Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people who marched through Amsterdam last weekend showed dramatically, the movement draws its strength from a broad cross section of society, much as the U.S. anti-Viet Nam protests did: housewives, professionals, academics, clerics and union members. "Today's situation is probably more serious than the crises and friction we've had in the alliance during the past 30 years," says
...Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council's early advocacy of unilateral disarmament made it a tempting target for the Dutch Communist Party, which tried covertly to infiltrate local chapters. But in 1978, after delegates from Moscow were dispatched to lead a youth march in Amsterdam against the neutron bomb, the Council rebelled. Since then, the church-sponsored group has deliberately held itself aloof from the Communists, although some cooperation does still exist on the local level. This year the Dutch intelligence agency declared the Council to be free of Communist penetration, and Interior Minister Ed van Thijn told the Dutch parliament...
Acker used such tactics as chairman of Air Florida to build that airline in just four years from a tiny carrier serving only cities in Florida to a Might) Mite that flies to Washington, New York London and Amsterdam. He turned Air Florida into a paradigm of what the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 was supposed to foster: increased competition, more flexible fares and easier entry for newcomers or smaller carriers into markets long dominated by the major airlines...
...American Scene story on Wall Drug Store in South Dakota [Aug. 31] brought back memories of our then college-student daughter sending home pictures of a main thoroughfare in Amsterdam. Amid the signs in Dutch was one standout in English: ONLY 5,280 MILES TO WALL DRUG, SO. DAKOTA...
...became president of Braniff in 1970, and in 1977 was named chairman of Air Florida. By slashing fares and expanding service, he increased Air Florida revenues from $7.8 million in 1977 to $161.2 million last year. The formerly small intrastate line now flies to 43 cities, including London and Amsterdam...