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...Senate is expected to approve a similar bill, but opponents say the U.S. cannot afford to add such a sum to the huge federal budget deficit. Supporters of the measure say the U.S. is morally indebted to the detainees. Said California Democrat Norman Mineta, whose family was sent to an internment camp in 1942: "The burden has fallen upon us to right the wrongs of 45 years ago." But Administration officials note that restitution payments were made to some Japanese Americans after the war, and predict that the President will veto the measure...
...Democrats were outraged. Even before the White House announcement, Representative Mickey Leland of Texas, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told a rally that Reagan had been waiting "like a thief in the night to veto legislation that clearly has the support of the American people." California Congressman Norman Mineta maintained that neither Congress nor the public would tolerate "this indecent act." Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared, "It is sad that the President persists in locking himself into a failed and lonely policy that has put America on the side of racism in South Africa." In effect acknowledging...
...After years of mere negligence and immobility, the president of the United States will use the prestige and power of his office to sentence millions of South Africans to a life of cruelty and injustice," said Rep. Norman Mineta, D-Calif. "The Congress and the American public will not sustain this indecent...
Both the Senate and the House Intelligence Committees are expected. to reopen their investigation of the guerrilla manual in early December. Some legislators even want to see the matter referred to the Justice Department. Says Democratic Congressman Norman Mineta of California: "The CIA and the President owe us some answers, and the inspector general's report fails to give them...
California Democrat Norman Mineta, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, complained that the CIA would not allow his group to question the man believed to be the author of the manual, who was described by the Administration as a "lowlevel" operative on contract to the CIA. "We know who he is, and the CIA knows where he is," said Mineta, who maintains that the agent is still employed...