Word: government
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This closeness results from the "conflict of issues--the medium of law and its source--" is also what comprises diplomacy, the ambassador said. He criticized the term "East-West conflict" and preferred to describe the world situation as one in which people are free to govern themselves against a world of a single political system of terror and frustration of democratic processes...
...Puerto Rico is a new kind of state, both in the sense of the United States Federal System and in the general sense of a people organized to govern themselves," Munoz pointed out in his second Godkin lecture last night...
...sword of annihilation is ever to be removed from its precarious balance over the head of all mankind, some more positive course of action must somehow be found." To Richard Nixon, more positive action lies in extending the rule of law, under which men maintain peace with justice, to govern the course of international conduct...
...Dalai Lama was still too young to govern, and his state was run for him by regents. Two of them quarreled, and Lhasa was rocked by a brief civil war in 1947, in which howitzers were used to end the defiance of the monks of Sera lamasery. More important to Tibet and the Dalai Lama was another civil war: that in China. As Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists were driven from the mainland to Formosa, it was inevitable that the Reds would soon attempt to assert the Chinese suzerainty that had been largely ineffectual for nearly 40 years...
...lose its cultural identity and its Spanish language-"would become only a whiff of vermouth in the martini instead of the olive." Statehood's proponents argue that it would give Puerto Rico six or seven Congressmen and two Senators, a voice in making federal laws and decisions that govern the island's fate, and would end the pervasive feeling that Puerto Ricans are really only second-class citizens...