Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign stressing "77 years of [U.S.] neglect," Guam Governor Ricardo Bordallo blames Washington for all the difficulties. "You'd be shocked at the number of sophisticates who know nothing about the Pacific," he sighs. "On my first trip to Washington, one Congressman asked me what was the citizenship of the Guamanian people. When I tried to cash a Government of Guam check, one bank manager demanded the address of my embassy...
...remains of American servicemen still listed as missing in action. This spring a delegation from Hanoi will visit Hawaii to study maps showing presumed locations of downed U.S. planes. After more than 30 years of bureaucratic machinations and court litigation, 52 Filipinos last week were finally granted the U.S. citizenship promised to all aliens who joined the American armed forces during World...
...speaking people who have traditionally lived between the Zambezi and the Orange rivers. But more than half these people work in white South Africa and do not even live in the territory. By threatening to reject independence, Chief Mangope persuaded Pretoria to grant Tswanas who do not want homeland citizenship permanent residence in South Africa, where they will at least have access to jobs...
...happened, particularly for the 14,000 who attended the Houston meeting, was an end to the psychological isolation that had constrained their activities and ambitions. They learned that many other middle-of-the-road , American-as-Mom's-apple-pie women shared with them a sense of second-class citizenship and a craving for greater social and economic equality. Said Ida Castro, an alternate delegate from New Jersey: "It was a total high to get together and discover so many people who agree on so many issues, and finding that I am not alone." Perhaps more important, many women also...
...shots in southern Africa. Given the complexity of the problem, Ball argued in a recent issue of the Atlantic, the U.S. should press toward fixed, attainable goals: an end to petty apartheid, equal pay for nonwhites, steps toward multiracialism. After that could come the granting of South African citizenship for those in the homelands and an expanding franchise for blacks within South Africa. Eventually, Ball suggested, as have others, there might be some form of partition?an extension, perhaps, of the homelands policy?with greatly enlarged black states retaining some sort of confederal relationship with Pretoria. Demanding that South Africa...