Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first alert came from Correspondent David Aikman, a former Beijing bureau chief who had returned there from his present base in Washington to help with our coverage. "The army has made a semi-serious effort to break into Tiananmen Square," he reported. "The police launched a tear-gas attack, and a number of people were injured. Unpleasant incidents are taking place. We saw six people carried off. Huge numbers of bicyclists and pedestrians are in the streets. There is a feeling that a serious move may be tried...
...Whenever students are alive and alert and sober, and sane and serious, you drive America forward. Whenever students turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short-term pleasures without long-term failures, it slows down the machinery, slows down the quest for justice and for peace...
Black students now mesmerized by Black fraternities should turn to this much more serious enterprise--an enterprise that will enable them, in Rev. Jackson's words, to become "alive and alert and sober...sane and serious." This and similar activity focussed not on Black students' bourgeois pretensions but on crises smothering the Black poor will ensure that Black students will not "turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short term pleasures without long-term failures..." Connecting themselves with an ethnic uplift strategy focussed on the Black poor will prepare Black students "to drive America forward...
Controversy over the ill-fated flight revived when London's Daily Mail obtained a memo from the British Ministry of Transport dated Dec. 19. The alert warned British airlines and airports and some foreign carriers of a new type of terrorist bomb, packed with the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex, that could be hidden in a radio-cassette player. The memo contained an elaborate list of clues for detecting such devices, including the failure of the cassette player to function normally and more wiring than usual for a portable player. "Its sophistication, and the effort taken to conceal it," said...
...British disclosure of the hitherto unpublicized memo prompted a belated admission by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that almost identical alerts had been circulated to American airlines for more than a month before the December warning. On Nov. 18 an "aviation security bulletin" urged airlines to be on the lookout for explosive-packed cassette recorders, painstakingly describing the "Toshiba bomb." On Nov. 22 the British issued a similar alert, but only to British airlines and airports...