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Last week's bonhomie upset the leaders of the Philippines' moderate, basically pro-American opposition. Two of them Benigno Aquino and Raul Manglapus sent a telegram to Bush from their American exile, appealing to him not to identify the U.S. with the present government, Marcos, on the other hand, pointedly and publicly reminded Bush of the Philipines' continuing friendship, "even after Viet Nam, when it was almost impossible...
...hilarious but moving story of the Talleys today, with Kenneth, the inheritor of that big house, coming to terms with the fact that he left both legs behind in Viet Nam. But the newest play, which should have been the first, chronologically, just meanders, with no discernible destination. A telegram announces the death of Timmy, for instance, and Timmy's ghost (David Ferry) appears onstage to explain in interminable detail how he was blown to pieces on Saipan. Shakespeare pulled the same corny trick in Hamlet, but his ghost had a purpose. Wilson's does...
...British Ambassador, was tricked into writing a letter stating that in the election of 1888 England favored the Democrats. There was the famous (and forged) Zinoviev letter, supposedly a directive from Moscow to the British Communist Party, that toppled the government of Ramsay Mac Donald. There was the Zimmermann telegram that pushed the U.S. into the first World War, and the letter General Douglas MacArthur sent Congressman Joe Martin from Korea indirectly attacking the Truman Administration, after which Truman directly attacked the general, and fired him. Truman of course wrote a splendid impulsive letter to Paul Hume, the Washington Post...
...Even the government press praised the fallen Cardinal as a "great patriot." While thousands of mourners filed past Wyszynski's flower-covered casket in Warsaw's St. Joseph's Church, Pope John Paul II, the Cardinal's countryman and longtime protege, sent a telegram to the Polish people from his Rome hospital bed, saying that he shared in their "pain and prayer...
...most significant effect on the EC will be a weakening of the predominant Paris-Bonn axis, which depended on the close personal relationship of Giscard and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The Chancellor was said to be shattered by Giscard's fall. He sent a formal congratulatory telegram to fellow socialist Mitterrand, whom he barely knows, but personally telephoned condolences to his defeated conservative friend...