Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embassy in Kuwait City, where 27 diplomats are reportedly down to their last month's worth of canned tuna and rice. If Iraq tried to interfere with the mission, that might provide a pretext for massive military retaliation. Saddam's reaction was to put his commanders on "extreme alert" in order to "thwart the perfidious intentions of the United States and its allies to launch an attack in the coming few days...
...Friars, who face B.U. tonight in Providence, are 4-0, including a 6-5 win over Rensselaer in triple-overtime and a 7-3 rout of--you guessed it--Vermont. This evening's game should alert the league to Providence's status--contenders or pretenders...
...meeting's] purpose is to alert everyone about the existence of these sorts of incidents and to raise awareness and sensitivity," Matt said. "The only thing we can do is discuss this as a dorm...
After Saddam's threat, the Israeli military command -- which is all too aware that Iraqi missiles are only five minutes from Tel Aviv -- quickly put its forces on an even higher state of alert. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We are preparing to forestall the threat, prevent it and if, heaven forbid, he does in fact attack, to retaliate...
Nonetheless, the mass-circulation newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda the next day achieved a bizarre fusion of conservative-radical coup rumors; it said ; military forces had been put on alert in early September to thwart a planned takeover by radicals who had organized armed assault groups. "The facts in this article were invented," Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov protested in Parliament. "No one is is preparing paratroopers for actions against the people." But even that did not kill the conspiracy talk. Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov and members of the Russian Federation government charged that Communist Party provocateurs and military hard-liners were trying...