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DISPATCHED FROM Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the three page telex arrived in the officers of two dozen senators the morning of October 28, 1981. Signed the night before by 22 corporate executives on a tour of the Middle East and Eastern Europe sponsored by Time, Inc., the telegram strongly urged the wavering legislators to vote that afternoon for the sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Senate rejection of the electronic reconnaissance planers, it argued, would "severely damage U.S. credibility in [the] Arab world...
...sports division to find the new head of CBS News, Van Gordon Sauter, 46. CBS and NBC were the first to sneer 4½ years ago, when ABC chose its sports wonder Roone Arledge to head both ABC News and Sports. Arledge sent Sauter a wry congratulatory telegram, suggesting that CBS obviously knew the right place to look for a new news boss...
...Association of Art Museum Directors, a national organization of leading curators, officially denounced the proposed sale in a telegram to Bok on January 23, about one week before he reached a final determination. The association said the proposed violated a crucial aspect of the written ethics of museum administrators...
...DEAL said the next day's headlines. Rollin Kirby of the New York World-Telegram summed up the reaction with a cartoon, which showed a troubled farmer with a hoe looking up into the sky at an airplane bearing the incantatory
Southwest officials point to a number of occasions when their bank led the drive to cut the prune. When it dropped the rate in August 1971, President Nixon sent the bank a telegram saying: "I was particularly heartened by the positive action." An other Southwest-led reduction in the prime on Sept. 16, 1976, resulted in an 8.64-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average. And in April 1980, commodity prices advanced broadly on the day of a Southwest decrease. The St. Louis bankers proudly claim that a meeting of the world's financial powerbrokers at the International...