•• •• aCl lC Cl lZen Newsstand: 25¢ .National Publication of the Japanese American Citlmns League (60e postpai~) ISSN: 0000-8579 / Whole No. 2,338 1 Vol. 100 No. 18 244 S. San Pedro St., Rm. 506, Los Angeles, CA 90012-3981 (213)626-6936 May 10, 1985 Matsunaga introduces redress bill with 25 co-sponsors WASHlNGTON-A Senate bill naga in 1983 am which had 20 already been taken. The House calling for redress to Japanese sponsors by the end of the 98th redress bill has been designated Americans interned by the federal Congress in 1984. Like its prede­ HR 442 in honor of the 442nd Regi­ goverrunent during WW2 was in­ cessor, S 1053 embodies recom­ mental Combat Team. troduced on May 2 by Sen. Spark mendations made by the Cmunis­ In introducing the Senate bill, Matsunaga (D-Hawaii) with 25 sion on Wartime Relocation and Matsunaga termed the 1942 re­ other senators as ro-sponsors (see Internment of Civilians in u.s3. moval of 120,000 JAs from their list below). Redress supporters had hoped West Q)a.st homes and their in­ The bill, S 1053, is virtually iden­ to have the bill named S 100 in carceration in detention camps tical to S 2116, the redress bill honor of the all-Nisei 100th infan­ "one of America's worst wartime which was introduced by Matsu- try Battalion, but that number had mistakes. " Urging Congress to acknowl­ edge " the grave injustice" of the WW2 camp now national landmark intenunent, Matsunaga said that passage of the bill "would remove Photo by George Thow by J.K. Yamamo~ . h~ , &,J. Mervyn Dymally (D­ a blot on the pages of our nation's VOILA! - Photographers crowd in when a plaque designating Man­ Ml\NZANAR, Calif.-The Site of Calif.) and representatives from zanar as a National Histori cal Landmark is unveiled. On hand for the history" and "remove a cloud an mterrunent c~p where 10,000 Inyo ColDlty, the nearby town of which has hung over the heads of ceremony were (from left) Sue Embrey, Manzanar Committee Japanese Amencans lived during Lone Pire and the Ft. Independ­ spokesperson; Los Angeles city councilman David Cunnningham; Japanese Americans since the end V[W2 w~ forf!1ally declared a Na- ence Shoshone-Paiute tribe. The ofWW2." Jerry Rogers of th e National Park Service; and Rep. Mervyn Dymally. tlon~l Histonc Landmark in an ceremony took place near the April 27 ceremony held during the monument marking the location The bill would provide the esti­ mated 55,000 to 60,000 surviving ~lO--~ News ~ 16th annual M~ Pilgrimage. of the camp cemetery. in Briefu' •.,., As approxLmately 300 people ' Manzanar," Rogers said be- internees a one-time per capita l~ked on, Jerry Rogers, associate fore the unveiling, 'is representa­ compensation of $20,000 in partial Government forced into Hirabayashi hearing director .for cultural resources for tive of the atmosphere of racial compemation for individual10sses th ~ NatIOnal Park Service, un- prejudice, mistrust and fear that and damages; eStablish a trust SEA~ - Federal district court judge Donald Vorhees on April veiled a bronze plaque designating resulted in American citizens be­ fund for humanitarian and public 29 derned the U S. government's motion to dismiss Gordon Manzanar. as a ~ite . which "pos- ing uprooted from their homes, educatimal pUI'pQSe5; and require Hirabayashi's petition for a writ of error coram nobis filed in J an­ sesses na~lOnal sIgn~cance com- denied their constitutional rights, that Co~ess and the President uary 19&3 ..Hira bayashi seeks to overturn his conviction for resisting me!florating the history of the and-with neither accusation in­ apologize to Japanese Americans the WW2 mternment orders, basing his case on government docu­ Uruted States of America." dictment nor conviction-mo'ved for the internment. ments that he says disclose government suppression, alteration The gathering, which included to remoU; relocation camps. - It also calls for similar restitu­ and destruction of key evidence attesting to the loyalty ofJapanese a number.offormer Manzanar in- " Manzanar cannot be celebrat­ tion for Alaskan Aleuts who were Americans. ~rnees , w~ joined by Los Angeles ed, for it was not a triumph . .. not removed from their villages and Vorhees also turned down a motion by the U S. Justice Dept for held in abandoned canneries or CIty councilman David Cunning- Continued CD Page 7 a sta~ pen~g final disposition of a similar petition filed by Minoru mines for the duration of the war. Yasw., now m appellate proceedings in Portland, Oregon Hirabayashi's case will come up for a full evidentiary hearing Pearl Harbor cited in contract dispute (h.spoosors ofS Ifm on June 17 (see April 19 pc). Jeremiah Denton R-Alabama DENVER-State Senator Ray 442nd Regimental Combat Team Ted Stevens R-Alaska Anh Mai slayer sentenced to life in prison Powers (R-Colorado Springs) an­ during