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...security units, plus a dozen or so U.S., British and French agencies. When not trailing Soviet agents, these allied units sometimes practice on each other. In West Berlin, for example, the only phone line between the U.S. mission and the Soviet embassy in East Berlin goes through a British switchboard. Says a U.S. official: "We assume that the British are listening in on the line as well as the East Germans. If the situation were reversed, I'm sure we'd be listening too." Though the Western agencies cooperate among themselves, there always remain nagging doubts...
...irate telephone calls, the station decided Miller's right-wing opinions might escalate tensions, and it immediately pulled Miller off the air until the "whole thing died down." That only brought an even hotter barrage of pro-Miller calls, and the station was forced to close down its switchboard and post police outside the studios. Housewives picketed the station. The Greater Chicago Police Association reacted by naming Miller their Man of the Year...
After occupying Ford Hall, which houses the university switchboard, the black students sent university officials a tape recorded message listing ten demands which it termed "non-negotiable...
...traveling scouts, displays Perusal's Oar, a leprously painted dream abstract crowned by a monster lobster claw. Another out-of-town eccentric, Walter McNamara from Reno, also displays an amusing work. His Soft Ware with Non-Tongue Plaster looks like nothing on earth except perhaps a telephone switchboard that some slap-happy electrician has partially torn apart...
...Fatah's headquarters buildings in Amman, a hectic bustle reflects the growth of the movement. Switchboard operators bellow into makeshift World War II British field telephones, trying to make contact with branch offices in Salt or Irbid. Most communication is still by handwritten letter, carried by couriers on bicycles, in Jeeps or on foot. When a dusty Arab arrives with a tightly wadded piece of paper, Arafat scribbles an answer in the margin, then sends the courier off again. Agents arriving in little black Volkswagens dash up for conferences. A white ambulance pulls up bearing the insignia...