Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urging of the front-line leaders, Nkomo and Mugabe adopted a face-saving compromise and rejoined the talks. They dropped their objections to guarantees of white citizenship and pension rights, leaving the land settlement as the only outstanding issue to be resolved. Carrington's assurances, backed by the promise of U.S. aid, removed that obstacle...
When the talks resumed, the guerrillas offered a constitutional plan of their own that rejected four key features of the British proposal: certain entrenched guarantees for whites; continued citizenship for immigrants who settled in Rhodesia after the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence; pensions for former officials of the Salisbury regime; and compensation for any property seized by a future Zimbabwe government. Carrington promised to study the document, but insisted that his plan was the only possible basis for settlement and gave the guerrillas another 48 hours to accept...
...strips millions of blacks of their South African nationality as their tribal homelands become independent. The logical result of the plan, in the candid analysis of the former Cabinet Minister in charge of black affairs, Cornelius Mulder, is that "there will not be one black man with South African citizenship...
...files never seem to stay permanently shut on long gone heroes. Congress in the past few years has reopened the dossiers of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis to restore U.S. citizenship to those two Confederate stalwarts. Military analysts and moralists alike still pick over the cases of swashbuckling blunderers. Was General George Custer a fit officer or a dumb egomaniac who assured his own annihilation by his foolhardy bravado at Little Big Horn...
...aired last month, a young Birmingham Asian, Tony Huq, expressed his generation's mood of defiance: "Gone are the days when we didn't even make a whimper. Gone are the days when we kept quiet about discrimination. Gone are the days when we accepted second-class citizenship...