Word: telexing
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...reason for this swarm of organizations and conferences is that Geneva has few peers in such conveniences as luxurious hotels (12,000 rooms in all), myriad telex lines and multilingual interpreters. Says a U.S. diplomat: "Geneva is an ideal place to talk. It has square rooms, long rooms, high- ceilinged rooms, rectangular tables, round tables and horseshoe-shaped tables. It has restaurants, great shops, beautiful mountains and a lake...
...Bureau works is quite simple: when someone sights an unusual occurance-most commonly an asteriod, nova, supernova or comet-he contacts Marsden, who then performs some preliminary calculations to verify the accuracy of the report. He then sends out a telegram from the telex machine located in his office to the service's 800 subscribers...
...once unswerving military support has been reduced to a small core of hard-line generals. Various governments around the world have openly criticized him in recent months. For Pinochet, the most stinging criticism comes from the U.S.: only minutes before the protest began, the State Department sent a telex to the Chilean government urging it to enter into a dialogue with its opposition. So far Pinochet prefers to conduct his dialogues alone...
...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...
When Liedtke heard of the offer, he shot off a telex to the Getty board threatening to sue the company for breaking the earlier agreement and promising to exercise a stock-purchase clause entitling Pennzoil to purchase 8 million Getty shares at $110 each. That would net Pennzoil a profit of some $120 million at the price Texaco is offering...