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...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. For three years the operative...
...price tag on the buildup he favors. But it would be very high, for Reagan believes that the U.S. is on the losing end of a "widening gap" in its military competition with the Soviet Union. He vows that his Administration will seek to regain "a superior defensive capability...
...Carter Administration and liberal defense experts deny that such a gap exists, though it is a looming danger; they say the nuclear arsenals of the two sides are in a state of approximate parity. To Soviet ears, Reagan's repeated use of the word superior is sure to sound like a rejection of the very notion of parity, a hankering after the strategic superiority the U.S. enjoyed in the '50s and '60s, and a threat to launch an accelerated arms race...
...Investments IBM $56,900,000 Schlumberger $55,200,000 Exxon $52,600,000 AT&T $51,700,000 Mobil Oil $48,300,000 Standard Oil (Cal.) $45,200,000 Atlantic Richfield $33,000,000 Standard Oil of Indiana $29,500,000 Getty Oil $26,300,000 Superior Oil $25,500,000 General Reinsurance $23,200,000 Halliburton $19,200,000 General Electric $17,700,000 Xerox $15,900,000 Raytheon $15,700,000 HARVARD HOLDINGS IN DOLLARS
...save lives and promote economic health; and military aid only to those governments which we know will not use American arms to invade their neighbors or turn American guns against their own people. If we hope to convince the Third World that our system of government is superior to the Soviets', it simply won't do to continue making ourselves laughing-stocks every time we send a shipment of arms to a dictator. If we sacrifice our values every time we try to defend them, why bother...