Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST PEOPLE seem to have taken a refreshingly restrained view of the Democratic party's off-year charter convention, which is just as well. Advance reports predicted a sort of monumentally dubious battle for the soul of the party. There's a character in a poem by Rudyard Kipling, who may be an appropriate laureate for the party that invented the Vietnam War, with the last word on that kind of analysis. "'You have scarce the soul of a louse,' he said, 'but the roots of sin are there.'" Robert S. Strauss, the Democrats' party chairman, compared the party...
...based that everyone could support it, and the huge photogenic banner that overlooked the delegates' deliberations incisively described the base of support they aimed at--as "We the Democrats of the United States." In case there were still any doubters, the Democrats proceeded to make it explicit in their charter: the first purpose of the Democratic party is to elect Democratic candidates to the presidency and other national offices. It's the sort of party goal that makes the ideological diversity all the speakers kept praising easily attainable...
...receding tides of colonialism have altered the U.N.'s size and character. Founded in 1945 with 51 charter nations, the U.N. now has 138 member countries. The advent of so many fledgling Third World nations has caused a kind of transmogrification of the U.N., which now seems bent, as U.S. Ambassador John Scab' said last week, on establishing a new "tyranny of the majority...
Added to this, there is now a new threat -an arbitrary disregard of U.N. rules, even of its Charter." Though he did not specifically mention his complaints, Scali's concerns were clear...
...Jewish Agency was recognized by the League of Nations in 1922 and by the United Nations in 1947 to represent the views of the Jewish community then settled in Palestine. Why, therefore, is it illogical or contrary to the principles of the U.N. Charter to recognize the Palestinian Arabs, natives of the land in question, and to grant them the right to speak to the international community...