Word: umbrellas
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...project's report calls for a mediation service that would deal with minority groups in conflict as well as providing training in negotiation and crisis management to campus leaders and faculty. After the report was released last May, Epps said: "We might turn to more consolidation under one umbrella--the simplification of the structure perhaps by retaining the factors that have worked so well...
...Iraqi ambassadors sought asylum in Britain, protesting what they called the "reign of terror and misery" of Saddam Hussein. Both Hamed Al-Jubouri, who retired two weeks ago as ambassador to Tunisia, and Hisham Al-Shawi, ambassador to Canada, also joined the Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella organization of anti-Saddam groups...
...backing his enemies. "The Sudanese deny it," says Mubarak, "but the camps are there. They are farms. They take people not only from Egypt but also from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and even from Uganda. They act as if they are workers on these farms. But under this umbrella they teach them about explosives and about firearms...
Greenspan said he had some disturbing encounters. "As Powell's honorary degree was being awarded, I shouted 'Lift the ban, Colin. A couple of marshals... started hitting me in the stomach with an umbrella," he said...
...that Said supports Arab terrorism goes back to the '70s, and it is supported, his critics say, by the fact that from 1977 until 1991 he was a member of the Palestine National Council, a Palestinian parliament-in-exile consisting of some 400 members worldwide, which serves as an umbrella for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary and nonterrorist organizations. Never mind that Said has always urged the P.L.O. to seek the conference table, not the car bomb; or that, to the U.S. government, the P.N.C. and the P.L.O. were wholly distinct. For the Israeli right and its American...