Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of this book read an article in Kommunist, an official Communist Party periodical published in Moscow, deploring the fact that the party structure had never been thoroughly analyzed in print. Then and there, Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov decided to correct the oversight. The result will not reap any literary honors, for it is heavy-footed. And, as Avtorkhanov himself admits, the book will not win the Lenin Peace Prize either. Em bedded in its dense pages is the conviction that the free world can never get along with Communist Russia...
...This oversight is still officially secret. The Corporation treasures up its bright designs until graduation morning. The first clues anyone gets usually the loudspeakered calls for the University Marshal to meet eminent guests at the gate next to Massachusetts Hall...
During the debate, Fulbright himself rose to complain that CIA Director Admiral William Raborn, when haled before his committee, had refused to answer anything but "superficial" questions. Russell, artfully invoking both his own prestige and Senate precedent, contended that 1) committees have traditionally been granted the right to "legislative oversight" of agencies that they have recommended, and 2) it was his own Armed Services Committee that had approved the birth of the CIA in 1947. "Unless the committee of which I am chairman has been derelict in its duty," the Georgian said pointedly, "there is no justification whatever...
Through an "administrative oversight," the Administration neglected to inform students of the impending disaster. When word leaked out, students panicked and called Gates. He confirmed the date, and on Wednesday a delegation of five students went to see Mrs. Bunting...
...Supreme Court he finds more acceptable today than previously only because it gives the President less trouble. The pressing need for a responsible opposition, he says, can be better fulfilled through a "Shadow Presidency" than through constructive oversight on the part of a national legislature...