Word: sovereign
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...Withdrawal from the European Community. Britain's membership in the Community, say the leftists, has pushed up prices, cost thousands of British jobs and reduced the sovereign rights of Parliament. The militants resent the fact that Britain pays out large subsidies to support the economies of other Community countries. Some fear a Community grab to control Britain's energy policy and North Sea oil. The nation, they say, should look elsewhere for more profitable and sympathetic trading partners, including Communist bloc and Third World countries. According to a recent poll, 58% of the British public now agree that...
...Backed by artillery, tanks and air cover, the Libyan troops had broken the stalemate in the country's nine-month-old civil war by helping President Goukouni Oueddei to defeat his rival. Defense Minister Hissene Habre. The proposed Libya-Chad merger thus appeared less a union between consenting sovereign nations than an outright Libyan annexation of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Chad is an ideal launching position for his expansionist dream of a Saharan empire that would stretch from the Atlantic...
...antisocialist elements and Western imperialist propaganda." In particular, Pravda blasted AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and other U.S. labor leaders for sending aid to "antigovernment" Polish strikers and labor unions. The American leaders, warned Pravda, "are profoundly mistaken in thinking that their interference in the internal affairs of the sovereign Polish state will go unnoticed...
...entire world and calculate actions on a broad strategic canvas. A member of the National Security Council marveled at Carter conducting the discussions about manufacturing and deploying the neutron bomb. "It was out of a high school civics lesson," this man reported. "It was viewed in terms of sovereign countries, a bunch of equals deciding on a policy. It never seemed to occur to Carter that he was the leader and should make the decision in the free world's interest...
...famous trip to Jerusalem. The battering was no less troubling for the fact that it was largely gratuitous. First, at an "emergency session" in New York, the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly, as expected, for a resolution affirming the right of the Palestinian people to establish a sovereign state. The resolution also demanded that an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem should begin within the next three months. The U.N. action served only to increase Israel's sense of isolation and beleaguerment...