Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the presidential phone call, Burleson's Boll Weevils met again, found they simply could not agree with Byrnes. "I don't like to call the amendment a phony," grumbled Burleson, "but it's a subterfuge-it will not do what it purports to do." Most of the Boll Weevils thereupon decided to vote against the Byrnes amendment...
...years he worked unsuspected. Then last year, French intelligence learned that copies of "extremely important" French documents had reached Moscow. Since only half a dozen people-including Paques-had access to them, the investigation finally zeroed in on him. For two months some 40 agents tailed him, tapping his phone and watching every move. Finally, they caught Paques passing information to Russian embassy personnel who have since left the country...
...flurry of edicts, Sukarno cut off all phone, telegraph, postal, airline and shipping links with Malaysia and abruptly halted all Indonesian trade with the federation. The trade embargo was childishly spiteful and totally without logic, for it would do far more damage to Indonesia than to Malaysia. Over 52% of Indonesia's total annual ex ports of $674 million is to the federation, and most of Indonesia's shipping is funneled through Singapore and Penang. Only Singapore has the facilities to process the low grades that make up much of Indonesia's rubber crop...
...Indonesian people will not retreat in the face of colonialism," he said. "We must fight and destroy Malaysia." Last week Foreign Secretary Lord Home declared solemnly that Britain was determined to maintain diplomatic relations with Indonesia despite Sukarno's provocations. Though Sukarno backed down slightly and restored phone and telegraph communications with Malaysia, Britain's military headquarters in the Far East were making full preparations to fight if Sukarno carried his threats to the point of outright combat...
Cool Container. At 5:30 p.m. Callahan died. "When we were absolutely sure that life had left him," says Dr. Russell, "Mrs. Callahan signed the release." A phone message went to the Brigham even as the patrolman's lifeless body was wheeled into an operating room. There Drs. Nathan Couch and Anthony Monaco made a long vertical incision on the right side of the abdomen. Within three minutes they cut down to the portal vein, which drains into the liver; they then injected a frigid solution to cool the precooled liver down still more. They completed their work...