Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly every British newspaper and media source--from the BBC to the Tory Telegraph covered the Spartacist protests. First The Crimson deep-sixed our protest. Then on December 6 you ran a picture of our anti-Kinnock demo at the K-School, smearing it as a pro-CIA protest at Amherst. Did our sign linking "Social Democracy from Harvard to London Financed by the CIA" upset the Big Liars in The Crimson basement to the point of shredding the wrong stack of photos? More likely it was a CIA-style "disinformation" on behalf of Harvard's fat bosses...
...near Fallingbostel, West Germany. She and West German + Chancellor Helmut Kohl were making their first joint visit to British forces stationed in the area. Decked out in stout walking shoes, flowing scarf and goggles, Thatcher looked like a "cross between Isadora Duncan and Lawrence of Arabia," as the Daily Telegraph affectionately put it. With the help of a few tips from the commander of the Royal Hussars' regiment, the British leader locked on her target with a laser beam and pulled the trigger, sending a 6-lb. practice shell 1,000 yds. directly to its mark. Kohl too scored...
...national carrier, Singapore Airlines, last November, and Taiwan is considering offering stock in state steel, chemical, shipbuilding and construction operations. "The time has come for privatization," says Y.Y. Wang, vice chairman of Taiwan's Commission on National Corporations. In Japan, the government is selling majority control of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone in order to open the telecommunications market to newcomers. Japanese National Railways is next in line...
...sugar broker from the Virgin Islands named Sosthenes Behn founded International Telephone & Telegraph, hoping to link callers around the world much as AT&T had connected phone users in the U.S. For decades thereafter, Behn's successors at ITT remained true to his vision. Even when ITT's acquisitive chairman Harold Geneen began buying dozens of companies in such fields as aerospace, bakery goods and cosmetics in the 1960s and 1970s, he kept ITT firmly planted in global telecommunications...
...across a chalkboard last week in the headquarters of the Communications Workers of America. Whose victory, however, was open to question, as President Morton Bahr announced that a tentative agreement had been reached after a strike of more than two weeks by 155,000 C.W.A. members against American Telephone & Telegraph...