Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ueberroth and Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish diplomat who heads the International Olympic Committee, flew from the Manhattan torch-carrying ceremony to Washington for a prearranged meeting with Ronald Reagan. It was already too late: even as they waited at New York City's La Guardia Airport for their chartered jet, they got the first indication of an actual Soviet pullout, news that was confirmed when they reached Washington. Nonetheless, they received from the President a letter pledging strict U.S. adherence to Olympic ideals. Reagan states in his letter to Samaranch: "I have instructed agencies of the Federal Government...
Qualification for the program are simple, including (besides enthusiasm) only a medical exam, a personal recommendation from a community leader, a valid passport, and an interview with a program organizer. Groups fly charter for a reduced $500 fare from the U.S. to Tel Aviv, where they are picked up by bus and taken to their military base...
...just as exam period was ending, a group of enterprising Harvard students put together a small pamphlet with tips for classmates who were about to begin a Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) charter tour of Europe...
...wanted to send to Los Angeles as their Olympic attache. Almost immediately, Moscow began to complain not only about the Yermishkin case but about a statement by the U.S. embassy in Moscow that Soviet athletes needed American visas rather than the special identity cards called for in the Olympic charter. Soviet newspapers denounced the "uncontrollable commercialization" of the Games and the "exorbitant" cost of the services to be provided to the teams in Los Angeles. They charged that there were "reactionary political, emigre and religious groups" in the U.S. that were "teaming up on an anti-Olympic basis." Furthermore, said...
...part of the Undergraduate Council's charter as a fund that will hold contributions until Harvard divests of stock in South Africa. If Harvard has not done so in twenty years, or if the United Nations overturns its special condemnation of South Africa (which would probably mean that South Africa has struck down apartheid), the money will to to Harvard charities like the Phillips Brooks House, Room 13, Response...