Word: sovereign
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Died. Salote Tupou, 65, Queen of the Tonga (Friendly) Islands, the smiling, sturdy (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) sovereign of some 200 tiny isles in the South Pacific, who acceded to her 1,000-year-old throne in 1918 and, through a booming banana and copra export trade, brought her 70,000 Polynesian subjects such 20th century luxuries as free education, medicare and a four-day work week; of pneumonia; in Auckland...
...necessity for the continuing growth of the Market. Already, for example, there is a clamor to harmonize business taxes among the Six-the old national systems have become an impediment to intramural trade. Some central authority must increasingly arbitrate and enforce common rules and laws beyond the sovereign confines of the member states...
...Europe. On the other side is De Gaulle, who argues in ringing 19th century tones that each country must enjoy unrestricted nationalism in order to be, and to feel, strong. Admittedly, he has made France feel stronger than it has in decades. Only through a loose aggregation of such sovereign nations, he says, can the true Europe come about. Moreover, only by pulling away from the Atlantic Community can Western Europe hope to woo Eastern Europe-a debatable proposition, because it is just possible that the Eastern countries might trust an association including the U.S. more than one in which...
Thus, in a pallid parody of the American Declaration of Independence, the white-supremacist regime of Rhodesia's Ian Smith finally made good its threats of two years, broke its ties with Commonwealth and Crown, and assumed its "sovereign independence...
...this reason that many African nationalists wanted UDI as much as the whites who took the plunge. Without UDI, the nationalists, bitterly feuding among themselves, seemed under the firm and indefinite control of the white government's efficient police and army. Britain, as sovereign, warded off the worst attacks in the Commonwealth and the United Nations. The perpetual prospect of fruitful negotiations forestalled any effective sanctions or ostracism which might make white Rhodesians hurt...