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...switchboards were jammed. Rental car firms found fewer customers at their airport counters, while at their downtown offices in large cities, fearful air travelers queued up for wheels. International passengers had little choice but to wait out available flights, sometimes camping overnight in terminals. Businessmen turned to corporate and charter aircraft, which was not always an improvement; under the FAA'S contingency plans, such planes had a lower priority than the scheduled carriers. But as the week progressed, even the reduced number of flights held more capacity than the fewer passengers could fill. The airport crowds vanished, counter service notably...
...Private charter airlines also did well last week. Jet Airways of Los Angeles operates five Learjets and a twin-engine Piper Navajo prop, but demand has been so strong that the company is now looking to lease more planes...
...homes of Mayor Maynard Jackson, Nathaniel Cater's father and finally Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, where he paused to honk his horn and shout. In addition, the possibility that Williams might attempt to flee was raised by reports that his father had requested information about a charter pilot at a local airport...
...invoking an argument that jurists sometimes call "anticipatory self-defense," Begin was straying into an exceedingly murky area of international law. The United Nations Charter, which prohibits international aggression, also recognizes a state's legitimate right of self-defense in the face of "armed attack...
...city to meet these expenses. Thanks in part to cutbacks mandated by Proposition 13, which slashed state tax revenues, Los Angeles is facing an $80 million deficit; Bradley has already laid off 400 city workers and cut library hours and recreation services. Warns the mayor: "Unless we have a charter amendment [to slash the pension funds], the only departments we'll be able to finance are police and fire...