Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best of times was an uneasy home. A barbed-wire and earthen-walled fortress bordered by a small airstrip, A Shau stood deep in Viet Cong-controlled territory not far from the Ho Chi Minh trail on the Laotian border. The camp existed for only one reason: to monitor traffic coming down the trail. Over the months, a kind of truce between the local Viet Cong and the Special Forces had evolved: live and let live by leaving each other alone. The truce worked until last week, when three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars arrived with orders to destroy...
While federal and state mediators worked feverishly to end the strike, only one Boston paper-the nationally distributed, nonunionized Christian Science Monitor-continued to publish. To fill the news gap, the Harvard Crimson put out an extra four-page edition called the Boston Crimson. Cartoonist Al Capp read his own comic strip Li'l Abner over television for what he called the "culturally depraved people of Boston." Out-of-work newsmen appeared nightly on television, where they did not distinguish themselves. Reading the news in unmodulated voices with pained expressions on their faces, they stumbled over words while nervously...
...explosions rumbled like artillery fire. Sweet-smelling dynamite and ammonium nitrate fumes poured into the tunnel from a cavern where some 30 to 40 tons of ore had just been blasted loose. In an immaculate, cement-lined chamber nearby, a hoist operator scanned two closed-circuit TV screens that monitor the ore buckets, make sure they are dumping properly into large collection bins. Above ground, at the end of the production process, refinery workers were pouring Brick No. 37,035-a 30-lb. hunk of solid gold worth...
James Nelson Goodsell, Latin American Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, will speak on "Latin America: Hemisphere in Ferment" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland JCR. The speech is sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council
...addition to Scott's on-the-spot perspectives, we had the benefit of research from our Caribbean bureau in Miami and the Latin American desk in our Washington bureau, which monitor Cuban radio broadcasts, read the press, interview refugees and diplomats coming out of Cuba. Bureaus and stringers throughout Latin America concentrated on one meaningful aspect of the story: the extent of Castroite subversion in other parts of the hemisphere. With the help of these reports, Writer Philip Osborne and Senior Editor George Daniels fashioned their study of Cuba's decaying revolution-and continuing capacity for mischief...