Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Would a sovereign Quebec honor its defense commitments...
Abroad, the Soviets and other East-bloc nations protested that Carter was interfering in the domestic concerns of sovereign states. But Carter had struck a chord, and throughout the year the sound would not be stilled. The campaign focused world attention upon political thuggery, torture, repression?and there were reverberations. The Pinochet regime in Chile belatedly sought to polish its discreditable image by announcing that it was disbanding the country's notorious secret police agency, DINA. In Iran, the Shah's hated secret police organization, SAVAK, eased up somewhat on political dissidents. In the Eastern bloc, the human rights campaign...
...West Bank itself becomes a Palestinian entity. To ease Israel's legitimate fears about the creation of a new Arab realm whose western frontier would be 8.5 miles from Tel Aviv, the Palestinian entity would not possess all the attributes of a sovereign state-at least for a transition period that could last as long as 25 years. It would, however, have its own flag, a parliament and executive and judicial bodies. It could issue passports to all Palestinians living anywhere in the world-an act of enormous symbolic importance to these 3.4 million people without a homeland...
Government borrowers face a similar deterrent: the necessity of applying to Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the credit-investigating agencies, for ratings for their bonds. The foreigners, says Koerner, thought that ignominious: "Their feeling was, 'Dammit, we are a sovereign country. Why should these private American companies come and tell the world whether or not we have done a good job?' It was a bit like asking someone to take off his pants in front of someone he did not even know." Wall Street underwriters stress that going to the agencies is part of growing...
...fact, it is still far from certain that Lévesque will be able to persuade his 6 million fellow Québeckers to vote for his formula of independence - a "sovereign" Québec in a new economic association with Canada - in a plebiscite that is likely to be held in 1979. But, while basking in the glow of his Paris reception, Lévesque came in for an unlikely political windfall at home...