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Whenはcome $ to mass media wangeHst«" — the ones that appear 6h television and on RM " at ions — I must con,
great:rese/vqtion anc|, atナim的, outrigfit cbutit. Sych neきdtiye •reaction comes to the to re
theojapeal for money, punpor* tedlyIn ihe. nanie of the Savbur. AndゃシnegaむvisrTV is hardly cfilutedwherMl的nvof thepdiatial dccorpmoclotion" the:hm6[jsine^theweH-tct〖k>r-ed garmehts, cmd, at times, s!ome of the backroom shend-幽。ns of some of thesesdf づ6s,gnatぉ"Servants Of the
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'Even the tenor ofお"messages (^f $aJYation",oftervden-vered in feVer pはch pr mass hysteria, cause me' paysさ.Per-iiaps I haippen to be irr a smallminority, but much of that AAad)son-Avenue type of "hype" doesn't reach me; on the contrary,はcauses me tQ put up my guard.、ゝ
For qll十his, ho'w ever, I figure that the tはhing, はmay be calledthafi is generous. Some of the eyひngeli"s buy a lot of F.M. "me, on so me power-ful statiりhs: more and more, as1search ouナsome soothing music on the FjAA. band, Ifind these "ckjrdiesカf the cair" frave taken over,Indeed, apparently some have acquirecJ enough money to buy out-riaht some hiah-1cowered F.'M. St a Hons. And I'm rvot 。t dl sリre that this is what,he Man
FamediN窗きeに dcinc(&rpen& ciuおbiography
NEW YORK. ~> Former dancer ミonoOsq乂o, who starteri Out as a baller In a, then went on to dqrKe on th(^Br。ckfwdy stage/ during Wo rid War: II, has Svrit-t'en her autobiography ''Distant Ddnces," pu^lishぉ by是d A. Knopf.
Bomthedciughtef of a Jd, panes6" immigrant f9かer and a white mother in 6mahaマ Nebrasica, Ms* Oscito joined the Ballet Rリsse, then went or> to dance on Broadway inんch musicds as "Onis Toudv of Venus" and "。a theTown."
Despite World War ", when she made her mark as a dancer, Ms. Osq|6 did not try f。 deny her half Japanese ances-try fW to change her name.
A As. Osato is marfied to a ■Mo r ocean-bom , V?ctor Elma-leh, and is the mother of two boys, both grown.
,r6m No2areかVvcu specHdrtg ab<^ut 2jP00 y的"'qgo.
There mayb« so pie of you but there Svho打uly gqln(n-splration fr(jmthes參mきssage冬. fornrch folksiI h。ve pr*ofound respect; and regret, thot i訓 m>t soInspir^. Ifはuplifts you * •.ビeau,ifOf,
Then ihefe are also Jhose :appeals to aid sort 13 forlofn V/aif irv$ome b。clcwarcrぶoリrr: try. While .:■ my ra站rvotloih dbout some of these appeals is considerably less than f0/ those mbssi "rnedlcievanさd is", again1must eorvfess tゃ《0巾さ hesけ(ijt;on. I wonderlust who is .profしting, how muc", and what p nmount r的ches t hat Waif • Ofvwe,ve givenCiiA«fR.€. qnd to UNIOEF, but mych beyond .t、hqtt)7eque"j0m begin to a "S3.
When it (lomestiothestrset solicHorswはh some IdncI of りりreadable can wUh a $lot oh tゅwherein contributions are supposed to enter, I find better 'pldces 一 to give my hard-epmed money.1have observed sりme of these Solidtors working thさ Streets — and1use that phr、 a$e advised I v\ to mean |>reci-se!y what H":inrvp"es • ancL( amazed at the number of passersby who "bUe." Reading さome articles,1understand some of these solicUors clean 叩four of fivehundrecjci vyeeにThat undoubtedly , mo re jthan many of those who are hooked, make. And more of ten than noV by my obser: vat ion " isusリa"y the person V^ho seemsleast "ikely qble to afford a con,ribuition Who
There are a?リsesぃmany '6f thenri, whichoifeきood.indeed, if one herd m川ions to givら dwciy, such wc^ld harcHy be enoughゃveh to scrateh the sur-ぉce of need .One s own c"ur-ch, tぉぇcoll egきfutKl' scouts, comrnunUyprojects, and the could goon.
In thきdays of ourlssei parents, you"I recall how如y gave,AnrVdng otherthihgs, one of Uie st。Kv0rt1 among the lssei wouW visK yゅr bonne and cHsaeefly(feutfirmW discuss the matter of giving' Then at the assehnWa^e, the family name with the omount contH-buted, would be pasted Ojp, wheretipon there wodd bd consternation as to whether ornot your family's particular contribution matdied that of family so-and"^o.けはdidn't
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I've oれen wondered what the Nisei's habは《ruJ pattern of giving is. Might make on interesting sociological study.
hupe幽Paul llsetsJafflnnrJapaii visit
TOKYO. — Pk?pe Jo tin , oof Mhas madeten崎v, plans to visit JopdnIn l。tやJanuary or eorfy P—ruary of y^qr, 0 spokesman forきCafhollc 如sbpps ,Confer印ce ofぉpqn Sd〖d fecer^ly.
