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ISSN: 0030-8579 I Whole No. 2,361 I Vol. 101 No.16 941 E. 3rd St. #200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, October 18,1985 HR 442 gets 1st Calif. GOP backer

WASIllNGTON-Among six new California Republicans to join co-sponsors ofHouse redress bill the redress effort HR 442 is Rep. Charles ''Chip'' In a letter to Matsui, Pashayan Pashayan, who on Oct 4 became said he reached his decision "af• the first Republican representa• ter giving a great deal of thought tive from California to support over a considerable time." such legislation. He represents ''What the Roosevelt Adminis• the 17th district, which includes tration did to Japanese Ameri• King and Tulare counties and cans in WW2 would, if done to.• parts ofKern County and Fresno. day, most likely be held uncon• ''Chip Pashayan," said Rep. stitutional by the Supreme Court Nonnan Mineta (D-Calif), "has While it is true that the nation joined the growing list of mem• was at war, it was an unfair and Photo by J.K. Yamamoto A volunteer takes a blood pressure reading during the 14th annual Uttte bers of Congress who understand a wrong policy to single out a Tokyo Health Fair, held Oct. 5 at Union Church in Los Angeles. Other the injustice of the internment whole group of people ... That is Rep. Charles Pashayan (R-Calif.) and who have now pledged pu1:r a policy of discrimination, which services offered to local seniors included electrocardiogram, vision, dental Relations, where the bill has and foot checks, and seminars on diabetes, cancer and hypertension. licly to support fonnal govern• has no place in America I now mentrecognition ofthat injustice." feel that it is Congress that been since it was introduced in ''It takes courage and commit• should act to remedy the wrong." January. 'Slant eyes' remark causes stir in Iowa ment to be first," said Rep. Rolr Other co-sponsors, listed with - Rep. Lane Evans (D) of the ert Matsui (D-Calif.). ''By co-spon• the dates they signed on, are: 17th district of illinois, which in• soring redress, Chip Pashayan has cludes Rock Island, Moline, Gales• DES MOINES, Iowa-State Agri• the tenn "slant eyes," but only -Rep. Frederick Boucher (D) shown that he is a leader among burg, and some suburbs of P~ culture Secretary Robert Louns• after committee member B.J. of the 9th district of Virginia, his peers and a legislator ofgreat ria, on Oct 4. berry apologized Oct 3 for having O'Dowd did so. (O'Dowd denied which includes the Appalachian principle." ~Rep. Raymond McGrath (R) referred to the Japanese as "slant thi saying he only remembered area in the southwest part of the Pashayan's co-sponsorshIp is state, on Oct 9. He is on the Judi• of the 5th district of New York, eyes," a slur he had initially de• saying ''Nipponese.'') which includes the part of Long niedmaking. ''It did strike a sensitive chord seen as a major development be• ciary Subcommittee on Adminis• cause it may encourage other trative Law and Governmental Island closest to New York City, The McCallsburg Republican when he [O'Dowd] said we should on Sept~ . made the comment Sept 30 dur• take note of our slant-eyed - Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) of the ing a meeting of the Iowa Dept friends," said Lounsberry. ''I said 5th district of Maryland, which of Agriculture's newly fonned I, too, had a problem of overcom• Councilmen ousted after party switch includes most of King George's Blue Ribbon Committee, a citi• ing distrust because of my exper• County., on Sept ~ . zens' advisory panel on market• ience in WW2." He stressed that HONOLULU-City Councilwom• involves honor and honesty . . . I - Rep. Tommy Robinson (D) of ing Reacting to an earlier discus• he has since participated in an Patsy Mink and Sen Daniel would not have solicited your the 2nd district of Arkansas, sion oftrade with Japan and other trade missions to Japan and Inouye emerged as big winners support [for Akahane] if I knew which includes Little Rock, on Asian nations, he said, 'Talking helped set up a Japanese display in the Oct 5 special city council that he would be changing his July 31 about the slant eyes, I still don't at the Iowa State Fair during his recall elections, which saw city party in the middle of his term" Mineta said the fact that both trust them . .. But I still try to 17 years in office. councilmen George Akahane, Ru• In the last weeks of the cam• Republicans and Democrats have work with them" He declined to apologize, say• dy Pacarro and Toraki Matsu• paign, Inouye appeared on tele• recently become co-sponsors ''il• He explained that he had been ing, "If I had something to apolo• moto recalled from office. vision calling for the recall ofthe lustrates the broad range of sup• shot at by the Japanese as a com• gize for, I would ... but I do not The three councilmen, elected the three. port for redress." bat pilot during WW2, but that think what I said deserves an ppol• as Democrats, switched parties Gov. George Ariyoshi and other 'The momentum for redress is much progress has been made ogy because it wasn't derogatory." June 6, enabling Republicans to Democratic leaders joined the building," added Matsui 'The since then in developing U.S.• After meeting privately with gain control of the City Council campaign as they sensM an issue latest additions represent a sig• Japan trade relations. Japan is Gov. Terry Branstad, a fellow Re• and to oust Mink as council chair. which could unite the oft~vided nificant breakthrough." Iowa's number one trading part• publican, to discuss the incident, The new majority reorganized Hawaii Democratic Party. ner, having imported $733.5 mil• Lounsberry said he didn't recall the council and elected Akahane In the fmal week of the cam• lion worth of agricultural prod• making the remark Later that chainnan. . paign, the Republicans countered cited as a reason for the success• ucts last year. day, however, he issued a state• Mink, who was out of town with President Ronald Reagan ful recall ''We always felt the On Oct 2, Lounsberry said, ''1 ment apologizing for the remark when the switch was announced, urging voters, via televised ads, lower turnout would be benefi• may be prejudiced, but it makes he "allegedly made." quickly returned and immedi• to vote "no" on the recall 'The cial for us because we are in an impression on you ifyou have He said that he has "no ani• ately called for the recall ofAka• right to switch parties for princi• enemy territory," Republican gone through that [WW21" But he mosity towards the Japanese and hane, Pacarro and Matsumoto, ple is as American as the Stars ParW Chair Patricia Saiki said added, ''I didn't mean to make any I apologize for any embarrass• charging that they had violated and Stripes. I've done it myself," ''When you have an area esta~ slurring remarks ... I didn't refer ment my remarks may have the public trust by switching in said the President lished as leaning to one side, a to those people as slant eyes." caused them or my fellow mid-term But in the end, the traditional higher turnout will always ben• Others who were present re• Iowans." The switch in parties by the Democratic muscle carried the efit the dominant party." membered differently, however. He explained his comment by three was linked to the national day, and.in doing so, probably It is unclear what the election Varel Bailey, board chair and reiterating his initial apprehen• Republican "Operation Open put a temporary hold on