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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case of Spy Vs. Spy | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road From Damascus | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...Because of the attention that was called to the plight of the Afro-Am Studies Department, the administration really made a serious effort to recruit more Black faculty." From that effort, she says, came Professor Nathan Huggins...

Author: By Meilin Kwan-gett, | Title: The Underside of Academic Opportunity | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...called Southwestern at Memphis. In his first year he turned an operating deficit of $1.2 million into black ink, and has not been in the red since. In 1978 he took on the faculty and eliminated an all but automatic tenure system that Daughdrill says "made it impossible to recruit new faculty." Then recruit he did. Today, 83% of the school's newly strengthened cadre of professors are Ph.D.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Hot Colleges on the Climb | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...game than a piccolo concerto, but I can't think of a reasonable solution to this problem. An administrative decision to weaken the Harvard hockey team in order to increase attendance at "weightier" events strikes me as a tad unresponsive to student interests. Harvard does have an obligation to recruit piccolo players and to provide them with adequate facilities and instruction. I assume that it does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highlight of the Year | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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