Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.K., as he is fondly known in some quarters) became an Arab pariah. Hussein was ignored at conferences, slighted when oil subsidies were handed out, finally humiliated at the Rabat summit of 1974, where he was stripped of the right to represent West Bank Palestinians (who still hold Jordanian citizenship) in future peace negotiations with Israel. Instead the Palestinians were given the right to negotiate over the status of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and in Gaza. Arafat meanwhile was lionized. He took his "guns and olive branch" liberation theory to the podium of the United Nations General Assembly...
...River of Blood" speech, Powell first brought Britain's race question out of the limbo to which other politicians had tacitly consigned it. The Nationality Act, he argued, was flooding London and Midlands ghettos with Indian, Pakistani, African and West Indian immigrants, who could claim British citizenship on the basis of their Commonwealth status. Within 15 or 20 years, he declared, there would be a horde of 3.5 million coloreds in Britain, and one day they would precipitate a bloody race war. (In the nine years since that speech, the country's non-white population has more than...
...name is Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda. I was born in Siluan near Jerusalem on the 16th of May, 1937. I have one wife and, by her, six children. I have Jordanian citizenship...
...four freedoms, we had to demand a fifth: the freedom to demand and expect to enjoy freedom. For unless racial discrimination, economic segregation, political exploitation and social humiliation were abolished, we were still slaves, still eliminated from the America that called itself free. For Black people to enjoy full citizenship in America, this country had to abandon one of its most traditional licenses; it had to turn from one of its most blatant and continuing sins--the historic policy of neglecting the very principles on which it was founded...
...case-by-case review would be discriminatory and unnecessary. To be totally fair and comprehensive, Carter's amnesty should also waive the section of the U.S. Immigration Act that prohibits re-entry, even after charges have been dropped, of men who have avoided military service and subsequently changed their citizenship. Amnesty should also expunge the criminal records of the thousands of civilians arrested during non-violent protests and grant immunity from prosecution to men who did not register for the draft...