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T- --i, -i BS LOKPOC RECORD (Lompoc, Calif.) Wednesday, April 22, 1998 5) KIT r3 a WftfJOOS DDKMiBgDiM raw good "For all practical purposes, it wasaprison." -Ann Noble JENNIFER McKEE Associated Press HEART MOUNTAIN INTERNMENT CAMP, Wyo. (AP) Random tire tracks ind Wyoming's tireless wind circle two Asphalt-shingled barracks and a lone, bm smokestack here remnants from the 10,000 people who came here against their will almost 50 years ago and left without a trace. "What's so mind-boggling is how 10,000 people can have so little impact, Says Ann Noble, one of the nation's top historians on the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp. But Noble, a Cora, college professor already knows why. The same social forces that rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans at the onslaught of World War II and trucked them to out-of-the-way prison camps like this one also obliterate ed proof of the camps.
It now bears down ah efforts to revive the prison's memory, she says. It's simple racism. There's a real hatred out there for she says. The thousands who lived here, who gazed at the block-like face of Heart Mountain to the west and the dark saddles of the Carter Mountains to the south, visitor center and memorial, showing the world life behind barbed wire. "We have a commitment to telling this story," Reetz says.
"Younger people, especially, have a desire to learn. Ifs our obligation to give them the history and the facts." The group started where the Wyoming story begins on a dirt bench above the Shoshone River. On an unfinished irrigation project, the War Relocation Authority built rows of barracks, erected guard towers and schools, a hospital and cafeteria. Officially, the camps protected the Japanese-American who lived there from race-related violence in their homes, mostly on the West Coast. But detainees gave up their homes and savings, Noble says.
They gave up their constitutional rights. Once here, the detainees couldn't leave without permission. They couldn't vote in Wyoming, take -pictures of the camp or marry in the "For all practical purposes, it was a prison," she says. little of the camp remains, although Heart Mountain stands out as one of the most well-preserved sites in the nation, she says. left almost no mark on their temporary home.
They didn't even leave their dead behind, Noble says. Instead, camp Suthoritjes dug up the bodies and shipped lem away with the living when the war ended and the federal government disbanded the 11 internment camps across the country. No one wanted to remember them, Noble says. No one wanted the camp here in the first place. There were No signs around," Noble says.
The majority of the locals hated them." But today, some 40 years after the federal War Relocation Authority gave each Heart Mountain detainee $25 and a oneway train ticket out of here, a Powell, group is working to bring the camp's dismembered memory back. The children of townspeople who once passed a resolution to keep the Japanese-Americans out of Powell and Cody are today spreading word of the camp, inviting former detainees to share their stories. Their grand plan, says Dave Reetz, president of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, is an educational slowly saves the site. "We want to have the best, high quality organization," he says. And people do support the project, Noble says, but not locals.
There's a lot of positive momentum," she says. "Unfortunately, not much is coming from Park County Ifs not so much that people living near the site still actively dislike Japanese Americans, but many feel the past is best left alone, she says. They feel like ifs done; we should leave well enough alone," she says. "Like those Japanese dont deserve any more attention." But the Heart Mountain story is about our country, she says. If subtle racism quashes the project, America will never really know itself.
"What Tm hoping for is that there, won't be a lot of resistance," she says. "Ifs just too crucial of an historic event to be forgotten." And even as the foundation works to gain permission from the Bureau of Reclamation to preserve and develop the site, Reetz says the group must find the people who once lived here and record their stories before they disappear. "We're just laying out the facts and letting people learn from them," he said. "We feel the story and the history is significant enough to be remembered." The group needs money, though, he said. And they need legitimacy in the Japanese-American community.
Growing on the efforts of two earlier Powell groups, the Foundation looked to former detainees and historians to explain what happened there. "What they're doing, their mission and their goal is fabulous," Noble said. Still years from a final project, Reetz says the foundation has a strong footing and a good name among both locals and Japanese-Americans. That broad, respectable base will give the foundation fertile ground to work on as the group Irlair Immigrants avoid WGDatMras Radar, telescope system to monitor space debris cities," said Ren, who was recently granted political asylum. "When I was there, I had no rest and I was constantly afraid for my own safety, even among my own people.
Besides, there's more opportunity in small towns not like New York, where there's already a Chinese restaurant on just about every street" The Fujians have quietly expanded into cities such as Atlanta; Charleston, W.Va.; and Columbus, Ohio. The migration away from Chinese enclaves is particular to this Chinese ethnic group, some experts say. They dont want competition. Thafs why many of the Fujians dont stay in Chinatowns like the Cantonese," said Peter Kwong, a professor at Hunter College in New York who has written a book about them. They're so scattered that ifs impossible to really know how many and where they are." The U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates provincial capital, matchmaking services, shipping. Newborn babies are sometimes sent back to China for grandparents to baby-sit since both parents work. On the streets, the lilting Fujian dialect is heard more often than the Cantonese dialect that once was supreme. Some may work 16-hour days seven days a week to pay off smuggling debts. They sometimes live in apartments with more than a dozen other occupants, sleeping in shifts on wooden boards.
