Word: citizenship
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...document is curiously silent on what those shared values are. It even seems hesitant to acknowledge the fact of U.S. citizenship; wherever possible, it advocates an awareness of global "interdependence" as a fundamental educational concern. In its constant elevation of group and ethnic interests, it represents a radical departure from the way Americans have traditionally viewed the passing on of knowledge in the common school as a means of creating citizens out of a polyglot and diverse pool of young citizens...
...network that mocks Chamorro's vows to run a "transparent" administration. Last November the government ordered 400,000 new passports, claiming that the old documents were no longer any good because the Sandinistas, in their final months of power, had issued papers to non-Nicaraguans with no right to citizenship. Under Nicaraguan law, the printing contract, worth more than $1 million, should have been open for public bidding. It was not. Although at least one other company made an unsolicited offer to do the job more cheaply, the contract was awarded to Continental Trading, which is a subsidiary of OCAL...
...Baltic leaders have made progress in reassuring their own minorities, especially ethnic Russians, that they are entitled to full rights of citizenship. A revealing moment came during the central authorities' brutal but abortive crackdown in January. Not only did Kremlin agents fail to goad the Balts into armed resistance, which would have provided a pretext for more bloodshed, but local ethnic Russians also refused to form a pro-Moscow fifth column. Instead many sided with the secessionists...
...Ghaida had no citizenship until she moved to Austria. Born in Syria, she possessed only a Laisser-Passer, which identified her as a Palestinian living in Syria. When she moved to Vienna, however, she obtained Austrian citizenship...
...special relationships" with half a dozen or so countries. Near the top of the list are Israel and Japan. The U.S. was instrumental in the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, and almost 6 million American Jews $ could be automatically entitled to citizenship there. The case of Japan is more ambiguous but no less special. The U.S. used A-bombs to finish off a militaristic empire, then helped rebuild what has become an economic superpower...