Word: citizenships
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EXECUTION REVEALED. Of Fedor Fedorenko, 79, who in 1984 became the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the U.S. to the Soviet Union; in Simferopol, Soviet Crimea. Fedorenko was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for failing to report his service as a Treblinka concentration-camp guard. In June 1986 the Soviets convicted him of participating in the murder of 800,000 inmates...
...been a "long era of unilateral decision making by Euro-American 'experts' on the needs of Indian people." The Indians, whose civilization was based on consensual democracy, were pushed toward the contentiousness of majority rule, without most of the rights that go with it. In 1924 Congress granted citizenship and the vote to all Indians. But it was not until 1968 that Congress extended guarantees of free speech and due process to Indians on reservations, ensuring that tribal custom did not preclude constitutional rights. The Reagan Administration has been dealing with the tribes on a government-to-gover nment basis...
...agriculture for at least 90 days in each of the past three years, or in just one year if they harvested perishable crops. Workers are staying away right now because they fear getting caught without the permit, thus jeopardizing their chances for permanent residence and eventual U.S. citizenship. Many Mexicans are still struggling with their applications for permits, which in many cases must be filed through the U.S. embassy in Mexico City...
...Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, for claiming that Waldheim had been "part and parcel" of the Nazi machine. Still awaiting final review of his case, although he was given the death penalty in absentia, is Karl Linnas, 67, the first naturalized American to be stripped of his citizenship and turned over to Soviet authorities for Nazi crimes. More will doubtless follow. The cases of nearly 30 other U.S. immigrants suspected of having lied about their wartime activities are pending at the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations...
...worked in the U.S. since 1981 to apply for status as permanent residents. In theory it will make it possible for as many as half of the nation's estimated 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants to emerge from their shadowy half-lives into the sunlight of citizenship...