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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SENATORS CLAIBORNE PELL and DAVID BOREN, the chairmen of the Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees, have been traveling through Southeast Asia during the Easter-Passover recess on a military C-20B (cost: $2,614 an hour), stopping in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea). Even though commercial flights were available, sources say, one of the reasons for going military was that wives travel free. Boren argues that the spouses were invited by some of the governments to participate in events. Says he: "Surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gentlemen Prefer Military Jets | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Last month I went home to New York to join my family in a service marking the 50th anniversary of the murder of my father's parents at Belzec, a Nazi death camp in Poland. As I stood there and mourned the death of the grandparents I never knew, I renewed my determination that the memory of their deaths will always make me more open to other peoples' suffering and anguish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jews' Condemnation of Jesse Jackson Is Racist, Unfair | 4/21/1992 | See Source »

Rather than acknowledging these human rights abuses, many Americans have chosen to commemorate the internment's 50th anniversary with a hatred and cynicism similar to that which motivated the internment itself. Judging from the recent nationwide spate of anti-Japanese and anti-Asian hate crimes, racism remains as insidious today as it was 50 years...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: Who's Next? | 3/13/1992 | See Source »

Instead, in response to questions from thecrowd, they addressed political and social issuessuch as Japan-bashing and the 50th anniversary ofthe Japanese internment camps in response toquestions from the crowd...

Author: By Adi Krause, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: AAA Chooses Officers In Close-Fought Vote | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...immense wave of attention the U.S. has been devoting to the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor has made Japan nervous. Using language more specific than usual, Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe told the Washington Post, "We feel a deep remorse about the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted on the American people and the peoples of Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: No Apology Necessary | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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