Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather than actively buttressing Bazargan, U.S. officials were further alarmed by an incident in which a CIA electronic eavesdropping station near the Soviet border was invaded by rebels last week. First reports indicated that mojahedeen guerrillas had assaulted the station, seizing 20 technicians and sophisticated electronic equipment used to monitor Soviet missile tests. It later turned out that local citizens, seeking to make sure that they were paid for some work they had done at the base, had refused to let the technicians leave. After hasty consultations with Washington, Bazargan's government dispatched a plane carrying...
Calling the McGovern-Hayakawa alliance a "peculiar marriage of convenience." Chinamano said there can be no free election in Zimbabwe with 90 per cent of the country under martial law. "What are they going to monitor?" he asked...
Chinamano questioned the recent proposal by Sen. George M. McGovern (D-S.D.) and Sen. S. I. Hayakawa (R-Calif.) to send a Congressional delegation to monitor the April 20 elections in Zim- babwe. The Patriotic Front has comdemned the upcoming elections...
Finally, if we take it upon ourselves to monitor the state of human rights in foreign lands to which we send aid, why should we not with an equal sense of responsibility try to monitor the social and other impacts of our business activities there...
...assignment for the BBC, Scoones started his search by dragging an underwater television camera along the seabed in depths of about 300 meters (1,000 ft.) off the Comoros. On board his small boat, he patiently watched the TV monitor for a glimpse of the fish that had only been known from the earth's fossil record until the accidental discovery of a living specimen by a British biologist some 40 years ago. Since then, fishermen have caught two dozen more live coelacanths in their nets Unfortunately, the creatures, which grow to about 1.5 meters (5 ft.), weigh about...