Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Billig's trial comes to a close, a number of reforms are in the works to help prevent future scandals. Beginning in April, for example, civilian doctors will be appointed to monitor the quality of care at military hospitals around the country. Though many problems remain, the Pentagon, asserts David Newhall III, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, "now has more extensive quality review than civilian medicine." If nothing else, Commander Billig has provided his superior officers with a painful but much needed lesson...
Even as local officers issued polite messages to news organizations requesting that "journalists please refrain from entering Alexandra township," police and army forces were throwing up an impenetrable cordon around Alexandra. Several journalists climbed to hills overlooking the township to monitor and film the violence. The ruse, however, only provoked the authorities, who quickly issued new regulations banning reporters and photographers not only from Alexandra but from all surrounding areas...
...toasters." Commodore is also having trouble finding a market niche for the Amiga. Business customers are unenthusiastic because it is not compatible with the IBM machines that are common in offices. Shoppers looking for a home computer are discouraged by the Amiga's price: $1,795 with a color monitor...
...changed its attitude toward dissidents. "I am overjoyed that Tolya is a free man, after so many years of suffering," said Naum Meiman, 74, a retired mathematician in Moscow. Like Shcharansky, Meiman was an early member of the Moscow branch of the Helsinki Watch Group, whose aim was to monitor Soviet compliance with the 1975 Helsinki human rights agreement. Adds Meiman: "But his release is not a victory for us because we are now further away from reaching the goals Tolya fought for than when we struggled together." Similarly, Soviet Exile Lev Kopelev, 73, who now lives in West Germany...
...Moscow, Shcharansky became the spokesman for groups of Jews who staged demonstrations near the Kremlin. His activism broadened as he joined the unofficial Moscow Helsinki Watch Group set up to monitor Soviet compliance with the human-rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Shcharansky's fluency in English, his easy good nature and visible courage made him an ideal go-between for human-rights activists and the Western press. The KGB kept him under constant surveillance while he shuttled around Moscow keeping foreign correspondents apprised of the dissident movement...