Word: bulletin
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...bulletin originated in San Francisco, where the Allied diplomats had just approved the United Nations Charter: SF APRIL 28 (AP) GERMANY HAS SURRENDERED TO THE ALLIED GOVERNMENTS UNCONDITIONALLY, AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT IS EXPECTED MOMENTARILY, IT WAS STATED BY A HIGH AMERICAN OFFICIAL TODAY...
Radio reporters immediately began broadcasting the news. On the floor of the U.N. conference, a Chilean delegate waved an extra edition of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with the screaming headline NAZIS QUIT. The delegates burst into applause. Cheering crowds gathered in the streets of New York City and Chicago. An hour and a half later, President Truman called in reporters and announced that the story was untrue...
...Reagan-watching, was aided by Correspondent Barrett Seaman in collaring Administration aides. For News Editor Blackman, who first alerted us to the story, the events of last week brought a sense of déjà vu. As a Washington-based Associated Press correspondent in 1981, she filed the first news bulletin that Ronald Reagan had been shot...
...news bulletin on Lebanese state radio late last week was cryptic and vague, perhaps intentionally so: Beirut judicial authorities would prosecute three of the most wanted men in America, the hijackers of TWA Flight 847. The Lebanese identified the two Shi'ite Muslims who seized Flight 847 and murdered U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem as Ahmed Gharbiyeh and Ali Youness. The third man, Ali Atwa, failed to board the plane in Greece, but joined the other two hijackers in Algiers after the Athens government released him in exchange for Greek hostages on board the Boeing...
...scientists who were given free Internet access quickly discovered that the network was good for more than official business. They used it to send each other private messages (E-mail) and to post news and information on public electronic bulletin boards (known as Usenet newsgroups). Over the years the Internet became a favorite haunt of graduate students and computer hackers, who loved nothing better than to stay up all night exploring its weblike connections and devising new and interesting things for people to do. They constructed elaborate fantasy worlds with Dungeons & Dragons themes. They built tools for navigating...