Word: telexes
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...Beirut, the makeshift press headquarters is the 150-room Commodore Hotel, which has its own telex lines and electric generators. All three U.S. television networks-each with as many as five crews in the field-managed to send film out daily by satellite from an east Beirut ground transmission station. The unofficial rules for Beirut-based correspondents were grim, however: stick together, do not go out at night, and never photograph Syrian troops, who detained several photographers and reportedly pistol-whipped two. By contrast, the propaganda-wise Palestinians were eager to please, providing military guides to protect reporters. Los Angeles...
...correspondents, supplemented by European Economic Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, were working on the summit scheduled to begin Friday at Louis XIV's baroque chateau. The bureau was also setting up its own additional facilities outside the press center in a hotel 400 yards from the chateau gates; these included telex connections with the bureau's main office 14 miles away in downtown Paris. In London, Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo made detailed preparations to cover the Reagans' stay at Windsor Castle, even as the bureau, including Frank Melville and Art White, continued with its eighth consecutive week of reporting...
...David Edwards, then 33, a former member of Citibank's international staff in Paris, walked into SEC headquarters in Washington with an extraordinary tale. He charged that Citibank had created an intricate system of special telex messages, false documents and secret sets of books to evade taxes on its European operations. The technique involved hiding profits from tradings in foreign currency by creating artificial transactions with Citibank's branch in Nassau, the Bahamas, where taxes are lower than in Europe. In one such deal, Edwards charged, a telex from the Paris branch of Citibank instructed the Nassau office...
...aircraft precisely because of their offensive capability--because their reconnaisance ability could facilitate Saudi air raids on Israel. Horner, though contends otherwise. "You can't say knowing about someone else is offensive'--to me, 'offensive' is dropping bombs on somebody." Horner says, "Every single person who signed that telex is an extremely strong supporter of Israel." With supporters like that, you've got to wonder if Israel needs enemies...
...Sunday of every Freshman Week, President Horner advises incoming Yardlings to take Hellman's advice and "keep cool but do not freeze." The AWACS telex incident suggests that she might do well to add "Look before you leap" to her repertoire of useful maxims. Advocacy in the interests of raising the level of public debate befits a University president well But posturing in the absence of expertise does no one any good...