Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...then did you fight so hard, and enlist the U.S., to keep South Vietnam sovereign...
...Moldavians, some armed with chains and knives, milled around the main square of rural Chimishliya last week waiting for orders to begin a civil war. "This is our land, our home, and we will fight for it," explained Ion Rosanu. "We have to protect the integrity of sovereign Moldavia." Rosanu and his companions were among thousands who mobilized to prevent the Gagauz, an ethnic Turkish minority, from seceding. When the Moldavians marched toward the Gagauz region, only the arrival of troops from the Soviet Interior Ministry kept the peace...
...newest fad is for even more atomization: not just republics but pieces of republics and even single cities are proclaiming themselves sovereign. Within the Russian federation, the Chuvash, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar, Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...
...Russian constitution. Yeltsin wants to submit it to the Russian Congress of People's Deputies at month's end and possibly to a popular referendum in January. The draft is modeled to a considerable extent and quite consciously on the U.S. Constitution. It declares Russia to be "a sovereign, social democratic state ruled by law" and specifically recognizes "the inviolable, natural right of private property." It establishes a presidency to be filled by popular election (guess who seems sure to be the first chosen?) and grants that office enough authority to cause some deputies to gripe about "royal powers...
...didn't the U.S duplicate its Panamanian invasion? Not because Bush has had second thoughts about military intervention in sovereign nation. Not because Bush values the lives of American soldiers too highly...