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...Japanese still look down on resident foreigners. The 700,000 Koreans who constitute Japan's largest alien enclave must overcome legal barriers to obtain citizenship, although many of them were born and bred in Japan during the early part of the century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. The 5,000 Indochinese refugees taken in by Japan after the Viet Nam War find assimilation all but impossible. "Japanese heartily welcome foreigners on short visits," explains Masahiro Tsubouchi of the Tokyo immigration office. "They just don't want them to stay forever...
...Parma, Ohio, and became a U.S. citizen. He raised a family and worked as an engine mechanic at the Ford plant in Cleveland. In 1981, after the Soviets produced an old ID card in response to a Justice Department query about Demjanjuk's war record, the U.S. revoked his citizenship. Last year it allowed him to be extradited to Israel to face trial on murder charges...
...says Presidential Hopeful Gary Hart, "will ask young Americans to return some of the advantages and investments they have received ; from our society." The Democratic Leadership Council, an organization headed by former Virginia Governor Charles Robb, has endorsed the notion as a way to "foster a new spirit of citizenship and patriotism...
...Americans in a chaotic situation such as that in Lebanon." The State Department barred U.S. citizens from traveling to Lebanon and said it would revoke U.S. passports of Americans living there. However, most of the 1,500 residents who are affected by the order also have citizenship in other countries...
...permitted to return to their native land. "If you had asked me just six months ago whether this was possible, I would have said no," said Dusko Doder, the author of a new book on the U.S.S.R. called Shadows and Whispers. Until recently all defectors were stripped of their citizenship, and their names were banished from public records...