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...Ground-Two Dos. Do relax. The Castro regime notwithstanding, most Cubans are indeed friendly, and they will make your layover as comfortable as possible, once formalities have been concluded. These include movie and still photography of all arriving passengers and a routine interrogation: name, address, citizenship and date of last smallpox inoculation. If you are not carrying your International Certificates for Vaccination, you may be inoculated on the spot or, worse, quarantined at the airport...
...precedent for his case, says Shalit, was the court's decision regarding Father Daniel (TIME, Dec. 14, 1962), a Carmelite friar who sought admission to Israel under the Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to any Jew who wants to live in the country. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Father Daniel was born of a Jewish mother. In his case, the court ruled that Halakha did not apply and that on the basis of secular law and the common-sense opinions of men he would no longer be regarded...
...electors, usually party regulars selected in state conventions well before the November election, are committed by tradition in most states to vote for their party's candidate. However, the electors are generally free to vote for anyone who meets the constitutional requirements of age, residence and citizenship. In 1960, for example, one Republican elector from Oklahoma voted for Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd...
Most have plans to work abroad for a while, but none will renounce Czechoslovak citizenship. Says Jan Kadar, who co-directed The Shop on Main Street: "We have a solidarity with our government and our people. It was a miracle. Never was a people so united on so high an ethical level...
...advocates of social reform. Though patient as Job on some matters, Lichtenberger was no middle-of-the-roader on others, urged his flock to join civil rights protest movements and pointedly reminded them that "each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving...