Word: citizenships
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When Americans travel abroad, they take with them a cherished link with their homeland: their passport. Soon, however, even that symbol of citizenship will not be all-American. The Government Printing Office disclosed last week that when it sought bids for a new machine to produce passports, only two firms responded. One was Japanese, the other West German. The winner: Uno Seisakusho Co. Ltd., whose $1 million machine will begin churning out up to 4,200 passports an hour in Washington this week. Yoi goryoko o. Or, as an American might say, "Have a nice trip...
...accounts and recovered camp documents. In 1962 a Soviet court tried Linnas in absentia as a war criminal and sentenced him to death. But by that time he was living in Greenlawn, N.Y., having become a citizen in 1960, nine years after entering the U.S. In 1981, however, his citizenship was revoked after a court determined that he had lied about his wartime activities to immigration officials. The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether to block his deportation temporarily. If it refuses to do so, Linnas, 67, will probably soon be on a plane to the U.S.S.R. There...
...Cooperation in such cases between the U.S. and the Soviet Union began in the early 1970s. In 1979 the Justice Department established a Nazi-hunting branch, the Office of Special Investigations; since then 23 naturalized Americans have been stripped of their citizenship and 13 removed from the U.S. Some 600 more cases are under investigation. Soviet-supplied evidence, including video-taped eyewitness testimony and wartime documents seized by advancing Soviet forces, has played some part in a majority of the cases that have come to court in the U.S., including that of John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker from Cleveland...
...Japanese still look down on resident foreigners. The 700,000 Koreans who constitute Japan's largest alien enclave must overcome legal barriers to obtain citizenship, although many of them were born and bred in Japan during the early part of the century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. The 5,000 Indochinese refugees taken in by Japan after the Viet Nam War find assimilation all but impossible. "Japanese heartily welcome foreigners on short visits," explains Masahiro Tsubouchi of the Tokyo immigration office. "They just don't want them to stay forever...
...Parma, Ohio, and became a U.S. citizen. He raised a family and worked as an engine mechanic at the Ford plant in Cleveland. In 1981, after the Soviets produced an old ID card in response to a Justice Department query about Demjanjuk's war record, the U.S. revoked his citizenship. Last year it allowed him to be extradited to Israel to face trial on murder charges...