Word: statehooder
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...years, a onetime Salvation Army captain named Vere Cornwall Bird has dominated the Caribbean island of Antigua, first as boss of its sugarcane workers' union, later as chief minister and then, after Britain granted associate statehood in 1967, as Premier. Bird, now 63, turned Antigua into a jet-age Cannes of the Caribbean, complete with 33 hotels drawing 65,000 tourists annually, a casino, an oil refinery and such illustrious sojourners as Dean Acheson, Andre Kostelanetz and Aristotle Onassis. His reward was to hear 70,000 Antiguans sing happy calypsos praising "Papa Bird...
Hussein and Allon also agreed to expand economic relations. At the same time, however, Hussein protested that Mrs. Meir was undercutting him by observing during her latest U.S. visit that Palestinian statehood was only a question of redrawing Jordan's boundaries. The King was prepared to grant Palestinian autonomy of a sort, he said, but under his rule, and not as the nucleus of an independent Palestinian state...
Eban said that "denial of Israel's statehood falls within the distinct line-age of anti-Semitism... Those who raise the cry of nationalism and parochialism do so only when the nationalism is Israeli...
...whole international controversy of our age, there's no other example of a nation's statehood not being axiomatic," he said. "Israel's existence as a nation has to be proclaimed as an inexorable reality...
...marchers on October 30 wanted not statehood but complete independence from the United States. They sensed that a vote or two in Congress will not do away with the army bases, will not prevent their men from being sent to wars waged by a people with different ideals than theirs, will not allow them full self-determination...