Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kirchschläger, walked with a slight limp by the honor guard and then was driven straight to his quarters in the Soviet embassy, a tree-shaded stone building that was built in the 19th century. Members of the Soviet advance team had taken great pains to portray Brezhnev as alert and eager for the summit and in no way hampered by ill health. Still, Austrian officials took no chances. They quietly ordered several hospitals throughout the city to keep beds and life-support equipment at the ready in case Brezhnev needed them...
...group called Red Line Alert, composed of businessmen and homeowners who are affected by the construction, is trying to stop the extension on the grounds that the original 1500-page EIS does not adequately warn those affected by the ramifications of the extension...
...Magistrate Laurence Cohen defended the original EIS in a 31-page opinion to U.S. District Court Judge David Nelson, and said the allegations of Red Line Alert are "frivolous" and, in one case, "simply inaccurate...
...days earlier they had learned from French diplomats that during President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's visit to Moscow, Brezhnev had seemed to be deteriorating badly. At the airport welcoming ceremony, he shuffled past the guard of honor, clutching Giscard's arm. He seemed alert during his talks with Giscard, but his speech was badly slurred and he had trouble breathing. At dinner he sometimes did not respond when addressed and he ate his food with a teaspoon...
Lambert slumped to the cold Forum ice, stunned and momentarily removed from the world of the alert. But if he'd known what would happen two-and-a-half hours later, Lambert would have felt no pain...