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Urbana Onward, a conference sponsored jointly by the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), a nationwide umbrella organization for Christian student groups, focused on Bible study, practical discussions about becoming a missionary and group prayer...
...statement had its origins in a policy memorandum that Brzezinski sent Carter in February 1979, after the Shah's fall. Brzezinski proposed that the U.S. form a protective umbrella over North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. It would include signed understandings with several governments in the area?at the very least with Egypt, Jordan and Israel?and an American military shield that would stretch as far west as Morocco. If Carter is still thinking along those lines, the shield now has been extended as far east as Pakistan...
...mujahidin- Muslim "holy warriors"-had converged on the Pakistani city of Peshawar last week for a gathering of the clans aimed at solving one obstacle border the success of their insurgency in Afghanistan: disunity. Torn by tribal rivalries going back centuries, the rebels hoped to form an umbrella alliance of their six loose groupings comprising more than 60 different tribes. A united front, it was thought, would not only enable the guerrillas to mount coordinated, large-scale military actions. It could also attract sizable new international backing, especially from sympathetic Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the tribes...
...much Iranian oil as possible. Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo gives Jimmy Carter lectures on American behavior; at a crucial moment he refuses to accept the Shah back into his country, despite earlier promises of refuge. Western Europe wants the protection of the American nuclear umbrella but parades a fastidious ambivalence about...
With a tall, slender trunk and a ragged umbrella of drooping green leaves, it looks like a mimosa. But the tropical Leucaena leucocephala is a bit different from other trees: in tropical climates it grows as high as 65 ft. in five years. That makes it a prime candidate for reforestation projects in overlumbered and wood-short Third World countries. The tree is also sort of a botanical schmoo;* undemanding itself, it provides a bountiful array of foods and fuels...