Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Svetlana certainly needed friends. When she left her husband, she took with her a new daughter, Olga Margedant Peters, born May 21, 1971. Svetlana, who would be granted U.S. citizenship only in 1978, felt alone in a strange country and seemed particularly vulnerable to the stresses of late motherhood. Having gained custody of Olga by the terms of her 1973 divorce from Peters, she refused to allow the child to visit her father at Taliesin West. Thus thwarted, the busy architect rarely went to see Olga and, though he corresponded with her, remained a more remote figure than Olga...
...August she was told that he had fallen seriously ill and was in a Moscow hospital. She later said that this news was the turning point. On Sept. 10, 1984, she went to the Soviet embassy in London and asked to return. Apparently the authorities promised that Soviet citizenship would be restored to her and granted to Olga, as was later done...
...evacuate the Oslo hall for 65 minutes after police received a bomb threat. No explosives were found. At the traditional Nobel laureate's lecture the next day, Tutu lashed out at his government's racial policies, noting that "blacks are systematically stripped of their South African citizenship and are being turned into aliens in the land of their birth." Said he: "This is apartheid's final solution, like the solution the Nazis had for the Jews in Hitler's Aryan madness...
...pursued, with diminishing zeal, a Ph.D. in philosophy. He settled in London and worked in a bank to support himself and his English wife. When he found time and inspiration, he wrote poems, including The Waste Land (1922), that helped shape the 20th century imagination. He took up British citizenship and abandoned the Unitarianism of his parents to become a convert to the Anglican Church. He spent the last four decades of his life more or less in the public eye, a polite, carefully tailored lecturer ministering to the declining health of Western culture. His plays, including Murder...
...News Anchor Dan Rather, the presidential election was officially over at 8 p.m. E.S.T. when little more than 1% of the votes had been tallied. At ABC, which had vowed in advance to practice "good citizenship" and restraint, Peter Jennings announced a Reagan victory 13 minutes after Rather. NBC, which transformed the rules of political reporting four years ago by proclaiming Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter while much of the country was still voting, responded to critics by delaying Tom Brokaw's victory decree until 8:30 p.m. At that hour, voting remained in progress...