Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. embassy in Stockholm revealed that the Makars had written a letter "without a return address" renouncing their U.S. citizenship. During their stay in Sweden, they had gone to the Soviet embassy, declared their desire to become Soviet citizens, had finally boarded a plane for Moscow. There, in a downtown hotel, they furtively tried to avoid Western newsmen. But they had already spoken freely to the Soviet press, explaining that they had come to Russia because it had a big head start in Makar's field, "while in the United States we were just starting...
...threat posed by unassimilated colonies of overseas Chinese. In South Viet Nam, where they make up only one-tenth of the population, Chinese control nearly two-thirds of the economy. Though many come from families that have been in the country for centuries, almost none have taken out Vietnamese citizenship...
...When the revolution failed, Bela Kun fled to Russia (where he was executed by Stalin in 1938). Nagy escaped to Paris. Returning soon after to Hungary, he was imprisoned by Admiral Horthy's regency (in power 1920-44)! On his release he went to Russia, took Soviet citizenship, studied agronomy at Moscow University, was sent to Siberia to direct a collective farm...
Laureate Jimenez, 74, has lived in the Americas for two decades, but by birth, education and citizenship he is Spanish. Illness in his youth made him aloof and hypochondriacal. His cheerful and practical wife Zenobia looked after him maternally, ran a handicrafts shop in Madrid so that he could work at his poetry without having to worry about earning a living. Shortly after their marriage, he wrote a collection of lyrics entitled Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newlywed Poet), one of his finest works. That same productive year (1917) he published his most famous...
...Council had suggested that "good citizenship" was an inadequate rationale for the ticketing crackdown, since the ticketing definitely discriminated against students...