Word: watchdogging
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...Since March 1979, Israel has relinquished the western two-thirds of the Sinai, where some 180 U.S. civilian technicians remain as a watchdog force...
...understatement. Environmentalists could scarcely have been more shocked if Reagan had chosen Ebenezer Scrooge to head Interior. "Like hiring a fox to guard the chickens!" protested Bernard Ewell, president of the Colorado Open Space Council. Said Carolyn Johnson, an official of the Public Lands Institute, a privately funded watchdog group: "Watt may be the first person ever to unite 176 separate Indian tribes on a single issue: opposition...
...radio and television sustained a comparable campaign of martial enthusiasm. Like Khomeini, President Saddam Hussein went on television to address his nation in his field marshal's uniform. "Our army has reached its goals," Saddam boasted. "The time is over," he said, "when Iran acted as watchdog of the gulf. We are the swords of the Arab people." Yet, in some passages, the address was curiously low-keyed and Saddam otherwise displayed little of his usual bravado. At times his voice quaked as he sipped nervously from a glass of water...
...Saddam is the Arab world's newest and most determined strongman, and he is not about to allow himself to be toppled from his pinnacle by simple negligence. His bold designs to supplant the late Shah of Iran as the watchdog and kingpin of the Persian Gulf have made him a force to be reckoned with throughout the region. At times, in fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge...
...must. As he admits, The Herald is inappropriate for its job as the country's watchdog because it reaches only English-speaking Argentines, but by that token, the paper does not present as much of a threat to the Argentinian government. While The Herald is unable to convey news of violence and chaos to its native population, it can record the anarchy of terror ripping the South American nation. He occupies a tenuous position of privilege, but has a foothold nevertheless, and Cox and his staff feel they must take advantage of this opportunity to report...