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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese blood or more) were forcibly relocated from the West Coast to inland internment camps in desolate areas of Wyoming, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. Most were American citizens. One-third were resident aliens born in Japan and therefore, under the law of the time, ineligible for citizenship. No act of espionage or sabotage was attributed to a Japanese American during World War II. They were summarily imprisoned and their constitutional rights suspended solely because of their race. One thousand Aleut Indians were also interned, simply because of their "proximity to a war zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Shame | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...still another concession to the Agudat Israel, the coalition promised to amend the country's famous Law of Return, which specifies that any Jew is automatically eligible for Israeli citizenship. If the Agudat Israel has its way, the law would apply only to Jews who have been converted according to Orthodox law. Although few people would be affected, the change amounts to an attack on the validity of Reform and Conservative Judaism. As such, it would inevitably antagonize many Jews in the U.S. and elsewhere. Said Rabbi David Leiber, president of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Saved by the Moral Minority | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...lost my Jewish parents in Treblinka and endured twelve years of Israeli citizenship, including combat in three wars. Nevertheless, I emigrated from Israel in disgust with Begin's settlement policy on the West Bank. The raid on the Iraqi reactor was pure electioneering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...State for Northern Ireland, last week created an advisory council composed of 50 Protestants and Roman Catholics to help him govern Ulster. That plan was criticized by Protestants fearful of a "sellout," but former British Labor Prime Minister James Callahan went further. He called for a separate parliament and citizenship for Ulster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: New Coalition | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...Europe, married him in Canada in 1958 and later moved with him to the U.S., where she became a citizen and a resident of Queens, N.Y. She was discovered in Canada in 1964 by Simon Wiesenthal, a tireless tracker of Nazi fugitives. In 1971 she was stripped of U.S. citizenship on grounds of concealing her war crimes. In 1973 she was deported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Last Trial? | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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