Word: charter
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Foreigners crowded Beijing's airport, trying to escape a chaotic city where tanks and troops raced along main avenues firing at random. In Washington, the State Department urged all Americans "to leave at once" and has begun to charter commercial aircraft to help evacuate civilians from Beijing and Shanghai...
...replacement for retiring Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 progresses, conservative law students--members of the Students' Alliance For Fairness--propose that the Law School Council be prevented from reserving seats on the student dean search committee for specific organizations. They propose an amendment to the Law School's charter that is slated for a referendum vote...
...student political activity has not been consistently sedate this year. Last fall, controversy over a proposed amendment to the Law School Council's charter culminated in sabotage, personal attacks and charges of bigotry by both proponents and opponents of the amendment...
Arafat's statement nonetheless provoked a predictable outcry from Palestinian radicals. "We shall show Arafat and the world that the P.L.O. charter remains very much alive," said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In the past two weeks gunmen in Lebanon assassinated Bassam Hourani, a commander of Arafat's Force 17 security arm, and launched attacks on two other Arafat aides...
Three months after Moscow's troop withdrawal, President Najibullah hangs tough in Kabul. -- Will Prince Sihanouk return home to Phnom Penh as the leader of Cambodia? -- Arafat "voids" the P.L.O. charter and scores a diplomatic success in Paris. -- Facing financial disaster, Argentina's voters consider putting a Peronist back in power...