Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan's assertion that the Marines are in Lebanon to protect vital Western interests clarifies their role. In that light, however, they can no longer be perceived as "angels of peace" but as agents of a Western-dominated solution. Thus it becomes quite easy to understand why the peace keepers have become targets for those opposed to a settlement on the West's terms...
Unlike other areas of the globe, Central America is less of a pawn in a superpower chess game than a vital security interest to the United States. As LaFeber points out in the beginning of the book, roughly two-thirds of the nation's trade, not to mention virtually all of its oil and key minerals, pass through the Caribbean sea lanes bordered by the five Central American states. As a result, the United States has reacted violently to any foreign influence it perceives as a threat to its lifeline...
This apprehension results in a rift between students and the professors who should be playing a vital role in their college experience, she concluded...
...what Flynn now says, King has been saying for years, and Flynn's inconsistency on vital issues such as taxation, minority representation, and social issues shows that he is a follower, not a leader...
...surprisingly, the Soviets rarely launder this dirty linen in public. Now a change seems to be in the air. The officially controlled press has acknowledged, in almost painful detail, an environmental calamity that seriously polluted one of the U.S.S.R.'s major rivers: the Dniester, which is a vital source of fresh water for the rich agricultural lands of the southwestern Ukraine and the small Moldavian Soviet Republic...