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...courtroom in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., listening to a string of witnesses swear that during World War II he had whipped and shot Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. The former guard was not on trial for war crimes, but for concealing his Treblinka experience when applying for citizenship. If the Government won, he probably would end up on a plane back to Europe...
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...
...cent of the land to 80 per cent of the population and that the land is that which Europeans do not want--the poorest in mineral wealth and agricultural productivity. Moreover, opponents argue, even Africans who have never lived in those areas will lose all rights of citizenship in the Republic of South Africa and will be forced to return to the bantustans when they cannot find work in white South Africa...
...there are bright streaks of dawn; "it is refreshing to see this program, to see Minuteman Tech providing more air force support than any other school in the metropolitan Boston area," he says. "You are taking part in a great citizenship program," he adds. To commemorate the patriotic tendencies of the youth assembled behind him, Ullrich awards Minuteman Tech principal Ron Fitzgerald a flag that was flown not only over the Capitol, but also over a southwestern Air Force Base, where it was in the "honored position" while a flyby of T-38s passed over...