Word: sovereign
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...right about the double meaning, however it certainly cannot be said that the PQ's goal of separation from Canada was hidden from the public. It has been known for more than 18 years that the Parn Quebecois's ideal is for Quebec to be sovereign. Furthermore, during the campaign, it was widely advertised that the PQ planned to work toward the independence of Quebec if it formed a new government. Separation was one of the party's principal political platforms. The voters knew that, if elected, the PQ would plan a referendum on the issue of separation within...
...State Henry Kissinger to mediate the South African political crisis fell apart after Zulu leaders repeated their demand that the nation's all-race elections be postponed. Kissinger's mediation team had hoped to resolve the conflict between African National Congress members and Zulu nationalists, who are demanding a sovereign state and boycotting the April 26-28 election...
Political violence related to demands by some Zulus for a sovereign state in South Africa's Natal province continued to mount, with the death toll reaching . 125 for the past week. Two weeks remain before the country's all-race election, but in a Friday summit, President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela failed to persuade Zulu leaders to drop their election boycott...
...Leon Panetta, argued back and forth. Says one who was there: "When George spoke, it wasn't part of the debate. It was time to close your notebook." No one has suggested that Clinton invested such power in a dummy or straw man. Like the President, Stephanopoulos has a sovereign command of policy issues. Unlike him, thanks to his tenure as floor assistant to House majority leader Richard Gephardt from 1989 to '91, he also understands the Hill. "He knows the Speaker," says a colleague. "He knows the Leader. When the time comes to pass legislation, he knows what...
...motives at the heart of this tragedy were only the worst. Mangope was resisting the elections only in order to hold onto his own power and hoped that his small, independent province would become a sovereign state. The South African government finally lost its patience and threatened to send troops into the area to keep the peace in preparation for free elections. Mangope acceded to the plan after he saw that he could not successfully repel the soldiers, but his submission came too late...