Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Duty and Reverence. Hampshire is run by President Franklin Patterson, 54, a softspoken, firm-willed former director of Tufts University's Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs. Appointed four years before the first students arrived, Patterson had ample time to cull 50 faculty members from nearly 1,000 applicants and decide how to spend a $6,000,000 start-up gift from Harold F. Johnson, a publicity-shy New York lawyer and Amherst alumnus...
...Jerusalem would remain an Israeli city. But Jerusalem Arabs would keep their Jordanian citizenship, and would have a separate city council with a voice in municipal affairs. Moslem holy places in Jerusalem would be granted extraterritorial status by the Israelis, and King Hussein would fly the Jordanian flag over them...
...bond. All owed allegiance to the British sovereign; all were British subjects by virtue of that allegiance. As Edmund Burke put it, these were ties "which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." In a moment of difficulty or danger, a man's British citizenship could easily be his most valuable possession. In 1849, when Don Pacifico, a Jewish merchant of Malta, was refused compensation by the Greek government for injuries he had suffered at the hands of some of its citizens, Lord Palmerston, Britain's Prime Minister, sent the British navy to blockade...
Unwanted Persons. The change in the concept of Commonwealth citizenship began nearly a decade ago. Until 1962, all Commonwealth citizens had the right of unrestricted entry to Britain. At that time, however, 274,000 West Indians, 127,000 Indians and 78,000 Pakistanis were already living in Britain-a nearly tenfold increase since 1951. The public and politicians alike were growing alarmed. To restrict immigration, the Tories introduced a law in 1962 that established various classes of employment vouchers; three years later, the Labor government limited the number of immigrant vouchers to 8,500 a year. Even with these restrictions...
...laws did not affect the rights of 150,000 Indians and Pakistanis residing in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania who had elected to retain their British citizenship when their countries became independent. In 1967, facing pressure from their Black African governments, 31,000 of the Asians emigrated to Britain. Then, in early 1968, their entry was abruptly halted. A few Asians found themselves in the predicament of being unable to enter Britain and unable to return to East Africa. As recently as two weeks ago, a couple from Kenya spent a fortnight flying back and forth between Nairobi and London; last...