Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dilemma by competing for other countries. Olympic Hopeful Sydney Maree, for instance, will become a U.S. citizen next week; the Villanova track star married an American 3½ years ago. Budd took a different course. Her father Frank is the grandson of an Englishman, entitling her to British citizenship. As part of a secret deal struck by Frank Budd, Labuschagne and London's Daily Mail, the family was flown to England last month. For a reported $300,000 trust fund and living expenses, the Mail has exclusive rights to Zola's story. "British blood runs in her veins...
Many debate the point. Noting that Budd got her citizenship papers in a matter of weeks while others have been waiting up to two years, the Times of London observed primly that in England "queue jumping is frowned upon." There are other critics. After setting a British junior record against an undistinguished field last week, Budd was pressured to withdraw from a tune-up race last Saturday in Sussex because officials said they feared antiapartheid demonstrators. Jane Furniss, England's No. 2 middle-distance runner, says of her new competitor: "When our flag goes up and they play...
...argument that the principle of confidentiality must be maintained lest people refuse to reveal sensitive facts and opinions. I pointed out that the FBI was not interested in "facts and opinions in general, nor facts and opinions about Good and Evil in Western Literature, Change and Continuity in History, Citizenship and Its Obligations in Classical Antiquity," but facts and opinions about the political beliefs of particular people, "exactly the kinds of beliefs and opinions which you warned against taking into account in the making of academic appointments." President Bok's position would make it impossible to examine the Harvard documents...
...does the majority. And the main concession the majority makes is never to use its power at the expense of individual humanity. How can one conduct prayers in a public institution without interfering with the sacrosanct relationship of a person with himself? People in a democracy hold dual citizenship; they are citizens of their country and citizens of their souls. When the state starts imposing on the soul, democracy is in trouble...
...logic is a bit tortuous. It finds that pornography promotes bigotry and fosters acts of aggression against women, both of which, in turn, "harm women's opportunities for equality of rights in employment, education, property rights,...contribute significantly to restricting women from full exercise of citizenship . . . and undermine women's equal exercise of rights to speech and action...