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...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...
...Greece, waves of charter planes are landing all day long at Crete, Rhodes and Corfu, depositing a sizable proportion of the country's estimated 1.5 million visiting fun seekers this summer. Package tours have changed some of the islands from contemplative hideaways into vacation factories. Water pollution is less visible but still dangerous, and dermatologists in Athens are reaping a rich harvest from treating skin diseases caught by bathers...
...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...
...ceiling will be 1½ in. lower than today's 707's and 727's, and economy-class seats will be only 18 in. wide, or 2.4 in. less than today's already cramped accommodations. Even narrower will be the seats in an eight-abreast charter configuration-only 16 in. across. Knee room will be marginally improved because seat backs will be thinner and the lower part of the seat in front will curve inward...