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•• •• aCl lC Cl lZCll National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens league Newsstand: 25¢ (60e postpaid) ISSN: 0030-8579 Whole No. 2,383 'Vol. 102 No. 13 941 East 3rd St. #200, los An eles, CA 90013 213) 626-6936 Frida, A ril 4, 1986 Matsui circulates Harassment leads to shooting Nat'l Geographic PHILADELPHIA-Four white phia, were charged with ethnic article in House men screamed racial slurs and intimidation, criminal trespass threw rocks at the home of a Viet ing, terroristic threats and crim WASIDNGTON-Rep. Robert. namese family, who retaliated by inal mischief, according to Vea Matsui (D-Calif.) said March 26 opening fire with rifles and a sey' who also reported that that he has circulated copies of handgun, slightly wounding one Chong Popowski 19, and Luu "Japanese Americans: Home at person, police said. Van Troung, 30, were charged Last" an article in the April Two Vietnamese were arrest with aggravated assault, simple issue of National Geographic, to ed along with the whites in the assault and possession of an in members of Congress. confrontation on March 23 in the strument of crime. Matsui said he found the arti primarily white, working-class The Embergers, Haggerty, cle to be "an accurate, important • neighborhood said Detective Morrison, and Troung were re account of the Japanese Amer Capt Matthew Veasey. leased on bail ranging from ican experience. I wanted to bUSTANDING WOMAN-Irene Hirano, founder of T.H.E. Clinic for Women in Los Angeles, is one of the honorees in the Coors Gallery of Women, a The outbreak started when the $1,<XX> to $8,<XX>. Popowski was make certain that the members whites gathered outside the being held in lieu of$5,<XX> bail of the committee who will hear traveling exhibit that pays tribute to women of different races who have demonstrated strength, daring, determination and imagination. Coors offi home. 'They were screaming ra Veasey said the incident was the case for redress have the op cial slurs and statements like 'Go the first of its kind in the Tacony portunity to read it" cials joining Hirano at the March 9 unveiling of the exhibit at L.A.'s Arco Plaza are (from left) Lura Daniels-Ball, community relations field manager; home, Gooks ' " Veasey said "The area, which is about W miles The article was distributed to family told police the men out from the southwest Philadelphia all members of the JudiciaIY Marvin Johnson, vice president for corporate public relations; and Ron Kirkpatrick, Westem regional manager of community relations. side were terrorizing them and neighborhood where protestors Subcommittee on Administra breaking their windows with targeted a black family and an tive Law and Governmental Re rocks and bricks." interracial couple late last year. lations, which holds hearings on Former redress director saluted One of the Vietnamese men Racial tension involving South redress bill HR 442 on Apr. 28. told police he fired a rifle from east Asian refugees has been a Written by Arthur Zich and il The master of ceremonies, at SAN FRANCISCO-Over 200 the front yard to scare off the concern in the city for more than torney S. Stephen Naka hima, in lustrated with photos by Michael friend and a ociate from the whites, but when the men con a year. In 1984, the city Commis troduced NCWNP governor and S. Yamashita, the article briefly Bay Area and Central California tinued throwing rocks, two Viet sion on Human Relations blamed chronicles the JA experience gathered at the Hotel MeIidien LEC board member Mollie Fuji namese men fired e era! shots the tension largely on the rapid from the arrival of the Issei to on March 22 to toa t-and roa t oka, who greeted the audience from a window with a rifle and increase in the number ofAsians present-day perspectives. J olm Tatei hi at at dinner pon on behalf of the district council handgun. and a lack of understanding and The immigrant days are re sored by No. Calif.-W. NeV.