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# 2.484 Vol. 106, No. 19 ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, May 13, 1988 S.I009 & H.R. 442 in Conference; Final Draft Uncertain Redress Bills Differ Over 'Eligibility' of Individuals
WASHINGTON - Rep. Barney should get to the £loor for a quick California City Passes JACL-LEC Frank CD-Mass.) met with JAClrLEC up or down vote. Executive Director Grayce Uyehara The conference committee made Resolution Favoring Redress Bills Announces May 9 during the Leadership Con• up of representatives from the TORRANCE, Calif - The mayor 11lCe. color 01' creed ference on Civil Rights ['CCR) House Judiciary Committee and the and City Council of Torrance unan• "NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL YED Mailgram Info Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Senate Governmental Affairs Com• imously passed a resolution May 3 THAT THE MAYOR Al D COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON -TheJA~LEC Award Dinner. Frank, who as the mittee, along with Sen. Spark Ma• in support of redress for Japanese THE CITY OFTORRAl'lCE wishes to register has released information on how to Chairman of the Judiciary Subcom• tsunaga CD-Hawaii), have been re• its support of S. 1009 and H.R. 442; and send mailgrams to the White House Americans evacuated and interned "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED Ulat the mittee on Administrative Law and viewing the "Statement of Adminis• during WW2. The resolution, which City ofTol'rance wishes to See thi legislation to urge President Reagan to sign re• Governmental Relations is chairing tration Policy issued to the Senate is being forwarded to the White pass expeditiously." dress legislation. the House Conference Committee, on April 18, related to S. 1009--Im• House, reads: "WHEREAS. the City of TOlTance City Councilman On or after May 16, 1988, a toll-free was asked by Uyehara how the con• plement Recommendations of Com• Torrance has had a histol)' of support fol' J a• George Nakano believes the resolu• Western Union number, 1-800-257- ferencing on H.R. 442 was Pl'ogres• mission on Wartime Relocation and panese Americans in the community; and tion is significant because Torrance 4900, can be called. Ask for Hotline sing. Internment of Civilians. ''WHEREAS, during the Dec. 12, 1941 coun• is the city with the largest popula• operator number 9395. Then, tell the According to Uyehara, Frank ''The Administration would sup• cil meeting then Nlayor Tom F. McGuire ex• tion in the congressional district of operator that you wish to send a thought that by the end of this week, port S. 1009 if it were amended to: pressed the opinion that the City Council should adopt a resolution expressing the con• U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren. Lungren, message to the president to SUPPOlt the draft for the bill to be reviewed "-exclude restitutionary pay• fidence of the Council in the loyalty of the currently involved in a legal battle the Japanese American redress bill. by the conferees of the Senate and ments to (1) persons who relocated American born Japanese in the area to the to assume the position of California (See below for the two message the House should be ready. or sought relocation during World United States of American; and state treasurer, was vice chairman choices.) After the number of mail• Uyehara told Frank that she has War II to a country at war with the of the Congressional Commission on grams reaches the $20,000 mark, been receiving quite a few calls United States, (2) persons who are "WHEREAS. the monetalY compensation offered by S. 1009 and H.R 442 is a mall Waltime Internment and Reloca• there will be a charge of $4.50 per about the "eligibility" clauses. The not domiciled in the United States token in comparison to the actual losses to tion of Civilians. He voted against mailgram. Additional mailgrams greatest concern is to have a clear on the date of enacbnent of this bill, those alTected by the internment. and monetary redress for Japanese from the same household will cost statement that once the bill be• or (3) the estates of "eligible incti• "WHEREAS, passage oftbis legislation will Americans uprooted as a result of $4- comes law, any individual who dies viduals" (i.e .. require that payments act as a permanent record that will serve as a constant reminder to those in power as well Executive Order 9066. A personal message of up to 50 before receiving the $20,000 indi• be made only to living persons); as all Americans in the hope that this will Torrance is the fourth largest city words which includes the sender's vidual payment will have his pay• "-provide that any payment re• never happen again to anyone regardless of in Los Angeles County. and receiver's addresses can also be ment going to heir(s). ceived pursuant to S. 1009 is in full sent for a cost of$5.45. After the free Frank answered, "Once the indi• settlement of any claim of the indi• mailgrams have been utilized, ex• vidual has registered for the pay• vidual against the United States; Three Now Vying for JACL Prez Slot penses for mailgrams can be billed ment and the eligibility is estab• "-extend the authorization SAN FRANCISCO - Cressey . are Mollie Fujioka, No. CaliC-West• to your personal telephone or may lished, the payment should be made period from five years ($500 million Nakagawa, four-term San Francisco ern Nevada-Pacific disb'ict gover• be charged to a credit carel. to the estate if the individual dies in 1989. $400 million in 1990, $200 JACL president (1984-1987), be• nor, and the city clerk at Carson, The first pre-stored message is: before receiving payment" million in 1991. and $100 million in comes the third candidate to an• Calif., Helen Kawagoe, onetime Dear President Reagan: Frank, who was introduced to the 1992 and 1993) to ten years at $125 nounce his intention to run for the PSW district governor and national Please ign the bipartisan bill to redress crowd of over 750 persons as the con• million per year; presidency of the NationalJACL JACL vice-president (public affairs). Japanese Ameticans and the Aleuts. Your gressman who managed to get the "--delete title III, concerning re• signatul'e on thi overdue bill will show that Japanese American redress bill parations to persons from the Alas• The 44-year-old attorney, whose This is the first time in the 5O-plus Amelican truly jives by its magnificent Con- speciality is with natural resources years of JACL history that two UtutiOIt passed on Sept 17. 1987, was re• kan Aleutian Islands who wererelo• legislation and litigation, is a women are vying for the top JACL The second mess age is: minded that due to the passage of cated during World War II, because time, the rate of eligible individuals providing benefits for wartime graduate of u.c. Hastings Law executive post. Lillian KimUl-a of Deal' President Reagan: School. He is cUlTently a national Chicago-New York was the first to Free people everywhere will applaud your dying is peaking since the average hardships which re ulted from JAClrLEC board member. run in 1980; Lily Okura of action in signing the Japanese American and age of the sUlYivors of Executive proper actions (I.e., removal from Washington, D.C. sought the post in Aleut redress bill. You will -end a message Order 9066 are in their 60s. The Mas• the war zone) i not warranted." Previously announced candidates 1982. to the world that this nation uphold indi• sachusetts Democrat reassured Wait for Final Text vidual freedom. Uyehara that he expected the bill The JACL-LEC tresses that a Consideration of any part of the to be quickly conferenced and be• recommendation listed in the handwritten letter is still the mo t fore the president. Statement of Administration Policy effective way to influence the pre - The conferenced bill will till ident. A sample letter was printed will be up to the conferee . who are have to go to the Senate and House preparing the bill to be sent to the in the April 29, 1988 Pacific Citizen. floor for another vote but ince a pre ident. conference bill i privileged, it Reagan Denounces Continued on page 6 Anti-Asian Violence, News in Brief Biased Admissions I WASHINGTON - President R a• Matsui Pressing Ahead on Census Legislation gan addressed a number of i sues WASHINGTON - Rep. Robelt Matsui (D-Calif) said May 10 that he was of interest to Asian and Pacific disappointed with the Cen us Bureau's latest deci ion not to use a check-otT Americans. including anti-Asian system to COWlt Asian American subgroups on its 1990 form and vowed he violence and universitN adtnission would press ahead with a legislative solution to the problem. policies that are discrimiI1atory to• The Census Bureau plans to rely on a write-in method for tabulating wards Asian Americans during the Asian American subgroups instead a check-off system. ''There are many signing ceremony for a proclama• Asian Americans who are new to this country and its laIloouage. How can tion designating the week of May 8 a system that require them to write in their background be more efficient as Asian Pacific American Heritage and accurate than one that require a check-ofl'?" asked Matsui. questioning Week. the logic of the Census Bureau's proposed method. Matsui plans to press The president's comments are as for the pa sage or a bill he has introduced eeking a check-ofT sy tem for follows: ·the 1990 form. The bill, H.R. 4432 would require the 1990 form to list the "Members of the Congress, hon• nine Asian subgroups listed on the 1980 form plus an additional two group ored guests, and ladies and gentle• to be determined by the Census Bureau. men, I am delighted to join you today in celebrating the great COIl• Holden Amends "Stop Selling Anlerica" Motion tributions made to the United State LOS ANGELES-Tenth Di trict Los ngeles ityCouncilman NOlte Holden by citizens of Asian and Pacific Is• has proposed an amendment to hi . Stop Selling merica" motio11, , hich land heritage. is currently under consid ration by the Intergovel'llmelltal Relations om.• "As you all know, next week mittee. marks the 10th Asian Pacific Amer• The amendment deletes U.S. citiz n hip a a prel qui it lbr the plU'• ican Heritage Week And this occa• chase and ownership ofproper~ ' in the Unit d Sblt . and include in tead sion is being celebl'at d throughout a r ciporcity element wher by l' quirem nts on fOl' jgn rs who wish to the country. One of the events is a purchase and own proper~ 1 in the Unit d Stat sat' imilarto requirements nationwide poster contesL And th imposed upon U.S. citiz ns who wi ,It to purcha and own prope.rty ill allY Paolflc Ollizen Photo By George Johnston picture is \'ight here and we'l'e foreign counby. FLAMES OF OUTRAGE-Yong~Bok Pak. a Korean Japanese in• pleased to have the winning aliist "Foreign nationals. to dat ,own appro. imateiy 1.4 trillion dollru of om' volved in the campaign against Japan's fingerprinting laws, burns his here with us today. She is a high land," said Holden. "I am convinc d w must hold the line on fbI igll Alien Registration Certificate outside the offioe building of the Japanese school senior from P.otomac, Mary- nationals buying any more of our property and land U1ttil Am riran citizell, Consulate General at Los Angeles on May 9 (story on page 3). Conl1nuecl on page Ii can enjoy the same right to own and acquit land in Otll l' foreign olllltri s." 2~ACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, May 13, 1988 Munn Letter Urges Reagan to Sign Redress Bill SEATI'LE - After learning of the Senate passage of the redress bill, James Munn, an influential attorney in the Washington State Republican Party was informed by a Nisei legal secretary in his firm, Louise Kashino, that the president might veto the bill. Munn, who served as President Reagan's State Campaign Chairman in 1980 and his State Finance Chair• GOOD NEWS-Fred Hoshiyama left), nt of man in 1984, sent the following tele• velopment at the Japanese American National Museum, discusses gram, quoted in part, to the Presi• details of the recent California Community Foundation grant with Jen• dent the next morning, April 22: nifer Leonard (right), foundation yice president/grants and administra• tion. The foundation, whose goal is to improve "the quality of life in Dear Mr. President: Southern California by meeting needs in the areas of social service, The House and Senate have passed legisla• tion to acknowledge the injustice done to Ja• arts and culture, health care, education and community development," panese Americans at the beginning of World recently bestowed a $24,000 grant to the museum. War II. As a young man on my way to war in January of 1942, I saw this happen to some of my friends and their families. I was out• Directors Coalition Rescinds Demand raged at the time. Nothing that has since hap• Onozuka MemonaJ Commrttee Photo by Frank Omatsu pened has reconciled me to this grave injus• SEATI'LE - The Asian Pacific Di• tie Central Community College, tice. ASTRONAUT ONIZUKA MEMORIAL-Underwriting a lecture series geared rectors Coalition, which frrst had there are no Asians in the top ad• ... From the vision of the victim, this legis• for Los Angeles area high schoolers at the Univ. of Southern California campus called for the resignation of Presi• ministrative positions, according to lative act is to them a symbol of atonemenl April 30 was made possible by a major grant from American Honda. Willie dent Charles Mitchell of Seattle the coalition. I know this to be true from what has been Tokeshi (center), vice president of American Honda, is flanked by Gary Payton After their meeting with Mitchell, related to me by many of my fiiends who (left) and Loren Shriver, two astronauts who had soared into space with Ellison Central Community College, resci• were so transpolted and detained. This is Onizuka in January 1985. Some 400 students and teachers heard Payton nded its demand after meeting with Darrell Mihara, vice chairman of now an act of contrition which tells them the and Shriver speak of their personal experiences, saw special NASA films him and other minority leaders. the coalition, stated that he felt shame is our collective shame as a nation. demonstrating a space shuttle flight, and attend a variety of workshops cover• The coalition was angry over the Mitchell was now aware of the is• This extension will help make each of these ing science, space and technology. sues and would put forth the com• ill used people, our fellow Americans, whole. decision of Mitchell, who is Black, I served in the war when this happened. r to name a Black woman, Mildred mitment to address their concerns. was captured and spent more than a year in Olle, as dean of students rather than Mitchell expressed surprise at the a prisoner of war camp. I know first hand the Edmund Lee, an Asian of Chinese Asians' reaction to his choice. He stress of such detention. .. for all the reasons said he selected OUe because of her I have stated. I ask you to accept this bill, decent sign it., and allow it to become law . Although Asians constitute 21 . 