Word: alerted
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...rest of the defensive secondary, with one exception, is also new. The exception is Captain Bill Emper, who is the defense's answer to Kubacki. All-Ivy a year ago, Emper is getting national recognition this time around, probably because his leaping profile was captured by an alert photographer in the Dartmouth game and wired across the country. He deserves it; he provides glue-like coverage which he applied to Bob Farnham and Gary Fencik in the Brown and Yale games respectively...
Polaski expressed concern yesterday that there might be more trouble as an increased numbers of picketers and police face each other this morning. She also indicated that 15-20 riot policemen had been put on alert at the Fresh Pond police station, and said that they were "going through maneuvers...
...Alert. Teachers lead the inmates, one by one, through specific textbook cases: "You are not married but are the mother of a child fathered by ..."; "You arrive at National Airport from New York, and a policeman finds a pound of marijuana by searching your suitcase ..." The courses wind up with mock trials, in which the convict-students prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical...
Official U.S. statements were quickly followed by some ominous military moves. U.S. military personnel on leave in South Korea were ordered back to their posts, where they went on "increased alert status." A squadron of F-4s (18 to 24 planes) was dispatched from Kadena, Okinawa, to Korea; so was a squadron of F-111s from Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho; so was the carrier Midway from its position off Japan. Still, there was no indication whether the U.S. was preparing a retaliatory move or simply beefing up its strength in anticipation of more assaults by the North...
...feeling the place could explode any minute." To avert new violence, Gierek has promised to conduct "a frank, open dialogue" with the public about his food policy. Just in case that should fail, he has also canceled military leaves so that Polish forces can maintain a state of semi-alert...