Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year about 175,000 East Germans--more than1 percent of the population--have moved to WestGermany by emigrating legally, escaping or failingto return from approved trips abroad. West Germanygives them automatic citizenship and help instarting over...
East Germany has agreed to allow East Germans at the embassy and at the West German Embassy in Warsaw to renounce their citizenship and go to West Germany, which automatically gives them a new passport and assistance in starting a new life...
Time was when what used to be called juvenile delinquents were offered a $ stark choice: join the service or go to jail. A dose of military discipline was supposed to make a man out of a boy and set him on the path to respectable citizenship. But the all-volunteer armed forces eliminated that option for what are now called youthful offenders. In a growing number of states, however, the purported benefits of paramilitary discipline are being showered on young criminals through programs known as "shock incarceration...
...eyed children, who must have thought they had awakened in the midst of a carnival. "I came for her," said a young father, hoisting his daughter into his arms. "She deserves more than a life in East Germany." The first signs were promising. Because Bonn acknowledges only one German citizenship, the refugees were automatically recognized as citizens and as such were showered with gifts and benefits. Mountains of donated clothes piled up at the reception camps, and the refugees received a minimum of $125 to cover immediate expenses. As citizens, the refugees were also entitled to unemployment payments...
West Germany, which offers East Germans automatic citizenship and help getting settled, has set up refugee camps in Bavaria...