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...adamant that those who had arrived between 1961 and 1971 be either denied the right to vote or forced to leave, an enormous exercise that could involve 3 million people. Prime Minister Gandhi was equally adamant that all immigrants who arrived before 1971 and had proof of their Indian citizenship had every legal right to live, work and vote in Assam. As she told Parliament, "I asked the students, 'Where are we going to send these people? Where in India? To what country outside India?' " Hopelessly deadlocked, the talks, which were being held in New Delhi, broke down...
...Critics of Islam as an ideology of government say it is intolerant and will reduce non-Muslims to second-class citizenship...
Such a policy would be repugnant for two reasons. First, requiring individuals to register is to impose a very small obligation in comparison to the many benefit' of citizenship. Regardless of whether one believes registration is good policy, the United States asks very little of its citizens, and the time required to complete a short questionnaire should not impose a serious burden of anyone, even if they are busy Harvard students...
SURPRISINGLY enough, Barbie led a high-profile existence in his newly adopted homeland. With the generous help of various right-wing military dictators. Barbie obtained Bolivian citizenship in 1957 and soon established a profitable external commerce company-in reality a front for an arms shipment network. The ex-Gestapo officer, appreciated for his contacts abroad, made friends in high places. As unofficial leader of a fairly large collection of exiled German war criminals hiding in Bolivia, Barbie was able to organize his cronies into a sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power...
...debts of his brother Cecil, who died young, Chesterton contracted for more newspaper and magazine assignments than he could decently fulfill. But even a breakdown at age 40 could not slow him. In self-defense he lauded the ephemeral: "The daily paper is more important [than books] because citizenship must be more important than art, Dale praises this attitude; after all, "Wells, Shaw, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy-all saw themselves involved with and influencing events." But those men attempted, with whatever ludicrous results, to reach far into the future. Chesterton's ideas were rooted in the past. He espoused...