Word: paramount
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...success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the puppet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam. and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...
Hanify's letter on behalf of the HUC asked suspension of classes on October 15 to aid students' expression of "conscientious concern" about the war, a subject of "paramount concern to all the members of the University community...
With President Nixon's announcement that another 35,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from South Viet Nam, bringing the total to roughly 60,000 (see NATION), Vietnamization becomes a matter of paramount importance. The very survival of the South as a separate entity may be at stake. Also at stake is the entire American strategy for withdrawal. The hopeful Pentagon scenario calls for gradual replacement of U.S. forces by South Vietnamese, until only U.S. air, artillery and logistic support need remain. If the South Vietnamese should prove incapable of fulfilling this assigned role, the U.S. would then have...
...trustees were anything but ambiguous, though, about how they believe Cornell must respond to campus disorders from now on. "The protection and preservation of order has now become of paramount importance to the university because of the emergence of that minority on campus who seek to replace reason with power," said the report. Should there ever be a repetition of last spring's troubles, they warned, "the university must not negotiate under duress. There must be no amnesty for infractions of the student conduct code...
...most baffling when it reflects the feudal social structure of 18th century Japan. In its painstakingly stylized way, the Grand Kabuki converts action and experience into a series of magnificent pictorial still lifes that remind one again and again of ukiyo-e, the "floating world" of Japanese prints. The paramount problem is tempo. Implacably loyal to its centuries-old tradition, the Kabuki imposes the pace of the palanquin on the age of the jet plane...