future results mean for the council past president of National Corn sion ofthe Japanese. ''I think any• Door" program to bring Demo• "defections." Council Vice-chair Tony Nar• Growers Assn., said, ''1 very much one who lived through the Sec- crats into the party, and what had Matsumoto, considered the least vaes, a Republican, said follow• recall that comment Embar• . ond World War ... will share my been a local issue soon took on controversial of the three until ing the election, ''I now consider rassed very much describes my feelings, especially if they were a much larger significance. hit with a $5 million sexual harass• myself acting chainnan" with the feelings at the time. I look at it shot at or had loved ones die in Inouye, the Senate's third• ment suit early in the recall cam• departure of Akahane. as an unfortunate incident" battle. However, WW2 is long ranking Democrat, joined the re• paign, was recalled by a 5347 % Fonner chair Mink said she R W. Fischer, president of Soy• over and the Japanese have be• call effort in late June, producing vote. foresees no attempt by Demo• pro International Inc., who also come our friends." and paying for radio spots in Akahane was recalled by a 64- crats to take over the council re• recalled the statement, said that Branstad's press secretary, which he criticized Akahane for 36 % vote, while Pacarro, thought organization until the three va• Lounsbeny's intent was ''to make Susan Neely, said that the gover• deceiving the voters. ''I don't ques• to have the best chance to re• cancies are filled it off the record. It was not ger• nor feels ''Bob meant well, even tion George's right to change main in office, lost by a mere 81 Welcome Fawcett, Democrat• mane to the substance of the if his choice of words was political parties," he told his votes. ic councilwoman, added that al• meeting. That was an aside." poor ... he wasn't meaning to radio audience. 'This recall cam• A record voter turnout for a though the Democrats are now On Oct 3, Lounsberry reversed cast aspersions." paign has nothing to do with his special election (62.5%) in tradi• in the majority (4 to 2), it is not a himself and said that he did use -from reports by Cedar Rapids Gazette right to become a Republican. It tionally Democratic districts was CnntImwdaa NeG" 2-PACIFIC CITIZEN / Friday, October 18, 1985

I - I~ ------I - Govemors favor Native IN I ci IZ L ELE 1- 5:30 p.m Speaking on the th me of "Vi• Reservations and take-out orders: Hawaiian inclusion I ebrat 'its 33rd ion and Faith" will be fonner execu• (916) 743-6426. in federal programs how f, aturing lassical dance by tive sec taries Dr. Mas Toyotome, SAN FRANCISCO - Asian American F ujima Kan uma and Mit uhiro Ban• R v. Ray Narusawa, Rev. Roy Takaya, Theater Co. open its new season with HONOLULU-The Western Gov• do, fo lk ong b. latsuto 0 ato fi n• Rev. Howard T rlumi and Rev. Sam "State Without Grac ," Linda Kal~ ernors' Assn., meeting Aug. 28, o. and a karaok cont t No . 24 , 2 Ton mura. Mu ical numbers will be Faigao's contemporary, multi-genera• called on Congress to include Na• p.m ., at J pan merica Th ateI'. 244 P nted b th Quintet and the Four tional famBy drama t in the Phili~ . an Pedro t. Ti ket ' I 'lO a h I Guils, who a oung people performed pin . The ca t features Emilya Cacha• tive Hawaiians in all federal pro• a ila bl at Radi Li'l Tok 0 , 110 . at JEM Ml Hennon on[l ren s and pero, Sharon lwai and Jim Hirabayashi, grams for which other Native an Pedro t.. L. . 90012 . portion of local ChUl h Lnfo: (213) 613-00'12 directed by Dom MagwiJi. Thurs.-Sun, Americans are eligible. The reso• the pro eed' go toJapane Am rl- AKlAND, ali r. minority jour- thru Nov. 2A, at the People's Theater lution was introduced by Gov . an ultural ommunity nt r. nalism conference and job fair, pon• oalition, Bldg. B, Fort Mason Center. George Ariyoshi of Ha waii, chair• Info: latao wate.628-4688 red by th Arnel;can oci ty of Tick ts: $8.50-9.50. R ervations: (415) man of the association. Th 7th ann:i rsary f Japanese VLI• N " paper Editors, will be h ld N v. 77~ . lage Plaza will be cel brated Oct 19-20 Kazu a Shimaoka presents an eve• The association is made up of 7-9 at th downt \YO Hyatt R g ncy. 16 at the Plaza Lu-lu the clown, free bal• Editot from I ading California new ningofkoto m usi Oct. 27. L:30 p.m., in the governors of Western states, loons, and a fall fashion how at 2:30 papers will'be in attend an . There i the Green Room of the War Memorial American Samoa, Guam and the p.m. tboth days). with past queen and no ft for joumali m tudents. but par• a nd P rforming Arts enter , 401 Va n Northern Marianas Islands. princ of the Mi ansei Pageant tiCIpants must be at least a junior in N Ave. A teacher of koto at S.F. as models, are among the attra tions. State University. she will be assisted Following a unanimous vote to coli ge. For appl ications, contact coor• adopt the resolution, Ariyoshi Japanese United Infonnation Com• dinator WiUiam Wong of The Tribune, by other Bay Area artists. Tickets, $6 munity Exchange (JUICE) holds a P.O. Box 24304, akland, A 94623; (415) each, can be purchased a t Okabe said, " In Hawaii we have been try• meeting on "What a Service-provider ~Z?2.9 . Sports Shop in Bucha na n Mall or at ing to get the federal government, Needs to Know about AIDS" Oct 21, 1- the door. whenever they take any action ------_. 2:00 p.m , at Union Church (com er of MAR YSVlLLE, Calif.-Marysville The Asian Small Business Confer• that affects Native Americans, to 3rd St and San Pedro~ peakers fro m Buddhist Church, 125 B St., holds its ence, sponsored by the Governor's Of• be sure they include Native Ha• MINK fall teriyaki dinner Nov. 2. 5-8 p.m ., will County-US AIDS Clinic and AID fi ce of Community Relations, be waiians. Continued from Previous Page Project of LA will discuss the problem and Nov . 3, 5-7 p.m. Tickets, $10 each. held Oct~ , 9:00 am-2 p.m . at Holiday from a social seIVice viewpoint are a ailable at Clothes Horse. 11 53 Inn, 750 Kearny St Speakers include " It is a very significant resolu• voting majority since the City Japanese Evangelical Missionary So• Franklin Rd., Tok's Garage. 1331 Franklin Tom, commissioner, Dept of tion as far as the people of Hawaii Charter requires 5 votes (a clety(JEMS) holds its 35th anniversary Bogue Rd .• or Kawasaki Giftware. Corporations, and Marie Shibuya are concerned. I was also very majority of the 9 council seats) banquet at New Otani Hotel on Oct ai, Hillcrest P laza. all in Yuba City ; or nell, director. Dept of Consumer Af• pleased that the governors recog• to pass legislation Nakagawa Co .. 