Word: sovereignity
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Autolycus aside, director Kahn is giving us a Winter's Tale of sovereign sway and masterdom...
...conviction, even though he has eased some of its more humiliating aspects. But he has also rammed ahead with the Bantustan program of geographical separation by which South Africa will be broken up into racial enclaves. Blacks will be pushed into ten cramped tribal areas, which may eventually become sovereign states; whites will retain control of the richer farm lands, mining lands and urban areas, in which South African blacks will be classed as foreigners...
...DECEMBER 1972, Salvador Allende charged before the United Nations that the crisis of the beleaguered Chilean economy was the result of an "international financial-economic blockade ... to prevent the exercise of our rights as a sovereign state." Allende also charged that the crucial decisions concerning the Chilean economy were made in New York. Three months later, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO testified to the Senate Finance Committee that the transfer of production overseas is making the United States "a nation of hamburger stands ... a country stripped of industrial capacity and meaningful work ... a service economy ... a nation busily buying...
...state in your preface to Interview with History. You say, "I do not understand power, the mechanism by which men or women feel themselves invested or become invested with the right to rule over others and punish them if they do not obey. Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president...I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon." As a journalist and writer, you wield a very real power, and I think you understand that...
Repeatedly and erroneously, Reagan has insisted that the Canal Zone is "just as much sovereign U.S. territory as Alaska." In fact, no treaty ever granted the U.S. complete sovereignty. Washington has been paying an annual user fee of $2.3 million to Panama, and that country's General Omar Torrijos Herrera, a military dictator, has been maneuvering to restrain outraged Panamanians from rioting over this vestige of Yankee imperialism. Wrong-headed as it is, Reagan's jingoism on the canal has apparently struck a nerve among parts of the electorate, arousing post-Viet Nam sentiments that the U.S. should...