Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Umbrella, photographs by Sage Sohier...
Among Christians, a group of women theologians and scholars appointed by the National Council of Churches, an umbrella organization for Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, recently produced a booklet called The Liberating Word (Westminster Press; $3.95). It argues that the Bible's divine message is encrusted with nondivine notions of male dominance that the biblical authors drew from their ancient cultures, not from religious inspiration. The 96-page booklet urges today's readers, clergy as well as laity, to reinterpret the Bible accordingly...
...direct CIA involvement, which was forcefully denied by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Subsequent investigation has shown that the sabotage was carried out by a fanatic underground network of Cuban exiles known as CORU (Coordinación de Organizaciones Revolucionarias Unidas), which was organized early this year as an umbrella for diehard anti-Castro activists. Among its founders was a shadowy pediatrician turned terrorist, Dr. Orlando Bosch...
...Premier's reforms. Some say that the measures Suárez has taken so far are too timid and want an immediate election of a constituent assembly. Others concede that the reform bill is a step toward the kind of free society demanded by the Democratic Coordination, an umbrella group that includes Communists, Socialists and left-wing Christian Democrats. But the organized left has boxed itself in with a public vow not to cooperate with any Spanish regime until the Communist Party is made legal -something that the rightists will probably be able to block, perhaps until the elections...
...Umbrella companies are folding, Hyde Park looks like a sandlot, and at the London zoo, bath water for the elephants is being reused to water plants. Hundreds of grass and scrub fires are erupting in the parched countryside as Britain, which has had exactly one-tenth of an inch of rain this month, suffers through the worst drought since meteorological records were started in 1727. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan summoned vacationing Cabinet members back to No. 10 Downing Street for an emergency meeting and asked Sports Minister Denis Howell to assume responsibility for conserving what remains...