European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page6 the stars and stripes thursday August 4,1988 cease racist ads stereotypes congressmen warn japanese stateside Washington a members of the congressional Black caucus and other lawmakers called on Japan tuesday to end advertising and marketing practices that Are derogatory and offensive to Blacks in the United  lawmakers accused three japanese firms of producing products and mannequins which show Blacks Ina stereotypical and degrading Light. They Are the san Rio co., Sogo department store and Yamato Manne Quin . Mervyn m. Dymally d-calif., the caucus chairman suggested Blacks might Boycott japanese products if changes Are not made. He said the por trayal of Blacks in marketing and advertising in japans insensitive and racially inflammatory. Dymally made Public a letter to Japan s prime min ister Noboru Takeshita urging him to Call a meeting with japanese businessmen to formally bring an end to the negative stereotypic representations of Black americans once and for  pressure mounts for National Boycotts of Japa Nese products Dymally added it is imperative that your country sends a Clear message that it understands and is sensitive to the political environments in which it does  Ide a spokesman for Sanrio told the Washington Post last month that the firm s line of toys which portray Little Black Sambo with Large White eyes and a round Black face was not meant to offend  said they should be seen in a humorous and Friendly Light adding nobody in Japan regards this As  Sogo department stores and Yamato mannequin co. Also have said they had no racist intentions. Masaaki Honjo spokesman for Sogo told the pos the store had no intentions of discriminating. Kashiro Nakajima an official with Yamato said the Blac mannequins show Strong personality Energy and  he also said that it was the company s conclusion that the exaggerated racial features on the Manne quins were not racist depictions of Blacks. However members of the caucus As Well As  c. Dixon d-calif., and Robert t. Matsui d calif., disagreed. When officials repeatedly apologize for offensive racial slurs by calling them humorous and seeing no harm done it is not a Faux Pas an aberration a Gaffe or a slip of the Tongue. It is a dangerous mind set Matsui said. Dixon said Japan is not an isolated Colony that could hide behind the defense of ignorance. It is a worldwide economic giant. A Leader in overseas in vestment in an Era of global travel. It has the new responsibility to act like a world  Dymally and other caucus members also complained about Japan s becoming South Africa s no. 1 trading partner at a time when the United states i encouraging other nations to join its partial Trade boy Cott against that country s White minority government. First accredited japanese school to open in Tennessee farm Region $18 15 12 in thousands of dollars 197475 Knoxville Tenn. A the first fully accredited japanese secon Dary school in the United states will open next Spring at an old military Academy in East Tennessee farm coun try officials said tuesday. Hiroshi j9, managing director of Meiji Akuin University said the boarding school will make it possible for japanese children to get the Educa Tion necessary for admittance to Japa Nese universities without staying in  japanese who come to work in one of the 650 japanese companies in the United states now leave their families behind so As not to disrupt the children s education to said. He said japanese workers in America want to know they can Send their Chil Dren to a school without anxiety an know they have a Chance for higher education in  said tuesday that Meiji a Kuin has agreed to pay $2.5 million to Sanford Gray owner of Tim Academy in Sweetwater for the grounds where the new school will be located. Tim Academy opened 114 years ago As a military school for boys and later became a co educational private school. It went up for Sale Early this year. Gray said the Purchase includes the 45-acre Campusand its 12 buildings As Well As an adjacent 100-acre horse farm. To said the school s new name will be Tennessee Meiji Akuin tag Academy and plans Call for it to open in april 1989, with about 70 High school sophomores. The curriculum will be expanded to include Junior High and High school grades in coming years with an eventual goal of about 200 students to said. Japanese workers average annual wages 30 25 20 15 10 83 85 86 1950 women in workforce in millions 75 84 86 Chicago Tribune graphic sources japanese ministry of labor and Japan Institute for social and economic affairs he said the number of japanese employees in ten Nessee was part of the reason Sweetwater was chosen but that japanese children could come from an wherein the United states. To and Meiji Akuin