JAN. 29, 1981
“CAA Goals Announced at Banquet
SAN FRANCISCO — Recruiting at least 20 Chinese Americans for the city’s police force is Chinese for Affirmative Action’s major goal for 1981, says Henry Der, the organization’s executive director.
Der announced a long list of objectives — many concerning issues of employment and bilingual services — at CAA’s 11th annual membership meeting and dinner last Friday night.
JAN. 31, 1992
“JACL Office In L.A. Receives Bomb Threat”
LOS ANGELES — The caller was a woman who left a message on the answering machine stating: “I’ll show you a year of remembrance you dirty Japs. What we remember is Pearl Harbor. The only good thing George Bush ever did was throw up in the lap of a Jap … ”
The caller’s reference to the “year” and “day” of remembrance is the 50th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 that ordered about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to be interned in 1942.
JAN. 29, 1998
“Emil Amok: The Rules of the Game”
And to think, even without sex, Asians were still treated like yesterday’s bean sprouts.
Finally, let’s all be thankful that when I saw [President] Clinton leering at actress Ming Na Wen at the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Institute dinner a few years back, he was merely feigning a taste for Asian women.
Better Monica Lewinsky than Monica Lew, don’t you think? If not for the nation, then for the community.
— Compiled by Samson Wong