Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drank coffee and played soccer together. If we kept up this atmosphere, we could have peace." A 4,400-man United Nations Emergency Force nevertheless took up positions in a buffer zone between the two armies. The Americans will monitor any movement by the two armies from three watch stations in the passes. So will more sophisticated Israeli...
...will be occupied by 28 Government employees and 142 technicians, maintenance workers and clerks hired by E-Systems Inc., a Dallas-based electronics company. Six of the contingent are women. Under a contract that will eventually amount to $10 million annually, shifts of E-System experts will operate three watch stations from which four sensor fields at either end of both passes will be automatically monitored...
...Watch System. Aside from unexploded ordnance (workmen have already found two rockets and a 500-lb. bomb at the American site), the twelveto 18-month duty tours are not likely to be exceptionally hazardous. Besides, says C. William Kontos, who heads the State Department section overseeing the mission, "on the one side you have the whole of the Israeli army, on the other the whole of the Egyptian army, plus 4,400 U.N. troops in between...
...obvious discomfort, after the watch system was proposed last fall, there were 3,000 applicants for the E-Systems jobs, which pay between $17,000 and $25,000 annually, as well as a long list of volunteers for the Government posts. The desert force is headed by Nicholas G.W. (for Gracian Ward) Thorne, 55, a retired Marine officer with sandy regimental mustache who for 14 years has been a globe-trekking State Department troubleshooter. One of Thome's primary concerns is to maintain a painstaking neutrality. Mission members will be required to split their leaves between Cairo...
...especially pitiable to watch the eyes of the ladies grow round with greed as pheasants and lobsters, sorbets and desserts, are presented to them. Even those who do not betray their appetite by staring, who continue to talk with animation of other subjects, give themselves away when, without warning, a polite and cultivated syllable will suddenly drown in an excess of saliva. Yet it is a reckless woman who dares take more than a small slice of some favorite dish, for should she eat as much as she likes, she will simply faint dead away, as the corsets they wear...