Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japan on Alert...
...United States to resist acts of terror," President Clinton ordered far morestringent security measuresto be put in place at all federal buildings in Washington. In the last two days, bomb threats have been made in seven other cities. All international airports remain in a heightened state of alert. On Capitol Hill, Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde said he will toughen the Clinton administration's anti-terrorism bill to prevent members of terrorist organizations from entering the country. Clinton's proposed legislation would make terrorist acts within the U. S. a federal offense. Hyde's bill would also toughen visa and asylum...
Working against a tight deadline, at least 20,000 Japanese police fanned out today in a desperate search for cult leaders suspected in last month'snerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Coast guard patrols checked boats leaving the country, and police in Tokyo went on "emergency alert." The reason: in a book released last month,Aum Shinri Kyo cultleader Shoko Asahara predicted a disaster in Tokyo this weekend. Other police units concentrated on crowded neighborhoods in case cult members interpreted the prediction as a sign to do damage. At the same time, other cult leaders went on trial...
...which has provided limited financial backing to Iraqi dissidents, was alerted by the Iraqi National Congress in February that the coup would soon take place. But the agency was skeptical. Talabani and the other plotters could not keep their mouths shut about the planning. The week before the coup, even reporters were picking up rumors that it was imminent. "If the press knew about the coup, you could be sure Saddam knew," said a U.S. intelligence analyst. He did. The week before the coup attempt, Saddam put his entire military on full alert. He never set foot in Tikrit. Samaraii...
...That was pretty nice at the end of the game that the refs didn't mind calling a penalty with two minutes left," Tamburro said. "But all I think [the hitting] does is make me a little more alert out there, a little more feisty...