Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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High Morale. Because of their common cause and recent victories, the E.L.F. soldiers' morale is high. By tradition, they have no specific ranks; all are known as "fighters," even 14-year-old recruits, and commanding officers are elected by their men. Each fighter dresses as he pleases, but all wear black plastic sandals that are said to be good in any weather and any terrain. Every recruit receives two months of basic military training and a heavy dose of Marxist political indoctrination; recent emphasis has been on the writings of Mao Tse-tung and on vague plans...
...defensive, Mischa has stepped up "Lothario" operations, whereby handsome agents lure lonely Bonn government secretaries into bed and, ultimately, into East German service. He also takes advantage of West German unemployment by trying to recruit jobless people who might one day become useful sources. Thousands of unemployed computer technicians, data analysts, engineers and journalists have been offered jobs in innocuous-sounding "research" firms that turned out to be East German intelligence-gathering fronts. Many of the job seekers patriotically report the ploy. In a classic counterintelligence maneuver, some of Mischa's supposed recruits may have been "turned" into double...
Most important was a call the President planned to issue this week for amendments to the National Labor Relations Act that would make it easier for unions to organize and recruit new members. Labor chiefs have long complained that employers have taken advantage of various quirks in the labor law to hamper union organizing. This is one reason, they claim, why total union membership (now 20.1 million) has shriveled from almost a third of the U.S. work force in 1955, when the AFL-CIO was formed, to less than a quarter today...
Matters went more smoothly that evening during The Queen of Spades (in English) at the Gaillard auditorium. Backstage facilities are cramped, and the pit holds only 65 musicians. Fortunately, they were 65 of the best young instrumentalists Keene could recruit from around the U.S. Said Keene proudly: "It's the finest orchestra Spoleto has ever had." Leading the players adroitly through the lushly colored Tchaikovsky score, Guide Ajmone-Marsan, the Italian-born conductor, made a brilliant U.S. operatic debut...
However, the geographer's discipline and intellect turn out to mask a fanatic's zeal. He imposes an implacable martial law and calmly uses torture to recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys publicly parading his black consort in order to mortify the provincial gentilities of the merchants' wives. His ascendancy, far from a triumph of the humane or heroic, is a kind of parable of the tendency of a fearful populace to conspire in the rise of a dictator...