The Nation - News from Aug. 17, 1988

A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington declined to revive writer Margaret Randall’s legal challenge of the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s refusal, on the ground that her writings espoused world communism, to give her permanent resident status. The opinion by Judge Ruth B. Ginsburg upheld last year’s decision by U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn that Randall, who has fought deportation under the political beliefs section of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, must follow administrative procedures to challenge INS actions. Randall, 51, an American-born writer who lives in Albuquerque, renounced her citizenship in the 1960s after she had moved to Mexico. She returned to the United States in 1984 to marry an American and teach.