Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...spokesman for the General Services Administration, manager of federal civilian installations, said he did not know whether the alert was prompted by any secret information that might warn of further attacks; nor did he know how long the alert might last...
...spokesman said General Services Administrator Robert L. Kunzig ordered the security alert late Monday night and it was placed in effect Tuesday...
...hope. The government's television channels, after announcing news of Nasser's death, followed with an apt quote from Proverbs 24:17: "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles." The Cabinet, hastily summoned, ordered Israeli front-line troops on alert until events were sorted out. Foreign Minister Abba Eban pointedly offered Nasser's potential successor a nonbelligerent atmosphere in which to operate. With the 90-day cease-fire between his country and Egypt due to expire early next month, Eban said at the United Nations: "We do not recognize...
...Alert Nasser suffered a similar attack a year ago. At that time, he remained in bed for six weeks, but the illness was publicly reported as influenza; only after his death...
...together with Defense Minister Mohammed Fawzi and two old companions from the 1952 revolutionary days of the Free Officers Movement, Hussein Shafei and Ali Sabry. After Nasser died, it fell to Sadat as Acting President to break the news to the nation. He waited three hours, while a red alert was flashed to put army units on guard against a possible Israeli attack. Then a weeping Sadat went on television to say: "The U.A.R., the Arab nation and humanity have lost the most precious man, the most courageous and most sincere...