Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Class of 1997 marks the first year of an intensified campaign by Harvard to recruit minorities and to disspell perceptions that race relations at Harvard are strained. Last year, campus minority organizations banded together to protest the lack of diversity on a Junior Parents' Weekend panel. They issued a list of demands, including more minority tenured professors, on a flyer titled "The Peculiar Institution...
WASHINGTON -- A book to be published in Moscow this month, Once a Spy by VADIM KIRPICHENKO, a former deputy head of foreign espionage for the KGB, predicts that U.S. agents will try to recruit citizens of the former Soviet republics to spy on one another and that therefore American intelligence activities in the former Soviet Union will actually increase despite the end of the cold war. Kirpichenko also says the KGB knew in advance about the invasion of the Suez by England, France and Israel in 1956 and the Egyptian surprise attack on / the Suez Canal that began...
...play. Steeling herself for the unknown, Mahoney nervously checks out a lesbians-only night at a seedy Dublin bar. (Asked if she's gay, she lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After one lass gives a jaunty account of Christ...
...attempted to fool the KGB on the ground -- sometimes with comic contortions. In his new book, The FBI (Pocket Books), Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, tells of an operation against a Washington-based KGB officer who was trying to recruit a Pentagon employee. As the Soviet official slept, FBI agents stole his car to plant a bug in it. To avoid suspicion, they put an identical car in the official's parking space overnight. They also made sure that the replacement odometer's mileage read exactly the same as that of the real car. Meanwhile...
...movement Hamas set up offices in Khartoum. Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visits Khartoum, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel soon arrive to train the fundamentalist people's militias set up by Sudan's Islamic regime. Rumors abound of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians infiltrating schools in northern Sudan to recruit students for terrorist training camps in eastern Sudan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, spiritual leader of the Egypt-based Islamic Group, some of whose members are charged with bombing the World Trade Center, obtained his U.S. visa in Khartoum...