Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy. A compassionate nation must always probe for any opportunity to win freedom for any of its citizens held hostage. But substantive negotiations with terrorist bands would only swell their prestige and seem to legitimize their bloody operations. Thus the U.S. is fully ) justified in negotiating only with the sovereign governments that back terrorists, even though that policy may result in dragging out the captivity of the hostages for agonizing months. Accounts differ as to how much control Iran has over the Muslim extremists in Lebanon. West German experience indicates that it is strong but not absolute; Bonn officials hint...
...name only. In less than an hour, a handful of top military men had named President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Chile's ruler of 15 years, as the only candidate in an Oct. 5 plebiscite. Pinochet appeared on the balcony of the presidential palace and urged citizens to keep Chile "sovereign and free...
...rock," the old folk saying goes. Three hundred years under the Tatars and 300 years under the Romanovs developed both heroic patience, which erupted into popular revolts, and servile patience, or priterpelost. Russia was the last European country to free its serfs, and plunged into socialism directly from sovereign feudalism, almost completely bypassing the experience of bourgeois democracy. The bedbugs of feudalism and servility moved inside wooden trunks from village huts into communal apartments. Many bosses behaved like "Red feudal lords," taking away not only the peasants' land but their passports too -- and that really smacked of serfdom. Stalin...
...audience. But the onlookers remained relatively calm. That alone was an accomplishment. "Nothing was said that was new," noted Koppel. "But the very fact that ((Israelis and Palestinians)) sat down, even though there was a wooden wall between them, was a step in the right direction." And, for the sovereign territory of ABC, a television coup...
...Arab position is much more clear than it has ever been. What we are talking about now is an international conference of all the parties to the conflict. An invitation will go to the P.L.O. as the representative of the people of Palestine. Jordan will attend as a sovereign state. We are ready to attend in a joint delegation with Palestinians...