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This committee will also take over coordination of counterespionage, an activity that is handled by the FBI within the U.S. and by the CIA abroad. No one is sure how this change will work, since counterespionage has become the unwanted stepchild of intelligence. The FBI admits flatly it no longer has the manpower to keep track of all the Soviet KGB agents flowing into the U.S. and its efforts, like the CIA's, have been impeded by growing restrictions on surveillance. Admits one Carter aide: "Counterintelligence is still a mess. We haven't resolved anything except to deal with...
...suffer from that most severe of headaches: the migraine (from the Greek for "half skull").-Virtually everyone has an occasional headache, and it can usually be treated by nothing more sophisticated than aspirin. But the migraine is different. This violent cranial storm was for a long time medicine's stepchild. Few drugs were useful against it, and doctors could offer little help in relieving...
Reason abounds, to be sure. A kind of stepchild within East Asian studies, Korea has lacked a constituency of either Americans or Koreans--to say nothing of anyone else--to support with anything close to adequacy its claims to academic attention...
Part of the problem, he argues, was Henry Kissinger, "who still doesn't know very much about foreign economic policy. I think he feels the way General De Gaulle did: this is something to be left to the quartermasters. Foreign economic policy has been a kind of stepchild in Washington to be kicked around. There has been no leadership...
...South Africa's nine homelands, or tribal reserves assigned to blacks, the Transkei will thus remain a stepchild of the white-supremacy government of Pretoria. Though its gross national product ($120 million) and per capita income ($130) exceed those of a dozen independent African states, the figures are misleading. Three-quarters of the Transkei's annual operating budget is contributed by South Africa, and 70% of its national income consists of remittances from members of the Xhosa tribe who work "abroad"-in the mines, factories and farms of white South Africa -as migrant laborers. Admits a black civil...