Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KLM?probed the disaster. Human error seemed the most probable cause. As U.S. Federal Aviation Administrator John McLucas put it: "Apparently not everybody had his head up." The only other possibility was an unlikely malfunction in radio equipment that could have prevented the KLM pilot from hearing the last vital communications from the airport tower or from the Pan Am cockpit. If both pilots and the tower controllers had fully heard ?and understood?one another, the KLM pilot would never have sent his craft hurtling toward takeoff before the Pan Am plane was off the runway...
...week's end the Angola-backed rebels were less than 50 miles from Kolwezi, where the Belgian-run Gecamines Co. extracts more than half of Zaïre's vital copper. U.S. construction workers on a $500 million power line were airlifted out.* Should Kolwezi fall, Mobutu's government would be hard pressed to survive. French officials are said to have begun talks with anti-Mobutu rebels in Paris-presumably in an effort to reach a compromise...
...BIRTH CONTROL. I don't think it is easy to educate people into self-control. Population control is vital today because we are poor. Now it can be done only by artificial means by the common people. Therefore, we must give them those means, but they must be voluntary and not compulsory. [Mrs. Gandhi] paid the price only because of this-old men have been vasectomized, unmarried people have been vasectomized, young boys have been vasectomized. [The election result] is a revolt against all that. We would not have won otherwise. I agree with incentives because I believe both...
Hated Dictator. After leading a long, bloody struggle to unify Zaïre in the 1960s, Mobutu is reluctant to make concessions to Shaba's invading exiles. One reason is that income from Shaba's copper mines is vital for his financially shaky country. Another is that any sign of yielding could invite similar demands from other regions of Zaïre, which has some 200 tribes. A corrupt dictator, Mobutu is unpopular-even hated-in much of the country. In the wild northeast, for example, he is accused of being responsible for ordering the murder...
...committees to investigate the feasibility of a core curriculum in more detail, it would be appropriate to have students on the committees. Such concern for student input is encouraging. In his new job, Bowersock will be chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education and thus will serve as a vital channel through which student opinion can be communicated to the Faculty. He will have a continuing responsibility, then, to understand and articulate student views. A final evaluation of his appointment will be based largely on how effectively he fills this role...