Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having turned against Aidid, the U.N. is left with more questions than answers about its future responsibilities. Should it try to disarm all the warlords? Should it prosecute them? Should it conduct national elections? Should it intervene in case of attack? Most important, is Somalia vital enough to any U.N. member state to invest the money, lives and years required to reconstruct the country...
...witness / atrocities. Britain and France, who supply most of the manpower, have resisted serious military steps against the Serbs for fear of reprisals against their soldiers, making the blue helmets more like hostages than enforcers of international law. Western nations could never reach agreement that Bosnian carnage affected their vital interests and so could not make a credible threat of force. Last week Clinton underscored the ultimate irrelevance of the U.N. mission in Bosnia by virtually abandoning its government. The U.S., he said, would live with the country's partition into ethnic enclaves to reflect Serb and Croat territorial gains...
...earth's population living in the Islamic World, it is imperative that study of the highest quality be devoted to Islamic law. The foresight and generosity of King Fahd ensure that the world will always have at Harvard Law School a center for serious, objective academic study of this vital field," Law School Dean Robert C. Clark said in a statement...
...still comes as a shock near the end to see Tom's emaciated face staring at the camera and to hear Mark's quavering voice: "This is the first of July, and Tommy's just died." The succeeding scenes are equally brutal -- a medical official taking down the vital statistics, the corpse being wrapped in a body bag. The film ends, heartbreakingly, with a flashback to Tom and Mark dancing in front of the camera in that spirited documentary of 15 years earlier...
After all, this soundly falls to pass his criteria for intervention in the status quo. Vital to the national interest of the majority? Gays and lesbians are a definitive minority in the human population. Supported by the people and the Congress? Poll after poll says no. A last resort? The American military system has functioned smoothly enough under the policy in the 1980s and 1990s to effectively accomplish set objectives. Prejudice and anger would most likely endanger openly gay soldiers as well...