Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National service is a very important idea inan effort to redefine citizenship," Galston said...
...staff James Baker and his aides insist they didn't. But their statements contain troubling omissions and inconsistencies. Other evidence suggests that top Bush aides were desperate to confirm -- and publicize -- a rumor (false as it turned out) that the youthful Clinton had taken steps to renounce his American citizenship to avoid the draft...
Such policies should stipulate that the U.S. will not approve the release of one penny of IMF funds until Blacks and other groups discriminated against by race enjoy identical rights of citizenship to those of whites...
...Balts view the issue differently: Russian migration was the means by which the Kremlin subjugated them. "Is making Latvian the official language a deprivation of human rights?" asks Viesturs Karnups, director of the Latvian Department of Citizenship. Argues Estonian journalist Tarmu Tammerk: "There is a misperception in the West. Most Russians here have come to terms with the fact that this is a foreign country...
...Baltic governments manage to reform their economies without incurring dire levels of poverty and unemployment, the citizenship conflict may wane. Estonia, aided by its close cultural ties to Finland, has moved the most swiftly, issuing its own hard currency, the kroon, backed by gold reserves. That has complicated exchanges with Russia but helped increase foreign investment and trade...