Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...False Alarm...
...Holworthy Hall fire alarm went off at 2 24 a.m. Friday morning, but police officers found no fire. Officials, however, found he glass on the dormitory's basement alarm broken and residents reported that three youths wearing black leather jackets were spotted before the false Officials were unable to locate the youths, according to the Harvard police blotter...
...being called to order, except for the gun-toting Amal guards watching from rooftops. In his now familiar crisp tones, Allyn Conwell called out the names of his 38 fellow American hostages, only 31 of whom answered "here" or "present." Three of those absent were not a cause of alarm. They were the crewmen of the TWA jet, who had been kept in the aircraft most of the time and were known to be in the hands of the Amal militia. But the other four should have been at the school. After the roll call, the hostages sat next...
...broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor to own radios, and many of those who heard the warnings may have shrugged them off as a false alarm...
...inspection provisions cannot prevent anyone from trying to divert nuclear materials. At best, they provide an alarm system if misbehavior is possible or has already occurred. The system's most important function is that it demonstrates good faith on the part of countries that have agreed to participate. Says a former I.A.E.A. official: "Safeguards are in a way similar to detente. They can only survive if there is mutual trust...