Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RUSS MONITOR U.S. PHONES, blared the Chicago Tribune last week, head lining its scoop that the Soviet Union has been listening in on domestic telephone conversations, no doubt including those of Government, business and military leaders. Up to 70% of U.S. phone calls are carried by microwave, and the Soviets have set up parabolic receivers on their Molynia communications satellites in the skies over the U.S. and on the ground to intercept and record the microwave transmissions. All this should come as little sur prise, since the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have engaged in such mutual electronic spookery for years...
...Geneva conference adjourned without taking any concrete steps to strengthen the treaty. Nonetheless, tougher measures to monitor the spread of nuclear technology may still be possible. In mid-June representatives of the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and Canada (the so-called nuclear suppliers club) secretly gathered in London for their second meeting this year. The Bonn-Brasilia full cycle deal was apparently on their minds; it is believed they reached a consensus for drafting new controls for the transfer of nuclear supplies and technology. A new code, for instance, might force nuclear equipment buyers-like Brazil...
...hymn-and-hog-price station in the nation. NBC, which has been taking losses since 1973 on its network radio broadcasts, is trying to reverse those fortunes with a round-the-clock, syndicated all-news package. News and Information Service, as the venture is called, originates from the old Monitor studio in Rockefeller Center and is fed live over telephone lines to subscribing stations for 50 minutes of every hour. The other ten minutes are set aside for local news, but stations can devote up to 36 minutes to local programming if they choose to. When the service first opened...
Brinkmanship finally produced a compromise that all sides felt they could live with. A new agency, the Municipal Assistance Corporation ("Big Mac"), was created to restore the city's credit and to monitor its budget and borrowing practices. Because five of its voting members are appointed by the Governor and four by the mayor, the corporation will inject the state government into city affairs. Big Mac will receive regular reports on the city budget so as to be able to sound the alarm if the city turns profligate anew. Current-expense items now make up 40% of the capital...
...need for only one daytime security guard. This year, by contrast, the school is spending nearly $160,000 for security, money that otherwise would go for education. The exit doors bristle with electronic locks. Eight plainclothes officers with two-way radios patrol the halls, while off-duty city police monitor the 55-acre campus. Next fall four special-police youth officers will be assigned to E.T.H.S. full time. Says Senior Michael Crooks: "I feel like I'm in a prison...