Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar opened in New York City this month, Jewish organizations were outraged. Most outspoken was the American Jewish Committee. The committee's watchdog for anti-Semitism in Christian materials, Presbyterian Gerald Strober, called the film "much worse" than the play. For one thing, said Strober, the mob at Jesus' trial is specifically labeled as "you Jews" in the film script. And as on the stage, the Jewish high priests are deep-dyed villains...
...Senate's self-appointed constitutional watchdog, Ervin, for all of his courtliness and mirth, approaches his investigation with a relentless seriousness. He told TIME'S Neil MacNeil last week: "As. an American who loves his country and venerates the institution of the presidency, I indulge the presumption that the President has no connection with the Watergate affair or its coverup. Candor compels me to say that the President is making it very difficult to entertain this presumption if he withholds from the committee the records and the tapes which I believe contain information which is relevant to establish...
...outset of the Nixon Administration, Haldeman was first among equals, the dour watchdog at the Oval Office gates who determined who and what the President saw and heard. Ehrlichman began as no more than an important secondary player. During that first year as the President's counsel, Ehrlichman was engrossed in working out details of the President's real estate transactions at Key Biscayne and San Clemente, and other peripheral matters and issues regarding possible conflicts of interest...
...starter, Nader's Washington-based Center for Study of Responsive Law issued the latest of its more than 20 books and reports to date: The Monopoly Makers, a scathing 345-page examination of the cozy relationships between federal regulatory agencies and the industries that they supposedly watchdog. By too willingly approving mergers, setting price floors that protect established companies and preventing new firms from entering fields such as the communications and transportation industries, the report charges, the regulators have assisted in the creation of monopolies that overcharge consumers and taxpayers by $16 billion to $24 billion a year...
Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who sits on the Armed Services Committee that has watchdog authority over the CIA, suggests that the committee should send Nixon a set of written "interrogatories." Says Jackson...