Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Honduras. One is a radar station on Tiger Island, a small outcropping that juts into the critical Gulf of Fonseca. That body of water separates Nicaragua from El Salvador. U.S. military officials are closemouthed about the purpose of the Tiger Island radar station. But the facility will obviously monitor the clandestine arms traffic that the Reagan Administration insists is flowing from Nicaragua to the rebels in El Salvador...
...Peanut is expected to sell for $600 to $700 stripped down; $1,300 with a monitor and other extras. Anticipation of its arrival has already driven down the stock price of competitors like Apple, Coleco and Commodore. Says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter: "It is like living under Mount St. Helens while it is rumbling. You can't rebuild your house until after the eruption...
...sampling (CVS), is a painless procedure and can be done in a physician's office as early as the fifth week of pregnancy. To perform it, the obstetrician inserts a long thin tube through the vagina into the uterus. A second doctor, following the procedure on an ultrasound monitor, helps the obstetrician position the catheter between the lining of the uterus and the chorion, a layer of tissue that surrounds the embryo during the first two months and later develops into the placenta. The goal is to suction up a sample of the chorionic villi, finger-like projections...
...also sent the aircraft carrier Eisenhower to within 150 miles of Libya's shores. Another carrier, the Coral Sea, was ordered to delay its scheduled departure for the coast of Central America. On Saturday the U.S. dispatched two AWACS planes and a number of support aircraft to monitor aerial activity in the desert conflict...
That presence in Honduras already includes 57 U.S. Air Force technicians who man a radar station on a mountaintop 23 miles southeast of Tegucigalpa. In operation only since last month, it was ostensibly erected to monitor some 55 U.S. military support flights in and out of Honduras each month. In fact, the unit's radar can watch air traffic above all of Nicaragua and El Salvador...