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...implication the groups have challenged CHUL and the other student-faculty committees. They seek to step into the vacuum in the organized presentation of student opinions to the administration, a vacuum CHUL and the other committees have left unfilled. CHUL's primary problem runs deep, to its original Faculty charter. In CHUL, the Faculty built an almost powerless body, and certain administrators have compounded CHUL's weakness by refusing to comply with student members' requests for budgetary data, essential if CHUL is to take informed, credible stands on the issues...
Defenders of the P.L.O. concede that while the organization has not yet modified the strident rhetoric of its 13-year-old charter, recent deliberations and decisions have become more moderate in tone. At its March meeting in Cairo, for instance, the Palestine National Council renewed its call for a state on any soil given up by Israel, but dropped a clause added to a similar resolution in 1974 that designated such a state as a base for further struggle against Israel. Time and again, P.L.O. leaders, including Yasser Arafat, have said they would settle for a Palestinian entity...
...flights are filled. Laker, who started as a civilian pilot and made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar, and there are no elevators. The line has just four directors, including Laker, who have only to shout down the hall to one another to make decisions. Says Freddie, who is gambling with his own money (he owns...
...travelers between New York and London now have 17 fares to choose from-more or less. More, because including charter rates increases the number; less, because some of the scheduled-airline fares apply only at certain times of the year. In the following rundown of round-trip fares, the first is offered by Laker alone; the rest have been authorized for the six other and much bigger lines flying the route (Air-India, British Airways, El Al, Iran...
...Paper Co., which Ball founded and expanded until today it is practically a private holding company itself. St. Joe controls a score of paper mills and boxmaking plants in the U.S., Britain and Ireland, two profitable railroads, the Florida East Coast and the Apalachicola Northern, and owns 23% of Charter Co., a Jacksonville-based conglomerate that is in myriad undertakings from gasoline refining to planning a model city for the Shah of Iran. In building the estate, Ball also made a string of profitable investments for himself. His personal wealth is about $50 million much of it derived from...