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...another challenge, the Currier House Committee sent to all House committees a request to send delegates to a "constitutional convention" where representatives will draw up a charter for a student government. Organizers said last week they hope the government will coordinate a unified student response on all student-faculty committees...
...place of residence. Another called for the abolition of the system whereby husbands and wives are separated by their jobs for long periods of time. In the northwestern city of Sian, a poster asked for the publication of two human rights declarations, the 1975 Helsinki accord and the Czechoslovak Charter 77. Declared the poster: "It doesn't matter whether Charter 77 and the Helsinki agreement are good or bad; they ought to be made public so that people can judge for themselves...
...answer is the threat of charter competition and fear of Government deregulation. Fare cutting really began to take off after the Civil Aeronautics Board approved the Advance Booking Charters, liberalized charter schemes that promise to become the hottest thing in cut-rate travel. At the same time, the scheduled lines have concluded that it is wise to show some willingness to compete on price now that Congress is considering a sweeping airline deregulation bill, sponsored by Senators Ted Kennedy and Howard Cannon, that would allow airlines more freedom in changing fares and make it easier for new airlines to start...
...forcing transatlantic fares lower than major airlines had said they could ever go. In June, Laker won approval from the Carter Administration to offer round-trip flights between New York City and London on his 13-jet Laker Airways for $236-almost $100 less than the cheapest non-charter fare-starting Sept. 26. Last week six major airlines countered with a cut-rate transatlantic fare of their own, tossing in some of the amenities that Laker's no-frills "Skytrain" omits...
...Israelis are nervous about this. In the course of two days of discussions with Vance in Jerusalem, Begin repeatedly took up the Palestinian issue, which seemed to bring out all his emotional righteousness. At one meeting he harangued Vance with passages from the P.L.O.'s 1968 charter, which declares the Balfour Declaration and the partitioning of Palestine to be "null and void." "Imagine," remarked Begin sarcastically, "the State of Israel is deemed null and void...