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...edge of Glacier National Park put in four machines, a federal agent promptly confiscated the one-armed bandits. A tribal court issued a restraining order, and the whole thing wound up before Federal District Judge Russell Smith. "No doubt the Indian tribes were at one time sovereign, and even now the tribes are sometimes described as being sovereign," said the judge. "The blunt fact, however, is that an Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the United States permits it to be sovereign." And Congress long ago banned gambling devices "within Indian country." Final score: Great White Father...
...recent decades, the American presidency has assumed an almost sacrosanct aura. It is time to remember that quite literally, and not as a flourish of speech, the sovereign in America is not the President but the people. It is true that the people elect him, which gives him his unique mandate, but to conclude from this that a President must be preserved in all circumstances, at any cost, is the first unwitting step toward dictatorship...
...target of his fire was Henry Petersen, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, who is supervising the investigation of Agnew's conduct while a Maryland official (see box following page). But Agnew, as part of the Nixon Administration, knows better than most that Petersen is hardly a sovereign agent, that Richardson by his own admission has been making the hard decisions on Agnew, and that Richardson reports to the man who put him in his job: Richard Nixon. It evoked the harrowing spectacle of the President and Vice President of the U.S., both under suspicion for different reasons...
...East Germany, official recognition by the international community as a legitimate sovereign state is at once an enormous victory and a profound challenge. It also amounts to something of a surprise for the West. Long hidden in the shadow of its bitter rival, West Germany, the "other Germany" has become the ninth largest industrial power in the world-and by far the richest Communist state in per capita terms. Already the East Germans have surpassed the Italians and the Irish in per capita income, and they are closing in on the British...
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