Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still longing for maturity," says Miami Historian Arva Parks. "We have always been vulnerable to certain kinds of people, so that when opportunity knocked, exploitation answered." Even today, most of those who live in the area grew up somewhere else, and their sense of community may extend only as far as the K mart down the street. "You can't compare us to Boston or Denver," says Mayor Ferre. "Our people's roots are always somewhere else...
...nuclear peace cannot be assured by the super- powers alone (though they are the only ones with arsenals large enough to wipe out the planet). Disarmament must extend to the other nations with nuclear capabilities, and the U.S. and Russia must use every economic, diplomatic and political pressure to insure that these nations too disarm...
...addition to the AWACS, the Saudi deal included extra fuel tanks and Sidewinder missiles to extend the range and increase the punch of 60 F-15s already ordered. On merit, the Administration's case for approving the sale was defensible, if not entirely convincing. The West has a vital stake in Saudi Arabia's oil and the stability of the Saudi regime in its turbulent region. To fend off Soviet encroachment and the threats of neighbors serving as Moscow's proxies, the U.S. must provide the Saudis with adequate defenses. The sale would not shift the balance of military strength...
...populated Saudi Arabia would remain vulnerable to external attacks, and the AWACS would do nothing to prevent the most plausible threat to the monarchy: an internal uprising by radical Muslims. The sale would violate explicit assurances made to Congress by Jimmy Carter in 1978 that the U.S. would never extend the offensive capacity of the Saudi arsenal. Moreover, Reagan and his lieutenants could not demonstrate that fulfilling earlier promises to give Saudi Arabia state-of-the-art hardware would advance any overall U.S. plan for dealing with the Middle East...
Brown University has adopted a new adademic calendar that will schedule final exams before winter vacation and extend the ingercession to four or five weeks...