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Mauricio Silva, spokesman for the Frente Democratico Revolucionario (FDR), the umbrella organization of the Salvadoran left, charged the United States with prolonging the war in El Salvador...
...years he has compiled a list of cause and enemies which seems almost endless. And from this unwieldly mass of issues and debates come the material for his speeches. In his speech at the Beth Israel Hospital, for example. Nader used "the doctor's role in medicine" as an umbrella topic to take pot shots at the automotive industry, the highway industry, the drug companies, nuclear power and the makers of Wonder Bread. He sprays out facts and accusations like buckshot, aiming at everything and being reasonably sure he will hit something...
...white, genteel and funky, sober and not entirely so-press in upon the band's flanks, spill onto the sidewalks, straggle across the avenue's landscaped divider. Leading it all is a stately, gray-haired man in a frock coat and a silvered, tasseled sash, a spangled umbrella furled under his arm, a top hat held over his heart; and, alongside him, a shorter man, similarly gray and with similar bearing and similar attire. Thanks to confusion resulting from the mix of bands, the procession has wound up with two grand marshals. "Albert would have laughed at that...
...those who are bund are with the opposition," Prem declared in a radio broadcast from his temporary head quarters. "Almost all the army is in my hands, and the King is with us." At first San tried to counter. "Prem is like a wom an who stands under the umbrella of the royal family," he charged in a petulant ri poste over Bangkok's radio stations...
...adds that the umbrella union for the Eastern United States, the Eastern Rugby Union, is trying to ensure "that teams such as Harvard are not prevented from a shot at the national championship because of Catch...