306 C St., Marysville. fairs. Info: Clayton Fong,(916)~I114. nized this ... A special election to fill the S. Korean gov't control , Someone asked .. .whether the vacant seats is expected in late of TV shows alleged rean-Ianguage how per week,' volvement, thereby violating fed• Eskimos, the native Alaskans, are November. has since 1983 received most of eral communications rules. included in the deflnition of Native City Managing Director D.G. its Korean-language news from Chan Yong Lee, Los Angeles American. I pointed out that they Anderson, who was given credit WASIDNGTON -Korean-lan• for engineering the party switch guage TV program broadcast in Korean Television Enterprise , director of Korean Cultural Ser• were am that in most instances, which is said in the complaint to vice, the information and cultur• Native Hawaiians are alsoconsid• deal, is Republican Mayor Frank Southel n California are controlled Fasi's choice for governor in next by the South Korean govern• be a subsidiary of the govern• al branch of the South Korean ered ...but not in all situations. ment-controlled Korean Broad• consulate, said there is ''no control "This resolution will clarify that year's gubernatorial race. Al• ment, according to a complaint though Anderson has not made filed Oct 9 with the Federal Com• casting System. by the government" Henry Paik and indicate that in every instance The group contends that the of Korean Television Enterprises . .. Native Hawaiians would be in• any commitment to run, he does munications Commission by the not want to see the party's oppor• Los Angeles-based Korean Amer• news programs exclude events also denied the charges. cluded in that defmition, and as a that do not portray the South Ko• Thomas Headly, president and result in all ofthe programs. " tunity to win the governor's seat ican Free Press Committee. slip away. rean government in a favorable general manager ofKSCI, said, ''1 A resolution similar to the one The complaint alleges that Mink, on the other hand, is de• KSCI-TV, an independent sta• light "The Korean community don't think we're in violation of adopted by the governors was ap• needs a free press and not a dic• anything" proved by the U.S. Conference of finitely interested in running for tion in San Bernardino that governor. broadcasts about 12 hours of Ko- tatorship-controlled media," said The Free Press Committee is Mayors at its meeting in Anchor• Shin-Born Lee of the Center for asking the ~ to review the sta• age, Alaska, in June. -lrom replns by Honolulu Developmental Policy, which is tion's license and is requesting a -from Ka Wai Ola 0 OUA Ad\'ertiser and Honolulu S&ar-BuIIetin N. Y man convicted affiliated with the Free Press Justice Dept investigation into Committee. whether KSCI is "knowingly relin• NEW CAR LOAN RATE of subway murder KSCI is accused in the com• quishing control to an agent ofthe plaint of knowingly concealing foreign government" NEW YORK-J'ohn Cardinale, a South Korean government in- ~~ a report by Los Angeles Times former Peace Corps volunteer 75~ who claimed that Asian demons were following him, was. found guilty Oct. 3 of the murder of Ly Yung Cheung, Associated Press reports. The state court jury convicted Cardinale, 40, of secon d~ egree murder for pushing Cheung, 19, a newlywed and expectant moth• er, in front of an oncoming sub• way train in February 1984. He reportedly shouted "We're even!" after the killing A former schoolteacher, Cardi• nale faces 25 years to life in prison Used car loans 13. 75 °~ APR when he is sentenced Oct 23. No prepayme nt penalty fee During the trial, defense attor• Free insurance on loans & savings ney Martin Geduldig dio not IRA accounts a va ilable deny that Cardinale had commit• ted the act, but said he was "a Now over $6.5 mllhon In assets very sick man" who could not be NATIONAL JACL Post OffIce Box 1721 held accountable for his actions. Sal t Lake CIty, Utah 841 10 Cardinale worked in Thailand CREDIT UNION Telephone (80 I) 355-8040 with the Peace Corps from Hn~ 74 and thought he was being pur• sued by Asian demons who wanted to rob him of his man• JOIN hood because he had gone out with Asian women, Geduldig 'The Nat'l JACL Credit Union said The jury rejected his insan• JUST FILL OUT AND MAIL ity defense. Asst District Attorney Kim Na me ______Hogrefe asserted that Cardinale Address ______------was conscious of what he was do• C ity/State/ZIp ______--'- ______ing and "acted with depraved in• difference and lack of concern PO Bmf 1721 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 Tel (80l) 355-8040 for human life." •••••••••••••••••••••• Friday, October 18, 1985 I PACIFIC CITlZEN-3

ing champion in the 1948 and Tamura scholarship USC alumni honored for achievements 1952 Olympics and now a physi• cian specializing in otolaryngol• fundraiser planned ogy. He was on the lOO4 LA Olym• IRVINE, Calif.-A kickoff fund• GELES-About 00) per• ter Advisory Board, and LA pic Advisory Committee and has on attended th frrst annual Area Chamber of Commerce. raiser for a memorial schQlar• been goodwill ambassador and ship in honor of the late Justice ward dumerl cholarship fund• -Toshikazu Terasawa, princi• physical fitness'sports advisor to rai r f US' Asian Pacifi pal of the architectural fum of Stephen K Tamura will be held presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, at the Grand Ballroom of the American SuppOlt Group (APASG) Oi.eary Terasawa, Takahashi & Ford, Carter and Reagan His hon• Oct 3 at the Hyatt Reg ncy. D h llis and an American in• Hotel Meridien, 4500 MacArthur ors include induction into Orange Blvd., on Nov. 23, with cocktails Tlu USC alwnni were honored stitute of Architects fellow. The County Sports Hall of Fame and for their achievements and com• fum has designed LA's new at 6 p.m and dinner at 7. USC School of Medicine's Out• Tamura, who died in April munit\1 service: wholesal Flower Market, the standing Alumnus Award. ~in Wong, USC board oftrust• branch offices of California First 1982, was born on a farm in what Posthumously honored was is now Fountain Valley in 1912. ees member and founder and Bank, and regional offices of To• Soichi Fukui, president of Fukui president of the architectural yota Motor Sales USA A graduate of Pomona College, Mortuary, who died in February UC Berkeley and Harvard, he fum Gin Wong Associates whose Terasawa is a board member 1981. He was active in Japanese past projects include the $'700 of LA Harbor Improvements was admitted to the California Mike Kusuda, Douglas Landrum, American Youth, Japanese Bar in 1m? and served in the million rede elopment of LA in• Corp., Goodwill Industries of So. Chamber of Commerce of So. Frank Kawase, Carrie Okamura, ternational Airport, the twin Calif Japanese American Com• 442nd Regimental Combat Team Richard Ochiai, Min Inadomi, Calif, Japanese American 0p• duringWW2. Watt Plaza office rowers in Cen• munity Service of So. Calif, LAJ timist Club, Nisei Week, Down• Kris Landrum, Doug Arakawa, buy City and the Westwood Gate• Nagoya Sister City Affiliation, He served on the Orange Taye Inadomi and Ken Hayashi town chapter JACL, Little Tokyo County Superior Court 1961~, way office tower. Japanese American Cultural & Conununity Center, Memorial Tickets are $100 per person, He has served on the board of Conununity Center, Little Tokyo becoming in 1966 the first Japa• $1,

