Word: warne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious threat is still in Cambodia. Partly because the Lon Nol government has not even attempted to establish a presence much beyond Phnom-Penh, Communist recruitment efforts in the countryside are thought to be going very well. Substantial aid from Thailand has yet to materialize, and Cambodian officials warn that their government could fall within six months without more U.S. support...
...Shultz rather than Justice or HEW officials who briefed the press on the Administration's intentions. As a battle over foreign trade policy continues in the Congress, it is Shultz rather than Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans who is explaining Nixon's preferences. When Nixon decided to warn Congress that it must hold down spending to check inflation, it was again Shultz rather than a member of the speechwriting staff who wrote the statement...
...world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema. So it seemed last week, a bad week, as dirty air smothered cities around the earth. Millions of smog-choked city dwellers began to feel like canaries in coal mines-obliged to perish in order to warn others of potential disaster. Rarely before had man's dependence on the fragile biosphere been so dramatically illustrated on a global scale...
...their bizarre, plastic intricacies, Williams presents them as simple, symbolic monoliths, usually from only one perspective. The Revolutionary attempts no overview (literal or figurative) of society, portraying it with an austere, dialectical frontality. At one point after deserting from the army. A. goes into a strange town to warn that troops are coming and ends up talking for several moments into a stark, dimly-lit building occupied by militants, a surreal scene of paranoia and alienation, in which he is finally sent away without seeing beyond the facade...
...Radio frequencies emitted by the ground-base guidance radar can be changed quickly so that the radar operator can continue to track the target aircraft on his scope in spite of the "noise." Of course, sensors in the ECM pod instantly detect this switch in hostile radar frequency and warn the pilot, who can then resume jamming by a frequency shift...