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...nation-state, an arrangement that came into its own in the 16th century as the Holy Roman Empire began to disintegrate, sounded like a good idea at the time: people who spoke one language would band together under one flag within one set of boundaries. But such entities -- sovereign in their aspirations, anxieties and hatreds -- too often went to war against one another, sending fresh waves of emigrants fleeing across the Atlantic...
...complex and troubling dimensions. The four wartime Allies that crushed the Third Reich in 1945 can still consult, negotiate and harrumph to their hearts' content, but they cannot dictate on any matter. That includes the most sensitive and controversial of all: whether a united and fully sovereign Germany will eventually become a nuclear power...
Yeltsin's proposals -- and they are still no more than that -- include the creation of a confederation of "sovereign" republics that would grant only limited powers to the central government. When Gorbachev charges that this amounts to "a call for the breakup of the Soviet Union," he does not | overstate the case by much. Under the Yeltsin concept, every republic's laws would supersede Soviet statutes, and the republics would regulate relations among themselves and with the Kremlin by formal treaties. Private property would be restored, and republics would have total control of their own economies, finances and resources...
That proposal brought on the resignations of Bouchard and two Quebec backbenchers from the ruling party, who insist that the accord should be passed untouched and undiluted by legislative interpretations. Bouchard now says he thinks the much discussed but still vague idea of a Quebec that is / politically sovereign but retains economic links with Canada "makes sense." Quebec, he complains, "is dying of ambiguity." Mulroney replaced Bouchard as his political lieutenant in Quebec with Industry Minister Benoit Bouchard (no relation), who said on national television that Quebec is "tired of being misunderstood." He warned, "What we have to understand...
Although the crackdown has drawn applause from antigambling Mohawk factions, it has provoked a militant response from Mohawks who regard the raids as violations of the tribe's sovereign rights. "We need to exercise our right to self-determination," argues Francis Boots, spokesman for the Mohawk Warriors Society, a militant and well-armed vigilante group that favors the casinos. "Gambling is just a small part of that...