Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past year many charter tour operators have been forced out of business by the new, deeply discounted fares. The charter flights (and later the Laker flights) are what forced the reductions. The CAB has refused to protect the public by insisting that all Super Saver-type fares must exist for a specified lifetime (such as a five-year minimum). Once the charters are gone, you will see the discounts disappear quickly, and the airlines will have the public right where they want it paying high fares without the option of the less expensive charter flights...
...most politically active elements in the country are the ones the government does not want. They are the almost 1,000 signatories of the Charter 77 dissident movement. But Charter 77 protest has declined considerably from the pitch of a year ago, chiefly as a result of continuing government repression. By Charter 77's own account, as many as 30,000 people have been rounded up since 1969 by the police and held for varying lengths of time, often in solitary confinement and with little food. In a truly Kafkaesque touch,* the victims are even billed for the cost...
...least 100 Charter 77 members have been forced to quit even the lowly jobs they were formerly allowed to hold. The movement's current leaders-Singer Marta Kubišová, Philosopher Ladislav Hejdanek, and former Regional Party Secretary Jaroslav Šabata-are under constant surveillance. Nonetheless, in a gesture commemorating the invasion anniversary, a small group of Charter 77 members managed to meet in secret this month with their Polish counterparts to discuss possible future cooperation...
...Democratic politics. Through political connections, he got a job as assistant manager of the city's airport. He took flying lessons from Elmer Page, a local instructor, and in 1939 joined him and three other men to form Page Airways, which operated a flying school and charter service. It began with two Piper Cubs, a Waco biplane and a desk borrowed from a Democratic ward office...
...South Africa. He made unprecedented papal visitations to honor Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands. In these regions his landmark utterance was not the divisive 1968 Humanae vitae, the birth control encyclical that caused such an uproar in the West, but his 1967 Populorum progressio, a Catholic charter for social and economic righteousness...