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...would not have had 30 years of peace in [Western Europe] without the U.N." British officials, who strongly agree with the Reagan Administration that U.N. agencies have become far too infected with Third World politics, particularly over the Arab-Israeli issue, feel that the U.N. remains a valuable diplomatic umbrella...
...basis of an expected surge in the company's earnings from the full range of Kodak products. Said Brenda Landry, a photographic industry analyst for the Morgan Stanley & Co. investment banking firm: "Kodak is one great company. It is the one company that under a single corporate umbrella combines chemistry, optics and electronics...
...resurgence in fighting suggests that the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the umbrella organization that links El Salvador's five different guerrilla groups, has replenished its arms supplies and has returned to the battlefront more organized and determined than ever. The front has apparently patched over the internal quarrels that prevented it from seriously disrupting the March elections. Moreover, the guerrillas have been able to neutralize the Salvadoran army's best combat units through more sophisticated assault strategies. "Before, only one faction of the left could attack at once," said a U.S. official. "Now there is more...
...fatherless and ostracized as a weirdo by the gang. Elliott (Henry Thomas) makes his new friend feel at home in the toy closet, feeding him with periodic refrigerator raids. The two become so close that they even begin to feel the same things. When E.T., upstairs, accidentally opens an umbrella, Elliott, downstairs, jumps in surprise. The next day E.T., left home alone, discovers the wonders of earthling beer. Elliott, at school, gets drunk. In fact, Elliott, with his teenaged brother and little sister, Gertie, succeed with childlike grace where modern science would probably have failed, keeping an alien alive...
...kissed the ground of Argentina, he faced a delicate diplomatic task. There to greet him, amid a thick crowd of government and church dignitaries, was President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, uniformed but hatless, reverently kneeling to kiss the Pontiffs ring. Later, while the Pope spoke, Galtieri gallantly held an umbrella over him, but the presence of the man who had ordered the invasion of the Falklands did not deter John Paul from hammering yet again at the message of peace and reconciliation he had carried throughout Britain. He prayed for "the peace of Christ upon all victims of both sides," asking...