Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House committee will take up the issue this week, and a floor vote is expected by mid-July. But if aid is not resumed this month, Ankara has vowed to require "renegotiation" of U.S. military installations in Turkey-meaning that Ankara might close U.S. bases that Washington considers vital...
...shudder of agreement rippled down the caucus from Alabama to Wyoming. "Foreign Policy is vital to out survival and women must intrude on those decisions. That is our failure-that we do not have women senators to address us or women judges whose opinions we can read." Farenthold swooped down in a final damnation. "And we have no presidential candidate...
...along Jamaica Bay in Queens, visibility was two miles, the ceiling 5,000 ft.-both-well beyond landing and takeoff minimums. The arcs of lightning, terrifying to many air travelers, caused little concern among the air-wise. Lightning slips routinely off the skins of modern air: craft, rarely impairing vital controls or igniting the well-protected fuel tanks. J.F.K.'s radar picked up the thunderstorm's ominous hook-shaped rain cells. Rain itself poses no unusual problem for pilots. Yet real dangers lurked invisibly in this storm's particular pattern of high and erratically shifting winds...
...relationship with Rhodesia -which relies on Mozambican rail lines and ports to handle 80% of its exports -is another matter. Though he said nothing about a blockade last week, Machel seems certain to shut off Rhodesia's vital transit trade sooner or later. That would cost Mozambique about $50 million a year in transport revenues, but might also topple the hated white regime in Salisbury. "The struggle in Zimbabwe," he said last week, using the African name for Rhodesia, "is our struggle...
...Korean peninsula has always been a key to the stability of Northeast Asia. It is of vital concern to the Japanese, with over $1.5 billion worth of investments on the peninsula and the enduring feeling that Korea is "a dagger pointing at the heart of Japan." U.S. strategists, looking toward the post-Viet Nam era, are already talking about a Northeast Asia defense line, anchored in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. In all three countries, the U.S. has strong economic interests backed by formal mutual defense treaties...