Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel's Law of Return offers automatic citizenship to any Jew who comes there to live. Some of the recent returnees, however, are hardly what Israeli legislators had in mind: zealous young Jews for Jesus (TIME, June 12), whose purpose in coming to the Promised Land is to engage in aggressive Christian evangelism. Some even passed out New Testament tracts at the Wailing Wall last year...
...white America, protected and assisted by the U.S. Cavalry, forced the Indian nations onto smaller and smaller reservations, usually far from their ancestral lands. The Indian population fell from about 1,150,000 at the time of Columbus to an alltime low of 250,000 by 1900. U.S. citizenship rights were withheld from the Indians until 1924. Today, the Indian population is rising fast-it is now 792,000. In the past two decades, the life expectancy of the Indian has jumped from 44 years to 63.5 years. But that is still seven years short of the national average...
...Jews and the torturing to death of several hundred Maquis, including Resistance Leader Jean Moulin. A French military court sentenced him to death in absentia in 1954. Four years earlier, however, Klaus Altmann had migrated from Berlin to Italy to Bolivia, where he went into business and acquired Bolivian citizenship...
...name Barbie as a pseudonym; he also has a birth certificate in that name and has received mail from the Barbie family in Germany. But he is a Bolivian citizen who claims that he has broken no Bolivian law. The French argue, however, that the fugitive acquired Bolivian citizenship by fraud and that despite the lack of an extradition treaty, Bolivia must honor its World War II pledges of joint Allied action against war criminals. There is yet another possibility: Bolivia has an extradition treaty with Peru, which wants Altmann for gold smuggling, and Peru has an extradition treaty with...
...country or otherwise silenced. Late last week, in a proceeding closed to the public, Niesewand was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act. That could result in a jail term of up to five years. Because he is South African by birth, he could be deprived of Rhodesian citizenship and deported...