Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beaten. He concludes by questioning the privileges that the press has always assumed: ... those of us in the media would be wise to exercise a certain caution, a prudent restraint in pressing for a plenary indulgence to be in all places at all times as the agents of the sovereign public...
...reaction to the press's anger in Chicago is shame. As a journalist schooled in the myth of objectivity, he seems to feel guilty after showing his feelings. And justifies his action by turning to still another meaningless journalistic cliche--that the reporter is the "agent of the sovereign public...
...they are the ones who are rescuing an established regime from subversion, and that it is the U.S. who is undermining a struggle for independence. It is not surprising that uninvolved observers see a similarity between the two interventions. In both cases, armed force has been deployed in a sovereign state to perpetuate a style of government acceptable to the intervening superpower, and in both cases the welfare of the populace was definitely a secondary consideration...
...just a nation. As the fountainhead of an ideology that promised to right the world's wrongs and usher in a golden age of peace and equality among men, it has possessed a unique mystique and prestige that enhanced its already formidable power as a huge and populous sovereign state. As the defender of Communism, moreover, the Soviet Union long could do no wrong in the eyes of its followers the world over. The image of Russia as the ideological motherland was buffeted by the defiance of Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, the invasion of Hungary...
...Biafrans acknowledge that they are citizens of one country-Nigeria-before any serious bargaining can begin. On the other hand, the Biafrans, who walked out of the Kampala conference, insist on a cease-fire before talking further, since such an agreement would give them the status of a sovereign equal in any negotiations. Ojukwu himself admits that if the war turns into a guerrilla fight in the bush many of his army officers "are not tough enough for that." But the Biafrans apparently choose to die from starvation rather than reach an agreement with the federal government that might expose...