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...phone list were AP. UPI. The New York Times. The New Haven Register, WRKO. "All the heavies," recalled Powers. "We were really putting the massive hurt to New Haven...
Both AP and UPI were skeptical and called back. Beach and Powers posed as Yale staffers confirmed the report and told the wire version that Yale President Kingman Brewater had told them to have anyone at anytime call him to confirm the report...
...United Press International's foreign correspondents have often observed acidly to colleagues that UPI really stands for "underpaid internationally." The chronic complaint of low pay and long hours has caused four veteran American UPI staffers to precipitate a strike in the news agency's London bureau. The four make between $185 and $205 a week, not bad by British standards but far below the minimum of $272 that UPI must pay journeymen in New York. They joined Britain's National Union of Journalists in a bid for shorter work hours, and when the N.U.J. called a walkout...
Shortly after the bomb went off at 1:40 a.m., the United Press International (UPI) received a call from an unidentified man who said that the bomb "was the first of a series of bombings planned throughout the country for March." The caller claimed to be a member of the United Black Underground Military Group for Black Justice...
...UPI and the Associated Press also received several other phone calls from people who claimed to be responsible for the bombing...