Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time at least-considerable dignity and pride. That was in the early days of the Republic, when men like the great Seneca leader Red Jacket could lead a delegation of 50 chiefs to Philadelphia (as he did in 1792) to talk about tribal relations with another powerful sovereign, President George Washington...
Probably the toughest battle of all was over a single phrase. East Germany demanded full recognition as a wholly sovereign state. West Germany insisted on keeping alive, however tenuously, the notion of eventual reunification. Bahr therefore sought to include in the preamble a phrase mentioning "the German nation," or "two states of Germany," or "Germany as a whole." Finally, the negotiators sought refuge in obfuscation, agreeing on a reference to "existing differences of opinion including the national question...
...armored knights lunged and hacked at each other with battle-axes, broadswords and spears. The bodies of fallen warriors littered the ground as beautiful damsels cheered their champions on to victory or wept when they met defeat. At last, the forces of the Middle Kingdom, led by their sovereign, King Andrew of Seldom Rest, burst into the stronghold of King Cariadoc of the Kingdom of the East. Cariadoc fell to the ground, mortally wounded by King Andrew's spear, and the triumphant army gathered round King Andrew to celebrate their victory and plot an invasion of the Kingdom...
There must be an "unconditional withdrawal of the American Guantanamo naval base, which, contrary to the sovereign will of the Cuban people, exists on Cuban territory," it added...
...should pay Conforti is also unclear. The Federal Government can plead "sovereign immunity." The individual narcotics agents would be able to claim that they are protected as agents of the Government if they can prove that they acted in "good faith" on the instructions of the search warrant. The bureau's associate regional director, Frank Monastero, who supervised the search, regrets only the failure to find any loot. "We didn't send in a lot of guys with instructions of 'you pound here' and 'you pound there,' " he says. "We went through a series...