Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into trouble, as it did last week when he intemperately referred to Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye as "that little Jap." When incredulous reporters double-checked the remark,* Wilson refused to retract it. "That's just the way I speak," he said. Then, as though Inouye's citizenship were somehow different from his own, he added: "I wouldn't mind being called a little American." Wilson's remarks were not all that surprising: in the past he has openly opposed both blacks and women joining the D.C. Bar Association. But his newest outburst prompted a deluge...
...Nixon administration will only react to the proceedings (as to the blacks). It will never act to help move things closer to the truth, just as it has never acted to move blacks closer to citizenship...
Gaddafi's stormiest encounter came in a meeting with 1,000 prominent Egyptian women, who expressed fears that the merger would mean that they would have to adopt the strict Islamic law relegating women to the second-class citizenship Gaddafi has forced on Libyan women. "Because of biological defects, a woman's place is in the home," intoned Gaddafi. "These are not defects, Mr. President!" came the outraged reply. "All right, then," responded Gaddafi, "nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps." That sexist sentiment hardly endeared him to the women. To make matters...
...stormed the FBI. Shortly after that incident, federal and New South Wales state police staged dawn raids on 68 Croatian homes. Australians barely had time to complain about "police-state methods" when they were horrified to learn that Yugoslavia had surreptitiously executed three alleged Croatian terrorists who held Australian citizenship...
...director of the New China News Agency, the delegation has shown an omnivorous appetite for economics, sociology and Americana in general. Mayor John Lindsay treated them to a tour of Harlem streets, where they took time out to chat with sidewalk winos. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley bestowed honorary citizenship on the visitors. In Washington they donned hard hats to interview construction workers. Any mention of statistics brought out pens and notebooks. Informed during an inspection of an Illinois ranch that only 4% of the 220 million U.S. citizens work on farms, Chao Chi-hua, a deputy director in Peking...