Word: alertness
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...Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting at dawn as tens of thousands ofchemical warfare and regular troopswent on alert. They were bracing for possible retaliation after policearrested Shoko Asahara, the Japanese cult leader, and 14 of his followers. Asahara was charged Monday with murder inthe Mar. 20 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at the Aum Shinri Kyo cult's rural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in last night. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told...
...says a top FBI man. With the help, that is, of more than 500 FBI, ATF and Customs agents, and police officers on the case in Oklahoma City, thousands of others who have been running down leads across the nation, support staff and lab technicians, and officials still on alert at the borders...
...most immediate change in procedures took place at federal buildings. In Denver, uniformed guards were posted at day-care centers, and downtown parking meters around the U.S. courts complex were cloaked with red covers, banning curbside parking. In Nevada, Forest Service officers went on alert, patrolling in pairs out of concern about attacks by radical anti-environmentalists. In Washington, where the Library of Congress removed the Gutenberg Bible from its glass case and locked it in a basement vault, police distributed flyers to federal office workers that suggested questions they might ask callers who phone in bomb threats. In Newark...
...believe the bureau has stopped many terrorist actions, including bombings, because it has penetrated groups it thought might use violence. It cannot take public credit for this; to do so would compromise its methods and alert its targets. I don't know whether it has prevented as many as it might have if all its members had been enthusiastic instead of cautious about intelligence work aimed at sensitive political targets...
...Were Sleeping has. But its most attractive quality is its ease. The script by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fred Lebow wears its wit casually, and the director, Jon Turteltaub, is serenely confident of it, his actors and his audience. He lets scenes develop and characters--especially Bullock's alert and tender Lucy--emerge at their own unforced pace. How nice it is to come out of a mainstream American movie feeling that you've been treated as an adult. And how rare...