Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some of the rice remained stockpiled in warehouses, some was simply lost. Most was intercepted by Thai soldiers, appropriated by the Kampuchean government or seized by the warlords (often Khmer Rouge toughs) who tyrannized many of the border camps. Ultimately, Shawcross contends, the famine was nothing but a false alarm put about by the Vietnamese to exploit the overanxious conscience of the West...
Neither Honduras nor Costa Rica is currently at war. But both border on Nicaragua, whose imposing military buildup and revolutionary Marxist rhetoric have caused its neighbors alarm. Both are also bases for thousands of U.S.-backed contras, Nicaraguan rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government. Now, to varying degrees, Honduras and Costa Rica are growing apprehensive about the close relationship with the U.S. that their geopolitical predicament has forced upon them...
...Olympic Villages-on the campuses of the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles - the committee has erected three concentric rings of eight-foot-high mesh fence. The middle one is wired with intrusion-detection devices, installed by the Pentagon, that sends out an alarm when a potential terrorist (or late-night reveler) approaches. The precautions cover a wide range: nine video-arcade games in Fluor Tower at U.S.C. will be removed to prevent terrorists or pranksters from hot-wiring an explosion...
...workers went on strike over low pay and working conditions, resulting in the loss of nearly a million man hours. Every 2.5 minutes, a non-white was arrested for violating pass laws that restrict where blacks may travel. Yet another statistic must have given supporters of apartheid cause for alarm: more people died or were injured from acts of sabotage in the first five months of 1983 than in all of the six preceding years...
...problem, he continues, involved a series of events which included a drunken night when he pulled a fire alarm and then set a fire with a home-made blow torch...