Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the AWACS, the Saudi deal included extra fuel tanks and Sidewinder missiles to extend the range and increase the punch of 60 F-15s already ordered. On merit, the Administration's case for approving the sale was defensible, if not entirely convincing. The West has a vital stake in Saudi Arabia's oil and the stability of the Saudi regime in its turbulent region. To fend off Soviet encroachment and the threats of neighbors serving as Moscow's proxies, the U.S. must provide the Saudis with adequate defenses. The sale would not shift the balance of military strength...
...leaning regime in northern Yemen. The Saudis began pressing for precisely the fuel tanks and bomb racks (Sidewinder missiles were added later) that Brown had said they would not get. When war broke out between Iran and Iraq, both Americans and Saudis had visions of bombing raids on the vital oil fields near the Persian Gulf; the U.S. dispatched four AWACS planes, manned by American crews, to give early warning of any such attack (they will stay until the first Saudi AWACS arrive...
...know is that it keeps us on the playing field, where we have to be." That is a realistic appraisal: the consequences of losing would have been serious for America's ability to conduct foreign policy around the world, so the narrow squeak past disaster was a vital victory. But it may yet prove to be a small one in light of the difficult battles that lie ahead...
...Poland. The Poles should be allowed to settle their problems by themselves. You have your vital interests, we have our military-political alliances. Much depends on whether the Polish state can defend itself against subversion by reactionary forces both inside and outside the country. We have evidence of ties between external forces and those inside the country that are supporting the struggle against socialism. Poland was, is and will remain socialist. That's all I'm going to say about Poland...
...important as they are to CAD/CAM'S growth, supersophisticated computers and industrial-design equipment are only part of the new technology. Equally vital are the imaginative, often astonishing, new ways that state-of-the-art electronics is being applied to solving problems on the factory floor...