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...Asian vote is expected to be 10% of California's electorate by 2000. Nevertheless, it cannot be courted as if it were a single-minded bloc. Says Stewart Kwoh, executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles: "There hasn't been a stand taken by either the Democrats or the Republicans that has unified Asian Americans behind one party." If Asian-American voters share one thing, it's a predilection toward socially moderate, pro-business pragmatism, which is what Asian-American Democrats like Governor Locke have in common with Asian-American Republicans like Lim and Fong...
...although 35% of the nation's 7.2 million Asians live in California, they too remain almost invisible in California politics. "While we've made progress educationally and economically, we still have some major challenges," says Stewart Kwoh, executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California. "Our main problem is that we are locked out of the political process...
Opponents of the official-English movement consider it to be no more than a socially acceptable way of tapping into xenophobic fears: fear of being outnumbered by immigrants, fear that jobs are in jeopardy from cheap labor, just plain fear of anyone different. Stewart Kwoh, executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, charges the initiatives are partly responsible for unleashing a backlash against foreign- language minorities. Colleen O'Connor, spokeswoman of the American Civil Liberties Union, says the initiatives shout, "You're here but we would like to make it difficult for you." Even conservatives...
...this otherwise bright picture is the prospect of curtailed foreign markets in 1974-a likely result of the energy crisis and a 30% increase in consumer prices between January and February. The price rise was intentionally designed "all at once and once and for all" by Finance Minister Li Kwoh-ting to meet the increasing costs of such imports as soybeans and gasoline...
Five fellowships have been awarded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, established in 1928, for teaching and research in the language, literature, history, and art of China and Japan. Holders of the awards are Derk Bodde, of Rochester, N. Y., B. G. Creel, of Peiping, China, and Kwoh-ting Wang, of Nanking, China, who are not at present enrolled at the University, and E. O. Roschauer 2G, of Tokyo, Japan, and C. S. Sickman 3G of Denvor, Colorado...
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