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LEC UPDATE: Grayce Uyehara letter or by a visit to the MC's home office, we need to have a Grassroots Lobbying copy of any replies to letters and a Writer's Query salary for 1986 was put forth by short summary of the visit with I'm a writer living and working the National Director, and not by either the MC or his/ her staff. The in Massachusetts. I would like to the Board. My comment was made Rep. Henry J . Hyde, a Republi• Mathias is on the Senate Gov• information will be sent to Bill Yo• interview or correspond with any• in response to a suggestion to have can from the 6th District in Illinois, ernment Affairs Committee, to shino' director of the Midwest one having information concern• the National Board members pay is the latest cosponsor for H.R. 442. which S. 1053 is assigned. His co• JACL office, who will serve as the ing the Fort Sill (Oklahoma) in• for their own travel and lodging Hyde is the second Republican to sponsorship is very much needed clearinghouse to consolidate the ternment camp. Interested per• expenses to attend the National sign on who serves on the House and has been assigned to the information into usable form by sons please call (617) 342-3452 or Board meeting. National Board Judiciary Committee. His district Washington, D.C. chapter. Mathi• all those working on lobbying the write: members, as you well know, must is mainly the suburbia of Chicago as' popularity arx:l influence can redress bills. DOUGLAS VALENTINE put out as volunteers enormous north arx:l west of O'Hare Airport, make the difference and will also An exampie of grassroots lobby• 128 Prichard St. amounts of time, energy and, in which includes towns such as pave the way for LEC to approach ing is the plan presented by the Fitchburg, MA01420 many imtances, their own money Mount Prospect and Lombard, his successor. New York redress coordinator, to perform their duties as JACL where a few members of the Chi• Regional redress coordinators Dr. Mary Koide. Koide plans to go Incomplete Reporting officers. cago chapter reside. will be receiving copies of the LEC to Buffalo, N.Y. and its environs CLIFFORD UYEDA Hyde's strong constructionist Strategy Plan presented by Grant for a few days in early November. Your eagerness to report on the San Francisco approach to constitutional rights Ujifusa, LEC Legislative Strategy She will start out with her contact tremeOOous amount of work put Salons and Slurs Chair. Ujifusa is co-editor, with base-the Unitarians-with whom forth by the JACL staff personnel makes him an able ally for the With all the furor being raised Michael Barone of the Washington she will meet for educational is both fully justified and appro• redress cause. over the offensive name of a cer• Post, of The Almanac of American workshq>s on redress. priate. Your partial reporting, Charles Mathias, the popular tain West Hollywood hair salon, Politics, published by National LEC will provide her with infor• however, of the circumstances Republican senator of Maryland and the repeated protestations of Journal. Much of the information mation on the four MCs whose dis• under which a reply was made by with liberal-to-moderate views, innocence on the part of the own• on the members of Congress pre• tricts sre plans to visit. We will the National Director leaves a announced Sept. 27 that he would ers, I have a question that keeps not run in 1986. He is the third Re• pared by the LEC staff will come arrange other contacts from or-. reader in the dark ( Oct. 4 PC) . ganizations who have agreed to The idea for freezing the staff coming back to haunt me. publican in the last six weeks to from the Almanac. Since the name of the saloo was The LEC lobbying activities will give us assistance. Program ma• announce his plans to leave the chosen to be an acronym using the Senate. The other two are Paul need to be updated by the grass• terials for the workshops will be sent in sufficient time for Koide to honor spoflSored by the Asian first letters of the owners' names, Laxalt of Nevada and John East roots of JACL. When a Member of what would they have named the of North Carolina. Congress has been contacted by plan her program. Koide has been American Law Assn. of Delaware successful during the 98th Con• Valley, he said he would bring a salon if their names had been something like Nancy, Irene, ISSN : 0030-8579 gress in getting additional co• copy of his letter to Sen. William sponsors from the Westchester V. Roth, Jr. who chairs the Gov• George, Geoffrey, Ernest, Rosa County area Her son Mark, who ernmental Affairs Committee. and Sam? Or is the obvious acro• is a senior at Brown University, The AALA has Dennis Morikawa nym formed from those names pacific citizell will organize the lobbying effort as president. Woo mentioned the too offensive? for Rhode Island. J A experience and the redress ROCHELLE WANDZURA In September, Tim Gojio, Wash• bills. He emphasized the need for Washington, D.C. National JACL Headquarters, 1765 Sutter SI. , San Francisco , CA 94115 , (415) 921-5225 ington Representative, and Tim AAs to work together. Since Woo, Published by the Japanese American Ci tizens League every Friday except the first and last Otani ofPNW Regional Office met a Democrat, had 25% of the Re• Donations to weeks of the year at 941 E. Third St., Lo s Angeles , CA 90013 ; (213) 626·6936 . • 2nd Class publicans voting for him, we plan postage paid at Los Angeles , CA . • Annua l SubsCriptions-JACL member: $10 of National in Seattle with Lt. Gov. S.B. Woo Pacific Citizen dues provides one year on a per-house hold ba sis . Nonmembers: $20 a year , $38 two-years , of Delaware, who is serving his to follow up on getting additional payable in advance . • Foreign addresses: Add USS 10; 1st Class alr-U.S.lCanada first year in this position. The re• support. For Typesetting Fund addresses: $25 extra, Japan/Europe : USS60 extra . dress bills were discussed with As the LEC program becomes As ofOet. 12, 1985: $30,824.62 (7S1) News or opinions expressed by columnists other than the National PreSident or National Woo. When he returned to Dela• operatiooal, we hope to share the This week's total: $ 429.04 ( 4) Director do not necessarily reflect JACL policy . ware he followed up immediately redress activities which are going Last week's total: $30,395.58(757) OFFICERS Frank Salo, Nat I JACl Pres. Dr Cltllord I Uyeda . PC Board Chair on the issue, so it was possible for on in the eight districts arx:l 114 $10 from: Dickl Michiye Shibuyama. EDITORIAL I BUSINESS STAFF Actong Edi tor. Robert Sh imabuku ro Ass!.. J.K. Yamamoto me to discuss with him how he chapters. If the potential force of $36.28 from: Ted Nagata. AdvertiSing . Jane M. Ozawa Production. Ma ry Imon Circulation: Toml Hosh,z ak, Mailing: Mark Sallo could beofhelp to us. the organization can be harnessed, $182.76 from: Interest. General Manager I OperatIOn s; Harry K. Honda JACL will add another monument• $2()() from: Barry Saiki. POSTMASTER: Send changes of address to Pacific Citizen, Woo is a man of action. When 941 E. 3rd St., Mezz., Los AngBles, CA90013. informed that I would be attending al legislation into the history of TbankYou! the Philadelphia reception in his Congress and our . Friday, October 18, 1985 I PACIFIC CITIZEN-5 The Great Matsutake Shortage

Thi ma I b om kn "n th bak d und r a pitiless sun. Mush• waved her wand and caused fun• like the Granada and Pacific ) at' ofth gr at crop failur . '1'h rooms need moisture, plenty of it gus growth of every kind to disap• markets, which made a business mat utak mu lu'oom crop fail• and at the right time, and there pear from the forests. of buying mushrooms here and ur . That u ulent and aromatic was little to be had. The fallen The season ends about this time air-freighting them to Los Ange• fungu is to b found nowher in FROM THE pin needles were parched, the of year when sharp winds sweep les, New York, San Francisco and the Rockie thi fall for r ason FRYING PAN: a pen dusty . down from the peaks. It may rain, Chicago, have been besieged by not entirel 1 ar and ther i The drought continued into perhaps even snow, this month, frantic calls from their customers much gna hing of t eth among , Bill August with no promise of relief. but it will not coax the mush• who ask unhappy questions: fru trated mu hroom hunters. Hosokawa Fires spread through the tinder• rooms out of the ground for there When are you going to have some The mushroom eason begin dry forests of California, Oregon is a time for everything and the mushrO

