Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview, reprinted from the Hungarian trade-union newspaper Nepszava, Deputy Foreign Minister Istvan Roska noted that there were some differences between Warsaw Pact members over the terms that should be written into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
...were not designed to do just that. But there is a far more serious consideration than the potential efficacy, or lack thereof, of the "new initiatives." The Sullivan Principles and Harvard's proposals encourage foreign nationals to subvert, and to persuade others to subvert, the domestic policies of a sovereign nation in which they live as guests. This is an intolerable violation of international business ethics, and the South African government is justifiably indignant at what it views as gratuitous interference in its internal affairs. If we indeed agree that foreign based businesses should use their subsidiaries to vigorously oppose...
That "monster" was largely the creation of Geneen, who became ITT's president in 1959 and chairman in 1964. He took what was basically a telecommunications company and transformed it into a vast empire that Author Anthony Sampson dubbed the Sovereign State of ITT. Says Felix Rohatyn, who as an investment banker with Lazard Freres helped put ITT together: "Under Harold Geneen, ITT was a company that essentially knew no limits. He thought anything was manageable." The result was a corporation that in 1979 had 370,000 employees in more than 100 countries. Among its multitude of ventures...
...proposal is an attempt to forge a compromise between two groups: the Kanaks, who make up a minority (42.5%) of the population of 145,000, and the caldoches and Asian and South Pacific immigrants, who are in the majority. Under the Pisani plan, New Caledonia would become a sovereign nation but remain "associated" with France, which has ruled it since 1853. Political representatives of the French settlers have already rejected the plan because, they claim, it would give the Kanaks effective control. Machoro's death also turned moderate Kanaks against the proposal. "We will stay open to discussion...
...disturbances came just four days after the island had received a long- awaited independence proposal from the French government. In a television address, French Special Envoy Edgard Pisani outlined a plan under which New Caledonia would become a sovereign nation, yet remain bound to France by a special "treaty of association." The proposal was a compromise over a vexing issue: although the Kanaks were the original inhabitants of the territory, 930 miles east of Australia, they represent only 42.5% of the current population of 145,000. In their fight for independence, the militant Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front boycotted territorial...