JACL salutes 1986 scholarship win­ ners.See special supplement inside. aci ic citize11 National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League Newsstand: 25~ (60e postpaid) Whole No. 2.405 Vol. 103 No. 10 ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St. #200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (213) 626-6936 Friday, Sept. 5,1986 'Little Girl in Picture' Nets House Co-sponsor NCJAR Asks SupreIne WASHINGTON-Rep. Terry Bruce (D-ID.), who announced Court to Review Suit his intention to co-sponsor redress bill HR 442 on Aug. WASHINGTON - A petition calling for review of a class action law­ 25, was lobbied by a constit­ suit that seeks damages on behalf of 125,000 Japanese Americans in­ uent who, in a 1942 photo­ terned during WW2 was filed Aug 26 in the U.S. Supreme Court by graph, carne to symbolize the the Chicago-based National Council for Japanese American Redress. plight of Japanese Ameri­ If successful, the petition will cans interned during WW2. reinstate claims against the gov­ According to Chicago ernment that were dismissed af­ JACL redress chair Chiye To­ ter the lawsuit was filed in March mihiro, Bruce was persuaded 1983. to support the bill by Yukiko Claims Dismissed Okinaga Llewellyn of Cham­ paign, ill, who wrote to the The lawsuit, with 22 claims, congressman and talked with sought more than $24 billion in his staff. As a ~year-{)ld damages. It was dismissed in May girl, Llewellyn appeared in a 1984 by the U.S. Dis trict Court for War Relocation Authority the District of Columbia. The dis­ photo taken when she and missal was then appealed to the her family were about to de­ U.S. Court of Appeals, where it Three-year-{)Id Yukiko Okinaga about to be sent to Manzanar in April 1942. part from Los Angeles to was partially reversed and re­ Manzanar. manded to trial in January 1986- Image of Internment but with only a single claim intact. "We need more Americans Bruce, who represents the " The dismissed claims include In the photo, she is holding to emulate Mrs. Llewellyn southeastern portion of the an apple and sitting . on a the deprivation of constitutional and others like her who de­ state, is serving his first term guarantees such as habeas corpus, William Hohri leather suitcase, surrounded cided to act personally to ring in the House. He is on theAgri­ by duflle bags. The photo has equal protection and due process," a clarion call for the U.S. Con­ culture Committee and its sub­ said William Hohri, NCJARchair. by the government's fraud and been used often by propo­ stitution Sometimes, it takes committee on Wheat, Soy­ concealment of evidence. This nents of redress to show that 'What's the point of having these only one person in a com­ beans & Theel Grains; the Ed­ constitutional rights if the govern­ thesis has already been success­ the internment affected all munity to get the needed sup­ ucation & Labor Committee fully tested in federal courts on West Coast Japanese Ameri­ ment can violate them and then port for passage of the re­ and its subcommittees on Hu­ hide behind a legalism ...and es­ the West Coast. cans, regardless of age. dress legislation" man Resources and Postsec­ " It's a serious challenge to the "Mrs. Llewellyn has not for­ cape accountability?" Working at University ondary Education; and the 'Fraud and Conceabnent' Court's landmark Korematsu de­ gotten that she and her family cision [of 1944 ]. Up until now, the Today' after having relo­ Science & Technology Com­ Although the odds for success in were deprived of their con­ legal system has lacked a proper cated with her family to mittee and its subcommittees gaining access to the Supreme stitutional rights," said LEC vehicle for reconsidering Kore­ Cleveland, Llewellyn is an as­ on Energy Development & Court are about 1 in 20, Hohri said executive director Grayce matsu. Now they have it in this sistant dean at University of Applications and Science, he is optimistic about NCJAR's Uyehara. "She translated her appeal." lliinois at Urbana-Champaign, Research & Technology. chances. remembrance of the inequity The lawsuit has already over­ which is in Bruce's 19th Dis­ He is the 141st co-sponsor I " One of our main arguments," to act as a responsible Ameri­ trict come two procedural barriers. can. of the redress bill he said, " is that the wartimedeci­ sions of the Court were subverted Continued on page 7 INS Frees Japanese Scholar; Demos to Discuss Political Power, Prop. 63 Questions Raised About Laws NEW YORK-Scholar Choichiro was his arrest in Tokyo 18 years Yatani won his fight to stay in ago while taking part in an anti­ the u.s. Aug ID when federal of­ Vietnam War demonstration. ficials waived the usual visa re­ The State Dept waived its ob­ quirements and released him jections Aug ID and authorized from detention the INS to release Yatani. In re­ After being imprisoned for six turn, Yatani agreed to drop his weeks in the Immigration & Na­ lawsuit, although he added, "1 turalization Service Center, Ya­ want to know what is in that State tani was released just hours after Department fue." his lawyers sued the government "It was a nightmare, just a 'for illegally holding him. nightmare," Yatani said as he left VISa Revoked the detention center. "Some peo­ Yatani, a 4O-year-{)ld doctoral ple in the U.S. government be­ student at State University of lieve I am a communist or a ter­ New York at Stony Brook, has rible person, but I am not" lived in the U.S. since He wn. Public Support and his wife N anako have two March Fong Eu American-born sons. The case produced an outpour­ Norman Mineta Robert Matsui When Yatani arrived at Ken­ ing of public support for Yatani, who originally faced an Aug. 22 SAN FRANCISCO - A debate hail ro R p . Rob rt Matsui nedy International Airport on and forum on the controv rsial and Norman Mineta and Secre­ July 7 after attending a confer­ deadline to leave the country. But while Yatani's ordeal is Proposition 63, with Stanley Dia­ tary of State March Fong Eu. ence in the Netherlands, the mond, author ofth "English On­ Registration begin S pt 13 at State Dept revoked his visa, rul­ over, some experts have said that the case points out the need for ly" initiative, and Wilma han, 9 a.rn. and will b followed by a ing that ,he had concealed his vice president of Chine e Pro­ 10 a.m. pI nary s s ion ft aturing membership in a coinmunist or­ reform of laws and procedures gressive Assn., will b on of the k ynot sp ak 1 Min ta and ganization The department has that determine who is barred highlights of the third bi nnial Los Angel itN ouncilman refused to say how it got i nform a­ from entering the counuy Arthur Helton, director of the Asian Pa ific Democratic I..ead ~ Mik Woo. tion linkingYatani to communist ership Conferenc , to be h ld activity. Lawyer's Committee for Human Workshop Topics Rights, said that the Yatani case Sept 13-14 at Miyako Hot I, 1625 'Not a Communist' Po t St The Propo ition 63 forum and In his lawsuit, Yatani stated demonstrates how a family man workshop on such topic a that he "was never a member of, can be victimized by the laws as Politicos to Speak " w' Rol in th D m cl'ati or associated with, the Commun­ they now stand. ''This sort of Entitled "Em pow rment of Party: Stat and National," " ur ist Party, The Red Anny, or any thing may be happening to a lot Asian Pacific AmClicans Through Goals for th 19905: EI Hug subversive, anarchist., totalitarian of people without the pu blic ever the El etoral Process," the con­ Asian Pacific D mocrats," and or terrorist organization." being aware of it" ference is sponsored by the Asian ''Violen Against A ian Am d - However, INS official Scott The only reason that Yatani Pacific Caucus of th California eans" will tak pIa aft l' 01 could think of for his detention Continued on back page . Democratic Party. Honorary co- plenary se ion. Workshops will 2 , ~ACIFIC CInZEN I Frld." 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