Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he was one of the most illustrious and magnanimous generals in U.S. history. After he surrendered his sword at Appomattox, he apparently failed to take an oath of loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, which many Confederates were obliged to do if they wished to regain the full U.S. citizenship that they had forfeited. Up to his death in 1870, he was denied citizenship. Ever since, Southern sympathizers have been trying to recover it for him posthumously...
Last August while Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev was working in Britain - with his government's permis sion - Soviet authorities canceled his passport and revoked his citizenship, making him an involuntary émigré. Medvedev, who now lives in London, cannot have been surprised. The Soviets had tried to subdue him before, once locking him in an insane asylum for 19 days until worldwide protests embarrassed the government into releasing him. Medvedev's indignant dissidence (expressed in The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko and A Question of Madness) had marked him as a troublesome enemy of partiinost, that...
...other kind of group." Vacancies will be filled by the military. The draconian measure led one Santiagoan to wonder wryly whether the order applied "to the local football club too." The constitution was recently amended so that Chileans who criticize the government while traveling abroad will automatically lose their citizenship...
...making this effort to close down for one of the three weeks, only out of wisdom and good citizenship," Robert L. Glucksterm, vice chancellor of the university, said yesterday...
...York City, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have met with indifferent success. Amid the confusion and dismay, there are a few who discern a silver lining: "No matter how this turns out, the result will be favorable," says Alan K. Campbell, dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. "There are signs that the President is adjusting to the idea that a landslide victory doesn't mean a man can do as he wishes. The country is getting a good cleansing, and so is the President...