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...contras are theoretically united under an umbrella organization called the United Nicaraguan Opposition, which was pulled together with U.S. help in 1985. In fact they are divided among themselves. Their political leaders tend to be former foes of the Somoza regime who fell out with the Sandinistas when the revolution was "betrayed"; many of the top military field commanders, on the other hand, served in Somoza's National Guard. Still, the contra forces are "too large and have too much support inside the country to be dismissed simply as a tool of the CIA," writes Leiken...
...title alone is provocative: Soap-Powders and Detergents. Will this be some arch exercise with dancers dressed up as bubbles or boxes? A soggy bit of social criticism? A spoof on Balanchine's Snowflake Waltz in The Nutcracker? No, Mark Morris' latest creation, commissioned by Dance Umbrella of Cambridge, Mass., is a lighthearted, structurally elegant look at washday...
Throughout the Middle East, it was a bad week for the forces of moderation. In Beirut, four French television crewmen were kidnaped on Saturday by unknown gunmen. Earlier, the shadowy Islamic Jihad, believed to be the umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party of God), announced that it had killed French Researcher Michel Seurat, 37, one of the four other Frenchmen kidnaped in the Lebanese capital during the past two years. Six Americans and one Briton are still missing. The reasons for the alleged murder: retaliation against the French for their pro-Iraq...
...figured that with a $1 million endowment and Harvard's investment clout, that's how much it would be," says William H. Gump '85-86, a Quincy House resident who directs Harvard's Public Service Program (PSP). Funded entirely by the university, the four-year old agency is an umbrella organization that primarily links Cambridge youths with undergraduates...
Tuesday, The Crimson reported--in a prominently displayed front-page article--that "members of several campus minority groups criticized a report recently published by their umbrella organization," the Third World Students Alliance. At Harvard, it's news when some members of the Asian-American Association, Black Students Association, Raza, La Organizacion Estudiantil Boricua and American Indians at Harvard disagree...