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...Januray, 19 college presidents telegrammed President Nixon and new HEW secretary Casper Weinberger to "reaffirm their belief" in affirmative action as a means of eliminating discriminatory hiring patterns. Neither President Bok nor President Horner signed the telegram...
...April 30, all of the FBI'S top brass in Washington and all but one of its 59 field-office chiefs sent a telegram drafted by Walters asking Nixon to pick one of the FBI veterans-"among whom there is an inherent nonpartisanship"-as the new chief. Instead, he made the interim choice of Ruckelshaus, who had been the able head of the Environmental Protection Agency, without even bothering to inform Felt, who learned of the appointment from a reporter. The telegram elicited no response...
...high officials in the Watergate scandal. Although no one assailed Ruckelshaus personally, the tough former head of the Environmental Protection Agency became the target of a revolt within the FBI against any more political appointments. All but one of the FBI'S 59 field-office heads joined in a telegram to the President demanding that "qualified executives within the FBI" be considered for the top spot. Ruckelshaus, who does not want the permanent directorship, tried to calm the top FBI officials in a 20-minute meeting. But after he left, they met for two hours and still insisted that someone...
...Sweden, but as he started to leave, he found that the futility of a lonely protest and the vagueness of the future as an exile clouded any clear moral course It would hurt his parents more, he decided, to receive a letter from him explaining his desertion than a telegram announcing his death...
Moravia's stories are, finally, calls to accounting of the lives of people who have wept only in their dreams. "Somebody knocked at the door and a terrible voice cried 'Telegram!' " Thus ends a story ironically titled Paradise. Dante could draw another circle of hell from the slump of the Moravian woman - stifling her yawn, stifling her scream -as she shuffles to answer...