or full committee and any progress re-I Our strategy depends on under• that means 4 votes out of the 6. We need Ga; Rudman of New Hampshire; and many, many times. This crucial work• standing a simple reality and acting on 2 more, and. tiuIfs not many. Cochran of Miss. straightforward, old-fashioned coali• ported in the PC), chat back and forth, it the situation in Washington has Where are those 2 votes? The best (4) The White House. The 3 most tion building-has to be done. and leave behind the pamphlet, also changed for the better, making chan~ bets are Boucher of southwestern Va, powerful people in the White House (6) How should individuals go about prepared by the JACL Redress Com• for passage of the redress bill much a pretty rough and industrial blue-eol• and in the country are Ronald Reagan, lobbying Washington? First, if you are mittee, called 'The Japanese Amer• brighter. But we cannot capitalize on lar kind of place, and Staggers ofMor• Nancy Reagan, and chief of staff Don able to get personal or proxy contact ican Incarceration: The Case for He• the good news unless the community gantown, W. Va, also industrial and Regan The ideal lobbyist for us with with members of the House subcom• dress." has a jWL-time staff director in· blue-eollar. [Rep. Frederick Boucher them would be some Nikkei who Imew mittee, especially Boucher, Staggers, To Review: There's a House subcom• Washington to lead. and. co-ordinate the became a co-sponsor of H.R 442 Oct the Reagans personally back in Calif: and possibly Brown, concentrate all mittee and Senate full committee . lobbying effort. So the first and. most im• 9.) Both politicians are moderately lib• or who worked for Regan at Merrill your efforts there until the bill clears priority, there's a coalition building portant ~ priarity is to give money eral on civil rights issues, but are pres• I.qtnch. This could be a campaign con• the subcommittee; second, the mem• plan, there's a need for a personal and to mise it. sured by constituents on economic and tributor, a Ca.l.it: state employee, or best bers of the full Senate committee; and friend of the Reagans and Regan 'Ibis In other words, if the community is trade issues. The Nikkei community of all, someone who, through a profes• then all the other members ofCongress is the shape of the effort to be made, not able, for whatever reason, to show through friends, relations, and other siona.l, business, or social seIVice activ• who are not co-sponsors. but we must remember that all of the confidence by supporting our organ• contacts in the two constituencies ab• ity, developed a personal relationship The grassroots work on your local ~ activities have to go on more or less ized effort to win redress, any and all solutely has to find ways to reach and with Nancy or Ronald Reagan Like resentative and. Senator remains vitally simultaneously. We must also remem• strategic plans are useless, and we persuade these two people on the most things in life, politics is finally important. The final test comes in the ber that through member-to-member might as well shut the operation down House subcommittee. personal For just how personal Wash• full House and the full Senate. If your work, the 4 Nikkei in Washington are For common sense tells us that \vithout Other possible votes in descending ington can get and for a quick educa• local or state-wide politician is already our most important, effective (and un• commitment and work at the grass roots order are: Brown of Greeley and Fort tion into how a real bill moves in Con• a co-sponsor, write or pay a visit to him paid) lobbyists. Inouye, Matsunaga, leveL a national lobbying campaign is Collins, Colo. (where one local Nikkei gress, a breezy little paperback called or his staff member and say how much Mineta, and Matsui-along with those an empty exercise. At the same time, the fanner or businessman could prove The Dance of Legislation by Eric Red• you appreciate his cominitment Re• who plugged away at the grassroots JACULEC leadership must work hard crucial to all of redress); Coble of man should be read member that because he is a co-spon• level-are largely responsible for the to earn the respect of the community. Greensboro, N.C.; Swindall of subur• In short, a personal contact at the sor does not necessarily mean he will 114 co-sponsors in the House (where The LEe must give evidence that it ban Atlanta; and Kindness of Hamil• White House, and in other important vote for the bill on the floor. His sup• 218 votes is a majority without absten• knows what it is doing. If the LEC, for town and Middletown, Ohio. Less in• places in the Administration, is as im• port requires constant care and nurtur• tions and absences) and the'Zl co-spon• whatever reasons, cannot demonstrate tense effort is merited here, but con• portant as personal constituent contact ance. After.thanking him, ask him to sors in the Senate (51 votes making a competence, redress comes to the same stituent contact could sway any one of in Congress. But should our bill ever lobby, member to member, for other majority). So on the floor we are only dead end: we have our chance to give them except the last. That contact clear both houses of Congress, we co-sponsors; this applies with special 118 and 24 votes short. Many bills have redress our best shot The bottom line could also produce an abstention, and might need some professional lobby• force to Frank, Berman, and Crockett become law with fewer co-sponsors. here is that for redress, it is now or the needed majority gets reduced to 5 ing firm to help us with the White If your Congressman or Senator is Also working for us is that many on never. members. House. For a variety of political not a co-sponsor, ask him to become the Hill recognize that our issue is not Now, who thinks things are better in a special interest bill, but represents Washington and why are they im• a fundamental constitutional matter proved? Among others, the four very '%e bottom line is that fur redress, it is now or never." affecting all Americans. Conscience experienced Nikkei members of Con• plays a role here, and the battle is not any fact gress, all of whom are currently more We have to work very hard on the reasons, we are unlikely to get open one of H.R 442 or S. 1003. He might by means entirely uphill. The than cautiously optimistic. Thus, it subcommittee to get our bill reported and public support for the bill. The not, but the request could lead him to is that we have had considerable suc• would be a great shame if we out in out favorably, because the going looks goal is to get White Hause neutrolity, vote for the bill later or abstain Some• cess so far. Think what we might be the community cannot finally get our easier on the full Judiciary Committee, which is the faurth stmtegic priarity. times, five or six letters or visits will able to do if we got ourselves together act together and move forward which has 35 members. We need 18 votes, (5) We cannot lobby and pass the re• sway a politician's vote, if the issue is around the redress issue. To get going, however, we have to But why are the members optimis• and we have 14 co-sponsors. Chainnan dress bill unless we have the support kept appropriately quiet and nothing tic? Rodino will probably help. But the pri• of other civil rights, ethnic, religious, much--tllat is, hate mail generated by have a full-time LEC Director in ority now is the two votes on the sub• and labor groups. We don't ourselves publicity and an enterprising media• Washington to implement whatever committee. Jfwe don't get them, redress have the numbers, the big money, and comes in on the other side. strategy a fully committed communi1;y (1) In the House, Rep. Sam B. Hall, is effectively dead. If we do and we get the organized clout So we have to en• How should you prepare for writing decides upon, and to track the time• an opponent of redress, left for a out of committee, the action of course list pn:xr:y Nikkei and. 