Word: monitoring
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Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn.: I think we need a democratic Anti-Defamation League, and I urge you to found such an institute. ((It)) would monitor and hand down grades to men and women responsible for political utterances -- whether delivered over radio, television, orally before a live audience, or written in books or billboards. I would like to see your democratic Anti-Defamation League defend the honor of democracy by attacking those who abuse that venerable convention of self- government by public travesties of even semi-orderly thought. How fine...
...been 14 years since marine archaeologists rediscovered the U.S.S. Monitor, the Civil War ironclad that sank in a storm near Cape Hatteras, N.C., ten months after the historic 1862 standoff with its Confederate counterpart, the C.S.S. Virginia.* Since then more than 100 artifacts have been recovered from the wreck, including wine bottles and a 1,300-lb. anchor. Despite the Monitor's designation in March as the country's first undersea National Historic Landmark, scientists and Government officials have been unable to decide whether the ship itself can be salvaged. Last week, after a 14-day expedition...
...Monitor lies bottom up some 220 ft. below the surface, balanced on its cylindrical "cheesebox" turret. Since divers cannot work easily at that depth, scientists knew only that the ship's metal hull was corroded, but they did not know how badly. Indeed, the new data gathered on the Monitor < represent a significant advance in undersea research. "This is a prototype for marine archaeology," says NOAA Spokesman Dane Kanop. "We are writing the book...
...government of Brunei, but he testified last week that he was not "authorized" to tell Congress the truth on the matter. Abrams also told the panel that Secretary of State George Shultz considered North to be a "loose cannon" and that he had been instructed by Shultz to "monitor Ollie." Yet, Abrams said, "I was careful not to ask Colonel North questions I did not need to know the answers...
...glowing new capability is attracting curiosity from other federal agencies. The Defense Department, which must monitor the flow of aircraft into the U.S.'s air defense identification zone, is said to be fascinated by the new system. So is the Drug Enforcement Administration, which desperately seeks to know the identity of every aircraft entering U.S. airspace, especially those from the south. They are particularly impressed with an FAA feature that allows controllers to place an electronic cursor over an individual blip, press a key and see all the available aircraft data displayed on the screen. Any blip that fails...