Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most innovative feature of Ford's program is the creation of a separate Intelligence Oversight Board that will act as a citizens' watchdog. With access to information about all the agencies' operations, the three-man board can recommend departmental sanctions or criminal prosecution by the Attorney General against anyone who abuses his authority. The staffs of the inspector general in each agency will be increased to help with the monitoring. Ford chose three board members of moderate to conservative views: Robert Murphy, 81, a distinguished career diplomat who in 1959 was Under Secretary of State for political...
...basic defense that she had been afraid that the S.L.A. would have hunted her down if she had tried to leave. But Browning had established that the S.L.A. members so trusted Patty that some two weeks before the bank robbery, they would go to sleep while giving her access to guns...
...only ones who do not need it are high-ranking party officials and top armed forces and police officers. They have access to special stores that sell luxury foreign goods and high-quality foodstuffs to Russia's privileged elite at extremely low, state-subsidized prices...
...enjoying it less. Nothing nowadays seems too trivial to be immortalized by that moving light-bar, memos of momentary importance, yesterday's newspaper clippings, smutty jokes for the office bulletin board, chain letters, recipes, offspring's homework. Some employers have even begun to allow their workers access to company copiers for personal use, a cheap, morale-building perquisite...
...reported by other news agencies, cannot be verified and there is every indication that these accounts are lies." Proof of alleged executions usually comes from refugees in Thailand, who "knew" of such killings without having seen them. Many actively backed the Lon Nol government, and the Thais restrict access to refugee camps to some U.S. officials, who may steer journalists toward handpicked refugees. Until more foreigners enter Cambodia and bring back independent reports, events there will remain cloudy...