Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africa, the 17-year-old runner will represent Great Britain, her grandfather's birthplace. The objections raised this spring when Budd relinquished her South African affiliation have faded, edged out of the spotlight by larger considerations. The International Olympic Committee has ruled that Budd's hastily-acquired British citizenship satisfies its requirements, and in the shadow of the Soviet-bloc boycott of the Games, interest in Budd's bid for Olympic gold has focused on today's showdown with American Track star Mary Decker, and on whether or not Budd will run barefoot today and in tomorrow...
...this competition and others like it make abundantly clear, opportunity is all a good athletic really needs. Thousands of potentially brilliant Black athletes are denied this opportunity in South Africa because of their race: hundreds of whites are denied the chance to showcase their talents because of their citizenship. Maree and Budd have shown their countrymen alternatives that could even be taken a step further. If Black and white South Africans can compete at the same Games, perhaps they could also be on the same team, a squad composed of South Africans who would rather pursue their sports...
...offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going to make an issue of throwing out the Arabs," he said. "We will drive this country crazy. We will make this country Jewish again...
...Kahane may be subject to a U.S. law that strips citizenship from Americans who hold office in foreign governments. Revocation is not automatic; the State Department must determine whether the person acted with the intent of giving up his citizenship...
...raised money, collected signatures-often braving scorn and even physical threats-because they believed that abolition implied equal rights for all, Black and White, men and women. But when the Civil War was fought and won, they were appalled to learn that the newly drafted 14th Amendment guaranteed full citizenship to Blacks but only to "male inhabitants...