belle explosion. Nonetheless, West...