Word: telex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fearing for their lives, have fled to the West, but others have carried on. After Russian troops marched in to close them down, most Czech papers published underground editions. Television newscasters managed to broadcast from studios over portable army transmitters, and C.T.K., the government news agency, opened a clandestine telex service. Editors sneaked past Russian surveillance to confer with Dubček's cooperative aides, promised to try to appease the Russians by imposing self-censorship...
...Military Telex. The far different visage of a Biafra slowly starving to death is part and parcel of Ojukwu's coldblooded strategy for pleading the right of Biafra's secession to the world. The second most important military installation in Biafra?after the airstrip code-named "Annabelle"?is a Telex machine that sends out news, photo captions and press releases daily...
...have a membership in the thousands. In the U.S., where it operates ten "churches," it seems to have a strong appeal for hippies. Though Hubbard "retired" two years ago, when he sold the good will of his name to the movement for $240,000, he keeps in touch by Telex with international headquarters in Britain...
...cable and within hours was back on station in rainy Vienna. There he kept a sharp eye on events and reactions in all of Eastern Europe and helped to speed files to New York from Prague, where 126 correspondents in the Alcron Hotel vied for the use of one Telex machine and five telephone booths staffed by a single switchboard operator...
...three mailings a week, subscribers pay $15 a month. Steadily signing up more customers, marginal as they may be, Liberation is trying to appeal to Black Power papers and underground high school sheets as well. Eventually, it plans to convert from a mail to a wire service. Its telex machine already links Washington to New York. Detroit and Berkeley...