Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walks and carries himself indicates he is not physically agile. Disappearances from public life in the past suggest some bad health, probably cardiovascular trouble. Compared with Leonid Brezhnev in his final years, Andropov seems alert and durable. But those few Americans who have seen him face to face (Vice President Bush and Secretary of State Shultz are two of only a handful) report that he seems more fragile than most men his age. Shultz noted that Andropov acted like "a man who had been in charge." Still, analysts are not yet convinced he has full control in the Kremlin...
That state reached a new height last week as the Nicaraguans watched Operation Big Pine taking place across the border. Claiming that Big Pine was the prelude to a major U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua, the Sandinista government called a full-scale alert in five frontier provinces. Green-uniformed guardsmen scanned border outposts for signs of more incursions of the kind that occurred at Bismuna...
...concerned not with military plans or industrial blueprints but with political information that can help the Kremlin zero in on targets of opportunity abroad. The Soviets may not be the initiators of global unrest, but they do their best to exploit it. KGB agents posted in the Third World alert Moscow to signs of political turmoil that could be fanned into "wars of national liberation." It is difficult to determine how critical a role KGB intelligence plays when the Politburo decides which rival political faction to back in a regional conflict. But it may have been because of such careful...
...incomparable 'sting' whose unbelievability is matched only by its complexity. Their plan involves Hooker posing as a professional boxer in a real fight, but the duplicity of side-kick Veronica (Teri Garr) and the cunning of enemy Lonnegan (Oliver Reed) throw snags into the action. Lonnegan plans to alert their dangerous prey (Karl Malden) to the plot, and so dispose neatly of the pair. The viewer, impatient by the time this has all been explained, finds new amendments unremarkable...
...message to officials in all 50 states, FEMA said, "the public should be advised that protective action in connection with Cosmos 1402 is no longer necessary and thus the alert is over...