Word: watchdogging
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...therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of war." His dealings with the West were open and generous, yet appropriately wary. He allowed selected Jesuits to preach their faith in China and introduce scientific and technical learning. But when the Pope sent a sort of watchdog emissary to keep an eye on his Jesuit scholars, K'ang-hsi threw...
Budny's complaint was one of 200 received by the 15-member council since it set up shop last August as an independent watchdog of press fairness. The complaint was also one of the 34 cases to get past a staff screening and reach the seven members of the council's grievance committee. After sage deliberation, the committee deferred judgment "pending further study...
Last August was hardly an ideal time for Ray Garrett Jr., 53, to become chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The watchdog agency's staff was demoralized by the departure under fire three months earlier of G. Bradford Cook, Garrett's predecessor, who got himself entangled in the Robert Vesco scandal. And the securities industry was then, as it still is, in severe economic trouble...
...months. The industries include some of the most vital in the economy: retail trade, fertilizer, coal, aluminum and petrochemicals. Under present law, the COLC, second party in all the agreements, will die on June 30, and the Senate last week voted down a proposal to continue it as a watchdog agency. Result: there will be no unit left even to monitor the agreements...
...accurate, it illuminates more than any previous expose the fundamental dilemma of using covert activity as a tool in foreign policy, of a secret agency operating in an open society. How are the two to be reconciled? If the CIA is to be held accountable, are the present watchdog functions of congressional committees adequate? In a world of ever-shifting political currents that still present threats to American interests, can the nation conduct its foreign policy in a perfectly open manner without resorting to covert operations? Particularly in a dangerous world where other powers employ covert means to achieve their...