Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...region was well worth a look: the rugged, isolated mountain country spanning the Russian-Turkish border and stretching eastward to the Caspian Sea may be the strategic key to the whole troubled Middle East. This land (see map) is Kurdistan. It is split up among five sovereign nations (Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq), but in the minds of the 4,000,000 fierce Kurdish tribesmen who live there, it is one country. It lies like a great, clumsy sickle over the Middle East, the handle anchored in the mountains near the Persian Gulf, the top of the blade resting...
Meanwhile, the future of Margrethe was being considered. The Danish Cabinet has asked Parliament to vote on a constitutional amendment to the rule that succession to the throne goes to male heirs only. If the amendment is adopted, Margrethe will be the next sovereign and the first Danish Queen since Margrethe I, who died in 1412 after a reign of 25 years...
Tidelands is as fighting a word in Texas as Alamo was more than a century ago. Texans feel that the U.S. Government is rustling them out of their birthright. Texas was a sovereign nation which entered the Union voluntarily, and by the terms of the annexation agreement of 1845, she was allowed to retain control of her public domain, which, Texans say, stretches 10½ miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Other coastal states claim the offshore oil under general provisions of the U.S. Constitution. The fact that Texas tidelands as yet have produced practically...
Does such enterprise come under the head of counterfeiting? The Swiss court last week decided that it did not. On the grounds that the British gold sovereign, whether made in Britain or Milan, was no longer legal tender, and hence not really money at all, the court refused to extradite Money-Makers Beraha and Bernardi to Italy, upholding the defense lawyer's claim that his clients were only making "knickknacks...
...countrymen-would like nothing better than to lay his watch on the table and tell the Communists at Panmunjom to sign an armistice, or else. The man is General Mark Wayne Clark, 56, U.S. Far East commander, U.N. commander in Korea, commander of the U.S. security forces in newly sovereign Japan. But despite obvious parallels, Clark's situation is somewhat different from that of the intrepid British commodore of 1742. In 1952, the Communists have already drawn out the negotiations so long that in North Korea, at least, they are well prepared to resist attack. And in this...