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...Wednesday, the Third World Coalition, an umbrella organization composed of representative from several minority groups, actually acted on its demands for greater attention to minority issues in the classroom by initiating its own alternative minority legal rights course...
...missiles launched from nuclear submarines. These weapons constituted the U.S.'s central, or strategic, arsenal?the triad. Then one of West Germany's brightest up-and-coming defense intellectuals and politicians, Helmut Schmidt, argued strenuously in the Bundestag that America's own deterrent of last resort constituted a nuclear umbrella of "extended deterrence" for Western Europe, sheltering NATO's first lines of defense on and around the Continent...
...F.D.N.'s public relations debut last week did not go smoothly. The contras announced a new leadership team in a bid to attract other anti-Sandinistas under a broadened F.D.N. umbrella. But more questions were raised than answered. The six new leaders stressed their opposition to Somoza as well as to the Sandinistas. But the biographical handouts were suspiciously skimpy. The group was an odd mix: from the respectable Lucia Cardenal Salazar, the widow of a Somoza opponent killed by the Sandinistas, to Enrique Bermúdez, a colonel in the National Guard and Somoza's defense attach...
...filed in May ask the LDF either to return to the NAACP umbrella which it left in 1955 or drop NAACP from its official name...
Community Works, which is composed of 17 smaller fundraising groups, bills itself as a more progressive alternative to the 50-year-old United Way, an umbrella organization that makes charitable contributions out of funds deducted directly from employees' paychecks...