Word: sovereignity
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...real world of sovereign states, a world government is a dream for the distant future, not a practical goal for current policymakers...It would be a tragedy if opportunities for practical progress toward nuclear peace were missed because our goals were set too high, beyond the reach of what is possible...
...British and French forces in particular should be left aside entirely. Mostly submarine-based, less accurate and less destructive, they have as their prime purpose to defend Britain and France alone, not the Western alliance as a whole. The U.S. cannot bargain with the independent deterrents of its sovereign allies in a bilateral Soviet-American negotiation. The Soviets, of course, know that. The real reason that they are pressing the issue is that they hope to play on British and French fears
...there anyone, sovereign, subject or just plain citizen, safe from Rivers' barbs? "Deformed children," she answers. "And religion I'm very careful with. Otherwise, no. Everyone I've ever made a joke about has been huge. Who cares if I tell Sophia Loreri she's a tramp? She doesn't even know who I am. All I am saying about Elizabeth Taylor is what everyone else is saying. She ought to thank me. I'm part of the reason she lost weight...
...massacres is unlikely) complete with a small, but well-equipped army. If we combine this with the fact that the PLO's declared purpose is the destruction of Israel, one wonders not why Israel invaded, but why it waited so long to end a situation intolerable to any sovereign nation...
...demanded by the Israelis, Haddad declared: "There is no need to proclaim our new state. This was one a long time ago." Haddad's assertion demonstrated how far Lebanon remains from the goal, proclaimed by both the Israelis and the Gemayel government, of once again becoming an independent, sovereign state. - By William E. Smith. Reported by Harry Kelly/Jerusalem and Roberto Suro/Beirut