Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private, and by the courage to make imaginative leaps of authority, which he disguises in dull prose. He also considers his jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute with Cambodia, and another to help the fledgling republic of Guinea in 1959. Last week he applied the same technique in Laos...
...candid bid for new ideas on U.S. policy toward Latin America, President Eisenhower last week appointed a six-man National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, to be headed by Ike's brother Milton, head of Johns Hopkins University and longtime presidential watchdog on Latin American affairs. The President acted in the wake of worsening relations with Panama and Cuba...
...third, and last year Bhengu set himself to reduce crime in Johannesburg by 25%. He is still far short of his goal, but the attempt itself is remarkable in a frightened city (pop. 1,000,000) where 100,000 firearms are privately owned and virtually every house has a watchdog. In his preaching, Evangelist Bhengu is careful not to set up a kind of reverse color line. White preachers, he tells his native listeners, have the word too. "When you get hold of a bottle of gin. it comes in a white bottle. It tastes good. Sometimes you pour some...
...meet the practical difficulties raised by governmental reform, Plan E supporters in Cambridge banded together to form the Cambridge Civic Association. Functioning not only as an election-time support to good-government candidates but as a fulltime watchdog and policy development group, it assumed and has maintained a strong position as perhaps the principal source of progressive ideas in the city...
Impounded. In Kalamazoo, Mich., ticketed for leaving her keys in the ignition when she parked her car, Mrs. Cleo O. Brocato demanded a trial because she had also left her watchdog in the front seat...