Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turks were kept in their place as second-rate citizens. If a Turkish Cypriot wanted to travel abroad, he had a hard time getting a passport from the Makarios administration, unless he wanted to emigrate to Australia. Then they were delighted to give him a passport and pay for his fare-one way. Turkish Cypriot farmers received less for their produce than Greek Cypriots. There are hundreds of other examples of discrimination. The only solution is to give Turkish Cypriots a fair share of the island. But here in Geneva Mavros and Clerides did not move an inch on this...
...plain-spoken former grease monkey and TWA flight engineer from Bridgeport, Conn., Schwimmer can barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's Connecticut Yankee has survived, however, and not just because Dayan has been replaced by Shimon Peres, a Schwimmer champion for years. Pressed by mounting criticism and Dayan's maneuvering, Schwimmer decided just before the October war to reveal I.A.I.'s balance sheet for the first time-and the figures...
...Peru I bought 2 kilos [4.4 Ibs.] of coke [cocaine] for $10,000. Four hours later I was on a flight to Mexico City. After landing, I breezed through passport control. The customs officer cleared my first bag without giving me any trouble, and I thought I was free-on my way home to the U.S. Then he drew out a measuring stick and found that the inside of my second suitcase didn't correspond with the outside. I was invited to a little room where they ripped out the bottom of the suitcases and discovered my haul...
...hotels had been reserved far in advance, so that I had little choice but to join the crowd sleeping in the park located next to the bullring. I unrolled my sleeping bag and arranged my sweater into a makeshift pillow. I took off my pants, which contained my wallet, passport, traveller's checks, and train pass, and put them into my knapsack, which I placed a half-foot from my head. The wine had made my head heavy, and I was out like a light. Around 4:30 a.m. I awoke with a start and, after, shaking my head...
...writing style, but more importantly, in the questions it chooses to ask and the way it chooses to remain within the intellectual context of the fifties. Was Owen Lattimore the number-one Soviet espionage agent in America? Did Hiss maneuver the Yalta sell-out? Did the denial of a passport to W.E.B. DuBois uphold the principles or security of this nation? No. Granted. But...so what...