Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe, the nuclear catastrophe seemed to have faded from memory. French shoppers who once used Geiger counters to help them select produce during the height of the radiation scare now buy fruits and vegetables without concern. In West Germany, though, 20 institutes and eight community groups continue to monitor samples of suspected foods. Checks recently found excessive radiation in certain chocolates, dried mushrooms and beef...
...Panama. An ingratiating host, he has allowed U.S. operations to proceed virtually unfettered. Some 10,000 military personnel are attached to the Panama-based U.S. Southern Command, Washington's military headquarters and prime listening post for Latin America. From SOUTHCOM, the U.S. can dispatch spy planes to overfly Nicaragua, monitor sensitive communications and military movements in the region and ensure the canal's smooth operation. As Panama's former intelligence chief, Noriega has ( also worked intimately with the Central Intelligence Agency. Says a State Department official: "The general figures his work with the agency is his insurance...
...time being, the Soviets seem content to sit back and monitor the Iran-contra hearings before taking their next step. If Reagan emerges unharmed, Gorbachev may be quick to clear away the obstacles to an INF accord and a summit. If, on the other hand, the President's reputation -- or Shultz's -- is further wounded by the hearings, the Kremlin might decide it has the upper hand. Soviet observers contend that the President, along with his political advisers, may realize that only a successful summit can deflect attention from the Iran-contra affair and assure Reagan a favorable mention...
...January 1986, for example, at North's urging, Reagan was persuaded to sign a finding authorizing the kidnaping of suspected terrorists. It also allowed the Government agents to monitor and harass not only individual terrorists and groups but also institutions that cooperated with them, such as foreign banks that financed their travel. North then began to map plans to put the finding into operation; so far, nothing much seems to have come of those plans, but the way North used the memorandum of notification, says one source ^ who worked with him, "really explains Ollie's rise to prominence." Watching...
...high school, young Larry was not quite the he-man Marine in miniature. His extracurriculars were less than swashbuckling -- science club, chess club, drama club, senior chorus, monitor squad. In sports, as in other things, what he lacked in natural talent he made up for in perseverance. Although his class numbered only 35, North was on neither the football squad nor the basketball team (he did sit on the bench, though, as a basketball statistician). Instead, he took up a sport in which his determination could overcome his lack of natural skills: cross-country running. "He was a plugger," recalls...