Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday afternoon, the "crisis"--enlarged by an all-out American military alert--seemed to disappear when the United Nations voted to send a peace-keeping force to the Middle East, the first since...
...Thursday, the commander-inchief--who just one week before had asserted his authority in canning two of his most trusted subordinates--called a worldwide "precautionary alert" of American troops...
Nixon ordered the military alert early Thursday morning as a precautionary measure, Kissinger told a news conference at midday. The Secretary of State said that American officials had noticed an "ambiguity in some of the actions and statements" of the Soviets...
...whatever the rationale, the crisis spawned by the all-out military alert had dwindled by Thursday afternoon when the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously (China abstained) to create a peace-keeping force in the Middle East without Soviet, U.S., or other big power troops...
...Harvard bounced right back. The alert Crimson punt coverage unit jarred Cornell deep safety Scott Millhouse on the Crimson 20 to force a fumble and give Harvard the ball again. Two plays later, Stoeckel bootlegged around right end for what proved to be the game-saving touch-down...