Word: alerted
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...ultimately leading to the departure of a reported 3,900 Soviet, Cuban and East German troops and advisers harbored by the South Yemen government. The Saudis, who have underwritten 1 billion dollars in arms for the northern San'a regime, immediately put their 45,000-man army on alert, recalled 1,000 troops assigned to the Arab peace-keeping force in Lebanon and joined North Yemen in demands for mediation...
...estimated 150,000 troops, some of them rushed from positions facing Taiwan. In the past week or so, the frontier forces were bolstered by the arrival of several hundred Chinese fighter planes. At the same time, Chinese forces along the Soviet border in Sinkiang province went to full alert, and civilians were reportedly being evacuated from those areas. Said a China-watcher in Hong Kong: "No amount of paranoia could account for the size of this buildup. The Chinese are preparing for something...
According to unconfirmed reports, the Soviet Union has placed its troops on alert...
...Coughlin case is a recognition of all that. Prosecutor Kirby notes a "truly remarkable change" in Coughlin. Last June he was "very haggard, confused, worn out"; last week he was "alert, even jovial at times...
...scant two years later, ABC is attempting to make lightning strike twice - and now everyone is on the alert. When Roots: The Next Generations opens its seven-night run on Sunday, Feb. 18, both audiences and the TV industry will be judging the offspring against its towering parent. Expectations are running high. Commercial time has been sold out for weeks, at $210,000 to $260,000 a minute (compared with $120,000 to $150,000 for Roots 1). The series has already been sold to 20 countries. CBS and NBC will not be caught napping again; their fierce counterprogramming gambits...