University Daily Kansan / Monday. April 16, 1990
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Sen. Matsunaga dies, leaves legacy of peace
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — U.S. Sen. Spark Matsunaga, who engineered passage of legislation paying $1.25 billion in compensation to Japanese-Americans interned in U.S. prison camps during World War II, has died at age 73.
The Democrat died Sunday at a hospital in Toronto after a fight against cancer.
Born on Kauai Island, the son of immigrants from Japan, Matsunaga was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was first elected to the House in 1962 and the Senate in 1976.
In 1988, he won passage of a law that pays $20,000 to each surviving Japanese-American interned during the war. Matsumaga had to overcome opposition from some veterans and from those who objected to the cost of
the bill.
"I myself become overly emotional when I think about it even to this day," he said.
During debate, the senator was forced to halt his comments in mid-sentence while telling of an elderly internee killed by a guard as he went to pick up a softball.
Matsunaga was a highly decorated veteran of the war. He was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion, which became part of the "Go for Broke" 424nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated regiment in U.S. history.
Matsunaga lobbied for 22 years before persuading Congress in 1984 to establish a U.S. Peace Institute. "Peacemaking is as much an art to be learned as war" was his persistent argument.
Mandela says ANC tortured its dissidents
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela admitted Saturday that his African National Congress had tortured dissident guerrillas, but said the officials involved had been punished and any further torture had been banned.
The Associated Press
Mandela made the surprising admission in a brief airport statement. He said the claims of some ANC guerrillas that they had been tortured were true, that he deplored the action. He promised it would not happen again.
Mandela said the commanders of the camps where the torture took place had been dismissed.
CAB DRIVER SHOT: A cab driver found shot to death in his taxi may be the fourth victim of a serial killer, police said yesterday.
Rafael Montes de Oca, 38, was found in his car at 11:55 p.m. Saturday in the Bronx, police said. He was shot in the head at close range, as were three other private car service drivers killed in the Bronx since March 7.
Police had not ruled out that the killer thought to be responsible for the previous three slayings may have struck again, said police spokesman Hugh Barry.
A task force of more than 30 officers formed last week to investigate the homicides was investigating the Montes de Oca killing, Barry said.
CHINESE STUDENTS MOURN:
Authorities arrested a lone protester in Beijing yesterday, but hundreds of police discouraged other shows of
dissent on the anniversary of the beginning of last year's student democracy movement.
Nation/World briefs
At Beijing Normal University, crowds gathered around recently posted notices announcing the expulsions of movement leaders, Wu'en Kaixi and Chai Ling, both of whom have fled to the West.
Students took to the streets then to mourn Hu and criticize the Communist leadership that ousted him from power in 1987 for failing to stop previous student demonstrations.
MAN CHARAGED IN MURDERS: A man yesterday was charged with murder for shooting two people to death during a rampage in a San Diego hospital emergency room where his father had died hours
earlier, authorities said.
Bradford Warren Powers Jr., 46, was being detained on two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, police said.
He surrendered shortly after the shooting spree Saturday evening at Mission Bay Memorial Hospital, police agent J.C. Webber said.
BARRY SKIPS COUNSELING:
Mayor Marion Barry said Saturday that he has missed some of the counseling sessions and other meetings that were prescribed for him as part of his recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, according to a published report.
Barry, in an interview in Sunday editions of the Washington Post, said that until last week he mistakenly thought he could substitute attendance at church services for the counseling sessions and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
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