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...York, Associate Editor George Russell, assisted by Reporter- Researcher JoAnn Lum and Sally Donnelly, wrote the main story in this week's eleven-page cover package. Says Russell: "This is a case where the U.S. can truly say that it has a moral responsibility to a foreign country." It is a story, he believes, that is as much about America as about the Philippines...
Historian George Stewart once amused himself by imagining the course of U.S. history if America had been discovered not on its Atlantic side by Christopher Columbus but on its Pacific side by a 15th century Chinese explorer named Ko Lum Bo. As hardy immigrants from the Orient began to establish colonies in the sweeping new continent, Stewart wrote in mock retrospect, they naturally ! adhered as closely as possible to the customs of their native land. Accordingly, "vast areas of the country were terraced and irrigated as rice paddies. The colonists continued to use their comfortable flowing garments, and pagodas dotted...
...sometimes seems that the descendants of Ko Lum Bo, along with many of their neighbors throughout Asia, merely waited 500 years before turning Stewart's whimsy into something approaching reality. From the Flushing neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens to the Sunset district of San Francisco, from the boatyards of Galveston Bay to the rich Minnesota farmlands, a burgeoning wave of Asian immigrants is pouring into the U.S. Some of the newcomers do indeed continue to wear the comfortable flowing garments of their native lands. And in cities like Westminster, a Los Angeles suburb, an elaborately decorated...
...name "Acneas Anderson," heads the first of the four pages. Lum said that he did not at first know who Anderson was, but after consulting a scholarly review off Macartney's journal he discovered that Anderson was Macartney's personal servant during the mission...
...Anderson does not appear to have been a very important figure," said Lum, adding that a book Anderson wrote about Macartney's notes "sheds no light on the notes themselves...