Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace from a prepared text, .Premier Khrushchev announced: "The time has come when the powers who signed the Potsdam agreement should give up the remnants of the German occupation regime. The Soviet Union, for its part, will hand over those functions which it still retains in Berlin to the sovereign German Democratic Republic [meaning Communist-run East Germany], and the U.S., French and British can form their own relations with East Germany if they still have questions about Berlin...
...process he calls"iconotropy"-the misreading of pictures and symbols from one culture to fit the religious bias of another. He cites the familiar myth of Europa and the bull as an example of this process: the Greeks developed the patriarchal Zeus cult at the expense of the once sovereign "Moon-goddess" by interpreting a Cretan icon of the "Goddess dominating the Minos Bull by riding on its back, as though Zeus, in bull disguise, were carrying off the maiden Europa to ravish her at his leisure...
...Chief Barboncito and eleven other tribal chiefs for the Navajos. It allotted the Navajos their scrubby, brush-covered acreage along with treaty rights. Modern Navajo interpretation of the treaty: the tribe can disregard any state or federal law that does not suit its purposes. "A treaty sovereign," argues urbane Joseph F. McPherson. onetime U.S. Justice Department attorney who now works for the Navajos, "has a certain right of consent-and sometimes the Navajo just doesn't consent." Typically, Navajos in recent weeks...
...people on Formosa, and this principle is undoubtedly basis for a sound policy. But if we expect it to be applied in the form of a "plebiscite" sponsored by the UN, we will be disappointed. Plebiscites are not an old Chinese custom. The Nationalist government on Taiwan is a sovereign power in law and in its own sentiment and view of itself. It would not permit the UN to come in and stage a referendum; nor would it be desirable to let in an outside group of UN observers including Communist representatives...
...Moroccans, it was a question of pride. What they wanted most was some evidence that the foreigner acknowledged their new status as a fully sovereign nation no longer an appendage of France. U.S. Ambassador Charles Yost made them an offer: the U.S. would evacuate the $500 million bases after seven years. The Moroccans countered with a request for a three-year phaseout. The expected compromise: U.S. operation of the bases for five more years...