Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Karen Narasaki, an influential national advocate for Asian Pacific American civil rights, spoke last night before a large audience in the main auditorium of Boylston Hall.
Narasaki, who is the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, emphasized the importance of maximizing the political influence of the Asian Pacific American community in order to protect Asian Americans from discriminatory policies.
Sinai is most worried by "a very intense and unprecedented global credit crunch and balance-sheet contraction" that seems to be getting steadily worse. He runs down a kind of box score: nine of 13 countries on the Pacific Rim of Asia that once accounted for a third of world...
Alas, it will have to be told much more: most analysts think Wyden will be re-elected comfortably. Still, winning the Republican nomination in a state with an Asian population of just 3% was no small feat for Lim. For Asian Americans, it is one of several heartening political breakthroughs...
The 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...