Word: vital
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Reagan has talked even less about, some other areas of foreign policy, notably the Middle East, because he has little to show for U.S. efforts there. The vaunted Reagan peace plan has been rejected by both the Arabs and the Israelis, and the "vital American interests" he once spoke of in Lebanon are a shambles. Last week's car bombing of the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut was a tragic reminder of similar attacks that took the lives of 278 Americans there last year, and the subsequent U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon (see WORLD). It was also stark testimony...
...Spokesman John Hughes: "You have to remember that an embassy has to be open to the public, a window of the U.S. open to the world." When reminded that there had been an anonymous telephone threat in Beirut earlier this month of a forthcoming attack against "one of the vital American installations in the Middle East," Hughes replied, "Threats against our installations are sadly all too frequent...
...protect the opportunity of speakers to express themselves freely, recognizing that personal development is a basic value in our society and that freedom to express one's views and discuss them with others is a vital part of personal development...
However, several listeners assailed SYE's interpretation of divestiture, responding that pressuring American companies to pull out of South Africa is vital for reform because American made military goods and computers are helping the white minority government enforce apartheid. Damon A. Silvers '86, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Endowment for Divestiture, charged that SYE, a small, radical Trotskyism group, was using the apartheid issue "for their own sectarian, totalitarian ends." Silver added that Black workers in South Africa approve of divestiture as a way of ending apartheid...
Krakow in southern Poland boasts the only old city which did not need thorough reconstruction. Outside the walls, synagogues and buildings with Hebrew writing provide testament to a formerly vital Jewish ghetto. Six hundred elderly Jews live in Krakow now as compared with 65,000 before...