Word: sovereignity
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...know that there is no moving on from Sept. 11. It wasn't a random tragedy for which grief is a slow-acting salve. It was a massacre--a premeditated murder of civilians by men possessed by a theocratic ideology. It was an invasion--the violation of sovereign American soil, the erasure of a visible monument to American success and energy and civilization. It was a crime--the filling of the air of a great and free city with the irradiated dust of innocent human lives. It was a statement--that radical Islam intends to attack and destroy the very...
...soldiers capriciously. In reality, the U.S. has nothing to worry about thanks to the ICC’s statute providing a series of three checks and balances, the ability of the U.N. Security Council to overrule a prosecutor’s decision and individual states’ sovereign maintenance of jurisdiction should they prefer to try an individual themselves. Yet the U.S. has almost threatened an all-out invasion of the Netherlands if an American is ever brought before...
That's dramatically different from the liability of, say, McDonald's, in which the company can be sued if a customer anywhere is scalded by hot coffee. The church's legal structure acts as a foil to any attack on the center. And ultimately, headquarters is the Vatican--a sovereign state that is effectively immune from private legal action in the U.S. (The Vatican for its part is publicly against any payout of compensation in sexual-abuse cases.) Church officials claim that even when an archbishop is on record as being the chairman of a diocesan corporation, whether a parish...
...ideas to halt their barbaric war [WORLD, April 22]. They need realistic incentives. Powell blew a golden opportunity to provide them by not solidly supporting the Saudi peace proposal during his recent tour of the Middle East. This proposal offers incentives for everyone. The Palestinians would get their sovereign state. Israel would get peace with the Palestinians and Arab neighbors. The Arab states would get a reduction in the threats to their internal stability fueled by popular sympathy for the Palestinians. And the U.S. would get improved relations with the Muslim world. HENRY M. BRADFORD Wolfville...
...grounds of the Japanese consulate in Shenyang. Japan demanded the Chinese hand them back, but talks over their fate stalled, straining already tense relations. EAST TIMOR New Nation Almost three years after residents braved a hostile militia to vote for independence, the former Indonesian territory prepared to become a sovereign nation on May 20. To help it on its way, donors representing 27 countries and organizations pledged a total of $440 million in aid, but the country will still rank as one of the poorest in the world. Half the population live on less than 55? a day. AUSTRALIA "Pacific...