Word: statehooder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill, which proclaims that it will "provide a process leading to full self government of Puerto Rico," presents voters with three options: commonwealth, separate sovereignty and statehood...
Separate sovereignty would lead to independence from the U.S. or free association, while statehood would provide a full and equal integration into the Union, according to a press release...
While plebiscites over the past 45 years have decided in favor of continuing the current commonwealth status, Roman traced the increasing support of the statehood option and described the commonwealth or free-associated state as obsolete...
...Palestinians are hungry again," complains Levitin. Indeed they are. Palestinians in the Gaza strip are hungrier now than they were before Oslo. The deliberate and systematic de-development of Gaza continues apace, resulting in a fall in living standards and income since 'peace'. Palestinians are hungry: for statehood, rights, jobs, security and, in many cases, food...
...Locked in its rocks are as much as 62 billion tons of coal, 2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and 2 billion bbl. of oil--resources that could be worth billions of dollars and hundreds of jobs. So Utah, which has been scrapping with the Federal Government since statehood, is fighting back. Lawmakers are contemplating various legislative counterattacks, including enacting laws that guarantee continued access to the land, reducing the boundaries of the disputed plot and, if all else fails, prohibiting the kind of unilateral action that allowed the President to sequester it in the first place...