Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave the fullest explanation yet of the motives behind China's two-week-old "punitive" invasion of its southern neighbor, Viet Nam. In an effort to placate international alarm, he repeated assurances that the operation "will be limited in degree and will not last a long time," perhaps no longer than China's four-week invasion of India in 1962. There were reports at week's end, in fact, that the Chinese were considering a cease-fire...
...Mongol warriors have bombs in their quivers. But if they attack the alarm bells will ring. And there will be plenty of fighters to defeat them...
...ALARM continues, and the constitutional argument dominates the controversy. The legal questions are numerous--a memo prepared by Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, which the White House is distributing, lists 21 separate ones, all of which it calls "unanswerable." But the most important one--the one which raises the spectre of large-scale constitutional revision--is whether Congress or the states can limit the convention's agenda...
...LIBERALS continue to take their stand on the rock of the Constitution, instead of using more persuasive arguments against the whole idea of a balanced-budget amendment. Their cries of alarm only draw attention to the sad disarray into which American liberals have fallen. Calculating that they could not win a popular battle, they are calling in law professors and raising a standard in defense of a constitution which is in no danger. It would hearten those who agree with their basic stand against a balanced-budget amendment if they dropped the scare tactics and fought the issue out where...
...four-alarm fire, which burned for over seven hours, destroyed more than half of an empty warehouse in the Fawcett Industrial Park in North Cambridge Sunday night...