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...home address of Spain's 17th reigning sovereign is no small matter. By avoiding the castle last occupied by his grandfather Alfonxo XIII in 1931, Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon is sending a signal of solidarity with his countrymen's longing for self rule...
...officers did not wholeheartedly accept the strikes and social reforms that accompanied pluralism. On February 23, 1981, some of them tried to crush the glass-slipper state with a military coup. They claimed the backing of the sovereign. Juan Carlos took to national television to denounce their power play and rally his own faction...
...animosity that persists between India's 500 million Hindus and 80 million Muslims has been centuries in the making. Though generally suppressed during 200 years of British rule, it surfaced to divide the subcontinent in 1947. British India was divided into two sovereign states, India and Pakistan. A massive exchange of 12 million people followed, with most Hindus opting for India, many Muslims for Pakistan. Partition unleashed an orgy of religious bloodletting in which an estimated 500,000 people died...
Shultz conceded to the Senate Budget Committee that "the situation in Lebanon has deteriorated from our standpoint." Yet he argued that the U.S. had been right in trying to establish "a unified, stable and sovereign Lebanon." He placed most blame, perhaps rather naively, on Syria for refusing to withdraw its forces after Israel had agreed to do so in its May 17 accord with Lebanon...
...first in a line of three principles that Sarid detailed. The second principle dealt with the question of whom Israel should carry on negotiations with: "Israel should talk peace with anyone who adopts this first principle of mutual recognition. Whoever recognizes Israel's right to exist as a sovereign, secure state in the Middle East, should be considered by it a legitimate and acceptable partner at the negotiating table...