17 years' experience as a counselor percent of the student body at Seat- and associate dean at the college. Continued on page 3 . The Small Business Administration and CAPITAL The Minority Business Development Agency, AVAILABLE U.S. Dept of Commerce present $1,000,000 MIN. 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Residents Join 'Refusers' in Demonstration By Laurie Mochidome cllange the requirement of finger• munities also passed a resolution LOS ANGELES-Chanting "Justice printing, the system of which is re• supporting the human rights of the yes, apartheid no." nearly 100 de• pOltedly becoming computerized. foreign Asian residents of Japan. monstrators of various ethnic back• An 'Appeal' to Americans Yoon Hee Kim, president of the Ko• grounds joined 16 foreign Asian re• Hong-ja Kim, who is Korean and rean American Coalition, reported sidents of Japan May 9 to protest the a third generation resident of Japan, that the consul general was unavail• fingerprinting requirements and re• stated that in order to participate in able for comment on the action. Of vision of Japan's Alien Registration the U.S. tour, former fingerprint re• the two consul officers she spoke Law. fu ers were "forced" to submit their with, the "feeling was that they The demonstration. held in front prints to the Japanese government didn't Imow what was going on. We of the Japanese consul general's of• to be able to return, Although the presented the resolution and never fice building in Little Tokyo. was the government recently announced got a reply." flI'Stieg of a U.S. tour by a delegation that it would i sue re-entry permits In a brief meeting with the Pacific of Korean and Chinese residents. as to refusel'S "flexibly," in the past, all Citizen, Consul Hidenori Ohchi pro• well as one American resident, of refusel'S were denied permits. vided little insight on the consul ROBERTI MEETS WITH ADVISORY COMMITIEE-California Sen• Japan to expose what they said was The demonstration, said Kim, is general's position. Referring to the ate President Pro Tem David Roberti (D-Hollywood/Burbank) met re• an abrogation of human rights. an "appeal to Americans how unjust resolution, he said, "I received the cently with his Asian Pacific Advisory Committee to discuss his oppo• Presently, Japan's Alien Registra• the Japanese government is to its statement and have sent it to the sition to the nomination of U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) as Califor• tion Law requires all foreign long• long-term residents." Tokyo office. We will have a confer• nia state treasurer, the admissions policy of the University of California, term residents and Japan-born but "The reason why I am here," she ence to improve relations with the the 1990 Census and small business concerns. Pictured (I-r) are unnaturalized foreign Asian resi• continued, "is to [speak] to many Korean people. The other problem Tommy Tang; Kaz Umemoto; Joselyn Yap; Roberti ; Andy Anh ; Joanne dents-many of whom are Korean American minority groups because is the Minisby of Justice, so I can't Kumamoto; and Alan Kumamoto. and Chinese-to register a print of we can find similarities between answer exactly." Ohchi would not their left index finger with the Japa• us ... we say 'Japanese Apcutbeid' comment on the demonstration. nese government's Ministry of Jus• and people who don't know there's The delegation, which plans to re• tice (.>\lPMI li'l<> .. , •.• ...,. 'Inri In (.~,.ry a apcutheid in Japan understand and turn to Japan May 23, will also certilicate or aU en fl:; 'I.>tru.ion. agree with us." launch protests in San .Francisco, The omy Japan!:: e wno Gilt: uliger• Said John Saito, JACL PSWD reg• Chicago. New York, Seattle and printea are cnmInals. ional director: "Japan is a world Hou ton. According to Ronald Fujiyo hi, leader and hould be cognizant of an American lay mis ionary who human rights. Since it is a world was pcut of the delegation, revision power now, it has the responsibility MUNN LETTER of the law require aliens to only of moral and piritual leadership." Continued from page 2 register their print once. This, he Saito attended the demonstration. Please accompany your signlllg with a ring• ing declaration there is no place in this land said, would reduce the number of he said. "to futther the mandates of to visit upon anyone of u I than equal future "fingerprint refu el ." He the JACL National Council." justice by reason of any abstraction of race, also noted that under the new law, In 1984, at the National JACLCon- creed, or ethnic ancestry. Discnminallon on which will go into effect June 1. re• ention in Honolulu, J CL' a- these bases are illegal, morally wrong and The umitomo 10 50 D ANTAGE i a two-year fusers would have to re-regi ter IlItolerable. Atonement and reconciliation mone market a count which will earn higher tional Council had pa sed a re olu• are fundamental to the Untied tales and for intere t on depoiLtaning from 10.000 and every two years; thus, they could tion which expre sed JACL's con• all of WhlCh we stand. face breaking the law twice. cern for Japan's discriminatory JIM MUNN e en higher intere t on 50.0 f cour e, the "We are protesting against the treatment of its Korean re idents. Seattle, Wastunglon 10 50 AD NT GE can be u ed for IR . too. facade of a revision law," aid ~Iution Supports 'Refusers' Cheny Kino hita, PNWD Redress Tran fer of fund from ')ther financial in titution Fujiyoshi. "The [new law] doesn't Prior to Monday's demon tration, Coordinator, who was given the i ea ilyaccommodated. abolish the Alien Registration Cer• membel'S from the Korean Amer• above information, expressed deep Other banking benefit from Sumitomo .. , ican and Japanese American com- appreciation to Munn and com• tificate." 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InteUigencer, April 22-0nly one step re• Th~ neu'S and o/Hmons expressed by evll/mnLs!; Q(hL'T rhan the Natiunal Prll.licient was killed leading a night patrol across It has long been recognized that jus• or .National Dir~L1or do nut necfSSUT1ly reflect jACL poliL'Y. mains-President Reagan's signature• tice delayed is justice denied. This truth -the Arno River in 1944. His parents and before the nation can offer its official POSTMASTER: Send Change of Address Form to: sisters were informed of his death while is exquisitely emphasized by Sen. Spark Pacific Citizen, 941 E. 3rd St., #200, Lo Angeles, CA 900 l3.170) apology to the 120,000 Japanese Amer• Matsunaga, when he notes that only they were living behind barbed wire in icans who were unjustly imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp about half the 120,000 internees survive relocation camps during World War II today, and "they're dying daily, weekly in (poston) Arizona. When the family . This is one instance when the Pres• EDITORIAL OF THE PACIRC CITIZEN: later tried to return to their farm in of old age." The Senate bill ... is a much• Orange County, they encountered ident should ignore budget problems. too-Iong-delayed attempt to finally threats and discrimination from neigh• The nation cannot repay the TI,OOO achieve justice. Completion of the jour• Hayakawa's Peculiar Redress Stance bors still hostile to Japanese Americans; American citizens of Japanese ancestry ney will shortly rest with President and the 43,000 legal and illegal aliens Reagan [and his) signature. N IDS 81 years, S~uel 1. Hayakawa has achieved much to stir the pride of a local