Chancellor Nobumichi Hira Deboth visited the Tim Academy Campus and toured the Region to said. They visited with executives of the several japanese companies with facilities in East and Middle Tennessee and found widespread support for such a school to said. The children often become the victims in the in creasing japanese investment in the United states to said adding there Are schools for japanese children i Europe. With the support of the japanese ministry of Edu cation we decided we must have one in America too he said. Judge s bus Stop order puts Brake on illegal urge Houston up a Man who loves buses so much that he stole dozens of them since 1986 was banned by a state District judge from going anywhere near a bus for the next decade. Next time you set your foot on a bus or go around a bus you can go to prison for 10 years judge Randy Stout told Patrick Carl Johnson Johnson 23, pleaded guilty to stealing a 1983trailways Eagle bus Worth $ 195,000 on june 11. His punishment was 10 years probation 30days in Harris county jail 300 hours of Community service and $200 restitution for a broken bus window. Police sgt. David j. Klinger said Johnson admitted stealing up to 100 buses during the past two  said his love for buses stems from age 11, when his Mother dated a bus Driver. Constitution does t cover nude bathers judge rules Providence . A nude sunbathing on Public beaches is not a constitutional right according to a judge who refused to Grantan injunction that would have reopened an environmentally protected area to  nudity in the privacy of one s own property and nudity in the context of artistic expression May be protected it seems Clear that nude sunbathing on a Public Beach is not a right of constitutional dimension . District judge Ernest c. Torres wrote  . Fish and wildlife service closed a mile Long stretch of Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown from april 1 to aug. 31 to protect two species of Shore Birds the piping Plover and the least  new England naturist association sued the Federal government claiming that their constitutional rights were violated by the closure. Presley and trivia format adopted by radio station Cincinnati a a radio station has adopted a new format of Elvis Presley songs and trivia 24 hours a  began the format at noon Mon Day. The station s general manager John Stolz said there is plenty of recorded material to sup ply the station s  recorded 659 singles and 90 albums Stolz said. I Don t think any other artist today can live up to that stature. Most radio stations today work from a play list of 400 to 500  la have at least 659." Presley died aug. 16, 1977, at his Graceland mansion Home in Memphis Tenn., of a reported heart attack. Use of drugs bars 200 seeking police positions Jacksonville Fla. A about 200police applicants were rejected after admitting they used illegal drugs or testing positive for illegal drug use a department spokesman said. A total of 640 people applied to become offi cers during a recent recruitment drive. Urine tests showed that some applicants use cocaine marijuana or prescription drugs not is sued to them chief John Pialorsi said  admitted during polygraph examinations they had used illegal  urine samples were tested by the sheriffs office the results were verified by an Independent Laboratory. Presser started informing in 74, records show Cleveland a late teamsters president Jackie Presser worked As an Fri informant As Early As 1974 and was value for his knowledge of mob attempts to control the Union according to records re leased in . District court. Oliver b. Revell executive assistant director of investigations for the Fri in Washington said Dresser remained on the informant list until he became International teamsters president in 1983. Presser was then removed from the offi Cial informant list but continued to give information to the Fri voluntarily Revell  transcript of a june 20 interview of Revell by attorneys for Presser and two co defendants in a criminal Case also revealed tuesday that then Fri director William Webster had warned he would reveal Presser s role As an informant to the Senate in 1983 if Presser denied such a role. Webster did not follow through with his threat however because the committee never asked Presser whether he was an in Formant. Presser was known to the Fri by the code name All pro according to documents. He was valued As an informant tothe government because of his knowledge of underworld attempts to control the teamsters. The document containing the revive interview was filed by Paul j. Cambria a Buffalo lawyer representing Harold Fried Man president of teamsters local 507 in Cleveland and a co defendant with Anthony Hughes the local s recording Secretary on Federal racketeering and embezzlement charges