Word: alertinging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The first word reached Washington, via a "secure line" telephone call to Presidential Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski from Ambassador William Gleysteen. After alerting President Carter, Brzezinski summoned a meeting of the Special Coordination Committee, whose members include Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, CIA Deputy...
One of cancer's great puzzles is how malignancies escape detection and destruction by the body's protective immune system. Cancer cells are known to carry distinctive surface proteins that should act as antigens, immunological alarms. Normally, the bodily defenses respond by alerting and marshaling antibodies, lymphocytes and...
Hugh Allen, the L.E.I.U. coordinator in the state's department of justice, can cite no convictions of major organized crime figures as a result of the agency's activities. He maintains, however, that information obtained by L.E.I.U. helped federal authorities return Mafia figures Salvatore and Joseph Bonanno Jr...
FOLLOWING decontrol, the public will become more aware of the economic consequences of Congressional energy policies. In addition to producing limited increases in conservation and domestic oil production, decontrol should have the additional effect of further alerting the public to the gravity of the present energy situation. Longterm solutions to...
In 1939, when Einstein's fellow refugees Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner learned that German scientists had managed to split the atom, they sought Einstein's help. Einstein himself may have had only the faintest idea of the recent progress in nuclear physics, but after a briefing by Szilard and...