Word: sovereign
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...future plans to receive MIG's. But then he got to the crux of the matter. What right, he asked rhetorically, has the United States to dictate to Nicaragua what weapons it may or may not purchase from another nation? Where in international law is it written that one sovereign nation may not procure the weaponry it determines necessary for its self-defense...
Jews may be interested in the version of their central confession of faith from Deuteronomy (known as the Sh 'ma) as Jesus recites it in Mark: "Hear, O Israel: The Sovereign our God, the Sovereign is one." In Acts 3, in the interests of domestic balance, the customary list of Hebrew patriarchs is augmented by the names of their wives: "The God of Abraham [and Sarah], of Isaac [and Rebekah], of Jacob, [Leah and Rachel...
...proceeds from [God] the Father [and Mother]" seems to add a heretical Fourth Person to the Trinity. The third and final selection of readings, due a year hence, will include Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer. Chances are that this will be known as the Sovereign's Prayer and that Jesus will address the Deity as a binary "Father [and Mother]." -By Richard N. Ostling...
...Chinese-language newspaper, nearly 80% of the colony's residents admitted to doubts and reservations about their future freedom. "Hong Kong as it is is finished," pronounced a Chinese businessman with close ties to Peking. "Its ability to be profitable is there only because of present policies. When sovereign ty by the Chinese is proclaimed, these policies will have to be changed...
Delegates from other countries criticized the U.S. position as an inappropriate attempt to impose American values on the rest of the world. Formal speeches avoided direct attacks on the U.S., but the phrase "sovereign rights," meaning that each country should be able to choose its own population-control program, cropped up repeatedly, even in the statements of industrial nations friendly to the U.S., like Australia and West Germany. In the corridors, however, diplomatic façades gave way to resentful, at times bitter, comments. "The U.S. may be concerned about abortion," said Satpal Mittal, a delegate from India, where...