'f1TT1XY Nikkei or• a letter or making a visit? Review a lines of the various people and units judgeship. Hall was chainnan of a sub• shifts to the floor of the full House and ganizations, which is our fifth priarity. fine document put out by the JACL in Congress and the Administration committee where H.R 442 resides. He its 435 members. Many national groups have already en• Redress Committee called ''Frequent• Those timelines can shift without has been replaced by Rep. Dan Glick• (2) In the Senate, we have an ex- dorsed redress, and we now have to ly Asked Questions About Redress." much notice. The director must get man of Wichita, Kansas, who instinc• tremely influential and able senator, engage the active support of people be• But make your letter or presentation plugged into them, think, consult, ad• tively understands what happened in Ted Stevens of Alaska, who is the longing to those groups at the local as personal as possible. Anything too just, decide, and lead all ofthe players. 1942. Meanwhile, Rep. Tom Kindness, number two Republican on the Gov• level slick, polished or that comes in too This is like running any business or Hall's Republican counterpart on the ernmental Affairs Committee, which Sen Daniel Inouye has agreed to often said in the same way raises sus• professional operation In the interim, sub-committee, has decided to run for has jurisdiction over our legislation meet in early October with Joe Raub, picions in congressional offices. Ifyou Grayce Uyehara, the recently ap• the Senate in 1900 and so will have Stevens, a co-sponsor, is really commit-. an LEe member and one of the most get either a personal or form letter pointed LEC Legislative Director and less time to spend opposing our efforts. ted to the bill, and that is one big reason eminent civil rights leaders in back, follow up on the points made, a person with deep roots in the JACL Hall and Kindness could have killed behind the optimism We should let Ste• America, along with the other Nikkei and then lettheJACULEC Washington community, can lead us extremely or bottled up the bill. vens Imow how much Nikkei support members of Congress and people from Office Imow what happened. well There are 10 members of Glickman's the Aleut provisions of the bill. LEC and JACL. To get this part of our If you get to Washington, set up an - But for the longer tenn, it is clear subcommittee on Administrative Law (3) So our third priority is to lobby the strategy offthe ground, the Washington appointment in advance. A politician that with a full-time director, redress stands a better than decent chance. and Governmental Affairs. This means full Governmental. Ajfairs Cammittee, office will coordinate all the input, and loves visitors from among his GUm C01V 6 votes gets the bill favorably to the composed of 13 members, of whom Sen get word out through direct contact stituents. We have nothing to be shy Without one, little chance. To hire one, full Judiciary Committee, where we Carl Levin of Mich. is the only other with chapter and regional coordina• about, and they are usually completely the LEC redress effort needs money, also need a majority. So getting those 6 co-sponsor. That means we need 5 tors on how local Nikkei can lobby sup• accessible. We should utilize it A the first priority in the strategy. After might ootes is our second strategic priarity. more votel5, assuming no abstentions port among Jewish, black, Hispanic, politician also spends perhaps 3)0/0 of we have a director, as an Issei Three we have in the form of co-spon• or absences. Best bets in rank order church, veteran, and labor and teacher his time back home--his job is a per• put it, success depends less on our sors: Frank of Newton and Brookline, are: Mathias of Md (who is retiring organizations. manent campaign. So set up a local brains than on our feet Remember Mass; Bennan of the San Fernando after 1986); Gore oITenn; Durenberger In Washington, and especially at the appointment, make your points clearly that we fight not merely to win Valley; and Crockett from inner city of Minn; chairman of the committee grassroots level, the other groups mul• with the member or aide, Imow the Detroit Gliclanan is sympathetic and Roth of Del; Chiles of Fla; Nunn of tiply the number of redress backers status of the bill (which subcommittee byGnnt~ 6-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, October 18, 1985

Chapter Pulse Hayashi Memorial Scout oompletes food drive for. Kimochi Selanoco Scholarship given SAN FRANCISCO-Residents of The project took over a 'year ARDEN GR VE, alif ela- Kimochi Home, which operates to complete. Working with the n hapter h Id its fall m t• SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas programs for senior citizens, were Kimochi staff; he made a list of ing atw'Clay, No . 2, 6 p.m., at Fleming of Alameda, Calif., has on hand Aug. 31 to show their ~ people co~d dona~ Wint.et bw ChW'ch, 13711 Fair• been named the 1986 recipient of appreciation as they accepted a Then he made announcements vi w ( uth fGcu'Cl n Grov Fwy). the JACL/EDC Thomas T. Haya• donation of over 500 items, worth at churches and organizations Guest p ak r will b playwright shi Memorial Law Scholarship. $52A), raised 'thrOugh a canned such as Contra Costa JACL; con• V lina Houston. author of 'Asa Fleming is a graduate of UC food drive initiated and organ• tacted restaurants for donations; Ga Kimashita' and 'T a" 0 t: Berkeley and is currently enrolled ized by 17-year-old HenryIsakari placed collection boxes (donated $6. u hi mu ~ be ord red by Oct at Yale School of Law. In addition of Berkeley's Boy Scout Troop 26 by Otagiri Co.) at churches; put 1& Th who e 1a t nam tart to maintaining a 4.0 GPA as an as part ofan Eagle Scout project notices in church newsletters; with A-M hould bring alad; undergraduate, he has donated his Because of his volunteer par• and distributed flyers and signs. others should bring d ert Info: time and services to many com• ticipation in the annual Shinnen• He collected evel)'thing ftom Evelyn Hanki, (213) 861).7455. munity organizations. kai (New Year's celebration) put sembei and takenok6 to soup The award was established in Thomas . Hayashi on by Bay Area Japanese Senior and jello. Isakari thanked David Riverside 1975 by the Eastern District Coun• JACL accepted administrative Center and his work on the Kimo• Nakayama, NationalJACLyouth cil to memorialize Hayashi, an at• responsibility for the scholarship chilCheny Blossom Run fund• director, Kent Takata, Eagle RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Riverside torney and civil rights advocate in February 1985. raiser, Isakari decided to do a Scout advisor, and Richard Eiji• Symphony Orchestra opens its who died in 1974 at age 56. National Born in Sacramento, Hayashi project that wo~d benefit Japa• rna, Kimochi Nutrition Project Z7th season Nov. 2 with Haruna was interned