Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pan Am picks a U.S. model, while Eastern goes European...
...fares were first proposed by four U.S. airlines-Pan Am, TWA, Delta and Braniff. The Carter Administration heartily approved: its policy is to encourage minimum fares and maximum competition among airlines at home and abroad. But British officials insisted that extending cheap fares to so many cities before a longer trial period on the New York-London route was a dangerously uneconomic policy that might end up bankrupting some airlines, especially their...
Although CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn had originally opposed giving Braniff the Dallas-London route (he wanted it to go to Pan Am), he moved quickly to defend the Texas-based airline. In a plea to the White House. Kahn denounced Britain's action as a "fundamental and flagrant breach" of the Bermuda II pact, which governs air travel between the two countries. He urged Carter to retaliate by suspending British Caledonian's flights between London and Houston, that airline's only service...
...Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 53, black South African leader whose determined advocacy of black rights kept him in prison or under government restriction for the past 18 years; of lung cancer; in Kimberley, South Africa. A follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a believer in nonviolent civil disobedience, Sobukwe founded the Pan-African Congress as a splinter group from the African National Congress in 1959. Following his participation in 1960 demonstrations against the restrictive pass laws that control the lives of South African blacks, Sobukwe was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." When his term ended, Parliament passed...
They do not want to be used any more as a propaganda weapon for Arab Pan-Arabism; they want to be absorbed by their brothers in the vast and rich Arab countries that desperately need manpower for their economies. Just as the 750,000 Jews who escaped from the Arab countries were absorbed by their brothers in Israel...