Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satisfied with frustrating our breakfast, the deans then plotted against our sovereign rights at lunch by closing the Union to Upperclassmen at the noon meal. After all, we could eat at our Houses, and the freshmen needed some peace and quiet at lunch. I for one felt like Ryan O'Neal must have felt when Ali McGraw told him he had no right to use Radcliffe libraries when Harvard owned ten million books. Sure, I could go back to Currier or test the unknown at Adams, but the Union is closer and what's the $7000 for anyway, guys...
Palestinian Homeland A geographic and political (if not necessarily fully sovereign) state for the Palestinians...
Hypothetical Japanese paratroopers who landed in Tel Aviv in May 1948 could have legitimately claimed sovereign rights in Palestine, Yehuda Z. Blum, professor of international law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told a group of approximately 50 people last night in Science Center...
...Committee by Special Counsel Leon Jaworski. But the Korean leader has turned aside repeated inquiries by U.S. diplomats about Park, often citing an unwillingness to abridge his "human rights." Rejecting the latest entreaties from Washington, Seoul's Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin observed curtly that "as a fully sovereign and law-governed nation, Korea finds no reason to turn over one of its nationals merely because he is suspected of having violated foreign law." Tongsun Park, who left London for Korea in August just as the Ethics Committee was beginning its hearings, made a similar argument. After...
Under such pressure, city officials asked the state legislature for reform. As a result, Neville has once more delayed pressing her claim. Meanwhile, tiring of such legal imbroglios, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a separate but similar case, has pushed the legislature to act on the question of sovereign immunity by the end of 1978. If the legislators do not allow citizens to make "reasonable" claims against the government by then, the court threatened to abolish the doctrine on its own-and without an limit to government liability...