Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fronts Alarm. Since September, after the war began to turn against them, the rebels had been holding a U.S. medical missionary, Dr. Paul Carlson, 36, on absurd charges that he was "an American spy and an American major." Carlson, member of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, had seen military service only as a seaman, for 22 months in the 1940s. He voluntarily stayed behind rebel lines to minister to their wounded, living in a village of 50 inhabitants called, in the native dialect, "The End of the World." But Gbenye announced that Carlson had been "tried...
...same time warning that the rebels would be held "directly and personally responsible" for the safety of all foreigners in their area. But the U.S. could not even find anyone from the Stanleyville regime with whom to negotiate. Meantime, both Washington and Brussels had put out an all-fronts alarm. Working through Arab and African nations, they piled diplomatic pressure on the Gbenye regime to release the hostages. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant appealed in vain for a mercy mission to Stanleyville. The Belgian government got Premier Moise Tshombe to offer the rebels a halfhearted amnesty...
With the porter's alarm at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport last week began an espionage yarn that grew steadily more hilarious to onlookers and more embarrassing to Egypt...
...alarm, Washington suspended the U.S. aid program, which has pumped more than $300 million into Bolivia since 1952. The U.S. also purposefully delayed recognizing the new regime, though most observers felt that U.S. recognition was bound to come eventually...
...James Lepowsky '65 woke up in Winthrop J-12 and saw the room filled with smoke. He found the closet of his roommate, Robert J. Gordon '65, aflame, and they turned in the alarm. Several fire trucks responded to the call, and the firemen doused the blaze with water...