at Tule Lake during nese seniors. director, for their help. Aoki as featured guest pianist JACL scholarship WW2. He graduated with honors An afternoon reception at the from New York University Law Anti-Asian violence subject of conference Municipal Auditorium is planned forms available School in 1946 and entered the field with a 5:30 buffet dinner catered SAN FRANCISOO-Infonnation of international law with the firm NEWfON, Mass. - ''Violence ton Asian Community Support by Kushiyaki Ya for $10 per per• and applications for the 1986 of Whitman and Ransom, later against Asian Americans" will SeIVices Center; Virginia Lee, son. Reservation deadline is Oct JACL National Scholarship Pro- forming the law partnership of be the subject of the fifth Na• lead counsel in the Long Guang 21 Tickets for the evening perfor• gram are now available from local Hayashi and Zalk. tional Asian Pacific American Huang case; and William Tamayo, mance are $12 reserved seats, ~ chapters, regional offices and Specializing in international Law Students Assn. conference, Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco. general admission, $6 seniors National Headquarters. corporate law, he received a spe- to be held Oct 26, 8 am-4:30 p.m, The conference will also en• and students. Contact 787~1 Over 45 awards, totaling about cial citation from Japan's Minis• and Oct Z7,10 am-12:30 p.m, at able students considering a ca• or 68&3200. $60 000, are being offered to col- try of International Trade and In• Boston College Law School reer in law to meet with law stu• Gilroy lege undergraduate and graduate dustry. 'Representatives of various dents, professors, and attorneys. students. Awards for students in- legal and community groups will Admission is free. Info: (617) volved in the performing am cre- Hayashi did legal work in the GILROY, Calif.-"A Family Get discuss the increasing number of 5524418 or 542-9864. Acquainted Potluck and Wel• ative arts are also available. Japanese American community violent incidents nationwide in• coming New Members" will be Freshman applicants should on a pro bono basis for those who volving Asian victims and formu• co~d held Oct 26, 5:30 p.m. at the return their completed application not afford to pay. He was late a positive response strategy. For the Record Japanese Community Hall, 6851 to their local chapter. All other a prime mover in establishing Speakers include Phil Nash, In the Oct 11 ''Chapter Pulse," Alexander St Children are in• applicants should submit applica- New YorkJACL and was the first Asian American Legal Defense PC incorrectly stated that tickets vited to wear their Halloween tions to National Headquarters, Eastern District governor. and Education Fund, N.Y.; Diane to the West LA JACL installa• . costumes. Prizes will be award• 1765 Sutter St. , San Francisco, CA For additional information on Tanaka, Massachusetts attorney tion (Nov. 16, Holiday Inn in San• ed. Bring a main dish, salad or 94115 . Deadline is March 1, 1986. the award, contactJACLNational general's office; Peter Kiang, ta Monica) were complimentaIy. dessert and table service for your Info : Youth Director David Naka- Headquarters, 17ffi Sutter St, San Asian American Resource Work• We apologize for any inconven• family. Info: 847-2A7& yama, (415) 921-5225. 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and the state Fish and Game Dept. More anti-Vietnamese violence feared either refused to investigate the shooting or did nothing to help and BOLINAS, Calif. _. Vietnamese Mexico] situation on our hands." advise the fishennen until three fishermen are threatening to ann In 1980, two Vietnamese fisher• days after the incident. themselves in response to a men and a white fisherman were Lt. Donald Besse of the Marin shooting incident, the most recent shot and killed in Houston during a County· Sheriffs Dept. said that in a series of attacks and racial long-standing feud between the "no one was willing to take the r~ remarks aimed at them in Moss two groups. Two years ago, an ar• port initially" because the investi• Beach, Half Moon Bay, and the sonist burned three Vietnamese gation could have come under Berkeley Marina, reports Ed Iwa• boats. the jurisdiction ofeither the sheriff ta ofthe San Francisco Chronicle. In the shooting off Bolinas Bay, or the Coast Guard. "Some of the fishermen fought the Vietnamese crew of the Hazel He added that the sheriff's in- . ... the Communists as soldiers, B, based at the Berkeley Marina, vestigation has "probably hit a and they are very capable of d~ told investigators that their boat's dead end" because the Vietnam• fending themselves if necessary," skipper flashed warning lights at a ese were not able to identify the said Chieu Pham, president of large white fishing boat when an boat clearly. the Vietnamese Fishermen Assn automatic rifle fired on them. The Vietnamese fishermen at of America in Oakland Tan Le, the 26-year-old skipper, the Berkeley Marina said that On Sept. 16 at dawn, an unidenti• and the crew flattened on the floor . other Vietnamese have been the fied commercial flShing boat fired Investigators later discovered target of racial taunts. on three Vietnamese fishermen three .22 caliber bullets on the The Vietnamese have become a setting a gill net three miles off deck. None of the crew members source of controversy in the fish• Bolinas Bay. were injured. ing industry for their use of gill "We're trying to find out if it was "They are lucky to be alive," nets, which also trap migratory racial," said a Coast Guard offi• saidPham. birds, sea mammals and protect• cial who requested anonymity. Pham alleged that the Coast ed species offISh. " We don't want another Gulf [of Guard, the Sheriff's Dept., the FBI On the Northern California coast, present state guidelines ban gill nets in most areas near the shore from Point Reyes to Half Asians fastest-growing group, study says Moon Bay. Despite the ban, the fIShermen Photo by Susumu Nieda growing segments as those al• "are determined to stay," said Toshio Mon in 1949, when his book Yokohama California was first published. WASIflNGTON - Asian Ameri• cans are the fastest-growing seg• ready here bring in members of Pham. ment ofthe population and could their families. numbern~~10rrilllionbythe As of 1900, Chinese Americans PC Classified Advertising Yokohama, California being reprinted y~ ~, according to a study re• remained the largest Asian leased Oct 9 by the independent group at 812,178, or 23.4% of the SEATTLE-University of Wash• da, a professor of English at South• Population Reference Bureau. total But the report projects that 4-BIISlncss OPllorlunlllcs ington Press has published a new ern Oregon State College, author By the turn of the century, the they will slip to second place in edition of the late Toshio Mori's MINING of Before the War and co-edltor of study says, Asian Americans will 2lXX>, with their anticipated 17 Placer gok! mine, So. Calif. w/$100rnill+ in Yokohama, California. Originally Aiiieeee! be almost 4% of the population, rrilllion making up about 17% of proven reserves, $2OOrnill+ probable. Antici· pate 4000 oz p/mon sgl shift. fully pennitled exp published in 1949, it is the fIrst col• Born in Oakland in 1910 and up from 1.5% in 1900. Based on Asian Americans. people. We need $1 .6-mill for new & used eqpml lection of short stories by a Japa• raised in San Leandro, Mori was Census Bureau statistics, the Pilipinos are expected to move & 2 mos operatilg costs. Substantial