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ARIZONA DAILY SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Sunday, June 14, 1998-23 Interiiees receive lessened reparations worth it, Mochizuki, 65, said Friday. I feel a sense of closure and peace from the process." Mochizuki was 11 when she and" her family were kidnapped from their home in Callao, Peru, and taken to a camp in Texas. They were stripped of their Peruvian citizenship and never told why they were being held. Like many internees of her nationality, she and most of her family were traded after the war to Japan for U.S. prisoners.

She lived for years in poverty in Okinawa, often hungry, surviving by trading clothes and shoes for food. Her brother, who remained in the United States after the war, eventually paid for her to join him. She is now a U.S. citizen livpg in Montebello, a Los Angeles suburb. This was a tragic chapter in the history our nation, Attorney General Janet Rend said.

Its time to right this wrong and close the book. President Clinton said he was By DARA AKIKO TOM Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES All Carmen Mochizuki wanted was equal redress for the pain, humiliation and anguish she suffered while imprisoned in U.S. internment camps during World Warll. 1 Similar to thousands of Japanese-Americans, Mochizuki lost most of her belongings when she was forced from her home by the U.S. government and put in an internment camp.

But under a 1988 federal law, she was ineligible for a $20,000 redress payment because she was from South America. Now, after a two-year legal battle, the U.S. government has agreed to pay hundreds of Japanese internees from Latin America $5,000 each far less than the $20,000 given to Japancse-Americans. The settlement, stemming from a 1996 class-action federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, received pre pleased with the settlement to those who suffered serious injustice. The redress fund currently has $5 million to $6 million, said Bill Lan Lee, assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Clinton has said he will support legislation to bolster that fund should money run out before all internees are paid. The settlement covers surviving Japanese Latin American internees and heirs of those who were alive Aug. 10, 1988, when the reparations law was signed. The Justice Department has received about 600 claims from Japanese Latin American internees and believes another 700 are eligible to file claims by the Aug. 10 deadline.

Japanese Latin American internees can decline the $5,000 and sue the federal government for more, said Robin Toma, a lead attorney in the case. If they lose in court, they will not receive any redress. President urges action to prevent youth violence Two bombs found at airport just hours before Clinton visit PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Troubled by the recent series of fatal school shootings, President Clinton appealed today for less violence in popular entertainment and from television and movies to music and the computer screen, too often glories violence and makes youngsters numb to it When mindless killing becomes a Buried alive HAYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) Grim searchers pressed on today with dwindling hopes of finding a.

grain elevator worker alive after Mondays grain-dust explosion killed five of his co-workers. Rescue workers who spent all week digging through tons of spilled grain have shifted their search from underground tunnels to the tops of the silos grain was stored. Authorities didnt hold out much hope if the man had been trapped in the tunnels. It is unlikely that this person could have survived this event if (he was) in those work areas, said Corrie May, the Sedgwick County coroner. The only worker unaccounted for at the DeBruce Grain elevator was an oiler.

His job oiling the bearings on machinery may have taken him away from the area where three of the five bodies were found this week. None of us has the same optimism we had a few days ago, said Ken Cox, fire division chief. Time has been our worst enemy. Rescuer Dennis Clark, however, urged relatives to not give up. We have no way of knowing if this person is alive or dead, he said.

We just want closure. The explosion also injured 11 workers. Five remain hospitalized, two of them in critical condition. The massive damage to the countrys third largest grain elevator came just as Kansas farmers among leaders in wheat production are starting to bring in the winter wheat crop. Manson moved CORCORAN, Calif.

(AP) Charles Manson has been transferred back to Corcoran State Prison after serving time in another maximum-security lockup for peddling drugs to fellow inmates. Manson was sent to Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, on Californias north coast, in August, prison spokeswoman Sylvia Gonzalez said Friday. He has since completed the sentence and returned to Corcoran, about 170 miles north of Los Angeles, Ms. Gonzalez said. Manson was sent to Pelican Bay by a disciplinary committee at Corcoran.

He was transferred so he could not mingle with the same inmates with whom he was dealing drugs, Ms. Gonzalez said. Manson is back in a protective custody unit, which holds about thfcev dozen of the states most notorious inmates, including Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy. National Briefs Manson is serving a life sentence on his 1971 conviction of master- minding seven murders on two nights in 1969. One of the victims was actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of film director Roman Polan- ski.

