Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeming Communists. One reason it is difficult to tell is that Burma's dictator, General Ne Win, is allergic to visitors; all transit visas are limited to 24 hours. Burma is indubitably a sovereign state, has outlawed the Communist movement, and has signed a border agreement with Peking. Its high-stepping military, duly cheered each year on Armed Forces Day, is relatively stable and competent. With some success Burma has managed to steer a perilous neutral course between the West and China, having been helped greatly by the fact that the British withdrew in relatively good order rather than...
...away and many years ago, a son was born to wise and mighty king. The sovereign placed the education of his son in the hands of his Grand Vizier who saw hat the boy learned both rhetoric and natural philosophy...
...recalling the Tanzanian Ambassador to the U.S. Reason: the U.S. had asked for the recall of a Tanzanian attache from Washington in retaliation for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats by Tanzania on patently ridiculous charges (TIME, Feb. 5). "We are a small country, but we are as much sovereign as the U.S.," explained Nyerere in martyred tones. "We do not bully and we do not like being bullied...
...that the exemption would then be granted. But the Vatican Secretary of State, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, coldly replied that a sovereign government does not tell another about the state of its finances...
...Guardia Colonel Bolívar Vallarino, he paid solemn homage to the "heroic sacrifice" of the 21 Panamanian "martyrs" (while neglecting to mention that at least nine were killed accidentally by other Panamanians), publicly promised a completely new treaty to replace the hated 1903 pact that gives the U.S. sovereign ty over the Canal Zone. He allowed the agitators to make their speeches, burn a few U.S. flags and stage their parades along carefully prescribed routes. But he warned against violence, and when the boys got out of hand the guardsmen were waiting...