relJrns, tax benefits for rig,t person who can ad novt. Any nese American ever published. camp historian while interned at study notes that ''between 1!170 from second place in 1900 to first reasonable $ level or participation considered. Set in the fictional community Topaz, Utah, during WW2. His and 1900, a decade in which the place in 2lXX>, increasing from Prin. only. Michael (818) 445·3826. of Yokohama, California, Mori's works appeared in J A vernaculars total U.S. population increased 781,894 to 2,000,571. SOUTHE~ CALIFORNIA stories tell of the people, gossip, such as Pacific Citizen, Current by only 11%, the Asian American Despite an expected increase Full Service Golf Center humor am legerrls of Japanese Life and Trek as well as such an• population soared by 141%''' from 387,223 to 1,006,300, Asian Seeking partner for established indoor golf cen• ter (pro'Shop, academy, driving ranges & trap. America in the 1930s and '405. thologies as Best American Short The composition of the Asian Indians would also slip, from putting green, video. e~.) Membership & na· In the introduction to the origin• Stories ofl943. population will change, with Ja• fourth to fifth place. tionwide expansion planned. $200,000 mini• mum investment in La Habra store or $250,000 al edition, William Saroyan wrote, More recently, he published a panese and Chinese, who in the Koreans, fifth in 1900 with to relocate" your location. (213) 690-4432 " Mori writes about the Japanese novel, Woman From Hiroshima, past have been the largest 357,393, would climb to fourth at I of California. If someone else tried and a second short story collec• groups, making up a smaller per• 1~,759, and Vietnamese would 5-Employmenl to tell you about them, you would tion, The Cha:uvmist. Many of his centage of the total rise from sixth place to third, never know them. Even if another stories were reprinted in anthol• Japanese Americans, for ex• growing from 2A5,025 to 1,574,385. young Japanese without Mori's ogies of Asian American litera• ample, have a relative~ low Even with the projected growth, NISEI-SANSEI APPLICANTS Eye and Heart told about them, Asian Americans would remain We have ma/1Y attractive opellIllOS now In L.A . ~Jrlounding ture such as Ayurni and Counter- birthrate and there is little im• Clbes and Ol3lge County. College graduates or equrnlent they wouldn't be what they are in pamt. He died in 1900. . migration to the U.S. from Japan, the nation's third largest minor• preferred. catl us II)( an appointment or send /0 resune . Mori's little stories. They would be AvaiJable in paperback only, the the report states. In third place ity after Blacks and Hispanics. JAPANESE IS NOT ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT . Japanese; in Mori's stories they SALARY RANGE $1.440 - $45,000 book costs $7.95. For more infor• in 1900 at 716,331, JAs may drop The 1900 census counted 26.7 Enc. SecretaryJSecrelarylRecepIlonlsllGenerai Of!lcel Adnu~ . are Japanese only after you know rrilllion Blacks and 14.6 rrilllion Ass'IIAccounlallllk!okkeeperJSales Rep .l Marteb~ Ass II mation, contact Publicity Dept. , to sixth place in 2nOO, when they NallOnal Sales ManagerlWarehouse SupervlsorlMartcebng Re• they are men and women alive. " Univ. of Washington Press, P.O. are expected to total 856,619. Hispanics; although not increas• search/etc. etc. The new edition includes a new Box C-50006, Seattle, WA 98145; ing at as high a rate as Asians, TOPSKOUT PERSONNEL SERVICE In contrast, Vietnamese are (213) 742{)810 introduction by poet La ~son Ina- (206) 5434050. expected to be among the fastest Continued 00 Back Page 1543 W. OlympIC 81.. #433. L.A. 90015 PC Business-Professional Directory

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KCET tudio . Th one-hour pro• ~ .Peoplen lB3 • Press • Education U.S., Japan leaders gram, whi h will focus on th PC columnist Bill Hosokawa, who Kathryn Bannai has been named a to debate on television w'! nt trad t n ions betw n • Appointments retired as editorial page editor of the regent for Eastern Washington Univ. at th tw ouno.i , will be distri• Michael Nakamura of Pomona. Denver Post last year, has joined the Cheney by Gov. Booth Gardner. An at• alif.. has b n appointed by Gov. Rocky Mountain News in Denver as torney am past president of Seattle buted nati nally to public televi• Gorge Deukm jian to th advtsory reader representative. After leaving JACL, she has worked for the Dept. of ion tation in N v mber. bo rd to th Bureau of Electronic and the Post, he became a publishing con• Health am Human Services and now Th pI gram i being pro• AppUan R pair. A ale manag r of sultant and roving editor for the Japa- serves with Seattle-King County Putr duced in c njunction with th Hit hi Sal orp. of America, h is a nese edition of Reader's Digest. lie Defeooers Assn. Los Ang 1 Tim slY omiuri member of the alif. Stat Electronics himbun conferenc of J apa• A sn. aoo the Electronic Industries ne e and Am rican business, A sn. academic and gov mment lead• Our Appeal Continues Radio Station rs, which will be held Oct Z3-25. ASIAN AMERICANS Author David Halberstam, Ohio The PC Typesetter Fund has Acquisition Seminar • ntinued from Page congre man (R), passed the $30,000 mark, thanks to - S()flll.\(JI'Pci hy Ille ,v,,'iwlIIl Associalion of Broadcasle,.s - both group aI also growing fas• former United Auto Workers the hundreds who have contribut• Chicago O'Hare Hilton New York Hilton ter than th national average. president Doug Fraser, and pres• ed this past year. Some have even October 25, HJ85 November 1, 1985 "Onc looked down upon as ident of the Pacific Basin Insti• made multiple donations! ! ! Join hrnaura!'t 1'11111'I'I'I'I1PlIl'\ nnu p.'<(!culi\'es for a full dav session on radio poorly ducated. biu collar tute Frank Gibney will be the The goal is $40,000. tnlinn hu.vll1~ lp("hniqlll'~, indllding slation and market 'selectlon, Illation Ori ntals, Asian Americans are American on the panel. All of that is for the new digital nppr;lIsals , IIIHllldll/( Ihanl.l\·plIllIrr. capilaillimiled parlnership). and how 10 now perceived as a 'model mi• Among the Japanese partici• typesetter CRTronic 200, a line lll'I'lJtiall' tIll" ;wqlli\illlJn af(rccllIPIlI. You will also l'Pceive a comprehensive , \(-f/llisI/lIJ11 IIO,./,,/)ou/" Inth chaplers wrillen hy seminar instructors: nority:' the report says adding pants will be: Liberal Democra• printer, fonts and a service con• tract for maintenance. "al1d~ ' Odt'ncal, Bill ColI.lo.. that Asian Americans aI'e better tic party director of international HC'nnnh: IirtJocka,,'ing .John Randers, TA Assocl.les educated, have better jobs and affairs Wataru Hiraizumi; Jiro PC's appeal for the fund contin• SClJII/II' : ~ I II 'Y'II'''' ",rlm Frazier, Gross'" Kadlec f l l h,1~ slI/)sl"/l/i,,1 earn more than the general pop• Tokuyama, dean of Tokyo s No• ues. As the numbers are still under "'.III.\.wlloll.\ ,IIY' ',lhll'l/ ", I" J!lllol . ,h" lirlll pel'forlllf'C1 illll'Mllll'Il'S ill OI·e,. -10 523 million m,.,.kl" '·'IIt,.1/ions (or ZOO radio 5,,,,ioll5 ulation but cautioning that there mWll School of Advanced Man• 40,000, we are prompted to re-echo the appeal. We need help from Tom Gammon, ,..,rlm . ~'.I'ions ,,"rlIlS . ~1'1 Tom Joyner, aI'e vast disparities among indi• agement and contributing editor II/lP,..,j · \I,/~ everyone to keep the PC in action. Amerlcolll Media Urokers (or 01111" 90 sW/;om. 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