Authorities say the Fujians have also brought new blood to the ethnic gangs that exploit new arrivals or kidnap more-established Chi- nese for ransom. And many Fujians are hurt by those gangs, too. The gangs and smugglers make millions of dollars from these people, and they abuse them on the jour-ney and when they get here," said Russ Bergeron, senior press officer wifi the INS in Washington. between 23,000 and 27,000 illegal Chinese were in the United States in 1996. Some scholars say the number is closer to 50,000 each year, but say ifs hard to really know.
"China should be somewhere in the top of the INS list But the INS does not acknowledge this because they're embarrassed," Kwong said. The only way they have of tracking people is if their visas expire. They cant keep track of people who dont have papers." Smugglers, primarily from Taiwan, have helped Fujians make their way all over the world, experts said. Some go to Southeast Asian countries such as Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines. Others have settled in Europe.
But most come to New York, at least at first. The Fujians have transformed New York's Chinatown. New businesses, many with the sign "Fu," both for Yortunate" and the province, offer discount fares to the BySAUCHAN Associated Press Writer 4 NEW YORK-Yi Ken Ren had one child too many for China's strict family-planning policies, so he scrimped together enough for the smugglers and fled his village in southeast Fujian province. It took him a month to get to "mee-wohk," or "beautiful country." First to Hong Kong, then Thailand, the Bahamas, Belize, across the mountains of Central America, through Mexico. Finally, he reached the United States, one of tens of thousands of Fujians who make up the biggest wave of Chinese immigrants in the past decade.
Like many of them, he saw the Chinatowns in New York and Los Angeles but turned instead to small-town America. Ren, 46, settled quietly in Petersburg, where he and his brother have opened a Chinese restaurant It's just not as safe in the big build a high-powered telescope to search for asteroids on a collision course with Earth, the spokesman said. More than 8,000 bits of space debris are currently orbiting Earth, according to the North American Air Defense Command, which monitors the debris for the United States and Canada. Governments track the debris closely to predict when and where it might enter the atmosphere and to prevent returning space junk from triggering a false alarm in missile-attack warning systems. Rockets and satellites have, by and large, been fortunate in avoiding debris.
But the every-growing amount of it makes accidents likely. TOKYO (AP) Japan will build a radar and telescope system to monitor asteroids or any space debris that could threaten rockets and satellites launched from Earth. The new radar will be capable of searching to an altitude of 620 miles for debris such as spent rocket boosters and inactive satellites, a spokesman for Japan's Science and Technology Agency said Tuesday. The agency has budgeted $9.2 million for the five-year project. The radar facility is to be built on the site of a uranium processing plant in rural Okayama prefecture, 340 miles west of Tokyo, said the spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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It wasnt always like this. Jerkovich and others like him up and down the state's coast normally fish for squid, a popular and 'pricey commodity that shows up -as calamari at seafood restaurants. But the squid have all but disappeared in the wake of El 'Nino. The numbers are staggering. By industry and government esti mates, the haul of squid in California has dwindled from 100 million pounds last season to virtually" nothing this year, as warm coastal temperatures have driven the squid to colder, deeper and far more unfishable waters.
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Steal fna fan STKIRa Stodagn, CA KeMOOB, ens) 3B7-772S, Pal Una, as IASAfau0M4Ca49s, of peeping bats. Visitors often leave scratching their heads or shoulders the result of bat fleas that have dropped from the But ifs the urine and the dung that has Khun Samen worried. He points to the stained ceiling, dete-' riorating because of excrement and lined with cracks through the guano seeps. The garden is dotted with wilt-; ed flowers, their leaves and petals coated with a dry dung and urine mixture. The bats blanket the, trees and roof, sometimes crouching atop one another.
The question of what to do about the bats has sparked a small battle between art curators, like Khun Samen, who want to protect the sculptures, and wildlife conservationists, who want to protect the bats. blacksmoke. Some of the finest of the museum's treasures recently returned to the capital after a tour of the world's greatest museums, where they were seen by millions of people. But curators and art-loving Cambodians complain that the National Museum doesnt deserve the collection until it rids itself of the bats. Dragging his finger across the top of an 11th-century Buddhist statue, museum director Khum Samen looks at the black dust left on his forefinger and shakes his head.
"Look, is there any dean place around here?" he asks. "We dont hate them, but we just want them to go somewhere else." JI the building and an inner courtyard resonate with the sound By KER MUNTHIT Associated Press Writer PHNOM PENH, Cambodia tAP) Some of Cambodia's greatest master-works have survived wars, thieves and the terror of the Khmer Rouge rebel band. Now, they're facing another peril: bats. 4 As many as 2 million tiny bats, each small enough to fit in the ypalm of a hand, have found a cozy home in the capital's decaying National Museum, and their acidic dung is threatening statu- ary and other centuries-old mas-; terpieces. Every dawn for more than 20 years, the bats have poured into the museum through gaping holes 'in its roof, jamming the eaves, -ceilings and grounds of the 80-' year-old- repository.
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