Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-hour address, Hesburgh advocated a "world citizenship" as a means "to transcend nationalistic chauvinism." What is needed, Hesburgh said, is a "Declaration of Interdependence" to affirm the unity, equality, and dignity of humankind...
Meanwhile, Vesco goes on establishing himself in Costa Rica. Crateloads of furniture have arrived in San José from I.O.S. offices in France. Vesco has been granted a provisional Costa Rican passport and, according to Figueres, he intends to renounce U.S. citizenship. He has rented a chalet in a wooded area on the outskirts of San José and parks his private plane -a Boeing 707-at the San José airport. Yet for Vesco, the relentlessly ambitious son of a Detroit auto worker, San José, with no stock market and less than a dozen banks, is a pale...
...would have four Arabs for every five Jews. "There would no longer be a Jewish state but a binational state," he says. "It would be a tragedy." Sapir also argues that it would be morally wrong to rule a people without holding out to them the hope of eventual citizenship...
...Return gives every Jew anywhere the right to Israeli citizenship; the last great wave of immigration is climaxed by a massive airlift of 47,000 Yemenite Jews...
Gradually, the government herded all the Indians onto reservations, and the slow process of Americanization commenced. In 1924, the Indians obtained citizenship and suffrage rights, and in 1934, the Indian Reorganization Act provided the red man with the mechanism for setting up miniature American democracies. By 1950, the United States had turned the Indian into an American, but still treated Indian people like second-class citizens...