Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falling-domino effect on the fragile democratic government in neighboring Honduras as well as the insurgency-threatened rightist regime in Guatemala. Haig's ultimate fear is that the entire region, from Mexico to Panama, might fall into the Soviet orbit, which would not only threaten America's vital security interests, but would also show the world that the U.S. is unable to contain the spread of Communism even in its own backyard...
First, the Washington Post reported that President Reagan approved a $19 million plan for the U.S. to create and supervise a 500-man paramilitary force made up of Latin Americans that will attack vital parts of the Nicaraguan economic infrastructure such as dams and power stations...
...after President Reagan sent a message to Premier Zhao Ziyang expressing his desire for "an even stronger framework for long-term friendship," Zhao replied in a similarly cordial tone, saying in effect that China was willing to try to break the Taiwan deadlock. Clearly, in the vital interests of both nations, they must do so. As Richard Nixon, reflecting on his finest hour, wrote last week in the New York Times, "The bottom line is that both sides must recognize the paramount importance of preserving the new relationship. Neither of us can allow anything, including differences over Taiwan, to jeopardize...
...there is a lengthening agenda of vital concerns for effective council to address. Topping the list is how to insure that the myriad concerns of minorities are given serious serious, constant attention. When the student group writing the constitution grudgingly dropped the guaranteed seat clause, it vowed to take up the question as an early item of business for the new council. We would hold them to this. Besides, united opposition to federal financial aid cuts, and to University stock-holdings in South Africa--among other problems--is desperately needed...
...cruel to Nixon to allow this to continue, and it would also have deprived his resignation of one important message: that our institutions remained vital and our procedures democratic. More than enough had been said. The Cabinet owed it to the President not to deprive him of self-respect or his almost certain departure of dignity. So I took the floor as the senior Cabinet officer. "This is a very difficult time for our country," I said. "Our duty is to show confidence. We must demonstrate that the country can go through its constitutional processes. For the sake of foreign...