Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years at SAC (1948-57) hardened LeMay's already metallic approach to world politics, especially Communism. His bases became armed camps; his men- even flight mechanics-carried arms for fear of saboteurs or sudden attack. The U S bombers were on airborne alert round the clock, and the nation's capacity for devastating retaliation was unquestioned. So was the efficiency of Curt LeMay. His men regarded him with a combination of respect and abject terror...
Thieu reacted-perhaps overreacted by ordering the armed forces on general alert. Patrols and checkpoints were beefed up, Tan Son Nhut airbase was closed, and Cabinet ministers were told to keep themselves protected...
...reason, hold its own politically once peace comes a chilling hours last week, those hopes seemed about to be dashed to bits. Rumors of a military coup against the elected government of President Nguyen Van Thieu swept through Sai gon and the Vietnamese armed forces were ordered on full alert. All the night marish instability of 1960-65, with all its coups and coup attempts, seemed about to begin again. While the rumors eventually proved false, the scare was all too real...
...article about Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept. 27] and the plight of Russia's present generation of outstanding authors. Even under the most onerous of conditions the human spirit is capable of producing artistic works of outstanding merit. I hope that articles such as this one will help alert Westerners to the current deplorable situation in the U.S S R. and give a better understanding of the indomitable Russian spirit...
...Yugoslav radio stations are setting up alternative facilities outside the cities so that they can keep the people informed in the event that the urban areas fall to invaders. The 300,000-man Yugoslav army, which is equipped with a mixture of U.S. and Soviet weaponry, is on full alert. Troops, who have orders to shoot if fired upon, are digging into defense positions all along the 800-mile border that the Yugoslavs share with Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria...