Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat Marty Russo defected from the Carter camp, enabling the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to vote 22 to 21 against mandatory hospital cost controls. Instead, the committee endorsed voluntary efforts by hospitals to cut costs. The panel also approved a national commission-with no enforcement powers-to monitor medical costs. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano bitterly blamed the defeat on Russo, who changed his views after lobbying by members of the Illinois Hospital Association...
...three trials revealed the Kremlin's increasing alarm over the growth of libertarian movements among the Soviet Union's other ethnic minorities and religious groups. It was hardly a coincidence that all three men tried last week were members of unofficial Helsinki Watch Committees that had been formed to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Such groups, which have sprung up in the Baltic states, the Ukraine and Georgia, as well as in Moscow, have served as umbrella organizations, sheltering disparate dissident groups under the aegis of human rights. Shcharansky was simultaneously...
...trial in Moscow early this week on a charge of high treason. If found guilty, he could be executed. On the same day that Shcharansky's trial starts, court proceedings also begin against another Jewish dissident, Alexander Ginzburg, 41, a leading member of a Russian group founded to monitor the U.S.S.R.'s compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord...
...Sheed dossiers combine straight biographical facts with opinionated, often blunt assessments. And some spice. Pericle Felici, 66, the "ruthless" front-running candidate on the right, is said to use a telephoto lens to monitor Pope Paul's movements about his palace. Another Curia Cardinal, Giuseppe Maria Sensi, is said to be "a lover of fast cars" who currently zips about in a red BMW 3000. In Guatemala, Mario Casariego has been so closely identified with the regime that his automobile is always accompanied by "a radio patrol and two armed motorcycle guards...
Some of Carter's bluntest phrases were directed at Moscow's repressive treatment of internal dissent. Clearly referring to the seven-year sentence recently imposed on Helsinki Human Rights Monitor Yuri Orlov, Carter declared that the Soviets' abuse of such rights had earned them "the condemnation of people everywhere who love freedom." "By their actions," Carter added, "they have demonstrated that the Soviet system cannot tolerate freely expressed ideas, notions of loyal opposition and the free movement of peoples. The Soviet Union attempts to export a totalitarian and repressive form of government, resulting in a closed society...