We offered support to the campaign to achieve independence, it is now an independent organization, and Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a member of the campaign's steering committee, continues to conduct his work at the center with our financial support.
Like Bank of England independence, it is now unthinkable that any future government will reverse it.
Some feel pressure to leave Papua altogether.Yet there are reasons to doubt that Papua can follow East Timor into the independence it has now, as Timor-Leste, enjoyed for ten years.
If there is anything left of the Palestinian national movement for independence, it better act now to rescue itself.
Later, Galbraith told me that although he knew that Talabani wanted independence, it would be "suicidal" now.
For a country that got rid of royalty on its road to independence it seems Americans could also now grasp the wisdom of doing away with the hierarchical idea of beauty queens as well.
We need energy sources that can be used locally and that will give us back our independence - and we need it now.
We won independence, but now it's time to work and build our new country".
But if Microsoft wants Yahoo to consider its alternative arrangement, it needs to give it all of what it wants: independence, cash now to assuage shareholders, and the ability to have at least a piece of a search advertising business that could rival Google in the future.
Taiwan: The Chinese have made it clear that if Taiwan were to declare its independence now, they would go to war against Taiwan, even though they fully understand that that would have major negative economic consequences for Beijing.
Although East Timor, as it prepares for independence, is now under the care of an international force, Mr Wahid has ruled out any prospect of that for other regions.
