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- <text id=91TT0306>
- <title>
- Feb. 11, 1991: A Graduation Gift From Uncle Sam
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 11, 1991 Saddam's Weird War
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- A Graduation Gift From Uncle Sam
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- <p>By Guy Garcia/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Armed-forces recruiters are catching flak for paying schools
- to get scouting information about students. The City of Los
- Angeles board of education passed a measure last week that
- stops the district from selling the names and addresses of high
- school students to military recruiters. The board was
- responding to complaints from parents, who consider the
- practice an invasion of student privacy. Since 1971 the
- district has been selling the names of juniors and seniors for
- 3 cents apiece. Last year it made $8,081 from the list, which
- school officials say was used only to cover clerical costs. The
- Pentagon acknowledges that buying lists from high schools is
- a common way for the military to target potential recruits.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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