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...Israeli-Arab negotiations. The U.S. and Israel have opposed such a framework because it would give the Soviet Union a formal role in Middle East talks; Washington favors direct contacts between Israel and the Arabs. Last week Hussein suggested that he would be willing to negotiate under an international "umbrella." Translation: the primary parties, Israel and the Arabs, would meet face to face under the guidance of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Said the King: "When I speak of negotiations, I obviously mean negotiations between the Arab side and Israel on the other side...
...magazines (among them: Vogue, Vanity Fair and Gentlemen's Quarterly) and Random House book publishers. Newhouse offered a generous $142 million--$200 a share for the publication's more than 700,000 outstanding shares--and agreed to shelter the newly acquired property as a separate company under his corporate umbrella. Still, the announcement unsettled those who work for the magazine. "There is a great fear that a new boss would probably change the place so much that the character of the magazine would not be what it has been," said a longtime staffer. "When one sees a huge corporate presence...
Rather than being the social hub for jocks it once was, the Varsity Club has become a kind of umbrella organization for the various "Friends of" the different varsity teams, says Club President Walter Greeley '53, a letter winner in football, hockey, and baseball. Each of Harvard's 40 varsity teams has a "Friends of" organization. These alumni groups organize such functions as pre-game buffets and tailgate parties...
Ronald Reagan's hope for his Strategic Defense Initiative is to render nuclear missiles obsolete by erecting a leakproof umbrella over the U.S. But skeptics argue that an attempt to build a Star Wars defense would be "destabilizing" and would make nuclear war more likely, not less...
THIS LESSON was brought home to me five years ago when I was in Austria. Salzburg is both the Mozart and the precipitation capital of Europe: you'll see more umbrella shops on one street in Salzburg than in all of London. One afternoon it was raining katzen undhunde, so I bought myself a nice dark gray umbrella, only to attract some strange commands from passing natives. An English-speaking Austrian finally told me that I had bought a woman's umbrella. Since I couldn't tell the difference between the one he was carrying...