Word: sovereign
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...that drew some 300,000 protesters and a crippling rail blockade of neighboring Armenia. Finally Azerbaijan's Communist leaders officially recognized the nationalist political organization, and acceded to virtually its entire agenda. In a special session of the republic's supreme soviet three weeks ago, legislators declared Azerbaijan a "sovereign" republic and reasserted its right to secede from the Soviet Union if such a move was approved in a referendum. Even in the Baltic states, where popular fronts have also grown powerful, nationalists have not chosen to send a message quite that provocative to Moscow...
...late Adlai Stevenson who said that public opinion is the sovereign of us all. I have always believed that the press has an enormous responsibility in helping to form a sound public opinion rooted in truth and fact and not in conjecture, innuendo and/or rumor. The writer of this article did little to form such public opinion. That was due in part to his being duped by double-speak by some and in part to the paucity of his individual investigative initiative, which went no deeper than to quote The Boston Phoenix. Such limitation suggests a less than maximal presence...
...measure of how quickly political change has been sweeping through the Baltic republics that the debate about national self-determination has moved from the streets into Communist Party headquarters. Asked about the future, Valjas replies, "Our ideal is an independent, sovereign Estonia within the Soviet Union or within a federation of sovereign republics." Latvian Ideology Secretary Ivars Kezbers muses about being a "free republic in a free Soviet Union." Lithuanian Second Secretary Vladimir Berezov says that "our common goal is independence, even if the ways of getting there are different...
Still, the Baltic states hope at least to cut a better deal with Moscow, perhaps in a new treaty that guarantees their sovereign rights. During five decades of Soviet rule, the three republics have watched helplessly as all- powerful ministries in Moscow imposed new industries, regardless of whether they were appropriate to the region. As a result, stretches of white sand beaches along the Baltic coast became too polluted for swimming. An influx of outside manpower threatened to make Latvians a minority in their own homeland. The hardworking Estonians learned to their amazement that by Gorbachev's reckoning, they were...
Estonian activists originally suggested rewriting the treaty of union in November, when they made world headlines by becoming the first of the Baltics to declare their republic "sovereign" within the framework of the Soviet Union...