Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points in South Viet Nam, allied forces last week were placed on alert in anticipation of a new enemy offensive. Captured documents, prisoner interrogations and exhortations broadcast by the clandestine Viet Cong radio pointed to an imminent push-perhaps to coincide with the eighth anniversary of the founding of the guerrillas' National Liberation Front...
...countrymen to boycott Independence Day military parades to show their disapproval. Last week that seemingly insignificant act led to some startlingly drastic consequences for South America's biggest, most populous nation. The government imposed censorship on the country's radio and press, put the armed forces on alert, sent tanks rumbling down Rio de Janeiro's broad Avenida Brasil and, finally, suspended Brazil's constitution and shut down its Congress-both indefinitely. . Nest of Torturers. Alves, 32, is the chief parliamentary critic of the military strongmen behind Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva...
...high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries to cross. The guards in turn alert nearby army units, equipped to react quickly with helicopters and powerful searchlights...
...EUROPE. The Soviet retaliation against Czechoslovakia stirred the recumbent North Atlantic Treaty Organization out of its torpor, and Nixon aims to see that it stays alert. Because the Soviets "have brought half again as many troops into Eastern Europe as they had there before, and placed them farther forward than ever," said Nixon in mid-October, NATO forces should be brought up to prescribed force levels "as a minimum response." Nixon also emphasizes the need for "a new attitude on the part of the U.S.," one that leads to an improvement of communication with the NATO allies. In particular...
...smallest dabbler in penny stocks and the manager of a billion-dollar mutual fund have at least one thing in common: both men are always alert for the inside tip, the informed gossip that can lead to quick profit. Not surprisingly, stockbrokers often pick up those tips ahead of their customers. And they usually pass the information along to large institutions whose trading pays big commissions. Last week, for just such misuse of inside information, the Securities and Exchange Commission severely penalized the world's biggest brokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith...