Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence in Secretary of State Kissinger, Meany quickly replied: "Oh my God, no." Then he added: "I think his policy [the pursuit of detente] has got to lead us to an eventual disaster. His policy is a give-away policy. It's not a relationship between two sovereign nations ... I say this is a policy of appeasement, just plain, ordinary appeasement...
...there are few foreign affairs experts who are willing to advocate a ban on arms sales, so long as what Senator Stuart Symington calls "the rules of the game" remain unchanged. It may well be that the arms trade is, in fact, necessary to the existence of sovereign states. Who can say that they should not retain the option of military force to protect themselves? Welko Gasich, a vice president of Northrop Aircraft Corp., puts it bluntly: "Until we have a bona fide world police force, it's still Dodge City and everyone wants a rifle over his door." Considering...
...unwarranted intrusion into Russian internal affairs. But Jackson looked upon it as "one small step along the road to an international community based on law." Such was Jackson's clout in the Senate that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for a time seemed to be negotiating with two sovereign powers-the Kremlin and Jackson. When the Russians appeared to give in to the demand, he boasted that he had demonstrated "what tough bargaining can accomplish...
Doomsday Prospect. Under close analysis, the Kissinger statement did not seem to warrant such a reaction. In a sense, it merely expressed the obvious. It is hard to see how Kissinger could have ruled out military action absolutely under any circumstances. A sovereign power must retain the option of using force if and when its survival, or that of its essential allies, is at stake. "Any individual, or country, carries in the back of his mind the idea that if his life or livelihood is threatened, he will use all the means at his disposal to protect himself," observed Harvard...
What billions of petrodollars will not buy is Israel, a sovereign nation, and this must be made abundantly clear to the Palestinian people. Arafat wishes to complete what Hitler and Stalin were unable to: the wholesale extermination of the Jewish people. This cannot be tolerated. But will the world wake...