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• ~ep a 'a e ua e aCID • u National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens Le gu Whole. #2,046 (Vol. 88) Friday June 8. 1979 15 Cent Plaque dedicated at Tule Lake campsit minden II row raasm, economic and event "should not be vi wed with her mother and bro r, ~ pdJtical expkJitatian. and as a propaganda vehicle for ~ can uodernUne the (lOl'tStJt'Utio pi' she was forced go to Tul antees II United Stms citIZeN and ah JAa..'s redress campaign." Lake on a train. Her father ens alib. May the IIIjumoes and buJrul. However, Enomoto urged, had been sent to 8 separate I8tJOn suffered ben! I'Ie\W recur. if the "hard-won acceptance" camp. "It was a bleak life." Plaque placed by the Calif. Dept. II of Nikkei today is "worth any Plrks and Recreation m coopei'Ition she said, "filled with 8 deso Wlth the Northern Califomilt-Westem thing, it should stand the test late feeling. The question I of . Nevada DisttJCt Council. JIqIII1'leSe of a legitimate and aggressive ten asked myself was, 'What's American Cni2ensI..eeaue. May V.lm demand for final vindiction going to happen to us?' " On May 27-the same day It was the phrase, "concen that evacuees were flrSt herd "As it stands DOW, no real . tration camps", that the state vindication has occured, and 1 sincerely hope, however ed into Tule lake in 1942 - department of parks objected Nikkei gathered for a plaque the incarceration of Ameri that tJris plaque dedication to, an objection which was ov p~ dedication ceremony on the can citizens without due will help to heal deep scars ercome by changing it to cess can again happen" (Text now-barren site of the concen "American concentration U:ft when the U.s. government tration camp. of speech on page 4J furced the segregation qf rna camps". "' The largest of all the camps . many qfOUT parents, brothers, Jerry Enomoto, principal A story on the ceremomes, sisters andjriends because oj for incarcerated Nikkei dur speaker at the ceremonies National JACL Board ing World War n, Tule Lake carried by United Press Inter two responses: 'Yes-yes' or and director of the Calif. Dept national, led off by saying 'No-no'." -Ben Takeshita was also the most troubled. As of Corrections, alluded to this Michi Weglyn stated in her some 400 Japanese Americans in his fpeech: revived a seldom-remem meets at Headquarters book, Yearsoflnfamy, the sur "The lesson oYtilistory that ry of the camps is incomplete bered aspect" of the war by Boos, catcalls By HARRY HONDA Ben Takeshita, Jo1m Tameoo, Jim without ''thrusting deeper in requires entph6sis o"er and dedicating the plaque. Tsujimura, Seiko Wakabayashi over, is tbat V/hethflr Tule S. FI• ..teoo to darker, hushed chapter It said that some former in JAG. chapters this coming NO-Lillian Kimura lake is calit:d an America temeees remembered some for Hayakawa ABSTAIN--Chuck Kato, M.its that was Tule Lake". 11lat concentration camp, or ~ eu week will be asked to reaf Kawamoto. chapter began when Tule was happy times at Tule Lake, but firm the action of the National phemistically-termed rel~ when asked about specific Chuck Kato, filling in for turned into a segregation cen tion center, it had DO place in at UCLA JAG. Board, which adopted ter which, Weglyn says, "ulti hardships, become reticent lmiAngeles the recommendation of its R~ PNWDC Gov. Harold Onishi.. America" "The other memories often had voted no but was remin mately ended up as a 'resegre The former Tulean visibly Sen. S. I. Hayakawa's ap dress committee to pursue re gation center' for democra are too painful to talk about," pearance on the UCLA West parations for fonner evacuees ded by Jim Tsujimura, nat'l moved his audience:-He-l1:lter said Marie Miyashiro, a San v.p., that the PNWOC had v0- cy's di.sca.rds." wood campus this past week through a legislative commis stated that the dedication Jose nurse. She was 11 when, ted 12-5 in favor the coIllIIli& Indeed, as what many con (May 30) to deliver a speech sion. sion approach. Kato then deci cede was the ''worst'' of the that proposed a U.S.