Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government is going to monitor the Soviet troops in Cuba. I hope this won't be the same intense scrutiny that let them go unnoticed to begin with...
Another troubling issue seemed to be clearing up last week when Intelligence Committee Chairman Birch Bayh and Vice Chairman Barry Goldwater asserted that the U.S. possesses the "technical means" to monitor Soviet compliance with the treaty. The committee's final report was not an absolute assurance that verification problems have been overcome, and Ohio's Democratic Senator John Glenn was still deeply troubled by that issue. But the report helped to reduce fears that the loss of Iranian listening posts and other U.S. intelligence shortcomings would significantly impair surveillance of Soviet weaponry. Said one Democratic Senator: "This...
...over the Caribbean last week, their sooty titanium skins glowing cherry red from air friction as they hit top speeds in excess of 2,000 m.p.h. The planes were Lockheed's needle-nosed SR-71s on strategic reconnaissance missions that President Carter has ordered to monitor Soviet military activity in Cuba...
...satellites are also used for surveillance. But when their vision is obscured by cloud cover, the job is given to SR-71s, which have cloud-penetrating infrared sensors and cameras that can take pictures at a scanning rate of 100,000 sq. mi. per hr., making it possible to monitor military targets anywhere in the world. Most important are the Blackbird's ELINT-electronic intelligence-gathering functions that are also known as "ferreting." SR-71s can detect hidden objectives by interpreting electronic signals at extremely high altitudes. In addition, Blackbirds carry a long-range, side-looking radar (SLAR) that...
...Hanoi and the regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh objected to the relief operation because many of the refugees being helped were considered members or supporters of the Khmer Rouge. But it now appears that relief agencies will be allowed to set up offices in Phnom-Penh to monitor the distribution of food, thus helping ensure that it will reach starving civilians and not the battling armies. For many Cambodians, aid will arrive too late. The country needs a minimum of 700 tons of food per day, and only a fraction of that is arriving...