Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marshall Plan, and the Czechoslovaks actually accepted the invitation. Jan Masaryk, the Foreign Minister, was summoned to Moscow after he had accepted. My father was his chief of staff. Masaryk came back from Moscow and said, "I now know that I am not the Foreign Minister of a sovereign nation." I had thought while I was sitting there what a long distance we have come. The Soviet Union is no longer. We have just completed a historic signing in Paris of the NATO-Russia Founding Act. And the Czechs are a vibrant sovereign nation...
Even celebrities are getting in on the act. After Sean Penn's $4 million villa burned down in the Southern California fires of 1993, he bought a riveted-aluminum Airstream Sovereign, parked it where his house once was and lived there for a few years...
McLaren's militia-style outfit believes the Lone Star State was illegally absorbed into the Union in 1845 and is a sovereign nation. It has its own courts, army and even license plates. On April 27, McLaren's followers took up arms (and a couple of hostages) in retaliation for the arrest of two members, one for weapons possession and the other on contempt charges. The hostages--neighbors who had quarreled with the litigious McLaren--were freed after Texas Rangers allowed a jailed "republican" to join the commandos, who then decamped to McLaren's "embassy." That exchangee, Robert Scheidt, apparently...
...official government of the Republic of Texas have been quick to disavow McLaren, who was kicked out of any official capacity in both groups months ago over growing concern about what they say was McLaren's increasing advocacy of violence to achieve their aim of a sovereign Texas. While a few federal agents have joined local and state law enforcement officials, they have tried to keep a low profile so far, anxious to avoid a repetition of Waco. Local residents claim that sensitivity has been part of the problem, charging that local law enforcement officers allowed McLaren's group...
...unlikely to see it. At the same time, they made an $80,000 donation to Engler's Michigan G.O.P.--and none to their home-state Democratic Party. Though Interior nixed their casino bid, the department is still weighing their request to add hundreds of tax-free acres to their sovereign territory. Tribal spokesman John Hatch said the money wasn't intended to influence policy: "We're proud that we're able to help those who help...