Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santos Gonçalves clung desperately to office last week. Though his grip grew weaker by the hour, he continued to hang on, and rumors swept the country that his moderate opponents were preparing to stage a coup. At week's end, several military units went on alert...
...eight years of reporting on Arab-Israeli diplomacy and violence since the 1967 war, newsmen have become alert to the subtle nuances of Middle East peacemaking. While it was no secret that a new Sinai accord was in the air, TIME correspondents in Washington, Jerusalem and Cairo saw unofficial signs that the talks had reached a critical stage well before any word that Henry Kissinger might be resuming his shuttle diplomacy. "When the two sides - and their American intermediaries - are at odds," explains State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott, "then official sources are more likely to let information out to tell...
...Lisbon, angry mobs sacked the offices and burned the files of the Communist Party in both Lourinhà and Cadaval. At week's end, amid rumors of an impending coup, the country's military leaders sought to defuse the volatile situation; its Revolutionary Council placed troops on alert and lectured representatives of the warring Socialist and Communist parties that their continued split furthered the "reactionary" cause...
Allen wrote the article, as the title suggests, in an amusing manner, filled with anecdotes of actual embezzlement cases and tips to possible embezzlers. These cases in Allen's article merely attempt to alert the non-computer-oriented executives to computer techniques, he said...
...Soviet purchase of U.S. grain revived memories of the massive-and inflationary-1972 Russian deal and temporarily caused futures prices of some grains to jump. At week's end it was revealed that discussions are indeed under way. President Ford insisted that the Administration is alert to the dangers of too big a sale overseas but also said, "We hope that there will be a sale to the Soviet Union...