Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hume suggests the British government has a major responsibility for finding a solution. "They're the sovereign government. They've got all the authority and all the power." But he says he fears that a number of factors--the growth of Scottish and Welsh nationalism, Britain's ever-increasing economic woes, and the growing number of Britons who are simply fed up with the whole Ulster affair--may result in a postponement of British attempts to seek a settlement, or even worse, the withdrawal of British troops before a political settlement is reached...
Four months ago, a man came to Rare Earth with a request to be sovereign of an island. After some work, Van Haefton found that the Fiji government owned uninhabited islands that were so remote that it would consider selling them, sovereignty along with the deed...
...television was the first national showcase for many of them. Now the opportunity has expanded in a major way to legitimate theater. Ironically, at a time when strong parts for women are lamentably lacking in white shows, it is the black actresses, all around 30, who are now sovereign on Broadway...
Most important, the African leaders demanded that Britain, as the Rhodesians' titular colonial sovereign, convene a conference to iron out details about the makeup of the interim government, and take part in a subsequent constitutional conference as well. Snorted Salisbury's Foreign Affairs Minister P.K. van der Byl: "It simply shows the irresponsibility and unreliability of those we have to deal with...
...rapprochement with Communist China at the probable expense of Taiwan and its negotiations with Panama to relinquish gradually total U.S. control over the Panama Canal. The platform committee took up the canal issue first, rejecting Reagan language banning treaty modifications that would "in any degree impair or relinquish U.S. sovereign rights and control over the Canal Zone." Ford backers instead accepted vague wording under which the G.O.P. acknowledged that the U.S. now has rights in the zone as "if it were the sovereign" and should not give up any power crucial to U.S. security...