Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power as necessarily a form of usurpation." But the Shah insists that he dealt relatively mildly with his opponents: "I am told today that I should have applied martial law more forcefully. This would have cost my country less dear than the bloody anarchy now established there. But a sovereign cannot save his throne by spilling the blood of his fellow countrymen...
...President is sovereign because the law makes him that way, but also because time forces him to be. He is the only person who can move fleets and make diplomatic challenges. The U.S. is the only power in the free world that can orchestrate some events around the globe to bring pressure on the sore point...
...CRISIS is a crock. The public has caught on to this truth, and many experts agree. The real crisis is a crisis of political institutions. Nationalization might be a sensible step for a government confronting corporations that now behave with the arrogance of mighty sovereign nations. But officials never even debate the merits and drawbacks of nationalization; it's outside the narrow range of the politically possible. One type of government enterprise with historical precedent is the crash program to cope with a crisis or meet a technological challenge. "Manhattan project" and "moonshot" are ritual utterances for politicians trying...
...obviously a principle that has widespread support. Indeed, some experts believe it is the only principle that can attract the volatile Palestinians to the negotiating table. Other experts wonder, nonetheless, what coercion would persuade the Israelis to agree to any plan that might bring the Palestine Liberation Organization to sovereign power. And, although the pro-Israeli protests may be exaggerated, any suggestion that political concessions might stabilize the price of oil seems improbable...
What would be the status of Gaza and the West Bank? I don't know the term for it, but I know there will be two sovereign states in the area: Israel, with the old boundaries, and Jordan, to the east of the river. And in between there is an area that should be under the sovereignty of neither Israel nor Jordan. What I am insisting is that we Israelis should have the right to settle there, that we should not be considered foreigners, and that we should have the right to keep our forces there for our self...