Word: stateless
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...passengers. The men wore business suits; the women were dressed in slacks or saris. Most of them spoke fluent English. But they were very special travelers: 82 Asians who had been peremptorily ordered out of Uganda by Strongman Idi Amin Dada, even though they were all citizens. Suddenly made stateless, they constituted the first wave of a group of 1,000 refugees that the U.S. has agreed to accept...
...refugees originally expected, will immigrate to Britain. Even so, there will probably be another 5,000 Asians left behind, and they are the unluckiest of all. They earlier rejected British passports in favor of Ugandan citizenship, which has been arbitrarily revoked by Amin. They are now stateless. Britain has declined to consider restoring them to citizenship, and has referred their case to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. But there is growing concern whether any international body can act swiftly enough to save them from being further victimized...
...Christopher Laird, the son of an American journalist in Paris, will be stateless in five years unless he returns to the U.S. Reason: his British mother's government does not grant citizenship to the children of British mothers and foreign husbands. The French will not easily grant him citizenship. The boy was born in Switzerland, not France. And the Swiss do not recognize territorial birth...
Died. S.Y. Agnon, 81, Israel's most honored author and only Nobel laureate; of a heart attack; in Rehovot, Israel. Born in Galicia, victim and observer of half a century of stateless limbo in Europe, Agnon wrote with the wisdom of experience in his touching chronicles of the contemporary Wandering Jew-the nameless exile returned to the European town of his youth in A Guest for the Night; Kafkaesque fables of Jews transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...black majority. But it is also worsening the lot of the area's most significant nonwhite minority-the Asians of East Africa. Thousands of Indian, Pakistani and Goanese immigrants, who for many decades dominated commerce and small trade in Kenya and Uganda, could become in effect, stateless persons...