Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military coup that would abort the Popular Unity government's planned experiment in democratic socialism. In the course of carrying out Nixon's orders, the CIA developed a very special relationship with an American multinational worried about the fate of its massive Chilean investments--the International Telephone and Telegraph Company...
Observers also agree that the CIA played a far larger role in Chile than the U.P. expected, or than Americans were told about. The American intelligence agency--in cooperation with America's International Telephone and Telegraph Co., which feared the U.P. would nationalize its Chilean branch--funded rightwing and fascist groups that tried to provoke chaos, preparing the way for a junta whose major bid for support came in the guise of promoting security for the middle and upper classes. The CIA also paid small shopkeepers to hoard goods, and truckers--who comprise one of the best-paid sectors...
This case is not the only embarrassment for American Telephone & Telegraph Co., parent of the Bell companies L.E. Rast, president of Atlanta-headquartered Southern Bell, John J. Ryan, former vice president and general manager for Bell operations in North Carolina, and three other company executives have been indicted in North Carolina on charges of conspiring to force other company officials into falsifying expense accounts so that the money could go into illegal political contributions. The company has admitted that some 80 Southern Bell executives between 1971 and 1973 made contributions to politicians totaling $142,000. Ryan last week pleaded...
Reactions to all this have been swift and angry. The Daily Telegraph editorialized that the book constitutes "a failure of ecclesiastical statesmanship" that will confuse faithful Christians. The semiofficial Church Times dismissed the anthology as "a notably unconvincing contribution to the cause of unbelief." The Archbishop of Canterbury was heard to remark at a picnic that the book "has made more hubbub than it is worth"; in that spirit, he successfully prevented debate over it at last month's meeting of the church General Synod...
...convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million worth of supplies over nearly two years...