Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that terrible day in 1981, but they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains of the Old West, this harshland sustains, just as it destroys, and each man at times becomes his own law: justice is simply survival. This sovereign streak fuels a wicked disdain for any authority -- especially game wardens...
...Macbeth is a play about the evils of ambition. Three "weird sisters" prophesy to Macbeth (Mark Southern), a Scottish nobleman, that he will one day become king of Scotland. At the urging of Lady Macbeth (Alicia Rubin), the hero decides to help fate along by knocking off the current sovereign, leading to the classic meditation on paranoia, guilt, death and despair. The critical decision for the contemporary director is whether to present these and other traditional themes as best she can or to innovate, to impose new contexts and outline new meanings...
...Further political change may take a number of forms. There may be changes in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union; there may be changes in the growth of international institutions and cooperation among states; there may be changes in domestic political and social attitudes toward the sovereign state and its defenses...
Nuclear arsenals are going to be with us as long as there are sovereign states with conflicting ideologies. Unlike Aladdin with his lamp, we have no way to force the nuclear genie back into the bottle. A world without nuclear weapons is a utopian dream. Whichever party (there are more than two) successfully cheated and preserved even a fraction of its arsenal could achieve dominance. Even if all parties were actually to abide by an agreement to destroy strategic arms, all would, out of sheer prudence, be poised to resume production and deployment. Given that imprint of nuclear capabilities...
...truth about the Philippines within the full context. And the context, for the Philippines, is that of a developing nation ravaged by years of mismanagement and abuse by the Marcos regime, of a people struggling under difficult circumstances to arrive at the maturity and self- sufficiency of a sovereign nation. Of the truth, which made us free, we obviously have no fear...