Word: offered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intriguing story about King's death told to an agent by an informant in 1973. The informant reported that Russell G. Byers, 46, then an auto parts dealer in St. Louis, had told him that two Missourians-Stockbroker John R. Kauffmann and Patent Attorney John H. Sutherland-had offered him $50,000 in 1967 to arrange for King's assassination. Byers said that he turned down the offer. Subsequently, the New York Times obtained another FBI document, quoting Byers as saying that Kauffmann later made the payoff to the actual assassin, James Earl Ray, who is now serving...
Castro had spent two years planning the event, one of the few socialist spectaculars that offer the younger generation a good time. He also saw the festival as a good place to justify his country's interventions in Africa. His policy needed a bit of bolstering, to be sure: at a nonaligned Foreign Ministers summit in Belgrade last week, some delegates attacked Moscow and Havana-rather than Western imperialism-as the current threat to Third World neutrality...
Some airlines offer as many as 90 fares and discount packages, and no one knows how many are in effect on all the lines. In general, however, the international cut-rate fares fall into two price categories. The first is budget, which requires buying a ticket three weeks in advance and checking with the airline a week in advance to find out the departure day. The price: $299 round trip New York-London, vs. $764 for regular economy class. Or, for the same price, the passenger can buy a ticket on the day of departure and "stand by," hoping...
...midweek and overnight flights. On the thesis that you get what you pay for, the airlines probably will adopt three classes of service. There will be first class for expense-account executives and wealthy tourists, in some cases with stretch-out beds like Japan Air Lines has begun to offer for a $120 surcharge on its San Francisco-Tokyo flight. There will be second class, with hot meals and some elbow room. And there will be tightly packed sardine class?cold meals, close seating, cheap fares...
...advantage of newly expanded routes. The U.S. agreed two weeks ago to extend El Al's landing rights beyond New York City to four other cities. El Al will probably start flying to Los Angeles next April and later add Chicago, Miami and Boston. In November it intends to offer a no-frills, no-meals "holiday" class round trip between New York and Tel Aviv for $499, vs. the lowest current fare of $628. In July the line's only competitor on the route, TWA, began offering reduced fares, and it plans to match...