Word: charterers
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After weeks of wrangling with Premier General Nguyen Khanh, the High National Council formed to reorganize South Viet Nam's government produced a provisional constitution last week. In view of the recent past, its title was reassuring: "Charter Establishing a Governmental Framework to End Legal Anomalies and Uncertainties Remaining from Saigon's Political Crisis of Late August...
...charter is hardly apt to end South Viet Nam's myriad uncertainties. Ostensibly it provides for replacing Khanh, who was overthrown by riots two months ago but has stayed on, supposedly as caretaker. The document, however, reflects another power struggle between Khanh and his old rival, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. Evidently planning on retaining military say-so by making himself commander in chief, Khanh tried to persuade the 17-member council, made up entirely of civilians, to grant the army a "position of honor," exempting it from government jurisdiction. The council turned down the idea, but did provide...
Burt Ross '65, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats, said yesterday that his group will charter buses to take students to the rally. The buses will leave at 4 p.m. from Memorial Hall and Comstock Hall. The trip will be free for members, but will cost non-members 50 cents...
...Damned Near a Record." About the only real concession that the Times made to last week's events was to charter planes two nights in a row. Normally, 17,000 copies of the Times's first edition-on the presses at 9:30-go by night train to Washington. But last week, to take advantage of interest in last-minute developments, the Times decided to fly copies of its midnight edition to the capital...
Last week in London that historic deal was the source of a bitter dispute between the last of Britain's old royal charter companies and the latest of its colonies to win independence. King Lewanika's territory included what is now Northern Rhodesia, which is preparing to become the independent nation of Zambia-and wants to banish British South Africa's mineral rights along with the Union Jack. Accepting the inevitable, the company agreed to turn over its rights to the new government, but held out for fair compensation. When the British government failed in its efforts...