Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yesterday, a haggard but alert Trudeau read a nationally broadcast statement to officials and reporters gathered on Parliament Hill in the capital city of Ottowa, blasting the FLQ as "a band of murderers" and adding, "I cannot but feel, as a Canadian, a deep sense of shame that this cruel and senseless act could be conceived in cold blood and executed in like manner...
...York, identification of the bombers was made by phone, as a self-proclaimed Weatherman called to alert both police and the New York Daily News to the impending explosion. The caller also implied that the bombing was in retaliation for the quashing of a prisoner takeover in an adjacent jail. The identity of the saboteurs in the other two explosions is not certain, but the tactics have all the earmarks of the Weathermen. In Seattle, as in New York and San Rafael, authorities were tipped off in advance of the bombings. The Santa Barbara arsenal serves as the staging point...
...spokesman for the General Services Administration, manager of federal civilian installations, said he did not know whether the alert was prompted by any secret information that might warn of further attacks; nor did he know how long the alert might last...
...spokesman said General Services Administrator Robert L. Kunzig ordered the security alert late Monday night and it was placed in effect Tuesday...
...together with Defense Minister Mohammed Fawzi and two old companions from the 1952 revolutionary days of the Free Officers Movement, Hussein Shafei and Ali Sabry. After Nasser died, it fell to Sadat as Acting President to break the news to the nation. He waited three hours, while a red alert was flashed to put army units on guard against a possible Israeli attack. Then a weeping Sadat went on television to say: "The U.A.R., the Arab nation and humanity have lost the most precious man, the most courageous and most sincere...