Word: telegrammed
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...publication of some of this material in a Soviet magazine three years ago prompted a flood of recollections from other witnesses and led Radzinsky to distant provincial archives. He discovered a telegram that the local Bolshevik leaders had sent to Lenin the day before the killings. "The trial agreed upon . . . cannot bear delay, we cannot wait," it read, referring to earlier discussions in Moscow. "If your opinion is contrary inform immediately...
...long been discredited in the West, but a statement from Alexei Akimov, who in 1918 had served in the Kremlin as a guard to Lenin, completed the case against the Bolshevik leaders. "When the Ural Regional Party Committee decided to shoot Nicholas' family, the Central Executive Committee wrote a telegram confirming this decision...
Richard Connor, publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, recently charged that Perot in effect tried to blackmail him back in 1989 after the paper ran articles critical of his son's management of the airport. Perot angrily suggested in a phone conversation, according to Connor, that he possessed compromising photographs of a newspaper employee and a city official. Perot acknowledges that he did talk with the publisher, but denies any hint of blackmail or mention of compromising photos...
...dithering over whether to make the Rio trip only underscores his image as indecisive. Bush wants to go but is hemmed in by conservatives who believe that U.S. participation in such global parleys undercuts American power. Buchanan called on Bush to forgo the Rio meeting and instead "send a telegram" to the conferees explaining that the U.S. would not "yield one iota of our sovereignty to these global parasites...
...them see an earnest commercial in which actor James Earl Jones urges President Bush to make a vital trip to Brazil this June. People who want to deliver the same message directly to the White House can call an 800 number and for $6.95 send a personalized "Earth Telegram" to Washington...