Word: alerts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Originally, the Pentagon encouraged commanders in the field to alert black troops to the service. If he was interested, the black soldier independently wrote the League, which in turn, contacted a branch in the soldier's home town. But the military's help fell off when Congressional objections were raised. Now the League must depend largely on its own advertising in servicemen's newspapers and black publications to spread the news of the service...
Meanwhile, Kissinger and company decided to move another aircraft carrier, Saratoga, into the eastern Mediterranean to join Independence, which had sailed eastward after the hijackings occurred. A group of C-130 transport planes was flown from Europe into Turkey. An airborne brigade had already been placed on semi-alert in Germany. At a later meeting, the group proposed moving a third carrier, John F. Kennedy, into the Med, and ordering the helicopter carrier Guam and its Marine landing team to leave North Carolina for scheduled NATO maneuvers in the Mediterranean a day early. Each move, as the Administration anticipated...
...Marines had another purpose. Even as Israeli Premier Golda Meir arrived in the U.S. for conferences with President Nixon (see following story), the Administration was carefully leaking muted warnings of U.S. intervention. The warnings were chiefly designed to dissuade any invasion by Israel, whose paratroopers were already on the alert to jump into Jordan if Iraqi or Syrian troops came to the aid of the guerrillas. However, an Israeli invasion would undoubtedly be met by some sort of Egyptian response...