Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...street has no such luck. He is watched more closely than even his comrade in Moscow. Much of the spying is conducted by unofficial, unobtrusive snoops who belong to street committees, party-run groups formed to monitor local communities. These self-styled voyeurs and vigilantes, often middle-aged women, pry into such matters as whether a woman is illegally pregnant or whether a neighbor owns a cassette recorder (just in case the government chooses to make foreign tapes illegal). Officials of the Public Security Bureau, a national police force, can arrest a citizen at any time, using "administrative measures" that...
NASA'S carefully detailed script for the mission was showy but simple. Its highlight was to be a free-floating walk in space to retrieve the ailing Solar Maximum Mission satellite (Solar Max). Sent aloft to monitor the sun's activity, Max broke down three years ago, after only ten months in orbit. Challenger's mission last week was to stop the rotation of Max, use the spacecraft's 50-ft. remote-controlled arm to lift the satellite into the ship's cargo bay, and set it back in orbit after repairs were made...
Part of this deterrence strategy is periodically to demonstrate the Washington-Beijing entente by high-level visits between the two countries. The reported existence of a joint intelligence facility in Northwest China to monitor. Soviet advanced weapons tests also sends a message to Moscow...
...most blatant example of this trend. Reagan has also mounted an assault on the Freedom of Information Act--long a tool for watchdogs of the government--including a request to exempt the CIA from FOIA provisions entirely. He has signed an executive order allowing the CIA and FBI to monitor and infiltrate academic and press institutions. The Pentagon has ordered employees to take lie-detector tests, in an effort to root out news leaks...
...wild card. Although the British in fact told us nothing of their military plans, the Argentines plainly believed that we knew everything the British did. Possibly this misconception could be useful. I called Bill Clark at the White House on an open line, knowing that the Argentinians would monitor the call, and told him in a tone of confidentiality that British military action was imminent...