Word: recruits
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...would otherwise be hard to place. Already, prospective parents have made serious inquiries about more than half the children who participated. But some critics say that Penney's method is offensively reminiscent of an auction. To which Ermon replies, "I would love it if we didn't need to recruit for foster and adoptive families. But the reality is we have more children than we have families...
...calls a "tilt point" in attitudes, refocusing the passions of the cold war on ecological issues. Hayes hopes that Earth Day will help make sound environmental behavior as accepted in daily life as wearing a seat belt. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts believes Earth Day will help recruit an army of voters to hold slippery politicians truly accountable for environmental problems in coming elections...
There is already evidence that the KGB is increasing, not cutting back, its espionage activity. Says Webster: "We see signs that the Soviets are more aggressive, more robust; there are more pitches being made." He adds that there is a greater Soviet effort to recruit agents both in the U.S. and in Europe. One recent Soviet defector has disclosed that the KGB's Department T, which specializes in industrial espionage, illicitly gathered 25,000 technical documents and 4,000 pieces of machinery from 1984 to 1988. Several African intelligence services are cooperating with the KGB in their countries in attempts...
...Soviets engaged in spying for the West in the past four years. This year alone, 100,000 Soviets are expected to visit the U.S., giving the CIA unprecedented access to ordinary citizens. Intelligence experts suggest that the U.S. would be foolish not to take advantage of opportunities to recruit agents in the Soviet Union as well, if only to establish a network that could be deployed in case glasnost evaporates...
...male," says Joseph H. Duff, president of the Los Angeles branch of the N.A.A.C.P. "And Muslims have always been a symbol of strong black manhood." In Los Angeles more than 1,000 black men, many of them former gang members, have recently joined the Nation of Islam. One new recruit is James Johnson, 18. "They told me how we were killing ourselves and showed me what's really going on in society," says Johnson. "Minister Farrakhan has a way of getting your attention...