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...potential subversives, and the Army--backed by Congress, the Supreme Court and public opinion--began to imprison Japanese-Americans. By 1942, the "relocation" policy, which was originally supposed to cover only 40,000 non-citizen Japanese, had expanded to mandate the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese descent living on the West Coast...
...also begun questioning Americans of Arab descent, including business and community leaders, who are not suspected of terrorism. That has led to accusations that the government is suggesting that the nation's nearly three million Arab Americans are potentially disloyal, as it suggested about Japanese Americans during World War II. "If the FBI suspects somebody, go get them," says Fozi Ahoury, a San Diego businessman who was questioned last week. "But don't go after people because of their ancestors...
...India, V.S. Naipaul wrote that the country's survival depended on seeing the past as dead "or the past will kill." In that volume, India: A Wounded Civilization, as well as in his earlier work on the subcontinent, An Area of Darkness, the Trinidad-born writer of Indian descent scorched the landscape of subcontinent society, indicting the rigidities of a country that preserved the evils of the Hindu caste system and endured a suffocating bureaucracy. Now Naipaul has returned to India more than 10 years later to discover that the past is being left behind, and far more quickly than...
...possessing. Last week the Soviet parliament granted him even greater authority by approving a presidential plan to place the government directly under his control. Only this time, Gorbachev's victory seemed more like a retreat from his pursuit of democratic reforms. Under growing pressure to halt the country's descent into political and economic chaos, the Soviet leader appears to be recasting himself in a conservative mold...
Most ethnic groups say they prefer to be described simply by their place of origin. Individuals of Asian descent, for example, are lobbying against the term "Oriental," which they say conjures up inaccurate images of exotic locales. "Asian" or "Asian American," they say, accurately describes their background...