Word: alertness
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Learning that the Soviet Union has hundreds of missiles stationed in Georgia, the President puts all United States troops on a sudden military alert and orders Atlanta evacuated. Embarrassed aides explains to the Chief Executive that the missiles are in the Soviet South, but not before Reagan asks Congress for a $3 billion emergency "revenue enhancement measure" for shovels and canned goods...
Last week the Montana Supreme Court upheld a lower court's finding of damages for the Johnsons: $200,000 plus attorney's fees estimated at $2,100. Serving notice that it would not stand for similar suits, the court said it hoped to "alert those inclined to follow the example of Daniel Murray-they may well be traveling a rocky road...
...Alabama, where Bear Bryant is next to godliness, for once it was left to a football coach to raise an outcry against himself. "I'm going to alert the president of the university and anybody who wants to know," Bryant said a month and a half ago, after Alabama's second loss of the season in nine games, "that we need to make some changes, and we need to start...
...Thwarted in every attempt on the Hill to advance his "social issues" agenda-banning abortion, reinstating prayer in public schools, ending the busing of students to desegregate schools-into real legislation, he has appointed himself as a special Senate watchdog on presidential nominations, one who is ever on the alert for signs of ideological deviation. Early in the Reagan Administration, Helms was able to delay confirmation of a few State Department officials whom he considered squishy-soft on Communism. But once the White House pushed a bit, Reagan and the Senate rolled right over the Senator's opposition. "Helms...
...Soviet ICBMs more serious, and harder for the Soviets to close, than the one that Reagan believes now faces the U.S. That would augur badly for strategic stability. It would mean that the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces would be more likely to go to a "launch on warning" alert. The more vulnerable its ICBMs, the more tempted the Kremlin would be to fire them off at the first indication of a U.S. attack-to "use them or lose them." The MX, in effect, would put the superpowers into the position of holding hair-trigger pistols to each other...