Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Decision to Win emphasizes that the popular image of guerillas as a loosely-organized group of men, isolated from the general population, is simply wrong. Farmers, doctors, tailors, teachers and cooks in Morazan are all shown performing the vital and often startlingly mundane activities that sustain the guerilla effort. The dedication shown by these people and the growing support for the movement depicted in the film constitute the fruits of the title...
...invade Cuba if the Soviet missiles were withdrawn. The President never shared the view that the missile crisis should be "used" to pick a fight to the finish with Castro; he correctly insisted that the real issue in the crisis was with the Soviet government, and that the one vital bone of contention was the secret and deceit-covered movement of Soviet missiles into Cuba. He recognized that an invasion by U.S. forces would be bitter and bloody, and that it would leave festering wounds in the body politic of the Western Hemisphere. The no-invasion assurance...
Crucial friends to be sure: Clark Air Force Base and Subic Naval Base, the major U.S. military facilities in the Philippines, are vital staging areas for forces in the Pacific, a point that Imelda Marcos delights in driving home. "The Americans need us more than we need them," she told TIME. "They don't realize that if they lose their last bastion in the Pacific, they cannot be a superpower here. We will not allow the U.S. to treat us shabbily." President Ronald Reagan, who has down-played human rights issues since taking office, is exempt from that resentment...
...hour and a half, through some 30 songs, he does what only he can do. He brings to life the almost forgotten spirit of the Parisian music hall, still vital, vibrant and surging with what he calls l'électricité. Singing all but one of his numbers in French, he ranges from comic routines to nostalgic set pieces, from songs of social protest to romantic ballads as sharp and bittersweet as anisette...
...that I wanted to make [the course] harder. I just wanted to make sure people read what I assigned, at the times that I assigned it. It's vital for communication, and I'll do anything to facilitate that." He adds, "I suppose it's no loss to people who had that superficial notion of the course...