Compensation debate on Japanese internment redress plan
A U S commission urges Congress to fund a $1.5 billion plan paying $20,000 to each of 60,000 surviving Japanese Americans harmed by internment. The opinion piece cautions against guilt trips and notes comparisons with Native Americans, Haitians, and Black Americans while urging careful, just reckoning.
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U.S
Congress
John J. McCloy
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Pearl Harbor
McCloy
Hitler
Mussolini
America
United States
Krome Avenue
Florida
Space launches spark mixed feelings across coasts
At Cape Canaveral the East Coast rocket lifted five astronauts with a historic first for women amid massive crowds and media hype. In California a West Coast MX missile launch carried six dummy warheads, drawing a far smaller crowd and some arrests.
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Kwajalein Islands
Florida
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Sally
Bella Abzug
Daniel Ellsberg
Bare shoulders return in fashion under oblique necklines
Washington reports that summer fashion leans toward off the shoulder styles with veering necklines and exposed shoulders. The column jokes about economy links to GNP and notes designers craft oblique cuts while discussing anatomy, shoulder blades, and fashion symbolism for Reagonomics.
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Washington
Wall Street
United Press International
East West dialogue aimed as Andropov faces health decline
Washington argues that a constructive dialogue with the Soviet Union is possible despite Yuri Andropov’s frail health and political fragility. George Shultz testifies that the United States seeks global deterrence with dialogue to avoid a win lose dynamic and to push for negotiated parity and restraint.
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George Shultz
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Shultz
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