UN Headquarters

Last Day of Cable Desk at UN Headquarters

30 May 2003

UN staff members and journalists gathered to toast the final day of the UN Cable Desk with the retirement of Anthony Pollina (with cable sign), who has served as its operator for the past 13 years while working for MCI WorldCom. An era of clacking Telex machines spewing forth streams of ticker-tape for UN accredited journalists officially came to a close that day, a victim of changing technology.

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