Word: parallels
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...external priority is gathering Western military technology secrets in order to avoid costly parallel research and development at home. A secondary but nonetheless vital concern is the collecting of political intelligence and the manipulation and recruitment of foreigners who might influence their governments' policies. Though the CIA, according to U.S. intelligence specialists, is far superior to the KGB in "comint" and "elint" (communications and electronic intelligence), the Soviets excel in "humint" (intelligence gathering through human contact). This was spectacularly demonstrated in Bonn last year, when West German counterintelligence finally caught up with a KGB agent functioning as a madam...
...customers were part of the Soviet Union's thriving underground economy. This involves more than just the familiar black marketeers, dealing in Levi's and ballpoint pens, icons and caviar, who greet Western visitors around the main tourist hotels. It is, in fact, a second economy, parallel to the official state-controlled one. In a thriving permanent network, illegal and quasi-legal entrepreneurs, speculators and thieves sell hard-to-get goods and services to workers, peasants and even state officials...
About 70 war correspondents, out of perhaps 400 who covered the Korean War, have turned up at the Marriott for a two-day reunion. Come June 25 it will be 30 years since the forces of North Korea's Kim II Sung rolled south over the 38th parallel and started the first hot war of the cold war period. Everybody present (wives excepted) is over 50. Most are over 60 and several over 70; most celebrated among them, Novelist James Michener...
...only reasonable parallel to the Core curriculum is to say we are moving in the direction from free and open choices to having some distribution requirements," Smith explains. She adds that the school had been gradually tightening its requirements--two years ago it adopted distribution guidelines...
...extraordinary, self-regarding intensity, so that the most vivid images of braggadocio and rage, castration fear and sexual appetite in modern art still belong to the Spaniard. This frankness?allied with Picasso's power of metamorphosis, which linked every image together in a ravenous, animistic vitality?is without parallel among other artists and explains his importance to a movement he never joined, surrealism...