Word: statehooder
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...unlike the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico--engulfed by the political storms of statehood movements--Guam is mostly plagued by storms of the natural kind: typhoons and hurricanes such as those that touched down on the island in the past few months...
...Social Ethics Herbert C. Kelman, a specialist in negotiations, pointed out, "Those Israelis who favor withdrawal from the territories are now basically thinking about some form of a Palestinian state as the best arrangement...so it's silly for the U.S. administration to make a policy that opposes Palestinian statehood outright...
This summer the Democratic Convention gave us some pretty powerful speeches on the need for racial equality. We heard Jimmy Carter plead for attention to human rights. And Bill Clinton endorsed Washington's bid for statehood. But in spite of some finely orchestrated platitudes, the party of Congress has done remarkably little for an area over which it has so much control. Members of Congress and their staff have been shot near their offices, and ambassadors robbed near their embassies, but you haven't heard--and you won't hear--anyone advocating some help for this poor, murder-a-night...
...entire postcommunist world there exists an imminent danger of nationalistic and ethnic conflict. In some cases nations were not able to search freely for and find their own identity and form of statehood and gain their independence for tens or even hundreds of years. We cannot be surprised that now, when the straitjacket of communism has been torn off, all the countries wish to establish their independence and self-determination...
...Washington has been studying the Canadian question privately, but its reports are scarcely more definite than official pronouncements. There is nothing definite America could profitably say. Before he began his run for President, Patrick Buchanan wrote columns suggesting that the U.S. welcome the western and Maritime provinces to statehood. Canadians shouldn't worry. Among the obstacles to such a scheme is ethnic etiquette here: we could scarcely take on several dozen white-bread Congressmen without boosting Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia to statehood...