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...employees' long-distance calls. It turned out that in March alone 2,509 calls went to a single New York City number. What for? A 57-second recorded message that titillates dialers with aural sex, specifically the breathless sounds of an ersatz liaison in which the imaginative caller can pretend that he (or she) is a participant...
...week killed at least 57 people, 17 of them Americans, and wounded some 100; though the death toll is likely to rise as the search goes on, the assault already ranks as the bloodiest terrorist attack ever against a U.S. diplomatic mission. Ten minutes after the blast, an anonymous caller warned Agence France-Presse that the strike was "part of the Iranian revolution's campaign against imperialist targets throughout the world." The man identified himself as a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made up of Shi'ite Muslims loyal to Ayatullah Khomeini...
First, a male caller said that a meteor was about to-hit Cambridge. "Really," he added, "I'm at Hilles Observatory," Within seconds, a second caller said, "I am the meteor. I'm going to destroy Harvard." Next, the same voice called and said, "This is Perry White, Where's Olson...
...caller was Cecil Andrews, 37, an unemployed roofer and day laborer who had a history of instability. On the night he telephoned his threat or plea to WHMA, he was staggering drunk. Andrews was apparently near the Jacksonville square (actually, a green rectangle bordered by shops and the city's police and fire stations) when he phoned the TV newsroom three times within half an hour. He was there when Simmons and Harris arrived and set up their lights and camera, more than an hour after Andrews' original call. The police insist that they and volunteer firemen combed the area...
What followed was the gruesome result of lapses in communication and judgment. The station, which had alerted the police four separate times, contends it had worked out a deal to use the camera as "bait" to draw the troubled caller out of hiding so that police could apprehend him. Police Chief Paul Locke, 35, however, says there was no such deal. In any case, Simmons and Harris failed to notify the police of their arrival on the scene, an omission that both sides termed disastrous. Says Chief Locke:"I am very critical of their behavior...