Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overwhelming moral judgment which would support U.S. aid to Greece. With such a mandate, said Johnson, the U.S. and "like-minded members of the United Nations" could join "in taking any steps which might become necessary . . . to afford Greece the protection to which she is entitled under the Charter...
...long as the U.S. had a majority in the Assembly? And was the U.S., which at San Francisco had favored the Big Power veto, really ready to submit all future security cases to the will of the majority of nations? These questions had always been implicit in the Charter; the Greek case was forcing these basic issues into the open...
...time Pilot J. Nelson Pell was over Boston, on a charter flight from Montreal, it was past midnight. The weather had closed down. For more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...
...Some charter airlines carry Puerto Ricans back to San Juan for as little as $37.50 a head. The fare on scheduled airlines: $130. A fortnight ago, a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing found that the converted C-47 transport which carried 21 to death in a Florida crash (TIME, July 21) had been overloaded by about one ton of Puerto Ricans and their baggage. Aboard when the plane crashed were 36 people...
...determined to stop aid to Greek guerrillas from Greece's northern neighbors, but it would work as long as possible within the U.N. framework. Last week the first step was taken. Greece, charging that there had been a breach of peace, invoked Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. Under that chapter the Security Council can apply economic or military sanctions against Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria if they continue to support armed aggression against Greece. If the international brigade moves into Greece, and Russia vetoes action under Chapter VII, the U.S. is prepared to take step two: invoke Article...