Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside the British High Commission office in Kampala, there were two lines of Asians last week. One was for those with British passports whose applications to go to Britain had been approved, the other for those who thought that they were Ugandans until last month, when their citizenship was denied by the government. Amin had originally promised the country's 23,000 Asians who are Ugandan citizens that they were not affected by the expulsion order; then he declared that they too would be forced to leave "because of acts of sabotage and arson." Later he reversed himself again...
...four out of five businesses in the country, and had monopolized the important coffee and cotton industries. Black Ugandans resented both the Asians' economic dominance and their social exclusiveness. Nonetheless, at least 23,000 of the estimated 90,000 Asians in Uganda in 1962 applied for Ugandan citizenship. Most of the rest retained their British passports...
Resettlers Welcome. Polish-born pensioners who have spent most of their lives in the U.S. are allowed to re-establish residence in Poland without having to give up their American citizenship or even their Social Security benefits. They can take in their belongings, including cars, duty-free. Through special banks and stores dealing only in hard currency, they have access to goods and services unavailable to other Poles. Most Poles have to wait five to seven years for an apartment; "resettlers," as the emigrants-come-home are called, can buy a modern flat immediately for about $2,500. Most important...
From her home in Paris, and virtually everywhere she goes, Actress Melina Mercouri has repeatedly denounced the military-backed regime in her native Greece-so noisily that the authorities took away her citizenship. When her father's body was to be brought from London to Athens last March, Mercouri was refused permission to attend the burial ceremony. But when her mother died last week, the authorities relented: Mercouri could return home for 13 hours, and only if she promised to make no public statements. "Let me smell the Athens sea air I love," said the actress. Then she went...
...than I already am." However, he had a helpful suggestion: "What we really want from a poet laureate is high camp. W.H. Auden is superbly qualified." From Austria, Auden wrote the London Times that he was "amazed and distressed" at the suggestion that he should give up his American citizenship to accept the honor. "Even if I coveted the post, which I don't, to do such a thing for such a motive I should regard as contemptible...