Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...function only marginally; for the past week it has functioned not at all. During his press conference last Friday night Nixon pointed to his decisive action in the Middle East as evidence of the continuing vitality of the government, but the skepticism aroused by his declaration of a military alert points only in the opposite direction...
Nixon opened the nationally broadcast conference by stating that Thursday's Soviet-American confrontation over a Middle East peace-keeping force has made "the outlook for a permanent peace the best it has been for 20 years." He also said the world-wide alert of U.S. forces ordered early yesterday has been relaxed...
Although the U.S. has terminated its worldwide military alert, Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger '50 said yesterday that most U.S. military units would be kept ready until Russia's forces returned to normal...
...aware that Soviets had alerted comprehensively their airborne forces," Schlesinger said, indicating that about 50,000 Russian paratroopers had been put on alert. However, he said that the U.S. did not know whether the Soviets ordered their troops to stand down from the alert...
...Alert Over...