Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:03:26 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;INSIDE THE BELTWAY \BY John McCaslin \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES SHADES OF L.A. Leaford Williams is not your ordinary black resident of the nation's capital. He speaks Korean and says he is the only known black American with facility in the language. As chairman of the Washington, D.C.-Korean Committee, Mr. Williams has issued a warning: "With the high concentration of Korean businesses in the predominantly black enclaves of the city, and the daily harassment, robbery and shooting of Korean business persons, this city could explode into another Los Angeles type conflict overnight." Mr. Williams warns that black residents of Washington are "up in arms over the virtual takeover of businesses in the black community by the Koreans, all of whom live in Maryland and Virginia." He says Koreans don't employ blacks, in part because they share a notion with the Japanese that blacks are lazy. Mr. Williams' committee, with a program development grant from the Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, hopes to stem what he calls the growing hatred of Korean businessmen and avert a catastrophe. The grant will help introduce Korean art and music into D.C. schools, and next summer the first contingent of D.C. black high school students is scheduled to visit Korea as part of an exchange program. ALL OR NOTHING Conservative Rep. William Dannemeyer has sent a letter to President-elect Bill Clinton wishing him the "best of luck as you knock heads with the profligates on Capitol Hill." Not an unusual statement from a congressman often described as being more interested in confrontation than persuasion. But then the California Republican loosened up a bit. Bypassing Clinton transition chief Vernon Jordan, who can't enter a restroom these days without being handed a resume, Mr. Dannemeyer told the president-elect, "If you are serious about tackling the federal deficit and disinclined to duplicate the blunders of [Herbert] Hoover and [Richard] Darman, you need to select competent individuals to execute responsible policies. "Should you find the ranks of likely prospects somewhat meager, I wish to offer my services as either OMB director or treasury secretary. It would be an enticing challenge to undo the damage caused by the current holders of those offices." Mr. Dannemeyer said a lesson to be learned from Hoover is that it is better to do nothing than to do the wrong thing. PRESERVING SECRETS As Mr. Clinton continues to juggle the question of whether to allow homosexuals in uniform, the Secrecy & Government Bulletin asks the following: If you're an intelligence agency, what do you do with a former employee who is disgruntled, demented, or down on his luck, but still has lots of secret information in his head that he may be tempted to sell? The Central Intelligence Agency was put in such a position after it fired Edward Lee Howard. When given the boot, Mr. Howard told the CIA, "You guys should take better care of your officers." The agency responded by offering to pay for a psychiatrist. Mr. Howard wasn't amused, and in 1986 he defected to the Soviet Union, where he supplied Moscow with information on CIA activities. Congress has since granted both the CIA and the National Security Agency the authority to "assist" employees like Mr. Howard before they go too far. And now the 1993 Intelligence Authorization Bill authorizes the Pentagon to do likewise with former employees when it is necessary "to maintain their judgment and emotional stability" and prevent disclosure of secret data. DON'T THEY REST? The theme for the 1993 Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest annual gathering of conservative political activists, which will be held in Washington Feb. 18-20, is "Back to the Future." "We will be meeting one month into Bill Clinton's honeymoon," said David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, "and by that time we'll have a pretty good idea of where he intends to take this country. If the president spurns the expectations of those who elected him, we'll be ready to showcase a few alternatives that they can begin thinking about for '96." LAST CALL The Justice Department says 74,600 Japanese-Americans have been paid $20,000 each under the World War II reparations program and an additional 5,000 will receive payments in fiscal 1994, the program's last year. "We have paid 96 percent of the estimated 80,000 individuals who will receive redress payments by the close of the program," said Paul Suddes, administrator of the Office of Redress Administration. Japanese-Americans interned during World War II or their surviving heirs born through Dec. 31, 1943, are eligible for the $20,000 payment. BRIEF PEEK AT HISTORY It was 13 years ago that the Emancipation Proclamation, then 116 years old and severely faded, was taken from public view at the National Archives and placed in a vault under strictly controlled environmental conditions. Now history buffs will be happy to learn that the document - issued by President Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War to proclaim the freedom of all slaves held in areas still in revolt - will go on display in the Archives' Rotunda, but only for five days, Dec. 31 through Jan. 4. "The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the great documents that have shaped the course of American history, and we are pleased to be able to show the original, if only briefly," said Don W. Wilson, Archivist of the United States. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM