Juncker and his entourage have been telephoning the British mission to the EU in Brussels pleading for an audience.
According to Carlyle, the reporter got the details of the ceremony by telephoning an elderly Church of Scotland minister claiming to be 'a great pal of Bobby from London'.
Others find this an implausible conclusion.Bill Clinton himself underlined the connection between Iraq and Wye by telephoning Binyamin Netanyahu on November 10th to urge an end to Israeli foot-dragging over ratification of the accord.
While loyalist ministers queued up to express poorly feigned surprise at Ms Short's "timing" and "self-indulgence", Downing Street insisted that the prime minister was too busy telephoning "world leaders" about that second resolution to deal with Ms Short just yet.
Paulo Renato Souza, a former cabinet colleague of Mr Serra and now his state education secretary, remembers him telephoning in the middle of the night, demanding information.A difficult man he may be, but the governor inspires loyalty from those who work with him.
But Mrs Arroyo herself subsequently admitted telephoning an unnamed election official, without confirming or denying the authenticity of the tapes.
Mr Paterson is said to have meddled in the matter by telephoning Mr Johnson's accuser in a bid to dissuade her from taking legal action.
Perhaps a decent telephone system will eventually emerge, but for now telephoning in Nigeria is a nightmare.At Lagos port, the third crucial lifeline for business, a combination of a new import-inspection regime, a surge in demand and continuing building works has resulted in a line of containers stacked up four high and 16 wide, running for miles while they wait to be checked through.
Mr Bush was telephoning Israel's Ariel Sharon and the Palestinians' Mahmoud Abbas, on May 20th, after five Palestinian suicide bombings in three days stalled the new peace effort as it took its first tentative steps forward.The weekend had appeared to offer a frail glimmer of hope.
Not in the Maldives, where the tourism industry does most of the international telephoning.
The broadcasters are vehemently opposed to this.It will be a long time before there is widespread telephoning from private cars into the public network.
