In truth, he always remained an aide to General Gehlen, as the Gehlen Organization was transferred to newly sovereign West Germany's intelligence service in April 1956.

While the American forces will keep a lower profile in the newly sovereign Iraq, General Casey said the counterinsurgency will not slacken.

Eastern Ukraine is also dominated by ethnic Russians seeking closer economic and political ties to Moscow, leading to fears that newly sovereign and economically unreformed Ukraine may fall apart.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell assured Turkish leaders Thursday that in a newly sovereign Iraq the Kurds would have to relinquish their control of oil resources in the north.

A11 The Bush administration has decided to let the Kurdish region remain semiautonomous as part of a newly sovereign Iraq despite warnings not to divide the country into ethnic states.

The collapse of the Soviet Union brought that shift to a historic conclusion, leaving Mr. Yeltsin the undisputed leader of a newly sovereign Russia.

The official said her speech was at the initiative of the Estonian Parliament, which is looking to a newly sovereign Russia as a future partner, she said, not only in trade but also in "humanitarian areas."

After the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, first families from Dereköy migrated to Razgrad and Tutrakan to the newly sovereign Bulgaria.

India's founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, under whose watch the Ukai Dam was built, called them "modern temples" of his newly sovereign nation.

Instead, Chirac stuck his thumb in the alliance's eye: he would not allow any troops under the NATO flag to help the newly sovereign Iraqis defeat the terrorists.