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...shadowed by questions about her family's finances. But the precedent that she set was historic. So was Jesse Jackson's. His campaign had its ugly side, but in running the first serious black challenge for the presidential nomination, he drew American blacks psychologically closer to full citizenship...
...unnoticed by the world, she and her American-born daughter Olga Peters, 13, boarded an Aeroflot flight in London bound for Moscow. Once she was back in her homeland, the Soviet press agency TASS announced that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had granted Svetlana's request that her citizenship be restored and that Soviet citizenship be granted to Olga. Both had been American citizens...
...daughter as a propaganda victory, there would be no dancing in Red Square. Since her 1967 defection, Svetlana had frequently denounced the Soviet regime in books and interviews. She called the Bolshevik revolution a tragedy for Russia and characterized Stalin as "a moral and spiritual monster." Repudiating her Soviet citizenship, she ritually burned her passport...
...exert leadership, and he has certainly done that," says Robert Atwell, acting director of the American Council on Education, who gives Bok special credit for his work in pushing the NCAA to toughen academic standards for student athletes. "For him to do that is really an act of citizenship, because Harvard doesn't have any of these problems...
Mondale also misrepresented the provisions of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which is designed to curb illegal immigration into the U.S. in part by imposing fines on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. The Democratic nominee objected that the bill "requires employers to determine the citizenship of an employee before they're hired . . . I don't think we should have a citizenship card." The bill says nothing about a citizenship card. It would require job applicants to produce documents-Social Security cards, drivers licenses, temporary work permits-indicating that they are legal residents of the U.S., not necessarily citizens...