Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told 25 people at the Cambridge Forum that America still has "an unfinished agenda," because equal rights of citizenship and an equitable distribution of resources have not become reality...
...Sharon maintains. "The Israelis and Palestinians have been here for centuries." The Jewish state of Israel, he insists, must face the reality of living with a large Arab minority. Sharon would allow Arabs a blunt choice of three alternatives: to become Israeli citizens; to remain as "permanent residents" without citizenship, as some 80,000 others (many of them American Jews) already do; or to leave. "I am ready to talk to anyone-Palestinians, Syrians, anyone-for peace," he says. "That includes Yasser Arafat, although I think we should have killed him long...
Like its students, the Extensions has taken longer than the usual 21 years to come into respectable maturity. And like its middle-aged academic minors it suffers unrealistically--albeit understandably--from a certain unconscionable timidity in asserting its newly acknowledged stature along the traditional progression in full citizenship. It has finally achieved for members admitted so degree candidacy the privileges, partial but vital, of library facilities, parking places, its own half building in the Yard (Lehman Hall), with a lounge for TV courses, a donated infant library of its own, use of the cafeteria, below, and vocational and educational guidance...
...Harold Wilson and other fans. "I was too dumbfounded to talk to the Queen," confessed Sir Charles later. Less awed was his daughter, Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 30, who came to London for the ceremonies with her son Shane. Since Shane was born out of wedlock two months ago, his citizenship is in question. Mother Geraldine is of mixed American and British parentage, and his father, Film Director Carlos Saura, is Spanish. "If they can make my father a knight," protested Geraldine shortly before her arrival, "they can damn well make his grandson British...
...begin to assert his American citizenship, and soon enough the law, in all its sudden, arbitrary, inescapable power, will be down on him, and hard indeed...