-Pacific and introduced Tateishi's wife, Glen Emberger, 21, was grazed communication among Asians, membered by Issei Yuki Tori District Council JACL mother and two chilch-en. in the head and tI-eated at a ho - blacks and whites. Former JACL national presi goe, Yoshisada Kawai. Michiko Tateishi resigned earlier thi pital and released, Veasey said The commission estimated dent Flo d Shimomura aid that Tanaka and Kamechiyo Takaha year a National JACL redres Emberger, his brother Michael that OO,<XX> Asians live in the five ~rical he "personall felt a great 10 " shi and sociological director. a po ition he had held Z7, Joseph Haggerty, Z7. and Har county metropolitan area aspects are given by scholars ince 1981. From 1978-81. he was when Tatei hi 1 igned but that ry Moni on, 25. all of Philadel- . -1rmn a report by Associated Press Akemi Kikumura. Franklin Odo, National JACL redre commit he wa "happ. to ee him mile Peter Irons. Yuji Ichioka and tee chair. for a change." He d cribed the Hany Kitano. progre mad in the redres Monterey Park incumbent fearful The internment and its impact movement through Tatei hi' ef on JAs are discussed by doctors Seniors oppose forts. of 'divisiveness' in city election Ford Kuramoto, Mary Oda. Kazu Noting Tatei hi' abilitie on yuki Takahashi and Edward Hi firing of director the soccer field and hi "flaming by J.K. Yamamoto legal technicality, he ha ince meno as well as fonner internees wit,It Ernest Weiner, executive MONTEREY PARK, Calif.-The been campaigning as a candi Mary Tsukamoto, Nancy Araki by Ron Chew director of AmeIican Jewi h Apr. 8 municipal election could date. He has also lent his support and Tom Watanabe. Veterans International Examiner Committee. de cribed him a a have overtones of racial antagon to imilar language campaigns Tom Kawaguchi, Shig Kihara, SEATrLE-The board of direc man with the "capacity to lice ism because of the recent "Offi all of them unsuccessful-in the Shig Doi, Wilson Makabe and tors of Asian Counseling and Re through facade ... and get to the cial English" movement, accord neighboring cities of Alhambra, Sen Daniel Inouye relate the ferral Service (ACRS) is explor heart. of the i ue." ing to councilwoman Lily Chen. Arcadia and San Marino. story of Nisei who fought for the ing the possibility of fonning a KPIX-TV news anchor Wendy The top vote-getter in the 1982 Arcuri, who says he will give U.S. in Europe and the Pacific. task force to work out a com Tokuda said that Tatei hi made lection, Chen al served as ''Official English" top priority if Others quoted in the article in promise with seven Asian Paci her proud to b a Japane mayor during her tenn. She is elected, began hi mo ement as clude playwright Philip Gotan fic elderly associations which American when he broke th up for reelection along with fel a re ponse to the proliferation of da; the late astronaut Ellison voted March 14 to withdraw sup "quiet American" t reotype b low incumbents Rud Peralta Chinese-language signs in the Onizuka; Mike Watanabe of port from the agency, board presi tanding up for what h beli ved and David Almada. city, wh re ian now make up Asian American Drug Abuse entBenson Wong aid March 1& in before the nation. Al 0 eeking the three council mOl-e than 33o/c of the population Program; John Saito, Pacific The associations withdrew On a more humorou note, h eats ru photographer Frank He claim that immigrant-run Southwest JACL director; War their support. from ACRS follow pres nted him with a colorful Arcuri, teacher Bany Hatch, and businesse di criminate against ren Furutani of UCLA's Asian ing executive director Theresa aloha hirt and ungla e to bu ine woman Pat Reichen Engli h ~ peaking customers. American Studies Center; and Fujiwara's decision last month to help him modifY hi trait-laced berger, all proponents of making His opponents. Ch n runong Rep. Matsui fire Evelyn Priestley, head of image. Engli h the city's official lang them, argu that Arcuri' e en "Japanese Americans are Pacific Asian Elderly Service Rose Ochi. a National JACL uag ; and law student/re ean:h tual g al i to liminat bil~aual among the most affiuent, best Development Project for the past vic pre ident and ex cutive a - er lui Houseman. ballots. bilingual education, and educated, fastest growing, and five years. istant to Lo Angel Mayor Arcuri pearheaded a petition other elvi for non-English- least known ofAmerica's minori The task force. Wong 'aid, Tom Brad] y. Pl nt d Tat i hi driv 1a t y ar to ha the "Offi pe king re id nts. ties," said Matsui "The National would consist of r presentative with a plaque in crib d with a ial Engli 'h" maUl placed on ''If not 1 ally a languag i: Geographic hac; done an out from the ACRS board and repr tribute from the Cit. of Lo ~ An- th APlil ballot Although the u ," id h n. "It' an tlmic Continued 011 8 standingjob oftelling our story." 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