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...similarly innocuous tasks. General Vadim Kirpichenko, a KGB veteran who is a key adviser to the head of the SVR, says the service intends to behave in a more "civilized" manner and its agents will eschew blackmail, the use of drugs and other traditional techniques employed to compromise and recruit foreign agents...
True, Western intelligence agencies eager to justify their budgets may be indulging in some self-serving threat inflation, but there is little evidence that the SVR is pulling back. FBI sources, for example, say that this year alone Russian agents have tried to recruit several U.S. citizens as spies, including a sailor based at the U.S. Navy's giant Hampton Roads facility in Norfolk, Va. Wayne Gilbert, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, complains of a continuing influx of Russian agents disguised as businessmen and tourists. In the Belgian episode, SVR spies had targeted a sensitive nato battlefield communications system. Elsewhere...
Hollywood's latest version of these old D.C. Comics characters is no surprise. Take any story, film executives reason, no matter how stale, and make it larger than life. Finance a dark and spectacular Gotham City, recruit the most seasoned stars and fill the screen with more special effects than the eye can follow...
Gaines didn't really invent the magazine, didn't toss in ideas, didn't recruit new editors or writers or artists. Rather, he carefully oversaw the details of the business and by the (mainly) happy force of his personality helped whip up the wiseacre clubhouse chaos from which Mad emerged. "He always said, 'You're going to have to carry me out of here,' " Meglin remembers, "because he didn't have many interests. Mad was his life's work, his hobby, his social life...
Rock the Vote also helped recruit new voters in New Hampshire, even bringing director Oliver Stone to Dartmouth for a screening of his movie JFK, and to talk about the importance of participating in the political process. The result: 8,000 new voters, an estimated 90% of whom, according to Rock the Vote, cast a ballot in last February's primary. Future plans include a Sept. 15 TV special on voting featuring myriad famous faces, sponsored by youth- conscious Pepsi, and broadcast on the consciously hip Fox network, home to Bart Simpson and the trendy gang from Beverly Hills...