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...blame the first Bush administration for not aiding the Shi’ites in 1991, he conveniently forgot to mention his administration’s litany of failings in Iraq. Those include the following: the decision in 1993 to prohibit the Iraqi National Congress (INC)—an umbrella group of resistance forces—from using American funds to buy weapons, the abandonment of the INC just before its March 1995 offensive against the Iraqi army, the refusal to sponsor a peace-monitoring force to unite hostile Kurdish factions and the withdrawal of support from INC personnel...
...Ever since that there's been that question just below the surface of who's running the show here. Where does one group's authority end and where does the other begin?" Sherwood says. "The HRDC calls itself the umbrella group for Harvard theater but nobody knows what that means...
...leader of an umbrella trade organization for 10 Southeast Asian nations told a packed ARCO Forum Thursday night that the organization must come up with new economic policy because of the current extent and momentum of globalization...
...other rooms are taken up almost entirely by a few desks and file boxes that have overflowed from the other room. Last October, Illingworth notified the IRC—which is the umbrella organization for groups including Harvard Model United Nations, the International Review, HPIE, the Model Security Council, Harvard Model Congress and Harvard Model Congress Europe—that they might have to move out of the Yard...
Editor Diana Schutz solicited work for "Happy Endings" (Dark Horse Comics; $9.95; 96pp.) that would, according to her, "somehow fit under the overarching umbrella" of the title. Interestingly, only a few of the contributions took the mandate literally. Harvey Pekar, of "American Splendor," proffers a disturbing piece about his mental breakdown and the return of a malignant tumor. He ends with "I'm trying to work my way through. What else is there?" Mixing independent newcomers with such big-name artists as Frank Miller ("The Dark Knight Strikes Back,") "Happy Endings" has the most mainstream appeal of the four anthologies...