Word: communique
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...customarily works until 5 a.m., had just awakened at 11 a.m. on the day of the strike. At that moment, rebels grabbed a pair of Havana radio stations long enough to put out the call. "This is the final blow against the dictatorship," said the rebels' Communiqu...
Padang's rebellion floundered, seemed perilously near collapse. The rebel communiqués continued to report bloody battles all along the shrinking perimeter of rebel territory in Central Sumatra, but newsmen searching for these savage conflicts were finding little but bad roads, torrential rains and, occasionally, friendly government troops. "It's an accident when they fight-like two people bumping into each other in the dark," said one Western observer...
...correspondents a 26-word bulletin signed by both doctors: Sir Winston had pneumonia and pleurisy. It was the fourth attack of pneumonia in Sir Winston's 83 years, and, said Dr. Roberts, "everything is troublesome to a man of his age." The world waited edgily for the next communiqu...
Without fanfare, the Palace of Monaco issued a fluffy communiqué: "Princess Caroline will be one year old [Jan. 23]. She now has six teeth. She weighs [roughly 22 Ibs.]. She is a superb child, laughing and gay, who loves to enjoy herself and is very sociable...
...appeared at Edchera, near Aiun, in the midst of a blinding sandstorm, launched a fierce attack on its garrison of Spanish soldiers and Legionnaires. It was the most murderous battle since the 1934 French "pacification" campaign. The Spanish claimed the Moroccans fled, leaving 241 corpses and 20 camels. The communiqué also listed 51 Legionnaires dead, but a knowing Madrid source indicated that total Legion casualties almost equaled the Moroccan dead...