41.   Many of those returning to Asia, in fact, retain their American citizenship or their green cards as a way of keeping their global options open.

42.   Mexican officials argue that the rise in applications for American citizenship is chiefly the result of anti-foreigner feeling in the United States.

43.   Moreover, it said, American citizenship is irrelevant.

44.   Ms. Edwards was also born in Russia and acquired American citizenship by marriage, an American official said.

45.   Ms. Said is not the only person targeted for deportation by the INS despite strong claims to American citizenship.

46.   NBA star Dikembe Mutombo, a native of Zaire, says he will never apply for American citizenship.

47.   Now he can fly home and, because he has renounced American citizenship, his fortune would seem to be immune from American taxes.

48.   One Hispanic fugitive pauses long enough to deliver a fervent, misty-eyed speech about his dream of attaining American citizenship.

49.   Reared in Ramallah on the West Bank, he married a neighbor with American citizenship and followed her family to Louisiana.

50.   Recently my French-born son-in-law, Hubert Laisney, accompanied by our daughter Julie, went to Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn for his swearing-in ceremony for American citizenship.