According to the British telex, your legal department advised there'd be no violation of the cease-fire.
The next day a telex arrived at the BBC inviting me to collect my visa for Albania.
Correspondents did as they were bidden, filing their copy by air-mail letter or, in later years, by telex.
Wilson, who had received a telex of Benn's letter at his Isles of Scilly holiday home, was told the press already had copies of the statement.
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The song, which was unofficially released as a free download single over the Christmas period, heavily samples Planet Telex, the opening track on Radiohead's second album The Bends.
Wheeler's father, Roger, the former president of Telex Corp.
Veteran Malawian journalist Felix Mponda, who now strings for the French News agency (AFP), says that although the internet is comparatively cheap he is still nostalgic for the good old days of the telex machine.
But the implication from the telex they sent was that they checked with you and it was all okay, it was very much they had to check with you and get permission and then that was all right with them?
"With the telex you could actually chat with the editor there and then but with e-mail, if something goes wrong during transmission, you can't know it immediately and you get a query on why you did not file, " he says.
According to the Foreign Office, there were seven meetings here between 1st February 1999 and June 21st 1999, when the British team finally sent a telex back to the Foreign Office on an agreement they said they'd reached with the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations - DPKO - and with Minurso, the UN mission in Western Sahara.
Like a nuclear missile silo, my agency's Vatican file had its own doomsday file - a hardbound manila folder on which a typewritten sticky label had emblazoned in telex font capitals: WHAT TO DO IN CASE THE POPE DIES. While many of the instructions dated back to 1961 and could be safely ignored, it was still an interesting study in panic.
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