Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger told Dinitz to see Schlesinger about getting the equipment. He implied that this time Schlesinger would be more accommodating." Later on Thursday afternoon, they write: "Kissinger argued forcefully with Schlesinger about the need to correct the military imbalance in the Middle East. He again urged his colleague to charter 20 American transport planes to fly emergency supplies to Israel. Schlesinger resisted Kissinger's appeal. The Defense chief argued just as forcefully that even a limited American airlift to Israel would so infuriate the Arabs that they would impose an oil embargo on the United States. The argument...
Flabbergasted. "By 9:45 a.m. Friday, Oct. 12, Dinitz still had heard nothing about the 20 charters. A half-dozen Israeli planes had transported military equipment from the United States to Israel, but that was, as [Dinitz] put it, 'a drop in the bucket.'" When Dinitz called Kissinger to complain, the Kalbs report, "the Secretary seemed surprised and angry. Kissinger immediately called Schlesinger and, in the President's name, instructed him to arrange for the charter of 20 civilian transport planes. Schlesinger said the Pentagon had tried to hire civilian charters but failed. Most [airline] companies...
...Department of Defense was seen to be dragging its heels in resupplying Israel is wrong; there is a difference between dragging your heels and having your shoes nailed to the floor by national policy. Also wrong is any suggestion that the Defense Department was slow in implementing the charter policy and that I was admonished by Kissinger for not taking charge of the resupply effort. I don't recall any such thing. It strikes me as preposterous...
...University committed itself to funding the black-studies center back in 1969, at the same time it decided to charter the Afro-American Studies Department. The Faculty approved a prospectus for the Institute, written by the Standing Committee to Develop Afro-American Studies, in September 1969. At the end of that year President Nathan M. Pusey '28 appointed an interdepartmental committee to oversee the Institute's development. It was at this point that the University's DuBois troubles began...
...first run is a healthy 325,000 copies, and Publisher King hopes that the monthly will attract men as well as women. She already has one male reader: to pay off a bet he lost after his match with King last September, Bobby Riggs signed on as a charter subscriber...