Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordan would accept the Allon plan, under which the West Bank will be demilitarized, and Israel would keep a strip of fortified settlements along the Jordan River to safeguard its borders. There would be no separate Palestinian state, but the people of the West Bank would retain their Jordanian citizenship and they would have access to the East Bank by means of a corridor at Jericho between the Israeli border settlements...
Palace Life. Nixon was the Sanchezes' sponsor when they sought U.S. citizenship in 1968, delaying his departure to the Republican Convention long enough to stand beside Manolo and Fina as they received their naturalization papers. The move from refugees to White House residents has a storybook quality to the Sanchezes. Says Fina: "Every night we thank God for what we have. It's like you live in a history book." And Manolo: "It's the palace of the United States. How many other immigrants have had our chance...
...sharp televised debate with a vice president of New Japan Steel on the subject of corporate spending to control pollution. He declared that one slum district ought to be cleared as a ''pollution-intense" area and encouraged the Japanese to speak up more for consumer protection. "Citizenship in almost every country," he told his hosts, "is as primitive as physics was in the days of Archimedes...
Instead, he arrogantly moved to Ireland and renounced his citizenship, hoping to leave his critics far behind him. Unfortunately, the critics now feel free to attack whenever possible. When receiving The Bible, most of the big-time New York critics waxed nostalgic for the DeMille days of yore. (Gary Arnold, in the now defunct Diplomat, recognized the great irony: Huston and DeMille were the legitimate and bastard heirs to Griffith's narrative film style. Huston translated it into lean, expressive prose, DeMille into doggerel,) Such creditable films as Reflections in a Golden Eve or A Walk with Love and Death...
After returning to Berlin as a press attache in the Norwegian mission, Brandt was persuaded by fellow Social Democrats to apply for reinstatement of his German citizenship, which had been lifted by the Nazis. Brandt, who is thin-sk'inned and sensitive, has often been called a "traitor" in West Germany for fleeing during the Nazi years. He argues that his background has helped Germany come to terms with itself. In the foreword of a forthcoming British edition of his early writings, Brandt declares: "I did not regard my fate as an exile as a blot on my copybook...