-Mexi 'The board, which met here camps, Tule lake's special can agreement on a system June 1-3 at National Head ded to abstin. Board also approved a finan and painful history makes its JACL supports boycott of of "guest workers" to deal quarters, voted 13-1 to have cial campaign to meet a $420, discussion more difficult for with illegal border crossings introduced a bill in Congress 000 annual budget to push re Nikkei than other camps, wre. had students precede with a "establishing the Japanese Squibb to fight IOpium' dress through educational pro tber former internees or DOt chorus of boos and catcalls. American Constitutional Stu jects. "In addition to the wretched w~ ponsible and has negative im Opposition apparently dies Commission". Considerable pressure crea conditions in the camps, those The JACL announced sup plications for America's al stemmed from his recent re Chapters will have 30 days ted by the lack of 1979 mem interned at Tule Lake faced port of the efforts of the Or ready drug-plagued society." marks about the price of gas in which to respond. Copy of even more brutal conditions, ganization of Chinese Ameri The boycott of all Squibb oline and from his oft-quot the proposed legislation (about bership renewals forced the Board to readjust the budget including direct military rule cans (OCA) in spearheading a products (Lifesavers, Beech ed observation that wartime 400 words), and a brief SUD} for the remaining quarter of for months," a Tule Lake coalition of Chinese American nut gums and candies, Jean dispersal of Japanese Amer mary of the discussions that the fiscal year ending Sept 30, Committee flyer explains, ad community groups through Nate, Alexandra de Markoff, icans was a good thing be culminated in the vote is ex 1979 to cushion the anticipated ding that it was the site of out the country to boycott all all Yves St Laurent products) cause it broke up racial pected to be included $100,(0) srortfall. "massive demonstrations, products sold by the Squibb was to commence March 31 ghettoes. The bill calls the President Treasurer George Kodama hunger strikes, and riots in Corp., according to Washing after Squibb refused to· An open letter to the UC to appoint 11 memberswitbat recommended budgetmy cuts protest of the deplorable and ton JAG. Representative Ron change the name and for St LA community in the Daily least Japanese American, one amounting to $100,(0) a year. repressive conditions." Ikejiri Laurent to publicly apologize Bruin was sponsored by the the Congress naming two Chi Specific cuts totaling 58),000 Interviewed at the dedica Boycott is to protest for his insensitivity to Ad Hoc (mostly Asian) Com from the House and the Sen (some were unused funds), tion. Helen Masuda of San Jo Squibb's selling of the per nese American concerns and mittee Against Hayakawa, ate to the commission It would to Chinese history. new fund-raising programs se. Calif., said, "I don't want fume being marketed under criticizing Hayakawa's meet in those cities where for and reestablishment of the people to feel sorry for us, but the Yves St Laurent trad~ An "Opium War 1979 Com stands on affirmative action, mer internees can tell of their membership committee were I also don't want them to for mark, "Opium", under the mittee", representing the 16 social welfare, WW2 incar experiences and determine given the green light get that a detention camp like guise of the mystique and OCA chapters, met ironically cerations of Japanese Amer whether they are entitled to It was announced NC-WN this was possible." beauty of the Orient on May 4, as AsianlPacific icans, minorities, women some fonn of redress. The bill DYC chairperson Bruce Shi Tule Lake was recently in "This bas DO historical va American Heritage Week was and the poor. lists such as cities as: lidity," the OCA declared. mizu of Sonoma County was volved in controversy again, being launched nationally. Hayakawa, at a later press Los Angeles. San Francisco. "The realities of opium in Chi appointed national JAG. this latest over the plaque ''Kill 'Opium'lBoycott conference. said the UCLA Fresno.IU1Jand. Seattle, Salt Lake na were misery, anguish and City, Denver, 0Ucag0, and New youth director. # wording. Plaque for the state Squibb" buttons were being reception was not typical of slow death. It was to sub yon. historical Jandmark, No. 8$- used handed out at a New York other appearances he has jugate the Chinese people in been making on campus Dr. Clifford Uyeda., natiooal Senior center 2, reads: strategy meeting by Chinese president. allowed 3 hours of TuIe Lake was ODe II the teD Ameri favor of British domination American groups. since January. The boos and give & take discussion before San lAIreDzo, Ca. am CXllL&lb1lliw camps ..,.,.,blisherl "Squibb's neglect of this catcalls, he said. sounded TIle Eden Japanese Senior during World War n ID irx:aIre.rare historical reality is inexcus In Bostm, the Globe editor "like the good old days" cutting it cIf for a roll call vote: 110,(0) pe.r.a1S d ~ aDCeStIy. Center marked its seventh able. Their romanticizing this ial of April 30 found it unfor when he faced anti-war pro YES-Wiley Higucbi. George II wton the ~ were American tunate "Opium" was named Kodama. Wade Kojima, SbIn Na anniversary with a luncheon c::iti2Ieos, behind barbed wire Ed guard most dangerous drug in the testers of the 19608 on the Steve Naka!lbima, David W.