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Johnson said he did not have an umbrella because he "forgot it in the packing rush...
...torrential rain showed no signs of abating through the day, large barrels were placed at leaky positions in the Science Center. Inside the Coop, an unusually large crowd of students was seen huddled around the umbrella rack. At Kirkland House, administrators kept a separate box for waterlogged study cards...
...Nigerian oil workers who began walking off their jobs on July 4 in an effort to topple the country's military government were successful beyond their dreams. The work stoppage, which escalated last week when it was joined by the 3.5 million members of the largest umbrella union, the Nigeria Labor Congress, played havoc with everyday life. Banks were shuttered, as were most small shops and businesses. Most painfully affected was Nigeria's biggest source of foreign exchange, the oil industry. The Royal Dutch Shell Group, the largest operator in the country, announced that the strike had forced...
Forty-five years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to combat the Soviet threat, Russia joined NATO'S Partnership for Peace. Although NATO'S security umbrella does not cover the partnership's 21 members, mainly countries formerly in the East Bloc, it allows them to hold joint military exercises with NATO forces. Meanwhile, Russia and the U.S. also announced that President Boris Yeltsin and President Clinton will hold a summit in Washington in late September. And in a cementing of relations with other Western allies, Yeltsin signed a trade treaty with the European Union. The deal involves...
...diversity that we see at the student levelin time can be translated into diversity at thefaculty level," said Senatus, co-chair of the newHarvard Medical Students United for FacultyDiversity, an umbrella organization comprised ofvarious minority, women, religious and homosexualrights groups...