Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...besieged El Salvador. Another sought to ban covert U.S. operations against the aggressive leftist regime in Nicaragua. Polls showed that few voters shared his critical concern over Central America and even fewer wanted the U.S. to become involved in the problem. Yet because he fervently believes his policies are vital to the future of the hemisphere, Ronald Reagan made a bold but politically risky appearance last week before a special joint session of Congress. "A number of times in the past years, members of Congress and the President have come together in meetings like this to resolve a crisis...
...negotiate seriously at Geneva, according to most of the panel participants. Kaiser predicted that they would "let us go through the agony of decision because it provides opportunities they have not had in the past." In this situation, said Joseph Biden, a Democratic Senator from Delaware, there is a vital need to maintain the credibility of the alliance so that the Soviets will realize they must talk seriously. Said Biden: "If the Russians saw God and God said, 'They're really going to deploy,' the Russians would negotiate." But West European panelists were not convinced. They feared...
...senior Western diplomat in Moscow said that the Soviet tactic of appealing to Western public opinion through individual letters undermined serious arms negotiations. "Propaganda is being turned out more quickly and more cleverly under Andropov," he said. "They are using this technique not to talk seriously about vital questions, but to build a worldwide campaign against the Reagan Administration...
...Stockholm archipelago." It reportedly involved three conventional Soviet submarines and three manned "bottom-creeping minis" of a type that was previously unknown. Some experts think the Soviets could have been gathering intelligence to plan the invasion of Sweden and Norway, so as to gain control of the vital northern Atlantic sea-lanes in the event...
...vital to the mood changes as the portrayal of the characters' newly acquired nasty spirits and nasty habits (smoking, drinking, adultery) are the set and clothing switches. The furniture in Acts I and III is light and fabric-covered--vintage 1919. The costumes, too, come from a lost age of youth--especially the gaily colored blousy dresses that look as though they were lifted from an Impressionist canvas. But by 1938 the room in which the entire play takes place is furnished with heavy leather couches and chairs. The bright dresses have given way to dark, somber, serious business suits...