Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Flying Tiger Line was liable in the deaths of 107 persons lost in 1962 between Guam and the Philippines on a charter Super-Constellation because the crew had inadequate sleeping quarters during the long flight. The judge also decided that Flying Tiger was not protected by the Warsaw Convention's maximum liability ($8,300 per passenger) because the travelers had not been issued tickets warning them, in the fine print, of the Warsaw limit...
...black power, going so far as to deplore the very use of the words. "Black power is racism in reverse," he said, reassuring the white liberals in the N.A.A.C.P. that they were needed, after all. Lillian Smith, author of Killers of the Dream and one of CORE's charter members, summarized the feelings of many white members of SNCC and CORE when she left the organization in a huff of epithets: "nihilists, old-fashioned haters, the new 'killers of the dream...
...establishing a "sphere of influence" in Asia. "We want a political solution, not a military solution," he declared. "We seek to assure for the people of South Viet Nam the same right of self-determination-to decide their own political destiny, free of force -that the United Nations Charter affirms...
...planned for the treaty. Working in Geneva and New York, they have agreed to ban weapons of mass destruction from outer space, make the moon and all other celestial bodies ''the province of all mankind," conduct all activities in outer space under "international law, including the U.N. charter," and even to report to all other nations and to the U.N. "any phenomena they discover in outer space that could constitute a danger to the life and health of astronauts...
...Judging from Mayor Yorty's comment, "Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the city charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor," I conclude that Mayor Sam 1) has never read beyond the second paragraph of the city charter, or 2) is out of his mind. Considering his meaningless bickering with the City Council; his uncalled for, pseudo expert opinions on Viet Nam; and his strange proclivity for the word "plot," I incline toward the second possibility...