Word: telexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Geographic sprawl and an outdated balloting system make the Philippines susceptible to vote fixing. Of the 90,000 polling stations located on more than 7,000 islands, only a handful have votes tabulated by computer. The majority use paper ballots, manual counting, chalkboard addition and telephone or telex messages to relay the results...
...philatelic broker, Rousso, 35, says that official catalogs value the rare stamps that he has traded since 1984 at $45 million. Now he is taking the art of stamp trading into the computer age. Starting this week, collectors worldwide will be able to buy and sell rare stamps via telex through Rousso's Miami-based International Stamp Exchange Corp. In a month, stamp buffs will also be able to trade through personal computers...
...provided information, and only to those who were fortunate enough to still have electricity; sections of the city were without power. A station in Bogota, Colombia, was able to monitor the Mexican channel's transmissions via satellite, and relayed the highlights to the outside world. International telephone and telex circuits were down and, as during the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, the first on-the-spot accounts came from amateur radio operators. Using battery-powered equipment, a handful of Mexico City hams described the devastation to their counterparts in the U.S. The American operators, in turn, were able...
...with the U.S.A.," and in Arabic, "Down with one-man rule." Police used tear gas to drive the crowds away from the presidential palace, where they were attempting to present a petition demanding Nimeiri's resignation. With the demonstration came a general strike that paralyzed the capital. Telephone and telex links were severed, and Khartoum airport was closed, virtually cutting the city off from the outside world...
...EasyLink is only one of Western Union's woes. Some of the company's traditional businesses, notably telegrams and telex, remain profitable but have come under pressure from new rivals like in-house corporate message networks. In seeking other opportunities, Western Union has gone off in an unwieldy number of directions. Its ventures have ranged from making mobile- telephone equipment to building ground stations that beam messages to satellites...