Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complete chemical-weapons ban may still be years in the making, but the inspection initiative is a promising sign of new thinking. Until 1987 the Soviet Union not only refused to let U.S. inspectors check compliance on the spot, calling it espionage, but also denied that the U.S.S.R. maintained any stocks of chemical weapons. Under the influence of glasnost, Moscow last week announced agreement in principle to on-site "surprise" inspections of facilities. The arrangement defines what sorts of installations would be involved and under what conditions an inspection could be demanded...
Verification of an accord limiting strategic weapons (START) will be even more challenging. The INF category is comparatively simple to check. Since all missiles of a given type are to be destroyed, any such weapon spotted later would be in obvious violation. START will be far more complex. It will only reduce the numbers of various missiles, and inspectors will have to determine how many small cruise missiles are carried aboard bombers and possibly even submarines. Differentiation must be made between nuclear-tipped and conventionally armed cruise missiles, even if they look alike. A method will have to be found...
...unscrupulous technique. I had earlier thought this was possible only in the Soviet Union. The book was not yet available because I had not released it, but people stated quite loudly that this was a disgusting, imperialist, revolting, loathsome book, etc. It wasn't possible to check what was being said, because people couldn't obtain the book...
Investigators contacting Pierce's old Manhattan law firm were told he resigned in 1981. They would check his business address, but he doesn't have one. The searchers believe he lives in New York. Exactly where? Nobody knows. When he is in Washington, he stays with a friend. Who? Nobody knows. Why not subpoena Pierce? Well, says a subcommittee staffer, "you have to have an address." The HUD probe may drag on for months. So could the search for Silent...
...performance art instead of kite flying. Two Peoples best sellers: frames that combine tortoiseshell eye pieces and temples with a wire bridge (Nick Nolte sports a pair in the recent New York Stories); and clip-on sunglasses, the sort that '30s movie stars would attach to their specs to check out a polo match over at Will Rogers' place...