Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundred tanks free to roam instead of being confined to fixed positions. One reason: Damascus, Syria's capital, is only 30 miles from the present front. Syria also objected to an Israeli proposal that a high-flying U.S. SR-71 reconnaissance plane monitor the ceasefire, like the one that surveys Israeli and Egyptian positions in Sinai...
...economy: retail trade, fertilizer, coal, aluminum and petrochemicals. Under present law, the COLC, second party in all the agreements, will die on June 30, and the Senate last week voted down a proposal to continue it as a watchdog agency. Result: there will be no unit left even to monitor the agreements...
...gadgetry of the system, with its tiny hidden mikes, its voice-actuated mechanism that required only a few spoken words to set recorder reels twirling in obscure recesses of the E.O.B., fascinated the President, his aides say. Moreover, what assistant could be more efficient than this omniscient and faithful monitor? Some presidential conversations, especially those with world leaders, were too important to permit misunderstandings. In the first 2½ years of the Nixon presidency, such advisers as Henry Kissinger, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman laboriously took notes at important meetings. All three soon became much too busy for that...
...veterans-Film Critic Stanley Kauffmann, White House Reporter John Osborne and the salty TRB Contributor Richard Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-help sustain the magazine's flair for bright commentary. For the purchase price of $380,000 (plus a somewhat larger amount in pending taxes), Peretz has also acquired a special responsibility: to maintain the unusual character that the New Republic has acquired in American journalism since earlier writers like Walter Lippmann, Bruce Bliven and Edmund Wilson began burnishing its pages...
Cranston, a leader of last year's congressional campaign to end American military involvement throughout Southeast Asia, was right when he stated that Congress had "underrated the administration's cunning and determination to go its own way regardless of the law...We must continue to monitor the implementation [of the law] and police and publicize every violation...