cemetery refused at first to bury for depriving them of their rights, but Masuda. In December, 1M5, Maj. Gen. I Japanese Americans: First Nikkei U.S. senator from the mainland. President conscience demands that it make this • Where's fair play? Where's justice? of San Francisco State College. Leading semanticist and educator. Best-selling Joseph W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell heard long-overdue gesture of heartfelt regret Don't ask Hecht. Reno Gazette-Journal, author. President of the International Society for General Semantics. Nationally of their family's troubles and visited • Japanese Americans: Slow, halting April 23-S0 (Sen.) Chic Hecht wants syndicated newspaper columnist their farm to award Masuda's medals steps wward righting a wrong. The Seattle President Reagan to veto the Japanese posthumously. Times, April 22-This week's U.S. Senate American reparations bill That sounds Hayakawa did the Nikkei commWlity great service when, as senator-elect, Accompanying Stilwell was a re• he persuaded President Gerald Ford to look into the injustice done Iva Toguri vote to authorize token payments and about right-if you don't give damn mor~ tired Army captain who, later that day, apologies to Japanese Americans up• about fair play or equal rights, orjustice convicted of being the fictitious Tokyo Rose in a treason trial that was no commended Kazuo Masuda and other than a witch-hunt As a result Ford pardoned her. rooted from their homes and interned under the Constitution. Japanese Americans for their pat• dW'ing the Second World War was a wel• The junior senator from Nevada says But Hayakawa does the community no selyice when he continues his attacks riotism in a rally at Santa Ana Bowl. on the measure, approved by the Senate recently, to redress Japanese Americans come-but sadly belated-step on the this reparations bill wUl hurt the federal "The blood that has soaked into the long path toward official acknowledg• budget .. for the injustice done to them during World War n. sands of the beaches is all one COlor," Hayakawa's views were published in Pacific Citizen last week as is proper ment of government wrongdoing in one Hecht has another compelling argu• the captain said. That captain was a of the darkest chapters of U.S. history. in repOl1ing the news. He is entitled to his opinions and he is prominent enough ment, though. Why, he asks. should the movie star named Ronald Reagan. To Yet [one) issue continues to be grossly Japanese Americans get reparations to have them noted. But that does not mean we agree with him. trus day, Kazuo Masuda's relatives re• misunderstood by many. During the Se• when nobody is reimbursing the GI J oes Hayakawa's arguments against the redress measure are contrived and spuri• member how touched they were by Stil• who fought and died in the Pacific? ac~ nate debate, for example, North ous. He says the Issei would have scorned redress but they had no voice in well's how healing Reagan's com• Carolina Republican Jesse Helms of• People are forgetting the survivors of the Nisei and Sansei discussions leading to the redress movement Assuming for ments were, how important it was to fered an amendment (fortunately re• Bataan death march, be declares, and the sake of argument that this is true, Hayakawa ignores a basic point: Issei have men of that statW'e on their side. jected by a large margin) to withhold Pearl Harbor and Iwojima and Guam.. through no fault of their own, were citizens of a nation at war with the United "Their presence really affected the com• payments until the Japanese govern• Goodness. That's a nasty blow. Of States: Nisei and Sansei were American citizens deprived of Constitutional munity at a crucial time," Masuda's sis• ment compensated American families course, the Japanese Americans were rights and imprisoned wrongfully by their own government ter, June Masuda Goto, said the other for losses suffered at Pearl Harbor. not responsible for the actions of the . Hayakawa contends Japanese Americans generally are well-off and don't day. Helms a.nd like-minded opponents imperial Japanese governmen~ any need the money. Need was never an issue. When justice is being dispensed Attitudes have changed in four dec• miss the obvious point that the 120,000 more than American-Italians were re• there is no requirement for a need-test ' ades-there's now a Kazuo Masuda Mid• Americans of Japanese descent sponsible for Mussolino. or the Amer• The case for redress is based largely on the findings of the Commission on dle School in Fountain Valley ... - rounded up and herded into camps in ican-Germans were responsible for the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, created by Congress to seek but for the Japanese Americans who 1942--without the slightest vestige of Nazi death camps. And the American• out the facts of a tragic episode of American histolY. Hayakawa was among were ousted from their homes on the due process-were not foreign agents, Italians and American-Germans weren't sponsors of the bill to form the commission. He told the Senate he was joining West Coast, labeled potential subver• but U.S. residents ... rounded up as the American- Japanese the call "for the establishment of a fact-finding commission in order to carefully sives and dispatched to relocation Plainly. the issues here are much too were ... investigate the question of wrong-doing by the federal government, and to make camps, World War II has never quite significant and complex to be weighed \¥hat we are talking about, senator, is recommendations on the possible need for remedies." ended. Even as they have gotton on with in terms of a price tag. Sen. Daniel In• justice. What we are talking about is the This has been done. Now Hayakawa fmds the results not to his liking. their l.ives, the shame has endured. ouye ... was at rus eloquent best in say• rights of Americans--any Americans• The House version of the redress measure was approved last year 243 to Ronald Reagan now has another ing 'these payments acknowledge the under the U.S. Constitution-their legal chance to help heal old wound and to unconstitutional deprivation of liberty authority to go about their business un• 141. In the lOO-member Senate, 69 voted for the companion bill. Those are I'edre one of tile great injustices in molested by the federal government impressive margins. Hayakawa does not speak with the majori1)1 of his former · .. and the stigma of being deemed un• American histo~. Coming to hi desk in loyal." If the matter was to be decided What we are talking about is a govern• colleagues when he urges President Reagan to veto the measure that ultimately the new few weeks is a billlhat calls for in flllancial terms. Inouye added, $20,000 ment that abrogated those rights without will b~ agreed to by a conference committee. Nor does he speak for Japanese a formal apology and a $20,000 payment surely would be nowhere near enough. cause, that impoverished an entire Amel'lcans who have worked long, diligenUy and passionately to demand justice for each of the estimated 60.000 Japa• people without due process, that impris• from their own government nese American internees still living. We • Apology for Internment Proper, But oned and diminished without trial or Hayakawa has every right to say what he wishes. Unfortunately his shrill think he should ignore the advice he is Not Money. Sacramento Unian, Apri122- right to attorney. and poorly reasoned protests only tarnish his image. receiving from members of hi