Word: telegraphic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ingrid Duran, the wife of accused gunman Francisco Robert Duran , says her husband had problems with the U.S. government but never would have tried to kill President Clinton. "To take another life is against his principles," she told The Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph in an interview published today. Duran, who's being held without bail on charges of firing 27 bullets at the White House Saturday, may soon be charged with plotting assassination, based on statements from a former co-worker and papers found in his truck. His lawyer, public defender Leigh Kenny, said today that Duran "had ample opportunity...
...most intimate, traditional, European. Though it boasts wondrous sets and costumes -- an aviary motif with acrobat birds in brilliant plumage -- it is dominated by the clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying his solitude until another arrives; it is a French existential drama in miniature, a No Exit or Godot with a sweeter aftertaste...
...large (and very expensive) American telecommunications satellite, launched Thursday night aboard a French Ariane rocket, floated away to parts unknown after it detached from the spacecraft outside the earth's atmosphere early today. The Telstar 402 satellite, owned by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was to provide telephone and television links in the U.S. and the Caribbean for 12 years. Now red-faced officials at Arianespace, a commercial offshoot of the European Space Agency, are scratching their heads. The Telstar could represent a $200 million loss, but nobody's sweating at AT&T: "It was substantially insured," spokeswomen Mona Williams...
...sport's most notorious upsets. The victory over Colombia (following a tense tie with Switzerland) nearly ensures that the U.S. will advance to the second of five rounds in the 24-team bash. It also drew praise for the upstart Yanks from a skeptical world press; London's Daily Telegraph dubbed them "Team Miracle." Naturally, the spokesman for the U.S. eleven, Dean Linke, is even more enthusiastic: "We really are America's Dream Team of soccer...
...While analysts were debating whether this global network was feasible, Microsoft announced a deal with Japan's Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, the world's second largest telephone company, to design business applications for CD-ROM and facsimile machines...