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...member Republican Club provides a forum for conservatives of different stripes to debate policy issues under a partisan umbrella and occasionally to produce reports on specific issues like Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, | Title: A Sharp Shift to the New Right For Campus Conservatives | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...leaders at Harvard put together an umbrella organization of gay, lesbian and bisexual organizations from around the University earlier this month...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gay Students Organize Umbrella Group | 2/1/1992 | See Source »

These hatreds are harnessed by a variety of movements, many of them grouped under an umbrella organization called Pamyat, which preaches a sacred nationalism looking toward an authoritarian Russia purged of all foreign influences. The leader of one such group, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, though widely regarded as a clown, placed third in a field of seven in the Russian presidential election last June -- and that was before the political disintegration and economic collapse had reached anything like their present stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Surge to The Right | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...other council members say the legislation is unnecessary because of the umbrella effect of the Massachusetts ethics legislation and because of the integrity of Cambridge's councillors...

Author: By Melissa Lee and Mark L. Ruberg, S | Title: A Councillor's Financial Activities Come Under the Magnifying Glass | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

...Manchester Union Leader, whose hostility toward Bush is legend. The paper's late publisher, William Loeb, years ago labeled Bush a "clean- fingernail, silk-stocking liberal," and no amount of presidential stroking has calmed Loeb's successor, his widow Nackey, 67. To her, Bush simply "sits under an umbrella and watches the storm, hoping to come out with neither rain on his face nor clay on his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Hello George, New Hampshire's Calling | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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