Word: alarms
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...whether Cuba could have acted to halt the Katangese rebel invasion of Zaire's Shaba region. In his congressional appearance, Vance blamed the press Is for "overblown" concern with the issue-even though it was the Administration, and especially Carter, that had done most to fan interest and alarm over Cuba's role. When he delivered his policy address to the Jaycees, Vance did not even mention the subject. Instead, he proposed increasing U.S. "consultations" with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Angolan government, and spoke of "working with it in more normal ways." (Only two months...
...Bakke decision, for all its palliative effect, will come to be regarded as a display of the Court's genius, it is also cause for alarm. Its condemnation of quotas in admissions programs could have an unexpected effect on hiring practices. Even more important, the kind of flexible admissions policy Powell finds so compelling leaves the door open for the concept of diversity to shift away from the present definition, leaving the minority applicant high and dry. Such a shift does not seem likely today, but it is troublesome; they did leave the door open...
These books indicate a certain shift in conservative thinking. They are not so much polemical assaults on the left as probing critiques of their own faith. Such candid self-examination may give liberals genuine cause for alarm...
Italians had reasons for both hope and alarm last week following the obsequies for assassinated former Premier and Christian Democratic Leader Aldo Moro. In local elections affecting two provinces and 816 cities and towns, voters turned out in record numbers (3.4 million, or 10% of the electorate). Shunning the extremes, they cast their ballots for the parties of the political center and handed an unexpected loss to Italy's Communist Party. But as if to prove that the country would have no reprieve from violence, terrorists of the Red Brigades and other radical groups carried out a series...
...Iranian troops struck me as the most listless of the U.N. forces, and the Gurkhas from Nepal as the most contented. They brought their bugles and drums with them to Lebanon, and an enormous silver bell used both for ceremonies and for sounding an alarm. "Our King believes in peace," says the Nepalese commander, Lieut. Colonel Keshar Bahadur Gantaula. "We came here in that spirit, and we'll give anyone a fair chance. But, of course, if they don't respond, then we'll fight...