Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naive Glee. Eyewitness accounts contained scenes of savage contrast. Many of the Khmer Rouge soldiers who first entered Phnom-Penh were country boys who joyfully climbed aboard abandoned automobiles and rammed them, more by accident than design, against walls or telegraph poles; with naive glee, they looted stores for wristwatches but threw jewelry away because they had no use for it. Yet their leaders appeared to be tough disciplinarians who were more concerned about ideology than about the plight of the country's war-weary people. There were also reports of public executions, but these were not confirmed...
...another action the committee yesterday recommended University support of a shareholder resolution directing the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation to list in several large newspapers its contributes to political parties and its attempts to influences legislative...
...function of the Sicilian mafia was not wholly lost in America. But he introduces some new themes as well: the struggle for legitimacy (Michael opens himself up to five counts of perjury by denying charges rather than take the fifth); the intimate connection with "legitimate" business ("United Telephone and Telegraph"); and a sense of history. An aging Mafioso committing suicide to save his family from further intimidation reminds himself of the tradition of ancient Roman emperors, who allowed unsuccessful rebels to commit suicide to avoid confiscation of their family estates...
...secret payments of hush money to the Watergate burglars, the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Richard Nixon's federal tax return claims and perjury in connection with the investigation into a possible connection between the settlement of antitrust suits against the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. and its pledges of money for the Republican National Convention. The former President, named an unindicted co-conspirator by the Watergate grand jury for his role in the coverup, was pardoned by his successor Gerald Ford for all offenses that he may have committed during his 5½ years...
...British papers, which have not had much cheer for Britons lately, did, in fact, trumpet the news. DISCARD BOWS TO WILSON, headlined the Tory Daily Telegraph. WILSON BATTLES TO A SUMMIT WIN ON POINTS, proclaimed the Guardian. A top Foreign Office official allowed that "we have turned the corner in the negotiations." "We have undoubtedly made progress," a pleased Wilson told reporters. "It was not easy. It was hard to get. But there was a considerable atmosphere of good will about to enable us to get it." Foreign Secretary James Callaghan moved up the government's timetable and said...