Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serb leaders also signed an agreement to place the artillery of both sides under U.N. supervision to pinpoint who is responsible for shelling civilian areas. General Satish Nambiar of India, who was heading the U.N. forces, publicly doubted that his 1,500-man contingent was large enough to monitor the long-range weapons. In any case, the agreement did not take effect, and Sarajevo continued to suffer nighttime bombardment from the surrounding hills...
...Angeles, Houston and Washington. There is a chance these illnesses are pollution related -- at least one vet had elevated levels of hydrocarbons in his blood -- and in the aftermath of the VA's bitter fight with Vietnam veterans over the health effects of Agent Orange, the agency wants to monitor the situation closely...
...observation of the camps, now being demanded by the U.N. Security Council, would check some abuses. But there are also "impromptu killing grounds," says a Western diplomat, "where massacres take place, then the killers move on. This is not the kind of murder the U.N. or Red Cross can monitor...
Diaz-Parton, 33, joined Los Compadres at 13 and served three years in prison for shooting two rival gang members with a sawed-off shotgun. Since "retiring," she is frequently asked by frightened female gang members trying to get out of gangs to monitor their beatings. "They know I've got juice with the gangs," she says with considerable pride. She recalls the case of Priscilla, a 15-year-old who wanted out. Three other girls, all gang bangers, took Priscilla into a public rest room while Diaz-Parton waited outside to make sure things didn...
...other documents, probably by helicopter, to an underground facility, if there is adequate warning time. A second group of papers would leave the capital by truck sometime after the so- called Freedom Documents of Group I had reached safety. Among the Group II materials: the log of the U.S.S. Monitor, medical records relating to President Lincoln's assassination, the Japanese surrender documents and an 1804 map of Lewis and Clark's trek across North America. The National Gallery had determined that it needed only six crates to hold the most important items. The first scheduled to be rescued: Leonardo...