Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament will be reduced from 300 to 200 members, and candidates must be either 1) native-born Greeks, or 2) citizens who have been naturalized for at least ten years, or 3) those who have held renewed Greek citizenship for at least five years after becoming citizens of foreign countries-a clause that would disqualify Leftist Andreas Papandreou from any election that might be held this year.* Banned from participation in Greek politics will be "all parties whose aims or the activity of whose members is openly or covertly opposed to the fundamental principles of the state or (designed...
...Papandreou, 48, who held U.S. citizenship from 1944 to 1964, was released from an Athens prison by the junta's Christmas Eve amnesty. Last week he flew to Paris, where he denounced the present regime as "repressive and dictatorial," warned it to step aside or face a civil war, and called for the establishment of a nonaligned "progressive" government in Greece...
Serving on a jury is a duty of citizenship that involves a number of obvious obligations, among them being attentive and avoiding contact with any of the principals or lawyers in the case. Theodore Shead, 45, showed up this month in Miami to do his duty at the trial of an accused rapist, but during the lunch break he was seen talking to the defendant. At lunch, it turned out, he had had at least two martinis and, when the trial resumed, as is the martini drinker's wont, he fell asleep...
...that came into confluence. Abroad, there was the war in Viet Nam, possibly the most unpopular conflict in the nation's history and the largest ever waged without specific congressional consent. At home, the Negro, more aware than ever of the distance he has yet to travel toward full citizenship, vented his impatience in riots that rent 70 cities in a summer of bloodshed and pillage. The U.S. was vexed as well by violence in the streets, rising costs, youthful rebelliousness, pollution of air and water and the myriad other maladies of a post-industrial society that is growing ever...
...recipients are chosen for literary and scholastic achievement, good citizenship, and "physical vigor, as shown by fondness for and success in sports...