Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator's fear of using American power borders on the pathological. He has opposed the deployment of US troops to Grenada and Lebanon, he refuses to commit American forces directly in order to keep open the vital Straits of Hormuz, through which much of the Western world's imported oil flows, and now he wants America to abandon Central America...
Though Hart and his chief rival, Walter F. Mondale, are indeed quite similar on several key issues, they differ substantially on at least one vital concern--gun control. Democrats mesmerized by Hart's futuristic visions should pause to consider their candidate's stand on this question, and what it indicates about his candidacy...
...hurt the Jordanians, though they were considering other options, including the purchase of similar weapons from France or the Soviet Union. What suffered most, amid the sense of spiraling failure of American interests in the Arab Middle East, was the ability of the U.S. to influence events in a vital region of the world...
...signature offered a poignant reminder that during the 42 months that Iran and Iraq have waged war for control of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, an estimated 100,000 soldiers as young as Abbas Shahverdi have fallen in battle. With characteristic zeal, propaganda ministries in Tehran and Baghdad continued last week to churn out the usual contradictory news bulletins of air strikes, casualty figures, shellings and border skirmishes lost...
...Reagan Administration was concerned with human rights. But publicly denouncing friends on questions of human rights while minimizing the abuse of those rights in the Soviet Union and other totalitarian countries was at an end. El Salvador, vital though the preservation of its democratic future is, represents a symptom of dangerous conditions in the Americas?Cuban adventurism, Soviet strategic ambition...