Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University outside Tel Aviv, argues that there is a difference between Israeli and Arab terrorism: "Arab violence against Jews is ultimately against the very existence of the Jewish state. In contrast, when Jews resort to violence against Arabs, they are not denying Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state." That sentiment reaches right into the government. Science and Technology Minister Yuval Ne'eman said in May that while he condemned "blind terror," the assaults on the mayors had "positive results" because the mayors had collaborated with the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...home address of Spain's 17th reigning sovereign is no small matter. By avoiding the castle last occupied by his grandfather Alfonxo XIII in 1931, Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon is sending a signal of solidarity with his countrymen's longing for self rule...
...officers did not wholeheartedly accept the strikes and social reforms that accompanied pluralism. On February 23, 1981, some of them tried to crush the glass-slipper state with a military coup. They claimed the backing of the sovereign. Juan Carlos took to national television to denounce their power play and rally his own faction...
...Catalonia sees the king in Madrid with different eyes than Catalonia would see a president in Madrid," he says. As evidence, in 1979 the sovereign became the first in over 500 years to address the parliament of the highly separatist Basque region...
...animosity that persists between India's 500 million Hindus and 80 million Muslims has been centuries in the making. Though generally suppressed during 200 years of British rule, it surfaced to divide the subcontinent in 1947. British India was divided into two sovereign states, India and Pakistan. A massive exchange of 12 million people followed, with most Hindus opting for India, many Muslims for Pakistan. Partition unleashed an orgy of religious bloodletting in which an estimated 500,000 people died...