Word: telex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troops in widely scattered parts of the country moved out of their barracks and set up roadblocks at strategic points. By 3 a.m. they had secured the radio and television stations in Lagos and had begun to take prominent politicians into custody. They temporarily cut international telephone and telex lines and closed down airports, border posts and the port of Lagos. At 7:30, a member of the new junta, Brigadier Sana Abacha, announced over Nigerian radio that the Shagari government had been overthrown. For the most part, Nigerians seemed to accept the news with a shrug and an instinct...
Having visited Syria more than a dozen times during his two years as a correspondent in the Middle East, Suro is uncomfortably aware of the probability that he is followed and that his phone and telex communications are monitored in the tightly controlled nation...
...done in by the rush of technology. The system's structure could not contain or protect itself against better and cheaper ways of allowing people to reach out and touch someone. Boundaries crumbled between voice and data transmission, between domestic and international calling points, between telex, submarine cable and satellite. What counted was communication between parties, sometimes machines, no matter how or where...
...Soviet embassy official had been wounded. "It was not direct shooting," Nikolayev explained. "He was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the left shoulder. He is one of our new diplomats. We have problems. No light, no water. We have children, we have no telephone line, no telex. It is very difficult to contact who is running this country. I come here to ask who is. What can I do?" What about General Hudson Austin? "I don't know where this Austin...
Despite this news blockade, six reporters and one photographer, including TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, had managed to get to Grenada in a small fishing boat as the invasion was starting. On Day 2 of the invasion, having learned that telex and telephone lines had been knocked out in the fighting, four of the reporters-Don Bohning of the Miami Herald, Edward Cody of the Washington Post, Morris Thompson of Newsday and Greg Chamberlain of Britain's Guardian-accepted a U.S. military offer to be airlifted to the U.S.S. Guam, a helicopter carrier, in the belief that they could file...