Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Required reports were filed on the incident with the NRC, and should have led to a simple warning that would have kept T.M.I.'s operators from misreading the situation two years later. However, that warning was never issued. Now, instead of waiting for such an NRC alert, the industry has set up a new watchdog group, the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center. It will review reports of minor incidents and, if necessary, press for changes in operating practice or equipment design...
...marker, of dubious value. The marker in this case is the horseplayer's six-year-old daughter (ah, so, thinks the alert viewer, past whom no subtlety can be slipped, that's what the film's title means). Sorrowful does not deal in human flesh but just now he is distracted; a dim-witted killer named Blackie (Tony Curtis) is trying to muscle him into investing in a gambling casino...
...authors hope their description of how easily a nuclear blackmail attempt can be brought off will, as Lapierre says, "alert some heads of state to the dangers of nuclear proliferation." Among the intended targets of the warning is Lapierre's own France, which canceled a nuclear reactor sale to Pakistan only under heavy and persistent U.S. pressure. Said Lapierre last week: "The attitude of the French government influenced us to some degree to write the book...
...week's end active mass resistance appeared to have been suppressed. But Soviet forces in the major cities remained on full alert as rebel leaders threatened a new round of guerrilla attacks. Rumors of an outright reign of terror, with summary executions of suspected Muslim instigators, seemed certain to compound seething popular resentment. Said a Western diplomat: "The Soviets may have succeeded in subduing the population in this first round, but that is not the end of the affair, knowing these hot-blooded Afghans." Added another: "The quagmire Moscow has created for itself is getting deeper and deeper...
...Soviet orbit. Following a special session of the 28-member National Defense Council, military leaders spoke confidently of "a high degree of combat readiness in the country." Since mid-January, Defense Minister Nikola Ljubičić has kept the 259,000-strong armed forces on low-level alert and ordered the stand-ready notification of the country's 500,000 reservists...