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After being stymied on its first three power-play opportunities by a rushing Cornell defense, Harvard went into an attacking pattern called the "umbrella" and converted two of the next three man-up chances...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which includes the College under its administrative umbrella, has embarked on an extended study of the long-term physical space requirements of the Faculty. While the concept of a student activities center will be considered in the context of the Faculty's overall needs, it will be a long time before there is any indication of whether such a facility is an appropriate adjunct to the house system, or how high it might rank on the long list of priorities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the College...
...crisis intensified Europe's growing feeling that it must join together to assert its strategic interests in superpower negotiations. Since the summit at Reykjavik, where the Europeans were horrified to see Reagan come close to abolishing their nuclear umbrella, calls for greater European security cooperation have been increasing. The most powerful statement came two weeks ago, when French Premier Jacques Chirac proposed a new European security agreement to ensure a strong nuclear deterrent on the Continent. In addition, since Reykjavik, European leaders have relied even more on their long-standing system of informal contacts among top aides to help formulate...
...have no doubt that the next phase will be even more difficult," declared the government's chief negotiator with the rebels, Agriculture Minister Ramon Mitra, "but the obstacles will be overcome." The agreement with the Communist-dominated National Democratic Front, the political umbrella organization for the 20,000-member New People's Army, permits as many as 50 rebel negotiators to set up a headquarters in Manila. They will be immune from official search, arrest and prosecution. The armed forces will retain the right to respond to "hostile acts" by the N.P.A. during the truce...
Rossler and some 60 other aggrieved males were gathered at a motel in Portland, Ore., for the fifth annual meeting of the National Convention for Men, an umbrella group for some 36 organizations representing more than 6,000 people who want to change divorce and custody law. The air was thick with smoke and anger as conventioners huddled in the halls and motel bar, denouncing "father bashing" and "female chauvinism," muttering about the hidden agenda of man-hating and lesbian social workers, and comparing the law's treatment of divorcing men to the Holocaust and Salem witch-hunts...