Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With dispatch, Navratilova repeats at Wimbledon
...word of the UPI interview reached Harvard, and it stunned the administrators who had planned that day's announcement. Schmidt scrambled to track down Wroblewski--who was in the Crimson newsroom at the time trying to reach sources in Poland--to ask him what he made of the dispatch. Wroblewski told him the rejection sounded entirely plausible. "That report was a complete surprise," Schmidt recalls. "But you never know what will transpire between an acceptance and an announcement, when it's as politically charged as this...
...Roosevelt Room at the White House, her back to the huge oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, resplendent in his Rough Rider uniform atop Texas, his indomitable horse. T.R. said his charge at Kettle and San Juan hills in Cuba was "the great day of my life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt, of course, who bragged as President he "took the isthmus" for the Panama Canal as if it were a pawn on a chessboard...
Jozef Pinior, one of five fugitive Solidarity leaders who met with former union chief Lecb Walesa on April 9-11, was taken into custody in his hometown of Wroelaw, according to a dispatch by the official Polish news agency...
...That is not a definite no," said Rosen What would he say tomorrow or next week" Familiar with all of yesterday's reports except the Radio Free Europe dispatch. Rosen still said, "I think our position remains the same. There was an exchange of letters and a conversation through an intermediary...