Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year after the Geneva agreement consolidated Laos' three warring factions into a single government, the precarious arrangement is falling apart. Reason: the Communists are simply ignoring the truce, as well as their longtime alliance with Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, and are seeking to wrest control of the vital Plain of Jars in central Laos from neutralist troops. Though at first suspicious of the neutralist regime, Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan sent four battalions to help it. Despite such assistance, the neutralist forces under General Kong Le have only one strategic position left on the plain - Phou Theneng mountain...
...fact, the hearts of heroic figures have more than once withstood the flames.*But the "miracle" serves the Buddhists in their two-month-old war with Diem. Thanks partly to pressure from the U.S., which fears that massive Buddhist disaffection could wreck South Viet Nam's long, vital campaign against the Communists, the Diem government signed a compromise agreeing to let the Buddhists fly their own flag and promising to ease anti-Buddhist discrimination. If the regime fails to show good faith, the Buddhists vow, they will start new demonstrations-and they are counting on the symbol of Quang...
Miss Hiatt likes her groups to sing music from all periods, but thinks that contemporary music is a special test of a chorus' excellence: "This century's music is an indication of our cultural validity, and I want to deal with only that music which is vital...
With all your excellent coverage of the Keeler-Profumo extravaganza [June 14], how could your reporters possibly have missed getting her vital statistics? Deplorable...
Bell continued with his explanation. A strong India, he said, is certainly in the U.S.'s best interests. To become strong, India must build its industrial potential, and the Bokaro plant is vital to this aim. Bell insisted that Indian government officials and private citizens are almost unanimous in their belief that the Bokaro plant should be government-operated. He had, he said, recently talked to J.R.D. Tata, head of one of India's two private steel mills. Tata told him that private capital was simply not available, either in India or abroad, for investment in the plant...