Word: telex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout Saturday evening there had been ominous signs of the trouble to come. Reports reaching the Warsaw headquarters of the trade-union movement Solidarity from regional offices warned of an unusual amount of troop activity throughout the country. Tanks were seen on provincial highways. In late evening, telephone and telex lines between Poland and the outside world were suddenly cut. And then, at midnight, eleven police vans appeared on Warsaw's Mokotowska Street, where the local headquarters is located, and blocked the thoroughfare. Moments later dozens of steel-helmeted riot police stormed the building, where they arrested union members...
Reports filtering out of the country were sketchy because of a nearly complete communications blackout. The regime halted telex and telephone communications when the crackdown began and grounded all flights to the West. Later in the week, the Associated Press, Reuters, and other Western news agencies also lost their communication links with Poland...
...connection with Wilson is another matter. After the shooting, Tafoya lived for three weeks at a 17th century farm estate in southern England owned by Wilson. His personal papers include the private telephone and telex numbers for Wilson in Tripoli, as well as notes from what appear to be conversations with him. Prosecutors also think that Tafoya is involved in the fire-bombing of a car belonging to one of Wilson's former business associates. In a tape recording seized at Tafoya's house, a man believed to be Tafoya tells a phone caller that he was responsible...
...three major U.S. television networks, linked by telephone, satellite and telex to correspondents and other sources around the world, became the world's clearinghouse for rumors and conflicting reports. New scraps were eagerly picked up and reported by radio and TV commentators in other nations...
...print press was also out in full force, running hard to match the stunning visual story provided by television. Nearly 1,000 foreign journalists operated out of the Overseas Press Center on St. James's Street, which was equipped with 50 typewriters, 126 telephone lines and eleven Telex machines. The London Sun, calling itself the Royal Sun for the big week, stationed 40 reporters with walkie-talkies along the processional route. Die Aktuelle, the West German women's magazine, ferried its reporters and photographers around in two planes, two helicopters, two speedboats (for the Thames) and a fleet...