Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other issues also threatened the mood of solidarity. Some British delegates wanted to question the 1,000 Russians attending the festival about Soviet human rights infringements; rather than cause an embarrassing fuss, they refrained. West German delegates split on the issue of how to deal with East Germany's imprisonment of Author Rudolf Behro...
...Newton's revelation, Thorpe flatly denied any involvement in a murder plot. Now the looming agonies of a trial can only add to the political and emotional demolition of a once ebullient man who, just four years ago, was one of the fastest rising stars on the British electoral scene. In the 1974 elections, Thorpe brought the Liberals to their highest level of popularity in many decades. For both party and politician, the road has led downhill ever since. Last week's events made that path look much, much steeper...
...travel to the broad public. European fares are still twice as high as those in the U.S.; and promotional cheapies are few. Rather than compete for passengers, the European airlines band together in "pools," or market-sharing arrangements. On the Paris-London run, for example, Air France and British Airways schedule their flights at different times to avoid competition as well as costly excess capacity...
...repercussions. Example: the U.S. inspired stand-by fares. They functioned smoothly only as long as planes were not being filled by passengers with confirmed reservations. Now the standbys are left stranded in appalling situations. To their woe, a few foreign carriers, notably El Al, Iran Air, Air-India and British Airways, have tried to match low U.S. transatlantic fares and have ended up with thousands of irate standbys on their hands. Most foreign airlines have resisted the deep discounts, and they have far fewer problems, at least on the North Atlantic...
...will be those with Government backing. "The American carriers are in danger," he warns. "Whether Air France gets 400 million francs from the French government today or 500 million francs tomorrow, you can be certain of one thing: Air France will still exist." So, he might add, will Lufthansa, British Airways, SAS, KLM, and all those other airlines that are the major flag carriers of their nations...