Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked for a debate earlier, and had been turned down. And all of a sudden there was a telegram from the Secretary-General asking us to participate -please come in 24 hours, and the U.S. has agreed on it. Well, that was for us rather a surprise. We believe that the decision to go ahead with a Security Council debate now means that the Americans have...
Associate Editor Frank Merrick first met Edward Moore Kennedy in 1962, when Kennedy, then 30, made his initial bid for a seat in the U.S. Senate and Merrick was reporting for the Holyoke, Mass., Transcript-Telegram. In the next 17 years Merrick often wrote about the Massachusetts Senator, tracing his career as one of history's most famous noncandidates. Now in this week's cover story, Merrick has Kennedy off and running at last as a formidable presidential candidate...
...Only a telegram arrives. It informs the five women that the boy has died of cholera. His body has been cremated...
Both President Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin signed Moscow's telegram of congratulation to Amin, who is most unlikely to steer Afghanistan from its Marxist, pro-Moscow course. The Soviet leaders may be less happy with the erratic Amin than they profess. DeVoss has learned that on two occasions the Soviets advised Taraki to distance himself from Amin and reduce his power. Taraki responded by replacing Amin as Defense Minister last March. But he was unable to reduce Amin's influence with the top Khalq military officers; their support enabled him to repossess the defense portfolio...
...What we got is a snowstorm in the middle of June. Nobody can go anywhere." In Connecticut, truckers effectively blocked off five major fuel terminals. In Massachusetts and Maine, produce shipments dropped 40%. Hog deliveries in the Corn Belt were off by 75%. California Governor Jerry Brown sent a telegram to President Carter warning that agricultural shipments had reached a crisis stage: "Most of the California production is perishable and will be totally lost if the disruption continues...