Word: sovereigns
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Jiang and his colleagues dislike Taiwan's President Lee personally and believe he is bent on splitting the island from the mainland. Still, it could get even worse from their point of view. The platform of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party calls for "the establishment of a sovereign Taiwan Republic." But the straits crisis of 1996 sobered the party's leaders, and they are busy revising their approach, now saying they would hold off indefinitely on independence and use it as a defensive tool. If China became too threatening, the D.P.P. says, it would call a referendum on independence, then...
...over and above Russian objections, NATO's task won't be easy: "NATO can do considerable damage to the Yugoslavian army, but to what end?" says Fischer. "We're not trying to eject them from Kosovo, we're trying to stop them attacking civilians inside what remains their own sovereign territory," says Fischer. And that makes target selection far from simple...
...Royal Caribbean have steamed to record sales and profits. They have turned a once snooty form of travel into mass-market vacations for people like Ken and Sherry Nunn and daughter Ashley, an Indiana family that recently spent three nights aboard Royal Caribbean's cozy 2,250-passenger Sovereign of the Seas. "Everything's right there, and you don't have to run yourself crazy looking for something to do," says Sherry, who sampled the lavish feedings and reveled in the duty-free shopping. "If I could afford to take a cruise every year, I would gladly...
...plane that the company submerged to give divers a sense of adventure. Alas, what Royal Caribbean calls a controlled shore experience some others have labeled a limited amusement experience. "There's nothing here but some palm trees," complained LaDonne Herring, a nurse who cruised to Coco Cay on the Sovereign of the Seas. "I'm going back to the ship and watch a movie...
...more meaningful argument for a Jewish state is that put forth by Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl a century ago: the normalization of the Jewish people. Herzl's dream of a sovereign Jewish nation was realized some 50 years later in 1948, and today the state of Israel thrives as a Jewish land. In Israel, Jews are not a minority, so no one questions whether there are too many Jewish columnists on a newspaper, for example. In Israel, the Jew is Jewish regardless of his religious beliefs, so whether or not one attends a synagogue is irrelevant to his membership...