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African-American ambivalence about military service dates back to the Revolutionary War, when blacks enthusiastically fought for independence in the hope that their patriotic fervor would prove them worthy of freedom and citizenship. In this century, while blacks were generally supportive of both world wars, their discontent erupted publicly during Vietnam, when Martin Luther King Jr. and others opposed an unfair draft that conscripted the disadvantaged while allowing many sons of the middle class to escape military service. Those divided loyalties continue to tug at blacks today and will add to the burden of unfinished business awaiting the homecoming soldiers...
Baghdad government seizes assets in Iraq owned by countries participating in embargo. U.N. Security Council members agree to extend embargo against Iraq to air corridors. Iraq orders expulsion of military attaches from all European Community countries. Iraq orders Kuwaitis to apply for Iraqi citizenship...
...York City attorney who quit his job to attend Demjanjuk's 17-month-long trial, confines himself to the first question, offering a compelling account of the evidence and courtroom drama that led to Demjanjuk's death sentence in 1988 by an Israeli court. Stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for lying about his past, the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was extradited in 1986, becoming the first Nazi war criminal to be tried in Israel since Adolf Eichmann was convicted in 1961 and hanged...
Contrary to Mughogho's assertion, American citizens who applied from abroad (or those with dual citizenship which includes U.S. citizenship) are not (and never have been) "counted" as international students...
TOLERANCE is not enough. The gay, lesbian and bisexual community is not something that needs to be tolerated like a bad cold or a rash. We are the full moral and spiritual equals of heterosexuals, and refuse to continue to be relegated to second class citizenship and fear. There is nothing bad about us to tolerate...