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...already famous, such as California's brutish General Sherman sequoia, the largest living thing, or the 2,200-year-old Sri Lankan bo tree that was reputedly grown from a cutting of the tree under which Buddha found enlightenment. Others are less well known: the Montezuma cypress in Tule, Mexico, 140 ft. high and 190 ft. in girth, which "wraps itself around you with its huge, bare brown arms"; the troll-like red tingle in a forest in Western Australia that resembles something out of Tolkien; and the Bavarian "dancing lime," whose pruned and propped-up bottom branches can support...
Opposition to the shah comes from both sides of the political spectrum. Orthodox Moslems oppose his Western-style modernization programs, while leftist students and the Iranian middle class oppose the shah's absolute tule...
...Your article "Tule Lake 30 Years Later" [June 10] evoked many feelings that I thought I had worked through over the years. The years spent at our "relocation center" at Rohwer, Ark., are the lost experience of childhood, since I was six months old at the time of internment. But later the puzzlement of why one nationality was so treated haunted me throughout the postwar years. At first I thought that it was a Japanese shame since my parents did not talk about the internment (and one does not speak of that of which one is ashamed). Then gradually...
Astonishingly enough, many were not angry even then. The U.S. Army kept recruiting briskly at Tule Lake. Many volunteers from this and other camps went into the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese-American fighting unit that served in Italy and France with extraordinary distinction. Indeed, the fear of the Japanese Americans' disloyalty ultimately proved groundless. During all of World War II, no Japanese American living within the U.S. was ever convicted of sabotage...
...served in the Army or not, the overwhelming majority of Japanese Americans still called the U.S. home after the war, and most settled into lives of unassuming prosperity. Last week's sojourners included a college administrator, a landscape contractor, a newspaper editor and several housewives. Coming back to Tule Lake was visiting a place at once strange and familiar. Some clicked away with their Nikons, taking pictures of their past...