Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massacres is unlikely) complete with a small, but well-equipped army. If we combine this with the fact that the PLO's declared purpose is the destruction of Israel, one wonders not why Israel invaded, but why it waited so long to end a situation intolerable to any sovereign nation...
...demanded by the Israelis, Haddad declared: "There is no need to proclaim our new state. This was one a long time ago." Haddad's assertion demonstrated how far Lebanon remains from the goal, proclaimed by both the Israelis and the Gemayel government, of once again becoming an independent, sovereign state. - By William E. Smith. Reported by Harry Kelly/Jerusalem and Roberto Suro/Beirut
...table for West European representatives. The U.S.S.R. has persistently tried to include British and French nuclear weapons on the agenda, but the U.S. is just as adamant about discussing only Soviet and American forces. Unlike the US.S.R.'s Warsaw Pact satellites, the U.S.'s NATO allies are truly sovereign states, and Britain and France have refused to let the U.S. bargain with their independent arsenals...
...postwar Japan have been the peace treaty following World War II, the U.S.-Japanese security treaty and the constitution. The Communist Party and the left wing in general have argued for a policy of unarmed neutrality based on their interpretation of constitutional Article 9 [which renounces war as a sovereign right]. But the interpretation by the Liberal Democratic Party and by a majority of the Japanese people has always been that we can maintain the minimum self-defense capability, that an independent nation is entitled to maintain sufficient armed forces for minimum self-defense. There has been confusion as regards...
...that are questionable credit risks tax deductible. British banks are worried enough to have increased provisions for losses to the largest levels in memory. In West Germany, the national banking supervisory agency is understood to have informally recommended that banks "write down," or unofficially write off, 40% of their sovereign risk loans. Matters are less critical in Japan, where the Ministry of Finance makes certain that banks do not lend more than 30% of their capital overseas. But even Japanese banks, which had a total of $81 billion in international loans outstanding in 1981, suffer formidable exposure...