Word: sovereign
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...responsibility stemming from guilty is Joseph Kraft. In a column written after Chicago, Kraft said that the journalist does not reflect the views of Middle America (Nixon's "silent Americans," Reston's "nonpolitical majority"), and he questions whether the reporter can then claim to be the "agent of the sovereign public...
...reunion: it's nice to see the old classmates again, but each time the participants find that they have less in common. Of the 28 Commonwealth members represented at the ten-day conference that ended in London last week, a majority no longer recognize Queen Elizabeth as their sovereign, several have left the sterling area, scarcely any regard their citizenships as interchangeable, and only two (Australia and New Zealand) still display the Union Jack on their flags. The only thing that seemed to unite them was that each had at least one grievance against the old schoolmaster, Britain...
...contested his legal claim, Ray then argued that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country. Dubbing his new nation the "Grand Capri Republic," he made plans to "occupy and defend the area against all comers...
Four years and two months from the day it finally won kwacha - freedom - Zambia last week held its first parliamentary election as a sovereign state...
Gathering together the hottest heads and most avid activists, he invaded Carson National Forest in late 1966 and "arrested" two rangers for trespassing on what he termed his sovereign state. When several members of his group last year found themselves in jail, a whooping band of raiders wounded two officers and kidnaped a deputy sheriff and a newsman. Although the state police were swiftly mobilized and augmented by a National Guard force with tanks, Tijerina's people slipped away. Arrested later, Tijerina and nine companions were charged with kidnaping and assault. He came to trial last week...