Word: deportation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frustrating years, District Director Bruce Barber, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's chief in San Francisco, had been waiting for a chance to deport sometime Communist Heikkila to Finland. Under the law, he seemed to be clearly deportable. His Finnish parents had brought him to the U.S. when he was three months old, but he had never become a U.S. citizen. And by his own admission, he was an active Communist Party member...
Heikkila has faced a deportation order for over a year, due to admitted Communist Party membership in this country from 1929 to 1939. For months he forestalled execution of the order via a series of court maneuvers. Last week Lieut. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, Commissioner of Immigration, took advantage of an interim between sessions to arrest and deport Heikkila--without notifying the Finn's wife or his lawyer, and in defiance of a federal court order...
...Smith's ruling, Nkrumah's tough-talking Interior Minister Krobo Edusei had promised new legislation "to deal with traitors in this country," empowering the regime to declare a state of emergency in any area and arrest, deport or bar from the area anyone the government chooses...
...that he was asked to practice democracy instead of demanding it, Nkrumah seemed a little less in favor of it. Faced with opposition to his rule from back-country Ashanti tribesmen, Nkrumah tried to deport two of their leaders even though they were Ghana citizens. Challenged in court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen...
...humiliating defeat at the hands of the pro-Western forces of President Camille Chamoun and his Prime Minister Sami Solh (see below). The day had passed when word from Cairo could bring mobs into the streets of Beirut and make governments quail. Instead. Lebanon felt confident enough to brusquely deport the bureau chief of Nasser's propaganda apparatus, Middle East News...