Word: charter
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Railroad stations in cities as staid and ordered as Grenoble and Lyons look like those in Naples. Among the throngs of stranded passengers, French families accustomed to better things share sausages and bread, using newspapers as picnic tablecloths. With rail traffic cut to 40% of normal, queues form behind charter-bus drivers showing their destinations on cardboard signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled...
More than seven years after the Sandinistas took power in Managua, President Daniel Ortega last week unveiled a new constitution -- and then promptly curtailed many of the charter's guarantees. His reason: the simmering war between the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas and the U.S.-backed contras...
Since 1982, civil liberties in Nicaragua have been sharply curbed by a state of emergency called to meet the contra threat. The 202-article charter champions many of those suspended liberties, including freedom of speech and assembly and the right to strike. Immediately after the signing of the constitution, Ortega reimposed the state of emergency. Erick Ramirez, leader of the opposition Social Christian Party, has dismissed the document as a "tool of propaganda for foreign consumption...
Aquino may have more success with the constitution. The 118-page charter, written by an Aquino-appointed committee, calls for a referendum on renewing the leases of U.S. military bases, a cutback in presidential powers and the establishment of a two-chamber congress. Aquino says the document is "worthy of the great collective act that made it possible: the rising of the Filipino people to vindicate their voice...
...increase in near midairs is that air traffic has soared under deregulation. Flying accounts for nearly 90% of all interstate travel; the annual number of airline passengers has jumped from 292 million in 1978 to 415 million last year. The number of airlines, including cargo, express mail and charter service, increased from 150 to about 400, and ! the roster of passenger carriers grew by 97 (to 157). The FAA offers another explanation for the rising number of near midairs: its reporting system has improved. In 1983 the FAA began installing what controllers and pilots call a "snitch" alarm system. Aircraft...