Word: citizens
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...corruption beneath the surface in Blue Velvet is trendily psychosexual. In All My Sons it is economic and political. At the root of the play's evil is the tribal impulse that allows a man to think only of himself and his family rather than his duties as a citizen of the world. When a machine-shop owner whose patching over of defective cylinder heads sent 21 pilots to their deaths voices the repentant opinion that they were "all my sons," this simple compassion seems to him earthshakingly...
Handle With Care (Citizen's Band)--Brattle Theatre...
...death of Linder was produced in the midst of a firefight between one of our patrols and a group of militia of the Sandinista army, which accompanied the U.S. citizen," the FDN said in a statement released in Tegucigalpa...
...holds the Marxist-Leninist regime of Nicaragua [responsible] for the death of the U.S. citizen by allowing him to enter an area of civil war of our country, which is between Nicaraguans and not foreigners," it said...
These are the charges, supported by eyewitness accounts and recovered camp documents. In 1962 a Soviet court tried Linnas in absentia as a war criminal and sentenced him to death. But by that time he was living in Greenlawn, N.Y., having become a citizen in 1960, nine years after entering the U.S. In 1981, however, his citizenship was revoked after a court determined that he had lied about his wartime activities to immigration officials. The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether to block his deportation temporarily. If it refuses to do so, Linnas, 67, will probably soon...