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...February 1942, two months after Pearl Harbor, U.S. troops began herding 110,000 West Coast Japanese Americans out of their homes and into internment camps scattered throughout the Western states. The wholesale roundup, ordered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, made a kind of simplistic military sense. After all, the Pacific Coast had been formally-if somewhat hysterically-declared a combat zone. The presence of aliens, all of whom were at least potentially sympathetic to the enemy, seemed to constitute a visible threat...
...Nasser agents got wind of the plot and ordered another massive roundup. Last week, after a four-month trial, seven of their leaders were ordered executed, another 85 will go to jail for terms ranging from one year to life...
...congregational hostility, they have come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned pulpit-thumping sermons and turned to the long-range task of convincing their parishioners by indirection and example-a harder strategy, perhaps, but one that in the long...
...back page. Most of the ideas come from the Journal's 200 reporters in the field, and competition to get one in the paper is intense. Weeks or even months may go into a leader, or 20 reporters may spend as little as a day on a national roundup...
...good for New England was good for the world, the fledgling company set up shop in eight other college-heavy cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bloomington, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Detroit and New York). By the time all the full questionnaires are turned in for this fall's roundup, Operation Match expects to have more than 100,000 names on its lists...