Word: citizenships
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Taxes are, after all, not a choice but a necessity, both the essential duty of citizenship and the lifeblood of the community. Granted that a large share of the taxpayer's tattered dollar goes to pay for myriad blessings that he does not think...
...that it would ameliorate the disastrous youth unemployment problem, improve the quality and equality of the armed forces by bringing a broader range of teenagers from more affluent and better educated backgrounds into the services, and extract some sort of in-kind payment for accruing the advantages of U.S. citizenship...
DIED. Valery Tarsis, 76, dissident Soviet novelist who was deprived of his U.S.S.R. citizenship in 1966 during a lecture tour of Britain, becoming the first in a modern line of enforced exiles; after a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland. Once a writer and editor in good official standing, Tarsis grew disillusioned with Communism in the 1950s. The publication abroad of his scathing 1962 novel The Bluebottle earned him an eight-month stay in a Soviet mental hospital, an experience he described in his autobiographical novel Ward 7: "All around him were faces exposed by sleep or distorted by nightmares...
...adamant that those who had arrived between 1961 and 1971 be either denied the right to vote or forced to leave, an enormous exercise that could involve 3 million people. Prime Minister Gandhi was equally adamant that all immigrants who arrived before 1971 and had proof of their Indian citizenship had every legal right to live, work and vote in Assam. As she told Parliament, "I asked the students, 'Where are we going to send these people? Where in India? To what country outside India?' " Hopelessly deadlocked, the talks, which were being held in New Delhi, broke down...
...Critics of Islam as an ideology of government say it is intolerant and will reduce non-Muslims to second-class citizenship...