Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking of U.S. leverage with Israel, Rabin stated, "Israel is a sovereign state, responsible for itself." I hope Rabin remembers this before he drops another "$2.5 billion request...
...turned a 1973 setback in the Sinai into victory by rolling his armor across the Suez Canal. He says, "We must explain to the Arabs what is vital to us and make them an offer on a take-it-or-leave-it basis." He would acknowledge Egypt's sovereign right to the Sinai, for instance, but would insist upon a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces over a 20-year period. He would annex the West Bank to Israel and "turn over the territory east of the Jordan River"-meaning Jordan-to the Palestinians. "The only foreigner in Palestine...
...LEVERAGE WITH ISRAEL. It would be a mistake to assume that either the U.S. can dictate to the Israelis what to do when it comes to the vital interests of security or that the Soviets can dictate to the Arabs. Israel is a sovereign state, responsible for itself...
...heart disease; in East Berlin. A Communist from his youth, Winzer was a close aide of the late East German leader Walter Ulbricht. When Winzer took command of the foreign ministry in 1965, only the Communist bloc and a few Third World countries recognized East Germany as a sovereign state. Winzer shepherded his country into the international arena, and in 1973 East Germany (along with her neighbor to the west) was admitted to the United Nations. Poor health forced Winzer's resignation in January...
Newly elected Tory Party Leader Margaret Thatcher defended the expenditures on the grounds that the monarchy is "our most precious asset." Others, though, are beginning to see it differently. Said Labor M.P. James Wellbeloved during the floor debate: "In my household, and in every other, there is another sovereign, the housewife, who is struggling to keep her family afloat in the turbulent sea of inflation. We must prevent people like this from becoming resentful of the institution that leads them." For some M.P.s, however, the reaction of Britain's housewives was of less concern than the reaction of Britain...