Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice of the towerman at Lod Airport broke suddenly last week as he passed along that seemingly routine flight clearance to a visiting Swiss pilot. The controller could hardly be blamed for the unprofessional display of emotion. The jet that he was routing was a Swiss DC-9 on charter to the International Red Cross. Shortly before takeoff, a convoy of 18 Israeli ambulances with red Star of David markings drew alongside the jet, owned by a charter company called Balair. Slowly, in some cases painfully, 44 men walked or were carried aboard. Those on stretchers wore green pajamas...
Drafting a constitution-a task Sanya has entrusted to a broad-based committee of judges, lawyers and law professors-will not be all that easy. Any new political charter for Thailand must assign an important role to its very popular King, even though Bhumibol personally desires little political power. (In fact, the King has hinted that he is even uncomfortable about the role he was forced to play in ousting the former leaders.) A new constitution must not only exclude the military from politics but must also create a government so stable that the military will not be tempted...
Higher Powers. Tom, who lives five miles away, values privacy more; he grows marijuana plants. At 27, Tom is a long-haired business dropout who made a bundle running charter flights, selling dune buggies and speculating in the stock market. Now he meditates in his tiny split-level, made of vertical redwood planks. "I wanted to release some of the higher powers of the mind," he says. His home, which cost $2,000 in materials and furnishings, blends with the green leaves and gray trunks of the surrounding pine and oak trees...
...appointed special prosecutor last May, was fired for refusing to accept a compromise on the release of the Watergate tapes. He had assumed the job under a special eight point charter granting him an unprecedented degree of independence in investigating alleged irregularities in the 1972 presidential elections...
...notion of a new constitutional convention is an intriguing one. After 200 years, why not redraft the charter? These who wrote the first document were not gods, but men. They could not forsee the course that the country would take and they did not expect the republic to produce men like Nixon. From our new perspective, we might write a constitution more conducive to republicanism in the last half of the twentieth century...