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John F. Burrows, manager of charter operations for the Trump Shuttle, declined to name the exact airport, but it appeared likely that the prince had returned to South Florida, where he has lived in the past...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Saudi Prince Bids Farewell | 1/4/1990 | See Source »

...other business, councillors received a report from the Mayor's Green Ribbon Committee to Research and Propose Minimum Rents, but forestalled discussion of the report. Sullivan charter-righted and order that would have referred the report to the city's Rent Control Board and requested that they hold a public meeting to discuss its contents...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: Home Rule Petition Stalled Once Again | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...work on behalf of Charter 77, a human-rights organization he helped found, Havel spent more than four years in jail. His latest internment ended last May; he had served half of an eight-month sentence after speaking on Western radio. The charge: inciting antigovernment demonstrations. It seemed no small irony that last week, largely through Havel's efforts, the street protests were halted to give the government and opposition some breathing space to pursue negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Conscience of Prague | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...brisk rate of change has already created stress fractures between the students, who have their own strike committee, and the Civic Forum, whose leaders are drawn largely from Charter 77, an umbrella opposition group set up in 1977 to defend human and civil rights in Czechoslovakia. The students, who were faster to draw up a concise list of demands, have been irked by the Civic Forum's failure to include younger voices in its deliberations. "The Civic Forum is more experienced," says Monika Pajerova, 23, "but we are more radical." Some within the Civic Forum regard the students as "children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: What Have You Done for Us Lately? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Sullivan also charter-righted an order about the language of rent control legislation and a home-rule petition to the Senate and House of Representatives...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: SPOA Protests Rent Confusion | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

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