European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 16, 1m6 the stars and stripes pro English campaigns planned nationwide Sacramento Calif. Up backers of in unprecedented initiative approved by voters Tut month to make English the official mate language say they will expand the movement to other suit with Large immigrant populations opponent of the initiative in California where hispanic and asian communities Are booming Are preparing to Battle Over whether the state will eliminate existing multilingual services such As Billoti and Drivers License teals and manuals or make dras tic change in bilingual education programs. Following the passage of proposition 63, support ers have targeted Arizona Florida and Texas As states whose voters Likely could be persuaded to approve English As the official language. The vote to pass the California initiative was an overwhelming 73 percent to 27 percent despite opposition from most elected officials around the stale who labelled it a needless slap at minorities. We want to keep inching away at state after state declared Stanley Diamond a founder of . English based in Washington. D.c., and head of the California proposition 63 Campaign. I expect that we can maybe get 20 to 30 states to approve the Issue in the nent two or three years he Taid. Diamond said it is Likely an English Only measure Guiffr will be on the 1988 ballot in Arizona and said floridians have initiated a similar drive. Illinois Kentucky Georgia Nebraska and Virgin la already have declared English As their official Lan Page through their Legislatures. California is the Lirt stale to pass such a Law through an initiative placed on the ballot by citizens petition. The new Law has spawned what promises to be a Long feud among California lawmakers educators an