Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of Feodor Fedorenko [Oct. 27], the Ukrainian-born immigrant now accused of being a Nazi criminal: I cannot comprehend why the Justice Department is seeking the revocation of his citizenship when more than 78,000 Cubans have immigrated to America and we have become responsible for their welfare...
...proper note of ambiguity. "I don't like myself in that role," he insisted, though he has already rehearsed it in The Candidate (1972). But he did add, "I have a right to speak out on the issues. Being an actor isn't synonymous with giving up citizenship papers." Beatty too is already sounding like a politician. His response to queries about a possible candidacy: "No comment...
...Cambridge's Rindge and Latin School, a block from the Yard on Broadway, newly arrived immigrants attend classes every night so they can learn to speak English. Once they've got the language down, they take citizenship class, learn the Pledge of Allegiance, study the American system of government. If 2 1/2 goes through, the schools will close at 2:30 in the afternoon and there won't be any more programs for adults, not even the immigrants. Which might be all right. You'd have to think twice about immigrating to a country that did something like that...
Last week Fedorenko's case was before the Supreme Court, and the outcome will determine much more than where an aging widower lives out his final years. The law says that citizenship can be revoked if the immigrant concealed a "material fact" when he applied for it. This provision has become the linchpin of the Justice Department's three-year effort to deport suspected war criminals believed to be in this country...
...Government maintains that a fact is material if its revelation would have triggered an inquiry that "might" have turned up facts barring citizenship-participation in atrocities, for example. That is not enough, insists Fedorenko's lawyer, Brian Gildea of New Haven, Conn. The Government has to show that such an investigation definitely "would" have led to the discovery of damning facts. Says Allan Ryan, head of the Justice Department's special unit for tracking down former war criminals: "That's no different from saying we have to prove the atrocities from scratch right in the courtroom...