Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most Serbian students said NATO's attack on their sovereign country is illegal...
...hard to overstate how remarkable and surprising to most people this war in the name of peace is. On the eve of its 50th birthday, NATO, a defensive alliance founded to protect Western Europe from Soviet invasion, has struck hard at a sovereign state that is not a threat to the allies. Without a specific U.N. Security Council authorization, NATO is intervening in a civil war, a war of secession, to halt the cruelty with which it is being fought--especially by the Serbs. In the process, the allies run the risk that their attacks might increase the level...
...that he would assume the role of the G.O.P.'s pre-eminent national leader. More a pragmatist than an ideologue, and more interested in passing legislation than in delivering visionary speeches, Lott has preferred immersing himself in the mechanics of running the Senate to playing the role of party sovereign. As the impeachment saga played out in the House, Lott watched quietly from across Capitol Hill, praying it would never reach the Senate...
...chose to ignore Chile's democratically elected President Eduardo Frei's demands that Pinochet be returned to Chile and his fate be decided by the Chileans. After all, the alleged crimes did not take place in England or Spain but in Chile. Thus British liberals are telling a presumably sovereign nation that territoriality doesn't count, that Chile cannot be trusted with its own political affairs. Colonialism is back. EDWARD KAUSEL Cambridge, Mass...
...complaint, and the committee proceeded with voting on the articles, along party lines. "This vote says something about us," said Hyde on Friday night. "It answers the question, Just who are we, and what do we stand for? Is the President one of us, or is he a sovereign? We vote for our honor, which is the only thing we get to take with us to the grave...