Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commander of a Frontier Guard unit to impose a strict curfew from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. on several villages. Anyone leaving his home or trying to enter the village during that time was to be shot. The curfew was announced at 4:30, leaving little time to warn the populace. In particular, many villagers worked outside the village, and there was no way to inform them of the new security measures. During the first hour of the curfew, 47 Arab residents of Kfar Kassem were shot as they returned to the village on bicycles and in lorries after work...
...asked Wuest to remove the chemicals from the lab, to label dangerous chemicals remaining in use and to warn students more forcefully about possible hazards, he added...
Administration officials explained they wanted to go slow until the Kremlin had been given adequate warning of the U.S.'s intention to act tough. Another reason for White House caution was Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's presence in Moscow during part of the period when the Coast Guard wanted to strike. It would have been diplomatically unwise to risk embarrassing the Kremlin at the very moment when Vance was trying to revive the long-stalled SALT negotiations. The U.S., however, did warn the Soviet embassy in Washington that "future violations [by Russian vessels] would make their ships...
Abrahamsen himself has no qualms about treating a living subject without permission. Says he: "It would be more irresponsible if we didn't make people aware of who Nixon was and what he is." Abrahamsen wrote the book to warn Americans about politicians' psychology and also in fear that Nixon will return to public life. Given Abrahamsen's thinly supported theories, however, even confirmed Nixon-haters might be tempted to think that the poor man deserves a better job of analysis...
...variety of re-engineered E. coli proved dangerous? By escaping from the lab and multiplying, their scenario goes, it could find its way into human intestines and cause baffling diseases. Beyond any immediate danger, others say, there are vast unknowns and moral implications. Do not intervene in evolution, they warn in effect, because "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Caltech's biology chairman, Robert Sinsheimer, concludes: "Biologists have become, without wanting it, the custodians of great and terrible power. It is idle to pretend otherwise...