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That was enough for vigorous Argentine Ambassador Hugo Oderigo. He issued a communiqué charging a "certain Argentine politician" with breaking his word not to discuss politics. Palacios heard of the statement, canceled his plane passage, and in a booming voice called on two friends to proceed as seconds to challenge the Ambassador to a duel...
...Guarded communiqués reported four important breakthroughs on the tuberculosis front. Yet strategists and tacticians alike muffled their enthusiasm in public; the fight was not yet won; TB was still the No. 1 killer of U.S. citizens between...
...mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
...thankless task of covering SHAEF, he frequently clashed with the censors. He had the energy to get around on his own, the imagination to infuse official communiqués with color and meaning...
Reported a British communiqué: "This had a salutary effect on the rioters." There were 14 dead, 123 injured...