Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's nuclear capability play a part in the U.S. global military alert of Oct. 25, 1973? According to TIME'S sources, the Israelis were convinced that the Russians had learned of the newly acquired nuclear potential, possibly through a Soviet Cosmos spy satellite over the Middle East. What is certain
...naval base at Odessa?to Alexandria, to be fitted on Russian Scud missiles already based in Egypt. The U.S., in turn, detected the Soviet warheads as the ship carrying them passed through the Bosphorous on Oct. 15 and issued a warning to Moscow by means of a world military alert...
...sources further believe that the U.S. learned about the bombs as a result of a reconnaissance sweep of the Middle East by a spy plane. Some high officials in Washington insist that the U.S. had no knowledge of the bombs and deny that they were a factor in the alert. The plane was spotted by Israeli air defenses and two Phantom jets scrambled to intercept it. "I have it on my radar," the Israeli pilot radioed. "It is an [SR-71] American Blackbird." Back to him came a direct order from a high-ranking Israeli Air Force commander: "Down...
...play the part of lobbyists. But it is wrong to conceive of the effort in such narrow terms." In one sense the idea is sound: any Harvard student knows that a pack of Harvard professors dispatched to lecture in Washington could easily lull to sleep whole departments of formerly alert government regulators. Yet Harvard might benefit more if, instead of lobbying in the capital to keep governmental regulations out of Harvard, Bok lobbied here in Cambridge to persuade Harvard to accept and even welcome those rules that, like affirmative action, promise improve the University
...principals in the episode (whose statements for the record were certain to be self-serving of false), or reconstructing quotes as best they could from anonymous sources, many of whom kept detailed diaries. They made the right decision. And in explaining their methods in full, Woodward and Bernstein alert readers to the nature of the history they have written...