The Pope ,w川p「obob1y •spend abouもfouif orflveda" Jn Jcppon before ーng to the I n射,Rev. Sugdcazu
Matsumura said.
、Thfi Poqje met y/Kh the Holy See's A mbass delor to Tokyo recentlyIn Rom6 and said h.き Intendsぉ'visit Japan landthe Phiれpplnもs ea卜ly pext ye or. Th如offidol schedijl6 of the pa'pal visit w'lU be cjnn_ounced so oh from the, Vatican.
While in Jひpan, the Pope w川fprobqbly、 m*6t Emperor
HI roh It o and: government offト dais inf Tokyo. HewHI visは Nagasaki, , portcはy which became an early"T6ngholc1 6f ChHstkinはy "re, after Portu-gueseshiiptflrまt visはed ihere: iり157〗,It was also the sはe of religious pe/secUti6hs,
Jひpqrvwirfv a popuation of about "6 million, has about 400,000 CatKolicsに
,iHl«f|!4NMl^nf OriK!^ f4r Cbn^d,CHH of JqfKnt0se Origin
VOし44 ^岭78 " f刚DAY, OCT.17,1980 TQ(^ONTO,ONT.
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Peぉecuti抓cited as showing a鹏ed 麵掘a幽r膽riglitsinc抓st他ti柳
OTTAWA. — Theゆrooting and iplacement of cinCancK dians: of JゅcirY6seon'giiV into COnc:entrdtion camps during World'Wa卩Two was one of theex。 nTuples given of :the per多ecutト oh minorはiesinC。nacnari history , to prove the need for entrenching d charter of 'fundamental rights in the corv stitution, a Caぉinet minister .一-to!d :かe Corpmoni recently. Only entrenched rights can guarantee "iher^lHy of our cultura! (pluralism," MuUiojl-turalism Minister James flem-fng said during the third day of dsbote on the Go由nment's proposed const】t"tiond reform. As Prirpe Minister Pierre Trudeq^u did . at_ !cist montIVs constUutiond oonfefence, AAr, Fleming made a'passionate appeal for a chdrter of rights ,ntrenched .beyond the reach of politicicms• 'He redted 0 litany of vioレ ations!of rights by Canadian governments in the past, from rooting of Japanese Cana-diaris during the Second Wo—rid War to the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Qu^Dec. (More recently, he said, have come racidひUaoks against East Indians in "Toronto and the burning of crosses on lawns of West Indians and Asians in the Wさst. ."In a country .ほe ours, wはh so many (;lげfferent; racial and ethnic groひps,rig卜tsthat depend on. 'pijblie sentiment q!one are farfrortvsqfe,', The minister, MP for York West, warned that rights of minorはies must be protected against the whims of major-はies, because majorはieさare never in danger. ,'Ac6nstituニ tionqlbiけwould place mino: rity and incHvickjalrights be-yon(j the redchof majority opinion, beyond the reach of poptical expediency."
Japtinese sol <pliers s A國OR AGE, A la ska. A 》kdeton bゆeyed to be that of a Japanese soldier has been chscovered nedr the h。rぉoir of the remote Aleutian is land of Attu bytwo U.S. Coast Guard s earn肌 The seamen were exploring a mbuntain when they f<pund the沐f^lぉon, prゅmably the remains 。f a m,mbi^r ofゅe Japaneseforce Uiat oc亡ばpied thes isfand (iur—やWo rid War ;keltoninAlaslcaハ r ,1 campaign in May1943. Thゃislan(;J'sharb0〖was a key . bc。tiゃn i。 -the Bat"きof Attu, where Amaricans bunched ar)anrvphibious aはaek to recqpture: the isiand.Th, battle lasted nearly three weelc$ and whenはゅs over, 548 Americans were fdead and morVthan。 thpusdnd Wouhか :e丄:: ::--: Jc>panese」osses were put at 2鄉.
MissJapan /79: Finishes course ti$Ta(ce driver! LONDON.. — A23-year-old Japanese (actress recently completed a coursもat thもIn-:ternati(;)na1 Racing Driver Seh6olinSilyさrstone, someゥO 1cm no "West of London, becoming the おrst Japanese wo mem to do so. To get her with mp!edriverさ, Yachiyo Abe, AAiss Japan of 1979, underwent a strenuous さ-weet course for professionol race drivers at the school, managed by the fon30us European racer Jim Russel. She took fourth prize in the final race on anト】circuはon 八ug. 30, in a Formu!a Ford.
Jdponioldest ho,c TOKYO'——Jloppn now has 968 peopleagecMOO y的rs or oWer and the number is increasing, a Healthond Y^elfare Ministry report said recently. The repo" said there dre 31 more centenarians now thanひ year ago ondが8lmore than 10 ye0" ago. the report dso said 794 of the 968 living cerv Unorians are womらn. Heading the list was Shige-chiyoIzumi, a resident on To"noshima 1sland, southeast 柳 Jo pan, who celebrated lswoijd掘e 丁 his "5ホbifthclay orlJune 29.Izumii who has noさis or daughters, is list 一 intheGuiiv ness Boole 0fぉec6rdls as the woirld's oWest person. Chinese authorities recently reportecJ the existence of a man who clairm to; be14么 butおreport could not be confirmed by Jndependent researchefs. The oldest Japanese female is Oto Michn, aged109, of Hakui in northwestern J叩an, who was bornin1871.