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Such contracts are still the exception, though, which is why the issue of biological resources was on the agenda at the United Nations' 1992 Earth Summit. Statements from the biodiversity convention that resulted declared that countries have a sovereign right to their resources and that benefits deriving from them should be shared fairly. The Bush Administration refused to sign the treaty; President Clinton did sign it, but the Senate has yet to ratify...
...cuts may also be illegal, in a profound and historic way. When Indian advocates invoke the "special relationship" between the government and members of Indian tribes, it may disturb citizens who believe all Americans to be equal under law. But few other American groups have warred as sovereign nations against the U.S. government; and none, in return for laying down its arms and accepting life on reservations, has received explicit guarantees of its well-being. The 800 or more treaties signed with various tribes, sporadically upheld by the Supreme Court under a loose philosophy of "trusteeship," obligate the government...
...years, launched massive pre-emptive strikes against similar rising political forces in the form of Islamic movements. This initial action led to cycles of violence by the government and opposition. The long-term interests of the West will be served not by inventing an Islamic bogeyman in another sovereign nation and propping up authoritarian regimes, but by pressuring these so-called allies to begin to practice unadulterated democracy along with a spirit of open dialogue and accommodation. NAZRE SOBHAN Forrest, Australia...
Hounded by the , Vesco spent two decades in epic ostentation and arrogance-on-the-run, buying influence in Costa Rica, contemplating the establishment of a sovereign state in Antigua, toying with journalists, offering hints of revelatory interviews and then, in one case, dancing around a swimming pool with egotistical delight as a lightning storm lit up the Cuban sky, leaving the would-be questioner dangling...
Demonizing the Alps, however, was far from universal. The naturalist Conrad Gesner, who climbed Mons Pilatus in 1555 to disprove its diabolic reputation, thought of the Alps as the "work of the Sovereign Architect." To 19th century Romantics, the Swiss mountains were symbols of virtue, and the herdsmen who dwelt there paradigms of primitive democracy. Thus the Alps through history have been rather like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never know what meaning you'll find inside them...