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...Telex machines in newsrooms the world over last week tapped out a sensational story. Under a Vienna dateline, Reuters reported that a power struggle had broken out within the Kremlin. Citing sources in Belgrade and Prague, the article said that three Politburo members-Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, Trade Union Leader Alexander Shelepin and First Deputy Premier Kirill Mazurov -had taken the extreme step of writing a letter that blamed Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin for failures in the Soviet economy...
Half the job was getting the news out. "The public telex office was jammed day and night," reported Flamini. "The overloaded wires became more erratic with frequent breakdowns and wrong numbers. One correspondent waited hours, only to discover that he had transmitted his entire story to a Scandinavian machine-tool factory with a call sign similar to that of his paper." Eventually TIME'S team got their report over the wires to New York. Their files, along with Jim Wilde's in Nairobi, provided the material for this week's cover story written by Spencer Davidson, edited...
...dropped from 17 a day to three, and soon were discontinued. The last pilots to get in with dried fish and other food had to unload their own planes because workers had fled. Often food moved from Uli was brought back because distribution centers had been overrun. The last telex message from Biafra to Markpress, a Geneva public relations firm that has handled the Biafra account with skill, said tersely: "Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, the airstrip at Uli is functioning normally." Next day it fell and with it the nation that it had kept barely alive...
...besieged outpost. As a result, he was unable to make the most effective use of the massive U.S. air power and artillery that were put at his disposal. Communications between the various defending units were also poor. Meanwhile, communications to the outside world about Ben Het set cable and telex wires humming. Hard-pressed to find stories in an increasingly quiet war, the press corps in Viet Nam seized eagerly on Ben Het. Some stories even warned that the outpost might be overrun, a threat the North Vietnamese encouraged by code-naming the base Dienbienphu...
...lowed and covered with furry blanket, addressing himself to martini, steak and a copy of Realties. In April, Gehnrich Associates kicked off a campaign for RCA Global Communications, aiming to get across the point that a businessman can often save himself an over seas trip by sending a telex message instead. Headline on the RCA ads: "Why send the whole man overseas just to give someone a piece of his mind...