Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Tuesday, under the orange glow of a crescent moon, a small group of scientists gathered expectantly at an archaeological site south of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, just outside Cairo. They did not carry hand picks or shovels. Instead, they watched a TV monitor as a miniature camera was lowered into a narrow hole in the ground. When the video image flickered to life, the group gasped. There before them, inside a chamber that had been sealed 4,600 years ago, lay the dismantled timbers of a wooden ship. The archaeologists immediately recognized it as the long...
...inside of the chamber remained a mystery until early the next morning, when the video camera was finally lowered into place. What the scientists saw & on the monitor looked like a pile of lumber under reed matting. Even so, recalled Tans, "as soon as we saw it, we knew it was a boat." Tohamy Mahmoud Ali, an Egyptian worker who had helped excavate the first vessel, broke into excited Arabic as he recognized the disassembled ship lying in its narrow pit. At one end were several upright pieces, perhaps parts of the prow...
Action on government information policy has been quiet since last spring, when Congress forced Reagan to rescind what has come to be known as "the Poindexter memorandum." The memorandum, drafted by former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, would have allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor and regulate almost all commerical and academic information stored electronically in the country...
...believed to be performing military missions. For hours each day, say intelligence analysts, Soviet Cosmos military satellites drift over the U.S., photographing missile silos and naval deployments. Other Soviet spacecraft lurk with sensitive electronic ears that can pick up telephone conversations in Washington, while Meteor weather satellites monitor conditions over key U.S. targets. Soviet infrared satellites watch for the telltale heat signaling a launch of U.S. ICBMs. At the military launch site in Plesetsk, 500 miles northeast of Moscow, crews stand ready to launch additional intelligence satellites at a moment's notice...
...related systems will be evaluated: three are intended to track and monitor Soviet ICBM launches, two would fire interceptors to destroy the attacking missiles, and one is a "battle-management" computer for coordinating the entire space- and ground-based program. Using computer simulation, test models and flight testing, the Pentagon will try to determine how well the elements of these systems will work...