Word: sovereign
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...original Native Americans. York and several hundred of his followers wandered from New York to Georgia in 1993, buying up 476 acres of land on the perimeter of Eatonton for $575,000. And now, as a tribe of Native Americans, the Nuwaubians believe they can argue for being a sovereign people not subject to local or state jurisdiction...
...dominates its own. China's approach to international relations may seem crude, but it underpins the deep anger with which China has greeted the recent string of American embarrassments. Charges of campaign-financing corruption, Premier Zhu Rongji's rebuffed concessions to win WTO endorsement, NATO's assault on a sovereign Yugoslavia, the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which no Chinese citizen believes was accidental--all these add up to frightening confirmation that the U.S. is bent on "containing" China from achieving its rightful place in the world. The Cox report not only buttresses the public tilt toward tension...
...experience what it is to be a refugee and how it feels when bombs fall. I am convinced that the NATO war against Serbia is terribly wrong. It is a mistake to take sides in a civil conflict that we do not understand. It is wrong to attack a sovereign country that does not threaten us. It is wrong to impose moral values on others while we have none. It is wrong to take actions that make the situation worse. MIKLOS N. SZILAGYI Tucson, Ariz...
Yugoslavia's rights as a sovereign nation were violated not only by the bombing, but also by unfair negotiations in Rambouillet, France, said a few who believe that NATO should continue to try for a political settlement...
...NATO is definitely overstepping its boundaries," said Srdjan L. Tanjga '01, also from Belgrade. "NATO is bombing a sovereign nation which has not jeopardized NATO members and...which has not provoked NATO...