Word: sovereignity
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...outset, I should state that that I do not believe that any country has the moral right to impose its will on a sovereign state by military force. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was--to paraphrase President Bush--both deplorable and wrong...
...secessionists in Quebec seem to have this idea in the back of their mind. They want not total independence but what they call "sovereignty- association." They want a sovereign Quebec with its own flag and army, but they then want immediate reassociation with the rest of Canada. They even envision keeping the Canadian dollar. (Whether the rest of Canada will take kindly to Quebec tearing up the flag while retaining its economic privileges is quite another matter...
Sometimes dumping on the poor is a consequence of self-exploitation. In their search for new disposal sites, waste managers have discovered fertile ground on American Indian reservations, which are considered sovereign entities not subject to local or state environmental restrictions and whose residents are perhaps the poorest of the nation's poor...
...Slovenia and Croatia have held elections, ejecting incumbent communist governments and staking out positions that fall just short of independence. Slovenia's new government has served notice that it will declare itself independent if the other states do not accept its demands to turn Yugoslavia into a grouping of sovereign republics...
...idea of a referendum on the commission's proposals. Next March a constitutional commission of his Quebec Liberal Party will complete an outline of the conditions under which Quebec will remain in Canada. In an interview with TIME last week, Bourassa expressed interest in the European Community, where jealously sovereign states like France and Britain are building a united economy and transnational institutions (including a Parliament) that will inevitably limit national independence...