Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beate, who has dual French-German citizenship, finally was tried, convicted and sentenced on narrowly legalistic grounds last week in a Cologne courtroom. Presiding Judge Victor de Somoskeoy, ignoring an expression of concern from French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, gave her two months in jail. Not even the prosecution had sought a jail term; it had urged that Beate be put on probation for six months. Though the sentence has some support in Germany, it set off protests in both Israel and France: Davar, a leading Israeli daily, criticized the court for "sticking...
...abortive coup was the most serious attempt to overthrow Amin since he seized power from President Milton Obote in 1971 and won instant popularity with Uganda's masses by expelling 50,000 Asians who had chosen British over Ugandan citizenship when the country became independent. The uprising was apparently both tribal and religious in origin. In a nation that is less than 10% Islamic, Big Daddy, a Moslem, gave the choicest spots in his 15,000-man army to semiliterate Moslems from his own Kakwa tribe. To fill other vacancies, he recruited some 2,000 members from the neighboring...
...Joel Oliveira, pastor of St. Anthony's church, says. "The political system in Portugal is so different--there is no involvement in politics at all by the people--it is hard for the Portuguese to adjust. Many Portuguese in Cambridge are not citizens--others do not want to lose citizenship. They don't know about the American system and situation. The Portuguese in Cambridge make a community apart from the general community. The only thing they try to do is make a better life. They don't mix with other people or get involved. They are too busy with their...
...political--or, rather, apolitical--background manifests itself in the percentage of Portuguese who apply for citizenship or who vote. "We have thousands of Portuguese in the area, but a very small percentage are citizens," Costa says. "Citizenship is important. Most of the Portuguese can't vote because they don't take their citizenship papers. We are right that we can ask local politicians to work for us, but we must realize that we must give something too. We can't even give votes in return. The Portuguese say 'I have my job, my home--I don't want...
...Alexander Solzhenitsyn's forced exile to the West is a tragedy [Feb. 25]. Once again the government of the Soviet Union has succeeded in its tyranny. They gave a man his freedom and placed chains on his soul; Solzhenitsyn is above all else a Russian. To take citizenship from such a man and banish him by force from the homeland he so dearly loves is the crudest blow of all. Those spiritual beggars whose greatest fear is truth, however, should know that such a man will not be silenced so easily...