Word: vacuumized
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...During their occupation, however, the Israelis had allowed Phalangist militiamen to move into areas of the Chouf previously controlled by the Druze. Fearing an outbreak of hostilities between the two factions, the U.S. urged the Israelis to delay their redeployment until the newly trained Lebanese Army could fill the vacuum. The Israelis postponed their withdrawal by only a few days. As soon as they pulled out on Sept. 4, fighting broke...
...were written up in Sports Illustrated before a couple of close losses the week before the Beanpot. Sure enough, a Harvard team with an anemic offense perpetrated a stupendous upset in the first round. As the Crimson fans would say, the Northeastern net was a funnel--no, a vacuum--no, a black hole--as it sucked in 10 Crimson goals. A week later, the Harvard defense shined in an outrageously exciting, unbelievably fast-moving 2-0 triumph over heavily favored...
...West. Another factor troubling the future of bilateral progress is the uncertain health of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, who has not been seen in public since last August. But there were no suggestions in Gromyko's behavior in Stockholm that he felt constrained by any leadership vacuum in the Kremlin. Said a U.S. diplomat...
...only conceivable reason that Reagan would want to run again is to prevent the Republicans from going down the drain. But even this argument is beginning to evaporate in the wake of the Democrats' leadership vacuum...
...Marines were stationed in Beirut not as a combat force, but in the reasonable hope that they could provide a neutral, stabilizing force in the vacuum created by the Israeli withdrawal. Sadly, they have failed in this task--largely because they are viewed by most Lebanese (and, most likely, the Gemayel government itself) as anything but neutral. In an already bulletridden nation, the Marines have become just another target...