Word: breakaway
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...frontiers, Helsinki ratified nothing that had not been ratified before, at Yalta, Potsdam and in the peace treaties. The Soviet political position in Eastern Europe depends on military predominance, and on history since 1950, which has made it clear that the Soviet Union would not tolerate a breakaway from its form of government and that the West would not intervene if the Soviet Union asserted itself militarily...
Helve came back later in the half off a breakaway, handing the visitors a 2-0 lead intermission. The swift Green stickhandler slammed a wicked shot past Rhodes into the opposite corner of the mesh. Coach Mary Corrigan's crew added an insurance marker twenty minutes into the second half to round out the scoring...
...front the scoring punch should come off the sticks of strikers Susie McKuen and Abbie Homans. Wingers Mary Howard and Cha-nan Tang will be out on the sides looking for breakaway passes or to set up the strikers...
Some observers pointed out that while Khandakar had served as Foreign Minister in the government-in-exile during the Pakistani civil war, he may not have been loyal to Mujib. There were allegations after independence that he had participated in U.S.-initiated attempts to prevent the breakaway of Bangladesh. Mujib piqued Khandakar by relieving him of the foreign ministry, appointing Dr. Kamal Hossain, who was in Belgrade when the coup occurred...
These days the talk is likely to turn quickly to the question of independence. As mainland Portugal drifts toward leftism, the conservative Azorians are beginning to think so seriously about establishing a breakaway nation that some are already calling the islands the Atlantic Republic of the Azores and Madeira...