starr. who It i hard to argue that the World War And now, at last, after almo l half a object primarily to the $1.3 billion-price II internment of 120n Federal Maritime Commission-the first American of Asian-Pacific REAGAN OUR II YEAR OLD I ASHLEY, heritage ever to hold this position. Continued ft:om page 1 "Well, for many groups, education JUST LOVES THE NEW TV HIT land, Serena Lin. Congratulations, has been a key ingredient in realiz• SHOW "THE WONDER YEARS." Serena ing the American dream. And one DO YOU RECALL MUCH OF "Our country draws special area in which Asian-Pacific Amer• strength from ow' rich cultural icans have palticularly excelled is YOUR WON[)ER YEARS? heritage and the shared values that in education. Their accomplish• unite America Asian-Pacific Amer• ments are proof that respect for icans represent the full breadth of learning, family encouragement, the American experience. plus a whole lot of hard work and "For some, their family roots diligent study pays off with high reach deep into American history grades, advanced degrees, and suc• and the building of this nation. Even cessful careers. before the American revolution, the "I know there's growing concern fITSt sailors from the Philippines that some universities may be dis• WELL, YES_ WE SPENT were settled here. Other citizens criminating against citizens of Asian OVER 3 YEARS OF THEM have only recently come to our and Pacific heritage, accepting a shores. They're among our newest lower percentage of these appli• IN A u.s. CONCENTRATION Americans-who, like immigrants cants than get admitted from other CAMP. before them, have a unique appreci• groups, despite their academic ation for the freedom and opportu• qualifications. Well, to deny any in• nity this country offers. dividual access to higher education "Citizens of Asian and Pacific when it has been won on the basis heritage have enriched America in of merit is a repudiation of evel1'• irreplaceable ways, but at the same thing America stands for. Let time each person's story is distinctly everyone be clear, especially all re• American, each is a reaffinnation cipients of federal education funds, One Man's Outrage is Another's ''Who Cares?" of the kind of country we are and that the use of infonnal exclusion• the values that make us strong and ary racial quotas or any practice of Not long ago a handful of the invasion. Iran and Iraq continue to free. racial discrimination against any in• 20,000 students at the University of fROM THE be locked in their intenninable war. "I think of Wendy Gramm, whose dividual violates the law, is morally Colorado in Boulder, professing out• FRYING Recently we've read reports of the grandfather came from Korea as a wrong, and will not be tolerated. rage that some of the school's funds PAN use of poison gas and other chemi• contract laborer to cut sugar cane 'The U.S. Commission on Civil continue to be invested in U.S. cor• cal weapons on civilians in that war. in Hawaii. Wendy's father went on Rights has noted the problem of ra• porations doing business in South Earlier there were stories of chil• Africa, set up a shanty town on cam• Bill dren being driven across enemy to become vice president of the cially-motivated violence and Hosokawa same sugar company that her grand• harassment directed at Asian• pus. They vowed not to move out minefields to clear the way for father had worked for in the fields. Pacific Americans. And in this re• until the university divested itself of troops. And this war has affected the And last February, Wendy was con• gard, I have something to say about the offending securities. Eventually lives of U.S. servicemen and third firmed by the Senate as chairman the hostile racial undercuTI'ent that the shacks were torn down. be called selective outrage. There country seamen whose tankers of the Commodity Futures Trading sometimes accompanies the agita• The protest was not original Simi• are many injustices that are wOlthy seem to be random targets of oppor• Commission-and I can't help but tion for protectionism. A few years lar demonstrations have occuned of attention and indignation, but for tunity. American anger seems to be note that one of the commodity fu• ago, in Detroit, Vincent Chin, a citi• elsewhere. Many U.S. corporations some reason a few get much more more over damage to shipping than tures she now oversees is cane zen of Chinese American heritage, have pulled out of South Africa, for emotional attention than the others the deaths of unnamed Moslems. sugar. was beaten to death by two men en• economic reasons as well as to sig• regardless of the degree of violence Israel's problems with Palesti• "I think of Hoang Nhu Tran, who raged over car imports from Japan nal abhorence of apartheid. The being done to human rights. nians (or vice versa) is a high profile as a child saw Americans in unifonn The point is this; political differ• Colorado students even invaded a For an example of a staggering situation but American campuses defending his native country of ences over trade policy are one meeting of the regents and some fur• Holocaust-class outrage that most don't witness protests about killings South Vietnam from communist ag• thing, and we can debate them, but niture got busted up. This caused a Americans simply didn't recognize, on the west Bank. Why not? The gression And when North Vietnam racially-tainted appeals cross a very regent to deplore student choice of take the genocide of Cambodians by Chinese are mistreating Tibetans. violated the Paris Peace Accords dangerous line. They're an affront violence over reason on a campus the Khmer Rouge. It's well Irish Catholics and- Irish Protestants and Saigon fell, Hoang and his fam• to this country and they threaten tlle dedicated to advancing thought and documented that about half the are locked in a violent quarrel ily were forced to flee. And they tranquility and safety of all of us knowledge. population of that country, several begun generations ago. Close to came to America Last year, Hoang here at home. South Africa's benighted policy of million people, were killed a dec• home, if it is possible to quantify graduated from the United States -"Americans of Asian and Pacific separation of the races has been ade ago by a gystematic policy of tor• such matters, the plight of Indians Air Force Academy and he was val• heritage are one of the mostsuccess• widely deplored. However, it was ture, summary execution, starva• in the United States, canada and edictorian of his class. ful groups in this country. What never explained here what caused tion, overwork and neglect I don't Mexico is probably worse than the "I think of Sam Hayakawa Born they've achieved is a great reaffir• apartheid to become a front burner recall any great surge of protest on plight of Koreans .in Japan But in Canada to Japanese immigrant mation of the American values of issue in Colorado at this time. Or U.S. campuses. In fact, most Amer• where do Asian American concerns parents, he came to the United work, education, family, and com• why it was selected over many other icans, happy to be out of Vietnam, li e.? States as a graduate student and munity. They've made this country vexing problems involving injustice, didn't pay much attention to Cam• There is so much injustice in the never left. He once wrote: '1 was ad• the land of opportunity. They've dis• discrimination, inhumanity and bodia's travail world that it is difficult to become vised in my youth that there were tinguished themselves in many other bad things. overwrought about all of them many jobs and careers I could not fields, from science and medicine, Then it occurred to me that there People are still getting killed in Perhaps that is why people have to hope to aspire to because of my to agriculture and commerce. is a curiQus process of what might Afghanistan as a result of the Soviet be selective about their outrage. race.' Well, he became a noted ex• They've contributed to our public pert on semantics, president of San life through the arts and literature, Francisco State University, and at and also in government the age of70--the same year he took "Asian-Pacific Americans are A Special Nisei up scuba diving-he was elected to part of the rich tapestry of American the United States Senate from life. It is a tribute to the unifYing IT'S A STORY that all too sadly three of u had only one can of California power of America that such a di• is repeating itself with greater fre• pork'n'beans to share. ''1 think of Elaine Chao, whose verse group whose members often quency: the death of yet another EAST father came here from Taiwan with have different national heritages, close Nisei friend. This week's sad WIND BACK AT COLLEGE in South just $800. He worked hard and saved religious faiths, and historical ex• news, however, hit me with a par• Dakota, Tom and I al 0 took on jobs ticular pf::rsonal jolt: for the Nisei for three years to bring the rest of periences all come together to cele• Bill whenever they became available. brate this occasion and to reaffirm friend in this instance was one with There \Va thi time when we joined his family over. Elaine was eight Marutani when she boarded a freighter and our common bond as citizens of the whom I had shared some stressful a corn-picking crew, having to be made the long, slow journey across United States. Let me give special times in those dark days ofl942-1943 taught how to use the picking device the Pacific to Los Angeles, then praise to the Asian Pacific Amer• in Tule Lake and then "the outside." strapped to our wrists. Under that down through the Panama Canal, ican Heritage Council, whose help A special closeness was forged as a hot South Dakota un, both of us !!ten.up to New York Harbor, where brings people together-<>r, whose result, and Vicki and I asked him to and he did well in his courses. His sweated a never before. But that a little girl saw the Statue of Liberty work, I should say, help bring be our Best Man at our wedding keenness for preci ion was a teTI'ific noonday, farm meal-simple and people together, and makes this Later, I was privileged to return the trait in his major of architecture; it bounteous-is something that I hall for the first time. She became a selved him equally well when he banker, did multimillion-dollar ship special week of celebration a real· favor by assuming a comparable not forget ity. role when Dr. T. Thomas Semba and shifted his major to medicine at the Nor did Tom and !forget how ore financing, then was named a White University of Minnesota. As fate House Fellow. On Friday, Elaine "And now it is my Irish-English Hannah Hayano were mamed in we were the following morning. privilege to sign the proclamation." the Twin Cities. would have it, after my basic infan- Especially our wri ts. was confinned as chairman of the' 01' training, I was rerouted to Ft. WE FIRST MET when both of us Snelling which provided an oppor• WHEN MY MOTHER et up a worked on the Tulean Dispatch news• tunity for Tom and m to renew our place in hicago' .outh id , Tom JACL Will Keep 'A1fer Redress' paper in Tule Lake. When Tom friendship. Tom didn't have v 11' and a few othel came and went-a By FloYd D. Shimomura the community. applied to enter Dakota We leyan much spar time, however; h wa part of the hOll hold. My mother, As a past national president, I For over half a century, National University in Mitchell, S.D., at hi working while att nding school. vel' mat mali tic, took a particular have been asked to comment on JACL has responded to the prob• suggestion I al 0 applied; my accep• li1ung to Tom. Thi wa manifested JACL's future after redress. lems of the Japanese American tance to the University of Colorado IN THAT FIR T' ummel' after w by h l' admoni hing Tom to sav hi The question implies that a favor• community. In the 1930s, JACL (Boulder) had just been veto d by had left Tul Lak, Tom and I money, humorollsly cha ti iug him, able outcome may be imminent I fought for changes in immigration the Navy Departmenl And so in the h ad d for Milwauk to arn ome and 0 on. Tom t01 rated h rand pray such is the case. It also suggests and citizenship laws. In the 1940s fall of 1942, the two of us headed for much-need d mon y. In that qu t, took 11'tiling in trid ,calling h r that JACL ·will have nothing to do JACL provided leadership during D.W.U., to an unknown universi~ in w took on any job available, indud• "Ms." ju t lik 01 1 t of u T m after redress. This will not be the the dark days of wartime intern• an unknown plac . We were thc first ing tho, that no on lse would do n't know thi b cans I n v . case. ment and resettlemenl During thc refug es !'r'om the camps, shortly to take. To thi day, I vividly 1 call our told him: but nw moth r apprai' d JACL is a national organization earlv 19505. JACL led the fight in be followed by a number of oth 1 . hoveling coal all day in an A&P Tom a a'. ad-t ." whose primary purpose is to serve repealing alien land laws. During Presumably because of perceived building, b nt over b cau 'c 01 coal And h W8. the Japanese American community. the 19605 and early 1~Os and 1980s, dangers for our sa~ ~, Tom and I pile reached the c iling. We liv d JACL will remain viable as long as the redress campaign has domi• weI' roommates at the univcrsi~ in on room, along with Tony 'rHERE WERE 1\1 Y happy 1) Japanese Americans retain a nated JACL's agenda. The foregoing president's home. Hamaguchi who was from Tacoma, time , ,om tough tim ,and n w s. sense of "community" and 2) JACL reminds us that JACL existed be- Washington, Tom's hom town. I I 'ad tim . 1 go today to pay my final leadership responds to the needs of C.onUnued on puae 12 TOM WAS BRIGHT and outgoing, member on one occasion that th I spect to Tom. 6_...... _D _AC_IF_IC_C_ITI_ZEN_'_Fr_idl_'_,M_I'_1_3,_1_98_8 ____ NEWSMAKERS ______ ..:..,,..; Travis Yokota Keith Kaneko ~ Allen A. Asakura was recently tmstee. ducer for television projects of San School were among three graduat• Brookhaven National Laboratory. one of 40 persons honored at the ~ Paul Misaka, 55, has received the Francisco's KQED-TV, has an• ing seniors from each ofWashing1:on He will oversee diverse programs in ENR's (a McGraw-Hill construction 1988 Outstanding Library Service nounced the publication of a book state's 49 legislative districts who such areas as reactor safety, nuclear weekly's) annual 1988 Man of the Award for school adminisb'ators she has co-authored with husband were named 1988 Washington Schol• safeguards and advanced reactor Year Award Dinner in New York from the Hawaii Association of David H. Hosley. According to ars based on academic achieve• design and analysis. Kato was a con• City. Asakura, a UC Berkeley School Librarians. Misaka, a resi• Yamada, Hard News: Women in ment, leadership and community sultant to the Nuclear Regulatory graduate, was recognized for his dent of Wahiawa, Hawaii, was recog• Broadcast Jou:rnalism is the flrst service. They were nominated by Commission's Office of Nuclear work as chief of the earthquake di• nized