Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centerpiece of the apartheid system is the elaborate plan to establish nine "independent" black homelands within South Africa. Eventually, all South African blacks will be given citizenship in one of these homelands, even though about half of the black population live permanently in "white" South Africa. Of these, hundreds of thousands were born in the urban townships and have rarely if ever visited, or wanted to visit, their theoretical homelands. The urban black population in South Africa is estimated at 9 million...
Finally, as the INS would not need to hunt down illegal immigrants in the country, INS officials would no longer have to insult all Mexican-American citizens by requesting that they prove their citizenship because of the color of their skin...
...Donleavy Like Joyce, Donleavy, 51, has seen his work banned in Ireland for obscenity; unlike Joyce, he seems not to care. The Brooklyn-born author (The Ginger Man, The Unexpurgated Code) has assumed Irish citizenship and settled in permanently. "The tax exemption was the reason," he says. For the past five years, he and his wife M.W. (for Mary Wilson) have lived in a 25-room Queen Anne mansion set in 200 secluded acres in County Westmeath. Except for doing some outdoor work to keep fit, Donleavy avoids farm chores and writes for a steady five hours...
...soft stand on documentation would make the new rules tough to enforce. A busy black-market trade in old rent receipts and utility bills has already sprung up in California as illegals seek means to prove they were in the U.S. before 1970-and thus qualify for full citizenship under the Carter plan...
Although Paraguayan authorities deny it, Wiesenthal believes that Mengele entered Paraguay in May 1959. Thanks to German settlers there, Mengele was promptly granted citizenship and given naturalization card...