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...citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply because murder and torture are not legitimate parts of a head of government's job. Britain's Law Lords agreed, and Home Secretary Jack Straw has until Dec. 11 to decide whether...
Simon DeDeo's op-ed savaging Margaret Thatcher's legacy ("The Darker Side of the Iron Lady," Oct. 28) is sadly misinformed. First, in the case of the Falklands War, Thatcher was responding to an invasion of sovereign British territory, territory whose inhabitants despised the invaders. While the eventual liberation of the islands might not have made "economic sense" as DeDeo points out, there was still a moral imperative to act decisively in the face of Argentinian aggression...
...most influential contribution came from Herbert Croly, whose 1909 book The Promise of American Life became the intellectual foundation both of Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Croly argued that democratic citizenship was fundamental to American identity. Recognizing that the people are sovereign, but "only insofar as they succeed in reaching and expressing a collective purpose," Croly concluded that by the 20th century, we could only fulfill our democratic potential by becoming "frankly, unscrupulously, and loyally nationalist." Josiah Royce, one of Croly's contemporaries, suggested a human-scale approach to nationalism. Specifically, he argued...
...want President Clinton and all Americans to acknowledge the differences between Taiwan and China and know that Taiwanese are not Chinese citizens [WORLD, June 22]. It is pointless to ignore the fact that Taiwan is its own sovereign nation and should never be a part of China. The U.S. should recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. It should be able successfully to maintain and foster diplomatic relations with both China and Taiwan, while acknowledging that they are two distinct countries with separate governments. KENNETH M. YU New York City...
Jiang and his colleagues dislike Taiwan's President Lee personally and believe he is bent on splitting the island from the mainland. Still, it could get even worse from their point of view. The platform of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party calls for "the establishment of a sovereign Taiwan Republic." But the straits crisis of 1996 sobered the party's leaders, and they are busy revising their approach, now saying they would hold off indefinitely on independence and use it as a defensive tool. If China became too threatening, the D.P.P. says, it would call a referendum on independence, then...