for his efforts as principal of book to tell the story of women in their principals from the top one Regulatory Research from 1974-76. vision for the LA Building and Aliamanu Intennediate School radio and television news. The book percent of their class, and the selec• He is also a member of the Amer• Safety Department Asakura resides from 1979 to 1986. He has been is $35 and is published by Green• tions were made by educators from ican Physical Sociel¥ and the Amer• in Montebello, Calif, with wife Carol lauded by current and former sub• wood Press. the public and private schools and ican Association for the Advance• and children Debbie, Derek and ordinates and colleagues for em• ~ Clayton Fong of Los Angeles re• institutions of higher learning. The ment of Science. Devin. phasizing and expanding the role of cently became Deputy Appoint• scholars were honored at a ~ Clifford Ikeda, Travis Yokota, ~ Anne Takabuld, of Wailuku, libraries in schools. ments Secretary for California Gov. Washington State Scholars Day Dean Yonemori and Daniel Matsuda Hawaii, was recently appointed as George Deukmejian. Fong, 28, had luncheon at the state capitol in of Troop 719 (LA Adventure Dis• managing director of Maui County, ~ Jim Sano, the leader of the 1983 been the governor's liaison to the Olympia. trict) were recently honored as a $92 million-a year operation, by American Mt Everest Expedition, state's Chinese, Japanese and Ko• ~ Dr, Robert Sahara of Sacramento, Eagle Scouts at the Ken Nakaoka Mayor Hannibal Tavares. The 31- has signed on as general manager rean communities. a small animal private practitioner, Memorial Center in Gardena, Calif. y.ear-old attorney has a bachelors of San Francisco's InnerAsia Ex• ~ Judge Rose Hom of Los Angeles recently became president-elect of The rank ofEagle Scout is the high• degree in accounting and succeeds peditions. The 33-year-old Sano has was recently appointed by Califor• the California Veterinary Medical est in Scouting and is obtained by a Howard Nakamura for the two years been executive assistant to the nia Gov. George Deukmejian to the Association (CVMA). With 3,500 scout earning a total of 21 merit and nine months remaining in Ta• superintendent of Yosemite Na• Los Angeles County Superior Court members, the CVMA is the largest badges, including First Aid, Citizen• vares' term as mayor. Takabuki is a tional Park and director of Marin Hom, 39, is a member of the Califor• state veterinary association. Sahara, ship in the Community, Nation and daughter of Matsuo Takabuki, a Discoveries, a Corte Madera non• nia Women Lawyers and the Japa• 45, will ascent to the CVMA presi• World and Environmental Science. former Honolulu City Council profit environmental travel group. nese American Bar Association. dency in January of 1989. A 1972 He must also plan, develop, lead leader, attorney and Bishop Estate ~ Gayle L Yamada, the senior pro- She replaces Judge Norman R graduate of the University of and carry out a service project that total for federal spending. This Dowds. California, Davis School of Veteri• is of benefit to the communil¥. REDRESS BILLS money still has to be appropriated. ~ Nobie Kodama Chan was one of nary Medicine, Sahara has been in Ikeda, Yokota, Yonemori and Mat• eight Seattle area women selected private practice since '72 and co• suda are respectively the sons of Continued from page 1 Since the redress bill has not be• come law, it is not part of this 1989 as a Woman of Achievement by owns Greenhaven Veterinary Hos• Donald and Beverly, James and With the heightened interest in package. Elma Henderson, Sen. Women in Communications at its pital in Sacramento. Gladys, Susumu and Frances, and the forward-moving redress bill by Matsunaga's aide, has reminded the annual Matrix Table Awards din• ~ C.G. Higuchi was recently pro• Ron and Anne. _ those who will be eligible for indi• JAClrLEC executive director that ner. The women were chosen for moted to executive vice presidenU ~ Keith Kaneko of Stockton, Calif. vidual payment upon H.R 442 be• she will have to work with a new set their professional and civic con• chief administrative officer of received the honor of Eagle Scout coming law, it will be in the best of people from the Appropriations tributions. Chan, who is chairwo• Pacific Business Bank Higuchi in November of 1987. Kaneko is a public interest to take a wait-and• Committee of the House and Senate. man of South Seattle Communil¥ joined the bank in 1983 and is member of Boy Scout Troop 148. As see attitude. No one, at this time, Therefore, the recommendation College's business and occupations charged \vith overseeing the bank's partial fulfillment of the require• can state what the final bill will pro• from JAClrLEC is to take one step division, is a founding director and day to day operations. He has served ments for the Eagle Scout Award, duce. According to the JAClrLEC at a time. The next two weeks should current board chairwoman of the bank in the capacity of senior he voluntarily undertook the ta k of executive director, there will be be spent responding to Action Alert Sound Savings and Loan and a gov• vice president/general counsel the re toration and beautification of time enough to put out directions if NO.9 which has been mailed to 1,900 ernor of the Columbia Tower Club. since its opening. the neglected Japane e historical and when the bill becomes a reality. individuals and organizations She is married to King County ~ Walter Kato of New York has grave ite at the Stockton Rural On the week ending on April 15 around the nation Lo staJt the cam• Superior Cow1.J udge Warren Chan. been appointed chairman of the De• Cemetary. 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On August 4 thru 10, FARLY REGISTRATION DEADIlNE: Seattle will host the 30th Biennial JUNE 10,1988 JACL National Convention, Before After PACKAGES JunelO Junel0 Regular (on\'(:mion __ (('i.OO • 1.,0.00 31f2Days 'tbuth Packlge (00.00 J 10.00 lnsteadof5 INDIVIDUAL EVENTS Condensed business sessions include: (I'tlllo\\ing inllhiuuJlnl:nb induul'u in Ikglliar Conn'l1lion I>:Kl..agc) Leadership Conference, Delegate AHome Away Pacbge Rcgbtralion Yi.OO 10.00 workshops, National Youth Confer• Opening Banquet .. (}.oo -6 .00 ence, Candidate's Forum and more! From Home ward~ Luncheon 2000 2".00 Work hard for 3Yz days instead of 5 0 Sayona~1 Banquet ~() . OO : ~"i . ()O The convention site" ill be located you can get down to the real business " It 'eyer Rain ... in ~atlle " at hand, enjoying Seattle. on the beautiful University of Wash• Reception 2() O() 10.00 ington campus. I Iigh risc I [agget Hall, with rooms offcring breathtak• PECIAL EVENTS [):lil~ ~'ashinbTton, will Regbtr,lI ion I "i .110 20.00 Leadership ing ,iews of Lake be (~ - ~l-T\" - Th) at the heart of the convention. Rea• Women"" Cam:u:> brcakl ~ l~l I "i.tlD 20.00 Conference ~mabJe on-ca.mpus accommodations Golr& Dinner This two-day conference will target include breakflSt, convenient parking U <:Lmcmher) 60 Uti those individuals who are striving for and daily room senice. (J <:1. non-member) "'''ion TOP management positions. Learn Golf Award., Dinnl'r only :W.OO 2').00 "JCnnb :m.oo 2".00 the formulas for success from cor• Discover the Future of Educu tion porate experts like William Ouchi, (J CL ml'mhef) -to.OO "i'5.00 author of the national best seller, Emerald City UACL non·member) "i"i.OO ~O . OO 'Theory Z:' Limited enrollment. Scenic Cit)' Bus Tour 20.00 15.00 Tryyour luck at Longacres Race Salmon & Clam Bake .