Word: telexing
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...story flavoring has included mention in the press of secret hotel meetings, coded Telex messages, smuggled transcripts, hidden political struggles and numbered Swiss-bank accounts. The BBC put together an 18-minute show, complete with maps showing certain points where portions of the manuscript were supposedly delivered from the Soviet Union, and an on-the-scene report from the Copenhagen hotel where the final deal is said to have been made...
...borders are closed and rigid curfews enforced by the threat that any violators will be shot on sight, reporters lose a fundamental of good reporting-mobility. And in the case of the Jordanian fighting, telephone and telex circuits were cut within minutes of the first shot, leaving reporters dependent upon a single Morse code connection to Beirut. Soon they did not even have that. A power failure cut off electricity to all of Amman, ending the link...
...substantial rise in stocks were as hard to find as cheerful brokers. The Dow-Jones industrial average fell 15 points to 711, and new lows for the year were set by many faded glamour stocks, including American Hospital Supply, Avon Products, Walt Disney Productions, Iowa Beef, National Cash Register, Telex, Texas Instruments and Xerox. At week's end the Government reported signs that the economy was picking up: industrial production and personal income climbed in July, pretax corporate profits barely declined at all in the second quarter and laggard statistics showed that the gross national product rose a bit more...
...Interior Ministry recently offered amnesty to an estimated 16,000 Communist agents believed to be operating in West Germany and West Berlin if they would only cease operations. The large number of agents may help explain why the East Germans recently approved an increase in the number of Telex lines between the two Germanys from 19 to 35. Could it be that with all those secrets flowing to East Germany, existing lines were overloaded...
...wake of anti-Communist riots the week before. The problem was how to get his eyewitness report out of the country, since all communications were immediately cut. Allman solved that by giving his file to a messenger who somehow drove to Thailand. Later, Allman was able to telex and telephone his material-that is, when the gremlins were off the wires. In Saigon, Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, who coordinated the reports from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and South Viet Nam, reported that telex communications even between such major centers as Bangkok and Saigon were "so bad that for a time they...