Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took five months of debate to frame and 132 pages to spell out. But the essence of the Kissinger commission's prescription for U.S. policy toward war-torn Central America could be put in a single word: more. More recognition, to begin with, that the U.S. has a vital interest in combatting Marxist revolution in the isthmus, and the misery and oppression that feed such revolution. Thus much more aid of every kind: more guns, ammunition, helicopters for friendly governments, but also more money to buy food, build roads and schools, train nurses and dentists. More pressure for democratic...
...FINDINGS of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America published this week have, not surprisingly, reaffirmed the United States' vital stake in Central America. For both humanitarian and security reasons the situation in the troubled region concerns us more than ever, the report states. With that said, the 12 member panel headed by former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 goes on to propose a set of conflicting solutions that if adopted as policy would inevitably fail to place Central America on the path to peace and prosperity...
...faces up to the realization that it will take many years and billions of dollars to reverse the decline in living standards from which Central America now suffers. Although as the panel points out, much of Central America's future depends on the policies it adopts U.S. assistance is vital in providing the region with a head start. Washington should continue its support for agrarian reform which will lessen the power of local oligarchies and offer the peasant some hope of livelihood. In addition, the U.S. should be generous in supplying technical and monetary aid in helping the Central American...
...Cynicism," wrote H.G. Wells, "is humour in ill-health." By this scale, "Washingtoon"'s humor is on the brink of terminal cancer. Like his colleagues at The Voice and every other American of liberal bent, Stamaty demonstrates that survival that which has become vital in America in the '80s; cynicism...
...peace, I undertook a personal initiative to seek ways to improve East-West relations. When the two largest military powers each have over 20,000 nuclear weapons, any one of which is many times more powerful than the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their relationship is of vital interest to all nations. I believe each individual leader must see the search for stability as a personal responsibility. It is far too important to be left to the superpowers alone...