Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failure of the cease-fire has led many South Vietnamese, including high military officers, to charge that the primary aim of the Paris accords was not to end the war but to create an umbrella under which the U.S. could extricate itself from Viet Nam. While that judgment may be too cynical, the fact is that only about 5,000 U.S. Government employees and Department of Defense contractors remain in Viet Nam; U.S. casualties in the past year totaled only one. However, one American was captured during Saigon's recent naval battle with the Chinese (see following story...
First came the announcement of the names of 25 members of the National Voluntary Service Advisory Council, a group which counsels Action, an umbrella agency for federal voluntary social service organizations. At the top of the list was the name of Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, designated "temporary chair woman." And, yes, it seemed she was to be paid the standard Government consulting fee of $138.48 per working...
Besides Hughes and Maheu, who was ousted in an epic power struggle three years ago, those indicted were: Chester Davis, Hughes' longtime No. 1 attorney and chief counsel of Summa Corp., the umbrella organization that holds the casinos, Hughes Air West, Hughes Aircraft Co. and nearly all of Hughes' other properties...
...this category are elements of Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and Nayef Hawatmeh's Marxist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They feel that Palestinians must gain a "national territory," of whatever size, as soon as they can. Arafat is also head of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, and he knows that he must bind together extremists and moderates in common cause. He is thought to argue that establishment of even a truncated Palestinian state would be far better than for the West Bank to fall again to the control of Jordan's King Hussein...
...pages. Little, Brown. $5.95. An apogee of anthropomorphism that takes a collection of crazy quatrains and lurid limericks literally and presents men and animals behaving comically like people. Wallace Tripp can do more with a sulky young rabbit, or a fox glumly watching water pour through his tattered umbrella, than anyone would think possible...