Word: charter
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...described the plot against Bush and the efforts to confirm it. Then he announced that he had sent cruise missiles into Baghdad three hours before. He at one point felt it necessary to give a legalistic nod to the action, and so invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which deals with self-defense. But for his real message he reached back to an older and less subtle principle: "From the first days of our Revolution," he said, "American security has depended on the clarity of this message: Don't tread...
...would lead to a massive exodus of poverty-stricken East European women, desperate to sell themselves for what rarely turns out to be the good life. Police say a quarter of Germany's 200,000 prostitutes are now from the former East bloc. Even in the puritanical Middle East, charter flights full of Russian women disembark weekly at Dubai's airport, ply their trade on 14-day visas and head home, loaded with color television sets. At the Gallery, a Brussels nightclub, a naked Hungarian couple thrash about in what appears to be a live sex act, to tape-recorded...
...doorstep but his own," said one last week. Democratic Party elders admit to being stunned by Clinton's judgment lately. Having his $200 haircut and allowing a Hollywood producer to work out of a White House office and then intervene on behalf of friends to win White House air-charter business have done serious damage to his public standing. "The best politician the Democratic Party has turned up in a long time turns out to have a tin ear," said a longtime friend. "He has squandered his moral authority with a lot of this stuff. It leads people...
...which arranges travel for government officials and receives payment from news organizations for the same service. Accusing the longtime staffers of "gross mismanagement," the Administration insisted its action was not a response to complaints by Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, an intimate of the Clintons who has friends in the charter-airplane business. Facing an uproar when a cousin of the President was named to head an interim operation, while an Arkansas travel agency -- whose owner contributed to the Clinton campaign -- was chosen to handle travel arrangements, the White House relented and temporarily put the operation in the hands...
...administrative work associated with carrier contracts and for locating suitable ground facilities. Thomason, who has a temporary office in the White House while he closes Inaugural accounts and advises the President on reorganization, passed Martens' memo on to the White House; the memo said that nine charter airlines had complained to him that all the White House business was going with a handshake to a friend of travel office director Billy Dale. But Thomason says TRM would not benefit directly even if one of the nine companies Martens wrote about got White House business, because such business would not produce...