~O.OO 3'5.00 ltack. Experience the power of "Mbs Minidok!l 19 ... ~" Play ".ou "",00 SaImonand Whitewater River Ra.fting. Enjoy our many Seafuir activiti s including a col• Look for your officialJA! L National orful torchlight parade and World Convention regi tration brochure ClamBake being l11ailed to home in Ma) . A unique opportunity to feast on Championship Hydroplane Racing. ),Otlf freshly caught salmon prepared the Take a harbor tour or hop the mono• traditional Native way, rail to Seattle's crown jewel, the pac cooked over an open . Needle. An easy day's exc.."llfsion will fire. Dine among bring you to Mt. Rainier or Vancouver, Native American Canada. Take a ferry to quaint Vic• handicrafts at the toria Canada fur high tea, or to the beautiful Olympic Peninsula or the Sanjuan Star Center, opera- '. Islands.lfyou're lucky you might see ted by the United :. a few whales along the way. Indians ofAll 1fibes Foundation • 8--PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, May 13,1988 ------~~~------CLASSIFIEDADS------2-Announcements 5-Employment 9-Real Estate 9-Real Estate WINNING AT COMMODITIES HISTORY prolassor writi~ a book on thB Pomo• CALIFORNIA NEWYORK Tne oallY commoolty newSIE:ller [nat HUDSON RIVER FRONTAGE na Assembly Center seeks conted with people ADMINlSTRAnVE DEAN gives you me winning eogE: . We Will [€III who were interned at Pomona and warn III share Desert Hot Springs "SOUTH WINDS ESTATE" you tooay wna[ we areoolng tomorrow. their understanding this experience. Contact: OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Land - 168 Acres w~ 0' PV1 . beach, Clockage, breathtaking views of I\oOt wnat ala yesteroay. CallI. rE:s.• Dr. Francis Feeley, Dept. of Humanities, WEST VALLEY OOLLEGE $2,500,000 oents only. rur more ,nro call. Contact Barnwood SA TZ Bridge from 100' of glasswalled cont Southwestem College, l..::G&j 57cH10JO Well Valley Callege I. a community ooIIege Toronto, Canada $1.8 milln. ATLANTIC HUDSON (914) 638: Chula Vista, CA 92010, (619) 696-9717. located In Saratoga. Callfomla, SO mile. aouth (416) 657-1106 1907. Omer fine Estates available. 0' San Frandsco and I) the weat 0' San Jose. CALIFORNIA Boston, Mass. 4-Business Opportunities The Adminl.tralive Dean 0' Academic AllaJra is Fantastic selection 0' presti gious residential & a newfy established position, reporting 10 the Benbow Inn commercial properties. Residential begnmng at U.S. CUSTOMS SERVI CE Pre. ,dent of the College. ResponslbHillas Investors Wanted Include developing, Implementing and monitor• Legendary 55-room Inn, dinin!;! room cock• $1,000,000. Commercial at $4,000,000. For REAL ESTATE Ing all BSpec:II 0' a comprehensive Instruo• tails, fillied with arts and antiques. 'Spec• 'urther in'o contad Mr. Rome. AUCTION Small multi-branch plumbing whole• tIonaI JIIOIImm. tacular. On Eel River and Lake. ROME COHEN ASSOC., Inc., 142 Berkeley, saler needs wor1 FAX (604) 669-2524 COMP~V ______ AOORESS ______ crN ______STATEIPROV ______VSE-CPW ZlP, P.C______....J PHONE ______ 2 • • • '" Friday, May 13, 1988 / PACIFIC CITlZEN-9 M/ M JOhn H. twashlla, Homer Iwata, Jr.. Tom/Aya Kaila, Rodger T. Kame, M/M Richard ,(amlmura, Frank/Eml Katada, MlZuye Kawagucnl, Aileen Y. RSW's 'Go For It Now!' Redress Support Near $60,()()() Kawahara, Dr/M Undbergh Kawahara, Ben t No maner how long in a rodeo. Go fi)[' a bal~~_ )ou've lhed in Cali· lide. And have yourself . (" fomia, chances S( Jl1le ()f (h e fi·eshe .... t ~ are YOU haven't fruit on e~ uth . ~ realI" een High Sierra it. Explored , di covered Imagine :.l range or traveled it. ofpolhhed gI ~ U1i( e ThL state i. that gl )c:- (>n t()r a diverse it -1-00 mile...... It' could be its where ) ( ).... ell1lte O~11 cow1try lin: ..,; \yh ..lt An~eI Which is w h); if d ~ Ul1< pho [( ). you vvant a great graphs ha\e been place to tak e your [J~ i ng to tdl you. fumih; vou'd do well limb .1 m( )llntain. to sta)' 'right here. \\ .Itch a dog '>Ied Welcom e to the Cali· rac e. Anu it \'ou\'c fom ias. Welcom e to ho m e. ne\'er >;een ,1 'Giant , elj U( )ia (th( )~e North Coast thaI look Like H ave vou ever stood next to ~h.~"S rJper-), (he) , a Redwood tree? Can YOU even up here, [uo. loo k up that high ? They've 11lb b wh.lt the High ~iel1~ 1 h ,1b( )ut. l'()l )k Ul) \\ ilder ne . ~ or ~ L"'l( )tli~hment in rhe Show your in-laws dicti()n ~ u~:}t)u ' ll '>ee it! picture. San Fmncisco Bay Area where the cable cars Lltt;' rhe ascad dontgo. wins are over 1-1-.000 feet been here since tile dinosaurs. You can still pan ()r gold. high. I( we bald Slightly longer than the Ru%ians Wander through to\vns ~ ~ th eagl 's Ih'c in Sha. .... t..l w ho senled here in 1812. nam es like Rough 'n Ready th,U1 For mo re injrmnolion, Cl111 IIJII frel! /·800·TQ·CAUf; ext, 27568, Or ulfi/tl; u llifomill O/ficI' O/7illlril/ll, I?o. Box 9278, {),.pt. 7'.. 7·568, 11m Mm, .11 9140Q. lO-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, May 13, 1988 guchi (Sac), 6-Kazuo Kubota (SFV) 6- Santa Barbara: Life-Richard Kitagawa, Henry T Obayashi (SF), S-Dr Rodge~ T Life-Masaru Takahashi. Six 1000 Club Reports Show '88 Total Near 1 000 Kame (VnC) . Sequoia: 23-Albert Nakai. Summary (Since Nov 30,1987) Spokane: 35-Mark Kondo. • (Year of.~:mbership ~how~) . Sacran:ento: 29-Ma!l1oru.Sakuma. Togasaki·. ' Active (previous total ) ...... 905 Stockton: lO-Chester Fukuhara 2l>-Harold Century,. Corporate, L L~e, St. LoUiS : l-Catherme Hlronaka, 9-George Downtown LA : 8-Patricia Honda 32-Kei Total this report: # 16 ...... 52 Nitta, ll-Charles Yagi. ' M MemOrial; CIL Century Life Sakaguchi. Uchima. ' Current total ...... 957 Twin Cities: 19-Mrs. Wm Hirabayashi 29- . Summ~ (Since Nov 30,1987) San Francisco: 32-JackKusaba. East Los Angeles : l>-Masao Dobashi, Life- Mieko Ikeda. ' Seattl~ : April 11- April 15, 1988 (52) Active <.prevlous tota)) ...... 695 I-Robert Yamamoto. Sam Ishihara, 3-Samuel Song, 29-Walter Alameda: 3-Tee Yoshiwara. Washington OC : IS-Toro Hirose. Total thiS report: # 12 ...... 44 Sequoia: lO-Travel Tech Int'l, Inc.· . Tatsuno. Arizona : 34-Tom Kadomoto, 27-Sam Ka• LIFE Current total ...... 739 Sonoma Co~ty : . 1-S~ Die I~o . • . . Fresno: 13-Ma~oto Hata, 8-Anthony Ishii, Sally Takeda (CnC) , Esther Takeuchi Sto~kto . n: Llfe:Alk~ nemura. March 14 -18,1988 (70) Nish!, Llfe-Hllo NishI. B·Jeanette Ishii. Boise V~)ey : 23-John Takasugi, lO·Mas Ya• (CnC), Gene Dogen (Lak ), Eugene Sasai Chicago: 13-Joe Nakayama, I7-Jobn Take- Twm Cities: Life-B!ll DOl. Gardena Valley: 4-Louis Ito, 10-Mas aJ Ta· mashita. (SF), Richard Kitagawa (SBA) Masaru moto, 3O-George Teraoka. Ventu.ra County : LIfe-Dorene Tsukida. nino. Chicago: 14-Shim Kawaguchi, Il>-Keiko Takahashi (SBA ). ' Cincinnati: Life-Masaji Toki. Washmgton, DC : 7-Albert Fukuda, 2-Peter Hollywood: 2S-Alice 1L0, 9-Harry Kitano. Noma. CENTURY CLUB" Cleveland: I-Beverly Kerecman, I-Mark McColough. Japan: 4-Thomas Sakamoto. I7-Mike Watabe (NY), 7-Ardevan Kiyoshi Kerecrnan. Nat'! Associate: 5-Masi Nihei, 7-Cary Nishi- Lake Washington : 17-John Sato. Cincinnati : 3-Charles Longbottom. Cleveland: 5-Mary Obata, 33-Hisashi Su• Kozono (Sac ), Il>-C lifford I Uyeda IZSF) Detroit: l!).Stanley Hirozawa, 2O-Mary moto. Locli : l>-FredNakamura. I-Kivoshi Togasaki I Dia). ' ~idoi. gawara. LIFE .. . Marina: 6-Leslie Furukawa, S-Dorothy Iso· Clovis: S-Dale Ikeda, 14-Fumio IKeda 29- . Summ~ry (Since Nov 30, 1987) Diablo Valley: I-Kathryn Otagiri. FumJk? Sug~ara (CNC)., Je~n !2 W.II . \v~., 0/1'1."" U'I' tH ~o I , (; .... rll" ~\lwh .. ru (110 I) Io:.! 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