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There may be something of a delay before the plan takes off. The scheduled carriers are preparing to ask the courts to rescind the CAB'S decision. The ruling, they say, violates the law forbidding charter lines to sell tickets to individuals. In addition, the U.S. must negotiate with foreign governments for landing rights covering the new class of service, called Travel Group Charters (TGC). Negotiations with some nations should be relatively smooth and simple. But some governments, including France, Switzerland and The Netherlands, are wary of subjecting their national airlines to further low-priced competition, particularly...
...calling for the defeat of President Nixon. Delegates to the state convention meeting in Boston expressed strong support for McGovern in an informal show of hands all this on the heals of an order by George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO that state branches of his grant federation rescind all such "dump Nixon" movements...
...government to turn people into chattels that can be bought and sold." The Israeli Parliament called the levies "an insult to humanity." In Russia, too, Jewish leaders are determined that no ransom shall be paid, hoping that U.S. trade boycotts of the U.S.S.R. will instead persuade the Kremlin to rescind the decree...
Simultaneously, the Price Commission continued to toughen its regulation of the companies with annual sales of $50 million or more that must report price and profit data. The commission ordered more rollbacks involving major companies, though relatively minor products. Textron Inc., for example, must rescind a price increase on snowmobiles, and Armco Steel will have to cancel hikes on such merchandise as soap and hammers sold in its oilfield supply stores, which account for less than 1% of Armco's sales. Both companies were also ordered to refund money to customers who were charged the higher prices. Associated Wholesale...
...Union had already demanded that the GSAS reverse its decision to cancel the Staff Tuition Scholarship program; that it rescind a tuition increase for third-year graduate students; and that the University recognize the Union as the sole bargaining agent for graduate students and teaching fellows...