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•• •• aCl lC Cl lZen National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League Newsstand: 25¢ (60e postpaid) ISSN: 0030-8579 Whole No. 2,389 Vol. 102 No. 19 941 East 3rd St. #200, Los An eles, CA 90013 213 626-6936 Frida, Ma 16, 1986 N.J. congressman Conferees examine possible causes of adds name to list prejudice and violence against Asians WASHLNGTON-H.cdrcS::i bill by Carole Hayashino frequency of attacks on South HR 442 has gained another co l'~ S I • U;lall rcfugees, religIOUS de sponsor, Rep. Bernard Dwyer (D BEHKELEY. Calif- Ui "<.:111111na nominations organized networks l'IW.J.), according to Hcp. Holx'rt tion is alive and well and grow and state and local government Matsui (D-Calif.). ing in the \.j nited States, condud al bodies held hearin ~ to ~ tud y "Congressman Dwyer sits on ed participants in ''Break the Si the problem. the impoltant Appl'opriatioll~ lence," a conference held May 10 Accounts of the growing vio Committee, which has jurisdic at BoaJt Law Sehool, UC Berkeley. lence against Asians were ear tion over government spending," Speakers reported that mur ried in Asian American commu said Matsui. "He is an intclligcnt, del'S, beatings, racial slurs and nity newspapers and, by the end effective legislator." 'ymbolie attacks on Asian Amer of 1985, in such major newspa Dwyer is one of five new co icans have risen dramatically in pers as the New York Times, sponsors who havc ~igJlcd up recent years. The day-long con Boston Globe, Washington Post, since a House subcommittee fercnce, 'pOll 'ored pnmarily by Philadelphia Inquirer. Lo. An held hearings on the bill Apr. 28. JACL, Asian Law Caucus and geles Times, San Francisco Ex The others werc Rep. Pat Wil Chine e for Affirmative Action, aminer and San Jose Mercu.!)' as liams (D-Mont), Barbara Ken wa ' attended by 200 representa well. nelly (!)-Conn.) Bill Richardson tives of national, state and local The conference look plaec (D-N.M_>, and Mattin Olav Saw Asian American community or three weeks after the release of (D-Minn). g al1ll.C:ltHJll~ . a report by the Calif Atty. Gen 'The hearing on redress legis Conference organizers noted eral's Commission on Ethnic, Re lation has opencd up a windo\\ that the Vincent Chin ca e in De ligious and Minority Violence of opportunity" declared Matsui. troit brought national attention and P11orto the expccted rclea 'c 'The coming weeks could be key to the issue of anti-Asian violence. of a 2in-page report on anti to the bill's succe~. No\\ i ' thc The unemployed auto worker Asian Violence by the U.S. Com time to step up our efforts to at \\ ho bl udgconcd Chin to death mi ion on Civil Hight..'>. tract support for HR 442.' with a baseball bat in 1982 was Rep. Nonnan Mineta (D-Calif.) Rep. NOl1nan Mincta (l){;.. dif, initially entenced to probation presented the keynote addre s. said that Dwyer's co-sponsorship ~ alld a line. but eommunit) pres He \\ ' ~ ll1tl'oduced by JA 'L na is ''more good news as HR 442 Photo by Sadll Yamamoto sure resulted in the filing of fed tional director Ron Wakabayashi. gathcl'l:> additional sponsOl1:i:' BANZAI!--Actor Pat Morita and Calif. Secretary of State March Fong Eu eral civil lights violation charges. who credited Mineta \vith pro Dwyer was visited on May 5 by break open a sake barrel during opening ceremonies for an exhibit on The killer wa . later found guilt ,. \riding national IcadcI hip in Japanese Americans at the L.A. Children'S Museum (story on page 10). Eastern District JACL Redress In the wake of the increasing Cooriuued on Page 11 CommiU.l.'C chair Tom KOlllctalll of New Brunswick, who was in S id claimed that the ba i for Washington to attend the annual Debate held on English initiative unity in America is not linguistic, awards banquet of the Leader but a belief in the fundamental ship Conference on Civil Rights. princi pIe of democracy. Living in by Clifford Uyeda Diamond empha ized that the a multicultural, multilingual s0- SAN FRANCISCO - The pro first obligation of being American ciety Cl ate tolerance, he said, Mineta urges Chun po~ed initiati c to e 'tablish Eng i . to lcal11 Eng} i h, but that the adding that foreign language lish as the official language of u e of English in the U.S. i being speakers are valuable resource to release two South California was the topic of a eroded. He expre ed his fum to the country. [mum held by Golden GateJA 'L belief in the "melting pot" th I. e ponding t Diamond' Korean dissidents on Apr. 21. of American society and charged claim of majority opposition to Speaking in favor of the meas that the "mo aie" concept of bilingual ballots, eid aid that WASHINGTON-Rep. Norman ure wa Col. Stanley Diamond America i dangerou and divi the majOlity i not alwa right Mineta (~alif .) and 10 ofhis col (ret), director and campaign sive. He gave as an example the war- leagues sent a joint letter to South chair of the U.S. English organi "We can understand each Continued on page 11 Stanley Diamond Korean president Chun Doo Hwan zation. Diamond once served as othcr only if w can talk to each Apr. 30, urging the release of two special assistant to fonner Sen other," said Diamond. "A biling brothers imprisoned by the gov S.l Hayakawa, founder and hon ual state prevents thi." He JACL President Frank Sato on H..R 442 Hearings ernment. orary chair of U.S. Engli h. wal11ed that a ociety ba ed on "ethnic nationalism ' would be I believe the House hearing on HR 442 generally went ery well. Soh Sung and Soh Joon Shik, Judiciary Committee Chainnan Peter Rodino and Subcommittee Japan-born college students criti catastrophic. hainnan Dan Gliclonan are to be congratulated for their leadership ~ cal of the Park Chung Hee regime, He claimed public UPPOlt r in chedullng th h aring in the most effectiv manner. were arrested in 1971 for alleged hi concept by saying that three Strong, po itive statements b Hou e Majority Leader Jim Wright. involvement in a "campus spying fourth of Califomia voters op Joe Rauh, and ow' Nikk i delegation of Sen. park Matsunaga, Rep. group." Sung was given a life sen pose bilingual ballot.!, (Propo j. Noman Mineta and R p. R bert Matsui clearly offSet the opposing tence and Joon Shik was given a tion 38. an advi ory recommend ie exPl d b fonner 11- 1. Ha,yakawa, R p. Samuel Stratton, ing the limination of bilingual Lillian Bakel', David Lowman and othe seven-year term. Although Joon Th pposition to HR 442 filed by th Ju tic D pt 1 pI ents Shik's term expired in 1978, his ballots, wa . pa -cd in 1984 b. a roughly two-to-on margin.) th ir ilion, but I do not beli it 1 P nts the vi \\ - of th imprisorunent has been extended Pre 'id nt and th admini trati n, ba ed upon ll'\y di eu i n with under the "preventive detention" P chiatri t Allan Sid, PI i th Whit Hou . dcnt of A:ian Pucifie 111 riean law (see Nov. 8, 1985 PC). On balanc , W ha n cl ar pI gre "Many members of Congress oalition/U A (APA ) and a for not be a. '. Th h Ip and upport of have been encouraged by recent m I' commi . i n r f th lif befOl a, stri for th final pu h. 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