Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WEDNESDAY. The kidnapers sent another taped message to the family. In it Sam expressed alarm over the newspaper accounts of ransom negotiations and urged that such reporting be cut off. He said that the revelations could endanger his life. (Justice Department and FBI officials in Washington shared this concern over press disclosures and talked of taking legal action against newspapers if Sam were harmed as a result.) The tape included music playing faintly in the background, reassuringly indicating that Sam was not buried. But FBI analysts learned that the tape might have been erased twice, then recorded a third time...
...broken," says a leading Administration official. That statement is undoubtedly an exaggeration, but throughout the top echelons of the U.S. Government there is a growing sense of alarm that the congressional investigations of the CIA, combined with repeated press charges and disclosures about its activities, have seriously damaged the agency's effectiveness. Morale has dropped among senior staffers, who bitterly claim they are the victims of a post-Watergate witch hunt. Old allies abroad are wary about cooperating with the CIA, fearing that their secrets will leak, or sources be compromised. U.S. intelligence operations against the Soviet Union have...
...March 1, a Molotov cocktail smashed through a window of the upholstery shop and started a new fire. It also set off a fire alarm, however, that kept damage to a minimum. Garrett publicly pleaded with the attacker to leave the clients alone. "If someone is doing this intentionally," he said, "I hope they will try to receive psychiatric help...
...employees were also hospitalized with less serious injuries in the one-alarm fire...
Early in 1973, Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn went to a party at the Manhattan home of Barbara Walters, queen of NBC's morning Today show. Quinn noticed that her hostess's bedside alarm clock was set for 4 a.m. "If they paid me a million dollars, I would never accept Barbara Walters' job," she told a friend that night. "That is simply no way to live...