King Juan Carlos and Spain's conservative prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, both sent congratulatory telegrams.

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This has been going on since the mid-19th century, when telegrams were introduced.

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The letters and telegrams and phone calls were vastly in his favor, and they somehow found their way to the committee.

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Starting at 4 p.m. that day, he said, he sent faxes and telegrams to the Mumbai police commissioner and to local politicians.

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Police say the telegrams and faxes didn't reach the police commissioner that day because they weren't properly addressed and it was a holiday.

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Ruma was reminded of the telegrams her parents used to send to their relatives long ago, after visiting Calcutta and safely arriving back in Pennsylvania.

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In fairness, Wallace does attempt to address the post-Vietnam fallout, such as the resentment met by returning veterans and the callous distribution of telegrams to war widows.

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More than half of the Press Telegrams employees are unionized.

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How does the poor devil decide whether he is supposed to defend his government or insist stoutly on his committee's right to see those wretched telegrams from Sierra Leone?

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Among other antics, he sent taunting telegrams to Britain's queen, declared himself king of Scotland, challenged the Tanzanian president to a boxing match, and staged a mock invasion of South Africa on an island in Lake Victoria.

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He received some 6, 000 telegrams.

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