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Viet Nam was like a complicated and painful death in the American family. The war and all the vividly theatrical, surrounding violence of the '60s profoundly damaged the nation's spirit, its faith in itself, its authorities, its institutions. Citizens no longer knew what their citizenship meant; men no longer knew what their manhood demanded. The war cost more than Americans could immediately pay. It put the nation into a kind of mourning; perhaps Americans will not be rid of the experience until they have passed through the customary stages of grief: denial, anger, depression and, ultimately, acceptance...
...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...
...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...
Africa's land area. Though administered by autonomous governments, most depend for subsistence on primitive agriculture and handouts from Pretoria. Even within Nationalist circles, the homelands concept is criticized as unworkable. But during the past 20 years, some 3 million blacks have been stripped of their South African citizenship, uprooted by the government and trucked off to these remote and hardscrabble locations...
...survey published last year, the pendulum has swung repeatedly between academic and religious values in U.S. schools. If, as ex-Principal Barton suggests, fundamentalist schools lean too far toward indoctrination and authoritarianism, public school educators are increasingly willing to concede they have been neglecting traditional values of character and citizenship in the classroom...