Word: sovereigns
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Although no one in the world community doubts the contributions of the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies, the U.N. can never fulfill its peace-keeping role as long as it is merely a collection of sovereign nations subject to big power veto -which is what it obviously is destined to remain. At best, the U.N. can shorten wars and arrange precarious truces. Lately it has not even been able to accomplish that. The comforting cliche about the U.N. is that it is better than nothing, that at least it provides a place where belligerents can talk. That remains true...
...infinity. In the process it would force him to re-examine some ancient questions. With his long heritage of Judeo-Christian culture, could Western man still be certain of his superior status in a God-created universe? Orthodox Christian theologians admit no doubts. There is, they insist, only one sovereign Lord of all creation, and he created man in his image. C.S. Lewis, prolific Protestant author and theologian, was not so sure. Faced with the discovery of rational, intelligent creatures elsewhere in space, he asked, how could mankind be so arrogant as to think itself uniquely favored by God? What...
Despite Malraux's early sympathy for militant Trotskyism, it was his relationship with Charles de Gaulle-a relationship that Le Monde's Viansson-Ponté likens to that of "sovereign and poet laureate"-that gave lasting political direction to his career. The French President considered his handsome Culture Minister "my brilliant friend" and "incomparable witness." As Malraux saw it, De Gaulle gave the French a consciousness of their own greatness...
...produce a report that sparkles with vivid, neatly turned insights. Plastered with fading banners left over from the Cultural Revolution, Canton "has a face of shabby militancy." The sight of people eagerly studying Maoist literature, Terrill suggests, "would surely delight an eighteenth-century philosophe; the 'Word' is sovereign." He was amused to find that brassières, "though widely available in shops, were not, it seemed, in frequent...
...citizens was further strengthened when Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which requires all federal agencies to describe the environmental effects of any federally assisted new project. Citizens with environmental complaints may now sue erring federal agencies, which no longer can use the old defense of "sovereign immunity...