Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COLLEGE PARK. Md.--Arson caused a two-alarm fire that last month swept through the student union at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland, William J. Lopes, a spokesman for the university, said this week...
...hurt in the blaze. However, the alarm failed to sound, even though students and union officials attempted to ring the alarm. This malfunction prompted concern among fire and safety officials that many occupants received little or no warning of the danger...
...monitor everything from the astronauts' heartbeats to temperatures in various parts of the ship. Investigating further, the controllers found three of the four telemetry channels had gone silent. No one could immediately explain why, although one suspicion was a computer error. But controllers saw no reason for alarm. Other radio links were available for transmitting the information, which, in any case, was not needed for a safe landing. So after a few nervous moments, the astronauts could look forward to spending a full week in space, Columbia's longest flight to date...
Since then, the possibility of nuclear war has asserted itself with renewed urgency. The Soviet Union is in large measure responsible for much of this new alarm. By proliferating missile warheads to hundreds of times what the U.S.S.R. possessed when Kennedy and Khrushchev stood eyeball-to-eyeball at the brink two decades ago, Brezhnev and his comrades have aroused suspicions that they are looking to the day when the Kremlin can avenge that humiliation and pursue political and military advantages at the expense of American and Western interests. In recent months the Soviets have treated the resumption of arms-control...
...possibility of more Marxist regimes in the hemisphere, and they chide the U.S. for its cries of alarm. In addition to their conciliatory rhetoric toward Castro and Communism, the Mexican authorities have allowed Cuban military aid to reach the Guatemalan insurgents across Mexican territory. There is little doubt that Mexico is playing a double game in the region. As a senior Guatemalan official put it last week: "Mexico thinks that by throwing meat to the Cuban dog, it can avoid being bitten itself...