Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more importantly, the idea that the United States should try to coerce the allies into cooperation once persuasion failed is nothing less than absurd. How does one justify American intervention in a legitimate business deal between sovereign nations? Only by assuming an all-important role for the United States as the leader of the free world, a western hegemony...
...Vatican, citing its status as a sovereign state, has so far declined to cooperate with the Italian authorities, and Marcinkus has remained inside the Vatican, where he cannot be questioned by the government. But Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Vatican's Secretary of State, has named three respected international bankers, all prominent Catholic laymen, to examine the I.O.R.'s role in the scandal.* Casaroli has pointedly not suggested that Marcinkus did anything illegal. At the same time, however, the Archbishop of Florence, Giovanni Cardinal Benelli, a former Vatican Under Secretary of State, has told the Italian magazine Il Sabato...
When will President Reagan begin to realize that the European allies are not his marionettes to manipulate but sovereign states with their own requirements and foreign policies? We do not want to be lectured on the potential risks of the pipeline deal with the U.S.S.R. [Aug. 2] by someone who is selling grain to the Soviet Union. This impudent attitude, along with America's high interest rates, which are seriously endangering European economies, is bound eventually to wreck the Western alliance...
...Holy See jealously guards its status as a sovereign state. When Italian officials sent letters to the three bankers, informing them of the investigation, the Holy See's Secretariat of State refused to take delivery of the documents. Instead, it insisted that the letters be passed through formal diplomatic channels via the Italian embassy to the Holy See. Italian officials are expected to resend the notifications this week, perhaps through the foreign ministry...
...Hyde Park blast, a terse and chilling telex message arrived in the offices of several newspapers in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast. Said the cable: "The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for today's bomb attack on members of the Household Cavalry. The Irish people have sovereign and national rights which no occupation force can put down." The I.R.A. action was the most dramatic on British soil since last October, when two persons were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since the assassination of Lord...