Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz conceded to the Senate Budget Committee that "the situation in Lebanon has deteriorated from our standpoint." Yet he argued that the U.S. had been right in trying to establish "a unified, stable and sovereign Lebanon." He placed most blame, perhaps rather naively, on Syria for refusing to withdraw its forces after Israel had agreed to do so in its May 17 accord with Lebanon...
...first in a line of three principles that Sarid detailed. The second principle dealt with the question of whom Israel should carry on negotiations with: "Israel should talk peace with anyone who adopts this first principle of mutual recognition. Whoever recognizes Israel's right to exist as a sovereign, secure state in the Middle East, should be considered by it a legitimate and acceptable partner at the negotiating table...
...these two individuals. They were part of a protest in fundamental opposition to the policies and actions of Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and the Reagan administration--policies that have resulted in the death of 40,000 civilians in El Salvador since 1980, and in the invasion of the sovereign nation of Grenada a short time before Weinberger spoke...
...backing for his rather extreme view, Means cites Article Six of the Constitution, which dictates that the U.S. can only enter treaties with sovereign nations, and he cites the fact that the government has signed four treaties with the Lakota nation. Means says that his tribe "is a sovereign nation, and it is time we started acting sovereign...
...possible values of human society, one and one only is the truly sovereign, truly universal, truly sound, truly and completely acceptable goal of man in America. That goal is money, and let there be no sour grapes about it from the losers...