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DISPATCHED FROM Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the three page telex arrived in the officers of two dozen senators the morning of October 28, 1981. Signed the night before by 22 corporate executives on a tour of the Middle East and Eastern Europe sponsored by Time, Inc., the telegram strongly urged the wavering legislators to vote that afternoon for the sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Senate rejection of the electronic reconnaissance planers, it argued, would "severely damage U.S. credibility in [the] Arab world...
Only one member of the Time party--Vernon Jordon, head of the National Urban League--declined to sign the telex. Jordan was unavailable for comment yesterday, and Horner said she "can't really be sure what Vernon's position...
Thomas J. Watson Jr. last year's Harvard commencement speaker and chairman emeritus of the IBM Corporation, also cosigned the telex...
...denied allegation in today's issue of the New Republic that intense Saudi lobbying efforts influenced many American corporations--including some whose representatives signed the tells--to press for the sale. The telex--as at from Riyadh. Saudi Arabia--was not a "Saudi effort" and the group actually found that some Saudi leaders opposed the sale. Horner said...
Emerson said his reporting also indicates that, despite Horner's assertion that individual signers affixed their names to the telex privately. "there was a collective discussion" among the four members were aware of whether their colleagues signed the dispatch