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...relationship I had publicized to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit," she said in court papers. The revelation led her to suspect that the Jamaican she met at a resort a decade ago married her only to get his U.S. citizenship. Plummer maintains he didn't know he was gay when he moved in with...
...crisis in more than two decades. Among other things, he invoked the prospect of unspecified future constitutional discussions involving "all South African citizens," presumably including the country's 24 million blacks. He implicitly admitted the failure of the country's much criticized "homelands" policy, aimed at denying South African citizenship to blacks, and seemed to promise a different but as yet amorphous arrangement for the future...
...course of the year, the Botha government made a few concessions. It repealed the laws forbidding mixed marriage and sexual relations between whites and nonwhites. It promised that blacks living in urban areas would be entitled to some sort of South African citizenship (instead of being "citizens" merely of poor but ostensibly "independent" homelands). It also said it would consider scrapping the hated pass laws controlling the movement of blacks. These steps were notable departures from doctrinaire apartheid, but to millions of angry and unemployed young blacks in the townships, they were too little and too late...
...some 3.5 million blacks to the homelands in the past 25 years. For the moment, the 8 million blacks who live in the four homelands that have accepted independent status from Pretoria--Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana and Ciskei--will still be considered foreign nationals. They are expected to receive dual citizenship by the end of the year. Other blacks living in rural areas are basically free to seek jobs in cities whenever they choose, although they remain barred from residing in areas reserved for whites. That worries some white South Africans, who fear that more black migration to urban areas could...
...slot. Max was born in Gera, Germany, in 1930, and the Gestapo expelled him and his parents in 1938. While he and his mother angled for an exit visa to the U.S., his father was arrested by the Soviets as a German spy and offered the choice of Soviet citizenship or 15 years' hard labor in Siberia. He chose the latter and could not join his family, by then settled in Manhattan, until the late 1940s. Max's own brood comprises his wife of 30 years, Tobia, and three children...