Zero tolerance WASHINGTON (AP) The -superintendent of Virginia Military Institute maintains his opinion that women are a disruptive influence to the school despite a smooth transition t. to coeducation. Young people who are thrown together fall in love and have phys- ical relationships, and those things have an effect on the efficiency of a -fighting unit, Josiah Bunting III said. Still, Bunting said hes committed to following the mandate of the U.S. Supreme Court which ordered VMI in 1996 to admit women or give up its state funding.

Though our story has something of a happy ending and, perhaps, an engaging and prosperous future, the long first chapter of the story is indeed sad, Bunting said in a speech Friday at the National Press Club in Washington. If there were a single college cm- -school in our country that would seem to have depended for its effi- cicncy upon being a school for one gender only, (VMI) was it." The class of 460 freshmen that entered VMI last fall included 30 women, 23 of whom survived the so- -called Rat Line, a months-long ritual in which freshmen are intimidated and harassed by upperclassmen. No women complained of sexual harassment. Officials at the 158-year-old military school in Lexington, say they expect about 35 more women to enter the school next year. Pricey pill NEW YORK (AP) Paying $24 for one Tylenol tablet was a bitter pill to swallow for a patient who is suing a New York hospital for price gouging.

Laurence Paskowitz said the price was listed on his bill for a seven-day stay at the Hospital for Special Surgery, where he underwent a knee operation. liminary approval Thursday night from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington. A hearing to finalize it was scheduled for Nov. 17.

More than 2,200 Latin Americans, most with Japanese ancestry and a majority from Peru, were forcibly brought to the United States during the war. The government has never provided an official explanation for the removals and internments. Lawyers for Japanese Latin Americans admitted that the settlement had its shortcomings, but said it was made in the best interest of the estimated 1,300 people eligible. Many internees are aging and redress funds are dwindling. While disappointed that redress will only be $5,000, Mochizuki was glad that the president of the United States also will send an apology.

It has been very difficult to relive the horrible memory that we have been trying to forget, but I feel that for this cause reliving this pain was staples of family entertainment, when over and over children see cinematic conflicts resolved not with words, but with weapons, we shouldnt be surprised when children, from impulse or design, follow suit, he said. The entertainment industry must act responsibly, Clinton said, while adults must better monitor what youngsters see and hear, and counsel them against violent behavior. At die same time, parents must guard against easy access to guns for children and Congress should act on the administrations juvenile crime bill, which, among other things, would ban violent juveniles from buying guns for life, Clinton said. He also urged congressional passage of a proposal in his balanced budget for $95 million to prevent juvenile crime and promote afterschool programs for youngsters. Meantime, the president hopes the early warning guides, available in every school in the country when classes resume in the fall, will help adults reach out to troubled children quickly and effectively.

School children, too, should be taught how to recognize danger signals when theyre sent. congressional support for gun safety and juvenile crime initiatives. Clinton also is directing Education Secretary Richard Riley and Attorney General Janet Reno to work with school officials and law enforcement authorities on developing on early warning guide" that might help prevent school violence. I In his weekly radio address, Clinton sought to determine the root causes of youth violence that have 1 led to school deaths in Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and nearby Springfield, Ore. This is an important and healthy discussion, but it must lead us to take action and take the responsibility that belongs to all of us, the president said.

Later today, Clinton planned to console families of the victims and community members following the May 21 shooting rampage at Thurston High School in Springfield. Two students were killed and more than 20 were wounded when, police say, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel opened fire in the school cafeteria. Clinton was in Oregon to raise money for Democrats and give a college commencement speech. The president said popular culture, bombs were found. In Springfield, a bomb threat emptied City Hall but a search there also turned up nothing.

Im assuming it has nothing to do with the president, but you just never know, said Eugene police Capt. Roy Brown. If Clinton knew of the discovery, he didnt let on at the fund raiser for freshman Rep. Darlene Hoolcy, that pumped at least $50,000 into her re-election coffers. After todays commencement address at Portland State University, Clinton was to make the trip to Springfields Thurston High School, where 15-year-old Kip Kinkel is accused of open fire on students in a cafeteria, killing two and injuring more than 20.

His meeting with shooting victims and their families will be private. From Springfield, he was to join first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in Los Angeles for an $800,000 Beverly Hills fund-raiser benefiting the Democratic National Committee. Cessna Dus. The results of our movie survey are in. USA WEEKEND readers favorite male star? Harrison Ford.

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