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...Christmas-season crash of a chartered DC-8 jet at Gander, Newfoundland, that killed all 248 military passengers and the crew of eight claimed another casualty last week. Arrow Air, the Miami-based company whose jet was ferrying home members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division from Sinai peacekeeping duty, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. Of Arrow's 500 employees, 400 were furloughed, and all but a handful of charter passenger and cargo flights were canceled...
...baggage by at least six tons. Spurred by mounting pressure from Congress, the Federal Aviation Administration declared Arrow's remaining fleet of ten DC-8s no longer airworthy because critical replacement parts had not been FAA certified, and the Air Force then suspended Arrow's $21 million military-charter contract. Arrow called the Government's actions "unwarranted...
...loyal opposition" which is unwilling to risk the loss of its social privilege by making real alliances for democracy with the majority. By being willing to participate in Botha's sick charade of democracy, they undermine the possibility of creating the South Africa dreamed of in the Freedom Charter of the African National Congress (1955): a land "which belongs to all who live in it, Black and white, in which no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people...
...This proposal circumvented the `comp'procedure established by the magazine's charter,removed the staff's power of approval, andultimately usurped control of the magazine," theReview editors stated in the flyer...
...Glee Club began in the late nineteenth century. The rest of the close-harmony groups trailed the Kroks by three decades; the Radcliffe Pitches, the Din and Tonics, and the Opportunes established themselves within the past fifteen years, while the all-freshman Veritones wrote their official charter this past fall...