Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taiwan's defense forces stayed on alert, and police continued a round-the-clock guard of the U.S. embassy and of Taipei residential areas favored by foreigners. There were a few anti-U.S. demonstrations by students, but Americans otherwise were treated courteously and without ill-will. Ostensibly out of fear that normalization would become a burning campaign issue, the government postponed elections for vacant seats in both the National Assembly and Legislative Council scheduled for December 23. Up to that point, the campaign had been the most open in the island's history, with opposition candidates freely...
...virtual abandonment of its onetime ally. President Chiang Ching-kuo, 68, had only a few hours' warning of the move from U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger, who was himself startled by it. Chiang lost no time in calling an emergency Cabinet meeting, putting all military units on alert and issuing an angry statement. Carter's decision, he said, "has not only seriously damaged the rights and interests of the government and people of the Republic of China but has also tremendous adverse impact upon the entire free world." As a gesture to erase the shame, Taiwan's Foreign...
Scooter's curtain-time alert is for the flesh-and-blood human being who is the weekly guest star: Raquel Welch, for instance, looking scholarly in spectacles as she practices Shakespeare. Scooter guesses that she has decided to change her image, and he says that this is fine; she doesn't need to wear any of those scanty, revealing costumes on The Muppet Show...
Mayer said yesterday the report "was only supposed to alert a few administrators to the progress of the committee. It contained no recommendation. It was purely informational...
...City Council voted last month to join the Red Line Alert's injunction suit--now pending in federal distrcit court--despite a letter from MBTA chairman Robert Kiley warning that court battles might jeopardize nearly half a billion dollars in UMTA funds earmarked for the project...