Word: umbrellas
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ORGANIZATIONS. Women's Liberation formally began with the founding in 1966 of the National Organition for Women, which remains the largest and most influential movement group, the original umbrella under which other groups pressed their individual programs. Its membership has doubled to 18,000 in the past year; around 255 chapters now exist in 48 states. N.O.W. has led assaults in Congress and the courts on issues ranging from child care to abortion reform. Growing even faster is the National Women's Political Caucus, aimed at putting more levers of government power into female hands (see following story...
JAPANESE-AMERICAN relations have also suffered at the hands of the Sino-American detente. Japan, continually put in the position of following American initiatives, is now free to seek an independent China policy if it so desires. But independence from the American umbrella is a step few of our allies are yet willing to take...
...CCCD is an umbrella organization formed last year which seeks to oversee and coordinate drug problems in Cambridge. Their proposal includes plans for methadone treatment, intensive residential treatment, and hiring ex-addicts as counselors...
Even so, Wilson's story is filled with heroism, excitement and sharp detail that even the dreariest agitprop boiler plate cannot obscure. On the march, reports Mao's batman, "he used to carry his briefcase himself, and the umbrella." Mao's so-called "Eight Additional Rules" for troop conduct included "Put back the doors you use for bedboards" and "Don't bathe in the sight of women." One nagging personnel problem was the German agent known as Li Teh, who annoyed Chou by his "need for female companionship," yet was so big that "small and thin...
...RUSSIANS. When we stated at the United Nations that we are not a superpower and would never attempt to be one, one superpower [the Soviet Union] laughed and said China could not exist without a nuclear umbrella. As our Chinese proverb has it, that fellow "does not know how high the sky is or how deep the earth...