Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...club is an officially sanctioned undergraduate organization. "We are tied to the University and subject to its rule," says treasurer Diane M. Cardwell '86, who adds that The Signet does not use the Centrex phone system, the University's steam heating, or alumni mailing lists...
...goals and possible consequences. Then came the long, tension-filled wait. Contingency plans were made to update the story if the attack came later on Sunday. Duffy had judged that the raid would not come over the weekend but nonetheless stayed in touch with his contacts by phone...
Minutes later, at 7:20, Larry Speakes strode into the White House briefing room, and all three networks cut to his press conference. As Speakes informed the nation of the U.S. attack, Fischer joined other correspondents at Al Kabir in a huddle around ABC's open phone line to New York to hear for themselves what was actually going...
There had been some early warnings. The Washington Post's Christopher Dickey had been awakened by a 1:30 a.m. phone call from his U.S. office and told that an attack was to occur that night. Since the Post's editors did not know exactly when or where it would happen, they decided not to keep a telephone line open. Earlier that day, NBC had sent Producer Mike Silver up in a chartered plane to observe the Sixth Fleet. NBC decided that an attack was imminent and kept a phone line open beginning...
...black Mediterranean night they came, racing through orange cones of frantic antiaircraft fire to punish the man Ronald Reagan calls the "mad dog of the Middle East." As Americans, transfixed at their television sets, listened to the muffled rattle and thump of the assault filtering over the phone lines of network correspondents holed up in a Tripoli hotel, the U.S. attackers delivered their lethal cargo of laser-directed bombs. As quickly as they had come, the warplanes wheeled out to sea, vanishing back into the gloom, all safe...