Word: telegrams
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...dramatized on the day after the election in a memorably moving appearance by the barely defeated Gerald Ford, Wife Betty and their children in the White House press room. His voice a hoarse rasp from his final, valiant campaign drive, the President asked Betty to read the "Dear Jimmy" telegram that he had sent that morning to Winner Carter. As he listened, the muscles of his face tensely straining, he plainly struggled to control himself. Betty, also showing the weight of loss, smiled wanly and struggled to hold back tears, almost stifling the first mention of "President-elect Carter." Slowly...
...intervening three years, Amin had become something of an international villain/buffoon, due to his massacre or explusion of the nearly 100,000 Asians who had formed the managerial elite in Uganda during the colonial period, his admiration for Hitler's efforts to exterminate European Jewry, expressed in a telegram to Kurt Waldheim the day after the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich, and his seemingly psychotic messages to other heads of state such as Tanzania's Julius Nyerere. Amin saw the film, which consists almost entirely of interviews with him and scenes of him in action, directing...
...fear that your intervention would be widely interpreted as support for those who would deny children their constitutional rights and would further encourage the disruptions and ugly racial incidents which have scarred the city's recent racial history," the telegram said...
Meldon S. Hollis, president of the Law School Council, said yesterday that only one of the 13 council members who voted on the telegram refused to endorse...
Charles E. Bachman, chairman of the Law School's Board of Student Advisors, and Laurie D. Zelon, editor of the Harvard-based Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Review, said yesterday they also gave Hollis support for the telegram...