Word: statehood
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PERHAPS. ON A small Pacific island or in the youthful America of Frank Capra's movies, democracy is a viable option. There popular vote could quickly solve any conflict over statehood, fishing rights, or coconut claims. But today's burgeoning bureaucracy hides the reins of power from the people beneath greasy, matted layers of agencies, offices, and aides; everyone is involved but no one knows what they are doing. Like crowds of cooks busy with broth, democracy will surely contaminate the soup of state...
Others traced the continuing series of terrorist acts to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. Said a British government official: "Until there is a just Palestinian settlement that assures Israel's statehood and security and grants self-determination to the Palestinians, there will be no ending to the sort of violence we have seen this week." Some Middle East experts, including William Quandt of the Brookings Institution, advocate closer U.S. ties with Syria as a possible way of reducing the risks of such terrorism. Quandt argues that neither Syria nor any of the other main powers...
DIED. William Egan, 69, Alaska's first elected Governor and son of a gold miner, who led the drive to statehood for his vast, thinly populated territory; of cancer; in Anchorage. To push the cause, he organized and presided over a convention in 1955-56 to write a constitution and elect Senators and a Representative as if the territory were already a state; named a "Senator," he went to Washington to lobby for the statehood bill that finally passed in June 1958. Elected to three gubernatorial terms (1958, 1962,1970), he dominated the state Democratic Party for more than...
...just as the Israelis were celebrating their newly independent statehood, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan invaded the country, with the express desire to "push the Jews into the sea." That is obviously Israeli aggression...
...North America in the image of its native land." When the question arose of making the U.S. multilingual or multicultural in public affairs, however, Congress stood firm. In the 1790s, 1840s and 1860s, the lawmakers voted down pleas to print Government documents in German. Predominantly French-speaking Louisiana sought statehood in 1812; the state constitution that it submitted for approval specified that its official language would be English. A century later, New Mexico was welcomed into the union, but only after an influx of settlers from the North and East had made English, not Spanish, the majority tongue...