Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bicentennial issue, which he edited. "Defining the changing role and the ultimate power of the Congress is just as important today as it was 200 years ago," says Friedrich. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott analyzed American foreign policy and defense, and Senior Writer Lance Morrow wrote about the duties of citizenship. Morrow is obviously serious-if somewhat literal minded-about American Renewal. He and his wife Brooke are expecting their second child on the Fourth of July...
...Kielce and Czestochowa while serving as a Gestapo agent from 1939 to 1943. Though Walus, a Polish emigré, insisted that he spent those years on labor farms in Germany, Federal Judge Julius Hoffman, 85 (who presided at the Chicago Seven trial in 1969), ruled that he had won citizenship by hiding his Nazi past. Facing deportation, Walus, 58, hired a new attorney who found documents showing that the Gestapo had a 5-ft. 7-in. height minimum (Walus is 5 ft. 4 in.) and did not accept Poles. An appeals court overruled Hoffman, and the Government has dropped...
...immigrants say they came to the United States because they already had family living here. Yaacob Liebel, who met and married his wife seven years ago while she was visiting Israel, came to the United States three years later. He seems unconcerned about naturalization, saying he seeks citizenship only "because I live here. In a sense it's not different. But it's different with my wife and kids...
Although many immigrants have mixed feelings about dropping citizenship from their homelands, Joseph Sernvski, an electrician, has no regrets at all. He refuses even to name his native land. "No country. I have no country," he says. He, too, knew no English when he arrived here eight years ago; he has learned it since, mostly from watching television. He glows about his naturalization: "It has given me freedom, opportunity to travel. it has given me a country...
Officially the granting of citizenship occurs with the judge's acceptance of the petition. The more than 300 immigrants wade through the registration tables, and wait for the judge's arrival. She enters, accompanied through the aisles by a retinue of assistants and clerks. The motions for naturalization are cried out by the naturalization attorneys, and she delivers a short speech. The new citizens take the oath of allegiance...