Word: sovereignity
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...Sovereign Power of the United States rests with its People. Ken Tomkinson
...they are going to go for Indiana. We've got a cloud hanging over us." Even the state government is suffering from guilt by association. Says Lyle Jacobsen, assistant state treasurer: "It's scary. We're launching a campaign to tell people that Whoops and the sovereign state of Washington are two separate things. The state will pay its bills...
...host of cooperative understandings, and for Moscow's broad endorsement of a number of human rights concerns. Yet many Western diplomats now describe the Helsinki agreement as "a mess." Despite the restrictions contained in the accords, notably clauses respecting national sovereignty and rejecting interference in the affairs of sovereign states, the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan and encouraged Polish authorities to impose martial law. Moscow has continued the energetic repression of its own dissidents, most of whom were inspired by the very declarations that Moscow endorsed in Helsinki...
...this. The Falklands have been important in British history since 1770, when we were forced off. The battle of the Falklands in the first World War was for the command of those straits; if we had not won that, we would not have won the war. It is British sovereign territory. The Falklanders wish to be British subjects. I simply do not understand what is wrong with that. I would have thought it was of immense help to our American friends that we were there...
...discussions with Jordan's King Hussein on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which called for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to be linked to Jordan. Left-wing elements within Fatah oppose any settlement that would give the Palestinians less than a wholly sovereign and independent state, however unrealistic that goal may be. They in effect vetoed Arafat's attempts to reach an agreement with Hussein that would have allowed the Jordanian King to pursue the Reagan initiative in alliance with the Palestinians. The dissidents were actively encouraged by Assad and Gaddafi...