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Word: sovereigns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly there are two primary and essential steps that must be taken toward negotiations between Israel and the Arab states, and between Israel and the Palestinians. All Arab governments and the Palestine Liberation Organization should declare their willingness to recognize Isreal's right to exist as a sovereign state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Mideast War | 11/27/1974 | See Source »

...many of his listeners had in fact once been hunted men-and had hunted other men themselves. Terrorism is universally repugnant to standards of human decency, but in the past 25 years, sadly enough, it has been essential to the birth of many of the world's now sovereign nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: When Terrorists Become Respectable | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...hopeful students who apply. The Shah's immediate circle of advisers is also surprisingly small. Among them are Premier Hoveida, 54, a dapper man who has held his job nine years; Hushang Ansary, 46, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance; Amir Assadullah Alam, 55, who acts as the sovereign's right hand as minister of the court; and Jamshid Amuzegar, 51, who until recently served as the Shah's voice and goad at OPEC meetings. Amuzegar last April was shifted to Interior Minister, partly so that he might help ensure more honest elections than have been held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Oil, Grandeur and a Challenge to the West | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

America needs strong, religious patriots like the CIA's Colby defending democracy and freedom throughout the world. As for covert operations, reality dictates that we must sometimes interfere with the internal affairs of other sovereign nations for their own good. After all, "they" certainly do it. An eye for an eye. Frank Meissner Cape Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 14, 1974 | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

There is this quaint notion that in a democracy the people are sovereign. When it comes to the need for dirty tricks, the people behave very much like other bosses. They say to their hirelings, "Go ahead, but don't tell me about it." In the case of the CIA in Chile, Mr. Ford came out of the closet and told us about it, and we are all embarrassed. Our embarrassment is compounded by his insulting our intelligence by saying the U.S. was only interested in preserving democratic dissent in Chile. Washington has been notably restrained in its passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 14, 1974 | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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