European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes monday August 12, 1991 Honolulu apr japanese americans who claim they were forced off their hawaiian farms during world War ii a Ould get up to $10 million in reparations if Federal officials find a document proving their Case. Authorities Are sifting through National archives in search of the document. It could secure $20j000 redress payments for 200 to 500 people said Robert Bratt head of the . Department of justices office of redress administration. A we feel there a a Strong possibility they re eligible a Bratt said. A we Hope to have the research done by the end of this  about 110,000 japanese americans were locked up in concentration Camps by the Federal government during the War. The hawaiian Case is novel because claimants say they were forced off their land but not interned. They were allowed to work their land during the Day but were forced to leave at dusk to sleep in basements and garages wit i relatives and strangers they told Bratt in interviews last week. They were allowed to continue farming because the Federal government wanted to make sure Hawaii could feed itself during wartime documents show. The 1988 civil liberties act allowing payments to japanese americans persecuted by the government during the War mostly covered internment but also allowed for special cases Bratt said. A there have been a very few other cases not involving internment but i believe this is the most significant to Date that was not documented before the act was passed a he said. Federal officials mostly Are searching through archives in san Bruno Calif. Bill Kaneko Hawaii chapter president of the japanese american citizens league said they need search no further than an evacuation order discovered last month in University of Hawaii archives. He dubbed the order a the smoking gun proving the Farmers claims. But Bratt said the order found in Hawaii is not the final word on the Farmers because another order issued after it said no evacuation was needed. A i believe these people and i think there a enough proof a he said. A we just want to find the actual document. Wed like to find it and believe we  the Farmers Case came up about three months ago when Kaneko agreed to look into a friends claim that he was forced from his childhood farm. The number of affected people could be As High As 500 because the estimated 100 claimants who called the leagues office probably have several relatives who also qualify Kaneko said. Most of the affected families lived in Lua Ualei on the West coast of Oahu. Redress payments Are made to japanese americans still living when the act was passed aug. 10,1988, or to families of those who have since died. About 2,000 japanese american residents of Hawaii interned during the War have already received or qualified for payments. Nationally there Are at least 72,500 qualified claimants. About $500 million has been issued for 25,000 claimants Bratt said. 5th guilty plea in sweep Competition for Seles professional Tennis player Monica Seles hams it up with a teenage mutant ninja tur tic at the make a wish foundations Chanty celebrity Tennis tournament in los Angeles on saturday. The foundation aids terminally ill children. Of copter sightseeing before crash report says egl1n fab Fla. A an air Force helicopter was on a sightseeing trip when it crashed not a training Mission As first reported an Accident report says. The helicopter a Mh-60g pave Hawk stationed at this Florida Panhandle base crashed May 28 off Antigua in the Caribbean. Six of eight people aboard were injured. No one was killed. An Accident report obtained by the Northwest Florida daily news in fort Walton Beach said the crash happened when Crew members were taking pictures Over Beac Side hotels and harbours. The aircraft designed to Fly behind enemy lines without being detected had More than $10 million in damage. A Day after the crash spokesman it. Col. Frank Urben said the helicopter had been on a combat search and Rescue training Mission. A i stand by my characterization of it a Urben said saturday. A it s not unusual once the Mission is completed and at an appropriate time to offer incentive rides to support  two unidentified members of the helicopters Crew were disciplined Urben said. By the new York times the fifth of 13 students arrested in a disputed drug raid last Spring at the University of Virginia has pleaded guilty to distributing narcotics and been sentenced to 13 months in prison. James Peter Graham who was sentenced Friday in . District court in Charlottesville va., said he would use his time behind bars to reorient his life and to prepare to return to College. A i look Forward to getting this behind me a said the 21-year-old senior from Richmond. The minimum sentence that . District judge James h. Michael or. Could have Given Graham was 12 months. Through his attorney Steven Rosenfield Graham asked for a 13-month sentence. He noted that a sentence of 12 months or less would be served in the Charlottesville jail but a sentence of More than 12 months could be served in a Federal prison in West Virginia that permits inmates to take College courses of the four students tried previously All pleaded guilty. Two Are awaiting sentencing. The other two were sentenced to 13 months in prison but later had their terms reduced by half after agreeing to cooperate with officers investigating drug activity in the Charlottesville area. Graham charged with one felony count of Selling Ltd to an undercover narcotics agent did not seek a plea agreement. Michael As he had in earlier trials resulting from the raid indicated deep concern about the raid and the Young men caught up in it. The judge named to the Federal Bench by president Carter in 1980, lamented that Federal sentencing guidelines left him a Little room to impose a lesser sentence. Many University of Virginia students and some University officials and alumni have said the raid was heavy handed. They have contended that drug activity at the University has never been a major problem. Federal authorities said the March 21 raid should serve notice to University communities everywhere that Campus drug activity will not be condoned and that drug raids will not be limited mainly to poor neighbourhoods. Besides seizing a few bags of marijuana and some Ltd the raiding officers also boarded up three fraternity houses where they found drug activity. Such confiscation is permitted under Federal Law and with court approval the houses May be sold. In his defense of Graham Rosenfield said Friday that he was a a decent intelligent Young Many who deserved leniency a plea that left members of grahams family sobbing in the courtroom. Utility billed $8.2 million for fire Sacramento Calif apr a Utility company has been billed a record $8.2 million for a 120,000-acre wildfire that state officials say was sparked by a Power line. Pacific Gas and electric co. Was billed thursday for the costs of tackling and investigating the Blaze which persisted for nearly three weeks in August 1990 on grasslands Southeast of red Bluff in North Central California. It is the largest Sun Ever demanded by the state to pay for damage caused by a single wildfire department officials said. Hundreds of firefighters fought the wind driven fire in temperatures of More than 100 degrees. The fire caused $1 million in damage to Range and Timberland. State fire investigators said the Utility was negligent because it allowed a tree to grow too close to one of two 500,000-Volt Power lines. Prosecutor in hiding paper says West Palm Beach Fla. Apr a Federal prosecutor has been in hiding since authorities secretly taped a jailed drug smugglers plot to kill her a newspaper reported. Assistant . Attorney Barbara Petras has been under Federal Protection for five months after the Man she prosecuted James Monaco was recorded talking about killing her the Palm Beach Post reported she has not reported to work since then it said. Diane Cossin spokeswoman for the . Attorneys office in Miami refused to comment on the Case Friday. Monaco faces 20 years in jail for drug trafficking. Prosecutors want to make it a life term. They plan to use the tapes As evidence when he is sentenced aug. 30, he has not been charged with attempted murder court documents show. On one tape Monaco tells an informant the person he wants killed is a my prosecutor Barbara Petras a court documents show a without her i  be  his lawyer claims Monaco was entrapped