Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invasion threatened to touch off a bloodbath in Uganda. It could not only engulf the Asians, who have lived in fear since Amin ordered 50,000 of their number holding British citizenship to leave, but could also revive tribal warfare and turn into a protracted border war with Tanzania as well...
...inspected Uganda's military bases seeking possible sites for transit camps for the 40,000 to 50,000 Asians of British citizenship whom he has ordered expelled by Nov. 7. Amin accuses the British government of not granting immigration vouchers quickly enough, but the real bottleneck is his own government-which, as of last week, had issued exit permits for only 60 Asians. Nonetheless, Amin insists that any Asians still in the country on Nov. 7 will be interned. The decision to uproot the Asian community, he has said, came straight from Allah...
Since Australia is responsible under the United Nations charter for the administration of the island, it cannot allow the Malays to continue without the rights of citizenship and the protection of its laws. Last week Minister of External Territories Andrew Peacock visited the Cocos. After two days of negotiations with Clunies-Ross, he achieved an agreement, subject to Canberra's approval, under which Clunies-Ross conceded Australian sovereignty and agreed that the island be ruled by an elected chief executive, presumably himself. Included in the agreement were provisions for Australian teachers, an appeals system for major crimes, and transportation...
...very difficult one for Israel's High Court of Justice. Meyer Lansky, 70, the reputed financial wizard of the U.S. underworld, had been living quietly in Israel for 26 months on a visitor's visa as a "retired business man," and had applied for Israeli citizenship. Was he entitled to claim automatic citizenship, like every other Jew under the "Law of the Return"? Or should Lansky be excluded under a clause in the law that bars Jews with criminal pasts who would endanger the public welfare? Specifically, should two minor convictions and pending charges of income tax evasion...
DAVID BERGER, 28, a weight lifter -from Shaker Heights, Ohio, had set tied in Israel in 1971. Berger, who held dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, was a law graduate of Columbia University. He had postponed beginning his law practice while he trained for the Olympics. After Munich, Berger intended to marry and enter the Israeli army. His parents. Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Berger, learned of his death while watching the Games on TV in Shaker Heights. All Ohio state flags were at half-staff last week in his memory...