Word: pan
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...Paris, Pakistan International's two flights a week from Karachi to Shanghai and Canton, and scheduled Aeroflot service between Moscow and Peking. Two U.S. airlines-American and United ("Fly the Friendly Skies . . .")-have recently applied to the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to serve China. Three others-Pan Am, TWA and Northwest-have long had CAB approval, but still face the Chinese red light...
Sadat, among other things, is attempting to come to grips with the kinds of domestic problems that Nasser shunted aside as he pursued his costly war with Israel and his grandiose visions of Pan-Arab unity. Egypt last week reached a population of 34 million (early this year, Israel proudly welcomed its three-millionth citizen). At present, Egyptian babies are being born at the rate of one every 40 seconds. Sadat is trying to meet some of the inevitable problems that this overbreeding creates, particularly in a nation where much of the population is crowded into a narrow ribbon...
Open criticism is being allowed again, and there have been some pointed attacks on the Pan-Arabism that flourished under Nasser and all but obliterated millenniums of Egyptian history. Wrote Literary Editor Louis Awad of Cairo's Al Ahram: "If you search in the six reading books taught from Grade 1 to Grade 6 in Egyptian schools, you do not come across the name Egypt even once. You only discover stupid poems that begin, I am an Arab. My father is Arab. My brother is Arab. Long live the Arabs.' " So pronounced is the "Egypt first" mood, that the Cairo...
...Diaz asked Pan American for the job-and was turned down. Acting under a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was generally intended to provide equal rights for women, he then sued Pan Am. The airline, resting its case on an exception in the law, contended that the sex of a cabin attendant is a "bona fide occupational qualification," as it probably is for actors or actresses required to play male or female roles. Pan Am added that women were clearly better at "providing reassurance to anxious passengers, giving courteous personalized service and, in general, making flights...
...Pan Am has petitioned for a rehearing; if it is denied, the airline will probably have to hire Diaz. He is now working for a Miami hotel and still wants to go to work for Pan Am-but only if the firm provides seniority and back pay dating from April 1967, when he was first rejected...