Word: inspects
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Last February Laos finally let a Pentagon team into the country to inspect the Nhommarath prison. Americans in the party say nervous Laotian officials rushed them through their tour of the camp and gave them little time to read the prisoner logs. No photographs were allowed. Investigators were permitted to interview only two elderly villagers from Nhommarath who claimed they never saw POWS. The team had to report back that there was "no evidence" Americans had been held there...
...William ("Red") Whittaker, the principal research scientist at Carnegie Mellon's robotics lab and a legend among robot designers. Whittaker helped design the machine that cleaned up the Three Mile Island reactor after its near meltdown in 1979, and he oversaw development of a system that will automatically inspect the heat-resistant tiles on NASA's space shuttles...
...will assess the conditions in Rwanda's capital to determine if food, water and other supplies could be delivered faster using facilities inside the country -- though Perry said he hadn't yet decided on sending in a large force. Perry himself will fly to Africa over the weekend to inspect the U.S. operations on behalf of President Clinton. Aid officials said the U.S. relief operation could last three to six months before the United Nations takes over...
Albright reaffirmed her support for using economic sanctions against North Korea. Her request was prompted by the constant refusals of the North Korean government to allow U.N. officials to inspect its nuclear plants...
Long resentful of what they view as outsider meddling, army officers were further angered by a March 29 agreement on human rights that will allow a U.N. verification team to move freely within the country to inspect military bases and guerrilla camps...