WW2 and were killed in Frank Murkowski R-Alaska gered local Asian Americans Germany. Alan Cranston D-California BOSTON - U S. Marine Robert Glass Jr., 21, was convicted of Gary Hart ~Iorado first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment May 1 for when he declared that a Japanese Tom Masamori and Minoru Ya­ Spark Matsunaga D-Hawaii having stabbed Vietnamese immigrant Anh Mai to death in 1003. American flrm should not have sui of Mile-Hi JACL were joined Daniel Inouye D-Hawaii Glass was also convicted of three counts of assault with intent to been awarded a state contract be­ by Willis Yap of the Organization Paul Simoo D-lllinois murder and three counts of assault and battelJ' with a deadly cause "the Japanese bombed of Chinese Americans in protest­ Tom Harkin D-Iowa Paul Sarbanes D-Maryland weapon Three other Vietnamese were injured in Glass's attack, Pearl Harbor." ing Powers' remarks at a senate Powers has introduced a bill, hearing. Edward Kennedy D-Massachusetts one crippled permanently. John Kerry D-Massachusetts Glas? attacked the immigrants in an early-morning brawl at their SB 252, which would reduce high­ Representatives of Hispanic and Carl Levin D-Michigan home m Dorchester. The Boston Police do not consider the Anh way comtruction contract set­ Black organizations, inclUding Donald Riegle D-Michigan Mai murder to be racially motivated asides for minority businesses League of United Latin American John Melcher D-Mootana According to the Boston Globe, police records show 31 racial from l5% to 11%. At a Senate Citizens (LULAC), NAACP, and James Exon D-Nebraska Bill Bradley D-New Jersey incidents against Asians in 1003, and 43 in 1984. Transportation Committee hear­ Urban league, strongly objected ing two weeks ago, he gave one of to Powers' comments alleging Frank Lautenberg D-New Jersey DanielMoynihan D-NewYork Racist radio broadcasts protected by FCC his reasoos for spoosoring the bill: "slipshOO workmanship of minor­ AlfonseD'Amato R-NewYork and W~IllN<:'JTON - "Sennons" broadcast over a Dodge City, Kansas, "Another thing that really got ity contractors" "unreliabili­ Quentin Burdick D-Nortb Dakota ty ofmimrity workers. " radio station that urged listeners to kill Jews are not enough to me on this was when I heard of a Howard Metzenbaum D-Ohio bid being let to aHa waii bidder, a Powers has indicated that he Mark Hatfield R~OD deny the station a license, the Associated Press reported The Fed­ Slade Gorton R-Washingtoo eral Communications Commission ruled April 26 that even "racist Japanese, that we were bombing would like to run as the Republi­ not 30 years ago. " can caOOidate for governor in the Daniel Evans R-Washingtoo and anti-Semitic" broadcasts are protected by the First Amend­ William Proxmire D-Wisoonsin ment right to free speech However, Koga Engineering & next general election. Construction Inc. of Honolulu, to Station owners Charles and Nellie Babbs may still be refused a which Powers was referring, was Washinrrton /pnis/ature endorses redress license renewal if the commission finds their basic character qual­ founded by Malcom Koga, a third- ~,. ""::!' ifications to be deficient generation Hawaiian who served Associated Press reported. b~adcasts OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Wash­ In a series of in 1982 and 1003, preachers William with the Army Corps of Engineers ington State Legislature has asked "We sb>uld do something to say Gale and James Wickstrom took 2m hours of air time to denounce for two years in Vietnam. Congress to pay $20,000 to each we're sorry we reacted irrational­ Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, Vietnamese, and politicians. Paul Iwata, vice president of American of Japanese ancestry ly," said Rep. Katie Allen (R-Ed­ 'Asian America' program up for L.A. Emmys Koga am manager of KECI Colo­ who was interned by the U.S. dur­ monds). "We can't make up for what we've done, but we can make LOS ANGELES - Tritia Toyota and Stanley Kawakami are among rado Inc., a Littleton-based sister ingWW2. company that is taking over the Senate Joint Memorial 104 was a gesture." the news writers nominated for the 1984 Los Angeles area Emmy "We cannot free our conscience Awards for their work on the hour-long documentaIy "Asian Koga cmtracts, sold his home in sent to Congress and President Reagan April 17 after winning by buying it off," snapped Rep. America" The program also garnered Emmy nominations for Hawaii nine months ago aId has state holl'ie approval in a 61-:1) vote Ray Isaacson (R-RichJand). KNBC-TV in the public affairs specials categOlJ' and for film editor moved to Colorado perIllalEntly. John Alarid ' Two of his uncles served in the following some heated debate, the 2-PACIFIC CITIZEN I Friday, May 10, 1985 f~-------------- makes one recognized.