Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President was shot on a Friday and Lee Harvey Oswald on that Sunday. Two days later, Dukakis turned in his monthly column to the Brookline Citizen. There was nothing heightened about this particular column, no private memory of the man or personal emotion expressed. Dukakis deals in consequences, and he did not want emotions let loose by the assassination to be spent unproductively...
...believe that equal access to government services, employment, housing, business enterprise and education should be assured in this multicultural society to every citizen regardless of race, sex, national origin, religion, age, handicapping condition or sexual orientation...
...national TV audience, Rita Moreno tells Geraldo Rivera that her dream as an actress is to play a character rather like herself: "I speak English perfectly well . . . I'm not dying from poverty . . . I want to play that kind of Hispanic woman, which is to say, an American citizen." This is an actress talking; these are show-biz pieties. But Moreno expresses as well a general Hispanic-American predicament. Hispanics want to belong to America without betraying the past. Yet we fear losing ground in any negotiation with America. Our fear, most of all, is of losing our culture...
External Affairs Minister Joe Clark insisted that none of the Soviet espionage efforts succeeded in breaching Canadian security or that of the NATO alliance, of which Canada is a member. The Canadians evidently received the assistance of a Soviet citizen, Yuri Smurov, a translator at the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency based in Montreal. Smurov requested and is expected to receive asylum in Canada...
...Awad had incited "civil uprising" and helped write leaflets, distributed by the intifadeh's underground leadership, that advocated civil disobedience. Awad appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which ruled two weeks ago that he had forfeited his right to residence status in Israel once he became a U.S. citizen. This legalism enabled the government to expel Awad without having to substantiate claims that he had broken Israeli law for his role in the uprising. To Awad's supporters, the verdict was a stunning example of a legal double standard: thousands of American Jews, they point out, are permitted...